| Author | Message | ||
     Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 384 Registered: 05-2005 |
O.k. So we've seen the rest of you talk about the Guardian and all of those other Pommy papers! Here's one poll from the Age (biggest paper in Melbourne) and 16 Lovers Lane appears. Sadly, I can't easily get the paper here in Wollongong and I can't see any Church  http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/bmus icb-are-these-australias-top-50-albums-e ver/2008/06/26/1214073416496.html?page=f ullpage#contentSwap7 | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2138 Registered: 05-2005 |
16LL isnt even in this pommys 50 favourite Australian albums. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 469 Registered: 07-2006 |
kev, we're not so shocked. would love to see your list though! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2139 Registered: 05-2005 |
every nick cave and the bad seeds album ,most triffids, the saints first few, all roberts solo albums, all go betweens albums up to 16ll, most chills albums - and thats just off the top of my head! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2140 Registered: 05-2005 |
do i get the chills on a technicality? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 325 Registered: 01-2007 |
Without being too rude but INXS at 8 Midnight oil this is a bit like out lists a load of old B+~@*cks,if this was the best Australia had to offer I'd be seriously depressed-but it isn't | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2490 Registered: 05-2005 |
well at least gb's and saints get a mention, at the end of the day who gives a flyin one about lists, they are just, well, er, lists... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1202 Registered: 01-2005 |
If you want a real yuck, Entertainment just came out with their Top 100 lists of the last 25 years. One album fluke Lauren Hill was #2 on the music list. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 470 Registered: 07-2006 |
sounds good to me kev, though 16LL would get a nod on mine...none of them that followed it though. i was actually pleasantly surprised with the age's list...i was expecting much much worse. powderfinger, the vines, (excessive) silverchair, etc. the oils never did much for me, but i think 10-1 and diesel & dust definitely have their place. michael - i still can't believe the acclaim that drone lauren hill gets. of the millions of people that bought that vomit-worthy record, i'd estimate maybe seven of them are still listening to it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1203 Registered: 01-2005 |
Joe, Yep you nailed it on the head regarding Lauren Hill. I heard a couple of the songs from that album when it was popular, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why it everyone was praising it so much. The credibility of that LH album should rank no higher than the big selling Hootie and the Blowfish and Spin Doctors albums. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1672 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yeah, what Spence said. Not having a more even distribution of 1960s records just shows the youth of the judges. Or their ignorance of their own musical legacy. They list the Easybeats' first album but that's actually the band's second-weakest album. The real contenders are "Volume 3," "Good Friday" which undoubtedly belongs in a high slot on the list, and "Vigil." I would include the last of the Bee Gees' actual Australian albums, "Monday's Rain" aka "Spicks and Specks." It was cheaply recorded but offers a remarkable string of Gibb originals start to finish and has a good all-of-a-piece feel to it. I would include Bobby & Laurie's first album, "I Belong to You." I'm glad they thought to include a Masters Apprentices album even if they bypassed the earlier things done by the original more punky band. Unfortunately the earlier MA were more of a singles band. Including none of the Augie March albums is very surprising. They are one of the most album-oriented of modern bands. There are actually still a decent number of artists on here that I haven't yet heard. I'll be checking some of them out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2159 Registered: 05-2005 |
I found that people who liked (and, god help them, loved) Lauren Hill fell into two categories: 1 People who buy five CDs a year. 2 People who once had a good taste in music but who by then were so far removed from any desire to put some thought into their listening that they bought into the crap that Ms Hill was anything other than a talentless charlatan, related by marriage to the equally talentless Fugees. |