Hey guys help me figure out what to get for my birthday.

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I'm having a bit of trouble narrowing my list down to 10 records. So basically everyone just vote for the 5 you think I should get.. but only vote if you're familar with majority of the albums.. so yeah here's the list.

David Sylvain - Blemish
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
Eno - Before and After Science
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker
Laika - Sound of the Satellites
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
Mercury Rev - All is Dream
Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
McLusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not On Fire
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Bjork - Drawing Restaint 9
SLeeping People - Sleeping People
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Fennesz - Venice
Pluramon - Dreams Top Rock
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
The Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
Nico - Camera Obscura
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

Feel free to recommend me something you think I'd like but don't count it as one of your votes.

― Citizen Insane (Twilight), Saturday, 17 September 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Eno - Before and After Science
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
Nico - Camera Obscura
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters

― zeus, Saturday, 17 September 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I'd vote for the Stereolab, Ghost, Red Krayola (actually, the first album is better), and os Mutantes records

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 17 September 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Tom Waits' Rain Dogs! (get it way before Blood Money, there are many better ones)
Eno
Robert Wyatt
Fennesz
Os Mutantes

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 17 September 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Eno / Rain Dogs / Caribou / Wyatt / Sylvian (or Talk Talk & Hollis)

Are you a Libra then

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 17 September 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Are you a Libra then

yah :)

― Citizen Insane (Twilight), Saturday, 17 September 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

David Sylvain - Blemish
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
The Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 17 September 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Eno - Before and After Science
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
The Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It

Do you own:
Dntel - Life Is Full of Possibilities?
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs?
Pan Sonic - Kesto?
Gas - Pop?
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again?
Cyann and Ben - Spring?

You might like those too, looking at that list - I'd take them over most of the other records I didn't mention.

Also, it depends when your birthday is: my birthday is in October, and I'm buying myself Deerhoof - The Runners Four and Wolf Parade.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Sunday, 18 September 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

brian eno - sounds of some fag coughing into a speaker, vol. 1
bjork - crazy bitch screaming, vol. 43
tom waits - homeless bum banging together trashcans, vol. 1032
talk talk - more boring jazz shit
mark hollis - even more boring jazz shit

ahahaha i dont like you that is why i am telling you to buy that gay fag shit

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Sunday, 18 September 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

In recommendation order:

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
McLusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not On Fire
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Bjork - Drawing Restaint 9 (I actually didn't know that this was out, but if it is, the samples I've heard are good)

As for other thoughts, "Franks Wild Years" and "Swordfishtrombones" by Waits are pretty indispensible if you don't already have them.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Sunday, 18 September 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Also, it depends when your birthday is: my birthday is in October, and I'm buying myself Deerhoof - The Runners Four and Wolf Parade.

The Runner's Four comes out a few days before my birthday, but I'll be getting it on release day.

― Citizen Insane (Twilight), Sunday, 18 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Robyn - Robyn
Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets

― nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 18 September 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Zeus had it right, the Eno & Stereolab are musts.

― There's a tipsy ghost on the edge of my couch (Bimble...), Sunday, 18 September 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I hope you got these at some point, buddy:

Eno - Before and After Science
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Mercury Rev - All is Dream
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Thursday, 26 October 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Pluramon - Dreams Top Rock
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Laika - Sound of the Satellites
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker

The Pluramon tops my list, being both 1) the most entertaining MBV-alike album I've heard since, um, 1998 or so, and 2) the only one on my list likely to go out of print permanently in the near future. Those Stereolab and Tom Waits selections will be still be around, and won't date too badly, 10 years from now.

― pirouette (35 Hertz), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hella - Hold Your Horse Is (no question..none)
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (no question..none)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (" " " " " )
and the Eno and Stereolab

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

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