Favorite songs and albums

Kizzume · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: Favorite songs and albums

I posted this before, but it limited it to "top 10 favorites"--when I read what I had posted before, posted in a numbered fashion, I realized that the order I had them in was all wrong. So, in no particular order:

Songs:

Mohammed Mounir -- 7ekmet-el-Qadar
Paul McCartney -- Riding to Vanity Fair
Crosby Stills and Nash -- Guinevere
Vangelis -- Rachel's Song
Wendy Carlos - Lightcycles
Shirley Bassey -- Diamonds are Forever
Stereolab -- Baby Lulu
Chicago -- Goodbye
Antonio Carlos Jobim -- Antigua
Bill Bruford -- Gothic 17

Albums

The Beatles -- The White Album
Pink Floyd -- The Wall
David Bowie -- Low
Yes -- Fragile
Vangelis -- Blade Runner
Wendy Carlos -- Tron
Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon
ELO/Olyvia Newton-John -- Xanadu
Steely Dan -- Aja
Elton John -- Tumbleweed Connection
Bill Bruford -- Master Strokes

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

UPDATED 1/7/08

Lou Reed- Berlin
Lou Reed- Transformer
Lou Reed-- Coney Island Baby
Lou Reed-- Magic and Loss
Lou Reed-- Sally Can't Dance
Lou Reed-- American Poet
Nine Inch Nails-- The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails-- Still
Nine Inch Nails-- The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails-- Year Zero
David Bowie-- Low
David Bowie-- Scary Monsters
David Bowie-- Hunky Dory
David Bowie-- Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie-- The Man Who Sold The World
David Bowie-- Heroes
Talking Heads-- Remain in Light
Oasis-(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
M.I.A.-- Arular
M.I.A.-- Kala
King Crimson-- In the Court of King Crimson
King Crimson-- Red
The Velvet Underground-- The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground-- Loaded
Sublime-- Robbin' the Hood
Sublime-- 40 ounces to Freedom
The Cure-- Disintegration
The Cure-- Faith
Brian Eno-- Another Green World
Brian Eno-- Here Come the Warm Jets
Brian Eno-- Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp-- Evening Star
Tom Waits-- Rain Dogs
Kraftwerk-- Computerwelt
Stevie Wonder-- Talking Book
Radiohead-- Hail To the Thief
Radiohead-- Ok Computer
Steely Dan-- The Royal Scam
Steely Dan-- Katy Lied
U2-- The Joshua Tree
U2-- Achtung Baby
The Who-- Who's Next
Tori Amos-- Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos-- Boys For Pele
The Doors-- The Doors
The Doors- Strange Days
The Doors-- Waiting For the Sun
Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Dredg-- Catch Without Arms
Killing Joke-- Killing Joke
Gary Moore-- Still Got the Blues
Public Enemy-- Fear of a Black Planet

I was going to put a star by my very favorites, but then I realized that there would be a star on at least half of the list I just made so screw it.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

SONGS:

King Crimson---21st CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN
Nine Inch Nails-- The Day The World Went Away, Reptile, Eraser
Lou Reed-- Berlin
Talking Heads--Once in a Lifetime
David Bowie-- Ashes to Ashes, Subterraneans
Brian Eno-- Saint Elmo's Fire, I'll Come Running
The Velvet Underground-- I'm Sticking With You, Heroin, Run Run Run, I'm waiting for the man, Venus in Furs

to name a few

Kizzume · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject:

There are SO many on there I don't know that I need to know.. Smile

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Kizzume · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject:

I was trying originally to make a short list... Smile

Red and Lark's Tongue in Aspic are my favorite King Crimson albums.

Gentle Giant -- Octopus

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Lizard is also really good, but a distant 4th I'd say compared to the best three. I also really like Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With. And I hated Discipline.

MY TRYOUT LIST:

Music by Gentle Giant

Yes-- Fragile

I am going to see if I can't put those on hold at my library right now Cool

Kizzume · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject:

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Hmm, I wonder if you got one that was poorly compressed or sumpthin. I mean it was recorded in 1969, but most people think that's the best Crimson album ever. (And if you compare it to the others on RYM, it is considered to be the best, and the 45th best album of all time Surprised

I tend to go between that one and Red.

Kizzume · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Booooo!

Kizzume · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject:

I'm not saying the music is bad, I'm saying the recording is bad and that it became BETTER--recording wise AND technical/experimental/dark-wise after that album. I would certainly choose that album over most rock out there right now, that's for sure.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Do you like Talking Heads? Heard Remain in LIght?

I am suffering from a bad situation. I just bought another Talking Heads album and it was no go. I have listened to pretty much their whole catalogue, and the only album of theirs I like is Remain in LIght. But I don't just like Remain in Light. I love Remain in Light. It is one of my fav albums of all time. So you'd think I could get into their other stuff. But it just isn't happening. I can't do it. I don't like any of it. I thought I would like Fear of Music since it also involved Eno. Apparently, it didn't involve him enough ;(

Kizzume · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject:

An album I really like that most people don't by Stone Temple Pilots is Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop. My favorite song of theirs of all time is "and so I know", and it's on that album. But the whole album's sound quality is horrible...