Your 5 favorite albums

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

Joanna Newsom - Ys
Björk - Homogenic
Jorge Ben - Fôrça bruta
Depeche Mode - Violator
Fela Kuti - Beasts of no Nation

xp it's my least favourite record of theirs, but it's nice to see Aereogramme get a nod on here. Sleep and Release was one of my favourite albums for a long time, and would probably make into a personal top ten depending on how nostalgic I'm feeling.

as a tender young CIF, Palomine and Love Tara were top favorites of mine as well

<i>― rizzx,

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

Geez...okay :)

Listening: brilliant in all it's rotten glory!

as a tender young CIF, Palomine and Love Tara were top favorites of mine as well

― seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko)

I admit I never grew up.

re: Aereogramme, I could never really get into their older albums. The last one is the one where everything finally clicked. Just brilliant, beautiful, gorgeous music.

DJ Kicks - Playgroup
Spiderland - Slint
Technique - New Order
Vol. 4 - Black Sabbath
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan

a thing abt listmaking for me is that I can never really visualize or remember all my favorite albums at once, but I want to, since they make up a big part of who I understand myself to be, so making lists is kind of an attempt to grasp my own musical taste, and watching other peoples improvised lists in this thread reminds me of a lot of those non-cannon gems that are also in my top tier and that I really want to remember

Emmure, The Respect Issue
Emmure, Felony
Emmure, Speaker of the Dead
Emmure, Slave to the Game
Emmure, Eternal Enemies

Renaissance - Scheherazade
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
Diamanda Galas - Divine Punishment
Peter Hammill - Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night
Melt Banana - Cell Scape

Renaissance are such a good band. I might go with Live at Carnegie Hall as my pick.

Yeeeah, Cell Scape

I think that the later Melt Banana albums might be more solid but it really comes down to Cell Scape having such an exciting sequence at the start.

Art Tatum & Ben Webster - Art Tatum meets Ben Webster
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins encounters Ben Webster
Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster - Gerry Mulligan meets Ben Webster
Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson - Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson
Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges - The Complete 1960 jazz Cellar Session

i much prefer "The Brute" as a collaborator rather than a leader, he has such a godlike natural style he doesn't need to burdened with anything else imo

Cell Scape rules

Renaissance's first line up are also pretty decent.
They were initially a Yardbirds spin off but I don't think any of that line up lasted into the better known one from the 70s.
Keith Relf and his sister started looking into blending stuff together with classical and folk influences alongside Jim Mcarty the Yardbirds drummer.

I have a Sanctuary compilation 2cd that has some nice stuff on it.

TS: Artist name - Album title VS. Album title - Artist name

album title - artist name

another 5

in/casino/out - at the drive-in
feels - animal collective
antics - interpol
the air force - xiu xiu
yesterday's work - ecstatic sunshine

Cornford/Rodgers - Boring Embroidery
Lambkin/Lescalleet - Air Supply
Olivia Block - Heave to
Skogen - Ist Gefallen in den schnee
Moore/Surgal/Winant - Piece for Jetsun Dolma