Quintessential Listening

**Frownland** · 06-19-2015, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

I have a different and totally valid interpretation of your thread and therefore I'm going off-topic? lol sheesh, kind of unreasonable dontcha think?

Being a dick and ruining a thread is very unreasonable yes. Going in circles when people have conceded their points and agreed with you is obnoxious. Please go do it somewhere else.

YorkeDaddy · 06-19-2015, 04:47 PM

If anything I'm making your thread into something where an actual interesting discussion can happen rather than people vomiting lists of 30 albums that next to nobody is going to pay close attention to. So it's definitely not being ruined.

Now have I been a bit of a prick? Well of course, but that doesn't mean I'm going off-topic lol.

**Frownland** · 06-19-2015, 04:59 PM

I must have missed the interesting discussion amidst all the pointless arguing. This is my thread, you are taking the discussion away from the topic I had intended. I can edit up the OP with better wording later on, but you're really just taking something that I had admittedly worded poorly and making strawman after strawman argument while I repeatedly asked you to stop because you're just reiterating the same bull****.

People could make this a little more interesting by putting justifications with their albums. What's more boring than lists is pointless arguments like these.

YorkeDaddy · 06-19-2015, 05:03 PM

At this point you're keeping the argument going for no reason, if you could just concede that trying to form an objective "quintessential listening" list is a valid topic that other people might be more interested in than you then we could all happily coexist in this thread.

**Frownland** · 06-19-2015, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

At this point you're keeping the argument going for no reason, if you could just concede that trying to form an objective "quintessential listening" list is a valid topic that other people might be more interested in than you then we could all happily coexist in this thread.

This thread allows for both "objective" quintessential albums and personal ones. We are not specifically striving for either. If you are interpreting it differently you are incorrect as this is my thread and I am quite aware of how I intended it. Hope that clears it up for you.

YorkeDaddy · 06-19-2015, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

This thread allows for both "objective" quintessential albums and personal ones. We are not specifically striving for either. If you are interpreting it differently you are incorrect as this is my thread and I am quite aware of how I intended it. Hope that clears it up for you.

Great, we arrived to this point a while ago but you just keep babbling about how I'm going off-topic when all I'm trying to do is discuss what's in bold, which according to you is clearly NOT off-topic.

**Frownland** · 06-19-2015, 05:10 PM

Ok buddy. Now post some albums or don't post at all now that we've come to this conclusion. What a momentous occasion to behold.

YorkeDaddy · 06-19-2015, 05:12 PM

I posted my albums already. I'm now interested in people to debate my picks or suggest albums that should be added

**Frownland** · 06-19-2015, 05:14 PM

Yours is pretty standard, I couldn't see anybody disagreeing with it tbh. All of those are landmark albums that are necessary to understanding music history/evolution.

Trollheart · 06-19-2015, 05:58 PM

If it seems like I've stepped back from the argument, that's because I have. Frownland has conceded the point, which I think is quite gracious of him. Further arguing doesn't seem like it's going to achieve anything.

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Originally Posted by Frownland

People could make this a little more interesting by putting justifications with their albums. What's more boring than lists is pointless arguments like these.

Will do

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

For the benefit of the thread though, essential listening for me would be
Dark Side of the Moon

As it's a great example of the development and even genesis (with a lowercase "g")

of progressive rock as well as psychedelic rock and also shows how a really well-recorded and engineered album can stand the test of time.

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Born to Run

One of the best "story albums" I've heard, and a finger to the American Dream. Also the album that saved Springsteen (stop booing!)

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Hotel California

Charts the excesses of the West Coast sound and one of the first proper crossover albums from Country to Rock to Pop

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Zep IV,

I'm sure I don't have to explain this one do I?

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Bat out of Hell

The album that made Meat Loaf; bombastic to the max and contains the first, I think, single taken from a nine-minute-plus track!

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Number of the Beast or Piece of Mind or Powerslave

Take your pick, they're all classic "Golden Age" Maiden albums and allowed metal to cross over a little into the mainstream

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Irish Tour 74 by Rory Gallagher

One of THE best live albums ever: Rory is on fire!

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Rumours

Again, just a classic and perfect timing for this album

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Foxtrot

Gabriel at his best

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Small Change and Rain Dogs.

Because Tom Waits

06-19-2015, 04:59 PM	#63 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I must have missed the interesting discussion amidst all the pointless arguing. This is my thread, you are taking the discussion away from the topic I had intended. I can edit up the OP with better wording later on, but you're really just taking something that I had admittedly worded poorly and making strawman after strawman argument while I repeatedly asked you to stop because you're just reiterating the same bull***. People could make this a little more interesting by putting justifications with their albums. What's more boring than lists is pointless arguments like these. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

06-19-2015, 05:10 PM	#67 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Ok buddy. Now post some albums or don't post at all now that we've come to this conclusion. What a momentous occasion to behold. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

06-19-2015, 05:14 PM	#69 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Yours is pretty standard, I couldn't see anybody disagreeing with it tbh. All of those are landmark albums that are necessary to understanding music history/evolution. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x