Run into some old friends from another group or board? Want to do a little schmoozing, talk over old times? Or just some off topic stuff, then this is the place.
Colinito wrote:Minniman:
I almost exclusively listen to my own mixes, which I spend some amount of time on. I have 3 categories: themed mix, all hip-hop, and single artist. Kanye is an artist that I assume is like Cheap Trick for Minniman in that he has lots of good songs but some inconsistency in each album. There isn't an album that's "Dark Side" great but he's one of my favorites so l listed him, but I prefer him mixed.
I hardly listen to just single songs (mixes), I do own quite a few greatest hits but I usually listen to whole albums and treat them as a whole work. "Illmatic" for instance doesn't have too many amazing singles but put together it is by far the best rap album of all time. Same with Dark Side of the Moon, you must listen to the entire thing as one work to get it (but you already knew that as it is on your list.)
I don't know how I left Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness off my list.
Audioslave - Both "Audioslave" and "Out of Exile"
Blues Traveler - Four
Counting Crows - Any of their Albums
The Cure - Wish
Fatboy Slim - You've come a long way, baby
Greenday - Dookie
Jimi Hendrix - Any Album
Led Zeppelin - 4
Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news
Nine Inch Nails - Any Album (aside from all the remix albums Reznor made ... some of it's ok, some of it goes on wayyyyy too long)
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
A perfect Cirlce - Mer De Noms and Thirteenth Step
Primus - Pretty much any album
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soliders
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik, By the way
Smashing Pumpkins - All albums except adore and machine (Though I do like songs from each ... but not the whole collection of work)
The Strokes - All albums
Sublime - Sublime
System of a Down - Toxicity
Third eye blind - Third eye blind and blue
Tool - Undertow, opiate, lateralus, Aenima --- (10,000 days has some bright spots but some not so great stuff too)
Weezer - Blue Album
The White Stripes - All albums
Nice list, Cliff, but putting "any album" is cheating. I wanted to do the same thing but you have to pick!
Audioslave - Both "Audioslave" and "Out of Exile"
Blues Traveler - Four
Counting Crows - August and everything after, recovering the satellites, this Desert life
The Cure - Wish
Fatboy Slim - You've come a long way, baby
Greenday - Dookie
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as love,
Led Zeppelin - 4
Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news
Nine Inch Nails - Broken, the downard spiral, The fragile, pretty hate machine, with teeth
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
A perfect Cirlce - Mer De Noms and Thirteenth Step
Primus - Prizzle fry, sailing the seas of cheese, tales from the punch bowl
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soliders
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik, By the way
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon collie and the infinite sadness, gish, Siamese dream
The Strokes - First impressions of earth, is this it, room on fire,
Sublime - Sublime
System of a Down - Toxicity
Third eye blind - Third eye blind and blue
Tool - Undertow, opiate, lateralus, Aenima --- (10,000 days has some bright spots but some not so great stuff too)
Weezer - Blue Album
The White Stripes - De Stijl, elephant, get behind me satan, icky thump, white blood cells, the white stripes
Nice list, some of my favs are on there (and a few I don't care for!), you do have way more than 25 albums though !
Also, Audioslave? I think they are decent but nowhere near either Soundgarden nor Rage Against the Machine (from whom they came from).
#1 White Stripes - White Blood Cells
#2 White STripes - De Stijl
#3 White Stripes - Elephant
#4 White Stripes - White Stripes
#5 White Stripes - Icky Thump
#6 Counting Crows - Recovering The Satellites
#7 Counting Crows - This Desert Life
#8 Counting Crows - August and everything after
#9 A perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
#10 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinte Sadness
#11 Greenday - Dookie
#12 Third Eye Blind - Blue
#13 Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
#14 Weezer - Blue Album
#15 The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soliders
#16 Nine Inch Nails - The fragile
#17 Nine Inch Nails - Broken
#18 The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
#19 The Strokes - Is this it
#20 Tool - Undertow
#21 Tool - Aenima
#22 Sublime - Sublime
#23 Led Zeppelin - 4
#24 Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as love
#25 The Cure - Wish
In alphabetical order (and sorry about all caps but I'm too tired to change it) here's 20 of my tops >>>
BEATLES, THE - SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
CARLOS, WENDY - CLOCKWORK ORANGE
FLIM & THE BB'S - TRICYCLE
GARCIA, JERRY & DAVID GRISMAN - SHADY GROVE
GENESIS - FOXTROT
HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, THE JIMI - ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
KING CRIMSON - IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING
KING CRIMSON - LARKS' TONGUES IN ASPIC
MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER - FRESH AIRE III
MICHAELS, LEE - BARREL
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION - PURPLE RAIN
RICE, TONY
RICE, TONY - CHURCH STREET BLUES
ROWAN, PETER & TONY RICE - YOU WERE THERE FOR ME
SPINAL TAP
STEPPENWOLF - MONSTER
VANGELIS - ANTARCTICA SOUNDTRACK
WEATHER REPORT - MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER
WINTER, PAUL CONSORT - ICARUS
YES - CLOSE TO THE EDGE
Dan, have you heard Time and Tide by Split Enz? It's a great album. IIRC, know you're a fan of Tim Finn so I thought you might be familiar with it.
Sadly, perhaps, the only Split Enz album that I have is their Greatest Hits.
I forgot to mention one other album:
Hannah Spiro, "Last Lights on in Town." It was nominated for a WAMI award last year (that's our grammy awards in D.C.) and it was my daughter's debut CD.
its much harder to rank albums that are new. i just dont know if i will love them in 10 years. i tried to stick to ones that i have loved for a long time. in no particular order. if i added a stones album it would be beggars banquet, but it doesn't make my list. i also love revolver, but i can't add it.
U2 ----------zooropa
fleetwood mac ----------tusk
grant lee buffalo---------- mighty joe moon
radiohead ---------- ok computer
spoon----------girls can tell
thievery corporation----------richest man in babylon
big head todd and the monsters----------sister sweetly
pink floyd----------animals
pink floyd----------wish you were here
Stones: Exile on Main Street
Green Day: American Idiot
Beatles: Revolver
Beatles: Rubber Soul
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
Eagles: Hotel California
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Talking Heads: Remain in Light
Elvis Costello: This Year's Model
Springsteen: Born to Run
Clash: London Calling
Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life
U2: Acthung Baby
Jackson Browne: The Pretender
Steely Dan: Aja
Steely Dan: Can't Buy a Thrill
Pretenders: Learning to Crawl
REM: Murmur
AC/DC: Back in Black
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
Peter Gabriel: So
Stones: Some Girls
REM: Automatic for the People
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