Lurker > Mr Lasastryke

in before "lol europe"

Chronomantique
On the Beach of Dreams

Yeah, TKoL was the lowest. Even though it's actually one of their best albums!

Turn was a cool guy.

Guldove - Home World
The Dream That Time Dreams

The Fame has a bunch of songs that are pretty good.

Born This Way has... "The Edge of Glory".

"The only reason we aren't winning is because voters were tricked"

I'm not sure if anyone on the board is saying that, either in this topic or the previous Scott Walker topic, but whatever.

I didn't know who he was before the previous Sephy "Scott Walker damage control liberals blah blah" topic.

It's amazing and hilariously predictable how liberals will never just admit that maybe their position is not popular. It always has to be that the Republicans cheated, or that the electorate was deceived into voting a certain way.

I doubt I'm going to get more than a "DAMAGE CONTROL XFD" response to this, but... this doesn't contradict with some of the reasons you listed. People who give these reasons don't deny the liberal position is unpopular, they're saying the position is unpopular because the electorate was deceived into thinking conservatism is superior to liberalism or whatever.

373 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues

too low.

419 | Flogging Molly | Drunken Lullabies

I don't think the RS list had Irish punk on it, which is commendable.

438 | Frank Zappa | Hot Rats

Well, it's on the list, that's more than I can say for the RS list!

Post-p4k-core is my favorite genre.

496 | De Le Soul | De La Soul Is Dead

Overrated De La album.

495 | The Fugees | The Score

WTF this should be top 10 etc.

Chess? Maybe?

Metool was way better than me at chess but he hasn't posted here in ages, so yeah.

I'm also glad that someone else appreciates Pretzel Logic; sometimes, I feel like I'm the only Steely Dan fan here.

Hardly! On that note, Aja is... well, it's in the top 150, fair enough. But yeah, I feel like Steely Dan is a band everyone has heard of but people don't praise nearly enough.

Why do we need more than one Santana album? Every guitar solo is the same!

I'll pretend I didn't read that.

WTF at The Bends being so high, that album, like Hail to the Thief, is in the "OK - good" range. At least they correctly named Kid A the #1 Radiohead album.

Trout Mask being so high was expected, but still nice to see.

Don't expect many surprises in the top 50.

I stand corrected.

Either way, The Beatles are just not that big here.

You're comparing the Beatles to a genre?

I meant various metal bands are more popular here than The Beatles.

I'm sure any one metal band wouldn't have as high a fanbase as the beatles do.

On this site, definitely. 235 is the most popular music board here for a reason.

I'm not surprised - The Beatles have never been that popular around here. People like metal bands a lot more.

Odessey and Oracle is a good album, not sure if I'd call it a classic.

who cares whether or not the guy plays chess

Are you implying a guy playing chess is not the primary reason Europe is collapsing?

I think People's Instinctive Travels is the best Tribe album. Unpopular opinion!

"Quicksilver Messenger Service"? No, can't say I've ever heard of that.

Nice to see Todd Rundgren on the list - fantastic artist you don't hear people talk about all that often.

Agree with OK Computer not being in the top 150. Not all that crazy about that particular album.

"Norway/Europe" sounds stupid.

248. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come

Non-cookie cutter jazz album sighting. Nice choice.

246. The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!

Looks like my bold prediction didn't come true! Honestly didn't expect Freak Out! to rank ahead of WOIIFTM. Nice to see it in the top 250, too.

Seriously? Gotta be the most important (and most enjoyable) all female band... maybe ever.

I see. I hard know any all female bands (as in actual bands and not girl groups). Only The Donnas come to mind instantly.

262. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash

way too low yadda yadda

Sleater-Kinney is the first... thing on the list I've never even heard of, I think.

297. The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in It for the Money

Bold prediction: this is going to be the highest Zappa-related ranking (not counting Captain Beefheart stuff). At least they went with the best Mothers album.

BSSM > Californication. At least they got that right.

In Rainbows > Amnesiac. Bad start for the Radiohead album ranking.

Rooting for Zenyatta Mondatta to be the only high ranked Police album now!

As far as jazz goes, I wonder if we're going to see anything less cookie-cutter than Sketches.

Also, seeing Miles Davis on the list is kinda random. If they're going to bother representing different genres all of a sudden, where's, say, classical music?

So The Black Album and 3 Feet High and Rising are better than Illmatic and Enter The Wu-Tang.

I can agree with 3 Feet High being higher. It should be a lot higher, still.

365. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Shouldn't be on the list IMHO. Never cared too much for Rage.

364. The Doors - LA Woman

Way too low.

Regatta de Blanc is a great album. Should be much higher.

*Spoilers*





You have to wonder if Sgt. Pepper would be #1 if it weren't so influential.

Fun fact: Paul McCartney has stated The Beatles were influenced by Freak Out! and Absolutely Free by The Mothers of Invention when they made Sgt. Pepper. Wonder how high those albums are going to be on the list.

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What's Going On and Pet Sounds are the only albums in the top 10 I really like.

i don't care if you don't like them. use them, or don't post s*** with one line between the word spoiler and the rest of what you are saying.

Fine, fine. Seriously, it's not that difficult to not read the rest of a post that starts with "*Spoilers*."

*Spoilers*





Of course influence is going to be a factor in a list like this. Why would it not be. Influence of a piece of art is directly correlated with the lasting appeal of that piece of art, and the popularity. Arguments like these make no sense.

There's nothing necessarily wrong with considering influence, but it makes me wonder what this is list is supposed to be. Are we looking at the best albums ever, or the albums that were both the best and both somewhat influential?

Also, if influence is such an important factor, stuff like Radiohead and Arcade Fire should be way higher. And Kraftwerk - they basically invented the sound of the music that became very popular in the 80s.

And Frank Zappa influenced tons of bands and artists beside The Beatles (including Jimi Hendrix, to name one other example). His stuff should be way higher than it's inevitably going to be.

I don't like the new spoiler tags.

386. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
381. The Beach Boys - Smile

very offensive.

Dreamenddischarger
The Dark and Crazed Requiem of Purgatory

As usual, the entire genre of metal seems to not exist for Rolling Stone

One of the few commendable things about the list!

zing

I think Dummy is placed correctly, actually.