OFF: Top 100 selling albums of 2000

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

Ah yes - but all thsoe bands (except Radiohead) made far, far better albums
than that and I do regard, even as a part-time fan, the AC/DC, Maiden and
Floyd as all pretty well 'non-essential' items, musically - should be
interesting hearing the new Waters-masquerading-as-Pink Floyd album when I
get around to it.
Andy Garibaldi.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mather" <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: Top 100 selling albums of 2000


> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, K Henderson wrote:
>
> => Christ!  Is it *this* bad?  I've always told people who insist that my
> => musical tastes are just weird-'cause-I-like-to-be-weird that I do buy
plenty
> => of highly popular stuff also.  Perhaps I just can't say that anymore.
Cause
> => I'm sure I bought about 100 new albums this year, and I didn't buy a
single
> => one of these.  In fact, there are plenty of albums here by familiar
bands
> => that I have never heard of.  Like Bon Jovi.  He's really popular again?
> => You're kidding me, when did that happen?  And I didn't even know about
the
> => live Floyd album!  Or Iron Maiden (they still exist?), or U2 and
Metallica
> => for chrissakes!  AC/DC too.  And Pearl Jam (they still exist?).
>
> => I bet that I have at least *one* of the top 100 from any other year
from
> => 1968 up to the mid-90s at least.  Anyway, is there *anybody* here who
bought
> => any of this rubbish?  Perhaps I'm not the only one, and popular music
has
> => truly reached a nadir.
>
> Okay, I'll stand up and say that I bought some of this "rubbish."  I
> bought the Floyd _Is There Anybody Out There?_ double album, and bought
> the Beatles _1_ as a Christmas present for someone.  (It boggles the
> mind how anyone can classify the Beatles as rubbish, but I guess *I'm*
> the one who's out of it.)
>
> I guess you've been living under a rock, Keith. :-)  If nothing else but
> to miss the postings on BOC-L ranting about the Radiohead album in the
> list.  Or to read in the media of the cool release of the *entire* 2000
> Euro tour by Pearl Jam[*], which made our local paper, at least.  Also,
> if you happen to catch any Saturday Night Live (I watched it for the
> election skits), you'll have caught AC/DC doing "Stiff Upper Lip," and
> U2 doing stuff off their new album.  I believe Iron Maiden have actually
> brought Bruce Dickinson(sp?) and the original guitarist (name?) back
> into the band, and have heard good things have resulted (at least by
> Maiden standards).
>
> If this is ranked by albums sold, I'm amazed Iron Maiden came in at
> number 55---above the Backstreet Boys!
>
> (I thought it was taken as a given on this list that number of albums
> sold was not a reliable indicator of quality?)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> obBOC-L: [*] Has anyone besides me noticed the blanga section towards
> the end of "Present Tense?"
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa