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this would also take a long time to organize, unless you already have all your albums in some sort of database and can sort them by release date.

what? everyone doesn't already have their music collection sorted by release date and maybe even date of purchase?


No.

But I think many of us (more by accident than anything) can now approximate it by just resorting our iTunes library.


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Are going to post about all 400 of them? Just curious...


We'll see.

It's very likely that I'll post about five or six then give up. But the intention is for each.

It's gonna be hard to maintain the high degree of insight you achieved with that first one.


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(is this going to be "rock" only?)


I don't own many non-rock/pop albums but I do have a few jazz and some country and hip-hop. Those'll be included.


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002. Elvis Presley - Elvis (1956)

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The thing that strikes me the most about this album is the inconsistency in the tracklisting. The album opens with 'Rip It Up', a great, rocking, rolling number. Track two is 'Love Me', a slow ballad with chessy back-up singers that sounds like it could have been released by any other '50s artist (with the exception of The King's vocals, of course).

The whole album is like that. Back and forth between rocking and soulful and occasionally finding some middle ground. So it detracts. And it's still hard for me to listen to most of it without thinking of it as a stepping stone toward his later work.


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as kids my sister and i tried to play canasta to 1,000,000. we got into the 300,000's.
same thing. are you grounded too?

and for the record no one sings rip it up like little richard.


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Other note: the more I listen to Elvis, the more it makes me want to listen to the Smiths.


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the more you listen to music about having and wanting sex, the more it makes you want to listen to music about not wanting sex?

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the more you listen to music about having and wanting sex, the more it makes you want to listen to music about not wanting sex?


Not so much. It's mostly the fact that Morrissey borrowed Elvis' vocal style and delivery so completely.


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003. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (1959)

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Probably my favorite jazz album ever. Also probably the first album to make me realise that songs without vocals can still be interesting and feel complete. Up to this point, I disliked all instrumental music because it felt only half-finished.

Aside from the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, this was the first jazz album I purchased and I've been glad of that ever since.


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004. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out (1961)

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Another decent jazz record. Continued my admiration of Brubeck. Let me know that Time Out wasn't a one-off, that this guy had a large body of work that I should look into.


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I don't think I've ever heard any other Brubeck besides Time Out. Maybe I should look into that.


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005. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)

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Up to this point, I was skeptical of Bobby. Yeah, I heard good things. Yeah, I heard him praised and worshipped at Beatle-esque levels. But the only songs I knew were the two they played on my dad's classic rock radio station -- Blowin' In The Wind and Like A Rolling Stone. Good, yeah. But hardly enough to make a strong case for me one way or the other.

I'm not a classic rock person. A lot of music made prior to my birth goes right over my head. This includes, but is not limited to, hair metal, new wave, southern rock, '50s pop, and that '70s music where the guys play half hour solos and they all have big hair and tight pants.

For one reason or another (probably my burgeoning desire to at least sample every single artist who's ever recorded a note) I decided to delve into the Dylan. I read that his first album wasn't that good but his second one, a disc called Freewheelin', was supposed to be. Plus, it had that "how many roads must a man walk down?" song on it.

I found it new, remastered, fairly cheap at a record shop in the mall and bought it.

This wasn't the Beatles. This wasn't Led Zeppelin. This wasn't any of that overblown, ridiculously worshipped, pre-1980 classic rock. This guy deserved the hype.

No one can deny the greatness of "Girl From The North Country". No one can listen to "Don't Think Twice, It's Allright" and think "ehhh." This is just an incredible album. Forty-three years later and it's still just an incredible album.


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I don't think I've ever heard any other Brubeck besides Time Out. Maybe I should look into that.


He turned Time Out into a kind of series.

There's Time Further Out, Time In Space, and some others.

I've only heard TFO but it's almost as good as the original.


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I did it alphabetical one year. It was worthwhile because it shattered the whole choosing-by-mood thing.


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I did it alphabetical one year. It was worthwhile because it shattered the whole choosing-by-mood thing.


I did that previously. Alphabetical by album title. I couldn't do it by artist because sometimes I just don't feel like listening to six Counting Crows albums in a row.


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006. Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964)

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My love affair with the music of Vince Guaraldi did not start through the Peanuts television specials. It started with the soundtrack album to A Charlie Brown Christmas. But that will be discussed more later.

After falling for Guaraldi's Peanuts scores, I started looking into the back catalogue and discovered that it started with A Boy Named Charlie Brown. I bought the remastered cd with a bonus track and love it.

The contrasts between Guaraldi and Brubeck can be made and are numerous. Considering they're my two favorite jazz artists and the two albums each I own by them were released all around the same time is interesting.

I didn't move from the Peanuts specials to Guaraldi's albums. They were two separate paths that converged down the road. I can continue to love them both individually but every track on this album conjures up a specific scene from a specific special and it makes it that much better.


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Thread is delivering.

Somebody start an office pool for when alongwaltz gives up. I say this thread lasts longer than the reincarnation of Hip Displeasure.


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004. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out (1961)

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Another decent jazz record. Continued my admiration of Brubeck. Let me know that Time Out wasn't a one-off, that this guy had a large body of work that I should look into.


are those Miró paintings?

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006. Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964)

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My love affair with the music of Vince Guaraldi did not start through the Peanuts television specials. It started with the soundtrack album to A Charlie Brown Christmas. But that will be discussed more later.

After falling for Guaraldi's Peanuts scores, I started looking into the back catalogue and discovered that it started with A Boy Named Charlie Brown. I bought the remastered cd with a bonus track and love it.

The contrasts between Guaraldi and Brubeck can be made and are numerous. Considering they're my two favorite jazz artists and the two albums each I own by them were released all around the same time is interesting.

I didn't move from the Peanuts specials to Guaraldi's albums. They were two separate paths that converged down the road. I can continue to love them both individually but every track on this album conjures up a specific scene from a specific special and it makes it that much better.


The peanuts christmas album is my all time favorite christmas album.

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The peanuts christmas album is my all time favorite christmas album.


It's number eight on this list. Just wait.


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007. The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hit Makers (1964)

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I was already a fan of the Stones when I finally got around to picking this up. I started buying up any of the SACD-remasters I could find used. This was one of them. Definitely not one of my favorites by them.

The abundance of debut albums filled with nothing but covers always confuses me. Why would a label sign a band, if not because they liked their music? Could a band really get signed today based solely on covers? Would a band today get off with releasing a debut album with only one original track on it? Not likely.

They do cover some of my favorite songs on this -- Not Fade Away, I Just Want To Make Love To You -- but I just don't find much added worth to them. I'd still rather listen to the Buddy Holly version than this one.

The sole original song ('Tell Me') is alright, but nothing spectacular.

Overall a confusing and kind of unnecessary album.


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The abundance of debut albums filled with nothing but covers always confuses me. Why would a label sign a band, if not because they liked their music? Could a band really get signed today based solely on covers?



These guys did.

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Also, I need to buy some Brubeck.

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The abundance of debut albums filled with nothing but covers always confuses me. Why would a label sign a band, if not because they liked their music? Could a band really get signed today based solely on covers?



These guys did.

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