anyhow i am curious as to what albums people here declare as solid masterpieces from start to finish. not just individual songs, but albums you can listen to from beginning to end. well??
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Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker Whiskeytown, Pneumonia XTC, Go 2 Cocteau Twins, Blue Bell Knoll Cowboy Junkies, Trinity Sessions The Pogues, Rum Sodomy & the Lash Peter Gabriel, So Soul Coughing, Ruby Vroom REM, Reckoning Billy Bragg, Talking with the Taxman about Poetry
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BLUE BELL KNNNNNOOOOOOOLLL! IT'S SO SEXY!!!
I love- Dir en grey-Macabre, Gauze, Vulgar, Kisou Joni Mitchell-Blue Tori Amos-Under the Pink, Boys for Pele, Choirgirl Hotel, Scarlett's Walk There are others like DMITRI CDS LIKE MAYBE HIS SVIRIDOV ONE WHICH IS JUST PERFECT!!
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Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come Tool - Laturalus Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium Face To Face - Ignorance Is Bliss Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves The Smalls - Waste And Tragedy The Weakerthans - Fallow & Left and Leaving Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin Our Lady Peace - Gravity Radiohead - The Bends Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream The Tea Party - Tangents Great Big Sea - Play Corb Lund Band - Five Dollar Bill Joey Cape / Tony Sly - Acoustic Split Muse - Absolution
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Gravity, solo? I tend to view it as weaker than Happiness or Spiritual Machines or Clumsy. I still like it, I just listen to the others, given a choice.
I think The Good Life's Blackout is one of the most well-structured albums out there. The parallelisms between the first and second halves of the album are just great. It reminds me of Thomas Mann's novellas in that respect--everything comes back.
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Joni Mitchell, Blue is indeed perfect, except for some verrrrrry painful memories associated therewith in my case.
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I haven't really listened to my OLP collection lately and so Gravity was the one that stood out. They are all pretty solid albums but I would say that Gravity is the most cohesive and listenable album from start to finish. It is not necessarily my favorite in that it has all of their best songs but it is probably the one I would listen to all the way through the most often.
My ranking of their albums would probably be from first to last as far as having my favorite songs on them:
Clumsy Naveed Gravity Spiritual Machines Happiness Is Not A Fish You Can Catch
Though I can't really say that for sure as it has really been quite a while since I have listened to most of them.
I think I will put on Spiritual Machines right now.
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Gordon by Barenaked Ladies No Angel by Dido* From a Basement on a Hill by Elliot Smith International Superhits by Green Day (if I can list compilations...) Brushfire Fairytales by Jack Johnson Mason Jennings by Mason Jennings (only eight songs, so they better be good) Americana by The Offspring Sublime by Sublime Third Eye Blind by Third Eye Blind Urban Hymns by The Verve* Weezer (blue album) by Weezer
*Break the rules a little bit; I love every song on the CD, but I have a hard time listening to it all in one sitting
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Siren and South, by Heather Nova Songs About Jane, by Maroon5 World Of Noise, Sparkle and Fade, So Much For The Afterglow, and Learning How To Smile, all by Everclear Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Surfacing, and Afterglow, by Sarah McLachlan No Name Face, by Lifehouse Lover's Rock, by Sade Make Yourself and Morning View, by Incubus December, by George Winston Third Eye Blind, Blue, and Out of the Vein, by Third Eye Blind The House Carpenter's Daughter, by Natalie Merchant Transatlanticism, by Death Cab For Cutie Brushfire Fairytales, by Jack Johnson
Awyeah.
I'm sure I'm not remembering some, though. Hmph.
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Kind of Blue, Miles Davis The Best of the Gershwin Songbooks, Ella Fitzgerald Led Zeppelin 1, Led Zeppelin Blue, Joni Mitchell Red Clay, Freddie Hubbard Just a Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, Harry Nilsson Katy Lied, Steely Dan Raoul & the Kings of Spain, Tears for Fears Ugetsu, Art Blakey Fisherman's Blues, The Waterboys
and some others I haven't thought of yet... Posts: 867 | Registered: Dec 2003
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Tool - Aenima Tool - Lateralus A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Bjork - Homogenic Nirvana - In Utero Nirvana - Nevermind System of a Down - Toxicity Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 (Mvts. I-IV) + Egmont + Coriolan Overtures
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I'm sure I've listd these before, but as it was pointed out, I cannot stay away from music threads.
The Power of Failing and End Serenading - Mineral False Cathedrals and Songs in the Air - Elliot Lateralus-Tool The Moon is Down,How to Start a Fire, and Hide Nothing - Further Seems Forever Deloused in the Comatorium, and Tremulant(ep) - The Mars Volta Diary , How it Feels to be Something On , and The Rising Tide - Sunny Day Real Estate A Lull in Traffic(ep) and Start Here -The Gloria Record Clarity and Futures - Jimmy Eat World Settled For the Art Official - Give Until Gone Antenna and Jupiter - Cave In Second Stage Turbine Blade and In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3 - Coheed and Cambria
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I didn't realize there was so much in the pop music culture that I'm unfamiliar with. Is this everyone's eclectic list?
Dan Fogelberg -- The Innocent Age Glad -- The A Capella Project The Indigo Girls -- Retrospective (are compilation albums allowed?)
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Elliott Smith - Figure 8 Elliott - False Cathedrals and Song In The Air AFI - Black Sails In The Sunset/Art of Drowing Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Bright Eyes/Son, Ambulance - Oh Holy Fools Against Me! - As the Everlasing Cowboy/ Reinventing Axl Rose Jimmy Eat World - Clarity An American Tail - Soundtrack Alison Kraus and Union Station - Live (Both Discs) American Football - ST At The Drive In - In Casino Out Bad Manners - Heavy Petting Bad Religion - All Ages Barenaked Ladies - Maybe You Should Drive Ben Folds Five - Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner
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Yellow Submarine - The Beatles Sergent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles Return of the King(soundtrack) - Howard Shore and Others Americana - The Offspring Cheer Up, Turn the Radio Off, Why Do They Rock So Hard? - Reel Big Fish Meteora - Linkin Park My Generation: The Very Best of the Who - The Who (Who else? ) The Complex - Blue Man Group
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These are just going through my own CD book; I know Ben has some others in his collection that would could go in here (like Damien Rice, O, for example), but I am too lazy to look through that many albums to be reminded of them.
Guster, Lost and Gone Forever David Usher, Hallucinations James, Laid Emiliana Torrini, Love in the Time of Science Harvey Danger, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? Harvey Danger, King James Version Ben Folds Five, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Ben Folds Five, Whatever and Ever Amen Radiohead, Kid A Radiohead, The Bends Our Lady Peace, Happiness is not a Fish that you can Catch Jude, No One is Really Beautiful Moist, Creature Moist, Mercedes Five and Dime Hopeforagoldensummer, I Bought a Heart Made of Art in the Deep, Deep South Tegan and Sara, If it was You Tegan and Sara, This Business of Art Eve 6, It's All in Your HeadPosts: 3801 | Registered: Jan 2000
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Queen - A Night at the Opera Frank Sinatra - No One Cares Kings of Convenience - Versus Postal Service - Give Up Air - Talkie Walkie Metropolis OST DJ Dangermouse - The Grey Album Led Zeppellin - II AC/DC - Back in Black Too Many DJ's (Radio Soulwax) - I -> IX The Kleptones - A Night at the Hip-Hopera Fila Brazillia - Another Late Night Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Steppenwolf - 7 Sasha - Air Drawn Dagger Sasha - Involver
These, plus too many jazz albums to list.
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Evanescence- Fallen Linkin Park- Meteora Tantric- (I forget the name of the album, it's the one with Break Down and Mourning on it) Godsmack- The Other Side Beach Boys- 20 Good Vibrations Monkees- Greatest Hits Simon and Garfunkle- Greatest Hits
(I will add Led Zeppelin, A Perfect Cirle, Jet, Audioslave, and Metallica when I actually get the CDs... )
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Pulp--Different Class British Sea Power--The Decline of British Sea Power Tom Waits--Rain Dogs The Divine Comedy--Absent Friends Radiohead--OK Computer Franz Ferdinand--Franz Ferdinand Belle and Sebastian--If You're Feeling Sinister Cat Power--Moon Pix Blasted Mechanism--Namaste The Delgados--Hate
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*Bouncing Souls - Bouncing Souls (never fails to make me smile.
BoySetsFire- The Day The Sun Went Outand This Crying, This Screaming My Voice is being born Bright Eyes - Letting Off The Happiness, and Every day & every night Cat Power - You Are Free The Church - Starfish The Clash - London Calling Cocteau Twins Heaven and Las Vegas Jeff Buckley - Grace Cranberries - Everybody Else is doing it so why can't we? Cursive - The Ugly Organ David Gray - White Ladder David Usher - Hallucinations The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin George Winston - December, Autumn Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennaes to the Heavens (Discs 1 & 2)
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion II Hot Water Music - Fuel For The Hategame and Split with Alk Trio James - ***Laid***, and Pleased To Meet You Jimmy Eat World - Clarity The Kinks - To The Bone (Both Discs)
more to come.
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