The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread

Should we do a group project

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Joe Mac said:
Sorry! I’m less surprised you like it.

From a distance in small on a phone you and Lees little pictures look very similar and I was thinking it was Lee that got the Mondays. I was anticipating there maybe being antithetical Coral-esque incident…
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What? This is malarky. By that crazy metric - "bald healded cartoon characters"... you and @Corycm look the same - "things with stuff on their head"
 
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Lee Newman said:
What? This is malarky. By that crazy metric - "bald healded cartoon characters"... you and @Corycm look the same - "things with stuff on their head"
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Very small, dark at the bottom and with a dash of yellow across the top. At phone size unless it’s a large image in a bold colour nothing is hugely distinguishable. Also, I don’t have my glasses on first thing in the morning.
 
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Albums like this are really hard to look at critically, I remember buying this album on the Tuesday it dropped! Brought the cassette to school on Wednesday, word got around I had it and by Thursday I was getting hit up by friends and people I kind of knew giving me blank tapes for me to dub them a copy! I hit my friends place at lunch because he had that high speed dubbing feature on his all in one stereo and by Monday it seemed like EVERYBODY had a copy, shit was everywhere! I have no idea why this album in particular hit like this and maybe it's more me looking back and misremembering things or it was just my little group of friends and a few extra people but it seemed like it was everywhere! At this point I can't listen to it without these memories so no matter how problematic the lyrics can be or no matter how dated the beats might sound, shit it has a Das EFX feature, it'll always get a 5/5!!!
 
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Albums like this are really hard to look at critically, I remember buying this album on the Tuesday it dropped! Brought the cassette to school on Wednesday, word got around I had it and by Thursday I was getting hit up by friends and people I kind of knew giving me blank tapes for me to dub them a copy! I hit my friends place at lunch because he had that high speed dubbing feature on his all in one stereo and by Monday it seemed like EVERYBODY had a copy, shit was everywhere! I have no idea why this album in particular hit like this and maybe it's more me looking back and misremembering things or it was just my little group of friends and a few extra people but it seemed like it was everywhere! At this point I can't listen to it without these memories so no matter how problematic the lyrics can be or no matter how dated the beats might sound, shit it has a Das EFX feature, it'll always get a 5/5!!!
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Nah, it wasn’t just you. This was his moment. I think his first two are better and Lethal Injection was the start of a long downward trend, but this was solid and ubiquitous.
 
4080 said:
I completely agree about the first 2 and Lethal Injection, I found it strange that The Predator was the one everyone gravitated towards.
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The Predator was the record where he began to embrace the G-Funk sound. His earlier albums with PE’s Bomb Squad production are great too but they obviously sound more like East Coast rap than what was going on in Cali at the time. Which was good for establishing himself away from NWA but the California production combined with Cube’s west coast tales was where he hit his stride in popular music. Also, “It Was A Good Day” is pretty much a perfect track that song being released as a single coming of the heals of Dre’s “Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang” really launched the G-Funk Era.
 
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Lee Newman said:
Along with Young Americans and whole slew of others, could be my favorite Bowie album any given day.
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Station to Station is definitely my favorite Bowie album. And one of my favorite albums ever made in general. I can't remember what number I had it at when I made my list for the N&G Top 500 but I'm sure it was probably too low. I know there's other Bowie records that are technically more important and influential but this is the one that speaks to me the most. I don't feel like I'm prepared to give this record the review it deserves at the moment, but rest assured this is the easiest 5 I've handed out so far. To me, it's just perfect.

I also can't really pick favorites here because I absolutely adore all six tracks, however I have to give a special shout-out to the fantastic closer, still my preferred version of "Wild is the Wind" (sorry Nina Simone and Cat Power). Bowie's vocals on that one will never not give me chills.
 
Lee Newman said:
Really the only britpop album that needed to be on the list. Don’t @ me.
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Yeah from an American that’s like me saying that Nevermind is the only grunge album that deserves to be on this list. If it was a personal list for sure but overall perhaps not. One thing I’m finding refreshing about seeing peoples rundowns in this thread is that after years of seeing a very pro US bias on these forums there being a more fair representation of British music outside the big artists 60s and 70s.
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah from an American that’s like me saying that Nevermind is the only grunge album that deserves to be on this list. If it was a personal list for sure but overall perhaps not. One thing I’m finding refreshing about seeing peoples rundowns in this thread is that after years of seeing a very pro US bias on these forums there being a more fair representation of British music outside the big artists 60s and 70s.
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I mean Nevermind is the only grunge album that should be on the list.
 
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