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[nufan]

My fondness in no small way stems from the fact that an album which sells a few hundred copies could in theory be ranked over one which goes multi-platinum. You'd be amazed how seldom that happens on conventional writer polls and listings.

Agreed, that list (essentially their version of the best albums of the decade) is, while nothing like my own list would be, much better than any I've read from major sites like pitchfork or nme.

[De_El]

Yeah, I mean, saying that an album by some band isn't "real" because it wasn't produced byt the sam people who used to be in the band is kind of a copt-out, which is why I put the term in quotation marks. But fans of the band are perfectly entitled to ignore it because at least for me there are really more reasons to not even care it exists than not.

[E. Spaceman]

Consider this, if Jagger, Richards, Watts all quit and Darryl Jones  managed through legal wrangling to keep the name The Rolling Stones, would you say that the following albums are actually by the same band that brought us Let It Bleed?

[yellowfoliage]

Is Chinese Democracy really a Guns n' Roses album?

[look out! Ninjas!]

I'd say that in contexts like that you could easily split a bands output into separate eras depending on who the major influence in the band was at the time. So post-Guns GnR, for example, or post everybody Velvet Underground, or post-Barret Pink Floyd.

How fine you make the split is up for grabs. I'd say it'd have to be a departure of the lead songwriter and a then clear change in the bands style as the rest of the members/the replacement make their mark, like Pink Floyd post-Piper.

[David_Dovey]

Honestly the only things on that Metacritic list that make me particularly annoyed is all the legacy act stuff & the compilations & live albums.

[Thrillho]

You see, these are all about what we 'consider.'

If the banner on the CD says the artist name, then I'd say that means it's part of the official discography unless otherwise stated, regardless of how I personally feel about it.

[Nodaisho]

What if the band didn't want it to be considered part of the discography, but the name got stuck on it anyway? I'm thinking the Sabbath albums when it was more Tony Iommi And Friends, and he just wanted to do his own thing with a solo project? Sure, you've got Never Say Die and Technical Ecstasy stuck between eight great studio albums, so they wouldn't quite count for consistency, but after Mob Rules I'm pretty sure everyone except the label knew that Sabbath was done making new material.

[Inlander]

I want the time when I needlessly insulted a bus driver on a school trip to not be considered a part of my personal history but hey guess what guys, it happened.

[Ptommydski]

Squeeze is a Velvet Underground record! Says so on the cover, right there. Self Portrait is a Bob Dylan record too. Their Satanic Majesties Request is an album by The Rolling Stones.

If you put a run of great records together, I don't think it detracts by having a few border albums in there which are rubbish.

[The Duke]

I want the time when I needlessly insulted a bus driver on a school trip to not be considered a part of my personal history but hey guess what guys, it happened.

That...doesn't seem like a very good comparison to me.

[Nodaisho]

I want the time when I needlessly insulted a bus driver on a school trip to not be considered a part of my personal history but hey guess what guys, it happened.

What about when the asshole behind you cussed out the driver and then everybody pointed at you when he turned around?

[look out! Ninjas!]

What about the time you wrote and recorded Squeeze

[Ptommydski]

That made me laugh.

I LOL'd, I LOL'd.

LOL'd!

[Nodaisho]

Thanks to another thread in this forum, I just realized that Type O Negative has a consistently good discography.

[Inlander]

LOL'd!

You laugh out louded??