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Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2

Robert Glasper - In My Element

Elliott Smith - Figure 8

Animal Collective - Feels

Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Nujabes - Modal Soul

Cymande - Renegades of Funk

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (although m b v is up there too)

Radiohead - OK Computer

Midlake - Trials Of Van Occupanther

Scott Walker - Scott 2/3/4

Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump

Royksopp - Senior/The Understanding

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place

Engineers - Engineers

Air - Moon Safari/10,000hz Legend

BOC - Music Has The Right..../A beautiful Place Out In The Country

Super Furry Animals - Radiator/Rings Around The World/Love Kraft

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Beck - Sea Change/Mutations

Bjork - Vespertine

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Thomas White - I Dream Of Black

Elbow - Asleep In The Back

Clearlake - Cedars

Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful World

In no particular order:

Avec Laudenum - Stars of the Lid

Geogaddi - Boards of Canada

Tomorrow's Harvest - Boards of Canada

Field Songs - Mark Lanegan

Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo

Louder Than Love - Soundgarden

Much Against Everyone's Advice - Soulwax

Led Zeppelin IV

Infinity Land - Biffy Clyro (back when they were a rock band and not the sugar-pop bollocks they are now).

Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stoneage

OK Computer - Radiohead

Ágætis byrjun - Sigur Ros

Takk - Sigur Ros


OOh! Edit: ^^^ Asleep in the Back - Elbow (agreed!!)

oh and Lost Souls - Doves

Mexicola wrote:
oh and Lost Souls - Doves

LOL, I missed that out too!

SynthesizerPatell wrote:

Mexicola wrote:
oh and Lost Souls - Doves

LOL, I missed that out too!

That Grandaddy record wasn't off my stereo for months once upon a time.

SynthesizerPatell wrote: Engineers - Engineers

Nice one, an album that barely gets mentioned, never mind praised. So very very underrated.

Mexicola wrote: OOh! Edit: ^^^ Asleep in the Back - Elbow (agreed!!)

Still easily their best album. Scattered Black and Whites is incredible.

jcnporter wrote:

SynthesizerPatell wrote: Engineers - Engineers

Nice one, an album that barely gets mentioned, never mind praised. So very very underrated.

Yeah, agreed. Hard to believe they folded after it (albeit temporarily). There's some good stuff on their subsequent albums too, it's just a little more sporadic, I think.

jcnporter wrote:Still easily their best album. Scattered Black and Whites is incredible.

Yeah, that's a stunning song. Absolutely beautiful.

jcnporter wrote:

SynthesizerPatell wrote: Engineers - Engineers

Nice one, an album that barely gets mentioned, never mind praised. So very very underrated.

Yeah, agreed. Hard to believe they folded after it (albeit temporarily). There's some good stuff on their subsequent albums too, it's just a little more sporadic, I think.
The recent album by Mark Peters (of Engineers) and Ulrich Schnauss has some nice tunes on it, actually.

jcnporter wrote:Still easily their best album. Scattered Black and Whites is incredible.

Yeah, that's a stunning song. Absolutely beautiful.

Off the top of my head and in no order, here's a few gems that I never tire of:

David Bowie - Low
Radiohead - OK Computer
Brian Eno - Music For Airports
Kings Of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud
Tindersticks - 2nd
Boards Of Canada - MHTRTC
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Orbital - Brown Album
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here / DSOTM / The Wall
Brian Eno / Harold Budd - Ambient 2 - The Plateaux Of Mirrors
Suede - Dog Man Star
Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions
Vangelis - Blade Runner OST

Aided by my beautiful iPod assistant, here's my list in alphabetical order:

Animal Collective - Feels

The Band - The Band

Beach Boys - Holland

Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

The Beatles - White Album

Bert Jansch - Santa Barbara Honeymoon

Big Star - #1 Record

Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution

Bjork - Homogenic

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

Brian Eno - Ambient 1 Music For Airports

Brian Eno - Another Green World

Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets

The Byrds - Nototrious Byrd Brothers

Clark - Body Riddle

Daft Punk - Homework

Daft Punk - Discovery

David Bowie - Low

David Bowie - Station to Station

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Doris Duke - I'm A Loser

Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief

Fairport Convention - Full House

Faust - Faust IV

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Four Tet - Rounds

Four Tet - There Is Love In You

Gas - Nas Und Fern

Gene Clark - No Other

Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

Harmonia - Deluxe

Incredible String Band - Wee Tam

Incredible String Band - The Big Huge

Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

John Cale - Paris 1919

John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

Karen Dalton - In My Own Time

The Kinks - Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire

The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies

Koushik - Be With

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Kraftwerk - Computer World

Kraftwerk - Man Machine

Led Zepellin - II

Luke Abbott - Holkham Drones

Metronomy - The English Riviera

Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther

Morrissey - Vauxhall & I

Mos Def - Black On Both Sides

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young - Tonight's The Night

Neu! - Neu 75

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

The Orb - U.F.Orb

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

Parliament - Osmium

Paul Simon - Paul Simon

Paul Simon - Graceland

Primal Scream - Vanishing Point

Radiohead - Kid A

Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard & Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Ry Cooder - Paradise & Lunch

Ry Cooder - Ry Cooder

Ry Cooder - Into The Purple Valley

Sandy Denny - Sandy

Silver Apples - Silver Apples

Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends

Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow

Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven

Spiritualized - Laser Guided Melodies

Spiritualized - Pure Phase

Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill

Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

The Strawbs - From the Witchwood

Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power

Talking Heads - Fear Of Music

Van Morrison - St. Dominic's Preview

Wilco - A Ghost Is Born

Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals

Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

How the f**k did I miss QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf, Suicide - Suicide and all the Scott Walker albums out? I'm appalled by myself sometimes!

Dunno If I have a concise list of favorites. These albums are ones that I have raped with the replay button however, so I guess they could be considered favorites.

Discog- BoC
Mr. Beast - Mogwai
Oceanic - ISIS
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
We Were Exploding Anyway - 65DaysofStatic
Discog - Elliott Smith
F# A# Infinity - GYBE
Ashes Against the Grain - Agalloch
You Fail Me - Converge

1. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing....
3. Vangelis - Blade Runner
4. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
5. Kraftwerk - Computer World
6. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
7. Nirvana - Nevermind
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side/Wish You Were Here
9. Daft Punk - Discovery
10. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
11. The Beatles - Revolver/Abbey Road
12. Love - Forever Changes
13. Queens of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
14. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
15. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
16. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
17. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
18. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
19. J Dilla - Donuts
20. David Bowie - Low
21. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way/Bitches Brew
22. Radiohead - OK Computer
23. Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
24. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
25. John Carpenter - Assault on Precinct 13

The stuff I'd need on a deserted island:

Accept - Balls to the wall
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Coroner - Grin
G//z/r - Black Science
Gojira - L'enfant Sauvage
Hanzel und Gretyl - Uber Alles
In Flames - Whoracle
Julie Laughs Nomore - From the mist of the ruins
Kiss - Paul Stanley (solo)
Metal Church - Metal Church
Pink Floyd - Animals
Red Harvest - Sick transit gloria mundi
Samael - Passage
Scarve - Translucence
Sword - Metalized
Vangelis - Blade Runner OST

Naturally, everything by BoC.
Off the top of my head, these are some influential and killer albums I've enjoyed:

Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing
Horace Andy - Horace Andy's Dub Box: Rare Dubs 1973-76
Metallica - Kill em' all
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Mad Professor remix of Massive Attack - No Protection
Charles Mingus - Much like BoC, pretty much everything

In a loosely particular order:

Boards of Canada - everything, but especially Geogaddi
Swell - 41, ...Well?, Too Many Days Without Thinking, self-titled
Loscil - Submers
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline, Ballasted Orchestra, Avec Laudenum
Aphex Twin - Ambient Works I + II
Calla - Scavengers
Early Day Miners - The Sonograph EP, Placer Found, Jefferson At Rest, Let Us Garlands Bring
Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
Autechre - Amber
Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
Land of Talk - Cloak and Cipher, Some Are Lakes
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People, self-titled
Foo Fighters - Color and the Shape

I guess I'll stop there. I've mentioned all the most important ones.

naicob wrote:Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing

The other day I played Tomorrow's Harvest for my dad (he's mostly responsible for my taste in electronic music, along with video games from the 90s) and in turn he played that album for me. He pointed out some other albums that he thought TH reminded him of, not surprised to see a lot of them are mentioned in this thread...

You all have wonderful music taste, by the way. SURPRISE.

marzipanfish wrote:

naicob wrote:Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing

The other day I played Tomorrow's Harvest for my dad (he's mostly responsible for my taste in electronic music, along with video games from the 90s) and in turn he played that album for me. He pointed out some other albums that he thought TH reminded him of, not surprised to see a lot of them are mentioned in this thread...

You all have wonderful music taste, by the way. SURPRISE.

I highly recommend all of Tomita's albums. For the most part his music wasn't original, but he did the original pieces justice and was a synth pioneer in a totally original way.

This piece absolutely floors me every time. IMHO, better than anything on just a piano because of the synth textures.

Another favourite:

I'm gonna approach this as albums that I can genuinely listen to all the way through without even thinking about skipping a track...

Autechre - Tri Repetae
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah pt.1: 4th World War
Bark Psychosis - Codename Dustsucker
Blood Sausage - Happy Little Bullshit Boy
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
Cocteau Twins - Head over Heels
Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Shafiq Husayn - En' A-Free Ka
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Moonshake - Eva Luna
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
Parliament - The Clones of Doctor Funkenstein
Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs
Seefeel - Succour
Stereolab - Peng!
True Widow - As High as the Highest Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth

all time? sheesh this is tough

1. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
2. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right To Children
3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
4. Radiohead - Kid A
5. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

BONUS:

6. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
7. Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
9. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
10. Isis - In The Absence of Truth