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Last Active 02-18-19 11:12 am
Joined 08-31-11
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| My Favourite Records
These records have influenced me drastically and are what I point to when it comes to explaining my taste for the music I love. Feel free to share in it or whatever, hate it - I don't really care. | | 1 |  | Altar of Plagues
Teethed Glory and Injury
I frame this record on my wall of influences, middle and centre. The best record ever made in my lifetime.
Thank you James Kelly & Co. | | 2 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
Is it really such big news to say I fell in love with Kid A first listen enough to purchase the record the morning after the night I'd streamed it through Youtube? How about the fact I actually hadn't had my luck getting into Radiohead's OK Computer or The Bends prior to it...
And people compare OK Computer to The Beatles Sgt.Pepper. How the fuck does an album with like 30% not a guitar (Sgt.Pepper) go for an album with 100% guitars on every track (OK Computer)? My opinion:
If you listen to Kid A and Optimistic is the best song on the album, you’re listening to it wrong. If you listen to Kid A though and Optimistic is the worst song, then you’re listening to it right. | | 3 |  | Converge
You Fail Me
Hardcore in a hurricane package. To me, this feels like the last real hardcore punk record in a long time due to it's raw production and emotive lyricism. I guess people love their metal and cores these days with sheen and manufactured precision... | | 4 |  | Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Chad Smith is my favourite drummer, and I just had a great time with this record when I was younger. Naturally, it's never really dipped since. | | 5 |  | Massive Attack
Mezzanine
The ultimate chill tripper. | | 6 |  | Muse
Origin of Symmetry
This record is just electric, and I still love it.
You know how we look at bands who’ve lost key members and we bitch about it like ‘oh, they were so much better when so and so was in the band.’ Well, Muse has managed to stay together for 20 years, the same three guys, and somehow it feels like someone has died!
What the fuck happened to them?! | | 7 |  | The Pop Group
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I'm not even gonna bother describing this one other than it's just the most political record ever commit to tape in my ears. It's the equivalent of listening to those political cartoons in the newspaper. | | 8 |  | Gorguts
Obscura
The modern jazz album LOL | | 9 |  | Krallice
Krallice
Ever since I heard Energy Chasms, I think this record was done for me. Not perfect, not a masterpiece, but it ain't set out to be and it doesn't have to be either because it doesn't stop me spinning this record again and again and AGAIN! | | 10 |  | Metallica
Master of Puppets
I've been listening to this record again recently and it definitely didn't falter over my years of maturity, in fact it really surprised me how good this record simply is. Not really would i put it #10, but you can take this entire list with a grain of salt. I know I missed some good records, so this isn't official okay...just speaking my mind currently at this time. | |
GooGooGajoob
07.18.16 | 'There's not enough metal-core and nu-metal on this list imo' < Don't be that guy. | 50iL
07.18.16 | Nice, balanced list. Needs more Jazz though. | dixoncocks
07.18.16 | Origin of Symmetry is such a fantastic album. New Born has one of the best choruses I've ever heard, and Space Dementia is fucking musical crack. | Flashmobba
07.18.16 | major props for 2, 5 and 6 | GooGooGajoob
07.18.16 | Absolution is alright...I dunno. It's a lot more restrained then Origin of Symmetry, though it does lead to some lovely tunes like Sing for Absolution and Black Out, Butterflies and Hurricanes. I find The Small print onwards a really odd ending though, like the album becomes B-sides until the final track Ruled by Secrecy closes (honestly the best track on the entire record). | GooGooGajoob
07.18.16 | 'That's a tad too far. Treefingers isn't that good, Morning Bell is .... really good but not great. Hell the last track is just ok.'
I really disagree. The weakest track by far is Optimistic. It's so slow and just takes so long to bloom. As for the other tracks you mention, I really like Treefingers and I LOVE Morning Bell and Motion Picture Soundtrack. The issue with Kid A is people who love OK Computer or 90's Radiohead more need these tracks to have arena-rock worthy production to make these songs more 'epic,' when really Kid A is an exercise of just sheer brilliance without needing to be blown up unnecessarily. | guitarded_chuck
07.18.16 | optimistic is a great track although the live in the basement version is better than the album version | IronGiant
07.18.16 | disagree with your statement about Kid A. Optimistic is the 'Knives Out' of the record meant to show all the close-minded fans who think Radiohead lost their ability to write alt. rock anthems when they listened to the previous 5 tracks of Kid A that they still got it. I personally love Optimistic; the tribal drumming puts me in a trance and the "Dinosaurs roaming the earth" bridge into the last chorus is one of my favorite moments on the record. For me the weakest track (although, still a great track because Kid A is a stone cold classic) would be Motion Picture Soundtrack. That plods along a bit too safely for my tastes, especially after the wildly engaging and successful experimentation they employed in the preceding 9 tracks. As it stands, Kid A is a top 5 record for me | doomjitsu
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