Originally Posted by music_phantom13 84. The Price of Existence - All Shall Perish This is, simply put, metalcore to make your ears bleed. And damn, is it good. I'm really not a big metal fan at all these days; I was into it a lot back in the middle of high school but only a few bands have been worthy of remaining in my playlist, and this is the death/metalcore that gets to stay. With two vocalists, one that does low, demonic growls and another that does the higher grunts working in unison, they created a vocal sound that couldn't be rivaled by any of their competition in the genre. Their genre simply blows my mind; at times pumping out blast beats faster than I can comprehend and then immediately breaking down to painfully slow, intense rhythms the next second. These guys are truly technically talented, and it shows in their music. There isn't a single moment on the album where a listener has time to get bored; the band is constantly speeding up, changing tempo, and flying into breakdowns that slow down so abruptly it articulates the sound of someone slamming the brakes in their car to avoid an accident. Plus, with the heavily distorted, crunchy down tuned to b guitars, the music is 100% brutal. Best Songs: Eradication, Wage Slaves, Prisoner of War, Promises 83. Aoxomoxoa - The Grateful Dead All right, yes, I know a lot of people might consider this a strange choice for a Grateful Dead album, especially over American Beauty. But for me, this is the ideal Grateful Dead; a collection of their greatest hits, and the epitome of their experimental era (in case you haven't notice, I love experimental sounding stuff). This album contains several of their best known hits (St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower) but also includes some of their songs that I think are vastly overlooked by non Deadheads (casual Dead listeners that have just Skeletons in the Closet or American Beauty), namely the acoustic marvel Mountains of the Moon and Cosmic Charlie's. What's Become of the Baby is, simply put, a song for drugs. If you listen to this song sober, it really kind of sucks. But I'm telling you - take acid or eat some shrooms and it's like you're listening to something completely different. The lyrics are simply grand, and it was just a very misunderstood song (as far as I can tell, most people don't like it). In 1996, this was re-released on cd with three over ten minute jams and a live recording of Cosmic Charlie. This simply put this album over the top for me, as it would have been my favorite before. Though Anthems of the Sun does come in at a very close second. Best Songs: St. Stephen, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Mountains of the Moon, China Cat Sunflower, All of the jams are great too if you get the bonus songs 82. Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? - The Unicorns Yep, it's the Unicorns! Looking at the album artwork for this gives one a pretty good idea of what to expect. It's some quirky, upbeat (usually) experimental electropop perhaps? I'm not so great on my genres but I try. This is simply some great music; it contains electronic sounds that really remind me of something I'd hear from Boards of Canada with the aged sound but more staccato, combined with high pitched, poppy male vocals, drum beats that just get your feet tapping, and great syncopated guitar lines that lead into nice heavy choruses. Best Songs: Tuff Ghost, Jellybones, I Was Born (A Unicorn) 81. Spooky - Lush This is one of my favorite shoegaze albums. Lush, working with Robin Guthrie, take the ethereal dream pop sound of the Cocteau Twins and put it behind even more layers of guitar, creating a rather unique sound with Miki's beautiful, lush sounding (haha) voice sounding out over top. Just slightly out of tune, she sounds perfect on Spooky, using her voice more as an additional instrument than for lyrics. At times heavy and distorted; at times minor key and dark; sometimes just fascinating and shimmering; this is the perfect music to listen to on a grand summer day, at night in the dark with your eyes closed, or while with that special someone. It's thehe diversity of the tracks that make it the perfect soundtrack to so many things. This is a gorgeous, lush album, truly living up to the name of the band all the way through. Best Songs: Nothing Natural, For Love, Untogether, Laura

Originally Posted by music_phantom13 84. The Price of Existence - All Shall Perish This is, simply put, metalcore to make your ears bleed. And damn, is it good. I'm really not a big metal fan at all these days; I was into it a lot back in the middle of high school but only a few bands have been worthy of remaining in my playlist, and this is the death/metalcore that gets to stay. With two vocalists, one that does low, demonic growls and another that does the higher grunts working in unison, they created a vocal sound that couldn't be rivaled by any of their competition in the genre. Their genre simply blows my mind; at times pumping out blast beats faster than I can comprehend and then immediately breaking down to painfully slow, intense rhythms the next second. These guys are truly technically talented, and it shows in their music. There isn't a single moment on the album where a listener has time to get bored; the band is constantly speeding up, changing tempo, and flying into breakdowns that slow down so abruptly it articulates the sound of someone slamming the brakes in their car to avoid an accident. Plus, with the heavily distorted, crunchy down tuned to b guitars, the music is 100% brutal. Best Songs: Eradication, Wage Slaves, Prisoner of War, Promises 83. Aoxomoxoa - The Grateful Dead All right, yes, I know a lot of people might consider this a strange choice for a Grateful Dead album, especially over American Beauty. But for me, this is the ideal Grateful Dead; a collection of their greatest hits, and the epitome of their experimental era (in case you haven't notice, I love experimental sounding stuff). This album contains several of their best known hits (St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower) but also includes some of their songs that I think are vastly overlooked by non Deadheads (casual Dead listeners that have just Skeletons in the Closet or American Beauty), namely the acoustic marvel Mountains of the Moon and Cosmic Charlie's. What's Become of the Baby is, simply put, a song for drugs. If you listen to this song sober, it really kind of sucks. But I'm telling you - take acid or eat some shrooms and it's like you're listening to something completely different. The lyrics are simply grand, and it was just a very misunderstood song (as far as I can tell, most people don't like it). In 1996, this was re-released on cd with three over ten minute jams and a live recording of Cosmic Charlie. This simply put this album over the top for me, as it would have been my favorite before. Though Anthems of the Sun does come in at a very close second. Best Songs: St. Stephen, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Mountains of the Moon, China Cat Sunflower, All of the jams are great too if you get the bonus songs 82. Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? - The Unicorns Yep, it's the Unicorns! Looking at the album artwork for this gives one a pretty good idea of what to expect. It's some quirky, upbeat (usually) experimental electropop perhaps? I'm not so great on my genres but I try. This is simply some great music; it contains electronic sounds that really remind me of something I'd hear from Boards of Canada with the aged sound but more staccato, combined with high pitched, poppy male vocals, drum beats that just get your feet tapping, and great syncopated guitar lines that lead into nice heavy choruses. Best Songs: Tuff Ghost, Jellybones, I Was Born (A Unicorn) 81. Spooky - Lush This is one of my favorite shoegaze albums. Lush, working with Robin Guthrie, take the ethereal dream pop sound of the Cocteau Twins and put it behind even more layers of guitar, creating a rather unique sound with Miki's beautiful, lush sounding (haha) voice sounding out over top. Just slightly out of tune, she sounds perfect on Spooky, using her voice more as an additional instrument than for lyrics. At times heavy and distorted; at times minor key and dark; sometimes just fascinating and shimmering; this is the perfect music to listen to on a grand summer day, at night in the dark with your eyes closed, or while with that special someone. It's thehe diversity of the tracks that make it the perfect soundtrack to so many things. This is a gorgeous, lush album, truly living up to the name of the band all the way through. Best Songs: Nothing Natural, For Love, Untogether, Laura

80. Operation: Doomsday – MF Doom



About time we got some Doom on here. Operation: Doomsday is a concept album about how the supervillain Doom came to be. The album starts off with a skit done like an old superhero t.v. show, in which a man begins to tell the story to a kid. There are several more skits like this throughout the album, and at the end the album ties right back into the beginning. The actual songs show off Vaughn’s (MF Doom’s) absolute hip-hop genius, with complicated lyric patterns and lots of vocal samples. The melody is usually either a simple jazz loop or something created from a series of samples (Hey! uses a loop made from samples off the introduction music to Scooby Doo) and the album flows together perfectly. Definitely something that needs to be listened to as a complete album, but there are definitely some great single songs on there too. If you like MF Doom at all, well, you’ve probably already heard this. Otherwise, if you like hip-hop infused with jazz and lots of samples, or if you like hip-hop and concept albums, check this out. Actually, just listen to this album regardless. It’s really cool.

Best Songs: Rhymes Like Dimes, Go With the Flow, Who You Think I Am?, Hey!,

79. Finding Beauty in the Wretched – Dirty Elegance



Finding Beauty in the Wretched is a trip-hop album with some idm influences; but at the same time, it is rather in it’s own unique genre. Simply put, this is an album of epic beauty. It’s very, very close to being in my top 10 albums of all time. It’d definitely make the top 15 if I did that. The female vocals, on the occasions that you hear them, sound like they are being sung by an elegant, upper class woman from the 1800’s to me while the melodies consist of sometimes haunting, sometimes somewhat strange, and sometimes hopeful piano parts or very interesting, complicated combinations of synthesizer and sounds that are usually muddied up. The name Dirty Elegance fits perfectly with the song title, and the wretched, evil dark songs are always beautiful, leading to the album title. I’m not really very good at describing electronic music, but goddamn if this didn’t convince you to listen to it, then just take my advice and grab this. Especially for fans of Massive Attack and Portishead, and jackhammer if you haven’t heard it before I think you would really like it (though I can’t imagine you not having a gem like this).

Best Songs: Solicitude, Jury and Hick, Tailor Made, Angelic Remedy

78. You’re Living All Over Me – Dinosaur



The epitome of Dinosaur Jr (I called this Dinosaur because that’s what the vinyl I have says, I think they changed their name due to a potential lawsuit shortly after it was released). About time we got some old alternative/noise/indie rock on here. You’re Living All Over Me is a nice noisy album, and it combines this sound perfectly with a nostalgic upbeat alternative rock sound more perfected and cleaned up than their previous release Dinosaur. The melodic, slightly out of tune, urgent, loud singing and the noisy, powerful, at times shredding guitar of J. Mascis have influenced more bands directly, in my opinion, than anyone else in my music library. Their layering of loud guitars with a powerful melody that bursts through a cacophony of noise is the basis for My Bloody Valentine, and if you listen to a lot of similar later music, you can literally hear their guitar riffs in tons of later alternative rock. They take from classic rock bands like Black Sabbath or Slayer in terms of the heaviness of their guitars and the speedy solos. But they’re so much more than any of the bands that influenced or were influenced by them. The entire band plays throughout this album as if they music is truly the only thing in this world that matters, and it shines in this amazingly powerful album. If you like rock and you’ve never heard this, then there is something wrong with you. Listen to it now.

Best Songs: Little Fury Things, Kracked, Sludgefest, The Lung, Raisans, Tarpit, In A Jar, Lose, Poledo (Yes, every track on this is amazing I couldn’t pick just three or four)

77. Everything Ecstatic – Four Tet



Everything Ecstatic is an electronica album with influences from glitch, breakbeat, rock, and trip hop. It’s a very beat heavy album, and the breakbeats hold the songs together as much as they break them apart. He manages to create melodies from some very interesting combinations of sounds. Everything Ecstatic encompasses so much; from psychedelic samples to hip hop beats to background glitch sounds to noisy cymbals and so on, but it can’t really be placed accurately into any of these genres. Hebden is basically throwing all these sounds at a canvas that somehow ends up not random splotches but more abstract in the likeness of an artist like Picasso (if that makes any sense at all). In other words, with all of the things he is putting together here, this album could easily be experimental electronic music, but he somehow manages to craft melodic, consistently amazing songs throughout.

Best Songs: Smile Around the Face; And Then Patterns; High Fives; Sleep, Eat Food, Have Visions

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Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

83. Aoxomoxoa - The Grateful Dead All right, yes, I know a lot of people might consider this a strange choice for a Grateful Dead album, especially over American Beauty. But for me, this is the ideal Grateful Dead; a collection of their greatest hits, and the epitome of their experimental era (in case you haven't notice, I love experimental sounding stuff). This album contains several of their best known hits (St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower) but also includes some of their songs that I think are vastly overlooked by non Deadheads (casual Dead listeners that have just Skeletons in the Closet or American Beauty), namely the acoustic marvel Mountains of the Moon and Cosmic Charlie's. What's Become of the Baby is, simply put, a song for drugs. If you listen to this song sober, it really kind of sucks. But I'm telling you - take acid or eat some shrooms and it's like you're listening to something completely different. The lyrics are simply grand, and it was just a very misunderstood song (as far as I can tell, most people don't like it). In 1996, this was re-released on cd with three over ten minute jams and a live recording of Cosmic Charlie. This simply put this album over the top for me, as it would have been my favorite before. Though Anthems of the Sun does come in at a very close second. Best Songs: St. Stephen, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Mountains of the Moon, China Cat Sunflower, All of the jams are great too if you get the bonus songs

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger About time someone mentioned Four Tet around here.

It be my music and film collection.

Originally Posted by music_phantom13 80. Operation: Doomsday – MF Doom About time we got some Doom on here. Operation: Doomsday is a concept album about how the supervillain Doom came to be. The album starts off with a skit done like an old superhero t.v. show, in which a man begins to tell the story to a kid. There are several more skits like this throughout the album, and at the end the album ties right back into the beginning. The actual songs show off Vaughn’s (MF Doom’s) absolute hip-hop genius, with complicated lyric patterns and lots of vocal samples. The melody is usually either a simple jazz loop or something created from a series of samples (Hey! uses a loop made from samples off the introduction music to Scooby Doo) and the album flows together perfectly. Definitely something that needs to be listened to as a complete album, but there are definitely some great single songs on there too. If you like MF Doom at all, well, you’ve probably already heard this. Otherwise, if you like hip-hop infused with jazz and lots of samples, or if you like hip-hop and concept albums, check this out. Actually, just listen to this album regardless. It’s really cool. Best Songs: Rhymes Like Dimes, Go With the Flow, Who You Think I Am?, Hey!, 79. Finding Beauty in the Wretched – Dirty Elegance Finding Beauty in the Wretched is a trip-hop album with some idm influences; but at the same time, it is rather in it’s own unique genre. Simply put, this is an album of epic beauty. It’s very, very close to being in my top 10 albums of all time. It’d definitely make the top 15 if I did that. The female vocals, on the occasions that you hear them, sound like they are being sung by an elegant, upper class woman from the 1800’s to me while the melodies consist of sometimes haunting, sometimes somewhat strange, and sometimes hopeful piano parts or very interesting, complicated combinations of synthesizer and sounds that are usually muddied up. The name Dirty Elegance fits perfectly with the song title, and the wretched, evil dark songs are always beautiful, leading to the album title. I’m not really very good at describing electronic music, but goddamn if this didn’t convince you to listen to it, then just take my advice and grab this. Especially for fans of Massive Attack and Portishead, and jackhammer if you haven’t heard it before I think you would really like it (though I can’t imagine you not having a gem like this). Best Songs: Solicitude, Jury and Hick, Tailor Made, Angelic Remedy 78. You’re Living All Over Me – Dinosaur The epitome of Dinosaur Jr (I called this Dinosaur because that’s what the vinyl I have says, I think they changed their name due to a potential lawsuit shortly after it was released). About time we got some old alternative/noise/indie rock on here. You’re Living All Over Me is a nice noisy album, and it combines this sound perfectly with a nostalgic upbeat alternative rock sound more perfected and cleaned up than their previous release Dinosaur. The melodic, slightly out of tune, urgent, loud singing and the noisy, powerful, at times shredding guitar of J. Mascis have influenced more bands directly, in my opinion, than anyone else in my music library. Their layering of loud guitars with a powerful melody that bursts through a cacophony of noise is the basis for My Bloody Valentine, and if you listen to a lot of similar later music, you can literally hear their guitar riffs in tons of later alternative rock. They take from classic rock bands like Black Sabbath or Slayer in terms of the heaviness of their guitars and the speedy solos. But they’re so much more than any of the bands that influenced or were influenced by them. The entire band plays throughout this album as if they music is truly the only thing in this world that matters, and it shines in this amazingly powerful album. If you like rock and you’ve never heard this, then there is something wrong with you. Listen to it now. Best Songs: Little Fury Things, Kracked, Sludgefest, The Lung, Raisans, Tarpit, In A Jar, Lose, Poledo (Yes, every track on this is amazing I couldn’t pick just three or four) 77. Everything Ecstatic – Four Tet Everything Ecstatic is an electronica album with influences from glitch, breakbeat, rock, and trip hop. It’s a very beat heavy album, and the breakbeats hold the songs together as much as they break them apart. He manages to create melodies from some very interesting combinations of sounds. Everything Ecstatic encompasses so much; from psychedelic samples to hip hop beats to background glitch sounds to noisy cymbals and so on, but it can’t really be placed accurately into any of these genres. Hebden is basically throwing all these sounds at a canvas that somehow ends up not random splotches but more abstract in the likeness of an artist like Picasso (if that makes any sense at all). In other words, with all of the things he is putting together here, this album could easily be experimental electronic music, but he somehow manages to craft melodic, consistently amazing songs throughout. Best Songs: Smile Around the Face; And Then Patterns; High Fives; Sleep, Eat Food, Have Visions

Originally Posted by jackhammer I have twice in the past 4 days but no fucker takes any notice. It was the split with Burial though so that will probably scare most people off