5 Favourite ALBUMS
Bands come and go. Albums are what they leave behind!!
Here are 5 albums that I love off the top of my head...
Daft Punk - DISCOVERY (2002)
Space disco science fiction crap by two French guys! Everyone on this board has probably heard this album and/or seen the anime movie they made based on it.
Wilco - YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT (2002)
Umm... rock songs... by... some dudes... one of the dudes got kicked out of the band during the recording of it, and now he's dead. And the band kinda sucks now. But they made this album, and it's still great.
Bruce Springsteen - BORN IN THE USA (1984)
I am totally fixated on this record! I like to imagine it being made in a time when 1984 was brand-new and even futuristic. Every song on it is great, even if some of them are a bit annoying because you may have heard them 4000 times in K-Mart (cough Glory Days). It sounds insane, and it is full of depressing triumphant shit.
Prince - SIGN 'O' THE TIMES (1987)
A totally loony double album by that old genius, Prince. See, even if he makes another crummy album every year and turns to Jesus and stops singing about fucking girls, he still made a bunch of great stuff in the 80s and it still rules. Prince is not my favourite recording artist but some of his albums are some of my favourite albums. This one has plenty of duds, but it has tons of genius on it too. And it was clearly a big influence on Daft Punk (see above).
and one I'm listening to obsessively right now:
JJ - No 2 (2009)
It sounds like Enya singing a L'il Wayne song at first (and kind of is), and also a bunch of tropical-sounding rhythms and pure silliness, and then you realize that the lyrics are all about death and sadness, and then you realize that they are like giggling in the background of these songs. It's like some weird mysterious Swedish people making fun of music entirely. BRILLIANT! Not for everyone, but I love it!
Here are 5 albums that I love off the top of my head...
Daft Punk - DISCOVERY (2002)
Space disco science fiction crap by two French guys! Everyone on this board has probably heard this album and/or seen the anime movie they made based on it.
Wilco - YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT (2002)
Umm... rock songs... by... some dudes... one of the dudes got kicked out of the band during the recording of it, and now he's dead. And the band kinda sucks now. But they made this album, and it's still great.
Bruce Springsteen - BORN IN THE USA (1984)
I am totally fixated on this record! I like to imagine it being made in a time when 1984 was brand-new and even futuristic. Every song on it is great, even if some of them are a bit annoying because you may have heard them 4000 times in K-Mart (cough Glory Days). It sounds insane, and it is full of depressing triumphant shit.
Prince - SIGN 'O' THE TIMES (1987)
A totally loony double album by that old genius, Prince. See, even if he makes another crummy album every year and turns to Jesus and stops singing about fucking girls, he still made a bunch of great stuff in the 80s and it still rules. Prince is not my favourite recording artist but some of his albums are some of my favourite albums. This one has plenty of duds, but it has tons of genius on it too. And it was clearly a big influence on Daft Punk (see above).
and one I'm listening to obsessively right now:
JJ - No 2 (2009)
It sounds like Enya singing a L'il Wayne song at first (and kind of is), and also a bunch of tropical-sounding rhythms and pure silliness, and then you realize that the lyrics are all about death and sadness, and then you realize that they are like giggling in the background of these songs. It's like some weird mysterious Swedish people making fun of music entirely. BRILLIANT! Not for everyone, but I love it!
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Demon Days - Gorillaz - I got this album in 8th grade and it quickly became my all-time favorite album. I can listen to this thing start to finish without skipping. Love the eclectic mix the group experiment with.
Thunder, Lightning, Strike - The Go! Team - I don't remember how I came across them (probably Lumines II), but I'm glad I did. Great feel good music.
Diary/LP2/HIFTBSO - Sunny Day Real Estate - These guys showed me what music can be and what it's capable of. I've got three of their albums listed merely because I can't decide between the three of them.
Kid A/OK Computer - Radiohead - Do I need to say anything for this?
Dream Awake - Restoring Poetry In Music - Nobody has heard of them. Nobody. And that is a crime. A grand mix of hip-hop, rock, funk and poetry (which is redundant since that's what hip hop is supposed to be).
Honorable Mentions:
De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
MUTEMATH - MUTEMATH
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Little Busters - the pillows
The Roots - Game Theory
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