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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 05/22/2004 : 16:46:10
Right, we haven't had a decent best albums poll in a while. I'm proposing that each one of you posts your absolute, definitive (or as near as possible) Top 5 Favourite Albums. After everyone thats going to post has posted, I'll tot 'em up and announce a winner. Here's some rules:
1) You can only post one Top 5. By all means comment, but don't go posting another entry, I'll hunt you down and box your ears.
2) If you want to change your Top 5, fine, but please edit your former list and don't write a replacement one.
3) You are allowed 5 albums, obviously.
4) These need not be in ranking order, I plan to assign equal importance to each entry.
5) This is an absolute Top 5, so Pixies and Frank Black are most welcome, and there are no other restrictions as to what style of music, or whatever, can appear on your list.
6) Also, I had better just make the distinction, this is your favourite albums, not what you consider to be the best albums ever. There's a subtle difference.
OK then, here's my Top 5 to kick things off:
Groop Dogdrill - Every Six Seconds
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Therapy? - Troublegum M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Play on!
EDIT: Sorry, shine, Therapy out, M83 in.
 "Everywhere I go I want to travel by X-Wing" |
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| IceCream |
Posted - 07/25/2006 : 23:06:11
I don't like OK Computer as much now as I did back in May of 2004. Yes, it did take a lot of studio crafting, but once you get passed all the bells and whistles, it really stands as nothing more than a well-sequenced collection of 11 mostly great rock songs and one preachy 2-minute piece of social commentary that isn't really that intelligent or intimidating. Worth the $17 I spent for the vinyl version, though.
I still love Zaireeka as much as I ever did. |
| Carl |
Posted - 07/25/2006 : 08:32:28
Hi fudd!!
Join the Cult Of Pob! And don't forget to listen to the Pobcast! |
| pearl |
Posted - 07/24/2006 : 12:53:50
ok...
1.The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
2.Frank Black - The Cult Of Ray
3.Nirvana - Nevermind
4.Sonic Youth - Goo
5.Frank Black - Teenager of the year
no sig...:-( |
| edbanky |
Posted - 07/24/2006 : 12:03:11
The Charles Thompson/Kim Deal-free version of my top five
John Prine - John Prine
the Beatles - White Album
(Imagine a white square with the Beatles printed in a light grey)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Mandy Patinkin - Mandy Patinkin
sillyamazon
Tom Waits - The one with the Marimba
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And so on . . .
Due to my present condition and predicaments of being a crippled as a result of the fatal accident that I had, I am not able to carry out this contract because I can only walk on a wheel chair. |
| pixiestu |
Posted - 07/21/2006 : 16:38:02
1)Oasis - Definitely Maybe - Simply the best debut album of any band ever. Or probably just the best album of any band ever. Favourite track - Live Forever
2)Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? - First album I truly fell in love with. Every song is a classic. Favourite track(s) - Some Might Say/Don't Look Back In Anger
3)Frank Black - Teenager of The Year - What can I say? Calistan, Superabound and Thalassocracy are just a few of the great songs on this album. There are a few tracks that don't reach the standard of the rest (Speedy Marie, Vanishing Spies) but overall this is a damn fine piece of work. Favourite track - Abstract Plain
4)Pixies - Surfer Rosa - No explanation needed, it's just perfect. Favourite track - Vamos
5)Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP - I don't usually like rap but this is just amazing. I started listening to it when it was the coolest thing in school when I was about 11 years old and it's just stuck with me ever since. The lyrics are so funny but with a serious edge to them. Favourite track - I'm Back
The albums in this list are likely to change, especially albums by the Pixies or Frank Black as these favourites are changing daily. In fact, the whole list could probably be entirely different by next week, so this whole post may have been a pointless exercise for me. Oh well...
"The arc of triumph" |
| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 07/21/2006 : 09:15:29
After reading some other posts I remembered some good albums.
1) The Strokes - Room On Fire
For some reason everyone seems to think this album sucks. I just think First Impressions Of Earth was horrible.
1)The Cure - Staring At The Sea
The only Cure album I have, and it's my mom's, but I listen to it more than her. Now it's lost.
2) CAKE - Pressure Chief
This is pretty much the best album of any band that I have. It should be #1 but I don't feel like moving it.
3)Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Just an awesome album
4)Frank Black & The Catholics - Self Titled
I just bought it recently, and love it because it sounds kinda like TOTY, but I got bored of TOTY a long time ago.
4)Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
Much better than FB&TC'S
5)The Dears - No Cities Left
I actually don't have this album yet, but I heard a few songs off of it, and think it's going to be good.
5)The Strokes - Is This It
Still the best Strokes album yet.
Always keep this popular alien phrase in mind: An apple to the day maintains absent doctor. |
| toeknee |
Posted - 07/21/2006 : 07:31:05
1) Ash 1977
I listened to this album loads when it first came out, and for some reason never stopped, even if it does have quite a teenage-y feel to it. I really like 'Goldfinger' and 'Girl From Mars.'
2) Belly - King
It was a toss-up between this and Tanya Donelly's Lovesongs For Underdogs, but then I have listened to 'Red' hundreds of time and could listen to this album on repeat. I prefer it to 'Star' because it seems more aggressive and punchy, and with each listen reveals new layers.
3) De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
The album that got me into 80s hip-hop, there's not a lot to say about this album except that it's amazing.
4) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Love what they do with sound.
5) Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
A concept album that actually works, 'Ballade de Melody Nelson' is gorgeous.
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 09/13/2004 : 19:25:52
Prince-- Purple Rain. This is the first album that I bought and got in trouble for. (Thriller was "ok")
Madonna-- Like a Virgin. This is the album that told me women could be sexy and you can dres funky. It got me in trouble too.
U2-- Joshua Tree. The album was ok but I couldn't go to the concert at the last minute because my mom thought I would be drugged and then jump off the balcony.
Violent Femmes-- This is the album that taught me about "alternative" music. It got me in trouble.
Pixies-- Doolittle the album that turned me on to my favorite musicians... and kept me happy and got me in trouble too.
Maybe I just like getting into trouble. Music is worth rebeling for. |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/13/2004 : 15:03:52
Fair enough shine, I'll let you off as you have a unique and interesting perspective on your choice of music.
At least you've binned the Ned's - it was never like that was going to get more than one vote.
So, I finally got my X-Wing |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 09/13/2004 : 12:08:38
i have to admit i have no idea who m83 are/is.
 "tk-tk-tka-chk-ch-tk-tttt-whaaa-chk-tk-tk" |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 09/13/2004 : 12:07:47
"EDIT: Sorry, shine, Therapy out, M83 in." - that's unacceptable cheese!
also, i think i'm going to have to scratch ned's and throw in a clash album, if i can't put the box set i'm picking sandanista.
"tk-tk-tka-chk-ch-tk-tttt-whaaa-chk-tk-tk" |
| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 09/11/2004 : 15:11:38
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa (how fucking obvious)
80s Matchbox B-line Disaster - Horse of the Dog
PJ Harvey - To bring you my love
AC/DC - Back in Black
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf |
| remig |
Posted - 09/11/2004 : 09:01:28
Beatles: Revolver
Frank Black: TOTY
SUPERGRASS: In it for the money
Beach boys: pet sounds
frank black: S/T (Orange ) |
| Jose Jones |
Posted - 09/11/2004 : 08:42:05
fuck.
elvis costello - "this years model"--this was tough. "armed forces" and "get happy" are right there with it, but i just had to go with TYM.
the beatles - "rubber soul"--this album is just so gorgeous. and for the record, this is the british version i'm listing.
pixies - "trompe le monde"--'the happening' is my favorite pixies song, but as far as charles' mastorwork, this is near the very top.
frank black and the catholics - "show me your tears"-- i'm quite certain this is my favorite catholics release. every ounce is perfection.
neko case - "blacklisted"--this is the most beautiful album ever made.
-dan |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/11/2004 : 05:19:51
OK, now you join in.
If enough people still want to contribute, I'll update every now and then.
Remember, Primus only need 15 more votes to equal TOTY.
So, I finally got my X-Wing |
| Domestiques |
Posted - 09/11/2004 : 04:36:30
1. doolittle
2. weezer blue
3. fidelity wars by hefner
4. roulette girl by mary prankster
5. indestructable by rancid
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“I want to be a star!” I cried
They said, “You’re overqualified.
Why don’t you learn to tune your damn guitar?” |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/11/2004 : 03:05:45
Okey Doke. Someone asked me my Top 5 yesterday but I couldn't remember my list, so I checked this out and realised no total had ever been organised.
So here goes, the results of the Official FB.net Albums Poll.
In reverse order, starting with albums with 2 votes.
2 votes:
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Frank Black - Dog In The Sand
Frank Black & The Catholics - s/t
The Clash - London Calling
Elvis Costello - Get Happy
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Violent Femmes - s/t
Frank Black - s/t
Primus - Frizzle Fry
Frank Black - Show Me Your Tears
3 votes:
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beach Boys - Smile
Beatles - Abbey Road
4 votes:
Beatles - Beatles (white album)
Weezer - Pinkerton
5 votes:
Radiohead - OK Computer
Frank Black & The Catholics - Black Letter Days
7 votes:
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
Third Place with 8 votes:
Pixies - Bossanova
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Second Place with 15 votes:
Pixies - Doolittle
First Place with 17 votes:
Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
So, I finally got my X-Wing |
| The Calistanian |
Posted - 06/23/2004 : 13:03:38
1. FB - "Teenager of the Year"
2. Radiohead - "The Bends"
3. Matthew Sweet - "Altered Beast"
4. Pixies - "Doolittle"
5. The Beatles - "Abbey Road"
1. I am a fsh with no i's.
2. You must be wearing Zubaz, 'cause you're daring to be different.
3. I am a man with 3 fingers...but that doesn't count my index finger nor my thumb. |
| langdonboom |
Posted - 06/23/2004 : 12:48:55
I like this game. But I can never decide. I think I'll say:
1. Pixies - Doolittle (the epicenter of it all for me, music-wise)
2. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model (almost the same thing)
3. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers from the Universe (amazing post-post-pre-post-rock... or something - anyone know/listen to these obscure geniuses?)
4. Primus - Frizzle Fry
5. Frank Black - Teenager of the Year (best ever, naturally)
that only leaves out about 2000 other albums I love. But its conversational to limit it to five.
Alienation confers freedom. Obscurity will keep you pure. Pray that you won’t be discovered young, so that you won’t be tempted to sell out early, or won’t be seduced by celebrity.
--THE PATH OF THE ARTIST |
| Thomas |
Posted - 06/20/2004 : 19:51:18
1. Beatles - Abbey Road
My aunt introduced them to me back in 78 or 79. She gave me Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour, both which where recorded the year I was born. That is when I started my record album collection. I was a Beatles fanatic up until the mid 80's around the time I joined the Navy. Abbey Road is the one album of theirs that still gets the most play from me.
2. Pixies – Doolittle
This was tough, but I had to go with this instead of Surfer Rosa only because I’ve had it in all of my car’s on re-play for 15 years. It’s true, I’ve had the same cassette in three different cars since 1989, I even took it with me to Greece last year and it made it back in one piece.
3. Frank Black – Teenager of the Year
This has also been in my cars since 93. It also took a trip to Greece with me. The cassette now resides in my wife’s car only because it is my son and daughters favorite to listen to. Let’s all hear it for the Hoo Hoo song.
4. UFO – No Heavy Petting
You might like you standard 70’s rock, but I love my alternative 70’s rock.
5. X – More Fun In The New World
I can still remember hearing “The new world” on the radio for the first time. It was on WAPP in NYC in 1983. I remember an interview Ray Manzarek said, ‘If the Doors where around today they would sound like X’. I didn’t believe him at all, but I was sold regardless.
Honorable mention.
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
My favorite Live album hands down.
"Our Love is Rice and Beans and Horses Lard" |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 06/20/2004 : 07:16:38
One of my fav quotes TarTar!
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
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| TarTar |
Posted - 06/19/2004 : 16:26:55
She's got the radio active and it makes me feel okay... I don't feel okay.
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 06/19/2004 : 09:34:11
Ohh, man, im gonna be here for a while thinking of these.
1. Rival Schools / United By Fate - I could spend the rest of mylife with just this album on repeat. Here something new everytime. love it.
2. Frank Black / Teenager of the Year
3. Idlewild / 100 broken windows (or somethinglike that, cant remember!)
4. Hole / Live Through This(or rumours lies and media rape...but prob not) - Yeah yeah yeah, shoot me, im a courtney love fan. This album got me through a lot, and i still love it. so its going in.(admittedly i ahvent listened to it in about a year..)
5. Pavement / Slanted & Enchanted
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
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| billgoodman |
Posted - 06/19/2004 : 01:03:30
1. Pixies-Bossanova
my all time favourite it combines my love for the pixies' indierock
and the surf guitar, with a nice (highly arranged) production.
2. Guided By Voices-Alien Lanes
it's so hard to pick a GBV record, there are lot's of them! Bee thousand is great too
and from the more recent years I love Universal Thruths and Cycles. There newest one (and last one) Half Smiles of the Decomposed sounds like a great closer too. So why Alien Lanes?
The album just keeps on going, minimum pauses between songs, just like a Lo-Fi jukebox or radio.
From the moment A Salty Salute starts it's just a classic. Lot's of songs sound horrible or even like filler, but every song has at least one hook, one line, one riff, etc, that will stick in your head for ages.
3. The Beach Boys/Brian Wilson-Smile
I have to agree with NimrodsSon, what I have heard from bootlegs and at the BW gig in Amsterdam last year it just so much better than everything the Beach Boys ever did (even better than Pet Sounds)
4. Throwing Muses-Limbo
You got to pick one I think! It's my favourite muses album, it's so poppy, I seemply love it.
I have a weak spot for Kristin Hersh, she is on her top of the game on this one.
5. Weezer-Pinkerton
haven't listened to it in ages, but pure for opening my eyes and ears to indierock I love this album. By far the best weezer album and I agree they kinda lost it from there. The songs sounds so smart so beautifully arranged. Tired of Sex is the best opener on any weezer album, nice bass, nice riff, nice vocals, nice moog!
is this all?
man!
anyday I would give you another list!
Where is FB and the C's?
damn I forgot to put it on my list!
......
 "I joined the Cult of Frank/Nobody wanted to join my Culf" |
| paintmeister |
Posted - 06/18/2004 : 23:41:48
Pixies-Doolittle
Radiohead-OK Computer
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Deep Purple-Machine Head
FB&TC-S/T
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| fudd |
Posted - 06/05/2004 : 22:17:17
Pixies - Surfer Rosa - we all know what an aural onslaught this is
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona - yeah, I know she says she didn't like the whole major label/studio/production thing, but dammit it sure came out sounding good
Violent Femmes - debut - alternates with Hallowed Ground depending on how suicidal I'm feeling, but let's go with the debut
The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics - struggling with what to say here - they are STILL ahead of their time (or our time, or something like that) - if you are not clued in to this just go buy it already and find out where it really all began
Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear - Elfman said Oingo Boingo wasn't punk, but it was; and with a horn section; too genius for words |
| IceCream |
Posted - 06/05/2004 : 20:45:46
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Gracious molto. Or something.
Anyone else? C'mon, 2 pages? You call that a comprehensive poll?
 "Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev"
No, I don't, but I have a premonition we won't hear from too many others. |
| IceCream |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 21:26:32
I'm happy that you like it now, TarTar. I mean, you're entitled to have not liked it, but I'm entitled to personally like it when I agree with someone.
DW is my favourite album he did with the Catholics. |
| TarTar |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 17:48:58
Fuck! I listened to it earlier, after I made that post, and goddamn, it's a kickass record. While I listened to it quite a bit after it's release, I mostly focused on the first half. The second half never quite grabbed me. But now that I listen back and remember these songs, it's struck me how kickass the record really is. Okay, I withdraw my earlier comment about it being one of the weaker FB albums.
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
| TarTar |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 14:32:50
You should've listened to a different Frank Black album last. As far as I'm concerned, Devil's Workshop is one of his weakest records. But hell, it's still not bad. Take all the best songs from most modern radio bands, add them up, and they still couldn't score as high as San Antonio, Texas or His Kingly Cave do on my list. I just don't really care for the latter half of the record all that much, and it's far too short to be priced the same as Black Letter Days.
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
| Brackish Girl |
Posted - 06/01/2004 : 16:30:51
quote:
Originally posted by klikger
4. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
The Frank and Pixies albums are always changing though. Sometimes its Bossanova or Trompe le Monde and Dog in the Sand.
oh i like that song 'big dipper'. oh don't know much else of bts's stuff, but a couple of my friends love 'em and gave me a few songs on a copied cd.
and i agree with the changing of pixies and frank faves, its just hard cos they both changes styles so much and so often they all hold different moods or whatever.
as for my list, this definitely isn't definite, cos i haven't even heard all the albums i want to hear yet. and then i've more to discover after that...and this is my favourites right now.
1. shins- 'chutes too narrow'
it's just a really good bunch of songs, and james mercer is a really good lyricist.
2. Guided by voices- mag earwig
first album of theirs i got into
3.Smiths-' the very best of...'
kinda cheating but i only really got them in the past couple of weeks, even though i owned 'louder then bombs' for ages. but i could never get into it, til i heard morrissey on jools holland doing 'irish blood english heart' 'first in the gang to die' and ' there is a light that never goes out. morrissey's new album is really good too. and the beta band's new one!! this list sucks.
4. pixies- 'surfer rosa'
at present.
5. frank black- 'devil's workshop'
its the last i listened to. |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 06/01/2004 : 15:18:08
Gracious molto. Or something.
Anyone else? C'mon, 2 pages? You call that a comprehensive poll?
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev" |
| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 05/31/2004 : 14:09:38
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Which Ween and Kinks records are those? I can't quite see them, and I'll need to tot 'em up later on...
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev"
Ween: Chocolate and Cheese
Kinks: Arthur - Or The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire
*Shka-pow! |
| klikger |
Posted - 05/31/2004 : 02:20:35
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
4. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
5. Frank Black & the Catholics - Black Letter Days
The Frank and Pixies albums are always changing though. Sometimes its Bossanova or Trompe le Monde and Dog in the Sand. |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 05/31/2004 : 01:57:00
Which Ween and Kinks records are those? I can't quite see them, and I'll need to tot 'em up later on...
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev" |
