10 Favourite albums

[TLCM]

1. Slightly Odway - Jebediah / Not as musically fancy as Of Someday Shambles but this album got me into the Jebs and I still want to dance when I hear it. It's my party/happy music.

2. The Apology Wars - Blueline Medeic / I fell in love with this album as soon as I heard it and I still love it.

3. 100 Broken Windows - Idlewild / Anouther great Redline release.

4. Friends in Danger - Magic Dirt / I only got this last week but I'm loving it, especially late at night with all the lights out.

5. Leonard Cohen / Sweet as. I'm usually not into anything religo but this is an exception. The album is basically full of beautiful ballads, definatley an album of the dusk.

6. Elsewhere For 8 Minutes - Something For Kate / This album is special, and I don't need to tell many people here that.

7. Maximum Sincere - Big Heavy stuff / I like it heaps.

8. Bricks are Heavy - L7 / Riot Grrrl alright. Love the girls.

9. Go - Cartman / Come on, who can't like this.

10. Faith and Courage - Sinead O'Connor / Ok I said before that I don't like religo stuff excluding Leonard Cohen add to this Sinead O'Connor. I don't really know why her voice gives heaps of people the shits but I like it. No your right it's because she has a shaved head and a song called 'No Man's Woman' [joke].

[criminally vulgar]

i think ill open my post with PJ HARVEY IS SHITHOUSE

anyways my top ten albums are:

foo fighters - the colour and the shape

deftones - around the fur

foo fighters - self titled

foo fighters - there is nothing left to lose

radiohead - ok computer

jeff buckley - grace

led zeppelin - all of them except coda

pink floyd - dark side of the moon

dillinger escape plan - calculating infinity


eh thatll do

[Heath]

Avoiding any of the bands I work with..... and quickly - no order.

Fugazi - The Argument.
GNFR - Appetite for Destruction
Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
The Clash - The Clash
DJ Krush vs Coldplay - Food Fight
Andy Smith - The Document
Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending

[Shelby]

1. The Sleepy Jacksons forthcoming record. They haven't recorded it yet, but already I'm positive it will be one of the best records put out next year in the WORLD. I can't believe no one talks about them here. Buy their new one "Let Your Love Be Love". It's an ep, it's only 8 bucks and it is brilliant.
2. Herbaliser - Blow Your Headphones. "The Blend" is simply the coolest bit o hippity hop ever.
3. You Am I - Greatest Hits. This hasn't come out yet either, but I got a sneaking suspician it will do soon, and it will attempt to sum up Australia's greatest ever rock band in a dozen tracks. And it will rock.
4. Adam Said Galore - Of Lost Roads. Oh my god, is that a radio friendly rock song I hear in "Bent Like Christmas"? Never fear, no one will ever question this bands credibility, and there's nothing dirty about getting played on the radio, especially when you sound like this.
5. Nirvana - Greatest Hits. OK, this really has come out, just recently, and it's at a great time too. In Utero has perhaps more longevity, but you've gotta love the songs on Nevermind, even if the production doesn't do them justice.
6. Massive Attack - Protection. The song "protection" is, without a doubt, the second greatest love song ever written in the world ever. Second only to....
7. Imagine - John Lennon. Oh John! Why! Why! When will we learn!
8. Micheal Jackson - Thriller. Can you imagine the fucking boner those record co execs would have got when Micheal and Quincy Jones presented them with this album!! The coke woulda been flowing free on that day in 1983 let me tell you!!!! Forget all the bullshit and listen to this album. It is phenomonal.
9. Elliot Smith - XO. Ever, ever, ever!!! Oh, actually, this isn't anything ever, except his best record ever, although the one after this was damn good too. Beautiful songs and beautiful voice
10. Stone Roses - Debut album. This is the music that's playing over the loudspeakers in heaven.

And may I leave you with this parting thought. Isn't it amazing the effect music can have on us earthlings. It can grip us with such power that we become totally and utterly addicted, desperate for another hit of that rush we keep getting. And it's totally intangible, like all the things we live for most. You can't touch it, buy it (we think we can, but all we're paying for is the plastic and the cd with which to hear it), own it or keep it. It speaks to all people, in the only universal language we have ever been able to accept.

oh, and it rocks.

[everlong]

Shelby said:

Isn't it amazing the effect music can have on us earthlings. It can grip us with such power that we become totally and utterly addicted, desperate for another hit of that rush we keep getting. And it's totally intangible, like all the things we live for most. You can't touch it, buy it (we think we can, but all we're paying for is the plastic and the cd with which to hear it), own it or keep it. It speaks to all people, in the only universal language we have ever been able to accept.

oh, and it rocks.

Well said.

[slushpup]

yeah, nicely captured

[sam]

Encyclopedia pretentiana. It's people like you Shelby, that make a mockery of the human condition.

[apple gerl]

in no particular order and subject to change.

1. interpol - turn on the bright lights
i don't own this album yet (lack of $$), but i've downloaded all the tracks and have been listening to them addictively for the last few months or so...this is an amazing, beautiful band. i'd say it's the best thing released this year, easily.

2. at the drive-in - relationship of command
enough said.

3. jebediah - of someday shambles
my favourite jebediah album...even though 'slightly odway' was the most defining album in terms of shaping my musical tastes and is my sentimental favourite, OSS is better in almost every way...production, quality of songwriting and emotional value for me. the use of the orchestra in 'run of the company' is beautiful without being pretentious.

4. ash - intergalactic sonic 7"s
this best of compilation is really impressive...i bought it as soon as it came out and it hasn't left my stereo yet. awesome songs from varying moments in ash's career, the best tracks are 'a life less ordinary', 'kung fu', 'petrol', 'there's a star' and 'numbskull'. god damn they're a great band.

5. death cab for cutie - the photo album
there's something about this album that makes it stand out to me in comparison to its two equally impressive predecessors, but the quality of production is a lot better this time around. the songs featured on 'the photo album' are bittersweet and emotive, and songs like 'a movie script ending', 'why you'd want to live here' and the fragile 'steadier footing' really pull on the heartstrings. also, DCFC pull off a beautiful cover of bjork's 'all is full of love', which i think rivals the original.

6. refused - the shape of punk to come
fuck this is a great album. 'new noise' is the stand-out track but the whole album rocks. refused are, or were, the best hardcore band in the world. dennis lyxzen is the man.

7. the (international) noise conspiracy - a new morning, changing weather
my favourite band ever, apart from jebediah. the lyrics are inspiring and revolutionary. and it's good jiving music. bah, i can't even begin to describe my reasons for loving this band. and they all wear matching suits. now that's style.

8. weezer- pinkerton
easily weezer's best album, with 'maladroit' a close second..'pinkerton' won me over with 'tired of sex' and 'across the sea'...hoorah for river's fascination with japanese crack-whores & schoolgirls at the time. it sure spawned some brilliant music.

9. thursday - full collapse
no explanation necessary. buy it and you'll see. 'cross out the eyes' and 'standing on the edge of summer' are my favourite tracks...

10. idlewild - 100 broken windows
how can anything that opens with 'little discourage' be a bad thing?? this release got me completely hooked on idlewild, who are now one of my very favourite bands. 'roseability' and 'quiet crown' show a softer side to idlewild...and this is expanded on in their second album, 'the remote part', which would be my #11 on this list.

(other noteable albums include: built to spill - keep it like a secret, the remote part - idlewild, the pixies - doolittle, sunday's best - poised to break, sparta - wiretap scars, the smashing pumpkins - melon collie...)

[sam]

That's not a reply, ass.

[josha]

i couldnt be bothered ready this topic, but i do think your a wanker armon

[sam]

Have a nice piece of Omaha Steak, shitmouth.

[josha]

At least i eat meat, ratshed, fucking different

[burgs]

Im only gonna write 5 albums as 10 is too many these days

5. Nirvana - Nevermind
Classic

4. Sparta - Wiretap Scars
After reforming these guys haev gone much further than ATDI did

3. Jebediah - Slightly Odway
The first one I feel is the best as every track is unique and there is a different song for every occasion. It might not be the most musically acomplished but it simply sounds fucking good

2. Eskimo Joe - Girl
Short but good

1. Motor Ace - Five Star Laundry
Similar to the jebs first one in the sense that there is a song for every occasion and it has the right balance in an album to play over and over

[michael]

burgs said:

After reforming these guys haev gone much further than ATDI did

reading that was like eating ice - now my brain is sore.

[vish]

mongey said:

S4kate - elsewhere for 8minutes : so definetly their best album..mm pinstripe

Mmm...pinstripe...
Possibly one of my all time favourite songs of ever, even though it kinda hurts to listen to it now

These aren't in order, they're just my 10 favourite albums, because I just can't decide which one is better than the other.


1. Bring It On!--Machine Gun Fellatio
What can I say, Drugsex, Unsent Letter, 100 Fresh Deciples, Mutha Fukka On A Motorcycle, Butter My Arse with A Pigeon...classic.

2. (What's The Story) Morning Glory--Oasis
I just basically agree with everyone else's comments--its just such a good cd...plus for some reason I can turn it up louder on my discman than any other CDs til it hurts my brain and I give myself a headache!

3. South Saturn Delta--Jimi Hendrix
He's my God. Nuff said.

4. SFK--Elsewhere For Eight Minutes
I believe that question has already been asnwered.

5. Drag--EP
Hoargalaghalagh...easily one of the best things I've bought all year.

6. Central Reservation--Beth Orton
If it was legal, I would marry Beth Orton.

7. Trailer Park--Beth Orton
I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine. What more can I say?

8. Blood Sugar Sex Magick--Red Hot Chili Peppers
You just can't beat it.

9. Jinx--Quarashi
Give me a dose of Icelandic rap/rock over almost anything almost anyday.

10. One By One--Foo Fighters
*hugs it* My fave album from this year, save for maybe Paging Mr Strike--Machine Gun Fellatio and jebediah--jebediah

Plus add in all the obligatory Jebediah albums and stuff...argh, 10 is not enough! Damn you all! Damn you all to hell!

vish