Comments on: What Are The Top Ten Albums You Can’t Live Without?

By: tfinn

tfinn — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:41:52 +0000

In NPO:

Violent Femmes : Hallowed Ground
PJ Harvey : To Bring You My Love
Bob Marley : Legend
Hayden : The Closer I Get
TV On The Radio : Dear Science
Broken Social Scene : You Forgot It In People
Fleetwood Mac : Rumours
Van Morrison : Moondance
The Fiery Furnaces : I’m Going Away
Cat Power : Moonpix

HM:

David Bowie : Changes
Nirvana : MTV Unplugged
The Black Keys : Brothers
The New Pornographers : Challengers
MIA : Arular
Sufjan Stevens : The Avalanche

By: griftergirl7

griftergirl7 — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:06:10 +0000

First post after much lurking…
In no particular order:
Joan As Police Woman – EP
Marvin Gaye – What’s Goin’ On
Carmen McRae – Great American Songbook
Emmylou Harris – Luxury Liner
Rufus Wainwright – Want One
Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
Aretha – Lady Soul
Waylon Jennings – Lonesome, Onry & Mean
Betty Carter – I’m Yours, You’re Mine
Foo Fighters – In Your Honor (Disc 1)

I’ve not deliberated too much on these – my 2011 resolution is to stop worrying so much and just PUT IT ALL OUT THERE! – so there is loads left out (plus it sounds like I stopped listening to music 3 years ago and/or that I’ve been spliced with a 60-year old) but that can’t be helped…

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:14:50 +0000

ooh lists are fun! hard to stop at ten though…

1. fleet foxes- fleet foxes
2. cat power – the greatest
3. smashing pumpkins – siamese dream
4. sufjan stevens – the age of adz
5. radiohead – ok computer
6. r.e.m. – life’s rich pageant
7. the beatles – abbey road
8. david bowie – hunky dory
9. nicole atkins – neptune city
10. the smiths – um, pretty much all of them

By: dc

dc — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:53:54 +0000

IKR!

“Flim” is my jam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m36u25qVlc

By: anna

anna — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:33:05 +0000

tracy + the plastics are pretty awesome

By: anna

anna — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:31:24 +0000

1. wire-pink flag
2. gang of four-entertainment!
3. love-forever changes
4. sleater-kinney-one beat
5. beat happening-black candy (or jamboree)
6. black flag-damaged
7. mission of burma-vs.
8. sun city girls-torch of the mystics
9. shellac-1000 hurts
10. delta 5-see the whirl

runner ups: le tigre-s/t, this heat-deceit, suicide-first album, silicon teens-music for parties, esg-a south bronx story, flipper-generic…okay i’ll stop now

By: dc

dc — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:27:53 +0000

OH OH OH!! I nearly forgot:

Electrelane – No Shouts No Calls.

YOU GUYS. This entire album. I mean it.

By: dc

dc — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:24:52 +0000

Firstly, this is how I feel when asked to choose my favorite albums:

“what of the mother/whose house is in flames/and both of her children/are in their beds crying/and she loves them both/with the whole of her heart/but she knows she can only/carry one at a time?”

That said, here is my list:

Patti Smith – Radio Ethiopia
Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
The Breeders – Pod
Helium – The Dirt of Luck
The Pixies – Doolittle
Team Dresch – Personal Best
Kristin Hersh – Learn to Sing Like a Star
The Need – The Need is Dead
Bikini Kill – The C.D. Version of the First Two Records
Babes in Toyland – The Best of Babes in Toyland and Kat Bjelland
The Quails – We Are The Quails
Third Sex – Card Carryin’
7 Year Bitch – Gato Negro
Tracy + The Plastics – Muscler’s Guide to Videonics\
Ani DiFranco – To the Teeth
Fiona Apple – When the Pawn…
The Gossip – Arkansas Heat
PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Tori Amos – To Venus and Back

By: dc

dc — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:13:44 +0000

Portishead’s Roseland NYC Live is one of the best live albums of all time – maybe rivaled closely by Rasputina’s A Radical Recital.

By: dc

dc — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:11:18 +0000

MTE

This is my brain. But I ended up with To the Teeth.

By: HoneyNee

HoneyNee — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:20:20 +0000

PJ Harvey – White Chalk
PJ Harvey – Uh Huh Her
Tori Amos – Under The Pink
Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
Tor Amos – Chiorgirl Hotel
Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
M.I.A. – Kala
Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Paul Dempsey – Everything Is True

By: wallow14

wallow14 — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:55:28 +0000

I wish I had discovered this website when it first started. I suck.

YAY! I went on the biggest Okkervil River “Lost Coastlines” kick ever last year. I could NOT stop listening to that song and it’s great someone else felt the same way. Actually, lately their song “Red” is like a personal anthem of sorts. I can’t stop.

My completely incomplete list:
1. Múm – Summer Make Good (BEST. ALBUM. EVER.)
2. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
3. Björk – Homogenic
4. Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
5. Circle Takes the Square – As the Roots Undo
6. Radiohead – OK Computer
7. Kaki King – Everybody Loves You
8. Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
9. Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
10. Yann Tiersen – Amélie soundtrack

Et cetera.