― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I was gonna name-drop Pendragon but that seemed a step too far.
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Radiohead - OK Computer2. Radiohead - The Bends3. Nirvana - Nevermind4. The Beatles - Revolver5. Oasis - Definitely Maybe6. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses7. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People8. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?9. U2 - Achtung Baby10. Radiohead - Kid A11. U2 - The Joshua Tree12. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead13. Jeff Buckley - Grace14. The Beatles - Abbey Road15. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon16. The Verve - Urban Hymns17. The Beatles - The Beatles18. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds19. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band20. The Clash - London Calling
it's an odd list in that it feels basically the same as the 1998 list -- especially the radiohead-verve post-britpop ascendancy. it's amazing that there's nothing from the last eight years.
but knowing my friends (and me, a bit) i really can't think of any albums as 'canonical' ('ok computer' felt canonical then, only 6 months after it came out!) among non-hipsters.
but seriously folks, i think this is 'cos of downloading.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
maybe today's 17-year-olds can't be arsed to vote.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― pscott (elwisty), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Younger people get their info on the net: up to the minute news, reviews, video clips, band sites, fan sites, downloads, interviews... Why would someone young buy a music magazine from their pocket money if all of that is online for free?
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrogurl, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
-- StanM (Stan10...), January 3rd, 2006.
well, yeah, but q put the franz and the killers and the coldplay 'pon their cover.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Love : Forever Changes.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
... who all sound like they're big fans of the eighties, coincidentally. Or not coincidentally, if you think about the amount of old albums that get reissued (with extra DVD stuff to lure in a couple of young 'uns!), old bands that reunite and tour. This is their last chance before the internet music revolution robs them of every chance to make this amount of money. The whole industry is clutching at straws because of this evil internet thing, that's why they're pushing retro-type bands like Franz and Strokes and Kaiser Chiefs and the lot. That's what they know and that's what they know the people who still buy actual CD's might like.
(just brainstorming here, though)
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Loveless2. Kid A3. Discovery4. Chocolate Starfish & The Hot Dog-Flavoured Water5. Dare6. A Different Class7. So Tough8. OK Computer9. The Chronic10. Trout Mask Replica11. One Polish, Two Biscuits & A Fish Sandwich12. The Queen Is Dead13. Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers14. Dolittle15. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back16. The Velvet Underground & Nico17. The Bends18. The Hounds Of Love19. Revolver20. Sticky Fingers
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
i don't want to break your chops, lex, but have you actually heard any of the records at all?
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
100) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 99) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs 98 ) Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique 97) Lou Reed - Transformer 96) Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine 95) Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power 94) Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain 93) Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus 92) Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go 91) Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back 90) The Cure - Disintegration 89) Morrissey - Vauxhall & I 88 ) Neil Young - After The Goldrush 87) PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 86) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 85) Pulp - Different Class 84) Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life 83) Paul Weller - Stanley Road 82) Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 81) Stereophonics - Word Gets Around 80) David Bowie - Low 79) The Jam - Setting Sons 78 ) AC/DC - Back in Black 77) The Clash - The Clash 76) Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man 75) The Doors - The Doors 74) Muse - Origin of Symmetry 73) Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill 72) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 71) Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine 70) Travis - The Man Who 69) Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible 68 ) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 67) David Gray - White Ladder 66) The White Stripes - White Blood Cells 65) Massive Attack - Blue Lines 64) The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed 63) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? 62) Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 61) Beck - Odelay 60) Radiohead - Amnesiac 59) Pearl Jam - Ten 58 ) Michael Jackson - Thriller 57) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 56) Moby - Play 55) Portishead - Dummy 54) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams 53) U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind 52) Nirvana - Unplugged in New York 51) The Who - Who's Next 50) Love - Forever Changes 49) REM - Document 48 ) The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers 47) Van Morrison - Astral Weeks 46) David Bowie - Hunky Dory 45) Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 44) Joy Division - Closer 43) Pixies - Doolittle 42) The Velvet Undrground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico 41) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 40) Coldplay - Parachutes 39) Primal Scream - Screamadelica 38 ) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland 37) REM - Out Of Time 36) Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde 35) Blur - Parklife 34) The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. 33) Madonna - Ray of Light 32) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 31) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication 30) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 29) The Beatles - Rubber Soul 28 ) Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks 27) Pink Floyd - The Wall 26) The Strokes - Is This It 25) Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head 24) Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction 23) Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks 22) Nirvana - In Utero 21) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV 20) The Clash - London Calling 19) The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 18 ) The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 17) The Beatles - The Beatles 16) The Verve - Urban Hymns 15) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon 14) The Beatles - Abbey Road 13) Jeff Buckley - Grace 12) The Smiths - The Queen is Dead 11) U2 - The Joshua Tree 10) Radiohead - Kid A 9) U2 - Achtung Baby 8 ) Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 7) REM - Automatic for the People 6) The Stone Roses - The Stones Roses 5) Oasis - Definitely Maybe 4) The Beatles - Revolver 3) Nirvana - Nevermind 2) Radiohead - The Bends 1) Radiohead - OK Computer
I own 78 of them. I'd say that I really like or even love a good 50 of them. My particular favourite records ever? Not even close.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
http://us.inmagine.com/168nwm/stockdisc/sd124/186519sdc.jpg
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Muse, Moby, David Gray, Wilco?
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
What if you had room for 237 albums 'though?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
some of these are just bewildering.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Blonde on blonde, and...
Oh, Exile on main street, as its a double and I haven't got/heared it.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Interesting Kid A being in the Top Ten now though, only five years ago non clued-in listeners would have found that one quite radical (yes I know, not really... I'm thinking of mums & dads not following the shifts of IDM & Electronica very closely), now it's the token 'radical' choice and they've run off with the 'New Beatles Substitute' honours.
I bet Coldplay wish they had pushed the limits a bit more on X&Y now eh?
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Theorry Henry
18 forever!!
I think Kate is always in these lists btw. Feels horribly tokenistic in the (rocktastic) company but there you go.
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Let's play domination2. Marquee Moon3. Forever changes4. Nuggets box5. Trout Mask6. Os mutantes7. Giant Steps Boo Radleys
to be continued...
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
to be continues.ss
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm bored now.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Start again.
Nos 4, 6, 10, 17, 28, 34, 36, 39, 50, 51, 61, 66 (but de stijl's better), 72 (I'll give it a go), and finally 95.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
And 28 > 20?
Really?
And you'd pick 6, 39 and 61 rather than 12 (even if it isn't the best album The Smiths did), 42, 43, 44 or (next best thing to a Beefheart album) 99?
I'm surprised.
And a little hurt.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
X-Post. Didn't notice those. Although "Funeral" was indeed 2005. Still puzzles me how the Q readers have already forgotten about Franz Ferdinand though.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 24 December 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Was indeed 2004, I mean
I bet most people wish they could forget Franz Ferdinand ever existed.
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 24 December 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
The Kaiser maybe, not the band. They are (still) great. :)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 24 December 2010 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The band, not the Archduke!
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 24 December 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Q: What's the difference between Franz Ferdinand and jokes about Franz Ferdinand's name?A: Jokes about Franz Ferdinand's name can get old.
― once more Jagger faps the hivemind (symsymsym), Friday, 24 December 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
5. Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys
amazing
― markers, Friday, 24 December 2010 06:29 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^^^^^
so, two ladies in the top 25, no non-whites. Surprised, surprised.
still, loveless! never would have thought they had it in them.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Friday, 24 December 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Two ladies? Who? Which? Regine? Bilinda?Sorry for being "worked up" but the UK can sink into the sea.
― ARP 2600 vs. Atari 2600 (Ówen P.), Friday, 24 December 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― markers, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry for being "worked up" but the UK can sink into the sea.
this should be the catchphrase on yr tour posters next time you visit the UK
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 24 December 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
the 9 american (and 1 canadian!) albums paint an even bleaker picture:
2. Nevermind – Nirvana11. Is This It – The Strokes15. White Blood Cells – The White Stripes16. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel17. Hot Fuss – The Killers19. Funeral – Arcade Fire20. American Idiot – Green Bay24. Only By The Night – Kings Of Leon27. Appetite For Destruction – Guns N’Roses29. Automatic For The People – R.E.M.
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Friday, 24 December 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
NOT IN MY NAME
― acoleuthic, Friday, 24 December 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Why does limey people never want to black?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 December 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Why doeslimey people Q readers never want to black?
Look at the UK # 1s thread. Lots of limey people is black.
― sonofstan, Friday, 24 December 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess you know Q readers don't like R&B or hip-hop much. Then, namecheck some black indie rock bands that should have been in the list
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 25 December 2010 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Neutral Milk Hotel is so so so so weird on that list.
― sean gramophone, Friday, 24 December 2010 06:10 (Yesterday)
not really
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Saturday, 25 December 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
rmde at ppl getting upset a q lists
might as well get upset that the nra end of year list is full of guns
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Saturday, 25 December 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry for forgetting that yr friends in arcade fire are grrrls owen. :)
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― ARP 2600 vs. Atari 2600 (Ówen P.), Saturday, 25 December 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
well yeah obviously that's true to an extent — like, why wouldn't anyone read Q if they *didn't* think OK Computer was the best album ever made? — but I still think this list is bad enough to warrant a lil bit of upset-ness
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
basically the only thing that has changed in the past 5 yrs is that two of the better albums (Kid A and Automatic) drop out of the top 10 and are replaced by Arctic Monkeys and Muse
smdh
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I would say it shows the Q readers have gotten the point. Of course the best music is being made in the UK. :)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 25 December 2010 11:12 (thirteen years ago) link
OK, so they may not be in the Top 30, but these are all in the list.
94) Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain 93) Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus 91) Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back 84) Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life 65) Massive Attack - Blue Lines 63) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?58 ) Michael Jackson - Thriller 38 ) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland 32) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The lack of women is more obvious, but I guess there are still too few female singer/songwriters out there.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 25 December 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley are both surprising, given they both died before 1985, in Hendrix's case 15 years before the poll is supposed to start. It's like Q readers don't know what they're on about!
― Neil S, Saturday, 25 December 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Well in the case of Bob Marley, Q readers are legally required to own a copy of 'Exodus' so that they can go around telling everybody that they "listen to reggae".
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 25 December 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
At what point did ITAOTS turn from underground Elephant 6 album into proper cannon fodder? Or has it been such a slow process I didn't notice?
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Saturday, 25 December 2010 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
No idea, although it should have been some Apples (In Stereo) album instead as they have always been much better.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 25 December 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://iaspm-us.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Blake-2.pdf
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
(some paper I found while googling — "INTERNET MUSIC CRITICISM AS ARCHIVE: PITCHFORK MEDIA AND NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL’S IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA")
((that's the name of the paper, not the gogogle search I did to find it))
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Magazine claims to have "always" liked an album that it was actually lukewarm towards on it's release, film at 11...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 25 December 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
potentially relevant to this discussion:
McGonigal’s introduction for the second part [of Pitchfork's c.2008 10th-anniversary feature], a retrospective by currently in- vogue indie artists, continued to link the album’s release and Pitchfork. In the opening sentence, McGonigal claimed that “in indie circles, In the Aeroplane over the Sea was hailed as an instant classic.”11 McGonigal emphasized its influence on contemporary indie artists by associating the band with artists such as Devendra Banhart, the Decemberists, and Beirut who were themselves lauded by Pitchfork. McGonigal’s reiterated that he, and thus Pitchfork, immediately understood the album was brilliant: “I’m really glad that Aeroplane is so revered. I love it to death, myself—cried when I first listened to the promo cassette and everything. I knew immediately that this was something really special, and wasn’t surprised when quite a few other people agreed.”12 Since the original sources were deleted, and since many of the original sources are from out-of-print magazines or on defunct websites, someone reading Pitchfork today has no choice but to believe Pitchfork was the sole source to laud the album from the beginning.[...] The album’s manner ofcirculation is seen as archetypically indie, receiving airplay on college and alternative radio, but not on mainstream media outlets such as MTV or Top 40 radio. Since then, the album has been described as selling via word-of-mouth, although it can be purchased at major music stores. This method of advertising was found in the artists’ retrospective; many of them described being introduced to the album by a friend.
[...] The album’s manner ofcirculation is seen as archetypically indie, receiving airplay on college and alternative radio, but not on mainstream media outlets such as MTV or Top 40 radio. Since then, the album has been described as selling via word-of-mouth, although it can be purchased at major music stores. This method of advertising was found in the artists’ retrospective; many of them described being introduced to the album by a friend.
for my own part, I hadn't listened to any E6 stuff (altho I think I had heard of Apples in Stereo) before I was introduced to NMH c.2002 through a recommendation by a cool older dude from Austin who posted on the same video-game message board as me and had generally excellent taste (also put me on to Haruki Murakami — thanks Chris!). but I got the impression, at that time, that it already had quite a cult following; and most of my friends in high school who were into 'indie' music had at least heard of it (remember getting clowned on for liking "that anne frank album")
also, I like Blake's idea that the album's "anti-mainstream qualities have ossified due to the group’s musical silence" — which could maybe more cynically rephrased as "they haven't done anything to embarrass themselves or create a backlash".
at any rate, it does seem to still be perceived as essentially 'weird' in a way that is rare for an album of its stature, 'mainstream' or not. part of which is of course due to the attitudes listeners and critics bring to the thing, but let's be real, the music also has to do a lot of work to sustain such a reading.
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
'nother interesting angle:
Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel Help Vinyl Sales Almost Double In 2008JANUARY 8, 2009 2:05 PM EDTWhile CD sales continue to decline, vinyl is still experience a renaissance: 89 percent more LPs were sold last year than in '07. Part of the leap can be attributed to Capitol Records' decision to reissue many of their most famous albums on vinyl, as the Beatles' Abbey Road was the year's second-highest-selling vinyl album, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon ranked seventh and Radiohead's OK Computer rounded out the Top 10. Radiohead's In Rainbows, an album that began its career as a free download, was 2008's biggest vinyl seller, a position that was no doubt aided by the fact that the album came out on January 1st of last year and therefore had plenty of time on shelves.Other shockers: Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 classic In The Aeroplane Over the Sea came in sixth, ahead of Dark Side, Fleet Foxes and Metallica's Death Magnetic. Guns n' Roses' Chinese Democracy, while struggling to sell CDs, sold enough vinyls to place third on the Top 10 list. But the biggest surprise: The B-52's' new album Funplex was the year's fourth best-selling record as it bridged the gap between people who probably owned record players decades ago and the new class of vinyl buyers.As we examined back in June in our "Vinyl Returns" feature, the death of the CD and the influx of the MP3 — with its varying degrees of less-than-CD-quality sound — have opened the door for vinyl to be relevant again. Plus, the artwork for Aeroplane looks so much better on a larger canvas. In all, the number of records sold last year leapt from 988,000 in '07 to 1.88 million in '08. Still, the sales from vinyl only made up 0.1 percent of the music sales in 2008, a year that saw a 14 percent decrease across the board.
JANUARY 8, 2009 2:05 PM EDTWhile CD sales continue to decline, vinyl is still experience a renaissance: 89 percent more LPs were sold last year than in '07. Part of the leap can be attributed to Capitol Records' decision to reissue many of their most famous albums on vinyl, as the Beatles' Abbey Road was the year's second-highest-selling vinyl album, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon ranked seventh and Radiohead's OK Computer rounded out the Top 10. Radiohead's In Rainbows, an album that began its career as a free download, was 2008's biggest vinyl seller, a position that was no doubt aided by the fact that the album came out on January 1st of last year and therefore had plenty of time on shelves.
Other shockers: Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 classic In The Aeroplane Over the Sea came in sixth, ahead of Dark Side, Fleet Foxes and Metallica's Death Magnetic. Guns n' Roses' Chinese Democracy, while struggling to sell CDs, sold enough vinyls to place third on the Top 10 list. But the biggest surprise: The B-52's' new album Funplex was the year's fourth best-selling record as it bridged the gap between people who probably owned record players decades ago and the new class of vinyl buyers.
As we examined back in June in our "Vinyl Returns" feature, the death of the CD and the influx of the MP3 — with its varying degrees of less-than-CD-quality sound — have opened the door for vinyl to be relevant again. Plus, the artwork for Aeroplane looks so much better on a larger canvas. In all, the number of records sold last year leapt from 988,000 in '07 to 1.88 million in '08. Still, the sales from vinyl only made up 0.1 percent of the music sales in 2008, a year that saw a 14 percent decrease across the board.
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
okay one last quote just for lols:
Shortly after the release of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Puncture magazine had a cover story on Neutral Milk Hotel. In it Mangum told of the influence on the record of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. He explained that shortly after releasing On Avery Island he read the book for the first time, and found himself completely overwhelmed with sadness and grief. Back in 1998 this admission made my jaw drop. What the hell? A guy in a rock band saying he was emotionally devastated by a book everyone else in America read for a middle-school assignment? I felt embarrassed for him at first, but then, the more I thought about it and the more I heard the record, I was awed.
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
(that's from the 2005 pfork review of the reissue, which argues that Aeroplane's most distinctive quality within the 90s indie rock canon is that it "is not cool.")
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The Q readers feel no need to tell everyone they listen to reggae. They don't feel like they are required to like a certain kind of music that they don't, for instance they don't give a damn about listen to any token R&B or funk. However, Bob Marley had more way with a tune than any (true) reggae act ever before or since, and as such, he has gotten a well-deserved position as the leading reggae act ever.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 25 December 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Bob Marley had more way with a tune than any (true) reggae act ever before or since
no way, e.g., horace andy; cornell campbell; jimmy cliff; the congos.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 25 December 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I like Jimmy Cliff, but I feel like his melodies were more repetitive and harmonically less varied than a lot of Bob Marley's tunes. I don't like "Exodus" (the song) at all, but thankfully Bob Marley was usually able to go way beyong one chord songs like that one.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 26 December 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link