Skronk wrote:This thread is turning out to be a good birthday wish-list.

You only download "albums" for free on your birthday?

Monks- Black Time
Wipers- Is This Real?
Six Finger Satellite- Severe Exposure
Nina Nastasia- The Blackened Air
The Jesus Lizard- Goat
Duke Ellington- Ellington Indigos
Pixies- Come On Pilgrim
Naked Raygun- Basement Screams
Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain
Red Swan- Cold Winters Dawn

Devo: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home

Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks

Willie Nelson: Phases and Stages

John Phillips: The Wolf-king of L.A.

Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St.

The Stooges: Funhouse

Neil Young: Tonight's the Night

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere


I guess that's eleven. Oops.

in no particular order

1. pil - metal box
2. chico hamilton quintet featuring buddy colette
3. nick drake - pink moon
4. king crimson - red
5. chavez - gone glimmering
6. the fall - hex enduction hour
7. sandoz - chant to jah
8. steve reich - music for 18 musicians
9. wire - pink flag
10. pulp - his 'n' hers

Shit, I forgot about Gone Glimmering. This is a perfect album too.

Brian Eno - Music for Airports
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
The Beatles - Revolver
Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Elliott Smith - XO
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Jesus Lizard - Goat
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Low - Long Division
Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster
Minutemen - Double Nickels
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neu! - NEU!
Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
PiL - Metal Box
Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Stooges - Funhouse
Television - Marquee Moon
Velvet Underground - S/T 3rd
Weezer - Blue Album
The Wrens - Meadowlands
XTC - Drums & Wires

I guess that's 24. Oops

Steve V. wrote:Greg MacPherson Band - Night Flares

nice one.

i haven't listened to it for ages...

good live too. generally on his own.

Off the top of my head:

Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Shellac - At Action Park
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Slint - Spiderland
The Beatles - Revolver
Smog - Knock Knock*
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Nina Nastasia - On Leaving
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

The most obvious list in the world. Oh well. Fuck off.

Just because these albums are "perfect" doesn't necessarily make these albums my favorites...it's just you can listen to them all the way through and be totally engaged...except for perhaps Kind of Blue, but jazz music is weird.

Also, Teenage Fanclub is good.

*Knock Knock might be easily exchanged for Red Apple Falls depending on the day of the week.

Gang of Four - Entertainment
Rapeman - 2 Nuns...
Sweep The Leg Johnny - Sto Cazzo!
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
The Fall - Dragnet
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Bilge Pump - Let Me Breathe
The Stooges - Fun House

Most of that list would've been the same 4 or 5 years ago, which proves the point I guess..

Shit, I should have included Another Green World somewhere on my list.