10 Music Essentials

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:45 pm

If you were to condense your record collection in to 10 albums, what would they be?

Nightstick - Death to Music - tripped out, slow trudging sludge.
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone - heavy psychedelic doom, like Black Sabbath on a bad trip
Circle of Dead Children - Human Harvest - fast, blasting death grind with the sickest vocals ever
Merzbow - Pulse Demon - intense, crazy unrelenting noise from the Japanese king
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - no explanation needed
Black Sabbath - Paranoid - Fairies Wear Boots=Best Black Sabbath song.
Blood for Blood - Revenge on Society - vicious punk inspired hardcore
Buzzov*en - To a Frown - Black Flag + Black Sabbath + heroin = Buzzov*en
Non Phixion - The Future is Now - quite simply the best hip hop album I have ever heard
Slayer - Reign in Blood - Their finest hour

Strychnine · Post by **Strychnine** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:00 pm

I salute thee on thine Merzbow ;D Though I don't like Pulse Demon very much.

Converter - Blast Furnace
Converter - Expansion 1.3
Venetian Snares - Making things Orange
I Parasite - On this Cold Floor
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Tarmvred - Subfusc
Navicon Torture Technologies - Scenes from the Next Millenium
Merbow - Aqua Necromancer
Gridlock - Further
Bombardier - Excommunicated

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:37 am

-David Bowie- ...Ziggy Stardust...
-Portishead- Dummy
-Mindless Self Indulgence- Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
-Bile- Demonic Electronic- saw them and I met R.H. Bear! i also almost punched someone during "Sex Reflex."
-The Cramps- Psychedelic Jungle/Gravest Hits- I <3 "Rockin' Bones"
-Captain Beefheart- Safe as Milk- love it to death
-Wayne Newton- Danke Shoen (the song)- clearly not an album. but this song is gold, and funner than hell to sing, so it is included
-Blood Brothers-Burn Piano Island, Burn- incredible stuff. love it.
-Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes- still the shit!
-Lords of Acid- Voodoo U- ranges from irritating to great (see "Young Boys" and "Marijuana In Your Brain")
-Crass- Stations of the Cross- great stuff from some-time non-musicians

I have eleven sorry. Ignore the one you hate the most!

and Merzbow's Frogs was great! oh and Boredoms-Wow2 gets honorable mention points.

hahaha make that 13! i am a rebel!

complete aside: favorite music video i can think of is Aphex Twin, "Come to Daddy." it marks the one of the first times i remember being really floored by imagery in a music video (another is in "Cannonball" when Kim Deal is screaming into water

).

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:53 am

I could condense it to one album actually.

Kris Kross - Totally Krossed Out

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:04 am

John Coltrane - Crescent
The Ramones - All the Stuff and More vol.1
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
V/A - Pathological Compilation
V/A, mixed by Coldcut - Journeys by DJ: Coldcut
The Daktaris - Soul Explosion

EDIT: and one more, just for giggles: Jack Dangers - Hello Friends!

But there's no way in hell I could condense my album collection down to ten. or a hundred for that matter. They number in the 2100-2300 range. Oh, heh, and that's not counting the crates of singles and EP's. Oyyy, I'm such an addict

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The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:17 am

Linkin Park/Jay Z-Collision Course
Weezer-The Blue Album
Britney Spears-Hit me Baby one more time
And you shall know us by the trail of dead-Tags and Source codes
Weezer-Pinkerton
Thurday-pick an album any album
At the drive-in-In casino/out
Ben Folds Five-Whatever and ever Amen
Chevelle-again pick any album
Total Annihilation OST

dementia · Post by **dementia** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:30 am

Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Del The Funky Homosapien - Both Sides of the Brain
Deltron 3030 - 3030
Handsome Boy Modelling School - So... How's Your Girl
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
The Faint - Wet from Birth
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Murder By Death - Like the Exorcist, But More Breakdancing

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:30 am

Strychnine wrote:I salute thee on thine Merzbow ;D Though I don't like Pulse Demon very much.

Converter - Blast Furnace
Converter - Expansion 1.3
Venetian Snares - Making things Orange
I Parasite - On this Cold Floor
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Tarmvred - Subfusc
Navicon Torture Technologies - Scenes from the Next Millenium
Merbow - Aqua Necromancer
Gridlock - Further
Bombardier - Excommunicated

Pulse Demon has a special place in my heart and brain because it was the first noise disc I bought, though I think he's done better. Isn't Making Orange Things the Venetian Snares/Speedranch collaboration?

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:06 pm

Wire - Chairs Missing (78 )
Love - Forever Changes (67)
Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (73)
The Pin Group (81/82)
Fushitsusha - double live vol. 1 (late 80's?)
Can - Tago Mago (71)
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village (vol 1 & 2) (circa 67)
Charlie Patton - The Definitive Charlie Patton box (late 20's/early 30's)
Any good collection of Morricone's work (60's - present)
Bach - any number of things here; well tuned clavier (bks 1 & 2) are very good.

Bonus 11th album: perhaps Syd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn (again 67) (or his solo work), or perhaps something by the phenomenal Parson Sound / International Harvester/Tras Grad Och Stenar. Hmm, maybe a Fela Kuti album???!

*sigh* Thank god I have more than 10 albums!!!!!

MadSteelDarkness wrote: But there's no way in hell I could condense my album collection down to ten. or a hundred for that matter. They number in the 2100-2300 range. Oh, heh, and that's not counting the crates of singles and EP's. Oyyy, I'm such an addict Confused .

Hells yeah, for any serious record collector, a top 10 or even 100 list becomes absolutely impossible. I end up just listing high lights or 'formative' albums.

Oh, thanks for getting some of the 'traine in there. I was very tempted, but Ayler knocked him out of my one album limit for jazz. Shit!

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:33 pm

Andi wrote:I could condense it to one album actually.

Kris Kross - Totally Krossed Out

Pffft, Totally Krossed Out was eclipsed the following year by the release of Shaq Diesel.

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:21 pm

Davey wrote:Pffft, Totally Krossed Out was eclipsed the following year by the release of Shaq Diesel.

Dude, I love ballers turned rappers and rappers turned ballers, but nothing beats little kid rappers.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:17 pm

Only 10? I don't think 10 is enough, but if I was locked away for the rest of my life & could take only 10 CDs...

1. Tourniquet - Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance = my avatar. Best progressive thrash metal ever. Period.
2. Guardian - First Watch = 1st real heavy metal album I heard. Good riffs.
3. Dream Theater - Awake = Underrated gem. Personally I believe the "Man beside himself" trilogy in the middle of the album is their finest hour.
4. Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth = my 1st exposure to death metal. Other bands have surpassed the heaviness & brutality on this disc, but this album made excellent use of texture & multi-layered vocals.
5. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time = my fav Maiden album. Most say this album is weak, but I believe it's their most consistent.
6. Metallica - Ride the Lightning = my fav secular thrash metal album. Their most consistent work.
7. Aleixa - Disfigured = Favorite electro-metal/rock album. Haunting female vocal duo over synthesizers & heavy guitars is good stuff.
8. ABBA - Gold = my fav 70's pop group & their best collection of songs.
9. Bread - Anthology = the definitive collection of songs from the 70's lite-rock masters.
10. The Beatles - Abbey Road = an appropriate swan song if there ever was one. Great album.

Whew...that was torture!

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:11 pm

Christ, a difficult one...

Planes Mistaken For Stars - Knife In The Marathon
Love Battery - Dayglo
Alice In Chains - s/t
T. Rex - Tanx
Deftones - Adrenaline
The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Cursive - The Ugly Organ (Has anyone else heard this shit? A totally fucked-up album that makes a mockery of the so-called 'emo' genre)
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
Green River - Come On Down

Could throw a few more Bolan/Bowie LP's into the mix, but I think that lot best sums up my taste.

Post by **system11** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:40 pm

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
The Cure - Wish
Sisters Of Mercy - A Slight Case Of Overbombing
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
Clan Of Xymox - Medusa (my avatar is the album cover)
Sopor Aeternus - Todeswunsch
Portishead - Dummy
Jeff Wayne + the rest - Jeff Waynes Musical War Of The Worlds
Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue

I can't be more accurate, I have hundreds and hundreds of CDs... End result of being a DJ at a goth club for ages. My music tastes are fairly diverse though, which is why the above is such a mix+match.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:39 pm

bloodflowers wrote:Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

Holy crow, another old-school Genesis fan!

As for my off-the-top-of-my-head choices...in no particular order...

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Crosby, Stills and Nash (self-titled)
End of Evangelion OST
The Rippingtons - Black Diamond
Bobby Caldwell - Come Rain or Come Shine
Radiohead - OK Computer
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
Sade - Love Deluxe

Post by **system11** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:16 pm

BulletMagnet wrote: Holy crow, another old-school Genesis fan!

Yeah - it was all downhill from Invisible Touch though - And Then There Were Three is the last album I'd truly call old Genesis, although the Genesis album itself had a few high points (Home By The Sea).

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:42 pm

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Deftones - Adrenalin
Evangelion Symphony Live Concert
The Doves - Lost souls
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
Radiohed - Ok Computer
Portishead - Dummy
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Depeche Mode - Music for the masses

...this is just a top-off-my head list. There are lots of other bands and albums that I could have included there.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:39 pm

bloodflowers wrote: I can't be more accurate, I have hundreds and hundreds of CDs... End result of being a DJ at a goth club for ages. My music tastes are fairly diverse though, which is why the above is such a mix+match.

what club did you dj at?

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:37 pm

There's Merzbow fans here? Awesome.

So I'll try to toss together a reasonable top-10 and resist the urge to edit it 5 times a day...

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Autechre - Amber
Caustic Window Compilation (Aphex Twin)
Download - Furnace
Future Sound of London - ISDN
Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich
Merzbow - Venereology
Plastikman - Consumed
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
The Orb - Orbus Terrarum

Post by **system11** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:07 pm

captain ahar wrote:
bloodflowers wrote: I can't be more accurate, I have hundreds and hundreds of CDs... End result of being a DJ at a goth club for ages. My music tastes are fairly diverse though, which is why the above is such a mix+match.
what club did you dj at?

It was/is called The Calling, held at various migratory venues in Cambridge UK during it's time.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:15 am

BulletMagnet wrote:
bloodflowers wrote:Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Holy crow, another old-school Genesis fan!

As for my off-the-top-of-my-head choices...in no particular order...

Really love Trespass (not heard enough) and Foxtrot, though anything with Gabriel is absolutely fantastic. That said, Trick of the Tail is still freakin' great. I remember hearing that back in High School (late 80's)...those were the days...

"all in all you are a very dying race, placing trust upon a cruel world..."

Reiki · Post by **Reiki** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:24 am

Since getting things down to a top 10 is a difficult thing for me to do (I'd have to do a top 10 for each genre I listen to and even that would be hard to do) I will just name the 10 albums I always have on my desk.

Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Honky Reduction
Cathedral - Supernatural Born Machine
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Venom - Black Metal
Motorhead - Bomber
Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration (the release that has Scum included, so I can cheat and name 11 albums)

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:20 am

CMoon wrote:
MadSteelDarkness wrote: But there's no way in hell I could condense my album collection down to ten. or a hundred for that matter. They number in the 2100-2300 range. Oh, heh, and that's not counting the crates of singles and EP's. Oyyy, I'm such an addict Confused .
Hells yeah, for any serious record collector, a top 10 or even 100 list becomes absolutely impossible. I end up just listing high lights or 'formative' albums.

Oh, thanks for getting some of the 'traine in there. I was very tempted, but Ayler knocked him out of my one album limit for jazz. Shit!

My pleasure, CMoon. Thanks for mentioning Can! Have you peeped the Egge Bamyasi album(sic)? Pretty brilliant. Tago Mago is tops of course.

Oh, and you mentioned Fela Kuti. Of course, no one can top the godfather of Afrobeat . But have you heard The Daktaris? "Musicawa Silt" is possibly the hardest, nastiest, most beautiful piece of Afro-Funk I've ever heard. I highly, HIGHLY recommend their Soul Explosion album, on the excellent Desco label. There's even a killer cover of "Give it Up, Turn it Loose."

Brilliant stuff!

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:51 am

MadSteelDarkness wrote:
My pleasure, CMoon. Thanks for mentioning Can! Have you peeped the Egge Bamyasi album(sic)? Pretty brilliant. Tago Mago is tops of course.

Oh, and you mentioned Fela Kuti. Of course, no one can top the godfather of Afrobeat . But have you heard The Daktaris? "Musicawa Silt" is possibly the hardest, nastiest, most beautiful piece of Afro-Funk I've ever heard. I highly, HIGHLY recommend their Soul Explosion album, on the excellent Desco label. There's even a killer cover of "Give it Up, Turn it Loose."

Brilliant stuff!

I have a pretty complete 'krautrock' collection, so yes, I have all that Can. Actually for a long time I figured I wasn't adding any more to this section of my collection but they just reissued the rare German Oak album. But like all things Krautrock, most things super-obscure are obscure for a reason (IE they aren't as great as Can, Faust, Amon Duul, Popul Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, etc.).

I have heard one track by The Daktaris on a comp some time ago, I'd love to hear more.

Anyway, there's always so much to listen to, and now that my label has actually picked up steam I'm mostly innundated with promos, and when I get new music, I mostly just trade for it.

Strangely though, Classical is exciting right now to me--mostly coz I can play it in my classroom and my kids hate it (though it makes them calm down anyway). That's why I mention Bach. Like Coltrane, he makes me hear music in a new way. I think my favorite by Coltrane is his classic quartet version of First Meditations--it isn't widely considered his best but I absolutely love it. The CD set that collects everything from the classic quartet is one of the best steals you can get on CD. And to think it sold for only $80 when I got it, and I only got it for a fraction of that after trading the individual CDs from that period of 'trane which were of inferior sound quality and were missing many of the bonus tracks appearing on the box. Stellar!

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:48 am

@ CMoon:

First Meditations is absolutely brilliant. But then again, all of 'Trane's music is/was brilliant. That classic quartet box is amongst the most cherished in my large, rather unwieldy collection. The Africa/Brass Sessions are also beautiful. Best version of "Greensleeves" ever.

I have a copy of Coltrane's quartet doing a live television gig. This really has to be seen to be believed. The fire and passion with which these guys play is astounding. They do "Afro Blue", "Alabama", and a rollicking version of "Impressions" (natch). Oh, and the late, great Ralph J. Gleason introduces the show. Damn, he was cool.....

jp · Post by jp » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:50 am

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Kenna - New Sacred Cow
Bone thugs n harmony - E.1999 Eternal
Flesh-N-Bone - T.H.U.G.S.
House of Krazees - Season of the Pumpkin
ICP - Riddlebox
Radiohead - OK Computer
Korn - Follow the Leader
T.Rex - 20th Century Boy
The Beatles - Abbey Road

There. Though I didn't include any of the Panzer Dragoon OSTs just because I rarely take them out. *shrugs*

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:57 am

Jesus christ! I didn't even mention Mingus!!!!

*shoots self*

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:26 am

[quote="jp"]Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Bone thugs n harmony - E.1999 Eternal
quote]

Yes Yes !

and I might add

The Postal Service- Give up
Everything but the Girl-Amplified Heart
2pac-Greatest Hits

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:53 am

CMoon wrote:Really love Trespass (not heard enough) and Foxtrot, though anything with Gabriel is absolutely fantastic.

TWO!

*faints*

Tomtom · Post by **Tomtom** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:59 am

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (there ya go, cmoon

)
They Might Be Giants - Flood
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain/Birth of the Cool/Kind of Blue/In a Silent Way (can't decide)
A.S.H. - Guilty Gear XX Sound Alive
The Beatles - Revolver
Yu Miyake et. al. - Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants (sorry to mention them twice, but they've always been one of my favorite groups)
Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints
Something by Zuntata