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1001 albums to listen to before you die
a pack of wolves:
Pop's really very important. It is after all just the music that is most popular at a given time, and given that the music you've listed there is reasonably diverse. My only problems are the multiple albums chosen for certain artists and the choice to include albums by people who'd already appeared on the list in previous decades with more seminal work, an exception being Radiohead. Given their enormous popularity and critical attention they should have at least one album there but three is still a bit of a stretch even for them. It's not like anyone really thought You Are The Quarry was the pinnacle of Morrissey's career.
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It really isn't! Since you have you know what one of the most popular bands from a certain time period sounds like. That's pretty useful knowledge if you enjoy discussing culture.
Lhefriel_Medies:
Yeah, I'm thinking that the list isn't so much albums that are so good that you absolutely have to listen to them, but albums that you should listen to if only for general knowledge. I mean, you should at least know what terrible rap metal and terrible pop music and such sound like and have a decent reason for not listening to them from that point forward if nothing else. It would be wrong to grow up in the 21st century and have no idea what a Britney Spears album sounded like. Similarly, the random hipster music is so that the reader would understand what random hipster music sounds like; the idea seems much more to encapsulate every subculture and integrate their preferences into a list rather than to make a definitive list of good albums. I'm guessing that if this was released again it would have Katy Perry and similar things on it just so it serves as an accurate, if not ideal, account of what culture was at the time of writing.
Inlander:
113, give or take. As usual I've sought out and heard a lot of the more obscure stuff while being hopelessly clueless about the body of work of the likes of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young.
I was actually pleasantly surprised by this list. It was far from being the usual suspects and there were some personal favourites in there that I was genuinenly not expecting to find (the aforementioned Bright Flight, Zombie by Fela Kuti, Count Basie's the Atomic Mr. Basie).
As far as lists of this nature go, this one was by far the most diverse that I've seen. Perhaps not surprising when there's 1001 albums on there, but still: credit to the guy.
AanAllein:
165...more than i thought. pretty much had to get all the way to about '77 before i got into double digits though
Bastardous Bassist:
Why are all of these "x albums that are awesome" lists exclusively pop music without mentioning it? I went through a good portion of the list before I realized there wasn't going to be anything but pop music.
Also, I think I agree that these are 1001 albums that you must hear to understand 1955-2005 popular music culture rather than 1001 albums that you must hear because they're great, which I wish was mentioned somewhere. I don't think that it's a bad thing (it makes me happier than a "x greatest album" list because this list can be a lot more objective), just so long as the author is not trying to pretend it is anything different.
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