Top 99 Album?

[Crusader]

Nothing wrong with a 24 hour Peter Gabriel radio station.

[somnambulist]

Haha...well, honestly I don't know ALL the stations but most of them have the same annoying crap on high rotation as FM.

[Crusader]

For radio listening:

1. Plug in a cd of your choice.

2. Hook up your iPod or MP3 player for great listening.

 

Commercial free and cheaper.

[somnambulist]

You speak words of truth, wise one.

[Hyphnip]

Dookie sold 10 million and American Idiot is approaching 6 million.

Sales does not a good record make. You can't say that every album that sells well is a great album. Look at BSB or any of those other fads that sold HUGE amounts of records, are you telling me that they are good albums? How about Elton John's Candle In The Wind? that single sold MILLIONS of copies solely because it was recorded for Princess Di. Does that make it great? I hardly think so. more like opportunistic.

[Corrinshwa]

Actually my city has a pretty rad radio station (for now...). It's called Sonic and it won't play nickleback or simple plan ever, plays Matthew Good and Limblifter and actually plays a lot of local bands. It has its share of garbage,but that's really unavoidable.

 

I love it allovertheplace. But there's talk of some company wanting to buy it and turn it into something else.

Edited July 30, 2006 by Corrinshwa

[saturnine]

first of all, this list doesn't specify what these albums are the 'top' of. for instance, this list could be identifying the top 99 most overplayed albums, or the top 99 most overrated, or top 99 most obviously commercial, etc..

 

secondly, it is compiled from listener votes. blame vancouver radio listeners.

 

thirdly, blah blah blah. bababooey.

[Jarrod]

I like Sonic. It's good.

[Ryan44]

that is total crap. this whole thing. THORNLEY made #37 cmon. greenday way up there. it must have been a bunch of angsty teens that made this up. oh and a U2 fan, and tragically hip fan.

[RicardoObviouso]

rock 101 and cfox will play the hip AT LEAST four times a day each.

 

 

i love it when they play 'gus: the polar bear from central park.'

[slegros]

WOW whoever made this list has little musical taste. Short of a few exceptions the list is basically comproised of top 40 crap. Linkin Park is the worst group of "muscians" I have ever heard.For them to be included on any list is an insult to the rest of the list.

[Ryan44]

i wouldnt say little musical taste, but the spectrum is small. there is like 2 genres in there.

 

i love gus the polar bear. im a huge hip fan. ive liked em since i could walk.

[glorifiedjam]

Rock 101.1 plays quite a bit of MGB on the other hand.

I love that they're back to playing MGB & other modern "classic" rock. It's unfortunate that they won't play -new- music tho. (According to a dj I talked to a few months ago... I had asked if they would play the new Pearl Jam since they're back in the rotation and he pointed me to the Fox. Blah.)

 

Does anyone else long for the days of the "double-shot" (on the Fox)? It was so common to hear two MGB songs in a row several times a day... I realize that can be accomplished listening to the album but I enjoy the spontaneity that was radio back in the day. Ok, done reminiscing.

[Audio of Being]

Boy this list does suck, Pearl Jam not even in top 20, Ten, Vs, are some of the best music of the grunge era. I do agree with Matt being in the top 20, but please some of these bands are just crapola.

[wonks]

1 Nirvana - Nevermind

2 Green Day - American Idiot

3 U2 - Joshua Tree

4 Green Day - Dookie

5 Pearl Jam - Ten

6 Velvet Revolver - Contraband

7 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

8 Metallica - Black

9 Billy Talent - Billy Talent

10 Audioslave - Audioslave

11 GNR - Appetite for Destruction

12 Nirvana - Unplugged

13 Weezer - Blue Album

14 Tragically Hip - Fully Completely

15 Linkin Park - Meteora

16 Metallica - Master of Puppets

17 Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

18 Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?

19 System of a Down - Toxicity

20 Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight

 

look harder next time.

[ccf23]

That list licks more balls than some sort of Mexican bullfrog ball licking machine...and those things can lick a lot of balls.

Edited August 1, 2006 by ccf23