The Current's 893 Essential Albums

[Sighclone Fan]

The Current, a MN radio station, has been listing off the 893 most essential albums voted on by the listeners. It has been really fun listening this past few days as they count down, especially since it ranges all genres.

Here is a link to the list: http://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2016/05/05/893-essential-albums

They are in the 200's right now I believe.

Voters submitted their top 10 albums to make the list.

Anyone else been listening?

 

[JSmoove]

My question is how they did the rankings because for sure they had to have had some with the same amount of votes.

 

[dmclone]

Sweet, thanks for the link. I ended up having to download the app to make it work on my Android.

 

[Cybyassociation]

Wow...just going through the 200's...there are some stellar albums.

 

[Sighclone Fan]

My question is how they did the rankings because for sure they had to have had some with the same amount of votes.

I wondered the same thing.. There had to been a lot of ties in the 800's with only a few votes.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Neighbor posted his top 5 on Facebook. I have 2 of his albums so figure if I crank open the windows and crank up the volume and spin the vinyl on those he can't complain. Right?

 

[Sighclone Fan]

Neighbor posted his top 5 on Facebook. I have 2 of his albums so figure if I crank open the windows and crank up the volume and spin the vinyl on those he can't complain. Right?

Which two albums?

 

[jburke]

The sad part to me, is how many of these I own, wow, I have spent a lot of money on music over the years.

 

[BoxsterCy]

The sad part to me, is how many of these I own, wow, I have spent a lot of money on music over the years.

Change "sad" to "awsome", man! :smile:

 

[dmclone]

My god, play some music and quit talking

 

[Al_4_State]

I think I've owned 75% of the albums in the 200's in my life.

 

[ribsnwhiskey]

Way too much modest mouse, spoon, ani difranco and other crap to be considered a legit list.

 

[Al_4_State]

Way too much modest mouse, spoon, ani difranco and other crap to be considered a legit list.

My guess is the classics will be more represented in the Top 200, which they haven't even shown yet.

 

[TXCyclones]

Their Top 100 had better be ******* STUNNING based off of some of those they put in 800-893! Holy ****! Several of those should have been in the top 200 if not the top 100...

 

[BoxsterCy]

Which two albums?

Looked and it was his Top 10. Of those I only had Born to Run and Joan Armatrading Show Some Emotion.

I thought I owned the only copy of Show Some Emotion.

 

[JSmoove]

****** there are a lot of Beck albums on this list.

 

[dmclone]

A lot of great songs so far this morning. With that said, I have no clue who Bon Iver is.

 

[Sighclone Fan]

A lot of great songs so far this morning. With that said, I have no clue who Bon Iver is.

An artist out of Eau Claire, WI. I think the local angle helped out with him being ranked so high.

 

[JSmoove]

An artist out of Eau Claire, WI. I think the local angle helped out with him being ranked so high.

You might be right, but I still like them a lot. Justin Vernon's self titled album is good too.

Every time I see the list update I want to scream "this list is horse ****!" but I guess that's the fun of it.

 

[Bret44]

You might be right, but I still like them a lot. Justin Vernon's self titled album is good too.

Every time I see the list update I want to scream "this list is horse ****!" but I guess that's the fun of it.

Arcade Fire above Are you Experienced by Hendrix???