help us all expand

[piscaries]

okay... i just decided that we should all share our favorite artist and album, no matter what the genre. so many of us listen to such diverse stuff, and many of us listen to stuff that's right under everybodies noses but we still forget about it. so i figured that if we all just blurt out our fav's then maybe we could all expand (or re-find) some good music. i'm not trying to do the "sounds-of-the-moment" thing.. but a sound of all times.

sooo.. with that, my all time fav artist is death cab for cutie, and my fav album of theirs is "we have the facts and we're voting yes". it's not in the electronic genre by any means, but it's so damn good (imho). it's just good heartfelt mellow rock.

[Weishaupt]

jea piscaris...good idea..................

my all time fav album is klaus schulze-cyborg................hes one of my fav artist too...........never saw him live...........
thats a dream of me :-)

[pille'ocheoni]

sade has to be one of my fav's. and most 60's cuban artists. latin overall. shit all jazz!.but one thats hard for me. sade and sergio mendes. |sade " promise " | sergio mendes " so nice "|

[piscaries]

my fav sade track is a white label remix of "never thought i'd see the day". oh my god that gives me goosebumps everytime i hear it. anyone got a spare copy on vinyl??

[pille'ocheoni]

heheh.........good one......i wish man. one of my friends is a die hard...fan and i think he has every thing by her, ill ask and see if we cant atleast get you a mp3

[deccard]

my alltime fav is dead can dance - towards the within. brilliant live recording of their stuff and much better feeling and energy than their studio albums.
i love lisa´s voice.

[JE:5]

My all time fave has to be "Brown By August" By Neil Landstrumm, it switched me on to real techno!

[aleks]

drexciya-neptune´s lair... soooooooo good it makes me cry.

[tsr_tomas]

je:5: totaly agree !

[c s]

Originally posted by Weishaupt
klaus schulze-cyborg

argh! the dark side of tangerine dream... lol he was in a good band, yes, but then... urx. ;) i'm sure edgar froese's stuntman beats all of schulze's solo-works (although i don't know the 50(!!)-cd-box he released a few years ago...) easily. vote edgar, not klaus! :D

i can't name a single favourite album, there's too many. i could list at least 20 perfect albums i guess and it all depends on mood and situation which ones the greatest at a certain moment.

[7875]

hmmm. let me see.
talking heads 'remain in light'

[jukka]

ONE of my alltime favs is (yup, i know this won't help anyone to expand lol ) is kraftwerk--die mensch-maschine

[phil]

protect ya neck by the wu tang clan. makes me want to kill

[wheezer]

yeh that's on the 36 chambers, a brilliant album. I love odb's flow on da mystery of chessboxin'!

which brings me to the two ol' dirty bastard oevres:

ol' dirty bastard - return to the 36 chambers
more gritty wu-style hiphop, includes "brooklyn zoo", "shimmy shimmy ya", etc.

and

ol' dirty bastard - n***a please
by now the odb had totally lost his marbles thanks to copious amounts of crack, fame, cocaine and other delicacies - aside from the catchy neptunes produced got your money it includes some a pretty diverse set of often overlooked tracks, like "good morning heartache" feat. lil' mo...

[phil]

Another favourite few albums of mine are

GZA - Liquid swords, which is AMAZING A CLASSIC - tracks like 4th chamber, shadowboxing, lgold, fuck it the entire album bags

Raekwon - Only built for cuban linx, again unreal- a real mafioso album. bangs from start to finish, listen to the whole album.

Mf doom - Operation doomsday. if u aint heard this. shame on you

Public enemy - nation of millions!! ditto


De la soul - 3ft high and rising, genius prince paul production

nas - illmatic - grimey street tales but of the higest order

tribe called quest - low end theroy - lovely!!!!

NWA - straight outta compton - Fine gangster shit

Company flow - funcrusher plus ( weird and lovely)


many more..

[jukka]

talkin' bout hip hop i have to add
redman--dare iz a darkside

[aleks]

Originally posted by phil
GZA - Liquid swords, which is AMAZING A CLASSIC - tracks like 4th chamber, shadowboxing, lgold, fuck it the entire album bags

word

[wheezer]

@phil&aleks

have you checked gza's new "the legend of the liquid swords"? picked it up right before new years and I consider to be quite good as well...from wu-bangers to curtis mayfield-style stuff...

as for public enemy I think that fear of a black... is at least in the same league as it takes a nation...

busta rhymes' genesis album was quite good imho, some pretty huge synths & b-lines in that one for a hiphop album...

in a lot of cases I really prefer the 12"es over entire albums, e.g. dmx's "party up in here" over "...and then there was x"

[guillaume]

my all time fav is one of ween's earliest : pure guava (their second i think)... even my mom likes it so try it out!

[V Knid esq]

At the moment, Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy by The Who, but that'll change in half an hour.

[Atarythm]

My favorite album ever :
Soulfly - Soulfly

[zombie ritual]

Igor Strawinsky: The rites of spring
J.S. Bach: The Goldberg variations (played by Glen Gould)
Slayer: "Reign in Blood", "Hell awaits"
die kreuzen: "die kreuzen"
Articels of Faith: "Give Thanks"
Wire: "Pink Flag"
The Melvins: "Glue Porch Treatment"
Cristian Vogel: all albums except maybe "Absolute Time"
Naked City: "Torture Garden"
The Jesus Lizard: "Liar"
Marc Ribot & the rootless cosmopolitans: "Rootless Cosmopolitans"
El-P: "Fantastic Damage"
....and many many techno 12" (too many to mention). Of course the above list is by no means completed.

[Yer_Maw]

if i had to name one album it would have to be pink floyd piper at the gates of dawn. As far as whole albums go i cant think of anything better!

[MUX]

El-P: "Fantastic Damage" is my album of the moment, and i now got a instrumentals album call Fandago or something.
im not sure that freaks like us can have a favorite album but i do have some that i listen too too much.

but funnily enuff and album that always pop's up in my compilations has to UNKLE - Psyence Fiction .. it is more than a masterpiece.. aperfect borderline of pop & electronic.. mainstream and underground both at once.. great collaborations and so on . u can feel the tension of the production of it, kinda like the way Pappa was a rolling stone was the real sound of the temptations. u can feel the hate hunger, & happiness all at the same time.
a must to everyones collection. it the 'Apocalypse NOW' of music

[c s]

ok as no-one limits him/herself to one album as it was demanded, i join with (only some of many) perfect classic albums:

- new order: movement, power, brotherhood, low-life...
- front 242: front by front, official version, tyranny, geography
- nitzer ebb: belief
- the cure: disintegration, pornography
- sisters of mercy (oh yes): floodland, first & last
- twice a man: driftwood
- tangerine dream: poland, exit & a few more
- the klinik: face to face, time...
- front line assembly: caustic grip, gashed senses
- björk: post,...
- a-ha: hunting high and low ( ;) )
- biosphere: substrata,...
- skinny puppy: cleanse fold & manipulate,...
- vogel: all albums
- s_c: both albums
- and also the trees: green is the sea,...
- portishead: all albums
- depeche mode: black celebration, music for the masses
- autechre: amber, incunabula...
- tommi stumpff: terror II, ultra...
- psyche: insomnia theatre, mystery hotel
- bryan ferry: bête noire
- dave tarrida: paranoid
- tobias schmidt: destroy
- joy division: permanent
- squarepusher: hard normal daddy

...hmm i'm sure i forgot at least 2/3, especially more 90s stuff. :D

[actionjetzon]

portishead-everything
a tribe called quest-midnight marauders
sigur rós-untitled, agaetis burjun
beastie boys-hello nasty
Super_Collider-head on (maybee my favourite of all)
Landstrumm-bedrooms and cities
Vogel-specific momentic and rescate
tobias schmidt- destroy and dark of heartness, le chimp atomique

and much more i cannot remind at this time

[goinz]

Looking Beyond - Ralf Hildenbeutel RoD
(Passion and Hope)??- Steve B. Zet RoD

all Landstrumm album's

that's only what i occur for now.

[Andreas]

the first three albums of primus: suck on this, frizzle fry, sailing the seas of cheese, brilliant!!!!!!

[pille'ocheoni]

accually the third was pork soda. not to be a ass or anything.:)

[Basic]

Originally posted by c s
- new order: movement, power, brotherhood, low-life...
- front 242: front by front, official version, tyranny, geography
- nitzer ebb: belief
- portishead: all albums
- depeche mode: black celebration, music for the masses
- joy division: permanent


Wow!! Nice pics, c s!!

I would have to say that my fave was:
Kraftwerk - Computer World LP

I never tire of listening to this, Numbers being my favourite track.

[c s]

thanx! :D oh yes i definitely forgot to mention at least one kraftwerk album. and some by massive attack, tricky (not the guitar stuff of both). and daf "alles ist gut" (definitely not the horrible new stuff just released!!).

[zombie ritual]

DAF got new stuff out? What's it like?

[dirtyho]

Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu
Vogel - Beginning to Understand
LFO - Frequencies
Black Flag - Who's got the 10 1/2

[c s]

Originally posted by zombie ritual
DAF got new stuff out? What's it like?

just horrible! while the music is ok (good work like görl's albums on disko b.), the singer & his lyrics are unbearable. it sounds more like rammstein than like daf and the text is about how bad america is. the subtitle of the track "der sheriff" is "antiamerikanisches lied". this is soo flat, so cheap and so very streamlined. instead of being mean and extreme and playing with powerful phrases delgado now wants to enlighten his audience, send a message - daf for a better world? to me this isn't what made daf so cool. also the metaphors are incredibly dumb. big disappointment for me, i really had expected something. just think of cynical attacks like "ein bisschen krieg" - still a better track for today's situation.

btw, new front242 stuff is the opposite, it's great, although not quite harsh either.

[c s]

add lfo-frequencies to my list as well!

[amble]

talking of old heros, has anyone heard the new Fehlfarben album yet? is it good?

[Basic]

Originally posted by c s
add lfo-frequencies to my list as well!

Ditto!! Clonk's Coming and the Electroids album as well!!

[deccard]

Originally posted by Andreas
the first three albums of primus: suck on this, frizzle fry, sailing the seas of cheese, brilliant!!!!!!

good ol times...are they still alive?

they were the only cure for my progrock tendencies...

[c s]

Originally posted by amble
talking of old heros, has anyone heard the new Fehlfarben album yet? is it good?

you like to torture people, don't you? lol :D

[haynusbrody]

Originally posted by guillaume
my all time fav is one of ween's earliest : pure guava (their second i think)... even my mom likes it so try it out!

@guillaume
when i saw the word ween i had to tell ya this
never really heardem before, but one day when i was
a disgruntled youth me and friend were walking down street
fryin our heads off and i found a tape cassette in the gutter
labeled[WEEN chocalate and candy er something like that] and
i took it and when we got to my friends house i listened to it
and me and my friend couldnt stop laughing!!! [not disrespecting
ween] but that music is some of the most far out shit
and definately make you pee your pants on dose if not carefull.

sorry to get off the subject
my fav album right now is the beatles white album i guess

[amble]

Originally posted by c s


you like to torture people, don't you? lol :D

is that a no?

and yes, a bit of pain can be very satisfying. not for myself of course.

i thought of going to one of their concerts but around 20€ is quite a lot of hay.

[Weishaupt]

???
what is a spökenkieker
:-)

[c s]

Originally posted by amble
is that a no?

sorry but i have a zero tolerance strategy against german lyrics pseudo-intellectual student-style guitar music. of course fehlfarben are 'a bit' older. considering blumfeld, tocotronic etc. a threat to peoples' brains, i was curious to find out the opinion of the fehlfarben concering these as i knew those pretentious, ultracorrect bands were referring to to ff. well all i read was mutual laudatios, so: no, thanks.

also i read a quite bad review about the concert they gave here. the singer seemed 'absent', forgot lyrics (i.e. didn't do his job well) and on the pa pieces of paper were pinned: 'sellout', 'half price'. i mean how stupid do they think their audience is? this was supposed to be ironic i guess (you know: den wind aus den segeln nehmen), but in facts its so very dumb... argh! 'ok if they ironically admit the tour is a sellout, then it cannot be a sellout because they wouldn't admit it if it really was a sellout tour - then they would keep it secret and don't tell us' - this is the kind of thinking that makes me aggressive! lol

[c s]

Originally posted by Weishaupt
what is a spökenkieker


someone who has presentiments and can tell the future...

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by c s


someone who has presentiments and can tell the future...

ohh............

[c s]

für dich sieht's übrigens ziemlich düster aus... lol :D

[amble]

Originally posted by c s


sorry but i have a zero tolerance strategy against german lyrics pseudo-intellectual student-style guitar music. of course fehlfarben are 'a bit' older. considering blumfeld, tocotronic etc. a threat to peoples' brains, i was curious to find out the opinion of the fehlfarben concering these as i knew those pretentious, ultracorrect bands were referring to to ff. well all i read was mutual laudatios, so: no, thanks.

also i read a quite bad review about the concert they gave here. the singer seemed 'absent', forgot lyrics (i.e. didn't do his job well) and on the pa pieces of paper were pinned: 'sellout', 'half price'. i mean how stupid do they think their audience is? this was supposed to be ironic i guess (you know: den wind aus den segeln nehmen), but in facts its so very dumb... argh! 'ok if they ironically admit the tour is a sellout, then it cannot be a sellout because they wouldn't admit it if it really was a sellout tour - then they would keep it secret and don't tell us' - this is the kind of thinking that makes me aggressive! lol

OLLE UNKE!:-p

[c s]

hehe. oops seems i just hit a fan of intelligent guitar music with german lyrics. lol

[c s]

Originally posted by amble
Top: schnöseln!

oh i should've read that before... :D

[amble]

schnöseln is actually the word me and my mates use for smoking grass. doesn't sound so much of a cliche like 'kiffen'.

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by c s
für dich sieht's übrigens ziemlich düster aus... lol :D

.........das bin ich gewohnt...:-)

[c s]

bah! everyone's a winner baby that's no lie - beat colognial frustration! lol

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by c s
bah! everyone's a winner baby that's no lie - beat colognial frustration! lol


......love it...............:->

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by deccard


good ol times...are they still alive?

they were the only cure for my progrock tendencies...

primus has broken up (I'm pretty sure)
les claypool is fronting a new band: frog brigrade. and the other guys are also in other bands, or so I've heard. but I am not sure of the names right now.

some of my favs:
Tool: all of them
Peter Gabriel: passion
Helmet: born annoying
slayer: reign in blood
sepultura: beneath the remains
company flow: funcrusherplus
the roots: do you want more?
tricky: maxin... (you know the first one)
front 242: tragedy for you
herbie hancock: head hunter
miles davis: kind of blue, bitches brew
as for techno there are too many to list.

[SLAQ]

new on the list - hello, everybody. i wish i had a chance to see this thread earlier...

type o negative - 'october rust'

[grobelaar]

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

I love this album, before my time of course, but definitely one to stick on and kick back with a reefer too...

On the techno front, I really like Sativae 21 - The Usual Suspects, not really an album, but at the time I managed to blag a copy, I was just getting into that side of techno and its very definitely a very decent slice of the good side of techno...

[grobelaar]

Oh and The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour is one of my faves cos its got all the weird songs in ... :)

[marcel]

neil landstrumm bedrooms and cities
prince and the new power generation lovesymbol

[aleks]

beastie boys-paul´s boutique

[wheezer]

definitely their best album, nice one aleks.

[ischo]

Originally posted by deccard


good ol times...are they still alive?

they were the only cure for my progrock tendencies...

Primus' "Brown Album" has the most incredible sounding stereo-only-drumset i've ever heard. very dirty but still crystal-clear

and i guess we don't have to talk about his bass-playing...right?

[DsD]

hm now everybody will laugh about me... but i still like r.e.m. - automatic for teh people. track 1 and 4 are the best *hide* ;)

[invisibleplanet]

caberet voltaire - nag nag nag,hypnotsed a guy called gerald, don't argue, sensoria ...etc

joy division.new order/fad gadget/dead can dance/cocteau twins - various though not all

gil scott-heron - revolution will not be televised, free will, white man's got a god complex, whitey on the moon, b-movie...

sun ra sextet - round midnight (live at the village vanguard)
miles davis & john coltrane - anything by these two

andy sheppard - anything - but start with 'A'

super_collider - everything

mouse on mars - everything

eno - everything

king crimson - islands lp, larks tongues in aspic lp

bill bruford & tony levin - drum & bass solo (also yes 'relayer')

captain beefheart - trout mask replica

frank zappa - sofa no.1

joni mitchell

i could go on and on and on...