My favourite albums
Submitted by HectorG on Sun, 01/11/2009 - 08:18
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- Godz - Contact High With The Godz
- Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
- Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
- Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
- King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
- Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
- Anthony Braxton - Saxophone Improvisations Series F
- Neu! - Neu!
- Taj Mahal Travellers - July 15, 1972
- Tangerine Dream - Zeit
- Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
- Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974
- Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
- This Heat - This Heat
- Colin Newman - A-Z
- Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
- La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano
- Missing Foundation - 1933
- Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- Djam Karet - Reflections From the Firepool
- The Dead C - Trapdoor Fucking Exit
- Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
- Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Mother of All Saints
- Vampire Rodents - Lullaby Land
- Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
- Don Caballero - 2
- Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Remnants of a Deeper Purity
- Merzbow - 1930
- Vladislav Delay - Anima
- cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
- Khanate - Things Viral
- Joanna Newsom - Ys
- Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi
Author Comments:
This list is in chronological order by release date. Recommendations welcome - though Scaruffi'ites should be aware that I have heard every Scaruffi 9/10, and any of the 40-50 8/10s I haven't heard I simply cannot find.
Note that this kind of list changes very regularly because the "bubbling under" albums are really really great as well. None of this is by any means final...
If you like Faust you'll like Brainticket. Also my favourite progressive rock is The Mars Volta...
I haven't heard of Brainticket, I'll be sure to look them up.
I like Frances the Mute quite a bit but not enough to make this list. I like The Mars Volta in general but I feel most of their other work suffers from inconsistency somewhat...
Agreed, TMV are half pushing towards psychedelic experimental music and half wanting to make it big commercially, and the poor reception of their best (and most experimental album) Frances means they've probably been dissuaded from doing anything even close to that standard ever again.
Nice list by the way, some really nice choices!
nice list
btw what strikes you in "tales..."?
From something I posted elsewhere on the backlash to TFTO:
Tales From Topographic Oceans, along with Relayer, built on the "progressive" ambitions of Yes to the point where the sort of pop sensibility of earlier albums was sacrificed. It's sort of the same issue that many people have with The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute - being "aimless", or having too much "filler". I have to admit even I found these albums difficult for these reasons - on the surface they were rock music, but they were sort of disconcerting. I love both of them now, but I had to develop a taste for their unique sensibilities.
Beyond that was the monumental scale and amount of ideas, which I thought were more or less done justice. I'm still looking for more progressive rock music with the same sort of unpredictable sprawl - the first two Opeth albums are the only ones which come to my mind so far.
nice thanks for the description