Here's ten of them in no paricular order:

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Can - Tago Mago
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit
Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets
Mission of Burma - The Horrible Truth About Burma
Einsturzende Neubauten - 5 From The Open Ended Richter Scale
PIL - Metal Box/2nd Edition
Fela Kuti - Shakara/ London Scene
Black Sabbath - Volume 4

Steve V. wrote:

Mama Clortho wrote:\
Born Against - Patriotic Battle Hymns (again, aha!)

Totally fucking agree. One of the best hardcore bands ever, if not the best.

Right on. Ten years ago, when was 15, some friends and I would cover a lot of BA songs. For a school talent quest, we played a medley consisting of Nine Years Later/Murder the Sons of Bitches/Mary And Child/Well Fed Fuck and Poland. Afterwards, not a single person said a word to us for the rest of the night. Not even our parents or siblings. A few weeks later we were made to see the school councilor every week for 3 months.

While those records are very nostalgic, I still enjoy them just as much I ever did. They don’t sound dated at all, either.

Have you ever been to the Sam Mcpheeters website? It's great. On it he says:

If you like these (born against) records, I recommend buying one or both of the Articles Of Faith CD reissues, released on Alternative Tentacles. My liner notes are better, but in all other respects AOF were a towering JFK to Born Against's chubby Bill Clinton.

Have you ever heard AOF? I've been meaning to check them out for a while.

I guess if pressed I could think of ten perfect albums, but most of the records I enjoy the most are not necessarily perfect in any sense. However, here are three albums which I would personally consider to be a holy trinity of pristine and tremulous beauty, art as pure outreach, shared truth and wonder. Stand naked clown:

The Raincoats-Odyshape
Talk Talk-Laughing Stock
Scott Walker-Tilt

A few of these have been repeated.

1. Joy Division - Closer
2. Tim Buckley - Dream Letter (live comp.)
3. Joanna Newson - The Milk Eyed Mender
4. Johan Johansson - IBM1401, A User's Manual
5. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Hands Like Antennas to Heaven
6. Lift to Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads
7. Third Eye Foundation - Little Lost Soul
8. Murcof - Remembranza
9. The Cure - Faith
10. Sigur Ros - Untitled (people have given me shit for liking them, but I love this album so fuck 'em)

Not necessarily in any meaningful order.

Mama Clortho wrote:

Steve V. wrote:

Mama Clortho wrote:\
Born Against - Patriotic Battle Hymns (again, aha!)

Totally fucking agree. One of the best hardcore bands ever, if not the best.

Right on. Ten years ago, when was 15, some friends and I would cover a lot of BA songs. For a school talent quest, we played a medley consisting of Nine Years Later/Murder the Sons of Bitches/Mary And Child/Well Fed Fuck and Poland. Afterwards, not a single person said a word to us for the rest of the night. Not even our parents or siblings. A few weeks later we were made to see the school councilor every week for 3 months.

While those records are very nostalgic, I still enjoy them just as much I ever did. They don’t sound dated at all, either.

Have you ever been to the Sam Mcpheeters website? It's great. On it he says:

If you like these (born against) records, I recommend buying one or both of the Articles Of Faith CD reissues, released on Alternative Tentacles. My liner notes are better, but in all other respects AOF were a towering JFK to Born Against's chubby Bill Clinton.

Have you ever heard AOF? I've been meaning to check them out for a while.

That's a fucking awesome story. Me and a few friends covered Minor Threat at a middle school talent show...which is not nearly as cool as a Born Against set.

Sam McPheeters does some great work, and is a super nice fellow. I did an interview with him for a zine I did years ago, and he's actually pretty funny. Wrangler Brutes fucking kick ass too. I miss Vermiform dearly.

I love AoF. Really a great band with some incredible hardcore songs. A three guitar attack that pushed the punched the scene in the ear. While everyone else was playing weak, surface-issue music, AoF was going a helluva lot deeper.

And I've ripped McPheeter's comparison of BA to AoF a bunch of times, using the "towering JFK to chubby Clinton" line often.

Isabelle Gall wrote:here are three albums which I would personally consider to be a holy trinity of pristine and tremulous beauty, art as pure outreach, shared truth and wonder.

Good Lord.

Isabelle Gall wrote:Talk Talk-Laughing Stock

A couple of song titles on this highly overrated record make reference to Coltrane's Ascension and Albert Ayler's New Grass- deeply spiritual records featuring guys playing saxophone really hard. If only they had 1/10th of the spirit (and I don't mean the spirit of Eden).

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model and Imperial Bedroom

Gang of Four - Entertainment!

Radiohead - Kid A
((The last track is so incredible that it makes me want to cease to exist, vanish into particles and spiral up into heaven with the fading tones. That last wash of sound should, in a proper universe, leave nothing left of the listener but dust and light.))

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane, Over The Sea

TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances A Sophie

Er, that's a couple, I'm going to go do my homework like I'm supposed to.

Isabelle Gall wrote:I guess if pressed I could think of ten perfect albums, but most of the records I enjoy the most are not necessarily perfect in any sense. However, here are three albums which I would personally consider to be a holy trinity of pristine and tremulous beauty, art as pure outreach, shared truth and wonder. Stand naked clown:

The Raincoats-Odyshape
Talk Talk-Laughing Stock
Scott Walker-Tilt

Innerestin' fuckin' selections.

Melvins - Houdini
Bedhead - WhatFunLifeWas
Motorpsycho - Blizzard
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Primus - Sailing The Sees of Cheese
Lift To Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads
King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
Breach - It's Me God
Don Caballero - American Don
Quicksand - Slip
Shiner - Lula Divina
Tar - Jackson
The Wedding Present - Seamonsters
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein
Paul Newman - Frames Per Second
Tortoise - Tortoise
Gang Starr - Hard To Earn

hmm, this is kinda tough.

hot snakes - automatic midnight
tora! tora! torrance! - cynics nightmare
june of 44 - engine takes the water
minus story - the captain is dead let the drum corpse dance
nina nastasia - on leaving
the fire show - self-titled
resplendent - in a wilderness
form of rocket - lumber
paper chase - god bless your black heart
number one cup - possum trot plan

I can listen to all of these from start to finish, over, and over. oddly enough, a lot of them took numerous listens to grasp. funny how that works.