We are now done with Round 1 of the Best Album of 2000 tournament!
1. Look for a newsletter in the next few days featuring Round 1 stats & the debut of the Top 20 Prediction Brackets countdown!
2. With this 4 day weekend, let the Best Album of 1989 talk commence! What’s good? What’s *really* good?
1. Look for a newsletter in the next few days featuring Round 1 stats & the debut of the Top 20 Prediction Brackets countdown!
2. With this 4 day weekend, let the Best Album of 1989 talk commence! What’s good? What’s *really* good?
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Sophisticated, slick, but most of all, has Something to Say. Of course Collins would go on to do even greater work in the 90s as he continued to shed the needlessly inaccessible progressive rock undertones on certain tracks
Score: 4/5 business cards
Also to forestall any questions this is hard rock AND arena rock (often but not necessarily synonymous), and yes the quality between tracks does vary wildly which ought tell you something about which albums are worth time
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3kkpx4TBBKuo29eDgXWUGH?si=IQCKGu7hT4aIiBjADlaGhQ&pi=mnVdcMVWSAupJ
The Call - LET THE DAY BEGIN
Kate Bush - THE SENSUAL WORLD
Julee Cruise - FLOATING INTO THE NIGHT (but there's a lot of overlap with the Twin Peaks soundtrack)
Onslaught - IN SEARCH OF SANITY
Janet Jackson - RHYTHM NATION 1814
The Blue Nile - HATS
Beastie Boys - PAUL'S BOUTIQUE
Galaxie 500 - ON FIRE
Pixies - DOOLITTLE
Mekons, Mekons Rock ‘n’Roll
Muhal Richard Abrams, Hearinga Suite
John Carter, Shadows on a Wall
Ice-T, Iceberg
Blake Babies, Earwig
CvB, Key Lime Pie
Blue Nile, Hats
TT D’Arby, Neither Fish nor Flesh
Lush, Scar
Laurie Anderson, Strange Angels
11th Dream Day, Beet
EPMD, Unfinished Business
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I’ve heard maybe 5 albums from the whole year.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5frSxU1Myc7CPnVXP9tYwK
But seriously...Automatic is a masterpiece, one of most important albums ever to me personally, and contains Head On.
13 Songs
3 Feet High and Rising
All Hail the Queen
Bleach
Cosmic Thing
Disintegration
Doolittle
Don't Tell a Soul
Flowers in the Dirt
Like a Prayer
Mother's Milk
Paul's Boutique
Pretty Hate Machine
Rhythm Nation
The Biz Never Sleeps
The Seeds of Love
The Stone Roses
Anyway this first round showed me I guess I really didn't like a whole lot of music from 2000 that made this tournament.
Boris, Flood
Del the Funky Homosapien, Both Sides of the Brain
Doves, Lost Souls
Electric Wizard, Dopethrone
Gas, Pop
Isis, Celestial
Kid Koala, Carpel Tunnel Syndrome
Kittie, Spit
Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory
Hannah Marcus, Black Hole Heaven
Morphine, The Night
Nina Nastasia, Dogs
Sinead O’Connor, Faith and Courage
Sheena Ringo, Shōso Stripp
A Silver Mt. Zion, He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
Songs:Ohia, The Lioness
808 State, Ninety
Barry Adamson, Moss Side Story
Aster Aweke, Aster
Bel Canto, Birds of Passage
Inner City, Paradise
Lenny Kravitz, Let Love Rule
Barbara Manning, Lately I Keep Scissors
MC Lyte, Eyes on This
Pajama Party, Up All Night
Xymox, Twist of Shadows
More upsets than any first round other than 1994 or (OG, not Redux) 1995, both from the Old Seeding Method Era (OSME).
More than twice as many upsets as any first round since 1999.
Also more “superupsets” than any first round since the OSME.
Christmas, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Feedtime, The Perfect Disaster, Scrawl, Thelonious Monster, Too Much Joy.
https://youtu.be/Mcxn4LQaUuU?si=bS0O8r6a4Y4QI9s7
Lou Reed - New York
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time
Meat Puppets - Monsters
Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music
"A diamond crucifix in his ear is used to help ward off the fear
That he has left his soul in someone's rented car..."
Some personal choices: Tragically Hip's Up to Here, Bob Mould's Workbook, New Order's Technique, Soul II Soul!
Not declaring what should or shouldn't be. More what seems to be.
13 Songs as an album?
I didn't see
Nitzer Ebb - belief
mentioned.
And when I'm in the mood for it, 3rd Bass - cactus album is good
NIN - pretty hate machine
Soundgarden - Louder than Love
RHCP - Mother's Milk
NOMEANSNO - Wrong
Bad Religion - No Control
Whichever Op Ivy album counts
Cult - Sonic Temple
Beastie Boys - paul's Boutique
Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
Ministry - Mind is a terrible thing...
At least that's what *I* was listening to at 17/18
Sonic Boom: Spectrum
Metallica: Justice
The DOC: No One Can Do Better
McCarthy: Enraged Shall Inherit the Earth
Jayhawks: Blue Earth
Field Mice: Snowball
Band of Susans: Love Agenda
Vaselines: Dum-Dum
Melvins: Ozma
Close Lobsters: Headache Rhetoric
LL Cool J: Walking with a Panther
Yo La Tengo: President YLT
Slint: Tweez
Jimmie Dale Gilmore: s/t
The Triffids: Black Swan
Throwing Muses: Hunkpapa
Oh and if EPs are acceptable, then Fugazi: Margin Walker.
- Annihilator - Alice in Hell
- Skid Row - S/T
- Alice Cooper - Trash
- Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
- Xentrix - Shattered Existence
- Cher - Heart of Stone
- Warrant - Dirty Filthy Stinking Rich
- Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
- Overkill - The Years of Decay
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Tad - God’s Balls
EPMD - Unfinished Business
King Of The Slums - Dandelions
Mekons - Rock ‘n’ Roll
Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story
Young Gods - L’Eau Rouge
Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night
Bongwater - Too Much Sleep
PWEI - This Is The Day
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Clint Black - Killin' Time
Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World
The Durutti Column - Vini Reilly
The Blue Nile - Hats
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Oliveros/Dempster/Panaiotis - Deep Listening
The Ocean Blue - s/t
I think part of my love for it comes from the fact that I listened to A WALK ACROSS THE ROOFTOPS for years and really dug it, not knowing that they had released what was essentially an improved remake of it later.
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