Your 5 favorite albums

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