Top 73 Greatest Music Albums
by PaperVinnie

From DommeDamian 11/03/2018 10:57 | #223771

Charts with descriptions are always winning

From DeusExMackia 08/29/2018 23:11 | #220242

The off-the-charts love for Sonic Youth is very, very much appreciated, as are the depth of your comments. Love this chart to bits.

I like your chart and great kudos to the effort you are putting and the amount of albums you are powering through. I really enjoy when members make a comment about the album - whether it's the type of album or genre, their favourite tracks, how they got into it or what it means to them. Keep going with that.

You are light on newer stuff and whereas it is okay to pay homage to classics from years ago - it also gives you a chance to better comment on the actual quality of the songs since you are not caught up in the emotions of living through it at the time - I wouldn't want you thinking that great music stopped in the 1970s - with the exception of Sonic Youth.

I grew up listening to music in the 1980s and switched off in the 90's thinking the music wasn't as good anymore. Since I got back into music in 2016 I have caught up on some old classics from 60s, 70s and 80s - but I have been impressed with some excellent bands and albums particularly in the noughties - The Strokes, Arcade Fire, Interpol, The XX, The Killers, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand, The White Stripes, Snow Patrol, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes & Muse to name a few.

Also don't be afraid to try a bit of Rap or Hip Hop in there - my personal favourites are NWA and Jay Z and Public Enemy.

And your right - comments from the heart. Dont try to be someone you are not. Tell us why you like it, it's not a Music Degree test with points for answers. I'll watch your chart to see how it progresses - just wish I had the time you listen to as much music as you are powering through.

From RoundTheBend 07/25/2018 04:52 | #218758

You legit. Keep it up mate.

From sophialeviev 07/16/2018 01:16 | #218312

Great chart. Guess I have to check out Van Halen now?

From CharlieBarley 07/02/2018 05:55 | #217628

My fav sonic Youth album is Goo. But I haven't heard them all yet. Daydream Nation is fantastic but it took a couple of listens before I fell in love with it. I agree too that Led Zeppelin 3 is the best Led Zep album. The first 5 are all great but 3 is my favourite, its a very cool album in terms of being acoustic and all the historical imagery with vikings and Hangmen.

Great notes man. A good chart. I couldn't fault it.

From flyingcitrus 07/01/2018 17:20 | #217595

Its very rock and metal oriented, but I love your picks. Great to see Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., and Television so high up.

very nice chart with great comments

From RoundTheBend 04/09/2018 01:23 | #212560

RE: Edge's guitar playing. In my opinion the subtle musical brilliance on The Joshua Tree is easy to miss if you are looking for a guitarist who sounds like Bullet the Blue Sky the whole time. You must've missed the layers and the textures built throughout the album. Probably my favorite raw guitar parts with little effects from him. Furthermore, check out Achtung Baby... if you then say dude sucks at guitar, we simply have a different definition of what good guitar playing is. Also anyone who thinks the Edge just does echo sounds has heard maybe 10% of his work. He's played with post-punk, funk, americana... I mean... idk, I think he's a guitarist who melds into a song and builds it, instead of shows off, so he's written off. He's not the 38th greatest guitarist according to RS for no reason (other than The Edge personally paid them to put him there, hehe).

I stole this from someone else because they said it better: Is Edge a particularly technically adept player? No. Is he particularly knowledgeable about music theory? No. Is he able to play things other guitarists can't because of an unusual playing style or abnormally large hands or something? No. That's not necessarily what constitutes a good player though- any number of technically skilled players with huge amounts of book learning about music make monumentally dull music. On the other hand, many players with limited technique and theory make music that *sounds* limited in that way. The best artists create things that are beautiful and unique regardless of how easy or hard they were to create.

What Edge has done is created a unique and instantly recognizable voice on the guitar, and turned that unique voice in to influential and massively commercial music. He popularized* the use of rhythmic digital delays synchronized to the tempo of the music which has become commonplace across dozens of genres of music and his "textural" approach to guitar all but displaced older blues-based styles in rock music. He was an early adopter of electronic effects for electric guitar which open up all manner of sonic possibilities beyond what can be done with a guitar and amp alone, and this is where one of his most persistent and in my opinion most unfounded criticisms stems from- apparently anyone with all those electronic gadgets could make their no-talent noodling sound amazing. If that's so, why didn't they? /Quote]

If you want to look for someone who changed the course of popular music to no longer use loud blues guitar riffs, The Edge plays as much a part of that as many other alternative rock guitarists. Also, your bit about Radiohead, no big deal I suppose?

From RoundTheBend 03/30/2018 16:31 | #212005

Other than that... I really like your chart :)