The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 7

B vs.S is in my top 15

 

this isn’t a list of “artists you look up most to.” most of the annals of music and, like, the world are littered with horrible people. idk. i’m good with not doing this if people are gonna be weird about it. seemed like a fun idea people were into at first but i guess it was inevitable it would get ruined.

let me know what people want to do

 

i should have just made it people PM me lists instead of publicly posting them. that was dumb on my part. i should have seen this very likely scenario playing out.

 

For what it's worth, I still want to see what the final list ends up being, even though I'm sure 45+ of my 50 albums won't be on it, haha.

 

I'm still working on mine. I'll still post it here. Anyone with an issue can take it up with me as they will.

Do what you will with it. I hope we make the list and tabulate people's submissions.

 

it'a an internet music list, pat. you can't not do it.

 

It's hilariously over engineered. I'd share the formula but it's kinda confusing. Depending on how many people contribute it will be a lot of data entry for someone. I'd need a spreadsheet formatted like this:



Artist - Album and then each cell after is the position the album appeared on each individual list. The list of albums can be in any order and I can sort them after, just have to make sure there's no duplicates. I should be able to plug that into it with little work after.

 

I really like this list - gonna note down the stuff I don't know so well to check out later.

 

First attempt at my top 50 and I listed 53 albums. Not bad. Hard part is ranking them now.

 

People can separate art from the artist.

 

And other people cannot.

 

I'll definitely have at least one Chad album on my list! lol.

 

We including EP's or no?

 

If this list is to get posted anywhere in a public capacity, it’s the obligation of everyone who participated in it to respect those who have been abused by the abusers and to not give those abusers any more positive attention. Which this list is.
Things like being an anti masker is definitely not in the same ballpark and can be up to the poster but I can’t believe the amount of people backing up BN in here rn.

 

I want to try this. Not sure I could make it to 50

 

My first pass, where I thought I was making really brutal cuts, was 149 albums. Whoops.

 

I think at its core, if people are being upfront right now and saying "hey, there's problematic artists on my list and I don't condone the things that they say/have done; however, their albums still mean a lot to me and it would feel weird/dishonest if they were not included on my list", then I don't really see the need to shame them for picks that you don't agree with.

If we're boiling it down to "you included harmful artists on your list and therefore this website is not as 'woke' as it says blah blah blah" then I don't feel like doing this. A conversation can be had.

Personally, I don't feel comfortable including an artist like Brand New. I agree with @alina that it would be a disservice to the survivors of Jesse's abuse to give them any sort of cred.

I'm torn about Kanye. I'm torn about other "classic" artists. Gonna need to sit with the list a little longer.

 

My favorite albums of all time, as compiled in exactly 60 minutes on my lunch break (favorite song is in quotes):
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run. ("Jungleland")
2. Fall out Boy - TTTYG ("Chicago Is So Two Years Ago")
3. Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound ("Miles Davis and the Cool")
4. Jimmy Eat World - Futures ("Work")
5. Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit ("Bruised")
6. Mae - The Everglow ("Ready and Waiting to Fall")
7. Brand new - Your favorite weapon ("Soco Amaretoo Lime")
8. TBS - Tell All your Friends ("Ghost Man on Third")
9. Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the Edge of Town ("Badlands")
10. The Maine - lovely little lonely ("Black Butterflies and Deja Vu")
11. New Found glory - sticks and stones ("Story So Far")
12. Dave Matthews Band - Crash ("#41")
13. Turnpike Troubadours - Diamonds and Gasoline ("7&7")
14. Gaslight - Handwritten ("Handwritten")
15. Gaslight - American Slang ("American Slang")
16. Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming ("Dancing Nancies")
17. Minus the Bear - Menos El Oso ("The Fix")
18. Anberlin - Never take friendship personal ("Stationary"
19. Mayday Parade - A Lesson in Romantics ("Walk on Water or Drown")
20. Brand New - Deja Entendu ("Tommy Gun")
21. Senses Fail - Let it Enfold You ("NJ Falls Into the Atlantic")
22. New Found Glory - Self Titled ("Better Off Dead")
23. Bruce Springsteen - WIESS ("New York Serenade")
24. Anberlin - Cities ("Adelaide")
25. Cartel - Chroma ("Honestly"
26. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers ("My Name is the Night")
27. Dave Mattews Band - Before these crowded streets ("Crush")
28. Death Cab - Transatlanticism ("We Looked Like Giants")
29. Every Avenue - Shh....Just go with it ("Chasing the Night")
30. Blue Stones - Black Holes ("Black Holes")
31. John Coltrane - Love Supreme ("Pt. 1")
32. Butch Walker - Stay Gold ("Wilder in the Heart")
33. Brand New - Devil and God are Raging Inside Me ("Jesus Christ")
34. Kanye West - Late Registration ("Drive Slow")
35. Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean it ("This Ride")
36. The Maine - You are Ok ("Heaven We're Already Here")
37. Jimmy Eat World - Chase this light ("Dizzy")
38. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues ("Sure and Certain")
39. Yellowcard - Southern Air ("Surface of the Sun")
40. Dangerous Summer - Reach for the Sun ("Where I want to be")
41. Motion City Soundtrack - I am the Movie ("A-ok")
42. Bruce Springsteen - The River ("the river")
43. Dangerous Summer - War Paint ("In my room")
44. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA ("Downbound Train")
45. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are ("Nightengale")
46. The Audition - Controversy Loves Company ("Dance Halls Turn to Ghost Towns")
47. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue ("So What")
48. Turnpike Troubadours - Self Titled ("Bird Hunters")
49. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit this to memory ("Feels Like Rain")
50. Josh Abbott Band - She's Like texas ("Oh Tonight")

 

1. Thrice - Vheissu (2005)
2. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (2008)
3. Captain, We're Sinking - The Future Is Cancelled (2013)
4. Insect Warfare - World Extermination (2007)
5. Dead In The Dirt - Fear EP (2011)
6. Between the Buried and Me - Alaska (2005)
7. Converge - Jane Doe (2001)
8. American Football - s/t (1999)
9. Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin (2005)
10. Have Heart - The Things We Carry (2006)
11. Polar Bear Club - The Redder, The Better (2006)
12. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past (2012)
13. Modern Life Is War - Witness (2005)
14. Weekend Nachos - Worthless (2011)
15. Minor Threat - First 7" (1981)
16. It Dies Today - The Caitiff Choir (2005)
17. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (2010)
18. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)
19. Nas - Illmatic (1995)
20. Ignite - Our Darkest Days (2006)
21. Full of Hell - Rudiments of Mutilation (2013)
22. Khemmis - Hunted (2016)
23. Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk (2005)
24. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen (2003)
25. Misery Index - Traitors (2008)
26. Astronoid - Air (2016)
27. Nails - Abandon All Life (2013)
28. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (2005)
29. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic (2017)
30. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz (2018)
31. Pure Disgust - s/t (2016)
32. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come (1998)
33. Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God (2008)
34. Speedwolf - Ride With Death (2011)
35. Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape (2017)
36. Misery Signals - Controller (2008)
37. The Afternoon Gentlemen - s/t (2015)
38. Sheer Mag - Need to Feel Your Love (2017)
39. Clipse - Lord Willin' (2002)
40. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream (1991)
41. Valkyrie - Man of Two Visions (2010)
42. Nothing - Guilty of Everything (2014)
43. Blood Incantation - Starspawn (2016)
44. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2001)
45. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane (1995)
46. Inter Arma - Sky Burial (2013)
47. Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2017)
48. Mgla - Exercises in Futility (2015)
49. Greet Death - New Hell (2019)
50. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction (2012)

 

A lot of the last few pages feels like "brand new is problematic, don't include them, but any other band or artist with issues is fine." I understand that this site started with the genre that band came from, so they are more prominent, but only a handful of replies have addressed "problematic artists" as a whole, and what that entails.

 

it's true

 

no one was "defending" brand new in this thread lol. the person who even put them on their list removed them because they said it made them uncomfortable. what lol

 

That’s cool too.

 

This cant be any worse than the video game thread's best game bracket.

 

it can't be any better tbh.