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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: The Albatross on 22 Jul 2008, 13:31
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(If this is trolling and whatnot, I apologize, but I did search for a similar topic and nothing directly related was there)
Alright, I'll start with a few of my all time favorites:
Juturna - Circa Survive
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
I'm a Woman, You're a Machine - Death From Above 1979
(I know, I know, a few is not four, but this is my topic, future hypothetical pricks)
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Good News for People who Love Bad News from Modest Mouse
The Crane Wife from The Decemberists
Float from Flogging Molly
The Wall by Pink Floyd.
All amazing.
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON ISNT UR FAVRIT ALBUM!? OMG! UR SO DUM!!!11
I'll be sure to check them out (except The Wall, which I already know is damn good).
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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, the entire Weakerthans discography, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation and Built to Spill's Keep It Like a Secret. Those are like, my top ones. I have tons of favorite albums.
Oh, also The Mountain Goats' Tallahassee and pretty much everything Dinosaur Jr. has ever done after 1990.
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Weezer - Weezer (1994)
Joy Division - Closer (1980)
Blur - Parklife (1994)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (2004)
If I have to choose one of Cave's double-disc, then it's Abattoir Blues.
P.S. The Wall is my favourite Pink Floyd album, but as much as I love the Floyd they've been replaced in my affections.
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I remember listening to Nick Cave once, and suddenly I came over a strange fit of depression...
XD
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I'm gonna go all-out.
The Bends - Radiohead
The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
The Fury of the Aquabats! - The Aquabats!
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
Before the Dawn Heals Us - M83
There's Nothing Wrong With Love - Built to Spill
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
Icky Mettle - Archers of Loaf
Diary - Sunny Day Real Estate
Domestica - Cursive
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfer Rosa - The Pixies
You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
Clouds Taste Metallic- The Flaming Lips
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Spirit If... - Kevin Drew
Yeah, I pretty much just put every fuckin' awesome album I could think of in there. Keep in mind, I also kept it to a one-album-per-band limit; if I didn't go by this, there would probably be at least twice as many titles up there.
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Hmm....my favorite albums change a lot but this list has been pretty consistent (and not in order):
Funeral - Arcade Fire
The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
From Bone to Satellite - Tarentel
Talk Amongst the Trees - Eluvium
Noumena - The Drift
The Tired Sounds of... - Stars of the Lid
You are There - MONO
Agaetis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
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There are days when I think that I like BSB more.
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Doolittle - The Pixies
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Mysterious Production of Eggs - Andrew Bird
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone - The Unicorns
The Campfire Headphase - Boards of Canada
The Runners Four - Deerhoof
Let's Get Out of this Country - Camera Obscura
I kinda feel like there should be more than that, but those are the core albums I keep going back to. Everything else changes around a lot.
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In no paticular order (well, slightly alphabetical)...
City of Caterpillar - s/t
Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Mono - You Are There
Saetia - A Retrospective
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners Of Our Rooms, 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (With Horses in the Sky and "This Is Our Punk-Rock," Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing, closely trailing)
Those are the favorite albums of mine that I can think of off the top of my head. All incredibly excellent in my opinion, though it is a limited area of music.
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The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
The Thermals - More Parts Per Million
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Silkworm - Firewater
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Like...
...a million others?
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Here is a fairly accurate top 25 run straight off the top of my head in alphabetical order.
Aborym - With No Human Intervention
Acid Bath - Paegan Love Songs
Agalloch - The Mantle
Amorphis - Tales of the Thousand Lakes
Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
Bathory - Hammerheart
Burzum - Burzum
Carpathian Forest - Black Shining Leather
Coil - Loves Secret Domain
Cryptic Wintermoon - A Coming Storm
Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
Death in June - Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Ewigkeit - Radio Ixtlan
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A# Infinity
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Painkiller
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skyclad - Prince of the Poverty Line
Sol Invictus - The Hill of Crosses
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadow - Es Reiten Die Toten So Schnell (Or: The Vampyre Sucking At His Own Vein)
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal: Aate Hymne Til Ulven I Manden
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Top two by a long way:
The Angelic Process- Weighing Souls with Sand
The Angelic Process- Coma Waering
And fighting it out for the rest of the top 10 (in no particular order):
Ulver- Bergtatt
Nadja- Touched
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Isis- Panopticon
Jesu- Silver
Summoning- Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
Eluvium- Talk Amongst the Trees
Tim Hecker- Harmony in Ultraviolet
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Black Sheep Boy - Okkervil River (I know that liking BSB more than The Stand-Ins and The Stage Names is kind of backwards - it's a close call, but the lyrics on A Stone and Black tips the scales in BSB's favour)
I would agree with you on this, although The Stand Ins is quickly rising in my favor.
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Elliott Smith - everything he ever did
Franz Ferdinand - s/t
Immaculate Machine's Fables
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Lola Ray - Liars
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
The New Pornographers - Electric Version (yes I like it more than Mass Romantic, shut up)
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna...
Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Spoon - everything they have done starting with Girls Can Tell
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair...?
Voxtrot - their first three EPs
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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Sometimes I like Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See the most
I'm with imagist when it comes to the New Pornos
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Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Kyuss - S/T (Welcome To Sky Valley)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Burzum - Filosofem
Down - NOLA
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Mogwai - Rock Action
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
I limited that to one album per artist, otherwise some bands (like Iron Maiden) would fill out a whole list on their own.
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In no paticular order (well, slightly alphabetical)...
City of Caterpillar - s/t
Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Mono - You Are There
Saetia - A Retrospective
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners Of Our Rooms, 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (With Horses in the Sky and "This Is Our Punk-Rock," Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing, closely trailing)
Except for Dirty Three that could easily have been my list one year ago.
Baroness - First/Second
Cursed - One
Converge - Jane Doe
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo
Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Grails - The Burden of Hope
Haram - S/T
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Malk De Koijn - Smash Hit In Aberdeen
Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Mustafa Özkent Ve Orkestrasi - Genclik Ile Elele
Nasum - Helvete
Orchid - Chaos Is Me
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Under Byen - Det Er Mig Der Holder Træerne Sammen + Samme Stof Som Stof
Wire - Pink Flag
Just off the top of my head.
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The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Franz Ferdinand - s/t
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Guys can we hang out?
Ted Leo + Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
Pavement - Terror Twilight, Wowee Zowee, Brighten the Corners
Alan Jackson - Drive, High Mileage
Broken Social Scene (again) - Broken Social Scene
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti, Houses of the Holy
Cake - Fashion Nugget, Motorcade of Generosity
The White Stripes - De Stijl, White Blood Cells
There's more but I can't think of them off the top of my head.
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I actually have more (see most of Patrick's, Imagist's and Tehz's)
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Carole King - Tapestry
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Beach House - s/t
Death Cab For Cutie - We have The Facts And We're Voting Yes & The Photo album
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Joy Division - Substance
Jurassic 5 - J5
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mothers Milk
Slint - Spiderland
The Mountain Goats - The Coroners Gambit
The Postal Service - Give up
The Shins - entire discography
The Strokes - Is This It
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Summers And Fifteen Winters
Portishead - Dummy
The Knife - Silent Shout & Deep Cuts
There's probably more that I've forgotten
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - BRMC
British Sea Power - The Decline Of
The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through And Leave / Kick Up the Fire And Let The Flames Break Loose
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
The Lucksmiths - First Tape
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
Mogwai - Young Team
Phoenix - United
The Radio Dept. - Pulling Our Weight
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
Thee More Shallows - More Deep Cuts
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I remember listening to Nick Cave once, and suddenly I came over a strange fit of depression...
XD
ROFLCOPTER
You've failed at Nick Cave. Try harder next time.
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Converge - Jane Doe
Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo
Orchid - Chaos Is Me
Me too, although I flip between Chaos Is Me and gatefold. Also:
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Black Flag - My War/Damaged
Delgados - Peloton
Stand - True Romance
Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker/Red Medicine
Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot
A while ago it would just have been Double Nickels On The Dime, but the idea of one favourite anything has fallen out of favour with my recently.
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1. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2. Joy Division - Closer
3. Neil Young - On the Beach
4. The Stooges - Raw Power
Number five would be a tie between:
Can - Future Days
The Beatles - Revolver
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
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I liek slints guys
spiderland has got the dynamics that the ppl are asking 4
the dynamics
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Mi Media Naranja
Pure Phase
Abattoir Blues
On Avery Island
Making Movies
Electr-O-Pura
Velvet Underground & Nico
Goo
Boxer
Red State
Pink
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I think most people would hope that you'd give artist names for those records, chap.
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Paradise Theatre - Styx
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Run, Sodomy and the lash - The Pogues
Blues Brothers Soundtrack
The Wall - Pink Flloyd
Diva - Annie Lennox
Enya
From the Cradle - Eric Clapton
The London Blues Sessions - Howlin' Wolf
Maverick - George Thorogood.
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
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Making Movies is by Dire Straits.
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I am at the point of the debate between Aeroplane and Avery Island where one day I will like one more than the other and vice versa. They are both really good records.
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Boxer - the whatchamacallits with the singer with the awesome deep voice that did "Alligator" well but I can't remember their name.
The National?
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Firewater - Silkworm
At Action Park - Shellac
Sings About Fucking - Big Black
Black Sheep Boy - Okkervil River (I know that liking BSB more than The Stand-Ins and The Stage Names is kind of backwards - it's a close call, but the lyrics on A Stone and Black tips the scales in BSB's favour)
Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle and Sebastian
Let It Die - Feist
Honorable mentions to Blueberry Boat - Fiery Furnaces and Repeater - Fugazi.
No Bedhead?
Anyhoo
Ill Communication- Beastie Boys
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some great albums on here
here's mine
1-Question the Answers -The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
2-At the Point (live) -Matt Nathanson
3-Get Warmer - Bomb The Music Industry!
4-Costello Music -The Fretellis
5-Flood -They Might Be Giants
honorable mentions are
At Mount Zoomer- wolf parade
and Crimes - Blood Brothers
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I'll second the previously mentioned:
Jesu - Silver
New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation
And add three more:
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
I guess that's what I'll go with for now. I'm way too scatter-brained to maintain a consistent top 5.
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Crosby, Stills, & Nash - S/T
Son Volt - Trace
The Jayhawks - Smile
top 3 right now as far as albums go
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I make a list of my favorite albums every couple months or so, because it's constantly changing. Some of them fall out of favor, I discover others, and some have been on there since the first list I ever made. For this, I'm going to list every album that I've ever had on my list, in no particular order. It's quite extensive--hell, it's massive. If it seems overboard, keep in mind that I have over 1,000 albums on my external hard drive, so narrowing it to this is actually pretty damn hard.
Revolver - The Beatles
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Darkness on the Edge of Town or The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle- Bruce Springsteen
Rain Dogs and Bone Machine - Tom Waits
You Forgot it in People - Broken Social Scene
Sandinista! - The Clash
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
Bedtime for Democracy - The Dead Kennedys
Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space - Spiritualized
You're a Woman, I'm a Machine - Death From Above 1979
Led Zeppelin III and Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
L.A. Woman - The Doors
Scenes From a Memory - Dream Theater
Freak Out! - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Machine Gun - The Peter Brotzmann Octet
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Super Taranta! - Gogol Bordello
All This Time - The Heartless Bastards
Boys and Girls in America- The Hold Steady
Downward is Heavenward - Hum
The Creek Drank the Cradle - Iron and Wine
Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
In the Wake of Poseidon - King Crimson
Welcome to Sky Valley - Kyuss
Songs of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen
Let's Stay Friends - Les Savy Fav
Secret Name - Low
Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor - Lupe Fiasco
Illmatic - Nas
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A
Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta
Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails
Ghost Reveries - Opeth
No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne (guilty pleasure)
Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Doolittle - The Pixies
In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
Purple Rain - Prince
O.K. Computer And In Rainbows - Radiohead
The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against the Machine
Trouble - Ray LaMontagne
Exile on Main Street or Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones
Fear of Music - The Talking Heads
The Tyranny of Distance - Ted Leo
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
Return to Cookie Mountain - TV On the Radio
Achtung, Baby - U2
White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground
My Generation - The Who
I Am The Blues - Willie Dixon
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Yo La Tengo
So. Whaddya think?
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There are so many good lists up here.
I think I might need to add some that I didn't see in my quick glance at the lists though.
5 songs- Decemberists
The Sunset Tree- The Mountain Goats
Kid A- Radiohead
Moon Safari- Air
Mirrored- Battles
Howl Howl Gaff Gaff - the shout out louds
Set Yourself on Fire- Stars
If I were to also include albums that have already been mentioned, this list would be quite long.
but special recognition to:
In the aeroplane over the sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Funeral- Arcade Fire
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Also!
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Opeth - Morningrise
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So. Whaddya think?
Best list up there
(except for mine ofcourse :lol: )
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I didn't realise we were allowed lists of more than four. In which case, for all of the artists who pass my 'favourite' criteria, here's my favourite of their albums:
Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell (2004)
The Beatles - Help! (1965)
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl (2005, my album of the year)
blink-182 - Enema Of the State (1999)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (2004)
Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002)
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime (1995)
Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute (2002)
Hard-Fi - Stars Of CCTV (2005)
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots (2004)
Lostprophets - The Fake Sound Of Progress (2001)
NWA - Straight Outta Compton (1988)
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)
Notorious BIG - Life After Death (1997)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979)
Primal Scream - XTMNTR (2000)
Queen - The Works (1984)
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
SikTh - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild (2003)
The Verve - Urban Hymns (1997)
Weezer - Weezer (1994)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
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June of 44- Engine Takes To The Water
Archers of Loaf- Vee Vee
Belle and Sebastian- If You're Feeling Sinister
Elliott Smith- XO
Rodan- Rusty
Mission of Burma- VS
Polvo- Cor-Crane Secret
Pavement- Wowee Zowee!
Wire- Chairs Missing
Blur- Parklife
Ozma- The Doubble Donkey Disk
Silkworm- In The West
Jawbox- For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Hum- You'd Prefer An Astronaut
Slint- Spiderland
Fugazi- In On The Kill Taker
The Fall- This Nation's Saving Grace
The B-52s- The B-52s
The Dismemberment Plan- Emergency and I
The Shipping News- Save Everything
Beat Happening- Dreamy
Holy hell this is an enormous list.
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69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
The Meadowlands by The Wrens
Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River
Abbey Road by The Beatles
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone by The Unicorns
Neon Golden by Notwist
Drum's Not Dead by Liars
This Nation's Saving Grace by The Fall
If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle and Sebastian
Satanic Panic in the Attic by Of Montreal
Shut Up, I Am Dreaming by Sunset Rubdown
Sung Tongs by Animal Collective
Castaways and Cutouts by The Decemberists
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
Your Blues by Destroyer
Tallahasee by The Mountain Goats
Rings Around the World by Super Furry Animals
Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins
The Electric Version by the New Pornographers
Just a Mustache by Thunderbirds Are Now!
Cannibal Sea by The Essex Green
Common People by William Shatner
You're So Silent Jens by Jens Lekman
The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips
Our Constant Concern/Team Boo by Mates of State
Blacklisted by Neko Case
Palo Santo by Shearwater
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I-Empire - Angels & Airwaves
Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
Puzzle - Biffy Clyro
Take off Your Pants and Jacket - Blink-182
You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
Comfort in Sound - Feeder
Grow Up and Blow Away - Metric
Century Child - Nightwish
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
The Heart Of Everything - Within Temptation
Playmate of the Year - Zebrahead
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Mogwai - Rock Action
Fantomas - Director's Cut
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique/Check Your Head
Botch - We Are The Romans
Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops
The Dismemberment Plan - Is Terrified!
Faith No More - The Real Thing
The Get-Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
Giddy Motors - Make It Pop
Hot Rod Circuit - If It's Cool With You, It's Cool With Me
Jeremy Enigk - Return of the Frog Queen
Sunny Day Real Estate - How it Feels to be Something On
The Jesus Lizard - Goat/Shot
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady by
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Nada Surf - High/Low
Off Minor - The Heat Death of the Universe
The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage : Animation Music
Orchid - Chaos is Me
Ozomatli - Ozomatli
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Pele - Enemies
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Primus - Frizzle Fry
The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
Quicksand - Manic Compression
Rival Schools - United By Fate
Saetia - A Retrospective
Self - Subliminal Plastic Motives
Smart Went Crazy - Con Art
Soulive - Doin' Something
Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
Tom Waits - Big Time
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
yeah I just kinda went down my winamp playlist and picked what few I could, haha.
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I am going to stick to 5 records.
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Weezer - Pinkerton
Television - Marquee Moon
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
Pulp - Different Class
EDIT: Fuck it. I have to do 5 more.
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Yes - Fragile
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Oingo Boingo - Only a Lad
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I would agree with you on this, although The Stand Ins is quickly rising in my favor.
I can't believe this is the first I've heard of this. I've got to pick this one up.
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dark side of the moon-pink floyd
led zepplin IV- led Zeppin
beatles-white album
guns and roses-greatest hits
iron and wine- the shepherds dog
my chemical romance- welcome to the black parade
nirvana-nirvana
ozzy- blizzard of ozz
queen-greatst hits
rob zombie-helbilly deluxe
bob dylan- times are a changing
tool-10000 days
rush-sprit of the radio
system of down- steal this album
slayer-god hates us all
thats a few
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Opeth - Still Life
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Jan Johansson - Jazz på Svenska
Anathema - A Natural Disaster
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Isis - Oceanic
Agalloch - The Mantle
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Morbid Angel - Domination
And lots of others, these were just the one I thought of instantly.
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Daisy May - Heart Song
Breathe Owl Breathe - Climb In
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Bjork - Vespertine
... and Ocean Machine - Biomech
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Kid A- Radiohead
The Bends- Radiohead
The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place- Explosions in the Sky
Origin of Symmetry- Muse
Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
F♯A♯∞- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Alive 2007- Daft Punk
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I'm a bit late on this, please pardon.
Akuma no Uta - Boris
Ambient 1: Music for Airports - Brian Eno
Lots of Tom Waits albums, but if I were to narrow it down to the ones I can always come back to and never get sick of, it'd be Small Change, or Frank's Wild Years
Fabulous Muscles - Xiu Xiu
Closer - Joy Division
the Idiot - Iggy Pop
Juju - Siouxsie & the Banshees
The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry
All Hail West Texas - The Mountain Goats
My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker
I Could Live in Hope - Low
Jettison - Naked Raygun
End on End - Rites of Spring
Cursive's Domestica
Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
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#1 Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
#2 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
#3 Cynic - Focus
#4 A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
#5 Agalloch - Pale Folklore
#6 John Frusciante - The Will to Death
That's strictly at this very moment, but for me I don't think anything could ever top Laughing Stock. Favourite moment on the album at the moment - the perfectly simple last piano chords that end to the album on "Runeii".
Favourite song of all time (today): God is an Astronaut - "Remembrance Day"
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heres mine
in the aeroplane over the sea - neutral milk hotel
soft bulletin - the flaming lips
revolver - the beatles
lateralus - tool
moving pictures - rush
welcome to the monkey house - the dandy warhols
12 songs - fugazi
not really my top cuz i don't keep track so i'm takin ga shot in the dark here
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I think you mean 13 Songs.
Mostly my favourite albums are always changing, but a few that I always come back to are Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports and Another Green World, anything by Xiu Xiu, and Collosal Youth, a collection of Young Marble Giants' stuff.
Lately I've been diggin' Women's self titled, Dirty Three's Horse Stories (this album is epic in every way possible) and Grey Daturas' new album Return to Disruption, which is like Mogwai's Young Team if you turned it up and covered it all in feedback and fuzz.
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*list*
That's a damn fine list, son.
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I forgot to mention a few, and I will probably get shit for the last three:
N.W.A. - efiL4zaggiN
Texas Tornados - s/t
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Rage Against The Machine - s/t, Battle of Los Angeles
Third Eye Blind - s/t (sue me, I adore this album)
Billy Talent - Billy Talent II
System Of A Down - Toxicity (again, sue me)
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Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
I just got this yesterday, and it is well on its way to becoming one of my favourite jazz albums. The Shape Of Jazz To Come will always be my favourite, though.
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Guys, the best jazz album is 'Skol'. Oscar Peterson on piano, Stephane Grappelli on violin, Joe Pass on guitar, Niels Henning Orsted-Pedersen on bass and Mickey Roker on drums, all live from Amsterdam. It's absolutely incredible. Listen to it!
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Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
All other albums are rubbish.
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Favourite Jazz albums:
#1 Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
- Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
- Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
- John Coltrane - Ascension
- Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidanada
- Pharaoh Sanders - Karma
Favourite Hip Hop song of all time: Edan - Making Planets (ft. Mr Lif)
Favourite Tom Waits song at the moment: Train Song
Favourite Agalloch song: Odal
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Currently some of my favorites; not saying they're the best ever or anything, just albums I really, really like right now:
My Bloody Valentine-Loveless---I just bought this, several years after first listening to it. Listening to it all the way through is pretty freakin' cathartic.
Guns N Roses-Appetite for Destruction---What more do I need to say? I've had this album since I was 13 (so for like 9 years or so) and I still love every second.
Queens of the Stone Age-Era Vulgaris---I don't know if it's their best album, but I like it better than Songs for the Deaf, and that was a really good album.
Godspeed You Black Emperor!-Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven---my favorite album of theirs, probably.
The Pop Group-Y---You know you've listened to enough noise and grindcore when this bands name seems appropriate rather than just incongruous. Weird shit, but good.
Boris-Pink---Probably ranks alongside Era Vulgaris among candidates for a contemporary Appetite for Destruction
Ulver-Bergtatt---Probably the black metal dearest to my heart right now, though I don't even own the album, having a lot of other expenses right now, Youtube will have to do. I love vocal harmonies (in this case Garm's vocals overlaid on each other).
The Seldom Scene-Live at the Cellar Door---Great live recording of a good chunk of the live material of this '70's Bluegrass band. Did I mention that I love vocal harmonies?
The Beatles-The Beatles/The White Album---an amazing experience to listen to all the way through, so diverse, even two songs written by the same Beattle often seem like they were two different bands. And George definitely comes into his own as a songwriter.
And there's lots more, but that's what's on my mind at the moment.
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The Beatles-The Beatles/The White Album---an amazing experience to listen to all the way through, so diverse, even two songs written by the same Beattle often seem like they were two different bands. And George definitely comes into his own as a songwriter.
The acclaim meted out to this album is something I can just about understand but never agree with, but then this is a favourites list after all.
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Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Mogwai - Rock Action
Mogwai - Government Commissions
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
Mogwai - Young Team
Mogwai - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Mogwai - No Education=No Future
Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Mogwai - Kicking A Dead Pig
Mogwai - Ten Rapid
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it In People
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Explosions In The sky - How Strange, Innocence
The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again
Mum - Finally We Are No One
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
The Strokes - Is This It
The Clash - London Calling
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Wolf Parade - Apologies To Queen Mary
Can anyone tell who my favorite band is?
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The Ascension - Glenn Branca
No New York (Compilation of Mars, James Chance and the Contortions, DNA, and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks)
Ok Computer - Radiohead
Blues for the Red Sun - Kyuss
From Mars to Sirius - Gojira
Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
Untrue - Burial
Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie (Comon, it's awesome, admit it)
Spiderland - Slint (obligatory)
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
In Sorte Diaboli - Dimmu Borgir
Raw Power - Iggy And The Stooges
Nevermind the Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols
Im the Supervisor - Infected Mushroom
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Nanotime - Kim Sa Rang (I will admit, I only like one song on it, but it's friggin' brilliant)
Anything by Laura
Nirvana - Nirvana (Yeah that's right, the singles comp. I like it.)
Damnation - Opeth
Blackwater Park - Opeth
Dummy - Portishead
Experimenta, Jet Set, Trash, and No Star - Sonic Youth
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
EDIT: Forgot
An Announcement to Answer - Quantic
Yeah that's pretty much it. Looking it over, those are all the albums I actually listen to on a daily basis, cept maybe the two Opeth albums which get switched for each other every now and then.
I really have to listen to In The Airplane Over The Sea, I hear so many damn good things about it.
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in alphabetical order:
Automating Volume One- Nurse With Wound
Finally We Are No One- Mùm
Frengers- Mew
Here Come The Warm Jets- Brian Eno
Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy- Mùm
Then And Now: Maximum Who- The Who (does that count?)
Travel In Constants Vol. 20- Eluvium
Under The Western Freeway- Grandaddy
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Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Wes Montgomery - Incredible Jazz Guitar
Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at the Half Note
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Van Halen - Van Halen
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy
The Who - Quadrophenia
Rush - Moving Pictures
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Someone plays guitar.
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*list*
Can anyone tell who my favorite band is?
Not Mogwai obviously.
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Someone plays guitar.
Damn skippy.
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Favourite album lists are shite because inevitably most people throw in shit like Miles Davis or Public Enemy just to prove they're eclectic. I love both those artists and lots of other "diverse shit" but I will always roll my eyes at the mindset that a list of favourite albums should somehow exhibit the variety of your taste rather than simply naming the albums you actually have listened to or enjoyed the most in your life.
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Really? I think it is Mogwai. Look at all the albums by them he has put up there.
Psh you are obviously mistaken.
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Favourite album lists are shite because inevitably most people throw in shit like Miles Davis or Public Enemy just to prove they're eclectic. I love both those artists and lots of other "diverse shit" but I will always roll my eyes at the mindset that a list of favourite albums should somehow exhibit the variety of your taste rather than simply naming the albums you actually have listened to or enjoyed the most in your life.
Yeah, it's not like I'm a jazz musician who thinks Miles Davis made some good music or anything, nooo, not me, I don't actually like most of the music I listen to.
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Because, being one of the people who listed Miles Davis' Kind of Blue as a favorite album, it appears he is targeting me to say I am just throwing it in there to prove I'm eclectic. And I, good sir, don't take kindly to attack!
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I wasn't talking about you in specific, but you have to admit that the phenomenon of which I speak does actually happen.
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Guess this whole interaction just proves it's better to take people at face value eh? If zerodrone had just had faith in humanity none of this indignation need have taken place.
That's some bullshit, but regardless, I think when it's something as petty as an album list on the internet, we should just let a little trust stand here. I mean, who cares enough to subversively rig their favorite albums list on the INTERNET?
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Hmm, I'd really like everyone to think that I'm a convoluted hipster, so I'm going to make up band names and put them on my favorite albums list....
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If zerodrone had just had faith in humanity
Hahahahahahahaha.
Yeah I mean wait...
Hahahahahahahahaaha. Oh, ha. Haha. OK, I'm done now. No, wait.
Hahahahahahahahaha.
Anyway, you're naive if you don't think people front-load "favourite album lists" in order to look cool, especially on a g-damn music forum.
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And you're ridiculous to care that they do it.
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When did I ever say that I care?
Everyone here has a personality. We take getting used to. Me, probably moreso than most. I understand that, being new, you don't get me. So just like, you know, relax and lay low a bit until you get to know the people you're talking to.
SMOKE A BOWL DUDE
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*cough* There was a bit of sarcasm in that there post, I ain't gonna lie to ya.
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When did I ever say that I care?
Everyone here has a personality. We take getting used to. Me, probably moreso than most. I understand that, being new, you don't get me. So just like, you know, relax and lay low a bit until you get to know the people you're talking to.
SMOKE A BOWL DUDE
I'm going to disagree with what you say, but refrain from argument, because I'd prefer not to spur up too much dust so young. Though I do, obviously, agree that everyone here (and everywhere else) has a personality. And the internet does a good job of heavily hiding those personalities due to our "mis-connotated" words. Several people could read the same sentence and think completely different things about it.
But I don't do drugs thanks, I'm already extremely laid back as it is, that's part of my personality. It takes getting used to. Mine, possibly more than others. I understand that, me being new, you don't get me.
But it's cool, that stuff always happens.
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I'm going to take that as a compliment, even if it wasn't one, you're not getting it back now.
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divurging from the current conversation....
favorite albums
yaphet kotto- syncopated synthetic lament for love
the one am radio- a name writ in water
ms john soda- no p. or d.
mewithoutyou- brother, sister
fugees- the score
dooey decibel- adult sleepover
do make say think; all of their albums
jeniferever-choose a bright morning
maps and atlases- tree, swallow, houses
all music made by kid sister
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I wouldn't put it in my favorite albums list just yet, but I've been listening to Mock Orange's Mind Is Not Brain quite a bit lately, and it's absolutely stellar.
I put it up in the Mediafire thread for anyone who's interested.
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*list*
So, I'm going to go ahead and shamefully admit I haven't heard of most of that, except for mewithoutyou, which is actually pretty alright. So you've given me a bunch of stuff to sample real quick.
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Arcade Fire - Funeral
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
Cake - Comfort Eagle
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (Yes, I like him more than John.)
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We are in Space
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Ennio Morricone - A Fistful of Music (dunno is this qualifies.)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Beck - Sea Changes
BSS - You Forgot it in People
Bowie - Honky Dorky
Elvis Castello - My Aim is True
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Okkervil River - Down the River of Golden Dreams
The Pogue - If I Should Fall fromt he Grace with God
Sufjan Stevens - Come Feel the Illinoise!
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Wolf Parade - Apologizes to the Queen Mary
Wilco - YHF
The Walkmen - Everybody Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
Van Morrison - Moondance
A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky
The National - Alligator
The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Tool - Salival (Live)
Denki Groove - VOXX (Literally like the only "techno" band I can listen to.)
I was just sorta lazy and used the albums I'll never take off my iPod.
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Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Nick Cave and Bad Seeds - Let Love In
The National - Boxer
The Replacements - Let it Be
Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Leonard Cohen - The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Love - Four Sail
Magnetic Fields - Get Lost
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Wrens - Secaucus
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
And I'm spent.
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... and Ocean Machine - Biomech
Yes! Love this album. That would probably be my 11th pick.
Surprised by the amount of people who've put Bergtatt here, too. Upon listening to their trilogie, though, I might have to say that Nattens is actually better.
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Favourite album lists are shite because inevitably most people throw in shit like Miles Davis or Public Enemy just to prove they're eclectic. I love both those artists and lots of other "diverse shit" but I will always roll my eyes at the mindset that a list of favourite albums should somehow exhibit the variety of your taste rather than simply naming the albums you actually have listened to or enjoyed the most in your life.
I agree, and would like to make it clear that other than the Best Of collection I have for Glenn Miller (I refuse to include "best of" collections in my list because they are not real albums), that really is the only jazz I have that I enjoy (let alone would put on my favourites list), and I admit this quite freely.
That said, if I were to include Best Of collections in my lists, Jimmy Buffett's "Songs You Know By Heart" is in the top 3.
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Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell (2004)
The Beatles - Help! (1965)
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl (2005, my album of the year)
blink-182 - Enema Of the State (1999)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (2004)
Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002)
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime (1995)
Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute (2002)
Hard-Fi - Stars Of CCTV (2005)
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots (2004)
Lostprophets - The Fake Sound Of Progress (2001)
NWA - Straight Outta Compton (1988)
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)
Notorious BIG - Life After Death (1997)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979)
Primal Scream - XTMNTR (2000)
Queen - The Works (1984)
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
SikTh - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild (2003)
The Verve - Urban Hymns (1997)
Weezer - Weezer (1994)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Zero, considering the domination of Britpop (And the 1990s/2000s in general) on my list and inclusion of Eminem and blink-182, I'm reasonably confident that if I have 'frontloaded' my list for this forum, I've done it by accident and not very well.
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Ambulance LTD - LP
The Morning After Girls - Prelude: EPs 1 & 2
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
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P.S. Add to my list Powder Burns by Twilight Singers.
P.P.S. Baby 81???? That's my least favourite BRMC record. It's all about Howl...
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P.P.S. Baby 81???? That's my least favourite BRMC record. It's all about Howl BRMC...
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The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
The Velvet Underground - Psychocandy
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Velvet Underground is great and everything, but I absolutely hate Nico's voice.
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The Velvet Underground - Psychocandy
:laugh:
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Velvet Underground is great and everything, but I absolutely hate Nico's voice.
For real. It was the only thing about that album I didn't like. I was like, "MOAR LOU"
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Velvet Underground is great and everything, but I absolutely hate Nico's voice.
Jesus, FINALLY someone else agrees with me. Last time I said that here nobody agreed with me and I wondered if I was missing something.
I know Reed and Cale are no great shakes vocally, but there's something endearing about it. Nico sounds to me like she thinks she's too cool for melody.
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Nico's voice is not that great but I wouldn't say I hate it, and it fits most of the songs she sings on quite well.
That said, for no reason I can even explain, my favourite member of VU was Sterling Morrison. Probably it's his guitar work on "Heroin" and "Sister Ray" since those are my two favourite songs of theirs.
ps: mewithoutYou is the worst band ever. I had forgotten their existance. THANKS A LOT. :x
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I know Reed and Cale are no great shakes vocally, but there's something endearing about it. Nico sounds to me like she thinks she's too cool for melody.
She sounds to me like a russian transexual.
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Man, did you have to say Russian transsexual?
To the Baby 81 comment, I feel like it has the least filler of any of their albums. I love some songs off B.R.M.C. and Take Them On, On Your Own and loathe others. Howl is a great record in it's own right but it's not the kind of Black Rebel that I dig.
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Screaming Trees-Sweet Oblivion
Silverchair-Diorama
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
Harvest-Neil Young
The Vibrators-Pure Mania
Massive Attack-Mezzanine
Tool-Lateralus
Sigur Ros-Ágætis byrjun
i'll let more later....i'm tired
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I liked BRMC better when they were called The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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Ironically, I've never liked that joke.
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Man, did you have to say Russian transsexual?
To the Baby 81 comment, I feel like it has the least filler of any of their albums. I love some songs off B.R.M.C. and Take Them On, On Your Own and loathe others. Howl is a great record in it's own right but it's not the kind of Black Rebel that I dig.
I'm the total opposite. I think 81 has the most filler by far ('suicide's easy/what happened to the revolution'? what the fuck is THAT?) compared to the others, and Howl is the best simply because it's so different to their other work.
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Dogg, your problem with Baby 81 lies in the lyrics? Pretty much all of their lyrics are like that. Musically, though, it's a great album.
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Ironically, I've never liked that joke.
Ironically, I already made the better version of that joke.
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Dogg, your problem with Baby 81 lies in the lyrics? Pretty much all of their lyrics are like that. Musically, though, it's a great album.
No, that chorus was just one of my problems with the filler material on that record - I know they're no great shakes lyrically, but that chorus must be their absolute nadir. And I think a lot of its high points ('American X,' 'Weapon Of Choice') kick the shit out of most of their other albums. But I'd still say it's third place out of four, in my book, anyway.
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I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper - Whatevernights
Tom Waits - Alice
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of Love
Zen Café - Jättiläinen
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby
The White Stripes - The White Stripes
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Branded Women - Cities And Seas
All Sigur Rós albums
Sydän, sydän - Auto
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I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper
If nothing ever happens with The Starfighters, I am totally going to start working with people on a project I will insist be called "I Was An Angsty Twat When I Was 15, And Looking Back In Embarrassment After Grad School I Still Didn't Quite Get It"
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Doing a One Album Per Band list, these are some of my favorites:
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted: Lux and Redux
Owls - Owls
Melt Banana - Cell-Scape
The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Weezer - Pinkerton
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Igor Stravinsky - The Rites of Spring (not technically an album but on of my favorite pieces of music)
Battles - Mirrored
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Black Mountain - In the Future
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The White Stripes - Elephant
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Buckethead - Population Override
Calexico - Feast of Wire
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced?
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Portishead - Dummy
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Texas Flood
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I'll make the list short, I promise.
Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir
The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia...
Keane - Under the Iron Sea
The Lostprophets - The Fake Sound of Progress
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America/Seperation Sunday/Stay Positive
The Herd - Summerland
The Hilltop Hoods - The Calling
Matisyahu - Shake of the Dust, Arise
Rage Against the Machine - S/T /Battle of Los Angeles
Cog - Sharing Space
Crowded House - Recurring Dream
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Editors - An End has a Start
John Butler Trio - Grand National
The Killers - Sam's Town
Mattafix - Rhythm and Hymns
Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
Paul Kelly - Songs from the South, The Best of
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitch
Silverchair - Diorama / Young Modern
The Bravery - S/T
Triple J - Like a Version 1,2,3
Maniac Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
The Verve - Urban Hymns
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I'll try to keep this somewhat short. One album per band, and in no particular order.
The Cult - The Cult
U2 - Achtung Baby
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
The Wedding Present - George Best
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Bryan Adams - Reckless (okay, this one's a bit of a guilty pleasure)
Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From the Move
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
The Who - Live at Leeds
Dropkick Murphys - Blackout
TISM - Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil
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My absolute favorite album is "Can't Slow Down" by Saves The Day.
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My favorite albums, in no particular order:
Revolver by the Beatles
House of the Holy by Led Zeppelin
Leviathan by Mastodon
Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin
Gaia by Mago de Oz
Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
Vagabundo by Robi Draco Rosa
La Flaca by Jarabe de Palo
Dopethrone by Electric Wizard
Queens of the Stone by Queens of The Stone Age
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Where You Been by Dinosaur Jr.
The Crane Wife by The Decemberists\
Vitalogy by Pearl Jam
Purple by Stone Temple Pilots
System of a Down by System of a Down
Rust in Peace by Megadeth
Reign in Blood by Slayer
Finisterra by Mago de Oz
Axis Bold as Love by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Machine Head by Deep Purple
Witchcraft by Witchcraft
Wolfmother by Wolfmother
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys
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In no particular order...
Frizzle Fry- Primus
Apostrophe- Frank Zappa
The Soft Bulletin- The Flaming Lips
Dark At The End of The Tunnel- Oingo Boingo
Clouds Taste Metallic- The Flaming Lips
Sgt. Pepper's...-The Beatles
Flood- They Might Be Giants
John Henry- They Might Be Giants
One Size Fits All- Frank Zappa
The Mollusk- Ween
Chocolate and Cheese- Ween
There's a lot more, but it's a good summarization of my influences.
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DOOLITTLE. (Pixies)
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
Who's Next (The Who)
Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads)
OK Computer (Radiohead)
Kill the Moonlight (Spoon)
London Calling (The Clash)
Skylarking (XTC)
Revolver (...)
The Lonesome Crowded West (Modest Mouse)
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TISM - Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
This.
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My favorite album of all time is probably Lust for Life by Iggy Pop. I could listen to it forever. Just flawless.
Others are
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Autechre - Tri Repetae
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues
13 & God - 13 & God
Why? - Alopecia
µ-Ziq - Royal Astronomy
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
Why? is a little more recent, but all of those albums I love cover to cover.
As for BRMC, Howl is actually my least favorite record of theirs (although those songs are their best live material) Baby 81 I felt was a nice synthesis of the sounds of Howl and what had come before it. I don't think any of their albums are across-the-board good, but I could certainly cherry pick a song or two off of every album and enjoy them on a regular basis.
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That Why? album is like the best thing I've heard in a long time. I love it so much.
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I guess Stranded on an Island All Time Top 5
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (I'm obsessed with this album...
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
The Dodos - Visiter
I'm going to be revising this list in my head over and over again today...
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Hi this is my first post and so I thought this would be a good place to start. This are in no particular order mind
AC/DC : Back in Black
Andrew Bird: The mysterious production of eggs
The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree
The Decemberists: Picaresque
Dethklok: The Dethalbum
The Beatles: Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Gorillaz: Demon Days
Guillemots: Through The Window Pane
Editors: An End Has A Start
Jeff Buckley: Grace
Kings of Leon: Because of the times.
Modest Mouse: Good news for people who love bad news.
The National: Alligator
Newton Faulkner: Hand built by robots
The Doors: The Doors
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californication
Stereophonics: Just enough education to perform
Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise.
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Jets To Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Sigur Rós - ()
Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Tegan And Sara - The Con
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
JamisonParker - Sleepwalker
Ended up longer than I wanted, couldn't really pick from these.
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Opeth-Roundhouse Tapes
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Dream Theater-Systematic Chaos
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way above the rest is Finally We Are No One- Mùm
not a close second, but still quite far ahead of the rest is Under The Western Freeway- Grandaddy
the rest are just in alphabetical order:
Electronic Projects For Musicians- Apples In Stereo
Mabuta No Ura- Boris
Ambient 1: Music For Airports- Brian Eno
Travels In Constants Vol. 20- Eluvium
Grouper/Inca Ore split
Frengers- Mew
Dusk Log- Mùm
Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy- Mùm
Automating Volume 1- Nurse With Wound
Who's Next- The Who
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Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Led Zeppelin - III
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Radiohead - The Bends
The Baseball Project - Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, the entire Weakerthans discography, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation and Built to Spill's Keep It Like a Secret. Those are like, my top ones. I have tons of favorite albums.
Oh, also The Mountain Goats' Tallahassee and pretty much everything Dinosaur Jr. has ever done after 1990.
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In alphabetical-ish order. With only one album per artist, so there isn't just a whole bunch of Opeth.
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Baroness- The Red Album
Boris- Pink
The Classic Crime- The Silver Cord
Daft Punk- Discovery
Demon Hunter- The Triptych
Dream Theater- Images and Words
Eisley- Room Noises
Grails- Burning Off Impurities
Iron & Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days
Isis- Panopticon
LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
Liquid Tension Experiment- s/t
Mogwai- Mr. Beast
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
Skillet- Collide
This Will Destroy You- s/t
Yay Opeth!
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Screaming Trees-Sweet Oblivion
Really? You don't think Dust outshines this one by leaps and bounds?
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Dammit, I am not afraid to say that Born to Run is my favorite album of all time. For me, it's the closest to perfection that any album I've heard has come.
Maybe I'll make a more extensive list later today...
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nothing and nowhere-THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE
Opheliac-Emilie Autumn (she's just so...weird, i love her...as my 1500+ posts on her forum attest.)
pagan terrorism tactics-Acid Bath
01011001-ayreon
Vol 1- cky
commencment-DEADSY
the black halo- Kamelot
the dream- In This Moment
get some-SNOT
The obsessive devotion-epica (by the way, google simone simons and try not to fall in love *smitten*)
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David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Lou Reed - Transformer
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
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Top 5:
System of a Down- Hypnotize
Mastodon- Blood Mountain
Radiohead- Ok Computer
Badly Drawn Boy- Hour of the Bewilderbeast
Tool- 10,000 Days
honorable mentions go to:
Black Keys- Thickfreakness
The Pillows- FLCL OST
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Top 5:
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
The Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
Maybe this isn't representative. I had trouble getting my favorite records of last year down to 10.
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Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Beatles - Abbey Road
The Smiths - Queen Is Dead
Why is everyone's list so slanted toward newish lo fi indie stuff?
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Because the group of people who like that type of music are generally the same types of people who will read QC.
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first albums that come to mind:
Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals and Antichrist Svperstar and Jimi Hendrix's Axis: Bold As Love
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Radiohead - Kid A, OK Computer
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm, Intimacy
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
The Sound of Animals Fighting - Tiger & The Duke
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold, Dead Place
What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn't Kill Us
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Why is everyone's list so slanted toward newish lo fi indie stuff?
You're kidding, right?