Howard the Duck

i only have Lincoln and Flood

both I quite like

i don't listen to them that often, though I really wore out Flood when I first got it

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SGR

Great choice, although I'm partial to Up, damn I love that album so much!

Other ones for me.

All Smashing Pumpkins albums
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Alice In Chains - S/T
Megadeth - Rust In Peace and Peace Sells
Most REM releases
Most Pearl Jam Releases
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible & Everything Must Go
The Who - Sell Out and Live At Leeds
Pixies - Doolittle and Bossanova
All Sabbath releases with Osbourne
Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica

Many more but I'm good for now, haha

Burning Down

I'm not a fan of Up. Some songs are okay, but I find it only marginally better than Around The Sun (which was pretty much panned by critics). Pretty much anything they released from Murmur to New Adventure In Hi-Fi I know inside out. But after that, nah.

Justthefacts

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The first time I listened to "Funeral" by Arcade Fire, I sadly admit that I really hated it. I know, shame on me. Therefore, I never gave Neon Bible the chance until a couple years later. But when I finally listened to it, WOW. Instantly connected to Arcade Fire. Went back, listened to Funeral, kicked myself in the ass for not appreciating it the first time. I've listened to Neon Bible multiple times on multiple locations and each time it gets better. Easily my favorite album.



At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
My older brother got me into this band. I listened to it once when I didn't appreciate music as much as I do now, so I didn't really get it. The moment I started getting really experimental with the music I listened too, I rented the record from my local library and I connected with it and listened to it on a daily basis. I even put it on my to-do lists for the day for almost a year. This album propelled me to listen to more punk bands with weird high-energy spirit. None will ever come close to At The Drive-In though, they created a sound all their own.



Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Gimme Fiction is as art rock as they come. One of the many things I appreciate Spoon for is their artistic approach to their music, it's unlike any rock album I've ever listened too. It might not be the best Spoon album to listen to first if you're trying to become a fan, listen to Kill The Moonlight or Girls Can Tell for that. But if you're a Spoon analyst like I am, you can agree this album is nothing less than amazing.

There's plenty more albums, I just don't feel like typing anymore.

Paedantic Basterd

Neon Bible is another album I know very well, though I'm not sure I'd boast that it was inside and out. I'm reserving that for albums I've heard hundreds of times.

Howard the Duck

and this one for sure:-



know it as sure as the dust blows forward and the dust blows back

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Justthefacts

I've listened to Neon Bible so many times. It's my go to album.

duga

Thanks so much! I try to be pretty eclectic, so I've got albums I've devoured from quite a few genres.

And Elephant is still something I love to listen to. These days the track I like the most is Black Math...there's something so raw and energetic about it. Coming off the heels of Seven Nation Army, it would have been hard to keep an energy going and they nailed it. I like to play it on guitar, too. It's simple but a load of fun to play.

This would be another that almost makes my list. Like a lot of people, I think, I listened to this after hearing The Mars Volta. When The Mars Volta's intense progressiveness gets to be too much I like to put these guys on just to the feel that simple energy.

Wow, really? I've listened to it enough now to say I appreciate it, but I can't say it's something I am too motivated to really absorb in depth.

And all this talk about TMBG has inspired me to check them out. They are a band I've always seen mentioned in discussions, but I was never really motivated to listen to anything by them. Gonna go listen to Flood now...

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This.

I know the first two Justice albums inside out. As burning said, I know other albums really well but I don't care to mention them all. Just the one (those two albums aren't very different) that tops the list.

Cross


A Cross The Universe

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Hmm, here's a small list of albums that have permanently been absorbed into my psyche.



Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows (2008)

Absolutely sublime from start to finish, and part of what made it work was it was far more consistent than their debut LP which kind of switched gears halfway through. I did a lot of driving through the desert in 2009 and this was my go-to soundtrack for those long drives.



Corb Lund - Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! (2007)

If I had this on vinyl I doubt the thing would be able to play anymore. This album was absolutely monumental for getting me over my preconceived notion that all country (besides Johnny Cash of course) sucks. Perfect blend of history, ballads, and humour, with really good storytelling and song writing, I still come back to this album at least once a month, if not more.



Slint - Spiderland (1991)

Like many people, I failed to see the importance of this album on my first listen. There was barely any singing and the spoken word portions were so hard to hear that unless you were wearing headphones or had really good speakers and were playing the album loudly, you'd miss a lot of what was being said. Either way I decided to burn it onto a CD and keep it in my car, that was in 2009 and the fucking CD is still in my center console. I know every lyric, I know every heavy section, and I can keep the beat on my steering wheel.



Strapping Young Lad - City (1997)

This is one of my oldest CD's that I still have. I purchased this in the fall of 2002, aka my freshman year in high school, aka the worst year of my life. All the friends I made in Middle School got to go to a different high school, and instead I had to go to one way the fuck on the other side of town (a 20 mile round trip) because I was in that zoning. I don't want to get into the nitty gritty details, but suffice-it-to-say the year sucked, but because I owned this album it sucked a little less. I practically always had this album in my CD wallet and I almost always listened to it on the bus ride home to help me unwind.



Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (1993)

Another album from my youth, and one I have spent years mastering. I know the band isn't the most well respected around here and I've always kind of struggled to explain why I like Type O Negative so much. I like how they never took themselves too seriously and were always able to poke fun at the seriousness of metal and the Goth subculture, while still remaining a centerpiece of it. In any case, while I think October Rust (1996) is a better album overall, Bloody Kisses was my first and is the one I've spent the most amount of time memorizing.



Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

This was one of the albums I got into in part thanks to my father. He was trying to find something we could bond over, and while we did have a lot of fun playing golf and pool together, he figured he could pass on some of his musical knowledge. Dark Side of the Moon was one of those albums that we listened to on a car ride to the interior of B.C. and definitely helped make the boring drive a lot more fun.



Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power (1973)

I hold the incredibly unpopular opinion that this is really the only Stooges studio album worth owning. I've had both Funhouse and their self-titled debut, and while there were certain songs on them that were good, I never liked sitting down and listening to the whole thing through. Raw Power on the other hand is an album I can listen to repeatedly and never get bored of, even the titular "Raw Power" which has that really annoying keyboard clanging throughout the song. I'm sorry but John Williamson was a better, and more engaging guitarist than Ron Asheton could have ever been.



Television - Marquee Moon (1977)

Probably the only vinyl album I regret selling, and not just because it was an original pressing, but because of the magic I felt when I first heard it on vinyl. It was just one of those situations where everything was right, the mood, the sound, the temperature, the time of day, everything was in its right place for me to get the best experience possible from that album.



Beck - Midnight Vultures (1999)

For the longest while this was my go-to album to prove to people that I didn't just listen to depressing or angry music. In fact, I probably listened to this album on my stereo as many times as I've listened to City by SYL to help cheer myself up. I don't know why this album is so widely disregarded as one of his worst, especially considering it followed Mutations (1998) (which I personally think was his worst).

Now just for a list of album and band names

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish (1991), Siamese Dreams (1993), Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Killing Joke - Killing Joke (2003), Hosannas From the Basement of Hell (2006), Democracy (1996)
The Cure - Disintegration (1989)
Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
Portishead - Dummy (1994)

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