I think I should do this. Fancy joining me?
- Yeah, sounds like a good idea, CCB
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Which list though? (no way am I committing myself to more than 100 albums btw)
- Rolling Stone
- Pitchfork
- Stacker
- Consequence
- Other (suggest below)
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Rolling Stone seems like a classic source for this sort of nonsense? Not that I’ve ever read it.
Yeah I’ve never read Rolling Stone either. I’m erring towards an all-time list rather than a “best of the 21st century” list - I have the greatest number of musical blind spots, the further back I go from c.1995.
Having scrolled through, it’s a mix of
- albums I know and love
- albums I reckon I’d enjoy
- albums I am frankly going to have to sit through (soz, G’n’R)
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Consequence one has System of a Down on it so might well be an elaborate joke
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All of those lists are a) very similar and b) very heavy on serious white man guitar music.
At the risk of sounding the QI klaxon, how about this (have I mentioned how I completely un-ironically love Lulu?)?
I know what you mean about the lists. Part of me wants to work my way through some of the ‘canon’ as there’s loads I’ve never bothered with.
Quietus looks interesting, but I was looking for something spanning a greater period of time than ten years.
Do you have an alternative to the Rolling Stones list that goes back into the 60s/70s?
I listen to an album every day from the 1001 albums… list here: https://1001albumsgenerator.com
It generates one at random for you and you can setup a group on it, leave reviews etc. Good little tool. It also has more recent releases as I think it gets updated periodically so there’s more like 1200 I think? Eg I got Hookworms the other day (
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Am about 200 albums in, in truth there haven’t been many major surprises but it’s definitely good for reappraising some stuff and listening to older records.
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Chaotic answer:
Put all of the lists into a spreadsheet, remove duplicates, select every other one until you get to the number you want.
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NME’s is possibly slightly more varied but is still very, well, NME (ie you’re gonna have to listen to a bunch of Smiths and Oasis):
The Guardian’s is deece for albums of this century:
Just tried Metacritic’s and it seems to suffer from a heavy recency bias unfortunately…
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Radiohead retrospective it is!
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Yeah I like that Guardian one
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If anything, the NME one is more white guitary than RS (which has Drake, Missy Elliott, Erykah Badu, Miles Davis, Sly Stone and Beyoncé in the 100-81 list)
get in, I love owt like this. I know they’re not perfect but I owe a lot to these kinds of lists when I was developing my music taste in my teenage years without many cool friends to recommend stuff.
I did the full 1001 albums one during the pandemic and quite enjoyed it.
happy to go with whatever list we settle on!
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yeah im into this. So long as its a safe space and we can happily deride something as being shit!!
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well up for this, the consequence one looks good for C20th stuff, p4k is good for more recent stuff, and the guardian one looks more varied too
are you thinking one per week?
Shall we say, aim to get through 100 in a year? So roughly 2 per week?
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fwiw - i’d agree that something that covers the whole of time itself rather than just ten years or something would be better, and i had another thought but i’ve forgotten.
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just thinking about listening clubs ive done, the album a week format works best for me coz then it gives space for relistens or if i dont have the headspace to properly listen to summat i can usually find time to have an active listen over the course of a week, plus its nice to be able to have a big chat over the space of that week. whereas if it was two a week i think id be less likely to commit properly 
but yeah, up to you!
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I’d better not go on hiatus for a couple of years then
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