Apple Music reveals its 100 best albums of all time

[DownOnRodeo]

Originally Posted by Villavic

By the way, who is Lauryn Hill?

She did a cover of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly.
Don't ask me who Frank Ocean is.

[Villavic]

There are 34 names I hadn't heard in my whole life. There are others whose music I haven't heard, but at least I know they exist. Am I getting older?

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Villavic

There are 34 names I hadn't heard in my whole life. There are others whose music I haven't heard, but at least I know they exist. Am I getting older?

Well, at your age, pops, I think you just like starting new threads.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Well, at your age, pops, I think you just like starting new threads.

Or resurrect others.

Actually I don't listen radio (including Spotify or any aired or online music) since circa 2008. There are few specific "recent" artists like Bruno Mars or Daft Punk (some songs) that caught my attention when I heard them in tv shows or movies, but they are just a few. My 5907 songs in my private storage are enough to enjoy.

But I admit those lists like this catch my attention just for fun, I never take them that seriously.

[FuzzyPlum]

Nearly all of these are famous. No idea who Burial or Solange are.
A decent collective list, but a curious order.
Lauren Hill at #1? Wtf? Based on what?
(She was in the Fugees)

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Nearly all of these are famous. No idea who Burial or Solange are.
A decent collective list, but a curious order.
Lauren Hill at #1? Wtf? Based on what?
(She was in the Fugees)

Yeah, this is someone's PERSONAL list of favorites.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by Villavic

There are 34 names I hadn't heard in my whole life. There are others whose music I haven't heard, but at least I know they exist. Am I getting older?

Read the book!

[Villavic]

Feeling angry about Apple’s ranking of the 100 best albums of all time, are you? Good. That’s exactly how you’re supposed to feel.

Yes, Apple’s 100 Best Albums List Is Ridiculous and Exists Almost Expressly to Make You Mad

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Feeling angry about Apple’s ranking of the 100 best albums of all time, are you? Good. That’s exactly how you’re supposed to feel.

Yes, Apple’s 100 Best Albums List Is Ridiculous and Exists Almost Expressly to Make You Mad

You know, I have no regrets that I've never never given a flying fukc about what other people like.

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

You know, I have no regrets that I've never never given a flying fukc about what other people like.

Some people like Stevie Nicks

[David]

I don’t mind a list of personal favorites from someone-or-other. In fact, I love the window into someone’s soul.

It’s the dishonesty I don’t like — dishonesty in the name of ecumenicism or inclusion or whatever is driving this person to want to be falsely applauded for being a jazz listener. It’s quite obvious that this person is not a jazz listener and is only pretending to be one. The whole list has TWO jazz standards — Miles Davis Kind of Blue and Coltrane A Love Supreme, and they seem arbitrarily (or maybe strategically) listed at 25 and 54, respectively. Anybody who likes and knows jazz enough to add jazz to a list that is almost entirely pop and rock would do one of two things:

— Either put a more cutting-edge critical and popular Miles Davis favorite in place of Kind of Blue, like Bitches Brew (which had a far greater influence on rock) or Birth of the Cool

— Or throw in additional great jazz albums that had every bit the influence on the culture that these two albums did, just to sort of balance out the list or make the statement that a true jazz aficionado would make: “Jazz played a much bigger role in music during this same time period than the list indicates” — Mingus Ah Um, Rollins The Bridge, Ellington at Newport, Oscar Peterson Trio Night Train, Amazing Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon Go, Gillespie Afro, etc.

If you’re going to throw in two jazz albums out of 100 to tell the world that you’re a cool dude, either beef it up to a perfectly reasonable eight or ten albums or substitute an album that has more oomph than Kind of Blue (the Rumours of the jazz catalogue — mainstream, safe, sweet, huge seller).

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Some people like Stevie Nicks

Her mother's dead.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Some people like Stevie Nicks

A lotta lotta people adore her. That's just a fact.