What's your favourite album ever?

[Leo]

what are you, the fucking favorites police? that's not a challenge, it's a demand to take a quality you can't actually measure and make an arbitrary decision

but if will make you happy, here: HENRY FLYNT - YOU ARE MY EVERLOVIN'

picked in the hopes that it will inspire others to listen and be wowed by its majestic awesomeness.

thank you, i look forward to investigating.

 

[Roshman]

probably going to be an odd set of choices but...

Metronomy - Nights Out
Meshuggah - Catch 33

Nights out is one of the best sounding albums I've ever heard. Just the nicest, cleanest mixdowns and arrangements. The concept of "a crap night out" was particularly resonant with me after a number of bouts in liquid Stevenage and the ilk.

Catch 33 is mental. It was at the peak of my metal obsession and I was always looking for something darker and heavier, eventually leading to more experimental territory. The next step further was probably Drone metal like Sun())) but it didn't have the same energy. Basically it takes a single riff and repeats it throughout the whole album slowly morphing it and changing it.

 

[blacktulip]

what are you, the fucking favorites police? that's not a challenge, it's a demand to take a quality you can't actually measure and make an arbitrary decision

but if will make you happy, here: HENRY FLYNT - YOU ARE MY EVERLOVIN'

picked in the hopes that it will inspire others to listen and be wowed by its majestic awesomeness.

Good choice.

 

[Benny Bunter]

but if will make you happy, here: HENRY FLYNT - YOU ARE MY EVERLOVIN'

picked in the hopes that it will inspire others to listen and be wowed by its majestic awesomeness.

been checking this and some other flynt stuff on youtube - this is incredible! I do check out avant garde stuff from time to time but its rare to find something that gets under my skin like this. Beautiful cosmic hillbilly VU bizzness! Thanks.

 

[craner]

I'm really sad that nobody had anything to say about my list. I was hoping to test the natural limits of your collective hipster credentials, Paul Gambaccini-style.

 

[baboon2004]

That Henry Flynt record is magical.

@craner - I am glad to see that someone mentioned Bobby Brown.

I can't do this question, albums are too associated with my indie rock phase/pre-mp3 phase in general, to be representative of my overall tastes. My album list would look like an outtake from Mojo magazine

 

[crackerjack]

I'm really sad that nobody had anything to say about my list. I was hoping to test the natural limits of your collective hipster credentials, Paul Gambaccini-style.

Sorry, I'd assumed that was just a box of 50p CDs you'd found outside the local charity shop.

 

[Slothrop]

The Velvet Underground and Nico.

I know it's the obvious one, but it's also incredibly good. Everything from the grungy but weirdly bright production to the feedback to the little bass fills to the slightly skewed rhyme schemes to the hipster sneering to the cottonwool softness is great.

 

[Local Authority]

Interesting. Its nigh impossible narrowing everything down into one succinct album, different music encapsulates different moods and times. This is by no means final as I'd have probably forgotten loads based on my current listening habits. It would be easier if there was one album I always went too but thats not the case.

Burial - Burial
Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity/The Seer
Heroin - Heroin
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Source Direct - Exorcise The Demons
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Actress - Hazyville
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Felix K - Flowers Of Destruction
The Knife - Silent Shout
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Botch - We Are The Romans
Prurient - Cocaine Death
Vex'd - Degenerate
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Sandwell District - Feed Forward
Moss Icon - Lybernum
Rites Of Spring - Rites Of Spring
The Jesus Lizard - Liar

Update -
Nas - Illmatic
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
GZA - Liquid Swords

Haven't listened to that much hip-hop in years but these have to be added too. I know I'm cheating slightly but still.

 

[craner]

Sorry, I'd assumed that was just a box of 50p CDs you'd found outside the local charity shop.

Ha ha. I thought that Voice of the Beehive and Ozric Tentacles might be pushing it.

 

[craner]

I was going to make a hilarious case for every single one of those albums being a lost classic, but I've lost all enthusiasm now.

 

[craner]

I will just add that I was inspired by Zhao's list and bow wow wow out with grace and danger.

 

[crackerjack]

I
The Knife - Silent Shout

Since I was about 20, whenever anyone's asked me about favourite album, I've always said Sly's Greatest Hits (or a Motown box set) or Riot depending on whether I was generally in a good or bad mood. But I've heard all those to death now.

Silent Shout is the album I've played more than any other since it came out by a long long way. Also them at the Forum was the best gig I've seen in that time.

 

[crackerjack]

I will just add that I was inspired by Zhao's list and bow wow wow out with grace and danger.

I'd like to see that case made, not just as albums, but as major musical works. Go on, we know you've got nothing better to do.

 

[Leo]

fyi, if you don't feel like paying $20-30 for the physical henry flynt 2cd, amazon US has the "everlovin' " album as one mp3 for 99 cents (168k, tho). very cool.

 

[craner]

I'd like to see that case made, not just as albums, but as major musical works. Go on, we know you've got nothing better to do.

If only that were true.

 

[Local Authority]

Since I was about 20, whenever anyone's asked me about favourite album, I've always said Sly's Greatest Hits (or a Motown box set) or Riot depending on whether I was generally in a good or bad mood. But I've heard all those to death now.

Silent Shout is the album I've played more than any other since it came out by a long long way. Also them at the Forum was the best gig I've seen in that time.

I've barely listened to any of those albums in the past year lol but they still hold regardless. The polite conversation with someone you barely know about music can be a painful experience, especially at my age of 21.

"So you like music eh? You go clubs or gigs or anything?"
"Oh yeah I love raves, went to dat Playaz night at Fabrics the other night was hard mate."
"Really whats that I only listen to national socialist black metal, is that that dubstep?"

que awkward silence and walking off to get a drink

Was a hard choice between Shaking The Habitual and Silent Shout but Silent Shout wins on listenability. Tried to get tickets for their latest show at the Roundhouse but wasn't a fan of the venue last time I went, acoustics were terrible, spent the whole show walking the perimeter trying to find the sweet spot where you could hear the treble.

 

[crackerjack]

I
Was a hard choice between Shaking The Habitual and Silent Shout but Silent Shout wins on listenability. Tried to get tickets for their latest show at the Roundhouse but wasn't a fan of the venue last time I went, acoustics were terrible, spent the whole show walking the perimeter trying to find the sweet spot where you could hear the treble.

Roundhouse gig was great too, but very different. Getting tickets was a nightmare but (declares interest) luckily I have a mate at Brille...

 

[Local Authority]

Roundhouse gig was great too, but very different. Getting tickets was a nightmare but (declares interest) luckily I have a mate at Brille...

Brille? Seen videos of the Roundhouse gig and it did look like tremendous fun, theres always WHP to see them anyway. I heard their show has a political element to it too?

 

[Slothrop]

Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer

What do you like so much about this? I got it after reading a load of gushing about it in Wire, but failed to find anything much to like. Would be interested to give it another go if you can provide a convincing account of what's to enjoy about it...