Your All-time Top Ten Albums

Such as?

 

I don't think that has much to do with it at all ...

 

Maybe not the 'decline' in musical standards per sé but it's definitely a reason for why music is nowhere near as important for kids as it was 1963-1983.

Also, 'Globalization' is a factor...

 

So it was killed in the 80's? Is that what the book says?

 

Nah, he´s a bit off with his generalization there.

My reasoning is superior....

 

No you stupid, simple minded, binary fuck

First read everything I typed in this topic

Second, read the book yourself

 

I bought a big book on UK music associated youth cultures recently (written/published recently), and it charted from the post war years to....the late 80s. He insisted there hadn't been one since rave 30 years ago.

I think you could make a case for d&b and grime, tbf

 

Grime is definitely a scene or culture, however you want to label it, you could say garage as well though to be fair as grime formed as a harsher off-shoot of that. DnB too but it was more fractured, lots of little sub-genres within it.

 

Does anybody actually listen to entire albums anymore? With music becoming digital, listening to an entire release from beginning track to end track doesn't seem likely anymore.


TFK

 

Seems a shame.

 

I don't disagree.

TFK

 

I listen to albums often

 

This is a difficult undertaking - to pick 10 albums.

 

Nothing like a great album ... I think part of the problem is that when vinyl or even cassettes were the thing, you had to really think about sequence and how the whole thing flowed... When CDs were introduced, artists still thought in terms of the two sided record but over time as more and more listeners who never had to contend with LP or cassette and the more cumbersome method of trying to switch between tracks became accustomed to the simplicity of doing so with CDs and later MP3, the need to carefully consider track order or any type of unifying principle disappeared... The industry has sort of done a 360... right up to the late 60s, singles were king ... then for decades the trend was an increase in album sales while sales of singles declined... now singles are huge again

 

I can't do it ... it's impossible

 

It's a good, valid point...

 

Magus, sign up for RateYourMusic.com ... think you'd enjoy it

 

I've seen it - it looks pretty concise!

 

No particular order:

Saturday Night Fever soundtrack

Willie Colon & Ruben Blades: Canciones del Solar De los Aburridos

Stryper - "To Hell With The Devil"

Curtis Mayfield -"Super Fly"

James Brown -"The Payback"

The Isley Brothers Greatest Hits (the original from 1975)

Santana "Abraxas"

Keith Green "No Compromise"

Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz "Viven"

Xanadu soundtrack

 

Three of those are compilations Panchy....remove and replace.

 

And one of them is Stryper

Remove and replace

 

I think we can give him a pass being as he's religious an all....but the Devil always had the best tunes. ...

 

Fuck that ... it's not like there hasn't been great music with a religious bent

Tons of Gospel and Bluegrass

 

TFK

 

Screw both of you. The thread is not about the consensus 10 greatest albums ever, but your all time FAVORITE albums. If anyone chooses 10 albums of Cheech & Chong comedy skits is their freaking choice, not yours.

 

You don't like Stryper, you cunt

You're just trying to play up your born-again horseshit

 

Exactly.
Panchy you'e lying yet again - you'd never even heard of Striper until some equally fucked-up-Im-missing-something-in-later-life-religious-kiddie-fiddler told you about some dogshit-God-band called Stryipper one morning at the acoustic-guitar/goatee-beard/sandals-and-socks club at fucking church.