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| From | Dan Taylor <editor@hungovergourmet.com> |
| Subject | Re: 1000 albums to hear before you die |
| Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:23:05 -0500 |
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On Nov 20, 2007, at 12:29 AM, Rick McCall wrote:
> If you're choosing 1000 artists/albums, I find it mind-boggling
> that Crowded
> House and/or Neil Finn and Del Amitri are excluded, among others.
> It'll be
> interesting to see if Split Enz makes the cut. Totally rips the
> credibility
> of the writers, who obviously lean toward front runners or critic's
> darlings.
I haven't gone through the whole list that's been posted so far but
for every inclusion that makes me smile ('Kings of the Wild
Frontier', 'Damned Damned Damned', 'The Harder They Come' soundtrack,
'New Day Rising') I scratch my head and wonder how you can leave off,
say, the Dead Kennedys (as important to American hardcore as the
Pistols), Hoodoo Gurus and Generation X but you include the 'Grease'
soundtrack?
If you're not listed out here's a list of the 100 Top Indie Rock
albums and on first blush this one seems wildly random given the
topic. The Misfits, DKs, Flipper and Big Black as afterthoughts in
the sub-80s and no Naked Raygun or Jawbreaker anywhere that I could
see...
http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2974
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