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Oh man, I totally forgot about classical music, I'm with you on the Stravinsky Rite of Spring, especially those discs that get filled with Petrushka (sp?) , that also reminds me of the Bartok String Quartets which really invented heavy metal IMHO. Bartok is way up there too. I love 77, but I really think Remain in Light is the Masterpiece, maybe that's an Eno bias.

On the subject of heavy metal string quartets, Shostakovich's No. 8 in C minor is brutal.

Here are some from a 22 year old. I'm going by a bebop's criteria. In abc order by band name, after going through itunes...

...And you will know us by the trail of dead - Source tags and codes
Badly drawn boy - Hour of bewilderbeast
Beatles - white album
Beck - One foot in the grave
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Bonnie "prince" billy - I see a darkness
Eels - Electro Shock blues
Flaming lips - soft bulletin
Fugazi - 13 songs, repeater and the argument
Mountain goats - coroner's gambit
Neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane
r.e.m. - murmur
radiohead - ok computer and the bends
silver jews - entire catalogue
Tom Waits - rain dogs
van morrison - tupelo honey
weakerthans - any of their albums.
weezer - blue album
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot

fodroy wrote:Here are some from a 22 year old.

You realise that unfortunately, you are now too old for your opinion to count?

Gabba gabba hey ...

j$ wrote:

fodroy wrote:Here are some from a 22 year old.

You realise that unfortunately, you are now too old for your opinion to count?

Gabba gabba hey ...

Sheeeeiiiiit. Ah well. Guess I'd better check into a nursing home.

Pixies "Doolitle" and Camper Van Beethoven's "Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart" lived on my turntable, yeah turntable, alternately for a year. They fall right behind "Abbey Road" as favorite, if made to choose. Some others: The Smiths "Queen Is Dead", "Rain Dogs", DEVO "Q: Are We Not Men...", The Cars "The Cars", Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation".

Pretty mainstream looking but I can not deny the strong feelings I have for these, and many others, even if it's been a long time since I've played many of them.

Paco Del Stinko wrote:Pixies "Doolitle"...The Smiths "Queen Is Dead"...DEVO "Q: Are We Not Men..."... Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation".

Lot of overlaps with my list there...

Off the top of my head.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Sonic Youth - Sister
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Mr. Bungle - complete discog.
John Zorn/Naked City/Electric Masada - any release
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Earth - Pentastar: In the Style of Demons
Jackson Browne - Late For the Sky
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
John Prine - any release
James Brown - any live release
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Dirty Projectors - The Glad Fact
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Mclusky - The Difference Between Me and You is I'm Not On Fire
The Minutemen - any and all releases
Black Flag - Damaged
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
Howe Gelb - Hisser
Townes van Zandt - any and all releases
Yo La Tengo - Painful, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Boards of Canada - any and all releases
Mogwai - any and all releases
Silver Jews - American Water, Bright Flight
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird
Blur - 13
Jandek - Blue Corpse
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Cat Power - You Are Free
Palace Brothers - Days in the Wake
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!, Weasels Ripped my Flesh, We're Only in it For the Money, everything Zappa's done basically.
Ween - Quebec, 12 Golden Country Greats, and GodWeenSatan
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters

edit: Almost forgot Slint - Spiderland. Cripes.
edit2: Ugh, and Vaselines - The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History
and Brian Jonestown Massacre - Thank God for Mental Illness
edit3 (god dammit): Dead Milkmen - any and all releases

I'm trying hard not to get sucked further into this but saw Luke and others mention so many great albums, "Teenager Of The Year" being one that I could not live without. Seriously. Take it away from me, and I will hit the floor dead.

Ray - Gotta bring it up again: earlier this year you did say that we had a sort of brotherly connection. Although I thought that I lost you when I said I'd give you a big brotherly hug if we ever meet. Hey...where ya' going?

Damn Luke, your list just gave me an acid flashback. A couple of them I've never heard of, like Yo La Tengo, so I'm going to do some googling, because based on 99.9% of your list, I trust your judgment. Although I sound nothing like Frank Black, Surfer Rosa is one of the top 3 albums that changed the way I think and helped mold my musical style.
...by the way, I couldn't help but notice that Cheap Trick and the Dead Milkmen weren't on your list.

WeaselSlayer wrote: Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now

This is a really good album, although it's way too short.

Yeah, way too short. But man, "Fistful of Love" just makes everything glow. And BLT, I don't have a clue why Dead Milkmen wasn't on my list. But they are now. Thanks for reminding me.

By the way Luke, I used your list to impress a chick, I hope you don't mind. If I get laid, I'll save a piece for you.

No that's cool, have at. I've got some leftovers in the fridge anyway (OH-HOOOO I hope Ed doesn't read this).

WeaselSlayer wrote:No that's cool, have at. I've got some leftovers in the fridge anyway (OH-HOOOO I hope Ed doesn't read this).

COUCH.

well, since we're all in list mode....

65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math
American Football - American Football
Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Bjork - Homogenic
Cap'n Jazz - Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On, and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over. Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies
Dr Octagonecologyst
Explosions in the sky - The Earth is not a cold dead place
Fridge - Happiness
Hymie's Basement - Hymie's Basement
Idlewild - Hope is Important
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Mew - Frengers
Mice Parade - Obrigado Suadade
Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
MBV - Loveless
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
Susumu Yokota - Symbol
This Heat - Deceit

I forgot this was one of the most ridiculously difficult things to do. Did I miss much? I left a few out that have been mentioned already.

So I was typing up NME's top 50 albums of 2006 for an internet chum, and thought some of you out there in songfightland might fancy a gander as well. This seemed a better place to put it than in a whole new thread of its own.

It's obviously pretty UK-slanted, and as usual, there are some noteable absentees, some things that should never have crept in, and the actual order is pretty arbitrary, but I would definitely agree that most of these albums deserve a mention, and that an 'albums of the year' is a more useful list than a 'best 100 albums' ever, because by nature it is more transient and flexible.

50. The Kooks 'Inside In / Inside Out'
49. Absentee 'Schmotime'
48. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly 'The Chronicles of A Bohemian Teenager'
47. Wolfmother 'Wolfmother'
46. Semifinalists 'Semifinalists'
45. Bob Dylan 'Modern Times'
44. isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan 'Ballad of the Broken Seas'
43. beck 'The information'
42. The Automatic 'Not Accepted Anywhere'
41. The Gossip 'Standing In The Way Of Control'
40. Midlake 'The Trials Of Van Occupanther'
39. The Young Knives 'Voices Of Animals And Men'
38. Metric 'Live It Out'
37. Be Your Own Pet - 'Be Your Own Pet'
36. Datarock 'Datarock Datarock'
35. Forward Russia 'Give Me A Wall'
34. Albert Hammond Jr 'Yours To Keep'
33. The Bronx - 'The Bronx'
32. Lily Allen 'Alright, Still'
31. The Sunshine Underground 'Raise The Alarm'
30. Cat Power 'The Greatest'
29. The Spinto Band 'Nice & Nicely Done'
28. Morrisey 'Ringleader of the Tormentors'
27. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - 'Clap Your Hands Say Yeah'
26. Jarvis Cocker - 'Jarvis'
25. Mogwai - 'Mr Beast'
24. Secret Machines 'Ten Silver Drops'
23. The Knife - 'Silent Shout'
22. The Flaming Lips 'At War With The Mystics'
21. The raconteurs 'Broken Boy Soldiers'
20. The Streets 'The Hardest Way To make An Easy Living'
19. The Longcut 'A Call & Response'
18. The Rapture 'Pieces Of The People We Love'
17. The Futureheads 'News & Tributes'
16. Amy Winehouse 'Back To Black'
15. Thom Yorke 'The Eraser'
14. TV On The Radio 'Return To Cookie Mountain'
13. Panic! At The Disco 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out'
12. The Killers 'Sam's Town'
11. Howling Bells 'Howling Bells'
10. My Chemical Romance 'The Black Parade'
9. Kasabian 'Empire'
8. The Strokes 'First Impressions of Earth'
7. The Long Blondes 'Someone To Drive You Home'
6. Gnarls Barkley 'St. Elsewhere'
5. CSS 'Cansei De Ser Sexy'
4. Hot Chip 'The Warning'
3.Muse 'Black Holes & Revelations'
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Show Your Bones'
1. The Artic Monkeys 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'

I thought everybody hated lists.

EVERYBODY!

I hate grocery lists. Every grocery list in the world is complete bullshit because it's gonna be different for everyone. Why the hell would you put asparagus on that list? Because it's good for you? What the fuck? Pizza is always number one! But it's bad for you! Agh! Lists should all be banished for not considering everyone's viewpoint! Also remember to get me my Oreo's!

fodroy wrote:Pizza is always number one! But it's bad for you!

No, it's not bad for you. Who put that silly idea in your head?

best of lists are just organized opinions and opinions are like assholes. everyone's got one.

maybe i should start a poll.

or a list.