Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction - So I can rock the hell out now and then.
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - So I can pretend to be the hardest nigga about.
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures - Dark soundscapes, quite a good winter album.
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi - Sonic bliss.
Arctics - Whatever People Say I Am... - Brilliantly evocative lad rock.
Of Montreal - Sunlandic Twins - My fave ever indie pop album.
Sum 41 - All Killer, No Filler - So I can pretend to be 15.
Talking Heads - Fear of Music - Blackest white band ever at their peak.
Kid Acne - Romance Ain't Dead - Hip hop's Arctic Monkey.
Vitalic - OK Cowboy - So I can be a cool electro cat.
Yours?
After last night's gig:
The complete Radiohead back catalogue. No wait, that's probably not 10... spare copies of Kid A, The Bends and OK Computer too, incase I lose them.
Choosing only 10 is very difficult.
Ok this is my 10 right now, this will probably have changed slightly by next week. ;)
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Mew - ..And The Glass Handed Kites
65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math
Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo Of Bliss
volcano! - Beautiful Seizure
Dog Fashion Disco - Anarchists Of Good Taste
By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos - Complex Full Of Phantoms
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Can't be bothered with reasons except, they're all amazing and have proven to have lasting value (some more that others).
I didnt realise how difficult this was going to be...
till I actually started to do it.
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (Absolutely no filler material, every track a classic, I never skip through it)
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back home (This album changed the way I felt about music and opened me up to a whole host of new bands and artisits.)
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows (The first band I properly fell in love with)
Daft Punk - Discovery (The ULTIMATE dance album in my opinion, so many wonderful catchy songs.)
The National - Sad songs for dirty lovers (Easily the best album by one of the best bands of the last 20 years)
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (An album that I was hooked on from first listen, I rarity I find, a brilliantly camp masterpeice.)
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place - (Absolutley beautiful guitar music. Epic)
MIA - Arular - (Intelligent hip-hop/grime I didn't realise it existed either.)
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver - (I just love coming home after a good night out, sticking this on and just lying on the sofa drifiting off)
I only picked 9...
idiot
Smoosh - She love electric - I dont listen to it enough, was asounded at what two young girls could create. They obviously got a lot of help but still, wonderful pop music.
The National - SSFDL?
Over Alligator and Boxer? Really? Or are you just trying to out-indie us?!
Tough one.
Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Q And Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
Radiohead - OK Computer
Million Dead - A Song To Ruin
Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Love - Forever Changes
Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down
Opeth - Damnation
BARR - untitled - just perfect
pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain - an amazing album for sunshine and whatever mood i'm in, it just fits
orange juice - you can't hide your love forever - an album of pure indie pop songs, the lyrics are truly amazing
the magnetic fields - 69 love songs - stephin merrit is a lyrical genius, seriously i have never heard an album that covered every single aspect of relationships to such an extent
funeral for a friend - casually dressed & deep in conversation - heck yes
camera obscura - biggest bluest hi-fi - it is an album i like to come home to and play, and unwind
why? - elephant eyelash - just amazing
arab strap - philophobia - for when i'm in the mood
talking heads - fear of music - YESS
guided by voices - bee thousand - :D
i got bored of giving reasons past the first few, there's only so many times i can say "awesome" without getting boring.
expand your vocabulary, little lady
it's late, i'm tired.
yawn.
Don't worry.
People who little their speech with grandiloquent vocab are usually considered wanky anyway.
Oops.
Litter*
corrective youg man
But I've been warned against you.
young*
^lol
1 - 0
2-0*
I really need to get that BARR
That pavment album is ace too.
yes, do :)
can't recommend it enough.
I will stick it on my list
:)
the list of a hopeless romantic
: )
hahaha, you read me like an open book.
I'd say Joy Division is an EXCEPTIONAL winter soundtrack
The whole album is like viewing slow motion in frosted darkness.
very poetic.
Also, very true.
Thankyou
I liked my assessment.
I need more but....
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends - So so so so so underrated. The best 60s album?
Beck - Odelay - dance dance great great
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run - The great American album
Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary - sublime all the way through
The Motorcycle Diaries OST - conjures up a time and place like no other album has ever done for me
The Smiths - Queen is Dead - 10 indie points, but I don't care
Shins - Chutes too narrow - perfect pop songs
From other lists
im going to steal:
Love
Joy Division
and the Magnetic Fields.
10 phew
....
Burial - Untrue - Its just perfect for late late night driving or wandering around. Its got me thruogh some dark nights that one.
Love - Forever Changes - I play this most sunday mornings since forever there are som many ace tunes on it and layers of beauty.
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Life without Aphex would be rubbish.
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland - its a massive freak of an album and you cant really spend the rest of your life without the guitar stylings of Hendrix.
I might do more later...
Oh hail Aphex.
and that album is the nuts.
Aphex KING!
more like
Oh you...
;)
I'm here all week
Is it just my generational ignorance...
...or is this racket?
It's just saucepan banging clatter.
I love it
I find it some of the most beautiful and moving music made.
I think he can play the spoons but Aphex is rubbish on a saucepan.
^ lol
Maybe a duet with Chas and Dave is in order.
Fav Aphex track at the moment? - Xtal
Right now Tha
maybe off SAW or Film of the Come To Daddy EP thingy.
i really struggle to see how aphex twin could be called 'moving'
but it is interesting
there are some parts
on selected ambient works II with some of the most beautiful chord changes. Check out Lichen (Original Mix) by Aphex Twin its well gourgouse.
Sure he can also make some made noise to, I'm not sayin its all moving hehe
Girl/Boy Song
Alberto Balsam, The Waxeth Pith, the aforementioned Xtal...all prime examples of his moving work. That's not even including the piano ballads like Avril 14th.
Listen to those, and see your arguement falter.
i'm gonna get aphex twin soon
missed em somehow
hmm
The Microphones - The Glow pt. 2 - Quite possibly my favourite album ever, possibly.
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow - Pushes the above for favourite.
Mogwai - Ten Rapid - I need Mogwai.
Mogwai - EP + 6 - I couldn't narrow it down to one.
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted - TWO STATES! WE WANT, TWO STATES.
British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power... - To remind me of when I first started getting passionate about music, as well as being quite excellent.
Radiohead - Kid A - With Let Down stapled on the end.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - Obvious.
Panda Bear - Person Pitch - Summery, happy, relaxing, all that jazz.
Nick Drake - Pink Moon - For the more melancholy occasions.
EVOL, Bee Thousand, Young Team, Pyschocandy, Funeral and Copia all narrowly missed the cut. I suppose my choices aren't too exciting, oh well.
Interesting choice of Mogwai albums
let's have a go completely off the top of my slightly drunken head
mogwai - young team
the national - alligator
arab strap - philophobia
the smiths - the queen is dead
mansun - six
radiohead - ok computer
at the drive-in - relationship of command
i'll get back to this, maybe.
-
1) Smog - A River Ain't Too Much Too Love
2) Silver Jews - American Water
3) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4) The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
5) Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
6) Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
7) Jonathan Richman - Having A Party With Jonathan Richman
8) Beulah - Handsome Western States
9) De La Soul - 3 ft. High and Rising
10) Momus - Ping Pong
'A River' rather than,say, 'knock knock'?
why that Smog album especially?
i can't really be bothered to think about this too hard BUT
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Just for sheer "holy fuck this is awesome" factor.
Beck - Sea Change. For when I need to wallow in my own self-pity.
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses. Stunning mix of beauty, misery and country fun.
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years. THIN BLUE FLAME OHMIGOSH.
B&S - Dear Catastrophe Waitress. For summer chillaxing, innit.
Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call. I don't even like this that much, but I could not live without "Into My Arms".
The Perishers - Let There Be Morning. I love the Swedes.
that's not 10, is it? No, okay, just chuck in some more Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown and we're done here.
hard.
Elliott Smith - "XO"
Mono - "You Are There"
Meet Me In St. Louis - "Variations On Swing"
Million Dead - "A Song To Ruin"
Joan Of Arc - "The Gap"
Converge - "Jane Doe"
The Good Life - "Black Out"
Cursive - "The Ugly Organ"
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
yourcodnameis:milo - "Ignoto"
Maybe.
hnmmm
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Fugazi - The Argument
Deerhoof - Milkman
Deerhoof - Apple 'O
Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Deerhoof - The Runners Four (in case of damage)
Deerhoof - Reveille
Beck - Odelay
Rapeman - Two Nuns And A Pack Mule
Sloy - Electrelite
Primus - The Brown Album
McLusky - Do Dallas
Daft Punk - Homework
Ween - Chocolate And Cheese
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
Bob Log III - Log Bomb
Pinback - This Is A Pinback CD
Well..
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland or Are You Experienced
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
The Strokes - Is This It
Weezer - Pinkerton or Blue Album
There's seven albums. Basically many of my favourite albums (not on this list) have better songs but have a lot of duds as well. For example Public Enemy - ITANOMTHUB, Reel Big Fish - Turn The Radio Off and many others.
1. fever to tell - yeah yeah yeahs
2. howling bells - howling bells
3. songs for the deaf - queens of the stone age
4. soviet kitcsh - regina spektor
5. enter the 36 chambers - wu tang clan
6. surfer rosa - pixies
7. hearts and unicorns - giant drag
8. last splash - the breeders
9. crystal castles - crystal castles
10. jacket full of danger - adam green
For me
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
British Sea Power - The Decline of
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The National - Boxer
The National - Alligator
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Ash - 1977
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Several of these included just because they remind me of being a youngster
not 10 'cause need to get dressed sometime today...
(all albums that resonated with my soul, rather than necessarily being classics in their own right)
Money Mark- Mark's Keyboard Repair Shop
R'head- OK Computer
Why?- Alopecia
The Verve- A Northern Soul
Aim- Cold Water Music
Daft Punk- Discovery
Luke Slater- Freek Funk
... time to get dressed now
Well now...
Circle Takes the Square - 'As the Roots Undo' - the best, most emotionally draining, most emotionally affecting album ever produced.
Neutral Milk Hotel - 'In the Aeorplane Over the Sea' - and... cue the haters!
Converge - 'Jane Doe' - Heavy, brutal and, yes, it is better than Botch
Mogwai - 'Young Team' - never has an album had a better close than with 'Mogwai Fear Satan'
Radiohead 'Amnesiac' - Frankly this could be any one of about 5 Radiohead Albums
Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia - 'My Elixir, My Poision' - beautiful, sexy vocals and lyrics combined with thumping post rock
Godspeed - 'f#a#' awesome
Boris and Sunn O))) - 'Altar' proves that 'drone' bands can make music of subtlety, variety and musicalitiy. Breathtaking.
Bonnie Prince Billy 'I see a Darkness'
P J Harvey 'To Bring You My Love'
boris (does) drone but they (aren't) drone- are they?
wata sings! (too bad lee hazelwood isn't still here)
some of their lower case records like 'feedbacker'
are pretty drone. But, yeah it is debatable which is why I used the old inverted commas round 'drone'.
gawd yes they drone some
I just didn't wan't any boris-curious users getting the wrong idea and miss out on a great drone/ stoner/thrash/pop/rawk/band.
Drone isn't a dirty word, Darling!
'moist', now that's a positively disgusting word! But not 'drone', oh no.
This is a great thread - bookmarked!
Loads of albums above that I want to listen to but haven't yet. My top 10:
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas - just insanely addictive. Brilliant for boring motorway journeys, makes me feel completely awesome, even though I'm not.
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted - This shit is coolest thing ever. I want to be the lead singer in this awesome band!
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister - Best indie pop album I've heard so far.
The National - Boxer - Makes me feel sad, vulnerable, happy, secure all in a single listen.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - obv. I sometimes think this is what everyone must be listening to in heaven.
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary - Love the guitars, melodies, singing, lyrics, everything on it really.
Future Of The Left - Curses - Love this for similar reasons as Mclusky, obv. Especially like the emotional ending.
Nas - Illmatic - This is just an incredible album . Don't follow hip hop as I use to but I still go back to this often.
The Clientele - Suburban Light - This is my goto album when I'm feeling sad. It soothes me and helps me move on.
Gang Of Four - Entertainment! - Was indiffernt on first listen, and second, and third, but then something clicked and now I love it. The crunching guitars, exasperated lyrics are truly spectacular
The Beatles - Revolver - Just love this from start to finish. Instrumentation always interesting and songs heartfelt. To remind me how amazing this band actually was, cos I sometimes forget.
one, two, three, four (cough), one, two (yell)
"Let Me tell You how IT will be--TAXMAN!"
Hmmm...
Mew - Frengers
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Brand New - Your Favourite Weapon
Bright Eyes - Every Day and Every Night
Blink-182 - Enema of the State
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Radiohead - OK Computer
Wilco - Summerteeth
Not so much albums that I couldn't live without, as the likes of something like Blink were relevant at a point in my life long ago. Not that you'd never think it now to look at my last.fm plays and taste. But I wouldn't be the music fanatic I am today without these albums in my life.
No Particular order
MBV - Loveless
Sigur Ros - ( )
Johann Johannsson - IMB User Manual
Radiohead - Kid A
Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly and See
Placebo - Placebo
Sonic Youth - Goo
Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane over the sea
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
Bjork - Post
Sgt. Pepper's (a good sing-along)
The Doors (for religious purposes)
Morrison Hotel (the doors) for my nude guy in boots dancing routine
The Smiths (just incase I decide to come out) NOT!
Feline (the stranglers) for romance
Lather (frank zappa) for intellectual pursuits
Silence Is Sexy (for when jehovah's whitnesses drop by)
The Big Problem (Crispin Glover) for X-mas tunage
A Sucked Orange (nurse w/ wound) (head cleaner)
Umma Gumma (also for religious purposes)
hmmm this is very tough
1) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
2) Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
3) Depeche Mode - Violator
4) Faith No More - Angel Dust
5) The Cult - Love
6) The Cult - Electric
7) Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland
8) The Verve - Urban Hymns
10) The Smiths - The Very Best Of
I am sure there's loads more but those were the ones that were top of mind just now.
duh forgot no 9
which would have to be Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream.
good list, especially the cult and sisters of mercy
Yes
mmmmm
1. The Sundays 'reading writing and arithmetic', i wish they'd come back
2. The Organ 'grab that gun', blink and you missed them a great shame
3. Autechre 'incunabula' lovely lovely tuneage (seriously)
4. Aphex Twin 'Richard D James', makes me feel the same way i did watching cartoons all morning as a kid
5. Insides 'Euphoria' more people should hear this its gorgeous
6. Sonic Youth 'A thousand leaves' especially the jam at the end of 'female mechanic now on duty'
7. The Cure 'staring at the sea' probably the greatest singles compilation ever
8. My Bloody Valentine 'Loveless' come on!
9. Huggy Bear 'weaponry listens to love'
i still love em after all this time
10. Sonic Youth 'silver session' their most underated work, the drone bands of today owe a lot to this album
Fuck! i forgot Campfire Headphase by
Boards Of Canada!
Cheers mate!
.
sorry reply
ended up in the wrong place - that was for Rue The Day!
God
I love Morrison Hotel. So many summers have started and ended with Roadhouse Blues.
*
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Jeffrey Lewis - It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through
Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies Of The Future
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Tom Waits - Swordfish Trombones
I approve of this list a lot!
:D
Oh decisions, decisions...
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Wilco - Kicking Television
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right...
Manu Chao - Sibérie M'Était Contéee
Tom Waits - Orphans
For me it would be
Million Dead - Harmony No Harmony, I'm not sure if I prefer it to "Song To Ruin" but there are so many moments on this album I can identify with I couldn't leave it out
Cat On Form - Structure And Fear
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come, still one of the finest hardcore punk albums of all time
65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time
Moby - Play, One of the first albums I ever bought
Edith Frost - It's A Game, in my eyes alt folk perfection
Yourcodenameis:milo - Ignoto, one of the ebst alternative rock albums I've heard and I still live in hope that they'll get back together at some point
Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence, this as well as the mogwai album have been some of the most moving instrumental albums I've heard
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse, peace attack, dude ranch nurse, unmade bed = perfection
My Ten
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake Its Morning
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Yann Tiersen - Amelie OST
The Smiths - The Smiths
White Stripes - Elephant
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Me....
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
The Wedding Present - Sea Monsters
Neil Young - Zuma
Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
Tom Waits - Heartattack & Vine
Actress Hands - Boys Need Jazz
My Bloody Valentine - Isnt Anything
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - Sleep Holiday
Half Man Half Biscuit - Atchung Bono
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
in no particular order
arcade fire - funeral
radiohead - ok computer
broken social scene - broken social scene
the national - boxer
the twilight sad - fourteen autumns and fifteen winters
the shins - chutes too narrow
beatles - 1
bloc party - silent alarm
lostprophets - start something
meet me in st. louis - variations on swing
Raawwwrrr
Mogwai - Young Team: Like Herod kicks in with the loud bit. Younger version of me goes 'aarrggh' and takes his first steps into the world of using guitars to scare the shit out of people.
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Madonna
&
Sonic Youth - EVOL : Both these albums sound like they were recorded in tombs, noise, pop culture and thundering drums.
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command : Saw this lot live, best thing ever, a huge influence on me in what can be done texturally and dynamically within punk rock.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless: Err.. is that sound a guitar?!
Boris - Pink: Rocks like a bastard, chuggs like a juggernaught at times but is always fun.
McLusky - Do Dallas: Endless summer, learning to drive, annoying funk rock bands, going to uni - this was the soundtrack. Also best lyrics ever.
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures: Pure bleakness, the production is so important, Ian Curtis' voice and lyrics haunting and memorable.
Mastodon - Blood Mountain: Needed some metal in here. Conceptually and lyrically wonderfully silly, the songs twist and turn like snakes then bite you in the face.
Icarus Line - Penance Soiree: This album just strikes a chord with me, self doubt, contempt, arrogance, lust and loathing, screaming at yrself at the mirror at 2am. Getting Bright at Night is one of my favourite songs ever.
mine
fevers and mirrors- bright eyes
neon golden- the notwist
everything you ever wanted to know about silence- glassjaw
set yourself on fire- stars
you forgot it in people- broken social scene
fabulous muscles- xiu xiu
lonesome crowded west- modest mouse
wind in the wires- patrick wolf
in the aeroplane over the sea- neutral milk hotel
album of the year- the good life
ok
1) Mew - Frengers
2) Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
3) Elbow - Asleep In The Back
4) Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
5) Interpol - Antics
6) Radiohead- Ok Computer
7) Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
8) Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker
9) Idlewild- 100 Broken Windows
10) REM - Monster
ermm
radiohead-ok computer
interpol-turn on the bright lights
animal collective-strawberry jam
converge-no heroes (just pips jane doe!)
every time i die-the big dirty
deftones-deftones
the best of classical chillout 3 disc thingy (its AMAZING)
godspeed you!black emperor-lift yr skinny fists...
kanye west-the college dropout (broadened horizons and all that)
mogwai-rock action (
desert island top 10
in no order...
Billy Mahonie - The Big Dig
Will Haven - WHVN
Minus the Bear - Menos es Oso
Jesus Lizard - Goat
Don Caballero - American Don
Helmet - Betty
Snoop Dogg - R&G
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Slint - Spiderland
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
tough one but...
no particular order as well...
Radiohead - OK Computer
Roxy Music - For your pleasure
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
Deftones - Around The Fur
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Billy Cobham - Crosswinds
Wire - Chairs Missing
Orbital - In Sides
Simple Minds - Empires and Dance
oh my
1. OK Computer. I am not sure I could battle on if I could never hear this again. Tunes, grace, and humungous mountainous peaks
2. Murmur REM
Sublime, simple, intricate, unfussy, effortless, calm, rocking
3. The Colour Of Spring Talk Talk
There is still nothing that sounds like it. That bass just makes me want to lie down and relax. Lugubrious seems like a word for it.
4. Hissing Fauna Of Montreal
I am new to this but it is like an old friend. As much Todd and Sparks as Super Furries. Pinging, giddy, sad fun.
5. Ziggy Bowie
Where it all started for me. It is like family now. I forgive its weaknesses ad I know it does mine. What is not to like. Interestngly any records that are described as being like this one, I am sure to hate.
6. SFA Radiator.
It is like being drunk and stoned and catching a funfair going hurtling by your window with absolutely all its lights on.
7. Clouds Taste Metallic Flaming Lips
I am not at all sure why it is not obvious to everyone that this is EASILY their best album. Every single one is a garbled, gargling, technicolour, lurching, beautiful, hallucinatory explosion and a massive pop song. Soft Bulletin has some moves, fer sure that this is the tune factory, the motherlode.
8. Bummed Happy Mondays
Because nothing sounds like this. Armies of tiny spidery Manchester/Factory guitar lines hurtling through Talking Heads at their giddy peak doing a mixture of Benny Hill, Sartre, Beckett and football chants.
9. Floodland Sisters Of Mercy
I dunno, I shoulda grown out of this but the scope, the stubborn ambition, the absolute disconnection from other music and the massive tunes do it for me everytime. I have it 10 years longer than OKC but it is probly the only record I have played more. Except mebbe Ziggy
10 Either Or or Loveless or Psychocandy or The Queen Is Dead or Giant or George Best or Electric Ladyland or Paul's Boutique or Rated R or Nevermind or Gish or Funeral or Lexicon Of Love or
OK, fuck it
Sulk by Associates
Changed by world seeing Party Fears Too on TOTP. Forever.
Or
Nothing's Shocking.
oooo that's a good one.
top ten
not the best ever.. but the ones that mean the most to me
1) in utero / nirvana
2) the national alligator
3) the hold steady / almost killed me
4) leftfield / rhythm and stealth
5) flaming lips / clouds taste mettalic
6) rage aginst the machine - the burning monk one
7) at the drive in - relationship of command
8) the stone roses - the second coming
9) spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen
10) animal house - iggy
Probably best just to go off the top of the head, so....
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme [my favourite jazz record, and my constant accompaniment through dissertations and finals]
Radiohead - OK Computer [easily the best rock album of our generation, still mindblowing today, from the opening noise of Airbag, to closing triangle tap of The Tourist]
Supergrass - In It For The Money [for the memories and the melodies, and being so wonderfully underrated makes it that little bit more personal]
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love [again, the melodies are just infectious. This would be my 'happy' album]
Television - Marquee Moon [no further explanation needed really, just an amazing album with swagger, and really long guitar solos that don't suck balls]
David Bowie - Low [just abot my favourite Bowie album, weird concept to have two distinct halves but works very well]
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights [my second favourite album of the 00's. Grand, bleak and beautiful; always feels like nighttime when you listen to it. Like OK Computer, totally cogent as an ALBUM, not just a collection of songs]
The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows [my favourite album of the 00's - again so underrated, and has seen me through countless hangovers and at least one tough separation; my own personal emo]
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People [just beautiful melodies and songwriting]
Steely Dan - Katy Lied [wouldn't be being true to myself if I didn't have any Steely Dan in there]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GOD THAT WAS HARD!
special mentions to Bill Lee - Music from Do The Right Thing (original score) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, MF Doom - MM Food, and I couldn't decide on ONE Talking Heads or Pixies album. Had better leave it there.
fuck I forgot
The Cure - Disintegration
eek
1. muse - showbiz
2. interpol - turn on the bright lights
3. tctc- kick up the fire and let the flames break loose
4. air - the virgin suicides
5. brmc - howl
6. incubus - morning view
7. los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster
8. the stills - logic will break your heart
9. patrick wolf - lycanthropy
10.muse - origin of symmetry
well
1) bloc party- silent alarm
2) the clash-london calling
3) sleater-kinney- one beat
4)fall out boy- from under the cork tree( cut the hate)
5) mudhoney-superfuzz bigmuff
6)the national-alligator
7)wolf parade- apologies to the queen mary
8)radiohead- ok computer
9)refused- the shape of punk to come
10) interpol- turn on the bright lights
TOTBL and OK Computer
appear to be doing the best business so far...
subject
Radiohead - Hail To The Theif
Xiu Xiu - A Promise
A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in The Sky
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
The Doors - Strange Days
Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
Sonic Youth - Sister
The Smiths - The Smiths
Generic list;
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted "Grip-force the vials and strip the locks, smash the set & slash the beds and when it looks life a wife's ex-plot... We'll cover all the rugs with cheap perfuuuuuume."
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk (either this or Push Barman.., but the lovely balance between homeliness and escapism in Tigermilk just edges it over Push Barman's collection of perfect 7" singles.)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Losing myself in Jeff's world is a blissful experience. If I could, I would live there.)
...Trail of Dead - Madonna (this album evokes insane emotions like nothing else I've ever heard. It's difficult to believe that I heard it for the first time only two weeks ago.)
Björk - Homogenic (She's captured something that I've always believed in.)
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (the only love songs I could ever need.)
Boris - Smile (Japan Import) (Wata's vocals set my hairs on edge.)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (*sigh*)
Radiohead - Kid A (Like being trapped inside a forest fire, as Jonny Greenwood once put it.)
GZA - Liquid Swords (My favourite of all hip-hop albums. Seeing him perform it for ATP was quite possibly the most (musically-induced) fun I've ever had.)
Though making a list that neglects Arab Strap, Camera Obscura and Silver Jews is quite heart-wrenching.
Let's see what i can decide on
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Clash - London Calling
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony's 1-9
Radiohead - Kid A
New Order - Substance
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
OK
Not thinking a great deal over this, but here's the muck that's fit to rake:
DJ Shadow 'Endtroducing'
Beck 'Sea Change'
Autolux 'Future Perfect'
The Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead'
Low 'Things We Lost In The Fire'
The Beta Band 'The 3 EPs'
Lemon Jelly 'KY'
Thee More Shallows 'A History Of Sport Fishing'
Sparklehorse 'It's A Wonderful Life'
Neil Young 'After The Goldrush'
Bonus!
Another Steely Dan shout. Fine stuff.
In no order...
10. Radiohead - Amnesiac
9. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
8. The Beatles - The White Album
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
6. GY!BE - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
5. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
4. Swords - Metropolis
3. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
2. Pixes - Surfer Rosa
1. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
...
animal collective - feels
the beatles - revolver
bob dylan - highway 61 revisted
two gallants - what the toll tells
eels - beautiful freak
clap your hands say yeah
jackson c frank - blues run the game
sigur ros - takk
the band - music from the big pink
daniel johnston - welcome to my world
urrrrrr
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Etiquette
Jon Brion - Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Panic At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Sufjan Stevens - A Sun Came
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Yann Tiersen - Rue Des Cascades
Runners Up: Weezer-pinkerton, slipknot-subliminal verses, antony and the johnsons - i am a bird now, interpol - turn on the bright lights, wolf parade - queen mary, Mirah - C'mon Miricle, MMISL - variations on swing
.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
Burial - Untrue
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Neutral Milk Hotel - ITAOTS
The Microphones - The Glow Pt 2
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome, Crowded West
(and time will tell, but at the moment Why? - Alopecia)
difficult one but.....
I'll have a go:
Mice Parade - Bem Vinda Vontade
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
Múm - Finally We Are No-one
Dntel - Life Is Full Of Possibilities
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives
Aim - Hinterland
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Yann Tiersson - Amelie OST
Radiohead - Kid A
and
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
(although I'd probably come
..
that should have read
(although I'd probably come up with a 50% different list next week)....just the albums I'm feeling the most at the mo.
if only you'd left it there.
Thanks to this thread...
I've just remembered that I was on the cusp of a Microphones obsession a little while ago. I've now promptly ordered The Glow Pt 2. A life changing decision?
This is all wrong etc, but
Glenn Branca - The Ascension...The most beautiful noise ever put to record
Neil Young - Tonights the Night - Loose and unbelievably powerful
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead...When I was 15 etc.
Talking Heads - Fear of Music...The mood changes so frequently and tightly. This didnt leave my headphones for months (and still hasnt)
Alex Smoke - Incommunicado...Modern minimal Classic
Galaxie 500 - This is Our Music...Everyone says On Fire, but Im inclined to go with this one. A bit more varied but more cohesive at the same time
Alice Coltrane - Journey into Satchidananda...Low-end eastern-blues droney Jazz. Awesome
Devo - Q. Are We Not Men A. We are DEVO...Dancing and more dancing
Love - Forever Changes - I dont think I need to say anything about this one
Don Cherry - Brown Rice...I have now visited outer space
Hmmmm
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - The Bends
Talking Heads - Greatest Hits(Bit of a cop out)
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Run DMC - Raising Hell
The Cure - The Head On The Door
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Bjork - Homogenic
The Distillers - Coral Fang
Blondie - Parallel Lines
.
astral weeks
rust never sleeps
the milk-eyed mender
bootleg series live 1966 at albert hall (free trade hall really)
heartbreaker
pacific ocean blue
ocean songs (no relation)
we're only in it for the money
solid air
forever changes
i'm not going to read this whole thread
but my ten "desert island discs" if you will, not necessarily my favourite albums ever, or the ones I think are the best, but the ten i would choose if I had to choose ten to take for the rest of my life...
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr
Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices
Nevermind - Nirvana
The Best of REM IRS years
Blue Valentine - Tom Waits
One Foot In The Grave - Beck
The Last Will And Testament Of Jake Thackray (acoustic demo version)
Rites Of Spring - Rites Of Spring
A self made best of Mercury Rev
A self made best of Oneida
apologies for the last two being not proper albums...
I could happily just
listen to the following 10 albums for the rest of my life…
1. Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key Of Life
2. Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
3. Super Furry Animals – Phantom Power
4. Otis Redding – Otis Blue
5. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
6. Prince – Sign O The Times
7. Al Green (yes I know this one is a Best of the Beatles style answer but it’s my list) Hi & Mighty 69-78
8. James Brown’s Funky People Volume 2
9. Led Zeppelin - IV
10. Kraftwerk – Computer World
Well I got stuck with 20
that I was reasonably happy with, but here's the top 10 that I keep coming back to (in no particular order):
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life (just a solid great album that I find it hard to tire of)
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed (my favourite Stones album)
Suede - Dog Man Star (I don't know why, but I love this album)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey (really this could be any Bad Seeds album, this is just the one I like most at the moment)
Radiohead - Kid A or Amnesiac (can't decide)
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (really I should have put the first 3 Experience albums)
Bowie - Diamond Dogs or Aladdin Sane (again this could be any of about 5 Bowie albums)
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (obvious, but I can't help but be drawn to it)
Wes Montgomery - The Riverside Years (a cop out, but this could be replaced with Smokin' at the Half Note I suppose)
Brian Eno - Another Green World (a good mix of Eno's songs and more ambient textures and a great album to boot).
Honourable mentions: Tom Waits, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Pink Floyd, The Bunnymen, The Clash, Mansun, Smiths, Robert Johnson.
Mine
Brian - Understand
Lou Reed - Transformer
Whipping Boy - Heartworm
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
U2 - Unforgettable Fire
Rollerskate Skinny - Horsedrawn Wishes
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
A House - I Want too Much
Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
I can live without any albums
but life'd be pretty tough without hearing any of these ever again
Steely Dan - Aja
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Wigwam - Being
James Brown - Star Time box set (am I allowed a box set?)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Fu Manchu - The Action is Go
Dillinger Four - vs God
any Velvets album
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Zeke - Death Alley
some superb irish bands
esp. a house and Rollerskate Skinny
SUM 41???
You serious???
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Stone Roses - Stone Roses
- Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
- DFA 1979 - You're a woman...
- Radiohead - The Bends
- The Enemy - We Live & Die....
- The La's - The La's
- The Libertines - Up the Bracket
- The Velvet Underground & Nico - ST
- Interpol - Antics
SEX PISTOLS???
You serious???
my 10 would be
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Radiohead - OK Computer
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Bjork - Vespertine
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
Yeah...
it's one of the most important record ever made
Everry song on its a catchy pop tune with distorted guitars, sneering vocals and mad tempo's, its genius!
i could
say the same about all killer no filler
summarytheglowpart2pinkertoncavedaysandmoments
thecompleteguidetoinsufficiencysafeashousesfearofmusicthebluenotebooksdoublenickelsonthedimeten.
mine
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Why? - Elephant Eyelash
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Stapleton - Rebuild the Pier
Minutemen - Double Nickels
Fugazi - The Arguement
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
Cap'n Jazz - Schmap'n Schmazz
i reckon.
Gonna do this "stream of thought" style...
in the hope it is as honest as possible:
1) Mew: Frengers
2) Deathcab For Cutie: The Photo Album
3) Green Day: Insomniac (Or Nimrod)
4) Aphex Twin: Drukqs
5) Cake: Comfort Eagle
6) NOFX: So Long and Thanks For All The Shoes
7) At The Drive In: Relationship Of Command
8) Rival Schools: United By Fate
9) Headswim: Despite Yourself
10) Adem: Homesongs
Fuck...
meant:
5) Cake: Fashion Nugget
Should possibly have paid more attention to what I was typing...
Can't resist this sort of topic
"Surfer Rosa" - Pixies
"Ramones" - Ramones
"Here Are The Sonics" - The Sonics
"Nevermind" - Nirvana
"The Undertones" - The Undertones
"Hex Enduction Hour" - The Fall
"Funeral" - Arcade Fire
"Repeater" - Fugazi
"Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven" - Godspeed You Black Emperor
"Double Nickels On The Dime" Minutemen
Probably could survive without all of these...but
Biffy Clyro - Vertigo of Bliss
Daft Punk - Homework
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Godspeed - Slow Riot for Zero Kanada
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Sea, Lost Ghosts
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Four Tet - Rounds
Reuben - Very Fast and Vert Dangerous
65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math
that's really odd
that would probably have been my exact list 2 or 3 years ago.
actually
i dont like chemical brothers, nevermind.
in fact
totally ignore what i just said
i prefer mellon collie, i didnt like the 2nd reuben album and im not a massive fan of Daft Punk.
THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK
and it's more like
4 or 5 years ago.
kill me.
ok ok ok, i think it could easily be twenty tbh
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Glassjaw - EYEWTKAS
Mogwai - Happy Songs
BSS - BSS
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Nada Surf - Let Go
Million Dead - A Song To Ruin
Blood Brothers - Burn Pinao Island Burn
The Mars Volta - De-loused
All of those albums
would be dotted around my top 30. Apart from Million Dead I think.
erm This doesn't sit right with me, but its what first came to mind!
De La Soul - 3 feet high and rising
Glassjaw - EYEWTKAS
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
Aesop Rock - Float
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Why? - Elephant Eyelash
Modern Life Is War - My Love, My Way
Armand Van Helden - 2 Future 4 U (mainly for You Don't Know Me)
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Black Flag - Damaged
That AVH stands out like a sore thumb
Good album though, reminds me of my youth,
Mine too
14 when it came out I think. I dig it out every single year since then, brilliant summer album.
Plus You Don't Know Me is one of my favourite tracks ever!
Just worked it out
Beulah-when your heartstrings break
Teenage fanclub- grand prix
Broken Social Scene- s/t
Trail of Dead- Source Tags
Pixies- doolittle
Pavement- Crooked Rain
Flaming Lips- Soft Bulletein
Boo Radleys- Giant Steps
Animals that Swim- I was the King
Super Furries- Radiator
Not the best albums ever, but the ones that mean the most to me over my life, girlfriends, friends, living in different places(Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours may gatecrash this list.)
Tough But...
Cave In "Jupiter"
Wu-tang Clan "Enter The Wu-Tang..."
El-P "Fantastic Damage"
Glassjaw "Worship & Tribute"
Elvis Costello "Get Happy"
Pearl Jam "Vitalogy"
Faith No More "The Real Thing"
Mission Of Burma "Signals, Calls..."
Fugazi "Red Medicine"
Bjork "Post"
'ere, 'ere
The Black Album - The Damned
Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Wowee Zowee - Pavement
Lodger - Bowie
Reinventing Punctuation - Salako
Work And Non Work - Broadcast
Loveless - MBV
ROIR Tape - Bad Brains
Dragnet - The Fall
Lost Souls - Doves
so tricky, but...
1 - MSP - The holy bible
2 - PJ harvey - uh huh her
3 - suede - Dog man star
4 - belle and sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
5 - tanya donnely - whiskey tango ghosts
6 - 60 ft dolls - 60 ft dolls
7 - pj harvey to bring you my love
8 - kenicke - john peel sessions
9 - arrah and the ferns - evan is a vegan
10 - dylan - blood on the tracks
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Isis - Panopticon
3. Tool - Lateralus
4. Tool - Aenima
5. Mastodon - Leviathan
6. Sigur Ros - ()
7. RATM - RATM
8. At The Drive In - Relationship of Command
9. Oceansize - Effloresce
10. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
I can't
believe there are so many people on here who would rather die than own some records.
Personally, the only things I can't live without are water and oxygen.
actually, in terms of water etc.
I would presume those things are already availible otherwise I would have to change my list to include other basic requisites, such as.
1 earth wind and fire - greatest hits
2 grapes of wrath - treehouse
etc.
10 more to kill lunchtime
*Neil Young - decade : stunning
*A House - i want too much : superb record by irelands best band, better that the genius of i am the greatest.
*Fugazi - red medicine : just a tour de force.
*Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup -- post -rock meets lab rock -
*Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness
*Leila-Like Weather
*No ~Age- Weirdo Rippers
*Bjork-Vespertine : micro beats heaven
*Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
* Isotope 217 - The Unstable Molecule