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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: dalconnsuch on 12 Dec 2007, 01:16
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i thought this would be an interesting idea, everyones got their own idea to what is an "essential album" everyone should have for their vast music collection so i figured why not play a game of posting what is your "essentials?" this is outside of genre at all
i'll go with pavement! pavement ownage :D
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Funeral - Arcade Fire
Midnite Vultures - Beck
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About - Modest Mouse
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Tommy, that's bullshit. See, there are still people who haven't heard Gentlemen by the Afghan Whigs, an album that is literally impossible to dislike, gets better with each listen and never gets old or tired!
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Also, it's just a thread on the Internet, and I don't think anybody is trying to force albums down other people's throats or anything... yet.
Also, not only is it compulsory you listen to it, but it has to be on a good quality pair of speakers: Dark Side of the Moon.
And while I'm stating the obvious, The Beatles Revolver and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Also Discovery by Daft Punk and Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, pt. 2.
Also, I say also a lot. What's up with that!?
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Some dude was telling me once he'd never heard Revolver and I punched him in the dick so many times he was actually suspended in the air by the force of my blows.
I would say Aladdin Sane is the essential Bowie album but, whatever, man.
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The 20 albums in my collection that I consider most essential at this very moment are:
Alice Donut - The Untidy Suicides of Your Degenerate Children
DEVO - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream
KMFDM - Nihil
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Sonic Youth - Dirty
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - 13 Above the Night
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
Elastica - Elastica
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
Bjork - Post
Peaches - Impeach My Bush
Polysics - Polysics or Die!!!
Whale - All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones
Bis - The New Transistor Heroes
Pigface - Fook
Tom Lehrer - The Remains of Tom Lehrer
Atom and His Package - Redefining Music
Note that if you ask me again in a day, I'd have a completely different list.
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Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Uhmmmm...
Uh...
*shrug*
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Pink Flag - Wire
Other than that, David Dovey basically covered it.
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Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
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I did a search for "Rolling" and nothing came up on this page.
Shame on you people.
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Radiohead - OK Computer
Duh.
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Load Blown by the Black Dice.
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No album is 'essential' for anyone to hear.
Listen to whatever you, whenever you like regardless of what other people think.
don't take the thread literally, its just for fun bro!
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Boris - Akuma No Uta
See this is the problem with 'essentials' lists because the Beatles are shit-boring and I stopped reading here. (no offence vp)
However in the spirit of not-being-a-humourless-bastard I guess 'The Holy Bible' by the Manics.
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It's a tie between Bitches Brew, A Love Supreme and Daydream Nation.
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When I joined this forum, the first response to this thread would've been Spiderland. Now I'm the one mentioning it, half way down the page. What's up with that?
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It was just a meme; you're actually the only Slint fan ever. Even Slint didn't like Slint. Sorry pal.
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Aphex Twin - Drukqs (I like the Cage-y piano bits) / I Care Because You Do... / Selected Ambient Works 2
13 & God - 13 & God
Jamiroquai - Synkronized
Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues
Radiohead - Amnesiac (I happen to like all of it)
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It was just a meme; you're actually the only Slint fan ever. Even Slint didn't like Slint. Sorry pal.
Slint only pretended not to like Slint, so that Tortoise wouldn't be jealous in the future.
Essential:
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Boris - Akuma No Uta
See this is the problem with 'essentials' lists because the Beatles are shit-boring and I stopped reading here. (no offence vp)
However in the spirit of not-being-a-humourless-bastard I guess 'The Holy Bible' by the Manics.
the beatles are boring yes, but i would say this: the importance of the beatles is not debatable, at least for anyone with the brains to look at history versus personal opinion and other peoples opinions
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The only album I'd classify as "essential" is "Welcome to Sky Valley" by Kyuss.
Big surprise.
Actually, I can also say that pretty much everyone should also hear the following:
The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#00
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Beatles - Abbey Road
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London Calling
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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Who - Quadrophenia
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Weezer - Blue Album
Sublime - Sublime
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Billy Joel - Turnstiles
Yes - The Yes Album
I'm pretty sure I'm missing some...
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I just realised that I am ok with people saying that the Beatles are boring and liking Pavement/The Jesus and Mary Chain/Etc.
I think I've grown as a person.
(I just assumed this was you Amok, maybe you hate these bands as well, but don't ruin this for me)
Also
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
The Who - Who's Next
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Skyclad - The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth
Skyclad - A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol
Skyclad - Tracks from the Wilderness
Skyclad - Jonah's Ark
Skyclad - Thinking Allowed?
Skyclad - Prince of the Poverty Line
Skyclad - The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
Skyclad - Irrational Anthems
Skyclad - Oui Avant-Garde a Chance
Skyclad - The Answer Machine?
Skyclad - Outrageous Fourtunes
Skyclad - Vintage Whine
Skyclad - Classix Shape
Skyclad - Folkemon
Skyclad - Another Fine Mess
Skyclad - Swords of a Thousand Men
Skyclad - Live at the Dynamo
Sol Invictus - Against the Modern World
Sol Invictus - In the Jaws of the Serpent
Sol Invictus - Lex Talionis
Sol Invictus - Fields
Sol Invictus - Sol Veritas Lux
Sol Invictus - Abattoirs of Love
Sol Invictus - Lex Talionis
Sol Invictus - Trees in Winter
Sol Invictus - The Killing Tide
Sol Invictus - Looking for Europe
Sol Invictus - The Lamp of the Invisible Light
Sol Invictus - Somewhere in Europe/See the Dove Fall
Sol Invictus - Let Us Prey
Sol Invictus - King & Queen
Sol Invictus - The Death of the West
Sol Invictus - In the Rain
Sol Invictus - The Blade
Sol Invictus - In Europa
Sol Invictus - All Things Strange and Rare
Sol Invictus - In a Garden Green
Sol Invictus - Trieste
Sol Invictus - The Hill of Crosses
Sol Invictus - Eve
Sol Invictus - Brugge
Sol Invictus - Thrones
Sol Invictus - The Giddy Whirls of Centuries
Sol Invictus - The Angel
Sol Invictus - The Devil's Steed
Sol Invictus - A Mythological Prospect of the City of London
Death in June - The Guilty Have No Pride
Death in June - From Torture to Conscience
Death in June - Burial
Death in June - Nada!
Death in June - The World That Summer
Death in June - Lesson 1: Misanthropy
Death in June - Oh How We Laughed
Death in June - Brown Book
Death in June - The Wall of Sacrifice
Death in June - 93 Dead Sunwheels
Death in June - The Corn Years
Death in June - Ostenbräun
Death in June - The Cathedral Of Tears
Death in June - Night and Fog
Death in June - Frankfurt Sound Depot
Death in June - But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?
Death in June - Something Is Coming
Death in June - Im Blutfeuer
Death in June - Occidental Martyr
Death in June - Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Death in June - KAPO!
Death in June - The Pact... Flying in the Face
Death in June - Riefenstahl
Death in June - DISC-riminate
Death in June - Take Care & Control
Death in June - Heilige!
Death in June - Der Tod Im Juni
Death in June - Operation Hummingbird
Death in June - All Pigs Must Die
Death in June - Steel Night
Death in June - Alarm Agents
Death in June - Behind The Mask
Death in June - Free Tibet
Current 93 - Mi-Mort
Current 93 - LAShTAL
Current 93 - No Hiding from the Blackbird
Current 93 - Nature Unveiled
Current 93 - Dogs Blood Rising
Current 93 - Live at Bar Maldoror
Current 93 - Nightmare Culture
Current 93 - In Menstrual Night
Current 93 - NL Centrum-Amsterdam
Current 93 - Happy Birthday
Current 93 - Dawn
Current 93 - Imperium
Current 93 - Crowleymass
Current 93 - Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow
Current 93 - The Red Face of God
Current 93 - Swastikas for Noddy
Current 93 - Faith's Favourites
Current 93 - Earth Covers Earth
Current 93 - Rome/Hourglass for Diana/Fields of Rape
Current 93 - She Is Dead and All Fall Down
Current 93 - Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God
Current 93 - Looney Runes
Current 93 - Horse
Current 93 - Island
Current 93 - As the World Disappears
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
Current 93 - Hitler as Kalki
Current 93 - Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre
Current 93 - Lucifer Over London
Current 93 - The Fire of the Mind
Current 93 - Tamlin
Current 93 - Where The Long Shadows Fall (Beforetheinmostlight)
Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses: The Inmost Light
Current 93 - The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)
Current 93 - Untitled, a.k.a. Seven Seals
Current 93 - In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land
Current 93 - Soft Black Stars
Current 93 - Calling for Vanished Faces
Current 93 - An Introduction to Suffering
Current 93 - Misery Farm
Current 93 - All Dolled Up Like Christ
Current 93 - I Have a Special Plan for This World
Current 93 - Sleep Has His House
Current 93 - Faust
Current 93 - The Great in the Small
Current 93 - Cats Drunk on Copper
Current 93 - This Degenerate Little Town
Current 93 - The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion
Current 93 - Music for the Horse Hospital
Current 93 - A Little Menstrual Night Music
Current 93 - Halo
Current 93 - How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon 2xCD
Current 93 - How He Loved The Moon (Moonsongs For Jhonn Balance)
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
Current 93 - Black Ships Eat the Sky
Current 93 - Birdsong in The Empire
Coil - How to Destroy Angels
Coil - Scatology
Coil - Panic/Tainted Love
Coil - The Anal Staircase
Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Coil - Gold Is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders
Coil - The Wheel/The Wheal
Coil - The Wheal/Keelhauler
Coil - The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser
Coil - Wrong Eye/Scope
Coil - Unnatural History
Coil - Windowpane
Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Coil - The Snow
Coil - Stolen & Contaminated Songs
Coil - How To Destroy Angels
Coil - Airborne Bells/Is Suicide a Solution?
Coil - Themes for Derek Jarman's Blue
Coil - The Angelic Conversation
Coil - Unnatural History II
Coil - Windowpane & The Snow
Coil - Unnatural History III
Coil - Spring Equinox: Moon's Milk or Under an Unquiet Skull
Coil - Summer Solstice: Bee Stings
Coil - Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers
Coil - Winter Solstice: North
Coil - Astral Disaster
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1
Coil - Queens of the Circulating Library
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
Coil - Coil Presents Time Machines
Coil - Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil
Coil - Пособие для начинающих: Глас Сéребра (A Guide For Beginners: A Silver Voice)
Coil - Пособие для кончающих: Волос Злата (A Guide For Finishers: A Golden Hair)
Coil - Live In Moscow
Coil - Moons Milk (In Four Phases)
Coil - The Remote Viewer
Coil - The Golden Hare with a Voice of Silver
Coil - Live Four
Coil - Live Three
Coil - ANS
Coil - The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence
Coil - Live Two
Coil - Live One
Coil - The Key to Joy Is Disobedience
Coil - Megalithomania!
Coil - ANS
Coil - Black Antlers
Coil - Selvaggina, Go Back into the Woods
Coil - ...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms
Coil - The Ape of Naples
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How long did that take you?
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Logitech just put out a keyboard with a key that types all of that.
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It took...too long.
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I do love Coil, and shame on me for forgetting them, but all of it? I stand by my assessment of The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence as "wank", although it's been growing on me as of late. I didn't think A Golden Hare with a Voice of Silver had a bum note in it, but then, it was a compilation album (although Coil reused tracks a hell of a lot) and it was my introduction to the band, so what do I know.
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:x I didn't see these:
Can - Tago Mago
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
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Have you actually heard all of those Khar?
Basically, you've just reminded me how much Current 93 I still need to track down.
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I just realised that I am ok with people saying that the Beatles are boring and liking Pavement/The Jesus and Mary Chain/Etc.
I think I've grown as a person.
(I just assumed this was you Amok, maybe you hate these bands as well, but don't ruin this for me)
nah you're ok, I saw JAMC live last year and they were pretty good!
pavement are fucking awful though sorry :(
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Radiohead- OK Computer
Mogwai- Young Team
Pavement- Slanted and Enchanted
Slint- Spiderland
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
Led Zeppelin- IV
The Beatles- The White Album
The Who- Who's Next
The Pixies- Surfer Rosa/ Come on Pilgrim
Interpol- Turn On the Bright Lights
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pavement are fucking awful though sorry :(
Dogg, that is almost exactly what I was saying!
Huuuuuuuuuuugs
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I'm with tommy, nothing is essential. I do, however have my, er, emergency kit that travels with me at all times on a packed-full 120gb external HD, and I consider pretty much everything on that essential to my happiness.
If I could pick one album and make everyone ever listen to it, I would probably take BT's This Binary Universe, just because it blows away a lot of common assumptions most people make about electronic and experimental music.
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pavement are fucking awful though sorry :(
Sorry, but I do believe I smell trousers burning.
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The Nurse With Wound discography (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ultimathule/nww/nwwdiscography.html)
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The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonic Youth - EVOL
The Sea and Cake - The Sea and Cake
Silkworm - Firewater
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
..I think those are the important ones not yet mentioned.
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So what "joke answers" to this question are played out? Obviously Anal Cunt's played out (does anyone know any names of A.C. albums? I know I Like it When You Die and it makes me sad) Machine Metal Music? I dunno.
Oh! For "real" answers, how come no one's mentioned Thriller? Shame on you all.
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The Nurse With Wound discography (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ultimathule/nww/nwwdiscography.html)
I thought the link was to download it and I was going to track you down and kiss you.
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The Nurse With Wound discography (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ultimathule/nww/nwwdiscography.html)
Mmm, you're speaking my language.
Anyway, using tommydski's criteria (ie desert island album) I'd probably choose either Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, Talkin' Honky Blues, or Autechre's Tri Repetae++ all of which have consistently thrilled me since I've gotten them.
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Also Discovery by Daft Punk and Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, pt. 2.
I think Homeworck and SAW 85-92 are more "essential," but as it's been said, it's a matter of taste.
I think more people need to hear Slowdive's Souvlaki.
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Have you actually heard all of those Khar?
A good deal of them. I have all Sol Invictus' and Skyclad's releases in one form or another, with the sole exception of Classix Shape, and most Coil (though not all the side projects, not listed here). My Death in June and Current 93 collections are a little more spotty. Some of the C93 in particular is silly rare, like the album that was only released as an accompaniement to a Thomas Ligotti book. I have all of what you might call the 'primary' albums, however.
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I will not bother with albums already listed. But!
Heroes - David Bowie
When Your Heartstrings Break - Beulah
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
White Pepper - Ween
Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
The Head on the Door - The Cure
Prayers on Fire - The Birthday Party
Painful - Yo La Tengo
Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen
Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Nothing - Meshuggah
Raw Power - Iggy & the Stooges
In the Nightside Eclipse - Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - GY!BE
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Ambient 1: Music for Airports - Brian Eno
Fashion Nugget - Cake
Walk Among Us - Misfits
Dummy - Portishead
Violator - Depeche Mode
Damaged - Black Flag
Bad Brains - s/t
20 Jazz Funk Greats - Throbbing Gristle
VIVIsectVI - Skinny Puppy
Exodus - Bob Marley
Doolittle - Pixies
Bullhead - Melvins
Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious
Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Atomizer - Big Black
Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
I get the feeling at least one of those has been mentioned already even though I said I'd avoid restating. Oh well.
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This is a better way of looking at it. Is there one album which is essential to your happiness? As in, which single album would you take to a desert island in an attempt to preserve your sanity?
Yeah, in that case it would be Angra's Temple of Shadows. I've largely moved on from listening to power metal as a whole, but pretty much any song on that album will get me an adrenaline rush, and it's been that way for 3 years straight now.
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Have you actually heard all of those Khar?
A good deal of them. I have all Sol Invictus' and Skyclad's releases in one form or another, with the sole exception of Classix Shape, and most Coil (though not all the side projects, not listed here). My Death in June and Current 93 collections are a little more spotty. Some of the C93 in particular is silly rare, like the album that was only released as an accompaniement to a Thomas Ligotti book. I have all of what you might call the 'primary' albums, however.
The rarer releases are the ones I was wondering about. Since if you magically had them, I was going to do my best to force you into sending me copies.
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Outside by David Bowie
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A more seriously considered but long and incomplete personal list:
Aborym - With No Human Intervention
Agalloch - The Mantle
Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
The Anti-Nowhere League - We Are The League
Bathory - Hammerheart
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blood Axis - The Gospel of Inhumanity
Boyd Rice & Friends - Music, Martinis and Misanthropy
Burzum - Burzum
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Coil - Loves Secret Domain
Current 93 - Soft Black Stars
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Death in June - Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Ewigkeit - Radio Ixtlan
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# Infinity
Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Joy Division - The Peel Sessions
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Laibach - Opus Dei
The Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation
Nurse With Wound - Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
Paul Giovanni & Magnet - The Wicker Man Original Sound Track
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Skyclad - Prince of the Poverty Line
Sol Invictus - Against the Modern World
Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal: Aate Hymne Til Ulven I Manden
Venom - Black Metal
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
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Don't lie.
You have the first three also.
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Yeah, he does, but only as tattoos.
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What's sad is that Tommy is probably the best looking out of all four.
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The Joshua Tree- U2 (Everyone needs to hear that album at least once)
Greatest Hits- Boston
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I pretty much make everyone I meet who hasn't heard it listen to "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea." If they don't like it I put on Lightning Bolt (who are good but certainly are not essential) at full blast until they leave.
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I pretty much make everyone I meet who hasn't heard it listen to "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea." If they don't like it I put on Lightning Bolt (who are good but certainly are not essential) at full blast until they leave.
You mean there's people who still haven't left by the end of that album? :-D
oh snap
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Don't hate them when they get up to leave :cry:
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I C WHUT U DID THAR!!