About us
Are you a nuisance to your friends and family because you constantly annoy them with useless music trivia? Do you reference song lyrics incessantly in conversation? Here's your chance to bond with like-minded individuals. This group operates like a book club - except we discuss classic albums instead of books.
What determines a classic album? I aggregated multiple best-of lists along with chart data, sales figures, awards, and ratings and published the results in the book The Top 100 Albums of All Time in 2014. I revised it in 2024 as The Top 100 Albums of the 20th Century. Any albums featured in either book are eligible for discussion, as are a few others. Click here to see those albums we've already discussed and the ones that are still on the table.
Each time this group gathers, we dissect one of these albums. Do you like it or dislike it? How much familiarity did you already have with this album? What significance has it had (or not had) on music? Is this album overrated or undervalued? You get the idea.
Please note that there is a waiting list for this group at times.
Upcoming events
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Discussion: To Pimp a Butterfly
Johnson County Library - Merriam Plaza, 6120 Slater St, Merriam, KS, USJoin us to discuss Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly. The album is ranked in the top 10 of the yet-to-be-released book The Top 100 Albums of the 21st Century. Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly said, Kendrick is "expanding the boundaries of the hip-hop empire and daring other aspirants to the throne...to play catch-up" with its "throwback soul, churning jazz, Sly Stone-style riot funk, front-porch blues, and highly politicized spoken word." The 2015 release ranks as the #4 rap album of all time according to Dave's Music Database. Read more about the album here.
You can see what albums we've already discussed and what albums are still up for discussion by checking out this page here.
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Past events
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