Vernon on 2/5/2006 at 13:56
Quote Posted by D'Juhn Keep
Arcade Fire - Funeral
My favourite album by a long way, because everything else just pales into insignificance when I hear it. There's something about it that is as sinister and distant as it touching and personal. A real masterpiece. Their b-sides and demos are nothing short of stunning either, with 'Headlights Look Like Diamonds,' 'Flood' and 'Winter for a Year' being particularly good. Win is an amazing vocalist and frontman, and combined with Regine you have a real power couple, who obviously took their time picking the right band for their needs and getting their live arrangement into a practical form. These guys are going places. I find it very hard to pick up a guitar after listening to the Arcade Fire. They are just
so fucking brilliant.
Beefheart's 'Safe as Milk' probably deserves a mention too.
Quote Posted by Para?noid
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Agreed. A very beautiful piece of work. I can't stomach the fact that he made it in his early teens. It is either disbelief or denial (I produce a lot of techno myself), I can't work out which.
I'd also mention Surgeon's 'basictonalvocabulary' for one of the better debut techno albums around. Some really nice stuff if you are into very very minimal, pulsing techno that takes a really good listening to to figure out how he pulled it off. A true minimalist, he looks at the whole picture and reduces from there, rather than building from a blank canvas. In other words, this is not minimalism for minimalism's sake. And it isn't for the faint hearted either. Dark, industrial stuff, influenced by everything from Faust, Boyd Rice and Mogwai to Jeff Mills, Coil and Autechre. If you listen to it and just say, meh it is too repetitive, have another listen or just fuck off.
Scots Taffer on 2/5/2006 at 14:05
Quote Posted by Spitter
Also Godspeed You Black Emperor! - f#a#∞ although it's not my favourite album of theirs.
This is also true. Great album.
Also, I'll have to give Arcade Fire a listen again because on the first run through it didn't stand out at all for me - in fact, I thought it was downright forgettable. Although, I don't claim to have a particularly refined taste in music.
Gillie on 2/5/2006 at 14:11
The Beatles: 'Please Please Me'. That is Old.
The police: Outlandos d'Amour.
Led Zeppelin. Though I think Led Zeppelin 11 is better!.
Bon jovi.
Dire Straits: With the track "Sultan's of swing. :thumb:
Rolling stones. Bob Marley.
quinch on 2/5/2006 at 14:33
PJ Harvey - dry
De La Soul - three feet high and rising
Notorious B.I.G - ready to die
spiritualized - lazer guided melodies
Para?noid on 2/5/2006 at 14:39
Quote Posted by Kolya
If you had some brains you could have found out, that "Moseley Shoals" wasn't a debut. I'm ahead of your rules. Who the man now? :p
Except for the fact that Ocean Colour Scene are utter fucking shit. Get out.
Turtle on 2/5/2006 at 15:03
Quote Posted by ToolHead
Eels -
Novocaine for the Soul (1996) 8/10
Beautiful Freak, not Novocaine for the Soul.
BEAR on 2/5/2006 at 15:27
Led Zeppelin
System of a down
Adrenaline (deftones)
Pretty Hate Machine
Vernon on 2/5/2006 at 15:42
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
I'll have to give Arcade Fire a listen again because on the first run through it didn't stand out at all for me
It's a percy thrower
Fingernail on 2/5/2006 at 16:49
Quote Posted by Para?noid
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Their debut is Von.
Kolya on 2/5/2006 at 17:18
Quote Posted by Para?noid
Except for the fact that Ocean Colour Scene are utter fucking shit. Get out.
Did you only just find out you won't be a rockstar someday or what?
