ethan
Comment on March 11th, 2007.
I know embarrassingly few of these. Even so, I think Absolute Torch and Twang should be higher. It's inarguably better than Spike, for example. (That's right, inarguably. I'm right and you're wrong. It's obvious. Completely just kidding.)
I've been thinking of doing something like this, but the mechanics of it have been driving me crazy. Where do I start? Do I write little bits about each/some of the albums? Do I just do every album I own from a particular year, or do I specify a number? If I specify a number, and don't have that many albums from a given year, do I squeeze it together with another year, neglect that year, or just do however many I have?
smokingguncafe
Comment on March 11th, 2007.
While I realize that you've put these together in a format that best suits your journal here, please have a little consideration for people's Friend Pages and put them under a cut on your LJ. It would make things more digestible.
RJ Johnson
Comment on March 11th, 2007.
Dude, what smokingguncafe suggested. I've got a fast connection and even my load was slow.
Scraps
Comment on March 11th, 2007.
I strongly dislike lj cuts, in my journal or anyone else's. I am on dialup myself; rather than telling other people they should have "a little consideration" for how things load on my friend list, I have mine set up to not load images or videos unless I choose to.
The offending post now has an lj-cut.
Scraps
Comment on March 11th, 2007.
Spike has some bad songs, but it has some great songs. Blind Man's Zoo and New York fall into that category, too. It's hard for me to measure albums like that against an album like Absolute Torch and Twang, which is at least pleasant all the way through, but whose peaks don't come close to the peaks of Spike, IMO. (Shadowland and Ingenue are a different story; each of those is likely to be in my top ten for its year.)
ethan
Comment on March 11th, 2007.
I can see that reasoning, though I would disagree about Absolute Torch and Twang's peaks--there are a couple songs on it that are up there in the "of all time" category in my mind.
Then again, that's in my mind, not in your blorgk.
Jordan
Comment on March 11th, 2007.
I appreciate this list, and I'm stoked to see the others you name. A few of these bands/artists jump out at me (that Pere Ubu album is wonderful), but the rest is a blur of names I've never yet heard and really need to.
smokingguncafe
Comment on March 11th, 2007.
There was no need to cop such an attitude about this, Scraps. I was asking politely because this is a shit-ton of albums for even my fast connection to process. If you want to act like you're so superior because you set your connection one way and everybody else can just go to hell, fine. And by the way, your post doesn't have an LJ cut. It's still a gigantic mess that makes everything sluggish and hideous.
Scraps
Comment on March 11th, 2007.
Melissa, it does in fact have an lj-cut. You could readily confirm this with someone on your Friend list that you're actually Friendly with, if you chose. Or you could View Source -- that's what I would have done, personally, before telling someone they hadn't done what they'd just said they'd done. (Did you imagine I hadn't checked my own post? For future reference, once you have viewed a post in its entirety on LJ, it tends to come up in its entirety for you every time thereafter, if you're logged in.)
At any rate, no matter what you felt, you did not ask politely: You invited me to show "a little consideration." If you find that you have it within you to turn off your defensiveness for a second and exercise a bit of empathy -- that is, to imagine how you would feel if the same words were said to you -- I'll bet you would discover that you would be a little irritated yourself. (It is of course possible that you would not be, in which case we have essentially different ways of interpreting strings of words like this, which is its own kind of useful knowledge.)
I didn't ask you to read my journal at any point that I recall, after all. I never tell anyone else how to format their journals that I choose to read. I'd suggest to you word choices that would have actually been polite, but I suspect that would be further evidence of an "attitude".
I don't feel "superior" to you: I feel annoyed. Go ahead and stop reading me*, but stop lecturing me. Thanks.
*Ah, I see you already have. Very good.
Andrew
Comment on March 12th, 2007.
That works out not too misleadingly as virtually a favourite album per week over 57 years. I find this mind-boggling. Have you worked as a dj or just a huge music love?
Scraps
Comment on March 12th, 2007.
I was a DJ, though not for long.
I listen to music just about whenever I possibly can; constantly when alone, pretty much.
Richard
Comment on March 12th, 2007.
Like Ethan, I know so few of these albums it's sort of embarrassing. I mean, I have a lot of music! Nice to see Shrimp Boat (who I only started listening to in the last couple of years and love) and the Ex represented, though. Looking forward to finding some of these. Also looking forward to the reissue of Cloudland, the only Ubu album I've never heard.
Scraps
Comment on March 12th, 2007.
I think if you guys made lists like this, there'd be just as many I don't know. I don't know most of the albums in Rate Your Music's top 100 for 1989, and some of them I've never heard of.
cleek
Comment on March 13th, 2007.
999 ?
good lord. i've agonized for literally weeks over a mere Top-100 Evar list. (ex)
this should be interesting, whatever format you post it in.
cleek » 999
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