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The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor
Daft Punk - Discovery
Audiobullies- Ego War
Yeah yeah yeahs - Fever to Tell
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/Lovesounds
Ferry Corsten - L.E.F.
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
The Juan Maclean - Less than human
Royksopp - Melody A.M.
Booka Shade - Movements
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Vitalic - Ok Cowboy
Madness - One Step Beyond
Coldplay - Parachutes
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out
Savage Garden - Savage Garden
Tiga - Sexor
The Knife - Silent Shout
The Avalanches - Since I left you
Maroon 5 - Songs about Jane
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Scissor Sisters - Ta Dah
Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House
Radiohead - The Bends
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Depeche Mode - Violator
Zero 7 - When it Falls
My Morning Jacket - Z

Edited by Evil WME, 06 February 2007 - 02:37 PM.

That is insane. Don't be concerned with how other people perceive you. Do what you want, then you'll be happy.

yes, i know. I really didn't care much to cause a fuss or rub people the wrong way, so I mentioned it in any case, sort of as a compromise with myself. Oh well, I was more unhappy with the arbitrary-ness of the list itself, I mean, I'm not really bothered with my decision to leave them out. Besides, I still don't really feel comfortable making one of these lists anyway because I still feel like I have a great deal of music to discover and love. It was still fun, though, and I see what you're saying. I just didn't want to start a big thing, that's all!

Ahh...I don't know how good this will be, i'm sure i'll forget some albums, etc.

1. OK Computer - Radiohead
2. Kid A - Radiohead
3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
5. Funeral - The Arcade Fire
6. The Bends - Radiohead
7. Disintegration - The Cure<-AWESOME
8. Heroes - David Bowie
9. The Moon And Antarctica - Modest Mouse
10. Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
11. Amnesiac - Radiohead
12. The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
13. If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
14. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
15. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
16. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
17. Remain In Light - Talking Heads
18. Red House Painters - Red House Painters
19. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven - Godspeed! You Black Emperor
20. Something About Airplanes - Death Cab For Cutie

That's without jazz. i wanted to put in Kind Of Blue or A Love Supreme but figured i would be called pretentious if i did so.

Yeah, I'm not happy with my list. oh well

GREAT albums

Some more of my favorite albums from a couple of stacks of CDs I have here next to the computer:

Filter - Short Bus
Helmet - Meantime
Helmet - Betty
Extreme - Pornograffitti
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Machine Head - Burn my Eyes
King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Alice in Chains - All of their albums
Living Sacrifice - Inhabit
Soundgarden - Louder than Love

In no particular order

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Funeral for a Friend - Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation
Saosin - Saosin
LostProphets - Fake Sound of Progress
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
Funeral for a Friend - Hours
UnderOath - They're only Chasing Safety
Story of the Year - In the Wake of Determination
Taking Back Sunday - Where you Want to be
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Chiodos - All's Well that End's Well

Plans made me start disliking Death Cab... It's their worst.

Hey postit (or anyone else that knows of this album) how good is "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel? I've heard some good things about this album (i.e. its high ranking on postit's list), but I was wondering what kind of music it is and what other indie rock bands its similar to, if any.

Thanks in advance, for I was considering getting this album...

Hmm. I'd say they are pretty unique in their sound. Here's what it says on wikipedia:

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was an album released in 1998 by Neutral Milk Hotel, a member of the Elephant 6 Collective. The record's musical style is exemplary of that of the Elephant 6 bands: it is based upon vocalist Jeff Mangum's singing and acoustic guitar accompaniment with various other instruments layered upon them, such as piano, musical saw, uilleann pipes, bow-played fuzz bass, wandering genie, accordion, banjo, flugelhorn, and other assorted brass instruments. The album was highly praised by critics for its wildly inventive instrumentation and Mangum's provocative lyrics.

As the band's second LP, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is notable as a critically acclaimed work and a fairly popular recording. It is a spiritually motivated work conceptually based on the beauty to be found in the horrific fate of Anne Frank and similarly overwhelming tragedies. Mangum is reported to have, during a live performance, described some of the songs off this album as based on urgent, recurring dreams he had of a Jewish family during World War II; described in small detail on 2001's Live at Jittery Joe's.

Although it met with scant response from the general public when it was released, the recording has continued to gain momentum in indie music circles and websites such as Pitchfork Media and Rate Your Music and has become a cult classic, selling well over 100,000 copies according to Merge Records. It was a selected album by Kim Cooper for the 33⅓ book series.

I think that I heard a lot about it and decided to give it a shot. Like usual, I disliked it at first, but then began to love it. It has a very nice balance, is quite emotional, and has some great songs on it. It's one of the few albums that I can put on and listen to the whole thing through and love every second of it. That's why I love it.

I think that if you like The Moon and Antarctica, and you're willing to give that a chance, you'll like In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. Maybe download before you buy it to make sure?

I hope that helped..

^ Thanks postit, that definitely helped.. and I'm a large fan of the Moon and Antarctica, so I'm sure this will do as well...

I still think In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is horribly overrated. I really don't understand it.

Neutral Milk Hotel are Indie Rock now? Genres are crazy.

Haven't really thought long and hard about this, and i'm not going to list albums, because i'm rubbish at quantifying my feelings about music. But these are some of my favourite albums recently.

Whomadewho - Whomadewho
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm, Weekend in the City
Damien Jurado - And Now That I'm In Your Shadow
Chris Rea - The Road To Hell
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
The Beautiful Girls - Morning Sun
Jan Garbarek - Officium
Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
The Cat Empire - Two Shoes
Zero 7 - When It Falls, Simple Things
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Duke Special - Songs From The Deep Forest
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Dan Sartain - Join Dan Sartain

I know this is a large bump, but I had another question, directed to ride6:

I noticed that you are a large Radiohead fan (I am as well), and I know the majority of the albums on your list except for Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River. Can you briefly post your opinion on this album?

Thanks in advance...

Edited by Jazz, 12 March 2007 - 01:26 PM.

I only have it on my computer and MP3 player, and while it's rather tame in energy level it's a really amazing story telling album about lost love and such.

The vocals are a little whiney-ish at times, and it's noticably un hi-fi (you don't notice unless you play it right before or after a different album), but the songwriting is very easy to get (and stay) into.

Here's what the critics had to say about it: http://www.metacriti...k...k Sheep Boy



Oh and I've recently become rather addicted to The Moon And Antartica, as if I need another album to add to my mile-long list of "to buys". As for albums I've bought I'll join the bandwagon of "Yoshimi lovers" too. That has to be one of the most atmospherically engrossing albums ever.

Ride6

^ Thanks Ride6 for the quick response and input, I greatly appreciate it.

I can't put them in order, but here's the ones that stick in my head as the best.

Thrice - Vheissu
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Joe Satriani - The Extremist
John Mayer - Continuum
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Oasis - (Whats The Story) Morning Glory?
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Green Day - Dookie
The Misfits - Earth AD
The Offspring - Smash
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Ahh...I don't know how good this will be, i'm sure i'll forget some albums, etc.

1. OK Computer - Radiohead
2. Kid A - Radiohead
3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
5. Funeral - The Arcade Fire
6. The Bends - Radiohead
7. Disintegration - The Cure
8. Heroes - David Bowie
9. The Moon And Antarctica - Modest Mouse
10. Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
11. Amnesiac - Radiohead
12. The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
13. If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
14. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
15. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
16. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
17. Remain In Light - Talking Heads
18. Red House Painters - Red House Painters
19. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven - Godspeed! You Black Emperor
20. Something About Airplanes - Death Cab For Cutie

That's without jazz. i wanted to put in Kind Of Blue or A Love Supreme but figured i would be called pretentious if i did so.

Yeah, I'm not happy with my list. oh well

p4k?

Let's not pretend that any of us aren't indie kids, Stargazer.

Huh?

I honestly don't understand what just happened.

Let's not pretend that any of us aren't indie kids, Stargazer.

Yeah but to that extent? sheesh. That's the list I would of picked 2 years ago. Album for album.

heres an official list from me

http://sputnikmusic....memberid=113316

This needs a bump.

That and I'm going to attempt a list... Remember these are my favorite albums around this point in my life, they're by no means definative:

10- Z - My Morning Jacket
9- Black Sheep Boy - Okkervil River
8- Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
7- Whatever People Say We Are That's What We're Not - Arctic Monkeys
6- Animals - Pink Floyd
5- Kid A - Radiohead
4- The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
3- Moon & Antartica - Modest Mouse
2- Funeral - Arcade Fire
1- OK Computer- Radiohead

Ride6