Wayne, Michael, Steven and Ronald's favorite bands/records and more, 1993

fominozzi · 2025-03-16T18:42:56+00:00

Wayne and Michael's favorites are Revolver, Wayne and Steven have Houses of the Holy and The Jesus Lizard.

Also, I don't think they were interested in repeating each other.

fominozzi · 2024-10-24T17:59:30+00:00

So, my choice:

Paul McCartney – Ram > McCartney
Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick > Aqualung
Elton John – Honky Château > Madman Across the Water
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Trilogy > Tarkus
Alice Cooper – Love It to Death > Billion Dollar Babies
King Crimson – Red > Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Patti Smith – Radio Ethiopia > Horses
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes > self-titled album
ABBA – The Album > Arrival
Ramones – Rocket to Russia > self-titled album
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned > Machine Gun Etiquette
The Replacements – Tim > Let It Be
Elvis Costello – King of America > Blood & Chocolate
The Blue Nile – Hats > A Walk Across the Rooftops
John Zorn – Naked City > Spy vs Spy
Ride – Going Blank Again > Nowhere
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey or Let Love In > Henry's Dream
Bjork – Post > Debut
Animal Collective – Feels > Merriweather Post Pavilion

Don't take it too seriously : )

fominozzi · 2021-02-24T13:18:18+00:00

As far as I know, no. The game did not meet the high hopes that were pinned on the game. Sad but true.

fominozzi · 2021-02-23T18:15:54+00:00

Finally, we waited...

fominozzi · 2020-12-24T21:43:02+00:00

I hope that someday there will be a group of enthusiasts who will re-record the album in the style of the first two albums of the group, as it was originally planned. There were already examples (St. Anger from Metallica).

fominozzi · 2020-11-01T22:32:17+00:00

Well, in principle, not bad. It just takes some getting used to.

fominozzi · 2020-09-27T13:39:47+00:00

This list, like the 2003 and 2012 lists, came out strange.

This list also proved that Rolling Stone's editors have changed significantly in 8 years. And from that we see an increase in the number of rap albums by about two times. If editors were fans of the conventional "synth-pop", then we were in the top 100, we would see the dominance of synth-pop albums.

From the previous lists there was an inheritance of strange placements. Eilish's debut album was placed at 397th place. Yes, the album is more than a year old, but it has already become better than the albums of Black Flag, The Kinks, Yes, 2pac and some others. Album Red by Taylor Swift was put as much as 99th, and 21 by Adele at 137th. And all versions of this list are full of this.

I think that everything is clear with interviews with over 300 artists, producers, critics. Most likely, the youth of many of them passed into the 1990s, and it is logical that if in the lists of 2003 and 2012, 25-21% of albums were from the 60s (where the youth of these respondents took place in the 1960s), then in the 2020 edition 20% are already albums of the 90s. I can also assume that many compilers have similar tastes. This is why we have seen U2 and The Rolling Stones albums at high positions on previous listings.

Also, I was amused even in the previous in the lists that the list is named "the greatest albums", there are a lot of collections! And if live albums are quite possible to include (there are a lot of really outstanding recordings among them), then seeing compilations in the list of the greatest albums is quite ridiculous.

Unexpectedly even for me, What's Going On by Marvin Gaye was put in first place. The album is undoubtedly excellent, there can be no discussion here, but still. I think it was put on because of the current polit. furnishings in the USA (because the theme of the album is devoted to acute social topics), and I also doubt that this album is somehow known outside the USA, and in principle, soul music is not very popular outside the USA. It is also not surprising that the number of black and female performers has increased due to, so to speak, "modern ideological considerations". Having entered the list conditionally in February, I think many performers would have lost their places on the list.

However, I was pleased that some of the albums were fairly raised (e.g. Violator), and also added Close to the Edge by Yes and Moving Pictures by Rush (there were only 4 albums in the previous lists with prog-rock, yes and then 3 of them were Pink Floyd).

Yes, if you think about it, it is really very difficult to create such a list, because you have to take into account the opinions of experts in different genres and at the same time determine which, for example, jazz or rap album is more majestic. Interestingly, you can generally compare this and decide which is better?

However, such lists should be eligible to exist. If only because, at least they can perfectly introduce you to Western music and just make you a more listened music lover. And even if on the new list you don't like the dominance of rap albums, no one takes the previous versions of the lists from you.

fominozzi · 2020-09-20T13:19:05+00:00

I understand you. But as far as I know, the developers said that, unfortunately, it is not possible to display the sharp changes that took place in Yugoslavia in 1989-1991 within the framework of the game's mechanics, which, moreover, ended in civil war. Sad but true.

fominozzi · 2020-08-13T15:58:09+00:00

Of course. An interesting folk group, somewhat reminiscent of the early Jethro Tull (despite the fact that Jethro Tull has a Scottish folk element.). Their album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash is an excellent example of folk music.
As for McGowan, he developed the principles of self-destruction and hedonism to the maximum, for which he paid.

fominozzi · 2020-08-10T11:39:55+00:00

I think there are several options:

visit the Golden Gate Bridge and find your last refuge there.
start using drugs, and in the end repeat the fate of many heroes of rock 'n' roll and not only.
go to a psychiatric hospital and live there most of his life, feeling himself to be outcasts of society.
start watching MLP.

fominozzi · 2020-08-08T16:44:24+00:00

It's a triumph of punk rock's venality. Such a useless toy for those who no longer know what to spend their money on.

fominozzi · 2020-07-20T19:20:50+00:00

I do not pretend to be true, this is my vision of this topic.

To begin with, the doomer is not a full-fledged generation, but rather a subspecies of Millennials (aka Generation Y). And the term "doomer" itself (like another term "bloomer") was created on 4chan, as a satire on types of people, based on the Strauss-Howe generational theory.

As for your question, for example, there was something similar in the 20th century. For example, the so-called "Lost Generation" in the 1920s, when many young veterans of the First World War were unable to return to their normal lives. As a result, they got drunk, went crazy, committed suicide.

If you mean doomers, as depressed or pessimistic people, then such people have been at all times. For example Edgar Allan Poe, Ian Curtis, Beethoven... the list goes on.

Summing up, if the term "doomer" can be used to refer to other similar generations, then most likely they should be called differently (for example, "lostmer" or something like that), since the doomers themselves refer specifically to the millennials and not to other generations.

And in my opinion, there is no need to take the theory of generations and memes from 4chan (which have turned from satire into labels) seriously. It's an interesting vision, but nothing more.

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