Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by KitchenSink

From SuedeSwede 08/22/2022 10:16

love love love it gabe!! big shout out to the mikeq & rp boo here :)

Fascinating chart. Probably the most original chart that I have seen. Great stuff

Keep the comments coming. They make an enjoyable read, and get me excited for all this music I haven't heard yet.

Messiaen and Geto Boys together in the top 10 is very funny.

From indieshins 06/29/2021 10:41

Awesome chart, dude! Everything I look for in a good chart (my main criteria is unique, often non-canon picks that give me an idea of the person behind the chart). I've saved it to my favourites for future reference 'cause there's a whole tonne I haven't heard on here.

This is really the rare true one-of-a-kind chart, and I love seeing that because it is so rare and so interesting.

For a start, the combination of genres is utterly unlike anything I have ever seen before on this site or any other, and one hardly knows from whom it is “coming” upon reading it, especially without notes (and the lack of notes is really one of only two quibbles about this chart). Secondly, I have never really seen a chart with so much music so completely unknown to myself, even with some albums where I have actually heard of the relevant artist. Thirdly, in a manner that reminds me slightly of the numerous rare live albums in David Keenan’s 2003 “The Best Albums Ever...Honest” this chart is notable for the presence of several remix albums that are very rarely seen on any sort of greatest album chart.

As an all-time chart, I do not really quibble about the numerous compilations on this list as they can often be the only or merely best way to represent many artists. I do have more reservations about various-artists albums, because they are likely to be much less unified statements than even a compilation by one artist.

As a last word, re Messiaen, ‘Catalogue d‘Oiseaux’ is undoubtedly my favorite classical recording, but I wonder if you have heard the 1994 rendition by Carl-Axel Dominique or the 2001 by Paul Kim which I have been exceedingly impressed by without having heard it fully?

From seb7 02/02/2021 17:42

wierd fuckin list dude. I love it.

From Hayden 01/27/2021 16:19

Really dug the Lacelot Layne comp. Jimmy and I had a quick note on it in the 'what album are you listening to' thread, but that gets buried within a second. Great stuff. Also gave Cree Records' recent Ben Molatzi comp a spin too and really dug that (total different genre, just... same label).

As for Amalia, fado in general might be one of the rare genres of music that doesn't translate directly to disc very well (which may be why there aren't too many fado records...), but the live recording makes it explode. Helps that she put on a stellar performance (and that somebody actually recorded it). It needs that layer overtop of humanity watching to make it pop. Not sure there's ever been a better example of the genre in album form (Busto, Encontro & Com Que Voz are all excellent too though, and Celeste Rodrigues' 1958 live record Lisbon's Great Celeste Rodrigues comes in a solid second for me). If you ever have the chance to stop by Lisbon or Porto and catch a live fado performance at some sort of weird underground cramped hole in the wall bar after a couple shots of whoknowswhat, I'd recommend it. It isn't stadium concert stuff, it's important it's intimate.

I'll keep refining the poems. Should be able to be happy with them all eventually. As new entries come along, they get something written for them as well.

From Hayden 01/21/2021 16:25

Those would be mine! Some are... um... not great... and I wish most were about twice the length, but I'm glad you enjoyed them. I try to write each poem in one go, but I'll admit there's been changes from time-to-time (as there will be in the future...). The only two I didn't write are the ones for Donuts (which is more of a 'found poem' from Wikipedia), and the one for Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread, which is my jotted recipe for mannish water taken from whoknowswhere years ago. I've always been adverse to detailed reviews, especially for music, but I feel like it's appropriate to write something about an album if it lands.

Really need to go through this chart... 65 unlistened. Love seeing It's Your World, Pygmy Love Song, Under Heavy Manners, Abner Jay, The Cake (I feel like this one could grow in popularity as time goes on) and Amália Rodrigues among other favourites. That Lancelot Layne comp is going in the queue right away.

From Mercury 01/12/2021 18:46

too many albums here I haven't heard of and that offends me personally. 100/100