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.
― seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko), Saturday, 1 October 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Solex - Low Kick and Hard BopKate Bush - The DreamingBroadcast - Haha soundPj Harvey - Is This Desire?Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (just narrowly beating out Judee Sill's self-titled).
― Ross, Saturday, 1 October 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
anything to keep ILM alive
cardiacs - sing to god*van der graaf generator - pawn heartsjulian cope - friedjute 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
― imago, Saturday, 1 October 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
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 CoolParamore - ParamoreQueens of the Stone Age - ...Like ClockworkCure - DisintegrationWarpaint - Heads Up
― how's life, Saturday, 1 October 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe Al Stewart - Past, Present & FutureVan der Graaf Generator - Still Life Okkervil River - The Stage NamesCowboy Junkies - The Caution Horses
― heaven parker (anagram), Saturday, 1 October 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
haruomi hosono - medicine compilation from the quiet lodge
loving this
― savvinesslessness (map), Saturday, 1 October 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
(some of) My faves from y'all's lists (several would be here anyway):
The Velvet Underground and NicoHighway 61 RevistedFunhouseHere Come The Warm JetsAsk The Ages
And I really really wanna hear Larry Levan Live At The Ecstasy Paradise Garage
― dow, Saturday, 1 October 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
i always knew i would love hosono and ymo but i was kind of saving it maybe.
― savvinesslessness (map), Saturday, 1 October 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
the boo radleys - giant stepsyoung thug - jefferypere ubu - dub housingautechre - lp5scott walker - bish bosch
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Saturday, 1 October 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
D'Angelo - VoodooPrince - Dirty MindMinnie Riperton - Come To My GardenThe Blue Nile - HatsCocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
― art baengels (monotony), Sunday, 2 October 2016 05:16 (seven years ago) link
Talk Talk - Laughing StockMy Bloody Valentine - LovelessKate Bush - Aerial Orbital - In SidesBrian Eno - Another Green World
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 2 October 2016 05:38 (seven years ago) link
Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy yr rabbitSpandau Ballet - ParadeGarbage - Bleed like meThe Shaggs - philosophy of the worldDirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 2 October 2016 06:31 (seven years ago) link
First thought/best thoughtWhat's Goin' On?Scary MonstersSign O' The TimesRubber SoulSongs In The Key Of Life
― Davey D, Sunday, 2 October 2016 06:43 (seven years ago) link
Pretty Things - SF SorrowUnited States of America - United States of AmericaKevin Ayers - BananamourGuided by Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the StarsBill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
― Gouty_Ted, Sunday, 2 October 2016 07:32 (seven years ago) link
Jefferson Airplane After Bathing At BaxtersCharles Mingus Ah Um.Henry Cow Concerts (disc 2)Creation Our Music Is Red With Purple Flashes.Pentangle Basket Of LightSteeleye Span The Lark In The Morning.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 2 October 2016 08:22 (seven years ago) link
Today:
Nick Drake - Bryter LayterTerry Callier - What Colour is LoveFrightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ FightThe Congos - Heart of the CongosMatana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Sunday, 2 October 2016 09:38 (seven years ago) link
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
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Sunday, 2 October 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
... this thread now?
hole - celebrity skinbritney spears - blackoutfleetwood mac - tusksonny sharrock - black womanprince - sign 'o' the times
― Nourry, Sunday, 2 October 2016 12:00 (seven years ago) link
^^^yes
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 October 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
pretty fucked up that no one told me about Hats until now
WHAT ELSE ARE YOU PEOPLE HIDING
― ciderpress, Sunday, 2 October 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
I can't think of a single album I like lol :-/
― flopson, Sunday, 2 October 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
squeeze greatest hitsbridge over troubled watersarcastic discorumourswho will cut our hair when we're gone
― flopson, Sunday, 2 October 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
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, 2 October 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
PJ & Duncan AKA - Psyche2 Unlimited - No Limits!Scooter - ...and the Beat Goes On!Scatman John - Scatman's WorldRednex - Sex & Violins
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Sunday, 2 October 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
PJ & Duncan AKA - Psyche2 Unlimited - No Limits!Scooter - ...and the Beat Goes On!Scatman John - Scatman's WorldRednex - Sex & Violins― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Sunday, October 2, 2016 5:53 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Sunday, 2 October 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
another five for kicks
Meat Loaf Bat Out of HellPinetop Seven The Night's BloomSongs: Ohia Ghost TropicNoMeansNo The Worldhood Of the World (As Such)Hum Downward Is Heavenward
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 2 October 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 2 October 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
no Psyche either
― soref, Sunday, 2 October 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
Another one:Nick Drake - Five Leaves LeftJoy Division - Unknown PleasuresJoni Mitchell - HejiraYo La Tengo - Summer SunThe Smiths - The World Won't Listen
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 2 October 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
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 NationLaugh & Peace - Vib Ribbon soundtrackImmortal - Pure HolocaustAC/DC - Back in Black
― punksishippies, Sunday, 2 October 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― savvinesslessness (map), Sunday, 2 October 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
errr
aaliyah - aaliyahthe 1975 - i like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of ittaylor swift - reddiddy-dirty money - last train to parisashlee 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
― uberweiss, Monday, 3 October 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
I have no idea how I've managed to live without The Blue Nile's 'Hats' for this long, but this is fantastic.
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 October 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
the Beatles - A Hard Day's NightBig Star - #1 RecordNeil Young - After the GoldrushAerosmith - RocksPrince - Dirty Mind
― DavidLeeRoth, Monday, 3 October 2016 12:58 (seven years ago) link
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - Saradamani
This is beautiful.
― jmm, Monday, 3 October 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
never even heard of the blue nile tbh
― marcos, Monday, 3 October 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
hats is ilx canon def
― flopson, Monday, 3 October 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
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....
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 3 October 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Perhaps you're thinking of These New Puritans? Or maybe Majical Cloudz?
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 October 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
we should poll hats, right?
― k3vin k., Monday, 3 October 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Monday, 3 October 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
oh god yeah, hold up
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 3 October 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
Bob Dylan, Live 1966Joni Mitchell, HejiraPrince, Purple RainRoxy Music, AvalonUncle Tupelo, Anodyne
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 3 October 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
hats; tusk; colossal youth; DS2 (deluxe); desertshore
― ||||||||, Monday, 3 October 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Dustdevils: Struggling Electric and ChemicalSwans: Feel Good Now (the bootleggy UK CD version)Men Without Hats: Pop Goes The WorldThe Moles: Untune The Sky (Flydaddy Version)The Fall: different album every month, but always one of them
― dlp9001, Monday, 3 October 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
Todd Rundgren, A Wizard/A True StarOlivia Tremor Control, Dusk At Cubist CastleAl Green, Call MePhilip Glass, The Photographerv/a, New Thing!
― thos beads (jamescobo), Monday, 3 October 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Dustdevils: Struggling Electric and Chemical
Found this for $3 a few years ago and love it very much
― Evan, Monday, 3 October 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.The Clash - London CallingPavement - Slanted & EnchantedThe Minutemen - Double Nickels on the DimeBob Dylan - Love and Theft
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 3 October 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Belle & Sebastian: If You're Feeling SinisterAltered Images: Pinky BlueThe Shins: Oh Inverted WorldTed Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of OakThe Ocean Blue - The Ocean Blue
― enochroot, Monday, 3 October 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link