why?
Now we're talking. Bearing in mind that my music taste is rediculously good, this should be the difinative top twenty album list of all time. Or something...
done?
maybe not to everyones taste, but heres the list. many of these bands have 'better' albums out than those listed here, but many of these albums were records i heard at the right place and at the right time.
feel free to send your top twenty lists to beforethirty@hotmail.com and ill put them on this page if theyre not too shite and dont contain any bal-sagoth (inggy).
by the way, they are not in order. some i prefer more than others, but lets not get anal - this is geeky enough as it is...
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Madonna (1999)
some bands make you want to go out there and form your own bands. bands like this make you realise that there is no point in forming your own band, as youd just be shit compared to them...
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000)
noisy, poppy, punky, shouty, space-rock, broken guitars and out of tune. they love fugazi and iggy pop guests on the album. how could it not be great?
Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World (1994)
i guess this is classed as folk. dear god...
Bill Hicks - Arizona Bay (1992)
"A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross? Kind of like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on, you know."
genius.
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1997)
the weird thing with black metal is that i hate nearly all of it. generally speaking im not in to grown males with self-raising flour all over their face singing about battles. but ill make a big exception for emperor and any of their albums could have made this list (aside from their debut which was recorded through a dictaphone from a building across the street from the studio). it has trumpets, spoken word sections, they sing about taking oaths in forrests and has the most pretentious song titles ever. great stuff.
Fireside - Hello Kids (2000)
bit of a weird one, as this is a b-side and rarities album and contains a second disc of covers. but when i bought this album i had no ideas these were b-sides and i still love it now. i guess 'do not tailgate' is a 'better' album, but this is my fave.
Fugazi - Red Medicine (1995)
okay, fugazi arguably made better albums than 'red medicine'. but i was fifteen years old and had heard of fugazi but never actually heard them. i bought this and was so blown away - i listened to it almost constantly for a year. just dont ask for a t-shirt.
Grandaddy - The Software Slump (2000)
this whole albums is like a bleak, beautiful soundscape. then you see the band and they all look like lumberjacks.
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
surely this is on everyones list?
Kerbdog - Kerbdog (1994)
it sounds like a mix of big black, therapy?, tad, fugazi, metallica and sonic youth, was produced by jack endino and no fucker bought it.
Kerbdog - On The Turn (1997)
it sounds like a mix of helmet, fugazi, therapy?, tad and the pixies, was produced by gggarth and STILL no fucker bought it.
Kyuss - ...And The Circus Leaves Town (1995)
this is another example of a band that probably had better albums, but this was my first kyuss album and still my favourite. love the stuff that homme has gone on to do with qotsa, but always find myself coming back to kyuss.
Orbital - Snivilisation (1994)
not going to pretend i know a lot about dance or orbital but i love this album.
Pixies - Bossanova (1990)
in some cultures it is considered illegal to have a greatest albums list without the pixies...
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come (1998)
it still sounds as fresh today as it did back in the late nineties. and if you turn it up loud enough you actually feel like the band are playing in your lounge.
Shellac - At Action Park (1994)
just sounds like nothing else on earth.
Slipknot - Slipknot (1999)
they wear masks and boiler suits, vomit on each other on-stage and really should have left it at one album. picture it: they release this, tour once then kill each other onstage. perfect really.
Strapping Young Lad - City (1997)
i like this album so much that im thinking of having a ten year birthday party for it in 2007...
Tool - Ænima (1996)
probably the album ive listened to most in life. eight years on from release and im still hearing new things every time i listen to it.
Tool - Lateralus (2001)
intense stuff.
coming close
beta band - three eps, alice in chains - dirt, devin townsend - ocean machine, atari teenage riot - sixty second wipeout, weezer - pinkerton, screaming trees - dirt, clutch - the elephant riders, jawbox - novelty, janes addiction - ritual de lo habitual, melvin - houdini, pearl jam - ten, prong - cleansing, qotsa - qotsa, nin - the fragile, deftones - white pony, skyscraper - superstate, and probably lots of others ive forgotten right now...
