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I always thought “!” was underrated — I’d put “If I Don’t Write” on here in a second. “The Love War” would probably crack my top 10, and “The Other Side” absolutely belongs on this list.
Eh…I’d think about it if I still had a cassette machine.
I take it MC Ride will grace the cover of the 12″.
As others have pointed out, the fact that Stevie called homosexuality itself — not just Frank Ocean’s orientation — into question is a very mild (but still tangible) form of contempt and aversion. If Ocean had said he loved a woman rather than a man, Stevie wouldn’t have said “well, some people think they’re straight but are confused”. But it’s “homophobic” in the same way that murder and driving 60 in a 55 zone are both “criminal”.
Exactly. I think that’s really the only real issue here: What’s the basis for Stevie Wonder question Frank Ocean’s sexuality at all? Unless they’ve been close friends for awhile, I don’t see how Stevie could possibly have a reason to suggest Frank Ocean is confused. Why would he even mention it?
Adler has songwriting credits on all his G’N'R work. Everytime you hear Paradise City or Welcome to the Jungle, Adler gets paid (as opposed to just being a performer, where royalties are paid when the record is bought).
Mick doesn’t have many songwriting credits from the band’s heyday, which is why, unlike a lot of people on this list, he doesn’t earn as much when he’s not actively performing. Steven Adler, by contrast, is credited as a co-writer on everything from “Appetite” and “Lies”.
Well, ten years ago that would have translated to around CDN$38M. (Now it translates to something like CDN$22M.)
Rick Allen has $50 mil.? Man, I’d give my left arm for that kind of cash.
You might be able to make it sound like something from “One Foot in the Grave”.
More like “new porn movie only available as a script”. … Action!
Given the example shown above, most moderately-skilled musicians could sight read that.
There’s always room for a Sebadoh list.
The Built to Spill list would be a lot more fun to debate if they included the Treepeople and Halo Benders albums.
I’d hate to see a Flaming Lips list, just because I’d get depressed when the pre-Zaireeka albums inevitably get dismissed in favor of the post-Zaireeka albums. And there’s only so much catharsis to be gained by flipping off a computer screen.
One would think. However, at the record store where I used to work, we had a lady write us a letter threatening to call the FBI on us because we had a huge Nevermind poster on the wall. We solved the problem with a post-it note.
I wrote a letter back saying that, in the two years the poster had been on the wall, we never found anybody masturbating to it in the aisle, that she was the first person to view the poster in sexual terms and should probably seek therapy, but my manager wouldn’t let me see me the return address. In retrospect, he probably did the right thing.
Jesus Hits is a phenomenal album — one of my absolute favorites. The first thing I thought of when I saw this was how 40 billion copies of Bill and Firecracker are what earned TD a spot on this list, and how that made it so much harder to find Jesus Hits and the self-titled CD.
That would require: 1) Somebody actually buying a Kidz Bop CD, 2) having that person be so desperate for cash that they’d be willing to walk into a store carrying it. I don’t think there’s enough crack on the planet to make both those things happen.
As if I needed a list to hammer home that I’m the only person left who still loves Tripping Daisy and Veruca Salt.
I interpret the “60s/70s artists CDs from the 80s/90s/00s” as meaning basically “later albums from has-beens” — I’m thinking later albums from McCartney, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, etc.
“Rain on Tin” live is probably the closest I’ve come to a sound-induced orgasm.
“Until 2000′s Almost Famous (another Cameron Crowe-curated soundtrack, oddly), Led Zeppelin had famously never licensed one of their performances to a soundtrack.”
“Kashmir” in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”? (Also written by Cameron Crowe.)
I think Preteen Zenith is the closest we’ll get to Tripping Daisy, and with Berggren gone, I kind of think it’s close enough. I do hope they’ll pull out some TD songs when PZ tours though. Tool toured earlier this year.
Swervedriver, Chavez, and Juno. King Crimson’s also due for a fourth act. I wish Caustic Resin was still making music.
Honestly, my first reaction was “wow, GBV has only done 20 albums”?