Yell Sound, Shetland Superthread

[Reggo]

There must be more of these somewhere.

 

[bono_212]

Dead Can Dance and Dirty Projectors leak back to back? Oh shit.

 

[The Sad Punk]

There must be more of these somewhere.

My brother was in Alice Springs recently and apparently dingos actually do roam the streets there. He saw heaps of them. Same with Coober Pedy. They beg for food and scavange around garbage bins. So uh yeah, I guess stereotypes do happen in the Outback. Didn't see a single roo though, which is strange.

 

[Reggo]

Are dingoes something to be afraid of, or is that a urban legend/stereotype, too?

 

[The Sad Punk]

They're really just wild dogs, so yeah, they are dangerous. I've only seen them in the wild once and they were just hanging around on a beach. I doubt they'd come up and start attacking groups of people, but you'd be silly to leave a kid around them.

 

[cobl04]

Shame it took the authorities 30 years to realise that.

 

[Axver]

So we booted up my laptop for the first time since the accident tonight, and I'm blown away - it works! I'm posting from it now and I've salvaged my most recent work and other files that missed my last data backup.

In other news, sometimes hangovers are a bitch. Others are a friendly reminder of a night well spent. Got the latter today. Good times!

 

[Alisaura]

Hangovers can be friendly?

I guess I haven't had enough to distinguish the difference.

 

[Alisaura]

Huh, haven't had a double post for a while either.

 

[bono_212]

Hey, what the hell happened to the Tina TransvesTurner show?

 

[Reggo]

Hey, what the hell happened to the Tina TransvesTurner show?

What's this now?

 

[bono_212]

Stars in Their Eyes. Did it get cancelled?

 

[The Sad Punk]

Oh god, I remember that now. Was that a Kiwi only show? There was some sort of Australian equivalent but I'm certain it ended a couple of years ago.

We do have some reality show based on Priscilla Queen of the Desert coming up soon though, so... uh, rock on gang!

 

[Axver]

I've no idea if it's been cancelled, but it's not on in New Zealand right now, I can at least say that much.

Though who knew I'd find one of the best pizza places I've been to in my life in a tiny country town half an hour outside of Whangarei! Had a couple of awesome meals there lately ... in between epic country walks. My legs are close to falling off.

 

[Reggo]

My next tattoo is going to be of a platypus.

Now I just need to find someone who can draw a decent-looking platypus, and not end up with a brown Perry from Phineas and Ferb.

 

[bono_man2002]

Comic Con (not affiliated with the US one) was frickin' nuts. First time I've ever been to something like that, and I ran into Alison

 

[Axver]

Comic Con (not affiliated with the US one) was frickin' nuts. First time I've ever been to something like that, and I ran into Alison

No way.

 

[LemonMelon]

Hey, Assver, why didn't you tell me you listened to Emergency & I and dropped it a 4/5? Fuck yeah! It's not often that you hand out ratings like that to albums in my top 25. As a matter of fact, that hasn't happened, outside of U2 stuff.

 

[Axver]

Hah, I've been playing it a bit lately actually. First listen a couple of months ago, I gave it just a 3.5, but it went straight up to a 4 on second listen (I think it helped that I skipped that Jitters song). We were cranking it in the car the other day; good times.

What else is in your top 25? Lately I've been kind of contemplating making a top albums sort of list on RYM, a top 50 or even 100, but like every time I've thought of doing that, I just end up thinking it'll be a huge, pointless task and I won't be happy with the result. Nobody really cares anyway whether I rank Nowhere #4 or #14 or #24.

 

[LemonMelon]

I have no idea where my CD copy went, but I do play that album a lot on the iPod when I'm out. Memory Machine and What Do You Want Me To Say get me fired up before class.

The top 25 I had written down:

1. The Beatles – Abbey Road
2. Radiohead – OK Computer
3. U2 – Zooropa
4. Steely Dan – Aja
5. Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy
6. David Bowie – Station To Station
7. R.E.M. – Automatic For The People
8. The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
9. Joni Mitchell – Court And Spark
10. Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
11. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
12. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
13. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
14. Arcade Fire - Funeral
15. Weezer - Weezer (1994)
16. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
17. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
18. Pink Floyd – Animals
19. Randy Newman – Sail Away
20. Prince – Sign ‘O’ the Times
21. Pulp – Different Class
22. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
23. The Moody Blues – Days Of Future Passed
24. Super Furry Animals – Radiator
25. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

Spoiler

26. Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove
27. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
28. Outkast - Aquemini
29. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
30. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
31. The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee
32. Love – Forever Changes
33. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
34. Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
35. Nick Drake – Pink Moon
36. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
37. Beck – Midnite Vultures
38. Television - Marquee Moon
39. Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
40. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
41. Flaming Lips – Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
42. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
43. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
44. Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969)
45. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
46. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
47. Brian Eno - Another Green World
48. Big Star – Radio City
49. Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything?
50. Nas - Illmatic
51. The Cure – The Head On The Door
52. XTC - Skylarking
53. Madvillain – Madvillainy
54. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
55. Shins – Oh, Inverted World
56. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
57. Kanye West - Late Registration
58. Silver Jews - American Water
59. The Who - The Who Sell Out
60. Blondie – Parallel Lines
61. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
62. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
63. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
64. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
65. Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick
66. The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
67. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
68. The La's - The La's
69. King Crimson - Red
70. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
71. Yes - Fragile
72. The Cars - The Cars
73. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
74. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
75. Spoon – Girls Can Tell
76. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
77. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
78. Pearl Jam - Ten
79. Aerosmith - Rocks
80. Willie Nelson - Phases and Stages
81. The Replacements - Let It Be
82. Deerhunter – Microcastle
83. The National – Boxer
84. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
85. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
86. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
87. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
88. The Flying Burrito Bros - The Gilded Palace of Sin
89. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
90. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
91. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
92. Queen - A Night at the Opera
93. My Morning Jacket – Z
94. Gorillaz – Demon Days
95. Tears for Fears - The Hurting
96. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
97. Blur - Parklife
98. The Band - Music From Big Pink
99. Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank
100. Tortoise – TNT

Clearly, I was wrong about the only 4+ you handed out being to Zooropa and Emergency & I because Animals and Station To Station are on there. This list feels incomplete to me because I only have one album per artist, but if I had multiple per artist, it would look even worse.

 

[Axver]

Didn't know you rated Zooropa as U2's #1. Or maybe I did, but forgot. Also didn't know you rated Head on the Door of all things as The Cure's best. Kind of surprised to see Queen in your top 100, and The Go-Betweens I expected to be higher.

Oh and as for the rest of your top 25, I've also given 4/5 to The Stone Roses.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

There is too much music to be listened to these holidays.

>spends most time listening to Mumiy Troll

 

[bono_212]

I really have got to get around to making a top 100.

 

[LemonMelon]

Yeah, I actually rank Zooropa, Joshua Tree and Pop ahead of Achtung Baby. I'm an odd duck, what can I say.

 

[cobl04]

What would that list look like if it wasn't limited to one per artist?

You should write a sentimental post on Aja.

 

[bono_212]

Please don't.

 

[LemonMelon]

What would that list look like if it wasn't limited to one per artist?

You should write a sentimental post on Aja.

It would just be a massive block of U2, Beatles, Bowie, Zeppelin, Neil Young and Pink Floyd albums.

Maybe I will. It was the first classic rock album I ever loved. I was like 9 years old when I first heard it.

 

[Axver]

Yeah, I actually rank Zooropa, Joshua Tree and Pop ahead of Achtung Baby. I'm an odd duck, what can I say.

Well, I rank those three ahead of Achtung too, but I throw five or so others into the mix too.

I've got a list of my 5/5, 4.5/5 and most 4/5 albums on RYM ranked (it seemed the best way to avoid missing anything). It runs to about 170 albums and I made it a month or so ago; I didn't limit myself to only one or two albums by each band, though I did stop myself if I felt like a band was getting over-represented. Still think I'm reasonably content with much of the list. This is the top fifty:

1. Anathema: Judgement
2. Porcupine Tree: Stupid Dream
3. U2: The Unforgettable Fire
4. Pure Reason Revolution: The Dark Third
5. Alcest: Souvenirs d'un autre monde
6. Russian Circles: Station
7. Agalloch: Pale Folklore
8. Ride: Nowhere
9. U2: Boy
10. Porcupine Tree: Lightbulb Sun
11. The Chills: Submarine Bells
12. The Cure: Faith
13. Agalloch: The Mantle
14. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
15. Whipping Boy: Heartworm
16. Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
17. The Church: Séance
18. Alcest: Les voyages de l'ame
19. Split Enz: Frenzy
20. Pure Reason Revolution: Hammer and Anvil

Spoiler

21. Pink Floyd: Animals
22. Alcest: Ecailles de lune
23. Crowded House: Together Alone
24. Anathema: Alternative 4
25. God Is an Astronaut: All Is Violent, All Is Bright
26. Isis: Wavering Radiant
27. Crowded House: Crowded House
28. Pinback: Summer in Abaddon
29. Thy Catafalque: Rengeteg
30. REM: Fables of the Reconstruction
31. Porcupine Tree: Deadwing
32. Pinback: Autumn of the Seraphs
33. Kyuss: Welcome to Sky Valley
34. Russian Circles: Empros
35. Pure Reason Revolution: Amor Vincit Omnia
36. Swervedriver: Mezcal Head
37. Orphaned Land: Mabool
38. Porcupine Tree: In Absentia
39. The Verve: A Storm in Heaven
40. Washed Out: Within and Without
41. Blackfield: Blackfield II
42. Anathema: A Fine Day to Exit
43. Buddha on the Moon: Stratospheric
44. The Church: The Blurred Crusade
45. Explosions in the Sky: The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
46. Thursday: Full Collapse
47. The Chameleons: Script of the Bridge
48. The Chills: Brave Words
49. Russian Circles: Geneva
50. U2: The Joshua Tree

 

[LemonMelon]

If Together Alone isn't in my top 100, it probably will be soon. Damn fine album.

Pale Folklore is your favorite Agalloch album? I actually haven't gone back that far yet. I love The Mantle.

You like something by Thursday? Woah. I listened to their last one and it was OK.

Also...new Alcest already? I guess I envy you, having a new favorite like that.

 

[bono_212]

The problem with my top ten is that it looks something like U2 U2 Springsteen U2 Springsteen Gabriel The Cure U2 The Killers Bon Iver