Aug 30 2008
My Top 10
Top 10 records of all time… ready, go! It’s harder than you think. Most people don’t think of music that way, I guess. Certainly, making top ten lists is quite a nerdy thing to do. But here goes anyway.
These are my top 10 pop records of all time. I thought about including other genres, but where do you even start with that? How do you weight a top 10 across all genres? It’s a discussion that one best stays away from. Maybe I’ll do a “Jazz Top 10″ and a “World Top 10″ another time.
These are not listed in any particular order. The fact that ABBA is at the top doesn’t mean it’s my favourite record of all time.
Carsten’s Top 10 Records of All Time in No Particular Order
ABBA – The Visitors
Paul Weller – Wild Wood
Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Exodus
The Beatles – The Beatles (White Album)
Roxy Music – Flesh & Blood
Kevin Rowland and Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay
Electric Light Orchestra – Time
Yazoo – Upstairs at Eric’s
Michelle Shocked – Short Sharp Shocked
Runners-Up
Paul Simon – Graceland
Peter Gabriel – So
Sting – Nothing Like The Sun
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
The runners-up didn’t quite make the grade for the Top 10, but they’re spectacular and highly recommended records anyway.
And if I kept thinking about this topic any longer, it would all change again anyway.
