Name your top 15 albums of all time!

[Gnash]

Metallica-Master Of Puppets
Pantera- Vulgar Display
Anthrax- Among The Living
ACDC- Back In Black
Black Sabbath- Master Of Reality
Overkill- Horrorscope
Carcass- Heartwork
Mega- Peace Sells
Slayer- South Of Heavan
Soilwork- Predator's Portrait
Fear Factory- Demanufacture
Alice In Chains- Dirt
Machine Head- Burn My Eyes
KISS- Dressed to Kill
Exodus- Fabulous Disaster
Prong- Cleansing
Meshuggah- Destroy, Erase, Improve

[drosophila]

Judging from past responses, i'm yet again reminded that I need to take advice here with a grain of salt. Different strokes and all that..

Top 15, unorganized and totally subject to change:
. Converter "Shock Front"
. Haus Arafna "Butterfly"
. Skinny Puppy "Too Dark Park"
. Swans "Children of God"
. Somatic Responses "Circumflex"
. Gridlock "Trace"
. Speedy J "G-Spot"
. Ladytron "Light & Magic"
. Venetian Snares "Doll Doll Doll"
. Stratvm Terror "Pain Implantations"
. Bad Sector "The Harrow"
. Coil "Horse Rotorvator"
. Die Form "L'ame Electrique"
. Morgenstern "Two Different Faces"
. Numb "Blood Meridian"

[brendondp]

Originally Posted by Fletcher

Does anyone actually read these threads or do people just post to them to see themselves post?

Actually, I just posted so everyone would go, "Dude, yeah that's such an avant-garde choice - man, really great to have someone with your taste here at gearslutz..."

Of course, no one has.

Oh well.

Cheers,

bdp

[Sounds Great]

Originally Posted by drosophila

Judging from past responses, i'm yet again reminded that I need to take advice here with a grain of salt. Different strokes and all that..

Top 15, unorganized and totally subject to change:
. Converter "Shock Front"
. Haus Arafna "Butterfly"
. Skinny Puppy "Too Dark Park"
. Swans "Children of God"
. Somatic Responses "Circumflex"
. Gridlock "Trace"
. Speedy J "G-Spot"
. Ladytron "Light & Magic"
. Venetian Snares "Doll Doll Doll"
. Stratvm Terror "Pain Implantations"
. Bad Sector "The Harrow"
. Coil "Horse Rotorvator"
. Die Form "L'ame Electrique"
. Morgenstern "Two Different Faces"
. Numb "Blood Meridian"

I'm sorry to have to say I have never heard of a single one of those.

[r0ck1r0ck2]

that's because you're not dark
feel the blackness
drink the blood
light the blood candle and sleep in a coffin

[parasitk]

Originally Posted by r0ck1r0ck2

that's because you're not dark
feel the blackness
drink the blood
light the blood candle and sleep in a coffin

Apparently you don't know who they are either!


Anywho, for shits and giggles here's a list, also kinda random and by no means complete (only 15? ):

David Bowie - Low
Pink Floyd - Animals
Ulver - Blood Inside
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Coil - Moon's Milk In Four Phases
Tool - Lateralus
Radiohead - Kid A
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Björk - Homogenic
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
The Beatles - Revolver
Das Ich - Egodram
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

I at least tried to only give one per band (tough with Bowie and Pink Floyd!)

[Cojo]

Originally Posted by brendondp

Right...

1. Thomas Koner "Aubrite"

2. Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Ferenc Fricsay conducting

3. Bjork "Vespertine"

4. Meshuggah "I" EP

5. Fantomas "Delerium in Cordia"

6. John Coltrane "Ballads"

7. Joe Henry "Fuse"

8. Arvo Part "Fratres"

9. Battles "B+T"

10. Deftones "Deftones"

11. John Zorn "Masada III"

12. Diamanda Galas "Malediction and Prayer"

13. P.J. Harvey "Is This Desire"

14. Led Zepplin "Led Zepplin"

15. Autechre "EP 7"

Oh... top 15 of all time...

Sorry, that was just the top 15 from yesterday.

So today's list is...

Cheers,

bdp

P.S. I mean, does anyone really expect to be able to push aside the hoardes of great music that's enriched our lives (thanks, Bill) and make a list of just 15 contenders? What about all the ones I left out? What happens to them?

P.P.S. I hate these lists.

Dude, yeah that's such an avant-garde choice - man, really great to have someone with your taste here at gearslutz...

/Cojo

[brendondp]

Originally Posted by Cojo

Dude, yeah that's such an avant-garde choice - man, really great to have someone with your taste here at gearslutz...

/Cojo

Finally! Someone's recognized my genius!

(Although, isn't it weird we get so much satisfaction from simply posting our opinion on a piece of work made by someone else that has no relation to us, as if vicariously our ego is bolsted through the very act of stating it? Am I really that insecure...? What's even weirder is when we start defending our taste, as if the work really did have a relation to us... I mean, if the artist who created the work is not the work - it is a seperate entity to them - then why do we get all offended the minute someone says that Led Zepplin "II is superior to, say, "Presence"? )

And Cojo, it's so great you have a sense of humour. Or at the very least, felt enough pity to post what you did.

Cheers to you,

bdp

[drosophila]

Originally Posted by parasitk

Apparently you don't know who they are either!

Hey, for what it's worth, that's the first time i've seen my tastes perceived as gothic :p

Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Coil - Moon's Milk In Four Phases
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Das Ich - Egodram
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

All totally good!
Though, c'mon.. "Egodram" over "Staub"? Blasphemy! :p

Glad to see i'm not the only one who ranks TDP as the best Puppy album, though. Pure freakin' genius.

[drosophila]

Originally Posted by Sounds Great

I'm sorry to have to say I have never heard of a single one of those.

Most people haven't, though Skinny Puppy and Coil both reached a small degree of success during the mid-late 80's into the early 90's. For most people, they came and went with the other bands of the post-punk and early industrial era. Nine Inch Nails became the most well-known of the bunch, though it's worth noting that Nothing released some of Coil's work awhile back.

Coil also did a series of unreleased themes for the movie "Hellraiser", which were denied use after the movie studio deemed them "too weird". Heh!

[Ricky]

Of all Time, Impossible, I got 5000 on vinyl and 4000 c.d.'s so err mmm, what day is it??. I play these records for inspiration.

No specific order.

Squarepusher "Selection Sixteen" Takes drum programming to another planet
Deep Purple "Machine head"
David Bowie "Ziggie Stardust" (I love all his records especially Earthling)
Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited"
ACDC "Powerage" ( I saw em at the local dance with Bon ,I was 15 and they they did change my life)
Radio Birdman "Radio's Appear" an Aussie classic
Beatles "Revolver" or "Rubber Soul" (too hard to decide)
Led Zep "4" or "Physical Spaghetti"
Massive Attack "Mezzanine"
Radiohead "OK Computer" (I suppose its a master piece but its depressing)
XTC "The Black Sea" or "Drums and Wires"
Pink Floyd "err ummm, ahhh, All of em"
The Kinks "see above".
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue","TuTu" and "Scetches of Spain"
Shpongle "Are you Shpongled", "Nothing Lasts nothing is lost".
(Simon Ponsford is in a league of his own.)

Oh yeah and anything by Chuck Berry, because as Keef says "If you aint heard Chuck your outa luck, If you dont like chuck you can go get Fxxxxx"



I give up this is impossible, Its like trying to hum the soundtrack to your life.
This is the kind of conversation you have over lots of draught beer at the Kyle Bay Bowling Club with your mates. Your all welcome to come on down for beer fueled analisis, the meat raffles start at 6-30pm sharp.thumbsup

[synthax]

Here is a top 20 and I could go on and on...not in any order

Nice to see a lot of us have some stuff in common!

Love- Forever Changes
Roxy Music- Avalon
Tim Buckley- Blue Afternoon
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Pink Floyd- Piper at the Gates of Dawn
MC5- Best of- The Big Bang
Iggy Pop- Raw Power
Richard Thompson- Rumor and Sigh
The Bee Gees- Best of Vol. 1
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Echo and the Bunnymen- Ocean Rain
Scott Walker- Best of It's Raining Today
Jacques Brel- Box Set
The Beatles- Rubber Soul
The Byrds- Turn, Turn, Turn
Cold Chisel- East
Beau Brummels- Bradleys Barn
The Easybeats- Best of
The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits