Top 50 Albums

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KingBlackDeath

June 19, 2003, 01:51:51 AM
I've gone list crazy the past month while sitting at work. top 50 films as well. (technically I typed out top 200 films and 100 albums
but would not like to put you through and go through that torture)
Put yours up, if you would.


1.  Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2.  The Silver Jews - Natural Bridge
3.  The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
4.  Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
5.  Sigur Ros - Agaetius Byrjiun
6.  The Silver Jews - American Water
7.  Beck - Mutations
8.  Pavement - Wowee Zowee
9.  Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
10. Of Montreal - Coquelicot asleep in the poppies
11. Danielson - Fetch the Compass Kids
12. Pavement - Terror Twilight
13. Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foilage
14. Of Montreal - The Gay Parade
15. Beck - Odelay
16. Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib
17. Beta Band - Three EP's
18. Pedro the Lion - It's hard to find a friend
19. American Analog Set - The Golden Band
20. Radiohead - Kid A
21. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
22. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
23. Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
24. The Microphones - Mt. Eerie
25. The Music Tapes - 1st Imaginary Symphony for Nomad
26. The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
27. Beck - One Foot in the Grave
28. Palace - Lost Blues and other Songs
29. Radiohead - OK Computer
30. Pavement - Brighten the Corners
31. The Microphones - Don't Wake Me Up
32. Smog - Knock Knock
33. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
34. Damien Jurado - Rehearsals for Departure
35. Major Organ and the Adding Machine - MajorOrgan&theAddingMachine
36. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
37. Weezer - Pinkerton
38. Jim O'rourke - Eureka
39. Circulatory System - Circulatory System
40. Weezer - Weezer
41. Palace - Days in the Wake
42. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
43. Smog - Julius Caesar
44. Beta Band - Hot Shots II
45. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
46. Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico
47. A Hawk and A Hacksaw - A Hawk and a Hacksaw
48. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
49. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Vol. 1
50. Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
Do you see what happens...when king black death breathes on you with his breath?

Mesh

#1
June 19, 2003, 10:12:18 AM
Quote from: BigBadDeath
21. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
22. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Your list is bristling with excellent albums (I've heard and enjoyed just about every one of them, to greater or lesser extents), but the above 1-2 combo just made me giggle......

Other than that, good stuff.

8)

Mesh

#2
June 19, 2003, 10:14:34 AM
Quote from: BigBadDeath25. The Music Tapes - 1st Imaginary Symphony for Nomad

I can't imagine anyone else in the world ranking that album as high as you do.

Yer nutso fer that Elephant 6 insanity, aincha?

Pas

#3
June 19, 2003, 10:34:48 AM
Thanks a lot, I don't know half these groups so that'll be some discovering

jokerspath

#4
June 19, 2003, 10:46:46 AM
Quote from: BigBadDeath
1.  Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
37. Weezer - Pinkerton

Those happen to also be on my list.  If I typed my list out, I'd probably get fired.  I thoroughly enjoy the rest of your picks, espeically Oldham, Pavement, AmAnSet, and of course Radiohead...

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phil marlowe

#5
June 19, 2003, 10:50:08 AM
i can't see how it could be possible to make a good top 50 list.

Kev Hoffman

#6
June 19, 2003, 11:11:08 AM
There is alot of GREAT albums on that list...but I have to agree with Mr. Marlowe that it'd be near impossible to compose a list of pure perfection.

SoNowThen

#7
June 19, 2003, 11:12:45 AM
I'll list as many as I can, but after the first few, there is no particular order:

1. Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
2. Parachutes - Coldplay
3. Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
4. OK Computer - Radiohead
5. Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones
6. Animals - Pink Floyd
7. Before These Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band
8. Be Here Now - Oasis
9. What's The Story Morning Glory - Oasis
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

no order (including b-sides albums and live and singles collections):

Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
All the Led Zeppelin albums
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Obscured By Clouds - Pink Floyd
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Some Girls - Rolling Stones
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out - Rolling Stones
Familiar To Millions - Oasis
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
The Masterplan - Oasis
The Bends - Radiohead
A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
Busted Stuff - Dave Matthews Band
Gold - Ryan Adams
Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Graceland - Paul Simon
Sounds Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
You're The One - Paul Simon
Rhythm Of The Saints - Paul Simon
Lost In Space - Aimee Mann
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
Someday My Prince Will Come - Miles Davis
Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy - The Who
Who's Next - The Who
Live At Leeds - The Who
all Nick Drake albums
The Invisible Band - Travis
Moseley Shoals - Ocean Colour Scene
Mechanical Wonder - Ocean Colour Scene
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Alone With Everybody - Richard Ashcroft
Highly Evolved - The Vines
Behind The Music - Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Southern Harmony And Musical Companion - Black Crowes
Elvis #1 Hits collection
White Album - The Beatles
The Boy With The Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastion
Passion (The Last Temptation Of Christ) - Peter Gabriel
Love Over Gold - Dire Straits
Making Movies - Dire Straits
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

Kev Hoffman

#8
June 19, 2003, 11:25:48 AM
Quote from: SoNowThenI'll list as many as I can, but after the first few, there is no particular order:

1. Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
2. Parachutes - Coldplay
3. Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
4. OK Computer - Radiohead
5. Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones
6. Animals - Pink Floyd
7. Before These Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band
8. Be Here Now - Oasis
9. What's The Story Morning Glory - Oasis
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

no order (including b-sides albums and live and singles collections):

Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
All the Led Zeppelin albums
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Obscured By Clouds - Pink Floyd
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Some Girls - Rolling Stones
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out - Rolling Stones
Familiar To Millions - Oasis
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
The Masterplan - Oasis
The Bends - Radiohead
A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
Busted Stuff - Dave Matthews Band
Gold - Ryan Adams
Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Graceland - Paul Simon
Sounds Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
You're The One - Paul Simon
Rhythm Of The Saints - Paul Simon
Lost In Space - Aimee Mann
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
Someday My Prince Will Come - Miles Davis
Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy - The Who
Who's Next - The Who
Live At Leeds - The Who
all Nick Drake albums
The Invisible Band - Travis
Moseley Shoals - Ocean Colour Scene
Mechanical Wonder - Ocean Colour Scene
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Alone With Everybody - Richard Ashcroft
Highly Evolved - The Vines
Behind The Music - Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Southern Harmony And Musical Companion - Black Crowes
Elvis #1 Hits collection
White Album - The Beatles
The Boy With The Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastion
Passion (The Last Temptation Of Christ) - Peter Gabriel
Love Over Gold - Dire Straits
Making Movies - Dire Straits

I don't know if I like your list....I guess too much of the same artists.  (especially the HIGHLY over-rated Stones)  A few I'd rid of altogether : The Vines, Ocean Colour Scene, and  some of the Zeppelin albums (basically all sans Zeppelin 1 and Physical Graffiti).

SoNowThen

#9
June 19, 2003, 11:28:48 AM
I'm fairly mainstream/classic rock oriented. That is my list and I stick to it. I get maximum enjoyment out of those albums. Sue me.
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

Mesh

#10
June 19, 2003, 11:29:20 AM
Quote from: SoNowThen5. Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones

I know you're a big Stones fan, but I find this album drastically overrated.  It's got some of their best hits, sure, I'll concede that, but the rest of it is so samey, so overlong.  Maybe it's just that I care so little for the blues and this particular Stones album is such a roots-blues throwback.  I just don't get it.

Perhaps you can explain a bit about its overwhelming appeal.

SoNowThen

#11
June 19, 2003, 11:33:31 AM
It's the blues/country/gospel sound to the record. Also, the whole album just flows so well for me. No song sticks out as a hit (even Tumbling Dice), but each one supports the next. I also like the scratchy, rough sound of it, and the mumbly lyrics. And I love long albums.
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

Mesh

#12
June 19, 2003, 11:38:59 AM
Quote from: SoNowThen...the mumbly lyrics...

Yeah, see, this has always been a barrier between me and the Stones.  The content and subject matter of their lyrics don't often interest me for long (songs like "Paint It Black" and "Sympathy for the Devil" are glaring exception to this—both great songs).  Which Stones album has the most/best non-bluesy lyrical subject matter (don't need to mention Beggar's Banquet, I've already got that one)?

SoNowThen

#13
June 19, 2003, 11:42:03 AM
Some Girls is great, you might wanna check out It's Only Rock And Roll.
For early Stones' super-pop, listen to Between The Buttons (UK version only).
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

modage

#14
June 19, 2003, 01:22:01 PM
Quote from: Kev HoffmanI don't know if I like your list....I guess too much of the same artists.  (especially the HIGHLY over-rated Stones)

that sounds like someone who doesnt own...
-between the buttons
-beggars banquet
-let it bleed
-sticky fingers
-exile on main street
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