Music Forum / Favorite Albums

Rules:
NO live albums, unless they're entirely composed of work that's never been released from a studio version.
NO "greatest hits" or "best of" collections; any band can create 12 decent songs over their entire career

That's about it really.

Mine ATM:

26- Return to Cookie Mountain by TV on the Radio
25- Whatever People Say We Are... by the Arctic Monkeys
24- Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
23- Good News for People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse
22- Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
21- Neon Bible by Arcade Fire
20- Grace by Jeff Buckley
19- Urban Hymns by The Verve
18- Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River
17- The Bends by Radiohead
16- The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse
15- Animals by Pink Floyd
14- Origin of Symmetry by Muse
13- Crooked Rain Crooked Rain by Pavement
12- Songs for a Blue Guitar by Red House Painters
11- Z by My Morning Jacket
10- Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
9- Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins
8- Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
7- Kid A by Radiohead
6- The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips
5- Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
4- Emergency And I by The Dismemberment Plan
3- Funeral by Arcade Fire
2- The Moon And Antarctica by Modest Mouse
1- OK Computer by Radiohead

Remember that's "at the moment" and forever in a state of flux. There's a good chance I'll be coming home with Battles debut, along with some Wilco, Pixies and Okkervil River tomorrow, not that I'll edit my list for at least another couple months.

Ride6

Hey, has anyone heard the new Okkervil River? I'd like to know what the NE consensus is...the general critical consensus is positive, so I'm wondering what you all think.

They're coming to town soon but for a 21+ show. Man, with that show and with the Flaming Lips' free show this Saturday also being 21+, I'm pretty ticked off.

Ah well. I have Wilco in a week. =D

^I'll probably be picking up the new Okkervil River tomorrow so I'll be sure to drop a line or two about it in the coming week or so. I'm expecting good but not terribly mind-blowing things.

Ride6

mine is a bit weird but it is what it is. also i totally disregarded the no live album rule because sometimes live albums are fucking amazing.

20.pink floyd - meddle
19.mastodon - leviathan
18.wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
17.bob dylan - highway 61 revisited
16.miles davis - kind of blue
15.interpol - black sessions
14.spoon - ga ga ga ga ga
13.the arcade fire - funeral
12.the flaming lips - the soft bulletin
11.the slip - alivelectric
10.modest mouse - lonesome crowded west
09.clap your hands say yeah - clap your hands say yeah
08.built to spill - you in reverse
07.neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
06.the decemberists - the tain
05.daft punk - discovery
04.the white stripes - de stijl
03.the shins - chutes too narrow
02.elliott smith - xo
01.my morning jacket - z

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my list^

the top 10 tho
10. Metallica - Master of Puppets
9. Green Day - Dookie
8. The Misfits - Earth AD
7. Dream Theater - Images And Words
6. Pink Floyd - Animals
5. Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
4. Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
2. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
1. Thrice - Vheissu

• Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• Radiohead - OK Computer
• Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
• Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
• Radiohead - Kid A
• The Slip - Alivelectric
• Wilco - A Ghost is Born
• Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
• Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
• My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
• Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
• Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
• The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s
• Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
• Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
• My Morning Jacket - Z
• Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
• Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
• Silver Jews - American Water
• Wilco - Summerteeth
• Manitoba - Up In Flames
• Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
• Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
• Red House Painters - Red House Painters [I]
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
• Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
• DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
• Mogwai - Rock Action
• Tortoise - TNT
• Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

11.the slip - alivelectric

Most excellent choice.

Download forum was influential.

funeral - arcade fire
turn on the bright lights - interpol
silent alarm - bloc party
we, the vehicles - maritime
with love and squalor - we are scientists
ok computer - radiohead
transatlanticism - death cab for cutie
hot fuss - the killers
nine black alps - everything is
howl howl gaff gaff - shout out louds
room on fire - the strokes
elephant - the white stripes

these are in no order. just the records i listen to most frequently.

Rough List:

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot--Wilco
2. When It's Dark and It's Summer--P:ano
3. Rehearsals For Departure--Damien Jurado
4. Loveless--My Bloody Valentine
5. Yellow House--Grizzly Bear
6. It Still Moves--My Morning Jacket
7. Where Shall You Take Me?--Damien Jurado
8. Summer Teeth--Wilco
9. Black Sheep Boy--Okkervil River
10. Hell Hath No Fury--Clipse
11. We are the Pipettes--The Pipettes
12. Horn of Plenty--Grizzly Bear
13. The View from this Tower--Faraquet
14. Silent Shout--The Knife
15. Moon Pix--Cat Power
16. We All Belong--Dr Dog
17. Citrus--Asobi Seksu
18. Second Attention--Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band
19. Sky Blue Sky--Wilco
20. Madvillainy--Madvillain
21. What's Goin On--Marvin Gaye
22. On My Way to Absence--Damien Jurado
23. In the Presence of Nothing--Lilys
24. Keep Guessin'--Hockey Night
25. Applause Cheer Boo Hiss--Land of Talk

My music taste has really change over the passed two years.

Ummm..in no particular order.

Alexisonfire - Watch Out
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
K-Os - Joyful Rebellion
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Eagles - Hotel California
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Wu Tang - 36 chambers
Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation
The Cure - Disintegration
Bruce Springsteen - The River

In a very loose order, except the top three.

1) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
2) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
3) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4) Beck - Mutations
5) Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
6) Radiohead - The Bends
7) Beck - Sea Change
8) Radiohead - The Bends
9) Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
10) Pinback - Blue Screen Life

Hey, has anyone heard the new Okkervil River? I'd like to know what the NE consensus is...the general critical consensus is positive, so I'm wondering what you all think.

i've got it. i'm still not sure what to think of it. it's good, but it just doesn't feel like an okkervil river album to me.


anyway, no order at all, just whatever i think of first:

the appleseed cast - low level owl (both one and two, might i add)
radiohead - ok computer
ester drang - infinite keys
okkervil river - sleep and wake up songs
radiohead - kid a
thom yorke - the eraser
bloc party - a weekend in the city
guster - goldfly
the slip - eisenhower
sigur ros - ()

good enough..

6) Radiohead - The Bends
8 Radiohead - The Bends

must be a pretty good album.

Edited by tracidEdge, 25 August 2007 - 11:47 AM.

the appleseed cast - low level owl (both one and two, might i add)
ester drang - infinite keys

cool. you'd probably like blonde redhead, early day miners, and maybe band of horses

i'll give them a try. you're the one who introduced me to the appleseed cast back when the music forum allowed illegal downloads and whatever.

The Appleseed Cast -Peregrine was very close to making my list. Great album.

1. My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
2. Robert Johnson- The Complete Recordings
3. Minor Threat- Complete Discography
4. Dexter Gordon- GO!
5. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros- Global a Go-Go
6. The Beatles- White Album
7. The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground and Nico
8. Slowdive- Souvlaki
9. John Coltrane- Giant Steps
10. The Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy
11. The Specials- The Specials
12. Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
13. John Coltrane- Blue Train
14. Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
15. Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
16. Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
17. The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
18. The Misfits- Walk Among Us
19. The White Stripes- The White Stripes
20. Wendy Carlos- Switched on Bach
21. Operation Ivy- Energy
22. Old Time Reljun- Witchcraft Rebellion
23. Death From Above 1979- You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
24. Bad Religion- How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
25. Rites of Spring- End on End
26. Westbound Train- Transitions
27. Suicide- Suicide
28. Leadbelly- Midnight Special
29. Social Distortion- Social Distortion
30. Chapterhouse- Whirlpool

i don't really 'get' vu&nico. it sounds like they were trying to be cool, it's a bit annoying, and you can tell some parts are out of tune (and not on purpose).

Madvillain - Madvillainy
Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle
Common - Be
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol 1
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol 2
Jedi Mind Tricks - Legacy of Blood
Jedi Mind Tricks - Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell
Jedi Mind Tricks - Visions of Gandhi
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
Gang Starr - The Ownerz
Lecrae - After the Music Stops
Trip Lee - If They Only Knew
Ray Cash - Cash On Delivery
Twista - Kamikaze
The Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Lloyd Banks Rotten Apple
Murs & 9th Wonder - 3:16
Murs & 9th Wonder - Murray's Revenge
Buckshot & 9th Wonder - Chemistry
Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
Outerspace - Blood & Ashes
Masta Ace - Disposable Arts
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Nas - Illmatic
2Pac - Better Dayz
2Pac - All Eyez On Me

Edited by inVersed, 02 September 2007 - 06:56 PM.