Apyuxjj.180 net.music utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!pyuxjj!rlr Fri May 7 13:13:47 1982 Top 40 Countdown Since this is a record poll, I thought I'd include my "Top 40" records (YUK!YUK!) The first 20 are listed in sort-of rank order, valid at least as to which quartile they are in, followed by another ten that couldn't fit, followed by ten (subject to interpretation) anthologies, which I didn't think belonged in a favorite records list. It's unfair to pit a regular album against somebody's greatest hits package. Well, here goes... ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Beatles The Beatles The Residents Commercial Album The Residents Another Green World Brian Eno Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles Close to the Edge Yes Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo! Devo More Songs About Buildings and Food Talking Heads Low David Bowie The Man-Machine Kraftwerk Singles Going Steady The Buzzcocks Who's Next The Who Closer Joy Division Music for Films Brian Eno Revolver The Beatles This Year's Model Elvis Costello Debussy Piano Preludes, Books I & II Paul Jacobs What's Going On Marvin Gaye Phaedra Tangerine Dream London Calling The Clash Satanic Majesties Request The Rolling Stones ------------------------------------------------------------------ Plastic Ono Band John Lennon Here Come the Warm Jets Brian Eno Talking Heads '77 Talking Heads Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents Unknown Pleasures Joy Division Holst's "The Planets" Isao Tomita My Aim Is True Elvis Costello Parallel Lines Blondie Real Life Magazine Third Reich and Roll The Residents ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hot Rocks The Rolling Stones Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy The Who Greatest Hits The Kinks Once Upon a Time Siouxsie & the Banshees Greatest Hits The Monkees Greatest Hits Tommy James & the Shondells Nuggets ----- We Do 'Em Our Way ----- Themes for Great Cities Simple Minds ANY MOTOWN ANTHOLOGY Vandellas, Supremes, Four Tops, Miracles, Jacksons, Stevie, ... -------------------------------------------------------------------- I know the last one's not really fair, but I put caveats on my recommendations of any of these anthologies (I personally own three, but would love to own more). The big three record jobs are mostly filler. But the one record sets are always lacking one/two great songs (Marvin Gaye's lacks "Ain't That Peculiar", so I own the single). I've been told that "The Motown Story", though it has everything you'd ever want to own (almost), contains voiceover intros by the artists to almost every song. "The Motown Story" is a great monument to music history at $10-$12 for 3, 4 or 5 (I forget) records. Motown has just released two new packages called "Sixteen Number One Hits: The Early (or Late) Sixties", which are MUST-OWN records, especially at the 4.00 budget price!!!!! P.S. Nuggets is a collection of rare (?) 60's gems compiled by Lenny Kaye, which I picked up at (you guessed it) Cheap Thrills for 2.99 (two records). We Do 'Em Our Way, a collection of "punk" bands covering old tunes (incl. Pistols' "Rock Around the Clock", Slits' "Heard It Thru the Grapevine", and the unforgettable "Nights in White Satin" by the Dickies) for 3.99 at C.T.'s. (Nuggets probably isn't available there anymore, though the "Pebbles" collections are, sometimes at cutout prices.) Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.