“One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately.” With explanations for why you should remove them. From Jaguaro.org.
A cursory glance at the titles suggests that the compiler of this list is a know-nothing bastard. Either that, or that I’m so uncool that I may as well take to calling people “sport” and wearing socks with pastel-colored shorts and open-toed sandals. Sport.
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I’m with you, Jeff. At first glance, I own at least four of those—And I’m not throwing them away, no matter what some dork with a website says.
I only have 4 of the albums on the list, although I have a number of other albums by some of the artists listed. And I’m not tossing those 4 albums. I don’t care if it makes me uncool, I like to listen to ‘em. Hell, I listen to klezmer music, bagpipes, and English madrigals, too, which apparently makes me wildly uncool, but I like it, so who the heck cares? I’d be really interested to find out what they DO think we should be listening to…
Smells like post-teen spittle to me. Someone who seems to think they have a view into an objective reality that the rest of us are all too uncool to see.
Maybe they’re just trolling for hits, no pun intended.
He lost me at Item #1: Remove Combat Rock (which I own on vinyl and CD) from my collection?!? I’d sooner consider losing a finger.
In short, you said more or less precisly what I was thinking.
Are you joking? “Combat Rock” Is unlistenable and marks a clear decline in the band from “London Calling” and half of “Sandanista.” Same with most of “Tommy.”
There’s no harm in liking the music, just in overrating them.
Item 34: Dave Brubeck’s Take Five. It’s not only the inclusion of this on his list, but the comments he made on that truly artful and classic album. Yes, album, as in record.
Maybe I should take that feature off my blog that shows what I’m listening to. I could embarrass myself.
Hey, Sport. Do you wear dark socks or white? My wife thinks I look like a dork in dark socks with sandals, so I always wear white ones.
I have to pick up my parents at the airport, but are they out of their spindle-fucking minds? I have virtually every one on the list and would disgard fewer than ten. More on this abomination later.
Did he really list 100? I saw maybe twenty—of course, his site sucked so bad it was impossible to tell.
There are several pages to scroll through, Robert—each more disconcerting than the previous one.
Craig—I wear white socks with my sandals on occasion, and my wife (a bit younger than me) hates it. Personally, I think it looks cool and edgy.
Pretty sad – I scrolled through the whole thing and am now depressed. I was never that wrapped up in myself, was I? Not even during my sophomore year at college?
C’mon, be honest. I can take it.
The saddest thing is the way he manages to insult just about everyone while striving for some kind of ironic effect. Unless he intends to insult everyone. Regardless, I have NOT found a new guru from whom to draw my opinions and attitudes. Too bad, I could use somebody right now to validate how cool I am.
C’mon! Why’s everyone taking this list so seriously? It’s obvious that the author is mocking the hyper-critical, holier-than-thou poseurs who routinely trash other people’s listening tastes in safe anonymity. Isn’t he?
I only listen to polka. And country hits done on the kazoo. So I guess I’m the coolest one of all. I win!
What’s my prize?
(Yes, he named half my record collection. Oh, boohoo, I’ll never get a date with him.)
I not only don’t own any of those, I never have owned any of them. This either makes me his best friend, or your worst enemy. I’ll get my katana and my wakizashi, to prepare myself for all contingencies.
(Kose does make the point that several of these albums would be listenable and even important, did they not suffer from the kind of overexposure that would make a Swank photomodel blush. With that, I’ll agree).
I only own two of the albums (they’re on the last two pages, one on each), but I still think that listening to my music would make his head explode. Looking at the stack of CDs near my computer, I have recently listened to:
Carpenters–Passage
Sade–The Best of Sade
Bangles–Greatest Hits
Windham Hill Classics–Morning
Narada Decade
Pure Moods III
Michael Hedges–Beyond Boundaries
Top Gun–Soundtrack
As I said, his head would explode.
hmm… I may have to remove timekeeper from my blogroll after that admission.
I thought most of his reviews were dead-on, even of albums I have.
VERY SORRY
David Martinez
Ruth Johnson
Charles Perez
Sarah Thompson
Donald Martinez
Charles Moore
Edward Collins
James Miller
Charles Wilson
Thomas Phillips
Daniel Hill
David Walker
Deborah Phillips
Donald Williams
Karen Anderson
Barbara Young
Patricia Campbell
Deborah Young
Elizabeth Lewis
VERY SORRY