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[Dsal]

I would agree with OK Computer being #1 over the last 10 years. No album since has even come close to its scope and cohesion. But over the last 20... I'd have to think about that one.

That list has a few really uh, interesting, choices for the other 99 though.

 

[Ryck]

This might actually be the first time I've ever agreed with Spin magazine....my head asplodes...

Count me in *asplosion*

 

[Manics]

I have no problem with OK Computer at #1 as I've often tossed in my mind between that and The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers. Which begs the question, where are the Manics? Fuckin Spin magazine.

 

[shantyman]

Nice to see Afghan Whigs on there, even if it just squeaked in at 99 (though Black Love is a much better album than Gentlemen).

It's nice to know there are other Afghan Whigs fans in the world.

 

[shantyman]

Also, The Argument was a much better Fugazi cd than 13 Songs, though 13 Songs was probably more influential.

I like Repeater and Red Medicine. Did you ever seen them live? They are/were incredible live.

 

[Litigation Manuel]

I like Repeater and Red Medicine. Did you ever seen them live? They are/were incredible live.

Repeater's a great one, I'm yet to hear Red Medicine. Unfortunately, I got into them a little late, was unable to see them live. Hopefully they get back together sometime, I'd love to catch a concert. If you like their live performances, you may be interested in the bootlegs they're selling: http://www.fugaziliveseries.com/

 

[distantmantra]

Which begs the question, where are the Manics? Fuckin Spin magazine.

Spin is published in the U.S., which doesn't care about them.

 

[Jonnyboy117]

Time for me to show off how blissfully ignorant I am of modern music. I've bolded the ones I own:

100. Strokes - Is This It
99. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
98. Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time
97. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
96. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash
95. Elastica - s/t
94. Slint - Spiderland
93. Pearl Jam - Ten
92. Big Black - Atomizer
91. XTC - Skylarking
90. Sonic Youth - Sister
89. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
88. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
87. Blur - Parklife
86. Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
85. REM - Automatic For The People
84. Soundgarden - Superunknown
83. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
82. Jeff Buckley - Grace
81. Beck - Mellow Gold
80. D'Angelo - Voodoo
79. Moby - Everything Is Wrong
78. The Stone Roses - s/t
77. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
76. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
75. Le Tigre - s/t
74. Portishead - Dummy
73. Pulp - Different Class
72. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
71. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
70. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
69. DJ Shadow - Entroducing...
68. Tricky - Maxinquaye
67. Slayer - Reign In Blood
66. Outkast - Aquemini
65. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
64. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
63. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
62. Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
61. Weezer - Pinkerton
60. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
59. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
58. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
57. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
56. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
55. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
54. The Breeders - Last Splash
53. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles
52. Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
51. Nirvana - In Utero
50. New Order - Low Life
49. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of...
48. Radiohead - Kid A
47. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
46. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
45. Kanye West - College Dropout
44. Green Day - Dookie
43. B.D.P. - Criminal Minded
42. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
41. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
40. Run D.M.C. - Raising Hell
39. Lucinda Williams - s/t
38. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
37. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
36. Pixies - Doolittle
35. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
34. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
33. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
32. The Replacements - Tim
31. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
30. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
29. Fugazi - 13 Songs
28. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
27. The Cure - The Head On The Door
26. Bjork - Post
25. Nine Ince Nails - The Downward Spiral
24. Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out
23. Outkast - Stankonia
22. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
21. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
20. Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
19. Hole - Live Through This
18. Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
17. Nas - Illmatic
16. Beck - Odelay
15. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
14. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
13. Husker Du - New Day Rising
12. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
11. U2 - Achtung Baby
10. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
9. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
8. Prince - Sign O The Times
7. De La Soul - 3 Ft. High And Rising
6. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
5. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
4. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation...
1. Radiohead - OK Computer

2/100 lololol
And the only one I actually bought was Grace...a friend copied OK Computer for me. I could have copied The Queen is Dead, but I only liked a couple of songs on it.

 

[Star Power]

That's quite sad. Get cracking, young'n.

 

[White Man]

Also, The Argument was a much better Fugazi cd than 13 Songs, though 13 Songs was probably more influential.

I'm as big a Fugazi fan as they come, and I agree with you here. Fuck, 13 Songs is a compilation, not an album. Even if it were an album, Repeater and In on the Kill Taker are better records.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

I don't really care for Neutral Milk Hotel, really. I've never understood why people are so in love with that album. I sort of like the songs on the first album more.

 

[Outdoor Miner]

I don't really care for Neutral Milk Hotel, really. I've never understood why people are so in love with that album. I sort of like the songs on the first album more.

Bell! WTF is SFA? Sub-question: Which SFA album should've made the cut (only 1)?

Given the albums they're picking for other artists, I'd have to go with Radiator myself.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

Yeah, Radiator is the one almost everyone loves.

Unfortunately, SFA has no cultural relevance, so they can't really go on a list like that. You know how they'd place with me, though.

It's a crime, really. At least Parklife is on there.

 

[WrathOfOtaibah]

Joshua Tree came out in 1983 didn't it? If so, that was more than 20 years.

 

[Koopa]

Pavement - SM on vocals and Guitar. Where as Spiral Staricase on Guitar and Vocals, haaa haaa... Gary Young on drums, vodka and the complete history of yes. Bob N. on firm handshake, percussion and backing vocals. This is the work without there promotions, nothing to do with me by the way. Mark Ibold on bass and dustdevil. And apparently Gary insists that he here these programs in a bar in Stockton California, well after Glastenbury I can beleave anything! :lol :lol :lol

Pull out the plugs
and they snort up the drugs
when they pull out the plugs
they snort up the drugs
there throats are filled with.....

Decouvert De Soleil vs. Carl the Clod - Round 1, live at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles, California, June 14, 2005

 

[strikeselect]

I like how they left Michael Jackson COMPLETELY off the list because of his trial.

Yeah, great "list".

 

[silver]

Where is Michael Jackson? Where is Mellon Collie?

This list sucks.

And :lol @ Pavement on #4.

 

[Koopa]

I dunno about mellon collie, but the infinate sadness got the shaft...

More as the years go by, im convinced that "Soiled Little Filly" is about the Smashing Pumpkins.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

I like how they left Michael Jackson COMPLETELY off the list because of his trial.

Yeah, great "list".

Yes, they left Michael Jackson off the list because of his trial. That was actually the opening sentence of the feature: We left Michael Jackson off the list because of the trial.

 

[Shinobi]

Joshua Tree came out in 1983 didn't it? If so, that was more than 20 years.

It came out in 1987...leaving that album off means the entire list is bullshit.

 

[strikeselect]

Yes, they left Michael Jackson off the list because of his trial. That was actually the opening sentence of the feature: We left Michael Jackson off the list because of the trial.

:rolleyes, it's quite obvious they left him off the list because of his trial and the controversy surrounding him

MJ not even breaking the Top 100? :lol

 

[teruterubozu]

SPIN MAGAZINE = Super White Boy Music Magazine

Ice Cube and Public Enemy here and there - but wow talk about midwestern whiteboy tunes man...

Cleveland Rocks dude!

 

[Manics]

:rolleyes, it's quite obvious they left him off the list because of his trial and the controversy surrounding him

MJ not even breaking the Top 100? :lol

Yeah so what MJ CD's are some of the best in the last 20 years? Bad? Dangerous? Invincible? :lol

 

[strikeselect]

Yeah so what MJ CD's are some of the best in the last 20 years? Bad? Dangerous? Invincible? :lol

Certainly better than Kanye West and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs IMO

 

[Manics]

Certainly better than Kanye West and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs IMO

Well I agree alot of the list is total garbage, but I don't include MJ's post-Thriller career as anything to rank him as his self proclaimed "King of Pop" moniker by any stretch. The fact that his lastest works are left off the list doesn't dimish the list by any means for me. Someone pointed out The Joshua Tree isn't on there--that makes the list totally bullshit.

 

[teruterubozu]

oops my bad... moi tres stupid...

Yes, Joshua Tree won a Grammy in 1987. Besides - Achtung Baby is pure crap.

 

[nitewulf]

no disintegration, no slowdive album, nothing by the london suede and when you start thinking about non-english stuff like manu chao...this is a bullshit list.
these american pop magazine lists are always so english centered, most far they'll go is to include some british bands, and thats about it. sucks.

 

[Odnetnin]

OK Computer is great if you like migraines.


just cause its brit and technogloomwhinge.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

I personally don't care for Radiohead or OK Computer anymore, but I think it's the perfect choice for #1. There's not a more daring album that's as loved and as successful than it.

 

[Manics]

I personally don't care for Radiohead or OK Computer anymore, but I think it's the perfect choice for #1. There's not a more daring album that's as loved and as successful than it.

What about us Spin?

 

[soakrates]

I like a lot from that list, but as a metal dork I've gotta give kudos to Spin for recognizing "Reign in Blood" and "Master of Puppets." I think Pantera's "Cowboys From Hell" or perhaps "Vulgar Display of Power" could have gone on there as well, though.

There are several albums I'd personally rate higher, of course, but they weren't as influential.

 

[White Man]

Where's Emergency and I?

 

[nitewulf]

OK Computer is great if you like migraines.


just cause its brit and technogloomwhinge.

y hallo thar

i think you are in the wrong forum.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

fun thread.

 

[BobbyRobby]

Damn, music has really sucked for the last 20 years, compared to the previous 20 years.

 

[Manics]

I like a lot from that list, but as a metal dork I've gotta give kudos to Spin for recognizing "Reign in Blood" and "Master of Puppets."

It should be me!

 

[Jonnyboy117]

That's quite sad. Get cracking, young'n.

It's more that I'm too old, or my tastes are too old. Most of my favorite music was made in the 60s-70s. Most of the modern music I enjoy isn't mainstream enough to get mentioned in a mag like Spin, nor is it generally the kind of music that comes across well in the studio-produced album format.

 

[kablooey]

Where's Emergency and I?

Good question.

 

[soakrates]

It should be me!

Rust In Peace > Anything Metallica ever put out, if'n ya ask me.

 

[Star Power]

Slowdive sucks anyway. Souvlaki is the most boring album ever... really, shoegazer was such a singles genre. "Sunshine Smile," "Alisson," "Cloudless," "Leave Them All Behind," etc... if only the respective albums lived up to those songs. Loveless truly is leagues above alll of the other shoegaze stuff.


But yesm there are tons of glaring omissions, I agree. But eh, what did you expect.


But they were so obviously trying to be controversial by picking that Cure album over, say, Kiss Me or Disintegration.

 

[nitewulf]

Slowodive sucks anyway.

if there was ever anything good i said about your taste, i take it back.

also check out "bethany curve", though i get the feeling you will sum up their music as "this sucks".

 

[Star Power]

if there was ever anything good i said about your taste, i take it back.

uh... alright..

also check out "bethany curve"

will do...

, though i get the feeling you will sum up their music as "this sucks".

how do you figure? :lol I like quite a bit of shoegaze. Perhaps "sucks" wasn't the right word, but I honestly can't sit through Souvlaki. It's quite overlong and draining. "Souvlaki Space Station," "40 Days," and the aforementioned "Alissson" are excellent though..

 

[Outdoor Miner]

Slowdive sucks anyway.

Oh no you didn't!

 

[enjoy bell woods]

I like Slowdive. That two-disc comp, Catch the Breeze, is pretty cool.

 

[nitewulf]

I honestly can't sit through i]Souvlaki[/i].

yeah...thats uh...the wrong way to go about listening to shoegazer music.
why, pray tell, are you trying to sit through souvlaki?
this stuff is supposed to seep into you, let the music surround you...dont try to analyze it. thats ridiculous.

 

[Virgin Wii]

You know something's wrong with this list when a single artist appears multiple times. And this has several artists appearing multiple times.

 

[sans_pants]

im glad they put stankonia over aquemini


sike

 

[Sullichin]

Hmm.. I don't know. I think The Bends and Kid A are better than Ok Computer. OKC is overrated IMO. Weezer's blue needs to be on there and the downward spiral #1

 

[Star Power]

yeah...thats uh...the wrong way to go about listening to shoegazer music.
why, pray tell, are you trying to sit through souvlaki?
this stuff is supposed to seep into you, let the music surround you...dont try to analyze it. thats ridiculous.

I meant I can't get through it in one listen. It just isn't a very compelling album, and it sort of goes on and on... whereas Loveless is absolutely spellbounding.. when I listen to Loveless it's like one long hypnotic drone that guys evelops me and tickles my senses for 50 minutes or however long it is. Souvlaki doesn't do that. I'd much rather listen to a Cocteau Twins record if I wanted that airy, atmospheric stuff.

 

[Fatalah]

these clearly are the albums that make the largest amount of hipsters go nuts. thats how they ranked em