Your 5 favorite albums

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.