OT What is your top ten cds/records/albulms to listen to? (2 Viewers)

[PDXFonz]

I definitely appreciate my dads taste in music, but what I really like is Roger Deans artwork(did a lot of artwork for Yes's album covers). He had a sizable collection of them which I held on to mainly because I knew how much they meant to him, but over time they have began to mean a lot to me.

Some of my favorites:

I remember this one hanging on the wall(Yes album "Tales of topographic oceans" cover artwork)

 

[theprunetang]

I don't listen to records, but I do have 4 boxes of records which were my fathers. He loved his vinyl and was a diehard Yes fan (I'm named after Jon Anderson) and liked a lot of non-mainstream stuff like Amon Duul II.


For me I'll just say that NAS - Illmatic is one of the best rap albums ever released. Outkasts album "Atliens" is probably in the top ten. Pete Rock and CL Smooths debut album "Mecca and the Soul Brother" is probably the best hip hop album ever released. "The Low End Theory" by A Tribe Called Quest is also one of the best hip hop albums ever released.

Those are all great albums. I would have to add Bizarre Ride by the Pharcyde, Blow Out Comb by Digable Planets, Radio by LL CoolJ, Madvilliany by MF Doom, Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu Tang, Mic Tyson by Sean Price, and all 3 Run the Jewels albums.

 

[PDXFonz]

Those are all great albums. I would have to add Bizarre Ride by the Pharcyde, Blow Out Comb by Digable Planets, Radio by LL CoolJ, Madvilliany by MY Doom, Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu Tang, Mic Tyson by Sean Price, and all 3 Run the Jewels albums.

Solid list bro! Labcabincalifornia is my favorite pharcyde album(Y? Is probably my favorite song by them), but bizarre ride has some solid tracks. MF Doom is legit, love his flow(Sniper elite comes to mind). I'd agree that 36 chambers is the best Wu Album, can't go wrong with CREAM, but Triumph off of their second album Wu-Tang forever is a toss up for my favorite song by them... Side note, CREAM pops up on my pandora stations often, I was actually listening to it on the way home tonight when I realized that I know the lyrics to every verse... Another side note, when I ask Siri to say my name she quotes inspectah decks verse on Triumph "I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies and hypothesiss cant define how I be dropping these mockeries..."

 

[stampedehero]

I still listen to the Smoker you drink the player you get and Got any gum? Joe Walsh is a masterful record producer and engineer as well as a great parts player...the Eagles sound got a huge makeover when he joined the band....Pete Townsend said he's the best there is...Joe gave Pete advice on different guitar / amp combinations to get sounds..another guy who makes beautiful recordings is Jim Messina...all his Buffalo Springfield, Poco and Loggins and Messina records are beautifully done. Mother Lode is a really underrated record.

Walsh is a great musician. I'm glad he went sober. My favorite song (which is hard) is "Life of Illusion". Always followed the WHO and Townsend. Great song is Face to Face LIVE. Loggins and Messina/POCO Live was and is still is phenomenal.

 

[theprunetang]

Solid list bro! Labcabincalifornia is my favorite pharcyde album(Y? Is probably my favorite song by them), but bizarre ride has some solid tracks. MF Doom is legit, love his flow(Sniper elite comes to mind). I'd agree that 36 chambers is the best Wu Album, can't go wrong with CREAM, but Triumph off of their second album Wu-Tang forever is a toss up for my favorite song by them... Side note, CREAM pops up on my pandora stations often, I was actually listening to it on the way home tonight when I realized that I know the lyrics to every verse... Another side note, when I ask Siri to say my name she quotes inspectah decks verse on Triumph "I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies and hypothesiss cant define how I be dropping these mockeries..."

That is awesome. This is the first time I've ever thought about switching from Android to Apple.....haha.
Labcab is great as well. Apples and oranges. I just wanted to give a shout out to them because I am friends with Tre (Slimkid3). I even got him to come DJ at Dots Cafe when I used to work there. He is one of the kindest and sweetest people I have ever met.

 

[stampedehero]

You know, I never really got into the Stones. I was always a Zeppelin and Beatles guy.



Wait. It should be in my signature? Is that not visible? Maybe I have one of Denny's blasted security/privacy options set wrong. lol

www.reverbnation.com/swilnation is the band I am in (Most of the songs I write.)
www.reverbnation.com/orionbailey is my personal music (very rough mixes. Depending on the date, I ..I still dont know shit. lol)
www.reverbnation.com/hookmeisters is an old band I was in (Denial is a song I wrote for the band, the guitar player wrote most everything else)

"Survive, Ghost Town and Whos on my side" ...........LIKE

 

[Orion Bailey]

You know what you did.

I swear I either did it in my sleep or extremely drunk cause I don't remember!!!!!
Probably both....

 

[Minstrel]

Adding to the the hip-hop sub-thread, I'd include (in addition to the Kayne albums I mentioned earlier) The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (Slick Rick), All Eyez on Me (2pac), The Blueprint (Jay-Z), Straight Outta Compton (NWA), A Healthy Distrust (Sage Francis), Black Star (Talib Kweli) and Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival (Wyclef)

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Maroon 5 - Songs about Jane
Weezer - Blue Album
Luke Bryan - Crash My Party
Kanye West - Graduation
Incubus - Light Grenades
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
Sam Hunt - Montevallo
The Used - The Used
Childish Gambino - Because the Internet
Jay Sean - Neon

Edit: the colour and the shapes by Foo Fighters has gotta be up there for me too.

 

[HailBlazers]

I swear I either did it in my sleep or extremely drunk cause I don't remember!!!!!
Probably both....

You created this thread drunk and passed out? Impressive

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I should have put Blood Sugar Sex Magik somewhere. Probably top 5.

 

[Orion Bailey]

You created this thread drunk and passed out? Impressive

You left out Lazy, stupid, good for nothing... DROOLER

I should have put Blood Sugar Sex Magik somewhere. Probably top 5.

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

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

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

We'd stand in gym class and sing under the bridge as a group.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

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

And it also gets points for a hilarious Simpsons scene.

 

[Mediocre Man]

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

 

[Boob-No-More]

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

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

 

[theprunetang]

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

Very solid list. Nothing mediocre about it at all.

 

[crandc]

It depends on my mood. Today I've been listening to classical music and movie soundtracks. These are not in any particular order.

1. Maurice Jarre - Witness Soundtrack

2. Hans Zimmer - Inception Soundtrack

3. Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Cantata BWV 147 – Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 – Air on the G String
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

4. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Für Elise
Moonlight Sonata
Symphony No. 9

5. Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major

6. Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, and Suite No. 2, Op. 55
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

7. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite
Swan Lake Suite
Sleeping Beauty Suite

8. Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

9. José Luis Merlin - Suite del Recuerdo

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.

 

[Minstrel]

No "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring" fans here?

 

[ripcityboy]

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.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

6. Bad Religion Stranger than Fiction

Nirvana In Utero

7. Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash

5. NOFX - Punk In Drublic

 

[crandc]

No "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring" fans here?

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.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

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

 

[Minstrel]

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.

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.

 

[The Professional Fan]

"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

 

[riverman]

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

Shoutout to the Gogol Bordello nods although East Infection would be my pick ...I have 3 of their CDs...great stuff

 

[crandc]

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.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

"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

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

 

[The Professional Fan]

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

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.

 

[MARIS61]

Simply and easy, though maybe not so easy to answer, but the question is easy.

What is your top ten albums of all time to listen to. Can you even put such a list together?
After quick thought, mine would be the list below, but Im sure I am missing something somewhere that might bump the list down...

1) Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age
2) Nothing Shocking by Janes Addiction
3) The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel
4) AudioSlave by AudioSlave
5) ZeppelinII by Led Zeppelin
6) Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen
7) Teenage Dream by Katy Perry (I'm sure I'll feel the heat on this one, lol)
8) XOXO by Elliott Smith
9) Ten by Pearl Jam
10) Chronic by Dr. Dre

Your turn!

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.