[fante7]

Mmmmmm, dessert island.

Here goes, in no particular order:

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - self titled
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Tarkus
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Yes - Close To The Edge
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Yes - Relayer
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
Cynic - Focus
Opeth - Morningrise
Opeth - Still Life
Pink Floyd - Animals
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson - Red
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Rush - Hemispheres
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Bela Fleck - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

That was tough... I love my music

 

[elrod-tom]

Chet Baker - Chet
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Revolver
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Genesis - Seconds Out
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College
Dave Matthews Band - Live at Red Rocks
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Pixies - Doolittle
REM - Murmur
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
Ride - Nowhere
The Rolling Stones - Beggers Banquet
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (UK Version)
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Van Halen - Van Halen I
Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson - Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
The Who - Quadrophenia


Yeah, I know...it's 21. I couldn't chop another one from the list. Call it a baker's 20.....

 

[Davey]

Does anyone really look at these lists? Kinda weird when you think about it. I mean, just to make a list of albums. And not even say anything about them

OK, here's one, with a smattering of old and new and in-between, some revered and some less so, but I'd appreciate if at least one person would make fun of at least one of the selections! I mean, Moon Pix? Are you serious?

Beatles - Rubber Soul
Kinks - Village Green
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - Low
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Television - Marquee Moon
Joy Division - Closer
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Cure - Disintegration
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
P.J. Harvey - Dry
Laika - Silver Apples of the Moon
Black Heart Procession - 2
Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
Bjork - Homogenic
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
David Lindley - El Rayo-X
Mink DeVille - Cabretta
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
Kraftwerk - Man Machine
Tindersticks - II
Richard Davies - Telegraph
Wait, that's more than 20, sorry, just forget the last few

 

[zeno333]

No particular order....

Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (Only the Harvest label from Japan counts though....all others including the new SACD version are not the real sound and hence not the real album. Just my firm opinion)

Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly

Led Zeppelin II (In my opinion, the Whole Lotta Love track is the very first "real" rock and roll song.)

Led Zeppelin IV (Yes Stairway To Heaven is a great song, and I even know what it means, scary I know.)

Who's Next by The Who

Foxtrot by Genesis (mainly becasue of Supper's Ready)

Close to the Edge by Yes

In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson

Third by Soft Machine

OK Computer by Radiohead (this was great partly by being one of the only albums of any merit after 1987)

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

Joshua Tree by U2 (came out that fatefull year of 1987, the year that most of the music died)

Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads (Just plain good stuff)

Bad Animals by Heart (yet another from the year 1987)

Deja Vu by Cosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Stand Up by Dave Mathews Band (Another example of a great album after 1987)

Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits by Simon and Garfunkel (A classic)

Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits from 1968 (A true classic and the first LP I ever bought as a kid)

Godspell from the musical of the same name. (Whether one is Christian or not, great music)

 

[Dusty Chalk]

In no particular order, other than the first two:
Pink Floyd - Animals, Wish You Were Here

Talk Talk - Colour of Spring
Slowdive - Just for a Day
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Einsturzende Neubauten - Silence is Sexy
Snakefarm - Songs from My Funeral
Halou - Wiser
Curve - Cuckoo, Come Clean
Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
Sigur Ros - ()
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
Notwist - Neon Golden
Depeche Mode - Violator
Tear Garden - Last Man to Fly
Lhasa - The Living Road & La Llorona
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
Garbage & V2.0
Klaus Schulze, Mirage & Body Love Vol. 2
Tangerine Dream, Force Majeure & Tangram
Mike Oldfield Ommadawn, Incantations, Amarok, Five Miles Out
Vangelis, Soil Festivities, Heaven & Hell, Chariots of Fire

This is off the cuff, so YMMV, Subject to Change, Not accountable for misspelllings...
Quote:

Originally Posted by Davey Does anyone really look at these lists?

No. Quote:

Beatles - Rubber Soul

The Beatles are so 'yesterday'. Quote:

T. Rex - Electric Warrior

Jeez, how old are you?

J/K...you have some of the greatest taste in music, y'know?

 

[Davey]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk Quote: Originally Posted by Davey Does anyone really look at these lists? ...you have some of the greatest taste in music, y'know?

Hehehe, isn't it funny how people normally only say that about those who like the same things as they do? We do like a lot of the same music, at least when you go back to the core. You get too far into that alienware stuff, and I get too far into the pop and twang, but there's a lot of common ground like a lot of those Kraftwerk branches that reach out to bands like the Notwist, and that whole melancholy Joy Division underbelly, and the genre crossing country gothic sounds of the Black Heart Procession that Doug has just been discovering lately around here. Remain In Light has always been one of my favorites, but in recent times I've devolved back to More Songs, or even Fear Of Music. And yeah, I am really old. I remember way back in the early days of Talking Heads, there was a goofy music critic at Stereo Review, you know the guy, the one who proclaimed that Tonio K debut as the best rock album of all time. Hehehe, he was kind of a strange guy. Great album, though. Anyway, he seemed to have this deep-seated aversion to all things associated with Brian Eno, so when Talking Heads released their second album, which I personally thought that Eno elevated far above their debut, Simels said that Eno had wrought disaster upon them and that they were certainly headed in the wrong direction. What a card. I wonder if he still writes music reviews? Some of those rock critics I knew as a kid must be getting pretty darn old by now

 

[Masonjar]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk In no particular order, other than the first two: Pink Floyd - Animals, Wish You Were Here Talk Talk - Colour of Spring Slowdive - Just for a Day Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi Kraftwerk - Computer World Talking Heads - Remain in Light Einsturzende Neubauten - Silence is Sexy Snakefarm - Songs from My Funeral Halou - Wiser Curve - Cuckoo, Come Clean Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress Sigur Ros - () Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans Notwist - Neon Golden Depeche Mode - Violator Tear Garden - Last Man to Fly Lhasa - The Living Road & La Llorona Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days Garbage & V2.0 Klaus Schulze, Mirage & Body Love Vol. 2 Tangerine Dream, Force Majeure & Tangram Mike Oldfield Ommadawn, Incantations, Amarok, Five Miles Out Vangelis, Soil Festivities, Heaven & Hell, Chariots of Fire This is off the cuff, so YMMV, Subject to Change, Not accountable for misspelllings...

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you were way into Skinny Puppy?

-jar

 

[PSmith08]

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold (Janowski 1980: RCA)
Richard Wagner: Die Walkure (Leinsdorf 1962: Decca)
Richard Wagner: Siegfried (Solti 1962: Decca)
Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Solti 1964: Decca)
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 2 (Kaplan 2003: DGG)
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 3 (Boulez 2002: DGG)
Anton Bruckner: Symphony no. 4 (Von Karajan 1971: EMI)
Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (Gardiner 1989: Archiv)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Kleiber 1955: Decca)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 (Furtwangler 1942: Music and Arts)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 (Furtwangler 1955: EMI)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 (Von Karajan 1962: DGG)
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Gardiner 1993: Philips)
Gustav Holst: The Planets (Mehta 1971: Decca/JVC)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis (Gardiner 1990: Archiv)
Richard Wagner: Parsifal (Boulez 1971: DGG)
Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore (Von Karajan 1956: EMI)
Richard Wagner: Die Walkure [act 3] (Solti 1957: Decca)

That's not quite 20, but it is all I can think of at the moment.

 

[kane]

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[Dusty Chalk]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Davey Hehehe, isn't it funny how people normally only say that about those who like the same things as they do?

AFL -- abso-lutely. But it's not just that we have similar tastes -- it's that we have similar enough tastes, and yet different enough tastes, that you can still introduce me to stuff that I haven't heard. Quote:

...I get too far into the pop...

I don't know dude, remember -- I'm the one who likes Pink and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Quote:

I remember way back in the early days of Talking Heads, there was a goofy music critic at Stereo Review, you know the guy, the one who proclaimed that Tonio K debut as the best rock album of all time.

Ha-ha, yeah, I remember him. That's pretty much the reason I listened to Tonio K.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masonjar Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you were way into Skinny Puppy? -jar

Heh-heh...oops! Shoulda been reminded by the Tear Garden one, too.

Skinny Puppy, Bites, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse and Cleanse, Fold & Manipulate
Gary Numan, Exile
Nine Inch Nails, Broken
King Crimson, Discipline, Islands, Red
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds
Planet P Project, Pink World
Genesis, And the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Laurie Anderson, United States Live
Al Di Meola, Casino, Splendido Hotel, Elegant Gypsy
Jeff Beck, Wired, Blow by Blow, There & Back
Black Sabbath, We Sold Our Souls For Rock'n'Roll, Technical Ecstasy and Heaven & Hell
Blue Oyster Cult, Agents of Fortune, Tyranny & Mvtation

 

[Radea]

I'm not even sure I can come up with 20 albums that I really like. I'll try though. If anyone could reccomend anything else based off this list, I'd appreciate it.

01. Tool - Lateralus
02. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
03. Nine Inch Nails - The Downard Spiral
04. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
05. Tool - Aenima
06. Nine Inch Nails - Broken
07. Alice in Chains - Unplugged
08. Metallica - Master of Puppets
09. Metallica - Load
10. Deftones - White Pony
11. Opeth - Damnation
12. A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
13. Tool - Salival
14. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
15. Radiohead - Kid A

 

[DJ Mauler]

too many to list

but
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Pink Floyd - Animals

and again there hundreds more.

 

[Dachink]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
DOOM - Human Noise
Shiina Ringo - Shousu Strip
Bloodthirsty Butchers - Banging the drum
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Nell - Vol.4 Walk Through Me
Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard
Huckleberry Finn - 3집 - 올랭피오의 별
Malice Mizer - Merveilles
MISIA - Singer for Singer
Dir en Grey - Gauze
Acidman - Equal
LoveHolic - Vol.2 Invisible Things
N.EX.T - The Return of N.EX.T Part III
Fly to the Sky - Eternity
Clazziquai - Vol. 1 - Instant Pig
MISIA - Mars & Roses
Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana
Supercar - Highvision
Supercar - Futurama

 

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