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The 150 Worst Albums Made By Men
Don't blame me. I'm just the typist.
Hat tip, "The Stranger" slog: The Problem with Jezebel's '150 Worst Albums Made by Men' List
The 150 Worst Albums Made By Men
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Tuesday 6:25pm Filed to: MEN
NPR has compiled a list of what the outlet is calling the “150 Greatest Albums by Women,” as chosen by chief music critic Ann Powers and a cadre of other writers. The point of categorizing albums based on no criteria but gender, as explained by Powers, was to shift “the assumption that a male perspective can stand for all perspectives,” and to recenter women as a vital, dynamic part of the musical canon without reverting back to that perspective. Women are culturally trendy now, as you might have surmised from a glut of “Let’s Get Feministy” style merch in your native ad feed, but if you might remember when we were not—and those of us who’ve been through the “feminism is cool” cycle a few times can predict that there’s a decent chance the tide will turn back around.
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That said, here is our canon of dread! We didn’t really need to acknowledge that, for every 150 great albums by women that get made, there are at least twice as many terrible ones made by men, but as a thought exercise it was fun to think about the male albums that I, and my coworkers at Jezebel and the wider net at Gizmodo Media Group, think are the shittiest. We didn’t provide blurbs because that would have required listening to this awful discography yet again. They’re in no particular order apart from the top 10 or so, which deserve more disdain from me, personally, than most. You might find your favorite group on here, but don’t feel offended. Taste is always subjective, and it’s 2017; everything is bound to be utterly stupid from here on out.
{snip, but number 19 will leave you astonished!!!!1!!} *
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Tuesday 6:25pm Filed to: MEN
NPR has compiled a list of what the outlet is calling the “150 Greatest Albums by Women,” as chosen by chief music critic Ann Powers and a cadre of other writers. The point of categorizing albums based on no criteria but gender, as explained by Powers, was to shift “the assumption that a male perspective can stand for all perspectives,” and to recenter women as a vital, dynamic part of the musical canon without reverting back to that perspective. Women are culturally trendy now, as you might have surmised from a glut of “Let’s Get Feministy” style merch in your native ad feed, but if you might remember when we were not—and those of us who’ve been through the “feminism is cool” cycle a few times can predict that there’s a decent chance the tide will turn back around.
....
That said, here is our canon of dread! We didn’t really need to acknowledge that, for every 150 great albums by women that get made, there are at least twice as many terrible ones made by men, but as a thought exercise it was fun to think about the male albums that I, and my coworkers at Jezebel and the wider net at Gizmodo Media Group, think are the shittiest. We didn’t provide blurbs because that would have required listening to this awful discography yet again. They’re in no particular order apart from the top 10 or so, which deserve more disdain from me, personally, than most. You might find your favorite group on here, but don’t feel offended. Taste is always subjective, and it’s 2017; everything is bound to be utterly stupid from here on out.
{snip, but number 19 will leave you astonished!!!!1!!} *
* It's a reference to clickbait. I have no idea whether number 19 will leave you astonished or not.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is number 104. Fire away.
Also, there's this:
The Problem with NPR's '150 Greatest Albums Made by Women' List
by Dave Segal • Thursday at 9:45 am
{The following post may be construed as mansplaining, but do know that I was spurred to write it after being prodded by a woman DJ/producer from Seattle. If you so wish, though, deduct points from this post due to my gender.}
NPR's list of "Turning the Tables: The 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women" has been generating much internet chatter and many arguments, and spurred a handful of counter lists. The Stranger has a history of nitpicking about such lists, and this new one spearheaded by highly respected veteran journalist Ann Powers has also triggered our reactionary impulses. Now, NPR's feature contains many worthy entries, but it seems like a missed opportunity to expose the public to more obscure and adventurous female musicians. NPR's list—composed by several respected music journalists and radio DJs—strikes me as an attempt at canon-building and a corrective toward many media outlets' diminishment/erasure of non-male cultural creativity. But my main problem with the feature is that it comes off as the 21st-century internet equivalent of the Rolling Stone Album Guides of the '70s and '80s. Essentially, it suffers from the same pervasive conservative groupthink as those tomes.
by Dave Segal • Thursday at 9:45 am
{The following post may be construed as mansplaining, but do know that I was spurred to write it after being prodded by a woman DJ/producer from Seattle. If you so wish, though, deduct points from this post due to my gender.}
NPR's list of "Turning the Tables: The 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women" has been generating much internet chatter and many arguments, and spurred a handful of counter lists. The Stranger has a history of nitpicking about such lists, and this new one spearheaded by highly respected veteran journalist Ann Powers has also triggered our reactionary impulses. Now, NPR's feature contains many worthy entries, but it seems like a missed opportunity to expose the public to more obscure and adventurous female musicians. NPR's list—composed by several respected music journalists and radio DJs—strikes me as an attempt at canon-building and a corrective toward many media outlets' diminishment/erasure of non-male cultural creativity. But my main problem with the feature is that it comes off as the 21st-century internet equivalent of the Rolling Stone Album Guides of the '70s and '80s. Essentially, it suffers from the same pervasive conservative groupthink as those tomes.
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Plenty of great songs on that album.
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"72. Robbie Williams, Swing When You’re Winning"
There's no such album 
If yr gonna trash something, at least get the title right.
Thirty of the Worst Heavy Metal Album Covers of All Time
JANUARY 7TH, 2016 AT 3:30PM AXL ROSENBERG
For example:
JANUARY 7TH, 2016 AT 3:30PM AXL ROSENBERG
For example:
I saw them live last year and they brought the house down! 
