OFF: Top 100 selling albums of 2000

[Jon Jarrett]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, K Henderson wrote:

> Christ!  Is it *this* bad?  I've always told people who insist that my
> musical tastes are just weird-'cause-I-like-to-be-weird that I do buy plenty
> of highly popular stuff also.  Perhaps I just can't say that anymore.  Cause
> I'm sure I bought about 100 new albums this year, and I didn't buy a single
> one of these.  In fact, there are plenty of albums here by familiar bands
> that I have never heard of.  Like Bon Jovi.  He's really popular again?
> You're kidding me, when did that happen?  And I didn't even know about the
> live Floyd album!  Or Iron Maiden (they still exist?), or U2 and Metallica
> for chrissakes!  AC/DC too.  And Pearl Jam (they still exist?).  And
> a-ha...c'mon, how the hell did they resurface?!  No way!  George Michael?
> He's out of jail?  :)

        Iron Maiden went through the usual "Oh no, someone oured blood on
the ashes!" bit and have turned out what their fans tell me is a pretty
good album. The Floyd album I only knew about because of a brief and
masochistic stay on alt.music.roger-waters. Like alt.music-deep-purple, I
learned one useful thing in the months I was subscribed and suddenly
thought "Why! Why am I doing this to myself?" But if I hadn't been
subscribed it would have escaped me too. I must say, I don't know *anyone*
who's bought it.

        The U2 album isn't very good though. Which is a disappointment to
me as so far everything they'd done had been quality as far as I was
concerned and I had thought they were bankable. But no, it's just a
not-bad pop album.

> I bet that I have at least *one* of the top 100 from any other year from
> 1968 up to the mid-90s at least.  Anyway, is there *anybody* here who bought
> any of this rubbish?  Perhaps I'm not the only one, and popular music has
> truly reached a nadir.

        That's certainly the conclusion I reach whenever I'm forced to
listen to a radio. And Lemmy appears to agree with me so I don't let it
bother me :-)

> 13.U2, "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

        I got given it for Christmas, anyway.

> 35.Radiohead, "Kid A"

        And that one is good, as we almost all agreed :-)

> 86.Green Day, "Warning"

        And I *will* get this one as they started getting interesting last
album rather than just fun. But basically, I'm staying well clear of
anything that charts these days. Yours,
                                        Jon


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