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One Album For Every Year You Are Alive
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: CScheiner on 27 Sep 2008, 12:11 ---1991: Spiderland - Slint
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Hahaha. You just won the forum.
CScheiner:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 27 Sep 2008, 12:56 ---
--- Quote from: CScheiner on 27 Sep 2008, 12:11 ---1991: Spiderland - Slint
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Hahaha. You just won the forum.
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Why did I just win the forum? If it is because everyone likes this CD, then I didn't win the forum, I found the best forum.
Dimmukane:
That is the right answer.
Thrillho:
Actually, I personally have never even heard it. But that album is a meme on here.
spoon_of_grimbo:
1988 Bad Religion - "Suffer"
Just a brilliant example of how a melodic punk album ought to be- fast, short and to the point, catchy, and intelligent.
1989 Faith No More - "The Real Thing"
Although I actually prefer "Angel Dust," this one tends to put me in a better mood, and has some of the greatest vocal melodies of any rock record in the last 20 years - I LOVE singing along to this.
1990 Megadeth - "Rust In Peace"
Every riff and solo on this album combines amazing use of technical rhythms and perfect harmonizing, and is proof enough in my eyes that Megadeth >>> Metallica. One of those albums you can actually sing the guitar parts...
1991 Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Combines the funkier elements of their sound with the more radio-friendly sound that's defined them since. As a sort of sending-off treat before I went to uni, I went to see these guys live with my parents and brother, and we were all just singing along to every word (they even played "I Could Have Lied" and relied heavily on this album at that particular gig). Just brings back nice memories of having a great time with my family I guess.
1992 Bon Jovi - "Keep the Faith"
The trinity of bands/artists that held a permenant residence in the tape deck of my parents' car when I was kid, consisted of a Drifters collection (which would totally be in this list if I were 30 years older), a Belinda Carlisle collection, and this. I like to think that collectively, they shaped my music upbringing and gave me the keen ear for a pop melody that I still have today.
1993 Carcass - "Heartwork"
See the note under "Rust in Peace" and remove the Metallica reference - totally applies to this album, and it was my gateway into the heavier, more abrasive side of metal.
1994 Jeff Buckley - "Grace"
I was going to put Therapy?'s "Troublegum" for this year, but as great as it is, nothing can truly top the almost magical trance-like state that Buckley's music induces in me. This record brings back memories of my ex before things went downhill, and also soundtracked my whole first year of uni.
1995 Jawbreaker - "Dear You"
Again, a tough call, and as I type this, I'm seriously tempted to change this to Rocket From the Crypt's "Scream Dracula Scream," but although that particular record gets a lot more listenage, "Dear You" is almost like a therapy album for me, a thoroughly emotional album which, while not necessarily cheering me up, always gives me time to think when I'm having a bad time.
1996 The Wildhearts - "Fishing for Luckies"
The Wildhearts are everything I expected to hear when Guns N Roses were first described to me - drug-fuelled, energetic, heavy rock, with a punk edge. Needless to say, where GNR were a massive dissappointment to me (I generally CAN'T STAND their music) The Wildhearts were a huge treat, taking the aforementioned musical characteristics and adding massive pop melodies (along with some mad ideas for songs - a 10minute riff-fuelled epic about alien landings called "Sky Babies"? Yes fucking please!). Ginger still remains one of my favourite ever songwriters, and his solo albums only very narrowly missed out on being on this list.
1997 Bill Hicks - "Rant in E Minor"
Not music, but it wasn't specified that these all had to be MUSIC albums... Seriously, this guy was the nearest we'll ever have to a prophet, and he was taken from us way before his time. Imagine the ire and fury he'd be spitting out at todays politicians...
1998 Strung Out - "Twisted By Design"
The single greatest collision of melodic metal and skatepunk ever to grace my ears, and my favourite album of all time. The lyrics especially are something I can always connect with, to the point that I'm even going to get some of them tattooed. (Special mentions for this year also include "Frame and Canvas" by Braid, although having recently discovered it, I feel I can't really justify putting it above TBD, and also "Americana" by The Offspring, as it was the album that introduced me to rock music in general).
1999 Mr. Bungle - "California"
Like stepping into a chilled out yet strangely sinister parallel dimension. It's rare to come across a record with such a defined and individual character.
2000 Idlewild - "100 Broken Windows"
A bit of indie-rock, a bit of punk, a bit of sounding like a less hippy-and-annoying R.E.M. with balls. Also helps that at least half of the melodies on here have that lift-the-hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck quality.
2001 Alkaline Trio - "From Here to Infirmary"
Back when I was first getting into less mainstream rock/punk, this was about the first album to really click with me, and to which I could really relate. Easily the Trio's most solid release, in my humble opinion.
2002 Hot Water Music - "Caution"
The way Chuck and Chris interweave both their vocal lines AND guitar parts, harmonize, and provide counter melodies is just spellbinding. And the vaguely jazzy rhythm section kinda sets them apart. A lot of HWM fans prefer their earlier, more hardcore-influenced material, but I feel this is where they really reached their peak in terms of songwriting. I should add that this only very narrowly beat Thrice's "The Illusion of Safety," possibly the closest call of this whole list.
2003 Less Than Jake - "Anthem"
Yes it might be their poppiest album, and yes that may have been something to do with their return to a major label, but those points aside, this is their most fully realised albums, with their most hard-hitting and emotional lyrics, and a lot more variation in styles than you'd expect from an LTJ album. Always puts me in a good mood when I hear this, and another amazing album for singing along to.
2004 Howards Alias - "The Answer Is Never"
I didn't think it was possible for what is essentially a ska-punk band to play such a strange and intricate mixture of emo (in the original 90s sense), ska, punk, and prog-rock, but these guys pulled it off. Amazingly atmospheric at times, and sometimes just full on energetic, with some of the most endearingly heart-on-sleeve lyrics I've ever heard. Imagine a less poppy (and slightly less reggae-obsessed) RX Bandits. An amazing album, with the bonus of some amazing accompanying artwork too.
2005 He Is Legend - "I Am Hollywood"
A bit rock, a bit pop, a bit metalcore, but somehow totally different to anything else I've heard. And those dark-side-of-a-fairytale lyrics give the whole record a creepy atmosphere all it's own.
2006 Amusement Parks on Fire - "Out of the Angeles"
Listening to this album is like climbing into a womb, the way the sound just washes over you like warm fluid. The title track, which I heard on a magazine sampler, was pretty much the soundtrack to my last summer before going to uni (and brings back a lot of mixed memories, some great, some really bad, but I wouldn't change any of them), and having recently picked up the album, I was glad to find that the rest of it definitely matches up to the promise of that title-track.
2007 A Wilhelm Scream - "Career Suicide"
Like someone took the Strung Out album I mentioned above, and made everything a bit chunkier, faster, more technical, and a bit rougher-round-the-edges. The harmonies (both guitar and vocal) are unreal, and some of the riffs are jaw-dropping. Also, Trevor and Nuno have got a strange style of lyric writing that somehow combines palpable anger and emotion with some laugh-out-loud lines, and it makes for a strange, but definitely not unpleasant listen.
2008 Glass and Ashes - "Glass and Ashes"
Sounds like The Bronx covering Drive Like Jehu's "Yank Crime" while stood on the backs of charging bulls that are frantically running away from a giant wall of fire that's laying waste to a forest. Basically this record is a mixture of punk'n'roll, math-rock, and a hint of post-rock, and it's totally as awesome as the mental image that last sentence should've provided. That said, there's a severe chance the new Dillinger Four album could knock this off the 2008 top-spot, from the tidbits I've heard off it so far...
Well, that took a good couple of hours, but hey, I'd rather be writing music lists than wasting my time sleeping...
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