Random Music Thread LXIII: Cobbler is disqualified for poor effort.

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Good list, iYup. I'm not sure I posted mine here yet, only on Facebook. One album per artist:

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
5. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
6. Super Furry Animals - Radiator
7. Outkast - Aquemini
8. The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
9. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
10. Built To Spill - Keep It Like a Secret

11. Beck - Midnite Vultures
12. Madvillain - Madvillainy
13. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
14. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
15. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
16. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
17. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
18. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
19. Spoon - Girls Can Tell
20. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

21. Deerhunter - Microcastle
22. The National - Boxer
23. The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
24. U2 - Pop
25. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
26. My Morning Jacket - Z
27. Gorillaz - Demon Days
28. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
29. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
30. Tortoise - TNT

31. Silver Jews - American Water
32. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
33. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
34. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
35. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
36. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
37. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
38. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
39. Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
40. The Format - Dog Problems

41. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
42. The Horrors - Primary Colours
43. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
44. Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
45. Destroyer - Kaputt
46. The White Stripes - Elephant
47. Beach House - Teen Dream
48. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
49. Coldplay - Parachutes
50. Burial - Untrue
 
Great lists, guys. I like looking at lists where I recognize, and even love and own, a great many - if not most - of the titles on them. Makes me feel less old and out of touch than I have been feeling lately. :)
 
I added 84 albums to my list via their "use our lists" deal, and just now realized it put them in order of which I chose first. My list will be based entirely on chronological order then, as I doubt I'll go through to fix them all.
 
I'm caving and doing this Pitchfork nonsense. Scrolling through my iTunes, I just realized I don't have a single album from the year 1998.
 
Do we get to use body paint?

I just blue myself

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Although Blunderbuss lost its luster for me after a dozen or so listens, I'd still like to see Jack this tour to hear some Stripes stuff again. Maybe he'll do a taping since I'm skipping ACL Fest.

Was anyone else fortunate enough to see the White Stripes? They were the second show I ever saw (way back in 2003) and remain top ten all time.

LemonMelon said:
I've never really heard anything by Talking Heads live, though they're one of the most acclaimed live bands of the '80s.

Speaking of this, I need some Talking Heads education before my front row stint at St. Byrnecent in October. Don't let me down, guys.

u2popmofo said:
I just don't like ranking things, it takes everything I like about music and turns it into douchery.

I used to be quite Rob Gordon-esque about ranking and listing, but I can't bring myself to do it anymore. It's an unnecessary headache for me.
 
Speaking of this, I need some Talking Heads education before my front row stint at St. Byrnecent in October. Don't let me down, guys.

I'd start with Remain in Light and then go backwards from there: Fear of Music, More Songs About Buildings & Food, and Talking Heads 77. There is also a recent best-of out there that looks like a decent overview.
 
Some of the first CDs I ever purchased were Talking Heads. Stop Making Sense and the Sand In the Vaseline compilation.

I've never bought or heard any of their albums. :huh:
 
Here's a Top 50 that I spent all of 15 minutes on:

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF PITCHFORK LISTFEST 2012
List by PHILADELPHIA FAN

1. The National - Alligator
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. The White Stripes - Elephant
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Radiohead - OK Computer
6. The National - High Violet
7. Beach House - Teen Dream
8. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
9. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
10. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

11. The National - Boxer
12. Washed Out - Within and Without
13. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
14. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
15. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
16. U2 - Pop
17. Animal Collective - Meriweather Post Pavilion
18. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
19. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
20. Destroyer - Kaputt

21. The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
22. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
23. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
24. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
25. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
26. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
27. Radiohead - Kid A
28. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
29. John Frusciante - Shadows Collide with People
30. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

31. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
32. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
33. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
34. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
35. David Bowie - Heathen
36. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
37. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
38. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
39. The National - Cherry Tree
40. Bruce Springsteen - Magic

41. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
42. St. Vincent - Actor
43. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
44. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
45. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
46. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
47. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
48. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
49. The Dead Weather - Horehound
50. Gorillaz - Demon Days
 
Attababy, Ass Dan. Wounded Rhymes was way up on mine. Shame about it being out of print. Most of yours made the top 80 I Cobbler'd together.

iron yuppie said:
I'd start with Remain in Light and then go backwards from there: Fear of Music, More Songs About Buildings & Food, and Talking Heads 77. There is also a recent best-of out there that looks like a decent overview.

I'd prefer to go with albums over compilations, so I'll do the Remain in Light thing and throw it in reverse from there. Thanks, pal.
 
Remain in Light is creeping up my list of best-ever albums, so I hope you find something to enjoy in it.
 
I'd start with Remain in Light and then go backwards from there: Fear of Music, More Songs About Buildings & Food, and Talking Heads 77. There is also a recent best-of out there that looks like a decent overview.

I'd co-sign this. Start with Remain in Light (good balance of their groovy Speaking in Tongues period and the more post-punk influenced stuff) and work backwards. Fear of Music is my favorite, but there's plenty to appreciate before that.

The Name of this Band is Talking Heads actually works great as an entry point too, I think. I loved it; it did enough with the arrangements to separate itself from the studio output while remaining true enough to the originals to be recognizable. It's one of those rare necessary live albums.
 
Haha, it's the damned. You expect something more?

Yeah, I have no idea how to even begin to describe these guys. One song at a time, sure, but I never know what to expect from them. Their debut scared the shit out of me after keeping I Just Can't Be Happy Today on a constant loop.
 
So, I think Tonight's The Night has become my favorite Neil Young album. Powerful stuff. Great tunes.

Bruce Berry was a workin man
He used to load that Econoline van...

I'm loving that Spotify has basically the entirety of Neil's massive catalogue available. I might just go ahead and listen to everything the man has recorded.
 
Zooropa is still Mt. Rushmore material. Like, all-time history of music Mt. Rushmore. Hallelujah.

Holy shit, Lemon sounds like it's melting. And when Daddy's Gonna Pay kicks back in with YOU'VE GOT A HEAD FULL OF TRAFFIC and rattles my speakers, that's bliss. What a beautiful yet distant record. It sounds like it's transmitting from Mars but still manages to communicate the usual oversized U2 emotions that make hipsters uncomfortable.

Amen. Zooropa has long been my very favorite U2 album.
 
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