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RFNAPLES
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- #11
- Posted: 12/29/2011 13:33
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| gtroda wrote: | | I feel that compilations shouldn't be considered as albums. Otherwise all our charts would be a list of the greatest hits CD's from our favorite bands. Rolling Stone even revised their top 500 to remove the compilations. |
Are you saying compilations are better than studio albums and therefore should be disqualified to allow inferior albums to rank?
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gtroda
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- #12
- Posted: 12/29/2011 13:36
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| RFNAPLES wrote: | | gtroda wrote: | | I feel that compilations shouldn't be considered as albums. Otherwise all our charts would be a list of the greatest hits CD's from our favorite bands. Rolling Stone even revised their top 500 to remove the compilations. |
Are you saying compilations are better than studio albums and therefore should be disqualified to allow inferior albums to rank? |
I'm saying that compilations are not in the spirit of what an album should be. Albums are an artistic statement created together in a time an place by an artist. Compilations are for marketing and an easy way to buy all the hits without having to spend the money to buy all the albums. Or a way to get introduced to a new artist.
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RFNAPLES
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gtroda
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- #14
- Posted: 12/29/2011 13:53
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If you feel forced to listen to it then I would hazard it wouldn't be ranked on your chart...
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Kiki
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- Posted: 12/29/2011 14:01
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Compilation albums are studio albums without the magic. They are like selection boxes if they were filled with singles
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RFNAPLES
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Boogn1sh
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- #17
- Posted: 12/29/2011 15:12
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| RFNAPLES wrote: | | Show me a Marley ablum that is better than Legend. It's magic without the filler. |
Time magazine didn't name Exodus the greatest album of the 20th century for nothing. Greatest hits albums take a lot of the context away from the tracks, they are generally attempting to collect all of the most commercially appealing tracks. So I suppose if all you're interested in are radio friendly tracks and none of the either more aggressive, abrasive, sometimes darker, forward thinking tracks that you call "filler" than greatest hits collections would be perfect for you. I personally wouldn't consider Natural Mystic, So Much Things to Say, Guiltiness, and The Heathen (the only tracks on Exodus that don't appear on Legend) to be filler, but rather offer balance to the album as a whole.
Also I prefer Natty Dread, Catch a Fire, and Burnin to Legend, but those feature even more "filler" so I won't even try to justify
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Facetious
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- Posted: 12/29/2011 15:28
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| Boogn1sh wrote: | | RFNAPLES wrote: | | Show me a Marley ablum that is better than Legend. It's magic without the filler. |
Time magazine didn't name Exodus the greatest album of the 20th century for nothing. Greatest hits albums take a lot of the context away from the tracks, they are generally attempting to collect all of the most commercially appealing tracks. So I suppose if all you're interested in are radio friendly tracks and none of the either more aggressive, abrasive, sometimes darker, forward thinking tracks that you call "filler" than greatest hits collections would be perfect for you. I personally wouldn't consider Natural Mystic, So Much Things to Say, Guiltiness, and The Heathen (the only tracks on Exodus that don't appear on Legend) to be filler, but rather offer balance to the album as a whole.
Also I prefer Natty Dread, Catch a Fire, and Burnin to Legend, but those feature even more "filler" so I won't even try to justify |
Exodus is one of my fave albums, and it's on my chart.
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Norman Bates
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- #19
- Posted: 12/29/2011 15:29
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| gtroda wrote: |
Albums are an artistic statement created together in a time an place by an artist. |
That's totally wrong historically. Albums were created to fulfil the business goals you define. They didn't get any "artistic statement" before the mid-sixties. Before, they were a collection of hits put together for commercial purposes. Historically, the album was intended as a compilation (except for some jazz releases), at a time when the major music vehicle was the single.
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