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Postby Broghan » 2010.08.09 (23:55)

Make a short list of your favorite albums of all time.
I'll kick start:
- Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty
- Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
- Beck: Modern Guilt
- Dream Theater: Awake
- The Hives: Tyrannosaurus Hives
- Led Zeppelin: How The West Was Won
- Mastodon: Blood Mountain
- Miles Davis: Milestones
- Muse: Origin Of Symmetry
- Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
- Queens Of The Stone Age: Rated R
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: By The Way
- Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

I guess that's all I've got for now. Post away!
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Postby Tanner » 2010.08.10 (00:23)

When I have to make a top 10 of all time list, this is tends to be an approximation of my feelings:

Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag allat született
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
mewithoutYou - (A -> B) Life
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
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Postby Vyacheslav » 2010.08.10 (00:37)

Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Burzum - Burzum
Tomb of the Mutilated - Cannibal Corpse
Heartwork - Carcass
Fuck Off and Die - Darkthrone
Transilvanian Hunger - Darkthrone
Under a Funeral Moon - Darkthrone
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
Octavarium - Dream Theater
Below the Lights - Enslaved (thanks ortsz)
Battles in the North - Immortal
Panzer Division Marduk - Marduk
Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson
Portrait of an American Family - Marilyn Manson
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem
Live in Leipzig - Mayhem
Peace Sells But Whose Buying - Megadeth
Rust In Peace - Megadeth
Kill 'Em All - Metallica
The Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry
The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry
Psalm 69 (ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ) - Ministry
Altars of Madness - Morbid Angel
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Blackwater Park - Opeth
Watershed - Opeth
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
Frizzle Fry - Primus
Pork Soda - Primus
Our Puzzling Encounters Considered - Psyopus
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
Reign in Blood - Slayer
Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
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Postby Amadeus » 2010.08.10 (04:22)

lists are stupid, sillies! :P

EDIT: Pie.

EPIC TIER
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Sigur Rós - ( )
Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Antlers - Wake
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Antlers - Hospice
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum end
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

GREATNESS TIER
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Cathy Davey - The Nameless
Cathy Davey - Tales of Silversleeve
Kanye West - Graduation
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun
The Strokes - Is This It
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Coldplay - Parachutes
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
The Beach Boys - Endless Summer
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Like Bad News
Bon Iver - For Emma Long Ago
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Postby Tanner » 2010.08.10 (04:43)

Amadeus wrote:lists are stupid, sillies! :P
Look, if you don't have any pie...
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Postby  yahoozy » 2010.08.10 (10:14)

Boredoms - Super æ
Boris - Boris at Last - Feedbacker
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven*
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Nadja - Touched
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Rachel's - Music for Egon Schiele
Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I

*Hands down my number one.

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Postby unoriginal name » 2010.08.10 (20:18)

Well, at the moment:

Swans - Children of God [1987]
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime [1994]
Fushitsusha - Live [1989]
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! [1968]
Boris - Boris at Last - Feedbacker [2003]
Art Bears - The World as it is Today [1981]
Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma [2002]
Comus - First Utterance [1971]
Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese opera ver. 1.28 [1996]
Scott Walker - The Drift [2006]
Sutcliffe Jügend - When Pornography Is No Longer Enough [1998]
Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Mass Projection [1970 (released 2001)]
Mainliner - Mellow Out [1996]
Borbetomagus - Snuff Jazz [1989]
Hudson-Styrene - A Monster and the Devil [1989]

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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.08.10 (23:50)

Weezer's Pinkerton,
Led Zeppelin IV,
My Bloody Valentines' Loveless,
NMH's In The Aeroplane Over the Sea,
Pixies' Doolittle,
CCR's Willy & the Poor Boys
and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.

EDIT: Miles Davis' Bitches Brew.
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Postby moonlight » 2010.08.11 (00:07)

Muse - Absolution
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - The Bends
Sublime - Sublime
The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
The Killers - Hot Fuzz
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Thursday - War All the Time
The Strokes - First Impressions of the Earth
Weezer - Weezer

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Postby Stephen » 2010.08.11 (00:19)

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Radiohead - Kid A
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Weezer - Pinkerton
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Született
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F#A#oo
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.08.11 (01:13)

moonlight wrote: Weezer - Weezer
There are three of those. (although I know which one you mean. :))
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Postby a happy song » 2010.08.11 (01:55)

glassjaw - everything you ever wanted to know about silence
deftones - white pony
bright eyes - lifted, or the story is in the soil keep your ear t the ground
mew - and the glass handed kites
grammatics - grammatics
the knife - silent shout
the national - boxer
final fantasy - he poos clouds
modest mouse - good news for people who like bad news
youth movies - youth movies
fleet foxes - fleet foxes
wolf parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
at the drive-in - relationship of command
tom vek - we have sound
weezer - pinkerton
bloc party - silent alarm
tool - Ænima
tv on the radio - dear science
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Postby mintnut » 2010.08.11 (10:32)

I didn't know you were a fan of the national atob....cool! Ditto with frightened rabbit for stephen. I love music.

I wrote it all out, but the list was really hard to read, so i made a picture instead which should be nicer.
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Postby 乳头的早餐谷物 » 2010.08.11 (14:45)

The short list:

Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Radiohead - OK Computer
M E A T N E T 1 9 9 2

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Postby a happy song » 2010.08.11 (16:37)

mintnut wrote:I didn't know you were a fan of the national atob....cool!
Fleet Foxes, too. Two of my all time favourite go to sleep on a sunny day records. :)
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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.08.11 (16:39)

mintnut wrote:I didn't know you were a fan of the national atob....cool! Ditto with frightened rabbit for stephen. I love music.

I wrote it all out, but the list was really hard to read, so i made a picture instead which should be nicer.
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I'm kind of surprised to see A Saucerful of Secrets. I've never heard anybody say they liked that one more than Piper at Gates Dawn.
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Postby mintnut » 2010.08.11 (17:33)

I've never clicked with piper, saucerful being a mix of with and post barrett just careers all over the place from crazy to brilliant...dunno, just enjoy it more s'pose.

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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.08.11 (19:43)

mintnut wrote:I've never clicked with piper, saucerful being a mix of with and post barrett just careers all over the place from crazy to brilliant...dunno, just enjoy it more s'pose.
Yeah, I'm not criticizing you. Mad props indeed.
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Postby kamikaze3000 » 2010.08.11 (23:09)

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Stereophonics - Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
blink-182 - self-titled
Avenged Sevenfold - self-titled
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Postby Riobe » 2010.08.13 (06:07)

Madvillain - Madvillainy
65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time
J Dilla - Donuts
Flobots - Fight With Tools
Nujabes - Metaphorical Music
P.O.S. - Never Better
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
µ-Ziq - Lunatic Harness

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Postby Rose » 2010.08.13 (06:09)

My top four, which at least 90% of you probably hate:

Rush - Moving Pictures
System of a Down - Toxicity
Rush - Permanent Waves
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
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Postby ToeFaceKiller » 2010.08.13 (06:59)

the long list

The Beatles
The Bravery - The Bravery
The Bravery - The Sun and the Moon
Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Jack Johnson - To The Sea
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away
Metric - Old World Underground
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Muse
The Postal Service - Give Up
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
The Secret Machines - Secret Machines
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
Sublime - Sublime
Weezer - Weezer

I cut it down to 30 :/
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Postby kamikaze3000 » 2010.08.13 (16:04)

Also:
Billy Talent - II
The Postal Service - Give Up

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Postby Vyacheslav » 2010.08.13 (16:05)

Almost forgot.
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
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Postby unoriginal name » 2010.08.13 (18:14)

MAXXXON wrote:My top four, which at least 90% of you probably hate:

Rush - Moving Pictures
System of a Down - Toxicity
Rush - Permanent Waves
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
It isn't a top four if it's a complete list.


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