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    mclaincausey
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    Joined: 12 Apr 2013

    @pechelman:

    I can't pick five but many of the ones I'd consider have been mentioned, so here's five more that would be on my list for consideration that I didn't see mentioned at all. Apologies if I missed one already mentioned.

    Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
    Queen - A Night at the Opera
    Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
    Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
    King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king

    Two more
    Jethro Tull - Aqualung
    The Beatles - Abbey Rd

    Great list @pechelman

    Zappa is absolutely not for everyone but I think Hot Rats has broader appeal than most of his catalog. I caught the bug when I shoplifted “Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life” double cassette when I was a dumb kid. I rediscovered him freshman year in college when I bought “Joe’s Garage” used CDs freshman year. I just couldn’t believe how good the drums sounded and how well they were played. Colaiuta remains my favorite drummer to this day, edging drummers like Tony Williams and Elvin Jones.

    When I was an even dumber kid I got deeply into King Crimson. At least I wasn’t dumb about music. “Red” was the album that got me, then “Crimson King,,” then “Discipline.” I also enjoyed their contemporary stuff and got to see them live with the Bruford/Mastelotto battery, which was a dream come true.

    Daft Punk is on my bucket list to see live so I was gutted for many reasons when they called it quits.

    Think it, be it.

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      pechelman
      啓蒙家
      Joined: 24 Jan 2022

      Thanks @mclaincausey. Clearly you're a man of fine taste 😃

      There's so much of Zappa that I love and still some that I have a hard time listening to. But certainly as a composer and on the guitar he was incredible. Joe's is another favorite of mine but also dig his jazzy stuff on waka/jawaka, the classical side on yellow shark, and pretty much everything where he shuts up and plays his guitar including that album. Muffin man, black napkin, watermelon in Easter hay, peaches, gumbo variations, green genes, rdnzl, Montana, etc. His catalog is so impressive and varied.

      If there was a good thing about pandemic, it was having a lot of time to explore lots of music I missed when I was younger due to different priorities.

      For me, while I can't say those sounds above are my top 5 they are certainly some favorites. Specifically, I like albums that work and evolve from beginning to end of possible tell a longer story. In particular I've always thought the opening track on that black Sabbath album is the best album opening ever which is partly why I picked it over paranoid which has a couple more of my favorite songs.

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        deanclean
        Iron Heart Deity
        Joined: 17 Jan 2014

        [mention]pechelman [/mention] [mention]mclaincausey [/mention] Zappa is definitely an acquired taste. I couldn’t really get on to him until I heard joes garage. That album is great. I remember having Little Green Rosetta played at my wedding. Dance floor cleared of course but i it’s such a great tune!

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          Bfd70
          Raw and Unwashed
          Joined: 22 Mar 2018

          @Twistlock:

          My Top 5 albums (many which would have made it have already been mentioned) in no particular order:
          Sisters of Mercy- First and last and always
          Blood Red Shoes- Box of Secrets
          The Goats- Tricks of the Shade
          Dinosaur Jr.- Bug
          NoMeansNo- Small parts isolated and destroyed

          Gesendet von meinem SM-A536B mit Tapatalk

          The Goats. Bold choice.

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            neph93
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            Joined: 18 Aug 2014

            @Bfd70:

            @Twistlock:

            My Top 5 albums (many which would have made it have already been mentioned) in no particular order:
            Sisters of Mercy- First and last and always
            Blood Red Shoes- Box of Secrets
            The Goats- Tricks of the Shade
            Dinosaur Jr.- Bug
            NoMeansNo- Small parts isolated and destroyed

            Gesendet von meinem SM-A536B mit Tapatalk

            The Goats. Bold choice.

            SoM top of the list. Awesome choice.

            “Some of those that work forces
            Are the same that burn crosses”

            • Virginia Woolf
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              GardenState
              Haraki san Expert
              Joined: 24 Jan 2021

              Top 5:

              Metallica - Black Album (…And Justice For All close runner up)
              Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
              The Meteors - In Heaven
              Run the Jewels - RTJ 2
              Ghost - Seven Inches of Satanic Panic

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                Bored In Breck
                Raw and Unwashed
                Joined: 24 Nov 2020

                Today's Top 5;




                Do you see what happens when you find a stanger in the Alps!?! - Walter Sobchak (TV Edit)

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                  tody
                  啓蒙家
                  Joined: 24 Feb 2021

                  @Bored In Breck - Nice that the Descendents made the list. Saw them live this summer, I really enjoyed that.

                  And I missed the post by @GardenState - OTMAPP, hell yeah!

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                    popvulture
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                    Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                    The ATDI, HWM and Avail were all in heavy, heavy rotation for me during my college years. And of course Descendents, albeit a bit earlier for me. Nostalgic picks right there!

                    WTB
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                    Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                      prpx
                      Haraki san Expert
                      Joined: 10 Nov 2021

                      top 5 music
                      pixies - trompe le monde
                      sonic youth - daydream nation
                      nomeansno - small parts isolated and destroyed
                      the fall - perverted by language
                      melvins - bullhead

                      those albums are closest to my heart, could fit at least another 50 that also move me every time they i hear them. music is fantastic, although (IMO) definitely not going in the right direction.

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                      • seawolfS
                        seawolf
                        Mod Squad
                        Joined: 28 Oct 2011

                        Top 5 (this is going to be difficult):

                        Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
                        Grateful Dead: Europe 72, or as I like to call it, the Christmas Album
                        Pearl Jam: Vs
                        Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
                        Daft Punk: Discovery

                        “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

                        @zeebeeleather

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                          GardenState
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                          Joined: 24 Jan 2021

                          @tody:

                          @Bored In Breck - Nice that the Descendents made the list. Saw them live this summer, I really enjoyed that.

                          And I missed the post by @GardenState - OTMAPP, hell yeah!

                          The Meteors are such a good band.

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                          • october rustO
                            october rust
                            Haraki san Student
                            Joined: 14 Dec 2020

                            I'd probably have a different list 15 minutes from now, but off the top of my head:
                            5. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
                            4. Depeche Mode - Violator(maybe Music for the Masses)
                            3. The Clash - London Calling
                            2. Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
                            1. Danzig - Lucifuge

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                            • gouki74G
                              gouki74
                              Haraki san Prodigy
                              Joined: 9 Sept 2022

                              So hard to choose, too many great bands, albums but here's the 5 albums I'd carry with me for a road trip:
                              High on Fire: Death is this Communion
                              The Sword: Gods of the earth
                              Doomriders: Darkness come alive
                              Red Fang: Murder the mountains
                              Nofx: Single Album

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                              • jerkulesJ
                                jerkules
                                啓蒙家
                                @gouki74
                                Joined: 26 Aug 2018

                                @gouki74 said in Your Top 5:

                                Doomriders: Darkness come alive

                                Heck yeah, this has been a saviour on long runs recently.

                                @riffblaster-general 😉

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                                • Stuart.TS
                                  Stuart.T
                                  Raw and Unwashed
                                  Joined: 21 Sept 2017

                                  Hmm an age old, impossible question.

                                  Nas illmatic
                                  Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Beatdown
                                  Uniform Choice scream for change
                                  Ani Difranco imperfectly
                                  Kate Bush Sensual World

                                  They all get weekly play on CD, and I haven't got bored yet. Been listening to all of them since years of release.

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                                    Bob Dylan - blood on the tracks
                                    Eric Clapton - journeyman
                                    Derek & the dominos - layla and other assorted love songs
                                    Neil Young - harvest
                                    Bruce Springsteen - born in the usa

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                                    • Crispy HeronC
                                      Crispy Heron
                                      Haraki san Prodigy
                                      @Stuart.T
                                      Joined: 1 Jan 2021

                                      @Stuart-T said in Your Top 5:

                                      Hmm an age old, impossible question.

                                      Nas illmatic
                                      Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Beatdown
                                      Uniform Choice scream for change
                                      Ani Difranco imperfectly
                                      Kate Bush Sensual World

                                      They all get weekly play on CD, and I haven't got bored yet. Been listening to all of them since years of release.

                                      Eclectic. Can’t beat a bit of West Coast Straight Edge.

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                                      • natehateN
                                        natehate
                                        啓蒙家
                                        Joined: 18 Jun 2012

                                        choose my favorites would be to hard so i'm going with authors, directors, and live bands

                                        authors:
                                        Cormac McCarthy
                                        Chuck Palahniuk
                                        Jack Kerouac (i have a thing for all the beat writers)
                                        Charles Bukowski
                                        Ken Kesey
                                        and an honorable mention to Hunter Thompson

                                        directors:
                                        The Coen Brothers
                                        Wes Anderson
                                        Paul Thomas Anderson
                                        Quentin Tarantino
                                        Stanley Kubrick
                                        honorable mentions to Jeff Nichols, Savage Steve Holland (better off dead is my number 1 with a bullet all time favorite movie), David Fincher

                                        live bands :
                                        Lucero
                                        Fugazi
                                        Bane
                                        Flag (the black flag band thats not black flag but has more actual past members then black flag, including my 2 favorite black flag singers)
                                        Flogging Molly
                                        honorable mentions Dropkick murphy's, Converge, Hatebreed, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie boys, Terror, American Nightmare, Neil Diamond, Braid, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

                                        don't you know there ain't no devil? only god when he's drunk!

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                                          mclaincausey
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                                          Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                          Great shit; Lucero just dropped a new one this week, great live band! Fugazi was absolutely formative for me. Their shows were so great. I really loved their label in general, lots of great bands on Dischord.

                                          Think it, be it.

                                          last edited by 2 Mar 2023, 19:14 natehateN 1 Reply Last reply 2 Mar 2023, 19:38 Reply Quote 0
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