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Started by AFK, December 11, 2009, 08:45:19 PM

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AFK

Okay, so the last couple of posts in the Jazz thread got me curious.  And fuck it, this IS Apple Talk.

Give me your top 10 albums.  I'm curious to sample the musical tastes of the current crop of pd.com denizens.  Maybe we can turn each other on to some new music we haven't heard before. So go for it.  (if you can't think of 10, do top 5, or top 7, or something.  Just don't go over 10)

Here's mine:

10 - Queensryche-Operation: Mindcrime
9 - Mike Oldfield-Songs of Distant Earth
8 - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
7 - Sentenced - The Cold White Light
6 - My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
5 - Anathema - Serenades
4 - Savatage - Gutter Ballet
3 - Faith No More - Angel Dust
2 - Anathema - Judgement
1 - My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

Have at it!

Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

In kind of particular order.

1. Mr Bungle - Disco Volante
2. Ulver - Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (although I like pretty much every Ulver album I've heard)
3. Gorguts - Obscura
4. The Secret Chiefs 3 - Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws
5. Coil - Musick To Play in the Dark
6. Mens Recovery Project - The Golden Age of Naked Hostility
7. Lead - Meditation of the Flesh
8. Skepticism - Lead and Aether
9. Hive - Devious Methods
10. Operation Ivy - S/t





rong

"a real smart feller, he felt smart"

AFK

Yes,  typical countdown fashion.  1 is your favorite, 10 is your 10th favorite. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

rong

i now realize i had no real reason to ask that, because i can't possibly decide on my top favorite number one album of all time, but here are the first 10 i thought of, in the order i thought of them:

Fantomas - Director's Cut
Melvins - Stoner Witch (so hard to decide between this and Stag)
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Hank Williams III - Straight to Hell
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Muddy & the Wolf - (blues compilation featuring Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf)
20 Bluegrass Instrumentals - (Bluegrass Compilation)
Tomahawk - Anonymous (possibly only here cuz i just got it a couple weeks ago)
Kepone - Ugly Dance
The Jesus Lizard - Lash (so hard to choose between this one, Liar and Down)

i don't think i can ever commit to a static top ten list.  so many greats not mentioned . . .

fuck it, honorable mention:  Reverend Horton Heat - Holy Roller



"a real smart feller, he felt smart"

Zenpeanut

1. Dead Kennedys: Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
2. Electric Six: Fire
3. the Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
4. Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punks
5. Portishead: Dummy
6. Squirrel Nut Zippers: The Inevitable
7. Lamb: Fear of Fours
8. Pretty Girls Make Graves: The New Romance
9. Flogging Molly: Whiskey On a Sunday
10. the Aquabats: The Aquabats Vs. The Floating Eye of Death

in no order

Iason Ouabache

#6
Not as easy list to pick. I could have easily made this a top 30 list. And I decided to restrict myself to just one Radiohead album.

1. Radiohead - Ok Computer
2. DJ Shadow - Entroducing...
3. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
4. Pink Floyd - The Wall
5. Desaparecidos - Read Music Speak Spanish
6. Led Zeppelin IV
7. Bright Eyes - Lifted
8. Pulp - This is Hardcore
9. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Animal/Not Animal
10. Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
You cannot fathom the immensity of the fuck i do not give.
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Eater of Clowns

Haphazard because my mp3 player has been broken so long (and I had no backup) that I can't remember most of what I listened to.

10.  RJD2 - Deadringer
9.  Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
8.  Beck - Guero
7.  Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
6.  Misfits - Legacy of Brutality
5.  Johnny Cash - American IV:  When the Man Comes Around
4.  The Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu (36 Chambers)
3.  The Foo Fighters - The Color and Shape
2.  The Beatles White Album
1.  Elliott Smith - Either/Or

Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

Shibboleet The Annihilator

10. Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory or Permutation
9. HIVE - Devious Methods
8. Presidents of the United States of America - Presidents of the United States of America I & II
7. Yesterday's New Quintet - Angles Without Edges
6. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
5. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
4. Cut Chemist - The Audience's Listening
3. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs or The Black Rider
2. Flying Lotus - 1983
1. Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

typ3

1. Aphex Twin - Drukqs (Electronica/IDM)
2. Deltron 3030 (s/t) (Rap/Del Tha Funkee Homosapien)
3. Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things (Electronica/IDM)
4. Fieldtriqp - Old Haunts (Electronica/Ambient)
5. Transient - Hexual Ceiling (Electronica/Triphop)
6. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (Rock/Post)
7. Prefuse 73 - Reads The Books E.P. (Electronica/Triphop)
8. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omnicient (Metal/Progressive)
9. Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift (Rock/Psych)
10. Melt Banana - Charlie (Rock/Noise)

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I'm sure I'm forgetting dozens of potential candidates, though. :x

Iason Ouabache

Quote from: Eater of Clowns on December 11, 2009, 10:05:26 PM
9.  Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
Really? That's probably my least favorite of their albums. Their last 2 were pretty good.

Quote7.  Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
1.  Elliott Smith - Either/Or
I really need to find these two.
You cannot fathom the immensity of the fuck i do not give.
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The Johnny


10. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - I See Good Spirits, I See Bad Spirits
9. The Boredoms - Chocolate Synthetizer
8. Tsunami Bomb - Mayhem on the High Seas
7. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
6. Lydia Lunch - Honeymoon in Red
5. Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
4. Test Department - Totality
3. Artrosis - Con Trust
2. Daisy Chainsaw - Eleventeen
1. Queen Adreena - Djin



<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

The Johnny

Quote from: Zenpeanut on December 11, 2009, 09:10:36 PM
5. Portishead: Dummy

I love about 5 songs from the self titled one, because her tone is not so soft... "Cowboys"... dont remember the other ones...
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

Thurnez Isa

Excluding Classical Music and in no order

Tales of Heaven and Hell - Wendy Carlos
Sao Vicente - Cesaria Evora
Field Commander Cohen - Leonard Cohen
John Prine - John Prine
Equinox - Violaine Corradi
Kris Kristofferson Live - Kris Kristofferson
Why I Sing The Blues - BB King
Puisqu'en Oubli - Catherine Lambert
Alice - Tom Waits
A Canadian Tribute - Nana Mouskouri
Through me the way to the city of woe, Through me the way to everlasting pain, Through me the way among the lost.
Justice moved my maker on high.
Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.
Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

Dante

Eater of Clowns

Quote from: Iason Ouabache on December 12, 2009, 12:00:36 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on December 11, 2009, 10:05:26 PM
9.  Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
Really? That's probably my least favorite of their albums. Their last 2 were pretty good.

Quote7.  Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
1.  Elliott Smith - Either/Or
I really need to find these two.

I keep giving More Adventurous a shot but I can't get into it.  My sister didn't dig The Execution as much as I did either.  The end of the album is much better with A Better Son/Daughter and With Arms Outstretched.  Every song where Jenny Lewis does not sing is pretty awful.

I love Wolf Parade, and it being and indie rock supergroup I find that amazing because it has all the makings of something I would hate.  Apologies is their debut, and it's strong, but the follow up At Mount Zoomer is also very very good.

Elliott Smith is my favorite.  Choosing which album to put on the list was tough, and I couldn't give him two spots because I love variety.
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

Quote
the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.