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damn, a record that came out a week ago is your favorite of all time already?
that land of talk record is so good

 

Haha, my list changes quite frequently. But yeah, that record gets better with every listen for me (and trust me, it's been played many times so far).

 

One album per band

 

another interesting thing would be lists by songs

plenty of times I feel an attachment to an album just because it has 3 or so songs that I think are great

the album format is strange and limiting most times and as someone who consumes a whole lot of music, at this point something needs to be really special to get my attention and keep it for months at a time. but a whole album of that? statistics often don't allow for it

 

One album per band is a bit arbitrary imo

 

I only listen to full albums, 90% of the time when I love 2-3 songs, I love the whole album

 

this changes quite often, but the upper tiers are pretty much where they should be:

 

some bands that I never got: Gaslight Anthem, Titus Andronicus, Menzingers, The Wonder Years

 

I'd rather show 50 albums by 50 different bands, I would have probably had all the BN albums, another Menzingers one, another Crime in Stereo, maybe two Thursday ones, etc etc.

 

i'd rather show my fifty favorite albums, since that's the purpose

 

that kinks album is sooooooo good

 

debated between that and village green. ultimately i think the latter has higher peaks but lola is much more consistent

 

I'd agree with that. The run of albums from Face to Face --> Lola is just unreal

 

I don't see how the album format is strange or limiting

 

maybe it's overzealous but most bands can't write an album that's good or interesting all the way through.

being a listener of post modern artists it becomes interesting to observe the dichotomy of composers releasing singular movements vs rock bands releasing 10 tracks every 2 years. Similarly, as you know, artists like Future, Drake, and Rihanna also have more interesting less standard models.

 

I mean numerically speaking I guess "most" bands can't write a perfect album, but there are more than 50 out there that qualify as "good" or "interesting". Plus, subjectivity and all

 

This makes sense.

 

It's definitely a little off but I don't think it's a bad indication of what I love.

 

Yo this list is fiiiiiiiiiire

 

ikr

 

I don't agree

 

That's ok. That post was really just born out of realizing that I sometimes personally think fondly of an album just for having 3-4 or so tracks that I find great or influential and that that feels weird to realize. maybe because it's weird for me to reconcile that along side, by the same criteria, albums that are cool through and through but aren't fresh or transcendent. I cold surely list enough albums I enjoy through and through to fill up something like this but I would maintain that it can be limiting in the sort of way that I've (tried) to explain

 

If I'm being honest hahahaha

 

jesus dude lol