The N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time!!!
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whatwhatsaywhat
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break it down by country please @Jake!
i never classify my music by 'genre' but i do love a country of origin...
currently just looking at top 20s from each decade to make a top 120, but the 50 as it stands look like...
i never classify my music by 'genre' but i do love a country of origin...
currently just looking at top 20s from each decade to make a top 120, but the 50 as it stands look like...
| The Order | Nationality | Year |
1 | American | 1975 |
2 | American | 1977 |
3 | American | 1966 |
4 | English | 1966 |
5 | American | 1965 |
6 | English | 1968 |
7 | American | 1967 |
8 | Canadian | 1971 |
9 | English | 1973 |
10 | English | 1979 |
11 | Canadian | 1974 |
12 | English | 1972 |
13 | English | 1997 |
14 | English | 1998 |
15 | Irish | 1991 |
16 | American | 2015 |
17 | English | 1989 |
18 | English | 1980 |
19 | American | 1993 |
20 | Canadian | 1972 |
21 | Canadian | 1974 |
22 | English | 1973 |
23 | Cosmopolitan | 1977 |
24 | Canadian | 1969 |
25 | English | 1964 |
26 | Canadian | 1970 |
27 | American | 1988 |
28 | English | 1997 |
29 | Oztrayan | 2000 |
30 | English | 1972 |
31 | English | 1967 |
32 | American | 1967 |
33 | English | 1967 |
34 | American | 1967 |
35 | American | 1999 |
36 | English | 2000 |
37 | English | 1966 |
38 | American | 1970 |
39 | English | 1979 |
40 | Canadian | 2004 |
41 | English | 1975 |
42 | American | 2001 |
43 | English | 2007 |
44 | English | 2011 |
45 | American | 1991 |
46 | American | 1979 |
47 | American | 1972 |
48 | American | 1989 |
49 | American | 1982 |
50 | American | 1980 |
Poly-Rythmo
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Interesting spread, showing that I was both a teenager in the 90s and think that music peaked in the 70s.
1950s 2
1960s 8
1970s 18
1980s 2
1990s 13
2000s 4
2010s 3
Happy with the geographical spread, but pretty dismaying to see I only have three women
US 20 / UK-Ireland 15 / Africa 11 / Continental Europe 2 / Colombia 1 / Jamaica 1
1950s 2
1960s 8
1970s 18
1980s 2
1990s 13
2000s 4
2010s 3
Happy with the geographical spread, but pretty dismaying to see I only have three women
US 20 / UK-Ireland 15 / Africa 11 / Continental Europe 2 / Colombia 1 / Jamaica 1
kafunis
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It’s OK , they can and will be Your favourite bands/albums.
I'm realizing that some of my top-20 favorite bands/artists might not make the list...
bettim84
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cbl
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I was in school in Denton while Midlake was coming up and finding their sound around town and saw a few pre-Trials shows live with them playing to a room of 50...I think Trials is flawless and love the revered/cult-status it's attained.
MoB have a crazy story...they literally broke up after their first album b/c they played too loud and the frontman developed tinnitus...I'd imagine their 22 years between studio releases has to be a record.
Jake!
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break it down by country please @Jake!
i never classify my music by 'genre' but i do love a country of origin...
currently just looking at top 20s from each decade to make a top 120, but the 50 as it stands look like...
The Order Nationality Year American American American English American English American Canadian English English Canadian English English English Irish American English English American Canadian Canadian English Cosmopolitan Canadian English Canadian American English Oztrayan English English American English American American English English American English Canadian English American English English American American American American American American
ohhh good idea!! I’ll definitely do this later this week
bettim84
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Interesting spread, showing that I was both a teenager in the 90s and think that music peaked in the 70s.
1950s 2
1960s 8
1970s 18
1980s 2
1990s 13
2000s 4
2010s 3
Happy with the geographical spread, but pretty dismaying to see I only have three women
US 20 / UK-Ireland 15 / Africa 11 / Continental Europe 2 / Colombia 1 / Jamaica 1
I'm with you on feeling "out of time," I definitely rank 70s/80s highly despite being a teenager in the 90s/early 00s.
As for women, it depends on how we're counting groups that feature women even if they're not the primary vocalist (e.g. Talking Heads, Belle & Sebastian, etc.). Sixteen out of my provisional top 50 albums feature women vocalists or musicians.
As for nationality, UK artists comprise exactly half of y provisional list (25), including 7-8 out of my top 10. The other half is mostly U.S. (18, though I'm counting Talking Heads and Garbage as American bands despite their singers' nationality), a few Canadians (Neil Young, Rush, Grimes, and Alvvays), and then U2 and Bjork.
Sadly despite my background Brazilian artists did not get even a sniff. I never gave Brazilian music a chance when I was growing up, and it shows (there are maaaybe 2-3 Brazilian albums that would crack my top 100).
BjorgenFjorgen
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Man, the mental gymnastics required to compare long-time rotation staples against albums that were foundational to my taste as a youth against more recent obsessions are difficult.
bettim84
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Yes, that's been the most brutal part. This is where I've landed: no matter how foundational the album was to me, I still need to be able to at least enjoy listening to it now for it to make my list. There have been some serious casualties among my past favorites as a result.
BjorgenFjorgen
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Yeah, definitely. I have a handful of records on my list right now in the 50s-70s range that are kind of knocking on the door of making it. I'll definitely be taking a lot of the next two months to relisten to all of these a good number of times.
Viking Dan
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I don't expect it to make it onto THIS list....but I can see at least one 2020 release making the list if this were compiled say 5 yrs. from now.
I'm struggling culling it down from 75ish right now and I know I'm going to have a bunch that will be unique to my list alone.
So what shakes out once all the info is complied is going to be compelling.
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cbl
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Do you have “foundational” albums that you can’t listen to now?
Even with ever evolving and the expanding tastes, I can’t think of any artist or album that really resonated with me 20-30 years ago that I straight up can’t listen to and enjoy now...maybe nostalgia playing a bigger role than full musical appreciation on some, but I think I can still listen and enjoy everything of significance from my past
bettim84
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Yeah, I have a few. I previously mentioned NIN - Pretty Hate Machine as an album that really opened up my music taste (I did not tolerate anything remotely electronic before then), but I struggle to enjoy it now because of the lyrics (lets just say they resonated with me when I was 17 and there are tough memories attached to that time of my life).
Another one is GNR - Appetite for Destruction. That was hands down my favorite album throughout high school, but is full of cringeworthy lyrics now that I’m a 36yo dad. Basically there are fewer opportunities for me to enjoy, and I listened to it so much when I was younger that it’s not something I feel like listening to even (especially) when I’m by myself.
In fact, albums that were closely associated with social experiences (e.g. Ween - White Pepper) have fallen down or off my list now that I’ve grown older and lonelier as married dads tend to.
There are also more recent albums that I burned out on. I spent most of the 2010s assuming Beach House - Teen Dream was my favorite album of the decade but that was based on the two or three years that I was obsessed with it. Now that I’m revisiting it I don’t find it all that much fun, but I realize that their overlooked Thank Your Lucky Stars is now one of my favorite records. So in a way the albums that I was obsessed with are actually losing their spots to the “growers.”
