Chart of the day (#1400): By ECUpirate - Music

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ECUpirate (View chart)

1. Love Over Gold by Dire Straits (1982)
2. Abbey Road by The Beatles (1969)
3. (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) by Lynyrd Skynyrd (1973)
4. In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson (1969)
5. The Wall by Pink Floyd (1979)
6. Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles (1967)
7. Modern Vampires Of The City by Vampire Weekend (2013)
8. Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra (1977)
9. Dire Straits by Dire Straits (1978)
10. Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar (2012)
11. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (1977)
12. Acid Rap by Chance The Rapper (2013)
13. Boston by Boston (1976)
14. The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys by Traffic (1971)
15. Breakfast In America by Supertramp (1979)
16. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles (1967)
17. Night Moves by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (1976)
18. I Love You, Honeybear by Father John Misty (2015)
19. The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd (1973)
20. Man On The Moon: The End Of Day by Kid Cudi (2009)
21. Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits (1985)
22. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (1998)
23. Sports by Huey Lewis & The News (1983)
24. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West (2010)
25. Time by Electric Light Orchestra (1981)
26. Holland by The Beach Boys (1973)
27. Fly Like An Eagle by Steve Miller Band (1976)
28. Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin (1971)
29. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips (2002)
30. To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar (2015)
31. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John (1973)
32. Under Pressure by Logic (2014)
33. Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1970)
34. Alchemy by Dire Straits (1984)
35. Forever Changes by Love (1967)
36. Imagine by John Lennon (1971)
37. Moving Pictures by Rush (1981)
38. The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 by The Traveling Wilburys (1988)
39. Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999)
40. OK Computer by Radiohead (1997)
41. Hunky Dory by David Bowie (1971)
42. The Beatles (The White Album) by The Beatles (1968)
43. Damn The Torpedoes by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1979)
44. Forty Licks by The Rolling Stones (2002)
45. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (1975)
46. Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens (2015)
47. Exodus by Bob Marley And The Wailers (1977)
48. Crime Of The Century by Supertramp (1974)
49. A New World Record by Electric Light Orchestra (1976)
50. Royalty by Childish Gambino (2012)
51. Michigan by Sufjan Stevens (2003)
52. Permanent Waves by Rush (1980)
53. Second Helping by Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974)
54. Sweet Baby James by James Taylor (1970)
55. Surfin' U.S.A. by The Beach Boys (1963)
56. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens (2005)
57. Cracked Rear View by Hootie & The Blowfish (1994)
58. 2112 by Rush (1976)
59. Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs (2014)
60. History: America's Greatest Hits by America (1975)
61. Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads (1984)
62. Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys (1966)
63. The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths (1986)
64. Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen (1984)
65. Late Registration by Kanye West (2005)
66. Business As Usual by Men At Work (1981)
67. Never Told A Soul by John Illsley (1984)
68. What's Going On by Marvin Gaye (1971)
69. Graceland by Paul Simon (1986)
70. Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend (2008)
71. Sadnecessary by Milky Chance (2013)
72. Let It Be by The Beatles (1970)
73. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes (2005)
74. American Idiot by Green Day (2004)
75. By The Ocean, By The Sea by Buffalo Sunn (2014)
76. Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens (2004)
77. Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen (1975)
78. Cease To Begin by Band Of Horses (2007)
79. Revolver by The Beatles (1966)
80. Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin (1969)
81. Kid A by Radiohead (2000)
82. Hotel California by Eagles (1976)
83. The Shepherd's Dog by Iron And Wine (2007)
84. Rubber Soul by The Beatles (1965)
85. The Stranger by Billy Joel (1977)
86. Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf (1977)
87. Band On The Run by Paul McCartney & Wings (1973)
88. Kiss Each Other Clean by Iron And Wine (2011)
89. Automatic For The People by R.E.M. (1992)
90. Oracular Spectacular by MGMT (2007)
91. The Joshua Tree by U2 (1987)
92. Sailing To Philadelphia by Mark Knopfler (2000)
93. Running On Empty by Jackson Browne (1977)
94. Hysteria by Def Leppard (1987)
95. The Wild Hunt by The Tallest Man On Earth (2010)
96. At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash (1968)
97. An Evening With John Denver by John Denver (1975)
98. A Night At The Opera by Queen (1975)
99. Fore! by Huey Lewis & The News (1986)
100. Channel ORANGE by Frank Ocean (2012)

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Skinny
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Wow, it's almost as though this chart was designed to be the apotheosis of music I can't stand. The Wall, my least favourite Beatles album, ELO, Rumours, Boston, Breakfast in America, two (two!) Dire Straits albums, Vampire Weekend, and I'm not even outside the top fifteen. Impressive work.
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Got a good handful of my faves!
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travelful
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Location: Davenport, Florida

Skinny wrote:

Wow, it's almost as though this chart was designed to be the apotheosis of music I can't stand. The Wall, my least favourite Beatles album, ELO, Rumours, Boston, Breakfast in America, two (two!) Dire Straits albums, Vampire Weekend, and I'm not even outside the top fifteen. Impressive work.

Too mainstream I presume? Anxious

Applerill
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ECUpirate wrote:

Too mainstream I presume? Anxious

Neil definitely loves mainstream music (Beyonce is one of his favorite albums, and Santana's Supernatural is his favorite album), but I think he's just tired of the boring white-men-with-guitars dadrock canon. It's just so boring.

There are some great picks on this chart (especially love the inclusion of Frank Ocean at the end), but that #1 makes me wonder once more: Does ECUPirate's dad sell life insurance?

Satie

The only Dire Straits I've ever heard is "Romeo and Juliet," which is the perfect level of schmaltz and soaring, unbounded '80s stadium rock flair to my ears. I never want to saturate that sound in my ears, because that song is the final relic of a long lost age of passionate devotion to androgynous vocals being drowned out by guitars that overcompensated in kind and the "stripped-down" "minimal" "feelsy" songs that served as a contrast. I could see a hardened biker drinking himself under the table listening to it in a river-front bar a bit upstate from here. It's beautiful in every way.

EDIT: I decided to rewatch the music video, and I just realized that it's a perfect re-appropriation of fascist aesthetics in decay to the rising neoliberal eighties. The fucking tear coming out of the eye that takes up the whole frame. I know this has literally nothing to do with this thread because this song isn't even on an album on this chart (I think) but holy shit I'm losing my mind.

travelful
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Location: Davenport, Florida

Applerill wrote:

Neil definitely loves mainstream music (Beyonce is one of his favorite albums, and Santana's Supernatural is his favorite album), but I think he's just tired of the boring white-men-with-guitars dadrock canon. It's just so boring.

There are some great picks on this chart (especially love the inclusion of Frank Ocean at the end), but that #1 makes me wonder once more: Does ECUPirate's dad sell life insurance?

I'll keep that in mind. White people playing guitars are boring and for dad's..lmao. I guess we all have our own taste and that's what makes music great.

Satie

Skinny wrote:

Wow, it's almost as though this chart was designed to be the apotheosis of music I can't stand. The Wall, my least favourite Beatles album, ELO, Rumours, Boston, Breakfast in America, two (two!) Dire Straits albums, Vampire Weekend, and I'm not even outside the top fifteen. Impressive work.

would anybody like to stand up to the bully? RockyRaccoon? Applerill? Goodsir? alelsupreme? Cubazed? BurningBright? Romanelli? Window_Above? meccalecca? sp4cetiger? no? nobody? okay, i'll return to my regularly scheduled dadrock bashing ASAP in that case. glad we've moved on from petty moralizing on the board.

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permafrost wrote:

alelsupreme?.

permafrost wrote:

no? nobody? okay, i'll return to my regularly scheduled dadrock bashing ASAP in that case. glad we've moved on from petty moralizing on the board.

i'm disappointed and surprised you ever associated me with such.
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Romanelli wrote:

We're all fucked, lads.

travelful
BEA's Official Florida Man

Age: 27
Location: Davenport, Florida

Everybody's music taste is different. A few users on this website apparently have trouble understanding and respecting that. Which is very surprising to me since I assume music plays an important role in all of our lives. I'll stick to what I like, whether some of it is "dadrock" or not, and Apple can stick to his Avril Lavine. I'm fine with that.