Tuesday’s Top Tens

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1. I am glad to see Tom Waits topping that most-listened list! I am a big fan of his!

   • He is one of the few people with a very long career where I own most of their catalogue, although I never checked in on Bad As Me. I tend to favour his first few albums and the albums he made between 1983 and 1999.

     • Yeah, those were his golden runs, that’s for sure.

       Rain Dogs, Bone Machine, Mule Variations, Swordfishtrombones, and Franks Wild Years are my favorites by him, but I really like all of his albums except for The Black Rider and Foreign Affairs, the former being weak in my book and the latter being just average.

       You should check Bad as Me. It’s a great record!

       • I’ve never heard The Black Rider (or One From The Heart) – I have them in my head as not official albums, since they’re soundtracks.

         I went right through Waits’ discography a few months ago (summarised here: https://albumreviews.blog/2017/07/31/tom-waits-worst-to-best/) and Foreign Affairs was my least favourite.

         • I haven’t heard One From The Heart either. I heard The Black Rider because the listed discography I was following had it as a studio album even though it’s a soundtrack.

           I will read that summary. I can already see we agree on the Top 5 almost completely. Orphans is also a great collection, so it deserves the great spot it got, especially because of the Bawlers disc, which is just one beautiful sad song after another!

         • Yeah, Bawlers is always the disc I gravitate to as well.

2. Pet Sounds would also be in my top 10 – and Liege & Lief would be in my top 10 new-to-me from the past few years!

   • Do you have an actual, official, top ten list.

     I like to quantify everything, although I really don’t like album ratings that are calculated by rating each song and averaging it out.

     • A couple years ago, a bunch of bloggers did a ‘top 15 on the 15th’ – my top 10 from that (I believe) were:
       1. The Beatles
       2. Weezer (blue)
       3. Radiohead – OK Computer
       4. Weezer – Pinkerton
       5. Radiohead – The Bends
       6. Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
       7. Tragically Hip – Fully Completely
       8. Morrissey – Your Arsenal
       9. Smiths – Queen is Dead
       10. Cure – Wild Mood Swings

       But of course it would have had the asterisk* – the order could change by the hour!

       • Cool! I’ve never really heard Morrissey’s solo stuff – I guess I should sometime.

         • He was my gateway to the smiths – his discography’s not as consistent though. Your Arsenal and Vauxhall & I are the best of the bunch in my opinion

3. This post is from the FUTURE!

   Geoff’s right, we did a Top 15 on the 15th way back in September of 2015. Interested, I looked back at my choices made then. I think I did pretty damn good. Maybe a few changes now, but that’s how it goes…

   Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St.
   Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks
   Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand
   Wynton Marsalis – Standard Time Vol.3: The Resolution Of Romance
   Sloan – Twice Removed
   Tragically Hip – Day For Night
   B.B. King – Blues On The Bayou
   Harry Connick, Jr. – 20
   Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
   Bob Marley and the Wailers – Legend
   Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
   Radiohead – OK Computer
   Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy
   Pearl Jam – Ten
   Rollins Band – The Only Way To Know For Sure

   • Cool – those are my favourite Zep and Stones albums too, and Miles Davis will probably make it into my top ten sometime, for In A Silent Way.

     • See, the thing with Miles is it depends on the day I’m asked – apparently that day was KOB. IASW would lso be an excellent choice! And Bitches Brew, and Birth Of The Cool, and Sketches Of Spain, and A Tribute To Jack Johnson, and…

       Same with Radiohead. I love OKC, but I go through Kid A phases, and today I might say The Bends…

       • I’m usually pretty stable in my favourites, although Radiohead have enough excellent records that it’s a bit of a tussle. I like Kid A best, but The Bends and In Rainbows are also up there.

4. Top 10 albums of all-time are so hard to narrow down. But you’ve given me the idea to write a post about my favorite albums. Listened to 5 of your ten favorites. Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys and Revolver by Beatles I agree are great. I’m curious to check out more of Brian Eno and find out which of his LP’s I love the most.

   • I mostly like the four LPs with vocals that Eno made during the 1970s – I also have a lot of time for 1977’s Before and After Science.

5. Couldn’t do the top ten thing. Like a lot of the choices you and the other made.

6. Lists!