It is 2012 and whether people want to admit it or not, paul's boutique is the single most influential album of the past 25 years. Not Straight outta Compton, not Loveless, not Nevermind. That album is the foundation of most if not all modern rap music. Straight Out of Compton is legendary for it's style and cultural impact and because Ice Cube basically wrote it but three white guys from New york did more for rap than 5 guys from Compton.
It's a slap in the face to rap to have that album not in the top 100.
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Realo won gold at the Sex Olympics with a BROKEN FRIGGIN NECK.-Voltch
It is 2012 and whether people want to admit it or not, paul's boutique is the single most influential album of the past 25 years. That album is the foundation of most if not all modern rap music.
Those two statements are so incredibly wrong
You are literally insane
-- SephirothG, channeling awesomeness from Mershiness. The Resurrection
120. The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Radio 119. Etta James - At Last! 118. Kanye West - Late Registration 117. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla & Other Love Songs 116. The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads 115. The Who - The Who Sell Out 114. Cream - Disraeli Gears 113. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark 112. The Mamas and the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears 111. Radiohead - The Bends
It's like a karmic joke, having the first thing I see after that last post be another Byrds album.
It's weird seeing these Rolling Stones albums of lesser renown pop up so high. Of course, part of that is undoubtedly the disparate nature between the UK and US releases - I don't think the UK version of Out of Our Heads had "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" on it. Still, the "big four" have not shown up, and we've only got 110 albums left.
I never really liked The Who Sell Out. I do think it's hilarious that perhaps the best known song from that album - "I Can See for Miles" - is now used in commercials.
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears is probably the best American album that came about as a response to the British invasion. California Dreamin' is one of the top... 50 songs ever? Maybe higher? Such a classic.
The Bends > OK Computer > Amnesiac > In Rainbows. Not bad, Rolling Stone. Not bad.
Name another album that's defined an entire genre in the last 25 years?
Sampling is the basis for nearly all of modern rap. Paul's Boutique is the reason for that. That album is legendary.
I love the album and all, but give me a break.
It's not the first album to sample heavily, and I can't even think of any major rappers/groups who were directly influenced by it. They have a distinct white person cipher style that is unique to them.
-- SephirothG, channeling awesomeness from Mershiness. The Resurrection
110. The Velvet Underground - Loaded 109. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath 108. David Bowie - Hunky Dory 107. Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend 106. Ramones - Rocket to Russia 105. Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music 104. James Taylor - Sweet Baby James 103. John Coltrane - Giant Steps 102. Cream - Fresh Cream 101. Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Name another album that's defined an entire genre in the last 25 years?
Sampling is the basis for nearly all of modern rap. Paul's Boutique is the reason for that. That album is legendary.
I love the album and all, but give me a break.
It's not the first album to sample heavily, and I can't even think of any major rappers/groups who were directly influenced by it. They have a distinct white person cipher style that is unique to them.
Name another album that's defined an entire genre in the last 25 years?
Sampling is the basis for nearly all of modern rap. Paul's Boutique is the reason for that. That album is legendary.
I love the album and all, but give me a break.
It's not the first album to sample heavily, and I can't even think of any major rappers/groups who were directly influenced by it. They have a distinct white person cipher style that is unique to them.
Public Enemy, for one.
Whose seminal work preceded Paul's Boutique by a year
-- SephirothG, channeling awesomeness from Mershiness. The Resurrection
100. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle 099. Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On 098. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model 097. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 096. The Who - Tommy 095. Miles Davis - B****es Brew 094. Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits 093. Prince - Sign o' the Times 092. Buddy Holly - 20 Golden Greats 091. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
We're into the top 100, and yet we still get two greatest hits compilations. And I'm dead sure that Bob Marley's Legend is still ahead of us. Oof.
Cokes Vinyl Count: 6. I have Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in quite good condition. Such a great pop album.
I'd imagine Elvis, Elton and Sly are now done (Elton might have one more album on the list, but I'd be surprised).
Audience Participation: How many jazz albums in the top 90?
Curiosity of the day - as I type up this particular post, "Pump It Up" comes in iTunes. Good timing, Mr Costello
090. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book 089. Dusty Springfield - Dusty Springfield in Memphis 088. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison 087. Pink Floyd - The Wall 086. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA 085. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul 084. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You 083. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love 082. Neil Young - Harvest 081. The Clash - The Clash
I never really understood why people love The Wall as much as they seem to. It always seemed kinda bloated / less enjoyable without the craziness of the movie.
Not sure how exactly Aretha ended up with albums back-to-back. Mathematical oddity?
First Hendrix album. Electric Ladyland snubbed, or yet to come?
And lastly, all hail the only band that ever mattered.
080. John Lennon - Imagine 079. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II 078. Otis Redding - Otis Blue 077. AC/DC -Back in Black 076. Prince - Purple Rain 075. James Brown - Star Time 074. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush 073. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 072. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly 071. Paul Simon - Graceland
Back in Black is only on this list, never mind this high, because of the death of Bon Scott and the emergence of Brian Johnson. There's nothing remarkable on Back in Black that the Youngs hadn't done before, but it was such a stroke of fortune that it has propelled their career for 30+ years.
Physical Graffiti, or at least much of it, does nothing for me. I think this is probably me being weird, but I dunno.
A 4-disc compilation of James Brown, which makes his second compilation on the list. I know no particular album is a great showcase for him, but why not Live at the Apollo? He was called the greatest entertainer for a reason.
If you know you have Superfly at 72, why do you have a compilation a couple hundred back that has a large chunk of Superfly on it? Just make the compilation an Impressions album!
Graceland is great, and to see it outside the top 50 is very surprising.
070. Billy Joel - The Stranger 069. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV 068. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall 067. Radiohead - Kid A 066. Van Morrison - Moondance 065. Phil Spector - Back to Mono (1958-1969) 064. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers 063. U2 - Achtung Baby 062. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction 061. Sly and the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
Oh come on with the greatest hits. Oy vey.
Kid A > The Bends > OK Computer > Amnesiac > In Rainbows. I'm not a huge fan of Kid A, but it's a fair ranking.
Sticky Fingers being here seems to imply that either Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed may have been snubbed... That can't be right, right?
Cokes Vinyl Count: 7 (The Stranger, also a great pop album)
Moondance is so good. Of all the albums on this list, it is probably my second favorite so far (behind Paul's Boutique).
Also yeah, way too much Greatest Hits stuff on here. I get that there are some compilations that really did have a big impact in their own right (most notably Legend), but still.
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060. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica 059. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle Vol. 1 058. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet 057. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life 056. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley 055. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland 054. Ray Charles - The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 053. The Beatles - Meet the Beatles 052. Al Green - Greatest Hits 051. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Meet The Beatles, really? Such a goddamn cop-out.
Beggars Banquet and Electric Ladyland answer a couple of my recent queries.
"The Complete Atlantic Recordings" also seems like a bit of a cop-out. I understand that you had artists who put out lots of singles that never made albums, but you've gotta draw the line somewhere, right?
Speaking of drawing the line, that Al Green compilation has like a 2/3 redundancy rate with the rest of his albums on the list, I think.
If Songs in the Key of Life is at 57, is Innervisions higher, or completely snubbed? It's gotta be higher, though I can't imagine why. It's not like more than one or two of the albums remaining have a song as good as "Sir Duke", much less Innervisions.
Is Paul Simon done with Bridge Over Troubled Water at 51, or does There Goes Rhymin' Simon sneak into the top 50? I hope it's the latter.
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.
I just don't "get" the Dead. I really and truly don't.
That Santana thing is a half-truth, half-joke that I love to use to rile people up. I don't dislike Santana by any means, but he's not a terribly diverse musician.