There is no debate re: London Calling as the greatest album of all time.
Instead we can debate what post '79 album is 'best.' Multiple voting, etc.
Kid A by Radiohead
Remain In Light by the Talking Heads
Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Doolittle by The Pixies
Purple Rain by Prince
Nevermind by Nirvana
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Stankonia by Outkast
Silent Shout by The Knife
Other (See flame below)
There is no debate re: London Calling as the greatest album of all time.
Instead we can debate what post '79 album is 'best.' Multiple voting, etc.
Last edited by shermanoaksyo; 06-06-2010 at 10:16 PM.
Will Smith, Willenium
Greatest album of all time? I dont think that title really exists.
Coachella 2017
Solange April 21
Really? Of all OutKast albums, Stankonia? Come on now.
5/22 - The Cure - Hollywood Bowl
5/31 - Brian Jonestown Massacre - Teragram (?)
6/07 - Chelsea Wolfe - Teragram (?)
6/14 - Silver Apples - Troubadour
6/16 - John Carpenter - Orpheum
last.fm, if you care
Twitter, if you dare
hard choice between kid A and nevermind, but had to go with nevermind. can't forget your roots
London Calling didn't come out til 1980 in the US. just an FYI. And it is, indeed, the greatest album of all time, and in fact one of the greatest achievements in the history of humans.
I also voted Remain in Light although there are a number of excellent choices on that list. (and several that aren't). Pavement, Public Enemy, U2 and The Replacements could all have been nominated.
Last edited by TomAz; 06-07-2010 at 09:15 AM.
Joe Strummers preachy voice makes me want to puke.
All he ever did was sing about the songs he was singing...its absolute rubbish.
London Calling is un-fucking-listenable
Also your "best album since" list doesn't include:
Slanted Enchanted by Pavement
Aeroplane Over The Sea by NMH
anything by daniel johnston
nor OK Computer which is certainly better than Kid A
Also I would include
Fever Ray
Lifted
Digital Ash
Fevers and Mirrors
Funeral
Shut Up I'm Dreaming
And no Daft Punk?????
Fuck this Poll.
And fuck Joe Strummers pretentious excuse for music.
I am neither foxy, nor a lady.
Neil Young - Kanye West - Beck - PJ Harvey - The Knife - Basement Jaxx - Tom Waits - Shpongle (Live) - Flying Lotus (Live) - The Avalanches - Autechre - Eels - Fat Freddy's Drop - Liquid Liquid - OFWGKTA - Freddie Gibbs - Big K.R.I.T. - Phantogram - Christian Scott - Nosaj Thing - Gold Panda - James Blake
For 2011
How old were you when punk was around? in 1978, in 1979? were you even born yet?
also, how old were you when you were dropped on your head?
True. Stupidity is timeless. "mute point".
Ahhhh poor joe strummer
Datta Dayadvam Damyata
Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!
also, daft punk is about as artful and interesting as a can of cheez whiz.
You suggested "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn" deserves consideration as one of the best albums -- no, the best album -- of the past 25 years. Everything you say needs to be viewed in that context.
Clash hatred and "your single" insults! Not what I expected but I like it.
Also not sure whether a 28 year-old guy should brag about being forced to wear the dog collar of monogamy in order to obtain sex, but I'm a shitheel who likes Joe Strummer so what do I know.
For the record, you only get 10 options - if I could have added more I would have thrown on Replacements, Pavement (crooked rain!), Gang of Four although I think their best record was pre-LC, maybe Funeral or Person Pitch, The Smiths, The Fall, Joy Division... NIN is also a good suggestion.
Not sure how many options I'd need to get to Digital Ash In A Digital Urn. Although when put next to Oberst's "When The President Talks To God" - possibly the worst political song in the history of the english language - the entire Bright Eyes discography looks brilliant.
Finally, to TomAz, I'm sticking w/ 1979, because that was the year I pirated a vinyl rip of London Calling via a 50 lb. package of punch cards mailed to me from Britain.
Catherine Wheel Chrome.
I miss talking to TomAz.
We all do. I live in the same city as him (unless he relocated) and rumor has it that at 3:15am if you listen closely and its really really quiet you can hear him telling you to go fuck yourself.
"HIGH END RAP MUSIC! GHETTO STADIUM SHIT! THEY AIN'T WANT US AT THE FESTIVALS
NOW WE WILL RUN THEM!"
-Kanye West