let's get it on, bitches...

First three Boston albums on vinyl
Pink Floyd - dark side of the moon and Animals
about 10 cocteau twins albums not including the singles box set
def leppard - pyromania
get the knack
Yngwie malmsteen - trilogy
yes - fragile and tale from topographic oceans
carl orff - carmina burana

some of these I truly love and some are just to annoy people.
I'll let you figure it out.

ben adrian
of oakland, ca

tales from topograpic oceans! mmmmm... a friend and i once found it on vinyl, sitting in a seemingly abandoned box on the sidewalk of lower wacker. there was actually lotsa good music in that box for a couple dumbshit college kids, man did i enjoy hearing that one on vinyl. at least i think i remember liking it... stupid Yes, with their sometimes brilliant, often embarassing music... but *consistently* terrible lyrics!

http://www.yesworld.com/lyrics/TalesFro ... ceans.html

oh yeah, uh, yeah um, i get it...

the album i can think of most readily that falls into the "embarassing" category is Edie Brickell and New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars. the only reason it's in the embarassing category though is because so many people have given me so much shit for liking that album. i'm thick, i don't understand what the deal is. if i had a top 20 albums of all-time, that one would be right there, alongside red medecine, frizzle fry, evergreen, celebrate the new dark age, doolittle, liveage...

see, this right here may end up being more embarassing than my most embarassing album (which now that i think more on it, HAS to be ned's atomic dustbin) but i really think the production on shooting rubberbands is GOOD! hang on, hear me out... when i used to do what i could to evaluate reference audio systems (i.e. shitty space + $120k reference system = shitty space), that album was always a good one for me to use. because there are so many subtle little hippie percussion trinkets being used, and they're mixed in there (in my opinion) just right. a lot of systems don't have the detail to bring all the little shit in the song "what i am" out into the open, and present it on an easy-to-visualize spatial arrangement. and i know it's all some kinda weird voodoo, but if you listen to the intro to "air of december", the big drum (i'm guessing floor tom?) is way wide of the right speaker. many systems just could not do it justice, especially creating a spatial sense beyond just two or even one dimension. and geez, i dunno, closing your eyes and listening to edie's voice on air of december... mmm.. damn that paul simon, damn him!

so i've been told many i time that i oughta be ashamed of what i just said. but seriously, after 10+ years, i still dig that one, brau. hackey sack, incense and all.

PS - oh yeah, i also have the single for Onyx's big hit "Slam" (oooooh, remixes, now with biohazard. blech!)

what's the point of this post? o.k., you don't like metal. i bet i could not like alot of the music you listen to. i could say (hypothetically) "all classical is shit, but i won't elaborate at all as to why". but then again, what's the fucking point.

You want me to elaborate as to why metal should not be continued to be reproduced? Because it doesn't change. It expresses one solitary emotion/feeling. Granted, although I probably came across more harsh then a meant to, I don't think that metal 'never should have been created'. That's juvenile. It is more along the lines of this: No one is reinventing it, they're just copy cats in the name of 'being in the same genre'.
Most of my degradation was pointed directly at Metallica. I just think they stink. I have to lend myself to believe that a good portion of it has to do with Lars. So, there you have it.

Chris

Chris Hardings wrote:

what's the point of this post? o.k., you don't like metal. i bet i could not like alot of the music you listen to. i could say (hypothetically) "all classical is shit, but i won't elaborate at all as to why". but then again, what's the fucking point.

You want me to elaborate as to why metal should not be continued to be reproduced? Because it doesn't change. It expresses one solitary emotion/feeling. Granted, although I probably came across more harsh then a meant to, I don't think that metal 'never should have been created'. That's juvenile. It is more along the lines of this: No one is reinventing it, they're just copy cats in the name of 'being in the same genre'.
Most of my degradation was pointed directly at Metallica. I just think they stink. I have to lend myself to believe that a good portion of it has to do with Lars. So, there you have it.

Chris

Man... Metal is just starting to get really good, I am not joking.

toomanyhelicopters wrote:see, this right here may end up being more embarassing than my most embarassing album (which now that i think more on it, HAS to be ned's atomic dustbin)

Christ, this just reminded me that I own a cassette copy of "Godfodder" by Ned's Atomic Dustbin. That was one silly purchase, but I was 13 or so - hence I'm forgiven, right?

man, i voluntarily listened to that album about a month ago. you're so forgiven, you don't even know the half of it! looking back at it, there are so many things wrong with that album, but for some sick reason, i can still understand why i liked it. any album that has a sample from the movie Die Hard can't be all bad, can it? yeah, i guess it can.

you should be way more embarassed if you have their follow-up album though. that's like, inexcusable!

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vockins wrote:

(Master of Puppets)

not only metallicas best album, but probably the best american thrash album of all time. and definately up there with celtic frosts "into the pandemonium" as best metal album EVER. it's a shame what happened to the band after the death of cliff burton.

Slayer? Morbid Angel?

Warrant?

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i've got some good ones....

my sister gave me my first cd player when i turned 13...with it she included:

1. Ace of Base - The Sign
2. Crash Test Dummies - i don't remember the name, but it was the "mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" one.

the good part of this is, i returned one of the albums and bought aerosmith's get a grip. the bad part is, i kept the sign...i finally desposed of it at age 16 via microwave, i believe. that's my story.

-eric