Several of these albums are better known for a few key songs/singles, not necessarily known for being key albums, as such. I've never heard them, but are, say, the LPs here by Wilson Pickett, Shangri-Las, Link Wray, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline or Roy Orbison (for example) particularly good albums, or do they succeed mostly by dint of the artists/geniuses involved? Like, are there better Roy Orbison albums than others, or are they all good, because it's Roy Orbison, just some have better/better known singles than others?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
this list is great so far -- I didn't vote this time because my schedule for the past few weeks has basically been a complete hellscape but I'm glad it turned out well
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
Breakdown of albums per year:
1960: 61961: 41962: 61963: 121964: 151965: 191966: 191967: 231968: 391969: 57
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, August 22, 2017 11:57 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nice
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
roy orbison's crying is all killer imo
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
This list pretty much reminded me why I own less albums from the '60s than I do from the '70s and '80s.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
thinking Nina Simone is officially overrated now tbh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
for some reason I had never bothered to hunt down that Mickey Newbury album before but damn that is a good one
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
As someone who has been into jazz since my teenage years, I'm unimpressed by the jazz picks and borderline offended by the mashing up of jazz and rock albums.
List is dogshit.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
it's good list imo
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
1969: 57
The kids love 69. It's one of those numbers like 420 that kids like.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
Dusty In Memphis is where it should be.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
borderline offended by the mashing up of jazz and rock albums.
So you think they should have separate rock and jazz lists?
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
anyone got a plaintext version of this
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
As someone who has been into jazz since my teenage years, I'm unimpressed by the jazz picks and borderline offended by the mashing up of jazz and rock albums.List is dogshit.― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Tuesday, August 22, 2017 12:17 PM
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Tuesday, August 22, 2017 12:17 PM
Jazzbo unimpressed with decade list compiled by popular music website that only occasionally covers jazz in the first place, film at 11.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
And if we want to talk overrated, Dusty in Memphis is my first pick for an album that doesn't even belong on this list. Especially considering the complete lack of Sandy Denny.
The White Album isn't the Beatles' best album.
Pet Sounds isn't better than any jazz album on the list.
And, finally, there's this:
“In C” isn’t a record you measure against Pet Sounds or Blonde on Blonde.
Then why in the fuck are you doing exactly that?
Fuck this list.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
What is the correct opinion?
Won't someone please think of the passionate millennial males?
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
chill yo
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
it is a list of albums
if you don't like pet sounds, then why do you read lists in the first place?
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
forever searching for the one best-of list without pet sounds
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
what sound does a shit cat make?
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
ill never see the nile again
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
Dusty in Memphis is my first pick for an album that doesn't even belong on this list. Especially considering the complete lack of Sandy Denny.
In what universe are Dusty and Sandy interchangeable?
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
also like how do you read a '60s list and entertain the thought of dusty in memphis not being on it
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
particularly a staff list, do you really think everyone is going to have the exact same contrarian impulse en masse`
dusty in memphis is so good
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
it should've been in the top ten
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
I like the list so far, only about halfway through. Probably will have to put together a spotify list that includes all full albums, as pfork only has a sampler list.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
it was in mine
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
xp
my approach to my ballot was at least somewhat contrarian but dusty in memphis still sounds like glitter falling out of your speakers imo. undeniable record
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/jerry-seinfeld-announces-new-netflix-special/
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
lol came here to post that. right next to a story about Stranger Things
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
Should have at least ended that article with a YouTube video of the Seinfeld theme.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
yeah i mean at least Stranger Things has the older brother that inexplicably has tapes of The Smiths in 1983 in Indiana
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
Jerry Seinfeld is coming to Netflix with a new hour-long special. It’s called Jerry Before Seinfeld, and it will feature previously unreleased material, including footage from his childhood and “a library of legal pads with every joke he’s written since 1975.”
Not the thread for it but who the hell is interested in that? "I'm Jerry Seinfeld, I tell jokes for a living and these are the ones from waaay back. Also some home videos."
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
I feel like something went horribly awry during the "Jerry shows his 'pads" pitch meeting and now.
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
lol
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
because the world demands it, joan crawford grades yr top ten of the 60s
Aretha - A, Aretha is automatic A deep into the 80sMiles - A, but the Second Great Quintet is the 60s, it's called "Great" for a reason and Silent is...also great, but like...Miles playing straight jazz is also great, look into itRevolver - no grade, haven't heard it, people say it's great though, I'm sure it's fineJames Brown Live at the Apollo - A. Come on this one's obviousBlonde on Blonde - this album is way too long. BWild is the Wind - AWhite Album - this album is also too long and has "Ob-La-Di." C+A Love Supreme - A+, always even better than I rememberPet Sounds - D, this album sucks so badVelvet Underground & Nico - B+, huge album obviously but can we just exhale & admit "Venus in Furs" is a slog and "Black Angel's Death Song" is like mandatory reading for a class
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
"want to see my secret fuck-pad?"
*approves special for $4 million*
"great. i don't tell profane jokes but i sure write them, check out this pad."
"oh noooooo"
― nomar, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/861df62c-ff71-4db4-936c-4c1005c9d032
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
admit "Venus in Furs" is a slog
not surprised by the rest of your comments but wasn't expecting this one tbh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
I'm a serious jazzbo and beatnik
just thumbing through my well worn copy of On the Road and listening to Bird blow man
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
"Venus in Furs" is a slogstill get a thrill when this one starts. what an amazing sound.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
he's a jazzbo, he's a booknerd, he's a beatnik! beatnik!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
i saw the best minds of my generation dustyed by memphis
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
a love supreme is bad not good
― mark s, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
vu self-titled okay but kind of slight
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
you're kind of slight
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
still get a thrill when this one starts. what an amazing sound.
― tylerw, Tuesday, August 22, 2017
otm especially during "I am tired" sequence