best albums ever — updated!
09Jul08
Time to check in again on our best albums ever list: numbers 80 through 61 are now up for viewing here. This section is a bit more canonical (though I must admit that I was hoping #78 would place a bit higher than it did) than the last, but trust me: our list is plenty weird.
UK, Canada and Europe results are now up as well. That Europe list? Really, really weird, and way all over the place. Europeans get many bonus points for eclecticism (and for putting Drive Like Jehu on there).
I don’t know from #78, but I’d have liked to see #74 in the top 20. Oh well.
Europe won the first day for including The Drift, Spiritual Unity and Dub Housing, difficult albums I didn’t expect to see. They don’t win today because they included Pendulum, wtf. I give today to the US — bunch of classics, not too much indie.
Nice to see Underworld represented on two of the lists.
Glad to see Isis and the Mekons make the list. If I had to call one underrated here, though, it would be #79.
How do I see the lists from UK, Canada and Europe?
I think it’s sorta funny peoples’ reactions to rankings in this list relative to one another… if this is the Top 100 in all of the what? half million? albums in the eMu catalog, then merely being in the top 100 places you in company so elite the differences between them are basically immaterial.
But enough kvetching for this day. Aside from Ornette Coleman (which I haven’t heard, but which I imagine is skronky sax I could never dig), and maybe Aesop Rock (which, though decent, isn’t in a genre I consider universally awesome), everything revealed in today’s list might make it into my personal Top 200. First, I need to DL that Fela Kuti…
@Dj do a drop down on the “More” at the description of the list on top and the links are almost at the end.
@the list: While I’ve not listened to Isis or Mastodon my brother and one of our friends are always talkin’ about them (the other day my friend Ryan was wearing an Isis Concert T-Shirt he got four years ago)
It’s great to see so many various types of music mixed up into this mix. Judas Priest along side Gary Nueman along side Sigur Ros, not something you’ll see in most places. While it saddens me to see many of my favorite bands already making the list; Sigur Ros, Gogol, Frightend Rabbit (100
but I guess that’s alright it is pretty new and more for the love-lorn like myself ) ) I’m excited to see who’ll hit the top.
Good job guys, I’m glad this experiment for top of ten years is going so well.
I must have missed that the votes were weighted… I may have changed my voting slightly. Anyway, pleased to see such an eclectic (and electric) mix. Will be investigating these over the next weeks.
And I am also pleased to see Judas Priest in there… what an awesome album.
I’m just happy that at least there are plenty of albums on the list that I like so far. Usually with these popularity lists that isn’t the case for me.
LOL forgot to say my main point — that indicates to me that I will be finding a lot of gems on this list that I didn’t know about yet…which is awesome!!
hahaha oh man #35 EU is Infected Mushroom! Love it. (If you’re not familiar, Infected Mushroom is psy-trance a.k.a. Goa trance, the most whip-you-around acid techno style. It’s not something I listen to a lot of, but every so often it really hits the spot. Your mileage may vary, obv.)
I’m still feeling pretty good about my Top ‘O The Chart predictions. Some curve balls, so far, I admit. We’ll see.
Yay for Nos. 41 — 44, 51, 53 — 54.
Yay for 43, 48 and 52, although I would have thought Madvillain would have ranked higher.
Also, I was pleasently surprised to see Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman.
Numbers 55 - 57 really point out the diversity of musical taste.
Like most commenters here, I didn’t get around to voting, and every day when the new lists pop up, I’m glad I didn’t because I’m reminded about lots of really great things I would have forgotten.