Flagpole wrote:
Can't stand the Beach Boys...blech.
Inexcusable. Pet Sounds is almost objectively good. (Surf's Up is their best album, though.) Paul McCartney inducted Brian Wilson into the songwriter's hall of fame and Elton John inducted the Beach Boys into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. They were huge fans. Are you saying the guys who wrote two of your top 10 albums have bad taste, Jack?
These are all from the 70s/ Early 80s.
This is not a list of the best music just a soundtrack to your childhood. Why do people stop listening to music once they’ve graduated from college?
Peninsula Patty wrote:
These are all from the 70s/ Early 80s.
This is not a list of the best music just a soundtrack to your childhood. Why do people stop listening to music once they’ve graduated from college?
Okay, I'll bite.
From mid-eighties to present day
Murder City Devils - In Name and Blood (2002)
Murder city Devils - The White Ghost has Blood on Its Hands (2014)
Afghan Whigs - Black Love (1996)
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de Habitual (1990)
Temple of the Dog- Temple of the Dog (1991)
U2- Joshua Tree (1985)
Kelly Joe Phelps - Shine Eyed Mister Zen (1999)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994)
The Music- The Music (2002)
The Gallant Pig Man wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
Can't stand the Beach Boys...blech.
Inexcusable. Pet Sounds is almost objectively good. (Surf's Up is their best album, though.) Paul McCartney inducted Brian Wilson into the songwriter's hall of fame and Elton John inducted the Beach Boys into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. They were huge fans. Are you saying the guys who wrote two of your top 10 albums have bad taste, Jack?
They are wrong about the Beach Boys, yes...in my subjective opinion of course. There are only two super popular bands that I just don't get at all, and The Beach Boys is one. Pink Floyd is the other.
Flagpole wrote:
The Gallant Pig Man wrote:
Inexcusable. Pet Sounds is almost objectively good. (Surf's Up is their best album, though.) Paul McCartney inducted Brian Wilson into the songwriter's hall of fame and Elton John inducted the Beach Boys into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. They were huge fans. Are you saying the guys who wrote two of your top 10 albums have bad taste, Jack?
They are wrong about the Beach Boys, yes...in my subjective opinion of course. There are only two super popular bands that I just don't get at all, and The Beach Boys is one. Pink Floyd is the other.
+1
Flagpole wrote:
The Gallant Pig Man wrote:
Inexcusable. Pet Sounds is almost objectively good. (Surf's Up is their best album, though.) Paul McCartney inducted Brian Wilson into the songwriter's hall of fame and Elton John inducted the Beach Boys into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. They were huge fans. Are you saying the guys who wrote two of your top 10 albums have bad taste, Jack?
They are wrong about the Beach Boys, yes...in my subjective opinion of course. There are only two super popular bands that I just don't get at all, and The Beach Boys is one. Pink Floyd is the other.
You're half right. I likewise don't get Pink Floyd. But the Beach Boys are factually, objectively, and I daresay probably divinely decreed to be great!
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
Surfin’ Bird single by The Trashmen
bored wrote:
Beatles - Abbey Road
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Sunny Day Real Estate - self titled (pink album)
Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, the Machine
Band of Horses - everything all the time
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Sunset Rubdown - DragonSlayer
I’ve never heard Wolf Parade, but based on your other selections seems like I need to check them out. Good list.
1. Clash - London Calling
2. Ramones - It's Alive
3. KISS - Alive!
4. Jason and the Scorchers - Lost and Found
5. Beach Boys - Endless Summer (yes it's a compilation, but Pet Sounds aside, they were mostly a singles band).
6. R.E.M. - Reckoning
7. Marvelous 3 - Ready, Sex, Go
8. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
9. Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
10. A good recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Interesting you mention pet sounds, because by now I thought everyone had heard....
Middle Class wrote:
bored wrote:
Beatles - Abbey Road
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Sunny Day Real Estate - self titled (pink album)
Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, the Machine
Band of Horses - everything all the time
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Sunset Rubdown - DragonSlayer
I’ve never heard Wolf Parade, but based on your other selections seems like I need to check them out. Good list.
Wolf Parade is actually the odd one out on this list (it's the only band on this list I like). Their an underrated early-2000s indie band, but apologies to queen mary overshadows all subsequent work. They could've been as big as arcade fire or something like that but it didn't stick for some reason
fattyatthegym wrote:
Interesting you mention pet sounds, because by now I thought everyone had heard....
Heard what???
Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet
Stooges Raw Power
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Slint Spiderland
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Jimi Hendrix Expericence Are You Expericenced?
Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
PJ Harvey Rid of Me
Elder Dead Roots Stirring
Some good picks here -- are you Canadian by chance? Dragonslayer by Sunset Rubdown is a great album, shame that my wife dislikes it.
bored wrote:
Beatles - Abbey Road
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Sunny Day Real Estate - self titled (pink album)
Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, the Machine
Band of Horses - everything all the time
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Sunset Rubdown - DragonSlayer
Rare, obscure, hard to find, and mostly rumored.
Jandek Comes Alive - Jandek
Sue Tissue Unplugged - Sue McLane
Missing Sundays - Harriet Wheeler
San Fransisco is Burning - Twisto Frumpkin
My Amazing Toothache - Blind Boy Frumpy
Bat Chain Puller II - Don Van Vliet's Ghost
Sod Farmers Lament - The Angry Bipolar Cosmonauts
A Bad Day in East Tustin - unknown
Gravity is not a Force - Gummo Marx
Variations of Microtonal Consciousness - The Pure Hate Orchestra (minus a guy named William)
The Mermen - The Amazing California Health and Happiness Road Show
The Mermen - Live at the Haunted House
Laika and the Cosmonauts - The Amazing Colossal Band
Laika and the Cosmonauts - Instruments of Terror
Duke Levine - Country Soul Guitar
Jon & the Nightriders - Fiberglass Rocket
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (soundtrack)
Moog - Kei to the City
move - Electrock
m.o.v.e. - Boulder
Quick picks, not too much thought put into it.
10000 Maniacs - The Wishing Chair
Tonio K - Life in the Foodchain
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Jonathan Richman - Jonathan Sings
Phranc - Folksinger
The National - Boxer
Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Clash - Sandinista
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels
The Handsome Family - Milk and Scissors
Hard to leave without smuggling on some Husker Du, Replacements, War on Drugs, Big Thief, Waxahatchee, Bon Iver...
Wolf Parade, sunset rubdown and Moonface are all projects of Spencer Krug. He’s a prolific Canadian. I tend to like music that morphs. I’m also relatively old (40s) so I picked from across my lifetime.
No.. but got into the Canadian indie scene with Arts and Crafts and the Wolf Parade folks.
Spencer krug is incredibly talented. Loved that Band of Horses album too, remember seeing them live at the time and they were great. Excellent debut album, never reached those heights again.
bored wrote:
No.. but got into the Canadian indie scene with Arts and Crafts and the Wolf Parade folks.