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What are some of your favorite, forgotten albums that have stood the test of time?
Submitted by PeterGibbons.
I don't get the whole "forgotten" part of the questions, since if I've forgotten them, how can I tell you what they are? I'll just go with favorite albums that stand the test of time.
Lou Reed's Transformer is on the top of the list, one of those albums you can listen to from beginning to end without having to skip any tracks that suck.
Joni Mitchell's Blue is the same way, one of my "desert island" albums that I can always listen to, no matter what my mood.
And it might be a little cliche, and probably everyone is going to list it, but Jeff Buckley's Grace is another one that will never go out of style.
As for more modern albums that I think will become classics that stand the test of time, I'm going to go with Green Day's amazing American Idiot. You press play and listen to the whole thing all the way through, not a single bad track you have to skip over.
I'm also a big fan of Sufjan Stevens and have become completely addicted to Illinoise. I'm pretty sure it will stand the test of time and become a classic, but I'm not 100% the way I am about American Idiot.
And just because I've had people ask me this a lot lately, I'll explain to you why I'm a Christian who loves music but doesn't listen to Contemporary Christian Music. See, the thing is, most CCM is terrible. It's not polite to say, but it's true. I would rather stick a fork in my eye than listen to most of the crap that passes for music in the Contemporary Christian world. I like some Christian bands. I'm a big fan of U2. I love POD. They're bands whose members happen to be Christian, though, not a bunch of Christians who are trying to get their message across by forming a band.
To put it even more bluntly, most CCM offends me. The lyrics are banal at best, theologically unsound at worst. It's uninspired and hackneyed, and it tends to make people observers of worship instead of full participants.
