Here's a little cut and paste from my MySpace.com blog:
My Top 10 Albums of All Time.
#10) They Might Be Giants - Flood, Apollo 18, John Henry, Lincoln
To choose between any They Might Be Giants album is very hard, but to choose between these four albums is impossible. TMBG is a band with an endless supply of great tunes and every song is just as good as the last, if not better. Their catchy, upbeat but often dark and grim (but always fun) music is totally original. It's no wonder they've been around for 20 years.
#9) Tie - The Deftones "Adrenaline", Countring Crows "August and Everything After", Weezer "Blue Album"
Much like trying to choose between They Might Be Giants albums, settling on just one of these three albums proved impossible. All of them have had a major impact on my life that made them all important to include on this list, but there was no way of concluding which was better. The Deftones taught me how to scream on 'Adrenaline', Counting Crows showed me the beauty of clean music and harmony with 'August and Everything After, and Weezer practically saved my life in middle school with their songs about being a loser and being heartbroken with their catchy geek-rock on the "Blue Album."
#8) Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
Another album that had a major impact on my life, Anaal Nathrakh showed me the awesome power of Black Metal with 'The Codex Necro'. No other album is as intense or brutal as this. The vocals sound like female Jews being burned alive in Nazi stoves and the music sounds like storms belching from the depths of Hell. It's like the audio equivalent of rape and murder. I truly believe that I could strangle some one to death with my bare hands listening to this album.
#7) Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
The only reason Anaal Nathrakh isn't higher on the list: Pig Destroyer and their incredible album 'Terrifyer'. In essence, the album is much like Anaal Nathrakh's 'The Codex Necro', though the music is different. What really makes 'Terrifyer' better is how universal it is. Where Anaal Nathrakh write inhuman Black Metal that isn't for every one, Pig Destroyer graduated from a simple Grindcore band into true metal masters on 'Terrifyer', gifting the world with an album that a fan of any genera of metal can enjoy.
#6) GWAR - Scumdogs of the Universe
GWAR. I all most don't need to say another word. GWAR is GWAR. Here on their second album, GWAR reach the pinnacle of their career, but that isn't to say they have been heading down hill ever since. It is just that 'Scumdogs...' is the quintessence of GWAR, like a highly concentrated pill of Jizmoglobin. It also has some of the greatest all time GWAR songs, including the eponymous 'The Salaminizer'.
#5) Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
Another album that changed my life, Manson's 'Portrait...' is a fun, dark, all most punk-like hate album with a much more organic sound than their follow ups. Where 'Antichrist Superstar' is a more confined brand of hate, 'Portrait...' has the mentality of a snot nosed middle school brat, handing out trouble to any body he can find. And this is a good thing.
#4) Abandoned Pools - Humanistic
The first in my trilogy of 'albums that blew my mind', Abandoned Pools is the solo project of Tommy Walter, ex-guitarist of The Eels. On this album, Tommy laments about his 'rock star' life in The Eels and the horror of the record industry to highly polished, but still vivacious, music. This album is very inorganic, relying heavily on samples and loops, but it creates a wonderfully sad dream world where every thing is blue and every body is sad about some thing.
#3) Grandaddy - Sumday
The second in my list of 'albums that blew my mind', Grandaddy crafted an amazing little pop album with 'Sumday'. Though not as keyboard soaked as their other releases, 'Sumday' makes up for that with catchy song writing. The song subjects are one of a kind, coming from the fresh but sorrowful mind of Jason Lytle. Over all, the theme of the band is nature vs. man and machine, as evident in songs like 'The Group Who Couldn't Say', 'I'm on Standby', and 'El Caminos in the West.' But the true gem of the album is the sad tune, 'O.K. with My Decay.' Those 'ooh, ooh, ooh''s are like listening to the sound of a broken heart.
#2) Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
The final album in my trilogy, Coheed and Cambria was a band that I despised at first. After a friend picked up this album and after a few listens, I was hooked, though. True masters of song writting, Coheed include dangerous hooks into each and every song that get into you and refuse to let go. How else could any one write songs that are near 10 minutes long, but that you're sad when they end?
#1) White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction, and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head
Yup. That's right. The best album of all time is White Zombie's 'Astro Creep: 2000'. There isn't one bad song on the album, and each song sounds absolutely different from the last with out sounding jumbled or with out direction. This is an album that, should you be sent to a desert island with only one CD to listen to for the rest of your life, should be the obvious choice. It's such a shame the band broke up after this and that Rob Zombie has used his solo project to go from being a rock god to just being a joke.
My Top 10 Albums of All Time.
#10) They Might Be Giants - Flood, Apollo 18, John Henry, Lincoln
To choose between any They Might Be Giants album is very hard, but to choose between these four albums is impossible. TMBG is a band with an endless supply of great tunes and every song is just as good as the last, if not better. Their catchy, upbeat but often dark and grim (but always fun) music is totally original. It's no wonder they've been around for 20 years.
#9) Tie - The Deftones "Adrenaline", Countring Crows "August and Everything After", Weezer "Blue Album"
Much like trying to choose between They Might Be Giants albums, settling on just one of these three albums proved impossible. All of them have had a major impact on my life that made them all important to include on this list, but there was no way of concluding which was better. The Deftones taught me how to scream on 'Adrenaline', Counting Crows showed me the beauty of clean music and harmony with 'August and Everything After, and Weezer practically saved my life in middle school with their songs about being a loser and being heartbroken with their catchy geek-rock on the "Blue Album."
#8) Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
Another album that had a major impact on my life, Anaal Nathrakh showed me the awesome power of Black Metal with 'The Codex Necro'. No other album is as intense or brutal as this. The vocals sound like female Jews being burned alive in Nazi stoves and the music sounds like storms belching from the depths of Hell. It's like the audio equivalent of rape and murder. I truly believe that I could strangle some one to death with my bare hands listening to this album.
#7) Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
The only reason Anaal Nathrakh isn't higher on the list: Pig Destroyer and their incredible album 'Terrifyer'. In essence, the album is much like Anaal Nathrakh's 'The Codex Necro', though the music is different. What really makes 'Terrifyer' better is how universal it is. Where Anaal Nathrakh write inhuman Black Metal that isn't for every one, Pig Destroyer graduated from a simple Grindcore band into true metal masters on 'Terrifyer', gifting the world with an album that a fan of any genera of metal can enjoy.
#6) GWAR - Scumdogs of the Universe
GWAR. I all most don't need to say another word. GWAR is GWAR. Here on their second album, GWAR reach the pinnacle of their career, but that isn't to say they have been heading down hill ever since. It is just that 'Scumdogs...' is the quintessence of GWAR, like a highly concentrated pill of Jizmoglobin. It also has some of the greatest all time GWAR songs, including the eponymous 'The Salaminizer'.
#5) Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
Another album that changed my life, Manson's 'Portrait...' is a fun, dark, all most punk-like hate album with a much more organic sound than their follow ups. Where 'Antichrist Superstar' is a more confined brand of hate, 'Portrait...' has the mentality of a snot nosed middle school brat, handing out trouble to any body he can find. And this is a good thing.
#4) Abandoned Pools - Humanistic
The first in my trilogy of 'albums that blew my mind', Abandoned Pools is the solo project of Tommy Walter, ex-guitarist of The Eels. On this album, Tommy laments about his 'rock star' life in The Eels and the horror of the record industry to highly polished, but still vivacious, music. This album is very inorganic, relying heavily on samples and loops, but it creates a wonderfully sad dream world where every thing is blue and every body is sad about some thing.
#3) Grandaddy - Sumday
The second in my list of 'albums that blew my mind', Grandaddy crafted an amazing little pop album with 'Sumday'. Though not as keyboard soaked as their other releases, 'Sumday' makes up for that with catchy song writing. The song subjects are one of a kind, coming from the fresh but sorrowful mind of Jason Lytle. Over all, the theme of the band is nature vs. man and machine, as evident in songs like 'The Group Who Couldn't Say', 'I'm on Standby', and 'El Caminos in the West.' But the true gem of the album is the sad tune, 'O.K. with My Decay.' Those 'ooh, ooh, ooh''s are like listening to the sound of a broken heart.
#2) Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
The final album in my trilogy, Coheed and Cambria was a band that I despised at first. After a friend picked up this album and after a few listens, I was hooked, though. True masters of song writting, Coheed include dangerous hooks into each and every song that get into you and refuse to let go. How else could any one write songs that are near 10 minutes long, but that you're sad when they end?
#1) White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction, and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head
Yup. That's right. The best album of all time is White Zombie's 'Astro Creep: 2000'. There isn't one bad song on the album, and each song sounds absolutely different from the last with out sounding jumbled or with out direction. This is an album that, should you be sent to a desert island with only one CD to listen to for the rest of your life, should be the obvious choice. It's such a shame the band broke up after this and that Rob Zombie has used his solo project to go from being a rock god to just being a joke.
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baletempest:
Wow, thats a very diverse list, much more than I could conjour up anyhow
zombievengence:
Devil's Rejects blew House of 1000 Corpses out of the water, but House has some charms with me, granted I had to watch House a few times to build an appreciation.