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| From | "Matt Whitby" <matt.whitby@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: 1000 albums to hear before you die |
| Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:40:37 +0000 |
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Ok. So unless someone has said this already.
What are YOUR "Twenty-five albums you should hear before you die." ?
On 20/11/2007, Dan Taylor <editor@hungovergourmet.com> wrote:
> 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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> Dan Taylor / editor@hungovergourmet.com
> THE HUNGOVER GOURMET
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