ALL-TIME DESERT ISLAND TOP FIVE: Albums that are as good as everyone says they are:
5. The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths
4. Loaded, The Velvet Underground
3. Automatic For the People, R.E.M.
2. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
1. The Joshua Tree, U2
Well, that was obvious enough, wasn't it?
Please note the following which did not make the list: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, etc.
Please also note the following: disqualfied because they are double albums, which always have more music than they should: Exile on Main Street, Blonde on Blonde*, Electric Ladyland**
*actually disqualified for "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," because no song on an album should ever be 13 minutes long.
**actually disqualified for "Voodoo Child," because no-one wants to hear Jimi Hendrix solo endlessly while fifteen shmoes talk in the background.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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