Your Top 5
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Great lists @neph93
Man, I almost included Animals over WYWH, 70's Pink Floyd is really something elseAnimals is the most underrated album in the history of rock music imho. Not a note wasted. Tight, lean and very, very mean. Add to that the incredible thematic execution and you’ve got a winner.
While I’m thinking about this, it occurs to me that my top 5 tracks would contain very different artists. I will have to consider that some more.
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@Nkwkfld:
Nils Frahm - Screws
This album turned me onto a genre of music that I call "stimulating classical". I gobble up as much of this kind of music as I can find! I found out later that he recorded this album with a broken thumb, which made the notes mean a little more for me. You can tell that they're very deliberate and a little slow.
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Top 5 albums is impossible and it’s why I have almost everything on my phone. It all depends on time, mood, surroundings, people etc. Music has always been a big part of my life and I normally have something playing in the background most of the day.
I think the music threads on this forum sum up most of what I listen to. Things I haven’t seen are some of the old blues Guys (Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Lead Belly, etc.) Jazz (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, etc.), Classical, and Bluegrass music that I listen to.
What is great is you have introduced me to quite a bit of new stuff and I thank you for it. Example: Listened to Silent Alarm today and loved it. Thanks G!
Great thread!!
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Got a lot in common with @goosehd and a lot of y’all’s tastes. Jamming Bear Owsley’s recently released Johnny Cash recording from 1968 in San Francisco.
Love delta and hill blues and classical as well. Huge Rachmaninov, Gershwin, Beethoven, and Bach fan in particular.
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Wow, a LOT to process in this thread — I see so much good shit that I don't even know where to start.
I can never do a fave albums or bands list, have tried too many times over the years only to fail. I'll be thinking of some other things (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Murakami, William Gibson, Vonnegut for the winnnn) but for now I'll just make the only list I can readily think of.
Top 5 personal fave guitarists, in no particular order:
Neil Young
Prince
Bill Frisell
Graham Coxon
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this thread gives me SO MUCH LIFE. I'm gonna take a few and try and put mine together. Top 5 albums is one of my favorite things to discuss with friends. it's a total judgement-free whatever pumps you up or inspires you type thing. I LOVE IT.
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The White Stripes - Elephant
GZA - Liquid Swords
Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
Most Clutch albumsI SEE you.
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Ok. Top 5, really hard choices were made here.
OutKast - Aquemini
Ani Difranco - Out of Range
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
Indigo Girls - Nomads, Indians, Saints
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and DreamingAaarggh how did I not get Bjork - Post on here? Or Paul Simon- Graceland (or Rhythm of the Saints, yeesh). What about Grateful Dead - American Beauty? Obviously this list will never end.
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I know it's tough, and I don't really believe in hard rules so here are my top SIX in no particular order:
Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Mineral - EndSerenading
Saves The Day - Through Being Cool
Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity or Bleed AmericanAnd probably way too many honorable mentions also in no particular order:
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree
Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
Danzig - II: Lucifuge, or III: How the Gods Kill
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview, or Losing Streak
Green Day – Dookie, or Nimrod
Weezer - Blue Album
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, or Dear You
Guster - Keep it Together
ALL- Breaking Things
Elliott Smith - Either/Or -
I think the main purpose of this exercise is to get you to break apart yourself into compartments. For example, what were you REALLY into at age 15, then 25, then age 40 (give or take a few years. It's crazy to think of how much your younger self plays a roll on what your older self is really into (deep down). Y'all go do you, nobody is judging.
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Can get down with Kurt, Marquez, Stephenson, and especially William Fucking Gibson. I still have a cool Porter bag signed by him courtesy of @Snowy (thank you again my friend) and he is a big fan of Iron Heart and Acronym (just like me–couldn't be much more different brands but somehow we share a love for them)
Love you still have that bag. I still think about it quite a bit TBH. It's a really unique bag and perfectly sized. Cyberpunk, classic Japanese, military accented.A bit more 'pop' on the book side, I enjoy reading the Takeshi Kovacs novels (the TV series is fairly decent too). Still can't get past the original Blade Runner for OG visuals tho.
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John Banville
Snow
Eclipse
The Untouchable
Bingeing a littlePictures at an Exhibition -Mark Harris
The Devil's Candy-Julie Salamon
the last 2 are movie books.
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@chrisjohnnick "keep it together" is a great album ;D. I come back to it every now and again like a real broken in pair of shoes, "backyard" is a jam
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@neph93 glad to see Kate Bush being represented here. My favourite flits between The Dreaming & HOL, depends on the day. Great to see Jeff Vandermeer on your list too, The Southern Reach trilogy is a modern masterpiece and is the eeriest stuff I’ve read in a while. I remember enjoying Vurt many years ago when I was reading as much weird Sci-Fi as possible.
@Nkwkfld how could I forget Knausgaard?! The My Struggle series is really important to me.
It’s cool to see so many crossovers in taste, and also to receive recommendations of things that have flown under my radar. It’s interesting to me how much crossover there actually is, and that the tastes don’t only align in terms of music, but books as well. This is a very enjoyable thread and I’m surprised one didn’t already exist!
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