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| 5 Years Of Sputnik
It's been five years now since I first signed up on Sputnik. While that doesn't quite make me ra founding member, it does mean I've rbeen here for a fucking long time. In those 5 years rI've become a rlegal adult, finished high school, lost my virginity and very nearly rlost my rlife. Now I find myself two weeks away from being rdischarged from a 6 month stay in rhospital, a paraplegic. It's been rmy tradition to post my favourite albums on the anniversary rof my rsigning up each year, so here it is again, in a little more detail. | | 1 |  | Deftones
White Pony
This was my favourite album five years ago when I joined up, and I still is
now. I still get shivers listening to it. It's the darker side of sex, and boy is it
sexy. Nothing I can say could live up to how perfect White Pony is. Listen to
Knife Party from the original release webcast of the album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RIizySfjaQ | | 2 |  | Misery Signals
Controller
On an emotional level, there is nothing that comes close to this record for
me. Every scream, every breakdown, every melody just GETS to me. This is
the album I've cried to countless times. Listen to Set in Motion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvxuKmoA3sk | | 3 |  | Ling Tosite Sigure
Inspiration is DEAD
This is the sound of growing up. Or more specifically, the moments after you
realise you need to but before you actually have to. It's all that pent up
anxiety and tension exploding in one last night of almost innocent, raucous
fun. The vocals may not be to everyone's taste, but the guitarist is one of
those rare gems whose instrument is really just an extension of himself.
Watch DISCO FLIGHT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBGGZ5FHCtk | | 4 | | Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet & Mogwai
The Fountain OST
Stunning beautiful. Gorgeous and transcendent in all the same ways as the
actual movie. This is the last album on this list that I see as absolutely,
unchangeably perfect. Listen to Together We Will Live Forever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYZ67BEAWZk&feature=related | | 5 |  | Poison the Well
You Come Before You
While Controller got higher in this list for purely emotional reasons, You
Come Before You is probably the real moment that metalcore hit it's peak.
The Opposite of December pioneered a style, The Tropic Rot invented
surfcore, but You Come Before You just got it so so so right. Check out
Zombies Are Good For Your Health: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=4wXrc0bWC1E&feature=related | | 6 |  | Converge
Jane Doe
C'mon, you guys know the drill. Watch The Broken Vow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfaiGi48rcA | | 7 |  | Bloc Party
A Weekend in the City
Before Kele went to shit, he was writing brilliant, socially conscious lyrics
while his band were playing electronically inspired indie rock without
actually being electronic. Watch Hunting for Witches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASkm_oW4hmM&feature=related | | 8 |  | Fear Before
The Always Open Mouth
One of the most extraordinarily different and out of the blue albums I've
heard. Where the fuck this came from no-one knows, but it's Fear Before at
their most genius. Taking a wild source of influences and styles, throwing
them together and somehow making it a completely cohesive and smoothly
flowing record is no small order. Drowning the Old Hag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DupDT_w0rqM | | 9 |  | Modern Life is War
Witness
It's the album that redefined modern hardcore, and theres a pretty fucking
good reason why everyone's been copying this template ever since it was
released. There's just something about the sound that gets into your heart
and makes you want to scream the lyrics to anyone who'll listen. It's the
soundtrack to the middle classed and disenfranchised. I'm Not Ready:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sABSoZHSE8k&feature=related | | 10 |  | The Butterfly Effect
Imago
Clint's magical voice is what really makes this album. Beautiful in its dealing
with the death of a loved one, it can be a really haunting listen for me. In A
Memory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhq7DiK51YA&feature=related | | 11 |  | HORSE the Band
Desperate Living
Despite their birth as a joke band, HORSE abandoned this (mostly) on
Desperate Living. Sure, the keyboard overblows the emotions, but thats
half the point. Desperate Living is painted in big, hyperactive blobs and
when a genuinely stupid song like Science Police crops up you know its just
part of the picture. The Failure of All Things (probably the most serious song
on the album): http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=GDJ8EudS_F0&feature=related | | 12 |  | Underoath
Lost in the Sound of Separation
No other album I've heard has encapsulated the very sound of desperation
and confusion that Underoath managed here. I'm not religious, and yet my
own struggles with the idea of a God are weirdly applicable with this very,
very Christian band. So there you go. Emergency Broadcast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fMJqHysiTQ | | 13 |  | Against Me!
Reinventing Axl Rose
The exuberant energy of Reinventing Axl Rose is probably one of the most
addictive things I've ever encountered. Match that up with the fucking
gorgeous spring weather and I can't help but smile like a nutter. Walking is
Still Honest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nfhxXfs4pM | | 14 |  | Refused
The Shape of Punk to Come
I really don't think this needs my description at all. It's fuckin' Refused and
they're fuckin' dead. Deadly Rhythm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=zaUHG3y8-9c&feature=related | | 15 |  | Disney Soundtracks
The Lion King
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've painted my childhood in more
than a little bit of gold, so I'm sure that has an effect on how I view this
album...but only a little, since it's just so brilliantly crafted. I'm not going to
post a link to this one, just go and watch the movie again, if you haven't
already recently since it came out in 3D not long ago (most pointless thing
ever, but whatever, it was cool to see it in the movie theatre). | | 16 |  | R.E.M.
Automatic for the People
One of the most depressing and shockingly beautiful albums I own. It also
boasts my favourite song, Nightswimming, which I love so much I wrote an
essay on in my end of school exams. Here it is live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx9br5ISRpo | | 17 |  | Deftones
Saturday Night Wrist
I think it becomes pretty obvious by this inclusion that Deftones is my
favourite band, and it's for good reason (as a lot of Sputnik knows judging
by their ratings). If it wasn't for Pink Cellphone, this actually would have
been a lot higher. As it is, the song comes close to ruining the album but
fortunately the rest of the material is just so fucking strong. I couldn't find a
decent live video of my favourite song, Kimdracula, so here's second best.
Combat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8x1UFEZroI&feature=related | | 18 |  | Hopesfall
The Satellite Years
Fuzzy, warm, incomprehensible. Before they wrote boring alt rock, Hopesfall
was writing brilliant emotional hardcore. The Bending:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8iFBtH-cXQ | | 19 |  | Pianos Become the Teeth
Old Pride
Before I had my 'accident' (I threw myself off a balcony), I thought these
guys were ordinary at best. Since my accident, I've found their music
perfectly captures my feelings for whats happened to me. Maybe it's
because they sing about a personal tragedy as well, and its in every note
they play. Cripples Can't Shiver (although I beg to differ, since I broke my
back my bodies central heating doesn't work properly so I get cold A LOT
easier): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jfbFO1iqeo | | 20 |  | Radiohead
In Rainbows
Another album you all know, or bloody well should by now. Thom Yorke's
vocals are angelic throughout and the music matches him perfectly. A few
years ago I became convinced I was a bad person, and this is the song I
used to help convince myself that I wasn't:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fee8P4aNAI | | 21 |  | Thursday
War All The Time
Geoff Rickley's vocals at their most overwrought, backed by a band at it's
most intense and hyperkinetic. It's also Thursday at their catchiest and
most socially aware. Signals Over the Air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=O0T936litWc | | 22 |  | More Than Life
Love Let Me Go
I have a very distinct memory of this album. Last year, during the final few
weeks of my high school experience, I found myself sitting on a hill in the
warm Australian sun watching near enough the entire school on one of the
ovals. We were having a soccer competition and so there was a lot of
yelling and fun. It was an extremely friendly and inclusive school and I'd
come to love it even as I began to yearn for life outside of it, whilst I also
found myself falling steadily in love with a girl in a younger grade (who is
now my girlfriend). I was listening to Love Let Me Go, and the moment was
perfect. Scarlet Skyline: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c0Am6huQeg | | 23 |  | Thrice
The Artist in the Ambulance
I'm pretty sure Thrice is popular enough on this site for anything I say
about this album to be pretty pointless. A lot of you love it, and I love it for
much the same reasons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=k2N0aycGPE8&feature=fvst | | 24 | | Envy
All the Footprints You've Ever Left...
A second Japanese band! In truth Pianos Become the Teeth took their
sound pretty much fully formed from Envy's hands, so I'm not sure why I
prefer them over Envy. But Envy are still fantastic and this album is the
peak of their performance. I've spent countless nights coming home from a
nightshift, walking lamplit streets to the sound of this album. Left Hand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q28Rt9snQZk | | 25 |  | Karnivool
Themata
I'll just let the music speak for itself, COTE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGn50HKUXyc&feature=fvst | | 26 |  | Defeater
Lost Ground
One of those bands riding on Modern Life is War's coattails I mentioned
before, except unlike most of them Defeater are taking the sound and
actually expanding on it. Their newest LP is probably the best example of
that, but I prefer this EP for some reason. Maybe it's because it's their
catchiest release, their most fistpumping and mosh worthy. Red, White and
Blues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL6Vl6iMc_I&feature=related | | 27 |  | Gallows
Grey Britain
There aren't many bands that sound more British than Gallows, and there's
one other thing they share in common with me other than their blood - their
absolute distaste for the place. Fuck England. Go sing along to Misery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=679g2dqHYAg | | 28 |  | The Angelic Process
Weighing Souls with Sand
The perfect soundtrack to epic daydreams. No live tracks, The Promise of
Snakes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfBd7J75L9c | | 29 |  | Snow Patrol
Eyes Open
I don't listen to radio much, so I never got sick of Chasing Cars. The songs
on this record are so delicate, so perfect in their lyrical construction of a
relationships rise and fall. If Snow Patrol were at all capable of playing
emotions such as anger, this record might well be perfect. As it is, it's pretty
fucking good. Here's that song you all learned to hate, but still reminds you
of that perfect moment with your partner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=wbLkdXNLk2o | | 30 |  | City and Colour
Little Hell
Dallas Green truly excelled himself with his newest release. The delicate,
haunting emotion showed all over Little Hell has stuck with me from the
moment it was released. I first heard it a few days before my accident, and
as soon as I was ready to listen to music again properly (it took a few
months) I rediscovered it. Have a look at the most heartbreaking of the lot,
and one I can unfortunately relate to, Oh, Sister:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqaAWrzCoXM | |
Captain North
12.03.11 | Whew, took me the best part of a day to do that...gah damn album art. 28/30. | Vooligan
12.03.11 | Fucking awesome list dude. Really sorry to hear about the shit you've been through :( | insomniac15
12.03.11 | Initially I took The King Of Limbs to listen to just to see what's all the fuss around Radiohead, but then I started listening to In Rainbows and some songs like Reckoner, which is insanely beautiful, House Of Cards, Jigsaw Falling Into Place or Videotape are just magnificent. I still listen to Reckoner every other day (however other albums are still overrated). And Clint Mansell rules | Sanders
12.03.11 | Sounds like you've been through a bit of shit mate, hope all is well. I share a similar dislike for England most of the time, where abouts in the country are you? I don't know how you cope with being holed up in a hospital for 6 months, I'll be working in one most of my life (I'm a med student) but fuck being cared for for that long! | ohfoxxxycole
12.03.11 | on monday ill have been here for 6 years
go us | Captain North
12.03.11 | Sanders, I'm actually Australian but my parents are both English. I did live there for 18months at one point, spending time in the Chiswick area of London and then in a town called Biscester which is near Oxford.
Hi5 ohfoxxxy | JWT155
12.03.11 | Shit, what happened to you man? Great list btw | Sanders
12.03.11 | Ahh that's not far from where I am at the moment, I'm near Leamington Spa. At least you got out of here! I'm wondering what my prospects are of being a doctor abroad when I qualify. What have you got planned when you get out of hospital? | Captain North
12.03.11 | JWT, I got drunk and the booze hit me wrong, I've no idea why, and I had a bit of a psychotic episode which culminated in leaping off of a 5th story balcony. Since I was drunk I was dumb enough to go feet first resulting in a broken ankle, a broken knee, two broken thighs, a broken back, a skull fracture and bleeding on the brain. I'm getting some return, but not everything. I should hopefully be able to walk, at the very least with splints if not perfectly.
I'm planning on going to uni and study writing with the intention of going on and getting a masters in screenwriting. If you're studying medicine in England the whole worlds your oyster man. | StrangerofSorts
12.03.11 | Hey, I have an ex who lives in Biscester - hate the place personally xD
Sorry to hear about the accident, I hope life is kinder to you now. Great list as well, lots of stuff I agree with - might check out some of the ones I'm not too familiar with if I find the time. | Metalstyles
12.03.11 | Holy hell Captain North, that sounds awful. I hope you'll properly heal in time and can walk fine in the future. Also, on a more positive note, congrats on your five years here. | Captain North
12.03.11 | Yeah, I was a kid when I was in biscester so I have fond memories of it, but I visited England briefly a few years ago and realised what a shithole it was. | AfterTheBreakdown
12.03.11 | Damn you've been through some shit times. Hopefully things get better for you. | KILL
12.03.11 | i been here over 5 years now am i gay yet | ohfoxxxycole
12.03.11 | yea | Restrikted
12.03.11 | Sorry to hear man, hope everything turns out to be better | InFiction
12.03.11 | Some really good albums here, man. Once again, I'm so sorry for what happened to you. I know it must be hard but don't you dare let it stop you from living a full, wholesome life. I mean that, dude. | Gilgamahesh
12.03.11 | Stay strong dude, you'll get through this shit. Good to know there are some fellow Aussies on Sputnik. | Cells
12.03.11 | Damn dude that really sucks I hope you get better and its great to see that there are some *real* people on sputnik. | paxman
12.03.11 | Feature please | clercqie
12.03.11 | Bloc Party! | TheFonz123
12.03.11 | yah great list! trying to get into more screamo/hardcore. saturday night wrist is my fav deftones album. nightswiming is an amazing song. Also, if you havent, try glassjaw. I started listening to them becuase they sound similar to deftones when I was a deftones fanboy, and now i love them more than deftones. It seems you like hardcore, and glassjaw sound like deftones mixed with screamo, so check it out!. | Acanthus
12.03.11 | A great eclectic list sir, the Deftones love is well deserved! | BallsToTheWall
12.03.11 | Crying to Misery Signals ROFL. | Recspecs
12.03.11 | Great list man, and happy five years? | puma35
12.03.11 | love most of these, congrats on the five years, I'm sure everything will turn out more than okay for you | DaveyBoy
12.04.11 | Shit Tom, I had no idea you were in hospital. Best wishes on the recovery & hope it all goes will in a fortnight's time. | Captain North
12.04.11 | Everyone should check out Ling Tosite Sigure. | Activista anti-MTV
12.04.11 | Nice list. If you ever want to talk, let me know. I'm on fb. | someguest
12.04.11 | 30 is one of my favorites from this year.
I wasn't ready for your description of the list. | Yazz_Flute
12.04.11 | woah | ohfoxxxycole
12.04.11 | thunder thunder thunder | Gilgamahesh
12.04.11 | Controller is some of the best metalcore I've heard. | Satellite
12.04.11 | congrats on losing yr virginity dude | Satellite
12.04.11 | in all seriousness, congrats on almost getting out of the hospital. best of luck, man. | Captain North
12.04.11 | gotta say, I was pretty proud. Woulda posted 'I just had sex' on my fb profile if she'd let me. | Aids
12.04.11 | it's weird how 15 is becoming a 'sputnik album' | aok
12.05.11 | i wanna hate you just cause i'm sick of these lists, but you put 16 on here so you're probly awesome | qwe3
12.05.11 | hope your recoverys going ok bro | Dimor
12.29.11 | Wishing you the best dude, hoping your recovery will be quick and painless. Times will get better, they always do. Great list too, Will defenitely check some of these out that i havent heard yet | swallowtales
12.29.11 | Shit that sounds ridiculously horrible, good luck. | DaveyBoy
12.29.11 | Tommy Gun, how's it all going (hopefully back at home)? | Captain North
01.06.12 | Yeah back at home now, which means I get to sleep in more each day instead of getting up when they want me to who. But in all seriousness, things are going well, I've taken it a bit too easily recently and paid for it when I went back to physio. I stood up today with the physio supporting me, which was great (and unbelievably hard and painful). But yeah, new challenges now I'm at home, but it's looking good. Thanks for your support guys. | Yazz_Flute
01.06.12 | Reading over this list again I realize that we have incredibly similar tastes.
I guess that's sputnik. Glad to hear recovery's going well though man. | Butkuiss
01.06.12 | Shit dude, hope your recovery is going well. Still remember the day I heard about your accident. Stay strong, all the best. |
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