Best Ever Albums

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

Charicature — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:30:47 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 05/28/2010 16:30

dp39 wrote:

Well narrowing it down to 1,000 is an ambitious mark :roll:

What does 1,000 represent? About .05%? I don't think it's too broad if you've actually listened to every album in existence.

It's an aggregate poll in the same way BEA is - you're taking the personal experiences and opinions of a broad audience who've together listened to everything and ranked the albums in all likelihood by those that receive the highest total reviews and lowest rankings (i.e. 300 people call album 'x' the #1 of all time, so you factor that to say the album is about the same as one that 3,000 people called the 10th best of all time).

Hmmm...now I mention it, a ranking system could get extremely complex...

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

RFNAPLES — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:19:16 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 05/28/2010 16:19

The chart comes from Larkin, Colin, All-Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd Edition), Virgin Books (UK), 2000. The third addition of the book deleted the Virgin trademark from the title. While it is still published by Virgin Books, it is not so titled nor was Virgin the author/editor--Colin Larkin was.

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

thomas697 — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:39:05 GMT

Author: thomas697

Posted: 05/28/2010 15:39

Alt-Rocker77 wrote:

It's a pretty bad list in my opinion. Really, out of 1000 albums Oasis is #9 (18 places ahead of the Rolling Stones) and Alanis Morrisette is #36 (20 places ahead of Michael Jackson!), not to mention Oasis' abysmal Be Here Now is the top 50 (I know I'm ripping on Oasis, but those two really stick out to me). The list screams British 1998.

Yes .. good observations

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

Alt-Rocker77 — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:01:10 GMT

Author: Alt-Rocker77

Posted: 05/28/2010 15:01

It's a pretty bad list in my opinion. Really, out of 1000 albums Oasis is #9 (18 places ahead of the Rolling Stones) and Alanis Morrisette is #36 (20 places ahead of Michael Jackson!), not to mention Oasis' abysmal Be Here Now is the top 50 (I know I'm ripping on Oasis, but those two really stick out to me). The list screams British 1998.

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

Cryptozoologist — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:43:15 GMT

Author: Cryptozoologist

Posted: 05/28/2010 02:43

Well, albumaster put it on the site, but it was a different edition of the same chart. So the version on the site is better.

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

Anonymous — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:41:33 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/23/2010 19:41

RFNAPLES wrote:

Great list. Should be a "recognized" chart in BestEverAlbums.

I agree. I have heard that the list was created by a survey. So a lot of people would have contributed to this. Perhaps more people than the amount of charts on this site (like other lists we have which were done by polls). That means this chart is a good one [I had a single word to say instead of "good one" but I can not remember it]

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

dp39 — Sat, 22 May 2010 21:13:16 GMT

Author: dp39

Posted: 05/23/2010 01:13

Well narrowing it down to 1,000 is an ambitious mark 🙄

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

RFNAPLES — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:04:31 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 05/22/2010 21:04

Great list. Should be a "recognized" chart in BestEverAlbums.

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

Applerill — Sat, 22 May 2010 13:46:59 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 05/22/2010 17:46

I actually don't think it's a bad list. Especially with Tori in the top 100 😜

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

Cryptozoologist — Sat, 22 May 2010 13:16:00 GMT

Author: Cryptozoologist

Posted: 05/22/2010 17:16

I agree, Beatles shouldn't occupy all of the top 3 spaces.

Re: Top 1000 albums of all time

teodor_matz — Sat, 22 May 2010 13:09:45 GMT

Author: teodor_matz

Posted: 05/22/2010 17:09

Very British.... Very bad.

Top 1000 albums of all time

Cryptozoologist — Sat, 22 May 2010 13:04:40 GMT

Author: Cryptozoologist

Posted: 05/22/2010 17:04

In 1998, some guy named Colin Larkin did a gigantic poll of what people believe are the best albums ever. This is what he came up with:

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/virgin_1000.htm

Thoughts?