Music: Your top-25 albums

[evolutionbaby]

1. Pearl Jam - VS
2. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
3. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
4. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
5. Pearl Jam - Yield
6. My Morning Jacket - Z
7. The Strokes - Room On Fire
8. Paul Simon - Graceland
9. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
10. The Who - Quadrophenia
11. Daft Punk - Discovery
12. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
13. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
14. Tragically Hip - Day for Night
15. Tool - 10,000 Days
16. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
17. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
18. Travelling Willburys - Vol 1
19. Daft Punk - Homework
20. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
21. The Strokes - Is This It?
22. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
23. Kings of Leon - Youth and Young manhood
24. Pearl Jam - Binaural
25. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication



HM: Daft Punk - Human After All, Pearl Jam - No Code, Lightning Bolt, Riot Act, Tool - AEnima, Led Zeppelin - II, Kings of Leon - Aha Sake Heartbreak, Beastie Boys - Check Your Head, Licensed to Ill, Pauls Boutique

 

[Teemu]

1. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by Bill Evans Trio

31. Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by Bill Evans Trio

Rough couple of years for this album eh?

 

[Shareefruck]

Rough couple of years for this album eh?

No, not at all, really-- Everything on the more recent list, I consider an untouchable masterpiece that I view as being in a similar tier, personally-- More a case of gaining exposure to other albums operating at a similar level that pushed it down. I haven't soured on it at all.

In fact, if you look at that first list, only a handful of the albums beneath it ended up being placed higher-- The rest were left off completely. That first list really drops off after the top 10, in hindsight.

 

[WeThreeKings]

This is tougher than I thought it would be:

25. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
24. Flyleaf - Self-Titled
23. Eisley - Currents
22. Lydia - Illuminate
21. Halsey - Badlands
20. Eminem - Slim Shady LP
19. Dave Matthews Band - Crash
18. City and Colour - Sometimes
17. Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You
16. The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
15. Circa Survive - Juturna
14. 3 Doors Down - The Better Life
13. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
12. Blink 182 - Self-Titled
11. Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
10. Deftones - Around the Fur
9. Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
8. Jeff Buckley - Grace
7. Incubus - Make Yourself
6. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
5. The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
4. Tool - Lateralus
3. A Perfect Circle - Mers de Noms
2. Deftones - White Pony
1. Tool - Aenima

 

[Sombastate]

Not sure if i'm willing to die by this list, but more or less this is how my list would shape up:

25. Vampire Weekend- Vampires in the Modern City (2013)
24. The Zombies- Oracles and Odysseys (1969)
23. Bleachers- Strange Desires (2014)
22. The Roots- Game Theory (2005)
21. Simon and Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water
20. Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run (1975)
19. The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds (1965)
18. Michael Jackson- Off the Wall (1979)
17. Astronautalis- This Is Our Science (2011)
16. K-Os- Atlantis: Hymns for Disco (2004)
15. Paul Simon- Graceland (1986)
14. David Bowie- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (1972)
13. Gorillaz- Demon Days (2005)
12. Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
11. Blackalicious- Blazing Arrow (2002)
10. Peter Gabriel- So (1986)
09. Billy Joel- The Stranger (1977)
08. The Beatles- Rubber Soul (1965)
07. The Roots- Illadelph Halflife (1996)
06. The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed (1969)
05. Sufjan Stevens- Illinois (2005)
04. Blackalicious- Nia (2002)
03. David Bowie- Young Americans (1965)
02. Canibus- Rip the Jacker (2003)
01. The Beatles- Abbey Road (1969)

 

[The Gongshow]

Okay, lets give this a try...


25. Twenty One Pilots : Blurryface
24. Anarbor : Burnout
23. Angels & Airwaves : I-Empire
22. Audioslave : Revelations
21. Matthew Good Band : Underdogs
20. Queens of the Stone Age : ...Like Clockwork
19. Foo Fighters : Wasting Light
18. Arctic Monkeys : AM
17. Kings of Leon : Only by the Night
16. Royal Blood : Royal Blood
15. Anarbor : Words You Don't Swallow
14. Billy Talent : III
13. Muse : Absolution
12. Them Crooked Vultures : TCV
11. Pearl Jam : Ten
10. Silversun Pickups : Swoon
9. Twin Atlantic : Free
8. Muse : Absolution
7. Incubus : Light Grenades
6. Alter Bridge : One Day Remains
5. Young The Giant : Mind Over Matter
4. Paramore : Brand New Eyes
3. Neck Deep : Lifes Not Out to Get You
2. Foo Fighters : The Colour and the Shape
1. Soundgarden - Superunknown

 

[Sombastate]

As much as i like T.O.P., Blurryface didn't have any replay value for me. I still listen to Vessel.

I know Blurryface is a more mature effort, and i appreciate that, but outside of Not Today, Hometown, The Judge and Fairly Local, i have really have no desire to listen to that album.

 

[Fantomas]

I don't know about a top 10, but here are some of the CDs I like at the moment. In no particular order.

Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno
Anthologie Vol 1 - Francois de Roubaix
Red - King Crimson
Another Self Portrait - Bob Dylan
The Man-Machine - Kraftwerk
New Sensations - Lou Reed
Funhouse - The Stooges
Attahk - Magma
Sign o the Times - Prince
Closing Time - Tom Waits
Loaded - The Velvet Underground
The Blade Runner Soundtrack - Vangelis
Western Culture - Henry Cow
The Essentian Nino Rota - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Russian favorites:
Izbrannoe - Vladimir Vysotsky
Podozhdi - Igor Kornelyuk
Muzyka Kino - Alexey Rybnikov
Zerkalo - Yuri Antonov
The Best - Kino

 

[crump]

I don't know about a top 10, but here are some of the CDs I like at the moment. In no particular order.

Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno
Anthologie Vol 1 - Francois de Roubaix
Red - King Crimson
Another Self Portrait - Bob Dylan
The Man-Machine - Kraftwerk
New Sensations - Lou Reed
Funhouse - The Stooges
Attahk - Magma
Sign o the Times - Prince
Closing Time - Tom Waits
Loaded - The Velvet Underground
The Blade Runner Soundtrack - Vangelis
Western Culture - Henry Cow
The Essentian Nino Rota - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Russian favorites:
Izbrannoe - Vladimir Vysotsky
Podozhdi - Igor Kornelyuk
Muzyka Kino - Alexey Rybnikov
Zerkalo - Yuri Antonov
The Best - Kino

Nice. A few of my favourite bands in there too.
Henry Cow Unrest was my favourite. Frith is crazy.

 

[The Gongshow]

As much as i like T.O.P., Blurryface didn't have any replay value for me. I still listen to Vessel.

I know Blurryface is a more mature effort, and i appreciate that, but outside of Not Today, Hometown, The Judge and Fairly Local, i have really have no desire to listen to that album.

It took me a few listens to start to really enjoy it, it was one of my fav albums from last year and still has a lot of replay value for me. I like it enough to own it on Vinyl and give it a few spins every now and then. Put it in at #25, I guess I only like 24 albums more than it

 

[Fantomas]

Nice. A few of my favourite bands in there too.
Henry Cow Unrest was my favourite. Frith is crazy.

I need to listen to Unrest again, as it has been a while. Western Culture is really brilliant in places. I also have it on vinyl.

 

[Fantomas]

Been ironing this out in the last album thread for a while now.

Top Tier
1. Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel by Miles Davis
2. White Light White Heat (Mono) by The Velvet Underground
3. Bootleg 4: Live 1966 by Bob Dylan
4. Lick My Decals Off Baby by Captain Beefheart
5. ******es Brew by Miles Davis
6. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
7. Unit Structures by Cecil Taylor
8. Tago Mago by Can
9. Live at the It Club by Thelonious Monk
10. Faust by Faust
11. Revolver (Mono) by The Beatles
12. Live with Ginger Baker by Fela Kuti
13. Fourth World Vol 1. by Jon Hassel
14. Future Days by Can
15. The Ascension by Glenn Branca
16. Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
17. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
18. The Velvet Underground And Nico (Mono) by The Velvet Underground
19. Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
20. In a Silent Way by Miles Davis
21. Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by John Coltrane
22. Free Jazz by Ornette Coleman
23. The Magic City by Sun Ra
24. Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy by Brian Eno
25. Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
26. Closer by Joy Division
27. Days of Radiance by Laraaji
28. Bach: Goldberg Variations (1981) by Glenn Gould
29. Velvet Underground (Closet Mix) by Velvet Underground
30. Debussy: Preludes by Arturo Bendetti Michelangeli
31. Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by Bill Evans Trio
32. Three Ragas by Ravi Shankar
33. At The Golden Circle by Ornette Coleman
34. The Clash UK by The Clash
35. Freak Out! by The Mothers of Invention
36. Neu! by Neu!
37. Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
38. Spiritual Unity by Albert Ayler
39. The Black Saint and Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
40. After Bathing at Baxter's by Jefferson Airplane
41. Outside the Dream Syndicate by Tony Conrad

Missed the Cut
42. Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
43. Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen
44. Neu!75 by Neu!
45. Music For 18 Musicians
46. Confusion/Gentleman by Fela Kuti
47. Marquee Moon by Television
48. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
49. Black Monk Time by The Monks
50. 154 by Wire
51. In C by Terry Riley
52. Fun House by The Stooges
53. Faust IV by Faust
54. Entertainment! by Gang of Four
55. Rubber Soul (Mono) by The Beatles
56. Atlantis by Sun Ra
57. Disintegration Loops by William Basinski
58. Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno
59. Scientist Meets the Space Invaders by Scientist
60. Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
61. Sgt. Pepper's (Mono) by The Beatles
62. Mu: First Part + Second Part by Don Cherry
63. Third by Soft Machine
64. Loveless (Alternate) by My Bloody Valentine
65. Second Edition by Public Image Ltd.

The 1966 Royal Albert Hall album is indeed a great Dylan album. It is also elevated by Bob's interaction with the audience. It is more than just the music. Neverthless, the older I get the less I prefer the electric period and more I like his subsequent work.

John Wesley Harding is his best work lyrically. It is one of the ambiguous albums I have ever heard; it has both a religious and a Marxist subtext, depending on one's interpretation. Blood on the Tracks has universal appeal to almost anyone over 30 and great emotional depth. Another Self Portrait is just straightforward joy, without the pretenses of mid-60s hipsterism, and with Bob's best singing bar none.

I know that the electric Dylan is on the canon. But screw the canon.

 

[Shareefruck]

The 1966 Royal Albert Hall album is indeed a great Dylan album. It is also elevated by Bob's interaction with the audience. It is more than just the music. Neverthless, the older I get the less I prefer the electric period and more I like his subsequent work.

John Wesley Harding is his best work lyrically. It is one of the ambiguous albums I have ever heard; it has both a religious and a Marxist subtext, depending on one's interpretation. Blood on the Tracks has universal appeal to almost anyone over 30 and great emotional depth. Another Self Portrait is just straightforward joy, without the pretenses of mid-60s hipsterism, and with Bob's best singing bar none.

I know that the electric Dylan is on the canon. But screw the canon.

I don't care about what is or isn't canon either, but I like unhinged creativity and youthful vibrance/playfulness of the electric period the most, personally. Blood on the Tracks actually soured on me over time, particularly the official studio version that was released (the more stripped down version is better, IMO). I'll need to revisit the other two you mentioned, as they never quite clicked with me. I liked The Basement Tapes, though.

Edit: Are you referring to Self Portrait or Bootleg 10: Another Self Portrait?

 

[regulahbread]

1. The Wonder Years: The Greatest Generation (2013)
2. Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
3. Circa Survive: Juturna (2005)
4. J. Cole: 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014)
5. Brand New: Deja Entendu (2003)
6. Hands Like Houses: Ground Dweller (2012)
7. A Day to Remember: For Those Who Have Heart (2007)
8. Childish Gambino: Camp (2011)
9. PVRIS: White Noise (2014)
10. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties: We Don't Have Each Other (2014)
11. Transit: Listen & Forgive (2011)
12. Isles and Glaciers: The Hearts of Lonely People (2010)
13: Lupe Fiasco: Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor (2006)
14: Dance Gavin Dance: Downtown Battle Mountain (2007)
15: The Wonder Years: Suburbia, I've Given You All, And Now I'm Nothing (2011)

 

[Augscura]

1) Death- Symbolic
2) Gorguts - Colored Sands
3) Opeth - Blackwater Park
4) Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
5) Gorguts - Obscura
6) Obscura - Cosmogenesis
7) Death - Leprosy
8) Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
9) Demilich - Nespithe
10) Immolation - Failures For Gods
11) Augury - Concealed
12) Opeth - Still Life
13) Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
14) Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulee
15) Morbid Angel - Covenant
16) Behemoth - The Satanist
17) Necrophagist - Epitaph
18) Blood Incantation - Starspawn
19) Masaharu Iwata and Hitoshi Sakimoto - Final Fantasy Tactics Original Soundtrack
20) David Wise - Donkey Kong Country 2 Original Soundtrack
21) The Ruins of Beverest - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
22) Cynic - Focus
23) Kalmah - Swamplord
24) Vektor - Terminal Redux
25) Negura Bunget - OM

Honorable mentions:
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Immolation - Here In After, Close To A World Below, Dawn of Possession
Kalmah - They Will Return
Kroda - Cry To Me, River
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I, II, and III
Rivers of Nihil - Monarchy
Death - Human, Individual Thought Patterns, The Sound of Perseverence
Opeth - Watershed, Ghost Reveries, Orchid
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Disma - Towards the Megalith
Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crepiscule
Masafumi Takada - Danganronpa 2 The Original Soundtrack
Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VIII Original Soundtrack
Masami Ueda - Resident Evil 2 Original Soundtrack
Fallujah - The Harvest Wombs
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Kalisia - Cybion
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Vektor - Black Future, Outer Isolation
Mithras - Behind The Shadows Lie Madness
Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
Burzum - Filosofem

 

[Fantomas]

I don't care about what is or isn't canon either, but I like unhinged creativity and youthful vibrance/playfulness of the electric period the most, personally. Blood on the Tracks actually soured on me over time, particularly the official studio version that was released (the more stripped down version is better, IMO). I'll need to revisit the other two you mentioned, as they never quite clicked with me. I liked The Basement Tapes, though.

Edit: Are you referring to Self Portrait or Bootleg 10: Another Self Portrait?

The bootleg.

Concerning Blood on the Tracks, I consider the official album and the other versions (eg. BOTT: New York Sessions) to be part of the same creative work. Altogether it is a masterpiece.

The recent bootleg release of the complete basement tapes is excellent too. I constructed my own basement album from that without the Band tracks. There are some hidden gems there like All You Have To Do Is Dream and Wild Wolf.

 

[Fantomas]

Just great.

 

[Shareefruck]

The bootleg.

Concerning Blood on the Tracks, I consider the official album and the other versions (eg. BOTT: New York Sessions) to be part of the same creative work. Altogether it is a masterpiece.

The recent bootleg release of the complete basement tapes is excellent too. I constructed my own basement album from that without the Band tracks. There are some hidden gems there like All You Have To Do Is Dream and Wild Wolf.

I just like the way NY Sessions sounds more than the official recordings. More intimate and fitting for the material (whereas the official one feels like a mismatch in production/style to me). Still not quite as in love with the material as the reputation it has, though.

BTW, I just listened to John Wesley Harding again and it clicked-- I think it's excellent. I'd still have it behind his prime electric era stuff but I definitely like it more than something like The Times They Are A Changing and Blood on the Tracks.

Another post-electric Dylan album that I love is Bootleg 5. I'm not totally in sync with the style he's going after in it, but it really packs a whallop nonetheless.

I also listened to Self Portrait again thinking that's what you were referring to-- Don't remember if it has similar traits to Another Self Portrait, but personally, while I'm impressed that he's able to pull off that crooning voice, I really don't like the aesthetic of it. Removes alot of the authenticity, sincerity and fire for me. I love Dylan's trademark raspy beatnik voice, and I feel like he's most honest/himself when he's bitter, cynical, scathing and humorous/irreverent. I think that might be the biggest reason I like his electric era most. While I like his foray into country, I've always lumped it in as being similar to his activist folk music phase-- more an exploration of a genre where he's taking influences and channeling his idols and less of a representation of himself, I feel.

 

[Acadmus]

25. Out of Time - R.E.M.
24. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
23. Grave Dancers Union - Soul Asylum
22. Little Moon - Grant-Lee Phillips
21. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
20. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
19. Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
18. Adam & Eve - Catherine Wheel
17. Doubt - Jesus Jones
16. Ten - Pearl Jam
15. Disintegration - The Cure
14. Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
13. The Bends - Radiohead
12. Violator - Depeche Mode
11. Hopes and Fears - Keane
10. Mighty Joe Moon - Grant Lee Buffalo
9. The Boy With No Name - Travis
8. Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
7. Happy Days - Catherine Wheel
6. If I Were A Carpenter - various artists
5. Altered Beast - Matthew Sweet
4. Hot Fuss - The Killers
3. Perverse - Jesus Jones
2. Strangeland - Keane
1. Chrome - Catherine Wheel

My complete top-100 (might need tweaking): http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=826

 

[Bee Sheriff]

1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Brian Eno - Another Green World
4. Connan Mockasin - Caramel
5. Kanye West - Late Registration
6. Cortex - Troupeau Bleu
7. Harrold Budd, Cocteau Twins - The Moon and the Melodies


8. Ma$e - Harlem World
9. Part Time - Virgo's Maze
10. Toro y Moi - June 2009
11. Kanye West - Graduation
12. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
13. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
14. Kanye West - Yeezus
15. The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
16. Toro y Moi - Causers of This
17. DIIV - Oshin
18. Mac DeMarco - 2
19. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
20. Wild Nothing - Gemini
21. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
22. Com Truise - In Decay
23. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
24. Brian Eno - Apollo
25. Tyler, the Creator - WOLF

HM (No Order):

Kanye West - The College Dropout
GOOD Music - Cruel Summer
Brian Eno - Ambient 1
Brian Eno - Ambient 2
Mac DeMarco - Rock and Roll Nightclub
Slowdive - Souvlaki
The Cure - Disintegration
Neil Young - Harvest
A$AP Rocky - Live.Love.A$AP
Odd Future - Radical
A$AP Mob - Lord$ Never Worry
Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Neon Indian - Era Extrana
Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
John Maus - A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Pharrel Williams - In My Mind
Craft Spells - Idle Labor
Blouse - Blouse
Young Prisms - In Between
Washed Out - Life of Leisure
Cleaners From Venus - Number 13
The Drums - Portamento
Descendents - Somery
Melody's Echo Chamber - S/T
Alvvays - S/T
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Death Grips - The Money Store
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Beach Fossils - S/T
Flying Lotus - Drafts+Loops+Ideas
Alex Calder - Time

 

[DennisReynolds]

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
3. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
4. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
5. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
6. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
7. Radiohead - OK Computer
8. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
9. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
10. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
11. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
12. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
13. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
14. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
15. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
16. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
17. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
18. Portishead - Dummy
19. Brian Eno - Another Green World
20. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
21. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
22. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
23. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
24. Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
25. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

HM
Alvvays - Alvvays
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
The Cure - Disintegration
Wire - Pink Flag
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Joy Division - Closer
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd - Animals

 

[Sombastate]

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
3. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
4. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
5. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
6. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
7. Radiohead - OK Computer
8. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
9. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
10. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
11. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
12. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
13. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
14. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
15. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
16. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
17. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
18. Portishead - Dummy
19. Brian Eno - Another Green World
20. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
21. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
22. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
23. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
24. Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
25. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

HM
Alvvays - Alvvays
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
The Cure - Disintegration
Wire - Pink Flag
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Joy Division - Closer
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd - Animals

I like your style. We share a lot of the same albums/artists. Good ****.

 

[Fantomas]

I just like the way NY Sessions sounds more than the official recordings. More intimate and fitting for the material (whereas the official one feels like a mismatch in production/style to me). Still not quite as in love with the material as the reputation it has, though.

Yeah, NY sessions are wonderful. I still like Blood on the Tracks because the tunes complement one another better than what would have been the original version. If you replace the Minny tracks with the NY tracks you get a collection of songs that sound too much alike. It is virtually the same mood the whole way through. Dylan understood this, which is why he mixed it up.

BTW, I just listened to John Wesley Harding again and it clicked-- I think it's excellent. I'd still have it behind his prime electric era stuff but I definitely like it more than something like The Times They Are A Changing and Blood on the Tracks.

Lyrically I think it is his best work. I have spent many days trying to figure out what The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest is about. I still don't know, but I know it is just terrific.

Another post-electric Dylan album that I love is Bootleg 5. I'm not totally in sync with the style he's going after in it, but it really packs a whallop nonetheless.

Rolling Thunder Revue? That one is definitely done in the style of 'Desire', with many of the same people (like Scarlet Rivera). It's very unique, but I prefer to listen to Desire.

I also listened to Self Portrait again thinking that's what you were referring to-- Don't remember if it has similar traits to Another Self Portrait, but personally, while I'm impressed that he's able to pull off that crooning voice, I really don't like the aesthetic of it. Removes alot of the authenticity, sincerity and fire for me. I love Dylan's trademark raspy beatnik voice, and I feel like he's most honest/himself when he's bitter, cynical, scathing and humorous/irreverent. I think that might be the biggest reason I like his electric era most. While I like his foray into country, I've always lumped it in as being similar to his activist folk music phase-- more an exploration of a genre where he's taking influences and channeling his idols and less of a representation of himself, I feel.

There is a huge difference between these two albums. Self Portrait is simply a bad album. Another Self Portrait is very beautiful, stripped down and includes alternate stylings of songs from the entire pastoral trilogy (including improved version of a few tracks from New Morning). It is worth seeking out, I promise.

 

[kruezer]

I was thinking about this lately and I think these are my 96 favourite records, though I am sure I am not thinking of something, this is in no order other than the order I thought of them in. Nice to see there is another Skepticism fan on this board too, great band.

Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare My Butt
Weezer - Pinkerton
Burger/Ink - Las Vegas
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
Emporer - In The Nightside Eclipse
Beach Boys - Surfs Up
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
Perry & the Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
Tori Amos - Songs from the Choir Girl Hotel
One Direction - 4
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
Diddy Dirty Money - LoveLove vs. HateLove
Jodeci - Diary of a Mad Band
Beatles - Revolver
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Terry Allen - Lubbock (On Everything)
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
Guy Clark - Old No.1
Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Towns Van Zandt
Sean Paul - Dutty Rock
Shania Twain - The Woman in Me
Randy Travis - Storms of Life
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
Led Zeppelin - IV
Garth Brooks - No Fences
Gene Clark - No Other
The Brazda Brothers - s/t
Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM
Morley Loon - Cree Songs/Northland My Land
King Sunny Aide - Juju Music
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Portishead - Third
REM - Murmur
Nas - Illmatic
Tupac - All Eyez on Me
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin On
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Duran Duran - Rio
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Rheostatics - Whale Music
NoMeansNo - Wrong
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
Big & Rich - Horse of a Different Colour
Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss
Loggins & Messina - Full Sail
David Murray - Shakill's Warrior
Muffler Crunch - Ol' Sparky's Revenge
Jesu - Conqueror
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Nguzunguzu - The Perfect Lullaby
DJ Target - Aim High Vol 2
Dot Rotten/YDOT - This is the Beginning
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - s/t
Bone Thugs n Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Benajmin Britten - Songs for Friday Afternoons
Monteverdi - 1610 Vespers
Justin Timberlake - Future Sex/Love Sounds
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Indochine - L'Aventurier
Heavy-K - Respect the Drumboss 2015
Ata Kak - Obaa Sima
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Moonshot
Charles Mingus - Mingus x 5
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Hawksley Workman - For Him and the Girls
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Om'mas Keith - City Pulse
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rosanne Cash - King's Record Shop
Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
Steely Dan - Aja
The Who - Who's Next
Wishbone Ash - Argus

 

[kruezer]

Just realized I forgot one

Brand New - The Devil and God are raging inside me