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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: wigfried on 08 Feb 2006, 19:21
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this been done?
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Probably, lets do it again. Are you looking for everyone to post their own lists or is this a combined effort?
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we can do it either way, depending on the level of effort people want to put forth.
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INDIVIDUAL LISTS
Unless you like arguing.
and metal
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I like metal, but ok. Duly noted
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So lets see em.
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In no particular order.
-Dave Holland Quintet - Extended Play: Live at Birdland
-Sonny Rollins - Saxohphone Collosus
-George Szell with Cleveland Orchestra - D'Vorak's Three Great Symphonies (along with Carnival Overture and Smetena's Bartered Bride and "From My Life" arranged for orchestra)
-John Scofield - A Go Go
-Chris Potter - Traveling Mercies
-Demons and Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King
-The Crown - Deathrace King
-Brad Mehldau - Live in Tokyo
-Brave - Searching for the Sun
-Edgar Meyer - Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites
-John Adams - Century Rolls (yeah, I like Adams, so what?)
-Racer X - Superheroes
-Medeski, Martin and Wood - Friday Afternoon in the Universe
-Michael Daugherty - Metropolis Symphony/Bizzaro
-Nightwish - Once
-Pat Metheny - Trio Live
-The Bad Plus - These Are the Vistas (tomorrow it might be Give)
-The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
-Thomas Ades - America: A Prophecy
-Pierre Boulez with Cleveland - Petrouchka and Le Sacre de printemps
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AFI-Sing The Sorrow
AFI-The Art Of Drowning
Type O Negative-World Coming Down
KMFDM-XTORT
Sisters Of Mercy-Vision Thing
3 Inches Of Blood-Advance and Vanquish
Amen-We Have Come For Your Parents
Coil-Love's Secret Domain
Comeback Kid-Wake The Dead
ohGr-Welt
Error-Error
Horse The Band-R.Borlax
Nine Inch Nails-With Teeth
Nine Inch Nails-The Fragile
Interpol-Antics
The Mercy Cage-Scree:Transmissions
Ministry-Greatest Fits
Razed In Black-Damaged
Ramallah-Kill a Celebrity
ZAO-Parade Of Chaos
Not the 20 most influential, amazing, super great or technical. Simply my 20 favourite albums. It wasn't even very hard to decide, just went through itunes and picked my favourites.
EDITED:For grammar
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Here we go again:
Big Black-Atomizer
Polvo-Cor Crane Secret
Slowdive-Souvlaki
Birchville Cat Motel-Chi Vampires
Skullflower-Obsidian Shaking Codex/Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tie)
The Kinks-Village Green
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Neil Young-Everybody Knows this is Nowere
Bark Psychosis-Hex
Monoshock-Walk to the Fire
Can-Tago Mago
Avarus-Ruskeatimantti
Growing-The Sky's Run Into the Sea
Wire-Pink Flag
Swell Maps-Jane From Occupied Europe
Arvo Part-Tabula Rasa
Sonic Youth-EVOL
The Comsat Angels-Sleep No More
The Fire Show-Saint the Fire Show
My Bloody Valentine-Isn't Anything
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In no particular order and trying to limit myself to one album per band and no compilations.
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catasatrophe Waitress
Radiohead - OK Computer
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Blur - Parklife.
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Sonic Youth - Murray Street (or maybe Sister)
Pixies - Doolittle
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
ABBA - Arrival
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Kronos Quartet - Kronos Quartet Performs Phillip Glass
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I just can't do this, it's impossible.
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Let's do one album per artist.
Beatles – Abbey Road
Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bonnie 'Prince' Billie - I see the Darkness
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
Clash – London Calling
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Mogwai - Young Team (Mr. Beast?)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Silver Jews - American Water
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Talking Heads - The name of this band is Talking Heads (Cheapshot live record, I know, but so awesome)
(21) Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
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Ok lets see.
This isn't an exact order but starts with the ones I think of first. They're also partly in alphabetical order b/c I went down itunes
My Bloody Valentine-Loveless
The Fiery Furnaces-Blueberry Boat
Modest Mouse-The Moon and Antarctica
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Daft Punk-Discovery
The Cure-Galore
Elliott Smith-s/t
Nick Drake-Pink Moon
The Flaming Lips-The Soft Bulletin
Iron & Wine-Woman King (so its actually and EP, shut up)
Lou Reed-Transformer
Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted
The Olivia Tremor Control-Music From The Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
The Shins-Chutes Too Narrow
The Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Unicorns-Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
The Velvet Underground-The Velvet Underground & Nico
Ok, So the there are a few more slot and I can't decide between all the Deerhoof albums so they get the last set of slots all too themselves.
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Dude. You totally forgot Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music.
Best...album...evah....
</sarcasm mode off>
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See, this is the thing about these sort of threads. They're always tainted by what you happen to be listening to at the moment. I've been listening to Transformer and Galore a lot recently and so somehow they ended up on that list. Theres a pretty good chance that I'll be over them in a little while. I think maybe half my list is stable and half could change pretty quickly.
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Time for me to toss my hat into the ring
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Primus - Sailing The Seas of Cheese
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Rush - Permanent Waves
Calexico/Iron and Wine - In The Reins
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
The Moog Cookbook - Ye Olde Space Band
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
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20) weezer - maladroit
19) gerogerigegege - tokyo anal dynamite
18) cursive - domestica
17) saves the day - stay what you are
16) dj shadow - the private press
15) the locust - plague soundscapes
14) charles bronson - complete discocrappy
13) bjork - medulla
12) sounds like violence - the pistol
11) pig destroyer - 38 counts of battery
10) black rebel motorcycle club - take them on, on yr own
09) aphex twin - the richard d james album
08) alexisonfire - alexisonfire
07) v/vm - sometimes good things happen
06) dj shadow - entroducing
05) my bloody valentine - loveless
04) arcade fire - funeral
03) nine inch nails - the downward spiral
02) rival schools - united by fate
01) converge - jane doe
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Psht, this is what I do in me free time anyways!
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Matthew Good - Rooms [EP]
Radiohead - OK Computer
Deftones - White Pony
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Ani DiFranco - Not A Pretty Girl
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Hopesfall - No Wings To Speak Of [EP]
A Static Lullaby - ...And Don't Forget To Breathe
Cursive - Domestica
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Team Sleep - Team Sleep
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Explosions in the Sky - Those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever
Thursday - Full Collapse
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Coheed & Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Fear Before The March Of Flames - Odd How People Shake
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
The Pillows - FLCL OST
Yes that's more than 20, so sue me
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Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Apples In Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution
Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed
The Beatles - Help!
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Animal Collective - Feels
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
That was harder to do than I though it would be.
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Offhand at work, this is a quick list with a rough order (aren't they all?), but I've always considered Low to be my "favorite", most-enjoyable, most-personally-influential desert-island disc.
20 Harmonia - Deluxe
19 Boredoms - Super Ae
18 Glenn Branca - The Ascension
17 Sloan - One Chord to Another
16 Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
15 Sonic Youth - Sister
14 XTC - Drums and Wires
13 Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
12 Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
11 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
10 King Crimson - Discipline
09 Zoot Woman - Living in a Magazine
08 Daft Punk - Discovery
07 Velvet Underground - Loaded
06 Daedelus - Invention
05 Queen - Jazz
04 M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
03 Phoenix - United
02 Brian Eno - Another Green World
01 David Bowie - Low
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If this list was really "of all time" for me, it would include some Radiohead and Beck, but I'm kind of burnt out on them these days. It's not in any order, either.
Graceland : Paul Simon
Perfect From Now On : Built to Spill
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan : Bob Dylan
Clouds Taste Metallic : The Flaming Lips
Grace : Jeff Buckley
If You're Feeling Sinister : Belle and Sebastian
Sweden : The Mountain Goats
Rejoicing in the Hands : Devendra Banhart
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea : Neutral Milk Hotel
Pictures at an Exhibition : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Kill the Moonlight : Spoon
Seven Swans : Sufjan Stevens
Pink Moon : Nick Drake
Metaphorical Music : Nujabes
I Should Coco : Supergrass
The Meadowlands : The Wrens
There's Nothing Wrong With Love : Built to Spill
You Forgot It In People : Broken Social Scene
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads : Talking Heads
The Mysterious Production of Eggs : Andrew Bird
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Paul Simon - Graceland
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Bright Eyes - Lifted
Bob Marley - Exodus
The Cure - Disintegration
Mogwai - Young Team
Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplan Over the Sea
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
The Velvet Underground - The VU and Nico
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
The Doors - The Doors
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Clash - London Calling
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Sure, why not? In no real order..
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Elliott Smith - XO
Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Who - Who's Next
Radiohead - OK Computer
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Weezer - s/t (blue)
The Eels - Electro-shock Blues
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Clash - London Calling
Led Zeppelin - III
Radiohead - The Bends
The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
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1. Skyclad-Prince of The Povert Line
2. Pink Floyd-The Wall
3. Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon
4. The Beatles-White Album
5. The Beatles-Abbey Road
6. The Rolling Stones-Exile On Main Street
7. The Rolling Stones=Sticky Fingers
8. John Lennon-Plastic Ono Band
9. George Harrison-All Things Must Pass
10. Modest Mouse-The Moon And Antartica
11. Black Sabbath-Paranoid
12. Metallica-Master of Puppets
13. Metallica-The Black Album
14. Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited
15. Miles Davis-Bitches Brew
16. The Who-Quadrophenia
17. The Who-Tommy
18. Queen-A Night At The Opera
19. The Doors-The Doors (debut)
20. Rush-2112
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There's no way I'll be able to make a definite list, especially with older albums, so here's a preliminary brainstorm. Albums I'm fairly certain could go on there:
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco - Summerteeth
Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Weezer - Blue
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Definitely at least one Beatles album. This is hard.
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New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
Minuetmen - Double Nickles on The Dime
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Radiohead - Kid A
The Wrens - Meadowlands
Godspeed You Black Emporer! - F#A#oo
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Leftfield - Leftism
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes...
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid In Full
Jane's Addiction - Nothings Shocking
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjon
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Thats for this week ---- 1 from each artist
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- The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
- And You Will Know Us... - Source Tags & Codes
- Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
- Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
- The Who - The Who Sings My Generation
- Fugazi - Red Medicine
- My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
- Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
- Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
- Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
- Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
- Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
- The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
- The Shins - Oh! Inverted World
- Mock Orange - Mind is Not Brain
- Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
- Frog Eyes - The Golden River
- Talking Heads - '77
- Bear Vs Shark - Terrorhawk
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Pictures at an Exhibition : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Which version do you have, and how is it?
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
That's a pretty darned good album. It's one of those ones that pretty much nobody talks about, or at least nobody I know, because it just isn't as agressive as the more popular (at least among my friends) jazz albums are.
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In no order:
Leonard Cohen - The Future
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nick Cave - Let Love In
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
John Zorn - The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone
Jandek - Telegraph Melts
Alec Empire and Merzbow - Alec Empire vs. Merzbow
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Reverend Glasseye and His Wooden Legs - Black River Falls
Daniel Johnston - Songs of Pain: Early Recordings Volume 1
Tom Waits - The Black Rider
Syzygys - Complete Studio Recordings
Marc Ribot - Spiritual Unity
Naked City - Black Box [Torture Garden/Leng Tch'e]
Lambchop - Nixon
16 Horsepower - Folklore
Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Christian Marclay - Records 1981-1989
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Pictures at an Exhibition : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Which version do you have, and how is it?
Ack, I forgot to note. Well, I have the orchestral version, done by the Philadelphia Orchestra. It's really wonderful (the recording could be better though). However, I put it up there mostly because it was originally written for the piano and I'm working through it now. It's a lot of fun to play.
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Well, much like the others, I won't list mine in order, and I won't list more than one by each artist. And of course, these are my favorite records, not what I consider the best.
The Doors - The Doors
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Weezer - Pinkerton
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Beck - Odelay
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the See
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Who - Who's Next
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
This is all liable to change depending on how I'm feeling though.
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In no particular order:
Crotchduster - Big Fat Box of Shit
Tenacious D - S/T
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Beatles - Abbey Road
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin'
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Judas Priest - Painkiller
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Primus - Frizzle Fry
The Residents - Animal Lover
Rush - Hemispheres
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Dude. You totally forgot Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music.
Best...album...evah....
</sarcasm mode off>
Hey, I acutally Like that album. Seriously, I think it's pretty awesome.
Also, I like to point and laugh at the people who have nothing on there list made before 1999.
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20. Bad Religion- No Control
19. John Coltrane- Lush Life
18. Beastie Boys- Ill Communication
17. GSYBE!-Slow Riot for.....
16. Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders
15. Operation Ivy- Energy/Hectic LP
14. John Coltrane-One Down One Up; Live at the Half Note.
13. Against Me!-As the Eternal Cowboy
12. Skinny Puppy-VIVIsectVI
11. Mono- Under the Pipal Tree
10. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica
09. Against Me!- Reinventing Axl Rose
08. Sonic Youth- Dirty
07. Nirvana- Incesticide
06. John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk-S/T
(As an aside this is an excellent studio album, it may be out of print however, so check out the new Live at Carnagie Hall Record.)
05. Boris The Sprinkler-8 Testicle Pogo Machine
04. Dead Kennedys- Frankenchrist
03. Ted Leo/Rx-Hearts of Oak
02. Fugazi- Repeater
01. The Clash- London Calling
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Alkaline Trio - S/T
Alexisonfire - S/T
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in the People
Beulah - Yoko
Fischerspooner - #1
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Jawbreaker - Bivouac
Mogwai - Come On, Die Young/Mr. Beast
Pixies - Doolittle
The Beatles - Revolver
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Tyrrany of Distance
Weezer - The Blue Album
Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
Pinback - S/T
The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
Wilco - AM
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Quasi - Hot Shit!
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Kai wrote:
Also, I like to point and laugh at the people who have nothing on there list made before 1999.
I know what you mean, but at the same time music isn't just notes and chords. Its a cultural artifact and a product of a particular culture. Most of us here are young and grew up up with certain concepts, assumptions and paradigms ingrained in us- different ones than other generations grew up with. So it makes sense that people here will tend to have music from the past few years on their list. Thats the music that is part of us. I think its silly to only listen to new stuff but at the sametime I think there are reasons other than ignorance to value contemporary albums above older ones.
Ok, that probably makes no sense and its really verbose and pseudo-intellectual. I apoligize. Kids, this is what happens when you take cultural studies/critical theory courses... :-(
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Oh, whatever. Shut up and buy a Velvet Underground album, kids. :P
PS: A quick once-over reveals that EVERYONE who lists on this thread has at least one pre-99 album.
Edit: accidentally posted the following message in a new post instead of editing into this post. I've now merged the two posts:
I took the liberty of compiling a top 25 of our top lists so far, tallied by number of votes with ties broken by average rank. All items on unranked lists are given the rank of 10.5 (even you small list people... sorry, you're penalized for giving smaller lists!). here goes:
25 tie
24 Daft Punk - Discovery
23 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
22 The Doors - The Doors
21 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
14 Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
14 Weezer - S/T (blue)
14 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
14 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
14 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
14 Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
14 Death Cab for Cutie - Transantatlanticism
13 Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
12 The Clash - London Calling
09 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
09 Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
09 Belle and Sebastian - If you're Feeling Sinister
08 The Arcade Fire - Funeral
07 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
06 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
04 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it In People
04 Radiohead - OK Computer
03 Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea
02 The Beatles - Abbey Road
01 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
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That's a fricken decent compiled list. However, I think it would be more fair if you simply said every album was worth the same and counted how many times it appeared on the page.
Pretty sour over rank number 3?
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Yeah, I was gonna do that but I forgot. Here are vote counts:
3 Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
3 Weezer - S/T (blue)
3 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
3 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
3 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
3 Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
3 Death Cab for Cutie - Transantatlanticism
3 Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
3 The Clash - London Calling
4 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4 Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
4 Belle and Sebastian - If you're Feeling Sinister
4 The Arcade Fire - Funeral
4 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
5 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
5 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it In People
5 Radiohead - OK Computer
7 Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea
7 The Beatles - Abbey Road
8 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
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Just to mix things up...
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Autechre - LP5
Autechre - Envane
Basement Jaxx - Remedy
Dntel - Life is full of Possibilites
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Atmosphere - Lucy Ford
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
NaS - Stillmatic
Mouse on Mars - Vulvaland
o9 - Church of the Ghetto P.C.
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
The Pharcyde - Plain Rap
Photek - Modus Operandi
Richie Hawtin - Decks, EFX, and 909
the Future Sound of London - Accelerator
Luke Vibert - Kerrier District
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
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having trouble narrowing it down so this is probably way off, just the first list that came to mind-
Conjure One - Self-Titled
Delerium - Poem
Qntal - Qntal II
M83 - Before The Dawn...
Four Tet - Rounds
Covenant - Northern Light
Code 64 - Storm
The Birthday Massacre - Nothing & Nowhere
Evil's Toy - Silvertears
Null Device - A Million Different Moments
The Nine - Dreamland
Wideband Network - Universe
Mind.In.A.Box - Lost Alone
New Order - Technique
Mesh - Who Watches Over Me
Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit
Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
Decemberists - Castaways & Cutouts
Radiohead - OKC
VNV Nation - Advance & Follow v2
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In no specific order.
- Temple Of The Dog - S/T
- EElS - Electro-shock Blues
- EElS - Daisies to the Galaxy
- Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
- Orgy - Vapor Transmission
- Deadsy - Commencement [Demo Release] (someone gave me Orgy and Deadsy as a gift and I listened to them out of politeness. I'm glad I did, 'cause they grew on me)
- Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
- The Foo Fighters - The Colour And Shape
- Soundgarden - Superunknown
- Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
- Metallica - Master Of Puppets
- Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
- Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Under The Sea
- Weezer - The Blue Album
- Midtown - Save The World, Lose The Girl (I don't recommend this to anyone, I just have an emotional attachment to it)
- The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
- Toshiro Masuda - Naruto Season One Original Soundtrack
- Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
- Rammstein - Mutter
- Radiohead - OK Computer
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I won't do an order, this time round. Apart from alphabetical
Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
Bathory - Blood on Ice
Carpathian Forest - Defending the Throne of Evil
Count Nosferatu Komanndo - Ultraviolence Uber Alles
Crotchduster - Big Fat Box of Shit
Current 93 - Cats Drunk on Copper [Live at the Union Chapel]*
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Ewigkeit - Radio Ixtlan
Finntroll - Visor Om Slutet
Immortal - Battles in the North
Inkubus Sukkubus - Wytches
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Skyclad - Prince of the Poverty Line
Sol Invictus - Death of the West
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - Es Reiten Die Toten so Schnell, or, The Vampire Sucking at It's Own Vein
Type O Negative - October Rust
Waylander - Reawakening Pride Once Lost
Wyrd - Huldrafolk
Man, I'm mellowing out in my old age.
* Yes, a live album, but owing to the quality of the recording equipment used and the chapel acoustics, it remains one of their highest fidelity releases and contains almost certainly the best versions of Horsey, Black Flowers Please, Happy Birthday Pigface Christus, The Bloodbells Chime and Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil, amongst others.
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Nah I can't just throw it off like this. I need to do some serious thinking about this, even though none of you care!
Although my first limitation is going to be - it has to be out of the CDs that I physically own, not just MP3.
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Although my first limitation is going to be - it has to be out of the CDs that I physically own, not just MP3.
Well fucking of COURSE.
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Well fucking of COURSE.
Well, two of the albums I included, I don't actually have a CD or record of them. I do, however, have the entire album, because my friend pirates lots of music. I fully intend to buy the album, but I haven't done so yet. I actually intend to buy at least one of those albums quite soon...
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Ok How about a 1999 - 2006 Fav. list ---- " You Know ... For The Kids"
M.I.A. - Arular
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Wilco - Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot
Johnny Cash - America IV (The Man Comes Around)
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust
Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap Vol 2
Kayne West - The College Dropout
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Explosions in The Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
DJ Danger Mouse(Jay Z & The Beatles) - The Grey Album
Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds, Vol. 1
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Sasha - Involver
St. Germain - Tourist
LCD Soundsystem - S/T
The Postal Service - Give Up
The White Stripes - Elephant
Zero 7 - When It Falls
Jesus Christ - I had to edit right after I finished -------
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from the top of my head:
Under Byen - Det er Mig Der Holder Træerne Sammen
Under Byen - Kyst
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Bonnie 'prince' Billy - I see a Darkness
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Xiu Xiu - Fabolous Muscles
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Decemberists - Her Majesty
Radiohead - Kid A
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Loreena McKennitt - Book of Secrets
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Pixies - Doolittle
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes(Scarlet's Walk is a close second)
pretty boring list...
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Well fucking of COURSE.
Well, two of the albums I included, I don't actually have a CD or record of them. I do, however, have the entire album, because my friend pirates lots of music. I fully intend to buy the album, but I haven't done so yet. I actually intend to buy at least one of those albums quite soon...
Heh. You've listened to all the albums on your list before, so I think we can let you live. My comment is more an agreement with Dynamite's personal preference. I do feel that if an album is good enough to make a Top 20 it deserves to be bought at some point.
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Heh. You've listened to all the albums on your list before, so I think we can let you live. My comment is more an agreement with Dynamite's personal preference. I do feel that if an album is good enough to make a Top 20 it deserves to be bought at some point.
Oh, clearly, but very few record stores that I know carry either Demons & Wizards or Nightwish (the two artists whose album I'm missing). I think I'm going to make an amazon.com order as soon as I make some more money (my only regular gig is not happening the next two weeks, which means more time to practice, and no money). I've got a reasonable amount of stuff coming up, though, so I should be making some money.
edit: I just remembered where most of my money went: 1) recently stocked up on alcohol (some pretty reasonable wine, beer, and my personal favorite: good gin), and I just started dating someone. Bye-bye money!
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In no particular order.....
Dragonforce - Sonic Firestorm
Hot Water Music - Caution
Cave In - Antenna
The Crown - Deathrace King
Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Dillinger Escape Plane - Miss Machine
Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3
Cecil - Subtitles
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
Bane - It All Comes Down To This
Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide
Bad News - Bad News
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Life Of Agony - Soul Searching Sun
Sick Of It All - Scratch The Surface
Farside - The Monroe Doctrine
Liberty 37 - God Machine
I typed these out rough at first, and it took bloody ages to go back and put capital letters on and spell everything right.
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My favorites, mind you, and not "greatest" by anyone else's standards. Only my ears. No real order, but here goes:
-Radiohead- OK Computer
-Weezer- Weezer (blue)
-Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
-AFI- The Art of Drowning
-REM- Automatic for the People
-Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin I
-The Rolling Stones- 40 Licks
-Daft Punk- Discovery
-The Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness
-Radiohead- Kid A
-Alkaline Trio- From Here to Infermery
-Queen- A Night at the Opera
-Semisonic- Feeling Strangely Fine
-Boston- Boston
-Weezer- Pinkerton
-U2- War
-AC/DC- Back in Black
-Miles Davis- Milestones
-Green Day- Dookie
-The Who- Tommy
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My local HMV stocks both Nightwish and D&W...
I only actually own 4 of the albums on my list. I would buy them, but I listen to a lot of music, and I don't have much income. I'm planning on repaying the score to all my favourite bands when I get a job.
Of course, some stuff, like the Skyclad and the Current 93, I'd have trouble buying even if I wanted to. Seriously, you wanna piss the clerk at an indie record store off a lot? Go in and ask to order a Current 93 record. Especially a silly one, like Lucifer Over London or Crowleymass.
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I'm so going to do that.
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My local HMV stocks both Nightwish and D&W...
Down in [sarcasm] wonderfully cosmopolitan Charleston [/sarcasm], there are no really comprehensive record stores. We have an indie shop, but I can't stand indie (sorry, and don't try to convince me otherwise, my roomate really likes indie, so I've heard a bunch of it. I just plain don't care for it, at all), and they don't stock anything but indie, pretty much. I mean, the local place that has a reasonable sized concert music collection (the size of which was recently reduced by them moving world music and new age into the same place, *sigh*) barely has any composers from after 1950.
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Welcome to my world, my friend. The only two record stores of any worth here at all are both closing, which makes me super sad. The rest are basically a Sam Goody, and a shitty indie store. Seriously, guys, your music isn't good enough to warrant it's own shop.
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In no particular order:
Also, I like to point and laugh at the people who have nothing on there list made before 1999.
I would like to point and laugh at anyone who has nothing AFTER 1999 on their list. Classics are good but you can't miss out on your own generations music. That's just being a rock snob.
oh and when you write Weezer - self titled, do you really have to add (blue)? .....I'm safe we can all assume you're not talking about the green album...
nEmo
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1. Can, Tago Mago
2. Boredoms, Super AE
3. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
4. Tim Buckley, Starsailor
5. Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
6. Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
7. King Crimson, Starless and Bible Black
8. Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom
9. Faust, Faust
10. Pere Ubu, The Modern Dance
11. Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets
12. Miles Davis, Live-Evil
13. Guided By Voices, Bee Thousand
14. Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
15. Yes, Close to the Edge
16. Patti Smith, Horses
17. Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (1)
18. John Zorn, The Circle Maker
19. Amon Duul II, Tanz der Lemminge
20. Tom Waits, Alice
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Oh, I'm certainly not discriminating against music nowadays. At least 3 of the albums on my list are post 1999 (I don't know when exactly Disco Volante was made). Considering that we're comparing a period of six years (1999 to Now) to 1950 to 1999, I think having 3/4 from 1999 is a pretty large amount on that list.
EDIT: And Tago Mago is such a great album.
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In no order, and limiting to one non-compilation album per artist:
Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet (that's right, I like it more than Surfing with the Alien)
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Testament - The New Order
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Dio - Holy Diver
The Doors - The Doors
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Star One - Space Metal
Rush - 2112
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Really, there were some pretty tough decisions. Every Testament album (yes, even the Ritual) is amazing, and I nearly took Number of the Beast or Piece of Mind over Somewhere in Time for my Maiden album.
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It really is a bastard of a choice. I could probably replace any of those with some of mine, but these were more of a nostalgic descision than anything.
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I had really forgot about In The Court of The Crimson King -- I put my copy on this morning (A pristine vinyl copy I might add) -- Wow it's a great album
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My copy is on vinyl too. You just don't get the experience without the big cover and the planet with the weird face. So 70's.
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I have both the vinyl and the CD, courtesy of my dangerous habit of accepting any and all LPs my friends and family are wanting to get rid of.
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My personal favorite albums, in alphabetical order.
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Revolver
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Dirty Dozen Brass Band - We Got Robbed! (Live in New Orleans)
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Led Zeppelin - II
Neko Case - Blacklisted
NIN - The Fragile
Parliament - Motor Booty Affair
Radiohead - Kid A
Something For Kate - Beautiful Sharks
Spiderbait - Grandslam
TISM - www.tism.wanker.com
Tool - Aenima
I picked up a copy of In The Court of The Crimson King on Vinyl, even though I don't actually own a record player. It sang to me across the record store and I just had to buy it. Sometimes I will just put the CD on and stare at the vinyl case, blasted out of my mind.
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My copy is on vinyl too. You just don't get the experience without the big cover and the planet with the weird face. So 70's.
While ITCOTCK's cover is glorious on vinyl, it pales when compared to A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson. Easily my most loved vinyl thingy
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HAHA THAT ALBUM'S ABBREVIATION IS ALMOST ITCOCK!
It had to be said.
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i'd do it but 90% of my choices are from before 1989 and i'm afraid i'd get banned.
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i'd do it but 90% of my choices are from before 1989 and i'm afraid i'd get banned.
Ah, fuck 'em all, just do it. I'm pretty sure 90% of my choices would be from after 1989. So ban me.
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Hell, over 50% of my list is pre-1989. Let's see it!
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Here we go again:
Big Black-Atomizer
Polvo-Cor Crane Secret
Slowdive-Souvlaki
Birchville Cat Motel-Chi Vampires
Skullflower-Obsidian Shaking Codex/Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tie)
The Kinks-Village Green
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Neil Young-Everybody Knows this is Nowere
Bark Psychosis-Hex
Monoshock-Walk to the Fire
Can-Tago Mago
Avarus-Ruskeatimantti
Growing-The Sky's Run Into the Sea
Wire-Pink Flag
Swell Maps-Jane From Occupied Europe
Arvo Part-Tabula Rasa
Sonic Youth-EVOL
The Comsat Angels-Sleep No More
The Fire Show-Saint the Fire Show
My Bloody Valentine-Isn't Anything
Can I just say that I LOVE your list?
I'll think of mine in the next while.
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Right, here's my list:
20. Entombed - Clandestine
19. Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
18. Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
17. The Virgin Prunes - ...If I Die, I Die
16. Coil - Black Light District: A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room
15. Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
14. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico
13. Jandek - Worthless Recluse
12. Tindersticks - Tindersticks (1993)
11. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
10. Sonic Youth - EVOL
9. Death In June - ...But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?
8. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
7. The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka
6. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
5. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
4. Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichungen Des Patienten O.T.
3. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
2. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
1. Tangerine Dream - Zeit
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I'll limit it to one choice per band/artist. In no order...
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
The Flower Kings - Unfold the Future
Opeth - Still Life
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Pink Floyd - The Wall
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Kansas - Leftoverture
King Crimson - Red
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Raise Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Dream Theater - Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
IQ - Subterranea
Agalloch - The Mantle
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Tool - Lateralus
Neal Morse - One
Devin Townsend - Terria
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Yes - Close to the Edge
Arena - The Visitor
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Holy crap, somebody else that listens to the Flower Kings. I salute your proggitude, sir.
Kickass list, btw.
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oh and when you write Weezer - self titled, do you really have to add (blue)? .....I'm safe we can all assume you're not talking about the green album...
nEmo
Well, this is true, but what if some poor unfortunate child comes across this list and search for Weezer? And what if their results come back in order of newest releases?
I think that would scar them for life. As much as I like Weezer, I see the Green Album and Make Believe as records that shouldn't be mentioned alongside Blue, Pinkerton and Maladroit. In the end, their overall album quality is still "good" in my book, but thanks to those two things, it is down from "excellent."
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I always call Weezer - Weezer (1994) "Blue". I don't think it's too much trouble to say that.
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I tried but I just can't do this… Highway 61 Revisited would be in there though.
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Psh. The Times They Are A Changin is better. :D
Holy crap, somebody else that listens to the Flower Kings. I salute your proggitude, sir.
Kickass list, btw.
...Who the fuck are the Flower Kings?
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FIGHT YOU! Actually, you could just about make my top 20 all Bob Dylan albums and I wouldn't be too unhappy.
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Shit, I could do that. Except for Blonde on Blonde. I don't really like that album too much. Replace it with Cash or something.
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No Blonde on Blonde? How come?
It's quite stylistically similar to Highway 61, so I don't understand why you would like one but not the other...
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Something about it bugs me. I just really can't get into it. I know one of the reasons I hate it is the opening song; Rainy Day Women? It's just too ridiculous for me to delve into the album.
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Holy crap, somebody else that listens to the Flower Kings. I salute your proggitude, sir.
Kickass list, btw.
...Who the fuck are the Flower Kings?
The name sounds pretty weird, I admit, but the Flower Kings are an obscure prog rock band. The only reason I even know about them is because they're on Inside Out, the insanely good independent prog label. Maybe I'll put something of theirs up on the Forced Listening thread later.[/b]
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B…but everybody must get stoned!
I would try to convince you of Blonde on Blonde's worth, but it would probably just end up with me shouting song titles at you and being exasperated, so I won't go there.
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LEOPARD SKIN PILL BOX HAT!
Sorry, but seriously.
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My first post ever shall be my favourite albums! YAY FOR ALBUMS!!! I can't really put them in an order from favourite to least favourite, cause that would be like ordering my children. (Not that I have children...)
-Billy Joel:Piano Man
-Bruce Springsteen:Born to Run
-Pink Floyd:Is there Anybody out there? The Wall Live 1980-1981
-The Decemberists:Picaresque
-Radiohead:Kid A
-Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
-Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
-Miles Davis:Birth of the Cool
-Vagelis:Blade Runner (Soundtrack)
-Harry Manx:West Eats Meet
-The Eagles: Hotel California
-Paul Simon: Graceland
-The Last Five Years (Soundtrack)
-Pink Floyd:Wish You Were Here (Best album art ever!)
-The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
-Yes: Close to the Edge
-Simon and Garfunkle: Greatest Hits
Damn, can't think of a last three.
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Thick as a Brick and Close to the Edge are awesome albums.
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Yeah, 70's prog is what it's all about. What's a good album by the Flower Kings? I'll check them out.
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Oooh this is fun.
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Fruit Bats - Mouthfuls
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Barenaked Ladies - Maybe You Should Drive
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Easily my favorite album of all time.)
Menomena - I am the Fun Blame Monster
Belle and Sebastion - The Life Pursuit
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
Harvey Danger - King James Version
Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
The Decemberists - Picaresque
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Green Day - Nimrod (Though American Idiot comes close because of Jesus of Suburbia)
The Roots - Phrenology
Yes... I have eclectic tastes.
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Here:
1 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- Shake The Sheets
2 The Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour
3 Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West
4 Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
5 The Decemberists- Picaresque
6 The Beatles- Abbey Road
7 Belle and Sebastian- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
8 Modest Mouse- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
9 Of Montreal- The Sunlandic Twins
10 The Shins- Oh, Inverted World
11 Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
12 Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica
13 The Beatles- The Beatles (White Album)
14 Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
15 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- Hearts of Oak
16 Of Montreal- Satanic Panic in the Attic
17 The Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
18 Interpol- Turn On the Bright Lights
19 Arcade Fire- Funeral
20 The New Pornographers- Electric Version
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Yeah, 70's prog is what it's all about. What's a good album by the Flower Kings? I'll check them out.
Unfold the Future is indeed an amazing album, but it's not their typical style, it's got jazz elements to it. If you're looking for something that's more in their usual style, try Space Revolver first, it's also damn good. I don't have their latest album, or even any tracks from it, but I've heard it's pretty good, though not their best.
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Yes... I have eclectic tastes.
I think that's pretty much the watchword of this place. I'm so glad that everyone has such wierd and eclectic tastes. In fact, it almost seems like the contest here is to see who can like the most eclectic and unknown bands, rather than the last forum where I was. There the contest was who could like the most technical bands. There was very little non-prog stuff that was accepted by them (it was the John Myung board, for anybody wondering).
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This is irrelevant, but John Myung is an incredible bassist. Just thought I'd through that out there.
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Agreed, and those few regulars on his board were pretty darned good themselves. In fact, that's one of the reasons I don't go there. I'm just not an electric bass player any more. I mean, I haven't played it at all since December, so in general, I wouldn't really understand what they were talking about. Anyways, enough irrellevancy.
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It's nice to see that everyone is into several kinds of music. And maybe I've looked over it but there is absolutely NO Iron Maiden or Bruce "here are my genitals, feel free to kick" Dickinson (Thank you, mr. Elton) I LOVE IT!
My top 20 in no particular order;
Metallica 'Master Of Puppets'
Ancient Rites 'Blasfemia eternal'
Somebody mentioned 'Dim Carcosa'. It is also a great great album but 'Blasfemia eternal' is more brutal (don't worry, melodies are still there). Plus, nostalgic reasons.
Manu Chao 'Radio Bemba Sound System'
the perfect summer-BBQ-party-CD. I take it anywhere and it always gets great response.
Jimi Hendrix Experience 'Electric Ladyland'
John Hiatt 'Crossing Muddy Waters'
Black Sabbath 'Black Sabbath'
Kyuss 'Blues for the Red Sun'
Queens Of The Stone Age 'Songs for the deaf'
Yawning Man 'Rock Formations'
Bob Dylan one of his offcial bootlegs, the one from 1964 in New York.
Tool 'Lateralus'
The Mars Volta 'Frances the Mute'
Biohazard 'State Of the World Adress'
Nostalgia again? Well perhaps. And from a musical point of view; some of the best crossover metal ever produced.
Misery Loves Co. 'Misery Loves Co.'
I don't really expect much people to know them. It's industrial with an psycho edge.
Magnet 'The Wickerman: original soundtrack'
dEUS 'In a bar under the sea'
Evil Superstars 'Love is Okay'
Nirvana 'Unplugged'
This is by far one of the live albums ever. I also feel it displays another side of Cobain that you can't hear on 'Bleach or 'Nevermind'.
Robert Johnson 'The Complete Recordings'
Rather primitove recordings, lots of 'scratchy' noises but very soulful and wicked from time to time
Hawkwind 'Future Reconstructions -Ritual of the Solstice'
Just techno remixes of Hawkwind songs. Really great stuff. One of the few electronic albums I have
That should be about twenty.
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- Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Sorry to burst your bubble.
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Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Sorry to burst your bubble again. I almost also put Bruce's album The Chemical Wedding on there too. Seriously, what's wrong with the Maiden? And then you like, follow it up with Master of Puppets? what the fuck is up with that?
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I really DO NOT like Iron Maiden.
It's just that I can't take Iron Maiden and more specificly Dickinson seriously. Many people think the world of him as a singer. Whenever I hear him, I hear operette-esque singing lines (which I don't like) and whenever I see him, I see a guy doing something that appoaches a grand écart in the wrong direction.
I'll admit that Maiden and I got off at the wrong foot; I gave them a try when 'The X-Factor' was just released. Not. A. Good. Idea.
However, to end with a nice thing about Maiden; I really liked it that Bruce spoke his mind about Ozzy, Sharon's docu-soap and the American audience instead of rechewing and spitting out the same old crap about love, respect and admiration.
I really like 'Master of Puppets'. It has nothing to do with Maiden so, who ever suggests that I'm contradicting myself can go contradict himself.
'MoP' is just a very complete album; apart from the fast and venomous riffs, it has also some very clever softer parts (listen to it trough your headphones if you don't believe me). The softer parts are the reasons why I like 'MoP' better then '...And Justice for All'.
Once again, Metallica and Iron Maiden are two completely different bands.
Besides, just because I'm into metal (deep down I'm still a headbanger) doesn't mean that I have to like every bit of metal that's out there for sale or download.
I don't like Immortal or Maiden.
I've never checked out Judas Priest properly,
I don't think much of Anthrax,
I think Yngwie Malmsteen is a wanker who can't tell his penis from his guitar (which would explain a lot).
The pose around Manowar's music ('true metal!' 'Fakes shall die!') makes me want to go out and buy 'Yellow brick road' by Elton John.
And the whole 'We'll miss you, Dimebag, let's do a tribute'-thing makes me want to vomit. The fuckers who are all about love&respect now were the assholes who wished that Darrel would OD 5 to 10 years ago.
On the other hand, I recently rediscovered Type O Negative,
'Rust in peace' was the first metal album I purchased and it still finds a way to my CD-player,
Sepultura with Max is still awesome,
I can still appreciate a nice old school death metal album
and Trey Azagtoth plays some badass maniac solos.
So there are lots of thing that I like on Planet Metal but also lots of stuff that I really don't like. It's just that a lot of the things I don't like are heavily appreciated. And the current stae of metal isn't quite my cup of tea.
But that's just me. You really don't have to agree.
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I'm just going to respond to it in order because it's easier for me that way. :D
Not to say that Master of Puppets is a bad album, I just find it suprising that someone would like one and abhor the other. It's odd. I guess I can see the reasoning behind it. And that thing with Ozzy/Sharon? totally wins.
I'm not superbly keen on Immortal either. Anthrax.. I really do like, but most of that is a nostalgic thing. Yngwie I don't like. At all. Period. (You can play 80 notes in a second? Good, let's write a SONG now). Manowar are just so cheesy and elitist it hurts. The whole Dimebag thing bugged the shit out of me. Seriously, nobody was paying attention to DImebag since Pantera anyways. I mean, I'm not condoning shooting the guy, but I'm a little iffy on Pantera.
Type O Negative, Megadeth, Sepultra are amazing.
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When I first heard them, I thought Manowar was a parody of fantasy metal and stuff. I thought it was pretty funny. Then I found out they were serious. Now I think it's hilarious.
I think the thing is that I don't really care about vocalists. I can listen to any vocalist except for black or death metal vocalists and not give a shit. (Don't give me that 'you just gotta get used to it' crap, I've tried to get into it countless times. I just don't like it.) Bruce Dickinson can be ridiculous sometimes, but hey, so can Hetfield.
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Yeah, Manowar are pretty hilarious.
On the death/black metal growls: I originally hated them. completely, and I just couldn't listen to the music at all. Then about a year after that it just kinda clicked. I have no idea why.
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Yeah, Manowar are pretty hilarious.
Its sad, really. The're actually serious.
And I also hated growls when I started listening to Death and At The Gates after years of listening to Nightwish, Iron Maiden and Metallica. I Could'nt stand it.
But after a while it started making sence, and it fitted perfectly with the music.
I have a few friends at school who listens to metal, last year all I got from them was "how can you listen to that Death Metal stuff? It's just noise! not like metallica!"
A few months ago we went together to a Death tribute in memory of Chuck.
The "I dont like growls" is just a faze every metalhead go throgh.
Also, think Of Cryptopsy, can you imagine Bruce Dickinson singing their stuff?
If they wont kill him, he'll probably have a heart attack from the sheer speed.
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Same here. Well, I can't say that I like the death/black metal vocals, but they do kind of fit. I still don't think I'll ever like the just plain screaming vocals. All the pictchlessness of death/black metal, without any actual control.
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There's too much Metal on this message board.
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Does such a thing exist?
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Since im new, I thought this would give some insight into my music tastes....
In no order...
Ash : Free All Angels
Ash : Meltdown
Oasis : Definetly Mabye
Radiohead : The Bends
Primal Scream : Screamadelica
The Stone Roses : The Stone Roses
The Smiths : The Queen Is Dead
Ian Brown : Solarized
The Lightning Seeds : Dizzy Heights
The Lightning Seeds : Jollification
Charlotte Hatherley : Grey Will Fade
Franz Ferdinand : Franz Ferdinand
The Charlatans UK : Some Freindly
Belle And Sebastian : If Youre Feeling Sinister...
The Cribs : The New Fellas
Lucksmiths : Naturliste
James : The Best Of James
Feeder : Comfort In Sound
Idlewild : The Remote Part
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There's too much goddamn indie on this message board.
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Ancient Rites 'Blasfemia eternal'
Somebody mentioned 'Dim Carcosa'. It is also a great great album but 'Blasfemia eternal' is more brutal (don't worry, melodies are still there). Plus, nostalgic reasons.
Oh, I like pretty much everything (actually, scrap the pretty much) Ancient Rites ever did, but in my mind the only thing that can really challenge Dim Carcosa is 'And The Hordes Stood as One'. The thing about Dim Carcosa is that it is literally perfect. I can't think of any changes I'd make to the track order (ommissions or re-arrangements) and very few to the songs themselves (there's a few flourishes from the live versions that could have been pretty sweet on the album). It's the kind of formula that so many people have been trying to get right since, welll, the first Cradle of Filth album, but AR get the balance perfect. It's the viking what does it.
Also, anyone who hasn't got a massive boner for Immortal is nuts. NUTS I SAY!
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I just didn't get super into them when I first listened. I'll try em out a gain, after I download an album or something. any reccomendation?
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Try At the Heart of Winter.
Thats the album that gave me, as khar said, a bigass boner over immortal.
Although they look ridiculous in pictures they know how to make fine metal.
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Here's me favourite 20.
01. The Olivia Tremor Control // Black Foliege: Animation Music
02. Talk Talk // Laughing Stock
03. Neutral Milk Hotel // In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
04. Radiohead // OK Computer
05. British Sea Power // The Decline Of British Sea Power
06. The Velvet Underground // White Light / White Heat
07. Joy Division // Closer
08. Sigur Ros // Agaetis Byrjun
09. Mogwai // Come On Die Young
10. Blur // 13
11. My Bloody Valentine // Loveless
12. Slint // Spiderland
13. Lightning Bolt // Wonderful Rainbow
14. Joy Division // Unknown Pleasures
15. Pulp // We Love Life
16. The Beatles // Abbey Road
17. Gang Of Four // Entertainment!
18. Can // Tago Mago
19. The Fiery Furnaces // Blueberry Boat
20. Animal Collective // Here Comes The Indian
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I'd list them in some sort of order of "goodness", but I'm too indecisive/lazy, so I'll just sort them by artist:
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1967)
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1969)
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971)
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove (1979)
Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (1963)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1968)
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (1970)
Kraftwerk - Computer World (1981)
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (1977)
Love - Forever Changes (1967)
Bob Marley - Survival (1978)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
The United States of America - The United States of America (1968)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968)
The Who - Quadrophenia (1973)
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For the Money (1968)
The fact that there are 23 albums there is irrelevant!
I think Yngwie Malmsteen is a wanker who can't tell his penis from his guitar (which would explain a lot).
Yes, his playing is some of the most masturbatory I've ever heard, and the guy who does the vocals on "I Am a Viking" is goddamned hilarious, particularly the opening "oh yeah".
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1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. The Who- Tommy
3. The Beatles- Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. Pink Floyd - Animals
5. The Tragically Hip- Road Apples
6. Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
7. Led Zeppelin- Untitled
8. Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland
9. Queen- A Night at the Opera
10. The Tragically Hip- Trouble at the Henhouse
11. R.E.M- Automatic for the People
12. Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
13. The Beatles- Abbey Road
14. The Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour
15. The Tragically Hip- The Tragically Hip
16. The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
17. The Tragically Hip- Up to Here
18. The Tragically Hip- In Between Evolution
19. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin 2
20 The Tragically Hip- Phantom Power
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I'm trying to come up with 20 albums, but I just cant.
There are just too many good albums floating about in my head..
Damn you, eclectic taste in music.
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1. Jean Leloup - Le Dôme
2. Malajube - Trompe-l'oeil
3. Les Colocs - Dehors Novembre
4. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
5. Louise Attaque - Comme On A Dit
6. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
7. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
8. Jean Leloup - La Vallée des Réputations
9. The Dandy Warholes - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
10. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
11. Karkwa - Les tremblements s'immobilisent
13. The Dears - No Cities Left
14. The Decemberists - Picaresque
15. Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
16. Accrophone - Duo du Balcon
17. Portishead - Dummy
18. The Beattles - Abbey Road
19. Les Breastfeeders - Déjeuner sur l'herbe
20. Bob Dylan - Highway 61
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Right, now because I'm a sad motherfucker it's taken me weeks to come up with this list, and I've written a fucking mini-essay on each album and said my favourite track. However, this also means that I can't fit all 20 in one reply, so I'm going to post like, five a day, starting at number one.
Let me just say that I know a great deal of these albums are by no means perfect; but they don't have to be to find their way into my heart. I think the limitation of having to be CDs I personally, physically own, not my dad/brother, not on MP3 only, but me, my money, has made for an interesting list, as far as I'm concerned. Although I think 2/3 of the top 3 would remain the same if I didn't have that restriction. Anyway, voila:
1. Weezer – Weezer Deluxe (1994/2004) – I adore this album, so much you have no idea. This is an album that’s stood the test of time; more than 12 years I’ve been in love with this album. They are the first band I discovered of my own accord – i.e. my dad didn’t cram them down my throat; not that the bands he did cram were bad! - in 1994, when they appeared on the Windows ’95 install disc. My mum hated this band even then, but since then I’ve consistently and repeatedly fallen in love with Weezer over and over again, by listening to their good albums through and remembering just how goddamned great they are. I’ve chosen the deluxe version of the Blue album for two reasons; one, I prefer the unmated guitars on Say It Ain’t So, and two, I think that the unreleased/b-side songs on the bonus disc – Susanne, Mykel And Carli, Paperface, etc. – are at least as good, and ditto the acoustic performances. This is Weezer’s masterpiece. Favourite song: The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
2. Joy Division – Closer (1980) – This album is completely unique, even compared to their preceding work! The ghostly production, stabbing guitars and Ian Curtis’ wretched (as far as feeling rather than quality) vocals and lyrics make this my second favourite album ever. There’s not a duff track here. I love how Isolation finishes a few seconds early, and just as you wait for the next song the synthesizer fades back in for a split-second blast at the end. That’s the genius of Martin Hannett for you – who has a hand in making a lot of this album so good, turning Closer into a claustrophobic, echoing walk through the darkness of Ian Curtis’ depression. Cracked, but beautiful. Favourite song: Decades
3. Billy Talent – Billy Talent (2003) – The word ‘punk’ is thrown around an awful lot these days. Let’s assume Billy Talent are punk – in what sense, I don’t know, but either way one thing I do know is this is one of the best debuts I’ve heard in recent years. Just spilling over half an hour in length, this record is bristling with energy and aggression, and it’s frankly brilliant. The lyrics are clever, witty and often hilarious; and the guitar parts are brilliant (Ian D’Sa chooses to use a tuning that allows him to play chords and lead parts at the same time). While the themes of being different to everybody else are fairly emo-angst-y, they put a different spin on it, and over music that’s somehow inventive with the same old instruments it just doesn’t get much better as far as I’m concerned. Favourite Song: Prisoners Of Today
4. Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (1965) – This is the first album when Dylan went ‘rock.’ He practically invented rock with the first side of this album really. The sequence it’s in is somewhat bemusing actually considering he used to play gigs acoustic first and then with his band; either way, both sides of it are great. I think this album’s greatest strength is that it shows Dylan’s two sides; the rocking, speed-freak bastard (i.e. Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream, probably my favourite song on here) and the finger-pointing leader of the masses (i.e. It’s Alright May (I’m Only Bleeding) which contains probably the coolest acoustic guitar riff of all time). The thing that boggles my mind about this album, though, is that it was released in the same year as Highway 61 Revisited. How the FUCK Did he managed to release his two greatest albums within less than 12 months? Favourite Song: Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
5. Pink Floyd – Animals (1977) – When Pink Floyd went punk. This is the most acidic Pink Floyd album pre-Wall, and it benefits greatly from that. The lyrics are like knives, the musicianship is probably the Floyd’s best – some of it concealing the bite of the lyrics within; ironically enough, becoming wolves in sheep’s clothing – and the songs are all hilariously extreme lengths. Even the bookends, Pigs On The Wing 1 and 2 which I at first found fairly nothingy are vital to the concept despite their miniscule length. Easily one of the Floyd’s best; and definitely better than Dark Side and The Wall in my eyes. Favourite Song: Pigs
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Sepultura with Max is still awesome,
Please, Sepultura hasn't been good in years.
And Master of Puppets isn't even Metallica's best album, nor is Metallica even the best Bay Area thrash band.
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6. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) – Now, when I first bought this album, I wanted to dislike it a little bit. The fact that it gets such slavering praise in indie circles made me want to practice some reverse-elitism and say ‘this album of theirs is better.’ As a matter of fact, I do think A Ghost Is Born is superior in most ways. However, Yankee has a much greater place in my heart. Not to say it’s not flawed; I think both Kamera and Reservations are total throwaways, but the rest of it is just Wilco at their absolute, absolute best, I think, particularly on Poor Places, for the sublime entry of the drumming/glissando riff a few minutes in, and the opener I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, which is probably their best song to date. Favourite Song: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
7. Pink Floyd – The Final Cut 20th Anniversary Reissue (1983) – I bet you no-one saw this one coming. This is probably the least-loved of Pink Floyd’s better-known albums. The follow-up to The Wall, it explores many similar themes and spends most of its time snapping at Maggie Thatcher and whingeing about World War II. However, the beauty – and precision – of the music is undeniable. David Gilmour only has about three guitar solos on here; they’re all utterly brilliant, particularly the one in Your Possible Pasts, but it’s Michael Kamen’s strings – and his arranging in conjunction with Roger Waters – that are the real stars here. The loud-quiet dynamics on this collection are tweaked to perfection (and can make it a bit impossible to listen to publicly) and the album is one long piece of beautifully crafted strings, bar Not Now John, which features some of the best, if most unnecessary, rock ‘n’ roll swearing (“where’s the fuckin’ bar, John???”). The string flourish after the “it’s the only connection they feel” line in Fletcher Memorial Home still gives me chills to this very day, at least four years after I first heard this album. Favourite Song: When The Tigers Broke Free
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl (2005) – I bought this album on a whim after hearing a snatch of its lead single on the radio and thinking it was brilliant – the rest of the album is too. They’ve traded in their feedback-drenched rock ‘n’ roll for gospel choirs, big pianos and four particularly intimate acoustic sketches done individually and beautifully. Every song is lovingly crafted, right down to the often God bothering-lyrics (“they have no Jesus/and they have no soul!” from Devil’s Waitin’) and it shows. By throwing their old rulebook out of the window, BRMC have succeeded in making what is easily their best album so far. Favourite Song: Ain’t No Easy Way
9. Fony – Circles (2003) – Fony first appeared on the scene in 2001, with their debut album and the moderately successful Chore Again. Their debut album, Routine Irregular, was impressive, snappy, but bratty and immature. While there were several great moments on it, its production was too box-sized and Olly Gibbens’ vocal style didn’t quite suit the excellent words he was spitting at slutty ex-girlfriends. However, this sophomore effort shows infinite progression in the ensuing two years. Their sound now massive and polished, by Circles Fony have taken a great leap of maturity, Gibbens’ now more adult singing suited his more subtle, brooding lyrical stylings. The riffing here is superior to their debut as well, and there isn’t a duff track on it. Acoustic tracks Helium and the title track, an instrumental, also show that there is more to them than one dimensional metal. Probably the best young metal band to come out of England in recent years, I await their third album with eager anticipation, although the departure of Olly means that their new vocalist – and the album in general – will have everything to prove, especially following up this masterpiece. Favourite Song: Wishlist, End
10. Hope of the States – The Lost Riots (2004) – I can’t believe that this album comes from a band who’ve lost their guitarist, who hung himself in late 2003, delaying this album by several months. The quality of it is unbelievable; every song is an enormous anthem, with massive string arrangements. It’s pretentious, yes, but pretension has never really bothered me; in fact, I’ve found it inspiring because it oft leads to sheer beautiful music. This is all quite apart from Samuel Herlihy’s appealing lyrics, which seem to speak directly into the hearts of depressed indiekids everywhere. Favourite Track: The Red, The White, The Black, The Blue
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Sepultura with Max is still awesome,
Please, Sepultura hasn't been good in years.
And Master of Puppets isn't even Metallica's best album, nor is Metallica even the best Bay Area thrash band.
It's totally Ride the Lightning and Testament, assuming they're from CA. otherwise it totally goes to Exodus. X TREEMZ
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Sepultura's Arise and Beneth The Remains are both great thrash albums. Recorded before they got all groovy south american hardcore.
Although I think Roots is a kickass album.
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Testament is from Oakland, literally half an hour's drive from my house. Skolnick studied under Satriani while he was still living in San Francisco. Exodus is even closer.
And Roots is a terrible album. Like, so bad I needed the italics.
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Les Terribles? so terrible it needs the pretentious les in front of it? I don't know, I haven't heard it.
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That's what the interwebs are for.
But I do know a lot of people who hate that album and worship Chaos A.D.