Guess I’ve got some explaining to do. Picture yourself on the floor of the living room, 360 records splashed around you, with some vague notion about ranking them from least favourite to most favourite – how do you start? I knew I didn’t want an objective ranking, I wanted my ranking. But even so, how to start.
Eventually I struck the notion that amongst all the non-measurable variables, there was one defining factor. Some records I want to keep, some records I don’t need to keep. Now, there are different reasons for keeping a record: quality, brand loyalty, good memories, artwork… But when it comes down to it, any record, no matter how flawed, that I want to keep, means more to me than any record, no matter how accomplished, I don’t need. With a record I want to keep, there’s always the possibility of future listens and deeper affection. So that’s how it started: two piles of records splashed on the living room floor…And we’ve just reached the end of the first pile, the most accomplished records I have no desire to keep. Now I’m diving straight into the second pile, the most flawed albums I want to keep. The most flawed album I want to keep is objectively far worse than the most accomplished album I don’t need – but defend it I will. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Some of my choices will be puzzling, certainly at the start (yeah, but Wyclef Jean?), but I’m going for honesty here. And trying to put up some reasons why I’m sticking by these records from 2000. But make no mistake, the top 100 is far higher than the most accomplished records so far – I think so. Give me just thirty or forty albums to warm up.
But first, there are many treasures in the last 25 accomplished albums, and these are mine. Not ranked, but in a playlist I like to listen to. I wrote about all these tracks in the album reviews. It’s the last of these round-up posts, because, according to me, there are too many highlights in what follows. Enjoy!
1. Monster magnet – Melt
2. Brad Mehldau – Airport sadness
3. Hellacopters – I wanna touch
4. Monster magnet – Down in the jungle
5. Kingsbury Manx – New old friend blues
6. Brad Mehldau – Perugia
7. Dr John – Do nothing till you hear from me
No Youtube
8. Monster magnet – My little friend
9. Patricia Barber – Bye bye blackbird
10. Moreno Veloso + 2 – Deusa do amor
11. Dr John – On the wrong side of the railroad tracks
12. Moreno Veloso + 2 – Sertao
13. Hellacopters – No song unheard
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