Quit trolling. Fitter Happier is boring filler, and Hail to the Thief is inferior to OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows, and even The Bends <_<
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Your Top 10 Albums of All Time
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Chronologically:
Tim Buckley - Starsailor (1970)
Roy Harper - Stormcock (1971)
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (1974)
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977)
Les Rallizes Dénudés - '77 Live (recorded 1977, released 1991)
The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978)
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill (1992)
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele (1996)
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (2005)
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (2010)
probably not really accurate but that's how I feel about it today
will happily elaborate if anyone cares
Tim Buckley - Starsailor (1970)
Roy Harper - Stormcock (1971)
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (1974)
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977)
Les Rallizes Dénudés - '77 Live (recorded 1977, released 1991)
The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978)
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill (1992)
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele (1996)
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (2005)
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (2010)
probably not really accurate but that's how I feel about it today
will happily elaborate if anyone cares
but that's wrong
Alice
The worst taste in music
I'm not trolling in either one, I'm very serious.
Fitter Happier is a really faithful reflection on how was the "developed world" societies living in late 90's. It alone reflects this more than the whole album imo.
The piano track in the back of the computarized words (made with a mac pc, mind you :P ) just adds to that eerie nostalgia/monotony of those times. So if music is bound to reflect the composer's environment/time, Fitter Happier gets more than the job done (because it also expresses a harsh criticism on it).
As for Hail to the Thief, it's not only a really solid album AS A WHOLE, but the concept beside it is way deeper than people give it credit for, IMO.
Because among Residents albums it's probably the most melodic, one of the best produced and one of the most poetic, and I feel like I'm always in the mood to listen to it, unlike a lot of the other Residents albums.
Honestly their discography is too extensive and top-quality to pick a consistent favorite but most days it's Duck Stab. I think some others (Eskimo, Not Available, Third Reich and Roll etc.) are probably "better" but they're also pretty inaccessible.
Fitter Happier is basically the purest form of what they were trying to achieve. The growing relation to our interactions with technology and the world changing its morals accordingly. However, I do agree with you on Hail to the Thief. That album is inferior to every other Radiohead album, bar Pablo Honey.
I don't know about the best albums of all time, but for my personal favorites: (in no particular order)
Rust in Peace - Megadeth (1991)
You want a good thrash metal album? Look no further. This album locks you in right from the opening riff to Holy Wars... The Punishment Due, and keeps you interested right until the last notes of Rust in Peace... Polaris. This album has all that a good metal album should have: awesome guitar solo tradeoffs between Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman, kickass basslines by David Ellefson, and insane drums by Nick Menza. Combine that with catchy riffs (every single track on the album has them) and enough diverse material to keep you interested until the very end, and we have what is probably my favorite album of all time. I'll say right now that Dave Mustaine isn't the best singer, and his vocals are hard to get used to if you aren't into Megadeth, but that doesn't matter at all when the rest of the album is this awesome.
Favorite song: Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (although it's a very hard choice)
Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom (2000)
This is the album that made melodic death metal my favorite subgenre of metal. Music can be both beautiful and brutal at the same time. This album shows it. I can only describe some of the keyboard melodies on this album as being "hauntingly beautiful". And don't get me started on the brutal guitar riffs this album has to offer. This is definitely worth a listen if you're into melodeath, or just metal in general, or just MUSIC in general.
Favorite song: Everytime I Die
Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden (1986)
I know that everyone who's an Iron Maiden fan is thinking "why THIS album?" Yes, this is the same band that produced The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind and Powerslave. I enjoy all of those albums, but Somewhere in Time holds the spot for my favorite Maiden album. I find that the keyboards actually go really well with the songs on this album, even though I know that a lot of fans hated them.
Favorite song: Sea of Madness
Death Unlimited - Norther (2004)
My favorite album from another one of my favorite melodeath bands. I love this album not just because of the music, but for the lyrics. I find them to be really powerful (even if I have to look them up to understand them), and I can relate to a lot of them, as someone who's gotten through some really tough moments in life. Unrelated, but I think I'm one of the few people who actually discovered Ensiferum through Norther, and not vice versa.
Favorite song: Nightfall/Deep Inside
Curse of the Red River - Barren Earth (2010)
To most people, this is probably just another great melodeath/progressive metal album. To me, it's so much more. I saw them opening for Finntroll and Ensiferum in 2011, and it was at that show that I met a really nice guy. We hit it off immediately, and he offered to buy me a drink and wanted my phone number. After the show, I walk out with him to the merch stands and decide to buy this CD, since I really liked the band. It was then that I actually met the band, and they were really nice and signed my CD. Unfortunately, I lost track of the guy I met, and we never saw each other again. Listening to this CD always reminds me of that magical night I had. And who knows? Maybe it's better this way, since I don't have any negative opinions of him.
Favorite song: Our Twilight
Holographic Universe - Scar Symmetry (2008)
Christian Älvestam is the most talented metal musician out there today. It's rare that I word a sentence that is just my opinion that way, but this guy not only has an outstanding guttural range, he has an amazing range with his clean vocals, too. The vocal harmonies on this album are outstanding. With most songs I like, it takes several listens to really love the song. I loved most of these songs the first time I listened to them.
Favorite song: Morphogenesis
Ride the Lightning - Metallica (1984)
This is it. This is the album that got me into metal. I've always liked metal, but this album made me a die-hard metalhead. And yes, I like this album better than Master of Puppets. I think that the reason is probably that I think MoP has both brutal riffs and good melodies, but it never really combines the two. This album is brutal and beautiful at the same time.
Favorite song: I literally can't choose one. Metallica is the one band that I've never been able to pick a favorite song of. I'd probably choose either Ride the Lightning, Fade to Black, Trapped Under Ice or Creeping Death, and that's already half the album.
Fiction - Dark Tranquillity (2007)
Dark Tranquillity is one of the few bands I will admit to being a bigger fan of their later material. I really think that in the 2000s, they really began to establish their own unique sound. Yes, this is a metal album, but it's also.. calming. I absolutely love the piano in this album.
Favorite song: Icipher
Natural Born Chaos - Soilwork (2002)
I'm being quite redundant in my descriptions, but this is another "brutal and beautiful" album that I love. I love listening to this when I'm driving. As someone who lives just over 30 miles from school, I drive a lot, and this is often the album I choose to listen to.
Favorite song: this is another album I can't chose a favorite song from.
Twilight of the Thunder God - Amon Amarth (2008)
If there's any band that makes you feel like a viking, it's Amon Amarth. And this is undoubtedly their best work. (yes, another band who got better as they aged, although I think most people agree with me in this case) When I listen to this album, I'm not driving a 2009 Hyundai Elantra, I'm driving a viking longboat. I'm not in boring SoCal, I'm plundering villages in Norway. And I'm able to grow a full beard despite being a woman. Does it makes sense? No, but it doesn't have to when you're listening to something as kickass as this.
Favorite song: Live for the Kill
Of course, I have a lot of favorite albums, so these are subject to change. Some albums I wanted to add to the list but ran out of room for:
Painkiller - Judas Priest
The Jester Race - In Flames
Fragments of D-Generation - Disarmonia Mundi
Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good - Megadeth
Kill Em All - Metallica
Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
And of course, I tried to avoid albums by the same bands.
Rust in Peace - Megadeth (1991)
You want a good thrash metal album? Look no further. This album locks you in right from the opening riff to Holy Wars... The Punishment Due, and keeps you interested right until the last notes of Rust in Peace... Polaris. This album has all that a good metal album should have: awesome guitar solo tradeoffs between Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman, kickass basslines by David Ellefson, and insane drums by Nick Menza. Combine that with catchy riffs (every single track on the album has them) and enough diverse material to keep you interested until the very end, and we have what is probably my favorite album of all time. I'll say right now that Dave Mustaine isn't the best singer, and his vocals are hard to get used to if you aren't into Megadeth, but that doesn't matter at all when the rest of the album is this awesome.
Favorite song: Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (although it's a very hard choice)
Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom (2000)
This is the album that made melodic death metal my favorite subgenre of metal. Music can be both beautiful and brutal at the same time. This album shows it. I can only describe some of the keyboard melodies on this album as being "hauntingly beautiful". And don't get me started on the brutal guitar riffs this album has to offer. This is definitely worth a listen if you're into melodeath, or just metal in general, or just MUSIC in general.
Favorite song: Everytime I Die
Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden (1986)
I know that everyone who's an Iron Maiden fan is thinking "why THIS album?" Yes, this is the same band that produced The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind and Powerslave. I enjoy all of those albums, but Somewhere in Time holds the spot for my favorite Maiden album. I find that the keyboards actually go really well with the songs on this album, even though I know that a lot of fans hated them.
Favorite song: Sea of Madness
Death Unlimited - Norther (2004)
My favorite album from another one of my favorite melodeath bands. I love this album not just because of the music, but for the lyrics. I find them to be really powerful (even if I have to look them up to understand them), and I can relate to a lot of them, as someone who's gotten through some really tough moments in life. Unrelated, but I think I'm one of the few people who actually discovered Ensiferum through Norther, and not vice versa.
Favorite song: Nightfall/Deep Inside
Curse of the Red River - Barren Earth (2010)
To most people, this is probably just another great melodeath/progressive metal album. To me, it's so much more. I saw them opening for Finntroll and Ensiferum in 2011, and it was at that show that I met a really nice guy. We hit it off immediately, and he offered to buy me a drink and wanted my phone number. After the show, I walk out with him to the merch stands and decide to buy this CD, since I really liked the band. It was then that I actually met the band, and they were really nice and signed my CD. Unfortunately, I lost track of the guy I met, and we never saw each other again. Listening to this CD always reminds me of that magical night I had. And who knows? Maybe it's better this way, since I don't have any negative opinions of him.
Favorite song: Our Twilight
Holographic Universe - Scar Symmetry (2008)
Christian Älvestam is the most talented metal musician out there today. It's rare that I word a sentence that is just my opinion that way, but this guy not only has an outstanding guttural range, he has an amazing range with his clean vocals, too. The vocal harmonies on this album are outstanding. With most songs I like, it takes several listens to really love the song. I loved most of these songs the first time I listened to them.
Favorite song: Morphogenesis
Ride the Lightning - Metallica (1984)
This is it. This is the album that got me into metal. I've always liked metal, but this album made me a die-hard metalhead. And yes, I like this album better than Master of Puppets. I think that the reason is probably that I think MoP has both brutal riffs and good melodies, but it never really combines the two. This album is brutal and beautiful at the same time.
Favorite song: I literally can't choose one. Metallica is the one band that I've never been able to pick a favorite song of. I'd probably choose either Ride the Lightning, Fade to Black, Trapped Under Ice or Creeping Death, and that's already half the album.
Fiction - Dark Tranquillity (2007)
Dark Tranquillity is one of the few bands I will admit to being a bigger fan of their later material. I really think that in the 2000s, they really began to establish their own unique sound. Yes, this is a metal album, but it's also.. calming. I absolutely love the piano in this album.
Favorite song: Icipher
Natural Born Chaos - Soilwork (2002)
I'm being quite redundant in my descriptions, but this is another "brutal and beautiful" album that I love. I love listening to this when I'm driving. As someone who lives just over 30 miles from school, I drive a lot, and this is often the album I choose to listen to.
Favorite song: this is another album I can't chose a favorite song from.
Twilight of the Thunder God - Amon Amarth (2008)
If there's any band that makes you feel like a viking, it's Amon Amarth. And this is undoubtedly their best work. (yes, another band who got better as they aged, although I think most people agree with me in this case) When I listen to this album, I'm not driving a 2009 Hyundai Elantra, I'm driving a viking longboat. I'm not in boring SoCal, I'm plundering villages in Norway. And I'm able to grow a full beard despite being a woman. Does it makes sense? No, but it doesn't have to when you're listening to something as kickass as this.
Favorite song: Live for the Kill
Of course, I have a lot of favorite albums, so these are subject to change. Some albums I wanted to add to the list but ran out of room for:
Painkiller - Judas Priest
The Jester Race - In Flames
Fragments of D-Generation - Disarmonia Mundi
Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good - Megadeth
Kill Em All - Metallica
Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
And of course, I tried to avoid albums by the same bands.
1. Morphine - The Night
2. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love & Hate
3. Tortoise - TNT
4. Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
5. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
6. Television - Marquee Moon
7. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
8. Grant Green - Idle Moments
9. Magma - Magma [Kobaïa]
10. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
My exact top ten favorite albums (not artists) more or less. Basically I like jazzy things, great depressive storytelling, and good bass production.
2. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love & Hate
3. Tortoise - TNT
4. Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
5. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
6. Television - Marquee Moon
7. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
8. Grant Green - Idle Moments
9. Magma - Magma [Kobaïa]
10. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
My exact top ten favorite albums (not artists) more or less. Basically I like jazzy things, great depressive storytelling, and good bass production.
shit sorry i forgot you knew me better than i did
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Lady Sinner
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Joni Mitchell - Blue
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Nas - Illmatic
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
I don't really feel like explaining since to me, the feelings that good music stir up in me are more meaningful than anything I could articulate.
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Joni Mitchell - Blue
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Nas - Illmatic
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
I don't really feel like explaining since to me, the feelings that good music stir up in me are more meaningful than anything I could articulate.
It's pretty hard pick just 10 albums, ranking them is almost impossible, so I'll put 10 of my favorite ones here ignoring order and stuff and say why they are important to me. They aren't the best, they aren't the greatest of all time, but they are the ones that I like most. Also, sorry my english mistakes as it isn't my native language.
The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Velvet is one of the first experimentalist bands that I had contact and when I listened this album the first time I was like "wow that's pure gold". Actually this album had so many impact on me that I convinced my parents to buy me a bass (and later a guitar) because the music was so unique that I had to do something at least similar to that. Needless to say that I failed to do something at least close to these geniuses.
Favorite Track: Venus in Furs
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
Pixies is a band that deserved to be at least three times on this list, but I decided to restring to one album per band and in this case it's Surfer Rosa. The first contact I had with pixies was when I was sleeping on a friend's house and she show me a cover of "Hey". After that I started to look other songs and eventually bought the entire discography on a random store (best thing I bought so far). Doolittle is overall a better album and my favorite musics are from it, but Surfer Rosa was the one that had more impact on me. God, I'm just so eager to pick my guitar and play "Something Against You" for the rest of night that I can't even think right now.
Favorite Track: Where's My Mind?
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
I know, I know. Most of you must be thinking "Beach Boys? Really?" right now, but they are an amazing band and this is their greatest album ever. I don't remember how exactly I started to listen Beach Boys, but it's probably my mother's fault. These is one of those albums that you listen to relax and cheer up after a bad day and that's why it's wonderful. These have been bad days for me and this album is one of the few things that can make me smile.
Favorite Track: Wouldn't It Be Nice
Cœur de Pirate (2008)
Even with my dad saying that she isn't a good singer and that it isn't "true french music" I can't let Béatrice out of this list. I grew up with my parents telling me about the great french music from 60's and 70's but I never really paid attention to francophone singers until she came out with this album. The musics can all sound the same, her voice can be childish and the piano simple, but the atmosphere that she transmits with her music is just beautiful. This album also was what caught my ear to the beautiful francophone music, so deserved be here more than Blondie (even I enjoying the second album more than the first).
Favorite Track: Le Long du Large
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Fruit (2008)
Lindberg is perfect, period. Her voice is awesome, she's beautiful, she has style... I could just spent my whole night talking about how much I love her and how I wanna be like her somehow, but for now I'll stick with the album. I was surfing Myspace back in 2009 when I saw their page and I immediately love it. I went to the deepness of internet to find all I could about them (it was before they released this album) and I just loved everything. When they released Fruit I was like "OMG THEY WILL FINALLY RELEASE A FULL ALBUM" and after that all just get better and better. I cry everyday for losing the chance to see them live last year and somehow I'll travel to the fucking moon to see Lindberg live if needed. But for now I just keep listening their music.
Favorite Track: The Sun Ain't Shining No More
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010)
I'm a huge folk fan and when I first saw a video with Kristian the obvious similarities with Dylan came to mind and yeah, he is another folk singer with that Dylan's vocal style. But a great one. He have a style somehow unique and you can feel how the connection between his voice and guitar is so strong in this album. I also like the songs for the letters too, what is unusual as I mostly ignore them if the beat is nice. The fact that his voice is very charming even with the same style as Dylan is great and he being from Scandinavia count as a bonus as well. Also, he's hot.
Favorite Track: King of Spain
She & Him - Volume Two (2010)
Maybe I don't love Zooey Deschanel as much as everybody else, but I must recognize that her voice is beautiful and she's a highly talented writer. Her songs have amazing lyrics and the music is just as great. Every time I listen this album I feel like I'm having a cup of tea in a nice spring afternoon dressed as Alice in Wonderland. They sound so pure that I feel refreshed after listening to it every single time.
Favorite Track: In The Sun
Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) - Cansei de Ser Sexy (2005)
I'm not really a fan of electrorock, but CSS is a exception. They first caught my attention when I was very young (10 or 11 years old) and they were starting to get famous and I listened some tracks on TV. I liked it and rushed to download they on Kazaa. The songs are catchy and dancing, the beat will stuck in your head for months and you will like it anyway. That's why the album is here. Even they posterior albums don't being good as this, the band still one of my favorites for this first work.
Favorite Track: Superafim
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
I remember that the first time I listened to OK Computer I spent the next 3 weeks crying for no reason and waking up in the middle of night singing Karma Police. Maybe was just the moment that already wasn't the best or the PMT, but this Radiohead album influenced that too. And much. The songs are melancholic, sad, and beautiful at the same time and I love it. Maybe Kid A and Pablo Honey have more fans than OK Computer, but it's my favorite Radiohead's album by far.
Favorite Track: Paranoid Android
Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
Greatest album for one of the greatest bands. Like it or not. When I was starting my guitar lessons I listened all the time "just start with something easy like Nirvana" and because that I started to listen this. Didn't take long enough until I was addict to the band. It's true that they aren't musically complex or lyrically stunning, but they didn't need be and this is what I like on them. Even if I dropped all the grunge phase long ago and the Nirvana fangirling phase too, Nevermind still one of those albums that I listen without a reason, just because I felt I should. This is why it's on list.
Favorite Track: In Bloom
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It was pretty hard to pick just 10 and I feel really bad to no put Oasis, Beatles, Smiths, Sinatra, BB King, Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, Bryan Adams, Johnny Cash, The Who and so many others that should be here. I feel like I would spent a month to put all my favorite albums in a list! Thanks for the experience, it was really great.
The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Velvet is one of the first experimentalist bands that I had contact and when I listened this album the first time I was like "wow that's pure gold". Actually this album had so many impact on me that I convinced my parents to buy me a bass (and later a guitar) because the music was so unique that I had to do something at least similar to that. Needless to say that I failed to do something at least close to these geniuses.
Favorite Track: Venus in Furs
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
Pixies is a band that deserved to be at least three times on this list, but I decided to restring to one album per band and in this case it's Surfer Rosa. The first contact I had with pixies was when I was sleeping on a friend's house and she show me a cover of "Hey". After that I started to look other songs and eventually bought the entire discography on a random store (best thing I bought so far). Doolittle is overall a better album and my favorite musics are from it, but Surfer Rosa was the one that had more impact on me. God, I'm just so eager to pick my guitar and play "Something Against You" for the rest of night that I can't even think right now.
Favorite Track: Where's My Mind?
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
I know, I know. Most of you must be thinking "Beach Boys? Really?" right now, but they are an amazing band and this is their greatest album ever. I don't remember how exactly I started to listen Beach Boys, but it's probably my mother's fault. These is one of those albums that you listen to relax and cheer up after a bad day and that's why it's wonderful. These have been bad days for me and this album is one of the few things that can make me smile.
Favorite Track: Wouldn't It Be Nice
Cœur de Pirate (2008)
Even with my dad saying that she isn't a good singer and that it isn't "true french music" I can't let Béatrice out of this list. I grew up with my parents telling me about the great french music from 60's and 70's but I never really paid attention to francophone singers until she came out with this album. The musics can all sound the same, her voice can be childish and the piano simple, but the atmosphere that she transmits with her music is just beautiful. This album also was what caught my ear to the beautiful francophone music, so deserved be here more than Blondie (even I enjoying the second album more than the first).
Favorite Track: Le Long du Large
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Fruit (2008)
Lindberg is perfect, period. Her voice is awesome, she's beautiful, she has style... I could just spent my whole night talking about how much I love her and how I wanna be like her somehow, but for now I'll stick with the album. I was surfing Myspace back in 2009 when I saw their page and I immediately love it. I went to the deepness of internet to find all I could about them (it was before they released this album) and I just loved everything. When they released Fruit I was like "OMG THEY WILL FINALLY RELEASE A FULL ALBUM" and after that all just get better and better. I cry everyday for losing the chance to see them live last year and somehow I'll travel to the fucking moon to see Lindberg live if needed. But for now I just keep listening their music.
Favorite Track: The Sun Ain't Shining No More
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010)
I'm a huge folk fan and when I first saw a video with Kristian the obvious similarities with Dylan came to mind and yeah, he is another folk singer with that Dylan's vocal style. But a great one. He have a style somehow unique and you can feel how the connection between his voice and guitar is so strong in this album. I also like the songs for the letters too, what is unusual as I mostly ignore them if the beat is nice. The fact that his voice is very charming even with the same style as Dylan is great and he being from Scandinavia count as a bonus as well. Also, he's hot.
Favorite Track: King of Spain
She & Him - Volume Two (2010)
Maybe I don't love Zooey Deschanel as much as everybody else, but I must recognize that her voice is beautiful and she's a highly talented writer. Her songs have amazing lyrics and the music is just as great. Every time I listen this album I feel like I'm having a cup of tea in a nice spring afternoon dressed as Alice in Wonderland. They sound so pure that I feel refreshed after listening to it every single time.
Favorite Track: In The Sun
Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) - Cansei de Ser Sexy (2005)
I'm not really a fan of electrorock, but CSS is a exception. They first caught my attention when I was very young (10 or 11 years old) and they were starting to get famous and I listened some tracks on TV. I liked it and rushed to download they on Kazaa. The songs are catchy and dancing, the beat will stuck in your head for months and you will like it anyway. That's why the album is here. Even they posterior albums don't being good as this, the band still one of my favorites for this first work.
Favorite Track: Superafim
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
I remember that the first time I listened to OK Computer I spent the next 3 weeks crying for no reason and waking up in the middle of night singing Karma Police. Maybe was just the moment that already wasn't the best or the PMT, but this Radiohead album influenced that too. And much. The songs are melancholic, sad, and beautiful at the same time and I love it. Maybe Kid A and Pablo Honey have more fans than OK Computer, but it's my favorite Radiohead's album by far.
Favorite Track: Paranoid Android
Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
Greatest album for one of the greatest bands. Like it or not. When I was starting my guitar lessons I listened all the time "just start with something easy like Nirvana" and because that I started to listen this. Didn't take long enough until I was addict to the band. It's true that they aren't musically complex or lyrically stunning, but they didn't need be and this is what I like on them. Even if I dropped all the grunge phase long ago and the Nirvana fangirling phase too, Nevermind still one of those albums that I listen without a reason, just because I felt I should. This is why it's on list.
Favorite Track: In Bloom
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It was pretty hard to pick just 10 and I feel really bad to no put Oasis, Beatles, Smiths, Sinatra, BB King, Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, Bryan Adams, Johnny Cash, The Who and so many others that should be here. I feel like I would spent a month to put all my favorite albums in a list! Thanks for the experience, it was really great.
^Love for Venus in Furs makes me <3
Not really, but I do know that album better than you.
Fuck off, this thread will be even more shitty if people keep trying to one-up each other and reify their opinions.
^I wasn't trying to be mean and it wasn't an opinion... I was just trying to subtly imply that he got the name of his third favorite album wrong...
I can dig this.
A metalhead's top 10
1. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Melodic Death Metal in similar style to Amon Amarth, except far more complex and classy. Dark and melodic with astonishing, varied songwriting and very deep, earthy vocals. Probably the most skillful use of slower songwriting in metal, when they use it (a good portion of the album).
2. Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After
Incredible screamo, very melodic and far more varied through the release than pretty much anything I've heard in the genre besides possible Gospel's The Moon Is a Dead World. Unbelievably passionate in the vocals.
3. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
This is up there with The Butcher's Ballroom for the title of most creative-sounding metal release. The Butcher's Ballroom would probably win just because... well, anyone who's heard the album will know. But Portal of I is basically 70 minutes of black metal, violins, acoustic passages, and general incredible melodies that feels like nothing else in metal.
4. Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Masterfully executed post-rock somewhat closer to GYBE than EitS in that they write long compositions and utilize thick symphonic productions as a large part of their sound rather than just rock instruments. Every song is immensely beautiful and the climaxes are unparalleled imo.
5. The Cure - Disintegration
Dreamy post-punk; the entire album is basically like a dream on a cloud, massively consistent and the entire album has a theme of evolving each song as it continues, in such a way that the whole thing feels very connected but it continues to be unique for its entire duration.
6. Kauan - Aava Tuulen Maa
A mix of post-rock and dark folk, incredible production and melodies throughout. The vocals can take some getting used to but that adjustment period was only about 3 minutes for me on the first listen and I've loved them ever since.
7. pg.lost - It's Not Me, It's You!
Nothing groundbreaking going on here but it's extremely well executed "heavy" post-rock.
8. Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
Atmospheric sludge metal. This replaced Panopticon as my favorite release of the genre as soon as I heard it. Make sure to get your hands on an overlay of the two discs! That's how it was originally intended to be heard (notice how the track lengths match on both discs) and it is spectacular as such.
9. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Post-rock, I doubt this needs much explanation, beautiful and soul-building experience to listen to.
10. Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
Modern classical, probably the most haunting release in existence, highly minimalism influenced which makes everything reach out and strike you with far less restraint than it may have in a full orchestra setting.
Feels like this leaves so much out, though. There were about 20 albums in consideration for the final three spots. Interestingly enough, it seems like myself and most *massive* metalheads end up with top 10s that actually don't have a lot of metal.
1. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Melodic Death Metal in similar style to Amon Amarth, except far more complex and classy. Dark and melodic with astonishing, varied songwriting and very deep, earthy vocals. Probably the most skillful use of slower songwriting in metal, when they use it (a good portion of the album).
2. Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After
Incredible screamo, very melodic and far more varied through the release than pretty much anything I've heard in the genre besides possible Gospel's The Moon Is a Dead World. Unbelievably passionate in the vocals.
3. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
This is up there with The Butcher's Ballroom for the title of most creative-sounding metal release. The Butcher's Ballroom would probably win just because... well, anyone who's heard the album will know. But Portal of I is basically 70 minutes of black metal, violins, acoustic passages, and general incredible melodies that feels like nothing else in metal.
4. Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Masterfully executed post-rock somewhat closer to GYBE than EitS in that they write long compositions and utilize thick symphonic productions as a large part of their sound rather than just rock instruments. Every song is immensely beautiful and the climaxes are unparalleled imo.
5. The Cure - Disintegration
Dreamy post-punk; the entire album is basically like a dream on a cloud, massively consistent and the entire album has a theme of evolving each song as it continues, in such a way that the whole thing feels very connected but it continues to be unique for its entire duration.
6. Kauan - Aava Tuulen Maa
A mix of post-rock and dark folk, incredible production and melodies throughout. The vocals can take some getting used to but that adjustment period was only about 3 minutes for me on the first listen and I've loved them ever since.
7. pg.lost - It's Not Me, It's You!
Nothing groundbreaking going on here but it's extremely well executed "heavy" post-rock.
8. Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
Atmospheric sludge metal. This replaced Panopticon as my favorite release of the genre as soon as I heard it. Make sure to get your hands on an overlay of the two discs! That's how it was originally intended to be heard (notice how the track lengths match on both discs) and it is spectacular as such.
9. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Post-rock, I doubt this needs much explanation, beautiful and soul-building experience to listen to.
10. Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
Modern classical, probably the most haunting release in existence, highly minimalism influenced which makes everything reach out and strike you with far less restraint than it may have in a full orchestra setting.
Feels like this leaves so much out, though. There were about 20 albums in consideration for the final three spots. Interestingly enough, it seems like myself and most *massive* metalheads end up with top 10s that actually don't have a lot of metal.
GG.
Also I guess i'll post 5 of my favorites and then add descriptions later.
5. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2. Nas - Illmatic
1. Queen - A Night at the Opera
I can only speak for myself, but for me a lot of my top ten is filled by music I listened to at as a kid and it stuck with me. I got into metal around 17-18 years old, when I had already been into a lot of what was my list for years, even close to a decade in one case. Metal is undoubtedly my favorite genre but it's hard for it to compete with music that I've loved for much longer than 4-5 years. The reason that I can say "my top three will likely never change" is just because even if the best album of all time came out tomorrow, it has to compete with easily over a decade of various nostalgia factors and whatnot. Of course I can only speak for myself but I don't think this would be too far off for others.
I might do a top ten metal albums list just because
Interesting interpretation there, definitely not the case for me personally though. Everything on there I either discovered within the last year, or in the case of Disintegration and Agaetis Byrjun actually disliked for most of the time I'd known of their existence. Tabula rasa is the only one on there that I've always liked but it used to be more of a mild enjoyment than what it is now. I think Ten may be one of the few albums I'd consider in my favorites that I've always loved... maybe Rust in Peace would fit the bill for that, but I don't think that'll ever quite break my top 20 to be honest.
