you need to go re-listen to CIS and BMR, and DDN

I just got the strangest piece of spam email. You know how lately they've been using subject lines that have nothing to do with Viagra or Dick Lengtheners so you'll open it expecting a note from a friend? Well, I just got one with the subject line, "If you want your name spelt wrong, die." Now what kind of impetus does that give me to open the email!? And what is it even supposed to mean?

Anyway...

It shocked me a little too!... when I sat down to quickly and seriously think of THE 10 landmark albums that have honestly and truly shaken my world over the past 30 years or so, Pleasure Ground came to mind so i went with it.

It's good to surprise yourself with a curve ball !!!

I don't really... I love all those albums and they evoke a great atmosphere, but NYC Ghosts and Flowers offers something different like the rest of SY's stuff.

You need to stop worrying about what other people like.

I find it more shocking when someone is shocked by another person's choices when it comes to choose a bunch of records that resonate with them. Or, say, the unhealthy fascination that this forum has with the 90s, particularly the first part of that decade. And They Might Be Giants. Still, to each their own.

so what is more pedantic and inane? someone commenting on a choice, or someone commenting on the commenting?

is it bad that i find it nearly impossible to make a definitive top ten list? esp. only using one album per artist? fuuuuck.

Sonic Youth - Daydream nation
The Cure - Disintegration
Nick Drake - Five leaves left
Tim Buckley - Dream letter live in London 1968
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Notwist - Shrink
Radiohead - OK Computer
Television - Marquee moon
Neil Young - Tonight's the night
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson

(list initially posted there : http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=3288 )

Rob, if by commenting you mean discussing, and perhaps find out that you perceive a certain record differently from another person, rather than adopting a music snob attitude, I think you should be able to work out the answer yourself.

it is a bloody great record though

the dead c - trapdoor fucking exit
sonic youth - evol
harry pussy - what was music?
james brown - funk power
ultramagnetic MCs - critical beatdown
guided by voices - propeller
os mutantes - os mutantes
suicide - st
fushitsusha - the times is nigh
the stooges - funhouse
windy & carl - depths

I also put NYCG&F higher than all those you listed. Daydream is one of my least favorites. It probably has a lot to do with when you were introduced to their music, and through which records. The first cut is the deepest etc etc.

Man, it's really hard to narrow it down to just 10! Eh, here goes...

10. Bad Religion - Against the Grain
9. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
8. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
7. Minor Threat - Out of Step
6. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
5. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
4. Shellac - At Action Park
3. Mission of Burma - Vs
2. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1. Fugazi - Red Medicine

AGAINST THE GRAIN! THAT'S WHERE I'LL STAY! SWIMMING UPSTREAM -- I MAINTAIN AGAINST THE GRAIN!

Vs, Plastic Surgery Disasters, Red Medicine, Action Park, Surfer Rosa, Out of Step... damn dude, this is taking me back to high school.

Have seen so many great lists on this thread, albums I've loved but haven't listened to in years. Great work everyone. I hope this thread can inspire people to finally getting around to checking out some of these albums. For example, I'm downloading that Prurient album mentioned earlier in the thread now.

I love that dead c album, it took me forever to get into it, but once it hit -- it hit hard. I'd rate all those gate albums up there as some of my absolute favs.

Who/what is Windy and Carl? I always hear them (?) mentioned but I have no idea what it is.

[quote=atsonicpark]AGAINST THE GRAIN! THAT'S WHERE I'LL STAY! SWIMMING UPSTREAM -- I MAINTAIN AGAINST THE GRAIN![quote]

Yeah! I had forgotten just how much I love Bad Religion, then I sort of randomly put that album on the other day and it damn near made me cry. That's like my favorite punk rock, just-be-yourself anthem. It's like this total statement of purpose that so appealed to me when I first got into that band years ago.

yeah really everything from recipe for heart working backwards is incredible.

Currently:
VU - VU & Nico
Beatles - Abbey Road
SY - DDN
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Headdress
Tomutonttu - S/T
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Sunn0))) - Black One
DJ Screw - 11-16-00

La Dusseldorf - Viva
Shizuka - Live/Traditional Aesthetics
Einsturzende Neubauten - Haus der Luge
Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film
Malice Mizer - Memoire DX
Boris - Feedbacker
The Verlaines - Hallelujah All the Way Home
These Immortal Souls - Get Lost (Don't Lie!)
Laughing Clowns - Ghosts of an Ideal Wife
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

I couldn't find a place for the Birthday Party though (and I usually say they're my favourite band). Megadeth (Killing is my Business), White Heaven (Out), Neu! (Neu!75), Kousokuya (1st), Television (The Blow Up) and Sonic Youth (BMR/DDN) also just missed out.

If I absolutely had to pick ten:

1. SY - A Thousand Leaves
2. Stooges - Fun House
3. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
4. Nico - The End
5. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
6. Ghoul Detail - Strung out in Skogar
7. Scratch Acid - The Greatest Gift
8. Melvins - Houdini
9. Earth - Pentestar
10. Soundgarden - Superunknown

4-10 always subject to change.

some fine choices there. halve maen is fantastic!

1)Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement
2)You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr
3)Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
4)Today's Active Lifestyles - Polvo (Shocked they haven't come up yet)
5)Under The Bushes Under The Stars - Guided By Voices
6)Doolittle - The Pixies
7)Brighten The Corners - Pavement
8)Perfect From Now On - Built To Spill
9)Raise - Swervedriver
10) (See honorable mentions below)

"Foolish" by Superchunk, "Disintegration" by The Cure, "Blonder Tongue Audio Baton" and "She Spent Her Wild...." by The Swirlies, "Frigid Stars" by Codeine, "Today" by Galaxie 500, "Dinosaur" by Dinosaur Jr, "A Series Of Sneaks" by Spoon, "Sister" and "Washing Machine" by Sonic Youth, "Bubble & Scrape" by Sebadoh, "How It Feels To Be Something On" by Sunny Day Real Estate, "VS" by Mission of Burma, "What Fun Life Was" by Bedhead, etc etc etc.

Something like that.

~Jeremy~

fuck it, I'm not even trying. I love so much music it's hard to name just 10 albums. And I don't like nearly as much music as some of you guys.

Really great list... I was desperate to get some Dead C and Harry Pussy in my top 10 but there was no room...

Yeah, I think everybody's list is on reserve to change at any notice.

I know what albums would probably be top ten, but determining an exact order is the tricky part.

~Jeremy~

I don't know why it came as a bit surprise to someone here to mention wigwam, not that I'm a big fan of theirs, only familiar with some stuff


slint - spiderland
modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
fun - ep
sigur rós - agaetis byrjun
the jesus lizard - liar
notkea rotta - itä meidän
sonic youth - murray street
nirvana - bleach
the replacements - let it be
mummypowder - the heavyweight champions

droney space rock from michigan, they've been around since the early 90s and have put records out on kranky. kind of like the more spaced out mbv tracks crossed with stars of the lid. introspection, drawing of sound, conciousness, & depths are their best records.

That is like nearly mine alternative top ten...damm

The German Album - The House of Love
Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen
Tinderbox - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Head Over Heels - Cocteau Twins
Blind - The Sundays
The Nephilim - Fields of the Nephilim
Tweez - Slint
Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
The Death of Cool - Kitchens of Distinction
Grace - Jeff Buckley

Dude, Interpol? You really are a douche.

Interpol's debut is a masterpiece, you tone-deaf twat.

been waitin for this and some James Chance coz I felt guilty.

SY-Murray St.
SY-DDN
Clouddead - dto
Boards of Canada - BoC Maxima
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Can - Tago Mago
Wu Tang - 36 chambers
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
Grouper - Dragging a dead deer....
YYYs - Fever to tell


that was painfull





NO! NYC G&F is high ranked here too. a thousand leaves NYC and murray street what a period!!!

Amazing record, excellent pick. Sorry Ma was my favorite of theirs for a long time, now it's this one, terrific songs.


Hahahaha. I like that Jeff Buckley record though.

Damn straight. It's a classic.

For once i agree with you, it's a great epic album but also proved that interpol was a one trick pony

Yeah, I was being a bit of a dick and for that I am sorry. I just liked 'em better way back when they were called "Joy Division".

Actually that Interpol record is excellent. Still a shit band though.

^^that kinda nails it