Top Five Albums

Tool - Undertow
Such emotion, and energy, exploring the dark side of yourself, i put it on when im depressed/angry.

Deftones - Adrenaline
Just a kick ass record.... beautiful lyrics.

Nine Inch Nails - The Downard Spiral
No words to explain it, Go Trent!

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Great to chill and/or hopefully have sex to.

The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
It just gets me pumped up.

that was tough

(in no order)
1. Rush - Hemispheres
amazing songs, good theme, well written lyrics, amazing musicianship

2. Radiohead - OK Computer
hasnt left my cd player since the day i bought it (the day it came out) ive played it so much that i need a new one cause ive over played it...still not sick of it

3. Neurosis - Enemy Of The Sun
a first in every aspect of the word
nothing like this had ever been done before, without this album there would be no isis, exam, etc.
a total classic, and the best Neurosis album to date (with A Sun That Never Sets and Times of Grace not too far behind...but then who could leave out Through Silver In Blood) blah blah, i talk too much

4. Portraits Of Past - 01010101
another total pioneer album
the best (real) emo album yet to be released in my opinion. Raw emotion, great production, and the coolest sounding instruments ever

5. Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Barrett, Waters. Genius, totally unique, there has yet to be an album like it and its was out of left field for the music scene of the time.

oh man...gotta add a 6th
6. Souls Of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity
i dont know why...its just my favorite hip hop album for some reason...i fucking love the shit out of it...its just good dammit

thats off the top of my head...given time to think i might change things a bit...maybe

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Chore of Enchantment By Giant Sand
The 1st song (well)Dusted(for the new Millenium)if not the album name says it all for me. The album is both an emotional rollercoaster as it is a music rollercoaster moving from squeeling obnoxious guitars to acoustic pickings.Their is not a song I cant relate to on this album.

Introducing Happiness By the Rheostatics
One of the most eclectic albums ever created, this album is my bar that I have judged every other album for in its diversity in style and creaticity, the bar has not been raised as of yet.....

Blood MoneyBy Tom Waits
Picking a Tom Waits album which is better than another is... welll......... impossible(after the release of heart attack and vine that is, albums previous to HAV tend to be a bit schetchy due to his drug/alchohol prooblems of the time.)
So I take the Album which best fits todays mood= Blood Money, Bone Machine coming in close second.

Lefty and Leaving By The Weakerthans
A beuitifal aphiphany of political/relationship poetry entwined effortlessly in a emo/pop sound that is timeless.
You must have a cold electronic republican heart to not like the Weakerthans.....

Automatic for the People By REM
How they could create such a work of art right after the peice of shiite which was "Out Of Tiime" is beyond me, AftP brought my taste of music into the realm of mature, abstract music(from its dwealings in grunge.Zeppelin fandom>Led Zeppelin, a band that can make amazing songs, but after LZ3 couldnt make an interestingand listenable album if their life depended on it) .

New Times By the Violent Femmes
Their best album in my opinion, Gordon Gano's songwriting and the Femmes musical composition are at an equilibrium= making it by far the most listenable album the femmes have evr been able to make (another band that has a penchant for making amazing songs, onlyto lose something in album construction)

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Candiria-Surrealistic Madness
This band single-handedly reaffirmed my faith in heavy music. They are the ONLY band to mix hip-hop and metal and be a credit to both genres. They are/were so ahead of their time that this album came out 8 years ago and no one has come even close to catching up. For any cynics who say there is nothing new under the sun, Candiria stands as proof that they are wrong.

Arcturus-La Masquerade Infernale
Featuring 16 musicians, the "elite" of the Norwegian BM scene, La Masquerade totally suceeds where Metallica's S&M experiment totally fails. Writing metal for an orchestra, mixing in d&b and other forms of electronica, and "dedicated to the perilous quest of the Faustian spirit", this album is a monster from start to finish. Their reinterpretation of Poe's poem "Alone" is worth the price of admission.

Clutch- "S/T"
If you ever wore a baseball cap, or worked a late shift at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, this album needs no explanation. The best rock album in the last 20 years. No, Really.

Slayer- "Raining Blood"
Also really needs no explanation. 666 centuries of evil shoved into 30 or so minutes of diabolical bliss. Totally unhinged, pure ultra-violence with a out-stretched middle finger as it's only justification. The "punkest" Metal album ever.

and, ok, 1 non-metal album
The Cranberries-Everybody Else is Doing It,
Why Can't We?

Melancholy smiling. Genuine. Sad but uplifting.

Hole, Live Through This
Raw and unflinching, Courtney Love just attacks every song on this album. Deep, painful lyrics. Fuck anyone who tries to talk shit about Hole.

Cracker, Kerosene Hat
Unappreciated genius. Dave Lowery's voice is so perfectly stoned and meloncholy. The lyrics are intensly visual. It's no wonder that Jerry Garcia personally endorced this band.

Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
Women are so overlooked for thier contributions to anything accept pop. Phair created an indespensable alt-rock album with blunt lyrics, that are often so dirty they'd make a sailor blush. Every song is captivating.

7 Year Bitch, Viva Zapata
Selene Vigil and company wrote this album as much as a reaction to the murder of her friend and Git's lead singer Mia Zapata as anything else. What results is an album so full of hurt and fury that you can see how the Riot Grrrl movement so quickly burned itself out.

Sisters of Mercy, Floodland
The darkest, most sexual album I've ever heard. Every song melts into the next and haunts you until the end.

forgive me for being fcukin' mainstream...

my life with the thrill kill cult-hit & run holiday
because glamour is a rocky road

beastie boys-paul's boutique
you hated it then but can't live without it now

cardigans-gran turismo
it's just so good. i dare you to find faults.

bjork-post
even if it did blow (it most certainly does not) i wouldn't know. love is blind.

jay-z-volume 2 hard knock life
this is big time hip-hop

honorable mentions:

nirvana-insecticide
the sound of a generation

beck-seachange/mutations
he's a fcukin' genius

I love how this list changes every time I do it.

The Zombies - Odessy and Oracle
The third in the trifecta of 60s baroque pop, the other two being the Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' , which I love, and Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, which I can barely stand listening to anymore.This is a great record.

Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
I just got this recently and can't stop listening to it. Elvis is King, even 25 years down the road.

The Jam - In The City
My this is a great record to drive around listening to. These you ng, angry, alienated pop bands of today could take a few lessons from the masters. Things are gettin' just too cosy for me, indeed!

X - Wild Gift
We're Desparate. Get used to it.

Chuck Berry - The Great 28
The foundation of it all. Great songs, smart lyrics, innovative guitar. Let it rock.

This topic really is impossible, theirs know way I could rank any of the albums I listed as being "more favoured" than the another.
Anyhow saying that I will now list of the top five faivourite female artist albums (that in which a female was the main force in creating the music).

Universal MotherBy Sinead Oconnor
Picking the better Sinead Oconnnor is also impossible-their allt so good. Maybe because she decalres her eternal love for me in this album............and then tells me to get off my ass, stop beign a peice of chickensh*t and take a look outside my mothers garden............

Whipsmart By Lizphair
Soembody mentions Exhile in guyville, I bring up Whipsmart, I 1st was exposed to Liz through the purchase of the soundtrack to braincanduy- she has a song called "Six Dick Pimp" and me my parents were just blown away by this song. We then tracked down Whipsmart and then Exhille in guyville. Neither album matched what we thought a full featured album by Liz Phair would sound like (based off "Six Dick Pimp") but I must say that as a whole, whipsmart is the better album, I like the song writing better, the compositions the mixing it is the best Liz Phair album to me. (though I havent got around to buying her latest album, since I hated chocolatewhatever her previous album was called)

Resolver By Veruca Salt
Mmmmm Angry Women can we see a pattern developing here? Louise Post being the only original member on this album, her easy to understand articulate screamings gives you a pretty good Idea of what happened to the other band members.

All Over ME Soundtrack Compilation
This amzing soundtrack introduced me to most of all my faivourite female artists, Babes in Toyland, Anni Difranco, and many more that are just to hard to track down becausefo their obscure Indie origins.

Blacklisted By Neko Case
Amazing Vocalist,Songwriter, great album with amazing backup bands(Giant Sand of all people+ plus others...)
timeless alt country.

Short, Sharp, Shocked By Michelle Shocked{/I]
and the pattern keeps: angry Blues political protest music (picture on the front of album is of a women being restrained by riot police, and this album was made close to 10 years before the seattle riots) before it was trendy.

Not a Pretty Girl By Ani Difranco{/I]
This one goes in the honourable mention as I was introduced to the amazing talentof Ms Difranco though the all over me Soundtrack- this album (Not a PretyGirl) which has the song that came from "All Over Me"" (Lets not be shy) is by far the bets album so far that I have came across from the many artist off the forementioned soundtrack.

Five Albums that I Currently Love:

Wilco - _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_
Though the next to last track should have been the last.

Sonic Youth - _Murray Street_
I live a little more inside every time I listen to "Rain on Tin".

The Dismemberment Plan - _Change_
The perfect post-emo, sentimental, melancholy, put on and feel too damn much for your own good album.

Radiohead - _Kid A_
From the first notes of "Everything in its Right Place", I'm always already won over, though I sort of despise "In Limbo".

Eminem - _The Slim Shady LP_
Screw The Emineme Show. Marshall is not only at the top of his game on his first LP, but also perpetually so zany that it's almost geek rap at times.

a-fucking-men. this is quite possibly the best record that no one knows about ever. EVERYONE should do themselves a favor and get a copy of this album. not a bad song on it.



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Well another Indie band that will be eternally obsure, well I couldnt find a single song on Kazaa, So what hope do I have finding them in a record store?
Not very good.
I do wonder what really constitutes an "emo" sound ?EMO of EMOtions? forgot about how musicians before EMO arrived were all robots singing their emotionless music.
If Modest Mouse is considered "Emo" than why isnt the Pixies?


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its only on vinyl to my knowledge, so thats probably why you cant find it on kazaa. a friend of mine ordered me a copy when he placed an order through no idea's(not the label it was released on) mail order, so its got distribution. go to any decent indie store, and they should probably be able to order you a copy. its seriously worth it.

also in no discernable or intended order

i. jawbreaker- dear you
whether or not their best is arguable, but imo certainly their tightest and most well-produced record. not a single song on it i dislike.

ii. johnny cash- live at folsom prison and san quentin
classic.

iii. nirvana- in utero
where most band who reach commercial success try to repeat that formula, they made the most inaccessible record imaginable as the follow-up to nevermind. again, no song i hate on this record.

iv. good riddance- ballads from the revolution
hard as their newer stuff in places, but evenly balanced with the poppier aspects of their first two.

v. the cure-disintegration
maybe because it was the first exposure to them i received as a kid, but also it seems to be where they peaked.

it's tough to pick just five and this list constantly will be in need of revision

go here
http://www.slsk.org
that program is good stuff
and i found Portraits Of Past on there

Monsieur CatBoner
Well I dont really have a record player, and I do really like purchsing albums- especially when their struggling Indie bands.(mainstream music is a different story unless the artist quite talented to justify them having a 6 digit income.....so does anyone know any....didnt think so.{well maybe radiohead, do they count?})
I will try out the download site that Leavemehere(thanx)linked to.
If I can find the whole album, I will order the Vinyl to appease my concscience.


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dont feel too guilty, i dont think theyre around anymore

Beck - Mellow Gold
"Cause Who the fuck makes music like this?"

Sonic Youth - Dirty
"This album just sounds dirty, but than has moments of Pure perfection!"

HUM - You'd Prefer an Astronaut
"this album has been played most and I've gone through, like 3 copies of this bad boy.. so I've spent a lot of time studying this music.. and I just love it."

Alice In Chains - Dirty
"The most depressing album to ever have made me happy just from the intros alone."

Radiohead - OK Computer
"Oh my god, if this album didn't change your life then fuck you for lying, and if it did fuck you not having a soul!!"

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Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan 1968

the best songs here

the guilty undertaker sighs






Exile on Main Street the rolling stones 1972

bluesy


come on down sweet virginia



This Years Model Elvis Costello

where it all begins in 1978 with the debut of the Attractions

they call her natasha when she looks like elsie





London Calling the clash 1979


everybody smash up your seats and rock to this brand new beat






Daydream Nation Sonic Youth 1988


thinking long and hard about that high wild sound and wondering will it last?

Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your skinny fists like atennas towards Heaven
This album has some of the most amazing sounds and variety. I always describe it as starting out as small pool then gradually as it goes along its becomes a vast ocean.

Juno- This is the way it goes & goes
If none of you have heard of this band at least listen to this album. Sometimes heavy and then other times really slow and beautiful. REally good lyrics too

Sigur Ros- Agaetis Byrjun
This album has some of the coolest guitar sounds or over all sounds for that matter.

Sonic Youth- EVOL
I could probably list almost the sonic youth albums, but I just pick this one for now. I love how dark and haunting a lot of the songs are on this album, some of their best work.

Bjork- Homogenic
This is the album where she starts using more orchestration with her songs which really goes well with her unique voice.

in no particular order, and just for today :

1) Hum - Downward Is Heavenward - the greatest rock album ever made, period. (Damn straight I know it's controversial). Light years ahead of anything made before it, and light years better than anything that came after.

2) Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet - the greatest album ever made, period. I tend to avoid using words like "the" and "greatest" together, except when it comes to these two albums. These are probably the only two absolutes as far as I'm concerned.

3) Maserati - The Language Of Cities - so lush, so beautiful, so fucking humble. Instrumental post-rock with wit, sophistication, and accessibility.

4) The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 - lo-fi genius...epic in its' simplicity.

5) Frankenixon - Depth Perception - Indie-pop-rock-jazz with crashing drums, airy vocals, piano, and guitar heroics. This band just gets better and better.

Issac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul.
Contains Walk On By, the sexiest song ever made.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
Contains The Ship Song, the most beautiful.

Glen Campbell - Greatest Hits.
Contains Wichita Lineman and It's Over, the second and third most beautiful.

The Beatnuts - The Beatnuts
Contains the lyric "slam dunk the funk in your trunk punk / DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO." You have to hear it to get it.

Old Tobacco Road - Bobbie Gentry
Contains the lyric "Papa done promised me that I could go / he even let me see a cowboy show." Again, you have to hear it to get it.

Love Metal : HIM
Backing track for Bam's CKY work & rather a good smooooochie album with the girl

Come Clean : Puddle of Mudd
It was either Nickleback or them as a present of a G.F. This one won & has a good riftty tunes on. I listen to this in the car a lot

Freaks of Nature : Drain S.T.H.
good follow up from the horror wrestling debut album, sharp guitars & bitch vocals. Pity they split now

Raining Blood : Slayer
This was the first taste of painful metal & these fucking brutal guys were my first real metal gig where I had to crowd surf to the front & then got beaten up by security. The album may be short on time but gives you an epic assult on your sences. I listen to it when I'm feeling blue

Troublegum : Therapy?
Irish guys with a purpose in mind, what that is was put on this album with great feeling. First track, Knives, one of my EX's hated it so I screamed it to her as I split from her in a libary.

There are some truly great records on this list of lists... But by God, there are some terrible ones too...

like everyone else, this is always changing and there's no order here. and yes these are obvious but i don't care.
uncle tupelo - anodyne - perfect blend of rock & country
pixies - bossa nova - really any pixies album would work
sonic youth - sister - it's worth it just for schizophrenia
ida - will you find me - seriously one of the most beautiful albums ever
miles davis - kind of blue - perfection