Soap Box

Alright, a few weeks ago, the ten best albums of the past twenty years as decided by Spin magazine were announced.  Yes, yes, I know...sure, all of them are seminal albums in certain genres....but some of them are dated and when i look at this list, I only get really excited about a handful of them.   I guess everyone has their own choices, but you know that these were all picked by mid 30's editors that listened to this stuff in college.

 

the spin list:

1 Radiohead - OK Computer

2 Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back

3 Nirvana - Nevermind

4 Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted

5 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

6 Pixies - Surfer Rosa

7 De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising

8 Prince - Sign O' The Times

9 PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me

10 NWA - Straight Outta Compton

 

The MSNBC list in response to the spin article actually has alot more interesting picks (please don't ever tell anyone that i agree with MSNBC's picks for anything).

 

1) Public Enemy - fear of a black planet

2) Indigo girls- s/t

3) Joshua Tree - U2

4) Graceland - Paul Simon

5) Pearljam - Ten

6) Unplugged Nirvana - Nirvana

7) Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

8) Harvest Moon - Neil Young

9) American Recordings - Johnny Cash

10) Rattle and Hum - U2

11) 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul

12) Hounds of Hell - Kate Bush

13) OK Computer - Radiohead

14) Exile in Guyville - liz phair

15) Low end theory - tribe

16) fear of fours- lamb

17) Tindersticks - s/t

18 ) Le Tigre - s/t

19) Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol

20) Debut - Bjork

21) If you're feeling sinister - B and S

22) Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab

23) Entroducing - Dj Shadow

about 7 more that i skipped because i didn't like them; get over it.

 

I would have to spend a while thinking about what my top ten would be.  I'm sure I will be doing that for the next 48 hours....great.  Wait...something's different....did I just lose all my street cred cuz I said I liked Graceland?  Dang.