1000 albums you oughta know

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hello,
i want to draw your attention to my website...

www.1000alben.at

1000 reviews and ratings from essential albums in rock/jazz-history
from ellington to the arctic monkeys...

regards,
robert

― Robert Schobesberger (jimmydean), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

jazz-history is the best kind of history.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Better than Niall Ferguson history?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

NSNC

(No Sufjan No Credibility (TM) )

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like an exciting list.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Not to be picky, but why do lots of these 'essential albums' get only three stars out of five? Who wants average? (However, you do get a pass for including We Shoot For The Moon)

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

hello nick...
sorry, but it's a list of overall very good albums... so three stars means also above the average....
the rating is like these:
***** ... masterpiece
**** ... excellent
*** ... very good
** ... average

― Robert Schobesberger (jimmydean), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

it was in german so a bit moot fur mich.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Stars are stupid. Records are either essential or they're not.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

yes... but some are more essential than others...

― Robert Schobesberger (jimmydean), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

No. They're either worth spending 45 minutes of your life on or they're not. They're either worth spending money on or they're not. End of story.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

In this list

Every Pixies album
Every Husker Du album
Practically all of Sonic Youth's output
Ditto New Order
and Dinosaur Jr
and Pere Ubu
and MBV

...I love these bands too, but come on

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

not correct:
not included : pixies - trompe le monde (patchy)
husker du - the early years
sonic youth - the later years (after "dirty") except murray street
new order - only 3 new order albums included
pere ubu - the early albums after dub housing are mainly included because they are included in the "datapanik in the year zero"-box...

so there is lots of albums from these bands that is not included (and it's not difficult to include all of mbv's albums...)

― Robert Schobesberger (jimmydean), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

OK, but still...
Eight SY albums?
80% of Husker Du's output?

Some quality control please :)

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Explain why we ought to know any of these records.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

let's say it with henry kaiser:
"those who know history are doomed to repeat it"...
so it's better to know the original "exile on main street" than some primal scream - ripoff from the year 2006

― Robert Schobesberger (jimmydean), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Why is it "better" to know any of these records in the first place?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

because only in some cases the copy is better then the original...

― Robert Schobesberger (jimmydean), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

You're purposely missing my point.

Why should our lives be lesser if we don't know any of these records?

There are no essential albums.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

What difference does it make if we haven't heard any albums by anybody in our lives?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

yer like a zen crone.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

What difference does it make if we haven't seen any beautiful women in our lives?

― Robert Schobesberger (jimmydean), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Human extinction.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Essential" seems to imply a moral imperative. Poop on that prescription! I'd be much more drawn to a list of 1000 albums if they were described as, "1000 great records you may have missed".

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Except they always turn out to be the same 1000 records. Or, in the case of the Grauniad a few years back, it was another 100 records by the same artists who usually appeared in the top 100.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Stars are stupid. Records are either essential or they're not."

"There are no essential albums."

Marcello v. Marcello FITE!

"Essential" is teleogical. If the goal is to have a decent view of the pop canon, there are records that are essential to that goal.

"What difference does it make if we haven't heard any albums by anybody in our lives?"

It's a wonderful life, George Bailey.

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Koop - Waltz For Koop

A little jazz, a little electronic, a lot of sexy.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

There have been considerably more than 1000 "very good" albums released throughout history.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

No. They're either worth spending 45 minutes of your life on or they're not. They're either worth spending money on or they're not. End of story.

Mrs. Glick: It's a Candy Dish, Ned, ninety dollars!
Ned: Uh-huh... well I uh.. I guess you could put a lot of nice things in there!
Mrs Glick: No! Just candy, Ned. Ninety dollars!

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

If I could pare down my life to 1,000 records, I doubt any of them would be Arctic or Monkeys.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Records are not essential in the way that food or air are essential.

There are too many of these lists and they need to find stronger justification for their existence.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

What difference does it make if we haven't seen any beautiful women in our lives?

Because, if we have, we know how an ugly woman looks like.

I do believe that art is essential: it shifts the axis. We need these things because they are canvases waiting for us to paint our emotions on.

...

You're right though. It's really not essential.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kept me alive, though.

Thanks Nath, as usual the only ILxor to get my lame devil's advocate schtick... ;-)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

lame? no way! *huggelz*! :-) miss you tons but i guess it means you're in the right place and the right time! and hey who needs to hear from a boring mother: all she talks about is babies and the kiddie tunez she plays for her daughter.;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh uh, I guess because the guy has email notifications on, I should also post something relevant:

"Soulwax Any minute now"

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― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

The list itself is of course a complete joke, containing nothing by Genesis. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, and where is "Dome 2" by G. Lewis and B.C. Gilbert?

― The Aff Its Heid Show (Dada), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having a hard time with your genre selections in the first place. What are you filing electro-house under?

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

and how the heck did you determine which albums were "country"? (my favorite one on that list is notwist, who i suppose MIGHT be country if your country is germany, i dunno):

http://www.1000alben.at/albumver.dll

― xhuxk (xheddy), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

(oops, that was supposed to link to the country search, but it didn't. anyway, just check off "country" and you'll see what i mean.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

notwists neon golden's title track has for me a definitive country influence... the subdivision in genres is certainly a problem and can in my opinion not be made 100% correctly....

― Robert Schobesberger (jimmydean), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

REVIVE!

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

HOW MANY A CERTAIN RATIO ALBUMS MADE THE CUT, BUBBA?

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

NOT ENOUGH

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

key science dropped on this repeat thread (ans=67):
1000 albums you oughta know

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

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― songs and ballads of the bituminous miners (sanskrit), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Anything is better than Niall Ferguson history

although I did enjoy that introduction to Virtual History

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Thursday, 16 November 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Niall Ferguson = imperialist neocon shill.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

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