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  • #52
    Ali Cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 134 ✭✭Ali Cat


    okay let's see...
    In no particular order:

    1) Ani DiFranco: so many to choose from but I'm going with Not a Pretty Girl, good balance between rockin' songs, more folky stuff and strong political statements...

    2) Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk, their first but I still think their strongest, I never get tired of listening to it...

    3) The Moldy Peaches: The Moldy Peaches, so simplictic musicly yet actually they are quite talantented, they're great to listen to and make you laugh

    4) The Pixies: most of their stuff, how can no one have mentioned them yet??

    5) and I'm going to have to agree with a competitor, The Violent Femmes: The Violent Femmes (but also Hallowed Ground), how can a band with such an unlikely singer sounds sooo good?

    Honourable mentions: the Eels, Hem: Rabbit Songs, Tindersticks: Curtains (I've been that girl), The Detoit Cobras, I'm sure there's more but I'm done for now...


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Yes, I did forget to mention the moldy peaches. They're great. Strange no one chose the pixies yet too.


  • #54
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    I see no mention of The Cure, For shame!


  • #55
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    can the alternative discuss triphop and such weirdness?


  • #56
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Sleepy wrote:
    I can see this being disasterous but anyway, I'll give it a go. I'm probably a lot more "mainstream" than a lot of the posters here

    ...and Kinky John2 is among the most avant garde! Poifek.

    All Hail the brave new age of John2/Sleepy co-moderatorship!


    I said Hail, dammit!


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    There's no mod yet, so... I can't see why not. Tricky's album Maxinquaye. wow.


  • #58
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    AlcoholicA wrote:
    can the alternative discuss triphop and such weirdness?
    Whatever floats your boat. I'd be pretty loose in my definition of either indie or alternative.


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Doctor J wrote:
    ...and Kinky John2 is among the most avant garde! Poifek.

    All Hail the brave new age of John2/Sleepy co-moderatorship!


    I said Hail, dammit!


    Huh?


  • #60
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    Papa Hoff wrote:
    Huh?

    you heard the man!, Hail!


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  • #61
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    My list isn't as avant garde as Doctor J would have you believe. I'm saving that for the No Wave forum when it starts up :D

    So my Top Five in no particular order:

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In:
    Spellbindingly excellent album. Not a bad note on the album. Great lyrics from start to finish. The song I Let Love In has the best backing vocals I've ever heard. Pure gold.

    Joy Division - Closer:
    :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
    That good.

    Tindersticks - Curtains:
    Have to agree with Papa Hoff, this album is beautiful. Another Night In is such a great way to start any album. The Sticks are top notch.

    LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem:
    This may not be in my top five forever but right now this album really has me strutting my stuff. Really fun album, you're a monster if you don't like it.

    The Cure - Disintegration:
    Moany goth music for people with taste. Was delighted at Oxegen to hear them play most of this album. It's dark. Quite dark but it makes you feel better for knowing you'll never be as depressed as this.

    Damnit, five is a very limiting number!


  • #62
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Hmmm, methinks I better check out Tindersticks!


  • #63
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    1) Radiohead- Ok Computer
    2)Placebo- Black Market Music (I dont actually have the album but I've downloaded most of it)
    3)Placebo- Sleeping with Ghosts
    4)Placebo- Placebo (Anyone noticing a trend?)
    5)Dunno if Muse are Alternative or Rock but anyway: Muse- Absoltuion


  • #64
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Sleepy wrote:
    4. The Smiths 'The World Won't Listen' - technically not a studio album I know, but I'm having it.

    it's a compilation LP, pure and simple. Wonderful but not as good as their other compilation Hatful of Hollow.


  • #65
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Psychocandy by The Jesus & Mary Chain is the greatest album ever made

    followed closely by Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, Beach Boys Pet Sounds and The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour
    with The Smiths The Queen Is Dead, Dexys Midnight Runners Don't Stand Me Down and My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything bringing up the rear


  • #66
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    nlgbbbblth wrote:
    it's a compilation LP, pure and simple. Wonderful but not as good as their other compilation Hatful of Hollow.
    Panic tips the for scales for me ;)


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  • #67
    mr_angry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭mr_angry


    I'm glad at least John2 went for some real alternative music, and not the general mainstream. I'm not in the running, but I have to respond with a High Fidelity-style Top 5 of my own...

    1. Mansun - "Six": Quite simply, the greatest album ever written. Most people who disagree have never listened to the album.
    2. Garbage - "Version 2": Ok, this is verging on commercialism, but its just too good to leave out.
    3. Billy Talent - "Billy Talent": Angry punk at its best.
    4. Mew - "A Triumph For Man": First international release from a Danish band that are like a cross between Sigur Ros and Muse.
    5. U.N.K.L.E. - "Psyence Fiction": No explanation should be necessary.

    And even at that, I had to leave out A Perfect Circle, God Is An Astronaut, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Idlewild, Cave In, Biffy Clyro, Interpol, Whipping Boy, etc...

    God, I'm such a music nazi...


  • #68
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    mr_angry wrote:
    God, I'm such a music nazi...

    Better than being a real nazi


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    mr_angry wrote:
    2. Garbage - "Version 2": Ok, this is verging on commercialism, but its just too good to leave out.


    God, I'm such a music nazi...

    Yes, yes you are.
    ;)


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