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Can I also point out that NME is one of the worst things to happen to music journalism ever.

You're spectacularly missing the point. Again. perhaps you should write for the NME?

Not missing, ignoring.

The ABC recently compiled a list of "Australia's Favourite Albums" based on a internet vote:

Pink Floyd — Dark Side Of The Moon
Jeff Buckley — Grace
Radiohead — Ok Computer
The Beatles — Abbey Road
The Beatles — Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Nirvana — Nevermind
Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin 4
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Meat Loaf — Bat Out Of Hell
U2 — The Joshua Tree
Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here
The Beatles — The Beatles - White Album
The Beatles — Revolver
Pink Floyd — The Wall
Radiohead — The Bends
Neil Diamond — Hot August Night
Neil Young — Harvest
Carole King — Tapestry
Pearl Jam — Ten
Fleetwood Mac — Rumours
Tool — Aenima
Bob Dylan — Blood On The Tracks
Midnight Oil — 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Silverchair — Diorama
AC/DC — Back In Black
The Clash — London Calling
The Whitlams — Eternal Nightcap
Queen — A night at the Opera
The Pixies — Doolittle
Missy Higgins — The Sound Of White
Paul Simon — Graceland
Anthony Callea — Anthony Callea
U2 — Achtung Baby
David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars
Radiohead — Kid A
The Beatles — Rubber Soul
The Stone Roses — Stone Roses
Wolfmother — Wolfmother
Oasis — What's The Story Morning Glory
Tool — Lateralus
Coldplay — A Rush of Blood to the Head
Bob Dylan — Highway 61
Sex Pistols — Never Mind the Bollocks
Van Morrison — Astral Weeks
The Living End — The Living End
The Strokes — Is this It?
Silverchair — Neon Ballroom
The Eagles — Hotel California
The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead
You Am I — Hourly Daily
The Cure — Disintegration
Bob Dylan — Blonde On Blonde
Lou Reed — Transformer
Bruce Springsteen — Born To Run
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Californication
Metallica — Master of Puppets
Cat Stevens — Tea for the Tillerman
R.E.M — Automatic For The People
Muse — Absolution
Joni Mitchell — Blue
Prince — Purple Rain
ABBA — Arrival
Elton John — Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Dire Straits — Brothers In Arms
Miles Davis — Kind of Blue
Cold Chisel — East
The Smashing Pumpkins — Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Who — Who's Next
Yes — Close To The Edge
Deep Purple — Machine Head
Rage Against The Machine — Rage Against The Machine
Green Day — American Idiot
Guns N Roses — Appetite For Destruction
INXS — Kick
David Bowie — Hunky Dory
The Smashing Pumpkins — Siamese Dream
Def Leppard — Hysteria
Foo Fighters — The Colour and The Shape
U2 — Rattle and Hum
Delta Goodrem — Innocent Eyes
John Farnham — Whispering Jack
You Am I — Hi Fi Way
Darren Hayes — The Tension & The Spark
Crowded House — Woodface
Live — Throwing Copper
Nine Inch Nails — The Downward Spiral
Massive Attack — Blue Lines
Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin 2
Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells
Radio Birdman — Radios Appear
Ben Folds Five — Whatever and Ever Amen
Crowded House — Crowded House
Powderfinger — Vulture Street
The Killers — Hot Fuss
The Rolling Stones — Sticky Fingers
Silverchair — Frogstomp
Queens Of The Stone Age — Songs For The Deaf
Portishead — Dummy
Soundgarden — Superunknown
The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground & Nico

http://www.abc.net.au/myfavouritealbum/top100.htm


How embarassing!!! Not only is "Dark Side of the Moon" #1, but there are 3 Pink Floyd albums in the Top 20!! Australia has become a country of spotty geeks! I'm moving to New Zealand immediately

(at least the Velvets scrapped in at #100, gotta be happy with that)

Wow, but Grace came in at #2. That's something to be proud of.

I like that Australian list!


I bought Soundgarden's Loud Love in Australia...couldn't find it in Toronto...but I did in Sydney. My point? Uh... i went to Australia and they got good music there?

Wow. Tubular Bells made it onto the list.

Another stupid list about music, but this one you can actualy <a href='http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/'>listen to</a>.

NPRs "ALL SONGS CONSIDERED" TOP 10 ALBUMS FROM 2006

PODCAST
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc

10. Begin to Hope -Regina Spektor
9. Orphans - Tom Waits
8. Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
7. The Greatest - Cat Power
6. Ys - Joanna Newsom
5. Return to Cookie Mountain - TV On the Radio
4. Post War - M. Ward
3. Modern Times - Bob Dylan
2. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - Neko Case
1. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists

Wow, in the Australia top 100 I own 68 compared to that Times top 100 where I only own 55.

I'm definitely a spotty geek.

It makes me laugh when the Australian list contains Silverchair and Midnight Oil, that's like these San Francisco radio stations who still play Journey and Huey Lewis like they're relevant.

HeuristicsInc wrote:Also, it seems I have 16 of the listed albums on CD.

And 30 off the Australian list!
-bill

Caravan Ray wrote:How embarassing!!! Not only is "Dark Side of the Moon" #1, but there are 3 Pink Floyd albums in the Top 20!!

I somewhat agree with you, but The Wall totally deserves to be up there.

WeaselSlayer wrote:Wow, but Grace came in at #2. That's something to be proud of.

Why should I be proud of the fact that a lot of 14-year-old girls like to listen some whining nancy-boy who can't swim?

BTW:

I voted for London Calling and Doolittle - both in the top 30 - as well as Remain In Light by Talking Heads, Stoneage Romeos by Hoodoo Gurus and Born Sandy Devotional by The Triffids (none of which made Top 100

Hey, don't leave out sensitive college boys.

glennny wrote: It makes me laugh when the Australian list contains Silverchair and Midnight Oil, that's like these San Francisco radio stations who still play Journey and Huey Lewis like they're relevant.

I'm sure that ex-Midnight Oil lead singer, The Right Honorable Member for Kingsford-Smith, Mr Peter Garret MP, Shadow Minister for the Environment would be delighted to be compared to Huey Lewis!

(it was just announced this morning that ol' Screaming Baldie, now a Labor Member of Parliment, has just been promoted to the Shadow Cabinet. It is now forseably possible that one day - Australia may have the world's coolest Prime Minister!)

No way! I used to have to watch Midnight Oil in social class! Awesome!

This is pretty funny, regarding the shredding/virtuosity discussion earlier. It's from Something Awful's "Your Band Sucks: Metal."

"The metal genre is home to some technically talented musical virtuosos.

I have to laugh when I hear metalheads complain that some of the best pure musicians of our time are being ignored and neglected by the ivory-tower establishment just because they play in the metal genre. Here, it’s simple: imagine if William Butler Yeats only wrote poems about dogs eating peanut butter, and if he used only the same fifteen or twenty words in every single poem. People who espouse the shredding merits of metal guitarists and the double-bass technique of metal drummers crack me the fuck up. Maybe they also think books are better when they have lots of pages. "

Except David Thorpe is full of shit. And what about Iommi/Kerry King/Dave Lombardo/King Buzzo/Dylan Carlson/Jim Preston/Buckethead/Trevor Dunn/etc.? There are plenty great players in metal, as there are in all genres. Speaking in absolutes really miffs my goats.

WeaselSlayer wrote:Except David Thorpe is full of shit.

Obviously. I doubt David Thorpe is actually a real person. If he hates as much music as he claims to hate then he probably doesn't listen to any music with any other objective than to make mean jokes about it. Thorpe speaks in nothing but absolutes. It's a character on an entertainment site.

Oh no he's real all right. That's how come he was on Attack of the Show. He was full of shit then too, except it was funny.

the majority of SomethingAwful's material deals with preserving the status quo by ridiculing those outside it, which I have a beef with.

WeaselSlayer wrote:Oh no he's real all right. That's how come he was on Attack of the Show. He was full of shit then too, except it was funny.

Ah. I think the only time I've ever watched Attack of the Show was when Spud and JB were on. If he's for real then he's a huge asshole, but, still, he's a funny asshole. I think being funny asshole is sort of the point of Something Awful.

Hey. Rolling Stone just put out their top 100 songs of the year. It's got some interesting choices.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... gs_of_2006