Favourite Albums

The Good Life, “Album of the Year” and “Blackout.”

sorry, must redo, trouble with edit

my loose top-twenty albums

1, Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space by Spiritualized
2, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3, Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock by Talk Talk
4, Mount Eerie by The Microphones
5, Liquid Swords by GZA/Genius
6, Hex by Bark Psychosis
7, Emperor Tomato Ketchup by Stereolab
8, And Their Refinement Of The Decline by Stars of The Lid
9, Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
10, Happy Songs For Happy People by Mogwai
11, Endtroducing by DJ Shadow
12, Perfect Prescription by Spacemen 3
13, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
14, Liars – Drums Not Dead
15, 36 Chambers by Wu-Tang Clan
16, This Is Our Music by Galaxie 500
17, Madvillainy by Madvillain
18, The Velvet Underground and Nico byThe Velvet Underground and Nico
19, There’s a Riot Goin’ On by Sly and The Family Stone
20, Spiderland by Slint

Amalia Rodrigues- Art of Amalia
Elton John- Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run
Anouar Brahem- Le Pas du Chat Noir
Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John & Leon Russell- The Union
Frank Sinatra- My Way: The Best Of
Tinariwen- Aman Iman
Elton John- Tumbleweed Connection
Radiohead- OK Computer
Amalia Rodrigues- Com Que Voz
Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the Edge of Town
White Stripes- Elephant
The Smiths- The Queen is Dead
Frank Sinatra- Songs for Swinging Lovers
Bruce Springsteen- The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
Leonard Cohen- Songs of Leonard Cohen
Manic Street Preachers- Everything Must Go
Anouar Brahem- The Astounding Eyes of Rita
Elis Regina & Antonio Carlos Jobim- Elis & Tom
Patti Smith- Horses
Guillemots- Through the Windowpane
Gorki’s Zygotic Mynci- Barafundle
Manic Street Preachers- Journal for Plague Lovers
Billy Joel- The Stranger
The Stranglers- Rattus Norvegicus

1. Joanna Newsom / The Milk-Eyed Mender
2. Joanna Newsom / Have One On Me
3. Antony and the Johnsons / I Am a Bird Now
4. Joanna Newsom / Ys
5. Diamanda Galás / Malediction and Prayer
6. Laura Marling / Alas I Cannot Swim

People Under the Stairs – Stepfather
Werner Drexler – Poesie
Sébastien Tellier – Politics
Robert Glasper – Mood
Nomak – Combine
Nobukazu Takemura – Child and Magic
Mood – Doom
Miroslav Vitous – Purple
MF Doom – MM Food
Mantronix – Mantronix
Lio – Suite Sixtine
King Errisson – L.A. Bound
John & Jehn – John & Jehn
George Benson – Breezin’
Gang Starr – Daily Operation
Fantastic Plastic Machine – Luxury
Andrés Segovia – Baroque Guitar
Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – I Wish My Brother George Was Here
Diamond D – Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop (w/The Psychotic Neurotics)
DJ Krush – Strictly Turntablized
Devo – E-Z Listening Disc
Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
INO Hidefumi – Living Message
Jackson Conti – Sujinho
DJ Soulscape – 180g Beats
Gabo Szabo – Wind, Sky And Diamonds (w/The California Dreamers)
Vashti Bunyan – Just Another Diamond Day
Willie Colón – El Malo
Townes Van Zandt – Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
Tragedy Khadafi – Intelligent Hoodlum
Theo Parrish – First Floor
Walt Dickerson – Serendipity
Upsilon Acrux – Volucris Avis Dirae-Arum
Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Slum Village – Fantastic, Vol.2
Showbiz & A.G. – Runaway Slave
Seu Jorge – Ana & Jorge ao Vivo (w/ Ana Carolina)
Salt-N-Pepa – Very Necessary
Ray Barretto – Hard Hands
Rahmlee Michael Davis – Rise of the Phenix
Jazztronik – Samurai
EPMD – Unfinished Business
Caetano Veloso – jóia
Camp Lo – Uptown Saturday Night
The Chi-Lites – A Lonely Man
Lamont Dozier – Love and Beauty

There’s a big change to my list since I last posted here months ago:

4. Tim Buckley – Starsailor

My ultimate albums are:
1. Beatles – Abbey Road
2. Interpol – Turn Out The Bright Lights
3. Doves – Lost Souls
4. The Dears – No Cities Left
5. Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon
6. Jeff Buckley – Grace
7. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
8. Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
9. dEUS – Ideal Crash
10. The Clash – London Calling
11. Brian Jonestwon Massacre – Take It From The Man!
12. BRMC – Howl
13. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
14. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
15. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
16. The Helio Sequence – Keep Your Eyes Ahead
17. The Kinks – Aurthur
18. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
19. Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
20. The National – Boxer
21. Radiohead – ok Computer

A crazy list: Jazz, Modern Jazz, Classic, Electronic, Trip-hop, Ambient, Lounge, IDM, Post-Rock. Those are my genres.

Round About Midnight – Miles Davis
Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Blue Train – John Coltrane
Music Has Rotted One Note – Squarepusher
Confield – Autechre
Clarence Park – Chris Clark
Third – Portishead
Geogaddi – Boards of Canada
Formless – Gridlock
100th Window – Massive Attack
Supermodified – Amon Tobin
Untrue – Burial
The Clown – Charles Mingus
Hed Phones Sex- Funki Porcini
The Complete Blue Note Recordings – Thelonious Monk
() – Sigur Ros
Skalpel – Skalpel
Shenzhou – Biosphere
Bitches Brew – Miles Davis
Complete Piano Works – Erik Satie
Remixes 1998 – 2000 – The Cinematic Orchestra
A Strange and Isolated Place – Ulrich Schnauss
Dummy – Portishead
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 – Aphex Twin
Kirlian Selections – The Flashbulb
Empty the Bones of You – Chris Clark
Angel With Dirty Places – Tricky
Versions – Thievery Corporation
Silenced – The Black Dog
Tri Repetae – Autechre

Opeth – Blackwater Park
Ayreon – The Human Equation
Between the Buried and Me – Alaska
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Meshuggah – Obzen
Rob Dougan – Furious Angels
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
Clint Mansell – The Fountain OST
Deftones – White Pony
August Burns Red -Messengers
Devin Townsend – Accelerated Evolution
Incubus – Morning View
Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood

There was a huge missing, this is a soundtrack

The Beatles – Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, White Album
The Who – Quadrophenia, Tommy, Sell Out
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Tumbleweed Connection
Supertramp – Breakfast In America
Small Faces – Ogden’s Nutgone Flake
Pink Floyd – Animals, The Wall, Wish You Were Here, Meddle
Led Zeppelin I
Cream – Disraeli Gears
Jethro Tull – Benefit, Aqualung
Yes – The Yes Album

The Myths & Legends Of King Arthur & The Knights Of The Round Table – Rick Wakeman
Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
Blonde On Blonde
Let It Be – The Beatles
The White Album
Abbey Road
666 – Aphrodite’s Child
Black Sheep Boy – Okkervil River
Easter – Patti Smith
Horses
Still – Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
Doolittle – The Pixies
Surfa Rosa
Loaded – The Velvet Underground &/or Lou Reed
Lou Reed & Nico
Transformer
Who’s Next – The Who
It’s Only Rock N Roll – The Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet
Bigger Bang
Combat Rock – The Clash

and many others

Radio Ethiopia> Horses

some old stuff:

Slowdive – Souvlaki
The Cure – Pornography
The Cure – Seventeen Seconds
Cocteau Twins – Garlands
Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
Specimen – Wet Warm Cling Film Red Velvet Crush
Sex Gang Children – Blind
Dead Can Dance – Dead Can Dance
Visage – Best of Visage
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
David Bowie – Best Of Bowie
And Also the Trees – Virus Meadow
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
Bauhaus – The Sky’s Gone Out
Soft Cell – Non Stop Erotic Cabaret

and new:

Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (II)
Ulrich Schnauss – Goodbye
M83 – Before The Dawn Heals Us
M83 – Digital Shades Vol. 1
Patrick Wolf – Lycanthropy
Patrick Wolf – Wind in the Wires
The Knife – Deep Cuts
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Blackbird Blackbird – Summer Heart
oOoOO – oOoOO
Schwefelgelb – Alt und Neu

Is anyone interested in voting in an album discovery game I’m running on acclaimedmusic.net?

We’ve already done nominations. The rule for nominations was: You can nominate anything not ranked higher than 500 on AM. Except anything that was in last year’s draw is not eligible. Also, there can be no more than 25 albums ranked higher than 1000, no more than 50 ranked higher than 1500, no more than 75 ranked higher than 2000, and no more than 100 ranked higher than 2500.

After we had 128 nominations, I ordered them from 1-128 based on number of google hits, put 1-32 in one division, 33-64 in the second division, 65-96 in the third division, and 97-128 in the fourth division.

So, the first division has stuff like Bad and Sweet Dreams, and the fourth division has stuff like Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Les Stances A Sophie and Marquis de Sade – Rue De Siam.

Here’s the full draw, if anyone’s interested: http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=381742

Janis Joplin – I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
The Beatles – Revolver
David Bowie – Low
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Radiohead – OK Computer

Oh and I forgot to mention this one:

The Beatles – Abbey Road
The Kinks – Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
Miles Davis – In A Silent Way
Miles Davis – Jack Johnson
Sly & The Family Stone – Stand

The Stooges – Fun House
Mott The Hoople – Brain Capers
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
David Bowie – Station To Station
Todd Rundgren – Runt: The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything
Patti Smith – Horses
Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties
Can – Future Days
Can – Ege Bamyasi

Television – Marquee Moon
Television – Adventure
Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick (1st)
Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
Stevie Wonder – Fulfillingness First Finale

Wire – Pink Flag
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads – Fear Of Music
Talking Heads – Remain In Light
XTC – Black Sea

XTC – English Settlement
Gang Of Four – Entertainment
Mission Of Burma – Vs
The B52’s – Wild Planet
Pylon – Chomp

Pylon – Gyrate
R.E.M. – Murmur
X – Under The Big Black Sun
Savage Republic – Jamahiriya
Sonic Youth – Sister

Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
The Pixies – Surfer Rosa
Throwing Muses – House Tornado
Joy Division – Closer

New Order – Brotherhood
Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne
The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me
Captain Beefheart – Doc At The Radar Station
Captain Beefheart – Shiny Beast

A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions…
Public Image Ltd – Metal Box
Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
Joni Mitchell – Hejira

Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
Warren Zevon – Warren Zevon
Randy Newman – 12 Songs
Aerosmith – Rocks
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Pavement – Terror Twilight
Tortoise – TNT
Nirvana – Nevermind
Steely Dan – Aja
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
The Clash – The Clash
The Clash – London Calling
Japan – Oil On Canvas

those are all 5-stars to me. not ranked. i tried for chronological order, but that didn’t really work out so well.

Bruce Springsteen—Darkness on the Edge of Town
Jimi Hendrix—Electric Ladyland
Neil Young—Ragged Glory
The Replacements—Pleased to Meet Me
Sly & the Family Stone—There’s a Riot Going On
Sonic Youth—A Thousand Leaves
U2—The Joshua Tree
Warren Zevon—Sentimental Hygiene
Wilco—Being There
Yo La Tengo—Summer Sun
The Police—Zenyatta Mondatta
AC/DC—Powerage
Todd Snider—East Nashville Skyline
Steve Earle—El Corazon
The Afghan Whigs—Gentleman
Derek & the Dominos—Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
Bob Dylan—Highway 61 Revisited
Elvis Costello—Get Happy!!
The Who—Who’s Next
Van Morrison—His Band and Street Choir
Al Green—Call Me
The Rolling Stones—Beggars Banquet
Nirvana—In Utero
REM—Life’s Rich Pageant
Rod Stewart—Every Picture Tells a Story
Rodney Crowell—Fate’s Right Hand
Sleater-Kinney—Dig Me Out
Spoon—Kill the Moonlight
Clem Snide—The Ghost of Fashion
Eric B. & Rakim—Follow the Leader
The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
Public Enemy—It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Teenage Fanclub—Bandwagonesque
Thin Lizzy—Jailbreak
Judas Priest—British Steel
The Beatles—Revolver
Los Lobos—By the Light of the Moon
Wire—Pink Flag
Trip Shakespeare—Lulu
Tom Waits—Rain Dogs
Steve Wynn-Here Come the Miracles
Richard Thompson—Rumor & Sigh
Queen—News of the World
Primal Scream—Screamadelica
The Pogues—Rum, Sodomy & the Lash

The Knife – Deep Cuts
Charly García – Clics Modernos
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man – Out of Season
Andromeda – Extension Of The Wish
The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky
Caifanes – El Silencio
Portishead – Dummy
Alice In Chains – Jar of Flies
This Mortal Coil – It’ll End in Tears, Filigree & Shadow, Blood
New Order – Substance
Radiohead – The Bends, Kid A
Pink Floyd – The Wall, A Saucerful of Secrets
Dead Can Dance – Toward the Within, Dead Can Dance, Into the Labyrinth

Loving The Drums – The Drums, Summertime and Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, Painful so far…