Your Top Music Albums

[DJ Incompetent]

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Hey kids! What's your favorite music albums?

This here Topsters site tool makes yer thoughts easy to assemble.
Remember Spoiler tag is a thing.

related thread: Current Favorite Albums

[FinalBaton]

I think I need to do two lists : an "at the moment" one, and a sort of "all encompassing" one that arkens back to favourites I've listened to and loved over many years and still go back to from time to time.

"At the moment" top picks :
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
The Sword - Gods of the Earth
Candlemass - Nightfall
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Mayhem - de mysteriis dom sathanas
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Acid King - III

"All-emcompassing" top picks :
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Fugazi - Repeater
Sonic Youth - Sister
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Unwound - Repetition
Superchunk - On the Mouth
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

Honorable mentions for "at the moment" list : Electric Wizard, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Belzebong, Iron Maiden, Metallica(pre-black album), Voïvod, Sodom, Immortal, OATHBREAKER, Slaughtered Priest, Municipal Waste, Red Fang... and too many to list
Honorable mentions for "all-encompassing" list : Jawbox, Shellac, Thumbnail, Crownhate Ruin, Pavement, Built To Spill, Joy Division, New Order, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bauhaus, Christian Death, Television, Wire, Mission of Burma, Descendents, the Wipers... and too many to list

[BIL]

Oh hey, kinda fun. :O Disclaimer, not a music expart. Just a bunch of LPs I can reliably spin end-to-end for good times. Except for the title track on Meat is Murder, its HELLA GAY LMAO (no srsly love that record except that 1 tune, oh mozzer 3; )

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[Shoryukev]

I agree with the idea of current favorites versus all-time...opinions change and some things stick with us and others don't. On a side note a lot of us have fairly similar music tastes it seems.

Current
Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll
Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out
Annihilator - Never Neverland
Alcatrazz - No Parole for Rock n Roll
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt II
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
The Darkness - Permission to Land

All-time
Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour
Testament - New World Order
Dream Theater - Awake
Opeth - Still Life
Rush - Moving Pictures
King Diamond - Abigail
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Sepultura - Arise

[BIL]

Oh hell yeah, Abigail's the sort of thing I should've put in "other favourites" before my always-struggling attention span finally snapped and obliterated the rest of my list.

*shaweet riffin* THAT MUST BE IT *shaweeet solo* edit: oh fml, I'm headbanging when I should be working 3;

[FinalBaton]

Great pick with the Misfits' Static Age BIL. I've had this very copy that you see here since I was 18 years old, I've listened to that record so god damn much, you wouldn't believe. lol. Oh, and Earth A.D. is deliciously savage and primal, of course ^^

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[BIL]

Haha, I'm touched. ^__^ It's funny, I always assumed that album just appeared in the late 70s fully-formed... I had no idea just how convoluted its development really was, gradually piecing together until the late 90s when it finally got official release.

Early Misfits had crazy versatility for such a young rookie band. Almost vintage 1950s rock n' roll in the Static Age era, then infectious pop punk on Walk Among Us, and finally skull-crushing hardcore on Earth AD. I love all these albums, but I have to be in very different moods to enjoy each!

WORLD.
IS.
DEAD LIKE I TOLD YOU SO.

Helll yeah.

edit: btw, regarding EAD's cover art palette and theme - ever noticed this about NG1's Prison of the Dead? :3 Always found the visual connection uncanny - no idea if there was any influence on Tecmo. I guess stark white, lurid purple and sickly green/yellow are indeed pretty good colours for a morbid vision.

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[FinalBaton]

It's funny, I always assumed that album just appeared in the late 70s fully-formed... I had no idea just how convoluted its development really was, gradually piecing together until the late 90s when it finally got official release.

Yep! truly a vital collection of the band's early work

Early Misfits had crazy versatility for such a young rookie band.

Insane. They had so much swagger and vision right out of the gate. I love all those 3 records but the Static Age collection is what impresses me the most. They show so much aplomb on it and it's their very early stuff to boot. It's the kinda stuff that just floors you, you know?
Of course I love their versatility side, as you say. Going from that to Earth A.D. is so fucking sweet to see in apunk band's output

edit: btw, regarding EAD's cover art palette and theme - ever noticed this about NG1's Prison of the Dead? :3 Always found the visual connection uncanny - no idea if there was any influence on Tecmo. I guess stark white, lurid purple and sickly green/yellow are indeed pretty good colours for a morbid vision.

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Yes, it has actually always reminded me of that ever since first seeing the sleeve! haha.
Good catch!

[TransatlanticFoe]

I did a top 20 last year as a fun challenge from a friend and compiling it was indeed fun. But it was also pretty surprising to see what missed out - plenty of my favourite bands didn't get in and it really suprised me... basically there are too many great records.

Will post when I find it... if I go off the top of my head I always look back and think "what about that. And that. And that. This list sucks".

Nice to see some love for Sonic Youth's Sister in this thread. I've tried but never have been able to find my favourite Sonic Youth record. But Sister is definitely up there.... with most of their others!

[Vexorg]

Personal favorites (if you can't figure it out my tastes run mostly to classic rock:)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin - IV
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Vapor Trails
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles - Abbey Road
Eagles - Hotel California
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Weezer - Blue Album

Other ones I like
Boston - Third Stage
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
Aquabats - The Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of Death!
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
The Who - Who's Next
The Who - Sell Out
The Who - Tommy
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Souleye - PPPPPP (the VVVVVV soundtrack)
Led Zeppelin - I
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
They Might be Giants - Flood
Blue Man Group - Audio

[TransatlanticFoe]

Top 20, in order...

The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Rocket From The Crypt - Hot Charity
Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark
Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy
At The Drive-In - in/CASINO/OUT
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Strung Out - Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues
Pavement - Brighten The Corners
Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo Of Bliss
Lagwagon - Hoss
The Who - Who's Next
Ramones - Leave Home
Pulley - Together Again For The First Time
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Pixies - Tromp Le Monde
Garrison - Be A Criminal
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute

[iconoclast]

I didn't put too much thought into the order. I basically went down my most played albums list on last.fm and switched some stuff around.

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TLDR: Nakata & WACK are life.

[qmish]

At some point it was like that:

A. Non-electronica

1. Tera Melos - (untitled album)
This album made me fall in love with so called "math rock" genre (don't mistake for mathcore like Psyopus etc.). I was such amazed how at same time melodies are wonderfully beautiful and technically 'n' complex made.

2. Worrytrain - Sleeping Through the Endtimes
Very moody atmosphere, almost ambient sounding instrumentals, very touching.

3. Infidel?/Castro! - Bioentropic Damage Fractal
Pretty crazy double album, covering many genres from flashcore and noise to shoegaze and ambient.

4. Romance of Young Tigers - I Have Supped Full on Horrors
I don't know whether people tag it as post-rock or shoegaze or "ambient guitar music". It's just so relaxing and pleasant to listen to. Also great cover art/package.

5. By The End of Tonight - A Tribute to Tigers
Once upon a time, i had a tradition of listening to this album when night was ending and morning was born. It surely was giving me "eargasm". Love riffs there and energy and emotions it gives.

6. Magyar Posse - Kings of Time
Finnish band, now it's no more... "la la la la" you'll sing along.

7. Naked City - Absinthe
Ah, i'm a big fan of John Zorn and everything related! Nearly impossible to pick, but okay, it's Naked City's most atypical release. Instead of their usual eclectica you have very very very dark ambient, almost musique concrete. And, afaik, recorded totally acoustic. Fred Frith's microtonal guitar stuff etc.

8. I Am Above On The Left - I Am Above On The Left
Russian avant-prog band. Taught me about existance of baritone guitar Their tracks... sound harsh at first, then it warms up your heart.

9. Кубикмагги - Оно не требуется
Piano + bass-guitar + guitar + drums + female vocals/lyrics. Latter is star of the show, as Ksenia Fedorova (daughter of Leonid Fedorov of АукцЫон fame, i guess?) is main musician in this band. She plays piano and sing very expressively. I can't describe it well, so it may sound like nonsense, but her composing manner and lyrics really captured very well something... that you can compare to literature/movie type of certain women characters - romantic, poetic, always going with a wind. Eh, i can't describe that. Must admit, that arrangements performed by other musicians are masterful too, especially acoustic guitar when it goes in a duet with piano.

10. Театр Яда - Хруст Ос. Кирзовый Цветок
Another russian band in my top. Театр Яда (Theater of Poison) was a psychedelic band with leader called Yan Nikitin (sadly, r.i.p.). Early albums have soft-rock / funk / surf arrangements, but after that they switched to more electronic-heavy sound a-la Throbbing Gristle, Nurse with Wound or Coil, though keeping melodic guitar motives usually. Music is nice, but actually it was all about Yan's textes (and voice). Lyrics were full of allusions and symbolism, often using "word games". For your interest, here are writers which Yan named as his inspirations once: Emil Cioran, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Thomas Dylan, Thomas Eliot, Daniil Andreyev.

11. Death Ambient - Synaesthesia
Very interesting trio consisting of Fred Frith, Ikue Mori and Kato Hideki; sounds very ambiental but in it's own way, and i haven't heard similar stuff.

B. Electronica

1. Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
Some may know VSnares for his "breakcore as it is" tracks (which can go very aggressive). Some for his mixes of that with classical music sound. Some for his more acid or jungle stuff. My all time fav album from him is still HCCBU. Because it's so beautiful for me. So melancholic and fragile. Though for many people it may sound like randomness of glitchess and beats, whatever. I love it much more than Aphex Twin's or Autechre's input. It has 11/4 time sigs but it's lyrical at heart. That's it. For me, at least.

2. Fennesz - Endless Summer
Electroacoustic? Glitch? Ambient? Call as you want. What matters, it's feelings of summer. Of sun and sea and beach and smiles and sand... It gives me that.

3. Michael Stearns - M'ocean
As i love synthesizers, especially modular synths, of course i listen to 70s-80s synth music... Stearns might be famous for his space ambient, but i choose "water-themed" M'Ocean as it's more bright and gentle, imho.

4. Passenger of Shit - split w/DJ Rainbow Ejaculation
Never heard DJ Rainbow's side, but PoS' tracks here are just genious. Not his usual speedcore, but something cranked up to 11 in sillyness with creative composition (which is much more complex than 1000 bpm alike tracks he also does).

5. KK Null - Fertile
I'm not much a fun of japanoise artists like Merzbow or Masonna though can find their releases enjoyable. KK Null, on another hand, despite often being named with them, is totally different. His semi improvisational compositions, while made from blips and blops and all sort of lo-fi noises and field recordings, somehow manage to fit in structure, alive mechanism. I dunno, it just clicks for me. Very abstract, but with character and energy.

6. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
This minimal techno sounds like shoegaze (if you can compare such genres, i dunno). Very immersive.

7. Michael McNabb - Invisible Cities
Another 80s electronic music in top? Yeah, don't mistake with rapper of same name. Invisible Cities album inspired by book with a same name, which i also like btw. As for music... very aerial, with interesting rhythms. And saxophone parts are cool.

8. Four Tet - Rounds
Like many many many many musicians i like, this one also i learned about thanks to Radiohead. You can call Four Tet.. folktronica? Really juicy samples and sound relaxing.

9. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Generator
Nice modular synth performer, also check his side projects...

10. Cristian Vogel - All Music Has Come to an End
Very strange techno with interesting sound design and surreal atmosphere.

11. Suzanne Ciani - Seven Waves
Great "new age" release. Also, she was one of Buchla synthesizer pioneers alongside with Morton Subotnick. And she is still active! Anyway, really love here melodies. Soft, gentle, beautiful, with many layers, timbre changes and dynamics.

12. OVe-NaXx - Ovnx Shoot Accel Core
Japanese reggae breakcore goodness!

13. Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing
Speaking of synth pioneers, people often remember Walter/Wendy Carlos, but i prefer Tomita's works because for me his synth albums sound more expressive.

14. Osamu Sato - LSD and Remixes
Yes, arrangement album for that PS1 psychedelic "game". For me it's perfect idm music. (Again, love it more than Aphex Twin! And i like AFX, just love Venetian Snares and Osamu Sato more, though for different reasons. Osamu Sato's arrangements very interesting for me and, of course, sound "out of there".). Hope his suddenly releasing new album would be also good.

15. Autechre - Gantz Graf
While i often love whole albums of music, Autechre is an opposite for me, i like separate tracks from here and there. Gantz Graf mini album, though, fits for my top with its three tracks. AE's music is nice mindscrew for those who love exploring electronic sound structures.

16. BLAERG - Incessant Subversive Decibels
Pleasant and melodic breakbeat/dnb/breakcore/whatever for me. Memento Mori song is just wonderful.

[Sumez]

Mine in the spoiler tag below. It's pretty rough... it's been years since I've heard most of these

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Btw BIL I'd never have guessed you were such a big New Order fan.
Man there's so much great music, it's impossible for a list like this to not be pretty personal and kinda tentative. New Order is just one of those bands I really like but never delved deep enough into to bring them into my top lists (despite a Joy Division cover proudly sitting at my #1), same goes for stuff like Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, etc.

EDIT: Just noticed Grid - Evolver in the OP. Such an underepreciated album! At the same time it's sort of funny how regularly I come across people who really dig that album too, and share the same sentiment.

[lilmanjs]

This is what I came up with. Stuff I can still listen to in full 5 times in a row and not get tired of.
Yoshinori Sunahara - Lovebeat
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Weezer - Blue Album
Sage Taylor - Raintime
Warmth - Essay
MUTEMATH - Odd Soul
Boom Boom Satellites - Full Of Elevating Pleasures
Boys Life - Departures And Landfalls
Coppice Halifax - Reflector (Very influential to my music making)
Dublicator - Chord Center

[FinalBaton]

Nice to see some love for Sonic Youth's Sister in this thread. I've tried but never have been able to find my favourite Sonic Youth record. But Sister is definitely up there.... with most of their others!

Oh yeah. That one is very special, it sliiiiiightly edged out some of their other LPs. But it was tough picking one still. lol. There's a bunch of band for which this was extremely tough actually.

Got REALLY tempted to pick Age of Winters for The Sword, To Mega Therion for Celtic Frost, Master of Reality for Sabbath, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain for Pavement, Reign In Blood for Slayer, The Cure... don't even get me started, lol. There were 5 of their records I could've put in there. And of course Sonic Youth I almost put Goo or Dirty...

Pretty much every pick was a tough one, lol

[BIL]

Btw BIL I'd never have guessed you were such a big New Order fan.
Man there's so much great music, it's impossible for a list like this to not be pretty personal and kinda tentative. New Order is just one of those bands I really like but never delved deep enough into to bring them into my top lists (despite a Joy Division cover proudly sitting at my #1)

I blame Super Aleste. ^_~ NO's a patchy outfit overall imo, but their best stuff upholds and expands on the gorgeous icy spectral synths that laced Joy Division, while maintaining that spartan post-punk ethos and Hooky's distinctive lead bass sound. "Power Corruption And Lies" is probably a good one to try. After the beautiful "Age of Consent," the second track ("We All Stand") kinda stumbles out the gate - I often delete it tbh, betraying my "listen end to end" criteria slightly - but the rest is so good I can forgive it that.

Good pick on Jilted Generation! FUCK EM, AND THEIR LAWWWRRR

Didn't realise you could include captions! I blame my potato res. Redid, though as noted ima noob and this is basically a glance at my record collection for stuff I like spinning in its entirety. Vol 4's poignant doom-sludge slays TYR at its best, but there's a good chunk of filler I have to chop out on the former ("Changes" LMAO STOP IT OZZY PLS), where the latter is stalwart cheesy power metal all the way. ;3

[FinalBaton]

I blame Super Aleste. ^_~ NO's a patchy outfit overall imo, but their best stuff upholds and expands on the gorgeous icy spectral synths that laced Joy Division, while maintaining that spartan post-punk ethos and Hooky's distinctive lead bass sound. "Power Corruption And Lies" is probably a good one to try. After the beautiful "Age of Consent," the second track ("We All Stand") kinda stumbles out the gate - I often delete it tbh, betraying my "listen end to end" criteria slightly - but the rest is so good I can forgive it that.

BIL, since you love New Order : are you well versed into the french Coldwave scene of that era?
Some great stuff to be found there, and it might be right up your alley. Asylum Party is a great band from that scene (although they do sound closer to JD than NO).

Also I've talked about them before in another thread, but as far as recent band goes, french artist College is SICK. completely bananas.
And of course, australian outfit Cut/Copy is good. they're definitely gonna give you your fix

If you check one, make sure it's College. especially the ep Teenage Color and the lp Secret Diary

[BIL]

BIL, since you love New Order : are you well versed into the french Coldwave scene of that era?

Nope! tbh I'm not very adventurous with my music, I pile most of my hobbyist fury into the videogames. Thanks for the recommendations, been enjoying your metal/KVLT picks from the album thread.

[Sumez]

I really like most of Prodigy's albums and felt like I needed to include at least one, and Jilted really hits bullseye on that thing they do well: A techno sound that manages to appeal to both the rave underground, punks and hardcore metalheads alike. It's pop music with an underground appeal as big as its mainstream appeal, and I do like to include some pop albums in there, to keep my list from seeming too pretentious (or like a goth cliche).
In fact, you may initially see my inclusion of several Scooter albums as a joke, but I genuinely like their stupid (yet extremely well crafted) dance music. It's like an embarassing guilty pleasure gone way out of hand. Fun fact, they had a synthpop band in the 80s before they changed their name and sound in the early 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HQOJPjimLU

[BIL]

I like that video for J'adore Hardcore. Bouncy bouncy!

Unless I'm horribly mis-remembering, I think Mantas/Jeff Dunne from Venom actually played guitar with Scooter at some point. It's all good. I shoulda included Ridge Racer Revolution in my VG OST picks, sometimes the more knowingly deranged "hard" dance music can be cathartic.

[FinalBaton]

One of the two guys from Prodigy was a guitarist for seminal punk-metal outfit English Dogs, if memory serves.

[Shoryukev]

Death - The Sound of Perseverance

You had some epic picks, but I have to single this one out. It's sooo good! I had a hard time choosing between this one and I.T.P. when I was making my list lol. I think it came down to the quest solos by Andy Larocque cuz I'm a big fan of his. The painkiller cover at the end is awesome too....it's cool to hear that Chuck had that kind of upper range in his voice. I wish he would have used it more often!

Oh hell yeah, Abigail's the sort of thing I should've put in "other favourites" before my always-struggling attention span finally snapped and obliterated the rest of my list.

*shaweet riffin* THAT MUST BE IT *shaweeet solo* edit: oh fml, I'm headbanging when I should be working 3;

That album still gives me goosebumps. I love everything about it. Milkkey Dee is such an amazing drummer, and Pete Blakk and Andy Larocque were a ferocious guitar duo!!! I remember seeing the Family Ghost video on TV when I was a teenager on some sort of classic metal segment. I was laughing at it in the beginning because of how cheesy the theatrics were....but by the end of it I was turning my room upside down looking for loose change to go buy the album. The part where the guitar players are dancing around like jesters playing their solos while King is throwing shit at them sticks with me to this day lol

[FinalBaton]

Death - The Sound of Perseverance

You had some epic picks, but I have to single this one out. It's sooo good! I had a hard time choosing between this one and I.T.P. when I was making my list lol. I think it came down to the quest solos by Andy Larocque cuz I'm a big fan of his. The painkiller cover at the end is awesome too....it's cool to hear that Chuck had that kind of upper range in his voice. I wish he would have used it more often!

Thanks man! You got a great list too
Death TSOP is such a tight and varied album. And "catchy"(well as far as metal goes) too. And yeah the Painkiller cover is freakin' awesome! It's my fave Death album, the one that stands out to me, but tbh I like them all

I have to single out Sepultura Arise in your list though. What a freakin' monster of an album. One of the best trash albums out there and a stepping stone towards death metal to booth.
I didn't want to make my OP longer then it already is so I kept the honorable mentions to a minumum. But Sepultura I definitely enjoy. And Megadeath too (really liked your Rust In Peace pick), they just shred sooo much

[DJ Incompetent]

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'Went to the maximum. Respect for finding time for Ennio Morricone and Yellow Magic. Fistbump for G-Darius OST. Deep Purple in #1 is a solid choice.

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

Woo!

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

EDIT: Just noticed Grid - Evolver in the OP. Such an underepreciated album! At the same time it's sort of funny how regularly I come across people who really dig that album too, and share the same sentiment.

You're the first I've met who knew who they even are. Cheers

And of course, australian outfit Cut/Copy is good. they're definitely gonna give you your fix

Damn skippy they're good! I set a boss fight in Raiden DX to Lights & Music, then all things became sunshine.


@qmish - Great picks

[Marc]

Ooh, always up for a music thread.
At the minute I’m not listening to as much stuff as I have – I tend to bounce between gaming and music in cylces, and the gamin one has lasted for longer than usual this time. Probably because I’m ready for hitting 40, and as the kids get older I forsee a time where longer games will be going out of the window all together, so I’m trying to cram now.

Currently:
Wovenhand – Star Treatment
I found out about the previous LP due to members of Planes Mistaken For Stars being involved, and it’s basically never left the turntable since. This is taking longer to sink in, but it’s turning out to be almost as good, and it’s a feast for headphones.

Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Meh. I love AIC mk. 1, but the two albums with DuVal are patchy at best. This is guilty of dragging the good bits on for way too long, most of the tracks lost a minute or two they’d be better for it. It’s also pretty one-dimensional, it’s like Cantrell has forgotten to do anything other than plod – what happened to riffs like We Die Young, Them Bones and God Smack?

Boss Keloid – Herb Your Enthusiasm
The best kept secret in the UK at the minute, anyone into stoner/sludge type stuff would do well to check this out.

All time:
Planes Mistaken For Stars - Up In Them Guts
The Icarus Line – Mono
Wovenhand – Refractory Obdurate
Love Battery – DayGlo
Juno – A Future Lived In Past Tense
Sunny Day Real Estate – How It Feels To Be Something On
Therapy? – Troublegum
Deftones – Diamond Eyes
The Appleseed Cast – Mare Vitalis
T. Rex - Tanx

[Some-Mist]

kinda hard to narrow down a list but I'm going to try with 15 in no order

1. Behold... the Arctopus - Skullgrid (the track I listed is "Some Mist" )
2. Tera Melos - Patagonian Rats (deluxe version since it includes Purple and Stripes)
3. Allan Holdsworth - Secrets
4. The Blood Brothers - Crimes (super hard to decide between this and burn piano island burn)
5. Jonathan Kreisberg - Shadowless
6. Ion Dissonance - Solace
7. Into the Moat - The Design
8. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
9. Krallice - Diotima (really hard to not post Dimensional Bleedthrough or Hyperion)
10. The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
11. Daughters - Hell Songs
12. The Mars Volta - Amputecture
13. Toe - The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety
14. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity (Miss Machine is up there too)
15. uhhh blotted... err dysrhth.. mmm.. beneath the... ahhhhh.... Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!

edit: SHIT I forgot hella - there's no 666 in outer space..
edit 2: and blut aus nord - memoria vetusta 3: saturnian poetry..

1. Tera Melos - (untitled album)
This album made me fall in love with so called "math rock" genre (don't mistake for mathcore like Psyopus etc.). I was such amazed how at same time melodies are wonderfully beautiful and technically 'n' complex made.

hell yes. they just announced a tour and they're supporting chon (meh) but I'm so happy I get to see them for a second time. nick reinhart is the man (I also got to see him play with rob king & goblin cock).

also ecstatic to see psyopus thrown out here. ideas of reference & our puzzling encounters considered >>>>>>>>>>>> odd senses

[qmish]

DJ Incompetent, thanks

Some-Mist, do you, by any chance, also like Ahleuchatistas?

[Some-Mist]

can't honestly say I've listened to them before
but listening now a couple of their songs have some battles -esque parts. it's interesting

I'm not sure where I stand with improv tbh.
I like guitarists like Mick Barr but most of his improv material doesn't appeal to me. I'm actually conflicted because

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I'm going to NYC for the first time this week/weekend, and it was just announced that Mick Barr is doing an improv show at The Stone at the same time that I'm supposed to see another show I bought tickets for. I'd only be able to see him do improv in NYC since he never leaves, but I know I'd enjoy the surf rock show I'm supposed to go to at brooklyn bazaar more. A more enjoyable time vs a super rare occurrence that I'd like to experience :/

[chum]

Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees
Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl
Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs
Wipers - Youth of America
Brocas Helm - Defender of the Crown
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
The Motifs - Cross Paths
Everyone Asked About You - Everyone Asked About You
Eiko Ishibashi - Works for Everything
Aniplex - Naruto Greatest Hits!!!!!
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
Smile Down Upon Us - Smile Down Upon Us
Non Credo - Happy Wretched Family
AMM - AMMMusic
Guernica - Shinseiki e no Unga
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
London Jazz Composers Orchestra - Double Trouble Two
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
Spires That In The Sunset Rise - This is Fire
Pascals - Live in Bremmen