Generic Thread: *Your* Top 10 (or [x] if you prefer) Albums

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Look, I hate black people and chart pop!

10) Wolf Eyes - Dread
9) Wire - Pink Flag
8) Ruins - Burning Stone
7) Kraftwerk - Computerworld
6) Stooges - Fun House
5) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
4) Can - Tago Mago
3) Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
2) Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
1) Sonic Youth - Sister

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

LOOK! JON HATES WOMEN!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

4 of the top 5 (and the whole 10) have female members (Did Can ever have any female members? If so, bump that)!

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

ok. you hate australians though, right?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ONLY GERMANY + JAPAN + USA + THE UK EVER MADE ANY MUSIC WORTH MY TIME.

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

This Guys a Regular mark E. Smith

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

In no particular order, at the moment:

1) Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
2) Oasis - Whats the Story Morning Glory
3) Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
4) Metallica - Master of Puppets
5) Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
6) Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
7) Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
8) Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA (First ever album I remember having as a kid)
9) Iced Earth - THe Dark Saga
10a) Talking Heads - Stop Makign Sense (if it counts)
10b) Oasis - The Masterplan (if it counts)

Not very diverse, I admit, but these are definitely the albums I've listened to the most and just feel in tune with...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan hates blacks, chart pop, women AND australians!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Art Farmer / Benny Golson Jazztet - Meet the Jazztet
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Oscar Brown, Jr. - Sin and Soul
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in Sorrow
Urinals - Negative Capability
Daft Punk - Discovery
Ishman Bracey - (1928-1930) Complete Recordings in Chronological Order
Mongolie: Chamanes et Llamas
Yoko Ono - Plastic Ono Band

That's my top 11 right about now. BEcause I always like to go up to 11.

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It surprises me a little bit that I've only heard the Stones from your list, Broheems.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

At this moment:

Bill Frisell - The Intercontinentals
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 5
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol 2
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Sainkho Namtchylak - Lost Rivers
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Jimi Hendrix - Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(But possibly Kid A over HTTT)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Your Funkadelic, Aphex Twin and Sainkho picks were my 12, 13 and 14, Sundar! (god, that Lost Rivers is a real scorcher, eh?) (also, I'd probably take On the Corner over In a Silent Way at 15, IV over Physical Graffiti at 16, and Woodstock over Isle of Wight at 17 after that!)
(I haven't heard your other 4; I will definitely check that Frisell disc out.)

Sundar I think you'd like the Quicksilver record, since I know you like and can appreciate guitar solos. That record is certainly full of them. Many with liberal use of tremolo, though - don't know how you feel about that..

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

by which I mean, I suppose it can start to sound gimmicky or something; I just love the sound though.

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Mind you, I would never publish this list;
the thought of my name next to a stern hierarchy of
stone-tablet classics gives me a panic, like a maniac
desperately trying to remove the bloodstains. What if I change
my mind later?

Still, here's my best effort:

01. The Beatles, _Abbey Road_: Quite simply, I once listened
to this album raptly each day for several weeks. Though I
passed from this stage of devotion, the album remains a
treasure of inestimable worth.

02. Yes, _Close To The Edge_: Yes, Yes, I will stand up for
prog, and proudly.

03. Pedro Messone, _Exitos De Siempre_: Spanish-language
folk songs that are refreshingly deep. I listened to this
often during my formative years, and it will probably haunt
my dreams forever.

04. Soundgarden, _Superunknown_: A key reference point for
rock n' roll songwriting.

05. Radiohead, _OK Computer_: Another fanatically played gem
in the morass of music. In retrospect, it sounds like a
a self-important artifact, and Yorke's scattershot lyrics
reveal their didactic morals. Still, backwards-thinking it may be,
I can think of no better paragon of the schizofreakic
nineties.

06. Collective Soul, _Collective Soul_: Criminally overlooked.
The band has faltered evermore with each subsequent release,
but this was a thunderwork masterwork, my _Led Zeppelin IV_.

07. CCR, _Cosmo's Factory_

08. Deltron 3030, S/T: Psychoanalyze me as you will, I cannot
live without this pulsating mass of psychoDelic sounds.

09. Phish, _Billy Breathes_.

10. XTC, _Drums And Wires_: Debatably the best of XTC's
fine albums. So painfully did I discard the other worthies!

11. CCR, _Willy And The Poorboys_

Lastly, how can lists such as these do justice to acts like
Eminem, the Beach Boys, Jay-Z, and Stevie Wonder, who produced
countless wonderful tracks but nary a classic album?

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
Various - No New York
Madonna - Immaculate Collection
Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aero...
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Portishead - Dummy
X - Wild Gift
Wire - Pink Flag
dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
Various - Scepter Records Story

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack
Led Zeppelin - Zoso
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Beatles - Revolver
Le Sacre du Printemps [Stravinsky] - Pierre Boulez / NY Philharmonic
Velvet Underground & Nico
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Love - Love Story 1966-72
Byrds - Fifth Dimension
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Sam Philips - Bikinis and Martinis
Yes - The Yes Album
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Soft Cell - This Last Night In Sodom
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
The Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake
Suicide - First Album
Elastica - Elastica
Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-phonies
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Leaether Strip - Solitary Confinement
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Sex Gang Children - Ecstacy and Vendetta in New York
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
B-52s - B-52s
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt It

Not enough synth-pop or soul in there, but my love for that is more singles based.

― anode (anode), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

10 Great Australian Bands or Performers

1. feedtime
2. X
3. Slugfuckers
4. Scientists
5. Hi God People
6. Crabstick
7. Saints (but only up to and including the third album)
8. Pip Proud
9. the Pits
10. DJ Smallcock

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Look, I am gay:

Nas - Illmatic
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Beatles - Abbey Road
Velvet Underground and Nico
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Notorious BIG - Ready To Die

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yoko Ono - Plastic Ono Band

really? i love yoko but could never get into this particular release. how many listens does 'why?' take to become, well, listenable? perhaps i'm just too reactionary and need my experimentation served with a dollop of convention, but i prefer yoko's tunes when she's bothered with a melody of some sort. even if that melody is interrupted halfway through by a scream/re-birthing/strange gibbering.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I've picked nine - now I've just got to think of a black, Australian, lesbian, chart pop album so Gaz doesn't pick on me....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

10. Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius
9. Gravediggaz: 6 Feet Deep
8. Omni Trio: Haunted Science
7. Miles Davis: In a Silent Way
6. Air Liquide: Nephology
5. Pharoah Sanders: Karma
4. Dead Prez: Let's Get Free
3. Pole: 1
2. Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
1. Herbie Hancock: Sextant

Only two entries aren't "black music". I'm a reverse racist.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That Pole album is great. I'd definitely love to hear the Hancock and Sanders.

Broheems: I haven't heard On the Corner or Woodstock but they're on my to-hear list. I couldn't fault anyone for choosing IV. I just recently finally bought back PG and have been really enjoying it. I dunno, it feels groovier/funkier; the guitars are so thick; it has a looser, eclectic feel; and I just find it really satisfying with both pop-rock like "The Rover" and "Houses of the Holy" and the more out-there tracks. I also really like the ballads that other people seem to put down a lot. And I love "Bron-Yr-Aur". My short list would include:

Joy Division - Substance, Unknown Pleasures
Dave Douglas - Freak In
Sonic Youth - Sister
Alice Coltrane - Journey Into Satchidananda
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Beatles
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
Miles Davis - Pangaea
both Boards of Canada albums
John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth - Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
The Cure - Disintegration
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Slowdive - Souvlaki
The Godmachine - One Last Laugh...
Arvo Part - Fratres
Tuxedomoon - Desire
New Order - Technique
Sade - Love Deluxe

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevie Wonder, who produced countless wonderful tracks but nary a classic album?

You're joking, right?

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

That Pole album is great. I'd definitely love to hear the Hancock and Sanders.

I think you'd like "Sextant", the first track is sort of a reference point to all minimalist electronic music that's come after, and the other two tracks are great examples of artsy electric/synth jazz.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

A number of these are canonical, I grant you, but I can (and if necessary, will) defend each and every one. At the moment:

1. Public Enemy, It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
2. The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead
3. Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
4. ABC, The Lexicon of Love
5. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Welcome to the Pleasuredome
6. Guns N' Roses, Appetite for Destruction
7. Masters at Work, The 10th Anniversary Collection Parts 1 and 2*
8. Ornette Coleman, In All Languages
9. Me'shell Ndegeocello, Peace Beyond Passion
10. Kitchens of Distinction, Strange Free World

*I know that's cheating; I don't care.

Hi, my name is Thomas, and I'm an unrepentant popist.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Why are people listing like 15 albums? My list would have been almost all hip-hop a few years ago so I used to not hate black people. But these are the albums I have most been listening to:

5 Beat Happening - Beat Happening
4 Gang of Four - Entertainment!
10 Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
6 Husker Du - Zen Arcade
7 Mission of Burma - VS.
2 Pavement - S & E
8 REM - Reckoning
1 Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r.
3 Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground (recently switched from wl/wh)
9 Wire - Pink Flag

Runners up: The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (usually I don't make it all the way through, but it still gets lots of listens) Replacements - Let It Be (could easlily be up there)

I wish it weren't so generic. Broheems having Urinals on there is awesome, I am going to check out some negative capability right now.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I kindof agree about Stevie Wonder.

― Rokcist Scientist, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Bungle - California
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Fishbone - The Reality of My Surroundings
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Bjork - Vespertine
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Gza/Genius - Liquid Swords
Ani DiFranco - Dilate

Something like that.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh wait, some more...

Sly and the Family Stone - Small Talk
Praxis - Transmutation
Parliament - Motor Booty Affair
Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Morphine - Cure For Pain
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
Radiohead - Kid A
Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
System of a Down - Toxicity!
Gang of Four - Entertainment!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

for RIGHT now -

roxy music - s/t
blur - modern life is rubbish
underworld - second toughest in the infants
joy division - substance
radiohead - okc
neu! - neu! 2
pavement - crooked rainx2
superchunk - here's where the strings come in
streets - opm
gang of four - entertainment
daft punk - discovery

yeah, that's eleven. woops.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Why are people listing like 15 albums?

Thread title says "10 or [x]"; some people (including me) can't just pick 10.

― anode (anode), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Walkmen::Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
The Replacements::Tim
Joy Division::Still (does this count? If not, give me Unknown Pleasures, even though the live cut of Disorder is about a bajillion times better than the studio cut)
Air::Moon Safari
Shakira::Dónde Están los Ladrones?
The No-No's::Tinnitus
Primal Scream::XTRMNTR
OMD::Organisation
Neko Case::Blacklisted
M83::Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Puffy::Fever*Fever

Not sure who I hate looking at this, but I sure like drunken trust fund brats and those who hate them.

― minolta (minolta), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Sign O' The Times - Prince
All Mod Cons - The Jam
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Low - David Bowie
In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra
3+3 - The Isley Brothers
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
So Tough - Saint Etienne
Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Fairouz: Safarbarlek Bint el-Harass
Oum Kalthoum: Robaiyat el-Khayam
Marcel Khalife: At the Border
Willie Colon/Hector Lavoe: El Juicio
Willie Colon/Ruben Blades: Siembra
Eddie Palmieri: Azucar Pa' Ti
Sun Ra: Out There a Minute
Fripp & Eno: No Pussyfooting
The Beatles: White Album
Boredoms: Chocolate Synthesizer

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, not really, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for, album-wise, in certain genres.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Pig Lib
Autechre - LP5
Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
Daft Punk - Discovery
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Plaid - Restproof Clockwork
Various Artists - Tighten Up

I think I must hate music because I honestly can't think of a tenth!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

nice list!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

happy end of the world, pizzicato five
mingus ah um, charles mingus
live at the apollo volume 2, james brown
gilberto gil [1969], gilberto gil
walking with a panther, l.l. cool j
1999, prince
sandinista!, the clash
chuntaros radio poder, el gran silencio
jailbreak, thin lizzy
we care, whale

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

(Actually, everything but the Khalife and Palmieri CDs seem like viable choices for this list. I'm less sure about those two.)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's ten (ask me tomorrow and get a different list):

Sun Ra - Sunrise in Different Dimensions
Beatles - Abbey Road
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
v/a - Total 3 (Kompakt sampler)
Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf (2nd album on Chess)
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Safe As Milk
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Stevie Wonder - Fullfillingness' First Finale
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Och, why not.
Look, I am schmindie.

Galaxie 500 - On Fire
New Order - Technique
Pixies - Doolittle
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Wedding Present - Bizarro
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Body Exit Mind
Undertones - Hypnotised
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids

― Vasquesz, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i will happily include Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain" for a FOURTH inclusion on this list... and to poster who demanded reason for Yoko, it's all about RED WINE

10. Cymande - s/t
9. Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
8. Cluster - Sowiesoso
7. The Flirts - s/t
6. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
5. Julie Ruin - s/t
4. Can - Ege Bamyasi
3. Residents - Duck stab!/Buster and Glen
2. Brian Eno - Here come the Warm Jets
1. Yoko Ono - Plastic Ono Band

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hear hear... One of the great synth art PSYCH jazz records - all three cuts are trippy as fuck!! Plus heavy and gritty, no lightweight "fusion" sounds to command a frown whatsoever. Track three, 'Hornets', is twenty minutes long and UNRELENTINGLY funky. It simply doesn't let up. Hall of mirrors style. Actually track one is super funky too (on the one and three) but it's interrupted by synth burps constantly, which only adds to the appeal. Which leaves track two, which is also funky, but in a ridiculous King Crimson 15/4 time signature or something, and ends up sounding like Mingus playing that video game Qix.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit! How did I leave Sign 'O' the Times out of my list? Slot it in at #4, then.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I know it's petty but people who go "oh god I just can't pick ten" annoy me.

ABBA - Super Trouper
A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
Daft Punk - Discovery
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Pet Shop Boys - Discography
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
V/A - 300% Dynamite!
V/A - Routes From The Jungle

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll have ago :

ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Stockholm Monsters - Alma Mater
Augustus Pablo & V/A - In Fine Style
Chic - Greatest Hits Vol 1
V/A - Studio One Rockers
Teardrop Explodes - Wilder
Temptations - Psychedelic Soul
Joy Division - Closer
V/A - Velvet Goldmine
V/A - 9 O'Clock Drop

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I never know if compilations are allowed in this sort of thing (I get annoyed when people pick 'Love Bites' as their favourite Buzzcocks album coz it's sort of a cheat) but if they are I'd put "Al Green Greatest Hits Vol. 1" way up high on my list.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 33 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

So already I left out "The Colossal Tunes Out" by The Cravats. I'm quitting now.

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

jazz odysseus, you don't happen to have a copy of Fragments of Light you could make a copy of (CD-R or even cassette or mp3s out in the ether), do you? I will pay or trade. . . something. That could be the difficult part since I don't have CD burning capabilities, though I might have something around here that you would want and that I'd be willing to trade.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe I should e-mail you since I forget the password for this e-mail account.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It was made available on CD (I looked and it doesn't look sold out from Mellow Records, who had something to do with the CD issue). I think it costs 15 Euro directly from them, or 15 Dollars from Wayside in the U.S.. If that doesn't help, and you don't mind waiting, I won't refuse. The last time I said I'd make a CD from vinyl for someone, it took me a horribly long time to do it, and I'm in a similar equipment-shy situation now (my turntable is down), so I want to warn you that this is an area where I really suck. Have you ever heard the other one that's been out on CD, "Antidote"? It's a compilation of late 70's live / studio new-wavy-pop-rock songs that Mr. Falsini did after he moved the U.S.. It's really good, if you can get past doing a double-take at the fact that it's really him. His voice sounds a bit like Buck Dharma on a couple of songs.

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I have never been able to find it on CD. I tried to order from Italy once, but I must have done something wrong. I've never even heard Fragments of Light all the way through. I just have a ridiculously bad quality copy of one track, taped off the radio, on an old 120 minute Maxell tape. I will check out Wayside. (I think Mellow was the one I tried before.)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, just ordered from Wayside. I wasn't familiar with them, but I am not particularly into prog. It's just that I used to listen to much more of it on the radio and there are some things I like (mostly instrumental). Have you ever heard Mars Everywhere's Industrial Sabotage? That's something I'd love to see on CD. (I don't have it in any form, though I have a portion of it I taped off the radio and at least the sound is a little more acceptable.)

I haven't heard anything from Antidote but decided to order that too.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

(This may be the most useful piece of information I've ever picked up from ILM.)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Wayside is great - you shouldn't have any problem with them. It's a wonderful album, too - that and "Antidote" are the only ones that have come out on CD; I'm not sure why.

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Can_Future Days
2. Congos_Heart of the Congos (I probably could pick any Party Time or Police and Thieves, but this is probably the best album)
3. LFO_Frequencies
4. Gravediggaz_6 Feet Deep (or another Wu-Tang project)
5. Love_Forever Changes
6. PIL_Metal Box/Second Edition
7. Miles Davis_On the Corner
8. V/A_Speed Limit 140BPM Plus III: The Joint (or History of Our World Part One: Breakbeat & Jungle Ultramix depending on the day)
9. Darkthrone_A Blaze in the Northern Sky
10. DJ /rupture_Gold Teeth Thief

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been looking for "Industrial Sabotage" for years - I figure I'll eventually find an LP copy and be really happy about it, or happier if someone puts it out on CD and it's more widely available. Funny enough, I'd first heard Mars Everywhere from an old Random Radar compilation album. I think Random Radar have something historically to do with Cuneiform and Wayside, so there's some flimsy evidence of how Wayside rule right there.

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

jazz odysseus, I've gotten very used to using specialist distributors for Arabic and Afro-Latin (salsa mostly) music, but a lot of the other things I am most likely to buy are spread out across lots of different genres, so I am not in the habit of using other specialized distributors. Apparently I should look into them more closely. The prices at Wayside, for instance, look pretty reasonable.

x-post: It frustrates me when music I think is really good falls through the cracks, but I guess it's inevitable that some things are going to get lost.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Physical Graffiti
The Wall
Revolver
Piece of Mind
Sad Wings of Destiny
Love Over Gold
Immunity
Appettite for Destruction
Beggar's Banquet
The Real Thing

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know Arabic or salsa music at all! Huge clouds of ignorance hang over me, yet I'm okay with things I do know about. I did encounter a UK Internet distributor that had lots of Arabic music when I was looking for a Greek film score CD a couple of years ago - I wish I could remember their name. They were decent to deal with, if a bit expensive.

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you in the UK? I think I have found enough good Arabic music distributors (in the U.S.) to keep me supplied. I like Greek music (and I primarily mean certain areas of Greek pop music), but haven't investigated it much.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm in Canada. This was just a stupidly hard-to-find Nicola Piovani score to a Greek film called "The Man in Grey" (and I bought a Greek issue of Nino Rota's "Film D'Amore e D'Anarchia" from them also), so it's only nominally Greek music. I'd like to hear more Greek pop music; I only know a few older things like Axis, Socrates, Aphrodite's Child + Demis Roussos, Mikis Theodorakis,etc..

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

10 in no order

Once More With Feeling (Soundtrack)
Mad for Sadness - Arab Strap
Barafundle - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Vivedixiesubmarinetransmissionplot - Sparklehorse
20 Greatest Love Songs - Stevie Wonder
Howdy - Teenage Fanclub
Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
We A Warrior - Ijahman
Technique - New Order

Incidentally, if we did have that ILM top 100 that people were talking about on another thread, from a quick scan of the lists so far it looks like 'Discovery' would win at a canter.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Thursday, 18 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't listened to most of my 'favourite' albums in months... my stock answers in no order are still:

Pet Shop Boys, Discography
Madonna, The Immaculate Collection
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
Björk, Homogenic
Tori Amos, From The Choirgirl Hotel
Portishead, Dummy
Aaliyah, Aaliyah
PJ Harvey, To Bring You My Love
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, The Boatman's Call
Nina Simone, Feeling Good: The Very Best Of Nina Simone

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 18 March 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

ten albums, no order, management reserves the right to change its mind in the next 5 minutes.

Chilly Gonzales - The Entertainist
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Basic Channel - s/t
Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
cLOUDDEAD - s/t
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

My top ten as of 3/18/04

Pet Shop Boys - Discography
Thin Lizzy - Thin Lizzy
The Tower Recordings - folkscene
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Marble Sheep - Old From New Heads
Ulan Bator - Ego:Echo
Penderecki - Stabat Mater
New Kingdom - Paradise Don't Come Cheap
Fear Of God - Within The Veil
Big Pokey - Hardest Pit In The Litter

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

{x} means ten as well!

Heh, I was about to do saome lame backpedalling about how algebra is older than Latin until I realized what alphabet "x" was from.

― anode (anode), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

as of 3/18/04
Sex Machine- James Brown
Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis ("The Complete Sessions")
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis Wilson
Supernature - Cerrone
Dick's Picks Vol 1 - Grateful Dead
Avalon - Roxy Music
Mizundastood - Pink
Gil e Jorge - Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick

― lovebug starski, Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Susuma yokota – sakura
Mbv – loveless
Notorious big – ready to die
Blur – the great escape
Boards of Canada – music has the right to children
The smiths – the queen is dead
Dmx – and then there was x…
Sparklehorse – vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Low – secret name
Massive attack - mezzanine

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

today all my favorite records are different than they were before

a quick one, the who
robi draco rosa, mad love
jacques brel is alive and well and living in paris
sons of soul, tony toni tone
ttd's vibrator, terence trent d'arby
honky tonk heroes, waylon jennings
hijos del culo, bersuit vergabarat
long cold winter, cinderella
eyez on this, mc lyte
clube da esquina, milton nascimento & lo borges

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

nice list, kilian

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
2. Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
3. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
4. Forever Changes - Love
5. Lets Get It On - Marvin Gaye
6. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - Simon and Garfunkel
7. Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
8. Stormbringer - John and Beverly Martyn

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

oh what the hell

nas - illmatic
sly & the family stone - there's a riot goin on
dj db - a history of our world pt. 1: breakbeat and jungle ultramix
public image ltd. - metal box/second edition
prince - purple rain or sign o' the times or parade (i can never really decide)
abc - the lexicon of love
talking heads - remain in light
james brown - sex machine (star time feels like cheating and i listen to this more anyway)
kelis - kaleidoscope
drive like jehu - yank crime

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Depeche Mode - Violator
XTC - Oranges and Lemons
PSB - Discography
Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Radiohead - Kid A
P5 - Happy End of the World (woo, someone besides me loves this album)
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Frank Black - s/t
Bjork - Homogenic
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess, you came up with the token Rap record, the token New Romantic record and the token Funk record. Not bad. ;-)

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

My list is based mostly on records that I have given the most listens. I've been keeping a list of what records that I listen to since Oct 96', so I know what albums I have heard since that time. Many of these are favorites from before I started keeping track. (In parenthesis is the year I first heard the record.)

Miles Davis- Bitches Brew (1985)
The Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime (1986)
The Stooges- Funhouse (1987)
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme (1988)
Aphex Twin- Selected Ambient Works Vol.2 (1997)
Shellac- At Action Park (1994)
Miles Davis- In A Silent Way (1993)
Autechre- Tri Repetae 2 Cd version w/Garbage & Anvil Vapre ep's (1997)
Tortoise- Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
Funkadelic- Maggot Brain (1991)
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation (1988)

― earlnash, Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Most of these are stock answers...

Beach Boys, Smile
Digable Planets, Reachin'
Tara Jane O'Neil, Peregrine
Pavement, Wowee Zowee
Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians
The Smiths, Best of, Vol. 1
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
Steely Dan, Decade
Stereolab, Mars Audiac Quintet
Tortoise, TNT

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Very retro/canonical and not much of an indication of what I'm likely to be listening to at any one point in time, but:

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Abbey Road - The Beatles
In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra
Point of Departure - Andrew Hill
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
Genius of Modern Music Volumes 1 & 2 - Thelonious Monk
Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
The Complete Science Fiction Sessions - Ornette Coleman
Les Stances A Sophie - Art Ensemble of Chicago

― ArfArf, Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

hm?

sonny and linda sharrock - paradise
general strike - danger in paradise
v/a - lime key riddim
hajsch - 1992
bow wow wow - see jungle see jungle go join your gang yeah city all over go ape crazy
fun boy three - s/t
george russell - electronic sonata for souls loved by nature
son of bazerk - bazerk bazerk bazerk
c-c-cecil taylor U-NIT!- one too many salty swift and not goodbye (cos i've never sat thru it all)
dipset comp cd i made

― prima fassy (mwah), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

blahblah. Look, I am FICKLE. And I love FINNS:

Jimi Tenor, Intervision
Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
Screamin jay Hawkins Pieces Of A Man
Luomo The Present Lover
Al Green Explores Your Mind
Liars They Threw Us All In A Trench...
TLC CrazySexyCool
Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun
Os Mutantes Eveything Is Possible!
Ludacris Back For The First Time
Prince Sign O' The Times
Chet Baker Sings
Tom Waits Rain Dogs
Daft Punk Discovery

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(x-post, sorry prima, that "blahblah" wasn't aimed at you!)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(or anyone in particular)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

And I meant Screamin Jay's "Portrait Of A Man", but whatever.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My top ten:

Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
The Raincoats - The Raincoats
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
Wedding Present - Bizarro
Sebadoh - The Freed Weed (I'd go w/Weed Foreskin out of the two)
Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
Nation of Ulyssess - 13 Point Program
Monks - Black Monk Time
Young Marble Giants - Collassal Youth
Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

10 Kiss - Alive II
09 Unrest - Malcolm X Park
08 Can - Future Days
07 The Fall - Perverted By Language
06 Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
05 The Cure - Faith
04 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
03 The Smiths - The Smiths
02 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
01 New Order - Movement

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Substitute Farid & Asmahan for the Marcel Khalife CD on my list. (It's in two distinct volumes, so if we can't get around that, then I'll take the one with the pink cover.)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't make lists like these they're too hard. I need at least a 20 album list to do it justice.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
V/A: Grooverider - Hardstep Selection II
Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
Luomo - Vocalcity
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
V/A: Zed Bias - Sound of the Pirates
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
The Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

And with that I lost one of the last few certain things in my life, that sundar hates GYBE!

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Nas - Illmatic
Tricky - Maxinquye
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Oval - 94 Diskont
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Sly + Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On
Sonic Youth - Evol
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
Bark Psychosis - Hex

― a, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd barely even heard GYBE until this year. I did have lots of hate for Mogwai, which I have re-evaluated to a point. I now think "Mogwai Fear Satan" is great though I'm not sure I'll ever give CODY another listen. AFAIK I still hate Rachel's and Tortoise but I haven't actually heard the latter in 5 years or so. I've never given a good listen to more than one or two tracks at a time to the former.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
Congos - Heart of the Congos
Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
Pulp - Different Class
Luomo - Vocalcity
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
ABBA - The Definitive Collection
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Daft Punk - Discovery

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a copy and paste from another thread in 2002:

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pulp - Different Class
New Order - Technique
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
Daft Punk - Discovery
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Galaxie 500 - Today
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Renegade Soundwave - In Dub

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

only nos 1 and 9 should be at 1 and 9

start with kagel's heterophonius 'heterophonie' for 42 solo instrumentalists to cecil taylor unit's heterphonius polyphony of 'it is in the brewing luminuous'.

ligeti 'aventures' absurd opera to captain beeheart's absurdities on 'trout mask replica' to the aberrations of hugh metcalfe and bob cobbing on their 'aberration' LP

Minuteman 'double nickels on the dime', sun city girls 330,003 crossdressers (I cheat, they are 2 Cds or 2 LPs but we'll count 'em as one bcz lists are to be bent out of shape like that) (so that's 7 so far) and we'll cheat a bit more by putting in side one of the Company 1977, which has derek bailey, braxton, steve lacy, evan parker, trsitan honsinger and a couple of others playing all together for half an hour and side 2 with Lol coxhill 'solo' (side one is my fave side).

no9: 'a guy called gerald' black street trickonology bcz 'ewing's law' sez that when making a top ten list then no9 is the token record.

and at no1 its this 'ralf and florian' album that I'm listening to as I type this list. IT IS THE BEST!!! (even when I'm not paying full attention, but no1 just for the hawaiian bits on the last track).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Shellac - At Action Park
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
New Bomb Turks - Destroy-Oh-Boy
V/A - Let Them Eat Jellybeans
Richie Hawtin - Dex, EFX & 909
Bellrays - Meet The Bellrays

That's in no order and off the top of my head... I haven't done this for years.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck it I'm doin 25. I'm bendin the rules!! And in no way a definitive list:

MBV - Loveless
Swervedriver - Raise
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Slayer - Reign In Blood
SOD - Speak English Or Die
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Sepultura - Arise or Chaos AD
Cro Mags - Age Of Quarrel
Crumbsuckers - Life Of Dreams
Monster Magnet - Tab 25
Melvins - Lysol
Lush - Spooky
Seam - The Promblem With Me
Polvo - Celebrate The New Dark Age
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
Dr Dre - 2001
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Helmet - Meantime
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme or Giant Steps
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew or In A Silent Way
The Sea And Cake - The Fawn
Stereolab - Dots & Loops
Owls - Owls
Mastodon - Remission

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Abbey Road - Beatles
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Songs in Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
Nevermind - Nirvana
Exodus - Bob Marley
Moondance - Van Morrison
Are you Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

― Stagger Lee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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