Your Top Music Albums

[lilmanjs]

The Appleseed Cast – Mare Vitalis

That's one that takes me back. Interesting band, and I'm in the same city they've always been in! Sometimes people are like local music around here sucks and I just kinda have to remind them we got Boys Life, The Appleseed Cast, The Dead Girls and The Get Up Kids all in the same little area here.

[tomwhite2004]

Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun

I'm lucky enough to own one of the original 31 copies (red sleeve) of the original edition of this album as well as most of the hand made releases by twin sister moon, isengrind and nsb, great stuff.

[iconoclast]

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Welp, you won the obscure award. I've heard of zero of this. Know any playlists to get acquainted?

I think most of the stuff I listen to is pretty well known actually (*amongst weebs). I don't know any playlists, but I can post some of my favorite tracks from each group:

Perfume - Dream Fighter
Perfume - puppy love
BiS - primal.
BiS - twisted grunge
BiSH - BiSH-星が瞬く夜に
BiSH - beautifulさ
POP - pretty pretty good
GANG PARADE - sugar
Momoiro Clover Z - Orange Note
Momoiro Clover Z - 労働讃歌
Jun Togawa - 好き好き大好き (BiS階段 upgrade)
Jun Togawa - パンク蛹化の女
Yapoos - 肉屋のように
capsule - 神様の歌声
capsule - Sugarless GiRL
Inshouha - アフレル
Midori - ゆきこさん
Midori - リズム
MEG - SUPERSONIC
BPM15Q - HANNARI
Shiina Ringo - 病床パブリック
Wednesday Campanella - アラジン
Oyasumi Hologram - Drifter
charisma.com - HATE
Persona 4 - Never More

[chum]

Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun

I'm lucky enough to own one of the original 31 copies (red sleeve) of the original edition of this album as well as most of the hand made releases by twin sister moon, isengrind and nsb, great stuff.

Sweet. Most music by these two is wonderful but this one album feels like the best and most complete work to me, a revelation beyond words, music that expresses sheer love and warmth and towering desolate cold, absolutely a one of a kind and it changed my life back in 2008, was kinda binging on the whole modern droney psych folk thing, was really nice to see NSB start gaining their well deserved fame, i've only pirated their music though lol! Shadow Kingdom is also utterly awe inspiring and I love The Snowbringer Cult, Sung to the North, Slayer of the King of Hell... you know it's a funny thing I didn't really know anything about NSB I just realized what music communicated to me is a feeling of the most complete form of love you can ever feel towards another person or the world, was pretty fun to find out the "girl's voice" belonged to a guy. Anyway only more recently like last year did I found out Twinsistermoon and Isengrind were in a relationship all along... Made me feel like my initial assessment of the emotions involved in this music, which others told me was just me being a fucking pretentious shithead was right all along

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

BiS - primal.
BiS - twisted grunge

I feel like I should have an argument with you about which band should be considered the real Bis.

When I was younger I was mainly into the usual bands your Dad likes (Bowie, Depeche Mode etc). I followed Gary Numan around the country and saw the Human League a bunch of times in their home town (John Foxx opened for them once ). However, I always had an ironic fondness for this Scottish band Bis with their unique brand of jpoppish teenybopper punk - mainly because they did the theme tune to The Powerpuff Girls. In particular, 2001's Return To Central will always be somewhere in my top 5 albums. It was their last before they split for a while, abandoning their usually cheesy style for a much more mature electronic sound, almost as if they were writing for that one fan who was into Bowie and Numan and stuff.

[iconoclast]

lol, I like going on last.fm and seeing the Scottish Bis fans trying downvote the BiS cover pics. I didn't know they made the Powerpuff Girls theme though. That's a nice bit of trivia.

[DJ Incompetent]

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Perfume - Dream Fighter
Perfume - puppy love
BiS - primal.
BiS - twisted grunge
BiSH - BiSH-星が瞬く夜に
BiSH - beautifulさ
POP - pretty pretty good
GANG PARADE - sugar
Momoiro Clover Z - Orange Note
Momoiro Clover Z - 労働讃歌
Jun Togawa - 好き好き大好き (BiS階段 upgrade)
Jun Togawa - パンク蛹化の女
Yapoos - 肉屋のように
capsule - 神様の歌声
capsule - Sugarless GiRL
Inshouha - アフレル
Midori - ゆきこさん
Midori - リズム
MEG - SUPERSONIC
BPM15Q - HANNARI
Shiina Ringo - 病床パブリック
Wednesday Campanella - アラジン
Oyasumi Hologram - Drifter
charisma.com - HATE
Persona 4 - Never More

Wow! effort. You took the time to make, so I will run through this. Thank you

[BIL]

Yellow Magic

Huh? I thought that was the Super Locomotive OST! :O

Fistbump for G-Darius OST

Aww hell yeah. *dentist drill* *heavenly chorus* *OGRasm* If you're into the side scrolling robot games at all, I heartily recommend playing Gigantic Army to this soundtrack.

Deep Purple in #1 is a solid choice.

As with YMO for VGM, that record more and more reveals itself as the wellspring of everything I like in my heavy guitar music. Even moreso than Zep or Sabbath tbh. I like it bluesy and pugilistic with just a lacing of teh big ideas!

Having said that I must seppuku for the lack of Motorhead, I love 'em but never really sat down with an album, just lots of singles collections and Best Ofs. Vibrator is adorable.

[tomwhite2004]

Chum- Really enjoyed reading your thoughts on NSB, nice to hear such a genuinely passionate response to music.

Decided to cobble a quick list of my own to keep things rolling. I tried to have a rule where I only picked one album by each artist to keep it a bit more interesting and outside of the top 10 the rest are just stuff I generally like in no particular order. Already realised that I didn't put a John Cale album in my top 10, he should really be there, would probably drop The Minutemen.

Its funny that I have not listened to the majority of my top ten in over a decade but still HAVE to have them there because of the impact they made on me at the time.

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[FinalBaton]

Chum- Really enjoyed reading your thoughts on NSB, nice to hear such a genuinely passionate response to music.

Decided to cobble a quick list of my own to keep things rolling. I tried to have a rule where I only picked one album by each artist to keep it a bit more interesting and outside of the top 10 the rest are just stuff I generally like in no particular order. Already realised that I didn't put a John Cale album in my top 10, he should really be there, would probably drop The Minutemen.

Its funny that I have not listened to the majority of my top ten in over a decade but still HAVE to have them there because of the impact they made on me at the time.

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Love seeing Jesus and Mary Chain and The Fall there.

Also, shoutout to Suicide, Bad Brains, Television, Jesus Lizard, Melvins and Black Flag

Great list!

[Stevens]

I'll throw some in - haven't listened to some of these in ages, but they were all received ample play time (some enough to warrant purchasing a 2nd cassette).

Younger Michael (ages 12 - 19)

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (Insert Powerslave, SIT, or Number of the Beast here depending on who you are. There later stuff after Bruce returned is pretty good too)

Queensryche - Empire
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Pink Floyd - Meddle

Adult Michael (19 - present)

Yalloppin' Hounds - Ghetto Swing Extreme/New Yalloppin' City
Jet Set Six - Livin' it Up
Indigo Swing - All Aboard
Essential Billie Holiday/Ella Fitzgerald/Lionel Hampton/Sidney Bichet/Ect..
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Chipzel - Spectra
Sabrepulse - First Crush
Rush - Moving Pictures

All I got for now. The top half of the adult list is from the five years (99'-04) I spent in the NYC swing dancing community.

That five years would shape the rest of my life.