- RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
- U2 - The Joshua Tree
- NIRVANA - Nevermind
- MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
- PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
- OASIS - Definitely Maybe
- THE BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- MADONNA - Like a Prayer
- GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction
- THE BEATLES - Revolver
- R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
- THE BEATLES - The White Album
- QUEEN - A Night at the Opera
- COLDPLAY - Parachutes
- OASIS - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
- ALANIS MORISSETTE - Jagged Little Pill
- LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin IV
- THE VERVE - Urban Hymns
- JIMI HENDRIX - Are you Experienced
- THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead
- JOHN LENNON - Imagine
- RADIOHEAD - The Bends
- BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - Exodus
- THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses
- SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - Bridge Over Troubled Water
- BJORK - Debut
- THE DOORS - The Doors
- ABBA - Arrival
- MICHAEL JACKSON - Off the Wall
- DURAN DURAN - Rio
- SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
- DAVID BOWIE - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds
- JOY DIVISION - Closer
- THE ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed
- BLUR - Parklife
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born to Run
- BILLIE HOLIDAY - Lady Sings the Blues
- THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
- BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
- THE SPECIALS - Specials
- THE ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main Street
- FRANK SINATRA - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
- THE CLASH - London Calling
- THE PRODIGY - The Fat of the Land
- THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Velvet Underground and Nico
- DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms
- PIXIES - Doolittle
- ARETHA FRANKLIN - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
- THE LIBERTINES - The Libertines
- HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
- PATTI SMITH - Horses
- THE WHO - Tommy
- LOU REED - Transformer
- BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks
- PRINCE - Sign 'o' the Times
- DIDO - No Angel
- AIR - Moon Safari
- ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- THE JAM - All Mod Cons
- JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace
- FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
- MOBY - Play
- RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
- THE POLICE - Synchronicity
- JONI MITCHELL - Blue
- CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly
- ELVIS PRESLEY - The Sun Sessions
- OUTKAST - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
- PULP - Different Class
- KRAFTWERK - Trans-Europe Express
- MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines
- BECK - Odelay
- STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
- KATE BUSH - Hounds of Love
- TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
- EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP
- MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On
- GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith
- SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - The Original Movie Soundtrack
- PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica
- JOHN COLTRANE - A Love Supreme
- LOVE - Forever Changes
- PAUL SIMON - Graceland
- NICK DRAKE - Five Leaves Left
- MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell
- DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Dusty in Memphis
- DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High and Rising
- THE STROKES - Is this It
- MADNESS - One Step Beyond...
- ROBBIE WILLIAMS - I've Been Expecting You
- NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush
- PUBLIC ENEMY - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- BLONDIE - Parallel Lines
- THE EAGLES - Hotel California
- JAMES BROWN - Sex Machine
- THE STREETS - A Grand Don't Come for Free
- DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
- ROD STEWART - Every Picture Tells a Story
- THE HUMAN LEAGUE - Dare!
Channel 4's 100 Greatest Albums
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Channel 4's 100 Greatest Albums
Last night, Channel 4 counted down it's 100 greatest albums. A panel of music industry experts selected 125 albums, and then the British public voted on which was the greatest album of all time. Here are the results:
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Thanks, Murrin. You've put me off lists forever now. 
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Throw out Radiohead & replace it with Dire Straits' 'Love Over Gold'... Throw out Michael Jackson & replace him with anyone with actual talent... & it might be a halfway decent list. 
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ok computer is very good ....... but best album ever? in a word no
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Husker Du : Zen Arcade
Minutemen : Double Nickles On the Dime
Throwing Muses : the Real Ramona
Camper Van Beethoven : Key Lime Pie
Cracker : Kerosene Hat
Pink Floyd : Wish You Were Here
Uncle Tupelo : No Depression
Dumptruck : For the Country
Neil Young : Harvest
Lemonheads : It's A Shame About Ray
off the top of my head
Minutemen : Double Nickles On the Dime
Throwing Muses : the Real Ramona
Camper Van Beethoven : Key Lime Pie
Cracker : Kerosene Hat
Pink Floyd : Wish You Were Here
Uncle Tupelo : No Depression
Dumptruck : For the Country
Neil Young : Harvest
Lemonheads : It's A Shame About Ray
off the top of my head
Wow, what a bad list. The Beatles at #7? Led Zeppelin at #17? The Sex Pistols at #31? The Stones at #35?
WTF?
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I'm not sure that it's the best album ever, but OK Computer's a fine album nonetheless. It's interesting to note that the albums they've made since do not appear on this list.
It's difficult to appreciate the esteem Radiohead are held in by the British music press unless you live over here. Apart from Muse (who've not sacrificed melody for pretentiousness and self indulgence the way Radiohead have) Britain has produced very little in the way of seriously high quality rock music since OK Computer.
All this list proves is that a lot of the British public are unaware of their rich musical heritage.
It's difficult to appreciate the esteem Radiohead are held in by the British music press unless you live over here. Apart from Muse (who've not sacrificed melody for pretentiousness and self indulgence the way Radiohead have) Britain has produced very little in the way of seriously high quality rock music since OK Computer.
All this list proves is that a lot of the British public are unaware of their rich musical heritage.
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Q) "Name the greatest band the world's seen ?"
A) The Beatles.
You'll find no argument from me on that one. They turned songwriting, arranging and production upside down, no doubt about it.
However, did they ever record the greatest album of all time ? I'd say Revolver has to be a contender, but there's some stiff competition.
A) The Beatles.
You'll find no argument from me on that one. They turned songwriting, arranging and production upside down, no doubt about it.
However, did they ever record the greatest album of all time ? I'd say Revolver has to be a contender, but there's some stiff competition.
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Well, I don't think so, but I wouldn't be unhappy if they were....The Beatles, after all.Lord Foul wrote:You mean The Beatles should be at #1, right?Cail wrote:Wow, what a bad list. The Beatles at #7? Led Zeppelin at #17? The Sex Pistols at #31? The Stones at #35?
WTF?I agree with you, then.
But ranking Coldplay above Led Zeppelin? Sacrilige!
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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I won't argue too hard with OK Computer as the No. 1 choice of the British public. Most of my favorite artists are UK-based, anyway. 
Radiohead's Kid A album touches me more personally, though, and that makes all the difference in the world. I'm not prepared to say Kid A is the "greatest album ever" but neither do I think it's inferior to OK Computer.
Nice to see U2 ranked way up there. However, my pick for greatest U2 album would be Achtung Baby. I do admire The Joshua Tree, but I only had ears for Sting's Nothing Like The Sun that year (1987).
I accept Nevermind as an influential album (for better or for worse), but as a piece of music I think it's overrated. Achtung Baby came out the same year, after all, and I think it walks all over Nevermind, musically speaking. Nirvana may have gotten all the attention by being louder than everyone else, but U2 were the true innovators. And I'm still of the opinion that In Utero was Nirvana's best album, by far.
Thriller is another very overrated album--BUT it does have what I feel are two of the greatest pop songs ever written by anybody: Billie Jean and Beat It. It's fashionable nowadays to dump on "whacko" Jackson, but when it comes down to the music and away from the politics, I'll remember him as the author of these two amazing songs.
Dark Side of the Moon: I think the songs on the second half (Side Two, heh) are not as inspired as the utterly brilliant first half, but I still admire this album. A lot. But my favorite Pink Floyd album is their last, The Division Bell. I can hear Floyd fans screaming already: any Floyd album without Roger Waters is no Floyd album of mine! Nevertheless.
Sgt. Pepper: I'm sorry, but I just don't see the greatness that many people see in this album. I think it's a weak Beatles effort, filled with some of the lamest songs they've ever written. (For a truly hypnotic and musically superior psychedelic trip I'll put on Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, thanks.) Revolver would be my choice for best Beatles album, and for best album ever.
And, hey, it's good to see Madonna is appreciated. The male-dominated rock fanbase, as well as the male-dominated field of rock journalism, tends to look down on what it views as insubstantial dance-pop, especially as practiced by pop "starlets" like Madonna. But to me, her music is great, regardless of whose conventions it defies. My pick for Madonna's greatest album would be True Blue.
Radiohead's Kid A album touches me more personally, though, and that makes all the difference in the world. I'm not prepared to say Kid A is the "greatest album ever" but neither do I think it's inferior to OK Computer.
Nice to see U2 ranked way up there. However, my pick for greatest U2 album would be Achtung Baby. I do admire The Joshua Tree, but I only had ears for Sting's Nothing Like The Sun that year (1987).
I accept Nevermind as an influential album (for better or for worse), but as a piece of music I think it's overrated. Achtung Baby came out the same year, after all, and I think it walks all over Nevermind, musically speaking. Nirvana may have gotten all the attention by being louder than everyone else, but U2 were the true innovators. And I'm still of the opinion that In Utero was Nirvana's best album, by far.
Thriller is another very overrated album--BUT it does have what I feel are two of the greatest pop songs ever written by anybody: Billie Jean and Beat It. It's fashionable nowadays to dump on "whacko" Jackson, but when it comes down to the music and away from the politics, I'll remember him as the author of these two amazing songs.
Dark Side of the Moon: I think the songs on the second half (Side Two, heh) are not as inspired as the utterly brilliant first half, but I still admire this album. A lot. But my favorite Pink Floyd album is their last, The Division Bell. I can hear Floyd fans screaming already: any Floyd album without Roger Waters is no Floyd album of mine! Nevertheless.
Sgt. Pepper: I'm sorry, but I just don't see the greatness that many people see in this album. I think it's a weak Beatles effort, filled with some of the lamest songs they've ever written. (For a truly hypnotic and musically superior psychedelic trip I'll put on Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, thanks.) Revolver would be my choice for best Beatles album, and for best album ever.
And, hey, it's good to see Madonna is appreciated. The male-dominated rock fanbase, as well as the male-dominated field of rock journalism, tends to look down on what it views as insubstantial dance-pop, especially as practiced by pop "starlets" like Madonna. But to me, her music is great, regardless of whose conventions it defies. My pick for Madonna's greatest album would be True Blue.
Pah! Child! Coldplay will be long forgotten in 10 years, Zeppelin will still be Zeppelin.Nathan wrote:Well deserved! Parachutes is a brilliant album.But ranking Coldplay above Led Zeppelin? Sacrilige!
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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anyone else sick of these '100 greatest' shows on channel 4?
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
Just reading the tv guide next sunday 8.00pm: The 100 greatest '100 greatset' shows.
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.