The All-TIME 100 Albums, Best or Top or Something
Lat week TIME Magazine published what it called its All-TIME 100 Albums. It’s a list of what it calls the “the greatest and most influential records ever”. And it runs from 1954 up to the present day.
Straight to the chase - what’s Irish in there? If I told you there were two Irish performers with albums on the list would you know who they are? You should, you know, because it’s exactly who you think it is.
And if I told you that both of those performers have two albums each could you name them? Of course you could. I don’t know if this means that such lists pick themselves and forever stay on pedestals, or if you and I are the same age as the people compiling the list.
U2 and Van Morrison are the artists. Actung Baby and The Joshua Tree are the U2 albums. Moondance and Astral Weeks are Van’s albums. Yawn.
So there. By calling it most influential as well as best, it means they can put in, well whatever they want. The 1970s by far have the most albums - with twenty-nine listed, and yet as they freely admit there is no room in there for either Pink Floyd or Horslips.
Oh, and it’s an unordered list, as we say in the web world. There isn’t a number one or a number seventy-three; there’s just a list of names in no order for each decade - kind of like the one you bring to the shops when you’re getting the messages (that’s the store for the groceries, if you’re American). And in number three position, up two from last week, it’s a half-pound of margerine.
See the full list HERE - you can read details on why every album was included, and there’s even podcasts where you listen to why they included what they did. Or you could just go outside and kick some leaves around.
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