What are your 10 favorite albums (or more if you want) ?

[P_A_Z]

The spirit of Tool help me to understand the spirit of Gojira.

[yakfak]

^
devo "b stiff" is so incredible lol

I know they were into that infiltration of pop thing but I wish they'd stayed more strangely musical like they were there and on the first album

 

I prefer EPs and old twelve inch singles to albums honestly, extended versions of songs I already love are amazing

 

list of those:

Portion Control "Go-Talk"

Melvins "Eggnog"

This Heat "Health & Efficiency" lol

Cabaret Voltaire "Drinking Gasoline"

Cabaret Voltaire "Sensoria/Cut the Damn Camera"

[Wyrmwood]

Sugar - Copper Blue

Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight

Stone Roses - Second Coming

The Weight - Ten Mile Grace

Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light

Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

The Black Keys - El Camino

Lynyrd Skynyrd - God and Guns

[nightly]

On 5/4/2023 at 11:59 PM, Grain of Salt said:

My favorite Xasthur title is "Telepathic with the Deceased". I wish I liked the album as much as its title tbh.

Mine is probably "Sigils Made of Flesh and Trees", but my favourite Xasthur album is Nocturnal Poisoning

[Ericbarker306]

1. David Bowie - Station to Station
2. The Beatles - Abbey Road
3. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
4. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Deja Vu
5. Frank Sinatra - Sinatra at the Sands
6. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
7. The Who - Who’s Next
8. Paul Simon - Live Rhymin’
9. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
10. The Doors - Strange Days

[Gregor]

On 5/5/2023 at 4:59 AM, Grain of Salt said:

 

imo Xasthur titles often fit the format of "bad thing + unawareness". Like: To Violate the Oblivious, Screaming at Forgotten Fears, Malice Hidden in Surrealism, Obfuscated in Oblivion, Forgotten Depths of Nowhere. He should do one just called Unaware of Bad.

 

My favorite Xasthur title is "Telepathic with the Deceased". I wish I liked the album as much as its title tbh.

 

I gave "Subliminal Genocide" a listen the other day... Quite the experience. Black Metal is normally not my cup of tea, too extreme for my taste, but i was surprised by how melodic and "catchy" a lot of the chord progressions and arrangements were. The vocals, even though they are mostly just the typical screeching nightmarish mess, actually fit the soundscape here really well. "The Prison Of Mirrors" is pretty dope. I like the fact that it's not this typical theatrical "uh, look at me i'm so EEEVAAALLLLLL" crap and more of an honest expression of despair and rage. I also watched the documentary on YT that featured him - interesting character. It looked like the interviewer was surprised to find that the dude that makes this extreme music isn't just a regular fella that pretends to be an evil, bad boy to impress the girls like most people; that a lot of the stuff he screams about is real emotions he feels and to a large degree a reflection of the shit that is going in his head.

 

Definitely not something i would listen to on a regular basis; it's actually pretty disturbing. But interesting, if not exactly beautiful.

Hansel said it best in Zoolander:

Spoiler

 

 

Edited May 21, 2023 by Gregor

[whybmonotacrab]

Changes all the time so I'll try not to overthink it:

• Aesop Rock: The Impossible Kid
• Agalloch - The Mantle
• The Strokes - Is This It?
• Death Grips - The Money Store
• Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy
• Nirvana - In Utero
• Earl Sweatshirt - I don't Like Shit, I don't go outside.
• Billy Woods - Hiding Places
• Cult of Luna - Mariner
• Leprous - Coal

[P_A_Z]

On 6/3/2023 at 3:03 PM, whybmonotacrab said:

Leprous - Coal

 

God, Leprous :)

 

Favorite albums : The Congregation and Malina.

Edited June 5, 2023 by P_A_Z

[soner du]

Top 10 :

1. Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivität
2. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
3. Endless Boogie - Long Island
4. Christophe - Comm'si la Terre penchait
5. Denez Prigent - Me'Zalc'h Ennon ur Fulenn Aour
6. Florent Marchet - Courchevel
7. Sepultura - Roots
8. The Young Gods - Knock on Wood
9. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasure Dome
10. Chumbawamba - Anarchy

Bonus 10 :

• David Bowie - Heathen
• The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
• My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
• Jacno - Tant de Temps
• Ar Breizerien - Bale Roue Arzur
• Zenzile - Electric Soul
• The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
• Bérurier Noir - Meilleurs extraits des deux concerts à Paris
• Stupeflip - The Hypnoflip Invasion
• Les Wampas - Les Îles au Soleil

Some videos of (probably) lesser-known stuff in the bunch :

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[P_A_Z]

I have included Deftones in my list (also Lateralus of Tool), i never hate this band. In my opinion Stephen Carpenter is the best Alt-Metal guitarist, he is not very technical but precise and clean and i love his sound and riffs with his eight-strings guitars. Chino Moreno has a good voice, and Chi Cheng, a big RIP for Chi.

 

 

Edited June 5, 2023 by P_A_Z

[Async Unicorn]

• 1. The Cure - Disintegration
• 2. Japan - Tin Drum
• 3. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
• 4. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
• 5. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
• 6. Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
• 7. Gary Numan - Telekon
• 8. Gary Numan - Pure
• 9. Randy Travis - Storms of Life
• 10. Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
• 11. Depeche Mode - Violator
• 12. Faith No More - Angel Dust
• 13. Christoph De Babalon – If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It
• 14. Rei Harakami - [Lust]
• 15. Rei Harakami - wasuremono
• 16. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async
• 17. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
• 18. Bryan Ferry - Boys And Girls
• 19. Roxy Music - Avalon
• 20. Roxy Music - Flesh And Blood
• 21. Slayer - South Of Heaven
• 22. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
• 23. America - Hearts
• 24. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
• 25. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Oh god, there are many, I'm a music geek, :P
I can't choose only 10, I have a large collection, this is only a small part of it
It seems to me it would be superfluous if I just write out all the albums from Spotify here, :D

Edited June 17, 2023 by Vanilla+Unicorn

[Shakariki Heisenberg]

1 marvins marvelous mechanical museum -tallyhall
2 the emiem show -emiem
3 marshal mathered lp -emiem
4 pink season -pinkguy/filthyfrank
next ones are like video game music album things anyways ye idk
1 Undertale
2 Deltarune Ch1,2
3 pretty much any touhou song
 

[Linuxmaster1992]

1 BAD OPERATION - BAD OPERATION

2 Ramones - Rocket to Russia

3 Incendiary - Change the Way You Think About Pain

4 Total Chaos - We Are The Future, We Are The Punks

5 Freezeheads - 96 Rats

6 Mechanical Canine - Walls Covered in Mildew

7 Reaching Out - What Was Left

8 Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor

9 Bim Skala Bim - Krinkle

10 Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb

11 Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM (and ska dream)

12 Bomb the Music Industry! - Get Warmer

[Synami]

1) Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farewell, 2016-2018

2) BLCKK - Eighty Proof

3) The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

4) Nails - Unsilent Death

5) Model/Actriz - Dogsbody

6) Airospace - You're a Liar and You Suck, Who Would Love You?

7) triplesixdelete - chronology of life thoughts

8) triplesixdelete - Chapter 1: I LIKE TO SCREAM
9) Lil Darkie - boros

10) Flume - Things Don't Always Go the Way You Plan

[Killdozer]

Hard to name them all but here are atleast some :

 

1) Bolt Thrower - Those once loyal

2) Type O Negative - Life is killing me

3) Ramones - Leave Home

4) Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies

5) Thin Lizzy - Thunder & Lightning

6) Fields of the Nephlimin - Elizium

7) W.A.S.P - The Last Command

8) Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune

9) Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here

10) Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues

11) Coroner - No More Color

12) Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn

[roadworx]

uhhh uh uh uh uh uh

my top 10 depend entirely on the phase of the moon, so here's like, my top 30 fdghjklgasfd (in no particular order cuz ordering is HARD)

 

so, for rock:

1.) pink floyd - the wall

2.) pink floyd - animals

3.) spirit - twelve dreams of dr. sardonicus

4.) emerson lake and palmer - tarkus

5.) hawkwind - space ritual

6.) nektar - journey to the centre of the eye

7.) camel - mirage

8.) captain beyond - captain beyond

9.) the doors - the doors

10.) yes - close to the edge

11.) king crimson - 21st century schizoid man

12.) van der graaf generator - the least we can do is wave to each other

13.) king gizzard and the lizard wizard - polygondwanaland

14.) alphataurus - alphataurus

15.) premiata forneria marconi - chocolate kings

 

aaaand metal:

1.) powermad - absolute power

2.) metallica - master of puppets

3.) metallica - kill em all

4.) anthrax - spreading the disease

5.) death angel - act iii

6.) king gizzard and the lizard wizard - infest the rats nest

7.) mortal sin - mayhemic destruction

8.) queensryche - operation: mindcrime

9.) slayer - reign in blood

10.) whiplash - insult to injury

11.) annihilator - alice in hell

12.) riot - thundersteel

13.) toxik - world circus

14.) anthrax - among the living

15.) megadeth - rust in peace

[RED77]

So, It's hard to tell cause they change constantly, but here are some that I hear very often.

BAD RELIGION - GENERATOR (USA - MELODIC PUNK)

GABO FERRO - LA PRIMERA NOCHE DEL FANTASMA (ARG - TROVA/FOLCLORE) 

 

ETERNA INOCENCIA - A LOS QUE SE HAN APAGADO (ARG - HARDCORE PUNK)

 

SLAM UP - NO BALANCE (ARG - SKA PUNK)

 

MARCEL DUCHAMP -CONTRA NOSOTROS MISMOS (CHILE - HARDCORE)

CADENA PERPETUA - MALAS COSTUMBRES (ARG -PUNK ROCK)

 

PATRICIO REY Y SUS REDONDITOS DE RICOTA - LOBO SUELTO / CORDERO ATADO (ARG - ROCK/BLUES/POSTPUNK)*

JULIETA VENEGAS - AQUÍ (MEX - POP/FOLCLORE)

 

FUN PEOPLE - THE ART(E) OF ROMANCE (ARG - HARDCORE PUNK)

 

EL KANKA- EL DÍA DE SUERTE DE JUAN GOMEZ (SPA- TROVA)

 

RISE AGAINS - THE SUFFERER AND THE WITNESS (USA - MELODIC PUNK)

BIFE - TODA (ARG - POP/TANGO)

 

 

*These are two albums that work as a double

[Bubbabooie]

No particular order. Lots of jazz/pop/rock, r/b, and some weird shit

 

Steely Dan - Aja

                 - Two Against Nature

                 - The Royal Scam

                 - Gaucho

Walter Becker - Circus Money

Donald Fagen - Morph the Cat

Shpongle - Codex VI

Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen

Ott - Mir

Jose James - Lean on Me

Dave Brubeck - Jazz Impressions of Japan

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rat's Nest

Run the Jewels - RTJ3

James Taylor - Sweet Baby James

Glass Animals - ZABA

[plums]

On 5/3/2023 at 2:47 AM, Grain of Salt said:

Curse of the Golden Vampire - Mass Destruction

I could never get into this one, maybe I was just expecting something different, sounds like just another angry Techno Animal side project to me. It's neat that you mentioned it at all though.

 

I once had the idea to make an all-archvile map called Curse of the Golden Vampire but seeing as I have never actually finished a map that's unlikely to happen.

 

Normally I stay out of these threads since they're often a bunch of people just posting and then not interacting with anyone else, but it's nice to see some actual discussion here. I too like electronic music @continuum.mid @yakfak & everyone that listed an Aphex album. Not going to do a top 10 but my favourite album is probably Alec Empire's Les Etoiles Des Filles Mortes, it's pretty weird, and unlike a lot of his stuff, not loud and aggressive.

[Grain of Salt]

3 hours ago, plums said:

I could never get into this one, maybe I was just expecting something different, sounds like just another angry Techno Animal side project to me. It's neat that you mentioned it at all though.

 

For me "angry Techno Animal side project" is pretty much all I could ask for in a noisy album (I guess the others in that category are Anatomy of Addiction and Bad Blood?). Also on the subject of Techno Animal, I nearly listed Brotherhood of the Bomb. Or maybe I did list it. What page is my list even on? :l

 

But anyway, I love how Mass Destruction is just like a slab of noise. It's both more extreme and more consistent than a Godflesh album in my opinion. You can pretty much dip into any track and feel the same hateful energy, but imo the standouts are Iron Ghetto Man Crusher (classic JKB title, lol) and End Civilisation, because they have a slight of touch of sadness in the horror (not unlike a couple of Godflesh songs I guess). Also, it's kinda funny to think it was released around the same time an Earache executive fired Godflesh because "we don't need you, we have Slipknot and stuff now", since Slipknot's mixing of drum and bass or noise with metal (ie, "Eyeless") is pretty half-hearted compared to this.

 

"United Snakes of America" is just a 10/10 song title, also.

 

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I once had the idea to make an all-archvile map called Curse of the Golden Vampire but seeing as I have never actually finished a map that's unlikely to happen.

 

God, I have so many "X would be a good idea for a map" ideas that are never gonna get made. In a similar vein to yours, I've always wanted to make an archvile-heavy map called Yellow Emperor.

 

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I too like electronic music continuum.mid yakfak & everyone that listed an Aphex album. Not going to do a top 10 but my favourite album is probably Alec Empire's Les Etoiles Des Filles Mortes, it's pretty weird, and unlike a lot of his stuff, not loud and aggressive.

 

I'd be interested in reading your top 10 (or whatever number) if you ever change your mind, fwiw

[plums]

22 hours ago, Grain of Salt said:

 

For me "angry Techno Animal side project" is pretty much all I could ask for in a noisy album (I guess the others in that category are Anatomy of Addiction and Bad Blood?). Also on the subject of Techno Animal, I nearly listed Brotherhood of the Bomb. Or maybe I did list it. What page is my list even on? :l

 

You did list it, or you changed your list to include it. Actually there's a few interesting things there that I really like that I missed before. (NOW IS TIME TO THE 68000 HEART ON FIRE!)

 

I gave Mass Destruction another listen and I like it a lot more than I remember it. Probably if they released it under a different name I wouldn't have had the same initial reaction to it. Not that the first CotGV album was a masterpiece, it was really unfocused and kind of incoherent, but it was very "out there" in its own way and entirely different from Mass Destruction.

 

Anyhow I didn't want to just dump a list of albums with no context *but* I was also feeling lazy and didn't want to write or think much about it, I'm maybe up for typing up a long post now and you twisted my arm so HEWIGO

 

Top 10, max one album per artist

 

Alec Empire - Les Etoiles Des Filles Mortes: A bunch of odd synth sounds, lots of which are samples from german musician Dieter Moebius. A punk approach to musique concrète. Alec Empire is a pretty prolific musician and while he's known mostly for Atari Teenage Riot, there's a very big mix in what he's put out. Interestingly @heliumlamb also listed an Empire album, The Destroyer, which is comparatively one of my least favourites of his (it's still not bad).

 

Nic Endo - Cold Metal Perfection: Long-time collaborator with Alec Empire, this album is mostly beat-driven or at least rhythmic but still pretty abstract.

 

Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby: Solid straight 90s rock. I love all GvsB albums but they have three that are highly regarded by fans, with almost everyone having a fave, this is mine. Fun tidbit since there are Guided by Voices fans here, the two bands once put out a split live album called "Eight Rounds" under the names GVSB vs GBV hahaha.

 

The Jesus Lizard - Goat: Labelmates of GVSB during their heydays. Kurt Cobain was a big fan.

 

Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do: Hard to pick one Aphex album but if you include the digital re-release bonus tracks (which were all available for free in his massive soundcloud track dump) then I think this wins.

 

Autechre - EP7: Comparatively easy choice since Zeiss Contarex is my favourite Autechre track. elseq 1-5 is also a contender if you can count a series of five 50-minute releases as "an album" lol

 

Baracuda - Smell That Noise: Back in my 20s, when I sometimes went places and did things, I saw this guy open for Venetian Snares in Montreal. Extremely skilled, very crisp-sounding techno/IDM. Not even on youtube still!

 

Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse: Another one where almost any album could fit. I even mostly like "newer" Puppy but it doesn't match the earlier stuff.
@Remilia Scarlet post-2000 Skinny Puppy yea or nay?

 

Prototype 909 - Acid Technology: Acid techno band who were known for doing live shows actually live, instead of just DJing/playing a DAT/whatever which was kind of rare in the early 90s.

 

Meat Beat Manifesto - RUOK?: Again hard to pick just one MBM album, this is probably the one I've listened to the most. None of their albums sound exactly alike and yet no-one else sounds like them either.

 

 

Also Noteworthy:

 

SSTROM - Vitriol: Really nice moody techno, only doesn't make the top 10 because it's a 4-song EP, and then just barely.

 

Alberich - Machine Gun Nest: Just recently discovered this guy so it's a bit early for me to list it as a top 10 but it's very much up my alley. Noisy techno or melodic noise, as you prefer.

 

Randy Greif - Verdi's Requiem: Anyone into experimental music should listen to Greif's Alice In Wonderland at least once, it's not exactly a casual affair to do though, so Verdi's Requiem wins by being relatively more accessible (relatively being the key word).

 

Hood - Outside Closer: Melancholic indie-rock. Hood were an experimental/noise rock outfit who pivoted towards this style for their final few albums.

 

Behold the Arctopus - Skullgrid: Instrumental avant-garde/"prog-ish" metal. Haven't listened to this in a while but it's pretty awesome. Just how many notes can you fit into one song anyhow?

 

Fire-Toolz - Interbeing: "Electronic new-age black metal vaporwave" shouldn't be a thing that works, but it mostly does. Like with people on your ARTISTS WHOSE GREAT SONGS ARE TOO SPLIT BETWEEN RELEASES list, I could probably make one excellent album IMO by combining a bunch of different Fire-Toolz songs, as they are most albums have a few great tracks mixed in with a bunch of decent-to-good-but-not-amazing ones. I'm sure a lot of people would find this bizarre and unlistenable but oh well!

 

Lots of videogame music, especially Genesis stuff when the composers knew how to use the FM synth properly.

 

Lots of demoscene/netlabel/etc. electronic music from the pre-soundcloud/bandcamp days. I'm not complaining about those at all, we live in an amazing age for music availability and accessibility, it was just a different era.

 

Ghettotech lol

Edited June 22, 2023 by plums

[Eurisko]

Here is a few of mine without repeating the same band/artist twice. 
 

blink-182 - Enema Of The State

Dr Dre- 2001

Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP

Michael Jackson - Dangerous

Zebrahead- MFZB

Limp Bizkit- Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavoured Water

Lit- A Place In The Sun

blur- The Great Escape

Box Car Racer- Box Car Racer

The Offspring - Conspiracy Of One

Moby- Play

BABYMETAL- BABYMETAL

Fall Out Boy- From Under The Cork Tree

BloodHound Gang - Hooray For Boobies! 
The Streets- A Grand Don’t Come For Free

 

 

[P_A_Z]

15 minutes ago, Eurisko said:

BABYMETAL

 

Babymetal is so funny ;)

[Eurisko]

2 hours ago, P_A_Z said:

 

Babymetal is so funny ;)

 

They are bizarre

 

[P_A_Z]

On 6/22/2023 at 8:14 PM, Eurisko said:

They are bizarre

 

Of course, but when i watch them live it makes me smile although this is not my stuff.

[apichatpong]

The ten first that came to my mind :

 

Blue Öyster Cult : Tyranny & mutation
Black Sabbath : Sabotage
Megadeth : Rust in Peace
Emperor : Anthems to the welkin at dusk
Cannibal Corpse : Tomb of the mutilated

Steely Dan : The Royal Scam
Todd Rundgren : A wizard, a true star
Laurent Voulzy : Bopper en larmes
John Cale : Slow dazzle
Vladimir Cosma : Soundtrack for « Un éléphant ça trompe énormément/Nous irons tous au Paradis »

[Astar]

1. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden under vatten

2. Meshuggah - Nothing

3. Meshuggah - Koloss

4. Gojira - Magma 

5. FRACTALIZE - Prophet of Despair

6. Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide

7. Tool - 10,000 Days

8. Tool - Lateralus

9. No Oath - Silicon

10. No Oath - Liminal

11. Portishead - Dummy

12. Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious

[P_A_Z]

Meshuggah - Nothing, +1

Meshuggah - Koloss, +1