Avaitor's Classic Albums Discussions

[Avaitor]

Guys, I might make a surprise edit for my planned talkbacks, in lieu of the upcoming anniversary of a particular one.

Any guesses?

[Commode]

I wonder how much money that kid got for showing his wee-wee on the cover of that album...

Of course now, 20 years later, you couldn't release an album with that art without everyone going all To Catch a Predator on you.

[Avaitor]

Well, I've already done Nevermind, so that ain't it. I'll probably bump it next month if Mugen doesn't, though.

[Kiddington]

Is this it?

[Avaitor]

We'll see...

[Commode]

Oh yeah, right.  I dunno, I could guess a certain double album then.

[Avaitor]

If you're thinking Illusions, you're thinking wrong. Already did my GNR talkback.

That said, I might break my one album per artist rule next year for the 30th anniversary of a particular release. And if you still can't guess what I'm doing, who says the anniversary in question is it's 20th?

[Kiddington]

Well, jeez... going by that, you could be talking about an album's 8th anniversary, or some other weird number. 

I just assume 20th, as that's a pretty landmark milestone for an album (more so than a 10th). So... yeah, with that said, I got nothin'.

[Avaitor]

Lawl. I meant in the zero's. 20, 30, etc. But you'll know in a couple of days, once I can find my damn copy of the album.

[Avaitor]

I don't know if I'll get through my "surprise" talkback as soon as I was planning. But yeah, I was going to do Ten.

Until then, there's this.

[Kiddington]

Great post! 

Had no idea the only Alanis track to be up for a VMA was Ironic; kinda figured it would have been You Oughta Know before anything else. As much flak as that song takes for the lyrics being totally out of context with the actual definition of the word ironic, I still love it; it's probably my song she's ever done (interesting choice, I know... but hey).

1999 was an absolutely ghastly year for music as a whole, but those VMA choices are nothing short of brutal. Backstreet Boys? Korn? Ewwwwwwwwww. You could just see things were taking a turn for the worse with a crop like that.

Lot of other fine nominees in there, though; Sabotage, Basket Case, New Pollution... great songs, and great videos. And yeah, totally agreed on Bittersweet Symphony as well. Fucking awesome song; one of my favorites ever, as a matter of fact. Really too bad they didn't win.

[Avaitor]

I'm really wishing that I went with a good Sabbath album instead of the easy target. Would've been more fun to tackle Volume 4, Sabotage, and especially H&H. Ah well.

[Spark Of Spirit]

You gotta do Raising Hell, man. No one can touch Run DMC at their peak.

[Avaitor]

Actually, that is in my queue.

The only hip-hop album I'm planning, in fact.