You must listen to the album below you: canon edition

[Yann]

[baystateoftheart]

[RoundTheBend]

I really need to shut my mouth...

Anyone have an album for me?

[baystateoftheart]

1.


In Rainbows by Radiohead

I've only taken a liking to Radiohead in the past year or so, and I still think they're pretty overrated. But In Rainbows might be their best work. It was instantly my favorite of theirs when I first heard it in January, but then got passed by A Moon Shaped Pool. After a second listen, I think it's back on top. Sonically, it's consistently good, often great, and significantly more interesting than other Radiohead records. The textures, the atmospheres, the execution, and the stylistic variety are all above average. Lyrically, I haven't absorbed it much yet, but at the very least the lyrics never seem to detract from the music. Vocally, Yorke sounds much better than on several other records, including BEA's & RYM's consensus GOAT album. Yeah, it's a great album. And I'm looking forward to listening again later. 4/5.

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2. Seth, try this, which like In Rainbows is part of this month's Get To Know A Top 10:


Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich

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3. My list:

43. (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis [heard every track, never in one go]
70. Elephant - The White Stripes
71. Appetite For Destruction - Guns N’ Roses
79. A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
97. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
99. Back In Black - AC/DC
112. Blood Sugar Sex Magick - Red Hot Chili Peppers
118. Absolution - Muse
120. Quadrophenia - The Who
123. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
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[Purplepash]

Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake

The voice, the singing style, and the guitar playing just all go so well together. Not depressing like Pink Moon, and I think I liked this album better than Bryter Later as well. It gets off to a great start with the first three songs, and Cello Song and Fruit Tree are also highlights.

Baystate: This list has a lot of albums I like so from many options I am going with my favourite RHCP album.


Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers

My list (BEA best of the 60's)

23. Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies
24. Beggar's Banquet - The Rolling Stones
25. Black Saint And The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
28. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
29. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
34. Axis: Bold As Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
35. The Band - The Band
36. The Beatles - Help! (because 8 Beatles albums on my 60's chart obviously isn't enough
37. Cream - Disraeli Gears
38. The Beatles - A Hard Days Night

[RoundTheBend]

1.

Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich
This is easily the best thing I've listened to so far on this journey. It reminded me a bit of John Adams' Shaker Loops and a very small amount of Illinois by Sufjan and a little of stuff like Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. 87?

2. Purplepash - enjoy probably their 4th best studio album from my point of view and others see it as a bit higher. For me Stones have rarely been great album makers, but this contains so many fantastic individual tracks. So many other good choices on your list... EDIT: Ironically BEA ranks it 4ths as well, but my top 4 are as follows:
Some Girls
Exile On Main St.
Sticky Fingers
These two actually technically tie for 4th:
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed


Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones

3.
142. My Favorite Things by John Coltrane (1961)
146. Symbolic by Death (1995)
173. Blackwater Park by Opeth (2001)
180. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (1977) also listened to a couple times, but not rated on RYM yet
183. Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich (1978)
189. The Infamous by Mobb Deep (1995)
198. ATLiens by OutKast (1996) - Gone done listened before but didn't rate on RYM... best be doin so)
201. Kyuss by Kyuss (1994) - Gone done listened before but didn't rate on RYM... best be doin so)
208. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo by Ennio Morricone (1966)
210. First Utterance by Comus (1971)
214. Painkiller by Judas Priest (1990)
215. Sevent Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden (1988)
220. Burzum by Filosofem (1996)
222. Curtis by Curtis Mayfield (1970) - Gone done listened before but didn't rate on RYM... best be doin so)

[baystateoftheart]

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Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers

First of all, this album is incredibly bloated. It's almost 74 minutes, including a lot of inessential tracks, so it could have and should have been cut by half an hour. Musically, it's solid and much better than I was expecting. It's a travesty that it's ranked above every single actual funk album though - wtf BEA! Lyrically, it ranges from solid to terrible, and the rapping in particular is awful. So while it's fairly good overall, there are glaring flaws. 3/5.

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2. Seth, listen to this again:


ATLiens by OutKast

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3. My RYM list, now including EPs (rank of EPs is listed in relative terms to the albums chart):

below 75. Slow Riot For New Zerø Kanada (EP) - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
115. The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert - Bob Dylan
139. Selling England By The Pound - Genesis
141. Live At Massey Hall 1971 - Neil Young
149. Songs Of Love And Hate - Leonard Cohen [heard in 2016, rated 3.5/5]
152. Symbolic - Death
156. Larks' Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson
158. Lateralus - Tool
162. The Money Store - Death Grips
163. Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk [heard in 2017, rated 3.5/5]
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[Tha1ChiefRocka]

Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman

I can't say that the album is bad, because it's not. But the second I start liking adult contemporary music is the second that I become an old, sad, and boring grown up. I don't want to do that. "Mountains' O Things" was kind of fun with the cheesy pipe organ and 80s pseudo-african sounds. "For My Lover" wasn't bad either, but "Fast Car" is just one of the earwormy songs that kind drive you nuts.

No Money Store? Get on it.

August and Everything After- Counting Crows
Metropolis Pt. 2- Dream theater
Sam's Town- The Killers
Hot Fuss- The Killers
Up The Bracket- The Libertines
Everything Must Go- Manic Street Preachers

[Purplepash]

Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones

I do like The Rolling Stones but I'm yet to hear an album of theirs that I really like a lot. There is usually one to three great songs and the rest is just take it or leave it filler. I don't recall hearing an album track from a Stones album that I hadn't heard before as a single or whatever and thought now that is a great song! This album was the same but with only one great song - Sympathy For The Devil - but still a few decent songs (Stray Cat Strut, Jigsaw Puzzle, Salt of the Earth), and nothing bad, so still a good decent album. Sticky Fingers is probably their best album that I've heard so far.

Rocka give The Libertines a try. I haven't heard the album myself but I liked their self titled follow up.


Up The Bracket by The Libertines

My list (BEA best of the 60's)

23. Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies
25. Black Saint And The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
28. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
29. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
34. Axis: Bold As Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
35. The Band - The Band
36. The Beatles - Help! (because 8 Beatles albums on my 60's chart obviously isn't enough)
37. Cream - Disraeli Gears
38. The Beatles - A Hard Days Night
39. Neil Young And Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

[baystateoftheart]

1.


The Money Store by Death Grips

Part of the reason I've always been skeptical about Death Grips is the fan base. It's more or less rap for hipster white boys, a lot of whom regard it as a pinnacle of the genre without really exploring, and some of whom don't like other rap at all. But I'm willing to set that aside and try to judge the music on its merits, as I did with their 2018 record a few months ago. And I'd be lying if I said there weren't significant merits. Both the production and rapping are talented and interesting. However, the album just doesn't sound good to me, and that's a deal-breaker. I frequently like abrasive music, but here I don't feel that the abrasion comes with a payoff (at least for me), making it a slog to get through the record. There are several tracks that I like more than I dislike, but as a whole album I dislike it more than I like it. I respect this album, but I don't enjoy it. 2.5/5.

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2. Purplepash, listen to one of my favorite pop albums from any decade:


Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies

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3. My list:

70. Elephant - The White Stripes
71. Appetite For Destruction - Guns N’ Roses
79. A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
97. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
99. Back In Black - AC/DC
118. Absolution - Muse
120. Quadrophenia - The Who
123. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
128. Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
131. Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones [heard in 2016, rated 3.5/5]
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