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Or if you want to be stranded on an island... what albums would you bring?

I decided to make this thread after listening to Noah and the Whale's new CD. So here are mine:

1. Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2. Nirvana: In Utero
3. The Vines: Highly Evolved
4. The White Stripes: White Blood Cells (mostly because of "This Protector")
5. Daft Punk: Discovery

Feel free to list runner ups!

Noah and The Whale: Peaceful The World Lays Me Down and Smashing Pumpkins: Pisces Iscariot

these lists are painful for me, and they're normally top 10. top 5? harsh.

depeche mode - songs of faith and devotion
jeff buckley - grace
tom waits - bone machine
joy division - unknown pleasures
bauhaus - burning from the inside


runner ups:
the cure - pornography
smashing pumpkins - adore, SD
ours - distorted lullabies, mercy
NIN - with teeth
gary numan - pure

and about 100 others im sure

These threads are usually dangerous, but I'll bite...this place is pretty laid back. There are other bands/albums I'm more into, but I'm going with albums I completely dig front to back...considering I can only have 5.

Brand New - Deja Entendu (props to the local boys for an awesome album during a time of generic victory bands)
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely (jack white w/ an entire band. nuff said.)
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (yes there are other songs on this album besides a favor house/blood red summer...)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (first cd I ever bought...cassettes were much cheaper!)
Between the Buried and Me - Colors/colors live (a 64 minutes song split into 8 parts...top album of 2007 and still top of 2008 for me. White walls/ants of the sky made my head explode, and they pull off all of their songs live flawlessly)

Runner up picks are cheating!

Anything involving Iron Maiden, Satch/Howe/Gilbert/Buckethead/John 5, At the Drive In/TMV, Thrice

No order

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis - Foxtrot
Yes - Relayer
King Crimson - The Nightwatch (or Discipline :/ depends)
Frank Zappa - Roxy And Elsewhere

Runner's up
Nektar - Recycled
Spock's Beard - Snow
Spock's Beard - The Light
King Crimson - Red
King Crimson - Discipline
Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool
Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
Frank Zappa - The Greatest Band You Never Heard In Your Life
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Magma - Mekanik Destructiw Kommandoh
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Yes - Fragile
Yes - Close To The Edge
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe

Yeah I really couldn't do with just 5.

No particular order.

Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In
The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
Clouds Taste Metallic - The Flaming Lips
You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel - Atlas Sound
Right Now You're In The Best of Hands. And If Something Isn't Quite Right Your Doctor Will Be Here In A Hurry - Bear Vs. Shark
Give It Back! - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Feel Good Lost - Broken Social Scene
The Photo Album - Death Cab For Cutie
We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes - Death Cab For Cutie
You're A Woman I'm A Machine - Death From Above 1979
HEALTH - HEALTH
De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Summerteeth - Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Fabulous Muscles - Xiu Xiu

WHAT NOW?

New Moon- Elliott Smith
Relationship of Commad- At the Drive-In
Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?- Metric
So Jealous- Tegan And Sara
Smile- Beach Boys
White Album/Singles from that period- Beatles
You're a Woman I'm a Machine- Death From Above 1979
Help!- Beatles


From the last few posts I guess the Five album rule has gone out the window?

I guess so

lol smile mitch? so alt.

hmm top 5, i guess:

Frances the Mute- The Mars Volta (I could put every TMV album here but i'll just leave it at this one)
Trout Mask Replica- Captain Beefheart
In the Court of the Crimson King- King Crimson
Mirrored- Battles
Freak Out!- The Mothers of Invention (others would include- LP- Holy Fuck, broken social scene- broken social scene, Strawberry Jam- Animal Collective, and many others)

Top 5 ep's:
tremulant- the mars volta
Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada- Godspeed you! black emperor
Heads up!- Death from Above 1979
People- Animal Collective
The Locust and Melt Banana Split- The Locust/ Melt Banana (others would be Vaya- At the Drive-In, The Horrors, Is Is- yeah yeah yeahs, planet shhh!, and <<<<<1/4- Strobe Light Individual, to be you and me- broken social scene, many others)

oooo The Horrors, I'm always afraid to bring them up due to some people are strongly opposed to them.

This is hard but I refuse to break the Top 5 rule. Holy crap this is hard. I feel like if it was Top 5 lately it'd be a whole other list.

No order:
Know Your Enemy by Manic Street Preachers
101 by Depeche Mode
Louder Than Bombs by The Smiths
Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
The Kick Inside by Kate Bush

I also just noticed that 4/5 of those choices were made before I was born or just around when I was born.

This is a toughie. I think, in no particular order:

In the Valley of Dying Stars - Superdrag
Uncle Anesthesia - Screaming Trees
Painful - Yo La Tengo
Nowhere - Ride
Reconstruction Site - The Weakerthans

I may have to revise this forty times over the next ten minutes. We'll see where the mood takes me.

Svarte Greiner - Knive
Sunn o))) + Boris - Altar
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - The Mirror Man Sessions
Oren Ambarchi - In the Pendulum's Embrace
John Luther Adams - Red Arc/Blue Veil

Uprunners
The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Sunn O))) - Oracle
Biosphere - Autour de La Lune
Angora Static -
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
Everything else by Captain Beefheart, Van Der Graaf Generator or Cinematic Orchestra.

You people have horrible taste in music
I'm kidding

Though the Sunn 0)))/Boris split is Sunn's shinning moment, I'd go with Black One over Oracle for solo Sunn. But then again I'm in to the black metal thing, so it's a given for me.

My Personal Top 5 (no order)

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Loveless - MBV
Red - King Crimson
Second Stage Turbine Blade - Coheed and Cambria
Souvlaki - Slowdive

Honorable Mentions

Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator
In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Islands - King Crimson
Melon Collie... - Smashing Pumpkins
Kick Out the Jams - MC5 (dare you to find a better live album)
Houses of the Holy - Led Zep
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
Morning Star - Fripp and Eno
Ege Bamyasi - Can (represent)
Just For A Day - Slowdive
Fun House - The Stooges
The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw - Pelican
...and god damn it I have to edit in some Sonic Youth...Daydream Nation and Murray Street.

Oh, and I'll second that Tom Wait's Bone Machine way up there and raise you the entirety of Nick Cave's catalogue.