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looks like i'm late to the party on this one, but out of boredom, i'll throw my top 20 out there, which isn't very well thought out. not really in a good order, mostly just what i could think of first. maybe it can be used in the next recount down the line....

 

 

 

1. bob dylan - blonde on blonde

2. my morning jacket - at dawn

3. wilco - summerteeth

4. pink floyd - dark side of the moon

5. bob dylan - blood on the tracks

6. pearl jam - no code

7. broken social scene - you forgot it in people

8. radiohead - ok computer

9. bob dylan - highway 61 revisited

10. wilco - being there

11. my morning jacket - z

12. sonic youth - daydream nation

13. neko case - middle cyclone

14. bob dylan - bringing it all back home

15. bright eyes - i'm wide awake it's morning

16. miles davis - kind of blue

17. the who - tommy

18. wilco - a ghost is born

19. wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot

20. my morning jacket - it still moves

 

21. pearl jam - riot act

22. flaming lips - the soft bulletin

23. queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf

24. oasis - definitely maybe

25. pearl jam - vitalogy

26. the beatles - revolver

27. arcade fire - funeral

28. my morning jacket - the tennessee fire

29. neil young - harvest moon

30. the new pornographers - twin cinema

31. neko case - fox confessor brings the flood

32. neko case - blacklisted

33. broken social scene - broken social scene

34. sonic youth - murray street

35. pearl jam - vs

36. pavement - brighten the corners

37. miles davis - someday my prince will come

38. marvin gaye - what's goin on

39. flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots

40. the beatles - the white album

41. neko case - furnace room lullaby

42. the who - who's next

43. neil young - harvest

44. the pixies - surfa rosa

45. sonic youth - rather ripped

46. kevin drew - spirit if...

47. the beatles - sgt. peppers

48. bob dylan - the freewheelin bob dylan

49. fugees - the score

50. pearl jam - yield

51. the band - the band

52. jimi hendrix - are you experienced

53. rolling stones - exile on main street

54. nick drake - pink moon

55. blind melon - nico

56. radiohead - the bends

57. michael jackson - thriller

58. bob dylan - the times they are a changin

59. dr. dre - the chronic

60. bright eyes - lifted or the story is the soil keep your ear to the ground

61. blind melon - blind melon

62. pearl jam - ten

63. the beatles - rubber soul

64. mgmt - oracular spectacular

65. wilco - sky blue sky

66. drive-by truckers - the dirty south

67. todd rundgren - something anything

68. of montreal - satanic panic in the attic

69. grateful dead - american beauty

70. m. ward - transfiguration of vincent

71. m. ward - post war

72. bob dylan - love and theft

73. janis joplin - pearl

74. pearl jam - binural

74. of montreal - hissing fauna are you the destroyer?

75. the new pornographers - mass romantic

76. phish - story of the ghost

77. the rolling stones - sticky fingers

78. the finn brothers - everyone is here

79. the roots - things fall apart

80. ben harper - diamonds on the inside

81. blind melon - soup

82. bon iver - for emma forever ago

83. yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell

84. the who - quadrophenia

85. the pixies - doolittle

86. radiohead - in rainbows

87. oasis - what's the story morning glory?

88. the beatles - abbey road

89. john lennon - imagine

90. the cure - galore

91. talking heads - speaking in tongues

92. the clash - londons calling

93. echo and the bunnymen - heaven up here

94. wilco - am

95. the white stripes - elephant

96. the strokes - is this it?

97. joy division - unknown pleasures

98. built to spill - you in reverse

99. bob dylan - desire

100. drive-by truckers - decoration day

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TWO Blind Melon records? Please.

 

I'm guessing that Dondante is quite a bit younger than you (or me). To him (her?) that is Classic Rock, of sorts. Hell, it's almost 20 years ago that stuff came out.

 

I'm not much of a fan either. But perspective does shape taste and opinions.

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TWO Blind Melon records? Please.

:nono Hey, everyone gets their own top 100! :lol

 

 

 

looks like i'm late to the party on this one, but out of boredom, i'll throw my top 20 out there, which isn't very well thought out. not really in a good order, mostly just what i could think of first. maybe it can be used in the next recount down the line....

We could do this again this summer, if people are interested. :thumbup

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TWO Blind Melon records? Please.

 

wow! sorry you're not a fan. i was under the impression that we could create our own top 20 to be voted onto a list. didn't know it had to have your stamp of approval. like someone else mentioned, maybe i'm a little younger than you. i'm 25 and i grew up listening to blind melon. like i said though, that list wasn't very well thought out. i left a lot of stuff out and added some stuff just to fill up a top 100, it was just made up on a whim. however, let me correct you, i actually put 3 blind melon records on there, not 2. furthermore, if i could re-create my top 100, it would probably look a lot different, but all 3 blind melon albums would remain present. blind melon is one of the most underrated bands of the past 20 years in my opinion, sorry you don't get it.

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What about top 100 bands?

 

Top 100 songs?

 

top 100 bands would be a cool idea, although, personally i don't think i like that many artists to the extent that i'd want to mention them on a favorites list. top 20 would probably work better. i guess we could create a top 100 out of our top 20's like was done for the albums. that's probably what you meant anyway.

 

100 songs wouldn't work for me, there are too many great songs to cram it into a list. that would take me like 10 years to figure out and by then it would be all wrong. a lot of songs also work better in the context of an album, and wouldn't hold up as well on their own. to use a wilco song as an example, 'reservations' comes to mind. great song and great as a closer for the album, but have you ever tried to throw that on a mix tape? doesn't work out too well....

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:nono Hey, everyone gets their own top 100! :lol

 

 

 

 

We could do this again this summer, if people are interested. :thumbup

 

I'm in... wasn't around last summer.

100 Albums or bands... songs, too hard.

Loved reading the results from last summer & discovered some great new stuff too!

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blind melon is one of the most underrated bands of the past 20 years in my opinion, sorry you don't get it.

 

I have been saying this for years...

 

I am 21 and Soup is one of my all time favorite albums, they would have gone on to do unbelievable things if Shannon Hoon didn't die. :-(

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I like the idea of Top 100 Bands. It still feels kind of too soon to do the albums again (I know it's been a year, but will people's tastes really have changed that much? Will we have enough new entries?). Maybe I'll shoot for Bands in September or so, then the albums again after the first of the year.

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