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1001 albums to listen to before you die
KickThatBathProf:
--- Quote from: Be My Head on 02 Nov 2009, 13:37 ---To be fair I like some of them, but they didn't need to put all this shit on there when they could have been more diverse.
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I really don't think 20 albums out of a list of 1001 constitutes as "weighted heavily towards one genre", especially when a few of those albums are completely different styles
Bastardous Bassist:
That is what they call a good point. They might be things that are liked by "hipsters," but they are not all the same style of music.
--- Quote from: De_El on 02 Nov 2009, 19:58 ---True! They could, by that criterion, be considered "albums," but symphonies aren't albums, and no one really calls them that. It's pure nomenclature.
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It's an interesting thing to think about, and I will probably be doing so for most of tomorrow instead of thinking about the problem I'm having with my research.
Also, everyone, I am not saying pop music doesn't have any artistry to it. It is just a nomenclature thing.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 02 Nov 2009, 19:43 ---I guess it really does, because I'm not quite sure about how an "album" would work out. Would one consider it a group of songs intended to be released on a record together? If so, then I would definitely have to think about art music that would fit the album form. If you want to consider it a group of music intended to be listened to together, then I would say a symphony or a song cycle could probably be considered "albums."
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I wouldn't consider a group of songs intended to be released together as an album. Some albums only have one song, some EPs have over ten. It's hard to put a definite rule on it, but roughly I'd say it needs to be a particular recorded work which by length, number of songs or scope somehow approximates other recorded work generally thought of as albums. The group of songs don't have to be intended to be released on a record together (at least initially). The Dicks album 1980-1986 is still a distinct album despite being made up of songs collected from several previous releases.
So if I'm understanding the distinction correctly the Ensemble Avantgarde's album of John Cage compositions Music For Eight would be an art music album as would the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's recording of Messiaen's Turangalīla Symphonie. After a little wikipediaing it also appears that it's one of those bits of terminology that worked well at one time but not anymore.
BrittanyMarie:
I've listened to 336 of those. My favorite bit was #269 was 69 Love Songs
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 02 Nov 2009, 20:33 ---So if I'm understanding the distinction correctly the Ensemble Avantgarde's album of John Cage compositions Music For Eight would be an art music album as would the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's recording of Messiaen's Turangalīla Symphonie. After a little wikipediaing it also appears that it's one of those bits of terminology that worked well at one time but not anymore.
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Any performance of those works would be the same, no? Now, here's a question. Can a collection of pieces be considered an album, even though they weren't written to be released together, or even written by the same person? Before you answer, consider that there have been albums of popular music that were composed entirely of covers (the two I can think of immediately are Metallica's "Garage Inc" and The Bad Plus' "For All I Care").
Also, it may be a bit outdated, but I've not heard anything coming up to replace it, so I still use it. Would you prefer I use "concert music"?
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