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     David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 338 Registered: 02-2007 |
I have chosen only 1 album per artist, and the rule I used was which albums do I actually listen to the most, or had a profound affect on me. My list tags me as a fairly mainstream lover of inie pop/rock but I also listen to a lot of what could be described as alt/country. Anyway heres my list. Happy new year everyone. 25 Come On Feel The Lemonheads – Lemonheads 24 Grace - Jeff Buckley 23 Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen 22 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco 21 White Blood Cells - The White Stripes 20 The Queen is Dead - The Smiths 19 For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver 18 The Last Broadcast - Doves 17 American Recordings IV – Johnny Cash 16 Odelay - Beck 15 Mock Tudor - Richard Thompson 14 Raindogs - Tom Waits 13 Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub 12 OK Computer - Radiohead 11 Sleeps With Angels - Neil Young 10 Gone Again - Patti Smith 9 16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens 8 Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids 7 Car Wheels On A Gravel Road – Lucinda Williams 6 Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan 5 The Boatman’s Call - Nick Cave 4 New York - Lou Reed 3 Songs From The Year of Our Demise – Jon Auer 2 Apple Venus Vol 1 - XTC 1 XO - Elliott Smith | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2048 Registered: 01-2005 |
David, I have nineteen on your list, and a good number of those will certainly make my list as well. It's been a few years since I've given my copy of XO a spin, and I'll rectify that soon. I'll be ordering a CD of Apple Venus Vol 1 as well. I'll no doubt include My Bloody Valentine - Loveless and the Pixies - Surfer Rosa on my list when I get around to making it out. Something from Wire and Stereolab might show up as well. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1018 Registered: 10-2008 |
On another thread I said I could come up with 10 from the last 25 yrs fairly easily, so now its time to put them in some kind of order and amongst another 15. I’ll be amazed if I haven’t missed a few, but as of tonight this is what I’ve come up with. 1. radiohead - kid a 2. wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot 3. sonic youth - daydream nation 4. tricky - maxinquaye 5. aphex twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 6. burial - untrue 7. husker du - warehouse songs and stories 8. beck - odelay 9. boards of canada - music has the right to children 10. lcd soundsystem - sound of silver 11. primal scream - xtrmtr 12. pavement - crooked rain,crooked rain 13. orbital - the brown album 14. my bloody valentine – loveless 15. the fall - this nations saving grace 16. daft punk - discovery 17. animal collective - merriweather post pavillion 18. flaming lips - the soft bulletin 19. primal scream – screamadelica 20. yo la tengo – and then nothing turned itself inside out 21. pixies - doolittle 22. drive by truckers – the dirty south 23. a guy called gerald - black secret technology 24. public enemy - fear of a black planet 25. caribou - swim i have included two albums by primal scream, with the thinking being that a great album doesnt deserve to miss out to an inferior album by some other artist. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 839 Registered: 04-2006 |
from 1985 till today - what a challenge! and to force up the whole thing you put it into an order/ranking. when i'm thinking about the best albums of the last year i mostly fail. from kevins list i would choose yo la tengo - and then..., flaming lip's the soft bulletin, the fall with this nations saving grace (or maybe i would choose bend sinister), husker du's warehouse.... and maybe aphex twin. my bloody valentine's loveless is an album i never liked that much than other peoples and the critics did/do. one reason could be that at this time i still bought indie/alt. music, but onthe one hand i liked hip hop and electronic music at that time and on the other hand i deeply digged into country music and singer/songwriter stuff. from david's list i would definitely pick up xtc's apple venus vol.1 . elliott smith: like michael i haven't been listening to his albums in the past years, but xo is a good one. the go-betweens i would count in with liberty bell i/o 16 lovers lane. most of the music i listened to from 1985 till around '90/'91 i didn't like today. i remember buying mostly american indie music. a lot of that stuff sounds pretty boring today. i am not sure if i could lift that weight to name 25 albums of that period. | ||
| Malcolm Worthy Member Username: Malworthy Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2006 |
I found it impossible to rank these, so my list is in no particular order. 69 love songs - The Magnetic Fields Liberty Belle - The Go-Betweens Abattoir Blues - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds American 4 - Johnny Cash Kid A - Radiohead Candy Apple Grey - Husker Du Chutes too narrow - The Shins Down the river of golden dreams - Okkervil River High violet - The national I am a bird now - Antony and the johnsons In Utero - Nirvana Screamadelica - Primal Scream The stone roses - The stone roses Wowee Zowee - Pavement If I Should fall from grace with god - The Pogues If You're feeling sinister - Belle and Sebastian In The Pines - The Triffids Neon bible - Arcade fire Somewhere, anywhere - New Buffalo Strange ways here we come - The smiths Stories from the city, stories from the sea - PJ Harvey You are free - Cat power Doolittle - The Pixies Cannot Buy My Soul - Kev Carmondy/Various Future Suture - Ned Collette | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1019 Registered: 10-2008 |
shit, was liberty belle really made in the last 25yrs? it seems at least 30yrs old!! oh well, thats the first glaring omission. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3760 Registered: 05-2005 |
1 The Chills – Soft Bomb 2 The Lemonheads – It’s A Shame About Ray 3 Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love 4 Paul Weller - 22 Dreams 5 The Pursuit Of Happiness – Love Junk 6 The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues 7 The Go-Betweens – 16 Lover’s Lane 8 R.E.M. – Out Of Time 9 Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy 10 Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque 11 Whipping Boy – Heartworm 12 Mary Margaret O’Hara – Miss America 13 The Posies – Frosting On The Beater 14 The Replacements – All Shook Down 15 Pixies – Doolittle 16 Fatima Mansions – Viva Dead Ponies 17 Grant McLennan - Horsebreaker Star 18 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 19 Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs 20 The Panics - Cruel Guard 21 Van Morrison & The Chieftains – Celtic Heartbeat 22 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 23 The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional 24 The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses 25 The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 340 Registered: 02-2007 |
Shit, I left 22 Dreams off the list!! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1544 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wow. I'm impressed guys. Well, here's a list in no particular order. I'd have a hard time ranking any of these albums above any of the others, and I'm sure there are omissions. But off the top of my head (and my CD collection) these are 20-some albums (one per artist) since 1985 'til today I'd hate to do without: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted Franco and Rochereau - Omona Wapi Mekons - Fear and Whiskey Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions... LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out MIA - Kala The Go-Betweens - Tallulah Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love Prince - Sign O' The Times Husker Du - New Day Rising Wussy - Wussy The Chills - Submarine Bells Amy Rigby - Diary of a Mod Housewife Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville Arcade Fire - Neon Bible The Coup - Party Music Bob Dylan - Love and Theft PJ Harvey - Stories from the City... Kanye West - Late Registration Linton Kwesi Johnson - Tings An' Times Luna - Penthouse Nirvana - In Utero | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2543 Registered: 03-2005 |
I found it a torture making this list. I had to omit many people who I think are fantastic but couldn't put my finger on one single album to select for this list. Disaster Plan comes to mind. I probably should have just arbitrarily grabbed one album. Then there are the artists who make a lot of top quality music but each album has enough skippable material as to knock them out. The Bathers come to mind for that. This is not in any order. The Panics missed just by a hair and on another day they'd probably be included. Fall--Bend Sinister Feelies--Good Earth Go Betweens--Liberty Belle. For some reason I thought this was a 1985 album until people started posting it. Since it qualifies it's the obvious choice. Triffids--Born Sandy Devotional. If I could count the reissue version with all the outtakes, it would definitely be "In the Pines." Gene Clark & Carla Olson--So Rebellious a Lover. I wore out two vinyl copies. Fortunately CDs don't wear out. House of Love--German Album McCarthy--Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today Vic Chesnutt--West of Rome Kev Carmody--Eulogy for a Black Person Cannanes--Arty Barbecue Robert Forster--Calling from a Country Phone Apartments--Fete Foraine Paradise Motel--Flight Paths Jimmy Little--Messenger April March--Chrominance Decoder Augie March--Strange Bird Marianne Faithfull--A Secret Life Alain Bashung--Bleu Petrole Cathal Coughlan--Black River Falls Bright Eyes--Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Neko Case--Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Chills--Submarine Bells Linda Thompson--Fashionably Late Biff Bang Pow--The Girl Who Runs the Beat Hotel. This one was a surprise even for me. It peters out a little at the end but this proves to be a very unassuming great record. Nick Cave--No More Shall We Part | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2003 Registered: 09-2006 |
Sheer torture for me, too, which is why I rarely if ever attempt one of these things. It's fun reading the result of everyone else's toil, though...  | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1545 Registered: 08-2006 |
I was hoping you'd fill in the holes in my list, Allen : ) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1021 Registered: 10-2008 |
...and another glaring omission of mine is "your funeral my trial" by nick cave and the bad seeds. easily top 10! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 717 Registered: 05-2005 |
Carnival of Light Sometime Anywhere Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express Life's Rich Pageant Fisherman's Blues Secrets of the Beehive Sleepless (mini album) Calenture Engineers Sleeps like a Curse Going Blank Again Hologram of Baal Tallulah Oceans Apart In the Pines A House on a street in a Town I'm from Amnesiac The Bends Kid A Unearthed - Steve Kilbey Drift Dear Friends and EnemiesHouse of Love (first) Moon Safari Sea Change Mutations Odelay Mermaid Avenue Vespertine As Day Follows Night R.A.N. soundtrack Buena Vista Social Club Broken Bells Pura Madera! Forget Yourself Preist=Aura Blue Bell Knoll Victorialand A rush of Blood to the Head 20 Mothers Temple of Low Men Woodface (minus the first 4 songs) The Crane Wife Free Peace Sweet Lost Souls The last broadcast Rockferry Finn Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Fleet Foxes Nepalese Fingers Isidore Smoke The La's Kite Happy Seven Seven Chaos and Creation in the backyard The Moffs collection My Friend the chocolate cake tabaran What's the story? (morning glory) Out of Time Reveal Chutes too narrow Jungle Blues Gone to earth Innerspeaker Born Sandy devotional The Joshua Tree Zooropa Vampire Weekend Art Attack Rhyme Smile Skylarking Apple Venus 1 and 2 | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 718 Registered: 05-2005 |
...and The Queen is Dead | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2050 Registered: 01-2005 |
In no particular order Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Pixies - Surfer Rosa Wire - A Bell Is a Cup... Go-Betweeens - Liberty Belle Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Stereolab - Transient Noise Bursts With Announcements My Bloody Valentine - Loveless The Strokes - Is This It Arcade Fire - Funeral Teenage Fabclub - Bandwagonesque Nick Cave - The Murder Ballads The Chills - Submarine Bells The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional Blue Rodeo - Five Days In July Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend Robyn Hitchcock - Eye Ride - Nowhere Slowdive - Souvlaki Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Talk Talk - Laughing Stock The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Radiohead - OK Computer | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 719 Registered: 05-2005 |
...and Psychocandy | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2005 Registered: 09-2006 |
Sorry, Rob...though the small temptation remains, I just canna do it...: ) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 405 Registered: 10-2006 |
Whatever my mix of a lot of the above, number one would be Van M's No Guru, No Method, No teacher, and it would have to include Sign o the times, I'm your man, Peggy suicide, Viva hate, Tomorrow the green grass...and hard to leave out the Evangelist, too. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2548 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, that's so you! Disobeying the rules. You didn't go through the process of elbowing a bunch of things you love off the stage to get it down to 25. And you won't, will you? | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 720 Registered: 05-2005 |
I only realised later that there was only supposed to be 25. I am in the process of putting my collection onto an ipod and ended up just picking the eyes out of that. o.k. Today it is... 1. Carnival of Light 2. Lifes Rich Pageant 3. Fisherman's blues 4. Gone to earth 5. Tabaran 6. Sleepless 7. Born Sandy devotional 8. Seachange 9. Blue Bell knoll 10. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 11. Isidore 12. The Bends 13. Sometime Anywhere 14. Temple of Low Men 15. Unearthed 16. Sleeps Like A Curse 17. Liberty Belle and the black diamond express 18. Finn 19. A Rush of Blood to the head 20. Free Peace Sweet 21. The Last broadcast 22. Engineers 23. Fleet Foxes 24. My Friend The Chocolate cake 25. Moon Safari I can barely believe that I have just about equal representations from each decade. Some obvious favourites in different forms through the decades - Steve Kilbey and Neil Finn. It might sound odd, but I'm also suprised by how much Australian stuff is there too. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2122 Registered: 10-2004 |
1. Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle 2. Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come 3. Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word 4. The Fall - Bend Sinister 5. McCarthy - I Am a Wallet 6. House of Love - House of Love (1st one) 7. XTC - Skylarking 8. Shack - Zilch 9. Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements 10. The Chills - Submarine Bells 11. The Cure - Disintegration 12. Cathal Coughlan - The Sky's Awful Blue 13. David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive 14. Wire - A Bell is a Cup 15. High Llamas - Hawaii 16. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas 17. The Cardigans - Life 18. Laila Amezian - Initial 19. Louis Philippe - Sunshine 20. Pixies - Trompe le Monde 21. Momus - Circus Maximus 22. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers 23. Magnetic Fields - Charm of the Highway Strip 24. It's Immaterial - Life's Hard and Then You Die 25. Chameleons - Strange Times | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2068 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, I thought that the Stereolab albums were going to be remastered? I'm still listening to my original TRNBWA cd that I bought in 1993. CBC Radio 2 (from their Windsor, ONT Canada substation) turned me to Stereolab eighteen years ago. I kind of forgot about The Cardigans. I bought the album after Life (First Band On The Moon), but nothing else. I almost included Sklarking (that a number of you had on your lists) and would have if the list was the top 30. Another one that just missed was the hypnotic 1997 album by Laika, Sounds of Satellites. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 26 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aberfeldy - Young Forever Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister Blake Babies - Sunburn Broadcast - The Noise Made by People Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hifi Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country The Chameleons - Peel Sessions The Clientele - Strange Geometry The Field Mice - For Keeps Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey Laura Cantrell - Not the Tremling Kind The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray (original w/o Mrs Robinson) Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man Life Without Buildings - any Other City Madder Rose - Bring it Down Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted Pixies - Doolittle Pooh Sticks - Great White Wonder Stereolab - Switched On Trembling Blue Stars - The Last Holy Writer The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional You La Tengo - And then Nothing Turned Itself | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 721 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't think that I've ever seen a day without some comment in 6 years and it would be a shame if a freezing northern winter and a limp and wet antipodian summer was to snuff out "the core of the flame... (dang dang dang)" | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2567 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, I figure some of our Oz members really have their hands full right now, if not for themselves then undoubtedly for their friends and family. |