Zombeels Wrote:
Nevermind - A new generation needed their own Sgt Pepper. Yes it was refreshing to hear especially after all that 80's hair metal but the album is not that great.
The Bends - Great album. If you don't like Fake Plastic trees then I suggest you see a doctor.
Blood On The Tracks - Dylan comes back to form on this one. Personally his voice still irritates me but he makes up for it.
Doolittle - I don't get the hype over the Pixies. Really I don't.
I think I might be the anti-Zombeels, which may explain why I find the Zombies and the Eels so excruciatingly meh.
Of course,
The Bends is rotten, empty gesture on top of empty gesture. The sort of bogus manufactured melancholy that taught Coldplay how to get rich. I keep a copy of this just to remind myself how correct I am.
Doolittle is way too high on this list, but whatthefuck. It's the sound of the Pixies becoming a band, filled with the same amount of empty gesture as Radiohead but at least at the service of excitement rather than resignation.
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Nevermind is also way too high, but it's undeniable what a fine collection of songs this was. It wasn't on my list even though it could have been. I don't care if it's overplayed, or what weird and trivial personal connections one has to the trend called grunge - this album came out before the wave, it WAS the wave, and it successfully tied together a few score of alt.shit vectors into a single, prickly beast that still sounds right.
Blood On The Tracks... I guess I should listen to this album in its entirety. I've become too suspicious of indie types saying it's the "best Dylan" - that usually spells C - R - A - P.
And I'd personally love it if the Beatles and the Stones rounded out the entire top 20. "Middling Beatles record" = better than your favorite band.