Elvis Costello created a mammoth list of the 500 most essential albums in music history

[ZiprHead]

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/elvis-costello-best-500-albums-of-all-time-list/

Quite often Far Out readers ask s to provide different series of lists with ‘the greatest albums of all time’ and, as we struggle to agree on most things, we do what everybody should always do in moments of confusion; turn to Elvis Costello for the answer.

 

[jab]

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/elvis-costello-best-500-albums-of-all-time-list/

Quite often Far Out readers ask s to provide different series of lists with ‘the greatest albums of all time’ and, as we struggle to agree on most things, we do what everybody should always do in moments of confusion; turn to Elvis Costello for the answer.

Q. 1. Is Ray Charles on this "far out" list?
Q. 2. Is Dinah Washington's Drinking Again?
Q. 2 When is a list by Elvis Costello ever essential? When is it not, like the mammoth today, DOA?

 

[WAB]

Well, Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony made the list. Cool. Hugely magnificent composer. Other than that, Costello would hate my list.

The problem with the classics, though, is that he didn't specify the conductor, orchestra, ensemble, performing artist(s), or particular performance. Mahler's 1st Symphony is there, but while that is perhaps my second favorite symphony (Mahler's 2nd being my favorite), I've heard recordings of it that would make Gustav spin in his grave with frustration.

Since this is a list of the 500 greatest albums, he should have been specific with the classics, since just mentioning the piece doesn't refer to any particular album.

Minor nit, I know...

 

[rousseau]

Just what we need, another list describing all the shit everyone's already been listening to ad nauseum for the past 6 decades.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Ditto. Is there anything lamer than lists? TV Guide must have done 50,000 of them by now -- it's time that they sort out their cover stories and give us the 50 Best TV Guide Lists.