Daydream Society

1. Ataxia
2. Isolation Test
3. Brink
4. Floating in the In-Between
5. Vacancy
6. Cellar Dweller
7. Loner
8. Fate or Fiction Pt. 2: Snow Drifts
9. Fixated
10. Metanoia

Jesus christ get rid of that avatar now.

give me a new one, you pick

What I thought you said:
Who else but YorkeDaddy?

Damn, that would've been funnier

Trollheart improved the humor level of my post. I'm slipping hard, guys

I guess I'll be the first...

Radiohead

1. The National Anthem
2. Motion Picture Soundtrack
3. You and Whose Army?
4. Pyramid Song
5. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
6. Exit Music (For a Film)
7. How to Disappear Completely
8. 15 Step
9. Kid A
10. All I Need

Can you guys tell what three Radiohead albums I like and that's it?

3 too many.

OK Computer and the Bends don't tickle your fancy, eh?

You “enjoy” Metal Machine Music, gtfo of here

Red herring + Rolling Stone taste. Radiohead is offensively mediocre.

There are more great ideas on OK Computer alone than you’ve had in your entire life

It's the vocals, can't get past them.

Yes you can

It's about as likely as you listening to enjoying Metal Machine Music, which is apparently the most unlistenable thing you can think of.

Do you think I’m missing out on some revelatory musical bliss by not enjoying Metal Machine Music?

It stinks because I love damn near everything else Lou Reed has ever touched (not that Metallica abomination of course)

Yes, actually. I think it's a beautiful and hypnotic record. Really not being ironic or anything here. Doesn't really line up with the rest of what you listen to (except your own ambient music I guess) so it's understandable if you don't want to pursue "getting" the record.

They're just meh.

I think Radiohead have some beautiful and hypnotic songs

Same. Just not on those albums.

The vocals are distractingly terrible, I never notice the music beyond thinking that it'd be better if he would stfu.

i find his voice blends in with the instrumentation quite well usually. They are at their worst when his vocals need to carry the song

I do not. I hate it.

I also don't have a connection to the vocals that's at least 7 years old.

That's what I was saying about Yes and Genesis...

Except I didn't even say it got entirely in the way.

Dizzee Rascal

1. I Luv U
2. Brand New Day
3. Hardback
4. Respect Me
5. Stop Dat
6. Hype Talk
7. Sittin Here
8. Streetfighter
9. Pussyole
10. Strings Hoe

I can't even appreciate Yorke's voice on a melodic level.

You listen to a lot of vocal-centric music and I think that influences you to pay an unfair amount of attention to vocals sometimes.

I can see why you would think that, but I've been listening to instrumental music as long as non-instrumental. I don't write instrumental music because I can't sing either, but because it's what I'm interested in writing.

Sure, I lean towards music with a focus on the singer, but I have to enjoy the music too. Otherwise I wouldn't be interested at all. I also pay very, very little attention to lyrics - to the point of not caring about them at all most of the time. The singer is very much part of a whole to me - like another instrument.

I just find one-note or otherwise underwhelming vocalists to be a net minus. It would be the same if some keyboard player hamfistedly stabbed away at the keys all the time. I'd be thinking "why does that guy need to be there? He's ruining everything!"

What do you think the ratio is from instrumental to noninstrumental? And how much of the noninstrumental music is vocal-centric?

Then explain why you like Billy Childs.

I liken it more to a bass player who just follows the guitar.

I don't listen to music in any way that gives me any metrics, so ****, I don't know. I used to listen to video game soundtracks all the time, but it's more rare now. I still have hundreds of soundtrack .mp3's, some movie and game soundtracks, plus thousands of module tracks (formats like what I write in, but written by other people).

Then there's how you might as well consider extreme metal with only growling as instrumental (regrettable, but true). I listen to less of that now though.

These days, I think I listen to more music with vocals, no doubt, but I'm also listening to more and more classical, and especially the purely instrumental kind. Singer/songwriter-ish material and indie pop/electronica is something I listen to a lot these days for sure. Arguably those are very vocal centric genres, but I look at it as more of a whole. The music and the vocals have to play together closely and add color to each other, or it's just pointless.

Believe it or not, mostly because of the music. The first track on that "Map to the Treasure" album is what got me to buy the album, and it's 90% because of the music. The singer was something I got used to after the fact and started enjoying.

It was also the connection to Laura Nyro. I still haven't heard any other material from Billy Childs.

That depends on the keyboard player - but often they suck like that.

David Bowie:

1. Blackstar
2. Station to Station
3. Rock & Roll Suicide
4. Teenage Wildlife
5. Always Crashing in the Same Car
6. Life on Mars
7. Moonage Daydream
8. Stay
9. Space Oddity
10. Helden

Rolling Stones ( in no particular order)

- Gimme Shelter
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Midnight Rambler
- Monkey Man
- You Can't Always Get What You Want
- Wild Horses
- Can't You Hear me Knocking
- Moonlight Mile
- Shine a Light
- Heartbreaker

Britney Spears:

10. Stronger
9. Overprotected
8. Break The Ice
7. ...Baby One More Time
6. Piece Of Me
5. My Perogative
4. Gimme More
3. Oops!... I Did It Again
2. (You Drive Me) Crazy
1. Toxic

The Rolling Stones

1. Back Street Girl
2. Sitting on a Fence
3. As Tears Go By
4. Take It Or Leave It
5. Yesterday's Papers
6. You Got the Silver
7. Sway
8. Monkey Man
9. Rocks Off
10. Stray Cat Blues

The Beatles

1. Julia
2. Across the Universe
3. She's Leaving Home
4. Girl
5. Dear Prudence
6. Hey Bulldog
7. Savoy Truffle
8. I Feel Fine
9. Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey!
10. Lend Me Your Comb

The Byrds

1. My Back Pages
2. The Bells of Rhymney
3. I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
4. You Ain't Going Nowhere
5. Chimes of Freedom
6. All I Really Want To Do
7. Eight Miles High
8. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
9. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
10. Mr. Spaceman