2007: Los mejores discos del año, recopilación de listas
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39. Kenny Loggins – ‘Keep The Fire’: The background looks like one of those shite airbrush paintings you can buy off people in the street in Tenerife, while Kenny himself is pretending to be some kind of deity. Hmmmm.
38. Rob & Fab – ‘Rob and Fab’: Poor Rob and Fab. They were outed for faking the vocals on Milli Vanilli records, then they released this steaming turd of a record – which the duo did apparently sing on – to widespread distain.
37. Crosby, Stills & Nash – ‘Live It Up’: Wtf? Giant sausages on sticks… on the moon. With men climbing up them. Surely the result of taking way, way too much LSD?!
36. Kaiser Chiefs – ‘Yours Truly, Angry Mob’: The cover to the Kaisers’ second album was almost as bland as the music it contained… Wait, what’s-his-name is winking! Man, they’re so cool.
35. Butthole Surfers – ‘Brown Reason To Live’: They had a revolting name and their artwork always bordered on the macabre. Clever that. At least it’s got us still talking about them 25 years down the line.
34. Village People – ‘Renaissance’: They tried to get all arty on us, but they spectacularly failed. Stick to what you know best lads, like ‘Y.M.C.A’.
33. Michael Jackson – ‘Bad’: It’s the best selling record of all time, but ‘Bad’ sadly bares the image of Jacko in the early stages of his plastic surgery makeover. For that reason alone, it’s bad.
32. Bob Dylan – ‘Saved’: Mr Zimmerman’s 1980 album featured pretentious artwork of the highest calibre. It’s a good job his career didn’t need saving.
31. Any Bonkers compilation: Perhaps it’s the chavs who blare this happy hardcore shite out at deafening levels on public transport? Whatever it is, the hideous cartoon artwork reminds us of those moments of woe and the god-awful music it contains.
30. Jermaine Jackson – ‘My Name Is Jermaine’: His name be Jermaine. He’s a bad ass motherf*cker and this is one bad ass piece of album artwork. OW!
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29. The Beatles – ‘The Beatles’ (The White Album): An amazing album that’s for sure – in fact, one of their best. But the cover?? Well, it’s just lazy. Worse still, it probably put ideas into Hard-Fi’s heads.
28. El Vez – ‘Son Of A Lad From Spain?’: The self-dubbed Mexican Elvis decided to parody another musical institution with this release. The idiot.
27. Bee Gees – ‘Life In A Tin Can’: The ninth studio album from 1973 saw the brothers Gibb being buried in a tin – literally. Funny that.
26. Black Sabbath – ‘Sabotage’: It’s been said that this is in fact a life size mirror that the Sabbath boys used to snort gargantuan lines of cocaine from. Well, not quite, but it could have been a funny story.
25. Fleetwood Mac – ‘Rumours’: It’s the 13th best selling album of all time, shifting well in excess of 30million copies. Proof then that not many people judge an album by its cover.
24. Guns n’ Roses – ‘The Spaghetti Incident’: A messy front cover on an album that turned out to be almost prophetic for the mess that Guns n’ Roses have now become. If it has been spaghetti Bolognese, it’d be a different story of course.
23. The Frivolous Five – ‘Sour Cream and Other Delights’: It’s like a very disturbing nightmare. One that you wake up from with heart palpitations and a cold sweat. Get it away from us, please.
22. Mick Ronson – ‘Play Don’t Worry’: He may have been cool when he was David Bowie’s lead guitarist, but he shred every ounce of credibility he had with this 1975 effort. Dire.
21. A Flock of Seagulls – ‘Dream Come True’: Garish colours. Tacky computerised graphics. Awful comb-overs on the three fiddlers. There’s clearly nothing right with ‘Dream Come True’. Apart from the music, that is.
20. Orleans – ‘Waking and Dreaming’: Unless you’re a teenage girl pumped full of pheromones, quite why a discerning record buyer would like to see a group of semi-naked men on the front cover of an album is beyond us. Well, me anyway.
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19. David Hasselhoff – ‘Night Rocker’: This 1985 album was massive in good old Germany, where the Hoff is treated like a national treasure. It saw him break from his Knight Rider role and become a fully fledged musician.
18. Eulenspygel – ‘Eulenspygel 2’: The experimental Krautrock outfit naturally gave us an experimental cover. Sadly though, for vegetarians at least, it’s enough to curdle the stomach.
17. Boned – ‘Up At The Crack’: Were they trying to be ironic? Were they going for the comedy value? The answer is irrelevant – it’s not big, it’s not funny and it’s definitely not clever.
16 Michael Bolton – ‘Michael Bolton’: The man who became synonymous with shit hair released this damp squib of a record featuring, well, a fetching photo of himself – complete with chest hair. You disgusting man.
15. Millie Jackson – ‘Back To The Shit’: Basically Ms Millie Jackson sitting on the bog and taking a shit. In comparison, she makes Peaches seem like a delightful lady.
14. ManOwar – ‘Anthology’: This 1997 compilation album of ManOwar’s greatest hits perhaps belonged to the Eighties for it’s pure cheesiness value. The boys must clearly have worked out to get that authentic Conan the Barbarian look.
13. Heino – ‘Liebe Mutter…’: We’d never heard of this German songsmith until we stumbled across this tragedy of an album cover. It’s so bad, it’s brilliant.
12. Devastatin Dave The Turntable Slave – ‘Zip Zap Rap’: Okay, so it’s technically a single, but this cover is so devastatingly bad it needs to be included. Fucking brilliant.
11. David Cassidy – ‘Home Is Where The Heart Is’: We were spoilt for choice with the amount of dodgy album covers in David Cassidy’s back catalogue, but this surely takes the biscuit. Awful.
10. The Handsome Beasts – ‘Beastiality’: Just wrong. Very wrong, indeed. We can’t say much more than that..
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9. The Beatles – ‘Yesterday and Today’: A US only release, the original version (above) featured the band holding baby dolls and pieces of meat. A political statement? Were not sure. Macabre? Without a doubt. It’s not Abbey Road, that’s for sure.
8. The Rolling Stones – ‘Dirty Work’: It may have been the Eighties, but still The Rolling Stones can’t be forgiven for this album shot. What the hell were they thinking?!
7. Tino – ‘Por Primera Vez’: The Spanish heartthrob’s only solo effort in 1983 has been heralded by many as the worst album cover of all time. Not quite, but it’s definitely up there.
6. Kevin Rowland – ‘My Beauty’: The former Dexy’s man has sold about 12 copies to date of this turgid covers album. Most people were probably too scared to go to the till to buy it. Commercial suicide.
5. Europe – ‘The Final Countdown’: Everything about this cover wreaks of Eighties cheese and tackiness. The Swedish hair rockers may have produced one of the songs of the decade, but their artwork left a lot to be desired.
4. Various Artists – ‘My Pussy Belongs To Daddy’: Okay, it may have been released in more innocent times, but this is wrong. VERY wrong!
3. John Lennon & Yoko Ono – ‘Unfinished Music No 1: Two Virgins’: The overtly experimental, wankery music was awful. The cover was just disturbing. It may have been the sixties, but we reckon Yoko should have shaved more.
2. The Coup – ‘Party Music’: Released in June 2001, just before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, The Coup touched a raw nerve with their album cover depicting The Twin Towers being bombed. Okay they may not have forseen the true events three months later – but despite this, there’s little doubting it’s in very poor taste.
1. Hard-Fi – ‘Once Upon A Time In The West’: Seemingly in a bid to make some kind of deep cultural comment about the rise of downloading, Hard-Fi decided to ditch the record sleeve altogether. The result? A pretentious mess.
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La lista de la pritchfork
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/f ... ms-of-2007
Y viene con sorpresa final en el disco Nº1 (que no son los innombrables)
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ah, pues el nº 1 es el el que más me esperaba yo
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Vic Chesnutt?!
Six Organs?!
Edito, porque veo que el segundo no les había gustado mucho. Ahora que lo de Mr. Vic.
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el nº 1 directamente me lo han robado… joputas...
el resto de la lista que quieres que te diga... ni chesnutt, ni Elvis Perkins, ni Akron/Family....
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Es una lista muy jodida. Coincido con ellos en que Panda Bear merece estar bien arriba pero lo de no poner a Akron/Family tiene delito y aún por encima en sus votaciones le dan un 6,9. Para mi es el que más me ha gustado del año.
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de todas las publicadas, a mí es la lista que más me gusta (es decir, con la que más coincido)
eso sí, a mí no me convencen ni el de Panda Bear ni el de Akron/Family
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Ya me dijo Jorgito que las listas os iban a salir un poco raras.
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a ver lo que sale, sí ...
estamos trabajando en ellou
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Spoon?
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Está en la lista…
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Exacto… al igual que otros discos que están nombrando, como es que no está LOW, y si está Spoon... Menuda lista.
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Os tomais como algo personal el tema de las listas…
Si falta un disco que a vosotros os ha gustado la lista ya no vale...
Las listas valen como orientación, sobre todo si comparas 4 o 5 que se acercan a tus gustos. En la del foro tambien faltaran muchos discos "buenos", y eso no la hace menos valiosa. Eso si, sin ellas no se que hariamos en estas fechas... -
Jajajaj, tienes razón, pero sinó, tampoco es divertido. De todas maneras, hay cosas que resultan cuanto menos cuestionables, sin entrar en preferencias personales, no?
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@Kiwi:1tf64657:
Jajajaj, tienes razón, pero sinó, tampoco es divertido. De todas maneras, hay cosas que resultan cuanto menos cuestionables, sin entrar en preferencias personales, no?
En un tema tan subjetivo como son los gustos musicales, es dificil encontrar algo cuantificable, por eso cuando hay unanimidad o cuando hay discos que salen en todas las listas, ya sea en el puesto 1, en el 5 o en el 15, lo que quiere decir es que algo tiene.
En el fondo somos con la musica como con el futbol todos tenemos alma de seleccionador de futbol, para poner a tus preferidos, y todos tenemos alma de critico musical, siendo nuestra lista, la mejor de todas las que hemos visto.
No me parece mal, de todas las maneras.
A mi no me dice mucho el de Panda Bear, por poner un ejemplo, pero no por ello no coincido con muchas de las cosas que hay en la lista de Pitchfork. El numero 1, 2, 3, 14…es lo de menos.
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