Post your favourite 20 albums and I'll rate your musical taste out of 10

CountingR

1. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
2. Loudon Wainwright III - Career Moves
3. Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven Days of Falling
4. The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
6. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
7. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
8. Field Music - Tones of Town
9. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
10. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
11. Nada Surf - Let Go
12. Neil Young - Weld -For Cortez the Killer if nothing else
13. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Airplane over the Sea
14. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
15. Joanna Newsome - The Milk Eyed Mender
16. Pearl Jam - Yield
17. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
18. Whipping Boy - Heartworm
19. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
20. Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs

Kintarō Hattori

Closing Time - Tom Waits
Moon Safari - Air
Mermaid Avenue I - Billy Bragg & Wilco
52nd Street - Billy Joel
Dimanche a Bamako - Amadou and Mariam
Metropolis Blue - Jack L
The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave
Preludes, Airs & Yodels - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
A Night at the Opera - Queen
Moondance - Van Morrison

WhitestBoyAlive

Kold wrote: »

That may be true but the Kooks are so bad that you should only name them when describing terribly awful bands. 5.3

Have you heard the album though?

ntlbell

I see some people have figured out the points scoring system.

shams.

Mars Bar

Kold wrote: »

5.3 Another shunner of the contemporary eh?

Eh, I dunno. What is the definition of contemporary? Give me a few band names, I'm willing to listen...

Early 20s but haven't been to a festival since 2005.:)

MooseJam

fartmaster wrote: »

can ya guess the music I like? Swish

corporate faux metal

Kold

WhitestBoyAlive wrote: »

Have you heard the album though?

I'm afraid to say I have. My ex made me download it for her when it came out.

GopErthike

Great thread, just as a side note, can people recommend an album from their list that everyone must own, I want to check out the ones I don't have.


That Godspeed you black emperor! is canadian/french.
And it's a must have.

Kold

GopErthike wrote: »

Great thread, just as a side note, can people recommend an album from their list that everyone must own, I want to check out the ones I don't have.


That Godspeed you black emperor! is canadian/french.
And it's a must have.

French Canadian and yes, each one of the albums is savage.

kumate_champ07

Kold wrote: »

French Canadian and yes, each one of the albums is savage.

have all their albums on vinyl, each one superb but not something you can listen to often.

Kold

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

have all their albums on vinyl, each one superb but not something you can listen to often.

I went through a phase of listening to F#A# Infinity once a day. I'm envious of your vinyls. Do they have the limited edition blueprint thingies in them?

Jimmy Iovine

Nas - Illmatic
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Outkast - Aquemini
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Placido Domingo - The Essential Domingo
Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
John Frusciante - The Will to Death
Lonnie Donegan - Puttin' on the Style (I know it's another compilation album but considering most of his albums are nearly 40 years old I haven't got around to getting them yet)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Dr. Dre - 2001
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Muse - Absolution
Daft Punk - Homework
Psy 4 de la Rime - Enfants de la Lune
AC/DC - Back in Black
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
Eminem - Infinite
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions...

Makaveli

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Nas - Illmatic
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Outkast - Aquemini
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Placido Domingo - The Essential Domingo
Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
John Frusciante - The Will to Death
Lonnie Donegan - Puttin' on the Style (I know it's another compilation album but considering most of his albums are nearly 40 years old I haven't got around to getting them yet)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Dr. Dre - 2001
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Muse - Absolution
Daft Punk - Homework
Psy 4 de la Rime - Enfants de la Lune
AC/DC - Back in Black
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
Eminem - Infinite
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions...

High 5!

kumate_champ07

Kold wrote: »

I went through a phase of listening to F#A# Infinity once a day. I'm envious of your vinyls. Do they have the limited edition blueprint thingies in them?

ye I have the original pressings with all the artwork and squashed coins (they put them on the railroad tracks beside the studio)
saw them in the Ambassador 8yrs ago now I think, amazing gig

*actually I think there was a squashed coin in just one of the LP's but they all had other stuff inside them

GopErthike

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

ye I have the original pressings with all the artwork and squashed coins (they put them on the railroad tracks beside the studio)
saw them in the Ambassador 8yrs ago now I think, amazing gig

*actually I think there was a squashed coin in just one of the LP's but they all had other stuff inside them

The squashed coin was in F#A# Infinity, I too have it on vinyl.
I was devastated I missed that gig, it clashed with some other gig that night.
Read the reviews afterwards and wanted to cry!!!

not bakunin

I like music that makes me stop and stare with my ears..

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Charles Mingus - Ah Um
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live Alive
Rory Gallagher - Blueprint
Rory Gallagher - Against the Grain
Taste - Live at the Isle of Wight
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road
Muddy Waters - King Bee
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Fleetwood Mac - Boston Blues (live Boston recording thingy, 1970)
A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Justice - Cross
The Clash - London Calling
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
God is an Astronaut - God is an Astronaut


I shall now, very calmly, retreat to the Jazz and Blues forum again.

kumate_champ07

GopErthike wrote: »

The squashed coin was in F#A# Infinity, I too have it on vinyl.
I was devastated I missed that gig, it clashed with some other gig that night.
Read the reviews afterwards and wanted to cry!!!

I remember when they finished and I was dying to go to the toilet, I was in pain, they came on for what was maybe a 30min encore, I couldnt leave, It was something that made me forget my bladder was in agony

a silver mt zion are playing in dublin soon

Iron Hide

1. Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast
2. Megadeth: Countdown To Extinction
3. Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
4. ZZ Top: Eliminator
5. Metallica: Master of Puppets
6. Iron Maiden: 7th Son Of A 7th Son
7. Motorhead: Overkill
8. The Police: Ghost In The Machine
9. Peter Gabriel: So
10: Motley Crue: Dr. Feelgood
11. Megadeth: Killing Is My Business
12. ZZ Top: Afterburner
13: AC/DC: The Razors Edge
14: Slayer: South of Heaven
15: Diamond Head: Lightning To The Nations
16: Def Leppard: Hysteria
17: Metal Church: Blessing In Disguise
18: Dire Straits: Dire Straits
19: Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time
20. Anthrax: Among The Living

Táck

- tupac - all eyez on me
- nas - illmatic
- the pharcyde - bizarre ride
- primal scream - live in japan
- johnny cash - live at folsom prison
- doves - the last broadcast
- daft punk - alive
- dj shadow - entroducing
- depeche mode - Violator
10 gui boratto - take my breath away
- fleetwood mac - rumours
- joy division - unknown pleasures
- interpol - antics
- the streets - original pirate material
- spoon - kill the moonlight
- the smiths - the very best of
- cocoon ten years - dubfire and loco dice 09
- lost in translation - soundtrack
- bob marley - legend
- laurent garnier - unreasonable behavior
20 Oasis - Definitely Maybe

fruvai

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home
Arcade Fire - Funeral
John Frusciante - Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt
Radiohead - Kid A
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Patti Smith - Horses
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Elliott Smith -Elliott Smith
Rory Gallagher - Rory Gallagher
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Radiohead - OK Computer

Or anything with 'Smith' in it really

Bubs101

Fantastic thread

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Brand New - Devil and God etc.
3. Death Cab - Transatlantacism
4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
5. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
6. Radiohead - The Bends
7. GZA - Liquid Swords
8. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash
9. Beatles - Abbey Road
10. Spoon - GaGaGa
11. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
12. KISS - Destroyer
13. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
14. Oasis - What's the Story etc.
15. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
16. Various Artists - GTA Vice City soundtrack: Wave FM
17. Johnny Cash - American Recordings #4
18. Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
19. Verdi - Dies Irae
20. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors

Reckon this list is the only possible 10 though

=1; Pablo Honey
The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief
In Rainbows
The Eraser
There Will be Blood soundtrack

tech77

1. Merzbow- Batztoutai with Memorial Gadgets.

2. Felt- Poem of the River.

3. Elephant 6 collective- New Magnetic Wonder.

4. The Go-Betweens- Before Hollywood.

5. The Shaggs- Philosophy of the World.

6. Dead Moon- Louie, Louie.

7. High Rise- High Rise II.

8. The Standells- Dirty Water.

9. Television Personalities- And don't the kids just love it.

10. The Dream Syndicate- The Medicine Show.


I know, i know- these are pretty MOR and some are embarrasingly naff but i like them (that's what matters- God that sounds pathetic ).
TBH i'm trying to get into stuff like Phil Collins and this new band Nickelback to impress this girl but it's hard work tbh.

Royale with Cheese

A few years ago I would have been the smug git handing out the scores, now I dunno if I'd be able to even list 20 albums.

I'm old now.

tech77

Couldn't resist
Some that i like:

Radiohead: The Bends.
U2: Achtung Baby.
The Smiths: The World Won't Listen.
REM- Automatic for the People.
Sneaker Pimps- Becoming X.
Pixies- Death to the Pixies.
Nirvana- Nevermind.
The Strokes- Is this it.
MSP- Everything must Go.
MBV- Loveless.
Suede- Coming Up.
Therapy- Troublegum.
Mazzy Star- Among my Swan.
Smashing Pumpkins- Melloncollie.../Siamese Dream.
Madonna- The immaculate collection. :P
Depeche Mode- Violator.
Garbage- Version 2.0.
New Order- International.

Notorious

These would most likely be my top 20 albums, though they're not in order of preference.

Rory Gallagher - Blueprint
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Meat Puppets - Too High to Die
Ween - Quebec
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
The Doors - LA Woman
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
King Crimson - Discipline
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Oasis - Definitely Maybe

TheBandit

Kold wrote: »

Good list 8.6

8.6 for truckle and he put down Chopin as having done the gymnopedies.... tut tut. I've lost my faith in you kold, if i had of put "Oasis - Abbey Road" on my list would you even have noticed?

WhitestBoyAlive

Kold wrote: »

I'm afraid to say I have. My ex made me download it for her when it came out.

Hence she is an ex?

lordgoat

TheBandit wrote: »

8.6 for truckle and he put down Chopin as having done the gymnopedies.... tut tut. I've lost my faith in you kold, if i had of put "Oasis - Abbey Road" on my list would you even have noticed?

He also spelled all artists on his list correctly too so maybe that's where you lost marks...

TheBandit

lordgoat wrote: »

He also spelled all artists on his list correctly too so maybe that's where you lost marks...

I don't believe in double t's. I think they are a waste of ttime