Johnny Fever's 50 favorite albums thing

this is making me regret not including a Radiohead album on mine so The Bends it is

Mostly this is a big list of stuff I commonly listen to while driving or doing chores around the house. Comfort food.

Voted fugazi, if I added one more album to my list it would have been red medicine

Lots of good, but had to Give It Up.

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The Cult - Electric (1987)

This album's short on originality, but it's goddamn great for learning how to play the guitar when you're 13.

Nana Mouskouri - Nana Mouskouri In New York—The Girl From Greece Sings (1962/99)

Found this when on a big Quincy Jones bender a number a years ago. It's been in my car ever since.

Laura Lee - Women's Love Rights (1972)

Bought this cheap because the cover slaps. Turns out the record does too.

Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson (1970)

Perhaps not my favorite album of all time in a practical sense, but in an admiration/intellectual sense perhaps it is.

Never heard her, but Nana of awesome ancient album covers: Greek as charisma, and serious-looking with those glasses! So cuet

Yeah that’s an awesome cover… never heard of her either.

if it's the cassette version of the cure standing on the beach then that. if it's cd version then joshua tree.

had to go w/ Oil And Gold here

I arbitrarily counted 32 albums released 1977-1992, which is a nice concentration and one of my favorite broad period in music.

I find it super meaningless to vote on the best in someone's else list, I prefer to look at the internal logic and formation of experience. But I guess that's overthinking.

violent femmes s/t and it's not even close. really cool to see a shudder to think record on here though!

Well, Nana Mouskouri is an unexpected pick!

Extremely famous and popular in Europe (incl. the UK) but apparently not in North America.

She was mostly known over here in the US for an old TV commercial trying to sell a compilation album of her work in the 80s. At least that's how people my age remember her.

I just happened to come across this repackaged version of her first (?) album while in the middle of a Quincy Jones production/arranging deep dive and it's marvelous.

*An 80s TV commercial, rather. The compilation featured older material iirc.

if it's the cassette version of the cure standing on the beach then that.

― oscar bravo, Tuesday, August 22, 2023 2:20 AM

Oh, I definitely had the cassette version first, but I'll be honest...my listening ratio between side 1 and side 2 was probably something like 50:1.

Bleach as your Nirvana pick? Interesting

Fantastic energy there that was never recaptured.

Went with Tribe

Sky Ferreira, of course.

Van Halen - 1984 (1984)

well, that was easy

voted for eliminator

21 favorites! Bonus points for Doppelgänger!

Voted Violent Femmes

Compilations are fine imo, if that's the way you listen to the music (see Best Best of Fela Kuti elsewhere, which is indeed excellent.)

I considered Ramones Mania, but the non-chronological order bothered my OCD enough to prefer Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology. First disc of that is wall to wall greatness.

Voted Devo, a life changing record for me, but lots of hard choices. Props for remembering Caterwaul; they once deafened me in a small club, but man were they powerful.

Fleetwood

Had to be Ten Love Songs. The Sundays, Life Without Buildings, New Order and Portishead close by.

I’m unsure whether or not Nirvana is making my list. If I had to chose it would be Bleach, Incesticide, or an official live record (was there one?)

I prefer to look at the internal logic and formation of experience. But I guess that's overthinking.

Welcome to the overthinking club.

Props for remembering Caterwaul; they once deafened me in a small club, but man were they powerful.

Wish I'd had the opportunity. Very formative guitar album for me.

...an official live record (was there one?)

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Lots and lots of good stuff: Third v Standing v Technique.

DEVO

Fantastic energy there that was never recaptured.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 11:03 AM (seven hours ago

If grunge is often deemed as sludgy metal meets punk then Bleach is THE grunge album

Quite hard for me to not to vote for Any Other City whenever Any Other City is an option, despite ridiculously strong competition.

Number of albums heard: 26

Favourite: Devo

Least-favourite: So or Violent Femmes

Nicest surprise: Shudder to Think

Unheard, but most want to hear: Fugazi, but should probably hear She's So Unusual at some point

Extremely famous and popular in Europe (incl. the UK) but apparently not in North America.

In Toronto in the 70s she was played on the MOR station at least as often as ABBA (often).

Doppelgänger of course

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ok who voted for Barbara Panther ily

just want to say that is Bonnie Raitt's best album, nice to see it mentioned