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HE'S GOT EIGHT CARS AND A HOUSE IN IRELAND...sing it.

2. I want someone to name an ALBUM that is better than OK Computer. Not an artist better than Radiohead' date=' a collection of songs better than the ones on OK, but a better ALBUM. I have great belief in the album as artistic work, hence why I don't like skipping tracks on my CDs. And I fully believe that OK computer is technically accomplished, has incredibly sound and musicianship, some classic songs and lyrics, and fits together more perfectly than any other album I know of.

sincerely,

AKM[/quote']

the bends ;)

ok computer comes off better as an album, where all the songs follow on perfectly from each other, the bends is a bit more of a collectiopn of stunning songs

as for the list, i thought it was pretty good, the vast majority of it was 'real music' and not stuff like britney spears which at least says something, and almost all of the bands there are considered great, and while i dont like quite a few of the bands listed there, i at least know who they are and accept they have a lot of fans each

and maybe a lot of the albums are the more 'normal' mainstream output from the bands, that may be because those are the 'normal' albums average people like best

the only problem i have with the list is Meatloaf... Bat out of hell only number 86? it should have been much higher :D

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THE 100 GREATEST ALBUMS (apparently)

1. RADIOHEAD - OK Computer

2. U2 - The Joshua Tree

3. NIRVANA - Nevermind

4. MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller

5. PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon

6. OASIS - Definitely Maybe

7. THE BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

8. MADONNA - Like a Prayer

9. GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction

10. THE BEATLES - Revolver

11. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

12. THE BEATLES - The White Album

13. QUEEN - A Night at the Opera

14. COLDPLAY - Parachutes

15. OASIS - (What's the Story) Morning Glory

16. ALANIS MORISSETTE - Jagged Little Pill

17. LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin IV

18. THE VERVE - Urban Hymns

19. JIMI HENDRIX - Are you Experienced

20. THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead

21. JOHN LENNON - Imagine

22. RADIOHEAD - The Bends

23. BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - Exodus

24. THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses

25. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - Bridge Over Troubled Water

26. BJORK - Debut

27. THE DOORS - The Doors

28. ABBA - Arrival

29. MICHAEL JACKSON - Off the Wall

30. DURAN DURAN - Rio

31. SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

32. DAVID BOWIE - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

33. THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds

34. JOY DIVISION - Closer

35. THE ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed

36. BLUR - Parklife

37. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born to Run

38. BILLIE HOLIDAY - Lady Sings the Blues

39. THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant

40. BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid

41. THE SPECIALS - Specials

42. THE ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main Street

43. FRANK SINATRA - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!

44. THE CLASH - London Calling

45. THE PRODIGY - The Fat of the Land

46. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Velvet Underground and Nico

47. DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms

48. PIXIES - Doolittle

49. ARETHA FRANKLIN - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

50. THE LIBERTINES - The Libertines

51. HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches

52. PATTI SMITH - Horses

53. THE WHO - Tommy

54. LOU REED - Transformer

55. BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks

56. PRINCE - Sign 'o' the Times

57. DIDO - No Angel

58. AIR - Moon Safari

59. ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

60. THE JAM - All Mod Cons

61. JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace

62. FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours

63. MOBY - Play

64. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

65. THE POLICE - Synchronicity

66. JONI MITCHELL - Blue

67. CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly

68. ELVIS PRESLEY - The Sun Sessions

69. OUTKAST - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

70. PULP - Different Class

71. KRAFTWERK - Trans-Europe Express

72. MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines

73. BECK - Odelay

74. STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life

75. KATE BUSH - Hounds of Love

76. TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music

77. EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP

78. MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On

79. GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith

80. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - The Original Movie Soundtrack

81. PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica

82. JOHN COLTRANE - A Love Supreme

83. LOVE - Forever Changes

84. PAUL SIMON - Graceland

85. NICK DRAKE - Five Leaves Left

86. MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell

87. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Dusty in Memphis

88. DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High and Rising

89. THE STROKES - Is this It

90. MADNESS - One Step Beyond...

91. ROBBIE WILLIAMS - I've Been Expecting You

92. NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush

93. PUBLIC ENEMY - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

94. BLONDIE - Parallel Lines

95. THE EAGLES - Hotel California

96. JAMES BROWN - Sex Machine

97. THE STREETS - A Grand Don't Come for Free

98. DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels

99. ROD STEWART - Every Picture Tells a Story

100. The HUMAN LEAGUE - Dare!

Top 100 albums in Bridge Of Don* maybe

*insert any dull suburb in any dull town populated with dull people where the main outlet for album sales is Tesco

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Top 100 albums in Bridge Of Don* maybe

*insert any dull suburb in any dull town populated with dull people where the main outlet for album sales is Tesco

that's like racism, racism against the bridge of don.

where i live.

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Someone ( i think from the sex pistols ) saying how he's waiting for something like the sex pistols to come along again and shatter everything' date=' but he can't guess what it would be. ( i thought this was interesting, because it sure as fuck won't be all the kids inspired by the sex pistols and other bands that broke the mould)

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The most depressing thing is that nothing has happened to shatter music for about 20 years.

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One more thing about having OK Computer as No.1...it's a down album. Surely that's a tad depressing. There's so much postive music been produced. I like Radiohead but I can only listen to it now and again.

I would rather have something upbeat or at least something that swings through various moods.

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I htink OK Computer is the best album of all time so i'm happy (ish) with the list some good stuff on it some bad. I've seen a lot worse top 100's and by channel 4 standards it is suprisingly good. Good to see bjork (and yes she is better the the bland doors) their, but it should have been homogenic and not debut. Biggest travesty about the list is that pet osunds was so low. The Beatles deserve 3 albums in there, but i wouldn't have picked those three though. Imo Rubber sould is their best. Back on Ok Computer, I find it incredibly uplifting not depressing, and it's light years ahead of the bends, Radiohead have 4 albums better than the bends. Also Elephant isn't the best white stripes album, de stijl is clearly their best imo.

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It seems like a pretty good list although there not many different types of music in there.

OK Computer is good but not that good.

I read that someone asked why the beatles were in their??

They created everything you know today from effects, feedback, loops, early programming, the first use of synths, distortion etc etc. They were fucking genuises of the highest order and thats why they were in the Top 100.

:swearing:

Music would be shit if it wasn't for them.

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Was it the repeat of the program that was originally aired in 1998 or there abouts?

If so, OK Computer came out in 1997, so it isn't really surprising that it charted at No.1. At the time of release, I thought it was a great album and listened to it a lot.

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just looking at the list, I can see about 10 albums I'd put into my top 100 but the thing is, how many people actually go on the site and vote? hopefully this isnt actually a fair representation of what the British public actually think. Saying that Pulp's Different Class at 70? Jeff Buckley's Grace only at 61?! This list is pretty bad.

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Was it the repeat of the program that was originally aired in 1998 or there abouts?

If so' date=' OK Computer came out in 1997, so it isn't really surprising that it charted at No.1. At the time of release, I thought it was a great album and listened to it a lot.[/quote']

sgt. peppers.. was no.1 when they done it in 98.

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sgt. peppers.. was no.1 when they done it in 98.

I think i'm getting this program mixed up with Q magazine's best album ever chart round about that time.

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