Bakers Dozen

TV shows about people with unconventional jobs for TV-show characters (with the job)

  1. Movin’ On (truck drivers)
  2. Alice (waitresses)
  3. Scandal (spin doctor)
  4. Major Dad (Marine officer)
  5. Spin City (Deputy Mayor)
  6. Sanford and Son (Junk Dealer)
  7. 2 1/2 Men (Advertising Jingle Writer)
  8. Home Improvement (Handyman)
  9. Bob (Comic-book writer)
  10. Married with Children (shoe salesman)
  11. The Nanny (Broadway producer)
  12. The Client List (prostitute)

TV shows about people with unconventional jobs for TV-show characters (with the job)

  1. Movin’ On (truck drivers)
  2. Alice (waitresses)
  3. Scandal (spin doctor)
  4. Major Dad (Marine officer)
  5. Spin City (Deputy Mayor)
  6. Sanford and Son (Junk Dealer)
  7. 2 1/2 Men (Advertising Jingle Writer)
  8. Home Improvement (Handyman)
  9. Bob (Comic-book writer)
  10. Married with Children (shoe salesman)
  11. The Nanny (Broadway producer)
  12. The Client List (prostitute)
  13. Frasier (radio show host and psychiatrist)

This one was mine so I’ll pass the next one.

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King (THE seminal prog album-criminal to leave it off)

[Link is to the 2003 list as I could not find a nice, single, easily searchable web page for the 2012 list on newsstands right now, but, knowing them, not much has changed I’m sure in 9 years.]

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station

A better album than Trout Mask Replica, in my opinion.

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
  3. Animals - Pink Floyd
    Awesome topic. The finding one not out of 500 is a great twist.

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
  3. Animals - Pink Floyd
  4. Rush - 2112

WTF?! What kind of list of greatest albums of all time includes greatest hits, movie soundtracks, and compilation albums?

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
  3. Animals - Pink Floyd
  4. Rush - 2112
  5. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Overnight Sensation

IMHO that Rolling Stone list is a pretty darned good list. I’m very hard pressed to NOT find any of my favourites on there.

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
  3. Animals - Pink Floyd
  4. Rush - 2112
  5. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Overnight Sensation
  6. The Kinks - Give the People What They Want

The list had two Kinks albums from the sixties and a greatest hits collection from 1972 but the Kinks kept making some really good music. In my opinion, this album (from 1981) is as good as any of their early work.

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
  3. Animals - Pink Floyd
  4. Rush - 2112
  5. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Overnight Sensation
  6. The Kinks - Give the People What They Want
  7. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
  3. Animals - Pink Floyd
  4. Rush - 2112
  5. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Overnight Sensation
  6. The Kinks - Give the People What They Want
  7. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
  8. The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse - The Bonzo Dog Band

Agreed. A simple count found 9 “Greatest Hits” and 2 soundtracks. Bizarre to include GHs and compilations on a greatest albums list. That still leaves 489 good choices; maybe that balances things out.

I’ll dispute that:

The Thick of It (definitely): The Thick of It - Wikipedia
Yes Minister (arguably): Yes Minister - Wikipedia

The reviewer may have meant it’s the first American series. Or they may have been making a distinction between a government spokesman and a private PR consultant.

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
  3. Animals - Pink Floyd
  4. Rush - 2112
  5. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Overnight Sensation
  6. The Kinks - Give the People What They Want
  7. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
  8. The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse - The Bonzo Dog Band
  9. Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King

  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station

  3. Animals - Pink Floyd

  4. Rush - 2112

  5. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Overnight Sensation

  6. The Kinks - Give the People What They Want

  7. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record

  8. The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse - The Bonzo Dog Band

  9. Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
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  10. Jesus Christ Superstar
    The original concept album with Murray Head.

By my count there are 10 Greatest hits albums, 2 Soundtracks, 7 Anthologies, 5 Compilations, and 8 live albums included. Although IMHO some live albums are great… so where the hell is Peter Frampton’s Comes Alive?

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King

  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station

  3. Animals - Pink Floyd

  4. Rush - 2112

  5. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Overnight Sensation

  6. The Kinks - Give the People What They Want

  7. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record

  8. The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse - The Bonzo Dog Band

  9. Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
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  10. Jesus Christ Superstar

  11. Peter Frampton - Comes Alive

The list is slightly ridiculous. For example, Otis Redding is one of the greats but they’ve included:

  1. Otis Blue, Otis Redding
  2. The Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding
  3. The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul, Otis Redding
  4. Live in Europe, Otis Redding

OK, arguably all great albums but then they include this crappy compliation?

[FONT=Arial]147. Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology, Otis Redding

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Because Rolling Stone is idiots.

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
  3. Pink Floyd - Animals
  4. Rush - 2112
  5. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Overnight Sensation
  6. The Kinks - Give the People What They Want
  7. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
  8. The Bonzo Dog Band - The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse
  9. Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
  10. Jesus Christ Superstar
  11. Peter Frampton - Comes Alive
  12. “Weird Al” Yankovic - “Weird Al” Yankovic

Because rock and roll shouldn’t be taken too seriously

If that’s the case, they’re (he is) still wrong; Samantha Jones on Sex and the City owned and ran a private PR firm.

Best albums which didn’t make the cut for Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time:

  1. King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
  2. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
  3. Pink Floyd - Animals
  4. Rush - 2112
  5. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Overnight Sensation
  6. The Kinks - Give the People What They Want
  7. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
  8. The Bonzo Dog Band - The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse
  9. Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
  10. Jesus Christ Superstar
  11. Peter Frampton - Comes Alive
  12. “Weird Al” Yankovic - “Weird Al” Yankovic
  13. Boston - Boston

IMHO maybe the most glaring omission.

13 ways you don’t want to make yourself famous.

1.) Be nominated (or win) a Darwin Award.

13 ways you don’t want to make yourself famous.

  1. Be nominated (or win) a Darwin Award.
  2. Be a Neighborhood Watch Captain in Sanford, Florida.