deepak Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 I think I could get along very nicely with you, deepak THE essential boris recording for me though is flood. It just, well, washes over you. Some more essentials... XTC - Drums And Wires Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys Flood is a great album too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humanflyz Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Jenny Lewis = TEH WIN What's not to like: a good singing voice, long red hair, nice rack, cute face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Ah how many to pick? What ones to pick? I think that the simplest thing to do is pick 5 and not think about it too hard. Its hardly as though this is somehow definitive after all. Best not to take the fun out of it. 1st then: Mike Oldfield - Amarok. It?s an album that I just can't seem to sell to people despite the fact that it's arguably the single greatest recording in the history of mankind. Mike Oldfields big goodbye to Virgin Records (Heavens Open is perhaps best forgotten) is in many ways the sequel to Ommadawn, his third album. That at least is how the album started off. But it evolved far beyond such a *simple* starting point. The records producer, convincing Oldfield that he should stay away from computers, that none of the album should be developed based on samples, and that Oldfield should use his musicianship and imagination to the fullest, playing all of the instruments manually. The end result is a resplendent journey through a nine-dimensional, multi-faceted universe of sound, on a rollercoaster built out of layer upon layer of music, and at first notice, some much more random noise. Sounds of Oldfield stamping around the studio, making a cup of tea, using a Hoover, a Margaret Thatcher impersonator to act almost like a master of ceremonies during the peaks of the African passages, ridiculous bursts of rapid guitar and sudden explosions of noise just when you think there?s going to be a quiet passage, the entire album was constructed so that it would be impossible to pull a single from it, indeed, the Whole CD is one, single sixty minute track. As part of the publicity drive when the album was released Oldfield offered a prize to whoever could find the *Secret Message* hidden in the album (fuck RB [RB=Richard Branson]) This album is such glorious, mad, progressive fart of an album. Its pace, its themes, its tone and its dynamic range jumps all over the place. Unlike albums which are so nose high in this regard (like Captain Beefhearts Trout Mask Replica) though, its not actually cocophonic. Its a myriad of swirling interconnected little worlds and I love it to pieces. Arguably Oldfields REAL magnum opus. Jean-Michel Jarre - Chronologie For me, it is not Oxygene or Equinoxe which represents the "true" Jarre sound. Those albums, while the two that all of his other works tend to be judged by, much like Oldfield with Tubular Bells are in my opinion fabulous, but Chronologie is better it runs that cold soaring electronic sound through the mangle into something slightly more intricate and slightly less sterile. He would lose it again with Oxygene 7-13 though. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star If Amarok is a myriad hybrid of world music themes then A Wizard, A True Star is the rock equivalent. Less frenetic, but just as crazy its a real woven album of the DSOTM kind, songs blur into one another with little destination in transition despite their change in tone. Hugely energetic and fabulously fun and Rundgren did the entire thing himself including the album art. R. Cajun & the Zydeco Brothers - No Known Cure A finger snapping, banjo strumming, castanet clicking, accordion squeezing, fiddle fiddling, harmonica wheezing, cymbal rapping, see-you-later-alligatoring journey to a mud shack on stilts in the middle of some Floridian swamp. That's how No Known Cure hit me, I'd never heard anything quite, like it, in a very loose sense, it was kind of like acoustic Creedence, yet that's a really bad analogy so just ignore it. This is swamp rock I guess and its quite fabulous in its energy. Good luck finding a copy though. Hank Shizzoe - Low Budget This is THE steel guitar album. The sound quality is just astonishing and the music itself could not fail to be loved by anyone with any taste. The closest parallel I can think of is Brothers In Arms. In fact, I've bloody typed enough and I'm going to go listen to this right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Nice -- Amarok is one of my favourites of Oldfield's as well (inasmuch as I can choose a favourite, although usually it's whichever of his releases I am listening to at the mo') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dusty Chalk Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Preface -- there's no way on earth that I can list every single one of my favourite albums, I love music just way too much. I'm one of those people that listens to an album and thinks, "this is my favourite album ever" for hundreds of albums. Perhaps thousands. So I'm going to do them piecemeal. I'm not going to do them in any particular order -- the ones I do first are neither my favourite nor my least favourite of the bunch, they're just the ones I decided to do first. And there are going to be some I'm never going to do. The reasons for leaving albums out vary from "I just plain forgot about them" to "I listed this other album, and that album was close enough to it that I didn't feel like listing them both" to "I'm lazy" to "I got tired of typing". Here's my current working list of albums from which I'm going to have to work: Aerosmith, Rocks Afghan Whigs, Gentlemen Alan Parsons Project, I, Robot Altered State, Dos Amorphis, Tuonela, Am Universum Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes And One, Bodypop Laurie Anderson, Big Science, Mister Heartbreak, United States Live, Live at Town Hall/New York City/September 19-20, 2001 Android Lust, Devour, Rise and Take Flight, The Dividing Apex Theory, Topsy-Turvy/Random Bursts Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works II Apoptygma Berzerk Welcome to Earth, Apopcalyptic Manifesto, 7 Fiona Apple, Tidal, When the Pawn... The Art of Noise, 'daft', Who's Afraid Of? (The Art of Noise!), In Visible Silence, In No Sense? Nonsense!, The Best of... (blue cover) Ayreon, Human Equation Bauhaus, In the Flat Field, Mask, The Sky's Gone Out, Burning from the Inside Jeff Beck, Wired, Blow by Blow, There & Back Black Sabbath, Paranoid, We Sold Our Souls for Rock'n'Roll, Technical Ecstasy, Heaven & Hell Blue Oyster Cult, Agents of Fortune, Spectres, Some Enchanted Evening, Cultosaurus Erectus, Fires of Unknown Origin Blur, Park Life, Modern Life is Rubbish, Blur, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues Clan of Xymox Clay People, Waking the Dead Conscious Structure, Non-Human Figure Crack the Sky, Safety in Numbers, White Music Cure, Disintegration, Blood Flowers Curve, Pubic Fruit, Cuckoo, and Come Clean Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool, Circle in the Round Deep Purple, The Book of Taliesyn, Machine Head Depeche Mode, A Broken Frame, Construction Time Again, Violator, Black Celebration, Some Great Reward Al Di Meola, Casino, Elegant Gypsy, Splendido Hotel, Electric Rendezvous Thomas Dolby, Blinded by Science (EP), Golden Age of Wireless, Flat Earth Doubting Thomas, The Infidel Rob Dougan, Furious Angels Duran Duran (both the first one and the wedding album), Rio Einsturzende Neubauten, Silence is Sexy, Perpetuum Mobile Danny Elfman, So-Lo Matt Elliott, The Mess We Made Evil's Toy, Angels Only The Faint, Danse Macabre Bryan Ferry, Boys & Girls, Bete Noire The Fixx, Shuttered Room, Reach the Beach, Phantoms Edgar Froese, Ages, Stuntman Garbage & Version 2.0 Front 242, Pulse Peter Gabriel (aka 3 aka melt), Security Genesis, Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi, Glassworks, and Einstein on the Beach Golden Earring, Moontan, Cut Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom, Days of Mars Steve Hackett, Voyage of the Acolyte, Please Don't Touch, Spectral Mornings, Defector, Till We Have Faces Halou, Wiser Haujobb, Polarity, Vertical Theory Heart, Dreamboat Annie, Little Queen, Dog & Butterfly Human League, Dare, Reproduction, Travelogue In the Nursery, Hindle Wakes Chris Isaak, Silvertone, Heart Shaped World Japan, Gentlemen Take Polaroids, Tin Drum, Oil on Canvas Jean-Michel Jarre, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields, The Concerts in China, Zoolook Keith Jarrett, Sun Bear, Vienna Concert, Paris Concert Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick, Passion Play, Aqualung, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch, Broadsword and the Beast, A Katatonia, Last Fair Deal Gone Down Kidneythieves, Trickster, Zerospace King Crimson, Discipline, Red, Islands Kraftwerk, The Man-Machine, Trans-Europe Express, Computer World, Radioactivity Labradford, fixed::context Lamb, What Sound, Fear of Fours, Between Darkness & Wonder Lassigue Bendthaus, Render Led Zeppelin, I, II, IV, Houses of the Holy Legendary Pink Dots, The Golden Age, Four Days, Crushed Velvet Apocalypse, Maria Dimension, Shadow Weaver, Malachai Lhasa, La Llorona, The Living Road Lords of Acid, Our Little Secret Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Roaring Silence and Nightingales & Bombers Marillion, Fugazi, Script of a Jester's Tear, Misplaced Childhood Chris Meloche, Recurring Dreams of the Urban Myth Mentallo and the Fixer, Vengeance is Mine Metallica, Kill 'em All, Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, ...And Justice For All Ministry, With Sympathy, Twitch, Land of Rape & Honey, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste My Bloody Valentine, Loveless Neurosis, The Eye of Every Storm New Model Army, Thunder and Consolation New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Republic, Substance Nine Horses, Snow Borne Sorrow Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The Fragile Notwist, 12, Shrink, Neon Golden Gary Numan, Replicas, Pleasure Principle, Telekon, Dance, I, Assassin, Warriors, Metal Rhythm/New Anger, Exile Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder Oingo Boingo, Only a Lad, Nothing to Fear, Good for Your Soul and Dead Man's Party, Boingo Alive Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations, Exposed, Platinum, QE2, Five Miles Out, Crises, Killing Fields, Amarok Orbital, In Sides Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Organisation, Dazzle Ships, Architecture & Morality, Junk Culture Pitchshifter, www.pitchshifter.com Planet P Project, Pink World Pop Will Eat Itself, This is the Day...This is the Hour...This is This! Porcupine Tree, Stupid Dream, The Sky Moves Sideways Propaganda, A Secret Wish Queen, A Night at the Opera Return to Forever, Romantic Warrior Ride, Nowhere Rorschach Test, Unclean Roxy Music, Avalon, Flesh + Blood Rush, 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace Under Pressure, All The World's A Stage, Counterparts Klaus Schulze, Mirage, X Shape of Despair, Angels of Distress & Shades of... Shotgun Messiah, Violent New Breed Sigur Ros, () Skinny Puppy, 12" Anthology, Too Dark Park, Last Rights, Singles Collect, B-Sides Collect, VIVIsectVI Slowdive, Just for a Day Jenifer Smith, Code Mesa Snakefarm, Songs from My Funeral SoulWhirlingSomewhere, Hope Was Supersystem, Always Never Again Stabbing Westward, Darkest Days David Sylvian, Gone to Earth, Brilliant Trees, Secrets of the Beehive Talk Talk, Colour of Spring -- actually, I love their entire catalog, from the synth-pop masterpiece of The Party's Over to their genre-defining endcap (together with Spirit of Eden), Laughing Stock. Talking Heads, Remain in Light Tangerine Dream, Force Majeure, Tangram, Logos, Encore, Ricochet, Exit Tear Garden, Tired Eyes Slowly Burning, Last Man to Fly Timeout Drawer, Nowonmai, Alone The The, Soul Mining, Infected U2, Achtung Baby, War Ultravox, Vienna, Rage in Eden, Quartet, Lament Underworld, dubnobasswithmyheadman, Second Toughest of the Infants Vangelis, Albedo 0.39, Spiral, Heaven & Hell, Direct, Soil Festivities, Blade Runner, 1492, China, Chariots of Fire Vast, Turquoise & Crimson Voivod, Nothingface, Angel Rat Jeff Wayne, The War of the Worlds Xymox, Twist of Shadows Yello, Stella, One Second, Flag Yes, Fragile, The Yes Album, Relayer, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Going for the One and Drama Various artists compilations: Advanced Electronics Vol. 2 Cyberflesh Conspiracy Dry Lungs V Risky Business Songs of the Witchblade This Is Electronic Body Music This is the New Beat ...and of course, my two favourite albums of all time: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here and Animals I made this image as some iconic images from some of my favourite albums from some of my favourite artists. Not necessarily my 15 favourite albums of all time, but 15 of them from which I could rip iconic images and eliminate the text (for no reason other than I wanted to do it that way). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojnihs Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 that is some list Dusty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 And I already found some I forgot: Stuff from the ELO catalog Genesis list is way too short Camille, Le Fil Oh, well, I'm not going to bother keeping it updated on the board, but I'll keep it updated locally, so once I start going through them, the updates will magically appear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBLoudG20 Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 It's simple. Daft Punk- discovery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fungi Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 that is some list Dusty ^^^^^^^^^^What he said. Even though I don't agree with some of the picks, stuff like Android Lust is like, woah yeah Shikhee needs more love yes please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinp6301 Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 It's simple. Daft Punk- discovery no love for homework or the live album ALIVE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBLoudG20 Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 It's a fucking favorites thread. And no. They do not touch Discovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinp6301 Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 It's a fucking favorites thread. And no. They do not touch Discovery. ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philodox Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Dusty - We need to hang out and swap music sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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catscratch Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Thought I'd append a very special album that I left out: Amethystium is Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Enigma all rolled into one. It may be 100% ear candy 100% of the time, but it's very good ear candy that has real depth, feeling, and thought behind every track. It's also one of the few albums that manages to incorporate the sound of old-school electronica while managing to sound thoroughly contemporary. It's also extremely well produced. One of the quietest albums I have, pretty no compression used at all. The clarity and dynamic range are terrific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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