Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by Steppenwolf666

From ForegroundNoise 02/18/2018 11:17 | #208664

I want to give this chart a high rating since when it comes to your specialist subject you clearly know more than anyone. Having read a few of your comments on your chart, however, without wanting to create any hostility, I just want to say a few things that maybe you hadn't considered.
In one comment you say "All great music was made in the 60's and 70's", and when it comes to the three genres that you head your chart with - prog/psych/folk rock - I would say that there's definitely a strong argument to say that this is very true. However, I think it is pretty cursory to dismiss all other types of popular music made after that era in favour of exclusively these three. Had you considered that maybe the reason why people are criticising your emphasis on the years '68-73 is not because they're wrong in thinking that legitimate great works of music have been made since but rather that this emphasis stems from an unwillingness on your part to step outside of your comfort zone?
I noticed that to one user who had reservations about this issue you told him that you were "just enlightening you with my superior knowledge". Yet I also noticed that out of the colossal 5,797 albums you've rated (a hugely impressive number) a measly five are by hip-hop artists, none of which get a score above 15/100. This to me doesn't seem like someone with "superior knowledge" but someone who is dismissive of the idea that no genre is inherently better than another.
Now I'm not saying that I'm some sort of paradigm for taste, and given how many more records you've listened to you're well within you rights to tell me I'm a misguided fool. But from the looks of it at least I make a conscious effort to explore stuff that I otherwise wouldn't have forced upon me.
Put a low rating on my chart and leave an accusatory comment on my chart if you feel you have to; I haven't given you a rating because I truly mean it when I say I don't want to antagonise you. It just makes me sad that there is so much music of other kinds that I feel you might be missing out on.
Please correct me if you feel I've said anything wrong, I don't want to accuse you of anything, just as a fellow music fan I want to start a discussion.

I hadn't really thought about it before, but after making up my charts on this site, I realised I seem to like British music more than any other. Probably because my era was the late sixties to late 70's, when British music was at it's peak, and more prominent than any other countries.

+5 points from my latest rating for the magnificent gem you showed me called "Sacrifice". It will surely appear on my top 100 very soon. I will check your other obscure top 10 albums, starting with #2.

From Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/28/2017 23:23 | #184462

Full of stuff that I've (still) mostly never heard or even heard of but just know that I'd like plenty of it. Must check out more of these! one of the best personal charts on here.

From Tha1ChiefRocka 02/24/2018 03:45 | #209424

A little bit heavy on two artists (Hawkwind and The Stones) but then there are albums like "Dremaies" that make this chart count.