Neapolitan

Just to note I didn't say or imply "people are posting obscure albums just to look cool." And that I said ' I am only curious what other people like regardless of rules - whether other may or may not like the choice.' So I am all for posting albums based on the simple criteria that people like it regardless if other people will like it or if the album made any prior list.

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I agree, just leave them on, and if we exceed 1001, make an addendum.

bob.

personally i could give two shits whether or not the albums i choose or you choose are on some other list

this is our list right...the albums i post here are simply albums i think everyone should hear before they die

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94. The Last Days of Disco (Soundtrack) - Compilation (1998)

1. Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round)
2. Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
3. Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real
4. Chic - Good Times
5. Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer
6. Evelyn "Champagne" King - I Don't Know If It's Right
7. Andrea True Connection - More, More, More (Part 1)
8. Carol Douglas - Doctor's Orders
9. Chic - Everybody Dance
10. Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost
11. The Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant
12. Don Ray - Got To Have Loving
13. Evelyn "Champagne" King - Shame
14. Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood
15. Brenton Wood - The Oogum Boogum Song
16. The O'Jays - Love Train
17. India & Nuyorican Soul - I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round)

The Last Days of Disco is third installment of Whit Stillman's "Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love series." I heard somewhere that the first of Stillman's stories, Manhattan, is loosely based on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Both films have an ensemble cast of "urban haute bourgeoisies" that exhibit a propensity to be adept at clever banter throughout the movie. uhb anyways...

The Last Days of Disco has a pretty solid soundtrack. Sometimes I find Disco and and things related to it to be a bit gaudy and gauche tbh, but the music in small doses can be fun and great for parties. Not all the songs are necessarily Disco songs on it, some of them are 70s R&B songs and hopefully that music won't be lost or forgotten. "The Oogum Boogum Song" is a late 60s hit. It's one of the songs I never heard before seeing the movie, and it does seems out of place among the others, but still it's a decent song. I think, since the hooks and rhythms that came from Disco still find its way in the music we listen today, there should be something representative of that genre and time period on the list. I read somewhere that The Last Days of Disco soundtrack is the best Disco compilation out there. I don't know how true that is, and I can't think of anything better, but I think it's definitely worth a listen.

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Isbjørn

Hey, Neo, yours is 94. I changed it in the index, but you should edit your post too.

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bob.

95. John Zorn - The Big Gundown (1986)(2000)


just to make it clear...this album was originally recorded in 1986 but was re released in 2000 with remastered tracks and 6 more songs....this is the album i have and the one that is pictured above

so what do you do when your source material is already perfect?

you actually make it more interesting

this is John Zorn's second studio album and he takes on re-imagining the songs Ennio Morricone...and they are amazing

while keeping the integrity of the perfect originals he adds a perfect sense of experimental and often insanity to these wonderful classics

this is a wonderful introduction to both John Zorn and the master Ennio Morricone

he really picked a wonderful arrangement of songs covering the many styles and feeling Morricone often brings to his compositions....there is also a guest appearance from Mike Patton in an amazing cover of The Ballad Hank of McCain

****should have done this yesterday....Happy Birthday John Zorn!



96. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)

i'm certainly no expert in hip hop...i mean sure back in the 80s i flirted with break dancing and had Run DMC and Houdini albums but more or less when i started getting into industrial and punk i left hip hop behind....until 1993....EVERYONE had this album....it really is just one of those album that nearly everybody could get into

in no way shape of for do i think everything the Wu-Tang Clan does is perfect...but when they are on point....it's fucking perfect

i personally think that this album was a major game changer for hip hop and forced everybody to step up their game

personally i think this possible is the greatest hip hop album of all time

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bob.

Nea if you don't cover Gang of Four and Joy Division....i will

also that disco comp is spot on man


97. The Pop Group - Y (1979)

a while back i was listening to a podcast in which Justin Trosper (Unwound, Survival Knife) made a mix tape and talked about the tracks he choose and why he chose them

at some point in it he points out how important the band U2 is in the idea that their early albums were a sort of watered down introduction to post punk and that when you first hear The Pop Group you go back to those early War tracks and say to yourself "oh....this is what they were really going for"

The Pop Groups debut album is an amazing journey into the darkness that is all around us.....while taking from post punk generals (artistic drumming, jangling guitar assaults, and danceable bass lines) they take the concept much further down the rabbit hole

fusing elements of free jazz, dub, and just straight up noise into the post punk style and making an incredible album that is as entertaining and ear candy as it is frightening and full of despondency

while the music is something fresh and pleasing....Mark Stewart's vocals are like a mad man screaming at you from the corner of a filthy city....which just blends everything perfectly together

while this album is in no way shape or form a good introduction the genre...it is a perfect evolution to those who want to explore the concept of those early post punk gems

an absolute must before death


98. Snowman - ∆bsence (2011)

i'm certainly not an expert on music and my taste is far from perfect...but i can say an album almost never leaves me speechless

this album is a major exception to this

i first found this from a review that Pedestrian did of it....it was a well written and very intriguing read so i bought a copy and 40 minutes later it was my album of the year and easily in my top five albums of all time

this is seriously unlike anything you have ever heard and it is amazing....the layers here are magical and intoxicating....the falsetto vocals are fear inducing while at the same time warming and inviting

someone said this is like hearing ghosts trying to communicate with other ghosts....spot on

every track here is worth hearing and dissecting

not only a must before you die....but this is what i want to hearing when i die

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Frownland

Zorn can potentially take up half the list if enough members think he's as awesome as I do. Good pick with Y as well, I was planning on writing that review in here sometime.

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Neapolitan

Yeah, go for it, and thanks.

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Josef K

Y is such an incredible album. Glad you mentioned it.