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VC's definitive list of albums, A- Z (VOTING CLOSED)


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Lol I actually meant it. Live albums are indeed allowed, just because they offer a different take on the songs, as opposed to stuff like greatest hits albums which just compile the best songs on studio albums, and b-side albums which normally compile from EPs and stuff.

 

Sorry for the confusion!

 

I really don't care what the rules are for this. It's no big deal.

 

However, it does seem inconsistent to me that you could have a greatest hits album with a tracklisting that wouldn't count but you could have a live album with the exact same tracklisting which would. Yeah, a dude may throw in a cover or two on the live one that is only available there or mix a solo up a bit, but it is 90%+ the same song.

 

Your thread, your rules, though.

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Thrice's Vheissu actually had my vote - mentally - for the longest time.  I was all about Thrice in high-school, and when Vheissu dropped in 2006, it was the first album that really knocked me on my ass.  Granted, I was pretty musically naïve at that age, I sort of enjoyed how shocked I was by its unconventional direction.  It was a critical album to my musical tastes at that time -- it was the album that taught me that I should never expect a specific sound from any artist, regardless of how much I loved them.  It taught me that it's quite okay to not love a record immediately.  It showed me the value of repeated, uninterrupted plays.  And when it finally clicked, it really clicked.

 

But eight years later, I simply don't enjoy it enough to call it a favorite V album.  I skimmed my iTunes... and out of all the V albums I have, this is probably the one I'm most confident in calling a masterpiece.  Even if it just dropped last year.

 

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