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My Top 25 Albums Of All Time
I Am Not Amused:
My friends and I actually take about an hour out of our schedules every day for a month to discuss these things together. We start with just about every album we've ever liked, whittling down the list to however many albums we feel we don't want to part with.
Listening sessions where albums that are close in position are listened to back to back are numerous and are actually the most helpful bit of the entire process.
I am as completely confident in my list right now as I was when I posted it. These were the top five 'not quite' albums.
Microphones, The Glow, Pt. 2
Manic Street Preachers, This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours
Death Cab For Cutie, The Photo Album
Modest Mouse, Good News For People That Love Bad News
Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks
Revenge_Therapist:
25. Bad Religion-Suffer
The first new school punk rock record. Great melodies, and wonderful lyrics. Too bad most of their ilk were just trash. *Dirty looks at Social Distortion.*
24. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antartica
One of the first non punk rock albums I listened too in the 21st century. Great music, very obtuse, but strangely accessable. Recommended to anyone who wonders about all these bands Jeph keeps talking about.
23. Bouncing Souls- Tie One On.
The only way to hear this band. The Live records format comes off better than most punk rock bands. The standout track is chunksong.
22. Q and Not U- No Kill No Beep Beep
Very accessable, tight melodies, wonderfully textured rhythms, and very smart (assed?) lyrics.
21. Dead Kennedys- Frankenchrist
This is the paradigmatic punk record. Jello Biafra showed his true genius, too bad due to the trials relating to the art of this record it soon turned to insanity.
20. KMFDM- UAIOE
Before they were a cleshea of goth teen angst. Before the played shitty techno-metal. Before Sasha K lost his goddamn mind and kicked out everyone and reformed the "band" with all new members. There were keyboards, clever lyrics, sparse guitars, and a great sense of humor. This record is the height of 80'sindustrial.
19. Big Black- Bulldozer EP
Steve Albini, young, pissed, and at the helm. Really just get the fuck out of the way, your stereo may try and kill you.
18. Pegboy-Strong Reaction/Three Chord Monte
Former members of Naked Raygun and Big Black formed this Chicago rock supergroup. a very good departure form the hard/agressive edge of their former bands, but it does keep good rock beat, and awesome guitars.
17. Nine Inch Nails- Broken EP.
Ministry takes over the musicianship here. Shortly after hus callaboraton with Pigface, he asked Al jorgenson, and Martin Atkins to play drums, it left Reznor to scream like the angsty bitch he is. Great stuff. (on a sidenote, due to the label on Suck being by T. Reznor/Pigface, Trent was subject to many a humilating remix at the hands of Pigface's rather inevntive crew.
16. Ministry-In Case you Didn't feel like showing up
Ministry live, has every good track they every did. This is really all you need of their catalouge.
15. Neil Young- After The Gold Rush
FeaturesSouthern Man, the inspiration for Lynyrd Skynard's retarded ass "Sweet Home Albama". As for Mr. Young's record, this is him at his peak. Awesome song writing, and even better melodies to back it up. Recommended for newbies to classic rock.
14. Misfits- Evilive
Worth Henry Rollins doing guest vocals on We are 138, the rest is forgetable, but that moment is fucking priceless.
13.Circle Jerks- Group Sex
Keith Morris is Mr. FUCKING PUNK ROCK. Listen to this records, words cannot describe how hard this rocks.
12. Boris the Sprinkler- Saucer to Saturn
Green Bay punk rock. Sorry just needed a localish band on here.
11. Subhumans- 29:29 split vision
They showed they were more than another shitty english hardcore band here. Great powerful political lyrics.
10. 999- Seperates
Awesome records, highlight track, Let's face It.
9. Buzzcocks-Singles Going Steady
This is a classic. If you don't have it get it.
8. The Specials-S/t.
This was what ska is supposed to sound like.
7. Built to Spill-Keep it like a Secret
Everyone knows these guys so I don't have to say much. Spacy rock and roll. Stand out track "You were right"
6. Beatles-Revolver
Really I don't have to decribe this here. This and Rubber soul are the only Beatles records I still get down with. Definitly their peak period.
5. Cake- Fashion Nugget
I know every word and I never get sick of this, almost 10 years and counting of sevral palys a week.
4. Shellac- At Action Park
This record is one of the best I have ever heard, you can taste the bile, and the drums can cause your flat to shake like an earthquake.
3. Fifteen- Lucky
Jeff Ott is one the best political song writers of the berkley scene. As Mitch Clem said, he said that this guy lived in avan in the woods for a year. Amazingly poppy punk without beign childish.
2. Fugazi-Repeater
This record changed everything about music for me. I love the fact it's punk but no where near anything I'd ever heard before. I've been obsessed with this band ever since.
1. The Clash- London Calling
The swan song of english punk rock. It was never the same after this, but it was never done so well. What a great close to their era.
KharBevNor:
Oh man, how could you have all that cool industriual stuff and decent pnk, then have all that fucing cack? Like the clash, i mean, man, everyone was going like 'the clash and the sex pistols' so I downloaded some and I thought they sucked ass, give me some anti-nowhere leaguoe or something as far as pun k goes,.
Revenge_Therapist:
Dude I'll give you the Sex Pistols as novelty. Listen to White Riot or Safe European Home. They may be up your alley as far as the Clash is concerned.
weevil:
Based on your name, I don't think I can forgive you for not putting Jawbreaker on that list.
Also, the Sex Pistols are musically worthless.
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