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Your Top 50 Albums
I'm probably going to kick myself for making this thread, I find it very unlikely that this hasn't been done before, but after a handful of searches and no results... well.
There's a website that makes building a top 50 (or top 100) album collage very easy. It has a built in search engine with an impressively large archive of albums + album art, making the whole process a lot faster than it would be using Photoshop. Take some time to comb through your collection, throw together a quick list, it's really only the first 20 albums that are significantly ordered. Topsters.net - Top50 It's more fun than work, you stumble upon a lot of old albums you haven't listened to in a while that you absolutely love. It's nice having one of these collages laying around too when you're looking for something to listen to. http://i.imgur.com/mMdpUhp.jpg?1 Keep in mind that my ordering here doesn't say much about the literal quality, legacy, or historical significance of any of these albums. It's purely ordered by personal taste, it's about how often I find myself going back to listen to an album, it's based on my personal experience with each album and the memories I associate with them, not their overall importance in the musical world. |
Is this site working for anyone else at the moment? It's not loading for me.
It's nice to see someone else who's into Secede, though. Tryshasla's such a great album. |
Site works for me. Not sure why they make it mandatory for the "top 4 - second tier - other" categories tho. As if making a list narrowing it down to 50 isn't hard enough. The difference between #4 and #44 is basically non-existent in my case.
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I don't think you do. If you click collage you can rearrange it but you have to register.
Nice find Epoch. |
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Making a top 50 is indeed very difficult. I'm busy making yearly top 10s now though, not sure I could come up with a top 50. I could look at the 5-star albums I have in my RYM library, but many are probably out of date. |
It's not an easy task, took me around an hour to sort it out and I ended up going back to it about 4 times over the following hour to change a few. The process is certainly worth the time, though, if anything it's less about ranking albums and more about forcing yourself to rediscover fantastic albums that you've forgotten about. The breakdown is strange, yes, but 50 albums is 50 albums regardless where the squares are on the page. I believe in you all, lets see some pictures.
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I have to say I like some of your choices a lot, particularly Geogaddi, Music Has the Right to Children, the two best King Crimson releases, edIT (an old favorite), but am surprised at The Campire Headphase's place as #1 as it's the only BoC album I never got into.
Another thing about these images is I wish they were clickable. Some album covers are not recognizable by all and don't have clear text. |
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Aye, I excluded the text due to auto image resizer plugins on another forum making the text too small to read. I'll re-add it and edit my OP.
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I didn't really look at it as an order, I just did 50 albums that I love and that mean a lot to me or helped shape my taste in any way and just made sure the top 4 was right. The rest I knew just belonged in my top 50, but didn't have a specific number attached to it in my head.
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Here's my top 100 from my journal.
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I'm stoked that you managed to squeeze Oiduppa in there right at the end.
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I thought about doing it, but I really haven't listened to enough total music to put together a meaningful top 50. |
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Wow, I only know Comus - First Utterance from that entire list.
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Did a Top 100 instead because I was bored.
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1.) Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
2.) At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command 3.) LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver 4.) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening 5.) The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium 6.) My Morning Jacket - Z 7.) Spoon - Kill The Moonlight 8.) Belle & Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying 9.) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 10.) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 11.) Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism 12.) Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine 13.) Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 14.) Antony & The Johnson's - I Am A Bird Now 15.) Arcade Fire - Funeral 16.) The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past 17.) Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man 18.) Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE 19.) Arctic Monkeys - Humbug 20.) TV On The Radio - Dear Science 21.) Spoon - Gimme Fiction 22.) St. Vincent - Actor 23.) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 24.) Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles 25.) Death Grips - The Money Store 26.) The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 27.) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 28.) The Gaslight Anthem - The 59' Sound 29.) Japandroids - Post-Nothing 30.) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 31.) James Blake - S/T 32.) Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak 33.) Madvillain - Madvillainy 34.) Kanye West - Yeezus 35.) The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute 36.) Radiohead - In Rainbows 37.) Sharon Van Ettan - Epic 38.) Titus Andronicus - Local Business 39.) TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain 40.) The xx - xx 41.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell 42.) Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise 43.) The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine 44.) The Strokes - Is This It? 45.) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy 46.) The Shins - Oh, Inverted World 47.) The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow 48.) The Roots - Undun 49.) Silversun Pickups - Carnavas 50.) Rhye - Woman 51.) Radiohead - Kid A 52.) The Notwist - Neon Golden 53.) The National - Boxer 54.) Muse - Absolution 55.) MGMT - Congratulations 56.) Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica 57.) Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.a.a.d City 58.) Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue 59.) Iceage - New Brigade 60.) The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang 61.) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House 62.) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Flight 63.) Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... 64.) Father John Misty - Fear Fun 65.) The Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan 66.) Death Grips - Exmilitary 67.) Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine 68.) Daft Punk - Discovery 69.) Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II 70.) Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out Of This Country 71.) Beck - Sea Change 72.) Kanye West - College Dropout 73.) Beach House - Bloom 74.) Destroyer - Kqputt 75.) Cloud Nothings - Here & Nowhere Else 76.) Fleet Foxes - S/T 77.) Alt-J - An Awesome Wave 78.) The Antlers - Hospice 79.) Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself 80.) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning 81.) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata 82.) Green Day - American Idiot 83.) The Killers - Hot Fuss 84.) Local Natives - Gorilla Manor 85.) My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade 86.) Blur - Think Tank 87.) The National - High Violet 88.) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 89.) Vampire Weekend - Contra 90.) Silversun Pickups - Swoon 91.) The Strokes - Room On Fire 92.) Okkervil River - The Stand Ins 93.) Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math 94.) The White Stripes - Elephant 95.) The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt 96.) Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me 97.) Camera Obscura - Desire Lines 98.) Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory 99.) Daft Punk - Random Access Memories 100.) Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak |
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Neon bible #1? Really?
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Absolutely.
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Here's my Top 20.
http://i.imgur.com/JoJXXGv.png I've done a Top 50 a few times, but it always changes around. |
Here's a rough top 100
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/o13qkcN.jpg[/IMG] One album didn't load right but I can't really recall what one it was. Such a nuisance. |
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So, of course, I see the band on the Reflektor tour and they do only 1.5 songs from it. :banghead: I'll probably come up with one of these, though I'm sure the choices will be a little conventional. |
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Couldn't register on that site as the register drop down tab would dissapear as soon as I started typing
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how do you post the image from the site?
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^I never took you for a Beefheart fan.
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a year ago i would've agreed
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Graceland in the top five is good.
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Got as far as Q on my playlist. There are more, but I didn't feel like doing 100.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...psc6f93dd8.jpg |
Damn, website don't work for me.
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This is way harder than I thought it would be..
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