thanks for that Tool :)))
ah, anthology of american folk music? i could just take that to my desert island and nothing else
me 3 ^ edit: j, it’s on the island ;)
I could have veered off into many directions, I tried to think of Kenji trying to compile though & kept to stuff I genuinely love but that’s also well known/accessible
Tasty tasty Tool
Cello Suite 5 – Bach
Olympia 64 – Brel
Symphony 4 – Bruckner
Schéhérazade – Rimsky-Korsakov
Five Leaves Left – Nick Drake
You won’t believe this, but by trying to make this difficult list, which was the reason I stayed up very late this night, I caught a stranger in the act of slowly opening the door of my appartment room! I forgot to lock the door and he looked very surprised to find someone still awake at this hour. I scared him away I suppose. What a strange scene.
The rest of my list will follow later. Can’t concentrate anymore.
Well, maybe Who Can It Be Now by Men at Work should be on your list.
Depech Mode – Black Celebration
At The Drive In – Relationship Of Command
Sarah Jaffe – Suburban Nature
Fugazi – Red Medicine
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Shellac – At Action Park
New Order – Power Corruption Lies
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
Rachel’s – Music for Egon Schiele
Portishead – Portishead
Woo more support for Relationship of Command; best punk rock album EVER. Are you also a fan of the Mars Volta Tommy?
I like Mars Volta, but that one album from ATDI is pretty perfect and is better than anything Volta could possibly release.
Edit: actually not entirely true. De-Loused is damn good.
Well The Mars Volta are my favourite band, but Relationship of Command is incredible.
@Uli³Cain: “Who Can It Be Now” was exactly what I thought. The only difference with the song was that the man obviously didn’t knock, so I would change that line in ‘Who can it be opening my door?’
Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not “Uli³Cain”. I Mean, I am Uli³Cain, but. I’m just Uli. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Uliness, or uh, Ulier, or El Ulirino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
The Bends 1995 Radiohead
Dummy 1994 Portishead
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 1994 Pavement
Spiderland 1991 Slint
Wish You Were Here 1975 Pink Floyd
Sunday At The Village Vanguard 1961 Bill Evans
Kind Of Blue 1959 Miles Davis
Grace 1994 Jeff Buckley
Pink Moon 1972 Nick Drake
Machine Head 1972 Deep Purple
But 10 is really restrictive, so, beside the poll here’s my top 40 albums of all-time (chronological order / one per artist)
Boxer 2007 The National
Funeral 2004 Arcade Fire
Elephant 2003 The White Stripes
Chutes Too Narrow 2003 The Shins
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place 2003 Explosions In The Sky
The Meadowlands 2003 The Wrens
Turn On The Bright Lights 2002 Interpol
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2002 Wilco
The Mantle 2002 Agalloch
Sea Change 2002 Beck
Is This It 2001 The Strokes
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea 2000 PJ Harvey
Ágætis Byrjun 1999 Sigur Rós
Mezzanine 1998 Massive Attack
F#A#∞ 1998 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Either/Or 1997 Elliott Smith
Perfect From Now On 1997 Built To Spill
The Bends 1995 Radiohead
Dummy 1994 Portishead
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 1994 Pavement
Grace 1994 Jeff Buckley
Spiderland 1991 Slint
Achtung Baby 1991 U2
Laughing Stock 1991 Talk Talk
Loveless 1991 My Bloody Valentine
Daydream Nation 1988 Sonic Youth
The Queen Is Dead 1986 The Smiths
Marquee Moon 1977 Television
Rumours 1977 Fleetwood Mac
Hejira 1976 Joni Mitchell
Wish You Were Here 1975 Pink Floyd
Pink Moon 1972 Nick Drake
Machine Head 1972 Deep Purple
Thick As A Brick 1972 Jethro Tull
Electric Warrior 1971 T. Rex
Pearl 1971 Janis Joplin
After The Gold Rush 1970 Neil Young
Forever Changes 1967 Love
Sunday At The Village Vanguard 1961 Bill Evans
Kind Of Blue 1959 Miles Davis
Arab Strap, Philophobia
Dead Can Dance, The Serpent´s Egg
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Golijov, Oceana
Joy Division, Closer
Mono, One Step More and You Die
Namtchylak, Stepmother City
Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Radiohead, OK Computer
Young, After the Gold Rush
In some order:
Silvio Rodriguez – Erase Que se Era
Elliott Smith – Either/Or
Skip James – Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
Chavela Vargas – Sus Mejores Canciones (it’s a major cheat, but given she cut over 70 albums…)]
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
I hate lists I think I’m done…
Come From Heaven – Alpha
Low – David Bowie
Die Donnergötter – Rhys Chatham
Subterranean Modern Volume Uno – The Dining Rooms *
Court and Spark – Joni Mitchell
Power, Corruption & Lies – New Order
Music for 18 Musicians – Steve Reich
Let It Bleed – Rolling Stones
Avalon – Roxy Music
Horses – Patti Smith
Right, i’m gonna order Silvio Rodriguez and Chavela Vargas..
Ouch, yeah just 10 is so hard. So I’ll start with 3 old classics that I used to listen to a lot and then give 7 of my favorites from what I listen to now.
The oldies:
Forever Changes Love
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
Remain in Light Talking Heads
And from my current favs in no order:
Mezzanine Massive Attack
Fever Ray Fever ray
Lust Lust Lust The Raveonettes
Eyelid Movies Phantogram
Cuts Across the Land The Duke Spirit
Midnight Boom The Kills
Hearts and Unicorns Giant Drag
Damn, that’s 7 already. And I was just getting started. Anyway, those are among my most favorites.
Not Ranked:
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Beatles – Abbey Road
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon
Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Sparklehorse – It’s A Wonderful Life
Colleen – The Golden Morning Breaks
Eluvium – Copia
I think listing my favourite songs/pieces would be a more clearer representation of my absolute favourites, but I think this list is okay.
I swear, Kenji, that you are just trying to torture us here. Ten? Really? I’m just gonna throw out the ten albums that I suspect are most important to me. No order
R.E.M. – Out of Time
Neil Young – Live Rust
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
The Zombies – Odyssey and Oracle
Pedro the Lion – It’s Hard to Find a Friend
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
The Innocence Mission – Birds of My Neighborhood
Hank Williams – 40 Greatest Hits*
Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun
*A note on the Hank Williams selection: I have Turn Back the Years, which is a far more comprehensive 3-disc set, and I know there’s a huge box set that covers everything, but 40 Greatest Hits was the album that introduced me to him, and I still feel it’s the most concise and effective package for Williams. The others have their selling points, but there’s a lot of fat on ’em.
On a different day, with a different whim, I might have included any one of these selections:
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Denison Witmer – Safe Away
Wilco – A Ghost is Born
Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages
The Beatles – Abbey Road
The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies
Circulatory System – Circulatory System
The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
Over the Rhine – Good Dog Bad Dog
Pavement – Brighten the Corners
Rich Mullins – A Liturgy, A Legacy & A Ragamuffin Band
Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
Weezer – Pinkerton
Ben Folds Five – Ben Folds Five
…and I’m sure there are others that just aren’t coming to me right now.
Kenji – you and your polls! You’re a glutton for punishment. I hope you get swamped. Still, I can’t resist.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan)
The Doors (The Doors)
Surrealistic Pillow (Jefferson Airplane)
Beggars Banquet (Rolling Stones)
Are You Experienced? (Jimi Hendrix)
Led Zeppelin I (Led Zeppelin)
St. Matthew Passion (Bach)
Ring Cycle (Wagner) – hey, Kenji – you said more than 20 minutes, right?
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Yeah, I love the late 60’s, what can I say? Flower power and all that psychedelic stuff.
It hurts to leave so much off (for all of us), but…
Flipper – Album
The Fall – Hex Education Hour
James Brown – Live At The Apollo
Various – American Anthology of Folk Music
The Wipers – Is This Real
The Kinks – Something Else
Bo DIddley – Greatest Hits
Hank Williams – 40 Greatest Hits
Ornette Coleman – Beauty Is A Rare Thing Box Set
The Shaggs – Philosophy of World
These kind of things are best done when half-asleep, so here goes…
(10 is still too less, so my list can’t help but be jazz-heavy, though I did manage to squeeze in my favorite hardcore and noise rock albums)
1. A Love Supreme (John Coltrane)
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (Ornette Coleman)
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Charles Mingus)
Go (Dexter Gordon)
Ask the Ages (Sonny Sharrock)
Out to Lunch (Eric Dolphy)
Saxophone Colossus (Sonny Rollins)
Rain Dogs (Tom Waits)
Rock for Light (Bad Brains)
Cunning Stunts (Cows)
good taste, vikram B-)
Is “cunning stunts” a joke or am I just dirty minded?
But Not For Me (Ahmad Jamal)
Al Green’s Greatest Hits
Complete Recordings: 1929-1934 (Charley Patton)
Anthology of American Folk Music
Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
Darkness on the Edge of Town (Bruce Springsteen)
The Great Twenty-Eight (Chuck Berry)
18 Original Sun Greatest Hits (Jerry Lee Lewis)
Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974 (Mulatu Astatke)
Beggars Banquet (The Rolling Stones)
I’ll bite… a dozen that mean a lot to me
Gillian Welsh – Time, The Revelator
Neil Young – Zuma
Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom
Wilco – Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrat
The Who – Who’s Next
Steve Earle – Train a Comin’
The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
Andy Prieby – Sins of the Father
The Beatles – Revolver
Paul Simon – Paul Simon
Crosby, Stills and Nash – Crosby, Stills and Nash
1. The Wall – Pink Floyd
2. The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
3. The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking – Roger Waters
4. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
5. Henry’s Dream – Nick Cave
6. No More Shall We Part – Nick Cave
7. Sticky Fingers – The Rolling Stones
8. Live/1975-85 – Bruce Springsteen (don’t if this is cheating)
And pointlessly, some 80’s Eastern European stuff
9. Haustor-Bolero
10. Male Price o Velikoj Ljubavi – Zabranjeno Pusenje
Uli Cain, Cinefidel¹³
Yay, for Tool, they just missed my list with the Opiate EP
Like many others, I could have gone 50 deep