General Music Discussion

[OvercastKid]

1. "...is a real boy" - say anything
2. "the devil and God are raging inside of me" - brand new
3. "take off your pants and jacket" -blink-182
4. "the unraveling"- rise against
5. "volcano" - gatsby's american dream

[Texface-Killah]

1. "Liquid Swords" by GZA

2. "Supreme Clientele" by Ghostface Killah

3. "Only Built 4 CUban Linx..." by Raekwon

4. "Wu-Tang Forever" by Wu-Tang Clan

5. "Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers" by Wu-Tang Clan

[PostModernMartyr]

This isn't possible as is, so here is my adjustment...

My Top Five By Category for the time being...

Hip Hop

1. cLOUDDEAD - Ten

2. Prinzenallee - Don't Let Nerds Take Over Your Life

3. Sole & The Skyrider Band - S/T

4. The Pedestrian - UnIndian Songs

5. Buck 65 - Secret House AGainst The World

Post Punk

1. Black Eyes - Cough

2. Milemarker - Furuisms

3. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crimes

4. Cap'n Jazz - Anaplhabetapolothology

5. Happy Go Licky - Will Play

Singer/Songwriters

1. The Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg

2. Victor Villareal - Alive

3. Jeffery Lewis - 12 Crass Songs

4. Tom Waits - Raindogs

5. Paul SImon - Graceland

"Indie Rock"

1. Owls - Owls

2. Why? - Alopecia

3. Joan Of Arc - Live In Chicago, 1999

4. Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage (Animation Music)

5. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On

It will have changed by the time I post this.

[RandAlThor13]

1. Miles Davis Kind of Blue

2. Dream Theater Images and Words

3. Pink Floyed Dark Side of the Moon

4. Queensryche Operation Mindcrime

5. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV

I kind of feel that I should have more jazz on here, but whatever.

[HonorableCloud]

I'll try:

1) Jawbreaker -- Bivouac

2) The Replacements -- Let It Be

3) R.E.M. -- Murmur

4) Jets To Brazil -- Orange Rhyming Dictionary

5) Hmm...I don't know. I guess Max Richter's Songs From Before.

I find it hard to do these things because the copious amounts of music and their different genres make me want to list in sub-categories, but I'm far too lazy for that.

[foreignlawns]

fuuuuuudge, that's hard


1. minutemen -- double nickels on the dime
2. sonic youth -- sister
3. stooges -- fun house
4. ennio morricone -- death rides a horse OST
5. unwound -- leaves turn inside you

first 2 have been set in stone for the last 20+ years, other 3 rotate very frequently

[Dark_Lord_Khrima]

1. Alice in Chains - Dirt

2. Mastodon - Crack The Skye

3. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

4. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards

5. Queens of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf 

Not too sure about the last two, but this was really hard.

[stevo1588]

Pretty much impossible to answer. Here's an unordered list of albums that would definitely be considered strong contenders:

In the Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? - of Montreal
Hold On Now, Youngster... - Los Campesinos!
This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
Friend Opportunity - Deerhoof

[DorkusMaximus]

"Inventions for the New Season" - Maserati

"Music Has the Right to Children" - Boards of Canada

"In on the Kill Taker" - Fugazi

"Blue Train" - John Coltrane

"Those Once Loyal" - Bolt Thrower

"California" - Mr. Bungle

"In Absentia" - Porcupine Tree

"Karma" - Kamelot

"Panopticon" - Isis

"The Arcane Odyssey" - Sear Bliss

This is too tough. Except for the first two, any of these could make my top five and there's at least a few more off the top of my head that I would consider good enough to make it.

[empty_cookie_jar]

In no particular order:

"Grace for Drowning" - Steven Wilson

"Powerslave" - Iron Maiden

"Alien" - Strapping Young Lad

"Stupid Dream" - Porcupine Tree

"Somewhere Along the Highway" - Cult of Luna

This is subject to change at any time.

[annaisaloser]

Fleetwood Mac - Future Games 

Damon - Song Of A Gypsy

Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild 

Al Johnson - Peaceful

Bob Smith - The Visit

close calls:

Michael Angelo - s/t

Gandalf - s/t

Moby Grape - '69

Ithaca - A Game For All Who Know 

Ron Cornelius - Tin Luck

[MasterEv]

1. The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

2. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

3. Cruelty and the Beast - Cradle of Filth

4. Thy Mighty Contract - Rotting Chrιst

5. Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull

[desantoos]

It seems like I do this list all of the time, but each time my list changes a little bit. Here's where I stand right now:

1. The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

2. Vision Creation Newsun by The Boredoms

3. The Sun Giant EP by Fleet Foxes

4. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis

5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles

[shutupfatty]

1. "Lonesome Crowded West" - Modest Mouse

2. "Keep it Like a Secret" - Built to Spill

3. "Wowee Zowee" - Pavement

4. "Doolittle" - The Pixies

5. "Rumors" - Fleetwood Mac

[NaBraniel]

subject to change at any time and / or be completely wrong :

Built to Spill - The Normal Years

Mountain Goats - Zopilote Machine

Yo La Tengo - I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One

Maybe American Football?

and I am content to lazily round it out by ripping off HonorableCloud's 4) Jets To Brazil -- Orange Rhyming Dictionary

[HonorableCloud]

I expected Pavement from you.

[flibbertygibits]

1. bestie boys---licence to ill

2. sublime---40 oz to freedom

3. rancid---out come the wolves

4. beck---stereopathetic soul manure

5. pixies---death to the pixies

[Chappi_The_Rabbit]

1. In Rainbow - Radiohead

2. Discovery - Daft Punk

3. Is This It - The Strokes

4. Siamese Dreams - Smashing Pumpkins

5. Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads

[NaBraniel]

I only feel very strongly about the first two.

[HonorableCloud]

No Silver Jews?

[Llama_Fly_Aardvark]

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. The Postmarks - The Postmarks
3. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
4. Hole - Celebrity Skin
5. Nirvana - In Utero

[NaBraniel]

No my favorite album by them is tainted with a couple downright horrible songs, some albums on the peripheral are by Guido Boy Voices + New Trail Milk Hostel.

[GaryMartinez]

desaparecidos - read music/speak spanish

casiotone for the painfully alone - answering machine music

cap'n jazz - analphabetapolothology

braid - age of octeen

pavement - slanted and enchanted

love of everything - superior mold and die

new order - power, corruption, and lies

sonic youth - sister

maps & atlases - you and me and the mountain

al green - back up train

lately...

the luyas - too beautiful to work

hella - hold your horse is

akron/family - s/t II: the cosmic birth and journey of shinju TNT

boys life - departures and landfalls

cindy lauper - she's so unusual

grooms - prom

ducktails - s/t

joan of arc - live in muenster, 2003

[empty_cookie_jar]

Like I said, it's changed.

Insurgentes - Steven Wilson

As the Palaces Burn - Lamb of God

Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains

Catch Thirtythree - Meshuggah

Deadwing - Porcupine Tree

[_Star_Wolf_]

Current (because it always changes)

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Weighing Souls With Sand - The Angelic Process
Dance Tonight, Revolution Tomorrow! - Orchid
Quiet, Pull the Strings! - Suis La Lune
Temples of Boom - Cypress Hill

Next week the list will be entirely different, save maybe like...2 of these.