Pitchfork Media top 100 albums of the 70's

mugwump67 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:23 pm

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36725-staff-list-top-100-albums-of-the-1970s

I downloaded torrents from demonoid yesterday containing all of the albums on this list. (It came in 3 parts, so 3 torrents). I've already got a bunch of these, but there are quite a few I've never listened to.

Its an interesting list, with a much more alternative bent to it than most top 100 lists I've seen. I think it is a pretty comprehensive addition to any music library.

What do you think?

long gone · **Joined:** Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:53 pm **Posts:** 3262

Edit- Oh forget it.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:07 pm

Yeah, pretty sure this was discussed ad nauseaum when it came out 3 years ago.

That being said, while it piqued my interest on a few albums, the fact that there is only 1 Ramones album in the top 50 and NONE in the top 20 makes their list LAUGHABLE.

Then again, #1 was Bowie's "Low".

TheTheory · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:10 pm

and nothing from The Residents? wack.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

There are good albums on there for sure but the rankings suck and there are a helluva lot of omissions, too much Zeppelin, and too much prog.

I also don't get all the kraftwerk love.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:12 pm

I somehow repressed the experience of listening to Tim Buckley's 'Starsailor' earlier this year. Looking at that list brought it all back.

One of the single worst albums I have ever heard.

tentoze · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:22 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

I somehow repressed the experience of listening to Tim Buckley's 'Starsailor' earlier this year. Looking at that list brought it all back.

One of the single worst albums I have ever heard.

Never made it all the way through that one either. Some of the stuff on that list I never even heard OF, and I was around for all of it, aware of at least MOST.

nobody · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:40 pm

I can't believe I even clicked on that much read through as much as I did.

Revisionist idiots. So much screwed up on that list I can't even begin to start.

PS - I wish people would stop seeding such giant torrents on Demonoid. I've seen a lot of discographies and the like lately. I hate having to download a packet with like a dozen albums just to get the one on there I want.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

nobody Wrote:

Revisionist idiots. So much screwed up on that list I can't even begin to start.

how can people born in the 80's be revisionist with their opinion of 70's music?

nobody · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:08 pm

re·vi·sion·ism
Advocacy of the revision of an accepted, usually long-standing view, theory, or doctrine, especially a revision of historical events and movements.

You know....like acting as if the Sex Pistols can't even make the top 50 of a best of the 70s list...or acting like Micheal Jackson's Off The Wall deserves more recognition than Marvin Gaye's What's Going On...

Being born in the 80s has nothing to do with it. They may be young idiots, but they are still idiots trying to remake the past to fit their present.

mugwump67 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:50 pm

nobody Wrote:

PS - I wish people would stop seeding such giant torrents on Demonoid. I've seen a lot of discographies and the like lately. I hate having to download a packet with like a dozen albums just to get the one on there I want.

Actually, I like the discographies better, but I've got a lot of disk space. And....in azureus you can go into the torrent and pick and choose which files you want, you can probably do it in utorrent as well, but I don't use it, so don't know for sure.

I know the list is missing a lot of stuff, but I like it because it has a lot of stuff on it that I never listened to. I also like the fact that it doesn't focus on Boston, BTO, and nameless other guitar bands from the era.

splates · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:07 pm

TheTheory Wrote:

and nothing from The Residents? wack.

this was easily the best part

shitty, pretentious band for shitty, pretentious college students to listen to and feel superior

splates · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:07 pm

anyway, wtf its 2007 why is this list on the front page

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

MOD THAT SHIT

nickisnotdead · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:18 am **Posts:** 706

Where's Judas Priest's "Unleashed In The East" or The Allman Brothers Band's "Brothers and Sisters," or "Eat A Peach"

harry · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:21 am

nobody Wrote:

Revisionist idiots. So much screwed up on that list I can't even begin to start.

funny... I thought an interesting filter of the list was it seemed to be compiled by an "informed" sensibility of the time... not looking back and tracing lasting influences etc. I rambled on here before about my ideas of zeitgeist and attachment to popular music. This seems a list of the 70's, made by the 70's.

I have 51 of 100. A strong tep ten I thought. Eno rules. Trans Europe Express in its time and context was watershed.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:36 am

nobody Wrote:

re·vi·sion·ism
Advocacy of the revision of an accepted, usually long-standing view, theory, or doctrine, especially a revision of historical events and movements.

You know....like acting as if the Sex Pistols can't even make the top 50 of a best of the 70s list...or acting like Micheal Jackson's Off The Wall deserves more recognition than Marvin Gaye's What's Going On...

Being born in the 80s has nothing to do with it. They may be young idiots, but they are still idiots trying to remake the past to fit their present.

You know, to make these lists, each individual writer just made a list of their favorites from the period, and the final list is just a composite of those.

Should they each have said "Well, I like Gang of Four a shitload more than the Sex Pistols, but I'd better rank the Sex Pistols higher anyway according to the 'accepted, long-standing view' of our critical forefathers"?

nickisnotdead · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:18 am **Posts:** 706

Did they put any Yes in there? I've got Close to the Edge, The Yes Album, and Fragile all in my top 100 of the 70's.

nickisnotdead · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:18 am **Posts:** 706

Also in my top 100, at least the first 4 Sabbath albums.

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:20 am

nickisnotdead Wrote:

Where's Judas Priest's "Unleashed In The East"...

I'm sure you meant Sad Wings Of Destiny or Stained Class, or perhaps even Sin After Sin...

Sketch · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:27 am

splates Wrote:

anyway, wtf its 2007 why is this list on the front page

'Cause Mike just found the torrent. Relax, boss.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:54 am

Sketch Wrote:

splates Wrote:

anyway, wtf its 2007 why is this list on the front page

'Cause Mike just found the torrent. Relax, boss.

So, mugwump67 is your brother, no? Thought so.

Sketch · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:55 am

Indeedy.

Dalen · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:59 am

mugwump, chk yer pm's

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