Your 5 favorite albums

don't think about it too much, just go-

Song Cycle - Van Dyke Parks
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Insignificance - Jim O'Rourke
The White Album - The Beatles
Alien Observer - Grouper

Wow, slow day on ILM.

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain
XTC - Skylarking
Biosphere - Substrata

Angelic 2 the Core : Angelic Funkadelic / Angelic Rockadelic
1st Glimpse of Heaven
Former Child Actor
Still Searching for Soul
Love Left

blue nile: hats
scritti politti: cupid & psyche
debarge: in a special way
janet jackson: the velvet rope
dj sprinkles: midtown 120 blues

Prince and the Revolution - Parade
The Cure - Pornography
Orbital - In Sides
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good

A random five from here:

The Chills – Submarine Bells
Earth, Wind & Fire – Raise!
Human League - Dare
King Sunny Ade - Aura
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)

Scott walker - tilt
Meat puppets - up on the sun
Talk talk - laughingstock
Sibelius: Symphonies 4&7 and Tapiola - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Lorin Maazel
Jerry Goldsmith - Alien, complete film score (Intrada Records)

now! that's what i call music vol. 3
now! that's what i call music vol. 17
now! that's what i call music vol. 18
now! that's what i call music vol. 45
in the wee small hours

Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Can - Future Days
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Prince - Purple Rain

pavement - slanted and enchanted
daft punk - discovery
bark psychosis - hex
beach boys - pet sounds
sonic youth - sister

Tindersticks -Tindersticks
Brian Eno - On Land
Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud

Mylene Farmer - Ainsi Soit Je
Faye Wong - Fable
ABBA - Super Trouper
Monica Brodka - Granda
Hole - Live Through This

oh goodness idk something like this maybe in no particular order

miles davis - get up with it
joni mitchell - court and spark
manu chao - clandestino
smog - a river ain't too much to love
big youth - screaming target

@turrican - i want to dig through these and find new favorites :)

yo la tengo - i can the heart...
joanna newsom - have one on me
joni mitchell - blue
kendrick lamar - good kid, maad city
talking heads - remain in light

Broadcast & the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Royal Trux - Cats & Dogs
Basia - Time & Tide

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
Michael Mayer - Immer
R.E.M. - Murmur
Björk - Homogenic

The Dalrymple Sisters - May We Introduce Ourselves? (1955)
The Dalrymple Sisters - Sing Our Favorite Country Western Hits (1958)
The Dalrymple Sisters - Feelin' Groovy (1968)
Connie Dalrymple - On a Little Bamboo Bridge: The Last Solo Sessions - 1969-1970 (released 2004)
Carrie, Cathy, and Cindy Dalrymple - Full Circle (2005)

Radiohead - Kid A
Led Zeppelin - II
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Beatles - White Album
Nirvana - In Utero

talking heads - remain in light
laurie anderson - united states live
public enemy - fear of a black planet
bob dylan - highway 61 revisited
fall out boy - folie a deux

moodymann - dj-kicks
gigi masin - talk to the sea
kate bush - before the dawn (haven't heard this yet but one snippet and yeah)
baronness - purple
larry levan - live at the paradise garage

larry levan - live at the paradise garage

This is a new favourite of mine too. I've been playing it a ton lately.

nas- illmatic
my bloody valentine - loveless
big star - radio city
neutral milk hotel - aeroplane
the-dream - love/hate

Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fever Ray - Fever Ray

larry levan - live at the paradise garage

This is a new favourite of mine too. I've been playing it a ton lately.

― jmm, Friday, September 30, 2016 8:13 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

high five! someone on here recently mentioned the last track (on the disco thread maybe?), and it made me realize how ridiculous it was i had never heard it. so great.

Lilys - Eccsame the Photon Band
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises (cheating answer: "& Ghosts of the Great Highway")
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
Studio - Yearbook 1

Cardiacs - Sing to God
Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM
Echolyn - s/t (2012)
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Susumu Hirasawa - Technique of Relief

ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Associates - Sulk
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Bjork - Homogenic

larry levan - live at the paradise garage

This is a new favourite of mine too. I've been playing it a ton lately.

― jmm, Friday, September 30, 2016 8:13 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

high five! someone on here recently mentioned the last track (on the disco thread maybe?), and it made me realize how ridiculous it was i had never heard it. so great.

― savvinesslessness (map), Friday, September 30, 2016 3:19 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wow this is fabulous

another green world
astral weeks
wowee zowee
disintegration
totally crushed out

someone on here recently mentioned the last track (on the disco thread maybe?)

That was probably me on the poll thread for this album. I love that track, especially with Levan's overdubs.

Albums? What are albums?

Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night (Duophonic 2xLP)
Terry Snyder and the All-Stars - Persuasive Percussion, Volume 2 (Command LP)
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (Warner Brothers 2xLP)
Berio - Sinfonia : The Swingle Singers New York Philharmonic, cond. Berio / Bartok - Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta: New York Philharmonic, cond. Bernstein (CBS Masterworks Portrait LP)
Yes - Going For The One (Atlantic LP)

fun house?
exile on main street?
tago mago?
close to the edge?
revolver?

way to double up on the berio bartok!

i already hate my choices btw, i forgot prince and cluster...

someone on here recently mentioned the last track (on the disco thread maybe?)

That was probably me on the poll thread for this album. I love that track, especially with Levan's overdubs.

― jmm, Friday, September 30, 2016 8:43 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it was, thank you!

miles davis - in a silent way
stevie wonder - songs in the key of life
saint etienne - foxbase alpha
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92

only 4, sorry

haha damn you're killing me

Double Nickels on the Dime
New Age Loon
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
After the Gold Rush
The Modern Dance

shit, how did I forget New Age Loon

5. the incredible string band - the hangman's beautiful daughter

*phew*

Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts
(5 concerts)

https://seriouslynotboring.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/4harriet1.jpg

the band - the band
kendrick lamar - to pimp a butterfly
steely dan - aja
the clash - london calling
d'angelo - voodoo

"The White Album" - The Beatles
"Piper at the Gates of Dawn" - Pink Floyd
"Death of a Ladies Man" - Leonard Cohen
"Radioactivity" - Kraftwerk
"Axis Bold as Love" - Jimi Hendrix

I'll do one per decade

60s: Coltrane & Hartman - s/t
70s: Can - Ege Bamyasi
80s: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
90s: Stereolab - Dots & Loops
00s: Panda Bear - Person Pitch

Fleetwood Mac, "Tusk"
Sonny Sharrock, "Ask the Ages"
Talking Heads, "More Songs About Buildings and Food"
Brian Eno, "Here Come the Warm Jets"
Bruce Springsteen, "Darkness on the Edge of Town" (or really, a "Darkness"-era live album)

Would be different next month/week/tomorrow/later today.

5 is so cruel and darwinistic

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Burzum - Det som engang var
Burzum - Filosofem (yeah.. whatever.. fuck variety in a 5 point list)

@turrican - i want to dig through these and find new favorites :)

― flappy bird, Friday, September 30, 2016 6:18 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You can find 99.9% of the albums posted so far and much more besides here:

http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/all-time

can somebody please copy and paste that list here please

Please don't

Pete Brotzzmann - Die Like a Dog
Thee Madkatt Courtship - By Dawn's Early Light
UGK - Ridin' Dirty
Moodymann - Silent Introduction
Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction

.yours probably trying too hard.

Bill Withers - Just As I Am
The Clash - London Calling
Prince - Purple Rain
Game Theory - Lolita Nation
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

A bit of Bill Withers is always good.

I can only manage two atm
Pinback / Summer in Abaddon
a Sunny day in Glasgow / Sea When Absent

New Kingdom Paradise don't Come Cheap
Caspar Brotzmann Massaker Home
Stooges Funhouse
Dr John Gris Gris
Jerry Yester Judy Henske Farewell Alderbaran

are some of them
also
Black Flag Marquee London '84
Lasrry Young Lawrence of Newark
Birthday Party 83 e.ps
Grateful Dead 2 From The Vault
Captain beefheart Lick My Decals Off Baby
Tim Buckley return of the Starsailor
Roberta Flack First Take
and several others

Paradise Don't Come Cheap is class, it reminds me of my time living in London.

I don't have a 5 favourite albums but this could be them

Albert Ayler - Live at Greenwich Village
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
John Cale - Paris 1919
Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context
Jorge Ben - África Brasil

"also"

^ cheating

Mercyful Fate - Melissa

my man

Slayer - Hell Awaits
Sweeney Todd - Original Broadway Cast Recording w/ Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury
Bad Religion - No Control
Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
Death - Symbolic

+minus - a rainy koran verse
marc baron - un salon au fond d'un lac
oren ambarchi/john tilbury - the just reproach
the tuss - rushup edge
autechre - draft 7.30

meh

lucinda williams - s/t
sinead o'connor - i do not want
anita baker - rapture
husker du - zen arcade
slowdive - just for a day

June Christy and Peggy Lee - The Capitol Transcription Sessions
The Other Anthology of American Folk Music
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Talk Talk - London 1986
The Northern Soul Top 500

Just going to post this quickly before I have time to re-think it:

J.S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 67, 108 & 127 - Karl Richter and Munchener Bach Chor (Teldec)
Louis Armstrong - The Big Band Recordings: 1930-1932 (JSP)
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Beatles The Beatles
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
David Bowie Hunky Dory
Radiohead The Bends

Top 5 Shoegaze albums:

The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
Ride - Nowhere
Slowdive - Souvlaki

addison terwilliger - the gaping maw
frostbite centurion - i can haz weed?
and by their smell shall ye know them - copyright expired
cynthia cynthia - nightsoil
vamoose - a tired wee man

Hats - Blue Nile
Rubies - Destroyer
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
Stranded - Roxy Music
Secret Treaties - Blue Oyster Cult

Wire - 154
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Chrome - 3rd From the Sun
Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray

Top 5 Goth albums:

The Cure - Faith
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Joy Division - Closer
Bauhaus - Mask
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
The Cult - Love

oh shit, that is six. sorry.

this whole thing is silly anyways...

Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island Burn
Frank Sinatra Watertown
Manics The Holy Bible
Tape Luminarium
Exploding Hearts Guitar Romantic

Lol @ Noodle; you forgot a certain GC

Stooges, Fun House
Fall, Dragnet
Clean, Compilation
Lee Scratch Perry & the Upsetters, Some of the Best
Madvillain, Madvillainy

Mars - 78
Lemon Kittens - bought a hammer for daddy
Sharon Tate Fetus Explosion - Labor Pains
Negativland - Dispepsi
Radiohead - Collected Speeches of Adolf Hitler Volume 3

archers of loaf, icky mettle
cannonball adderley, mercy mercy mercy
elliott smith, figure 8
afghan whigs, gentlemen
yo la tengo, i can hear the heart beating as one

Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
Mothers of Invention, Uncle Meat
Pauline Oliveros, Crone Music
Jim O'Rourke, Insignificance
Soft Machine, Volume 2

beach house - teen dream
arthur russell - world of echo
the blue nile - hats
hercules and love affair - s/t
george michael - faith

As of right now, channeling straight from the ether...

Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1980)
The Breeders - Pod
Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted, and Black
The Church - Starfish

There are several of these lists that on a different day could be mine, too, with no alteration save maybe one replacement.

sandie shaw -- reviewing the situation
dave brubeck -- time out
the fall -- wonderful & frightening world of the fall
msp -- the holy bible
pj harvey -- stories from the city, stories from the sea

Wow, slow day on ILM.

supertramp - breakfast in america
alan parsons project - eye in the sky
bobby caldwell - cat in the hat
emily king - seven
duncan browne - s/t

happy hunting flappy let us know if anyone managed to turn you onto something new

I lind of like all these lists and could be my own safe from the ones with metal albums. It's not I don't like metal, I don't like it enough for a top 5.

Maybe Black Sabbath Vol. 4 or Master of Reality some days.

Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is...
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
The Cars - s/t
Brian Eno - Another Green World

slint - spiderland
drive like jehu - yank crime
boredoms - super ae
my bloody valentine - loveless
pavement - perfect sound forever

is Hats the only album that's shown up on three separate lists?

oh, Tusk as well

Pop Group Y
Sun Ra Strange Celestial Road
Fat Hit
Van Morrison It's Too Late To Stop Now
Burning Spear Marcus Garvey.

&several others that I don't think of hierarchically as a top 5. May be struggling to include everything in a top 50 too.

The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up
The Smiths - The Smiths

Thomas Newman, The Shawshank Redemption Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Thomas Newman, The Green Mile: Music From The Motion Picture
Various Artists, The Majestic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Mark Isham, The Mist - OST
Guy Garvey, Courting The Squall

GOOD LIST

is Hats the only album that's shown up on three separate lists?

― soref, Friday, September 30, 2016 7:49 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, Tusk as well

― soref, Friday, September 30, 2016 7:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also highway 61

Various - Sorted: 40 Madchester Baggy Anthems
Various - Live Forever: The Best of Britpop
Various - Greatest Ever Indie Anthems: The Definitive Collection
Various - The Best Heavy Metal Album in the World...Ever!
Leni Riefenstahl - Triumph of the Will (Original Soundtrack)

white noise an electric storm
sun city girls torch of the mystics
isolée wearemonster
charli xcx true romance
the velvet underground and nico

joni mitchell hejira
kate bush the hounds of love
the blue nile hats
the notorious b.i.g. ready to die
grooverider hardship selection 2

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Nirvana - In Utero

Avalon, Pansoul, On Land, Eskimo, Remain in Light.

^^^^ would kick it with

actually the best thing about this thread is when you look at people's lists and think "okay four of those selections are on point, looks like I need to find out wtf choice 5 is".

It's the debut solo album by the lead singer of elbow

Dennis Elbow

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Pere Ubu - Modern Dance

off the top:

eddie fisher - eddie fisher and he next 100 years
sarah webster fabio - boss soul
grave diggaz - 6 feet deep
alice coltrane - journey in satchidananda
john coltrane - a love supreme

lucinda williams - s/t
sinead o'connor - i do not want
anita baker - rapture
husker du - zen arcade
slowdive - just for a day

― geoffreyess, Friday, September 30, 2016 5:28 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gr8 list

Can - Tago Mago
Meat Puppets - II
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
Moondog - Moondog (1969)
Boredoms - Super Ae

Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
Beatles - Abbey Road
Randy Newman - Sail Away
Magma - Live/Hhai
Debussy - Nocturnes/La Mer/Prelude (Max Pommer, Leipzig RSO)

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality
Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans

^more of that http://rateyourmusic.com/list/cjgrasinger/

Jon Hassell and Brian Eno Fourth World Possible Musics Vol. 1
Percy Mayfield Walking on a Tightrope
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Miles Davis Get Up with It

V/A, Let Them Eat Jellybeans!
DJ Assault, Belle Isle Tech
Shellac, At Action Park
Jeff Mills, Waveform Transmission Vol 3
Melvins, Gluey Porch Treatments

idk. weaned myself off keeping lists like these

Thanks Brad. Yours reminded me I need DeBarge in my life.

Leni Riefenstahl - Triumph of the Will (Original Soundtrack)

― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, October 1, 2016 1:08 AM (eight hours ago)
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this totally samples some of the tracks on Radiohead's Collected Speeches of AH3!

it's about who did it best not who did it first

kate bush - hounds of love
talking heads - remain in light
haruomi hosono - medicine compilation from the quiet lodge
prefab sprout - steve mcqueen
gigi masin - talk to the sea

Gun Club Miami
Savage Republic Jamahiriya
James Brown Funk Power
Wu Tang Clan Enter the 36 Chambers
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited

i listened to hats by the blue nile this morning thanks to this thread and wow, thank you

Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - In the Heart of the Moon
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - Saradamani
Nina Simone - In Concert (1964)
Sun Ra - Sound of Joy
Pink Floyd - Meddle

Xpost psst a walk across the rooftops is even better

debatable

though also a completely legit opinion as both are perfect

^^^ I'll accept that

Doers anybody else hear Headlights on the Parade off Hats as a very close take off on a Kraftwerk track. I think it's something from Man machine. Not listened to either in a while but did so in the late 80s quite a bit and thought it was possibly an intentional rewrite or something that had come from thaem jamming on it or something.

What is most interesting about this thread is that there are answers. For 15 years, any thread soliciting your favorite [anything] would be greeted with maybe one or two sincere replies, then a smattering of snark, then a slide down the sna.

Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Broadcast - Haha sound
Pj Harvey - Is This Desire?
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (just narrowly beating out Judee Sill's self-titled).

anything to keep ILM alive

cardiacs - sing to god*
van der graaf generator - pawn hearts
julian cope - fried
jute gyte - perdurance**
the fiery furnaces - blueberry boat

*i could have made an equally valid top 5 featuring only cardiacs-related projects, but i didn't
**until his next one

Jesus rip van wanko, I was just about to post the 1994-1995 output of Phish, Blues Traveler, and Dave Matthews Band, but in light of your praise of sincerity I'll be real. Here's my current favorite 5 without thinking too hard.

Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
Paramore - Paramore
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Cure - Disintegration
Warpaint - Heads Up

10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
Al Stewart - Past, Present & Future
Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Cowboy Junkies - The Caution Horses

haruomi hosono - medicine compilation from the quiet lodge

loving this

(some of) My faves from y'all's lists (several would be here anyway):

The Velvet Underground and Nico
Highway 61 Revisted
Funhouse
Here Come The Warm Jets
Ask The Ages

And I really really wanna hear Larry Levan Live At The Ecstasy Paradise Garage

i always knew i would love hosono and ymo but i was kind of saving it maybe.

the boo radleys - giant steps
young thug - jeffery
pere ubu - dub housing
autechre - lp5
scott walker - bish bosch

D'Angelo - Voodoo
Prince - Dirty Mind
Minnie Riperton - Come To My Garden
The Blue Nile - Hats
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Kate Bush - Aerial
Orbital - In Sides
Brian Eno - Another Green World

Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy yr rabbit
Spandau Ballet - Parade
Garbage - Bleed like me
The Shaggs - philosophy of the world
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

First thought/best thought

What's Goin' On?
Scary Monsters
Sign O' The Times
Rubber Soul
Songs In The Key Of Life

Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
United States of America - United States of America
Kevin Ayers - Bananamour
Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard

Jefferson Airplane After Bathing At Baxters
Charles Mingus Ah Um.
Henry Cow Concerts (disc 2)
Creation Our Music Is Red With Purple Flashes.
Pentangle Basket Of Light
Steeleye Span The Lark In The Morning.

Today:

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Terry Callier - What Colour is Love
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One

the Hats love is palpable. funny, I'd always heard of it as a popular album lurking in the lower regions of listicles for a while but it was only quite recently I felt galvanised enough to give it a go. it must have turned up 5 or 6 tines on

... this thread now?

hole - celebrity skin
britney spears - blackout
fleetwood mac - tusk
sonny sharrock - black woman
prince - sign 'o' the times

^^^yes

pretty fucked up that no one told me about Hats until now

WHAT ELSE ARE YOU PEOPLE HIDING

I can't think of a single album I like lol :-/

squeeze greatest hits
bridge over troubled water
sarcastic disco
rumours
who will cut our hair when we're gone

a lot of the albums that have been my favourite album long ago I still do love but I feel I was such a different person then that they no longer feel like *my* faves... and now I listen to music in a way less album centric way (and verrrry non classic-album way)

PJ & Duncan AKA - Psyche
2 Unlimited - No Limits!
Scooter - ...and the Beat Goes On!
Scatman John - Scatman's World
Rednex - Sex & Violins

PJ & Duncan AKA - Psyche
2 Unlimited - No Limits!
Scooter - ...and the Beat Goes On!
Scatman John - Scatman's World
Rednex - Sex & Violins

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Sunday, October 2, 2016 5:53 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OMG LIKE FUCKIN GR8 LIST M8!I CAN'T FEEEL MY FOCKIN FACE!!1

another five for kicks

Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell
Pinetop Seven The Night's Bloom
Songs: Ohia Ghost Tropic
NoMeansNo The Worldhood Of the World (As Such)
Hum Downward Is Heavenward

Sadly, the complete No Limits is not yet on Spotify, but Get Ready was added two days ago, so the tide is clearly turning in Mr Average's favour here.

no Psyche either

Another one:
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen

Since everyone else (a couple people) is doing it, my last 5 IIT

K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat - The Music of K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat
GG Allin - Hated in the Nation
Laugh & Peace - Vib Ribbon soundtrack
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
AC/DC - Back in Black

a lot of the albums that have been my favourite album long ago I still do love but I feel I was such a different person then that they no longer feel like *my* faves... and now I listen to music in a way less album centric way (and verrrry non classic-album way)

― flopson, Sunday, October 2, 2016 5:51 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah me too. it's very much like, what collection of tracks will be good for situation x, y, z.

i have a fair amount of LPs and i like to sit down and give something a listen all the way through but it's rare that i have the time. the last album i did this with was gene clark, no other, which is totally 5-albums-list material.

errr

aaliyah - aaliyah
the 1975 - i like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
taylor swift - red
diddy-dirty money - last train to paris
ashlee simpson - i am me

i wanna be cool & include albums from b4 my time so honourable mentions to bill evans 'sunday at the village vanguard' & nina simone 'wild is the wind' & mobb deep 'the infamous' ok thx

also i still need to get into like all of the 80s/90s artists the 1975 were influenced by bc that will no doubt be the best music i've ever heard

I have no idea how I've managed to live without The Blue Nile's 'Hats' for this long, but this is fantastic.

the Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Big Star - #1 Record
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Aerosmith - Rocks
Prince - Dirty Mind

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - Saradamani

This is beautiful.

never even heard of the blue nile tbh

hats is ilx canon def

I listened. It's equal parts lovely and boring at the same time. 'Headlights on the Parade' is really pretty but it also really reminds me of something else that came out a few years later and it's really bugging me....

Perhaps you're thinking of These New Puritans? Or maybe Majical Cloudz?

we should poll hats, right?

I think Headlights on the Parade Ground always reminded me of Kraftwerk's Neon Lights and always wondered if it was conscious on their part. Definitely a Kraftwerk track from around that era anyway. TGHough the instrumentation is pretty differenmt. I think it was melody and structure and the central riff.

we should poll hats, right?

oh god yeah, hold up

Bob Dylan, Live 1966
Joni Mitchell, Hejira
Prince, Purple Rain
Roxy Music, Avalon
Uncle Tupelo, Anodyne

hats; tusk; colossal youth; DS2 (deluxe); desertshore

Dustdevils: Struggling Electric and Chemical
Swans: Feel Good Now (the bootleggy UK CD version)
Men Without Hats: Pop Goes The World
The Moles: Untune The Sky (Flydaddy Version)
The Fall: different album every month, but always one of them

Todd Rundgren, A Wizard/A True Star
Olivia Tremor Control, Dusk At Cubist Castle
Al Green, Call Me
Philip Glass, The Photographer
v/a, New Thing!

Dustdevils: Struggling Electric and Chemical

Found this for $3 a few years ago and love it very much

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
The Clash - London Calling
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft

Belle & Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister
Altered Images: Pinky Blue
The Shins: Oh Inverted World
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
The Ocean Blue - The Ocean Blue

why not

The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
The Ex - Blueprints For A Blackout
Legendary Pink Dots - Chemical Playschool 3 & 4 (original double cassette, not truncated double CD)
Nurse With Wound - Sylvie And Babs
Crass - Penis Envy

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
American Music Club - California
Fushitsusha - Live 2
Swans - Cop
Loren Connors - Portrait of a Soul

Scott Walker - Tilt
Trembling Blue Stars - Her Handwriting
Nico - The Marble Index
Kamkars - Oumaran
Caretaker - Persistent Repitiion of Phrases

Oh Sleeve, put the Swans album back on. I'm pretty sure that at this point even Larkin would forgive you. And Mark Smith was an ass too.

xp I have so much love for Marble Index, Tilt, and Persistent Repetition; will have to check out the other 2 you listed

Ha! Well those three cuddle up much nicer than the other two I mentioned, but can only encourage you to listen to them!

Oh Sleeve, put the Swans album back on. I'm pretty sure that at this point even Larkin would forgive you. And Mark Smith was an ass too.

― dlp9001, Monday, October 3, 2016 1:50 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jfc get the fuck over it dude

^^^

plus there was never a Swans album in my top 5, ever

Xxp Trembling Blue Stars is lush melancholy New Romanticism, Kamkars are a Kurdish group I am in love with.

What I like about this thread is its arbitrary nature. That everyone seems to realize this is day trading, and any fave five will be completely different a next day.

I'm grateful alone for having learned about the Blue Nile because of this thread.

Never ever.

the blue nile don't get a fair shake from me because of their name. it always makes me think of the alice coltrane tune and then i want to go listen to that instead.

The Blue Nile make me want to listen to Laughing Stock instead, to be fair. Or any music with a pulse.

Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Lou Reed - New York
Madonna - Ray of Light

Strange Geometry is equal to Suburban Light for me but I just went the latter in order to pick one. Tough though.

A Wizard/A True Star - Todd R
Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint - Steve Reich
We're Only In It for the Money - Mothers
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession - Laura Nyro

'Hats' would definitely be somewhere between 6-10.

Hats does have the best production

Mickey Newbury - Looks Like Rain
Harold Budd - The Pavilion of Dreams
Lewis Baloue - Romantic Times
The Band - The Band
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1978 ECM New Series recording)
Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes on the Street

idk

Sorry "Hats" has always kinda bored me tbh.

American Music Club - California

Fuck this would definitely have made one of my lists if I'd thought of it at the time, which I didn't only because I don't have a physical copy

Blue Nile always felt mediocre to me.

i love the first blue nile a lot but that might be half nostalgia. some of my favorite production ever. hats has always been an ilm favorite.

a lot of the albums listed are my favorites when i'm playing them.

i was listening to that sunny day real estate album today that i love so much. haven't played it in years! i feel like i can do anything when i listen to that. it gives me chills. and it's indie rock from the 90's! so hard for indie rock from the 90's to give me chills. but i just think it's beautiful. kinda wish the production were a little more dynamic or powerful but i'm used to it. i even bought their live album that came out after it just to hear those songs again.

sam cooke - night beat
grateful dead - american beauty
joni mitchell - hejira
mississippi john hurt - complete 1928 recordings
kate bush - hounds of love

the clientele - the violet hour
kate bush - hounds of love
cocteau twins - victorialand
kristin hersh - strange angels
u2 - unforgettable fire

great to see the clientele on multiple lists.

hejira everywhere too

i saw al green and was like, al green

kate bush - hounds of love
skeptics - amalgam
dj db - the history of our world part 1
the necks - chemist
diddy-dirty money - last train to paris

i was listening to that sunny day real estate album today that i love so much. haven't played it in years! i feel like i can do anything when i listen to that. it gives me chills. and it's indie rock from the 90's! so hard for indie rock from the 90's to give me chills. but i just think it's beautiful. kinda wish the production were a little more dynamic or powerful but i'm used to it. i even bought their live album that came out after it just to hear those songs again.

― scott seward, Monday, October 3, 2016 9:25 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It really is a nice album! Just reissued too.

is Hounds of Love the most listed album now? 4 mentions so far

Hats has 6, but probably after that.

destroyer - kaputt
radiohead - kid a
talking heads - remain in light
new order - substance
joanna newsom - ys

or something like that, hats is close for sure though

2nd II None — s/t
Soundgarden — Superunknown
D'angelo — Voodoo
Devin Townsed — Ocean Machine
DJ Quik — Rhythm-al-ism

Perhaps you're thinking of These New Puritans? Or maybe Majical Cloudz?

― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, October 3, 2016 4:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Much earlier than that - early-mid 90s. I can't think of any lyrics save for something like 'I am not a boy I'm a man' sung as an interjection in a lower tone than the rest of the vocal. It's a fairly famous AOR pop hit. Driving me nuts.

I used to feel like Hejira was Joni's most monochromatic albums but I put it on the other day and just WOWWWWW

Can 22/5/72
Small Faces S/t Immediate
Incredible String Band Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Moodists 2 Fisted Art (studio)
Einsturzende Neubauten Zeichnungen des patienten O.T.

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Portishead - Dummy
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Ratpack & Magika - Old Skool Masters vol 2

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Miss Kittin & The Hacker: First Album
Four Tops: Second Album
The Jackson 5: Third Album
Strictly Rhythm: Fourth Album
Judy Collins: Fifth Album

It really is a nice album! Just reissued too.

Did not know this, thanks for the tipoff! Just ordered the vinyl.

Off the top of my head:

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot
The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Slint - Spiderland

pixies - bossanova
thinking fellers union local 282 - strangers from the universe
studio - west coast
miles davis - in a silent way
jerry garcia - garcia

Sowiesoso (cluster)
Out of the Cool (gil evans)
Purple Rain (prince)
Debussy: Preludes, Books I and II (paul jacobs)
The Concert Suites (Bernard Herrmann)

sleater-kinney - call the doctor
the-dream - love vs money
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
diddy-dirty money - last train to paris
fall out boy - folie a deux

"It really is a nice album! Just reissued too."
"Did not know this, thanks for the tipoff! Just ordered the vinyl."

would be curious to hear the new vinyl just to see if they made any improvements or if they just made it louder or whatever. my original pressing is not that loud. and if i crank it up it doesn't sound the best. i've never actually heard the CD. i should find an old CD. or a new one.

i got an old CD copy of their last album recently and it sounded good. totally forgot about that album. glad there are new reissues of How It Feels...though! now new sad sacks can revel in it.

Looking forward to glenn's summation of this thread, even though it doesn't directly benefit Spotify (and even though Julianna Hatfield seems to be lagging). Thread should be renamed "Blue Nile discovered by Americans."

NIGHTTIME by Killing Joke
WHITE NOISE by Cop Shoot Cop
FUNHOUSE by the Stooges
SPIRIT OF EDEN by Talk Talk
PAUL'S BOUTIQUE by the Beastie Boys

i can't believe i don't own a copy of night time. i really should have one. even on cd.

still waiting for an official instrumental version of paul's boutique. i'll be first in line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtRPeeTEtVs

Dock Boggs - Legendary Singer and Banjo Player
Idaho - Year After Year
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - s/t
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

The problem is, I don't have five favourite albums, it's more like 1,300 favourite albums or something... and am I fuck ranking them and posting 'em all here.

dude just suck it up and post 5 albums you like its very simple, you coulda been done already. we all have 1300 favorite albums.

it's like, don't think too hard about it. name a couple albums you've been playing nonstop, and then name a few more that you hold in high regard. obviously it's impossible to have only five or whatever

Your 5 faves of the moment

andy irvine and paul brady record for the win! so good. as are 13th floor and black sabb. i don't know what an idaho is.

https://youtu.be/-Ek_8WZ-Oa4

Sorry, that didn't embed

and am I fuck

idk are you

I love that Idaho album

Me too.

Okay then, I'll do ten that I really wanna hear right now and be done with it...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Dazzle Ships
Ultravox - Systems of Romance
The Human League - Dare
Tubeway Army - Replicas
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
David Bowie - Station to Station
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
Soft Cell - This Last Night In Sodom
Visage - Visage
John Foxx - Metamatic

and Brad, do be quiet.

Hmmm... Ah!

If you were forced to delete 5 which ones would remain?

Yes - Close To The Edge
Emperor - Anthems To Welkin At Dusk
Devil Doll - Sacrilegium
Swans - Various Failures (compilation of an era)
The Cure - Disintegration

If lots of people hadn't chosen Scott Walker's Tilt, I would have chosen that.

xpost:

I wouldn't delete 5, I'd add another 1,290, but I'm not going to do that! :)

Darn, almost got ya

Michael Farneti ‎– Good Morning Kisses
Sade - No Ordinary Love
Eagles Nest Three - Three In The Nest
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Norma Bengell - Ooooooh! Norma

Oh go on then. I have four definite favourites that mean as much to me as music possibly can:

Cardiacs - Sing to God
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Weakling - Dead as Dreams

#5 could be whatever I'm enjoying most at the time which these days is:

Coaltar of the Deepers - Yukari Telepath

the irvine/brady is so good!

5 albums of music i like:

the band - the band
gene clark - no other
michael hurley - long journey
grateful dead - american beauty
shirley & dolly collins - love, death & the lady

these are always at least top 20:

fiona apple - the idler wheel
pj harvey - dry
replacements - let it be
eno - another green world
prince - sott

though in a desert island situation it'd be hard not to include the dirty dancing soundtrack tbh

i having no fucking idea but...

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
John Coltrane - Coltrane
Closer Musik - After Love
Throwing Muses - House Tornado
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More

Various - Sorted: 40 Madchester Baggy Anthems
Various - Live Forever: The Best of Britpop
Various - Greatest Ever Indie Anthems: The Definitive Collection
Various - The Best Heavy Metal Album in the World...Ever!
Leni Riefenstahl - Triumph of the Will (Original Soundtrack)

― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, October 1, 2016 1:08 AM (three days ago)

GREAT LIST M8!!

Cardiacs - Sing to God
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Current 93 - Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Rosa Yemen - Rosa Yemen

This thread is just too amazing. So many great lists and The Blue Nile appreciation was a nice surprise.

We should do songs next.

<3 Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre <3

I heard it for the first time at the start of this year and it just has everything.

agree

great thread y'all

this mortal coil - filigree & shadow
flamin' groovies - supersnazz
don cherry - brown rice
alice coltrane - transcendence
fred neil - s/t

kinda interested in how fluid people's lists are here

3 of the 5 albums i posted would be in my top 5 at any time in the past 15-20 years.

SAW 85-92 i played endlessly in high school but somehow my perception of it has completely blossomed and overwhelmed me in the past few years.

hangman's beautiful daughter i just listed because i was listening to it at that moment and was vibing to it pretty hard.

I love this thread. No snark just people listing albums they like. Its nice!

I'm making my way through it starting at the very top with Song Cycle by Van Dyke Parks. This albumis errr, hard work so far tbh. I mean I WANT TO LIKE IT, I love the Beach Boys and the crazy intent this is aiming for but...

On fluidity: London Calling and Purple Rain are etched in stone. The other three could be any other three albums from a list of 20 or so albums that I love.

"This albumis errr, hard work so far tbh. I mean I WANT TO LIKE IT,"

it's willfully difficult and it came make some people wonder if its worth the effort. i think i kinda appreciate it more than like it.

Song Cycle isn't that much work? I can imagine finding it twee and annoying but it's not a piece that you're going to unlock through study.

otm

it's pretty blurry though. you do sort of have to adjust for aural drunk-vision.

Bizarrely (perhaps) I've always found it to be a real singalong album.

Melodies are catchy and words are fun.

i like "song cycle" but man "by the people" is pretty obtuse.

Yes, but that's the only one.

... even then it's got some catchy bits.

Loves a real thing: the funky fuzzy sounds of west africa
Van morrison - veedon fleece
Steely dan - the royal scam
The go betweens - 16 lovers lane
Mobb deep - the infamous

Bizarrely (perhaps) I've always found it to be a real singalong album.

― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 23:43 (yesterday) Permalink

agreed!

Veedon Fleece has had more mentions than Astral Weeks! A changing of the guard?

Song Cycle definitely takes a few listens but it's a total trio once you get used to the underwater musichall vibe

*riot not trio

brimstead - two of my choices were straightfire albums I've loved since my teens (Boo Radleys and Autechre). Pere Ubu album is something I've owned for a long time but only come round to realising was one of my favourites in the last couple of years.

I could have mentioned any Scott Walker album because his effect on me in the last 3 or 4 years has been profound and I've taken his work in as a single body really. The outlier, of course, is the Young Thug album which only came out a few weeks ago but I've been rinsing to death.

Voice of the Seven Woods (Twisted Nerve)
Wizzard Brew (Harvest)
Os Mutantes (Omplatten)
Beaucoup Fish (JBO)
Marquee Moon (Elektra)

There you go.

each song on hats has moments i'm obsessed with but i ain't really got into the whole thing yet. i've tried so many times

meanwhile this cupid & psyche 85 album is blowing my mindddd

Great Society Conspicuous Only In It's Absence (think it's stronger than How It Was which is the other 1/2 of Live At The Matrix)
Cabaret Voltaire Living Legends
Mercury Rev Boces
Echo & the Bunnymen Heaven Up Here
Caribou Vibration Ensemble Featuring Marshall Allen
D.O. Misiani and Shirati jazz Kings of History

various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Lover Boy
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club

Mahmoud Ahmed - Ere Mela Mela
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
Caetano Veloso - s/t (1971)
Link Wray - s/t
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

went for one for five decades

arzachel - arzachel
neu! - neu! 75
young marble giants - colossal youth
ata kak - obaa sima
junior senior - hey hey my my yo yo

I will listen to all this stevo albums

very much enjoying this, lots of good things to check out

Veedon Fleece has had more mentions than Astral Weeks! A changing of the guard?

Veedon Fleece crossed my mind as one to list. I love Astral Weeks too but VF always felt more personal to me.

Figured another Lilys mention would have shown up eventually. Glad The Clientele got plenty of love!

devo : q. are we not men ?
shriekback : jam science
scraping foetus off the wheel: nail
age of chance : 1000 years of trouble
elo : eldorado

New Order - Technique
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
The The - Soul Mining
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Keith Hudson - Flesh of my Skin, Blood of my Blood

Today:

Karma – Pharoah Sanders
Live (1973) – Genesis
Here My Dear – Marvin Gaye
Sound of Silver – LCD Soundsystem
Yeezus – Kanye West

We'll have the rateyourmusic.com all-time top 5000 posted completely at this rate. Great work!

you suck

Is that comment directed at me? Sorry if my tastes are too common. I saw a band called Hot Garbage last night, if that's more your speed. They lived up to their name .

I'm beginning to think Turrican doesn't like this thread.

it must be doing something right then

The Innocence Mission - Birds of My Neighborhood
Bob Neuwirth - Havana Midnight
Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood
The Style Council - My Ever-Changing Moods
Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose

ummmm Turry I'm still waiting for your 5 favorite animal collective albums!!! pronto please!

Orchestra Luna - s/t
Sparks - Indiscreet
B-52's - s/t
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis

Dinnerboat: no, it wasn't!

calzino: don't know who you are, mate.

flappy bird: If it's rankings of Animal Collective albums you're after, I'm sure you're more than aware by now you're asking the wrong person. Try Googling.

Ty Googling <--- good name for a country singer

The Band - The Band
Plux Quba - Nuno Canavarro
In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
World of Echo - Arthur Russell
August 1974 - Taj Mahal Travellers

it has been fun to try to match the lists to the poster, I must say

Sing To God is on four, btw, and unlike Hats, stuff actually happens in it, so if you're a fan of stuff happening, check it out

Ultros, we listened to that Coaltar of the Deepers today - it was awesome! Looking forward to checking out other stuff on these lists, mostly frogbs' and sleeve's tbf but not ruling anyone out

We'll have the rateyourmusic.com all-time top 5000 posted completely at this rate. Great work!

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican)

you know what? ok, i'll take you up on that one.

harvey mandel - cristo redentor
strangeways - walk in the fire
the boys - s/t
ray barretto - acid
pmmp - kovemmat kädet

five great records from the rym top 5000 none of which i had heard before today.

Blue Nile are one of several good bands my mother played a lot since I was very young but they were the last one that really clicked. I was kind of astonished when it stopped being dull and it started sounding rich and gorgeous.

Cor, that Nuno Cannavaro album is the business.

In A Silent Way must have been mentioned at least three times now? Remain in Light, too.

actually the best thing about this thread is when you look at people's lists and think "okay four of those selections are on point, looks like I need to find out wtf choice 5 is".

― Tim F

one of the key things here, I think

between this and the Notated Music poll I've probably got my listening sorted well into 2017

Miles must be the top artist

I think it's Kate Bush. I count 10 Kate Bush mentions, 7 Miles mentions.

We'll have the rateyourmusic.com all-time top 5000 posted completely at this rate. Great work!

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican)

why are people so obsessed with this stupid website

The Innocence Mission - Birds of My Neighborhood
Bob Neuwirth - Havana Midnight
Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood
The Style Council - My Ever-Changing Moods
Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose

also love this list eazy. poetic champions compose is def the best '80s van record. never heard the bob neuwirth.

RYM is a great way for aspies like me to catalogue, discover and collect thoughts about music, but it's not for the casual listener sure

would turrican be more pleased if none of these albums were on the rateyourmusic.com all-time top 5000 or would it be even worse?

bah why did i post that

imago i agree, forest for the trees etc... or maybe it's trees for the forest in this case (the effects of aggregation make for arguably bland results there)

Pavement - Wowee Zowee
The Clash - Sandinista!
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
R.E.M. - Dead Letter Office

This thread is great but this exercise is hard af. Kills me I can't fit any Al Green/Fugazi/Unwound on there, or much rap or newer stuff. But I tend to love long, messy albums that you can explore forever, and each of these LPs introduced me to huge worlds of music so they'll always hold a special place

I like RYM, I like reading some users reviews and I find out about records by looking through others users whose taste I know. I also make list on the site.

Two albums I'd consider if bonus editions count: VU's Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition) and that 50-track version of Elvis Costello's Get Happy!!. Those are such insanely generous collections of music, and good examples of albums that are somehow even better when they're longer and messier

Oh yeah.

RYM consensus is often fairly dull, much like ILM consensus, but the trick is learning how to apply your own filters

heavy users of rym are mostly prog metal junkies ime

sorry, i didn't mean to call the website "stupid", i just think it's stupid to treat it as some monolithic thing with its own 'taste'

Yeah, the best way to get the most out of RYM is to make use of the filters. I've made some surprising discoveries that way. Otherwise, the charts just look like this thread.

Prog metal fans are very easily categorisable as stupid, and I say that as a fan of prog and metal

Yeah, there's a lot of prog/metal/prog metal "genre experts" on RYM, it's true... but they're not the only genres that RYM is useful for getting deep into.

my latest thing with rym has been the lists. the thing tim f said about knowing four of the selections? there are so, so many user-generated lists like that. find a reasonably obscure record you like and see what lists it's on, instant discovery engine.

I like RYM's genre charts a lot, I've found them very useful. And there's a lot of reviews for stuff you probably won't find elsewhere.

Basically, what I'm saying is that if flappy bird really was serious about discovering new music, that he'd really benefit from making full use of the data available on RYM or perusing many of the sites out there which feature hundreds of lists of albums. I would have also recommended the "recommendations" feature on last.fm before the site got redesigned and completely wrecked the feature, which is a bit of a shame.

I mean, it's cool that people like Hounds of Love and everything, but surely at this stage anyone who's ever found ILM or is posting here knows it's generally considered to be classic. Hats also, as much as I don't rate it, is hardly an obscure release - as far as I'm aware it's always been a critically acclaimed, well known release.

turrican do you really not get the difference between this thread and looking at RYM?

sorry, i didn't mean to call the website "stupid", i just think it's stupid to treat it as some monolithic thing with its own 'taste'

― brimstead

two words: egyptian. shumba.

(well actually i'm not sure "shumba" is an actual word. you get my point.)

Jon not Jon: Yes, on RYM at least I can filter the majority of these well-worn records out. Else, it just looks like every other list of albums since ever.

RYM fucking rules

"Orchestra Luna - s/t"

OMG you are best ilm poster and welcome in my record store any time.

RYM is great. Pretty much like Amazon reviews minus corrupt "featured" reviews. Lists, avg rating and genre-sorting are super informative and often helpful. The writing itself runs gamut from unreadable, to often better than you'll find at most professional music publications, esp for stuff that as mentioned, usually doesn't get written about. Music obsessives who know a ton about only one kind of music will write super-detailed reviews of super obscure records. Same with record collectors who go out of there way to hear everything -- does that mean I always agree w/their review? No, but who doesn't want an informed opinion?

And yeah, if you hang around long enough, you will notice people saying things like "RYM likes this a lot". Because the site emphasizes metrics and categorization, genres and "tastes" seem to evolve out of it. No, the site is not a monolithic music AI -- but it affects opinions and perspectives about music that wouldn't happen otherwise.

shit, two paragraphs means I actively tried to derail a thread

last night I dreamed I was on the (blue) nile

my latest thing with rym has been the lists. the thing tim f said about knowing four of the selections? there are so, so many user-generated lists like that. find a reasonably obscure record you like and see what lists it's on, instant discovery engine.

^^^ this is definitely the key

lots of top 20/weird genre-specific lists out there that randomly list albums I love, discovered so much weird and cool stuff that way

Zaragon is still my hero and spirit animal after all these years. nobody else comes close:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Zaragon/1972___four_digits_in_queue/

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Zaragon/1973___a_sound_you_gotta_see/

Jon not Jon: Yes, on RYM at least I can filter the majority of these well-worn records out. Else, it just looks like every other list of albums since ever.

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Wednesday, October 5, 2016 4:32 PM (eleven minutes ago)

i think, uh, jon was referring to the social aspect of this thread/board, something that we all understand might be difficult for you to grasp

^^^

Here are my lists. https://rateyourmusic.com/list/lolvalstein/

ILM is invaluable. Probably at least a dozen users here whose opinions and recommendations carry real weight. Weird to think about how many great albums I'd have missed out on without it.

What is RYM? Is it just amateur reviewers writing reviews? Because that doesn't seem very useful.

(Especially ILM's R&B threads. I'm not sure there's a better source for vetted R&B recommendations out there)

xxxpost:

If your idea of socialising is typing out lists of well-worn canonical albums, then fucking hell!

But y'know, carry on turning ILM into Q Magazine by all means.

as to weird/genre specific lists- that strangeways record i posted above... there are people there who really, really care about aor. and when i was growing up, man, it was the worst music possible, really terrible, but when i see someone who has so much enthusiasm about a record, it's infectious. man i want to like everything.

I dunno, I used to feel that way (wanting to like everything) and I've always gone into listening to a record that is new to me for the first time thinking "I hope I like this" rather than "this is gonna suck", but I've kinda accepted that there are some things that I'm just never going to be on board with.

5 albums in 5 minutes of thought

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts
Arnold Dreyblatt - Animal Magnetism
Bang on a Can - Renegade Heaven

xxxpost:

If your idea of socialising is typing out lists of well-worn canonical albums, then fucking hell!

But y'know, carry on turning ILM into Q Magazine by all means.

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Wednesday, October 5, 2016 4:55 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok... so... because i have virtually 'socialized' with many of the people itt on subjects both musical and non-musical, to the point where many of them have for me palpable personae and points of view, the of-the-moment half-sober all time top 5s listed by these specific people are of interest to me. yes?

OTM

for example, never heard that Dreyblatt that was just listed, or the Bang On A Can

But y'know, carry on turning ILM into Q Magazine by all means.

Silly.

Jon not Jon: Also, I should point out that RYM also has its own community/forum, a feature of the site which I don't use because, like this thread, I don't find it particularly useful.

RYM's forum is like the worst forum ever haha

not so much in terms of content but design. it's completely impossible to even know how to fruitfully participate

Jon not Jon: Yes, on RYM at least I can filter the majority of these well-worn records out. Else, it just looks like every other list of albums since ever.

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Wednesday, October 5, 2016 4:32 PM (eleven minutes ago)

i think, uh, jon was referring to the social aspect of this thread/board, something that we all understand might be difficult for you to grasp

― k3vin k., Wednesday, 5 October 2016 20:46 (thirty-three minutes ago) Permalink

Haha

Indeed, ILM at its best (when it doesn't stoop to listing things that have been listed a zillion times over) is so far superior to the RYM forum at its best that it isn't even a competition.

But y'know, carry on turning ILM into Q Magazine by all means.

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican)

Are you reading the same thread as everybody else? Are you seeing endless lists of Nevermind, The Stone Roses, OK Computer, The Joshua Tree and Definitely Maybe? That's really not what is happening here.

Kitchen Person: Yes, I am reading the same thread as everyone else.

Tim F still butthurt that I loathe The 1975, clearly.

I Like It When You Sleep... is probably in my top 5 albums of more than 5 words in the title tbf

a walk across the rooftops
vrioon
colossal youth
sleep no more
tusk

Some more:
Lambchop - Is a Woman
Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place out in the Country
Swell - 41
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Wipers - Youth of America

can't help but resent the notion that my list has been listed a zillion times already, considering I deliberately picked five that are hardly discussed here if at all, and further picked five that flappy might like, I guess this is part of the social aspect everyone is on about

I have no idea how to search the rym top 5000(!) albums but I might be surprised to see some of the stuff on this thread, and certainly most of my five beyond Breakfast in America

socialism!

"STOP HAVING FUN"

Tim F still butthurt that I loathe The 1975, clearly.

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 21:25 (one hour ago) Permalink

nah having fake alex in nyc around is always a handy way of defining one's aesthetic borders aka "negative partisanship"

Tim, please go outside and get some sunshine, you have absolutely no excuse.

aren't you burned out of listening to music or something?

Nevermind
The Stone Roses
OK Computer
The Joshua Tree
Definitely Maybe

brimstead: I'm no longer listening to and/or consuming music at the same rate that I once was. I've listened to a fraction of the music that I normally would have done this past week. I'm enjoying it more, too.

I have no idea how to search the rym top 5000(!) albums but I might be surprised to see some of the stuff on this thread, and certainly most of my five beyond Breakfast in America

socialism!

― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh)

duncan browne's s/t is only #7,370

rym forum not _quite_ as useless as it would appear to be- linking to threads as well as to lists on release pages helps, even though most of the threads in question are old and locked, and i'm enjoying the upstart attempt to do a classical listening club- but there are a lot of woodpeckers and kids who really like doing drugs.

Nevermind
The Stone Roses
OK Computer
The Joshua Tree
Definitely Maybe

― Οὖτις

My plan worked. Every good album ever made has now been accounted for. We did it kids!

Lock the thread.

nah having fake alex in nyc around is always a handy way of defining one's aesthetic borders aka "negative partisanship"

Wait, what? Do I have an unconvincing doppleganger or something?

Alex, according to young Timothy here, I'm apparently "ripping off" your posting style. What he doesn't understand is that I don't actually know much about your history here, aside from that you love The Stranglers, which is always an opinion worthy of the highest respect.

"nah having fake alex in nyc around is always a handy way of defining one's aesthetic borders aka "negative partisanship"

we need a highbrow zing thread...

"I've listened to a fraction of the music that I normally would have done this past week. I'm enjoying it more, too."

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s03XW1ZvVvE/SpNr5MCGi-I/AAAAAAAAAoM/gr-Py31y8No/s400/mike-jeff.jpg

Turrican, I like you man but youre being ridiculous and drawing arguements out of thin air. Im sure Tim F is not in the slightest bit bothered about yr opinion of The 1975.

Ok my last top 5

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
The Fall - This nations saving grace
AR Kane - 69
Mercury Rev - Boces
Love - Forever Changes

Im going to bed and i will give big youth - screaming target a listen

Sorry Brad, i didnt like that Debarge album much

Time Will Reveal is a perfect song tho

quite something how shook turrican is re: other people wanting to play high fidelity just for a moment

fwiw i see this thread as having a significantly different function to a rym user list or some spotify recommending bot. i'm not interested in their favourite records. but i'm definitely interested in the favourite records of particular ILM posters, some of whom i've been reading/following for a number of years!

Sorry Brad, i didnt like that Debarge album much

― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Wednesday, October 5, 2016 6:26 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u monster

jk that record especially has a v narrow appeal potentially, i just think every song on it is perfectly crafted post-disco r&b. funk, inelastic drums, gentle, airy ballads. it has everything

Swell - 41

― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, October 5, 2016 5:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Love this album so much!!

can't do this it changes before i get to the end of the list.
let me see how it falls now, though:
minutemen - my first bells (that's a cheat, no? whatever)
zappa - jazz from hell
luke vibert - yoseph
thomas köner - kaamos
mark fell - systems blah blah knot
now these are redundant, i need to choose others

herbie hancock - sound system
bogshed - step on it
cecil taylor - winged serpent (sliding quadrants)
powerdresser -promoting interaction communication & exercise
anthony braxton / roscoe mitchell - duets
again, the brain sludge has already re-fermented but i shan't test your patience any longer today

I did like the opening track on that Debarge album but then it was like 3 ballads in a row after that

the ballads are key to Debarge. they are easier to appreciate if you already adore Smokey Robinson and Thom Bell though.

the other five from me

Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Associates - Sulk
The Who - The Who Sell Out
The Stairsteps - 2nd Resurrection
Bijelo Dugme

Another five from me

Wrens - Meadowlands
DJ Quik - Quik is the Name
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Mekons - Fear & Whiskey
Prince - Sign O The Times

Bad Brains - ROIR cassette
Stiff Little Fingers - Go For It
The Who - Sell Out
Nikki Sudden - The Bible Belt
The Suburbs - In Combo

the suburbs :D

does my heart good to see that

I came really close to picking The Suburbs' Credit in Heaven. Played that record to death in 1981, and hundreds of times in the years since.

Today!
Letta Mbulu ‎– In The Music The Village Never Ends
Masayoshi Takanaka -An Insatiable High
Motion - Motion
Gary Burton - Good Vibes
The Butch Strong Duo - Comin' On Strong

Deutsch Americanische Freundscahft Die Kleinen Und Die Bosen
Pretty Things Parachute
Etoile de dakar Once Upon A time In Senegal
H.P.Lovecraft Live May 11 1968
Captain Beefheart Lick My Decals Off Baby
Goats Tricks of the Shade

Francis the Great - Ravissante Baby
David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name
Dadawah - Peace and Love
Kruder and Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
Shirley & Dolly Collins - Anthems in Eden

Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
Terry Allen - Lubbock (On Everything)
Shania Twain - The Woman in Me
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold 1&2
Guy Clark - Old No. 1

fuck should have probably fit Storms of Life on there somehow

That's a nice list kruezer

Jawbreaker - Bivouac
PE - It takes a Nation
CRJ - Emotion
gaslight anthem - 59 sound
Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane

Not arguing they're the best, but all super important because of when I got into them and what was going on in my life at the time.

Devo are we not men
Elvis the sun sessions
SFA Guerrilla
Lee Perry time boom x de devil dead
Susanne sundfor 12 love songs

All had heavy rotation at some point

Pink Moon
Another Green World
Purple Rain
Silver Apples
Red

joni mitchell is sad

I see what u did there
Xp

Cracked Rear View
Under the Table and Dreaming
Gordon
Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits
God Shuffled His Feet

no "throwing copper"?

those guys were a little weird

Winter Songs (Art Bears)
Element of Light (Robyn Hitchcock)
Peter Gabriel IV
Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre (Current 93)
A Walk Across The Rooftops (Blue Nile)

(thread caused me to bust out Of Ruine... yesterday night and confirm that it really the ultimate C93 album of the Stapleton-Cashmore era)

Are some of you doing multiple top 5s? Haven't been paying close attention

Cracked Rear View
Under the Table and Dreaming
Gordon
Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits
God Shuffled His Feet

Swap out Under the Table and Dreaming for New Miserable Experience and this wouldn't be the worst list

xpost basically ppl have been posting new 5s when it strikes them that time has passed and their 5 favorite albums have mutated

5 greatest albums i played today:

graham central station - mirror
el chicano - pyramid of love and friends
alternative tv - strange kicks
the cryan' shames - a scratch in the sky
b.t. express - do it 'til you're satisfied

honorable mentions: the rebels - misspent youth, chron gen - chronic generation, gloria loring - sing a song for the mountain

Allowing some albums that I just discovered recently

Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods
The Ramones - The Ramones
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
Larry Levan - Live at the Paradise Garage
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown

Richard Youngs - Advent
Ride - Nowhere
David Bowie - Station to Station
New Order - Substance
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Con Dolore - This Sad Movie
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
Bongwater - Power Of Pussy
Jacula - Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus
Piano Magic - Low Birth Weight

Power of Pussy really is pretty great, and there isn't likely to be anything remotely like it in the future.

My frustration is that I don't listen to as many full-length albums as I used to! Well, OK. Top of my head:

Game Theory - Lolita Nation
Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
The Stylistics - s/t
Gesu no Kiwami Otome - Ryoseibai
Nina Simone - Emergency Ward/It Is Finished

glad to see utah saints making alfreds top 50
some very happy memories with that one

only two:

The Who - Live at Leeds
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador! (recorded 50 years ago today)

Tarfumes what is yr opinion on the definitive Live At Leeds version?

That'd be the "deluxe edition" hi-res download currently up on hdtracks.com. It's free of later vocal overdubs (Entwistle in '94, Daltrey in '01), restores many of the edits, and has the best mastering.

That said, the bootleg Live at Leeds Complete is a close second, being completely unedited ("Magic Bus" is almost two minutes longer). But the drums are a tad too low in the mix on the boot for my taste.

I knew you would bring the knowledge there, thanks!

You're welcome!

Canon 5

US Maple - Talker
Xiu Xiu - A Promise
Total Freedom - 40 Minute Boiler Room Set
Mica Levi - Feeling Romantic Feeling Tropical Feeling Ill
Huggy Bear - Taking The Rough With The Smooch

Functional 5

Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of...
Felt - Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty
Electrelane - Axes
Demdike Stare - Liberation Through Hearing

<3 Axes

a quick one:
Electrelane - Axes
David Bowie - Blackstar
The Stooges - Fun House
Funkadelic - Standing On the Verge Of Getting It On
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

The feeeeelies! Yeah boi

gonna go and listen to axes now. it's so good.

Same, Axes is pretty all time.

As other people are *cheating* and having second (or more) bites, I will too. Last week, elpees, so this week CEEDEEs.

Various - Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth, Vol.1 (Rev-Ola)
Lindstrøm - It's A Feedelity Affair (Smalltown Supersound)
Various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Discolation of the Norm (ZE records, 2CD)
Various - Sampled, Vol.3 - 40 Original Soul, Jazz, Funk and Disco tracks (Virgin, 2CD)
France Gall - France Gall (Polydor France 3CD "longbox" - compilation of all of her '45 tours' released 1963-1968)

(next week, "albums" that only exist in my iTunes library)

5 not already mentioned

David Bowie - Low
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Tricky - Maxinquaye
The Knife - Silent Shout
Twin Shadow - Forget

5 favorite this decade (excluding the one I had in my other top five)

Autechre - Exai
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Metafive - Meta
Dan Deacon - America
Birds and Buildings - Multipurpose Trap

"all Yessed out late at night" top 5

Yes - Close to the Edge
Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Glass Hammer - Inconsolable Secret
Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool
Koenjihyakkei - Nivraym

my actual Top 5

Yellow Magic Orchestra - s/t
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor
Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys

Lycia - Burning Circle And Then Dust
Trance To The Sun - (anything from Venomous Eve and onwards)
Rise And Fall Of A Decade - (any of their first three albums)
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Slowdive - Pygmalion

Young and Sexy - Life Through One Speaker
Tarentel - From Bone to Satellite
Fushitsusha - A Death Never To Be Complete
Source Direct - Exorcise The Demons
Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses

ooh there's some more I don't know, thanks LBI

el chicano - pyramid of love and friends

This is my new favourite album title.

a quick one:
Electrelane - Axes
David Bowie - Blackstar
The Stooges - Fun House
Funkadelic - Standing On the Verge Of Getting It On
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

Outstanding list

The Auteurs - Now I'm a Cowboy
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
The High Llamas - Cold and Bouncy
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Signs of Life
Stereolab - Sound Dust

y'all slept on +Minus A Rainy Koran Verse [UK Live]

Canon 5

US Maple - Talker
Xiu Xiu - A Promise

― fgti, Thursday, October 6

funny, these two are two of my favorites (top 5 material) as well

Nosoträsh - Popemas
Letta Mbulu Sings
Plumtree Predicts the Future
Hedy West - Live at the University of Chicago, 1978-01-27
Todd Rundgren - The Complete Bearsville Albums Collection

Thin White Rope When Worlds collide
Santana/Mclaughlin Love Devotion Surrender
Albion Country Band Battle of the Field
Frumious Bandersnatch A Young Man's Song
Miles Davis Dark Magus

5 favorite core food group records i didn't hear until my early 20s

houses of the holy - zeppelin
rumours - fleetwood mac
disintegration - the cure
american beauty - grateful dead
beggars banquet - stones

Thinnnn whiiiiite rooooope!!!!

on a given day

El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop
The Knife - Silent Shout
Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
All Saints - All Hits
Bjork - Homogenic

Isis - Panopticon
Dr. Yen Lo - Days With Dr. Yen Lo
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Roxy Music - Live
Maggot Brain

... I really dig Love Over Gold, too.

yeah that's a really cool album. i haven't listened to it enough.

I really want to do another list but I fear it goes against the nature of this thread

I would argue that it does

Picking just one album is way easier for some reason.

― rizzx,

... check the Watt/Mascus cover of Maggot Brain and take the weed to coke ...

I really want to do another list but I fear it goes against the nature of this thread

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), donderdag 13 oktober 2016 2:11 (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't see how it does. Think most here have five completely different fave albums on any given day.

Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Sonic Youth - Sister
Ween - GodWeenSatan
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Avalanches - Wildflower

Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
Portishead - Dummy
Wire - 154
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox

i spent yesterday listening to the life without buildings album about five times in a row so that

The Cure - Pornography
Bettie Serveert - Palomine
Eric's Trip - Love Tara
Motorpsycho - Trust Us
Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go