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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Aaden Foli on 04 Nov 2010, 05:50
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Well what's yours?
Mine: Physical Graffiti.
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Closest thing I can come up with would be Mezzanine by Massive Attack. Sheer brilliance.
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Dopethrone
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For me it's gotta be Ruiner by A Wilhelm Scream, the first album of theirs I heard.
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London Calling.
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Fun House by The Stooges or Zen Arcade by Hüsker Dü.
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Converge - Jane Doe
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(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:jvk9aKN7QutTAM:http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/5282/pwhdsl.jpg&t=1)
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I'm thinking All Hail West Texas, by The Mountain Goats.
This.
Or Emergency & I by The Dismemberment Plan
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I don't know. Maybe Either/Or
Maybe Yoko
maybe Romance is Boring, even
perhaps Black Sheep Boy
whatever you guys know my tastes
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London Calling.
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oh man I don't even
Doves - Lost Souls is up there for sure
along with Laserdance - Future Generation
and Faded Paper Figures - Dynamo
I listened to Drunken Lullabies on repeat for a year or two
ugh I can't even
what
:psyduck:
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If I had to worry about sounding cool I would answer Streetcleaner
If I didn't I might answer Blackwater Park
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yfiip
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Changes daily but probably Kid A (boring I know)
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If I had to worry about sounding cool I would answer Streetcleaner
If I didn't I might answer Blackwater Park
Fuck it, I am answering Blackwater Park and fuuuuuuck the hataz.
Or The Sunset Tree or The '59 Sound or The Argument or :psyduck:
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yeah this is basically the hardest question.
i'll have to get back to you on it.
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probably Endless Summer by Fennesz
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Lust for Life / I Care Because You Do... / Ape of Naples.
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Oh fuck I forgot about Lust For Life
P :psyduck: S :psyduck: Y :psyduck: D :psyduck: U :psyduck: C :psyduck: K
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I'm going with Fun House, but I'm pretty stoned right now so that was inevitable.
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(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q107/Cire27/Replacements-LetItBe.jpg)
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on any given day, i could give a bunch of different answers, but right now i'm going with
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4G2ptSlZZn0/SWmo831-sbI/AAAAAAAACFw/XfDhHCmLOuA/s400/wire-pink-flag.jpg)
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There's Nothing Wrong With Love, or Post Nothing, or The Body The Blood The Machine.
I'll probably think of something else that trumps them later... or I wont. It's hard to answer, you know?
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There is not enough dopethrone in this thread.
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Mezzanine, Dopethrone, Fun House, Zen Arcade, Blackwater Park... great picks.
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Born to Run.
Or maybe Live 1975-85.
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Fun House
dude spiderland (wait we get killed by khar if we ever do that meme again don't we)
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Born to Run.
Oh goddamnit
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Vespertine
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Fun House
dude spiderland (wait we get killed by khar if we ever do that meme again don't we)
I have no idea what meme you are referring to, but I've been meaning to buy Spiderland since forever. Is it really as legendary as everyone says?
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ehhh
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If you asked me today I'd say it was tie between:
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKoLLte742ZBc2LacuaIKTl2OWaJUn775vJq9EN_bsKS8uwMQ&t=1&usg=___HOHBsbq4hwYM_acoNLdl9LmTQ0=)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jkmNT4HFGnI/SboTO-1JdsI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/roQvsK3Ze9A/s400/onthebeach.jpg)
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I have no idea what meme you are referring to, but I've been meaning to buy Spiderland since forever. Is it really as legendary as everyone says?
it's pretty much worth the price for Nosferatu Man and Good Morning, Captain alone, but I don't know if it really lives up to the hype as a whole
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is it really a meme if it's really so geographically concentrated, so to speak?
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If somebody absolutely forced me to pick one album to keep for my whole life it'd probably be
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/RoundAboutMidnightMilesDavis.jpg)
Just the most perfect album.
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The Innocence Mission
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I've actually always been more a fan of
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Miles-davis-in-a-silent-way.jpg)
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If I could cheat, I'd say Thrice- The Alchemy Index
for a real answer... Either Artist in the Ambulance by Thrice or That Within Blood Ill-Tempered by Shai hulud
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Hardest ever.
I'll do it by genre.
Punk - X-Ray Spex "Germ-Free Adolescents"
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/xrayspex.jpg)
Folk, Punk - Andrew Jackson Jihad "Can't Maintain"
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/cantmaintain.jpg)
Folk - Iron and Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/album-our-endless-numbered-days.jpg)
Hip hop - Wu-Tang Clan "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/wutang.jpg)
Electronic - The Knife "Deep Cuts"
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/TheKnifefotosforDeepcutsalbum.jpg)
Classic - Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/wishyouwerehere.jpg)
If I had to choose one album out of these I absolutely couldn't do without, it would be Can't Maintain or Deep Cuts.
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Pet Sounds
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/jesusvsthepolice/stars-of-the-lid.jpg)
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Midian, Vintage Whine, Infernal Love ...
Hard to choose ...
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Oh goddamnit
Yeah. This is hard.
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(http://www.boomkat.com/media/stock_images/TYPE011_Cover.jpg)
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wait, shit, I did some thinking about it and now I'm stuck. Gun to my head it would have to be either
(http://ohmpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/deer.jpg)
or
(http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/003/176/0000317696_350.jpg)
or
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1BO_U4tBW5o/ST7oIGWH-QI/AAAAAAAAAxI/OVbV9WdBLhw/s400/hairdryer+peace.jpg)
or
(http://www.southern.com/southern/band/BRAIC/pics/GRO45L.jpg)
and then I'd get shot because I couldn't pick just one.
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Folk - Iron and Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/album-our-endless-numbered-days.jpg)
Though I'm a bigger fan of The Creek Drank the Cradle, this album always kills me.
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Folk, Punk - Andrew Jackson Jihad "Can't Maintain"
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/cantmaintain.jpg)
I like People That Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World better
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E: eh fuck it.
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Right now it's this....
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CeZULY3aL._SS400_.jpg)
Recorded in the 50s, transferred straight from the original tapes onto SACD, sounds better than *any* recording I've *ever* heard in my life. Except for maybe some jazz recordings on a certain Japanese label (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Blind_Mice_%28record_label%29). But really, this recording of Scheherazade sounds minblowing. You have to hear it on a good system/pair of headphones capable of reproducing the acoustics properly though. But when you do, man, everything is clear as daylight and hits you in the face more than any recording I've heard. Especially the last movement, which was recorded in a single take.
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Eingya - Helios
Also, my favorite album art ever.
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I usually don't have an answer to this question but my drunk/stoned self chooses
(http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/9829/r3944181163641811kx3.jpg)
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I shall immediately show my age with my response to the subject of this thread. Deal with it.
The White Album.
AKA THIS:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/TheBeatles68LP.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_%28album%29)
DISCLAIMER: There is only one "song" on this album that I hate with a passion. It is NOT a song, but over eight minutes of essentially white noise put together by John and Yoko while they were stoned.
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I like Revolver better
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plus one
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You know what? I think I enjoy Rubber Soul the most, mainly because it has more songs on it that I'm really familiar with? Also, Norwegian Wood.
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The White Album definitely takes it. It's just so perfect.
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At least Revolution 9 is better than Obla-di, Obla-da. God, what a wretched excuse for a song.
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I think I usually pick Abbey Road because I kinda like that in spite of all the dudes' angers they were still able to create such a gd masterpiece,
but secretly my favorite is Rubber Soul, it just has connotations for me now
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Abbey Road for me. If Revolver got rid of Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine and replaced them with Paperback Writer/Rain it would be the greatest album ever.
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If I had to pick a Beatles album, it'd be Abbey Road.
But in the end I'd likely go with Developer by Silkworm.
Or something by Current 93. Or Ornette Coleman. Or Lee "Scratch" Perry. Or Neil Young.
But probably Silkworm.
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Either Morningrise or maybe From Mars To Sirius/The Link. Or Catch 33. Maybe Destroy Erase Improve? In a Flesh Aquarium?
This is HARD.
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I think I usually pick Abbey Road because I kinda like that in spite of all the dudes' angers they were still able to create such a gd masterpiece,
This is where I always speak up for Let It Be, not because it's perfect (it's still very good), but because of how it exposes their pain.
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Rubber Soul was my first favorite album and Norwegian Wood was my first favorite song. I miss third grade!
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Hmmm, hard.... For me it's a tie between this three albums. All of them changed my life and way to view music.
Opeth - Morningrise
(http://en.metalship.org/archives/albums/album924.jpg)
Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/8/89/20100818025120!Acid_Bath_-_When_The_Kite_String_Pops.jpg)
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ML0lR74Q-c0/SEK91CUpTUI/AAAAAAAAAKU/JOHYn3JpkCI/s320/Esoteric%2B-%2BThe%2BManiacal%2BVale.jpg)
Masterpieces imho.
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Okay I am actually stuck between Dopethrone and Donuts now. I forgot how good J Dilla is.
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perhaps Black Sheep Boy
This is one of a few albums that I can always very easily listen to all the way through and love every minute of it. Plus the album came out at a time in my life where everything felt in place which I think is probably rare or something.
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Enemy of the World by Four Year Strong or Enema of the State by Blink-182 ^____^
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(http://www.boomkat.com/media/stock_images/TYPE011_Cover.jpg)
What album is that?
OP: Maaan, why you got to ask a question like that? Maaaaaaannnn...
It really is too hard to say. Sometimes it would be The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place. Sometimes it would be Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. Sometimes it might be Nebraska. Or Ashes Against The Grain. Or The Mantle.
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That is Eingya by Helios and it's fucking fantastic.
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Danzig IV.
... mmyep.
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DISCLAIMER: There is only one "song" on this album that I hate with a passion. It is NOT a song, but over eight minutes of essentially white noise put together by John and Yoko while they were stoned.
Man, I know about three people, counting myself, that actually enjoy Revolution 9.
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This is so freaking hard. Especially as I just got into a load of metal.
I'm going to say ...
Texas Flood, for an album I constantly revist.
At the moment, toss up between Double Nickels on the Dime and Meet the Meatbats.
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It may be a bit premature, but right now I feel like it is Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity. But the album only came out a year and a half ago, so I don't know how I'll feel about it a few years down the road.
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Man, I know about three people, counting myself, that actually enjoy Revolution 9.
I don't enjoy it in the context of the album but I love it in any other situation. it kind of reminds me of a less creepy Kreng track
DISCLAIMER: There is only one "song" on this album that I hate with a passion. It is NOT a song, but over eight minutes of essentially white noise put together by John and Yoko while they were stoned.
uh, do you have any idea what white noise sounds like?
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It's kinda a KSHSHHHHHHHHHHH thing.
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Double Nickels on the Dime
o/
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(http://www.epitaph.com/dispatch/_depot/title/ed9da71ec9d52f6c08b225d4461584a0.jpg)
or
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BMq-VOERL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Double Nickels on the Dime
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S'wrong with Minutemen? I guess its not an all time favourite, I've been listening to it a LOT recently.
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He was trying to give you a high-five.
Through the internet.
o/ \o
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Caution
Oh god, such a good album.
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He was trying to give you a high-five.
Through the internet.
o/ \o
Ha, well aren't I the douchiest douche.
To amend;
Double Nickels on the Dime
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Yeah its a brilliant album. Wish more bands put out albums that were that long too.
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I'm not going to patronisingly suggest Zen Arcade by Husker Du because I am a million percent sure you have already heard it.
Wait...I just did it. Shit, sorry.
:psyduck:
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One of these:
(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/8505/btmigoodbyecoolworld.jpg)
(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/899/btmialbumminusband.jpg)
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(http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/m/mineral/album-endserenading.jpg)
or
(http://betweenparties.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/kidcrash-jokes.jpg)
depends on my mood, you know
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make fun of me if you want, but :
Tubthumper
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Mineral is a band that has not grown with me as I have aged. I feel kinda sad about it, sometimes.
Also, the other day I was listening to American Football and I thought, "I think I am getting too old for this".
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My favourite is Panopticon by Isis
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(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q107/Cire27/Replacements-LetItBe.jpg)
YES
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Good call on Physical Graffiti, definitely the best Zep record. As far as all-time favorite, mine's probably the Mary Chain's Darklands, somehow.
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It's thread necromancy time, then?
Lust for Life, then.
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Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/8/89/20100818025120!Acid_Bath_-_When_The_Kite_String_Pops.jpg)
The tattoo place downtown actually has this original painting. It doesn't look much better in real life, gotta be honest.
As for the question? Uhh...Our Endless Numbered Days or Graceland, maybe?
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on any given day, i could give a bunch of different answers, but right now i'm going with
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4G2ptSlZZn0/SWmo831-sbI/AAAAAAAACFw/XfDhHCmLOuA/s400/wire-pink-flag.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DA6F63mYW-Y/SpXYBc-saGI/AAAAAAAAAmU/9434MirbHS4/s400/154.jpg)
So good... Not perfect, but just wonderful.
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Depending on my mood, it's either Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree, Rise of the Tyrant by Arch Enemy or Meddle by Pink Floyd
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(http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/10017-sound-of-silver.jpg)
Alternatively, (http://bandcamp.com/files/28/48/2848698238-1.png)
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I couldn't come up with a Top 20, let alone one all-time favourite. So, here's one to represent:
(http://www.progarchives.com/forum/uploads/32276/Genesis-The-Lamb-Lies-Dow-4629411.jpg)
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whoa dude, the paperbacks? i have lit from within and it's good but nothing spectacular
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Enema_of_the_State_by_Blink-182.jpg/220px-Enema_of_the_State_by_Blink-182.jpg)
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What is happening here??
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whoa dude, the paperbacks? i have lit from within and it's good but nothing spectacular
I don't know what it is about An Episode of Sparrows but it keeps me coming back again and again. There is something familiar, warm and inviting about the half-crunch half-clean pop hooks of their guitars, and the lyrics are so fantastic and real. I would also make love to Doug McLean's voice. I can't claim it's objectively the best thing ever, but it's up there in my preferences.
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Oh, and 94 Diskont. How could I forget 94 Diskont.
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(http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/77/MeteoraLP.jpg)
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Meteora was pretty good, but Hybrid Theory was too good for Linkin Park's own good. It was all downhill from there.
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What is happening here??
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Meteora was pretty good, but Hybrid Theory was too good for Linkin Park's own good. It was all downhill from there.
Wow, just ... wow ...
:psyduck:
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yep
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kE44KssOgP4/RrTBpEofHtI/AAAAAAAAADI/CGl3hIEVjk4/s320/Sketches_of_Spain_-_Miles_Davis.jpg)
O.K. did that make everything okay again?
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James Blunt > Iggy Pop. (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24255.msg892247.html#msg892247)
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:mrgreen:
Oh, that thread...
Going out of my way to state once again that just calling something "boring" is a really dogshit + lazy way of criticising music and should be banned forever.
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Meteora was pretty good, but Hybrid Theory was too good for Linkin Park's own good. It was all downhill from there.
Wow, just ... wow ...
:psyduck:
What? Everything they did afterward was...pretty damn bad.
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You're so precious! :mrgreen:
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can we keep him?
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no, we must throw everyone with Incorrect Taste to the hounds
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The Hounds of Love?
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Yes but first just to belittle them we will throw their shoes in the lake
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just the left ones
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Yes but first just to belittle them we will throw their shoes in the lake
Their little hearts will beat so fast!
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Meteora was pretty good, but Hybrid Theory was too good for Linkin Park's own good. It was all downhill from there.
Wow, just ... wow ...
:psyduck:
What? Everything they did afterward was...pretty damn bad.
No ... Collision Course was awesome too.
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The tattoo place downtown actually has this original painting. It doesn't look much better in real life, gotta be honest.
That's sad to read... But on the other hand: There are many things that don't look as good IRL.
The painting is still cool though.
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(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/57c99966769fd5d0ddce2776a83f5670/9689.jpg)
I'M A DICK. I'M ADDICTED TO YOU.
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Oh man I was just thinking about that song today! It made me smile and laugh a little.
I can't quite tell what exactly you think of Rot10Kid's opinion...maybe explain what you mean?
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How could anyone disagree with my opinion: that Linkin Park sucks. Pussy metal for emo kids.
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Oh by the way. My not "being a dick" favorite album is:
(https://www.auralexploits.com/ebay_images/lp/ExplosionsInTheSky_EarthIsNot_1.jpg)
There are things I probably enjoy more now but this is probably the most formative for me. My music taste wasn't very far-reaching when my friend showed me these guys and it was very different than anything I had heard before, and I really liked it. It caused me to explore a lot. It has a lot of sentimental value.
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How could anyone disagree with my opinion: that Linkin Park sucks. Pussy metal for emo kids.
wait what how is it even close to metal
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Well, Nu Metal, I suppose, although a very weak, watered down strain of it.
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(http://www.musicalfamilytree.com/files/image/album/the-dust-of-retreat.jpg)
and
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d669/d66972d2fu0.jpg)
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Going out of my way to state once again that just calling something "boring" is a really dogshit + lazy way of criticising music and should be banned forever.
Sometimes I have moments of lucidity when I realize that people who can't think of any reason they don't like something other than "it's boring" just aren't putting in enough effort to focus their attention and open their minds.
Then those moments pass, more interesting things come along and I once again hate Jack Johnson.
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Did that belong in the confession thread?
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:mrgreen:
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Coming out of my short lurk for this thread:
(http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/wp-content/uploads/misc/dark%20side%20of%20the%20moon%20-%20pink%20floyd.JPG)7
(http://www.london-attractions.info/images/attractions/abbey-road1.jpg)
(http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/515McJivpWL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
(http://www.muziklisteleri.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Nick_Drake_Pink_Moon.jpg)
(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/7756c35a40e0d7a08e8c75ea15f54925/790827.jpg)
Oh and I'm 16, not in my fifties in case you were to guess by my musical taste.
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i'm sorry, but you like the wrong radiohead album.
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I hate the suggestion that there's a "wrong" Radiohead album.
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Except for Pablo Honey, obviously
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I hate the suggestion that there's a "right" Radiohead album.
FYP
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Oh and I'm 16, not in my fifties in case you were to guess by my musical taste.
Well I doubt someone in his fifties would like radiohead.
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But I'm in my 60s :wink:
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who the fuck likes radiohead
it stopped being cool after the office made a joke about it!
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radiohead will never stop being cool :mrgreen:
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tru dat
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this thread: 8====D
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i'm sorry, but you like the wrong radiohead album.
Kid A, Ok Computer and In Rainbows all come in my top 20 and really I love them all. Apart from Pablo Honey, of course. :lol:
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This Thread.
(http://i.imgur.com/PZ3Ci.jpg)
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Haha. Nice, I see you've been honing your indie dick Holier-than-thou rap for a while, keep at it. :-D
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What the,
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(http://timvsluke.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/clarity3.jpg)
the more i listen to it, the more this is revealing itself to be a pretty much perfect album. i almost feel guilty in letting it usurp my other favourite albums, but man, i can't help it!
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Oh and I'm 16, not in my fifties in case you were to guess by my musical taste.
Well I doubt someone in his fifties would like radiohead.
Well, consider yourself corrected.
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I guess so?
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It feels dishonest to my continuing life to choose a single favorite album that can encompass all of my time.
We all love a lot of music here, so wouldn't it just be better if we added our Favorite Albums to this thread as we come to realize or remember what will always hold a certain power over us?
What's that you say?
Oh, people have been doing that already?
Excellent!
I tend to realize where my favorites lie when I can forget about them completely when I'm spending the majority of my time listening to new music. Some of these albums I almost never feel a strong desire to listen to anymore, but when they come on, I'm compelled to listen the whole way through because THE EMOTION. that I feel for it suddenly comes rushing back to me in such a torrent of MUSICAL APPRECIATION that I mentally file it away as another personally, potentially timeless love.
It's like straddling thunder. You can hear it when your head explodes.
SO I LOVE THIS
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-QcR1YIenBs/TLH0uHxX-9I/AAAAAAAAAJM/DRKtu6t35Gg/s400/Silkworm+-+Firewater.jpg)
AND THIS
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fhv0zg1xL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
AND THIS
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31VC1XF030L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
AND ALSO THIS
(http://www.x929.ca/shows/newsboy/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/replacements-let_it_be-300x300.jpg)
AND REALLY UNABASHEDLY THIS
(http://eufoniaelectrica.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/hissing-prigs-in-static-couture-cover.jpg)
AND DEFINITELY THIS
(http://img.noiset.com/images/album/my-bloody-valentine-loveless-album-cover-25646.jpeg)
But somehow I still feel restricted by that question. I'm going to stop there because I don't want to flood the page with unnecessary album covers, even though I just did.
Man.
What a dick.
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So I've been actually thinking. Well, that was oddly worded, but I'm not editing that. I used to phrase things in terms of "Graceland is one of the BEST ALBUMS EVER," because, well, Graceland. Yeah. But then I don't know! Is it actually because it's a really good album, or is it because it was my favourite album when I was five years old? What sort of things affect the way we perceive music? I know a really fascinating music video can change a mediocre song for me, because I attach the memory of that video to the song, bringing its status up (in my opinion). Or if I'm listening to it at a time in my life when I am really happy, and I'm listening to it, it changes my perception of it, and my memory of it is attached to that music, changing my opinion again. A lot of my favourite albums I started listening to in spring or summer, and very few did I actually start listening to in, say, fall or winter. So when I hear Tea for the Tillerman, do I like the music? Or do I like the memories associated with it?
I'm just curious what experiences outside of the music can contribute to the actual music itself.
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I think, to answer this question you need to be able to say why you listen to music in the first place. I'm sure that P-Tommy above you does not listen to music like you listen to music, and I can assure you that I listen to music differently from you both.
The way we enjoy art or entertainment can often be the exact distinction we personally make between art and entertainment. We all let outside influences affect the way we perceive the things that we enjoy, but you and I will not let them affect us similarly. I learned to love that My Bloody Valentine album when I was a kid reading fantasy novels at night in the dead of winter, my ass on the floor, and my back uncomfortably pressed against the wooden frame of my bed. This did change the way I heard the album, but not significantly.
I've never been good at multitasking. There are studies that claim avid gamers are excellent at this, and in a way I am, but my desire to multitask is constantly decimated by the way doing so divides my attention. I have always had difficulty feeling like I've experienced something good and proper if my attention is divided, no matter how well I can achieve both tasks. Loveless struck out at me, competing for my attention the entire way through a Robert Jordan book that I was enjoying immensely. The absolute fervor with which Jordan builds his climactic final scenes struggled to raise itself above the joyous effulgence of MBV's sugar-spun guitar whorls. Of course, neither grabbed my attention over the other in this instance. This was suddenly a rare occasion in which I was able to grant both the album and the story my undivided attention. It felt odd. I love both to this day.
That was a weird anecdote and I do not feel like it would be right entirely or even at all to blame my tired mind or numb fingers but rather the immense amount of writing Majoring in English has forced upon me in the past week.
I have not slept an aye.
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Shit, heres some more just because.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is an album I will just always love.
Journeyman because its interesting to hear that Clapton not only survived the 80s but made strong progression into the 90s. His tone is aboslutely fantastic, although I imagine it has something to do with copious amounts of Signature Stratocasters.
Ten because once you become a Pearl Jam fan you just don't stop. Interestingly another album that tends to supercede future material (especially as Vs was really, really good compared to No Code.)
My explanations are poor but pretty damn hard to express your love for certain albums. My favourites seem to change all the time, theres always something heavy, some blues, and something from my parent's generation.
Will be checking out Blackwater Park because it seems like a good'un! Opeth are a band I just never really got into.
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Trying to come up with a post for this thread reminded me just how pretentious my opinion of music can get. Like, the Beatles are truly my favorite group of all time, but often when talking about them I'll omit them from my list of favorite bands, because, to me, the Beatles define what music is, and so including them in the list is unfair to everyone else. Trying to come up with a favorite Beatles album, I realize that it will change to one of four contenders on more or less a weeky-to-biweekly basis; between Abbey Road, The White Album, Sgt. Pepper's, and Rubber Soul. (sidenote: I've heard far too much of it already, so if you tell me that I only like Sgt. Pepper's because Rolling Stone told me to, I will fight you.)
In the interest of contributing, though, I'll name one or two of my favorites from each of a few genres.
Rap- another vote for Enter the Wu-Tang (The 36 Chambers)
Progressive- Prog Metal, I'll say Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory; Prog Rock, Close to the Edge.
If I count '90s Alt. Rock as its own genre, then The Colour and the Shape and Sublime's self-titled.
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I prefer Illmatic or Ready to Die over Wu-Tang
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I like many a album, but the only one that comes to mind that is flawless is by a little band called Rollerskate Skinny, entitled Horsedrawn Wishes. Can't name a bad song on that album.
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based on how many times i've listened to it:
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These days it's a toss up between Panopticon by Isis and Disintegration by The Cure.
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Erg, this is tough...
Either Ghost Reveries, from Opeth, or 01011001, from Ayreon.
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i'm sorry, but you like the wrong radiohead album.
They're all wrong. They all contain one pretty good song surrounded by 9 forgettable ones.
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based on how many times i've listened to it:
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Love this album. I once gave my girlfriend an asthma attack by playing this for her.
No, I did not hide her ventolin.
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In the court of the crimson king by King Crimson. But here in Italy, Linea Gotica by the Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti, the group that was born from the ashes of the CCCP.
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Breaking the lurk to put my two cents in. Based on number of times listened, I'd have to say Violator. I listened to it non-stop the whole week prior to going to boot camp.
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Lame, I know.
(http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/364/cover_2213172112008.JPG)
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I can't choose between these two... They are just two different all-time-favorites for completely different occations but these two albums so far are the most impressive albums I've ever heard.
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Whoa! I've seen this original painting - my former piercer and her husband (who was to be my tattooist were I not flat fucking broke when I lived there) had this painting up in their studio/curiosities shop. It's only impressive because it's John Wayne Gacy, really, the painting itself is utter shite.
(My favourites in the shop were either the skulls of stillborn conjoined twins (conjoined at the skull), or the bird right underneath the Pogo painting - there was a branch with a smaller branch sticking out of it, and a bird flew down to land on the branch and impaled itself on the smaller branch.)
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It's only impressive because it's John Wayne Gacy, really, the painting itself is utter shite.
But still... It's the most perfect artwork for what kind of music the album contains, trust me on that ;)
I don't know who did the artwork for The Maniacal Vale though which also love.
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Fleetwood Mac- Rumors.
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The Who - The Who By Numbers
AC/DC - Powerage
Primus - Green Naugahyde
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This is seriously turning out to be my favourite album ever. Every song on it was either an instant favourite, or a grower that ended up turning into a favourite. I can't get enough of it, even a year after I started playing it non-stop.
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Whoa! I've seen this original painting - my former piercer and her husband (who was to be my tattooist were I not flat fucking broke when I lived there) had this painting up in their studio/curiosities shop. It's only impressive because it's John Wayne Gacy, really, the painting itself is utter shite.
Funnily enough, they just put up a photo of it.
(http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u146/Zingoleb/denisepogo.jpg?t=1321417182)
(That is, in fact, my former piercer.)
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Awesome... I see no wrong that a painting is considered good or "interesting" just because of the dude/girl behind it, it just gives it a different perspective. So in this case... I think the painting is cool.