Spin magazine's 25 greatest albums of all time (April, 1989)

echo & the bunnymen directly above the velvet underground and leonard cohen might be my favorite part of this

All good albums, though several ridiculous re "greatest." Going for the one, I voted Marquee Moon, because you do get verbal and aural imagery (xgau: "guitar like the Silver Surfer"), good beats, good jams, risky turns, appropriately freaky vocals, lots of beauty and some ugly and right amount of ugly beauty. Kind of in there between Blonde On Blonde, Exiles and Zep, but not really of course.

i'm torn, because 34 year old me is going to vote for al green, but he also feels like he's fronting because he knows 11 year old me would have probably voted for george michael.

then minutemen, then jb, then neil.

It's Minutemen or TV for me, which makes me feel like an old cliche.

Somehow Blonde on Blonde never quite makes it for me. I like the live versions of all those songs way better. And rainy day women can gtfo forever

Maybe I should have voted for Velvets, but another good connection to Marquee Moon.

Some of these aren't even the best albums by those particular artists. But Faith really is one of my favorite albums. Pretty impressed to see it here.

Faith owns.

Faith vs Minutemen....

vs Marquee Moon

this list is amazing

Because it's so perverse, right? Television vs Minutemen right now (prob Television) but I'd want to listen to the James Brown, Sly, Aretha, and Al Green albums first. II is easily in my bottom half of Zep albums. Great basslines though.

it just feels like a list of favorites by someone with genuine taste, but who first got into music through '80s college radio stuff, then explored the classic rock canon but still has huge gaps. the depeche mode blurb should talk about how this album totally got them through their first break-up and the neil blurb should note they haven't heard rust never sleeps yet and don't really dig after the gold rush

i mean it's actually kind of awesome if this list was crafted by a group of people rather than one person, though it's hard to fathom what sensibility they were trying to project

This list is kinda great in that in no way presages the pop trends that will shape the 90s and completely reshape the "dialectic" of what makes pop music records great. I mean, what list in the 2000/2010s would deign "Ocean Rain" or "Faith" as one of the greatest records of all time?

Also very strange they picked LZ II as opposed to III or IV.

this is basically all the stuff i loved in my early '20s. picking 'fresh' instead of the more obvious sly choices is kind of a cool surprise. probably listen to the smiths one the most out of any of these.

Black Celebration, natch.

it just feels like a list of favorites by someone with genuine taste, but who first got into music through '80s college radio stuff, then explored the classic rock canon but still has huge gaps.

this is otm

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'steve mcqueen' (aka 'two wheels good') for me

somewhat influential on destroyer's 2011 album 'kaputt', iirc bejar's list of inspirations correctly...

this is quite a likeable list for a change, anyway The Belle Album 200 per cent no question, JB & the Stones & the VU and the Minutemen slugging it out for second

random JB album to choose - hardly his best, and full of all that fake audience noise and weird edits

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