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USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

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I can't deal with the blues. I don't know what it is, it just triggers my senses extremely negatively. Just cannot stand it.

Not heard London Calling. If you don't mind my asking, how old are you? If you listen to that, then you need to hear Sandinista. Lot of people complain there's too much filler, a little too full of itself, but I think it's a brilliant piece of work. Especially coming from a so-called "punk" band.

Kinda like Jackson's Off The Wall album. Once he started going crazy, I had no use for him, though I will not say bad things about Billie Jean. But just tired of him.

The one album on that list that I was surprised to see was U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind. Especially as high as it was. An incredibly mediocre album in my opinion, which I bought because it was supposed to be their "comeback". Not a good record.
 
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rufus said:
I can't deal with the blues. I don't know what it is, it just triggers my senses extremely negatively. Just cannot stand it.

Not heard London Calling. If you don't mind my asking, how old are you? If you listen to that, then you need to hear Sandinista. Lot of people complain there's too much filler, a little too full of itself, but I think it's a brilliant piece of work. Especially coming from a so-called "punk" band.

Kinda like Jackson's Off The Wall album. Once he started going crazy, I had no use for him, though I will not say bad things about Billie Jean. But just tired of him.

The one album on that list that I was surprised to see was U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind. Especially as high as it was. An incredibly mediocre album in my opinion, which I bought because it was supposed to be their "comeback". Not a good record.
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33. And it's pretty well-documented around here that I'm not a big fan of more than a handful of older movies. Not sure how that translates to other media. I guess we'll find out. Blue seems to be somewhat polarizing. If you had asked me 10 years ago to listen to Robert Thompson, I would have turned it off 30 seconds in.

U2 is another band I never understood. Maybe because I think Bono is an insufferable hack.

My music tastes have evolved a lot over the years, as I'm guessing many people's tastes do. Before high school I listened to 90s mainstream and grunge. In high school I listened to pop and pop-rock. College was alternative and other non-mainstream (I'm such a cliche). After college there was a lot of newer country mixed in. Eventually I started to rediscover older music as well as modern pop. Which was kind of an interesting experience. I'd listen to acts like Zepplin and follow it up with Taylor Swift. Look no further than my island list from earlier in the thread. I've probably listened to all of these albums at least once in the last year.

dxmnkd316 said:
The Beatles - White Album
Chris Stapleton - Traveller
Eric Church - Mr. Misunderstood
Norah Jones - The Fall
Rilo Kiley - Execution of all Things
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Taylor Swift - 1989
Tedeschi Trucks - Revelator (if only to get Midnight in Harlem)
The Who - Tommy
Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea

I'll be honest though, I don't really care for albums as a whole. I'm fairly picky when it comes to music. There are tons of great albums that I only can find one song that I like.

This list would be drastically different if you ask me next year or even next month. They might not be my favorite albums of all time but each represents a time in my life and often a significant stretch or some event. Since I'm extremely nostalgic I tend to stick with things from my past.
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So that list was from 7/31/2017. If you asked me again today, I would probably bump Church and 1989 off. I'd replace Church with Pet Sounds and I think I'd replace 1989 with Reputation (yeah, yeah, yeah, sue me).

I'm guessing this list is going to get even more jumbled the more I progress through the 500.
 
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Old Michael is awesome. After Thriller, he fell off a bit, then QUITE a bit. Certainly never had a full album's worth of stuff after Thriller.

I think some of those albums carry the weight of what it meant at the time. I LOVE The Ramones, and never expected them to be that high, HOWEVER, that was a major shift in music, that they caused. I think that is why RS ranked them as high as they did. Also see: Nirvana.
 
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rufus said:
I can't deal with the blues. I don't know what it is, it just triggers my senses extremely negatively. Just cannot stand it.

The one album on that list that I was surprised to see was U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind. Especially as high as it was. An incredibly mediocre album in my opinion, which I bought because it was supposed to be their "comeback". Not a good record.
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Probably 75% of the albums on that list are either blues albums, or were heavily, heavily influenced by the blues.

As for the U2 album, I can only surmise that the incredible overplay of Beautiful Day pretty much everywhere on the planet is the cause of that ranking.
 
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Probably 75% of the albums on that list are either blues albums, or were heavily, heavily influenced by the blues.

As for the U2 album, I can only surmise that the incredible overplay of Beautiful Day pretty much everywhere on the planet is the cause of that ranking.
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And why I've got only like 20% of those albums.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
33. And it's pretty well-documented around here that I'm not a big fan of more than a handful of older movies. Not sure how that translates to other media. I guess we'll find out. Blue seems to be somewhat polarizing. If you had asked me 10 years ago to listen to Robert Thompson, I would have turned it off 30 seconds in.

U2 is another band I never understood. Maybe because I think Bono is an insufferable hack.
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Not a huge fan of older movies myself. Some, for sure, but mostly, no.


Wait til you hear Boy. It's hard, cause you don't have the luxury of hearing it in the context of the time period it came out, but oh, boy, what a debut. It's truly sad that they're such a hack outfit now, cause I can't even go back and listen to their older stuff that I loved, cause what they are today has soured me so on them.
 
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I can't deal with the blues. I don't know what it is, it just triggers my senses extremely negatively. Just cannot stand it.
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The blues are very broad and deep. Don't write it all off because you didn't like stuff being called "the blues" played on terrestrial radio.

I love the blues in general but there are entire sectors of the genre that I can't stand.

I defy you to hate ALL of these songs:

Slide, Elmore James: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKo80b-QfK0

Delta, Leadbelly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsfcUZBMSSg

Boogie woogie, Jerry Lee Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwt1MLdO-I

Chicago, Muddy Waters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1gpDcc3FBI&list=PLWCK1JDkC-u_cRmtXSd3-nqYV68XvkSlU&index=19

Texas, Guitar Shorty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPoUmJQgETQ

Southern: Gregg Allman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpIDFiz5SSo&list=PLWCK1JDkC-u_cRmtXSd3-nqYV68XvkSlU&index=9
 
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Nope. Didn't even bother, because I've heard all the styles. Just something visceral about it that just doesn't agree with me. Can enjoy the Allmans, and a lot of the rock based who derive from the blues, and make their own thing from it. But old school, traditional blues is just not for me. Maybe why I never enjoyed Clapton much, either.


Is Guitar Shorty Trombone Shorty's brother?


That said, even I can't fault this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDhR1R3S0s
 
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Ranking of Albums in RS500:

dx - RS -- Album
1..-..2..-..Pet Sounds
2..-..1..-..Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Status: 2 of 500 albums
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Ranking of Albums in RS500:

dx - RS -- Album
1..-..2..-..Pet Sounds
2..-..1..-..Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Status: 2 of 500 albums
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You're going in order beginning with #1?

That seems backward. You'll probably start becoming disinterested as you get into the lower ranked stuff.
 
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I debated it. I have a feeling I’m going to get bored before 500. Maybe not.

Perhaps I should start with 500 :D
 
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Exactly why I can't stand the blues.
 
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Ranking of Albums in RS500:

dx - RS -- Album
1..-..2..-..Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2..-..1..-..The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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538..-..538..-..Public Enemy – Yo! Bum Rush the Show

Status: 3 of 500+38 albums



Note: 38 albums were replaced between the original 2003 list and the 2012 edition. I am counting up from the bottom of those that dropped out.
 
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Ranking of Albums in RS500:

dx - RS -- Album
1..-..2..-..Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2..-..1..-..The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
537..-..537..-..The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - No idea why this was dropped
538..-..538..-..Public Enemy – Yo! Bum Rush the Show

Status: 4 of 500+38 albums

Note: 38 albums were replaced between the original 2003 list and the 2012 edition. I am counting up from the bottom of those that dropped out.
 
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Mellon Collie was a little overrated, although very good. On the flip slide, I think Ava Adore was really underrated.

As for PE, you won't get better than Fear Of A Black Planet and Apocalypse '91: The Enemy Strikes Black. Some serious sh* on those albums, and well-put.
 
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Ranking of Albums in RS500:

dx - RS -- Album
1..-..2..-..Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2..-..1..-..The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
533..-..535..-..Otis Redding - Live in Europe
534..-..534..-..Elton John - Elton John
535..-..537..-..The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
536..-..533..-..Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
537..-..536..-..Merle Haggard - Branded Man
538..-..538..-..Public Enemy – Yo! Bum Rush the Show

Status: 8 of 500+38 albums

Note: 38 albums were replaced between the original 2003 list and the 2012 edition. I am counting up from the bottom of those that dropped out.
 
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I just picked up a copy of Elton John-Elton John today, an original pressing that looked like it was just opened yesterday. The bass on that is just immense.

I wouldn't call it one of the best 500 of all time though. I think that makes the list just on the basis of Your Song.

Also got a first pressing of Quadrophenia, complete with the 44 page booklet, that is just mint. The best album the Who ever made, in my opinion.
 
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