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My 10 favorite bands and albums


10 favorite bands
1. Led Zeppelin 
2. Deep Purple 
3. Pink Floyd 
4. The Beatles 
5. Shocking Blue 
6. Fleetwood Mac 
7. The Bangles 
8. Jefferson Airplane 
9. Heart 
10. Black Sabbath


10 favorite albums
1. Rubber Soul by The Beatles ( 1965 ) 
2. In Rock by Deep Purple ( 1970 ) 
3. Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd ( 1973 ) 
4. Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin ( 1975 ) 
5. Revolver by The Beatles ( 1966 )
6. Scorpio's Dance by Shocking Blue ( 1970 ) 
7. Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac ( 1975 ) 
8. 1968 by France Gall ( 1968 ) 
9. Stasera ballo liscio by Gigliola Cinquetti ( 1973 ) 
10. Different Light by The Bangles ( 1986 )

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Its really limiting to just list 10 but the following our a variety of artists I like a lot in no particular order.

Anita Baker

Angela Winbush (Rene and Angela)

Sade

The Rolling Stones

Rihanna

Black Sabbath

Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac)

Bonethugs & Harmony (Bizzy, Lazie & Krazie Bone)

Curtis Mayfield (Chi-lites)

Neil Young (Crazy Horse, CSNY, Buffalo Springsteen)

 

 

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Motley Crue, Metallica, VolBeat, Guns and Roses, Eminem, Beastie Boys. After these came to mind I had to stop and think about who would be next and decided to just leave it with six and not in any particular order.

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Just what I'm feeling at the current moment, ask me on another day and you might get a different answer (although it'd probably be like 80% the same):

Artists:

The Band

The Beatles

Phish

The Grateful Dead

Miles Davis

John Coltrane

Frank Zappa

Tom Waits

Wilco

David Bowie

 

Albums:

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

The Band - The Band

Frank Zappa - Over-nite Sensation

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Beck - Odelay

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

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Favorite bands/artists are fairly fluid for me but at the moment...

  • Isis - Panopticon
  • Pink Floyd - Switches between Meddle and Wish You Were Here
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
  • Radiohead - Kid A, though I've been digging A Moon Shaped Blue despite my expectations not being especially high
  • Oceansize - Frames
  • The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl
  • Caspian - Dust & Disquiet
  • Deftones - White Pony
  • Massive Attack - Mezzanine
  • Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

 

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Oceansize - Frames

Cardiacs - Sing To God

Giraffes? Giraffes! - Pink Magick

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Gomez - In Our Gun

Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute

Presidents of the USA - II

Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

 

Standard rules, no artist twice, otherwise all Oceansize albums would be on there. 

 

 

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Artists:

David Bowie

Pink Floyd

Genesis

Dire Straits 

The Who

Eric Clapton/Cream/Blind Faith/Ect.

T. Rex

Queen

Lou Reed/Velvet Underground 

Rush

 

Albums:

Bowie: Hunky Dory

Bowie: Ziggy Stardust

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd: Dark Side

Genesis: Selling England by the Pound

Traffic: Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed

Blind Faith: Blind Faith

Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms

King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King

Limited myself to only two albums by Bowie and Floyd, and one from any other artist, otherwise my list would feature albums by three artists at most.

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Albums only:

Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
Sonic Youth - Sister
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
The Field Mice - For Keeps
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee 
65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time
Burial - Untrue
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Bands: Top ten just totally and completely unranked.

Iron "Fucking" Maiden

Pink Floyd

Rush

King Crimson

Porcupine Tree

Alice In Chains

Agalloch

Dream Theater

Led Zeppelin

Opeth

Albums: Limited to only one release per band. Kinda sorta ranked. I guess? Now featuring pretentious write-ups! 

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - THE album that you should point to when making the case of an entire albums worth of music versus just a few 'hits.' A tremendous journey from start to finish.

2. Agalloch - The Mantle - A truly fantastic journey of an album. Perfect for listening to on a cold, winter day. It will transport you to desolate, snowy forests high in distant mountains, places bereft of the pesky intrusions of civilization and modernity. 

3. Porcupine Tree - Signify - The last of Porcupine Tree's more psychedelic output, Signify is arguably their best (argued by me, primarily). Mixing the same spacey and Pink Floyd-influenced sound found on their prior releases with more electronic and rock styles, Signify is the Porcupine Tree that I always seem to come back to over and over again.

4. Dream Theater - Awake - The Dream Theater album I always come back to and probably the last one I really got into. Less focused on mere technicality compared to most of their other albums, there's a strong undercurrent of emotion in this album that hasn't really been featured much since and, as a result, Awake often feels like an aberration in their discography, a love-it-or-hate-it release with no room in between. Me? I fucking love it.

5. Rush - A Farewell To Kings - This is Rush at their finest, incorporating both their hard rock beginnings with their more progressive outlook (at the time) into one cohesive whole. A Farewell To Kings may not be a "journey type of album" but it is one fantastic song after another. 

6. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime - The best rock opera of all time (sorry Tommy...)? Maybe. But it's easily my favorite as it seamlessly blends both storytelling and music into one cohesive whole. Too often rock operas struggle telling a story whilst also writing good songs, but Mindcrime balances it perfectly. 

7. Godspeed You! Black EmperorF♯ A♯ ∞ - I believe Godspeed were once described as "music for the end of the world." Morose, despondent, and utterly apocalyptic, F♯ A♯ ∞ is a journey through fire-wracked streets, abandon cities, and the last vestiges of a crumbling society.

8. Opeth - Still Life - The best and almost perfect combination of Opeth's heavy-as-balls riffing married with their softer and more atmospheric sound.

9. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy - Most people would probably pick IV (or maybe the debut, or II, or even Physical Graffiti, but not III, never III) as the best or their favorite Zeppelin album, but some of us crazy people prefer Houses of the Holy. A transitional album for the band, Houses saw Zeppelin moving away from a sound strictly dominated by hard rock and blues and into something more experimental. Despite liking songs on their other albums more, Houses to me is the one Zeppelin album that just flows perfectly from start to finish.

10. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute - Absolute madness in audio form. Jazz, progressive rock, and latin music all combined together in an LSD trip in audio form. Absolutely and completely pretentious and over-the-top, but that's the appeal.

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OK for real :

The Grateful Dead

Charles Mingus

Lee Perry

Alice in Chains

The Beatles

The Band

Fishbone

Mr. Bungle

Dinosaur JR

Patsy Cline

 

Albums:

Eat a Peach - Allman Brothers

Kid A -Radiohead

Axis Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix

Meet the Meters - the Meters

The Harder They Come - various

Skull and Roses /Skullfuck - the Grateful Dead

Three or Four Shades of Blues - Mingus

Live Rust - Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Let it Bleed - the Rolling Stones

The Specials - More Specials

 

Not in any order

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On 12/10/2016 at 3:45 PM, DaveSumm said:

Oceansize - Frames

Cardiacs - Sing To God

Giraffes? Giraffes! - Pink Magick

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Gomez - In Our Gun

Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute

Presidents of the USA - II

Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

 

Standard rules, no artist twice, otherwise all Oceansize albums would be on there. 

 

 

Cool list!  Curious about you're album choices from RHCP, dogfighters, and POTUSoA.  I would love to hear why you chose those records.  

 

All solid but would have gone with Blood sugar and then the first albums from the other two

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Talking Heads

The Clash

Beastie Boys

The English Beat

A Tribe Called Quest

Fishbone

Parliament-Funkadelic

The Specials

Primus

Operation Ivy

Albums:

Stop Making Sense

London Calling

Paul's Boutique

Just Can't Stop

The Low End Theory

Fishbone (self-titled LP)

America Eats Its' Young

The Specials (self-titled LP)

Frizzle Fry

Energy 

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Albums in particular order

Return to Forever (Romantic Warrior w/ Chick Corea and Al Di Meola)

Benefit ( Jethro Tull)

Smokin (Humble Pie)

YesSongs (Yes)

Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morrisette)

2112 (Rush)

Shake Your Moneymaker (The Black Crowes)

Double Live Killers (Queen)

River: The Joni Letters (Herbie Hancock w/Joni Mitchell, Corrine Bailey Rae and others)

Paper Trail (T.I. w/ Rihanna)

 

Had quite a few others that I had to omit to get only ten. All of these could just as easily been included.

The Last Waltz Soundtrack (Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, The Band, Dylan and many others)

Tapestry (Carole King)

Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life (Stevie Wonder)

Greatest Hits (Elton John and Rod Stewart both for the early years)

Live On Stage (Rainbow)

Live and Dangerous (Thin Lizzy)

Night Moves or Live Bullet (Bob Segar)

 

 

 

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Pixies - Doolittle 

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Social Distortion - Social Distortion 

Nirvana - Unplugged in New York 

Black Sabbath - Paranoid 

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison 

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street 

The Clash - London Calling 

Van Morrison - Moondance 

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