Following up on the recent “100 Greatest Films and Books of the Decade” features in The Times newspaper, last Saturday’s edition included the “100 Greatest Albums”. I didn’t expect to do too well with this list (i.e. I didn’t expect to have too many of them in my CD collection) but I thought I’d take a look anyway. So, here goes my list from the 100 Greatest Albums:
02: Back to Black [Amy Winehouse]
03: In Rainbows [Radiohead]
10: The Seldom Seen Kid [Elbow]
17: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends [Coldplay]
59: Beautiful World [Take That]
65: Scissor Sisters [Scissor Sisters]
71: A Rush of Blood To The Head [Coldplay]
Not so good really and I’ve even had to cheat a little by including the Take That and Scissor Sisters albums which, although located in my CD shelves, are not exactly mine…
I only narrowly missed out on having the top 3 though. No.1 in the list was Kid A [Radiohead] – I have four Radiohead albums but not that one.
So that’s 11 of the top hundred – a better return than I managed for the top 100 films (see previous blog post).
Tim O'Hare 