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Card_Ximinez
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posted October 02, 2008 04:19 PM |
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Your Favourite Albums
This thread is for people to share their favourite albums with us.
My Top 5:
1. The Bends - Radiohead
Even better than OK Computer (which is a bit too emoish for me, but still very  ). Favourite songs. Just, The Bends and High & Dry.
2. OK Computer - Radiohead
Excellent. Favourite songs: Paranoid Android, No Suprises and Karma Police.
3. Day & Age - The Killers
Excellent album... Favourite songs: Human, Spaceman and Losing Touch.
4. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Amazing. Favourite songs: Take Me Out, This Fire and Auf Achse.
5. You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand
Great. Favourite songs: The Fallen, You Could Have It So Much Better and This Boy.
Other Canditates:
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
(What's The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
"Heroes" - David Bowie
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Black Holes And Revelations - Muse
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
Park Life - Blur
Who's Next - The Who
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours - Manic Street Preachers
Different Class - Pulp
Violator - Depeche Mode
Tell us yours!
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OmegaDestroyer
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posted October 02, 2008 04:31 PM |
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Probably what I would consider my top 5. Nice thread by the way. I'd thought of creating something similar awhile back but never got around to it.
1) Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Recommended songs: Plug-In Baby, Bliss, New Born.
2) The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
Recommended songs: One Headlight, 6th Avenue Heartache, Bleeders.
3) Weezer - Blue Album
Recommended songs: Only In Dreams, Undone, The World has Turned and Left Me Here.
4) Deftones - White Pony
Recommend Songs: Pink Maggit, Passenger, Knife Party.
5) Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Recommend Songs: Bleed Like Me, Metal Heart, Run Baby Run.
I can't just have 5. That's nuts
6) Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
Recommended: Hate This Place, Bulletproof, Slide
7) Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Recommended: Float On, The World At Large, Ocean Breathes Salty
8) The Postal Service - Give Up
Recommended: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight, Brand New Colony, Clark Gable
9) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Recommended: Go With The Flow, Hanging Tree, No One Knows
10) Third Eye Blind - Blue
Recommended: Anything, Slow Motion, Camouflage
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TheDeath
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posted October 02, 2008 04:36 PM |
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This is going to be tough. I have a lot of Soundtracks but usually it's not the whole album (OST) that is interesting, but some songs from here and there... It's gonna be really tough for me to choose, but I'll try (and by "favorite" I mean 'slightly' or the fact that it has many good songs, not that the songs themselves are better than one other song in another album, so it's more like quantity and less emphasis on quality).
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pandora
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posted October 02, 2008 04:44 PM |
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Another Bowie fan
I've been a fan of his since I was eight (yes, 100 years and counting  )
One of my favorites by him is Pinups - a cover album he released in his Aladdin Sane days.
But that said, i love all of his music. Over the years I've had my collection in Vinyl, then upgraded to Cassette, then CD's and now I have an ipod full of Bowie lol..
Eventually I imagine I'll have a Bowie chip implanted in my head
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william
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posted October 02, 2008 04:50 PM |
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David Bowie is great. I to, love his music. I have greatly expanded my music tastes and listen to such bands as:
Electric Light Orchestra
Howard Jones
David Bowie
The Beatles (I have listened to them for a long time but had a massive break from them and have only recently got back into them)
Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark
Fleetwood Mac
Gary Numan
Human League
Jon & Vangelis
Vangelis
Pet Shop Boys
Pink Floyd
Slade
Supertramp
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TheDeath
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posted October 02, 2008 05:07 PM |
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Edited by TheDeath at 18:22, 02 Oct 2008.
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Ok it was hard to choose but the following albums have the "most" (in quantity) interesting songs (IMO) from my collection, because I can't pick single songs (they are titles from movies/games anyway):
Azumi OST by Tarô Iwashiro
Recommended songs:
01 - Heart to Heart, 04 - Behind the Dream, 05 - Into the Sound of Darkness, 07 - In The Sense of Genuineness, 08 - Outroduction Before The New Day
Earthsea OST by Jeff Rona
Recommended songs:
01 - Main title, 02 - If not us, 03 - Ged and his teacher, 04 - Follow your path, 08 - Time to go, 11 - Sailing, 14 - Sparrowhawk, 20 - A discovery, 21 - My true name, 23 - A lesson learned, 25 - My strength, 33 - Light over Earthsea (yes there are a lot because there are 33 in total)
Planescape Torment OST (promo) by Mark Morgan
Recommended songs:
01 - Main Title, 02 - Nameless One Theme, 03 - Deionarra Theme, 05 - Annah Theme, 10 - Ravel Theme, 13 - The Shadows Theme, 17 - Sigil Battle, 18 - Catacombs Battle, 19 - Curst Battle, 21 - Fortress Battle, 32 - Fortress Of Regrets, 33 - Bad Ending, 35 - Good Ending, 36 - Intro Movie (37 songs total, so there are a lot of recommended ones as well)
Rambo 4 OST by Brian Tyler
Recommended songs:
01 - Rambo Theme, 03 - Conscription, 05 - Aftermath, 07 - Hunting Mercenaries, 09 - The Village, 10 - Rambo Returns Back, 11 - When You Are Pushed, 12 - The Call To War, 15 - Attack On The Village, 18 - Battle Adagio, 19 - Rambo Main Title, 20 - Rambo End Title
Terminator 3 OST by Marco Beltrami
Recommended songs:
01 - A Day In the Life, 04 - JC Theme, 06 - Hearse Rent A Car, 07 - Tx's Hot Tail, 08 - Graveyard Shootout, 09 - More Deep Thoughts, 11 - Kicked In The Can, 12 - Magnetic Personality, 14 - Flying Lessons, 15 - What Do You Want On Your Tombstone, 16 - Terminator Tangle, 17 - Radio, 18 - T3
The Forbidden Kingdom OST by David Buckley
Recommended songs:
01 - The Mountain of Fruit & Flowers, 04 - China Begins, 05 - Hops' Shop, 07 - The Legend of the Temple Staff, 10 - The Tyranny of War, 11 - Don't Forget to Breathe, 12 - Ni Chang & Her Cult Killers, 13 - Drunken Master Wounded, 14 - The Seeker of the Prophecy, 16 - Monkey King Released, 18 - Her Destiny Was Written, 19 - "As One Tale Ends..."
The Last Samurai OST by Hans Zimmer
Recommended songs:
01 - A Way Of Life, 03 - Taken, 05 - To Know My Enemy, 06 - Idyll's End, 07 - Safe Passage, 09 - Red Warrior, 10 - The Way Of The Sword, 11 - A Small Measure Of Peace (almost all the songs )
I also usually like Macro Beltrami's and Hans Zimmer's works, but most times there are not full albums to count in that (there are a lot of other good ones as well but just a few songs, not entire albums). Also of course I may have missed some that could be interesting, but this means I don't have them, so I couldn't consider them (usually I add stuff to my collection constantly).
EDIT: added more details with some good songs -- I know I put too many but it's really hard to choose
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Asheera
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posted October 02, 2008 06:05 PM |
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Edited by Asheera at 18:28, 02 Oct 2008.
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My top 5...
1) Lineage 2 (a total of 188 songs - ok some of them are short, half a minute in length, but there are also a lot of longer songs)
2) Spellforce 1
3) Justin Durban's Kings and Kingdoms songs
4) Icewind Dale (both 1&2)
5) Baldur's Gate (both 1&2)
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alcibiades
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posted October 02, 2008 06:09 PM |
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Quote:
1) Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Recommended songs: Plug-In Baby, Bliss, New Born.
Excellent pick! But - how can you not mention Citizen Erased?
A couple of worthy candidates from my collection:
Genesis - Duke *or* We Can't Dance
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Eagles - Hotel California
Alanis Morisette - Under Rug Swept
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
Depeche Mode - Violator
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry *or* Absolution
R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Pink Floyd - Pulse (technically, that's not an album I guess)
But I could go on ... and it always changes with time and mood.
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william
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posted October 02, 2008 06:09 PM |
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Half a second in length wouldn't count as a song.
I have about 500 or so TD songs. Most of which go for over 10 minutes.
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Asheera
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posted October 02, 2008 06:13 PM |
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Quote:
Most of which go for over 10 minutes.
One word: repetitive
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TheDeath
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posted October 02, 2008 06:16 PM |
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I added some details, I know I put too many but it's hard to choose.
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william
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posted October 02, 2008 06:20 PM |
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Hehe Ashy, there are some songs that do repeat at times (some sequencers or melodies are played for a short amount of time from some songs) but the majority of them don't repeat. 
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Asheera
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posted October 02, 2008 06:29 PM |
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Quote:
Half a second in length wouldn't count as a song.
LMAO
I've just seen I said second instead of minute
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OmegaDestroyer
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Fox or Chicken?
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posted October 02, 2008 06:53 PM |
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Quote:
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1) Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Recommended songs: Plug-In Baby, Bliss, New Born.
Excellent pick! But - how can you not mention Citizen Erased?
I did until I decided to narrow the recommendations down from 4 to 3.
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baklava
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posted October 02, 2008 07:01 PM |
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Hm.
Well I guess we're listing international bands, right? I don't believe anyone around here listens to ex-Yugoslavian rock
Well then, in no particular order (except Led Zeppelin IV being the first one):
1) Led Zeppelin - IV
*AC/DC - Back in Black
*Pink Floyd - The Wall
*Marilyn Manson - Golden Age of Grotesque
*Jimmy Hendrix - Are You Experienced
*The Cult - Sonic Temple
*Sex Pistols - Flogging a Dead Horse
*Within Temptation - Mother Earth
*Skip James - Complete Early Recordings 1930
*Black Sabbath - Paranoid
*Blues Brothers soundtrack
*From Dusk Till Dawn soundtrack
*Desperado soundtrack
*Requiem for a Dream soundtrack
Tons of others, but these crossed my mind as I was typing... If I remember some other extremely important ones, I'll keep you updated
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Lord_Woock
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posted October 02, 2008 07:16 PM |
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With no mention of Queen as of yet, I feel obliged to hop in with Queen's Sheer Heart Attack.
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baklava
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posted October 02, 2008 07:21 PM |
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So true.
That counts as one of those important ones I forgot
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OmegaDestroyer
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Fox or Chicken?
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posted October 02, 2008 07:41 PM |
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Hey, I'm just trying to keep myself alive.
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The giant has awakened
You drink my blood and drown
Wrath and raving I will not stop
You'll never take me down
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Jiriki9
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posted October 02, 2008 08:14 PM |
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My actual top 5 Albums (it allways depends on what is new and in what general mood I am) would partly be german ones with low worldwide popularity but nevertheless...
ASP - Zaubererbruder; Favorites: "Denn ich bin dein Meister", "Elf und einer", "Verwandlungen I-III", "Der geheimnisvolle Fremde",...well they all are so great, that's just why it's my favourite album in the moment *g*
Info: ASP is a German Goth-Rock band, who allways had electronic influences, but this Album has more of a Folk-like influence. It tells the story of "KRabat", a legend from Eastern Europe, that also had been adapted in a book by the rather well-known German child-book-author Ottfried Preußler (yeah, strange name, I know^^). But well, this album is just great, wonderful music, perfectly fitting to the dark, magical story... the best of this band so far, yet not well known, as I allready said.
Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead, Favorites: Beethoven C***, Saving Us, Sky is Over, Unthinking Majority, Baby;
Info: From the frontman of System of a down. Great, really melodic metal album, as we know from system but, well more melodic...
Tocotronic - Kapitulation, Favorites: Kapitulation, Aus meiner Festung, Verschwör dich gegen dich, Harmonie ist eine Strategie;
Info: Tocotronic is a great German Rock band, former they played Punk, today its softer and more melodic/harmonic and more a bit experimental...But one of my favorite bands and their newest album is awesome.
Across the Universe OST, Favorites: I've just seen a Face, I am the Walrus, Across the Universe, Strawberry Fields Forever;
Info: Across the Univese is a musical-like film, some (about 30^^) of the best beatles songs lead us to the story of a few young people. Mainly it's a lovestory, but also about friendship and containing all the important events in America of the sixties or so (Vietnam War, Protests, Assasination of M.L.King, and more). A great film and the interpretations of the beatles songs make those sometomes even better then the already great originals.
Kettcar - Sylt, Favorites: Dunkel, Agnostik für Anfänger, Nullsummenspiel, Wir müssen das nicht tun, Am Tisch;
Info: I suppose noone here will ever have heard of this bands, even if they're from Germany, but IT's great German Indie-Rock. Yet probably you have to understand the texts do understand it.
Well, just wanted to share it, allthough I guess you won'T know most of these albums^^
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baklava
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posted October 02, 2008 11:10 PM |
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Agree on Elect the Dead.
Might as well add SOAD's "Toxicity" while we're there.
Now that I think of it, can't believe I forgot Guns and Roses' "Use Your Illusion 1&2", Deep Purple's "Anthology" and The Doors' self-titled first album.
God only knows what else I didn't mention. 
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