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Old 08-13-2007, 01:29 AM   #91
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I'm not going to completely banish them from my memory.
I actually think this is a really common thing for people into the type of music people speak about on this forum. It's pretty lame.

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 02:37 AM   #92
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1. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie

Now in no order (I dunno how many this is, either)

Smashing Pumpkins - all the rest
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes, American Doll Posse
Pearl Jam - Ten
Hole - Live Through This, Celeb Skin
Meslissa Auf der Maur - Auf der Maur
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
My Chemical Romance - Bullets, The Black Parade (yep, that's right, flame on!)
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors, I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, their collection of previously unreleased songs (I don't even remember if it has a name), and pretty much everything else they've ever done
Red Hot Chili Peppers - BSSM, Californication, By the Way, Stadium Arcadium
Zwan - MSOTS
JCC - Life Begins Again
The Violet Burning - Violet Burning (you guys should really give this a listen... nothing groundbreaking, but it's enjoyable)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Juliette and the Licks - You're Speaking my Language, Four on the Floor
The Subways - Young for Eternity
The Cure - Pornography, Disintegration, The Cure
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart
Garbage - Bleed Like Me

can't pick any more... these are my favorites.

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 09:35 AM   #93
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i started to say that the violet burning was a stupid name, and then i remembered, "oh yeah, smashing pumpkins".

i forgot to put little earthquakes on my list.

i've never heard juliette and the licks, but i've always been a fan of juliette lewis. maybe i should listen to them...

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 10:09 AM   #94
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I've never been able to rank albums, but here's a decent list of those that would be somewhere on it.




Bardo Pond:
Lapsed

Bedhead:
Transaction de Novo

Cat Power:
Moon Pix

Chavez:
Ride the Fader

Crain:
Speed

Deerhoof:
Apple O’
Reveille

Dinosaur Jr.:
You’re Living All Over Me

Dirty Three:
Horse Stories
Ocean Songs

Do Make Say Think:
& Yet & Yet
Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead
Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn


Explosions in the Sky:
Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place, The
Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die

For Carnation, The:
s/t

Fugazi:
Argument, The
End Hits
In on the Killtaker
Red Medicine

Godspeed! You Black Emperor:
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada E.P.

June of 44:
Anahata
Anatomy of Sharks, The
Engine Takes to the Water
Four Great Points
Tropics and Meridians

Low:
In the Fishtank EP
Secret Name
Things We Lost in the Fire
Trust

Malachi Constant:
Zenith

Modest Mouse:
Building Nothing Out of Something
Moon and Antartica, The
Lonesome Crowded West, The

Mogwai:
Come On Die Young
EP + 2

Nastasia, Nina:
Blackened Air, The
Dogs

Nirvana:
In Utero

Notwist, The:
Neon Golden

Papa M:
Live From a Shark Cage
Papa M Sings
Whatever, Mortal

Pavement:
Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe
Wowee Zowee

Pixies, The:
Doolittle

Radiohead:
OK Computer

Rodan:
Rusty

Shellac:
1000 Hurts

Silver Mt. Zion, The:
He Has Left Us Alone, but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of our Rooms…

Sleater-Kinney:
Dig Me Out

Slint:
Spiderland

Sonic Youth:
Daydream Nation
Murray Street
Sister
Sonic Nurse

Superwolf:
s/t

Unwound:
Leaves Turn Inside You

Yo La Tengo:
Electr-o-Pura
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 10:19 AM   #95
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1. siamese dream
2. ryan adams heartbreaker
3. everything else.

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 11:22 AM   #96
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1. Field Mice - Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way
2. Trembling Blue Stars - Her Handwriting
i see a pattern here. Great albums though, too bad most of the other TBS output isn't up to Her Handwriting standard.

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 11:27 AM   #97
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crono, your list reminds me of all of my indie friends in college
june of 44 is great, i haven't listened to them in a really long time. Unwound too. yeah, i like your list

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 12:50 PM   #98
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1. siamese dream
2. ryan adams heartbreaker
3. everything else.
<3

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 01:20 PM   #99
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crono, your list reminds me of all of my indie friends in college
june of 44 is great, i haven't listened to them in a really long time. Unwound too. yeah, i like your list


I'm pretty much stuck in the 90s underground for some reason. It's not nostalgia, I didn't listen to most of the stuff on my list previous to 2002 or so. I've pretty much exhausted the era, but recent apathy has kept me from exploring further back or investigating the present with vigor.

Hopefully this will all change once I move, but money will become even tighter then and I insist on purchasing albums I enjoy. Bah.

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 01:29 PM   #100
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Black Out - The Good Life
i'm pretty stoked for Help Wanted Nights

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 01:54 PM   #101
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i see a pattern here. Great albums though, too bad most of the other TBS output isn't up to Her Handwriting standard.
Lips That Taste of Tears & Broken By Whispers are great albums, but not throughout. The traditional songs on Lips are amazing, but the electronica is a bit too excessive. Broken has some good loud moments (Fragile, Snow Showers, Sleep) and some good acoustic songs. The last few have some good tunes, but I think alot of the charm is gone with Ann Marie & Harvey leaving, and with Beth having such a large role in the band. The tension on the FM records was amazing.

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 02:23 PM   #102
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my preferences lie between what sonic jonny and gossamer both posted.

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 11:11 PM   #103
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i've never heard juliette and the licks, but i've always been a fan of juliette lewis. maybe i should listen to them...
They're not really that great of a band, but they're FUN. Juliette is an animal on stage. I love her voice, as well... but they don't do anything new. I do adore them, though.

 
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Old 08-13-2007, 11:36 PM   #104
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Good list, but too much SP

Nice pick on Labor Days.

 
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Old 08-14-2007, 10:25 AM   #105
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My Top 75

1. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
2. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of The Moon
3. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
5. Third Eye Blind – Third Eye Blind
6. Pink Floyd – Animals
7. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin I
8. The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
9. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
10. Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
11. Dredg - El Cielo
12. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
13. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood To The Head
14. The Beatles - Revolver
15. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
16. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
17. The Doors - The Doors
18. Nick Drake – Pink Moon
19. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
20. Hum – You’d Prefer An Astronaut
21. Gruvis Malt - ...With The Spirit of A Traffic Jam
22. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
23. Mewithoutyou – Brother, Sister
24. Smashing Pumpkins – Gish
25. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
26. The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute
27. Coldplay – Parachutes
28. Mewithoutyou - Catch For Us The Foxes
29. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
30. Barry White - The Man
31. Santana – Santana 3
32. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Infinity
33. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
34. Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
35. Hum – Downward Is Heavenward
36. Radiohead - OK Computer
37. Led Zeppelin - Houses of The Holy
38. Smashing Pumpkins – Machina
39. At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command
40. Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
41. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
42. Jane’s Addiction – Strays
43. Boston - Boston
44. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
45. MewithoutYou - A to B -> Life
46. Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
47. My Vitriol – Finelines
48. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
49. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
50. King Crimson - In The Court of The Crimson King
51. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
52. Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
53. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
54. Santana – Abraxas
55. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III
56. Murder By Death – Like The Exorcist, But More Breakdancing
57. Yes - Close To The Edge
58. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
59. Tool - Aenima
60. Tool – Lateralus
61. Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
62. Scott Matthews – Passing Stranger
63. Priestbird – In Your Time
64. Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
65. Jeff Buckley – Grace
66. Days of The New – Days of The New
67. And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – Source, Tags, & Codes
68. Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
69. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
70. The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
71. Television – Marquee Moon
72. Can – Tago Mago
73. Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
74. Santana - Santana
75. Blink 182 – Enema of the State
Holy shit You put Yes on your list !

 
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Old 08-14-2007, 10:44 AM   #106
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wow gossamer there is a bunch of shit on your list

 
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:02 PM   #107
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here goes, it's the best i can do while at work. =)

1. The beatles - Abbey Road
2. The beatles - white album
3. u2 - the joshua tree
4. the smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
5. stavesacre - absolutes
6. the beatles - revolver
7. U2 - achtung baby
8. the smashing pumpkins - MCIS
9. Doosu - Feng Shui
10. Weezer - Blue Album


that's probably not the right order....but you get the idea.

 
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:04 PM   #108
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beatles smashing pumpkins u2 weezer

 
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:13 PM   #109
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thats my list....you cant have it.

 
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:16 PM   #110
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wow gossamer there is a bunch of shit on your list
haha I know

 
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:32 PM   #111
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also, anything by group x.

 
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Old 08-15-2007, 02:10 PM   #112
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i'd probably put the following in my top 20, but there's no way to list them all...


SP - Adore
SP - Siamese Dream
Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break
Silver Jews - American Water
SP - Gish

 
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Old 08-15-2007, 02:27 PM   #113
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I haven't revised it to the way I want it yet, but here is a list of 20 of my favs

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Dogfig...t_live_without

 
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Old 08-15-2007, 02:48 PM   #114
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ok, ill try this. it's more fitting to my current mood..

1. nirvana - in utero
2. radiohead - kid A
3. smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness
4. led zeppelin - led zeppelin IV
5. sparklehorse - it's a wonderful life
6. queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
7. modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
8. pixies - surfer rosa
9. interpol - turn on the bright lights
10. blonde redhead - 23
11. the fiery furnaces - gallowbird's bark
12. yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
13. built to spill - keep it like a secret
14. the arcade fire - funeral
15. muse - absolution
16. radiohead - amnesiac
17. nirvana - nevermind
18. radiohead - ok computer
19. the walkmen - everyone who pretended to like me is gone
20. ...and you will know us by the trail of dead - source tags & codes
21. nofx - heavy petting zoo
22. the strokes - is this it
23. wilco - summerteeth
24. led zeppelin - houses of the holy
25. spoon - girls can tell
26. low - things we lost in the fire
27. sublime - sublime
28. pixies - doolittle
29. chevelle - wonder what's next
30. the subjects - with the ease, grace, precision, and cleverness of human beings
31. explosions in the sky - all of a sudden, i miss everyone
32. smashing pumpkins - adore
33. weezer - pinkerton
34. the distillers - coral fang
35. at the drive in - relationship of command
36. broken social scene - you forgot it in people
37. of montreal - bedside drama: a petite tragedy
38. modest mouse - building nothing out of something
39. fiona apple - when the pawn...
40. clinic - internal wrangler
41. sparklehorse - good morning spider
42. godspeed you black emperor! - lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven
43. wolf parade - apologies to the queen mary
44. phantom planet - phantom planet
45. built to spill - perfect from now on
46. clap your hands say yeah - clap your hands say yeah
47. the decemberists - picaresque
48. interpol - antics
49. do make say think - you, you're history in rust
50. muse - origin of symmetry

 
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Old 08-25-2007, 07:13 AM   #115
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hey guys it's almost 6am in texas, i'm bored and i found this thread! 50 Albums is too much.

Nas - Illmatic
Outkast - Aquemini
Outkast - ATLiens
Common - Be
Common - Like Water For Chocolate
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
GZA the Genius - Liquid Swords
Blackstar - s/t
Led Zeppelin - III
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin - II
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
M.I.A. - Aurlar
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Hail to the Theif
The Who - Who's Next?
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Beatles - Revolver
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Clutch - The Elephant Riders
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Rage Against the Machine - s/t
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Talib Kwali - Quality
Nas - Stillmatic
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold as Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen - The Future
John Hiatt - Walk On
John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters
John Hiatt - Slow Turning
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (God fuck)
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (fuck you)
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Ben Folds Five - The Autobiography of Rhinehold Messner
Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
Pearl Jam - Versus
Pearl Jam - Ten
Weezer - Blue
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Beck - Guero

I can't name 50 albums without including stuff that I know is not actually top 50 material. I really need to listen to David Bowie albums already, tis shameful. I'm so fucking lazy. i also intended on ranking them but decided that was stupid

01 Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
02 Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
03 Radiohead - Kid A
04 Nas - Illmatic
05 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

i'm an asshole.

i hate this list already, i forgot Miles Davis - Kind of Blue but it's Kind of Stupid since it's basically the only jazz album I've listened to.

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Old 12-11-2007, 02:02 AM   #116
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The Violet Burning - Violet Burning (you guys should really give this a listen... nothing groundbreaking, but it's enjoyable)

Hi, I'm new here.

And yes, this is a great record. I don't know if you guys know, but the current Pumpkins guitarist, Jeff Schroeder, played on this. You put up the wrong link though. The link you gave was to that terrible worship record the band released. The self titled album is light years ahead of every other release the band did.

 
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Old 04-24-2008, 07:15 AM   #117
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....yeah -- I thought I'd pipe in and say that people are getting sick of the same old rock/hip-hop/r&b bullsh*t..... and there is just this big upsurge from a new style coming out of Europe -- it's pretty easy to find, just put 'euro club hits' into itunes or check this link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...Club+Hits+Vol+

 
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Old 04-24-2008, 09:31 AM   #118
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Garbage - Bleed Like Me
i love it when a band produces it's best work, then decides to fuck off


ah well, my music taste isn't extensive, so here's a rough 20

1) smashing pumpkins - mellon collie
2) gorillaz - demon days
3) smashing pumpkins - machinaII
4) marilyn manson - smells like children
5) serena maneesh - serena maneesh
6) sonic youth - goo
7) marilyn manson - antichrist superstar
8) danny elfman - edward scissorhands OST
9) bjork - vespertine
10) moby - play
11) sonic youth - experimental, jet set, trash and no star
12) gorillaz - d sides
13) gorillaz - g sides
14) smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
15) bjork - homogenic
16) a place to bury things - a place to bury things
17) smashing pumpkins - adore
18) gerling - bad blood
19) sonic youth - rather ripped
20) coal chamber - dark days

 
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* no order. Bands named "Smashing Pumpkins" or "The Smashing Pumpkins" are excluded from list (so as to not make a mockery of it)

here goes:

Radiohead - Kid A
Akron/Family & The Angels of Light - Akron/Family & The Angels of Light
My Morning Jacket -Z
- At Dawn
The John Butler Trio - Grand National
Black Mountain - In the Future
Neko Case - Blacklisted
- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
The Tea Party - The Edges of Twilight
Iron & Wine - The Shepard's Dog
Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
Sigur Ros - Agates Bjryn
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Mercury Rev - All is Dream
The Doors - The Doors
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- Animals
- Wish You Were Here
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
- Deloused in the Comatorium
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Dead
- Era Vulgeris
Mogwai - Rock Action
- Happy Songs For Happy People
Neil Young -Rust Never Sleeps
The White Stripes - Elephant
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Bjork - Homogenic
Moist - Creature
Tv on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Theivery Corporation - The Cosmic Game
Tool - Lateralis
The Cure - Disintegration
R.E.M - Automatic For the People
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulliten

10. The Zombies - Oddessy & Oracle:
The Beatles never really put out an album that I coud enjoy from start to finish, and although the Zombies aren't the most innovative of the sixties pop groups, Oddessy & Oracle is still my favorite record from that era. Every song bubbles over with melody and personality and simple yet vivid lyrics. Beechwood Park and Hung Up on a Dream are outstanding little obituaries of the hippy era.
9. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
I just have to go with however I feel at any particular moment which is why I don't shy away from putting very recent records so high on my lists. There seems to be a running trend where I always like the albums that come after the consensus "best", in this case usurping The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place. AOASIME for my liking consolidate their sound into more varied, interesting songwriting. Every track has something different to offer. The Birth and Death of the Day sounds like a monsoon hitting paradise, or What Do You Come Home To conveys the awe inspiring beauty of a thousand mile-wide choral reef. Like the day I bought Z as an undercard to Broken Social Scene's untitled, I originally bought this almost as an afterthought to Neon Bible.
8. Radiohead - Ok Computer:
This is the first album to really made me feel stupid for listening to almost nothing but the Smashing Pumpkins for so long. And although I remained an SP fanboy for years after, Ok Computer has been hugely influential in my tastes and set the standard by which I've judged every rock album since. The thing that still kills me is the textures of songs like Airbag and Let Down that were so far beyond anything I'd ever been exposed to that it became the first rock album that could actually do some very strange things to my brain.
7. Pink Floyd - Meddle:
When I'm in the mood, I always just kind of sit back and admit to myself that it pretty much doesn't get any better than Pink Floyd. Particularily soul pwning are the opener (One of These Days) and closer (Echoes) where the band just seems to be conjuring the elements. I still have a long way to go before tapping out their discography btw.
6. The Tea Party - Transmission:
This is the only album I brought along on a camping trip in the summer of 1998. Up until this record the Tea Party owed pretty much the best parts of their sound to the music of the Doors and Led Zeppelin (and never really lived it down), however with this record they took a turn for more of an industrailized angst sound, yet still retained enough of their masterful blend of eastern rock and contemporary song structure to give this album a unique soul. It just very loud and evocative and rockin' sounds of band in their prime.
5. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
This album is crammed with gripping character bios, something this band is almost too good at. Where the Devil Don't Stay, Puttin' People On the Moon, The Sands of Iwo Jima, Never Gonna Change, Godamn Lonely Love. Its so rare to come across a record where the singing/songwriting/performance is so high and so consistent when the band rotates frontman responsibilities between three members. Cooley, Hood, and Isbel kicking ass like there's no tommorow. I consider them candidates for band of the decade and I still haven't heard Decoration Day or Southern Rock Opera :0
4. Godspeed You Black Emperor - FA [Infinity]:
Perhaps it's a little obnoxious putting such an arty post-rock record so high on my list. You kind of have to have the right time, right place, right feeling for it to truly sink through you. But hell, its just too fucking cool of a record. One that has nearly given me an out of body experience on one or two occasions. How can post-apocalyptic music be nihlistic when its this sublime?
3. Akron/Family - Love is Simple:
Phenomena and Pony's OG prevent this record from being a 10 out of 10. Nonetheless the weaving and picking that goes on during songs like I've Got Some Freinds and Of All The Things is extrordinary. This band is great at channelling all of the glorious intangible qualities of classic music and making them explode on record. Triumphant sing-a-longs, retro-rock jams, folk-rock psychedelia. I think Jesus would dig Akron/Family.
2. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves:
I guess withdrawl from this record has pushed it past Z for the interim. The sound of this record combines the warmth and soul of Neil Young, with fluent southern rock instrumentation, and hints of Radiohead's calculating intelligence starting to creep into their esthetic. Its the soundtrack to the most perfect summer camping trip. No stone is left unturned, no marshmellow is left unroasted. Given that camping trips are pretty much the only reason I live, It Still Moves is my best freind.
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....yeah -- I thought I'd pipe in and say that people are getting sick of the same old rock/hip-hop/r&b bullsh*t..... and there is just this big upsurge from a new style coming out of Europe -- it's pretty easy to find, just put 'euro club hits' into itunes or check this link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...Club+Hits+Vol+
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