Best ______ Songs/Albums/Artists ever

[banana brother]

Also not wanting to be a pain in the ass but johnny not all of your instrumental picks are instrumentals (e.g. MMM Skyscrapers I Love You-Underworld Echoes - Pink Floyd , and Hurricane Fight Plane-Red Krayola)
EDIT: I see you have changed your list, its great

[banana brother]

but otherwise excellent list you did a good job of making it diverse

[maxxy]

really? then the one on my ipod is out of order or missing a song

[banana brother]

Sucks to be you!
LOL

[maxxy]

ya it sure does...

how about hardest to listen to:
Ascension--John Coltrane
The Idiot--Iggy Pop
Sister--Sonic Youth
I say Never Mind the bullocks not because it's complex but because you will probably dislike it the first time you hear it, and end up not wanting to put up with listening to the whole thing.
Trout Mask Replica-Captain Beefheart

[banana brother]

What do you mean hard to listen to?
Do you mean least accessible, or could they be hard to listen to because they are actually bad?

I completely disagree that Nevermind the Bollocks is one of the hardest to listen to albums. What makes it any more difficult than any other hardcore album? If anything i'd say its easier than most i mean the lyrically its very entertaining, the songs have strong hooks, and it has simple catchy melodies. I think the only reason it would be difficult is if you had never listened to punk before, and in that case any punk album would be difficult.

I think that the 3 least accessible albums that i have, meaning i still haven't been able to fully get into them even after multiple listens are:
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Sun Ra - Atlantis
The Residents - Eskimo

[maxxy]

I don't mean hard to listen to as in bad, I mean hard to listen to as in hard to understand.
What do you mean by least accessible?

[JohnnyRocketFingers]

hahahahaha chrisy ease up on maxxy a little bit. but don't stop being mean to people who only listen to mainstream haha
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[theharrisonfords]

The hardest albums I have ever listened to are...
1. Trout Mask Replica- Captian Beefheart (Definitely #1)
2. Plastic Ono Band- Yoko Ono (Love it though)
3. Strawberry Jam- Animal Collective (Just wierd, but so good at the same time)
4. Anything by Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
5. Raw Power- Iggy & The Stooges (The hard part about this was that the music is good, but the quality of the CD recordings are pretty hard to get through- Very Rough, very....raw.....Raw Power

[JohnnyRocketFingers]

Best 5 Albums of 1967

1. The Velvet Underground and Nico
2. The Doors
3. Disraeli Gears
4. Forever Changes
5. Songs of Leonard Cohen
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"The future is unwritten."
~Joe Strummer

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