The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread

Should we do a group project

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Joe Mac said:
Yeah Leisure and the Great Escape are the two that I’d not have on a list.
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I get why the band isn't especially fond of it but honestly I do love The Great Escape. I wouldn't put it too far behind Parklife personally. Again though, there's only one album of theirs I'd say I don't love and it's still a perfectly listenable record.

Damn it now I just want to listen to Blur.

Yet here we are...
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Joe Mac said:
To be fair that’s contrary to Lee’s opinion, the world tends to go with the generic over arching thing, it’s easier.
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I completely agree, but to deny a it’s existence just because it’s generic and over arching is obtuse as well. You and I and Lee can choose to use other, better defined descriptors for the bands that fall under the “Grunge” umbrella but when someone says something is grunge that meets that over generalized definition you can’t say that it’s not grunge because you don’t like grunge as a descriptor.

Nevermind Grunge album it is also a Punk album. Albums can be described in a multitude of ways.
 
gaporter said:
I get why the band isn't especially fond of it but honestly I do love The Great Escape. I wouldn't put it too far behind Parklife personally. Again though, there's only one album of theirs I'd say I don't love and it's still a perfectly listenable record.

Damn it now I just want to listen to Blur.

Yet here we are...
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Well see the problem is you are actually listening to Paramore.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I completely agree, but to deny a it’s existence just because it’s generic and over arching is obtuse as well. You and I and Lee can choose to use other, better defined descriptors for the bands that fall under the “Grunge” umbrella but when someone says something is grunge that meets that over generalized definition you can’t say that it’s not grunge because you don’t like grunge as a descriptor.

Nevermind Grunge album it is also a Punk album. Albums can be described in a multitude of ways.
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Yeah and honestly I’m not all that fond of genre definitions beyond the really overachieving and vague. The more precise you get the more meaningless they become. It’s music and I likes it or I doesn’t.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I completely agree, but to deny a it’s existence just because it’s generic and over arching is obtuse as well. You and I and Lee can choose to use other, better defined descriptors for the bands that fall under the “Grunge” umbrella but when someone says something is grunge that meets that over generalized definition you can’t say that it’s not grunge because you don’t like grunge as a descriptor.

Nevermind Grunge album it is also a Punk album. Albums can be described in a multitude of ways.
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But everything that was categorized as grunge would mean that Green Day is grunge and War on Drugs is grunge and all rock music after 1991 is grunge.
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah and honestly I’m not all that fond of genre definitions beyond the really overachieving and vague. The more precise you get the more meaningless they become. It’s music and I likes it or I doesn’t.
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That’s fair as well. I keep my digital library divided into 22 genres and while I understand it far from accurate I feel like it fits my personal needs in finding things I wanna listen to. I only have one “Jazz” category and “Soul/Funk/R&B” all grouped together but I probably have at 5 to 10 Rock based genres.
 
gaporter said:
Don't be sad @Joe Mac!

In all seriousness, whils I like exaggerating the Oasis hate for comedic effect, I'll give this as fair a chance as I have anything else. I'm not as opposed to checking this out as I'm making it seem. In fact I hope the Gallagher boys are about to prove every negative opinion I've ever had about them wrong. We shall see...
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Honestly I get it. The brothers, and Liam in particular, are more than a little rough around the edges and I can see why they’d put anyone off. Also they did become a bit dull and meat and potatoes rock for most of the back half of their career.

If one album is possible to change that it’d be this one, it is the one in their cannon that is the young optimist lying in the gutter dreaming of, and believing they’ll reach, the stars
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
But not really. If you look up those artist in Discogs or Wikipedia or All Music they use other genre and styles to categorize those artists.
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There you go pointing out what the world says. I’m just saying Green Day is punk, why aren’t they grunge. War on Drugs is Classic Rock, why aren’t they grunge. I don’t know enough about modern metal that isn’t guys screaming, glammy, or progressive so I don’t know what the comparison there is
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I enjoy Blur and Oasis in equal measure and never followed the rivalry close enough to take a side. Damon and The Gallegers both seemed like Rock & Roll pricks and that was fine by me.
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Yeah in England as a teenager at the time you kinda had to pick a side. Being from the North it just was oasis. That said we were all secretly listening to blur too at home and just not admitting to it in public 😂
 
Lee Newman said:
There you go pointing out what the world says. I’m just saying Green Day is punk, why aren’t they grunge. War on Drugs is Classic Rock, why aren’t they grunge. I don’t know enough about modern metal that isn’t guys screaming, glammy, or progressive so I don’t know what the comparison there is
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That’s the thing. When communicating with people it’s easier to subscribe to commonly held references than trying to get everyone to assimilate to your world view.

You don’t like the term Grunge. I don’t much care for it either. Where we differ is that I acknowledge and accept the term’s existence.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
That’s the thing. When communicating with people it’s easier to subscribe to commonly held references than trying to get everyone to assimilate to your world view.

You don’t like the term Grunge. I don’t much care for it either. Where we differ is that I acknowledge and accept the term’s existence.
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in music it’s meaningless unless you just mean bands from Seattle that wore flannel in the nineties. Which is fine. The idea that there was a sound is preposterous.
 
Lee Newman said:
There is a rivalry? Can we get Ryan Reynolds to buy one and make a documentary about it?
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Well in so much as they both released their worst singles to date on the same day, NME sniffed a chance to shift a load of mags and Liam loves the opportunity to boast about how brilliant he is whilst calling everyone else “fooking pricks”. It got a bit nasty for a while and drugs and booze saw some pretty dumb things said. Teenagers were supposed to pick a side in the 90s. All the usual nonsense. All in all now beyond Liam still liking to call himself brilliant by deriding everyone else as “fooking pricks” Noel seems to get on very well with Damon and Graham.
 
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