OT What is your top ten cds/records/albulms to listen to?

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  1. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    I should have put Blood Sugar Sex Magik somewhere. Probably top 5.
     
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    You left out Lazy, stupid, good for nothing... DROOLER


    Oh man. Not sure it cracks my top 5 but top ten im pretty sure.e Im gonna have to re-read this thread in a week and revise mine. And then start that...11-20 thread, lol...

    fuck it. Should we have a OrionBailey Top 100 Countdown for memorial weekend? hahaha
     
  3. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    We'd stand in gym class and sing under the bridge as a group.
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    And it also gets points for a hilarious Simpsons scene.
     
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    1. Pet Sounds- Beach Boys
    2. Sgt. Peppers - Beatles
    3. London Calling - Clash
    4. Rumours- Fleetwood Mac
    5. Ramones - Ramones
    6. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
    7. Abby Road - Beatles
    8. OK Computer - Radiohead
    9. Highway 61 Revisited- Bob Dylan
    10. Purple Rain - Prince
     
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    All solid choices.

    If I had to limit myself to 10, it would vary from day to day, depending on my mood, but today, it would be (in no particular order):

    Supertramp - Crime of the Century
    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
    The Eagles - Hotel California
    Steely Dan - Guacho
    Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
    U2 - The Joshua Tree
    The Beatles - Abbey Road
    The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
    The Who - Who's Next
    The Cars - The Cars

    Honorable Mentions (also in no particular order - any of these could make my top 10 list on any given day):

    Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
    The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
    Beck - Sea Change
    Supertramp - Breakfast in America
    The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
    Death Cab for Cutie - Kintsugi
    Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Jeff Buckley - Grace
    Roxy Music - Avalon
    Steely Dan - Aja
    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    Radiohead - The Bends
    Led Zeppelin - I
    Led Zeppelin - II
    Depeche Mode - Violator
    Rush - Moving Pictures
    Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
    The Black Keys - Brothers
    The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
    The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
    Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
    Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
    Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
    Supreme Beings of Leisure - Supreme Beings of Leisure
    Cream - Disraeli Gears
    Blind Faith - Blind Faith
    Argus - Wishbone Ash
    Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedos
    Boston - Boston
    Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a story
    Beastie Boys - License to Ill
    The Cure - Disintegration
    Paul Simon - Graceland
    Sublime - Sublime
    Heart - Dreamboat Annie
    The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer

    Even with all of that, there are a ton or bands/artists I listen to regularly that didn't make the list (Red Hot Chili Pepper, Muse, Modest Mouse, Weezer, The White Stripes, Foo Fighters, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Cake, Green Day, etc.)

    And that doesn't even include live or compilation albums...

    BNM
     
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    Very solid list. Nothing mediocre about it at all.
     
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    Another classical fan!! Although I put symphony #6 and 7 ahead of Fur Elise and Moonlight. Also would add Dvorak Symphony for the New World, Handel's Water Music, Pachelbel Canon (uncut version).

    Anything Beatles.
     
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    No "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring" fans here?
     
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    I wish I could like music that was a little more esoteric and spacy..... But I just can't. I found out a long time ago that almost every artist I like has to have the elemental form of drums, bass, keys, guitar, samples, vocs.... etc. Whenever I hear a band playing like a xylophone or some weird folky harp/violin set up.... I'll stick to riff based rock or groove based R&B.

    Iggy Pop once said that one of the reasons artists like the Rolling Stones last is that have a sound that isn't too hard or too extreme. It's durable, danceable and it lasts. They keep things simple. There are artists who try so hard to be different that there isn't any thing you can hang on too.

    Some of my favorite groups are The Smithereens and NRBQ. And if you look at their sound, It's simple and melodic and tough. They right great songs with great hooks. The thing they are trying to do is just good records. I love that aesthetic. That's why I could listen to "Especially For You" all day long.
     
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    Yes, very much so. Beautiful music. Bach, a deeply devout Catholic, considered all his music, sacred or secular, an expression of his faith. He wrote at the beginning of every composition "To the glory of God alone" and at the end "Jesus helped me". Atheists can enjoy the music for its intrinsic beauty.
     
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    OH jeez. I'll try not to overthink this...

    I'm going to leave off some good albums... these are just the ones that have gotten the most plays / the ones I tend to listen to on repeat until I memorize them.

    Top 10 in the past year, in no particular order:

    Joanna Newsom - Divers
    Joanna Newsom - Ys
    Todd Terje - It's Album Time
    Protomen - Act II
    Protomen - The Cover Up
    Eero Johannes - Eero Johannes
    Aesop Rock - Impossible Kid
    Alt-J - This is All Yours
    Stromae - Racine Carree
    Ninja Sex Party - Attitude City

    Top 10 in the past decade, in no particular order:

    Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
    Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
    Aesop Rock - Float
    Joanna Newsom - Ys
    System of a Down - Hypnotize / Mesmerize
    Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
    Gogol Bordello - Underdog World Strike
    Damien Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
    Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
    Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
    EDIT: Rabah Donquishoot - Dernier Cri

    Top 10 all time, in no particular order:

    Metallica - Black Album
    Fields of the Nephilim - Elysium
    Jethro Tull - War Child
    Beatles - Abbey Road
    Tool - Aenima
    Tool - Lateralus
    Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
    Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
    Sublime - Sublime
    Pink Floyd - The Wall
     
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    It's a piece that I love to listen to when I need something calming, because it feels very "watery" to me--like a series of small, cascading waterfalls.
     
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    "Operation:Mindcrime" - Queensryche
    "Sister Sweetly" - Big Head Todd & The Monsters
    "Ok Computer" - Radiohead
    "Francis the Mute" - Mars Volta
    "Aenima" - TooL
    "Sublime" - Sublime
    "Battle of Los Angeles" - Rage Against the Machine
    "Animals" - Pink Floyd
    "Ten" - Pearl Jam
    "Burning Sosobra" - Floater

    I know I'm missing a ton.

    Edit: not in any particular order
     
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    Shoutout to the Gogol Bordello nods although East Infection would be my pick ...I have 3 of their CDs...great stuff
     
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    I went to a seminar earlier this year; one of the talks was "Music as a Mirror of History". The speaker focused mostly on classical but talked rock/popular music near the end. He remarked that if Bach's Brandenburg Concerto, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusic and Beethoven's Symphony #5 were blind dates this is how they'd look:

    Brandenburg Concerto would be the overdressed geek, overeager, OCD, talked too much, but with real humor behind it
    Eine Kleine Nachtmusic would be Mr. Popular, handsome, perfectly dressed and groomed, perfect manners
    Symphony #5 would be tattooed and pierced, dressed in black leather and chains, and the girl's father would slam the door in his face.
     
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    Holy shit you just made me realize I completely blanked on Floater. I must have listened to each of their pre-Stone by Stone albums a thousand times.

    Also, I saw them live probably around 50 times between 2002 and 2012
     
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    Me too re: seeing them live. Either Sosobra or Devils had to make my short list. Sosobra just barely edged Devils. Both are stupid good. I tweeted at Rob not long ago asking about new material. They aren't working on anything. He kind of hinted there might be some infighting. Too bad.
     
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    By "listen to" what do you mean exactly.

    The best music of my youth has been ingrained on a reel-to-reel in my brain and I listen to lots of it from memory. When playing cd's it's mostly newer stuff.
     

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