Is it comprehensive? Is it limiting? Why the hell doesn’t it include Classical?
This was my intro to being a music nerd years ago so I had a lot of formative experiences as a teen listening to this stuff so to me it’s good. As an adult and a leftist, these kinds of attempts to create an indie “canon” come off as chauvinistic and I don’t like it.
I honestly like the idea of a community coming together to create a list of their most discussed and beloved interests. I really don’t think that’s chauvinist, unless they’re exporting it forcibly.
I was on /mu/ at the time and how familiar you were with the “basics” and how far you had moved past it into more niche and obscure genres was a source of prestige and was justification for making fun of the “plebes” who were still just listening to Neutral Milk Hotel for the first time, so it was not like friends just sharing some great albums with each other it was a mostly toxic culture based around a narrow understanding of what is good music and what it is to be “cultured.”
Looks about white.
Doesn’t include much punk either… or pop, disco… :/
Seems like there is a lot of good stuff there, but a lot of it is pretty narrow to the typical 4chan/reddit music board taste. I wonder if the person who made this has actually listened to all those albums.
For real. Where’s the pop music? Pop music is good. I used to be the kind person who hates on pop music, but then I realized that I actually love pop music and was denying myself joy for no reason other than to feel a particular kind of superiority to people who listen to pop music.
There’s a good chunk of Punk in Sub-/mu/core and “classics”. This is just a basic snapshot of what gets/got discussed on /mu/ at one point. I doubt many have gone through the whole list. Would be nice for them to include it, but I doubt many of those nerds are into much punk.
I personally want Funk added to this list.
You’re right, on closer look I did find some in there. Still, there’s more of Radiohead alone than of some genres/sub-genres.
No Four seasons of love, the greatest album is the 70s is an egregious mistake
Completely snubs R&B, soul and funk except for a few tokens like What’s Going On and Superfly
Screams “I took a chance on music 7 years ago and never looked back. I never looked forward either, so I’ve been listening to the same 5 albums since 2013”
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