I really want to add onto this thread, but I'm afraid I'll get carried away... There's far too much good music out there.
I guess to limit it to 10 that are in my "current" favorites (no specific order):
Acetone - If You Only Knew
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Lone - Ecstasy & Friends
Red House Painters - Old Ramon
Bibio - Fi
Circulatory System - S/T
Palace Brothers - Days In The Wake
Elliott Smith - New Moon
Duster - Stratosphere
The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
Choice based on concatenation of different factors such as sound, place, colours, time, season, etc...
Bass Communion - Ghost On The Magnetic Tape (or Loss)
Bjork - Vespertine
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase/Tomorrow's Harvest (cannot tell which one of all really)
Brian Eno - Shutov Assembly
Burial - Street Halo/Kindred (currently)
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
I.E.M - 1996-1999
Radiohead - Amnesiac (a bit of a garage sound here in places)
Steve Roach - A Deeper Silence
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Frank Zappa - Grand Wazoo
Well I don't know how many albums we can list so this is off the top of my head:
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Sigur Rós - ( )
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Tortoise - TNT
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
Supersilent - 6
Fennesz - Black Sea
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Squarepusher - Music is Rotted One Note
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Faust - Faust
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Sigur Rós - Takk
edIT - Crying over Pros for no Reason
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Bonobo - Black Sands
Emancipator - Soon it will be Cold Enough
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Tycho - Past is Prologue
Helios - Eingya
The Album Leaf - Into the Blue Again
The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Flashbulb - Arboreal
Air - Moon Safari
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold
Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange
It ended up getting a tad longer than I thought, hahaha. Oh well.
Boards of Canada - The campfire headphase
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Boards of Canada - Tomorrows Harvest
Boards of Canada - Music has the right
Zero 7 - When it falls
Kosheen - Resist
Royksopp - Melody A.M
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Atoms for peace - Amok
Emancipator - Soon it will be cold enough
Stars of the lid - And their refinement of the decline
Helios - Eingya
Bibio - Vignetting the compost
A winged victory for the sullen - A winged victory for the sullen
Thievery Corporation - The mirror conspiracy
The album leaf - Into the blue again
The album leaf - In a safe place
Air - Moon Safari
Air - Talkie Walkie
Bonobo - Black Sands
Sleepingdog - With our heads..
Kruder & Dorfmeister - the K&D Sessions
Aphex Twin - Both the selected ambient works
Portishead - Dummy
Hooverphonic - The magnificent tree
The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
Clubroot - II-MMX
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Guess there's a lot more, but these albums are pretty much the albums that have influenced my musical taste into what it is today.
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Aphex Twin - LOADS
Arovane - Lilies
Autechre - LOADS
Beaumont Hannant - Texturology
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Boards of Canada - EVERYTHING
Caribou - Swim
Childs - Yui
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Drexciya - LOADS
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Gescom - Key Nell
Keef Baker - The Widnes Years
Kettel - Myam James Part 1
Nature And Organisation - Beauty Reaps The Blood Of Solitude
Ochre - Lemodie
Plastic Boy - It's A Plastic World
Porcupine Tree - LOADS
Sasha - Airdrawndagger
Secede - Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic
Squarepusher - LOADS
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Way Out West - Way Out West
Boards Of Canada - MHTRTC
Higher Intelligence Agency - Colourform
Casino Versus Japan - Go Hawaii
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
Autechre - Incunabula
The Black Dog - Book Of Dogma
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
St Germain - Tourist
Air - Moon Safari
Tosca - Suzuki
Love to bring this thread back, such great choices!
(No particular order)
Tindersticks - waiting for the moon Phantogram - eyelid movies Caravan palace - <|°_°|> (robot face) Boards of Canada - studio album discography Simian - chemistry is what we are John grant - pale green ghosts The flaming lips - at war with the mystics The chemical brothers - surrender Father John Misty - pure comedy Genesis - trespass Tom waits - nighthawks at the diner FSOL - lifeforms B.E.N.T - programmed to love The orb - peel sessions Tangerine dream - stratosfear Jean-Michel jarre - waiting for Cousteau Radiohead - the bends Vashti Bunyan - another diamond day Captain beefheart & the magic band - clear spot Peter Bjorn and John - writers block Thundercat - drunk The divine comedy - casanova Miles Davis- miles ahead Steve hillage - rainbow dome musick Brian eno - another green world
I wasn't aware of this thread, I'll be making some notes for sure. I actually like to chronicle my favorites in the form of a Spotify playlist, and yes, they are in particular order https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MNMb ... e037664d4d
Platinum Tier 1. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 2. Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent/Call of the West 3. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! 4. Omni Trio - Music for the Next Millenium 5. James Ferraro - Last American Hero 6. Amon Tobin - Bricolage 7. Throbbing Gristle - D.o.A. The Third and Final Report 8. The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. 9. Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI 10. The Buggles - The Age of Plastic Gold Tier 11. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta 12. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children 13. Japan - Quiet Life 14. Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey 15. Omni Trio - The Haunted Science 16. Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2 17. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral 18. Boards of Canada - A Few Old Tunes 19. Depeche Mode - Violator 20. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel 21. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation 22. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party 23. Devo - Freedom of Choice 24. Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste 25. Infected Mushroom - B.P.Empire 26. ППК - Русский Транс: Формирование 27. The Cure - Pornography 28. Soichi Terada - Sumo Jungle Grandeur Silver Tier 29. Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold And Manipulate 30. Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity 31. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile 32. T Power - The Self Evident Truth Of An Intuitive Mind 33. The Monkees - Head 34. Various Artists - Boogiepop Phantom Original Soundtrack 35. Killing Joke - What's THIS For...! 36. Nine Inch Nails - Fixed 37. The Cure - Faith 38. Wall of Voodoo - The Index Masters 39. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 40. Various Artists - Serial Experiments Lain: Cyberia Mix 41. Soichi Terada - Ape Escape Originape Soundtracks 42. Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 3 Original Soundtracks 43. Killing Joke - Killing Joke [1980] 44. The Cure - Disintegration 45. The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge 46. Goldie - Timeless 47. Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle 48. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher 49. Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom 50. Skinny Puppy - Last Rights 51. Reggie and the Full Effect - Songs Not To Get Married To 52. Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear 53. Pink Turns Blue - Meta 54. Primus - Pork Soda 55. Soundtrack - Destroy All Humans! 56. Chumbawamba - Tubthumper 57. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician 58. Skinny Puppy - 12 Inch Anthology Bronze Tier 59. Bauhaus - Mask 60. Japan - Tin Drum 61. Omni Trio - Skeleton Keys 62. Department of Crooks - Plan 9 from Las Vegas 63. Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad 64. Killing Joke - Night Time 65. Boards of Canada - Old Tunes Vol. 2 66. Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious 67. The Sound - All Fall Down 68. Klute - No One's Listening Anymore 69. Sewerslvt - Draining Love Story 70. E-Z Rollers - Weekend World 71. Wax Doctor - Selected Works 94-96 72. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward 73. The Prodigy - Experience 74. Кино - Группа крови 75. XTC - Drums And Wires 76. Belgrado - Obraz 77. Molchat Doma - этажи 78. Wiktor Stribog - Poradnik Uśmiechu (Original Soundtrack) 79. Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here 80. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park 81. A Flock of Seagulls - A Flock Of Seagulls 82. Missing Persons - Spring Session M 83. The Vapors - New Clear Days 84. Men Without Hats - Rhythm of Youth 85. Paradox - The Musician as Outsider 86. 808 State - Ninety 87. Линда - Плацента 88. Света - Другая 89. Катя Чехова - Я - Робот 90. Deee-Lite - World Clique 91. Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca 92. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 93. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret 94. Source Direct - Exorcise the Demons 95. Caater - Millennium: The Best of Caater 96. Modern English - After the Snow 97. Broadcast - Tender Buttons 98. James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual 99. Hi-Fi - The Best 1 100. t.A.T.u. - 200 По Встречной
Aphex Twin - Drukqs Boards of Canada - Geogaddi DJ Shadow - Endtroducing Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven Oneohtrix Point Never - Russian Mind Pink Floyd - Animals Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Ween - Quebec Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Nice thread . I'm going to have to go and listen to everything I don't know because the BOC brotherhood inevitably has excellent tastes.
BOC - TH Cannibal Ox -The Cold vein BOC - Geogaddi Radiohead -Ok computeur El-P = I 'll sleep when you're dead The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation James Holden - The Inheritors Illogic - Celestial Clockwork BOC - MHTRTC Alias - Resurgam Odd Nosdam - Level Live Wires
These are the ten albums that I have listened to the most in the last ten years
Mafache wrote:The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation
That's a great one!
I wouldn't know how it ranks among other BJM records, as their discography is massive and I haven't listened to everything, but it's definitely the best one of theirs I've heard.
BOC - Music Has The Right To Children Slint - Spiderland Nick Cave & TBS - Skeleton Tree Charley Patton - Founder of the Delta Blues Skinny Puppy - Last Rights Coil - Love's Secret Domain GYBE! - F# A# Infinity The Gun Club - Fire of Love QOTSA - Rated R Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile Slipknot - s/t Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica Godspeed You! Black Emperor - f#a# (infinity) The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour Run the Jewels - RTJ4 Boris - Mabuta no Ura Chumbawamba - Never Mind the Ballots Christ. - Distance Lends Enchantment to the View Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra Radiohead - Kid A Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City Casino Versus Japan - Night On Tape Madvillain - Madvillainy Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium Thee Oh Sees - An Odd Entrances / A Weird Exits Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Just a thought, since I'm sure we all have eclectic tastes here, anyone else like the idea of adding a genre tag next to their albums? Just to make it easier to look for recommendations. I'll start with mine:
Platinum Tier 1. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 2. Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent/Call of the West (New Wave) 3. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (New Wave/Punk Rock) 4. Omni Trio - Music for the Next Millenium (Drum n' Bass) 5. James Ferraro - Last American Hero (Hypnagogic Pop) 6. Amon Tobin - Bricolage (Drum n' Bass) 7. Throbbing Gristle - D.o.A. The Third and Final Report (Industrial) 8. The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (Pop Rock) 9. Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI (Electro-Industrial) 10. The Buggles - The Age of Plastic (New Wave) Gold Tier 11. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta (New Wave) 12. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children 13. Japan - Quiet Life (Art Pop) 14. Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey (Industrial Metal) 15. Omni Trio - The Haunted Science (Drum n' Bass) 16. Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2 (Dark Ambient/Downtempo) 17. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (Industrial Metal) 18. Boards of Canada - A Few Old Tunes 19. Depeche Mode - Violator (Synthpop) 20. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel (Synthpop) 21. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation (Rave/Hard Techno) 22. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party (New Wave/Rock) 23. Devo - Freedom of Choice (New Wave) 24. Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (Industrial Metal) 25. Infected Mushroom - B.P.Empire (Psy Trance) 26. ППК - Русский Транс: Формирование (Progressive Trance) 27. The Cure - Pornography (Gothic Rock) 28. Soichi Terada - Sumo Jungle Grandeur (Drum n' Bass) Silver Tier 29. Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold And Manipulate (Electro-Industrial) 30. Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity (Synthpop) 31. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Industrial Rock/Ambient) 32. T Power - The Self Evident Truth Of An Intuitive Mind (Drum n' Bass/Techstep) 33. The Monkees - Head (Psychedelic Pop/Experimental) 34. Various Artists - Boogiepop Phantom Original Soundtrack (Drum n' Bass/House/Downtempo) 35. Killing Joke - What's THIS For...! (Industrial Rock) 36. Nine Inch Nails - Fixed (Industrial Rock/Noise) 37. The Cure - Faith (Gothic Rock) 38. Wall of Voodoo - The Index Masters (New Wave/Dark Wave) 39. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Shoegaze) 40. Various Artists - Serial Experiments Lain: Cyberia Mix (House/Techno) 41. Soichi Terada - Ape Escape Originape Soundtracks (Drum n' Bass/Techno) 42. Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 3 Original Soundtracks (Dark Ambient/Downtempo) 43. Killing Joke - Killing Joke [1980] (Industrial Rock) 44. The Cure - Disintegration (Gothic Rock) 45. The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge (Post Punk) 46. Goldie - Timeless (Drum n' Bass) 47. Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (Synthpop) 48. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (IDM/Hip Hop) 49. Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom (Psy Trance) 50. Skinny Puppy - Last Rights (Electro-Industrial/Noise) 51. Reggie and the Full Effect - Songs Not To Get Married To (Post-Hardcore/Emo) 52. Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear (New Wave) 53. Pink Turns Blue - Meta (Gothic Rock) 54. Primus - Pork Soda (Alternative Metal) 55. Soundtrack - Destroy All Humans! (Electronic/Sci-Fi) 56. Chumbawamba - Tubthumper (Anarcho Pop) 57. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (Noise Rock) 58. Skinny Puppy - 12 Inch Anthology (Electro Industrial) Bronze Tier 59. Bauhaus - Mask (Gothic Rock) 60. Japan - Tin Drum (Art Pop) 61. Omni Trio - Skeleton Keys (Drum n' Bass) 62. Department of Crooks - Plan 9 from Las Vegas (Alt-Rock/New Wave) 63. Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad (New Wave) 64. Killing Joke - Night Time (Post Punk/Gothic Rock) 65. Boards of Canada - Old Tunes Vol. 2 66. Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious (Psy Trance) 67. The Sound - All Fall Down (Post Punk) 68. Klute - No One's Listening Anymore (Drum n' Bass/Techno) 69. Sewerslvt - Draining Love Story (Drum n' Bass/Breakcore) 70. E-Z Rollers - Weekend World (Drum n' Bass/Jazz Fusion) 71. Wax Doctor - Selected Works 94-96 (Drum n' Bass) 72. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (Synthpop) 73. The Prodigy - Experience (Rave) 74. Кино - Группа крови (Post Punk) 75. XTC - Drums And Wires (New Wave/Art Rock) 76. Belgrado - Obraz (Gothic Rock/Punk Rock) 77. Molchat Doma - этажи (Darkwave/New Wave) 78. Wiktor Stribog - Poradnik Uśmiechu (Original Soundtrack) (Lo-Fi/Dark Ambient/Synthwave) 79. Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here (Post Punk) 80. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park (Electro Industrial/Industrial Metal) 81. A Flock of Seagulls - A Flock Of Seagulls (New Wave/Space Rock) 82. Missing Persons - Spring Session M (New Wave/Rock) 83. The Vapors - New Clear Days (New Wave/Power Pop) 84. Men Without Hats - Rhythm of Youth (Synthpop) 85. Paradox - The Musician as Outsider (Drum n' Bass) 86. 808 State - Ninety (Acid House) 87. Линда - Плацента (Alternative Pop) 88. Света - Другая (Vocal Trance) 89. Катя Чехова - Я - Робот (House/Europop) 90. Deee-Lite - World Clique (House) 91. Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca (Industrial) 92. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (IDM) 93. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (Synthpop) 94. Source Direct - Exorcise the Demons (Drum n' Bass) 95. Caater - Millennium: The Best of Caater (Hard Trance) 96. Modern English - After the Snow (New Wave) 97. Broadcast - Tender Buttons (Dream Pop) 98. James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual (Muzak/Experimental/Vaporwave) 99. Hi-Fi - The Best 1 (Europop) 100. t.A.T.u. - 200 По Встречной (Europop)
Fishmans - 98.12.28 A Man's Farewell (Live) [Dream Pop/Dub/Post Rock) Boards of Canada - Geogaddi Sweet Trip - Velocity: Design: Comfort [IDM/Glitch Pop/Shoegaze] Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand [Indie Rock/Lo-Fi Rock] Eno - Another Green World [Art Pop/Electronic/Symphonic/Ambient] Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya [Dream Pop/Post-Rock] Elliott Smith - Either/Or [Singer Songwriter/Indie Rock] The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage [Psychedelic Pop/Sound Collage] My Bloody Valentine - Loveless [Shoegaze/Noise Rock] Aphex Twin - Drukqs [IDM/Drum and Bass/Dark Ambient] The Avalanches - Since I Left You [Plunderphonics/Dance] Hymie's Basement - Hymie's Basement [I genuinely don't know how to describe this album] Eno - Before and After Science [Art Rock/Pop/Ambient] Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase Duster - Capsule Losing Contact [Lofi Rock/Space Rock/Emo] Burial - Untrue [UK Garage/Ambient Techno] Fugazi - The Argument [Post-Hardcore/Emo] Parsley Sound - Parsley Sounds [Psychedelic Pop] Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Nick Drake - Pink Moon [Singer Songwriter/English Folk] Swirlies - Blonder Tongue Audio Baton [Noise Rock/Shoegaze] John Fahey - Days Have Gone By [Folk/Classical Guitar] Beach Boys - Pet Sounds [Sunshine Pop/Psychedelic Pop] DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... [Instrumental Hip Hop/Plunderphonics] Hiroshi Yoshimura - Music for Nine Postcards [Ambient] Tortoise - TNT [Post Rock/Electronic Rock] pilotredsun - Bootleg [WebIDM]
Most of these I don't really know how to categorize, so a lot of these are just estimates
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