I know no one will read this, and maybe that's a good thing.
Just for the sake of argument, the NY Daily News (besides taking the time to spoil every comic fan in the universe with early news of Captain America's death) announced the alleged 200 Best Albums of All Time.
Now, my aversion to lists like these are well documented. Nevertheless, it's pretty clear to me that this list sucks, and I don't know jack about music. That being said, I'm not going to argue the merits of the list at all, I'm just going to point out two things that lept out at me as I scanned the list:
1) What the hell is anything by Avril Lavigne doing here? What? they couldn't make space for Ashlee Simpson? Goodbye, credibility.
2) Though I have listened to many of these albums, or parts of them, I only own six, by my count. I know what this says about my music tastes, but it's not like i've been hiding from that embarrassment around here, so here they are (gleefully, I think i bought all of these sometime before law school, my tastes have improved gainfully since then).
As for Matchbox Twenty, I suppose I owe you all an apology that you're not going to get, because I wrote about two dozen A-level papers in college with that albumn in my headphones. You can also spare me all of the 40 Year Old Virgin quotes about A Rush..., it was a phase. I got over it with X&Y.
later.
-apk
Now, my aversion to lists like these are well documented. Nevertheless, it's pretty clear to me that this list sucks, and I don't know jack about music. That being said, I'm not going to argue the merits of the list at all, I'm just going to point out two things that lept out at me as I scanned the list:
1) What the hell is anything by Avril Lavigne doing here? What? they couldn't make space for Ashlee Simpson? Goodbye, credibility.
2) Though I have listened to many of these albums, or parts of them, I only own six, by my count. I know what this says about my music tastes, but it's not like i've been hiding from that embarrassment around here, so here they are (gleefully, I think i bought all of these sometime before law school, my tastes have improved gainfully since then).
- 32 GUNS N' ROSES APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION 1987 Rock
- 48 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND CRASH 1996 Rock
- 65 COLDPLAY A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD 2002 Pop
- 68 KID ROCK DEVIL WITHOUT A CAUSE 1998 Rock
- 91 MATCHBOX TWENTY YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU 1996 Pop
- 176 LIVE THROWING COPPER 1994 Rock
As for Matchbox Twenty, I suppose I owe you all an apology that you're not going to get, because I wrote about two dozen A-level papers in college with that albumn in my headphones. You can also spare me all of the 40 Year Old Virgin quotes about A Rush..., it was a phase. I got over it with X&Y.
later.
-apk
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