timeless albums

FoolThemAll · Post by **FoolThemAll** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 9:48 am

Hmm.

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Radiohead - OK Computer
Weezer - Blue Album (or maybe just on the threshold)
Beatles - Abbey Road (though I prefer Rubber Soul)
Nirvana - Nevermind

I like Pearl Jam and the Stone Temple pilots both more than Nirvana, but Nirvana's really the only one of them that comes close to having a timeless album. PJ's Ten had a second half that didn't appeal to everyone, and Core seems to me to be STP's least varied work.

Tom the Fish · Post by **Tom the Fish** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 10:38 am

Jace Tsunami wrote:Thursday, as much as I fucking love that album, no one knwos who they are dude. Shame shame on you, you even made this thread. How can they be part of our culture, and a timless album if no one knwos who they are?

They've played the warped tour and been on MTV, along with what I see as a pretty solid fanbase. I don't think they're starving out in obscurity.

Michael Stipe once said that only 100 people ever bought the first Velvet Underground record, but all those people started bands. Does that make it timeless, or influential, or are those catagories too fluid from person to person? It's all just words and opinions in the long run, and fun to discuss.

Tom

kilik^ · Post by **kilik^** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 11:56 am

I usually dont tend to get into arguments with anyone on this forum, because i dont want to make nothing a really big of a deal so i usually ignore.

For myself, what i consider timeless album is something that has contributed something to music, something that had make an influence on the music itself. Thursday had contributed a lot to the hardcore scene that is pretty much a genre that is unknow to the majority of people, And thursday is on of the few known hardcore bands. Full collpase is an AWSOME album, and they really had created a style that i think no band could ever copy, So thats why i consider their album as timeless, cause in 10 years from now i could still listened to them.

But hey, everybody that has post has a diferent definition of what a timeless album is, so i dont think everybody has put anything wrong. Maybe to some people what u are saying is true, maybe to some is not. anyway, i dont feel like i should argue about this again

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Jace Tsunami · Post by **Jace Tsunami** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 2:30 pm

well according to what you just said that wouldn't technicaly make it timeless, just to you.

I have to agree with you about Thursday being Unique tho. I see a lot of their styles in other bands, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that any band sounds like them, maybe just a little similar.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 10:01 pm

Nothing appeals to everyone. Absolutely nothing.

There are albums that I HAVE listened to for ten years - ABBA Gold, Depeche Mode's Violator - but I wouldn't call them ultimately timeless.

See, this is the problem with, once again, forgetting the difference between "ultimate truth" and "my opinion." Each is fine, but few people make the distinction at the start of the thread and someone ends up getting pissy at some point or another.

Yaia · Post by **Yaia** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:01 am

"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
"The White Album" - Beatles

BigshotSpike · Post by **BigshotSpike** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:12 pm

hide-Psyence
X-Japan-Dahlia
X-Japan-Art of Life
Pink Floyd-Wish you were Here
Manic Street Preachers-The Holy Bible
Dir En Grey-Gauze
Radiohead-OK Computer
Bjork-Homogenic
Gackt-Mars
Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream
Stabbing Westward-Darkest Days
Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral
Marilyn Manson-Mechanical Animals
Green Day-Dookie
Ben Folds Five-Whatever and Ever, Amen
Oasis-What's the Story Morning Glory?
Pierrot-Heaven, the Customized Landscape

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:51 pm

I esp. enjoy listening to Chiquitita & Voules Vouz in ABBA - Gold album. Brings back childhood memories =)
Whenever I'm in mood for disco: Micheal Jackson - Off The Wall
Any other times: MLTR - Paint My Love

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon May 05, 2003 9:14 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:Nothing appeals to everyone. Absolutely nothing.

This discussion is making me chuckle. But Sarah is right

It feels kinda like hell to me... though it doesn't burn too too much... but what is timeless? Is timeless great? Does timeless challenge our conception of music or merely go along with it?

If timeless is great by definition, then what I see is that the greatest albums are the ones which are the most mainstream... brother, I surely am in hell then

But it's not a really bad kind of hell. It's gut funky little plastic horned demons running around.

Am I the only one with the crazy idea of making an AMV series for a whole album, or has it been done before?

kilik^ · Post by **kilik^** » Mon May 05, 2003 11:02 pm

Otohiko wrote: Am I the only one with the crazy idea of making an AMV series for a whole album, or has it been done before?

I dont think so. Quite some time ago a guy made a thread about him making an AMV series with the Reanimation album (Linkin park, just in case

) maybe he is making it right now..... you're right in one thing is a creazy idea

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