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| My Favoritest Album Ever In The History Of My Favoritest Albums Ever Made
So I couldn't actually just pick ONE, so here are SIX! albums that either completely changed my taste in music or are just completely flabberghastingly awesome that thay blow my mind into billions of peices every time i listen to them. This isn't in any order, btw. | | 1 |  | Arcade Fire
Funeral
This album IS beauty. I first got into the Arcade Fire after hearing them and David Bowie play Wake Up like in Central Park in NY, and fell in love. The compositions here just absolutely epic and jam packed full of subtle wonder, from each twinkling ripple of the xylophone, to every haunting string quiver behind each and every one of Will's warbling yelps and shouts, this is quite possibly one of the best collection of music ever to be put to record. | | 2 |  | Slint
Spiderland
You don't get much more Albumy then Spiderland. While every song here is still a masterpiece in its own right, listening to this record the whole way through is a lesson in the power of building crescendos. There is probably nothing more satisfying (musically anyway) after sludging your way though nearly forty minutes of unsetteling, atmospheric, striped down rock and then hearing McMahan burst into a fiery scream at the end of Good Morning Captain which leaves you just twitching in your chair. Honestly. | | 3 |  | Radiohead
OK Computer
The best Indie album of the 90s? Quite possibly.OK Computer was the album Radiohead were fated to make, and even now there still something fun about tracing their evolution through from Pablo Honey and into The Bends to end up producing this stunning piece of beauty. It's roots of course go further back through from Wowee Zowee and through to Unknown Pleasures and Doolittle, before Radiohead threw Alt Rock into an entirely new realm of... Awesome. This one was the band at the height of their songwriting powers, fusing in Rock N' Roll with the blips and bloops of electronic music without ever sounding awakard, and instead smashing the boundaries of music and creating a timeless record. | | 4 |  | Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb
There are fun albums, and then are albums which are still fun but deep and musically amazing. This is, in case you haven't guessed, the latter. Everything Goes Numb has been my anthem though life since I first heard it - while the music here remains upbeat and a celebration of all things awesome, there are still moments of introspection mixed in here and there, held together by an unrivaled mix of blaring punk and screaming horn lines. Seeing these guys live last year was one of '07's highlights, and I can't emphasize how much i love this record. | | 5 |  | Circle Takes The Square
As The Roots Undo
The album that started it all for me - It being the whole emo thing thats sprung up around. Yes, I found it on Sputnik. Yes, I hated it when I first heard it. Yes, I found it becoming on of my favorite albums of all time. Yes, it still is f'ucking fantastic. Choas = good. | | 6 |  | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
The way Rock and Roll Should Be. *Obligatory mention of Richey James Edwards and his awesomeness and disappearance here*. The Two disc special version of this album still sits in my CD collection, with the words 'The Holy Bible' embezzled in black on pitch white and stand outs out more than any album there (how fitting...). While it gets me strange looks from visitors who come over who know me as quite the opposite of a God-head, it gives me a chance to give this one a spin, and blow their f'ucking minds. | |
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02.19.08 | *hugs* | JumpTheF**kUp
02.19.08 | I only like 3 of these :( | jebus FX
02.19.08 | list needs more METULZ
4 is also one of my favorite albums of all time, i also feel the love for it. :D | StreetlightRock
02.19.08 | You're halfway to being a REAL boy! (which ones?) | StreetlightRock
02.19.08 | I like Metulz, but I still havn't found one that would be up here with these six. If I had to put one up, it'd probably be Persefone - Truth Inside The Shades. (Comment Above was for Jump) | StreetlightRock
02.19.08 | Good, its awesome! | the_patient
02.19.08 | awesome list - 1, 3, 4 and 5 are beyond brillance | JumpTheF**kUp
02.19.08 | 3, 4 and 5.
I have 1 and 2 but I guess I haven't listened to them enough and 6 is ok. | thesystemisdown
02.19.08 | If I were to make such a list, all of mine would be METAL bands... god I feel like such a stereotypical Sputnik user. Well they're mostly well-known metal albums so that might set me apart from the pack a little bit. | spoon_of_grimbo
02.19.08 | 4 is great (although i prefer SITB, as it was what got me into them).
i really need to get 5 - i've heard clips of some tracks, and it sounds fucking epic. | SynGates
02.19.08 | 4 is teh awesome. | StreetlightRock
02.19.08 | Yea, I've been a fan for EGN pretty much since it came out, and I still havn't gotten over it, never will I don't think. I was unsure about SITB when it first came out, but I'm a convert as of two weeks ago. | Kiran
02.19.08 | I couldn't agree with you more on #1. | McP3000
02.19.08 | 2-5 are all great
havent heard 1 or 6 |
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