rate an artist's back catalogue in order
Turn on the Bright Lights = Antics > Interpol > Our Love to Admire
No fluff, no numbers. Now you.
- Relevant artist taggings:
- (X) Is Greater Than (Y) »[x]
- Weezer »[x]
- Radiohead »[x]
- High Rankin »[x]
- Obsessive Compulsive »[x]
- New Order »[x]
- The Mentalists »[x]
- Nick Hornby »[x]
- Wasted Time »[x]
- He Say, She Say »[x]
- Christian Hansen & The Autistics! »[x]
- Lee Hazlewood »[x]
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Iron Maiden
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son = Somewhere in Time > Piece of Mind = Powerslave > The Number of the Beast > Brave New World > Iron Maiden > Killers > Dance of Death > Fear of the Dark > A Matter of Life and Death > The Final Frontier > No Prayer For The Dying > The X Factor > Virtual XI
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Talking Heads
Remain In Light = Fear Of Music > More Songs About Buildings and Food > Speaking In Tongues > '77 > Little Creatures > True Stories > Naked
H-Stein this'd this -
Sparklehorse
It's a Wonderful Life > Good Morning Spider > Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot > Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
kostenurky this'd this -
The Monks
Black Monk Time
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Orbital
In Sides=Brown>Wonky>Middle of Nowhere>Snivilisation>Green>Blue>Altogether
deep-blue this'd this -
Wildhearts
Chutzpah! > PHUQ > Enless Nameless > Earth Versus > Fishing For Luckies > Wildhearts > Chutzpah! Jnr > Stop Us.... > Must Be Destroyed > Don't Be Happy, Just Worry
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Afghan Whigs
Gentlemen>Black Love>1965=Congregation>Up in It
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Mogwai (studio albums)
Happy Songs > Hardcore Will Never Die > Come On Die Young > Young Team > Mr Beast > Hawk > Rock Action
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Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works 85–92 > ...I Care Because You Do = Richard D. James Album > Selected Ambient Works Volume II > Drukqs
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The Decline Of British Sea Power > Open Season > Do You Like Rock Music? > Valhalla Dancehall
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Oasis.
Be Here Now > Definitely Maybe > What's the Story (Morning Glory)? > Don't Believe the Truth > Standing on the Shoulder of Giants > Heathen Chemistry > Dig Out Your Soul.
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justanothersheeldz this'd this
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Queen
Shear Heart Attack > Jazz > Queen 2 > Innuendo > A Night At The Opera > Queen 1 > A Kind Of Magic > A Day At The Races > News Of The World > Works > Miracle > Game > Hot Space > Flash > Made In Heaven
Blanket_Warm this'd this -
Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot > A Ghost is Born > Being There > Summerteeth > Sky Blue Sky > The Whole Love > Wilco > AM
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Pretty much agree with this
except I'd swap DOYS and SOTSOG
I still believe that if 2 minutes had been cut from every track on Be Here Now it would be regarded as Oasis's best CD
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Wilco
For today, anyway. Excluding the live album and the Mermaid Avenue albums.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot > Summerteeth > A Ghost Is Born > AM > Being There > The Whole Love > Wilco (The Album) > Sky Blue Sky.
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Pearl Jam
Versus > Yield > Ten > Vitology > Pearl Jam > Riot Act > Backspacer > No Code > Binaural
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Los Campesinos!
Hello Sadness > Romance is Boring > Hold On Now, Youngster > We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
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R.E.M.
Up > Automatic for the People > Reveal > Monster > New Adventures in Hifi > Murmur > Out of Time > Green > Lifes Rich Pageant > Collapse Into Now > Accelerate > Fables of the Reconstruction > Around the Sun > Document > Reckoning
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Autechre
Untitled > Amber > Tri Repetae > Quaristice > Incunabula > Oversteps > Chiastic Slide > Confield = Draft 7.30 > LP5
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The Wonderstuff
Hup > Never Loved Elvis > The Eight Legged Groove Machine > Construction for the Modern Idiot > Escape From Rubbish Island > Suspended by Stars
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Smashing Pumpkins
Mellon Collie = Siamese Dream > Gish > Machina II > Adore > Machina > Oceania > Zeitgeist > Teargarden by Kaleidyscope
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well
the appearance of Rock Action at the end there surprised me.
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Carter USM
30 Something > 1992- The Love Album > 101 Damnations > Post Historic Monsters > Worry Bomb (never heard any other albums by them)
El_Goodo this'd this -
The Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique > Check Your Head > Hello Nasty > Ill Communication > Hot Sauce Committee pt.2 > Licensed to Ill > To The 5 Boroughs > The Mix Up
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Groove Machine=Hup IMO
but the important thing is the first 3=ace.
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Aereogramme
A Story In White = Sleep & Release = Seclusion = My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
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Pop Will Eat Itself
This is This>Box Frenzy>Dos Dedos>Cure for Sanity>Looks or the Lifestyle
not even including the last one.
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The Jesus And Mary Chain
Honey's Dead > Psychocandy > Darklands > Automatic > Munki > Stoned & Dethroned
Release some new stuff you scotch bastards... -
Disintegration > Wish > Faith > The Head on the Door > Pornography > Seventeen Seconds > Bloodflowers > Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me > Three Imaginary Boys > The Top > The Cure > 4:13 Dream > Wild Mood Swings
rainmaker this'd this -
Automatic > Honey's Dead > Psychocandy > Darklands > Munki > Stoned and Dethroned
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American Music Club
California, Engine, United Kingdom, Everclear, Mercury, San Francisco, Love Songs for Patriots, Restless Stranger, The Golden Age
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pentargo this'd this
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oh, wait! I just saw that the OP used "="
*Disintegration > Wish = Faith = The Head on the Door = Pornography = Seventeen Seconds > Bloodflowers = Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me = Three Imaginary Boys > The Top > The Cure = 4:13 Dream = Wild Mood Swings
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or
Life's Rich Pagaent, Murmur, Document, Fables, Green, Reckoning, Out of Time....all the rest (gave up after hearing Monster)
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Underground Lovers
Leaves Me Blind = Dream It Down > Get To Notice = Ways T'Burn > Rushall Station > Cold Feeling > Mallboy
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You missed out on New Adventures in Hifi and Up?!
Two of their best albums!
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Rush
Moving Pictures, 2112, Permanent Waves, Signals, Hemispheres, Rush, Farewell to Kings, Fly by Night, Grace Under Pressure, Caress of Steel, Power Windows, Hold Your Fire....the other ones.
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JaguarPirate and hungover this'd this
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Pavement
Brighten The Corners > Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain > Wowee Zowee > Slanted & Enchanted > Terror Twilight
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My Bloody Valentine
Loveless > Isn't Anything > You Made Me Realise EP > Tremolo EP > Glider EP > Ecstasy and Wine
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Chemical Brothers
Dig Your Own Hole>Further>Surrender>Come With Us>Exit Planet Dust>Push the Button>We Are the Night
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Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine > The Downward Spiral = The Slip = With Teeth > Broken = Year Zero > The Fragile (Left) > The Fragile (Right)
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ELO
Time > Face The Music > A New World Record > Out of the Blue > Elderado > Secret Messages > On The Third Day > Discovery > Balance of Power
(Haven't heard the others)
fellover this'd this -
badmanreturns and berksy this'd this
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Doves
Lost Souls > The Last Broadcast > Kingdom of Rust > Some Cities > Lost Sides
sizeofanocean this'd this -
Downward Spiral>Broken=Pretty Hate Machine>With Teeth>Year Zero>The Fragile>The Slip
if I may be so bold
Antelope this'd this -
Tool
Lateralus > Aenima > Undertow > 10000 Days > Salival > Opiate
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Andrew Bird
The Mysterious Production of Eggs > Armchair Apocrypha > The Swimming Hour > Noble Beast > Break It Yourself > Weather Systems
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It makes me uneasy seeing Slanted & Enchanted so low
but they're all amazing albums it's hard to justify putting one over the other.
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Do Make Say Think
Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord is Dead, Do Make Say Think, & Yet & Yet, You You're a History in Rust, Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn, Other Truths
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Prince
Purple Rain > Around the World in a Day > The Symbol Album > Lovesexy > Sign 'O' The Times > Parade > 1999 > The Black Album > The Gold Experience > Controversy > 20ten > the rest I haven't heard.
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Soundgarden
Badmotorfinger > Superunknown > Down On The Upside > Louder Than Love > Telephantasm > Live On I-5 > Screaming Life/Fopp > Ultramega OK
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Didn't mean to this..
but to say Discovery was the first album i bought. 1979 I think.
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Manic Street Preachers
Holy Bible > Everything Must Go > Generation Terrorists > This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours > Lifeblood > Send Away the Tigers > Journal For Plague Lovers > Gold Against the Soul > Know Your Enemy > Postcards From A Young Man
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Mega City Four
Tranzophobia>Terribly Sorry Bob>Magic Bullets>Who Cares Wins>Sebastopol Rd>Soulscraper
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Bjork
Vespertine > Homogenic > Post > Debut > Biophilia > Medula > Volta
Puds this'd this -
Can someone do...
Sonic Youth too.
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Husker Du
Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Warehouse Songs and Stories, Flip Your Wig, Candy Apple Grey, Metal Circus, Everything Falls Apart
dcnuman this'd this -
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada > f#a#? > Lift Your Skinny Fists = 'Alleujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! > Yanqui U.X.O.
johnwiddop and GoatmeatMF this'd this -
Brand New
The Devil and God are raging inside me > Deja Entendu > Your Favorite Weapon > Daisy
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Super Furry Animals
Rings Around the World>Radiator>Guerilla>Love Kraft>Hey Venus>Fuzzy Logic>Phantom Power>Dark Days, Light Years
oxo_foxo this'd this -
Jimmy Eat World
Futures = Static Prevails > Clarity > Bleed American > Invented > Chase This Light
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I've missed off Mwng - between Fuzzy Logic and Phantom Power.
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I expect people to put Broken higher
and I can accept the fiddling about with PMH, DS, and WT, since I love them all virtually equally, but why people can't seem to get behind The Slip is beyond me.
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Teenage Fanclub
Bandwagonesque > Grand Prix > Songs from Northern Britain > Shadows > Howdy! > A Catholic Education > Thirteen > Man Made > The King
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Codeine
Frigid Stars, Barely Real, White Birch
Brief but stunning.
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Prodigy
Jilted Generation>Fat of the Land=Always Outnumbered>Experience>Invaders Must Die
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Ah, i guess it's what they mean to me
it's all subjective anyway.
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The Others
nah, I was just fucking with you
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Garbage
Garbage > Bleed Like Me > Version 2.0 > BeautifulGarbage > Not Your Kind of People
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Antony and the Johnsons
I Am a Bird Now > Cut the World > Self Titled > The Crying Light > I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy EP > The Lake EP > Swanlights
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The Mars Volta
Deloused in the Comatorium > Amputechture > France the Mute > Noctourniquet > Bedlam in Goliath > Octahedron
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Eels
Electro-Shock Blues > Beautiful Freak > Tomorrow Morning > Daisies Of The Galaxy > End Times > Shootenanny > Souljacker > Hombre Loco > Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
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this, I think, but I can never make my mind up
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Massive Attack
Mezzanine > Blue Lines = Protection > Heligoland > 100th Window
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Midlake
The Trials of Van Occupanter > The Courage of Others > Bamnan and Slivercork
<3 them all though
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The Stooges
Raw Power > Fun House > The Stooges >>>>> The Weirdness
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Yanqui U.X.O > f#a#? > Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada > Alleujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! > Lift Your Skinnky Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Very difficile.
Loui_Tacceh this'd this -
Yanqui's never clicked with me.
I mean, I love Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls, sure... but meh.
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TDAGARIM > DEJA >>> DAISY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> YFW
sizeofanocean this'd this -
A Silver Mt. Zion
Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward > He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms… > "This Is Our Punk-Rock," Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing, > 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons > Horses In The Sky > Pretty Little Lighning Paw > Kollaps Tradixionales
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Paul's Boutique > Licensed to Ill > Check Your Head = Ill Communication > Hello Nasty > Hot Sauce Committee pt.2 > To The 5 Boroughs
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God I love Yanqui.
Don't get the hate.
(I'm trying to do BoC but can't place the EPs)
Severed799 this'd this -
the fall of math > one time for all time > the destruction of small ideas = we were exploding anyway
OR
and the glass-handed kites = frengers > no more stories > a triumph for man > half the world is watching me > the best of the beatles
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Four Tet
There Is Love In You > Rounds = Pink > Pause > Dialogue > Everything Ecstatic
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Boards of Canada
Trans Canada Highway = Music Has the Right to Children > In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country = Geogaddi > Twoism = Hi Scores > The Campfire Headphase
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LFO
Advance>LFO>Sheath
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gonna get stick for this aren't i
check your head > ill communication > paul's boutique = hello nasty > the mix up > to the five boroughs > hscp2 > >>>>> licensed to ill
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Yeah Honey's Dead.
Totally contrary to the critics but absolutely spot on.
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Head>Boutique>Hello Nasty>Ill Communication>Licensed>"the other two"
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Caribou
Swim > Up In Flames > Andorra > Start Breaking My Heart > The Milk of Human Kindness
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Eels
Daisies of the galaxy > Electro-shock blues > Hombre Lobo > Shootenanny > Blinking Lights > Souljacker > End Times > Beautiful Freak > Tomorrow Morning
There is a big gap in quality between the 7th and 8th albums on that list. Daisies gets top spot because it's a little easier to play regularly than electro-shock.
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according to your last.fm
you listen to a lot of carly rae jensen. I don't trust you.
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Tindersticks
Tindersticks 1 > The Something Rain > Tindersticks 2 > Falling Down a Mountain > Simple Pleasure > The Hungry Saw > Curtains > Waiting For The Moon > Can Our Love
I know no one will agree with me. Curtains is massively overrated. Their three albums prior to The Something Rain are all underrated.
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I was going to say respect for putting Hardcore so high, and then I saw where you put Rock Action
and my jaw dropped
Loui_Tacceh this'd this -
Tomorrow Morning third!
I thought my Eels list was controversial
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Brown > In Sides > Snivilisation > Wonky > Middle of Nowhere > Green > Altogether > Blue
krids this'd this -
Portishead
Eponymous > Third > Roseland NYC > Dummy
sunstroke_house this'd this -
mine is a wee bit different
In a Beautiful place out in the country > Music has the right to children > The campfire headphase > Hi scores > Twoism > Geogaddi
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Sonic Youth
Sister = Daydream Nation > Goo > Confusion is Sex = Dirty > Murray St. > Evol = Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star > A Thousand Leaves = Sonic Nurse > Washing Machine = NYC Ghosts & Flowers > Sonic Youth > Bad Moon Rising > Rather Ripped > The Eternal
... I guess.
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Sigur Rós
Ágætis Byrjun = ( ) > Takk... > Með Suð I Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust > Valtari > Von
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Belle & Sebastian
3..6..9 Seconds of Light > Tigermilk > Fold Your Hands Child > If You're Feeling Sinister > The Boy With The Arab Strap > Dear Catastrophe Waitress > This is Just A Modern Rock Song > Lazy Line Painter Jane > Legal Man > The Life Pursuit > Dog On Wheels > Jonathan David > BBC Sessions > Storytelling > Books > Write About Love
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I thought mine might be, actually. And I'm still not even sure if I agree with it. Eels are a hard band to do this for. I definitely see where you're coming from with some of your rankings, which makes me question mine even more.
seashellsweed this'd this -
bad moon rising = evol > sister = murray street > confusion is sex = e js, t a n s > washing machine = sonic youth> daydream nation > a thousand leaves = nyc ghosts and flowers > dirty> sonic nurse > rather ripped> goo> the eternal
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If you're gonna point out stains
you should probably check out your own bed sheets first.
infinity this'd this -
I'd go for
They Were Wrong>Drums Not Dead>Sisterworld=They Threw Us All In A Trench...>WIXIW>Liars
The new one doesn't do it for me. -
I think
Slanted & Enchanted=Crooked Rain>Brighten The Corners=Wowee Zowie>Terror Twilight
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Queens of the Stone Age
rated R>Songs for the Deaf>QOTSA>Era Vulgaris>Lullabies
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pretty much agree with your top 5
after that not really
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Ok
Sister > Daydream Nation > Goo > EVOL > Murray Street > Dirty > Bad Moon Rising = Confusion Is Sex > Sonic Youth > The Eternal = Rather Ripped > Washing Machine > Sonic Nurse > Experimental Jet Set > A Thousand Leaves > The White(y) Album > NYC Ghosts and Flowers
That's my opinion anyway - I haven't included The Silver Sessions or any of the SYR recordings.
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Ah
I posted my SY list higher up. I'm surprised people like Experimental Jet Set so much.
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I'd have included Sonic Death quite high up as well
even though it's not a studio album
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I'd have
Boxer > Alligator > Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers > High Violet > The National
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Hawk better than Rock Action? Each to their own I guess
Young Team > Hardcore > Rock Action > Mr Beast > Happy Songs > Come On Die Young > Hawk
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Monster Magnet
Dopes To Infinity > Superjudge > God Says No > Spine Of God > Monolithic Baby > Powertrip > Mastermind > Tab > 4 Way Diablo
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Up is great, but is it really their best? The end drags a bit. Around the Sun is the only real turd
Lifes Rich Pageant > Fables > Automatic > Hi-Fi > Reckoning > Up > Monster > Murmur > Out of Time > Document > Green > Accelerate > Collapse Into Now > Around The Sun
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forgot Reveal
probably just after Accelerate
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Explosions in the Sky
The Earth... > Those Who Tell... > All of a Sudden... > Take Care > How Strange, Innocence
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QOTSA > Songs for the Deaf = Rated R > Era Vulgaris > Lullabies
berksy and colossalhorse this'd this -
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
BRMC > Howl > Take Them On On Your Own > Baby 81 > Beat The Devil's Tattoo > Effects OF 333
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blur
13 > Parklife > Blur > Think Tank > MLIR > The Great Escape > Leisure
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I can't get on board...
with this until everyone starts putting Washing Machine at the tope of their list.
Anything else is madness.
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The Lemonheads
...Ray > Come On & Feel... > Lovey > Car Button Cloth > Creator = Lick > Eat Your Friends > The Lemonheads
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The White Stripes
White Blood Cells > The White Stripes = De Stijl > Elephant > Icky Thump > Get Behind Me Satan
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Metallica
Master of Puppets > Ride the Lightning > ...And Justice for All > Kill 'Em All > The Black Album > Load > Death Magnetic > Reload > St. Anger
TheGrudge this'd this -
Brighten The Corners = Slanted & Enchanted > Wowee Zowee > Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain > Terror Twilight
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Modest Mouse
The Lonesome Crowded West > Good News For People Who Love Bad News > The Moon & Antarctica > Building Nothing Out Of Something > This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About > We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank > Sad Sappy Sucker
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Wilco
YHF > Summerteeth > ...Ghost... > Whole Love > Being There > Sky Blue Sky > Wilco > AM
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Sonic Youth
Sister > Evol > Daydream Nation > Goo > Washing Machine > Murray St > Rather Ripped > Experimental Jet Set... > Bad Mood Rising > Dirty > Confusion... > NYC Ghosts... = The Eternal = Sonic Youth
i really need to get Sonic Nurse.
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Pixies
Bossanova > Come on Pilgrim > Doolittle > Surfer Rosa > Trompe Le Monde
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I'd go
TWW > DND > Sisterworld > Liars > WIXIW > Trench
Might be different tomorrow though
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TheWza this'd this
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SAW > I Care > SAW II = Drukqs > RDJ
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Surfer Rosa > Doolittle > Come on Pilgrim > Trompe Le Monde > Bossanova
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Psychocandy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Barbed Wire Kisses (if it counts) > Automatic > Darklands > Honey's Dead > Munki > Stoned and Dethroned
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Sufjan
Age of Adz > All Delighted People EP > Seven Swans = Illinois > Michigan > A Sun Came
Haven't included Enjoy your Rabbit or BQE cos I've never got all the way through them, and not sure if Avalanche or Songs for Christmas count.
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Curtains...
... not overrated for me.
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Public Enemy
Fear of a Black Planet > It Takes a Nation of Millions > Yo! Bum Rush the Show > Greatest Misses (if it counts) > Apocalypse 91 > Muse Sick > all the others
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holy shit I'd better listen to Chutzpah! then
Fishing For Luckies and Endless Nameless are totally contrasting and totally fucking brilliant, yay 90's
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Devin the Dude - last one for a while
Landing Gear > Waitin to Inhale > Just Tryin ta Live > Suite 420 > To tha X-treme > Gotta Be Me > The Dude > any I forgot
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you have two of the most mindmelting pieces of art released this century at joint-second-last
Autechre's early stuff does very, very little for me, then they went incredible. Untilted is probably my number 3, they had it fucking sussed for a few years.
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That's fighting talk!
We're pretty close to agreeing, anyway. Other than you putting AM at the bottom (give it another listen, it's worth it). I could easily put Ghost and Being There equal to Summerteeth, depending on what day it is.
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yeah RATW is the best one
but I'd have Mwng second! and Hey Venus last. and everything else kinda equal
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not on DiS
probably only The Shipment has heard them all enough times to pass qualified comment
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Icarus-Smicarus this'd this
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Psychocandy >>>>>> Honey's Dead > Automatic > Darklands > Barbed Wire Kisses > Stoned and Dethroned (not heard Munki). But really, other than having Psychocandy first and Stoned and Dethroned last, everything else is pretty much equal.
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hmm
Pornography > The Top > Seventeen Seconds > Faith > Disintegration > Three Imaginary Boys > KMKMKM > Bloodflowers > Wish > The Head On The Door > The Cure > Wild Mood Swings > 4.13 Dream
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I really liked Sisterworld when it came out
But now it's had a chance to settle I find it's the one I come back to the least.
jwjp this'd this -
Surfer Rosa = Doolittle > Come on Pilgrim > Bossanova > Trompe Le Monde
aazerbeezee this'd this -
I can do a top 5!
Levitate > The Unutterable > Hex Enduction Hour > Your Future, Our Clutter > Bend Sinister
*promises to listen to the early ones a bit more*
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Fugazi
Red Medicine > Repeater > 13 Songs > Instrument Soundtrack > In on the Kill Taker > End Hits > The Argument > Steady Diet Of Nothing
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I'm gonna do a top 5 too then
Hex Enduction Hour > This Nation's Saving Grace > Dragnet > Live At The Witch Trials > Perverted By Language
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nahh
( ) > AB > Von > Takk > Med Sud > Valtari
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NEIL YOUNG...but not live stuff
Tonight’s The Night>On The Beach>Zuma>After the Goldrush>Rust Never Sleeps>Everybody Know’s This is Nowhere>Harvest>Sleeps With Angels>Time Fades Away>Ragged Glory>Unplugged>Neil Young>Comes A Time> Le Noise> Freedom>Trans>Silver & Gold>Chrome Dreams II>Greendale>Harvest Moon>American Star’s’n’Bars>Are You Passionate>Living With War>Everybody’s Rockin’>Fork in the Road>Mirrorball>This Note’s For You>Prairie Wind>Broken Arrow>Landing on Water>Life
Haven't listened to Hawks and Doves, Re-ac-Tor and Old Ways (or Americana) to list them (but they'd be low...)
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Sun Araw
Beach Head = On Patrol > Heavy Deeds > The Inner Treaty > Ancient Romans
Doesn't really matter about the order though - all of them are resplendant
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Waits
Rain Dogs > Swordfishtrombones > Bone Machine > Small Change > Bad As Me > Frank's Wild Years > Blue Valentine > Closing Time > Heartattack & Vine > Real Gone > Mule Variations > Alice > The Black Rider > Blood Money > Foreign Affairs > In The Heart of Saturday Night.
(tricky since the middle bank are all very close in their four star quality. really just depends on mood).
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Brown > The Middle Of Nowhere > In Sides > Snivilisation > Wonky > Green > Blue > The Altogether
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For me, it's
Alligator > High Violet > Boxer > Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers > The National
matt_ this'd this -
Okkervil River
Black Sheep Boy > Stage Names = Down the River > Stand Ins > I am Very Far = Don't fall in Love
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Elbow
Asleep In The Back > Cast Of Thousands > Leaders of The Free World = The Seldom Seen Kid >>>>>>>>>> Build A Rocket Boys
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Black Sheep Boy > Down The River of Golden Dreams > Stage Names > Stand Ins > I Am Very Far > Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See
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I'd put it more like this
Earth Vs > Endless Nameless > Fishing For Luckies > PHUQ > Chutzpah! > Must Be Destroyed > Wildhearts
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dont understand all the gushing for sister
one of their worst in my book
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close
the argument = end hits > repeater = red medicine > killtaker > 13 songs = steady diet
Severed799 this'd this -
literally can't believe this thread hasn't been done before
Come on Die Young > Young Team > Hardcore Will Never Die > Rock Action > Mr Beast > Happy Songs > Hawek is Howling
Severed799 this'd this -
The Blue Nile
Hats > A Walk Across the Rooftops > High > Peace at Last
This is my order, and I suspect this is the general agreement. Do any fans want to offer something different?
justanothersheeldz this'd this -
the only really good song on washing machine is the diamond sea though
and thats only one song
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you know what
I still haven't listened to Earth Versus yet
it's like being a massive Oasis fan and never having listened to Definitely Maybe
interesting too that Oasis were touted as saviours of British guitar rock with these fellas around
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oh shit shit I forgot
Perverted By Language ahead of Bend Sinister, easily, and ahead of YFOC too. almost ahead of HEH. but not.
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Six.BySeven
The Closer You Get > Six.BySeven 04 > If Symptoms Persist, Kill Your Doctor > Left Luggage At The Peverel Hotel > The Things We Make > Artists Cannibals Poets Thieves > Club Sandwich At The Peverel Hotel > The Way I Feel Today
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Van der Graaf Generator
oh shit
Pwn <3s > Still Life > Godbluff > The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other > The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome > A Grounding In Numbers > H to He Who Am The Only One > World Record > Present > Trisector > The Aerosol Grey Machine
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Been listening to all of these this week
because I'm seeing them in Reykjavik next week. Oh yes!
( ) > Ágætis Byrjun > Takk... > Með Suð I Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust > Valtari > Von
also Heima > Inni
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Animal Collective
MPP > Feels > Strawberry Jam > Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished > Sung Tongs > Centipede Hz > Campfire Songs > Here Comes the Indian > Danse Manatee
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washing machine is really inconsistent
definitely one of their worst albums I think
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Wish I could just easily c&p all the album rankings
that littlebirds and I have done in various (usually hip-hop) threads.
littlebirds this'd this -
CARDIACS
you knew this was coming
Sing To God > (Pony, if it counts) > Guns > Heaven Born And Ever Bright > On Land And In The Sea > ALMAHATWWW > The Seaside > early fumblings
Tim Smith's Extra Special OceanLandWorld would probably be above Guns if I ever found the whole thing rather than incredible and tantalising Youtube clips
really do think they improved in the 90's too, which isn't the most popular opinion, but this is bearing in mind I regard the 80's stuff as already godhead
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Deerhoof
The Runners Four > Apple O' > Friend Opportunity > Offend Maggie > Breakup Song > Reveille > Milk Man > Green Cosmos > Deerhoof vs. Evil > The Man, The King, The Girl > Holdypaws = Halfbird
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The Decemberists
Picaresque > Her Majesty > The King Is Dead > The Crane Wife > Castaways And Cutouts > The Hazards Of Love
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Grizzly Bear
Shields > Yellow House > Veckatimest > Horn Of Plenty
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surfer rosa > doolittle > come on pilgrim >> bossanova >>>>>>> trompe le monde
alcxxk this'd this -
Isis sans EPs
Oceanic > Panopticon > Wavering Radiant > In The Absence Of Truth > Celestial
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hmm
skinny fists > yanqui u.x.o. > slow riot > allelujah! > F#A#
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Oceansize 2003 onward since I don't have their early stuff...
Everything Into Position > Effloresce > Music For Nurses > Frames > Home And Minor > Self Preserved...
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Biffy Clyro
Infinity Land> Blackened Skies> Vertigo of Bliss> Only Revolutions> Puzzle
Not sure if I should count Revolutions Live, Lonely Revolutions or Missing Pieces
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Public Image Ltd
The Flowers of Romance> Metal Box> First Edition> Paris au Printemps> Plastic Box> Album> Happy> This is PiL> 9> Treatest Hits> This is What You Want...> That What is Not> Live in Tokyo
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interesting #1 choice!
tbh there's no significant difference between the top 4, and then the last album was just a bit crap (apart from the first 2 tracks and It's My Tail, which would have made an incredible mini-EP)
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Nice to see 04 getting some love
But TWIFToday? Last? Dear me...
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Arab Strap
Philophobia > Monday at the hug and pint = Mad for sadness > The red thread > Philophobia > The last romance > Cunted circus > The week never starts round here
I've excluded Ten years of years as it's sorta a Best of.
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Ah bollocks
That second Philophobia was supposed to be Elephant Shoe.
I'VE RUINED EVERYTHING
justanothersheeldz this'd this -
Underworld
Second toughest in the infants > Dubnobasswithmyheadman > Beaucoup fish >> Oblivion with bells > Everything everything >>> A hundred days off >> Barking
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Flowers of Romance no 1?
I love the album but putting above Metal Box is madness. madness!
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Ryan Adams (offically released stuff only, inc. Whiskeytown)
Heartbreaker > Cold Roses > > Love Is Hell > 29 > Strangers Almanac > Jacksonville City Nights > Pneumonia > Gold > Demolition > Ashes & Fire > Rock N Roll > Easy Tiger > Faithless Street > Cardinology > Cardinals III/IV > Orion
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What about Squeeze
Nobody ever remembers Squeeze. I mean obviously it goes last on the list, but even so.
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... and incidentally it's
WL/WH > The Velvet Underground > banana album > VU > Loaded > Squeeze
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Surfer Rosa > Come On Pilgrim > Doolittle > Trompe Le Monde > Bossanova
I think. Very little distance between each.
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XTC
Skylarking > English Settlement > Chips From the Chocolate Fireball (i.e. both Dukes of Stratosphear EPs) > Black Sea > Drums & Wires > The Big Express > Mummer > Nonsuch > Wasp Star > Oranges & Lemons > Apple Venus Vol 1 > White Music > Go 2
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Butthole Surfers
Locust Abortion Technician > Rembrandt Pussyhorse/Cream Corn > piouhgd > Psychic Powerless etc > Independent Worm Saloon > Hairway To Steven > Electric Larryland > daylight > Weird Revolution
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and just to add another variation
High Violet > Boxer > Alligator > Cherry Tree EP > Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers > The National
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colinzealuk this'd this
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perfect except BTC > WZ
never could quite get on board with WZ's "eccentricity"
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need to listen to the rest of his stuff
but I can't see how Armchair wouldn't be out miles ahead for me
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Blinking Lights ... last ...
How even what?
belated and RobinPlaysChords this'd this -
No it's
Murmur>Reckoning>Automatic=Green>Document>Life's Rich Pageant>Fables of the Reconstruction=New Adventures in Hi-Fi>Monster>Up>Out of Time>Reveal>Accelerate=Collapse Into Now>Around the Sun
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Source Tags & Codes > Tao Of The Dead > Trail Of Dead > Madonna > The Century Of Self > Worlds Apart > So Divided
Not listened to Lost Songs enough to place it
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Pulp - post 1990
Different Class>We Love Life>This Is Hardcore>His 'n' Hers>Separations
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Building Nothing Out Of Something > The Moon & Antarctica = The Lonesome Crowded West > This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About > Good News For People Who Love Bad News > Sad Sappy Sucker > We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Totally different from any MM list I've ever done before, but i genuinely think Building is their strongest collection of songs - M&A and LCW obvious have better overall themes and stories but right now I'm feeling the consistency of Building.
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Bloc Party
Silent Alarm > Four > Weekend in the City = Intimacy
JaguarPirate this'd this -
dubnobass
not only much better than second toughest but much better than pretty much any other dance-oriented electronic album you care to name.
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Not listened to Only Revolutions, but I'm predicting ...
Vertigo Of Bliss > Blackened Sky > Puzzle > Infinity Land > Only Revolutions
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Rationale:
Metal Box is truly amazing, but there is not ONE song on FoR that I don't like...it was a bit more accessible to me when it first came out (THEN I started to 'get' Metal Box...)
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currently would have WITC above Four cos of nostalgia and stuff
but i think in time it'll end up as the number 2 choice, it's a stronger collection of songs I'm sure
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Tri Repetae ++ > Incunabula > Amber > Confield > Draft 7.30 > LP5 > Untitled > Chiastic Slide > Oversteps > Quaristice
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Just noticed a trend...
I seem to like a band's 3rd album the best with the first album I ever heard by them coming in 2nd. Not sure if that's true with other bands.....
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I dare anyone...
to try this with Elvis albums (and I ain't talkin' Costello...) :D
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White Stripes
White Blood Cells > De Stijl > Elephant > Icky Thump > Ge Behind Me Satan > The White Stripes
this'd this -
Death Cab For Cutie
Transatlanticism >>> We Have The Facts > Plans > The Photo Album > Codes & Keys > Narrow Stairs > Something About Airplanes
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It's a let down after Everything Must Go
but it's still an amazing album. I don't understand the hate it gets on these boards.
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Was gonna do this! Um...
English Settlement > Black Sea > Nonsuch > Apple Venus vol 1 > Chips from the Chocolate Fireball > Drums and Wires > Go 2 > Skylarking > The Big Express > Wasp Star > Mummer > White Music > Oranges And Lemons
please bear in mind that Nonsuch was my first exposure to the band...
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still got some good songs on it (and one incredible song)
but fah me ya know it doesn't really gel into a consistent listening experience, and the average song-quality isn't up with their usual brilliance
04 is one of the most astonishingly-recorded albums I've ever heard. What people say The Stooges sound like - pure, swaggering rock and roll, coming in waves rather than chugs, with a bit of Krautrock and a bit of floaty existential dronesurfing. Amazing. Very nearly put it first but TCYG's songwriting and variety swayed it.
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Deftones
Saturday Night Wrist > White Pony = Around the Fur > Adrenaline = Diamond Eyes > Deftones
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new order
lowlife > technique > p,c & l > brotherhood > movement > republic > get ready > wftsc
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Sloan
one chord to another > navy blues > between the bridges > never hear the end of it > parallel play > 4 nights at the palais > the double cross > twice removed > action pact > smeared > pretty together
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Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Mellon Collie disc 2? Are you mental?
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LdnMetropolitanElite and Severed799 this'd this
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Really?
I'm surprised at the lack of love for Washing Machine.
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Frank_Hailstones this'd this
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Good to see Animals
in your top 3
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can't you just stack those first three on top of each other?
and then replace weirdness with metallic ko?
mug_mug_mug this'd this -
Infinite_Jest this'd this
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White Pony > Diamond Eyes > Around The Fur > Deftones > Adrenaline > Saturday Night Wrist
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Hmmmm
I think you need to give Skylarking more attention. Loses its way a bit, but front-loaded with a hearty fistful of their very best songs.
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TV on the Radio
Dear Science = Return to Cookie Mountain > Nine Types of Light > Desperate Youth Bloodthirsty Babes
NeillyNeil this'd this -
Pretty much right
I'd put The Life Pursuit slightly ahead of DCW though- and Tigermilk above Sinister.
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White Pony = Around the Fur > Diamond Eyes > Saturday Night Wrist = Adrenaline > Deftones
japes this'd this -
Half of these I've not listened to in years
What's the Story (Morning Glory)? > Definitely Maybe > Be Here Now > Dig Out Your Soul > Heathen Chemistry > Standing on the Shoulder of Giants > Don't Belive the Truth
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The Hold Steady
Separation Sunday > Boys and Girls In America > Stay Positive > Almost Killed Me > Heaven Is Whenever
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Thrice
Major/Minor > Vheissu > Beggars > The Illusion Of Safety > Alchemy Index Vol III&IV, Artist In the Ambulance > Alchemy Index Vol I&II > Identity Crisis
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...
Vs > Vitalogy > Yield > No Code > Ten > Pearl Jam > Riot Act > Backspacer > Binaural
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God says no over spine of god?!
Monolithic Baby over Powertrip?!?
Fucking hell.
I'd go: Dopes to Infinity > Superjudge> Spine of God > Powertrip > Tab > God Says No > Monolithic Baby > Mastermind > 4 Way Diablo
japes this'd this -
The Vines
First album > Second album >> Third album >>> Fourth album >>>> Fifth album
andyvine this'd this -
Mark Lanegan
Whisky for the Holy Ghost > Scraps at Midnight > Bubblegum > Field Songs > I'll Take Care of You > The Winding Sheet > Blues Funeral.
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The Strokes
Is This It> First Impressions of Earth> Room On Fire> Angles
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sunstroke_house this'd this
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The Jesus Lizard
Goat > Liar > Head > Down > Shot > Blue
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room on fire > is this it > firt impressions of earth > the other one
andyvine this'd this -
I'd actually say I preferred the second half!
The first few songs are all *good* but not much really blows me away except the middle-eight of Ballet For A Rainy Day (oh those middle-eights) - the tone is a bit too brief, light and spangly for me. My favourite track on the album and the only one I'd call an XTC favourite of mine is Another Satellite, which is probably the most atypical track on the album, as well as the longest and most slow-burning. Yes I'm mental etc etc
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Lord Don't Slow Me Down
wasn't on Dig Out Your Soul. It was about the same time, but I think it only made it onto Stop The Clocks and some live DVD they did of the same name.
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Pulp (all albums, correct order)
Different Class > His 'n' Hers > We Love Life > This Is Hardcore > Seperations > It > Freaks
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Plaid
Not for Threes > Restproof Clockwork > Spokes > Double Figure > Mbuki Mvuki > Greedy Baby > Scintilli
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The Smiths
Queen is Dead > Strangeways > Meat is Murder > The Smiths
sizeofanocean this'd this -
Fiery Furnaces
Blueberry Boat > Widow City ( > EP ) > Rehearsing My Choir > Bitter Tea > I'm Going Away > Gallowsbird's Bark
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yeah they're dirty
haven't changed them in about 2 months, i'll change them this weekend.
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Low
Trust = Things We Lost In The Fire > The Great Destroyer > Secret Name > I Could Live In Hope = Drums & Guns > Curtain Hits The Cast > Long Division > C'Mon
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Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs > Get Lost > The Charm of the Highway Strip > Holiday > The Wayward Bus > (House of Tomorrow) > i > Distant Plastic Trees > Distortion > Love at the Bottom of the Sea > Realism
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Pulp again
His'n'Hers > We Love Life > Different Class > This is Hardcore > Separations > Freaks > It
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For me
Frances > Amp > Noc = DitC = Bedlam >>> Octahedron
I totally don't understand Frances so low...
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The Delgados
The Great Eastern > Peleton > Domestiques > Hate > Universal Audio
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_TheBeautifulOnes_ and Oissin_ this'd this
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Phantom Power> Radiator>Guerilla>Mwng>RATW>DD, LY>Fuzzy Logic> Hey Venus > Love Kraft
I get bonus points for including Mwng - YOU RACIST!
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Monday At the Hug & Pint> Philophobia > The Last Romance > Mad For Sadness > The Red Thread > The Week Never Starts Around Here > Elephant Shoe
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My Morning Jacket
At Dawn > It Still Moves > Circuital > Z > Tennessee Fire > Evil Urges
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Different Class> This Is Hardcore > His n' Hers > We Love Life > It > Seperations > Freaks
automatik this'd this -
Joanna Newsom
Have One on Me > Milk-Eyed Mender > Ys
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I'd go for...
The Great Eastern > Hate > Peloton > Domestiques > Universal Audio
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Franz Ferdinand
You Could Have It So Much Better> Franz Ferdinand> Tonight:Franz Ferdinand
PerlonKid this'd this -
Although
1965 > Congregation
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I say
THB > EMG > GATS > GT > Lifeblood > JFPL > SATT > TIMT > KYE > PFAYM
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You forgot Here Comes The Weird Chill
Methamphetamine Blues is probably my favourite track of his.
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Consensus reached on
Green, Blue and Altogether being the weakest. We can all be friends. We should get together and dance some time!
friday55 this'd this -
you may be right
close though
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:(
<3 drukqs
AfraidOfOwls this'd this -
I know I''m in a minority, but I love God Says No
Melt, God Says No, Gravity Well, My Little Friend and Cry are amongst my favourites. Spine has Sins..., Medicine, Spine Of God which are all crackers, but GSN just edges it,
MB has so much good stuff too, though Powertrip has my 2 faves (Temple Of Your Dreams and of course Space Lord). There are some other fine songs on Powertrip (Crop,Power Trip, Bummer, Tractor) but MB has more great songs for me.
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probably agree
but Daisy > still most other albums ever
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PerlonKid this'd this
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no way, surely it's
aquemini = atliens > southernplayalisticadillacmuzik >> stankonia >>> sb/tlb
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Spokes > Scinitilli > DF > Restproof > Greedy
but i've not heard the other 2
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I'm going for
Happy Songs> Rock Action> Young Team> Hardcore> Ten Rapid> CODY> EP+6> Mr Beast> Hawk
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Asleep In The Back > Cast Of Thousands > Leaders Of The Free World > Build A Rocket Boys > The Seldom Seen Kid
although the last 3 all ahve a song or 2 that i'd rather they didn't
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Leaders of The Free World frustrates me
I like every song on it but it doesn't click together. Would've been better as 2 EPs imo.
pieces_of_reece this'd this -
Test Icicles
For Screening Purposes Only
georgiabeth this'd this -
andyvine this'd this
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What's daylight?
Locust Abortion Technician > Hairway to Steven > Psychic Powerless... > Butthole Surfers > Independent Worm Saloon = Electriclarryland > Rembrandt Pussyhorse > Humpty Dumpty LSD > Pioughd > Weird Revolution
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Nooooo
Humbug>Whatever>FWN>Suck It
Though FWN contains 'Teddy Picker'...
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Red Medicine...
was their first album I got. To this day I think it's a masterpiece from beginning to end. (could prattle on about it all day). I always thought EH sounded a bit like Pearl Jam which put me off. Agreed low placing for Steady Diet, though, I kinda just wait for KYEO which is boss. All their recs are uniquely brilliant though :)
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ATLiens > Aquemini = Stankonia > Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik > Idlewild > Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
(Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is still better than anything most bands will ever put out, by the way)
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Gaye Bykers on Acid
Stewed to the Gills>Pernicious Nonsense>Drill Your Own Hole>Cancer Planet Mission>Sakredanus
(as if anyone is interested)
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surfer rosa & c'mon pilgrim are on the same cd anyway
so
sr/cop > tlm > d > b -
Close
Odelay > Mellow Gold > Mutations > Modern Guilt > One Foot in the Grave > Sea Change > Midnite Vultures > Guero > The Information
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i'd have universal audio first
controversial, but it's the first of theirs i knew & i love it so
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Oh and
Stereopathetic Soul Manure at the worst end.
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The Dismemberment Plan
Emergency & I > Is Terrified > Change > !
fellover and emmettcruddas this'd this -
Why?
Elephant Eyelash > Alopecia > Oaklandazulasylum > Eskimo Snow > Mumps, Etc.
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Future Of The Left
Curses > Travels With Myself And Another > The Plot Against Common Sense > Polymers Are Forever
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also have much love for Building...
but
Lonesome... > Moon & Antarctica > Building Nothing... > Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks > Sad Sappy Sucker = The Fruit That Ate Itself > Long Drive... = Good News... > We Were Dead...
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I was just doing albums
Weird Chill would probably be at the end. I love Methamphetamine Blues but that's on Bubblegum too and Wish You Well is one of my favourite Lanegan songs. The rest I can take or leave.
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Ted Leo
Hearts Of Oak > The Tyranny of Distance > Shake The Sheets > Living With The Living > The Brutalist Bricks > Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead > Treble In Trouble > Rapid Response > tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists
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Islands
Vapours > Return To The Sea > A Sleep & A Forgetting > Arm's Way
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Green Day
Kerplunk! > Dookie > Warning > 1,038 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours > Insomniac = Nimrod > Uno > American Idiot = 21st Century Breakdown
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Menomena
Friend And Foe > I Am The Fun Blame Monster! > Moms > Under An Hour > Mines
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C'mon, we all know it goes
ATLiens = Aquemini > Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik > Stankonia >>>>> Speakerboxx/Love Below > Idlewild
theShipment this'd this -
Spoon
Kill The Moonlight > Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga > Girls Can Tell > Gimme Fiction > Transference > A Series Of Sneaks >>> Telephono
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Dan Deacon
Spiderman Of The Rings > Bromst > America > Acorn Master > Twacky Cats > Meetle Mice > Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat > Goose On The Loose > Porky Pig: Standard Oil New Music Series No. 1
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mclusky
Mclusky Do Dallas > The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire > My Pain And Sadness Is More Sad And Painful Than Yours
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Cake
Fashion Nugget > Prolonging The Magic > Comfort Eagle > Motorcade Of Generosity > Pressure Chief > Showroom Of Compassion
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dEUS
Worst Case Scenario > In A Bar, Under The Sea > The Ideal Crash > Vantage Point > Pocket Revolution > Following Sea > Keep You Close
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The Show Is The Rainbow
Wet Fist > Gymnasia > Radboyz Only!!! > Tickled Pink
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automatik this'd this
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Mew
Half The World Is Watching Me = Frengers > A Triumph For Man >> And The Glass Handed Kites >>>> No More Stories
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this one is pretty close to mine
Come on Die Young > Young Team > Hardcore Will Never Die > Rock Action > Hawk is Howling > Mr Beast > Happy Songs
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ambigyouus this'd this
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Nah
Vertigo of Bliss > Infinity Land > Blackened Sky > Puzzle > Only Revolutions
Severed799 and suedehead this'd this -
Friend and Foe > Mines > Moms > I Am The Fun Blame Monster
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++
NICE.
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I respectfully...
disagree.
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McLusky/FotL Mega List!
Travels with Myself and Another>Do Dallas>Curses>Plot Against Common Sense>Difference>Pain and Sadness
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I'd say
They Were Wrong>Liars>Trench>DND>WIXIW>Sisterworld
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Ray>The Lemonheads>Come on Feel>Car button Cloth>Lovey=Lick> not heard the other two
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Peaking Lights
936 > Imaginary Falcons > Lucifer
fwiw
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Probably right :D
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idk how you all remember this stuff
even my proper favourite bands, if they've got more than 3 or 4 records i just don't remember, it's never really come up tbf.
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Portico Quartet
Portico Quartet > Knee-Deep in the North Sea > Isla
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Clair_de_Lune this'd this
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how do you know which is your 6th favourite sebadoh record. you don't. nobody really knows.
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I tend to count Songs for ships and Irons as an album
Though it's more of a collection i suppose
That said: Sing to God > On Land and In the Sea > Guns > Heaven Born... > Songs for Ships and irons > A Little Man... > The Seaside
I'm in agreement that the 90s stuff is even better (just) but On Land... has an incredible run of songs from Fast Robert onwards
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EiP is first for the Last Wrongs as much as anything else
the last album had it's moments for sure but on the whole was awfully disappointing.
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i really like that one
PINK PINK PINK PINK
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( ) > AB > Valtari > Með Suð I Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust > Tak > Von
No EPs/live albums, this is a proper list.
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Kayo Dot
Choirs of the Eye > Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue > Stained Glass > Coyote > Blue Lambency Downward > Gamma Knife (would probably be higher if it didn't sound like crap)
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Swap the first two
and that's my list
japes this'd this -
Efterklang
Parades > Under Giant Trees > Magic Chairs > Tripper > Piramida > Springer
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I Am Very Far on the same level as DFILWEYS? Are you on something??
Black Sheep Boy > DTROGD = I Am Very Far > The Stage Names > The Stand Ins > DFILWEYS
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Hazards definitely comes last
Picaresque > The Crane Wife > Her Majesty > The King Is Dead > Castaways and Cutouts > The Hazards of Love
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Tim Hecker
Harmony in Ultraviolet > Ravedeath, 1972 > Haunt Me , Haunt Me, Do It Again > Radio Amor > Mirages > An Imaginary Country
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Nah, that's rubbish
If I really like a band, I'm more likely to know which is 11th favourite B-Side by them than my favourite album of a band I only quite like
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No one trying The Mountain Goats?
I can't, too scared.
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is that an active decision you've made to rank those things?
that seems mental. and if it's not deliberate, that seems impossible to do.
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M83
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts > Saturdays = Youth > Before The Dawn Heals US > Digital Shades Vol.3 > Hurry Up, We're Dreaming > M83
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At least we all agree on what's top...
Age of Adz > Illinois > Michigan > Seven Swans > Enjoy Your Rabbit > A Sun Came
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only if you're one of those fake arse sebadoh fans
who got into them after hearing flame.
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Most definitely an active decision
I don't understand why you find that so odd.
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doesn't seem like a productive use of time or to have any tangible benefit
but who am i to tell you how to enjoy yourself
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A different take on Radiohead
The King of Limbs > Amnesiac > The Bends > Kid A > OK Computer > In Rainbows > Hail to the Thief > Pablo Honey
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Bright Eyes
Lifted > I'm Wide Awake > Digital Ash > Fevers & Mirrors > People's Key > Casadaga > Letting Off the Happiness > A Collection of Songs > Christmas Album
beautiful_balloon this'd this -
Bat For Lashes
Two Suns > Fur & Gold > The Haunted Man
matt_ this'd this -
Impossible to do the Pixies-
-whichever one I am listening to is the best. Took me ages to get Trompe Le Monde but probably the one I listen to most now.
Infinite_Jest this'd this -
Mclusky / FOTL
Travels > Difference > Do Dallas > Curses > Pain and Sadness > Plot Against
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Sepultura
Beneath The Remains > Arise > Chaos A.D > Schizophrenia > Roorback > Roots > Morbid Visions > Dante XXI > Nation > A-Lex > Against > Kairos
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SftD > LtP > Rated R > QOTSA > Era Vulgaris
yeah that's right
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all brilliant
of course
belated this'd this -
Electro-Shock > Souljacker > Hombre Lobo > Shootenanny > Blinking Lights > Daisies > End Times > Tomorrow Morning > Beautiful Freak
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still_here this'd this
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RDJ is the only one
that I never want to put on. This might be a good time to play it and see where I'm going wrong.
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the correct answer is:
Rated R> QOTSA> Songs for the Deaf> Lullabies> Era Vulgaris
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Alright, I'd certainly forgotten how much I fucking LOVE
Logon Rock Witch, anyway.
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hmm
MPP = Sung tongs > Strawberry Jam = Feels > Spirit they've gone > Centipede > Here comes the Indian > Campfire Songs > Danse manatee
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Burial
Untrue>Kindred EP >Burial>Street Halo EP
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AS IF Von's the worst, you guys
it's great.
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Tri Repetae > Amber > Chiastic Slide > Incunabula > LP5 > Untilted > Quaristice > Oversteps > Draft 7.30 > Confield
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i'm starting to think...
...Haunted Man might be her best.
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The Walkmen
Lisbon > You & Me > Bows & Arrows > Heaven > Pussy Cats > EWPTLMIG > A Hundred Miles Off
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I would seriously recommend giving SNW another listen. all of you. I hated it for the first year or so that it was out then something clicked and now its probably my favourite album of all time
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Revolver > Rubber Soul > The Beatles > A Hard Day's Night > Help! > Please Please Me > Magical Mystery Tour > Beatles For Sale > With The Beatles > Let It Be > Abbey Road > Sgt. Peppers
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Mellon Collie > Siamese Dream > Machina = Adore > Pisces Iscariot > Machina 2 > Gish > Oceaia > Zeitgeist
Doesn't really do them justice though, given the amount of amazing b-sides and non-album tracks...
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technique > power, corruption & lies > low-life > brotherhood > republic > movement > get ready > waiting for the sirens call
... although substance >>> anything else, obviously.
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dubnobasswithmyheadman > beaucoup fish > second toughest in the infants > oblivion with bells > a hundred days off > barking
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Vespertine > Homogenic > Post > Debut >> Biophilia = Volta = Medulla
Can't be too many artists with a run of four albums like Debut - Vespertine.
All amazing, but each one better than the last! Went a steeply down hill after that. I remember listening to Medulla over and over waiting for it to come good - it never did :o(
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nice
I agree
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Couldn't see New Order
Substance > Power corruption and lies > Technique > Low-life > Brotherhood > Movement > Get ready > Republic > Waiting for the sirens call
dcnuman this'd this -
Dirty Projectors
Rise Above > Bitte Orca > The Glad Fact > Slaves' Graves and Ballads > The Getty Address > Morning Better Last! > New Attitude EP > Mount Wittenberg Orca
haven't listened to the new one yet
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Alligator = Boxer > Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers > High Violet > The National
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Yeah, lovely job.
For me, that album's untouchable. 4, Fingerbib, Girl/Boy Song... It's his most tuneful album, but his most abrasive too. Wonderful stuff.
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Panopticon > Oceanic = Wavering Radiant > Celestial > In the Abscence of Truth
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Hehe, maybe.
Actually, I clearly remember browsing amps in Richer Sounds in Norwich while wearing a Pixies t-shirt, and the guy behind the counter said I should check out The Sebadoh cos I'd probably like it. I did. It's all a bit silly and overblown and overpolished, but I kinda like that. Some great songs on there. Very different to their other stuff, but I think it's a lot stronger than some people make out. Um, you helmet.
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i'd go for
drums not dead > sisterworld > wixiw > liars > they were wrong > they threw us all in a trench
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put goo behind confusion is sex
and i think you've got a winner
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Depeche Mode
Violator > Music For the Masses = Black Celebration > Ultra > Songs of Faith and Devotion > Playing the Angel > Some Great Reward > Sounds of the Universe > A Broken Frame > Construction Time Again > Exciter > Speak & Spell
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Goldfrapp
Black Cherry > Supernature > Felt Mountain > Head First > Seventh Tree
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Metric
Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? > Synthetica > Fantasies > Live It Out = Grow Up and Blow Away
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LCD Soundsystem
Sound of Silver > This Is Happening = LCD Soundsystem
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yeah as soon as I wrote it I disagreed with myself
Really it's more like M&A=LCW > Building
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My top
Hi Scores = Music Has the Right to Children = In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country > The Campfire Headphase > Twoism > Trans Canada Highway > Geogaddi
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You people are all crazy!
Latest FOTL is up near Do Dallas and Travels should be last.
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Daft Punk
Discovery > Alive 2007 > Homework > Human After All > Tron Legacy > Alive 1997
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*correction
Sound of Silver > This Is Happening = LCD Soundsystem > 45:33 > London Sessions
andyvine this'd this -
The Future Sound of London
Lifeforms > Accelerator = Dead Cities > Papua New Guinea Translations > ISDN > From the Archives 1/2/3/4/5/6 > Environments 1/2/3/4
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*helmut
I don't think its that overblown or overpolished. I mean, it is compared to the early stuff but not in the grand scheme of things. And it wasn't as if I was like, omg they've totally changed, where's all the tape hiss because I really, really like flame. I just don't think the songs are as good, Jason's songs especially. And I assume Lou saved all his best ones for the Folk Implosion album.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz! > Is Is EP > Show Your Bones > Fever to Tell > Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP) > Machine (EP)
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Kraftwerk
Minimum-Maximum > Computer World > The Man Machine = Trans-Europe Express > The Mix > Tour De France > Electric Cafe > Autobahn > Radio-Activity > Ralf and Florian > Kraftwerk 1 = Kraftwerk 2
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Massive Attack
Mezzanine > Blue Lines > Protection > Heligoland > 100th Window > Danny the Dog Soundtrack
sunstroke_house and friday55 this'd this -
Ladytron
Witching Hour > Velocifero > Light & Magic = 604 > Gravity the Seducer > Live at London Astoria 16.07.08
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you're all ranking them, not rating them
you ignorant fucknuts
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Did you see the example posted by OP?
Then shut up.
Plus by ranking we indirectly rate them: album x > album y means that album x is better than y
Plus: "No fluff, no numbers." Who's the ignorant fucknut then?
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did you see the example posted by OP?
yes I did, he's an ignorant fucknut too
'Plus by ranking we indirectly rate them: album x > album y means that album x is better than y'
that is ranking them, not rating them, you ignorant fucknut
'Plus: "No fluff, no numbers." Who's the ignorant fucknut then?'
hang on, I'll check ... hmm, still you, I'm afraid -
Nope. Check again.
The answer is here:
Find the missing letters: h**go**r
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fold you hands
why is it you prefer fold your hands to sinister or arab strap?
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Orphans
is the best though, even if it doesn't count on this list
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the Mountain Goats
The Life of the World to Come > Sweden > Get Lonely > The Coroner's Gambit > Full Force Galesburg > The Sunset Tree > All Hail West Texas > Tallahassee > Zopilote Machine > We Shall All Be Healed > Nothing for Juice > Transcendental Youth > All Eternals Deck > Heretic Pride
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justanothersheeldz this'd this
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I reckon it's...
Lifes Rich Pageant > Chronic Town EP > > New Adventures In Hi-Fi > Murmur > Monster > Green > Out Of Time > Up > Automatic For The People > Reckoning > Fables Of The Reconstruction > Document > Accelerate > Collapse Into Now > Reveal > Around The Sun
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Built to Spill
Perfect From Now On > There Is Nothing Wrong With Love > Keep It Like A Secret > Ultimate Alternative Wavers > There Is No Enemy > You In Reverse > Ancient Melodies Of The Future
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'Second toughest in the infants' has two tracks that could be better
These 2 are Rowla and Air Towel. They seem unfinished and go nowhere. Instead Rowla, they could replace it with the amazing Cherry Pie (from Pearl's Girl CD). It's quite similar to Rowla, it has the same beginning, but MUCH BETTER.
Rowla: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpfB7LRfEKo
Cherry Pie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbyXENGwMqQfriday55 this'd this -
Electro-Shock Blues > Beautiful Freak = End Times > Daisies Of The Galaxy > Blinking Lights > Shootenanny! > Souljacker > Hombre Lobo > Tomorrow Morning
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all of Pulp plus a couple of the EP collections...
His 'N' Hers > Masters Of The Universe > PulpIntro > Separations > Different Class > This Is Hardcore > Freaks > We Love Life > It
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Recently revised my opinion having had Vitalogy playing in the car the last few days
VItalogy > Ten > No Code > Vs > Yield > Riot Act > Pearl Jam > Binaural >>> Backspacer
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Spiritualized
Lazer Guided Melodies > Pure Phase > Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space > Let It Come Down > Songs in A&E > Amazing Grace > Sweet Heart Sweet Light
funkycow this'd this -
Yes but
worst doesn't mean it's bad. Just not as good as the others.
Valtari's a grower and needs to be listened to on a decent stereo. For that reason it may end up being between Takk and Með Suð.
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I don't have Horses In The Sky but otherwise it's
He Has Left Us Alone > 13 Blues > Born Into Trouble > Kollaps Tradixionales > This Is Our Punk Rock > Pretty Little Lightning Paw
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III, IV, PG, I, II, HOTH, P, ITTOD, C
frickin' return key next to backspace, dammit.
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Bis
Social Dancing > I Love Bis > Music For A Stranger World > The New Transistor Heroes > Return To Central > Intendo
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Almost agree
Black Cherry > Felt Mountain > Super Nature > Seventh Tree > Head First
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Hot Chip
One Life Stand > In Our Heads > Made In The Dark > The Warning > Coming On Strong
vamos this'd this -
I think I might go:
Difference > Travels > Dallas > Curses > Plot > Pain
Travels v. Dallas is pretty tough though.
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Daylight = a wide quality gap between the former & the latter
Can never understand why everybody rates Piouhgd so low and Hairway To Steven so high. Piouhgd has some dreadful stuff on it but the good tracks, fucking hell, just awesome. HTS on the other hand has an all-time-classic first track, a pretty good last track, and a yawning chasm of utter dreck in between.
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Sorry but that's the most retarded Kraftwerk rating I've ever seen
Not putting Trans Europe Express at the top of the list, well I guess I could live with that. But putting Kraftwerk 1 at the end?? jesus christ. And rating Radio-Activity lower than Electric Cafe. I'm speechless.
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motherfucker = redeemer is up there with their absolute best
particuarly part 2, gosh
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I would swap Tri Repetae ++ with Incunabula
Incunabula is my fave Ae album by far.
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that's pretty much mine though I'd swap red medicine and kill taker
there's not much in it though
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WTH, we don't have the same brains. This is MY list. Post yours. Jesus...
"But putting Kraftwerk 1 at the end?? jesus christ. "
It's probably my least favorite Kraftwerk album. The first three albums are too different compared to later (better) work.
"And rating Radio-Activity lower than Electric Cafe."
Actually they're almost the same level for me. The difference is slight.
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AfraidOfOwls this'd this
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my hot chip order of pref would be almost the exact reverse of these two
with the warning and coming on strong as #1 and made in the dark last.
All great albums mindJaguarPirate this'd this -
Garbage = Version 2.0 > Not Your Kind of People > Bleed Like Me > beautifulgarbage
PS: Not Your Kind of People is clearly better than Bleed Like Me & beautifulgarbage
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OK then
TEE > K1 > Computer World > Man Machine > Radio-Activity > K2 > Min-Max > Tour de France > The Mix > Autobahn > Electric Cafe > Ralf & Florian
The is the correct & definitive Kraftwerk rating, accept no substitutes.
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Man get Earth Vs
It's a riffy beast. One of the greatest rock albums most people havent heard
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Nah
Valhalla Dancehall is better than DYLRM
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So, you'd rather listen to K1 & K2 than Min-Max? This is w.e.i.r.d.
Minimum-Maximum is the highest achievement of Kraftwerk. Not that it sounds crystal clear, but it also contains tons of classics. And all these songs (except perhaps The Model) sound better than the album versions. This is like New Order's "Substance" compilation.
I've seen Kraftwerk live in 2009 so I know what I'm talking about...
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Have One On Me and Ys are close (though I'd plump for the former)
But how anyone could put Milk-Eyed Mender above either of them is beyond me.
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Fur & Gold = Two Suns = The Haunted Man
All brilliant, honestly struggling to pick a favourite though.
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It's my second favourite, after The Holy Bible.
And I was an obsessive Manics fan for years.
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Update
Minimum-Maximum > Computer World > The Man Machine = Trans-Europe Express > The Mix > Tour De France > Autobahn > Electric Cafe = Radio-Activity > Ralf and Florian = Kraftwerk 1 = Kraftwerk 2
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Curve
Gift > Pubic Fruit (comp. of early EPs) > Come Clean > Cuckoo > Doppelganger > The New Adventures of Curve > Open Day at the Hate Fest
*Pubic Fruit = comp. of early EPs
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lol@last sentence
Fair enough though. I mean as long as people are listening to Kraftwerk at all, that's got to be a good thing.
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Don't want to be an obscure-early-work arse here
but have you checked out the self-titled EP and their first two cassette demos (We're Stoned, What Are You Going To Do About It and Forget About Life, I'm High On Dope)? Best MM I've heard.
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Haha
you've got your >'s the wrong way round.
HumanDog this'd this -
Is Pubic Fruit perchance
A compilation of their early EPs?
funkycow this'd this -
Do you know how to read? You have the explanation under your nose. Twice.
I wrote it twice by mistake. This DiS forum doesn't allow me to edit it. Deal with it.
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Jilted Generation > Experience > Fat of the Land > Invaders > Always Outnumbered
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It`s a good album
But it`s a bit samey and less unique sounding than later albums.
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Never understood
the love for the self-titled one- I can't sit through it.
Third > Dummy > Portishead
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Maybe I've
been harsh on Plot - I'll boost it above Pain, largely because of Robocop 4 being incredible. But it is clearly a far cry from Falco's best work. Travels last!?!?!?!?
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I was tempted to put Ravedeath = HMHMDIA actually
Also, putting Radio Amor 4th doesn't seem right either, it's too good, but there's no other way.
justanothersheeldz this'd this -
Not heard them all, but of those I have
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere > After The Goldrush > Harvest > On The Beach > Zuma > Tonight's The Night > Rust Never Sleeps > Sleeps With Angels > Harvest Moon > Ragged Glory
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Still not heard Bad As Me, but should do
Franks Wild Years > Swordfishtrombones > Rain Dogs > Bone Machine > Blue Valentine > Small Change > The Black Rider > Mule Variations > Alice > Blood Money > Heartattack & Vine > Closing Time > Real Gone > The Heart Of Saturday Night > Foreign Affairs > Nighthawks At The Diner
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Spine of God > Tab > Superjudge > Dopes to Infinity > Powertrip > Monolithic Baby
not heard the rest, and I'm not really a huge fan of anything after Superjudge in this list
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Clearly
DND > TWW > Liars > TTUAIAT > WIXIW > Sisterworld
or TWW > DND > Lairs > TTUAIAT > Sisterworld > WIXIW
or Liars > DND > TTUAIAT > TWW > WIXIW > Sisterworld
or
basically changes depending on whichever ones I've listened to most recently
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Faust (pre-reformation)
Faust Tapes > Faust IV > Faust so Far > Faust
I'm not including Outside the Dream Syndicate because that's mainly a Tony Conrad album
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Can
Tago Mago > Ege Bamyasi > Monster Movie > Soundtracks > Future Days > Soon Over Babaluma > Delay 1968 > the rest of them
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Hmmm
Achtung Baby > The Unforgettable Fire > War > Pop > Zooropa > Boy > All That You Can't Leave Behind > Rattle & Hum > The Joshua Tree > October > How To Dismantle... > No Line On The Horizon
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I don't have TMTKTG or Halfbird but...
Apple O' > Reveille > Friend Opportunity > The Runners Four > Breakup Song > Green Cosmos = Milk Man > Offend Maggie > Deerhoof vs Evil > Holdypaws. Agree that Breakup Song rates favourably in their canon.
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Never really grabbed me in the way the latest has.
Travels has some of FOTL best songs but also a fair bit of dross.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Missing Kicking Against The Pricks and From Her To Eternity but here's my stab at it:
Let Love In > Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus > Your Funeral...My Trial> Tender Prey = Henry's Dream = No More Shall We Part > Murder Ballads > Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! > The Good Son > The Boatman's Call > The Firstborn Is Dead > Nocturama -
The High Llamas
Hawaii > Cold & Bouncy > Snowbug > Santa Barbara > Can Cladders > Gideon Gaye > Talahomi Way > High Llamas (Sean O'Hagan) > Buzzle Bee EP > Beet Maize & Corn
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no Stereolab yet...?
Transient Random-Noise Bursts > Lo Fi EP > Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Vol 2) > Mars Audiac Quintet > Peng! > Switched on Vol 1 > Space Age Bachelor Pad Music EP > Dots & Loops > Sound Dust > Aluminium Tunes (Switched on Vol 3) > Margerine Eclipse = Not Music > Chemical Chords > Cobra & Phases Group
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THE BOSS
Born To Run > Darkness On The Edge Of Town > Nebraska > The River > Born In The USA > Tunnel Of Love > Magic > The Rising > The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle > The Ghost Of Tom Joad > Welcome To Asbury Park, NJ > The Seeger Sessions > Devils & Dust > Wrecking Ball > Lucky Town > Working On A Dream > Human Touch
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Ramones
Ramones > End of the Century > Leave Home = Rocket To Russia > Road To Ruin > Animal Boy > Pleasant Dreams > Subterranean Jungle > Too Tough To Die > Halfway to Sanity > Brain Drain = Adios Amigos = Mondo Bizarro
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I cannot condone any ranking that doesn't place Runners Four firmly at the top
I'm sorry I just can't I'm sorry
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yeah
450+ replies
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Mercury Rev
See You On The Other Side > Yerself Is Steam > Deserter's Songs > Boces > All Is Dream > Snowflake Midnight > The Secret Migration
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Flaming Lips
Hit To Death In The Future Head > In A Priest Driven Ambulance > Clouds Taste Metallic > The Soft Bulletin > Zaireeka > Transmissions From The Satellite Heart > Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots > At War With The Mystics > Oh My Gawd!!! > Embryonic > Hear It Is > Telepathic Surgery
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Hmm, Freudian omission
Not their worst album, but their biggest disappointment.
I'd put it between Aluminium Tunes and Margerine Eclipse
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ah, oh yes
I love the unpredictable exploratory vibe on Hairway (and the riffs!). All the songs feel fully realized to me. Piouhgd seems to contain a fair amount of chaff, though, and rehashes of old ideas (Lonesome Bulldog and Something). Listening again now, though, and loving Revolution!
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Placebo
Without You I'm Nothing > Sleeping With Ghosts = Placebo > Meds > Battle For The Sun = Black Market Music
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Frank Black (with and without the Catholics)
Teenager... > Show Me Your Tears = Pistolero > Bluefinger > Frank Black = The Cult of Ray > Dog in the Sand = Devil's Workshop > Frank Black and the Catholics = Svn Fngrs > NonStopErotik > the rest
(obv excl. comps, live, soundtracks. Really need to hear Honeycomb)
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Merriweather Post Pavilion > Sung Tongs > Feels > Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished > Centipede Hz > Campfire Songs > Strawberry Jam > Here Comes The Indian > Danse Manatee
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v difficult impossible but if i had to...
lift>f#a#?>kanada>allelejah>yanqui...
yet i rate "rockets fall on rocket falls" up with there absolute best output....
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Lateralus = Aenima > Undertow > 10000 Days > Salival > Opiate
ill split the difference...
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He Has Left Us Alone > Born Into Trouble > 13 Blues > Horses in the sky > Kollaps
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Same reason as the guy above - it's the only one I never feel like putting on.
I'd take 26 Mixes, Come To Daddy, Polygon Window, Caustic Window and most of the AFX stuff above that record too. A couple of tracks aside, there's just something about it that doesn't sit right with me. Never understood all the mad love it gets. Guess that's the joy of the guy's back catalogue though.
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I can only account for their Warner Bros output, but my list would be a bit different
The Soft Bulletin > Clouds Taste Metallic > Embryonic > Hit To Death In The Future Head = Transmissions From The Satellite Heart > Zaireeka! > Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots > At War With The Mystics
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PS
No it's not. It's clearly better than all the others, bar the debut.
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Wow, you've got Frank Black & The Catholics really low there
Fucking love that album, for all its faults. Comes in at #2 on my list, right after Teenager.
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Fair point on the Jason songs, but he gets a free pass for writing Drag Down.
Tune. Anyway, time to stop arguing this one - tbf I probably only like it cos it's the first album of theirs I heard. I'm not sure it's actually any good. Break Free is a lovely song though. /End
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Of his latter-day stuff...
You should really check out 3121, Planet Earth and Lotusflow3r - despite what you may have heard, they're all really solid albums.
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For me it would be...
The Holy Bible, Journal for Plague Lovers, Everything Must Go, Generation Terrorists, Know Your Enemy, Gold Against the Soul, Send Away the Tigers, Postcards from A Young Man, Lifeblood, This is My Truth...
Still a pretty fucking phenomenal list of albums whatever way you cut it...
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Actually my second favourite
I'd have Dots and Loops about seven spots higher than you've got it, too.
Apart from that pretty much agree.
(The BBC thing was good too but I don't know if that counts...)
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I reckon
In A Priest Driven Ambulance > Hit To Death In The Future Head > Transmissions From The Satellite Heart > Clouds Taste Metallic > The Soft Bulletin > Zaireeka > Embryonic > Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots > Oh My Gawd!!! = Telepathic Surgery > Hear It Is > At War With The Mystics
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I reckon most people would agree with that.
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This is dangerously similar to mine
Born to Run > Darkness on the Edge of Town > Nebraska > The River > The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle > Born in the USA, The Ghost of Tom Joad > Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ > Tunnel of Love > The Rising > Magic > The Seeger Sessions > Wrecking Ball > Devils and Dust > Working on a Dream > Lucky Town > Human Touch.
I love how his two worst albums in my opinion were released on the same day. I'm glad I wasn't old enough at the time to suffer that crushing blow.
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yeh
It's kind of a new one to me, so I don't know it so well. Reckon Dog in the Sand would should maybe move up too.
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i've tried, really hard
Most recently a few months back. It's naff.
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Meat Is Murder > Queen is Dead > Strangeways > The Smiths
friday55 this'd this -
Kicking Against the Pricks
is probably my second favourite Nick Cave album.
Let Love In > Kicking Against The Pricks > Abbattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus > Your Funeral... My Trial > Henry's Dream > Tender Prey > Murder Ballads > Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Still need to get the rest myself... :(
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Weezer
The Blue Album > Pinkerton > Maladroit > Hurley > The Green Album >>> The Red Album > Make Believe > Raditude
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Modest Mouse
The Moon and Antarctica > The Lonesome Crowded West > We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank > This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About > Good News For People Who Love Bad News
DJaser this'd this -
If they mixed Frank's voice on that album a little lower
and if Lyle Workman didn't feel the need to jizz quite so enthusiastically over every song with awful cock-rocking guitar solos, FB & The Catholics would be one of my favourite albums of all time. Such great songs. And I love the 2-track production.
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OWU, WAYN > LIO > GU&BA > Fantasies
Not heard the new one
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Oh god they didn't really release an album called "Cut the Crap" did they
Fuckin hate The Clash
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Mercury Rev
See You On The Other Side > Deserter's Songs > Yerself Is Steam > Boces > All is Dream > The Secret Migration > Snowflake Midnight
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...
Microcastle > Weird Era Cont > Cryptograms > Fluorescent Grey > Halcyon Digest > Rainwater Cassette Exchange > Turn It Up Faggot
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MF DOOM inc. aliases / collaborations
Madvillainy > Operation: Doomsday > MM.. Food > Vaudeville Villain > Take Me To Your Leader > The Mouse and The Mask > Born Like This > Venomous Villain
Haven't heard JJ Doom yet (yeah, I know I need to get on it).
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Actually changed my mind on most of that already
I hate ranking things
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did them just after joy division above
didnt include compilations though
if you're going to include substance, why not international, retro, the best of, the rest of, singles, 20 years of... etc -
tranatlanticism > the photo album(bonus vs)> we have the facts.. > something about airplanes > narrow stairs > codes and keys.
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There is Nothing Wrong With Love > Keep It Like A Secret > Perfect From Now On > There Is No Enemy > You In Reverse > Ancient Melodies of the Future > Ultimate Alternative Wavers
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LCW > M&A > Building Nothing > Long Drive > Good News > We Were Dead > Sad Sappy Sucker
JaguarPirate this'd this -
the wave pictures
play some pool > instant coffee baby >long black cars > sweatheart ep > beer in the breakers
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system of a down
Hypnotise > Toxicity = System of a Down > Steal this Album > Mesmerize
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Royal Trux
Cats & Dogs = Thank You > Accelerator > Sweet Sixteen > Veterans of Disorder > Untitled > Pound for Pound > Twin Infinitives
Haven't heard the debut...
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Broadcast
Ha Ha Sound > Tender Buttons = The Noise Made By People > The Future Crayon (compilation) = Investigates Witch Cults of The Radio Age.
Sniff.
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Biosphere
Patashnik > Substrata = Cirque > Shenzhou > N-Plants > Microgravity
Don't know the others...
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Tough
Cryptograms > Microcastle > Halcyon Digest > Fluorescent Grey > Rainwater Cassette Exchange > Turn It Up Faggot > Weird Era Cont
All good/great stuff.
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Slint
Spiderland > Tweez
Easiest rating ever.
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The thing is, I actually think highly of every album on that list up to and including Wrecking Ball.
Barring a couple of songs off each, I'll probbaly never listen to the other three again.
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Hm, I guess it's the only one I haven't given too many listens.
I seem to remember it sounding a bit AMERICAN ALT-ROCK for my liking, but I could well be wrong there. Should give it another go really.
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aazerbeezee this'd this
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Patashnik = Substrata > Microgravity > Cirque > N-Plants > Dropsonde = Shenzhou > Insomnia > Man With a Movie Camera > Auteur De La Lune
It's very hard to decide what's the best album: Substrata or Patashnik.
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Definitely check the new album, Synthetica.
It's a return to a more synth based music, after the more guitar oriented Fantasies & Live It Out.
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I tried to get into ETK, but it seems too repetitive
What's their most accessible/catchy album?
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Sort of
They were basically splitting up by then. Joe Strummer and Paul Simonen were the only original members. Ironically, the album had a track titled 'We Are The Clash'.
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If Autour de la Lune is at the bottom of your list
then I'm really going to have to check out some other Biosphere albums, coz I certainly love that one. Shenzhou's the only other one I've heard - also great - and Geir Jenssen's "Cho Oyu 8201m" is fucking amazing.
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You're in for a bit of a treat
He has to be one of the most consistent ambient artists out there for quality. Start with Patashnik (techno-y in places) and then try Substrata for a beatless comparison.
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Think you're probably best starting from the beginning and working through
Their mid nineties period is the stuff I like best, but I guessing from your comment that you wouldn't be into this sound as much. Their earlier stuff is certainly a bit more accessible. Great, great band - hopefully you'll get well into them...
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Veckatimest>Yellow House>Shields>Horn of Plenty
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Elephant last??? What??? Really??? Explain yourself!
Here's mine:
Elephant>White Blood Cells>Icky Thump>De Stijl>Get Behind Me Satan>The White Stripes
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I'd definitely put Milk-Eyed Mender above Have One on Me
It's youthful exuberance is just way more pleasing than the latter's never-ending moping...
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Some think that Auteur de la Lune is great. For me is way too minimalistic.
Also it really worth checking Biosphere's entire discography. It's pretty hard to rank his albums because they're all great on their own.
During the 5-6 years since I discovered this artist, I listened the most to Patashnik, Substrata, Microgravity, Cirque and N-Plants. Fantastic albums.
PS: I forgot to add two other albums: Wireless - Live at the Arnolfini, Bristol & Nordheim Transformed (feat Deathprod). Both, very good.
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I guess the essential 3 albums are Microgravity, Patashnik and Substrata.
If you like ambient music, it's impossible to not enjoy listening to these albums. Substrata in special, works as a one long song. It must be listened from start to end, in order.
Also I recommend you to listen to the albums chronologically.
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As a sample, check probably the best song from Substrata, 'The Things I Tell You'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu3R0IGwasU
It sounds so much better on headphones.
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OMD (what I've got)
Architecture & Morality > Dazzle Ships > Organisation > OMITD > Pacific Age > Crush > Junk Culture
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Ha ha ha ha ha!
OMD =/= OMC
OMD = Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
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Not hard is it
when they're both records devoid of melody, inspiration, lyricism and any other redeeming factor.
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Bowie (1970-80)
Diamond Dogs > Heroes > Low > Ziggy > Aladdin Sane > Station to Station > Scary Monsters > Hunky Dory > Lodger > Young Americans > Man who Sold the World > Pin Ups
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Hypnotize is good but better than Toxicity?
NO! otherwise I agree with you
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I thought Tomorrow Morning was the best of the trilogy by far
Shootnanny >Blinking Lights >Souljacker >Tomorrow Morning > Electro Shock > Beautiful freak > Daisies > End Times > Hombre Lobo
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Pinback
This Is A Pinback CD > Autumn Of The Serpahs > Summer In Abaddon > Blue Screen Life > Information Received > Nautical Antiques
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Rage Against The Machine
Evil Empire > Rage Against The Machine > Renegades > The Battle Of Los Angeles
medulla this'd this -
Big Black
Songs About Fucking > Atomizer > Sound of Impact > Pig Pile
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still cant believe you put singles highest
even ignoring the fact it's a compilation
it's the 7" edits of the songs, nowhere near the majesty of the full lengths as contained in substance
the only reason i can think you've done that is cos it has more songs on it
but please - just listen to it, then listen to substance & tell me the versions on singles don't pale by comparison to their counterparts.(then redo it without compilations)
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Believe it. New Order have many great singles. I don't care if it's a compilation or not. To have all their singles is awesome. Plus NO had the bad habit to skip excellent singles from the final tracklisting of their albums (e.g. Blue Monday).
Substance is great, but NO released other singles since then (Round & Round, Fine Time, Run, Regret, World, Spooky, Crystal, Here to Stay, Krafty etc).
Their studio albums are way too short to compete with a 31 singles compilation.
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Since the day it came out
I've never gotten the fuss over elephant, especially coming after WBC. Two e.gs - 'There's no home for you' is a rip off but not as good as 'Dead Leaves & Dirty Ground'. Also 'Well it's true that we love one another' is their worst song by far.
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot > A Ghost Is Born > Summerteeth=Being There > The Whole Love > Sky Blue Sky > A.M. > Wilco
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Dinosaur Jr.
You're Living All Over Me > Bug > Farm > Beyond > Dinosaur > I Bet On Sky
or (not exclusively classic lineup)
YLAOM > Bug > Where You Been > Farm > Green Mind > Beyond > Dinosaur > I Bet On Sky > Without A Sound > Hand It Over
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The Mars Volta
Deloused in the Comatorium > Frances the Mute > The Bedlam in Goliath = Octahedron > Noctourniquet > Amputechture >>>>>> Scabdates
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oh yeah
Cryptograms > Weird Era Cont > Microcastle > Halcyon Digest > Rainwater Cassette Exchange > Flourescent Grey > Turn It Up Faggot
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have
to agree with this completely.
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I'm including Westing as well.
S&E > WBSAM > WZ > BTC > CRCR > TT
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Don Caballero
American Don > Singles Breaking Up (Vol.1) > What Burns Never Returns > For Respect > Don Caballero 2 >>> World Class Listening Problem >>>>>>>>> Punkgasm
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Love how there's no definitive answer to this one.
Drum's Not Dead > Sisterworld > They Were Wrong > WIXIW > Liars > Trench
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Hardcore is pretty high among all of y'all, am surprised.
Come On Die Young > Happy Songs > Young Team > Rock Action > Hardcore > Mr Beast > Hawk Is Howling
Very hard to pick between the first four though (which is why Government Commissions is so great)
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Kudos on putting Amputechture second, hella underrated.
I'd bump Octahedron up at least one place though.
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Stand back, everyone... I'll handle this one so you don't have to show yourself up in front of your 'cool' friends:
Muse: Origin > Absolution > Showbiz > 2nd Law > Black Holes > Resistance
also...
Suede: Dog Man Star > Suede > Coming Up >>>>>>>>>>> Head Music > A New Morning
Deftones: White Pony > Adrenaline > Koi No Yokan > Diamond Eyes > Saturday Night Wrist > Deftones > Around The Fur
McLusky Do Dallas > The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire > My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours
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(X) Is Greater Than (Y)
Weezer
Radiohead
Obsessive Compulsive
Liars
Drum's Not Dead > WIXIW > They Were Wrong, So We Drowned > Liars = They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck a Monument On Top > Sisterworld.