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What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #100 –
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- Lustmord

I posted a Lustmord sample, not long ago. The last track of "the place where the black stars hang". There is a continuous 14 Hz tone in it

I plan to bring it to the speaker shop when I'll go and buy the speaker I ordered, and ask him to play it on his biggest speaker

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #101 –
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Variations Goldberg BWV 988 - Glenn Gould (1981)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Variations Goldberg BWV 988 - Céline Frisch (2002)

It's great to see another fan of the The Goldberg Variations. I started with that Gould recording and so now I know every "hum" in there. I'll try to find that Frisch version.

BTW, I also recommend the 1996 version by Kurt Rodarmer on guitar. I understand that he had guitars made specifically for the various parts and then recorded them separately in the studio. It's amazing!

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #102 –
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- Aphex Twin
- Autechre

I know these. All other stuff you list I never heard off :/

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #103 –
In no particular order:

Alasdair Fraser - Dawn Dance
Dire Straits - On every Street
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Enigma - The Screen behind the Mirror
John Zorn - The Gift


Also worth mentioning:

Afro Celt Sound System - Volume 1 - Sound Magic
Jan Garbarek - I took up the Runes
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
Tim Juckes - New Age Rock (I bet noone knows that one )
David Arkenstone - In the Wake of the Wind
David Lanz & Paul Spear - Natural States
Ichiko Hashimoto - RahXephon O.S.T.1
Always defragment your MP3s to avoid subtle lack in harmonics.

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #104 –
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Variations Goldberg BWV 988 - Glenn Gould (1981)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Variations Goldberg BWV 988 - Céline Frisch (2002)

It's great to see another fan of the The Goldberg Variations. I started with that Gould recording and so now I know every "hum" in there. I'll try to find that Frisch version.

BTW, I also recommend the 1996 version by Kurt Rodarmer on guitar. I understand that he had guitars made specifically for the various parts and then recorded them separately in the studio. It's amazing!

It's interesting. I never heard the Goldberg on anything else as harpsichord or piano.

If you want another splendide Goldberg version, listen the Blandine Verlet's recording on a Hemsch instrument (Astrée/Naïve).
Frisch version is edited by a small by amesome french editor, called Alpha. The recording quality are very good, always.

Wavpack Hybrid: one encoder for all scenarios
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What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #105 –
Top 5:
1. Pink Floyd - The Wall  (1979)
2. Hum - Downward Is Heavenward  (1997)
3. Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory  (1999)
4. Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut  (1995)
5. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary  (1993)

Rest of Top 10:
6. Fear Factory - Obsolete  (1998)
7. KMFDM - Nihil  (1995)
8. Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien  (1987)
9. Radiohead - The Bends  (1995)
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream  (1993)

Honorable mention (alphabetical):
Bush - Sixteen Stone  (1994)
Cobalt 60 - Twelve  (1998)
Green Day - Dookie  (1994)
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction  (1987)
Live - Secret Samadhi  (1997)
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar  (1996)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets  (1986)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Are You Normal?  (1992)
Pearl Jam - Ten  (1991)
Pig - The Swining / Red Raw & Sore  (1999)
Placebo - Black Market Music  (2000)
Pop Will Eat Itself - The Looks Or The Lifestyle  (1992)
Sister Machine Gun - Burn  (1995)
Tool - Aenima  (1996)
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension  (1996)


Of course, ask me again in a few months and I'm sure there would be a few changes...

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #106 –
Not a common assortment (and that is an understatement), but these albums are quite unique and certainly worth your time *if* you ever get to lay your ears on them:

Virgin VS - Virgin (1981)
Moon Riders - Aozora Hyakkei (1982)
YMO - Solid State Survivor (1979)
Air - Moon Safari (1998)
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (1988)

Techno Pop Academy was the great resource that helped me find out about the first three bands listed above.

-CTB
-CTB

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #107 –
OK, here goes:

Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells III

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #108 –
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Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open

How could I forget it!
The great Tom, although I prefer older stuff like his solo "Full moon fever" and also "Hard promises".
Single song: Mary Jane's last dance

Hail Rock'n'Roll!
Killakid

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #109 –
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Cobalt 60 - Twelve  (1998)

Brilliant album. Do you know if they're still active, or if Jean-Luc DeMeyer is working on anything similar nowadays? Went to see them in '98 at the Gotham Nights festival here in Oslo, excellent show - would love to see them again...

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #110 –
In no particular order:
Jethro Tull - Stand up
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Skalariak - Skalariak
Bob Dylan - Desire
IAM - L'école du micro d'argent
and who the cap fit, let them wear it

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #111 –
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pay Attention
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Håkan Hellström - Känn Ingen Sorg För Mig Göteborg (swedish)

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #112 –
Ulver - William Blake's Themes, Perdition City
Coffins - Coffins
Me - Album 3

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #113 –
Weird al Yankovic - Running with scissors
Weird al Yankovic - Bad hair day
Weird al Yankovic - Weird al in 3D
Weird al Yankovic - Dare to be stupid
Weird al Yankovic - Greatest hits 2

Hmmm ... Did I get that one right?

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #114 –
1. James Gang.....Rides Again
2. Rush...............Moving Picture
3. Patti Smith.......Easter Album
4. Jimmi Hendrix....BBC Sessions
5. Robin Trower....Bridge Of Sighs

Damn, As I write I keep thinging of more.  This list could go on and on forever.
What if the Hokey Pokey....is What it's all about?

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #115 –
hrm... i don't like "5" so much...

booker t and the mg's - green onions
otis redding - otis blue
marvin gaye - what's going on
jimi hendrix - are you experienced
pink floyd - wish you were here
led zeppelin - III
rolling stones - sticky fingers
john mayall - bluesbreakers with eric clapton
fleetwood mac - then play on
jeff beck group - truth
free - fire and water
savoy brown - street corner talking
janis joplin [big brother and the holding company] - cheap thrills
stooges - fun house
mc5 - high time

geesh... 15 and i still have tons left...

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #116 –
ow that's a tough one..

1) Misfits - Walk Among Us (1982)  that's for sure
2) Danzig - II: Lucifuge (1990)
3) Dio - Dream Evil (1987)
4) Misfits - Earth A.D./Wolfsblood (1983)
5) Led Zep IV

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #117 –
Cobalt 60 are still around.  However, they have changed the name to C60.  I saw them about a year ago.  Great show.
"You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight."  Neil Peart  'Resist'

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #118 –
Who goes to a deserted island with only five albums?

1.  The Beatles - Rubber Soul
2.  Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade (Ljubljana RSO)
3.  Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
4.  Led Zeppelin - II
5.  Rachmaninoff - Symphony #2 (Baltimore SO)
6.  Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
7.  R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
8.  Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
9.  The Beatles - The Beatles
10. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Honorable Mention: The Clash - London Calling

I hadn't planned on adding this one (not because I don't love it) but for the first time in almost 3 years of daily Winamp listening, two consecutive tracks, Clampdown & The Guns of Brixton, played consecutively on SHUFFLE.  So, apparently this is my computer's current favorite....
Yeah, when you call my name
I salivate like a Pavlov dog...

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #119 –
5 favorites (but there are much more):

Michael Jackson - Thriller
Metallica - Black Album
Rage against the machine - Rage against the machine
Fettes Brot - Außen Top Hits, Innen Geschmack
Michael Jackson - Dangerous


PS: there are so many great works to be mentioned...

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #120 –
In no specific order my 5 favorite albums are:

- Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving (info)
- the Wiseguys - The Antidote (info)
- the Prodigy - The Fat of the Land (info)
- Toshiyuki Honda - Metropolis Original Soundtrack (info)
- Röyksopp - Melody A.M. (info)

Although the description says all times my favorites tend to change now and then, these are the ones I came to think of right now.

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #121 –
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What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

It's a little sadistic asking this ;-)

Bad Religion - Suffer
Sick Of It All - Scratch The Surface
Alanis Morissette - MTV Unplugged
Into Another - Ignaurus
Downset - Do We Speak A Dead Language ?

Sorry, but I like them too much to leave them out  :

Pennywise - Unknown Road
Majority Of One - 2000 Years Of Indecision
Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy
Ignite - Past Our Means
Avail - One Wrench

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #122 –
Not necessarily in this order.

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Rush - Moving Pictures
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College
The Who - Quadrophenia
Tool - Lateralus
flac > schiit modi > schiit magni > hd650

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #123 –
Oh this is a fun thread. Its definately hard to pick out the top 5 but there are a small handful of albums that i feel clearly stand out above everything ive heard. These albums are listed in succession but i view them as all being on the same plane, not one after the other

TOP PICKS
1. Opeth- My Arms Your Hearse
2. Acid Bath- Paegan Terrorist Tactics
3. NIN- The Fragile
4. Emperor- The Discipline of Fire and Demise
5. Covenant (of Norway) Nexus Polaris
6. Death- The Sound of Perserverance  (I literally bawled when Chuck Shuldiner died)
7. The Gathering-If_Then_Else
8. Cannibal Corpse- Gallery of Suicide
9. Metallica- And Justice for All
10. Morbid Angel- Domination
11. Ulver- Perdition City
12. God Forbid- Determination

and of course I have to have my honorable mentions
Kmfdm- Xtort
Extol- Undecieved
Immortal- Damned in Black
System of a Down-Toxicity
Nevermore- Politics of Ecstacy
Megadeth- Youthanasia
I, Parasite- Horseslayer

Jeez so many favorites:  BalSagoth, Believer, Broken Hope, Borknagar, Cradle of Filth, Deicide, Depeche Mode, Dimmu Borgir, Dismal Euphony,
Galactic Cowboys, The Haunted, In Flames, Katatonia, Korn, Machinehead, Meshuggah, Metallica, My Dying Bride, Old Mans Child, Orbital, Pantera,
Polygon Window, Sepultura, SLAYER,  Soulfy, Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, Steve Vai, Suffocation, Testament, Theory in Practice, Tool,
Tristania, White Zombie... etc... etc.

I kind of ignored the 5 album limit 

I wonder if ill still be listening to all this stuff when im 60.....

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #124 –
Favorites of all time -

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
3. Green Day - Dookie
4. Pearl Jam - Ten
5. Pink Floyd - The Wall
6. Led Zeppelin - IV
7. Nirvana - Nevermind
8. Beastie Boys - The Sounds Of Science
9. Sublime - Sublime
10. Sublime - The 7 Song EP

Honorable Mentions -

1. Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
2. Aerosmith - Big Ones
3. Presidents Of The United States Of America (Self Titled)
4. Eminem - The Eminem Show
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication