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grindy · 09-29-2015, 04:50 PM

Go Pere Ubu!

The Batlord · 09-29-2015, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy

Go Pere Ubu!

#savetheubu

TechnicLePanther · 09-30-2015, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Josef K

1. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
2. Joni Mitchell - Blue
3. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
4. The Band - The Band
5. Neil Young - Harvest
6. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
7. Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
8. Songs: Ohia - Didn't it Rain
9. Pentangle - Basket of Light
10. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Cool, I'll copy this list into the OP. And I'd be more than happy to have a separate list for newer folk. Maybe we could call it "Contemporary Folk", just so we can incorporate everything from folk punk to indie folk to neo-folk in one list.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Irrelevant to its quality. This shouldn't be a list for historical punk albums. Hundreds of other punk albums with enough good reviews you could fill a Wiki article with. Bottom line: without its place in pop culture, would it have the same respect as London Calling or Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables?

Its place in pop culture is because of the tremendous impact it had. Sometimes I like to disparage albums like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, because IMO, it's not even better than all of the Beatles' albums, let alone the best album of all time. However, I have to give it credit for the impact it had on the music industry. For whatever reason, it doesn't really matter, Dookie always ends up on lists of the best punk albums. Unless you have a specific album you think could take its place, I don't want to keep having this conversation. It's there, and unless there's something more significant to the genre, it will remain there.

Also, I literally just rediscovered Streetlight Manifesto, and I think a ska punk list would be cool. As much as I'd like to finish up punk, there's really a lot going on there.

Oriphiel · 09-30-2015, 06:13 AM

For Punk, you could replace Dookie with another classic album like Germ Free Adolescents by Xray Spex, or Moving Targets by Penetration. You mentioned that your main reasoning for keeping it is because it helped to keep Punk alive in the 1990s. In that case, you could replace it with The Muffs' debut, which came out a year earlier, or Blonder and Blonder, which came out a year after. In my opinion, The Muffs were just as important to Punk as Green Day were, helping to solidify the Pop Punk sound and to usher in the new generation of punk fans.

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Oriphiel Ask me how! Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: The States Posts: 5,354	For Punk, you could replace Dookie with another classic album like Germ Free Adolescents by Xray Spex, or Moving Targets by Penetration. You mentioned that your main reasoning for keeping it is because it helped to keep Punk alive in the 1990s. In that case, you could replace it with The Muffs' debut, which came out a year earlier, or Blonder and Blonder, which came out a year after. In my opinion, The Muffs were just as important to Punk as Green Day were, helping to solidify the Pop Punk sound and to usher in the new generation of punk fans. Spoiler for examples: __________________ ---------------------- \|---Mic's Albums---\| ---------------------- ----------------------------- \|---Deafbox Industries---\| -----------------------------