Ahh what a refreshing list...

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Ahh what a refreshing list...

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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by shadowplay » Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:45 am

That’s your typical ‘contemporary’ vinyl chart give or take the Oasis brothers and Dave Grohl.

Come Saturday everyone will have a chance to buy them all again in quadruple penis shaped picture disc with official merchandised dildo.

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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by marqueemoon » Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:53 am

Buncha geezers.

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Post by Grey » Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:14 am

Ziggy Stardust is a great album that everyone should listen to and if it gets people into more of Bowie's catalogue, even better.

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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by mackerelmint » Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:39 pm

Why the fuck is Aja at #19?

Pretty much all the good stuff on that list I have owned on vinyl since high school when I could buy rekkids for a buck a disc in nearly new condition. Except Prince. You couldn't find Prince vinyl anywhere.

Anyway, cool nostalgia trip, record hounds. ::)
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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by shadowplay » Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:27 am

eggwheat wrote:
Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:30 am


Fucking sad...
The comments are funny, folk are strutting about boasting how many they have of the most bleeding obvious records ever.

On Reverb books they are crowing about having all the Harry Potter, 50 Shades and ‎Danielle Steel books.
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Buncha geezers.
More like bunch of typical average people in the street types. These are the sort of records sold next to the till in a big box supermarket, much as they were sold next to the till during the CD period.

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Post by skink » Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:29 am

I like and own a lot of those albums. Probably wouldn't call them my favorites, but great nonetheless. Certainly they were part of my musical rite of passage before my tastes evolved into something else. This list probably has more to do with attracting the most amount of new buyers to Reverb's LP marketplace. It's lowest common denominator marketing, so I can't imagine why anyone would take it seriously as a measure of the general public's artistic tastes.

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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by rumfoord » Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:12 am

Sorry, what's happening?

If these are used records, then it's also a list of 20 most popular records to get rid of. Either way, I agree with everyone that it's a good list of "20 records that the maximum number of people can agree are fine"...which isn't such a catchy title, but...

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Post by Jaguar018 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:52 am

When it comes to the "most popular/best selling" kind of things, what would you really expect? Especially from a US-based company like Reverb?

Those are all starter albums-- some people will hopefully start at that basic level and go deeper. I suppose one could really get into the weeds of those albums-- because some of them are amazing in a number of different ways-- but I feel like that's all sort of been done a billion times already with documentaries and discussions around bongs and beer kegs.

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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by InLimbo » Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:49 am

shadowplay wrote:
Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:45 am
Come Saturday everyone will have a chance to buy them all again in quadruple penis shaped picture disc with official merchandised dildo.
It's the only fitting that Steely Dan, aptly named in this scenario, is on that list.

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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by Unicorn Warrior » Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:15 pm

I've got not problem with The Cars. Was actually surprised it was on the list.

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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by dylanafghjkl » Wed Apr 18, 2018 4:59 am

20 piece dad rock starter pack

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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by NickD » Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:30 am

I don't have any issues with any of those records, per se, I own quite a few of them, but what the ongoing sale of some 40+ year old records has to do with news, I don't know. None of them need the publicity.

Existing/old music is fine, but there needs to be an effort to push the new, otherwise how do people (who aren't actively searching) find the new

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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by Embenny » Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:03 am

It's a list of used vinyl. You could probably look at a list of top-20 albums that sold the most copies on vinyl in the first place. As was pointed out, it's a "most sold" as well as a "most bought" situation. Both probably correlate with "most copies out there in the wild".

I was a little surprised to the The Cars up as high as they were, but that's about it. There are another dozen or two albums that would be equally unsurprising by the usual offenders.

50's artists hopped labels a lot and had a lot of material released and re-released in slightly different compilations/forms, so I'm not surprised that there wasn't a single one to crack the top-20. The 60's and 70's up through Thriller make sense in that regard. Once you get to albums that were simultaneously sold on cassette, the sales probably plummeted.
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Re: Ahh what a refreshing list...

Post by s_mcsleazy » Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:09 am

more clickbait lists for middle aged men to talk about how young people need to start making more music like that, while ignoring any band in recent years because the world passed them by
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