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The Professional Fan said:
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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Yeah, Rob has been doing solo stuff. Good for him, but it's too much like Wake (that is: medium-soft rock that belongs on Kink) for my tastes.
 
MARIS61 said:
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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I hear the songs in my head as if they were live, but somehow I hear the lead singer with my voice blended in.
 
Boob-No-More said:
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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You sir, are not playing by the rules...
TIMEOUT!
 
Orion Bailey said:
You sir, are not playing by the rules...
TIMEOUT!
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Well, technically, I did provide a top 10 list.

I listen to music almost constantly. I have systems throughout my house. I still have every album I've ever bought, going all the way back to the 1970s and have started buying more vinyl again. Portland has more record stores than any other city in North America (that's not more record stores per capita, that more record stores period). So, that makes it easy too indulge my habit.

I have also ripped my entire CD collection, (bought my first CD payer back in 1984), to a 10-year old Mac Mini I picked up on craigslist for $60. I upgraded the processor and memory with parts from a Dell laptop that was on the recycle cart at work, installed a 1TB internal drive and updated the operating system. I use it as a dedicated music server for streaming music to all the systems throughout my house.

I also got into SACDs a couple years ago, and have been slowly adding to my collection.

And, I listen to KNRK during my morning workout every morning.

So, it's hard for me to pick just 10 favorites when I have so many.

BNM
 
hoojacks said:
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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Now I'm listening to Float and remembering how good it is, so thanks for that, but None Shall Pass over Labor Days? For me, Aesop + Blockhead is better than Aesop alone. I'll give it another listen next.
 
porkchopexpress said:
Now I'm listening to Float and remembering how good it is, so thanks for that, but None Shall Pass over Labor Days? For me, Aesop + Blockhead is better than Aesop alone. I'll give it another listen next.
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Looking back, I agree. I prefer Float and Labor Days to None Shall Pass. But like I said in the post, these are the albums that got the most plays. I listened to None Shall Pass for about 6 months straight when it came out. I can't listen to that album without immediately being reminded of walking around the PSU campus with the sun shining.

All that said, I think Impossible Kid might be Aesop's best album yet.
 
hoojacks said:
Looking back, I agree. I prefer Float and Labor Days to None Shall Pass. But like I said in the post, these are the albums that got the most plays. I listened to None Shall Pass for about 6 months straight when it came out. I can't listen to that album without immediately being reminded of walking around the PSU campus with the sun shining.

All that said, I think Impossible Kid might be Aesop's best album yet.
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If I was to choose an Aesop record, I'd go with Bazooka Tooth. Mainly for the cough syrupy production by El-P and RJD2. In that vein, El-P fits my tastes much more than Aesop. "Cancer For Cure " is a fantastic album.
 
theprunetang said:
If I was to choose an Aesop record, I'd go with Bazooka Tooth. Mainly for the cough syrupy production by El-P and RJD2. In that vein, El-P fits my tastes much more than Aesop. "Cancer For Cure " is a fantastic album.
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I love El-P now, but back then I didn't like his production and much preferred Blockhead. Bazooka Tooth is still my least-fav Aesop album

EDIT: I think what I don't like about it is that Aesop seems to be copping off of El-P's bad boy persona on that album, and it doesn't fit him at all.
 
hoojacks said:
I love El-P now, but back then I didn't like his production and much preferred Blockhead. Bazooka Tooth is still my least-fav Aesop album

EDIT: I think what I don't like about it is that Aesop seems to be copping off of El-P's bad boy persona on that album, and it doesn't fit him at all.
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I can totally see all of that. This is why we all have different tastes though. I think it is neat how different people interpret things in different ways. I suppose I like Bazooka Tooth because it shows more influence by EL-P.
 
theprunetang said:
I can totally see all of that. This is why we all have different tastes though. I think it is neat how different people interpret things in different ways. I suppose I like Bazooka Tooth because it shows more influence by EL-P.
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Definitely. It's sad that they had a falling out. I'd love to hear what they could do together nowadays
 
With the summer like weather and a lot of relaxation time, I have been listening to a lot of Santo and Johnny over the last couple of days. Fits perfectly.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Here are some albums that fit my "consistent" criterion:

Belle & Sebastian - If you're feeling sinister
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - How I long to feel that summer in my heart
Portishead - Dummy
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season
Microdisney - Crooked Mile
Lloyd Cole - Mainstream (the underappreciated third album)
The Triffids - Calenture
The Divine Comedy - Promenade
Babybird - The Happiest Man Alive
The Bhundu Boys - Shabini (now contained within The Shed Sessions)
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
Arvo Pärt - Te Deum
Andrew Bird - Break it yourself
Vampire Weekend - any of their albums

If I had to pick one for my desert island it would probably be the Shed Sessions. Always picks me up, despite the tragic history of the Bhundu Boys.

I've mellowed in my old age. Songs about Fucking by Big Black no longer makes the list.
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Sigur Ros is FREAKING AMAZING.
 
Social Distortion - White Light White Heat White Trash
Social Distortion - Live at the Roxy
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves
Rancid - Life Wont Wait
Bad Religion - Stranger than Fiction
Bad Religion - Suffer
Supersuckers - Devil's Food
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason
Green Day - American Idiot
Pennywise - Pennywise
Good Riddance - A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Rebellion
Lagwagon - Hoss
Face to Face - Big Choice
Greg Graffin - Cold as the Clay
Mike Ness - Under the Influences & Cheating at Solitaire
Johnny Cash - Any greatest hits album
 
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MARIS61 said:
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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RM61, I appreciate your Maris Museum url link in your tag "signature line", Merci Beaucoup, from another old yankee fan. NTM- Roger was an integral Cardinal as well, but then you knew that....:tiphat:

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Tea For The Tillerman, Cat Stevens
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams
Scarecrow, John Mellencamp
Greatest Hits, Al Green
Who's Next, The Who
I Feel Alright, Steve Earle
Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town, Emmylou Harris
Some Girls, The Rolling Stones
Living And Dying In Three Quarter Time, Jimmy Buffet
Live At Leeds, The Who
 
Kendrick Lamar-Section 80
Frank Ocean-Blonde
J Cole- Forest Hills Drive
Kanye West- Graduation
A Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders
Wu Tang Clan-Enter The Wu Tang
Lupe Fiasco- The Cool
Kid Cudi- Man On The Moon:The End Of Day
Kendrick Lamar- Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Kendrick lamar- DAMN
 
Ripcityboy's Summer Albums you MUST listen too.

ZZ Top - Fandango
John Contrane - Giant Steps
Sublime - ANYTHING
Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
De La Soul - Three Feet High N Riding
Flying Burrito Brothers - Guilded Palace Of Sin
Mink Deville - Cabretta*

*Actually the experience of drinking a cold beer in the hot sun while listening to the song "Mixed Up Shook Up Girl" is one of the best a human being can have on this earth. I highly recommend it.
 
AC/DC - Back In Black
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Disturbed - Immortalized
Bif Naked - Ibificus
Puscifer - V Is for Vagina
Linda Perry - After Hours
Listener - Wooden Heart
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Nahko & Medicine for the People - Dark As Night
 
Okay, I have to play along. Some fantastic music listed above.
Here is mine in no particular order

Beatles White Album
Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup
Cosby, Stills, Nash&Young (self titled)
Little Feat Waiting For Columbus
Yes Roundabout
Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs
AC DC Back in Black
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggie Stardust

Bonus fun Frank Zappa Billy was a Mountain
 
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