10 albums you need to hear before you die.

AKA: No answer. To think that Sigur Ros are of the Hot Topic crowd is ridiculous and wrong. A prog fan such as yourself should appreciate a band that for 10 years didn't settle for the norm. If you want to attack 'Med Sud...' though, then go right ahead. It's pretty average.
 
mmm..

1. Led Zeppelin - Remasters

2. The Beatles - Abbey Road

3. Jeff Buckley - Grace

4. Pearl Jam - Ten

5. Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

6. Keb' Mo' - Suitcase (Love this one...)

7. Eric Clapton & B.B King - Riding With the King

8. John Mayer - Where the Light Is

9. Dave Matthews Band - Before This Crowded Streets

10. Buckshot Lefonque - Music Evolution
 
This is an interesting list, to say the least.

I think Green Day are a good example of how bland and unimaginative alot of, as you put it, 'alternative' banRAB can be but I actually wouldnt have chosen this album. I can't say I have listened to it since it came out though but I didnt think it was too bad.

I wouldnt say Sgt Peppers was bland either, however its not all its made out to be in the sense that that The Beatles bettered it on a nuraber of occasions I feel.

I do disagree with Radiohead. Its arguable that they had better albums but I can still thoroughly enjoy OK Computer. I can understand some of the terms that get thrown at them ie they are a bit depressing etc but I never thought they were bland.

I'm surprised you included Floyd. You dont like The Wall then?

Do you not like The Beach Boys either?
 
I agree with a lot of what you say on this board... However, the inclusion of IV, Nevermind and OK Computer in this list is not amongst them. And i think ITAOTS get's an unfair bashing because of some stupid fanboys. It is, in my opinion, a very good album.
 
Exactly. if it was all solved within a few bars then we would all feck off to a happier life. I am not saying my choices are right. I just want to say that there is alternatives.
 
Hmn, this isn't too hard at all, though I wish I could name a Top 50-100 rather than just 10...:D

Yes - Close to the Edge
Soft Machine - Third
Tool - Aenima
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill
Mr. Bungle - California
King Crimson - Discipline
Screaming Headless Torsos - 1995
The Vampires of Dartmoore - Dracula's Music Cabinet
Can - Tago Mago
Il Balletto Di Bronzo - Ys
 
In no order

10. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
9. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
8. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
7. Blue October - Consent To Treatment
6. The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
5. Live - Throwing Copper
4. Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times
3. The National - Boxer
2. Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff
1. The Verve - Urban Hymns
 
We do a lot of these but whatevs... it changes every week any ways:

The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol.1
Radiohead - Kid A
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Jeff Buckley - Grace
GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor - F#A# Infinity
Sigur Ros - ()
Portishead - Thrid
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Mogwai - Rock Action


I really wanted to squeeze a couple more like 'Animals' or 'Loveless' in there but If I needed ten albums for the rest of my life it would probably be these.
 
1. You have no damn clue what I listen to and what I enjoy, so piss off.

2. If you are implying that listening to anything from before this decade is "living in the past", then you obviously don't appreciate what you listen to beyond a superficial level anyway. What are you going to do when everything you love now is considered outdated by everyone born past 1995 after they grow up?

And thirdly, its an unfortunate reality over here that every damn hipster who can't think outside their stupid scene within a hundred miles of me worship Sigur Ros, Death Cab For Cutie, Coldplay, etc. so I'll call things how I see them.
 
NMH and Talk Talk make music that is about the baring of ones soul. One band whinges about it. One band assimilates it, the other brooRAB upon it. I know who i want to listen to.
 
John Coltrane - A love Supreme
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Velvet Underground - Loaded
John Brown's Body - Among Them
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Marvin G@ye - What's goin' on
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Beatles - Revolver
 
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