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Another not-so great list
Posted by Mr Fade on 19 January 2010 - 12:29pm.
According to The Brits these are the greatest albums from the last 30 years:
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Dido - No Angel
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Duffy - Rockferry
Keane - Hopes & Fears
Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Sade - Diamond Life
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Travis - The Man
I don't agree with the Brits here at all. Unless it means 'best-selling'? In which case I'm surprised Duffy sold more than Amy Winehouse. What a load of nonsense.
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Coldplay - A Rush of Blood
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head: Love it. Their best by far.
Dido - No Angel: MOR. Not my thing
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms: Great Album. And a huge seller. How often does that happen?
Duffy - Rockferry: Not terrible, but I wasn't fussed
Keane - Hopes & Fears: Again, a good album, with loads of hooks.
Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?: Never understood the popularity of this album. She's Electric is a contender for worst track of all time.
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required: Face Value is a better album.
Sade - Diamond Life: I bought the follow up, Promise. It was poor.
The Verve - Urban Hymns: I enjoyed it.
Travis - The Man : Good singles. Plenty of rubbish too.
That's my opinion. Are they the best of the last 30 years? No, but then that's not an objective opinion. Are they mega selling, popular, and in some cases great albums. Yes.
There's only Dire Straits
and maybe Sade that I would say were great albums. And the DS one has my least favourite song of all time spoiling it.
Wot ?
No Throbbing Gristle?
Can't be the best-sellers, as...
... Simply Red's "Stars" isn't there.
That's basically a list of the records I expect to find in the collections of friends of mine who aren't really into music, you know, the ones with 30 or 40 CDs?
That doesn't make them bad records, but Dido? Travis? Really?
It's a vote for the best BRIT WINNING albums...
...hence the lack of all those much better albums which should have won in a particular year but didn't (and which, had it existed back then the Massive would have been discussing/complaining about here).
However, it's certainly NOT a list of the last 30 years' best albums.
MOR
I think anyone with all those in their record collection must stand a serious risk of being run over every day!
Travis??? Duffy????
No Combat Rock, no Kings of the Wild Frontier, no Lexicon of Love, no Dare!
Go away - Silly Brit people.
it's brits!
what did you think would be on there?
Home Recording Show
I'm a home recording fiend and love the Home Recording Show podcast - this week the three guys who do the show listed their albums of the decade. I was surprised how many I had never heard/heard of:
Jesse:
-Chris Whitley - Rocket House (2001) or Perfect Day (2000)
-Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (2002)
-The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone (2002)
-Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
-The Roots - Phrenology (2002)
-Snoop Dogg - Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Boss (2002)
-Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore (2003)
-The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
-Drive-By Truckers - Dirty South (2004)
-Duran Duran - Astronaut (2004)
-Tanya Donnelly - This Hungry Life (2006)
-G. Love - Lemonade (2006)
-John Hammond - Push Comes to Shove (2007)
-Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land (2007)
-Robert Plant & Allison Krauss - Raising Sand (2007)
-Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It (2008)
-Them Crooked Vultures (2009)
Jon's list
Queens of the stone age - Songs for the deaf[02]
65daysofstatic - the destruction of small ideas[07]
Alexisonfire - Crisis [07]
Long Distance Calling - Satellite Bay [07]
Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache [04]
Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood [00]
Dub Trio - New Heavy [06]
HIM - Love Metal [03]
Junius - Junius [07]
Karnivool - Sound Awake [09]
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance [06]
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Ryan's List
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Green Day - American Idiot
Cake - Pressure Chief
Cardigans - Long Gone Before Midnight
Muse - Absolution
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Thorts?
Thorts?
My first thought was: they're trying a bit too hard...
The second one was: anyone who thinks that Tenacious D is one of the best 10 albums of the last decade has got very poor taste in music.
But they're only my opinions.
In mitigation
to Jesse he did say it is a joke album but the music is excellent - the drummer is Dave Grohl apparently. I haven't heard it myself.
thorts?
Jesse - is a music fan with a token unwise choice to allow him the return of "well it was clearly a joke anyway" should anyone criticise him
Jon - is either a teenger or a man trapped in a teenager's body - listens to rock, emo and metal - but put in a couple of "experimental" choices so that no-one can say he's one-sided in his listening tastes
Ryan - is a student by the looks of his album choices - things he's grown up with or downloaded of his friends' computers - no real choices off his own back
but I could be wrong
Arf
nice one
Isn't The Brits
purely based on sales and sponsored by the Dept of Trade & Industry?
It certainly doesn't reflect music as we know it.
Hate LIst.
The Brits always have been and always will be meaningless to those of us who take more than a casual interest in music.I'm just amazed Susan Boyle,Boyzone or Westlife wasn't included.It's just marketing.
Wot, no Lighthouse Family?
Sade? Dido? Travis?
The criteria must be that the 30 best albums must have eiher won, or been nominated for a Brit Award.
At least the Brits haven't tried to be all revisionist and chosen Radiohead, The Smiths, ABC or The Stone Roses none of whom have ever come within spitting distance of an award.
These things are largely dictated by who happens to be available for the show. What really annoys me is the way they bestow multiple honours on the same act, as if tiny portion of artists that the Brit panel considers worthy of a gong the isn't narrow enough. The Scissor Sisters for example received 3 awards one year, and I think Busted won two, and seemingly for most of the early 80s every single award went to either Annie Lennox or Phil Collins.
If it was from winners of Best British Album
This is what they could pick from
2009 Duffy – Rockferry
2008 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
2007 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2006 Coldplay - X&Y
2005 Keane - Hopes and Fears
2004 The Darkness - Permission to Land
2003 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
2002 Dido - No Angel
2001 Coldplay - Parachutes
2000 Travis - The Man Who
1999 Manic Street Preachers - This is My Truth Tell Me Yours
1998 The Verve - Urban Hymns
1997 Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
1996 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
1995 Blur - Parklife
1994 Stereo MC's - Connected
1993 Annie Lennox - Diva
1992 Seal - Seal
1991 George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
1990 Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw And The Cooked
1989 Fairground Attraction - First Of A Million Kisses
1988 Sting - Nothing Like The Sun
1987 Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
1986 no award
1985 Sade - Diamond Life
1984 no award
1983 Barbara Streisand - Love Songs
1982 Adam and the Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Quick observations
1) The Arctics are probably the most noticable omission from the all-time list,
2) Every Coldplay album had won the award until "Viva La Vida", their best-seller,
3) The Manics - 2 wins!? Can't remember that at all,
4) 1983 - Barbra Streisand? Did they allow non-Brits in for a year or something?