Best Ever Albums

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

Downtech — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 06:04:28 GMT

Author: Downtech

Posted: 08/10/2015 10:04

VA - 5 Years Downtech Compilation

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

Space-Dementia — Thu, 6 Aug 2015 14:24:38 GMT

Author: Space-Dementia

Posted: 08/06/2015 18:24

Manhattan by Skaters. If you like post-punk revival bands like Franz Ferdinand or early Arctic Monkeys, then you will really enjoy this album. It's their debut, and it's great.

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

samistake2ice — Wed, 5 Aug 2015 15:53:36 GMT

Author: samistake2ice

Posted: 08/05/2015 19:53

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Shadows, Greys & Evil Ways by The White Buffalo

the hair stands up on my neck from start to finish.

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

jhuik — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:48:53 GMT

Author: jhuik

Posted: 07/30/2015 02:48

[quote="Anonymous"]I'm not going to go through my whole chart but mostly I'll just promote

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Songs by Regina Spektor
Thx

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

jhuik — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:41:29 GMT

Author: jhuik

Posted: 07/30/2015 02:41

I personally think that Matthew Good's Hospital Music is on par with ItAOtS and Sufjan's Illinois as one of the most perfectly passionate acoustic singing-songwriting albums ever. I am the only person in the world who thinks so.

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Re: Promoting your favorite albums

craola — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:41:07 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 07/28/2015 21:41

writing albums notes not my stronghold but if you insist... not entirely sure this is helpful.

Wander / Wonder by Balam Acab
This is my Orwellian space odyssey. This is my aquatic dreamscape fantasy. This is my morning blend of post-Burial / post-Salem, electro-chill, dystopian withdrawal. This is my flight from this mundane, manufactured, post-industrial, suburban bore.

Balam Acab takes my favorite elements from dubstep and witch haus, blends them in a conceptual basin of sound and drenches them head to toe - no - he submerges them beneath the deepest, darkest ocean. Then he holds your hand and pulls you towards a volcanic light, offering a glimmer of hope in the midst of great despair.

The production is fantastic. With every listen, you discover new layers beneath the surface. This guy literally pulls samples from the kitchen sink, the bathtub and from sprinkler heads. The lyrics are minimal in their approach and delivery, but they are surprisingly reflective.

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Seance by The Church
Post-Punk, Post-Glam; Wistful. Groovy. Ethereal. Brooding. Cathartic. 80s pop. #betterthanstarfish

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Excava 11 by Spartan Fidelity
Experimental, Post-Folk, Post-Amnesiac;; Cinjun and Shelby of Remy Zero fame separate themselves from their radio-friendly, pop band to create an album full of the music they truly resonate with. It's pretty reminiscent of Remy's first album. It doesn't strive to theme a television series or echo through stadiums. It's intimate, sincere and weird. It's human.

The music is pretty limited to acoustic guitars and conventional chords with electronic compliments (chirps, buzzes, gains, grains and grit). The harmonies between brothers Cinjun and Shelby are unmatched. The two compliment each other brilliantly. If you're a big Amnesiac fan, this might be for you.

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Isidore by Isidore
weird, experimental, generally mellow acoustic nonsense. pensive. it's dark, but it's sardonic and fun. CA Redemption Value gets the weirdest.

From The Cliffs by gUiLLeMoTs
Great musicianship and artistry and songwriting and originality and fun and explosive and intimate and #melt this is jazz influenced alternative from classically trained musicians. total turnoff on first listen. turned out to be a huge favorite over the years that followed.

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Fluorescence by Asobi Seksu
dream pop / shoe gaze / post-cocteau / post-nightblooms. beautiful music. takes time to get used to her voice, which she sounds a little strained at time. she's not particularly suited to what she's trying to do with this, but it works out well nonetheless. happy sad music.

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The End Of Sorrow by Latlaus Sky
Experimental, Folk, Ambient, Singer-Songwriter... What's great about this album is how uncomfortable it makes you feel. The lyrics deal with death, loss and what lies beyond. it moves really slow and isn't particularly "catchy" or "accessible", but it's rewarding enough to those who listen close and give it time. lyrically pretty clever.

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:23:36 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/28/2015 21:23

this isn't like a city block where promotion is just slapping a picture of whatever you're trying to sell on a wall. can we get descriptions in a thread like this for once?

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

craola — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:07:07 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 07/28/2015 21:07

sorry reposted with notes.

i'm too lazy to search old posts here. apologies if i've shoved these down your throats before. #sorrybutnotsorry

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

badseed — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:36:16 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 07/15/2015 02:36

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Pleasure To Kill by Kreator

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

samistake2ice — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:43:33 GMT

Author: samistake2ice

Posted: 07/14/2015 19:43

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Phil Ochs In Concert by Phil Ochs

This album is probably the peak of Phil Ochs career, its funny, its poignant, the songs are classics.

I think it gets unfair judgement becuase ppl think its a compilation. It isnt, its the 3rd and final record that Ochs made with Elektra and the last one he did fully acoustic.

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Greatest Hits by Phil Ochs

^ this album is also not a compilation, but rather just an ironic title. good trolling phil.

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

goeie-oko — Sat, 1 Nov 2014 19:08:36 GMT

Author: goeie-oko

Posted: 11/01/2014 23:08

I'm going to suggest an album that isn't even on the chart whatsoever,

Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants by DeWolff.

some great retro blues-rock tunes, they remind me a lot of deep purple.
definitely a pretty good and underrated album

stand out tracks: Don't You Go Up the Sky, Birth Of the Ninth Sun, Wicked Moon and Leather God

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

CA Dreamin — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:01:26 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 10/28/2014 21:01

I'd like to promote The Bravery's self-titled album.
http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=3432

It's one the decade's most overlooked releases. Great for Killers fans and Interpol fans.

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

Evandar — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:08:02 GMT

Author: Evandar

Posted: 10/25/2014 21:08

Right now, the album I'm most interested in from last year is Omnium Gatherum - Beyond. It's relatively brutal because of the growling vocals, yet extremely melodic to the point where it soothes my soul. I guess it belongs in the "melodic death metal"-category, or "Gothenburg metal"-category (though they are from Finland, haha). I'm very, very surprised, as I did check the band out with their earlier releases, and I found them extremely boring, but with their latest release, they've completely surpassed and exceeded my jaded self's opinion of them. I've yet to re-listen to their older stuff, so whether they've become that much more awesome, or if I'm just an idiot, I've yet to decide. But listen to it, dammit!

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

latenighttv — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:42:32 GMT

Author: latenighttv

Posted: 10/17/2014 14:42

These albums are all from last five years, all from same city and all real real goood...

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It's Never Night by Windings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNnPvF3dtyU

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The Devil In Music by Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19bOb4DfWrI

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The Spark by Protobaby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zUCxINfMKc

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

denmarkman — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:33:22 GMT

Author: denmarkman

Posted: 10/16/2014 22:33

JMan wrote:

I found this Christian rock group called Petra. Their 1974 debut was good. there are a couple albums I like more, but it's an interesting mix of Eagles and Allman Brothers styles, and Christian. The album lead me to three other Petra albums. Rank score is 9.

I've actually heard of them, haha. My dad had one of their CDs when I was growing up. Not really my thing but it's cool that you've also heard of them, haha.

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

craola — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:09:04 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 10/16/2014 21:09

*Bump*

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

Romanelli — Fri, 1 Nov 2013 11:15:07 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 11/01/2013 15:15

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The Search by Son Volt

This album is #47 on my overall chart. "The Picture" shows that Jay Farrar can be upbeat if he wants to be. The Search has Farrar re-inventing his band once again, with really exceptional results. The simplicity of "Slow Hearse", the classic Son Volt theme of the excellent "Methamphetamine", fine front to back songwriting, the perfection of the band as a whole. Son Volt's albums are all pretty much great, but this one came out at a time that made it particularly special to me. This one by a nose over them all except for Trace.

This album is on 6 BEA charts, 4 of them are mine. It is on 1 overall chart, 2 decade charts, 2 year charts and 1 custom chart.

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

NickVolos — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:30:52 GMT

Author: NickVolos

Posted: 11/01/2013 01:30

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H.P. Lovecraft II by H.P. Lovecraft

"There are some bands that maintain classic status to a certain informed percentage of listeners despite almost complete anonymity elsewhere. Chicago folk-rockers H.P. Lovecraft may never have made much of a musical impact on the 1960s/1970s psychedelic rock scene, but they did manage to lay down two extraordinarily cosmic records of west coast rockers that rank up with the best the era had to offer. Their self-titled debut, released on Philips in 1967, set the scene: tight rhythm section, spaced-out guitars, whirling organ, and wide-screen vocal harmonies. Though they took their name from Edgar Allen Poe’s most worthy of successors, the mind-warping writer H.P. Lovecraft, their music itself leaned far closer to the wired, black-light anthems of bands like Jefferson Airplane and Mad River than anything overtly Gothic...read more here

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

Romanelli — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:24:28 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 10/31/2013 16:24

ryanbrun1 wrote:

Brighter than creations dark is 69th on my overall, and also in my decade and year charts.

This was the first DBT album I ever bought, until this time I was only familiar with some random songs and not an entire album. I was initially interested in Wes Freed's art work and something about the cover on this album just drew me to it.

Makes me very happy to see bands like the Truckers have fans here!

Re: Promoting your favorite albums

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:12:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/31/2013 16:12

15 seems kind of low. Eh, whatever.

I found this Christian rock group called Petra. Their 1974 debut was good. there are a couple albums I like more, but it's an interesting mix of Eagles and Allman Brothers styles, and Christian. The album lead me to three other Petra albums. Rank score is 9.

Also, HArK by Brad harkan. Keeping a single sound through out while displaying diversity, HArK is one of the better albums by Brad Harkan. Honestly, the album gets better as you progress. It's score is 5.

Finally, does anyone here like EDM? I'd recommend Cher's best work: "Closer to the Truth." Is it amazing? No. Nothing by Cher is. But it was well produced, very diverse, and the entire first half was great. But it's only for EDM fans. It made it to the 120's on my chart, while the other two Cher albums I've heard are less than 150/327. Honestly, I'm surprised it's not on radio more often. It's score is also 5. I doubt anyone will listen to this, though.