Top Ten Albums Of All Time.

[Elderberry Fucking Fanta]

Spontaneously, without order:

Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Twinkle Echo
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Aislers Set - The Last Match
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint (although Philophobia came close)
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Lucksmiths - Happy Secret
Pipas - A Cat Escaped (largely due to Old Kent Road)
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters

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Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is urging to be let in....

[Karanina]

ooh, this is a great thread! I find it really interesting to see what people here like besides Patrick. I was a bit distressed to find hardly anything I recognized on other people's lists, and as such I'm a bit afraid to post mine, but I don't want to be a coward so here goes. Please don't hate on me ...

1 album/artist:

1. Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
2. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
3. Razorlight - Up All Night
4. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
5. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
6. The Coral - The Coral
7. Rasputina - Thanks for the Ether
8. The Beatles - Srgt. Pepper
9. Scissors for Lefty - Underhanded Romance
10. Larrikin Love - The Freedom Spark

[hark]

I saw Scissors for Lefty at a festival once. I found the singer ridiculously funny but I can't remember why.

[blake]

blake said:

I don't like wimpy indecisiveness, so you must only name ten albums and you must put them in order. Laying down the law cos as we all know... rules control the fun!

You people that have not heeded this warning, I SPIT ON YOU.

[pearl]

i can't put them in any order and they're all subject to change. they're favorites for right now.

1 arcade fire - funeral
2 bright eyes - digital ash in a digital urn
3 elliott smith - either/or
4 david bowie - hunky dory
5 panda bear - person pitch
6 patrick wolf - wind in the wires
7 beirut - gulag orkestrar
8 m. ward - post war
9 neko case - fox confessor
10 modest mouse - moon and antarctica


FINE i'll try to put them in order. and i liked zwan.

oh... i need to put siamese dream in there somewhere.. poo... i guess that goes after either/or.

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ghtopstlwrkr said:

i can't put them in any order and they're all subject to change. they're favorites for right now.

1 arcade fire - funeral
2 bright eyes - digital ash in a digital urn
3 elliott smith - either/or
4 david bowie - hunky dory
5 panda bear - person pitch
6 patrick wolf - wind in the wires
7 beirut - gulag orkestrar
8 m. ward - post war
9 neko case - fox confessor
10 modest mouse - moon and antarctica



FINE i'll try to put them in order. and i liked zwan.

The music was the least of my problems with Zwan.

[tesla]

Order is for nerds.

[blake]

tesla said:

Order is for nerds.

nerds>you.

[tesla]

Me<you.

Because you aren't a real nerd.

[mimicry]

1. Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires
2. Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
3. Pulp - His 'n Hers (or Different Class? or Separations?)
4. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
5. Islands - Return To The Sea
6. The Decemberists - Picaresque
7. Les Georges Leningrad - Sur Les Traces De Black Eskimo (I like noise. Shut up.)
8. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
9. The Presets - Beams
10. Simon Bookish - Unfair/Funfair

And an honorable mention to Siouxsie and the Banshees' Best Of but I felt like because it was a best of it wouldn't be right somehow.

That's about as solid a list as I can think of at the moment.

[fabbit]

Oooh, picaresque and flaming lips definetly belong up there.

but modest mouse so high?
you must really like them!
thats not a bad thing, though.

[mimicry]

Sure I like Modest Mouse, but not as much as I like other bands. However, I love that album. I don't even know the song titles because I just let it play through over and over and they all seem to match up seamlessly, if only in mood.

All the stars are projectors, yeah / Projecting our lives down to this planet Earth

[Lauren]

Rules are no fun. I would say meant to be broken but I hate cliches.

My preferences change a lot because I go through cycles of absolutely loving an album and overplaying it and then hating it because it has become boring.

But hey, everyone here has wonderful taste in music.

[tesla]

Rules were made to be distortedly interpreted.

[Lauren]

Nice.

Rules were made to be defenestrated.

Okay, done now, yup.

[lltoastll]

Of all time!?!?!? bah

1. Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come: A Chimerical Bombation In 12 Bursts
2. Explosions In The Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
3. The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
4. Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
5. Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# oo
7. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
8. Boris - Pink
9. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn
10. Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People

dammit honourable mentions:

1. Joni Mitchell - Blue
2. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
3. Edith Piaf - Edith Piaf
4. Boom Bip - Corymb
5. Battles - B EP
6. Pilote - Antenna
7. Tortoise - It's All Around You
8. Set Fire to Flames - Sings Reign Rebuilder
9. Rocky Votolato - Suicide Medicine
10. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw

this is too hard..... there's more i want to add, and i tend to genre hop so i have top 10s in all the genres. The phrase "of all time" is too difficult to narrow down to just 10 because there were many influential albums in my life. bah.

[christy]

oh this is difficult

1. the good life - black out
this album means everything to me. tim kasher is a master at song writing.

2. patrick wolf - lycanthropy
favorite paddy album. favorite everything.

3. paul simon - graceland
this is my childhood. plus paul simon is a genius and this is his best work

4. saul williams - amethyst rock star
simply breath taking. saul combines poetry and hip-hop. i cannot get enough of his voice and his poetry. he is so askljf WOWOWOW

5. mineral - the power of failing
thank you god for 90s midwestern music. the guitar in his album is so catchy and fab

6. cursive - the storms of early summer: semantics of song
my favorite cursive album by far. steven pedersen's back up vocals make it for me.

7. placebo - black market music
although "without you i'm noting" was close, bmm is still my favorite. the slow songs are amazing

8. her space holiday - the young machines
this was the album of my summer after 9th grade and my trip to france. it is so memorable for me.

9. bright eyes - lifted
my favorite band for five years. this is the only bright eyes record where i don't completely hate a few songs on the album.

10. the faint - danse macabre
redefined club music. redefined danse.

mostly these because they all mean something very personal to me. they probably aren't the "best" records ever made, but they are to me.

[flockofleaves]

it's interesting that lycanthropy seems to be most people's fav P-Dub album, and that no one's mentioned the magic position so far.

[flockofleaves]

In no particular order:

pw- wind in the wires
flogging molly- within a mile of home
tunng- comments of the inner chorus
kate bush- the hounds of love
rage against the machine- the battle of LA
the pogues- if I should fall from grace with god
justin sullivan- navigating by the stars
dj shadow- endtroducing
cloud cult- advice from the happy hippopotamus
tenacious d- (eponymous)

and, for old time's sake: NIN- the fragile

i keep thinking of things i left out... -sigh-

[pearl]

folklaure said:

Nice.

Rules were made to be defenestrated.

Okay, done now, yup.

aahah omg this brought back so many memories from european history. i remember my teacher talking about the defenestration of prague so much. and then i remember nothing else. there were pictures accompanying it in my euro book too. how amusing. such a big word to say "throw out the window."