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Emeritus
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Last Active 12-20-22 3:51 pm
Joined 11-15-08
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| Best_albums_ever
These are the albums I most readily put on. They are therefore my favourite albums. Disregarding the fact that I know 'better' albums exist, these are my favourite 10 albums of forever. | | 1 |  | Jimmy Eat World
Futures
Please, don't argue. This is just great song after great song after great song. The album has a sense of momentum and intensity I find inescapable; 23 is one of the best songs ever. Everything fits. Sublime. | | 2 |  | Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago
At first this album really didn't click with me. If you listen to it in passing, it has nearly no effect whatsoever. But walking through Durham to a football game last term, in the freezing cold, it hit me just as it has hit others. It's simply beautiful. | | 3 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
The rant is phenomenal; the music is insanely well crafted and some of the best escape music ever. | | 4 |  | Death Cab for Cutie
Transatlanticism
If you've ever seen them live, you'll know what the title-track does, but it's jaw-dropping how it manages to achieve the same climax on the record as well. Indie-pop is a big weakness of mine but this is just incredible throughout. Gibbard is a genius. | | 5 | | Bright Eyes
Im Wide Awake, Its Morning
Speaking of genius lyricists, hi Conor. Everything Bright Eyes have ever done is good; most of it is sensational, and this is 'their' best. | | 6 |  | Frightened Rabbit
The Midnight Organ Fight
I still can't get away from this wonderfully crafted set of indie-folk anthems. Supporting Death Cab they almost stole the show. The Modern Leper and My Backwards Walk make my heart pulse. Safe. | | 7 |  | Radiohead
OK Computer
Why the hell not. Fitter Happier is one of my favourite tracks ever put to record and this album is full of that kind of song. The middle section of the album is breathtaking in its relentlessness. | | 8 |  | Placebo
Meds
I almost overlooked this but it so, so deserves a place on this list. One of my most played albums ever, and for good reason, it's got slow-burners, hard-hitters, nuances, quirkiness, darkness and emotion running from start to finish. | | 9 |  | Jack's Mannequin
Everything in Transit
So damn catchy. So damn fun. So damn pop-punk. | | 10 |  | Maybeshewill
Not For Want Of Trying
Post-rock with short tracks, plenty of atypical influences and explosions at exactly the right times. Keeps a common theme throughout with the cyclic piano and takes my breath away. | |
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02.07.09 | where's the Yellowcard man we all know how much you love them | Knott-
02.07.09 | haha :D
720 plays finally wore them out i think
they still get playtime though. | ninjuice
02.07.09 | 3 and 4 are indeed amazing. | natey
02.07.09 | 3 4 6 are all on my top 10 as well, and 5 could be. I love "Kill" off of 1. basically kiss me | TheGreatD17
02.07.09 | You seem to like the worst parts of OK Computer. The middle section keeps it from a 5 for me. | dankeyes11
02.07.09 | 7 is the best album on this list by far... imo | Douchebag
02.07.09 | Fitter Happier is one of my favourite tracks ever put to record
that song is awfull :( | Masochist
02.07.09 | Love for #1, that's an amazing record. I don't even think it would crack my top 10, but man, what a collection of songs. The first half of that disc is one of the most solid blocks of music I can think of...not to say the second half isn't good, because it's excellent as well, but from "Futures" to "Pain" is one hell of a ride.
Also, Placebo is a band I haven't heard mentioned in a long time...good job ;-) | AliW1993
02.07.09 | 8 ftw, though I prefer Without You Im Nothing and Black Market Music. | Wildcatforever
02.07.09 | great list. | Yotimi
02.07.09 | I don't get Fitter Happier being your favorite off OK Computer. It's not even a song, it's a statement. Don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite albums ever but I prefer the songs on the album... For Emma, Forever Aso is indeed beautiful though. I prefer Clarity over Futures and even Clarity is only decent pop/punk to me, but hey they're your picks. | fireaboveicebelow
02.07.09 | stop arguing about fitter happier not being a song, you're fucking stupid if you think so | Epilogue
02.07.09 | So damn pop-punk
| Yotimi
02.10.09 | Fireaboveice: Imagine if someone said the disclaimer at the beginning of The Offspring's Smash was their favorite song. That wouldn't make much sense now would it? | burnafterbreeding
02.23.09 | 2+7 ftw. |
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