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Another top 100, this time from Apple Music

Tony L

Tony L

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An interesting list. All the ‘dad/granddad rock’ one always sees in these lists is still there, but it is falling downwards and some fairly recent stuff fairly high up. As ever I find these things utterly absurd, but still interesting somehow.

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PS I’ve got 40 of them. The good ones, obviously.
 
Very poor showing from Germany, just Trans Europe Express.

A very odd list in many respects, e.g. no Joy Division, no Doors, no Aphex Twin, no Marquee Moon, no disco, and obviously missing around 10 Fall albums. I guess it is quite American, but even through that lens it doesn’t quite scan right. These things never do though. Interesting anyway.
 
Tony L said:
An interesting list
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Yeah, I rather like it.

30 for me, plus quite a lot more that I’ve heard or used to have. I have the Lauryn Hill, though haven’t played it all for ages.

Of recent releases, Frank Ocean’s Blonde (and / or his Channel Orange) deserves its high position. Not sure what he’s up to these days…
 
54 here, mostly LP but some on CD. Quite a few aren't for me but they must be someone's cup of tea.
 
Alex N said:
Ha ha, that’s the spirit. 50 Cent’s debut is just above Patti Smith’s Horses, ya know.

Above both of those, try SZA’s very recent (and very good) SOS...


(Yup, that’s J. Bieber.)
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I’m not a fan of 50 Cent, I don’t listen to rap/hip hop that much anymore, I fell out with it in the 90s as it just seemed so derivative.

I fail to see how Adele could be anywhere near a top 1000.
 
51 for me. All these things are tosh but this one was interesting as there were quite a high number (double figures) where I was thinking that the album wasn’t even the best album by that artist.
 
I have more than 50% of those, the other 40 odd percent I have never listened to.. just goes to show that music tastes and record collections are organically grown through meetings with friends, recommendations from other friends and radio play to a certain extent. Thankfully that rather than a computer, or a list, such as this, telling me what I should listen to.

We are so lucky to have been the generation to see and hear these artists creating these amazing albums, music, and bands especially, will never have a better, more perfect period to create. Period.
 
TCar said:
I have 19. It seems clear that jazz is becoming more niche.
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I think Apple are trolling a little, especially with things like Bad Bunny, so it’s disappointing that their token jazz picks are so tame, and not Alan Silva’s Seasons or something even wilder.
 
Alex N said:
I think Apple are trolling a little, especially with things like Bad Bunny, so it’s disappointing that their token jazz picks are so tame, and not Alan Silva’s Seasons or something even wilder.
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I was at least hoping that PFM Dinner Jazz fave Machine Gun would have registered.
 
paulfromcamden said:
I was at least hoping that PFM Dinner Jazz fave Machine Gun would have registered.
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Indeed. Then again, Apple pick some overblown Kanye nonsense (presumably just for Nicki Minaj’s verse on ‘Monster’), and not our boy Han Bennink’s early-70s solo album, Nerve Beats. Amateurs.
 
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