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Consensus Top 350 Albums of All-Time: 250. Gentlemen – The Afghan Whigs (107 Viewers)

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Much like @Scoresman did with Television shows and horror films and @kupcho1 did with novels and @John Maddens Lunchbox did for U2 songs, I am going to collect a list of each participant's Top 70 albums, and tally up and present the results in a slow roll-out.

My only "rule" is no "greatest hits" compilations. Otherwise no restrictions as to genres or format.

Let's shoot for a deadline for submissions at July 1st.

Playlist:

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FFA's Top 380ish Albums of All Time

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348 (tie). Mott – Mott The Hoople (76 points)
348 (tie). Bad Brains – Bad Brains (76 points)
348 (tie). Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles (76 points)
348 (tie). Jesus Christ Superstar (The Concept Album) - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (76 points)
348 (tie). Breakfast in America – Supertramp (76 points)
343 (tie). I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning – Bright Eyes (77 points)
343 (tie). There’s Nothing Wrong With Love – Built to Spill (77 points)
343 (tie). Night Train – Oscar Peterson Trio (77 points)
343 (tie). A Sailor’s Guide To Earth – Sturgill Simpson (77 points)
343 (tie) The Score – Fugees (77 points)
339 (tie). Evil Empire – Rage Against the Machine (78 points)
339 (tie). Morrison Hotel – The Doors (78 points)
339 (tie). Core – Stone Temple Pilots (78 points)
339 (tie). Being There – Wilco (78 points)
336 (tie). Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not – Artic Monkeys (79 points)
336 (tie). Gimme Fiction – Spoon (79 points)
336 (tie). Alive ! – KISS (79 points)
332 (tie). The Basement Tapes – Bob Dylan and the Band (80 points)
332 (tie). Fear Inoculum – Tool (80 points)
332 (tie). Substance – New Order (80 points)
331. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – Pavement (81 points)
328 (tie). Mezzanine – Massive Attack (82 points)
328 (tie). Faith Hope Love – Kings X (82 points)
328. (tie) Supernatural – Santana (82 points)
326 (tie). You Don’t Mess Around With Jim – Jim Croce (83 points)
326 (tie). John Barleycorn Must Die – Traffic (83 points)
322 (tie). Zoot Suit Riot – Cherry Poppin’ Daddies (85 points)
322 (tie). Kiko - Los Lobos (85 points)
322 (tie). No Jacket Required – Phil Collins (85 points)
322 (tie). Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (85 points)
319 (tie). Korn – Korn (86 points)
319 (tie). Five Leaves Left – Nick Drake (86 points)
319 (tie). Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughn (86 points)
317 (tie). In Utero – Nirvana (88 points)
317 (tie). Songbook – Chris Cornell (87 points)
317 (tie). Bows + Arrows – The Walkman (87 points)
317 (tie). Straight Up – Badfinger (88 points)
312 (tie). Okonokos – My Morning Jacket (89 points)
312 (tie). Smash – The Offspring (89 points)
312 (tie). Saxophone Colossus – Sony Rollins (89 points)
306 (tie). Cold Fact – Rodriguez (90 points)
306 (tie). Up to Here – The Tragically Hip (90 points)
306 (tie). Rock Spectacle – Barenaked Ladies (90 points)
306 (tie). American Woman – The Guess Who (90 points)
306 (tie). Electric – The Cult (90 points)
306 (tie). Hysteria – The Def Leppard (90 points)
303 (tie). Time Out – The Dave Brubeck Quartet (91 points)
303 (tie). Fear of Music – Talking Heads (91 points)
298 (tie). Muswell Hillbillies – The Kinks (92 points)
298 (tie). Live at the Apollo – James Brown and the Fabulous Flames (92 points)
298 (tie). Raising Hell – Run-D.M.C. (92 points)
298 (tie). In The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson (92 points)
298 (tie). August and Everything After – Counting Crows (92 points)
294 (tie). Help – The Beatles (93 points)
294 (tie). Break the Cycle – Staind (93 points)
294 (tie). Fear of a Blank Planet – Porcupine Tree (93 points)
294 (tie). The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails (93 points)
290 (tie). The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place – Explosions In The Sky (94 points)
290 (tie). The Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem (94 points)
290 (tie). Meddle – Pink Floyd (94 points)
290 (tie). Shake Your Money Maker – Black Crowes (94 points)
287 (tie). Morning View – Incubus (95 points)
287 (tie). Talking Book – Stevie Wonder (95 points)
287 (tie). Love at First Sting – The Scorpions (95 points)
285 (tie). Demon Days – Gorillaz (96 points)
285 (tie). Discovery – Daft Punk (96 points)
283 (tie). The Number of the Beast – Iron Maiden (97 points)
283 (tie). The Midnight Organ Fight – Frightened Rabbit (97 points)
279 (tie). O – Damien Rice (98 points)
279 (tie). Tragic Kingdom – No Doubt (98 points)
279 (tie). Powerslave – Iron Maiden (98 points)
279 (tie). Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (98 points)
278. Willy and the Poor Boys – Creedance Clearwater Revival (99 points)
275 (tie). In a Silent Way – Miles Davis (101 points)
275 (tie). Blue – Joni Mitchell (101 points)
275 (tie). MTV Unplugged – 10,000 Maniacs (101 points)
271 (tie). Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill (102 points)
271 (tie). Blow By Blow – Jeff Beck (102 points)
271 (tie). folklore – Taylor Swift (102 points)
271 (tie). Bringing It All Back Home – Bob Dylan (102 points)
267 (tie). In Your Honor – Foo Fighters (103 points)
267 (tie). Highway To Hell – AC/DC (103 points)
267 (tie). Harvest – Neil Young (103 points)
267 (tie). Maggot Brain – Funkadelic (103 points)
262 (tie). It Still Moves – My Morning Jacket (104 points)
262 (tie). Signals – Rush (104 points)
262 (tie). Hollywood Town Hall – The Jayhawks (104 points)
262 (tie). I And Love And You – The Avett Brothers (104 points)
262 (tie). Paralell Lines – Blondie (104 points)
259 (tie). Fantastic Planet – Failure (105 points)
259 (tie). Somewhere in Time – Iron Maiden (105 points)
259 (tie). Murmur – R.E.M. (105 points)
258. Exodus – Bob Marley and the Wailers (106 points)
254 (tie). Somethin’ Else – Cannonball Adderly (107 points)
254 (tie). Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club (107 points)
254 (tie). Slippery When Wet – Bon Jovi (107 points)
254 (tie). War – U2 (107 points)
253. By The Way – Red Hot Chili Peppers (108 points)
250 (tie). Gentlemen – The Afghan Whigs (109 points)
250 (tie). Imagine – John Lennon (109 points)
250 (tie). The Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1 – The Traveling Wilburys (109 points)
 
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Submissions should be formatted as

Album Name - Artist - points


points should be in reverse of the ranking meaning your top album gets 70 points, second favorite 69 points and so on until you're 70th album gets 1 point.

It would be helpful if lists are submitted from a excel spreadsheet - but not necessary.
 
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UncleZen said:
So "live" albums such as "Frampton Comes Alive" or Kiss "Alive" are ok?
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Yes - my preference would be no "greatest hits" live albums but more time and place live albums (like the two you mentioned) but I don't want to deal with minutia and will leave it up to people to self-police on that.
 
Also, this is "albums" as in us older people still call all of the releases "albums" or limited to vinyl only?
 
All right! I'll submit a list, but there will be some pretty big gaps because I don't have an album-aware sense for a lot of the music I listen too, but I do have fond memories of some great ones that I hope to prop up.
 
I think I'll participate but I have a question. Are mono albums acceptable? Or do all submissions need to be stereo recordings?

Also, I don't love the idea of including various artists, but if we do, the only various artist albums that should be allowed are those consisting of songs that only first appeared on that various artists album.
 
kupcho1 said:
I think I'll participate but I have a question. Are mono albums acceptable? Or do all submissions need to be stereo recordings?

Also, I don't love the idea of including various artists, but if we do, the only various artist albums that should be allowed are those consisting of songs that only first appeared on that various artists album.
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Yes, mono albums are acceptable .

I agree and I'm trying to avoid compilations generally - but I'm also not going to over-police it. If people try "work arounds" or want to get cute by including things like "Freedom Rock" - those albums aren't likely to make the top 300 any way.
 
kupcho1 said:
I think I'll participate but I have a question. Are mono albums acceptable? Or do all submissions need to be stereo recordings?

Also, I don't love the idea of including various artists, but if we do, the only various artist albums that should be allowed are those consisting of songs that only first appeared on that various artists album.
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Yeah, that’s all that I had in mind when I was asking the question, similar to the Phil Spector example that I used. Definitely won’t be including something like Time-Life’s Sound of the 80’s, Volume 9 or whatever.
 
krista4 said:
Speaking of monos, I got an email yesterday for a presale of a new edition of the "Beatles in Mono" set that's been out of print for 10+ years. Now the rare edition of it that I own is going to lose its value. :kicksrock: @rockaction
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rockaction

Thread 'Running Mono, Box Set, and other Vinyl Obscuranta—Limited Numbers For Sale At Fine Locations'

This is actually big news for record nerds. The Beatles are re-releasing their 14 LP vinyl mono box set. The last time this was released was either in 2014 or 2009 (I’m not sure which). The individual mono LPs were running $150 floor for the least popular title and I’m pretty sure that’s the lowest of lowball pricing (I made it up). Every time I checked they were $200+ regardless of the record.

Anyway, the pre-order is going on and it’s an eminently reasonable (not necessarily for all of us, but this is a PSA of sorts) price of $545.

It’s a spectacular looking set, and I’ve heard plenty...
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Speaking of monos, I got an email yesterday for a presale of a new edition of the "Beatles in Mono" set that's been out of print for 10+ years. Now the rare edition of it that I own is going to lose its value. :kicksrock: @rockaction
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I thought of you yesterday when I saw it. Did you see the thread I started? I did consider the value hit but for whatever reason didn’t have you caring, which is silly because I care when I take a forty buck hit, never mind what the mono box sets were going for. Sorry, k4, I didn’t even order one and they gone.

Good to see you. I was muzzled for a bit.
 
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krista4 said:
Speaking of monos, I got an email yesterday for a presale of a new edition of the "Beatles in Mono" set that's been out of print for 10+ years. Now the rare edition of it that I own is going to lose its value. :kicksrock: @rockaction
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I thought of you yesterday when I saw it. Did you see the thread I started? I did consider the value hit but for whatever reason didn’t have you caring, which is silly because I care when I take a forty buck hit, never mind what the mono box sets were going for. Sorry, k4, I didn’t even order one and they gone.

Good to see you. I was muzzled for a bit.
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I see now that there was a thread. I wouldn't have posted about it if I had known. Anyway, I would never sell my set, so the value piece really shouldn't matter to me. Glad that you are back!!
 
kupcho1 said:
I think I'll participate but I have a question. Are mono albums acceptable? Or do all submissions need to be stereo recordings?

Also, I don't love the idea of including various artists, but if we do, the only various artist albums that should be allowed are those consisting of songs that only first appeared on that various artists album.
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Scratching Freedom Rock off the list.
 
OK, I did a quick 60 bouncing back and forth between my annual playlists. One thing quickly became clear: I don't really listen to albums anymore and haven't (much) since 2011 when Spotify was available here. That said
  • Oldest album on the list - 1963
  • Newest album on the list - 2013 (although this will be the first tossed overboard if I think of something else; 2009 is a pretty safe best as what I'll submit as newest)
  • 1960s - 5
  • 1970s - 16
  • 1980s - 17
  • 1990s - 7
  • 2000s - 14
  • 2010s - 1 (hanging on by a thread)
I was pretty much checked out in the 90s. I'm surprised I have 7 from that decade.

I'm sure I'll revisit this a couple thousand times between now and Bastille Day.
 
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