TOP TEN ALBUMS
 

I wracked my brain to do this for Facebook so I figured I'd share here


Not necessarily in order past first 2, and only 1 album per artist:

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
2. Tool - Aenema
3. Boris - Pink
4. Sleep - Jerusalem
5. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
6. Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring
7. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Year of the Horse
8. Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat
9. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
10. Pearl Jam - No Code

Honorable Mention: Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane Over the Sea

I'd probably make a different list every day. I feel really bad leaving off these artists that mean so much to me:

Earth
Bob Dylan
Miles Davis
Coltrane
Iggy and Stooges
SWANS
Jesus Lizard
Burning Witch
Khanate
OM
Nine Inch Nails
SunnO)))
Rage Against the Machine
Aphex Twin
Six Organs of Admittance
Bonnie Prince Billy
Radiohead
Dead C
Fugazi
Tom Waits
Sun Kil Moon
Dream Theater
Black Sabbath
Melvins
Sun City Girls
Merzbow
Emperor
Wolves in the Throne Room
Nirvana
Deerhunter
King Crimson
Yes
Arcade Fire
At the Drive In
Steely Dan
MC5

plus a shitload of other artists and albums, classical music and jazz recordings, lots of black metal, not to mention some amazing horror film soundtracks

Hmm

Siamese Dream
Fantastic Planet - Failure
You'd Prefer an Astronaut - Hum
So Jealous - Tegan and Sara
Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
Where You Been? - Dinosaur Jr
Facelift -Alice in Chains
Murmur - REM
Fantasies - Metric
Eisenhower - The Slip

Gotsta put the artist yo

Okay okay, I fixed it

And already changed it. This is hard!!

In no particular order

1. LiSA - Launcher
2. Azusa Tadokoro - It's my CUE.
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
4. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
5. BABYMETAL - Babymetal
6. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
7. Nirvana - In Utero
8. Ayumikurikamaki - Ayumikurikamaki Ga Yattekuru! Kuma! Kuma! Kuma!
9. Paramore - Paramore
10. CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye

Honorable mentions:
Birthday Massacre - Pins and Needles
Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
Dead Sara - Dead Sara

pink floyd - wish you were here
radiohead - moon shaped pool
nick drake - pink moon
suzanne vega - songs in red and grey
devin townsend - ki
type o negative - october rust
pumpkins - adore
beatles - white album
queen - a night at the opera
beach boys - pet sounds
sun kil moon - ghosts of the great highway
joni mitchell - blue
norah jones - come away with me

i can't count

Yeah ghosts of great highway could be another honorable mention for me

In chronological order

The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beach Boys - SMiLE
Bob Dylan - Desire
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage
Lifter Puller - Fiestas + Fiascos
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill

Coincidence

?

Hmm

Fuck yeah.

I always struggle with this. I always end up leaving off albums I love, so here's an off-the-cuff but not all-encompassing list:

Weezer - The Blue Album
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Deftones - White Pony
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Rush - 2112
The Cure - Disintegration
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Pixies - Doolittle
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Social Distortion - Social Distortion
Queens of The Stone Age - Rated R
Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies [EP]

I too cannot count.

You're top 3 here provide the base guitar chordage for how I was influenced through other guitarists I jammed around with. My bandmate/guitarist picked up on all sorts of unique guitar stylings from Ken Andrews mostly. He would listen by ear the chordings and try to emulate the sound, which means it prolly wasn't exact, which made it all the more unique in its own way (using standard fingering on top-two strings in drop-D, as an example).


I like Failure's recent album as well. Ken Andrews does a most difficult style of slow-plodding rock music very well.

Great list.

Flamer, do you hear the obvious Rush 2112 influence at the end of Geek U.S.A. like I do? I swear when I first heard SD and that song came on, I was waiting to hear "Attention all planets of the solar federation, WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL" after that hurried flurry of rock at the end of geek.

Failure really delivered with their latest. I was not expecting it to be so good, but it sits perfectly amongst their other work.

Yeah, I get Rush vibes from a lot of early Pumpkins, but never considered the 2112/USA connection. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what Billy was going for, superfan that he is.

I'd like to ******* some recent stuff to some old standards:

MCIS
Rush - hmmm...today, it'll be Permanent Waves
The Joy Formidable - Hitch
Grimes - Art Angels
Soulfly - Prophecy
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
The Cars - The Cars
Anthrax - We've Come For You All
Bjork - Live at Royal Opera House
Depeche Mode - Violator

Sounds like I would really love your music because that's the best guitar sound in the world. And I like the heart is a monster too, I didn't know Greg could sing so well. There's a lot more harmony on this new one but those strings and drums still shine. I really love I Can See Houses. They always have the best ending tracks. Daylight and Small Crimes are incredible.

Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
John Hiatt - Walk On
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot

according to last.fm, past 365 days

mewithoutYou — Pale Horses
Missy Elliott — Supa Dupa Fly
Jorge Drexler — Bailar en la Cueva
Elliott Smith — Either/Or
Lauryn Hill — The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Jordan Rakei — Cloak
Audioslave — Audioslave
Team Sleep — Team Sleep
Deftones — Diamond Eyes
The Killers — Sam's Town

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold of Love
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxters
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse
Hole - Live Through This
Cursive - Domestica
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
The Doors - Strange Days

My list looks like some boring "best of" NME list with the usual suspects, but whatever, I don't have to be cool. :rock_on:

bold ass love

Bold off Love

Tool tho

Ewwww

It kind of breaks my heart a little bit that hardly anyone is aware of Failure and their new material. In my opinion, that album deserves all the praise that Billy thinks he deserves for a decade of mediocre work. THAT is how you do a comeback album.

This list ain't nuttin' to fuck wit'.

We all know you're a closet Dream Theater fan.

Are you going to the Fantastic Planet album tour? I am! I saw them play WITH hum last year thanks to Aztec Litany Service and Kelli Scott gave me his drum stick :smoke:

i'm shocked at how many of you slap MCIS on there.
i love many, many songs off it, and some single tracks are high up among sp's best, but as a complete record, it's probably my least favorite sp album

i'm probably the odd one though