Man of Honour
it is called Rite Here Rite Now being shown at loads of Cinema's from June 20th.
500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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it is called Rite Here Rite Now being shown at loads of Cinema's from June 20th.
Caporegime
Thanks for info! Hadn't heard of this, now I need to find a cinema near me.
Man of Honour
I know both Vue and Odeon are showing it
I booked tickets on first day for 20 miles away and a couple of days later a cinema 2 miles away decided to show it.
My mate also booked the same as me and lives 100 yards from that closer cinema.
I post on the Hoffman music forums and we went through the Rolling Stone 500 a couple of years ago, one album per day. Then did the then-current RYM 500 as a comparison.
Although it has plenty of excellent material, the Rolling Stone list is very heavily biased towards certain 'vogue' artists. The RYM list, based on user ratings rather than a select group of people, is much more varied and has some real hidden gems - particularly from Japanese artists.
YouTube it!
Funkadelic (and Parliament) have so much great material. The title song on Maggot Brain is one of my favourite tracks, phenomenal playing by Eddie Hazel.
Was that Gris-Gris? That was new to me at the time too, and I enjoyed it.
Along a similar vein, try Exuma's 1970 debut album (this was on the RYM list). You may enjoy it.
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Soul for sure. Plus the way Spotify's algorithm works its filling my suggested mixes with all kinds of interesting stuff. Then you hear the odd snippet you've heard RZA sample at some point over the 1,000 records he produced. Black Parade as I've mentioned I thought was great, perfectly crafted start to finish and one of the best albums I think I have heard as a total package start to finish with no sort of disjoints. In a similar way to 10,000 days if you get what I mean.Has it made you have more appreciation for genres you otherwise had no interest in?
I couldn't do it, personally. I like a wide range of music and can get down with most things but if I came across something I didn't like I know I'd just skip it
Indeed it was Gris-Gris. Enjoyed it.
The RS list has been re-written many times so it's not as white male biased as it used to be. Little bit of forced diversity.
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@Vandle, I've just had a look at the top 50, (couldn't be bothered going further down the list) and my tastes definitely do not align. There were some artists I've never even heard of!
Maybe it's compiled by people with more expertise and discernment than me, but I won't be joining your journey, although I do admire your efforts.
Maybe it's compiled by people with more expertise and discernment than me, but I won't be joining your journey, although I do admire your efforts.
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well it's someones top 500, certainly not mine.
if you listen to them all hopefully you'll discover a few albums you love that you'd never heard before
if you listen to them all hopefully you'll discover a few albums you love that you'd never heard before
I think most would class Eminem as a pop star rather than a serious Hip Hop artist. I certainly would.
Thanks for all the encouraging comments. Nobody is ever going to produce a list of the 5 best albums ever that most people agree with, let alone 500. I use Spotify for vast majority of my music these days and when at home (through my phone and sonos), gym or walking (phone) or driving (phone again through car play) I haven't spent much time on the Spotify PC app until now. I do most of my work from my home office so work my way through the albums mostly then. With the desktop app you can see the listening figures for the songs and artists and some of them are quite staggering. I have Tori Amos on now, never been a fan. Its quite good actually but I will never listen to it again. I think I could only name one song shes done, and its not even on this album. She has over a billion monthly listeners and three of the songs on this album have almost 20 million individual plays each. The least most listened to has 1.8m!
What you or I think is rubbish, some people clearly love.
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