F:ATtie Favorite Fives - Records

JonJacob wrote:

MattDP wrote:

I've picked up a taste for hip-hop and reggae.

The things you assume about people over the net... I never would have guessed.

Seeing as I referenced Jamaican Dancehall music prominently in a recent blog piece - and have mentioned rap before in previous articles - I can't work out if this is tongue-in-cheek or not.

He's probably just high again.

Believe me, Animals is one of my favorite Pink Floyd albums as well (and Dark Side of the Moon could be on the list too).
I just get tired of hipsters (and I'm not referring to anyone on these boards) proclaiming that a "real" Pink Floyd fan's favorite albums are Wish You Were Here and The Final Cut (The Final Cut, for God's sake). I own and love albums from Beck, Bowie (Ziggy Stardust could have been on my list, easily), Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Frank Zappa, and so on, but if I step back and try to be objective. The "mainstream" albums on my list have historically brought me more pleasure and listening time than anything like Murder Ballads.
Classic albums are classic for a reason, and I'm on a mission to bring them back, dammit.

And Loter, I can see why most people dismiss easy pop like Rumors, but I love the whole Stevie Nicks magic-archetype she transformed into, and unless my therapist somehow cures me, Fleetwood Mac is staying on the list.

Good call on the Pipettes!

Matt - If I could have gotten away with it, I'd have put the entire Trojan box set collection on my list. Definitely not "albums" though. What kind of hip hop are we talking? Aesop Rock - Labor Days was a close call for me.

Personally I LOVE pop music, problem is that most of the time, there are at best a few great tracks and a bunch of shit on any given pop album.

The King in Yellow wrote:

I just get tired of hipsters (and I'm not referring to anyone on these boards) proclaiming that a "real" Pink Floyd fan's favorite albums are Wish You Were Here and The Final Cut (The Final Cut, for God's sake).

Damn right. Everybody knows that the only real Floyd option is the Barrett solo stuff.

Sorry.

I'll get me(rubbish hipster) coat.

Top 5 in alphabetical order

Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly
Offspring - Americana
The Clash - London Calling
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks
XTC - Skylarking (English Settlement was close)

The Wedding Present - Bizarro
The Wedding Present - Seamonsters
Ride - Nowhere
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

How the fuck I am meant to do this ?!!

The Clash - is it London Calling because I think it's a great album or is it Give 'Em Enough Rope or The Clash because they have awesome tracks I love ?

Nirvana - Never Mind

The Jam - Setting Sons

The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks

Pyschedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk

Midnight Oil - Place Without A Postcard


Don't ask me tomorrow ... or next week.

Wow...where do I even start? Just five? Fuck that noise, this list goes to TEN, baby



1. Metallica "Master of Puppets"
2. Guns N' Roses "Appetite for Destruction"
3. Pearl Jam "Ten"
4. Silversun Pickups "Swoon"
5. Garbage "Garbage"
6. Danzig - Lucifuge
7. Faith No More - "The Real Thing"
8. Slayer - "Raining Blood"
9. Smashing Pumpkins - "Siamese Dream"
10. Nirvana - "Nevermind"


EDIT: Oh hell, this isn't right either, it's missing "Misfits Walk Among Us", "And Justice for All", "Powerslave", "White Blood Cells", "Rubber Factory", "Seaons in the Abyss", "November Coming Fire", "Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness", "Use Your Illusion", "Version 2.0", and "Girl, You Know It's True."

I should just move to Tennessee and play games and listen to music with Ken. How close are you to Nashville, Ken? We are looking at maybe translocating to Vanderbilt in the next few years (still some resume building to work on in the meantime....)

OMG, I love "Lucifuge"...wow. Ken, the next time you're down let's play Thunderstone and blast "777". I love the first record too...shame Danzig went downhill after that.

Hey, here's a fun fact. Did you know that Danzig actually did a song for the Less Than Zero soundtrack? It's credited to Glen Danzig and the Power & Fury Orchestra...it is SO Roy Orbison/Late Elvis. It's called "You and Me". It's actually pretty awesome, not metal at all.

The Clash - is it London Calling because I think it's a great album or is it Give 'Em Enough Rope or The Clash because they have awesome tracks I love ?

Well, it's got to be "London Calling" because that is one of the great records of all time. Lately though, I have to say that "Sandinista!" is my favorite Clash record.

Oh yeah brother, I even had the cassette for Less than Zero just for that and Slayer's wonky, warbling cover of "Inna Gadda da Vida."

Fun fact #2 about that album: Danzig co-wrote the Roy Orbison song "Life Fades Away", also featured.

Fun fact #3: "Hazy Shade of Winter" by the Bangles is a guilty pleasure that I will listen to pretty much anytime.

Fun fact #4- Less Than Zero is my favorite '80s teen movie.

Fun Fact #5 -- the book is a hell of lot better than the movie

The Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Black Album - Prince
Head Over Heel - Cocteau Twins
Sex Machine - James Brown
The Internationalists - The Style Council