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Post by jakehowell on Apr 3, 2010 21:16:50 GMT -5
Just to get started, name your ten or more favorite albums of all time.
In no order...
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
Ok Computer - Radiohead
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk
Ege Bamyasi - Can
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Deceit - This Heat
Dub Housing - Pere Ubu
Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground
Bone Machine - Tom Waits
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Post by Tyler Smith on Apr 4, 2010 5:14:06 GMT -5
I have a hard time organizing music the way I do movies, but here we go. If I was being honest, probably four of my ten favorite albums would be by Tom Waits, but I'm just going to limit it to one album per artist. Here we go.
Alice, Tom Waits
Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See, Jim White
The Final Cut, Pink Floyd
Queen of All Ears, The Lounge Lizards
Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell, Social Distortion
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Don't Look Back, John Lee Hooker
You Follow Me, Nina Nastasia
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, Bright Eyes
Tallahassee, The Mountain Goats
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Post by siege121 on Apr 4, 2010 17:22:18 GMT -5
My favorite album of all time comes from a band not in my top 5 favorite artists (although they are in the top 10):
This is Satire - None More Black
Some other favorites:
London Calling - The Clash
Post Live - Bjork
Dying To Say This To You - The Sounds
Living With The Living - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
...Is a Real Boy - Say Anything
Essential Squeeze - Squeeze
On A Clear Night - Missy Higgins
As The Eternal Cowboy - Against Me!
Ordinary Riches - Company of Thieves
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Post by Tyler Smith on May 5, 2010 19:19:30 GMT -5
If you're into jazz, I'll recommend Gerry Mulligan. I've really been enjoying his stuff.
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Post by dancarin on Jul 11, 2010 14:00:59 GMT -5
The Black Keys are the band I tell everyone to listen to.
If you've never heard of the Black Keys, go out and listen to them right now.
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Post by tonybeard on Jul 21, 2010 5:01:46 GMT -5
10 favourites in no particular order:-
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
OK Computer - Radiohead
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Ten - Pearl Jam
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush
New Orleans Suite - Duke Ellington
Forever Changes - Love
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
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Post by maarow on Aug 1, 2010 1:42:35 GMT -5
My Top 10 is pretty amorphous since I gain and lose interest in different bands at the drop of a hat, but some albums that have borne out my musical ADHD include:
Once - Nightwish
Suspiria - Miranda Sex Garden
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Fantastic Voyage of Goblin - Goblin
Hellbilly Deluxe - Rob Zombie
Straight Flush Ghetto - The Bones
Master of Puppets - Metallica
The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Doolittle - Pixies
October Rust - Type O Negative
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Post by jakehowell on Aug 18, 2010 18:04:46 GMT -5
Isn't it a different Jim White who worked with Nina Nastasia on You Follow Me than the alt-country artist?
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Post by Tyler Smith on Aug 18, 2010 19:09:56 GMT -5
It is a different Jim White, yes. The one on You Follow Me is a drummer from Australia.
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Post by jakehowell on Aug 19, 2010 17:50:23 GMT -5
He's very good. The drums really make that album.
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Post by Tyler Smith on Sept 27, 2010 16:23:45 GMT -5
He's very good. The drums really make that album. I agree. You wouldn't think so, either. You would think that a guy beating the hell out of the drums would only prove distracting, but it doesn't. I highly recommend everybody check out this album. fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=223 |
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Post by cucumberboy on Oct 23, 2010 16:24:07 GMT -5
Hmmm... ok in no order:
Black Market - Weather Report
Get Up With It - Miles Davis
Time Out - Dave Brubeck
Wired - Jeff Beck
Forest of Feelings - David Sancious
Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
I-IV - Led Zeppelin
The Meters - The MetersAfro Blue - John Coltrane
Natural Elements - Shakti
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Post by johnnyunusual on Jan 13, 2011 23:35:30 GMT -5
I think mine is a little eclectic
Q: Are we not men? A: We are Devo - Devo (I've been on a real Devo kick in the last year, but I think I've finally gotten to the endpoint)
Ray Guns are Not Just the Future - the Bird and the Bee
Abbey Road - the Beatles
Dog in the Sand - Frank Black (I'm one of those rare people who actually prefers Frank's solo work to his Pixies work)
American IV - Johnny Cash
Powerpuff Girls: Heroes and Villains - Various Artists (a cool CD that help shape my musical tastes for the last decade. Basically one of the creators of the show got a bunch of his favourite bands together to make an album where each song focuses on a character or trope from the show. It's got Frank Black, Devo, the Apples in Stereo, Dressy Bessy, Optiganally Yours and more. Unfortunately, I think it's out of print now).
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Post by Dr Handsome on Jan 20, 2011 23:33:20 GMT -5
My sister had that Powerpuff Girls compilation and I distinctly remember to that Apples in the Stereo song. I'm sure you (who chooses to list that album here) have seen the Beatles episode?
Ever since I watched Elevator to the Gallows I've been working my way into Miles Davis. Like the rest of the American public I've been somewhat turned off by jazz types but I'm slowly finding a path.
Also, favorite band is The Shins.
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Post by johnnyunusual on Jan 21, 2011 11:45:45 GMT -5
Yes, it was a very cute episode. The show really lost steam towards the end, but when it was on it's A-Game, it was one of the best cartoons of all time, a perfect mix of funny, cute and action-packed (they got a way with a lot of monster murder on that show).
I loved Samurai Jack but it's a shame it got cancelled. It was pretty ballsy for an action cartoon to spend as much time as it does on setting mood. It's like doing the opening scene from "Once Upon a Time in the West" in a cartoon: there's cool action, but so much time is spent on mood and tension that the action is really more of a release. Plus, it would even make fun of itself in that respect in a great episode where the villain tries to get children on his side by telling them fairy tales about himself.
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Post by maarow on Jan 24, 2011 1:47:02 GMT -5
I'm relistening to Surfer Rosa by The Pixies. I think I just sort of took for granted that Doolittle was the better album of the two, but now that I'm revisiting their debut, I think what led me unthinking to that opinion was merely that Doolittle is the more conventional. Which isn't to say that it's bland or cookie cutter, but on Surfer Rosa you get to wondering if there was a sober moment in the studio. There's something freeing about a bunch of people just getting together and cutting an album just because it seems fun, eschewing conventional song structure and interjecting non sequiturs and spoken absurdities ("He bout me a soda...he bought me a soda, he bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot. Yep. Yepyep! Yep!") in the midst of a song at will. And yet it all hangs together in a frame of strange accessibility.
What a perfectly bizarre and satisfying kind of a thing.
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