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Esquire magazine's 75 albums every man should own
Posted by applesauce on 10 March 2009 - 5:23pm.
Some odd choices in here, and some obvious ones, but - hey - it's a best albums list, so you've got to have a look and see how many you own, don't you?
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As much as I
dislike lists, that's a pretty good collection of records.
I concur
A bit of thought has gone into that list although I have a sneaking suspicion that there might have been a bit too much of a self-conscious attempt to avoid the usual suspects.
Some very odd choices
By aften avoiding the "Usual suspects" it's ended up being a suspect list. I don't think many Springsteen fans would have much of an argument that "Darkness" is his best album (whether they think it is or not) but to select True Stories as the best Talking Heads album, for me throws the validity of the rest of the list into question.
Oh how I hate "clickbait".
Why can't they just give us a list? It's just an attempt to make you click 75 times instead of once.
The only album every man should own is, of course, this:
There should be
a ska version of this. If there isn't, I'm on it.
Never had that one but I did have this one...
http://www.rongoodwin.co.uk/2052.jpg
Have you actually got that one on CD?
Has it got 'The Guns Of Navarone'? 'The Great Escape'? 'Is Paris Burning?'? '633 Squadron'? Fantastic stuff.
Drools uncontrollably with jealousy, remembering Sunday afternoons with headphones plugged into Dad's Geoff Love MFP masterpieces of War and Western Movie Themes.
Forms forefingers and thumbs into rear turret gunners goggles and blasts the filthy hun from the sky over Berlin. Arcs arms into wings, thumbs extended into 20 mm cannon as his Spit rolls onto the tail of an ME109 over France, pummeling shells into its belly. Ack ack ack ack ack ack ack aaah!
Genius.
Er, sorry, got carried away there.
Damn you, Starlight Pops Theatre Soundtrack Orchestra!
I've just converted my Mum and Dad's vinyl copy of Geoff Love's "Big War Movie Themes" to mp3, which was a cornerstone of the soundtrack to my childhood.
There's a comprehensive compilation of war movie themes called "The Longest Day", but I've yet to find a good collection which consists only of originals, so I've collected them up one by one.
It's that sort of persistence and attention to detail that won us the bally war in the first place.
Geoff Love...
...that takes me back
I used to have his "Star Wars and Other Space Themes".
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=394205
I was 10 when I bought it and played it to death as it coincided with a relentless phase of listening to classical music. The album featured Also Sprach Zarathustra and Mars The Bringer of War so sat nicely next to my burgeoning collection of Elgar, Vaughan-Williams, Beethoven and Shostakovich.
I will have a look later, thanks for the tip
but on this theme, The Guardian/Observer are doing something similar starting this weekend (I think it's 1000 songs you must hear)
Reluctant to say it but...
Esquire is actually an OK mag. David Baddiel's piece in the April issue (as ever, on the lighter side of Judaism) was my Tea-out-of-Nose moment of the month. Shame they can't recommend a pair of trousers that costs less than £500.
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I have a few of those records - but there's something about that list and the way it's presented that makes me want to take them down to Oxfam tomorrow morning. Truthfully the records I cherish are not necessarily ones that there is a consensus of opinion about. They just mean something to me.
If there are only 75 records that "every man" should own, and one of them is by Dire Straits, even if it is the first album, then I want no part of this.
It's just a ruse to make you look at pictures of Charlize Theron anyway.
That's a pretty darn good list...
and a surprising one too - maybe the first ever 'best albums list' that makes no mention of The Beatles.
Hey hipster
Is Rubber Soul not by the Beatles then?
19 actual albums are in my collection with several other compilations of artists who appear in the list but not the actual album.
What no U2
.
Kiss?
What's your favourite Kiss album ? eh Kiss Greatest Hits and I'm not even that fond of that to be fair.
Well I clicked on you're link
and the first album was 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town'. Which I'd suggest was the ONLY album every man should own!
Kiss?
James Brown? Iggy Pop? Willie Nelson? Beastie Boys? Dana?
I lost the will to live after 10 or so.
I own 8 of 'em
Which probably explains why I'm not one of Esquire's natural readers. I don't know why I looked really. I know what I like (not necessarily in your wardrobe) and it doesn't need to have been approved by journalists - especially not non-music journalists.
At first
I thought it was a bit of a weird list but having now checked it, I have 29 of those albums. I've never read Esquire though.
14
Not just the number of these albums that I own, but about the age I was when I last listened to them - I mean, Metallica.
To me, this says a lot about Equire writers being stunted in adolescence rather than the urbane metrosexuals they'd like us to think they are.
Every man?
Why would my 72-year-old dad want a copy of "Catch A Fire" ?