NeonSnake1d ago

Thinking about music, vague memories of, many many years ago, when we did a "What's your top ten albums?" thingie at work.

Coupla things that stand out - the marketing director who chose the Roses' "Second Coming" as the best album EVAH and got very upset when we all pointed out the obvious fact that, beyond anything else, literally their *own first album* was objectively better in all measures (Second Coming is still fantastic, don't @ me)

Also, the gap year lad who chose Coldplay's second album as his favourite, commenting "It's a guitar album for people who can actually play guitar"

He's now in his 40s and is interim CEO of a bank.

I suspect these things are unrelated, but who is to say? Not me, for sure.

Show threadNeonSnake

My top ten was, needless to say, *impeccable*, and will stand up to scrutiny today, and forever more.

(I don't remember all of it, but the Stone Roses first album is, and will ever be, at the top. Screamadelica will have been at least top 3. The rest is up for grabs)

Even if I was going through a mild obsession with Hell Is For Heroes at the time.

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Show threadNeonSnake1d ago

OOOFFFFF!

You know that meme about how all 2000s music videos were filmed inside of a cheesegrater?

Allow me to present:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkIAF26iBD4

Hell Is For Heroes - I Can Climb Mountains (Official Video)

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Show threadNeonSnake1d ago

I can't remember exactly what I put at the time; I'm 100% sure I went with The Stone Roses as my first, then I'd have gone with Screamadelica, London Calling and Exile On Main Street (and I'd still choose them today), but that's about all I can remember of my mid-2000s taste, and what I considered to be "timeless" at the time?

I wonder what I'd have chosen, if I could rememeber

The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death? Fear Of A Black Planet? Automatic For The People? Nevermind?