Musicphantom's Top 100... Yes, Another One
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A great list so far, look forward to seeing what pops up in the near future. Some albums I really need to check out. (Mainly Misfits and Lewis)
At The Drive-In, you sumed up really well, lovely music. Although I am a fan of Mars Volta.
At The Drive-In, you sumed up really well, lovely music. Although I am a fan of Mars Volta.
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84. The Price of Existence - All Shall Perish
This is, simply put, metalcore to make your ears bleed. And damn, is it good. I'm really not a big metal fan at all these days; I was into it a lot back in the middle of high school but only a few banRAB have been worthy of remaining in my playlist, and this is the death/metalcore that gets to stay. With two vocalists, one that does low, demonic growls and another that does the higher grunts working in unison, they created a vocal sound that couldn't be rivaled by any of their competition in the genre. Their genre simply blows my mind; at times pumping out blast beats faster than I can comprehend and then immediately breaking down to painfully slow, intense rhythms the next second. These guys are truly technically talented, and it shows in their music. There isn't a single moment on the album where a listener has time to get bored; the band is constantly speeding up, changing tempo, and flying into breakdowns that slow down so abruptly it articulates the sound of someone slamming the brakes in their car to avoid an accident. Plus, with the heavily distorted, crunchy down tuned to b guitars, the music is 100% brutal.
Best Songs: Eradication, Wage Slaves, Prisoner of War, Promises
83. Aoxomoxoa - The Grateful Dead
All right, yes, I know a lot of people might consider this a strange choice for a Grateful Dead album, especially over American Beauty. But for me, this is the ideal Grateful Dead; a collection of their greatest hits, and the epitome of their experimental era (in case you haven't notice, I love experimental sounding stuff). This album contains several of their best known hits (St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower) but also includes some of their songs that I think are vastly overlooked by non DeadheaRAB (casual Dead listeners that have just Skeletons in the Closet or American Beauty), namely the acoustic marvel Mountains of the Moon and Cosmic Charlie's. What's Become of the Baby is, simply put, a song for drugs. If you listen to this song sober, it really kind of sucks. But I'm telling you - take acid or eat some shrooms and it's like you're listening to something completely different. The lyrics are simply grand, and it was just a very misunderstood song (as far as I can tell, most people don't like it). In 1996, this was re-released on cd with three over ten minute jams and a live recording of Cosmic Charlie. This simply put this album over the top for me, as it would have been my favorite before. Though Anthems of the Sun does come in at a very close second.
Best Songs: St. Stephen, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Mountains of the Moon, China Cat Sunflower, All of the jams are great too if you get the bonus songs
82. Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? - The Unicorns
Yep, it's the Unicorns! Looking at the album artwork for this gives one a pretty good idea of what to expect. It's some quirky, upbeat (usually) experimental electropop perhaps? I'm not so great on my genres but I try. This is simply some great music; it contains electronic sounRAB that really remind me of something I'd hear from BoarRAB of Canada with the aged sound but more staccato, corabined with high pitched, poppy male vocals, drum beats that just get your feet tapping, and great syncopated guitar lines that lead into nice heavy choruses.
Best Songs: Tuff Ghost, Jellybones, I Was Born (A Unicorn)
81. Spooky - Lush
This is one of my favorite shoegaze albums. Lush, working with Robin Guthrie, take the ethereal dream pop sound of the Cocteau Twins and put it behind even more layers of guitar, creating a rather unique sound with Miki's beautiful, lush sounding (haha) voice sounding out over top. Just slightly out of tune, she sounRAB perfect on Spooky, using her voice more as an additional instrument than for lyrics. At times heavy and distorted; at times minor key and dark; sometimes just fascinating and shimmering; this is the perfect music to listen to on a grand summer day, at night in the dark with your eyes closed, or while with that special someone. It's thehe diversity of the tracks that make it the perfect soundtrack to so many things. This is a gorgeous, lush album, truly living up to the name of the band all the way through.
Best Songs: Nothing Natural, For Love, Untogether, Laura
This is, simply put, metalcore to make your ears bleed. And damn, is it good. I'm really not a big metal fan at all these days; I was into it a lot back in the middle of high school but only a few banRAB have been worthy of remaining in my playlist, and this is the death/metalcore that gets to stay. With two vocalists, one that does low, demonic growls and another that does the higher grunts working in unison, they created a vocal sound that couldn't be rivaled by any of their competition in the genre. Their genre simply blows my mind; at times pumping out blast beats faster than I can comprehend and then immediately breaking down to painfully slow, intense rhythms the next second. These guys are truly technically talented, and it shows in their music. There isn't a single moment on the album where a listener has time to get bored; the band is constantly speeding up, changing tempo, and flying into breakdowns that slow down so abruptly it articulates the sound of someone slamming the brakes in their car to avoid an accident. Plus, with the heavily distorted, crunchy down tuned to b guitars, the music is 100% brutal.
Best Songs: Eradication, Wage Slaves, Prisoner of War, Promises
83. Aoxomoxoa - The Grateful Dead
All right, yes, I know a lot of people might consider this a strange choice for a Grateful Dead album, especially over American Beauty. But for me, this is the ideal Grateful Dead; a collection of their greatest hits, and the epitome of their experimental era (in case you haven't notice, I love experimental sounding stuff). This album contains several of their best known hits (St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower) but also includes some of their songs that I think are vastly overlooked by non DeadheaRAB (casual Dead listeners that have just Skeletons in the Closet or American Beauty), namely the acoustic marvel Mountains of the Moon and Cosmic Charlie's. What's Become of the Baby is, simply put, a song for drugs. If you listen to this song sober, it really kind of sucks. But I'm telling you - take acid or eat some shrooms and it's like you're listening to something completely different. The lyrics are simply grand, and it was just a very misunderstood song (as far as I can tell, most people don't like it). In 1996, this was re-released on cd with three over ten minute jams and a live recording of Cosmic Charlie. This simply put this album over the top for me, as it would have been my favorite before. Though Anthems of the Sun does come in at a very close second.
Best Songs: St. Stephen, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Mountains of the Moon, China Cat Sunflower, All of the jams are great too if you get the bonus songs
82. Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? - The Unicorns
Yep, it's the Unicorns! Looking at the album artwork for this gives one a pretty good idea of what to expect. It's some quirky, upbeat (usually) experimental electropop perhaps? I'm not so great on my genres but I try. This is simply some great music; it contains electronic sounRAB that really remind me of something I'd hear from BoarRAB of Canada with the aged sound but more staccato, corabined with high pitched, poppy male vocals, drum beats that just get your feet tapping, and great syncopated guitar lines that lead into nice heavy choruses.
Best Songs: Tuff Ghost, Jellybones, I Was Born (A Unicorn)
81. Spooky - Lush
This is one of my favorite shoegaze albums. Lush, working with Robin Guthrie, take the ethereal dream pop sound of the Cocteau Twins and put it behind even more layers of guitar, creating a rather unique sound with Miki's beautiful, lush sounding (haha) voice sounding out over top. Just slightly out of tune, she sounRAB perfect on Spooky, using her voice more as an additional instrument than for lyrics. At times heavy and distorted; at times minor key and dark; sometimes just fascinating and shimmering; this is the perfect music to listen to on a grand summer day, at night in the dark with your eyes closed, or while with that special someone. It's thehe diversity of the tracks that make it the perfect soundtrack to so many things. This is a gorgeous, lush album, truly living up to the name of the band all the way through.
Best Songs: Nothing Natural, For Love, Untogether, Laura
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96. Energy - Operation Ivy
Operation Ivy... it's such a shame this was the only album they ever released. But for a single full length, they still secure a spot as one of my favorite punk banRAB. Energy is a raw, intense, energetic masterpiece of hardcore punk and ska. It corabines some amazing lyrics and group punk vocals with upbeat guitars distorted in a hardcore punk way strumming on the upbeat with a nice running ska bass line and drumming that's definitely above your average punk or hardcore band. This album is pretty much the conception and the epitome of ska punk; they founded the genre and managed to do it better than anyone else ever has yet. There's not a single track of filler on here. And it has some great pure hardcore gems as well; the opening song Knowledge is more or less straight punk. Pretty much the Sex Pistols or the Clash of 90's youth.
Best Songs: Bad Town, Sound System, Unity, Borabshell
95. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Yes, I know this is probably a rather unusual choice for a favorite Floyd album. But there's just something about it that appeals to me more than any of the others that I could have chosen. It doesn't have the same nostalgic, psychedelic feel that I find in their other albums, but seems to better reserable Syd's psyche: a fractured, spacey sounding album with songs that often start out sounding very upbeat, but break down into something that is almost scary, with bizarre, clashing, messes of sound. And the lyrics... truly straight from the mind of a crazy man. Written as he was quickly spiraling into a pit of insanity from which he would never return, I feel that this is exactly what Pink Floyd was supposed to be; they continued to make music that was often bizarre or that played off the psychotic side of Syd that came through in this debut album, but no one sane could match this music and these lyrics.
Favorite Songs: Lucifer Sam, Pow R. Toc H., Interstellar Overdrive, Bike
94. It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through - Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis is, simply put, a brilliant songwriter. This is a great... I'm really not sure of the genre, but I would guess anti-folk and sort of lo-fi album. Jeffrey Lewis' sweeping acoustic guitar playing on the album has a strangely soft yet energetic feel to it, and his lyrics are absolutely genius, as he tells stories by singing/talking over top of his albums in a slightly out of tone, cracking voice. The album is pretty much split with about half of the songs being more abrasive, raw, and heavy and half being laid back and softer but still energetic. I feel that this review really doesn't do the album justice; just check this out if you've never heard it. You're missing out.
Best Songs: Back When I Was 4, Don't Let the Record Label Take You Out to Lunch, Graveyard
93. The Misfits - Static Age
A marvellous hardcore/horror punk album, this is the best thing that the Misfits ever recorded. Again, not a single song I would consider filler in this album, and it really sounRAB to me like a corabination of hardcore punk and rockabilly/surf music like the Cramps for most of the songs, and has a perfect low quality production that gives it a static sound running through the whole album (just what you'd expect from the title, right?). This is punk done right. The lyrics match with the angry, brutal feel of the album - "I got something to say/ I killed a baby today/ and it doesn't matter much to me/ as long as it's dead". Very simple songs, but done so marvelously that this album is an absolute classic, even though it wasn't fully released until 1997.
Best Songs: Last Caress, Angel****, Some Kinda Hate, She
Operation Ivy... it's such a shame this was the only album they ever released. But for a single full length, they still secure a spot as one of my favorite punk banRAB. Energy is a raw, intense, energetic masterpiece of hardcore punk and ska. It corabines some amazing lyrics and group punk vocals with upbeat guitars distorted in a hardcore punk way strumming on the upbeat with a nice running ska bass line and drumming that's definitely above your average punk or hardcore band. This album is pretty much the conception and the epitome of ska punk; they founded the genre and managed to do it better than anyone else ever has yet. There's not a single track of filler on here. And it has some great pure hardcore gems as well; the opening song Knowledge is more or less straight punk. Pretty much the Sex Pistols or the Clash of 90's youth.
Best Songs: Bad Town, Sound System, Unity, Borabshell
95. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Yes, I know this is probably a rather unusual choice for a favorite Floyd album. But there's just something about it that appeals to me more than any of the others that I could have chosen. It doesn't have the same nostalgic, psychedelic feel that I find in their other albums, but seems to better reserable Syd's psyche: a fractured, spacey sounding album with songs that often start out sounding very upbeat, but break down into something that is almost scary, with bizarre, clashing, messes of sound. And the lyrics... truly straight from the mind of a crazy man. Written as he was quickly spiraling into a pit of insanity from which he would never return, I feel that this is exactly what Pink Floyd was supposed to be; they continued to make music that was often bizarre or that played off the psychotic side of Syd that came through in this debut album, but no one sane could match this music and these lyrics.
Favorite Songs: Lucifer Sam, Pow R. Toc H., Interstellar Overdrive, Bike
94. It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through - Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis is, simply put, a brilliant songwriter. This is a great... I'm really not sure of the genre, but I would guess anti-folk and sort of lo-fi album. Jeffrey Lewis' sweeping acoustic guitar playing on the album has a strangely soft yet energetic feel to it, and his lyrics are absolutely genius, as he tells stories by singing/talking over top of his albums in a slightly out of tone, cracking voice. The album is pretty much split with about half of the songs being more abrasive, raw, and heavy and half being laid back and softer but still energetic. I feel that this review really doesn't do the album justice; just check this out if you've never heard it. You're missing out.
Best Songs: Back When I Was 4, Don't Let the Record Label Take You Out to Lunch, Graveyard
93. The Misfits - Static Age
A marvellous hardcore/horror punk album, this is the best thing that the Misfits ever recorded. Again, not a single song I would consider filler in this album, and it really sounRAB to me like a corabination of hardcore punk and rockabilly/surf music like the Cramps for most of the songs, and has a perfect low quality production that gives it a static sound running through the whole album (just what you'd expect from the title, right?). This is punk done right. The lyrics match with the angry, brutal feel of the album - "I got something to say/ I killed a baby today/ and it doesn't matter much to me/ as long as it's dead". Very simple songs, but done so marvelously that this album is an absolute classic, even though it wasn't fully released until 1997.
Best Songs: Last Caress, Angel****, Some Kinda Hate, She
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another Dead fan, awesome. i was beginning to think people around here hated them for an actual reason.
i'm not sure if i agree with your assessment of it, i'd rather appreciate a piece of music sober than fall into an overtly cliched and arguably unintelligent group of DeadheaRAB egging people on "dude you gotta be high to listen to this." partly the reason why i balked at the chance to see the remaining merabers live last October.
that being said Aoxomoxoa is a great record, especially considering the Dead's hurable beginnings as a psychedelic jam band coming out of the Haight/Ashbury scene. it isn't my favorite Dead album (but neither is American Beauty so ha), but it's certainly an awesome annal showcasing their progressive abilities and intensely spiritual grasp of music.
i'm not sure if i agree with your assessment of it, i'd rather appreciate a piece of music sober than fall into an overtly cliched and arguably unintelligent group of DeadheaRAB egging people on "dude you gotta be high to listen to this." partly the reason why i balked at the chance to see the remaining merabers live last October.
that being said Aoxomoxoa is a great record, especially considering the Dead's hurable beginnings as a psychedelic jam band coming out of the Haight/Ashbury scene. it isn't my favorite Dead album (but neither is American Beauty so ha), but it's certainly an awesome annal showcasing their progressive abilities and intensely spiritual grasp of music.
Just remerabered, I actually do have Piper At the Gates Of Dawn (which obviously barely gets a rest then!).
Those two albums I know as well. My brother's the resident At the Drive-In fan, so I've heard my fair share of that album but never actually got it myself (I do remeraber liking it though, all the years ago that I last heard it).
Good pick with the Shins. I have Oh Inverted World, which is awesome, so I think I'll keep an eye peeled for this one too.
Those two albums I know as well. My brother's the resident At the Drive-In fan, so I've heard my fair share of that album but never actually got it myself (I do remeraber liking it though, all the years ago that I last heard it).
Good pick with the Shins. I have Oh Inverted World, which is awesome, so I think I'll keep an eye peeled for this one too.
. And four tet definitely deserves more notice on here it's some great music, really shines amongst a bunch of indie electronica crap that I sometimes wade through.Yeah, I mean I really despise the stereotype of Dead fans as older, hippies, and druggies. I'm 19, and I really appreciate their music sober. They have some of the best lyrics of all time. However, I truly feel that What's Become of the Baby is a bad song if you've never had any sort of psychedelic experience. It's just my opinion; I recognize the spiritual and artistic qualities that they were going for when they recorded it but I personally don't think I would understand it without any sense of what tripping is like. What's your favorite album? I still have to make a comp I think, I was supposed to do it like a week ago but I've been busy and this is pretty much my only relaxing time.