The point of this is to be fun therefore mashups, bootlegs, bests of, soundtracks, and compilations are all allowed on your list.
There is no judgment and I really appreciate the people who have contributed already.
Thanks for joining in The Album Project.
Can we still make fun of you?
ReplyDeleteYou have been making fun of me for 15 years, Erik. What is going to stop you now?
ReplyDeleteDeath? Incarceration?
ReplyDeleteYou know I take issue with the allowance of best of / greatest hits / anthology on your Album project. I believe you were looking for people's favorite albums. "Best of" and the like would allow people to link together excellent singles while overlooking the lost art of the "album concept". Now, my list has nearly all concept albums whether the artist intended it or not. I submit that it is a more limited and focused list to put together and will provide a better definition of one’s tastes. I do admit that the 80s and 00s had few albums and many superb singles. However, given your audience I think people can manage.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of ways that I can address this.
ReplyDeleteI would like to agree with you that all of these things are cheating, but that is not the point of this.
The point is that music in the sense of an album has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Someone, an artist, a producer, or a professional scorer, has made a choice to put the music together in a certain way.
Someone has decided to do this and in their own way, their was a methodology.
But that isn't the point of this exercise...
I have a tape of one of our radio shows that I would love to be able to burn on to disk and then rip to my iPod because we had a method and an awesome show. It meant something to me and if I still had a tape player, I would listen to it weekly.
So, if someone choses The Best of Broadway or K-Tel's Hit Explosions 1982 as their favorites, it works for me because it means something to the person listening, something about their life, and something about the choices that they are making.