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Brit Album of the last 30 Years - who would you vote for?
Posted by Remote Control on 28 January 2010 - 5:52pm.
"The 10 nominated albums are decided by sales figures over the last 29 years, and they also must be a past BRIT Award winner, in the Album category.
The nominations are:
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 Who "
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ps if you actually want to vote
http://www.brits.co.uk/voting
(closes 9pm tonight)
At the 1977 Brit Awards,
(to mark the Queen's Silver Jubilee and for the previous 25 years of her reign), 'British Album' went to The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
So I'd vote for that.
Can I vote for "None of the above"
or spoil my ballot paper?
There's a few decent albums in there but let's face t: a) if they're using sales then the 'lowest common denominator' problem enters into it; and b) if they're only looking at previous winners they automatically overlook anything that missed out or went under the radar in the first place.
It strikes me that the organisers didn't want to get embroiled in a "How could you overlook such and such" saga that would have happened if they'd sat down and tried to apply some thought and judgement. Instead, they did it on good old sales figures - after all, the public can't be wrong...
well to be honest
none of the above...they are not all awful but there is nothing there
that you could say was outstanding...rather sad really!
The Man Who
I'd vote for Travis's "seminal debut" album, which was the first CD I ever bought with my own hard-earned pocket money. Indeed, I assumed it was their first album for a further four years until corrected. I still think it's a rather fine album though.
I'd agree
Oddly enough I was in a shop today and heard Travis for the first time in many years. It was really rather good. Much better than my recolection and sounded rather more like the strange Memphis/ Bellshill nexus exemplified by the weird Big Star/ Teenage Fanclub connection than I'd recalled. Fran Healy was, and maybe is, a decent songwriter and it's hard to understand why his band fell so far so quickly out of favour.
I'm biased given he used to give me strong drink in the Horseshoe Bar in Glasgows Drury Lane.
Pedants Corner - The Man Who wasn't their debut. Their first album was self titled and, again, wasnt at all bad.
Don't like Travis.
Although I should. Guitars, harmonies, tunes. However..
Fran Healy's vocal style on the first album (called Good Feeling) got on my tits.
The Man Who was superficially good but the chord sequences were all terribly cliched. Copying progressions off Noel Gallagher is hitting the bedrock some way beyond the bottom of the barrel.
Like I said (in my comment)
I assumed 'The Man Who' was their debut, for a further four years. 'Good Feeling' is excellent too.
In fact, I rather like Travis I do. Chord clichés or no chord clichés.
I'd vote for Sade...
because I fancy her.
Me too
But it is also a great album that, whenever I hear track from it, sends me back to my second year at Bradford University living in a squalid room where the curtains would freeze to the window on cold Yorkshire winter mornings.
Oh happy days...
Hole in't middle o't road!
You had curtains.... and a window? Nay lad that can't be reet - tha was in Yorkshire.
If it's the best of 30 years
then surely there should be 30 albums? I know The Brits hasn't been going for long, but surely it's a continuation of the old british rock and pop awards?
I'd probably go for Collins or Straits, as I suspect they are the only two albums that stand a chance of being talked about in another 30 years. The rest are turds.
Isn't ironic, though,
that neither of those albums is anywhere near the best that either of them released?
What a dull list
That's real lowest-common-denominator stuff isn't it? Landfill mainstream, anyone? When I saw Phil Collins was there, I briefly hoped it might be the really rather good "Face Value". But no - 'twas the lacklustre "No Jacket Required".
couldn't agree more
Landfill mainstream - very apt. We should have nothing to do with perpetuating the idea that these mediocre records are the Best of British over the last 30 years.
landfill
If it's the best british records, and it doesn't contain a Pink Floyd entry, it isn't complete.
As long as
...you're not thinking of Dark Side Of The Moon, I agree. Meddle and Atom Heart Mother were magnificent.
But then again...
...the list was for albums of the last 30 years, so the only eligible Floyd albums would be those that came AFTER The Wall. I therefore concur with their omission.
Coldplay is the best
that's how shite that list is.
Are you sure
this isn't the list of LPs most often spotted at car boot sales?
Crikey - such vitriol!
Good to see. Nonetheless, I like a few of those albums - Coldplay, Keane, Duffy and Sade.
[Thinks.] Keane.