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High Fidelity Top 5

  • 23-03-2005 10:46pm
    #1
    mr_angry
    Registered Users Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭


    Following on from the "Moderator" thread, I thought it might be interesting to have people list their top 5 indie albums in a High Fidelity-style. Word of mouth is always the best way to find new music, eh?

    Even after my post on the original thread, I found myself questioning my list, and I've actually revised it since last night. So, without further adieu:

    1. Mansun - Six
    2. Garbage - Version 2.0
    3. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
    4. Nada Surf - High Low
    5. Interpol - Antics

    Lets hope I stick to this one a bit longer... :eek:


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  • #2
    JimboPope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 134 ✭✭JimboPope


    Way too hard to do a top of all time, but ill give you my top 5 of the moment.

    1. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
    2. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
    3. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
    4. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
    5. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlantism

    I usually go through a phase of just listening to a certain bunch of albums religously, and at the moment these are them.


  • #3
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,556 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    1. Weezer - Pinkerton
    2. Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
    3. Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
    4. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
    5. Idlewild - The Remote Part


  • #4
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Because my last list wasn't avant garde enough:

    1. Einstuerzende Neubauten - Haus der Luege
    2. Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
    3. The Hafler Trio - The Sea Org
    4. Swans - The Burning World
    5. Rolf Harris - The Best of Rolf Harris


  • #5
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,143 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    I adore that movie. Gonna do this again without checking what I put down the last day! Be interesting to see how similar/dissimilar they are:

    1. Radiohead - The Bends
    2. Damien Rice - O
    3. David Kitt - Small Moments
    4. The Smiths - The World Won't Listen
    5. David Gray - A Century Ends

    Hon Mentions: Nevermind, Skylarkin, Astral Weeks, The 3 EP's, Tigermilk, Without You I'm Nothing


  • #6
    mentalimplosion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭mentalimplosion


    at the moment, and in no order

    'You Forgot it in People' Broken Social Scene
    'Good News...' Modest Mouse
    'Lifted...' Bright Eyes
    'Turn on the Bright Lights' Interpol
    'Silent Alarm' Bloc Party
    ... limiting yourself to five is hard


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  • #7
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    mentalimplosion wrote:
    ... limiting yourself to five is hard

    That's why there are many top 5 threads, so you can make a top 50 across an entire website :D


  • #8
    DerekD Goldfish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭DerekD Goldfish


    Mine changes all the time
    its currently

    Whipping Boy- Heartworm
    Gang of Four- Entertainment!
    Neil Young- On the beach
    At the drive in- Relationship of Command
    Manic's - Holy bible


  • #9
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users Posts: 4,937 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    1. Bowie- Christiane F soundtrack(brilliant album)
    2. Manics- Holy bible
    3. Radiohead- The Bends
    4. Pulp- Different Class
    5. Muse- Origin Of Symmetry

    Changes all the time


  • #10
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    Tegan and sara - So Jealous
    broken social scene - beehives
    The decemberists - picaresque
    the mountain goats - random
    Iron & wine - nordstra


    that indie?


  • #11
    djpk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭djpk


    Fashion Nugget- Cake
    The Proximity Effect- Nada Surf
    De-Loused In The Comatorium- The Mars Volta
    In a Bar Under the Sea- dEUS
    Has to be...Is this It- the Strokes


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  • #12
    Chad ghostal
    Registered Users Posts: 3,958 ✭✭✭Chad ghostal


    This is just current music taste.. a list made last week or "top 5 ever" would most likely look entirely different...
    would also (obviously) highly recommend all of these albums..

    Radiohead - kid-A
    The shins - Oh inverted world
    Rilo kiley - more adventurous
    Joanna newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
    Zero 7 - simple things


  • #13
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Cremo wrote:
    1. Weezer - Pinkerton
    2. Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
    3. Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
    4. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
    5. Idlewild - The Remote Part
    Amazing list there, Cremo!

    Can't pick a Top 5.... i'd regret it 5 minutes later and constantly keep changing it! :D

    I'd definantly have Counting Crows "August And Everything After" in there though! My absolute favourite album EVER!


  • #14
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,556 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    yeh it's a really hard thing to do, i just picked them really as they had the most impact on me and they are all albums that you can listen to and be shocked at the fact that you've just listened to a whole album and that you didn't realise it.

    they are also the sort of albums you could just pick up in any mood and listen to them.


  • #15
    Creature
    Registered Users Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


    Radiohead - The bends
    Radiohead - Ok Computer
    Radiohead - Kid A
    Manics - Everything Must Go
    Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing


  • #16
    PersonalJesus
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭PersonalJesus


    Ill try a double ended one (oo er missus)

    At the moment
    Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
    Willy Mason - Where Humans Eat
    Bright Eyes - Im wide awake its morning
    Ryan Adams - 29/Cold Roses
    DJ Format - Music for the mature B Boy

    All time classics (though this list will prob change everyday)
    Neil Young - After the goldrush
    The who - who's next
    Zepplin - zep 2
    The sex pistols - never mind the bollocks
    the replacements - let it be


  • #17
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Radiohead - Ok Computer
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Mezzanine - Massive Attack
    The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    The Pixies - Doolittle


  • #18
    Dublin's Finest
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭Dublin's Finest


    Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
    The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
    Oasis - Definitely Maybe
    Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
    (not quite sure about my 4th, so far this year anyway it's...) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm


  • #19
    Dublin's Finest
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭Dublin's Finest


    oops, i meant to say my 5th....


  • #20
    Fusion251
    Registered Users Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭Fusion251


    1. Radiohead - O.K Computer
    2. Jeff Buckley - Grace
    3. Smashing Pumpkins - Melancholy & The Infinite Sadness
    4. Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
    5. Radiohead - Kid A


    But i'm sure in 10 mins that will change like it always does. I can never pin down top fives for some reason!

    Fusion
    :cool:


  • #21
    Tyrrial
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    at the moment...

    Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
    The Reindeer Section - Son of evil reindeer
    The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
    Adam Green - Friends of Mine
    Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism


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  • #22
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,271 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Couldn't figure out which one to leave out so I ended up with six. In no particular order (apart from the first two):

    Radiohead - The Bends
    Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
    Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
    The Pixies - Complete "B" Sides
    Alabama 3 - Exile on Coldharbour Lane
    Belly - Sweet Ride (Best of compilation)


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