desh | final XPN countdown tally

So I forgot to mention: The Top 885 Albums of All Time countdown ended last week.

Their top 10: (bold ones are the 4 that I would've picked beforehand as possible number 1 album...seriously)
1. Beatles - Abbey Road
2. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
4. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
5. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
6. Beatles - The White Album
7. U2 - Joshua Tree
8. Clash - London Calling
9. Beatles - Revolver
10. Beatles - Rubber Soul

Other details:
Rank of Animals among Pink Floyd albums: 4th of 7 (as I expected, but I still contend that it was their best)

Number of TMBG albums ranked: 2 (Flood was the top at #251)

Number of U2 albums ranked: 11 (But All That You Can't Leave Behind was only 5th, #185 overall)

Top album by a solo female: #13 (Joni Mitchell - Blue)

Bob Dylan albums: 19
Beatles albums: 10
Grateful Dead albums: 10
Rolling Stones albums: 9
Springsteen albums: 9
REM albums: 9 (with Automatic as the top, of course)
Joni Mitchell albums: 8
Led Zeppelin albums: 6 (all in the top 150)
Indigo Girls albums: 6
Pearl Jam albums: 4 (With Ten all the way up at #34!)
Dave Matthews albums: 4
Jimi Hendrix albums: 4
Nirvana albums: 3
Live (the band, not the performance method) albums: 2 (And Mental Jewelry made it!)
Decemberists albums: 0
Lisa Loeb albums: 0 (oh, come on)

Highest ranked albums by decade:
1950s: 14 (Miles Davis - Kind of Blue)
1960s: 1
1970s: 3
1980s: 7
1990s: 15 (Radiohead - OK Computer)
2000s: 45 (David Gray - White Ladder (what????))

Rank of select other albums discussed in my last post:
21: Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
24: Bowie - Ziggy Stardust etc.
42: Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
68: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (but only the 4th highest Zeppelin)
84: Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
257: Santana - Supernatural
399: Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
NR: Everything by Nas, Maná, or Massive Attack

Oh, yeah: The final list

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I'm pretty sure there's only 9 Beatles albums. But it's still disturbing that five of the top ten are Beatles.

mwahaha you have been discovered!!
...and I wasn't even looking.

anyway, just wanted to throw in a little sibling rivalry and my two cents: good riddance to the countdown, the music will be much better now.

and Desh, you missed quite a weekend, but I hope you had fun at said Friday night event.

I'm amazed it took you this long to find each other.

shoot, I meant to listen to that on itunes... (xpn...) oh well. I like their top 3 a lot. and hey, there's a picture of me on Abbey Road in my new facebook album....

i'm only a half-assed LJer (ok maybe 3/4-assed), and I asked him once but he wouldn't tell me! told me I could figure it out if i tried...

Yeah, I saw the picture. Awesome.

I love the new facebook pictures, by the way. So stalkeriffic!

oh yeah and the one problem I have with this countdown is that they should really call it the top 885 greatest ANGLO albums or something... because if it was up to me shlomo artzi, idan raichel and the rest of them would be way up there. not to mention vissotsky (though I'm not sure he came out with albums since he was doing stuff underground) and all the other excellent music from around the world...

Well, yeah, clearly it's slanted by default toward WXPN's usual listening audience. It doesn't include anything before 1950, any rap (that I noticed), any jazz or art/classical music, any electronic music, or any country. And that's just from this country.

But honestly, I probably wouldn't be interested in tracking a countdown of the top 885 albums from the local classical station. Just not my style.

I wouldn't tell you!?! Why on earth wouldn't I tell you - I've known yours, and you could even read my LJ for all I care (not that you'd want to), I just thought we had an unspoken agreement to ignore eachother's existence in the world of online journals. And you broke it!!!!
P.S. You don't have an icon. Everybody likes pictures I thought...

Yeah, I would probably kick in a few foreign or more esoteric albums to that list as well - Infected Mushroom's B.P. Empire, Crystal Method's Vegas, Nickel Creek's self-titled album, Koop's Waltz For Koop, Astrud Gilberto's Beach Samba, her daughter Bebel Gilberto's self-titled album, and Thievery Corporation's Cosmic Game. At the very LEAST, Astrud. I mean, João made the list (with Stan Getz) - but he's not as good without his ex-wife, in my opinion. That, and both Nickel Creek and Thievery Corporation kick ass.

--Jeff

Last time i checked, Kind of Blue was a jazz album. Also, I hate jeff.

I thought you were the one who didn't want me invading your cyberspace! I told you once a long time ago that i'd read your blog (not your lj) and you didn't seem too happy. I was unaware of said unspoken agreement... Maybe that's cause you never said anything about it! Eh we've never been so fond of toeing the line anyway...

PS:i like pictures, I just never came up with anything i wanted to use as an icon (not that i looked very hard...) so i'm open to suggestions.

so in that blank space there it's supposed to say [/sibling rivalry] with angle brackets, but apparently it got translated into html... oh well...

ok let's stop monopolizing desh's comment space...

Eh, I'm kind of enjoying this.

too bad!!!!!!!! i have to go to class!!!!!!!!!

getting so many comments makes you feel loved, doesn't it?

<sibling-rivalry>How's this for sibling rivalry?</sibling-rivalry>
Yes, perhaps I did feel like that. I suppose it's a rather new sentiment that I've never posted anything I wouldn't want you to read.

how come it doesn't disappear your pseudo-html? no fair!

If you type <tag> , then it turns into <tag> . HTML escape codes.

(And please don't ask me how I typed that line...you don't want to know...)

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