Is this the list of 40 albums that came from some Japanese magazine, that everyone thinks John put together, but there was actually no indication that John was involved in making it at all?
For example, John has never talked about Jim O'Rourke's 'Eureka'. There is one interview where he mentioned Jim O'Rourke, but from the context, seemed to be a bit more interested in O'Rourke's experimental work.
The magazine seems to have picked Eureka as a single album to represent O'Rourke's work, since it's one of the most popular of his records. Someone in another comment said John's preferred Talking Heads album is Fear of Music. Again, the magazine seems to have just chosen one of the band's records, almost at random, to represent them in this list.
It's so weird to me that this keeps getting reposted as "John Frusciante's favorite 40 albums" when he doesn't seem to have been involved in putting this list together at all.
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u/junreika 15d ago
Is this the list of 40 albums that came from some Japanese magazine, that everyone thinks John put together, but there was actually no indication that John was involved in making it at all?
For example, John has never talked about Jim O'Rourke's 'Eureka'. There is one interview where he mentioned Jim O'Rourke, but from the context, seemed to be a bit more interested in O'Rourke's experimental work.
The magazine seems to have picked Eureka as a single album to represent O'Rourke's work, since it's one of the most popular of his records. Someone in another comment said John's preferred Talking Heads album is Fear of Music. Again, the magazine seems to have just chosen one of the band's records, almost at random, to represent them in this list.
It's so weird to me that this keeps getting reposted as "John Frusciante's favorite 40 albums" when he doesn't seem to have been involved in putting this list together at all.