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…as selected by various institutions
VH1
1. The Beatles – Revolver
2. Nirvana – Nevermind
3. The Beatles – Rubber Soul
4. The Beatles – Abbey Road
5. The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. Nirvana – Bleach
7. The Beatles – The White Album
8. Nirvana – In Beatlero: Nirvana Sings The Beatles
9. The Beatles – Come Together As You Are: The Beatles Guess What Nirvana Will Sound Like In the Future and Plays That
10. Nirvana - An Interview With Krist Novoselic In Which He Mentions the Word “Beetle” When Coaxed Into a Tangent About Insects
Q
1. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
2. The Stone Roses – Stone Westminster Abbey
3. Radiohead – Take the Lift to the Thames
4. Oasis – Kilometres and Kilometres of Overratede
5. Manic Street Preachers – Bangers n’ Mash? Cheers.
6. Blur – Birds Who Love Blokes Who Love Bobbies Who Love Crumpets
7. The Libertines – Shine Your Boots, Guvnah?
8. Muse – We Claim India In the Name of Figgy Pudding
9. The Futureheads – Blimey!
10. Various Artists – Music to Synch Boobs to: The Benny Hill Soundtrack
Rolling Stone
1. Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
2. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On, Token Black Inclusion? (1971)
3. Elvis Presley – The Sun Sessions (1955)
4. Frank Sinatra – Singing the Twelve Songs That Exist Now (1946)
5. Robert Johnson – Good Because It Sounds Old (1935)
6. Hick Playing Bluegrass – Got Moonshine On Me Banjo (1922)
7. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (1912)
8. Samuel Morse – Telegraph Signals Captured On Wax Cylinder (1846)
9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in G for Harpsichord, Violin (Flute) and Cello (1764)
10. A Trilobite Fossil From the Paleozoic Era With Trapped Air That May Have At One Time or Another Contained Sound (550 million years ago)
Spin
1. Kanye West – The Next Big Thing
2. Franz Ferdinand – Check That, the Next Big Thing
3. The Streets – A Thing!!! And Big and Next!!! Ahhhh!!!!
4. Modest Mouse – Oh Whoops, How’d We Forget These Guys? No, Really, It’s Them.
5. The Killers – Yo, Dudes, What About Us?
6. Interpol – We’re The Next Thing, Only Bigger! What’re You Guys Gonna Do, Kill Us? Ooooh…
7. Bloc Party – Sorry, Interpol, 2004 is Interp-over
8. Interpol – Oh Yeah? Your Mother.
9. Loretta Lynn – Oh For Christ’s Sake, Grow the Fuck Up. Oh, and Also, It’ll Be Me.
10. Elliott Smith – All Right, This Is the Magazine Again. No More Bull. We Swear, This Guy’s Going to be Huge. He is a Thing, and Next, and — Wait, What? Really?? God Damnit.
Scientific American
1. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
2. King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
3. Genesis – Paintings of Dragons by Dragons
4. Yes – Nine Synthesized Hours
5. Kansas – The Book in the Window of the Tower in the Castle of Dreams
6. Traffic – Solos That Never Actually End, You Have to Manually Hit Stop
7. Moody Blues – Flutes Over 8th Grade Poetry
8. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Hourglass Sands of Crushed Crystal Dragons
9. Rush – You’ve Just Purchased This Album and that Fact Can Never Be Undone
10. Mike Oldfield – Never Seen a Vagina? Listen to This
Pitchfork
1. The Pixies – Dolittle
2. Arcade Fire – FYI, There’s Some Kissing Space Left on My Right Cheek
3. Word UnrelatedWord – Incoherence Equals Respectability
4. Punk;Tuation!@ – I Can’t Believe It’s Not Coldplay
5. The Plural Nouns – Cover Art and Twenty-Eight Minutes of Static-Filled Crap
6. Obscurey McGee – The Obscure Album
7. Hp (Hip) – Melody Is For Sellouts
8. Guy With Dictaphone – Memo to Self: Doctor’s Appointment on the 12th
9. Band You’ve Heard of – Desperate Plea For Relevance
10. Who the Hell? – Even We Don’t Know Who We Are or What This Is
Juice
1. The Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
2. The Ramones – Ramones
3. Rebel Against the Mutiny – The Way Things Are Should Fucking Change
4. Black Item – Decapitating Goats Then Having Sex With the Hole In the Neck
5. The Dead Persons of Authority – Irony Is For Robot Raves
6. Lexus Painsaw Ass-acre – Eye Before Me Except After Spree
7. Servers of Death – Our Special Tonight Is The Grilled Lamb Top Sirloin Wrapped In Applewood Smoked Bacon, With Gorgonzola Walnut Ravioli, Pearl Onions, and a Side of Death
8. Spina Bifida Havers – Your Misfortune Is Our Fortune, Miss
9. Joe Prick and the Cocks – Bloody Cunt Rape…There, Got Your Attention?
10. ConvicXted – This Isn’t an Image, We Really Will Fucking Kill You
NME
1. The Strokes – Is This It
2. The Hives – Tyrannosaurus Hives
3. White Stripes – Elephant
4. The Strokes – I’m Never Going to Get Tired of This Music, EVER
5. The Hives – Why Has Every Other Band Not Given Up Yet?
6. White Stripes – They Sound Like Led Zeppelin…If Zeppelin Touched the Talent Ball From Space Jam!!!!!!!!!!
7. The Strokes – The Second Coming of Christ? In the Form of Many Christs?
8. The Hives – I Would Let This Band Fuck My Wife
9. White Stripes – I Am Having This Album Surgically Implanted Into My Ear Canal to Ensure That I Will Hear Nothing But the White Stripes for Every Moment of Eternity Henceforth
10. Fellating The Strokes (not an album title, just the act)
Posted by Dan Hopper at April 23, 2005 06:01 PM
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Hilarious. Pitchfork and NME made me laugh the most, probably because I read them more. Guy with Dictaphone has to be one of my favorite artists.
Posted by: Garp at April 24, 2005 01:59 AM
Dude, all you did here was copy and paste the top ten lists from a couple of magazines.
That's not funny.
That's PLAGIARY.
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