[kj] Fw: [grunder] 50 albums that changed music Fifty years oldthis month, t

[Christof hamille]

Being that this is from the UK I am more surprised that they did not pick 
the NY Dolls over the Stooges.  And it seems like in the mid 70s a lot of 
the early NYC punk bands were fans of the Stooges.  And over in the UK it 
seems like everyone was fans of the Dolls.

Chris


>From: sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com>
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>oldthis month, the album chart has t
>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:37:01 -0700 (PDT)
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>Wot, no Killing Joke?
>   /sarcasm
>
>   Nirvana and De La Soul, huh..
>
>GREG SLAWSON <GregSlawson at msn.com> wrote:
>             They fucked up--Ramones should have been #1.
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>50 albums that changed music   Fifty years old this month, the album chart 
>has tracked the history of pop. But only a select few records have actually 
>altered the course of music. To mark the anniversary, Kitty Empire pays 
>tribute to a sublime art form, and our panel of critics argues for 50 
>albums that caused a revolution. To see the 50, click here
>Kitty Empire
>Sunday July 16, 2006
>   Observer
>A longside film, the pop album was the defining art form of the 20th 
>century, the soundtrack to vast technological and social change. Once, sets 
>of one-sided 78rpm phonograph discs were kept together in big books, like 
>photographs in an album. The term 'album' was first used specifically in 
>1909, when Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite was released on four double-sided 
>discs in one package. The first official top 10 round-up of these 
>newfangled musical delivery-modes was issued in Britain on 28 July 1956, 
>making the pop album chart 50 years old this month.   Singles were 
>immediate, ephemeral things. Albums made pondering pop and rock into a 
>valid intellectual pursuit. Friendships were founded, love could blossom, 
>bands could be formed, all from flicking through someone's album 
>collection. Owning certain albums became like shorthand; a manifesto for 
>everything you stood for, and against: the Smiths' Meat is Murder , Public 
>Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
>  Before lasers replaced needles, albums had sides. They were a game of two 
>halves, building towards an intermission; more than the sum of their 
>constituent songs. At least, the good ones were. Some of them still are, 
>except they can now last 70-plus minutes, over twice as long as their vinyl 
>forebears. Is this bloat, or value for money? The debate rumbles on.   
>Entire lifestyles built up around albums, smoking dope to albums, having 
>sex to albums. You lent your favourite albums out with trepidation; you 
>ruefully replaced them, on CD, when they didn't come back. Getting hitched 
>paled into insignificance next to merging record collections with your 
>loved one. Getting rid of the doubles made divorce unthinkable. Elastica 
>once sang, of waking: 'Make a cup of tea, put a record on.' That's how 
>generations of hip young (and not so young) people have lived.   But for 
>how much longer? Downloading favours the song, not the album. MP3 players 
>favour personal playlists or shuffling.
>  Listeners are already tiring of keeping company with an artist for an 
>hour or more, as an album meanders beyond mere singles.   The album as we 
>know it might not last another 50 years, maybe not even another 10. But 
>just as artists show groups of paintings in galleries, songs will continue 
>to be written in clumps, connected by theme or time, and presented to a 
>public, just as the Nutcracker Suite once was.   On these pages are 50 
>clumps of songs, in descending order of importance, that we think caused a 
>sea change in pop music, not always for the good, but without which many 
>bands or entire genres would not exist. They are the sets of songs which 
>have had the greatest lasting influence on music.   It was agonising, 
>having to pick only 50. Why did we include NWA, but not Public Enemy? 
>Probably because their influence was more pervasive. Why Fairport 
>Convention and not The Incredible String Band? Because we had to plump for 
>the single most influential album in British folk
>  rock. And why no Rolling Stones? Because, brilliant though they are, they 
>picked up an established musical idiom and ran with it rather than 
>inventing something entirely new.   Our panel: James Bennett, Kitty Empire, 
>Dave Gelly, Lynsey Hanley, Sean O'Hagan, Elle J Small, Neil Spencer.   · To 
>see the 50, click here.     Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers 
>Limited 2006
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