Comments on: Favourite cult albums

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:34:17 +0000

I was playing Fact and Fiction last night; great album and wonderful to hear it all played live a couple of months back.

re: Classic Rock, I think you’re right about their coverage being based on advertising; that and having their heads up Axl Rose’s arse to the same extent that the NME used to have their heads of Morrissey’s arse. Listing “Chinese Democracy” as their 2007 album of the year lost the last shreds of credibility they ever had. The one and only time I’ve ever made a point of avoiding someone at a gig, it was a Classic Rock hack.

I looked at Classic Rock in the newsagents a couple of days ago, and just about the entire bloody magazine was taken up with yet another of those stupid ’100 greatest songs of all time’. It stayed on the shelf.

Sorry, you’ve set me ranting. I’ll go and take some dried frog pills and lie down.

By: Flightless

Flightless — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:39:15 +0000

Totally agree about Fact & Fiction, and kind of agree about half of the others. The Guardian’s comment about Mojo & Classic Rock made me laugh – neither come over as particularly knowing where their towels are, and the latter seems to base its coverage on how much advertising a band has taken.

I’m going to add three cult albums as being among my all time favourites yet obscure…
Solstice – Silent Dance
The Enid – Aerie Faerie Nonsense
Sylvan – Artificial Paradise

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:15:41 +0000

Take a Made Tim Laugh Point, Mr Beatmaster.

By: Barry Beatmaster

Barry Beatmaster — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:12:53 +0000

stealing from the prog community, Swells? how un-rock n’ roll.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:11:56 +0000

Not my phrase originally – comes from here:
http://the-company.com/email/e2007-08-13.htm

By: Steven Wells

Steven Wells — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:44:50 +0000

Stoat-eyed acolytes. I am so stealing that,

By: NRT

NRT — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:23:02 +0000

No, no, no.

I don’t have the slightest problem with someone having a list of favourite albums – it’s ranking them that strikes me as a bit anal.

The Guardian’s amusing suggestion that an album needs to appear in Mojo or Classic Rock in order to be validated is a fairly important one: anything is ‘cult’ from someone’s point of view. Some would say the entire ‘dark ambient’ genre is cult, but some artists are so popular as to be mainstream within that niche.
I suppose to a group of stereotypical teenagers Beethoven would be considered a cult artist….