Ok, I'll give them a try. I'm willing to give anything one shot.

Also doing the Longest songs in my library list:
1. Fantomas - Surgical Sound Specimens... [74'17]
2. Sleep - Dopesmoker [63'32]
3. Jandek - Sleeping in the Dawn [63'29]
4. Nurse With Wound - Salt Marie Celeste [61'58]
5. Elaine Radigue - Kyema [61'22]

5 Longest Songs

5 "Gondwana" by Miles Davis (46:51)
4 "D|P 5" by William Basinski (52:21)
3 "Strumming Music" by Charlemagne Palestine (52:14)
2 "Dopesmoker" by Sleep (63:32)
1 "D|P 1.1" by William Basinski (63:33)

I have some Stars of the Lid albums that aren't divided into their tracks that I listen to but I wouldn't say that counts. Also there are some 2-hour long ambient pieces that I've never touched so I've neglected those, too.

Top 5 sober night in albums (don't ask why - they just go well with the concept I guess...):

1. Scott Walker - The Drift
2. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
3. Global Communication - 76:14
4. The Church - Priest=Aura
5. PIL - Flowers Of Romance

Top...or, should I say Bottom...5 80's Albums I bought used reminding me that my BS Detector was running perfect when they were released.

1) Stop Start - Modern English
After one fine Pop album, there was Ricochet Days...and then there was this.

2) Folk of the 80's (Part III) - Men Without Hats
Liked the Part 2, no problem there, but most of the songs here sounded like repetitive left overs.

3) Ever After - The Three O'clock
Got this in the Cut Out bin about two years after the release. The tape is no longer in the collection, but the stench from this is still lingering. They used to be pretty good, but everything was buried in ill-fitting production by then.

4) Big Thing - Duran Duran
Wanting to try out at least one Post-Notorious LP just before "The Wedding Album" re-invigorated their career for a year, I heard a reason why some albums dropped into the Cut Outs by The 90's. One good song, "All She Wants," and that's all.

5) Sensible Singles - Captain Sensible
I had some high hopes for some hidden treasure getting the LP used dirt cheap. Seriously. I thought being from The Damned may have had SOME effect on his A&M-released solo work moving into the Commercial stew as his taste in music clearly can move into some tasty Garage and Psych. Well...No. OK, maybe a couple of sides, including "One Christmas Catalogue," but that's about it, and the cheesy cover of Pink Floyd's "It Would Be So Nice" (already cheesy enough as it was!) is not one of them. (Already aware of the singles from The Damned's Anything, one of them a very over-produced cover of "Alone Again Or," I decided not to even survive their Bad 80's album)

top 5 Paul McCartney post-Wings albums
1-Driving rain
2-Press to play
3-Flaming pie
4-Flowers in the dirt
5-McCartney

Sober? :laughing:

I've certainly spent a lot of time blazing to that Church album.

maybe 1 and 2 to an extent but the rest... really?

you couldn't get people to stop talking about how unbelievably amazing Joy Division was 6-7 years ago - when Interpol first hit big and indie was some kind of new big thing. even now, Joy Division is basically the Led Zeppelin to anyone with a sideways haircut.

Blue Cheer gets brought up every single time someone talks about The Stooges.

it's not possible to have a conversation about Experimental or Avant Garde music without someone going off about the Residents.


they might not get critical recognition in the mainstream, but that's also the mainstream that celebrates Lady Gaga as being a true artiste with depth. what do you honestly expect to come out of that demographic?

Top 5 Genghis Tron songs
1. The Feast
2. Board Up The House
3. Things Don't Look Good
4. I Won't Come Back Alive
5. White Walls