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50 Albums you must hear before you buy a house 7.0 (5)

¡Oh, qué está oscuro! Afortunadamente, la música en estos días más cortos es la luz en la oscuridad. Pero espera un minuto, veré una otra luz allí … Oh, es el Donaldo, él todavía está ocupado con preparar su concurso a la luz de las velas. Verlo escribir, verlo buscar, ver esa botella vaciándose. ¿Lo hará a tiempo? ¡Lo sabremos pronto! Mientras tanto, todavía podemos disfrutar de…

GF
#  Artist Album Year 2017
20 Neil Young On the Beach 1974 3
19 Bruce Sprinsteen Born to Run 1975 36
18 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 1998 18
17 Santana Abraxas 1970 *
16 The Who Who’s Next 1971 15
GvZ
#  Artist Album Year 2017
20 Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde 1966 11
19 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here 1975 14
18 UNKLE Psyence Fiction 1998 20
17 Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 1975 10
16 Marvin Gaye What’s Going On 1971 *
RKH
#  Artist Album Year 2016
20 Panda Bear Person Pitch 2007 *
19 The Beatles The Beatles (‘White Album’) 1968 *
18 David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust 1972 *
17 Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde 1966 15
16 Steely Dan Aja 1977 24

 

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50 Albums you must hear before you buy a house 6.0 (4)

The Movie-Palace is now undone, the all-night watchmen have had their fun.

DOK
#  Artist Album Year 2016
20 DJ Shadow Endtroducing… 1996 36
19 The Beatles  Abbey Road 1969 19
18 The Doors The Doors 1967 29
17 Talking Heads Remain in Light 1980 17
16 The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 26
GF
#  Artist Album Year 2014
20 Van Morrison Astral Weeks 1968 *
19 Neil Young Tonight’s The Night 1975 *
18 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 1998 28
17 Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde 1966 *
16 The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 *
GvZ
#  Artist Album Year 2016
20 UNKLE Psyence Fiction 1998 34
19 David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust 1972 *
18 Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 1995 28
17 My Morning Jacket Z 2005 *
16 Radiohead In Rainbows 2007 10
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50 Albums you must hear before you buy a house 4.0

Citizens of hope and glory, we can already see the end of another year looming in the distance. The streets are empty, there’s darkness on the edge of town, and music professors flee into their shabby sheds to debate the most vital question of their lives: “Which is the best rock album of all time?”. We’re heading into the fourth edition since 2012, looking for successors of Selling England by the Pound, Kid A, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Band on the Run and Blood on the Tracks.

Well, tell me how your head feels under something like that, cause it’s no one less than Donald ‘Ramblin’ Oude Kamphuis rejoining the armed forces this year. With last year’s senior student Guus Fog officially graduated now and the long lasting experience of RKH and yours truly, 2015 is about to have a promising musical end game. We wanna get loaded, and we wanna have a good time, so let’s go to the results of the first autumn contemplations (previous year’s ranking between brackets):

DOK:

50. (*) Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (2008)
49. (47) Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004)
48. (50) Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane over the Sea (1998)
47. (25) George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (1970)

46. (32) Radiohead – OK Computer (1997)
“When the 90’s gave birth to the millennium.”

GvZ:

50. (37) The Band – Music from Big Pink (1968)
49. (42) Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River (1969)
48. (*) Tom Waits – Rain Dogs (1985)
47. (49) Simon & Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (1966)

46. (34) 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere (1967)
“Can’t catch your soul while sitting on your arms, man.”

RKH:

50. (*) Talk Talk – Laughing Stock (1991)
49. (30) Neil Young – After the Gold Rush (1970)
48. (50) Radiohead – The King of Limbs (2011)
47. (49) Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

46. (*) Frazey Ford – Indian Ocean (2014)
“Al Green + Canadian fertility symbol = Soul²”

GF:

50. (*) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part (2001)
49. (*) Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene (2005)
48. (*) Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (1979)
47. (19) The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle (1968)

46. (39) Eddie Vedder – Into the Wild (2007)
“En nu met de nachtbus naar fucking Londen.”

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50 Albums you must hear before you buy a house (5): 30-26

Contributed by RKH
BLASPHEMY!

We’re halfway now in our trip to find out what albums are regarded fundamentally important before becoming an house-owner. And frankly, these lists from our two professors couldn’t be further apart at this point.

RKH:

26. DJ Shadow – Endtroducing….. (1996)
27. Patti Smith – Horses (1975)
28. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
29. Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (1970)
30. Radiohead – OK Computer (1997)

GvZ:

26. The Byrds –  The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)
27. Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
28. Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde (1966)
29. Traveling Wilburys – Vol.1 (1988)
30. Simon&Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Waters (1970)

Dr. RKH shows an almost insulting disregard for the sixties and appears to have some unexplainable fetish with the nineties this week. Granted, albums like OK Computer and Entroducing….. are hallmark albums who gave music a new direction; hell, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is even featured in the design of this website! But still, Dr. GvZ is deeply disappointed in his colleague, especially because he already admitted to -spoilers!- not including The Notorious Byrd Brothers in his list. He even spoke words of blasphemy.