Rock Album Survivor

TechnicLePanther · 09-29-2015, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Josef K

Also, proposal for revised folk-rock (first the original list with comments, then a list with my proposed edits):

1. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (Yeah sure whatever)
2. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (There absolutely should be a Dylan album and it should probably be this one)
3. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground (I've never really seen this as a folk rock album, and although it's really good I don't know that it's essential)
4. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Sure)
5. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More (Absolutely not)
6. Neil Young - Harvest (I've never liked Harvest although I love Neil Young, so if we're willing to count On the Beach or Tonight's the Night as folk-rock I'd lobby for those ones - but it's no big deal)
7. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (I don't really see what makes him folk-rock and not just folk, but regardless I think this is his weakest album)
8. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers (I've always liked the debut better but it doesn't really matter)
9. The Band - The Band (Same as above)
10. Joni Mitchell - Blue (Absolutely keep it)

My proposed list:

1. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
2. Joni Mitchell - Blue
3. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
4. The Band - Music from Big Pink
5. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
6. Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
7. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
8. Songs: Ohia - Didn't it Rain
9. Pentangle - Basket of Light (not my favorite of theirs but more "folk-rock" than Sweet Child)
10. Angels of Light - How I Loved You

My List:

1. It's a highly underrated album.
2. Cool.
3. I concede.
4. Cool.
5. Fine.
6. There's too much debate over the early era of his career. Harvest is undoubtedly his most well-known album, so that's what I'm going to go with.
7. I would be fine with removing him.
8. and 9. Again, there's just too much debate. The choice doesn't really carry much weight anyways, as it's the same band.
10. Cool, glad I slipped it in there.

Your List:

1. 2. 3. 4. and 5. All cool, but I still want to use Harvest.
6. 7. and 8. Since we're agreed on 3. 5. and 7. of my list being removed, and I've heard of these bands, I'm totally cool with them.
9. I'm gonna let go of the Byrds. They're just not significant enough.

10. And this is where it gets iffy. I want to keep All Things Must Pass on there, so I think I'm going to remove How I Love You. I think there's just no comparison between the two albums. All Things Must Pass is obviously the better of them if you give them a listen. It's not just George making money off of the corpse that was the Beatles, it's genuinely a great album.

Hope you're not too TO'd.