I prefer Fibonacci numbers and primes for lists to the usual Top Ten. But that is harder to say. There are so many great albums and so many that are simply special to me.
But if you want a few favourites, St. Vincent's Actor, Wire's 154, Sonic Youth's Washing Machine, Prurient's Black Vase and Angels of Light's Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home are good starters.
1. The Sisters of Mercy -- Floodland 2. The Sisters of Mercy -- First and Last and Always 3. Joy Division -- Closer 4. Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures 5. The Cure -- Seventeen Seconds 6. The Cure -- Disintegration 7. The Cure -- Pornography 8. The Cure -- Faith 9. Bauhaus -- Crackle 10. The Beatles -- Revolver
I get "First and Last and Always" stuck in my head sometimes, and The Cure's second through fourth albums are delightfully bleak. And, well, Revolver is what it is.
^ "All of God's children, they've all got to die!"
Just off the top of my head, most of these belong here but there are lots of things i could switch out except for Nail which will always be at number 1
1. Foetus - Nail 2. Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun 3. Indidjinous - Anomalous Fragments 4. Perc - Wicker & Steel 5. Phil Minton Quartet - Mouthfull of Ecstasy 6. Goldie - INCredible Sound of Drum'n'Bass 7. John Zorn - The Big Gundown 8. Photek - Form & Function 9. Kasra - Fabriclive.62 10. Prurient - The Black Post Society
This is a pretty rough list, but I think it's about right:
1. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand 2. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart 3. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup 4. Ween - The Mollusk 5. The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball 6. King Crimson - Red 7. Wire - Pink Flag 8. Talking Heads - Remain in Light 9. Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil 10. Morphine - Cure for Pain
^^^ I would say that they very solidly qualify as hip-hop, just with an unusual sampling vocabulary and an overwhelming, sometimes very abrasive aesthetic. Absence is on the gnarlier side of their work, but Abandoned Language and Negro Necro Nekros are surprisingly chill, if very weird.
Surgeon - Basictonalvocabulary Planetary Assault Systems - Temporary Suspension Venetian Snares - Doll Doll Doll Datach'i - Wearealwayswellthankyou Basic Channel - BCD-2 Sigh - In Somniphobia Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions Ben Frost - By The Throat Igorrr - Nostril Ben Frost - A U R O R A Hanatarash - ハナタラシ Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States Of America Venowl - [::] WITTR - Black Cascade Burmese - Man
Anyway, the second half of Death Grips' "final" album comes out two days before my birthday if the instrumental album clue-dropping is any indication. As in less than a week.
As maligned as the game eXceed - Gun Bullet Children is (and probably rather justified since it DOES have trouble running on newer systems in visually non-crappy ways, and a remake isn't available yet since the source code's been lost), I've found myself listening to its soundtrack more than that of the other two eXceed games (2nd - Vampire REX and 3rd - Jade Penetrate Black Package).
eX1's soundtrack is techno, unlike eX2's and eX3's mainly heavy metal. As such, no single track is as distinctively prominent upon a single listen, but I've found myself unexpectedly drawn to the album as a whole, which I put on and go do stuff. And somehow, it has a pretty good progression of moods, between tracks.
eX1 also conveniently has two slower, non-techno F-sharp minor tracks that flank the bulk of the soundtrack, serving as bookends. That's definitely a very nice touch.
Unfortunately the soundtrack is not currently sold anywhere, as far as I can tell. A listing exists for it at the following page:
Listening through Bitches Brew and Jack Johnson, I am amused at how it's amusing how Teo Macero and Holger Czukay had the exact same ideas at the same time, although they were unaware of each other's existence.
i can tell you that have a nice life's "deathconsciousness" and olan mill's "pine" are my top two but picking stuff for an all-time top 10 beyond that is beyond me
i could, however, tell you my desert island discs (8 pieces of music), which i would choose, most of these just down to various memories attached to them:
massive attack - unfinished sympathy joni mitchell - carey me & lp - la belle tocade faithless - no roots clams casino - motivation soul capsule - law of grace boards of canada - roygbiv andy stott - faith in strangers
actually was listening to Bruckner's E major symphony at the time
i remember at one point i was like YOU HAD THIS REALLY NICE E MAJOR MELODY GOING WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SUDDENLY TRANSITION IT TO G# MAJOR BEFORE YOU COULD DO ANYTHING WITH IT WHY
but yeah Liszt can also be an endless jumble of modulations and new musical ideas that never quite get fully stated and developed
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But if you want a few favourites, St. Vincent's Actor, Wire's 154, Sonic Youth's Washing Machine, Prurient's Black Vase and Angels of Light's Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home are good starters.
(The other Jane)
2. The Sisters of Mercy -- First and Last and Always
3. Joy Division -- Closer
4. Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures
5. The Cure -- Seventeen Seconds
6. The Cure -- Disintegration
7. The Cure -- Pornography
8. The Cure -- Faith
9. Bauhaus -- Crackle
10. The Beatles -- Revolver
I get "First and Last and Always" stuck in my head sometimes, and The Cure's second through fourth albums are delightfully bleak. And, well, Revolver is what it is.
^ "All of God's children, they've all got to die!"
1. Foetus - Nail
2. Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun
3. Indidjinous - Anomalous Fragments
4. Perc - Wicker & Steel
5. Phil Minton Quartet - Mouthfull of Ecstasy
6. Goldie - INCredible Sound of Drum'n'Bass
7. John Zorn - The Big Gundown
8. Photek - Form & Function
9. Kasra - Fabriclive.62
10. Prurient - The Black Post Society
Honestly, I think Absence is my favourite hip-hop album. It is basically perfect to me. But I know that someone would raise an eyebrow or two.
1. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
2. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
3. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
4. Ween - The Mollusk
5. The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball
6. King Crimson - Red
7. Wire - Pink Flag
8. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
9. Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
10. Morphine - Cure for Pain
(The other Jane)
Dälek's third album. Best known song from it is probably "Ever Somber", which to be fair is a brilliant song but is way more impressive in context.
basically i need a top 50 because i listen to so much different stuff
tch tch tch
^^ I know the feeling.
Surgeon - Basictonalvocabulary
Planetary Assault Systems - Temporary Suspension
Venetian Snares - Doll Doll Doll
Datach'i - Wearealwayswellthankyou
Basic Channel - BCD-2
Sigh - In Somniphobia
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Ben Frost - By The Throat
Igorrr - Nostril
Ben Frost - A U R O R A
Hanatarash - ハナタラシ
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States Of America
Venowl - [::]
WITTR - Black Cascade
Burmese - Man
and so on
^^ Good alt-list. But that is a given. You have good taste.
Anyway, the second half of Death Grips' "final" album comes out two days before my birthday if the instrumental album clue-dropping is any indication. As in less than a week.
Thank you, Based Death Gods.
(The other Jane)
(The other Jane)
eX1's soundtrack is techno, unlike eX2's and eX3's mainly heavy metal. As such, no single track is as distinctively prominent upon a single listen, but I've found myself unexpectedly drawn to the album as a whole, which I put on and go do stuff. And somehow, it has a pretty good progression of moods, between tracks.
(Note that eX2 has an older version of the soundtrack which has somewhat different tracks. It replaces one eurobeat/techno/etc.-ish track with something whose genre I really have no idea how to label other than some generic power/rock influences? I have no idea... (but which I really like), among five other changes.)
eX1 also conveniently has two slower, non-techno F-sharp minor tracks that flank the bulk of the soundtrack, serving as bookends. That's definitely a very nice touch.
Unfortunately the soundtrack is not currently sold anywhere, as far as I can tell. A listing exists for it at the following page:
http://vgmdb.net/album/42882
but it's probably better that I just link you to the individual Youtube uploads, even at risk of them getting taken down.
Track 01 - Ernste Markierung
Track 02 - X-D-A-T
Track 03 - nova
Track 04 - Stage 1
Track 05 - dominant motion (not on Youtube for some reason, track available on request)
Track 06 - Nature
Track 07 - Modulator
Track 08 - Pressure
Track 09 - Heaven
Track 10 - Space janitor
Track 11 - Narbemarkierung
Edit: here's a playlist with all of those: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL6UrzmB_i56rdHYAaFcRv1j6uDvdKMt_
It's still missing track 5, and it has an extra track 0 which seems to be a short version of track 2.
massive attack - unfinished sympathy
joni mitchell - carey
me & lp - la belle tocade
faithless - no roots
clams casino - motivation
soul capsule - law of grace
boards of canada - roygbiv
andy stott - faith in strangers
(The other Jane)
on the other hand, sometimes they can just be an endless jumble of modulations
(The other Jane)
Been listening to a lot of Liszt recently, hmmm?
i remember at one point i was like YOU HAD THIS REALLY NICE E MAJOR MELODY GOING WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SUDDENLY TRANSITION IT TO G# MAJOR BEFORE YOU COULD DO ANYTHING WITH IT WHY
but yeah Liszt can also be an endless jumble of modulations and new musical ideas that never quite get fully stated and developed