Australia votes
Dec. 4th, 2006 02:08 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frogworthYes, I'm talking about that sorry-ass "My Favourite Album" thing on Triple J. ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
benpeek was the first to notify me of the results in this post, and he treats it to the usual LJ memeage: Bold if you liked it, strikethrough if you hated it, and, well I'm assuming italic means "meh". Needless to say I'm not going to agree with many of his choices ;)
The list is full of lots of crap, not surprisingly, and my own vote for "Four Tet — Rounds" didn't turn up, unsurprisingly. Anyway, despite the number 1 position being a mediocre choice to say the least, it's one I like all the same, as are most on the
1–10
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
11–20
Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here
The Beatles — The Beatles - White Album (why "The Beatles twice"? I should add that by no means are the Beatles albums in my preferred order but there you go)
The Beatles — Revolver
Pink Floyd — The Wall
Radiohead — The Bends
Neil Diamond — Hot August Night (I assume...)
Neil Young — Harvest (I assume - at best)
Carole King — Tapestry
Pearl Jam — Ten
Fleetwood Mac — Rumours (although on a generous day I might sit through it, if you insist)
21–30
Tool — Aenima (I probably like a lot of it)
Bob Dylan — Blood On The Tracks (give or take one or two tracks, but his bleat shits me, it really does)
Midnight Oil — 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (equal with Red Sails In The Sunset)
Silverchair — Diorama
AC/DC — Back In Black (yeah, I know, they're classics, but... no, sorry.)
The Clash — London Calling
The Whitlams — Eternal Nightcap (well, I'm on it, but I did think it was a beautiful thing from the outset)
Queen — A night at the Opera
The Pixies — Doolittle
Missy Higgins — The Sound Of White (*heh*)
31–40
Paul Simon — Graceland (so I like it, got a problem with that? But I like the other world-music-thieving one better... Forget the name, the one that followed it, er...)
Anthony Callea — Anthony Callea
U2 — Achtung Baby (kinda like it, it must be admitted)
David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars (but Hunky Dory's the real classic)
Radiohead — Kid A
The Beatles — Rubber Soul
The Stone Roses — Stone Roses
Wolfmother — Wolfmother
Oasis — What's The Story Morning Glory (sorry boys)
Tool — Lateralus (as above)
41–50
Coldplay — A Rush of Blood to the Head (Ben writes: As if you could feel a strong emotion in relation to Coldplay. They exist on your ambivalence.) (I add: they shit me, really.)
Bob Dylan — Highway 61
Sex Pistols — Never Mind the Bollocks
Van Morrison — Astral Weeks (if he's lucky.)
The Living End — The Living End (I probably like them, but whatever.)
The Strokes — Is this It? (not that I own it or would bother to, but still, yeah.)
Silverchair — Neon Ballroom
The Eagles — Hotel California (meh.)
The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead
You Am I — Hourly Daily (sorry Timmy.)
51–60
The Cure — Disintegration
Bob Dylan — Blonde On Blonde (Ben writes: I've just never bought a Bob Dylan album.) (I add: I never will)
Lou Reed — Transformer
Bruce Springsteen — Born To Run (I don't hate him, but I had to cross it out all the same)
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Californication
Metallica — Master of Puppets
Cat Stevens — Tea for the Tillerman
R.E.M — Automatic For The People (what a meh choice of REM! I mean really...)
Muse — Absolution
Joni Mitchell — Blue
61–70
Prince — Purple Rain (surprisingly. Probably only like a handful of tracks off it though.)
ABBA — Arrival
Elton John — Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (no really. Mostly I hate the old fucker but I inherited a gatefold vinyl issue of this from my auntie and despite having some abominable crap on it, it's got some good stuff too. Probably everything one needs to know of the man)
Dire Straits — Brothers In Arms
Miles Davis — Kind of Blue (it ain't no In A Silent Way but it'll do.)
Cold Chisel — East
The Smashing Pumpkins — Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Who — Who's Next
Yes — Close To The Edge (I almost bolded this one!)
Deep Purple — Machine Head
71–80
Rage Against The Machine — Rage Against The Machine
Green Day — American Idiot (at best a meh)
Guns N Roses — Appetite For Destruction
INXS — Kick (nostalgic reasons)
David Bowie — Hunky Dory (here it is. Belongs much higher up)
The Smashing Pumpkins — Siamese Dream
Def Leppard — Hysteria
Foo Fighters — The Colour and The Shape
U2 — Rattle and Hum
Delta Goodrem — Innocent Eyes
81–90
John Farnham — Whispering Jack (yeah that nostalgia thing. I can't strike it, sad I know. I hate him, honest!)
You Am I — Hi Fi Way
Darren Hayes — The Tension & The Spark (well so I assume)
Crowded House — Woodface (WTF? What kind of fucked up choice of Crowdies is that? You have the self-titled album and all that Enz, and you choose this? Australia, you suck!)
Live — Throwing Copper (I doubt it, but meh)
Nine Inch Nails — The Downward Spiral
Massive Attack — Blue Lines
Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin 2
Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells
Radio Birdman — Radios Appear (I guess)
91–100
Ben Folds Five — Whatever and Ever Amen
Crowded House — Crowded House (at least this one's in there)
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
Now, Ben adds this, which I am marking up as well because this is a bit of a dialogue with his post:
And, as an optional, ten albums I would have liked to have seen there:
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (oh yessssss)
Beasts of Bourbon - Low Life
The Herd - The Sun Never Sets
A Silver Mt. Zion - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is Over
The Stooges - Fun House
Linda Perry - In Flight (?? dunno!)
the Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Art of Fighting - Wires (utterly meh)
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas (but nah, f#a#&infinity; is waaay better)
Ben writes: No particular order, and you know, tomorrow, I'm sure it'll change. I can already think of theFlaming Lips, the Drones, about three or four other Tom Waits albums...
As you see, I agree about our Tom, but the Flaming Lips have always shitted me, despite Kit Brash's best efforts. I'd add Four Tet's Rounds, loads of Hood, Venetian Snares, the Clouds, Beastie Boys (Check Your Head and Ill Communication, since you ask), Pop Will Eat Itself, the Necks, and bucketloads of other stuff that would probably edge out many of the things I've even bolded along the way...
benpeek was the first to notify me of the results in this post, and he treats it to the usual LJ memeage: Bold if you liked it, strikethrough if you hated it, and, well I'm assuming italic means "meh". Needless to say I'm not going to agree with many of his choices ;)The list is full of lots of crap, not surprisingly, and my own vote for "Four Tet — Rounds" didn't turn up, unsurprisingly. Anyway, despite the number 1 position being a mediocre choice to say the least, it's one I like all the same, as are most on the
1–10
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
11–20
Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here
The Beatles — The Beatles - White Album (why "The Beatles twice"? I should add that by no means are the Beatles albums in my preferred order but there you go)
The Beatles — Revolver
Pink Floyd — The Wall
Radiohead — The Bends
Neil Young — Harvest (I assume - at best)
Carole King — Tapestry
21–30
Tool — Aenima (I probably like a lot of it)
Midnight Oil — 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (equal with Red Sails In The Sunset)
The Clash — London Calling
The Whitlams — Eternal Nightcap (well, I'm on it, but I did think it was a beautiful thing from the outset)
Queen — A night at the Opera
The Pixies — Doolittle
31–40
Paul Simon — Graceland (so I like it, got a problem with that? But I like the other world-music-thieving one better... Forget the name, the one that followed it, er...)
U2 — Achtung Baby (kinda like it, it must be admitted)
David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars (but Hunky Dory's the real classic)
Radiohead — Kid A
The Beatles — Rubber Soul
The Stone Roses — Stone Roses
Tool — Lateralus (as above)
41–50
Sex Pistols — Never Mind the Bollocks
Van Morrison — Astral Weeks (if he's lucky.)
The Strokes — Is this It? (not that I own it or would bother to, but still, yeah.)
The Eagles — Hotel California (meh.)
The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead
51–60
The Cure — Disintegration
Lou Reed — Transformer
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Californication
Metallica — Master of Puppets
Cat Stevens — Tea for the Tillerman
R.E.M — Automatic For The People (what a meh choice of REM! I mean really...)
Joni Mitchell — Blue
61–70
Prince — Purple Rain (surprisingly. Probably only like a handful of tracks off it though.)
ABBA — Arrival
Elton John — Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (no really. Mostly I hate the old fucker but I inherited a gatefold vinyl issue of this from my auntie and despite having some abominable crap on it, it's got some good stuff too. Probably everything one needs to know of the man)
Dire Straits — Brothers In Arms
Miles Davis — Kind of Blue (it ain't no In A Silent Way but it'll do.)
The Smashing Pumpkins — Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Who — Who's Next
Yes — Close To The Edge (I almost bolded this one!)
Deep Purple — Machine Head
71–80
Rage Against The Machine — Rage Against The Machine
Green Day — American Idiot (at best a meh)
Guns N Roses — Appetite For Destruction
INXS — Kick (nostalgic reasons)
David Bowie — Hunky Dory (here it is. Belongs much higher up)
The Smashing Pumpkins — Siamese Dream
Def Leppard — Hysteria
Foo Fighters — The Colour and The Shape
U2 — Rattle and Hum
81–90
John Farnham — Whispering Jack (yeah that nostalgia thing. I can't strike it, sad I know. I hate him, honest!)
Crowded House — Woodface (WTF? What kind of fucked up choice of Crowdies is that? You have the self-titled album and all that Enz, and you choose this? Australia, you suck!)
Live — Throwing Copper (I doubt it, but meh)
Nine Inch Nails — The Downward Spiral
Massive Attack — Blue Lines
Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin 2
Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells
Radio Birdman — Radios Appear (I guess)
91–100
Ben Folds Five — Whatever and Ever Amen
Crowded House — Crowded House (at least this one's in there)
The Killers — Hot Fuss
The Rolling Stones — Sticky Fingers
Portishead — Dummy
Soundgarden — Superunknown
The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground & Nico
Now, Ben adds this, which I am marking up as well because this is a bit of a dialogue with his post:
And, as an optional, ten albums I would have liked to have seen there:
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (oh yessssss)
Beasts of Bourbon - Low Life
The Herd - The Sun Never Sets
A Silver Mt. Zion - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is Over
The Stooges - Fun House
Linda Perry - In Flight (?? dunno!)
the Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Art of Fighting - Wires (utterly meh)
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas (but nah, f#a#&infinity; is waaay better)
Ben writes: No particular order, and you know, tomorrow, I'm sure it'll change. I can already think of the
As you see, I agree about our Tom, but the Flaming Lips have always shitted me, despite Kit Brash's best efforts. I'd add Four Tet's Rounds, loads of Hood, Venetian Snares, the Clouds, Beastie Boys (Check Your Head and Ill Communication, since you ask), Pop Will Eat Itself, the Necks, and bucketloads of other stuff that would probably edge out many of the things I've even bolded along the way...
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Date: 2006-12-03 05:55 pm (UTC)Wasn't bad entertainment for a vote about a contained recorded form, I thought. Australia is in love with Jeff Buckley and that's OK.
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Date: 2006-12-03 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 09:59 pm (UTC)the list definately needed more tom waits.
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Date: 2006-12-03 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-12-03 10:01 pm (UTC)I've got ones that I've flogged the hell out of, and heck, while some of those in that category made it fairly high, like OK Computer, Achtung Baby, Eternal Nightcap and 10-1, but if I was forced to make a choice it'd be completely arbitrary and the ones that I would've picked mightn't been on the list.
But as you've found, the albums people picked by a particular artist aren't particularly the best by them; take the bluffer's choice of Tubular Bells for Mike Oldfield - as you know I can think of about four or five better albums by him, including TB III, for crying out loud, but the original is the one people associate with their first shag or first bong hit or whatever so that's the one that gets picked as their "favourite".
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Date: 2006-12-03 10:11 pm (UTC)I think popularity contests are always going to end up boring. Oh well.
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Date: 2006-12-04 04:59 am (UTC)I suppose that's why it's called that. I like more of the list than you do. I suspect that's no surprise though!
tim.
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Date: 2006-12-04 07:27 am (UTC)It really is surprising, though, just how much of the list I actually liked though!
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Date: 2006-12-04 07:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 02:40 am (UTC)I have a list of my favourite albums here:
http://www.seanwilliams.com/desert.htm
Knowing that none of them had any chance of appearing on the ABC list, I didn't even bother to vote. :-)
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Date: 2007-03-28 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 02:44 am (UTC)When I saw that Amanda owned a copy of "Graceland", which I'd been meaning to buy for ages, I knew she was the gal for me. :-)
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Date: 2007-03-28 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 02:52 am (UTC)She also had a copy of Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert, which I had loved in my 20s but somehow quite forgotten. It's like going home, sometimes, rediscovering an old album. *warm, nostalgic haze of good feelings*
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Date: 2007-03-28 02:58 am (UTC)I like how we are both South Park characters having this conversation.
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Date: 2007-03-28 03:05 am (UTC)Me too.
Timmy!
ROTS reminds me of Philip Glass's similarly South American inspired "Uakti". If you haven't heard that, it's worth a listen.
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Date: 2007-03-28 03:13 am (UTC)Boston mashup artist djBC did this awesome (download) album called Glassbreaks a couple of years ago, mashing up all sorts of hip-hop artists with Philip Glass compositions. Not on his website any more, but:
http://www.google.com/search?aq=t&oq=djbc+glassbreak&hl=en&safe=off&q=djbc+glassbreaks&btnG=Search
maybe there's a torrent or two around or something...
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Date: 2007-03-28 03:17 am (UTC)I'll chase down that mashup. Thanks for the tip. What a strange and wonderful project!
(And yes: kudos to Steve Reich. I think we'll have some interesting overlaps in our music collections, you and I.)