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The 30 Best Texas Albums
Ranking the 30 best Texas albums of the past 30 years seemed like an impossible task. We did it anyway.
THE VOTERS
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SLIDESHOW: The Texas 30: The 30 Best Texas Albums From the Last 30 Years
EXTRAS: The Texas 30 Archives
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BLOG POST: Listen To Our Texas 30 Picks On Rdio and Spotify Right Now
BLOG POST: The Texas 30: The Third Runners-Up, Albums 60-51
BLOG POST: The Texas 30: The Second Runners-Up, Albums 50-41
BLOG POST: Behold the Texas 30, Plus Albums 40-31
BLOG POST: The Texas 30: Willie Nelson's Best Albums of the Past 30 Years
SLIDESHOW: The Texas 30: The 30 Best Texas Albums From the Last 30 Years
EXTRAS: The Texas 30 Archives
BLOG POST: Introducing the Texas 30: The 30 Best Texas Albums of the Past 30 Years
BLOG POST: Listen To Our Texas 30 Picks On Rdio and Spotify Right Now
BLOG POST: The Texas 30: The Third Runners-Up, Albums 60-51
BLOG POST: The Texas 30: The Second Runners-Up, Albums 50-41
BLOG POST: Behold the Texas 30, Plus Albums 40-31
BLOG POST: The Texas 30: Willie Nelson's Best Albums of the Past 30 Years
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Neph Basedow, Houston Press
Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express-News
Tom Buckley, Texas Music
Jason Cohen, Texas Monthly
Michael Corcoran, Austin American-Statesman/Texas Monthly
Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle
Kelly Dearmore, Dallas Observer
Doug Freeman, Austin Chronicle
Chris Gray, Houston Press
Eric Grubbs, Dallas Observer
Raoul Hernandez, Austin Chronicle
Craig Hlavaty, Houston Press
John Nova Lomax, Houston Press
Rick Mitchell, Houston International Festival/ex-Houston Chronicle
Margaret Moser, Austin Chronicle
Joe Nick Patoski, author of Selena: Como la Flor and Willie Nelson: An Epic Life(among others)
Austin Powell, Austin Chronicle
Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News
Shea Serrano, Houston Press
Audra Schroeder, Dallas Observer
Richard Skanse, Lone Star Music
William Michael Smith, Houston Press/Texas Music
Mario Tarradell, Dallas Morning News
HOW THEY VOTED
Voters were asked to choose their 30 favorite Texas albums recorded and released between 1982 and 2012, to rank them in descending order and to be as clinical (or not) as they wanted to be about how they defined "favorite." We defined "Texas album" as a full-length original album released by an artist born in Texas (or a band formed in Texas), someone who got here as soon as he or she could, or a native who has since moved away but qualifies under the "once a Texan, always a Texan" rule. The results were entered into a Google spreadsheet and calculated with the invaluable assistance of Houston Press Web Editor Brittanie Shey. Not all voters listed 30 albums, but each score was calculated using 30 points as the top value.
Watch our Rocks Off music blog for much, much more on the Texas 30.
8 comments
Great article, no matter the situation SPM is a great Artist and his Free SPM movement is bigger then all the "intelligent" individuals who are always telling other people how to be,'and where to go. I define Ignorance by assuming ones opionion is fact.
The fact that ArcAngels (formed after your #1 passed by Sexton and Bramhall) didn't even make the top 30 shows that you kids don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Simply pathetic that so many would forget such an obvious omission, and it's also very telling that SRV is simply a pity vote by voters who didn't actually listen back in the day.
Black Angels- Passover, nowhere in the top 60, but plenty o' Dixie Chicks? WTF ever.......
It's No. 42, impressive considering most people have probably never heard of Zeitgeist or the Reivers.
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