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I saw a thing on Facebook and it sounded like a good question. Naturally I don't give a shit about what people on Facebook think, so I'll repost it here instead. The question was "what 10 albums would you take with you?" I don't know where you're going, but it sounded pretty final. The criteria is albums which have been with you a long time, one per band. Maybe you're taking them to hell, or to the khazi for a 12-hour shit after an ill-advised vindaloo fish kebab. Anyway, it takes a bit of thinking to get 10:

1. Hysteria - Def Leppard
This fits the criteria 100%. I think I discovered this album on tape in my Dad's car when I was about 8. It was actually the beginning of Rock of Ages from Pyromania which attracted my attention to Def Leppard initially - the silly nonsense-German gunter glieben glauchen globen at the beginning appealed to my childish brain. I loved the music of Hysteria though, and have done ever since. I've owned, I think, four copies of it on various media, always have it in the car. I like every song and love half of them. It's not all that coincidental that this is the case - to quote Wikipedia, "The album's goal, set out by Lange, was to be a rock version of Michael Jackson's Thriller, in that every track was a potential hit single." In fact although 7 of the tracks were released as singles, only one (Animal) broke the UK top 10. Still, it remains my all-time favourite album.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HR0P3sIb80[/youtube]

2. The Fat of the Land - Prodigy
Whereas my love of Hysteria doesn't extend to Def Leppard's other albums, although I do like them, with Prodigy I like pretty much every album they've ever released. Arguably my favourite band (depending on my mood), it's a tough call whether to choose this over their first studio album, Experience, and its successor, Music for the Jilted Generation. If you were to ask me which my favourite song was it could fall into any of their first three albums at any given time. It was Fat of the Land, however, which focussed me on the band though. As a teenager of the 90s I was aware of them, and enjoyed the likes of Charlie (Experience) and No Good (Jilted Generation), but it was Firestarter that made me realise that Prodigy were something different. Hot off the back of a long obsession with thrash metal, the rough synth and snarled vocals attracted to me, and although the album tracks were pretty eclectic they all appealed to me in different ways. I don't love every track, but there's no filler on the album.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmHDhAohJlQ[/youtube]

3. Youthanasia - Megadeth
As mentioned in the previous entry, I spent a lot of my early- to mid-teens listening to various forms of heavy metal. For the most part I flitted around different bands and genres, but there were two bands I loves enough to consume everything they'd produced that I could get my hands on. Both were part of the big 4 of thrash metal and, unbeknownst to me at the time, came from the same origins - Megadeth and Metallica. Every metal fan has their opinions on the two bands and I'm no exception, but unlike many I like both. It was very difficult to single out one album from Megadeth's early catalogue, partly because Dave Mustaine's style didn't change a great deal throughout, and maybe partly because I only ever managed to find four of their albums in the back-street record shops of Burnley. Of my favourite songs though, of which there are literally enough to fill a CD of their own, most came from Youthanasia. The album was released while I was actively listening to Megadeth, unlike their earlier stuff, so maybe that was part of it. Or maybe I would have preferred one of their later albums if entry number 2 of this list (and the appeal of night clubs full of girls) hadn't set me on a path of dance music by the time they released their next album. Either way, Youthanasia remains, for me, the high point of my enduring relationship with Megadeth.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceiyvKwpRRo[/youtube]

4. Discovery - Daft Punk
Discovery is the first album in my list which is included for its entirety rather than my love of many of the individual songs. Taken alone each track varies from okay to great, but played in sequence they become greater than the sum of their parts. I'm not pretentious enough to suggest that they tell me a story, but I can't deny that part of the reason I love the album so much is the companion animation Interstella 5555. The two are linked in my mind so that Discovery is like an opera to me, specifically appealing because I've never felt the need to pay attention to the details. They're there, if I want to dive in and take an interest, exactly as they are with the movie, but for the most part I can simply absorb it without any effort.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8[/youtube]

5. Master of Puppets - Metallica
Metallica were my gateway into heavy metal. I was given a copy of the black album by a school friend in my early teens and then re-traced the band's steps back into thrash metal. In retrospect I'm not a huge fan of that first encounter, it's too produced and toned down for my liking, but if it hadn't been then maybe I wouldn't have decided to investigate further. My opinions on the estranged twins of thrash metal are that I prefer Megadeth, mainly because I dislike the direction Metallica took with Loaded and beyond, but if I just take their pre-black album stuff into account then it's a photo finish. Metallica were much easier to find than Megadeth for me, and I bought all of their first five albums in quick succession. As such they all kind of blur into one for me, and I had to go to Wikipedia to work out which one contained the most songs I liked. Turns out that is Master of Puppets, which only has 8 tracks but I reckon I must have damn near worn out the first four on the tape I had.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhuH0l9Wqfc[/youtube]

6. The Best Of - Depeche Mode
I was really late coming to Depeche Mode. Whereas the other bands to this point had been still active and I was working into their back catalogue, here I'd begun to rediscover the music I'd heard but never paid attention to as a child. Ignorant as I was at the time, I've developed a passion for 80s electro and new wave in the last 10 years or so, and since I'm reflecting on memories I formed before I really appreciated music it's difficult to pin down individual bands. The Best Of, then, draws on those singles I heard on the radio and TV, as opposed to the albums they come from, which aren't familiar. So this is a mixture of songs I love, and songs I don't really remember. Some of the latter I've grown to like as much as the ones I remember, and out of the hundreds of songs I've collected into my 80s playlist this album probably contains a higher number than any other.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDxM8-k60_M[/youtube]

7. What's The Story Morning Glory? - Oasis
My lack of any interest at all in popular music throughout the mid-90s meant that I missed a lot of the hype around Oasis. It was only when the kids I hung out with at college, who took me into their clique because they were all musicians and liked that I was into heavy metal, started singing and playing Oasis songs that I paid any attention to them. My two enduring memories of that time are seeing an early performance of Live Forever and instantly hating Liam Gallagher, and then later associating that with the band, and of my mates playing Champagne Supernova in the college canteen to the jeers and boos of the numerically superior R&B-inclined ethnic Pakistanis. That took some balls, and while it didn't immediately sell me on the band it certainly put them on my radar. I think I only bought the album years later while shopping away a hangover, and came to love it while passing the occasional lonely days in the RAF when my mates were all busy and I had nothing to do but sit in my room.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr7MSSPNH9o[/youtube]

8. Travelling Without Moving - Jamiroquai
This is probably an unpopular choice, more so than Oasis, but I don't care. Harking from the same period in my life of staving off boredom while staring at the same four walls, it tied those dull moments into the exciting nights of drinking and dancing which defined my early service career. The album is unusual in the same way that Discovery is - in that I don't particularly love most of the tracks, but I like all of them. Whereas with Daft Punk, though, it's an atmospheric and ambient appeal, Travelling Without Moving has me jiggling about and wanting to dance like Jamiroquai does. I don't do that, because I can't, but it makes me feel like I can and that energises me like few other albums can.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE[/youtube]

9. Greatest - Duran Duran
The story behind this is almost identical to that of the Depeche Mode compilation earlier on. Apparently at the time Duran Duran were deeply unpopular with my older cousins, who still sneer at their boy-band-esque image when mentioned, but I was too young to notice that. The relative position in my list is a signifier of how I feel about particular songs, and the volume of those therein, but I like the two bands for different reasons. While Depeche Mode are dark and complex, Duran Duran are obvious and slutty. That's not to say they're shallow, some of the subject matter is kind of dark, but the focus is more on the overarching effect of the music than the story that's being told. I'm pretty sure I remember Simon Le Bon saying that Reflex literally doesn't mean anything, it's just a load of shit they made up to sound good. That's pretty 80s to me, and to my ears it produced some damn good music.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxc9eFcZyM[/youtube]

10. Nevermind - Nirvana
I don't listen to Nirvana much any more. It coincides precisely with my teenage angst years, and I don't look back on myself fondly during that period. Even so, whenever I hear one of their songs I'm reminded of how batshit and unusual they were, and how much I liked them. As with many of the other albums here, I only discovered Nirvana after they had peaked. When I did though I ate up every album I could get my hands on, and to me they only seemed to get weirder. I've come back a bit now, like I say, but I still have this album around and hearing any one of the tracks from it will have me screeching my own words along to the unintelligible lyrics.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgKEjNBHqM[/youtube]
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I try to avoid making top ten lists as I'm always changing my mind (and I refuse to be tied down to ten albums - fight the power! Sadly Public Enemy will not appear in this list), but here goes:

1. This Nation's Saving Grace - The Fall

I love The Fall, but picking a favourite album is practically impossible (especially with so many to choose from). I settled on TNSG purely because it seems to contain a number of favourites, as well as being a good cross section of their work. You mentioned Nirvana being weird, but The Fall are so god damn fucking odd - the range of things that appear in their work is unbelievable. They're also one of those bands where if someone else were to say "they're shit, I hate them", I'd probably just say "yeah, I know what you mean" - divisive isn't the word. Some samples from this album:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-l951YMJOk[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ewTX3_E-48[/youtube]

2. Meat Is Murder - The Smiths

I think most people plump for The Queen Is Dead, but Meat Is Murder has always been my favourite. As much of an insufferable prick as Morrissey is, he's a great lyricist. Combine that with Johnny Marr's guitar work and arrangement and you've got some incredible music. Generally I feel they get a bum rap as being a miserable band, but it's difficult to defend that with this album. Again some samples, hopefully lesser known if you're not familiar with the album:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JU8XCXwv2A[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObBkZEnXuPI[/youtube]

3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Third Manc band in a row, what can I say? Even the album cover is cool as fuck. If The Smiths were all about unrequited love and maudlin shoe gazing, then Joy Division were the ones sat in a shroud of Cold War gloom and existential dread. The production is unreal. I believe they weren't fans of it themselves, preferring the raw edge of the live post-punk performances (similar to Cobain's feelings on Nevermind in that respect), but the production added another layer to the album that made it sound like it was recorded in the cold, dark space between galaxies. My personal favourites:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PtvIr2oiaE[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbeNRHtpgOk[/youtube]

4. Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

Had enough of desolate Northern indie? How about some swaggeringly good, balls to the wall desert rock instead? I'm convinced Josh Homme is one of the few musical geniuses left working today. Everything he touches is great. As it happens, Songs For The Deaf isn't even my favourite QOTSA album, but it is the most fund and the most accessible. The opening three tracks blow me away every time - and as the full album is on YouTube, you can judge for yourself:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOW4gk03FUs[/youtube]

5. Doolittle - Pixies

Incredibly influential on the rock/alt/indie/grunge/insert genre scene of the 90s. Pioneers of the now infamous 'Quiet/Loud/Quiet' set up in songs. Bizarre end times lyrics, savage lyrical delivery, and very tight knit drums, bass and guitar. Love it.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr-KjNGrXVY[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDHidMlViMc[/youtube]


The rest will have to wait because I need to go and make my tea.
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The order is the order I thought of them, not any especial importance, though that may be inferred.

1. Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy (2009)

My favourite band by some way, I love all the albums and while my favourite song of theirs is Girls from the Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned album, this album seems to blend what sometimes seems like two different styles - the more technically precise The Fat Of The Land and later with the raw energy and almost silly high-pitched melodies of the first two albums. I'm pretty much always in the mood for them, while I am externally quite a calm chap, inside it sometimes feels like I am screaming and their music, loud, feels like this released: a rhythmic few bars at the start before the real drum- and bass-lines arrive and kick your head in. My favourite track from it is the anthemic Stand Up.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71wRbLucnMk[/youtube]

2. Life's Too Good - The Sugarcubes (1988)

Björk, who, as a person, I don't particularly know much about or generally... like, is still for me an amazingly evocative singer. Like with her solo career, her earliest work with The Sugarcubes was her best, and their first album had just enough quirky oddness and borderline disturbing themes without straying into the more experimental territory they did later, and had done before as KUKL. Be sure to check out the crudely-drawn cocks, cunts and tits on the cover art. Their greatest song is within, Birthday.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFQPNApwJGU[/youtube]

3. Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths (1987)

I'm not picking compilation albums, otherwise Louder Than Bombs or Hatful Of Hollow would have triumphed, and The Queen Is Dead came very close, but this wins out for the humour, dripping, jet black humour. My top track is Death At One's Elbow.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUr2DnFP2q0[/youtube]

4. The B52's - The B52's (1979)

The album with Rock Lobster on, was given a close race by their 10-years-later Cosmic Thing album -the one with Love Shack on, but this is the album I feel is closer to the real them, or at least the idea of them - some kinda weird space kids from a 1950's-styled Jetsons cartoon, grown-up and stuck in the 80s. Their style has something in common with The Sugarcubes, just the right amount of spoken male voice with some female genuine vocal talent, best shown off in my favourite track, Dance This Mess Around.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRuRKirloQ8[/youtube]

5. Thunder, Lightning, Strike - The Go! Team (2004/5)

Perhaps most well-known for Get It Together which was used as the title theme for the PS3 flagship title LittleBigPlanet this is a gloriously energetic album of Saturday morning TV shows and cheerleader chants. My favourite track is from the rereleased version, Hold Yr Terror Close which is a charming and cute piano/vocal number sung by the drummer, but it is not at all representative of the energy of the album, Huddle Formation is.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSm6s--CYUQ[/youtube]

6. Yo! Bum Rush The Show - Public Enemy (1987)

While It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the more acclaimed and Fear of a Black Planet the more accomplished it's their first album that gives the purest vision, without Flav's clowning or the rather offputting proselytising, it sounds like it was made in a garage and it's excellent. Sophisticated Bitch is my top track choice.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LeL7YkP-Y[/youtube]

7. Goo - Sonic Youth (1990)

Effortlessly cool and awkward teenager aren't usually a thing, but I was the latter and everything about this album from the artwork to the tracks was the former and it was a perfect match. This is the soundtrack to a year of my life that feels like a lost weekend. Kool Thing is my top track.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk[/youtube]

8. Automatic - The Jesus And Mary Chain (1989)

Barbed Wire Kisses, the compilation album would have stolen this, were I including them, for the feedback-heavy cover of Surfin' USA and the acoustic version of Taste of Cindy. However it's this album, a departure for the band with electronic drums accompanying the brothers that has stayed with me. Semi-hollow Rickenbacker's twanging away over a robotic beat, with double-Rickenbacker riffs and thumping basslines, Blues from a Gun says it all about this album.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOim3J-jpU[/youtube]

9. Violator - Depeche Mode (1990)

I'd always liked Depeche Mode and enjoyed ther stuff, loved the 12" versions of things, but this album sounded like they'd been fucking around with shitty toy synthesizers the whole time and only now discovered the big boys ones. Every track on the album is great, but Sweetest Perfection gets my vote as best.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLQGaJ6-aE0[/youtube]

It was hard to choose the last one, so many things like Faith No More, Jesus Jones, The Wonder Stuff, The Cure, The Cult, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Tom Waits, Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb have been played almost on repeat for me at various times in my life, the last one is something that has endured.

10. Tender Prey - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1988)

Pretty much every song off this album is still in my head now. At first listen it seems kind of clumsy and shambling, but years later you remember the exact cadence, rhythm and meter of each line of it. Cave paints a vivid picture of himself just within this album even if you know nothing else about him, as a sort of semi-mythical ages-old figure bringing us songs that sound like you ought to know them as traditional. My stand-out favourite is Watching Alice.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxU88pUxNc[/youtube]
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I'm pleased to say, Roman, that although I've never heard of The Fall I didn't hate the two songs you posted. I didn't want to, thought I would, glad I didn't. You've reminded of my cousin though, who baffled me when I was much younger by introducing me to The Smiths. Until then I thought he was into hair metal like Extreme and Warrant, so Vicar In A Tutu was something of a surprise. I didn't really get it then, but I appreciate them now even if I wouldn't go so far as to say I like them. How Soon Is Now and Charming Man are great, but they're probably the two that all non-fans like.

I wasn't sure about Invaders Must Die. I liked Omen, didn't like Warrior's Dance, and missed the titular single completely when it was released. I was always going to buy the album though and never regretted it, but it's not one of my favourites. Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, on the other hand, was slated critically. So hard that I didn't dare buy it for fear of it putting me off the band. When I did finally buy it I really liked it. The rolling breaks of the so unpopular Baby's Got A Temper (as well as the surreal video) worked for me, and I also liked the slightly out-there Girls.

Incidentally, regarding my own list, I went back to double check whether I actually do have more Depeche Mode than Duran Duran, and I'm wrong. It doesn't bother me, I still prefer Depeche Mode. What does bother me is that I completely left out Tears For Fears. So I'm mentioning it here instead; Tears For Fears pretty much account for the soundtrack to my childhood. Depeche Mode were far too cool for pre-teen me to register, Duran Duran were what all the teenagers listened to in Angels nightclub. Tears For Fears seemed like the music that was okay for me to listen to, even if it was only on the radio. Can't fucking believe I forgot that.
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Dog Pants wrote:I've never heard of The Fall.
:shock:
How have you not heard of the Mark E Smith + revolving door of musicians band?
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buzzmong wrote:
Dog Pants wrote:I've never heard of The Fall.
:shock:
How have you not heard of the Mark E Smith + revolving door of musicians band?
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Disclaimer: I may have misunderstood the point. But here I go.

1. The Police- Regetta de Blanc This is probably my Dad’s favourite album. I get most of my musical influence from my Dad, loads that isn’t even on this list. Anyway, this album was my first taste of the Police. My Dad used to play his vinyl of this (and still does actually) so this was also my first memorable experience of listening to actual records. I still love this album, and especially this song. The whole album feels kind of mismatched, it doesn’t have a flow through story like some albums do, but I really like that about it.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Zb_LR_8gM[/youtube]

2. Alanis Morisette- Jagged Little Pill This is another album from my childhood. I know it’s a whiney girl complaining in what she thinks are clever ways, but I like it. I find the songs and stories interesting, and the music too; different instruments, different melodies. I remember listening to this on cassette in the car, but it would mysteriously lose sound any time there was a swear word….
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjIY_XxF1g[/youtube]

3. Spice girls- Spice World Yes, I know. But I had to, I was born in 1990. I chose this album, rather than their first one because I was a little older when this came out, I remember more of it, and I was excited for it before it was released. I had a cassette of it, and the poster, and the movie on VHS. This album marked something more for me though, because with the Spice Girls growing popularity, my biggest weakness was turned into a strength at school. Usually, the other girls would make fun of me for having ginger hair, but now friendship groups were fighting over me to complete their quintets. I was the only Ginger Spice in the playground, and though the friends I had at the time were fake, it was nice to have them at all.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJp6XJts1XA[/youtube]

4. Green Day- Nimrod I struggled to pick which Green Day album to put on this list. There was always going to be one on here, but I have connections to all of their albums, even American Idiot to an extent. I picked Nimrod because it’s the one I know best, it’s the first one I got and that inspired me to go back and listen to all the other albums, and keep up with the newer releases. This album boosted my confidence a lot, I felt able to pick up musical instruments, and give it a go!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8RkltVcIw[/youtube]

5. The Lightning Seeds- Like You do I feel like I’m cheating a bit by putting a “best of” album on the list, but this is the album I had, and this is the one I have memories of. I love The Lightning Seeds, the music always felt so happy go lucky. I know a lot of the lyrics don’t reflect that, but it’s about how this album makes me feel.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB-tnUqLHyg[/youtube]

6. Metallica- Metallica There had to be a Metallica album in here, and I’m afraid it’s the obvious one. I have had the pleasure of hearing this album in its entirety (although backwards) and that still tops the list of my favourite gigs. Again, this album came into my life very early, I was 1 when it was released and it was my Dad that introduced me to it too. I really feel like this was the gateway album that helped me to explore more rock and metal.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvp5z4z2biw[/youtube]

7.Jack Johnson- In Between Dreams This is my go to bathtime album, and it’s on this list because it’s one of the few albums that can make me feel better no matter what is going on. As some of you know, I have stress related fits sometimes so keeping my stress levels down is really important to me. Despite some of the lyrics, this album always makes me feel peaceful, especially this track.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZFhgxzNY9Y[/youtube]

8. My Chemical Romance- Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge Believe it or not, this is the first album I bought with my own money! I managed to make it to 14 without having to spend any of my pocket money on music, mostly thanks to my Dad’s music collection. Anyway, this album is full of emo crap, but I happen to like emo crap. Around this time, I started making the wrong kind of friends, drinking cheap cider and glens vodka in pigeon park and although I made a whole bunch of bad decisions, I link this album with the freedom I gained at that time.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4GCGaBumg[/youtube]

9. Royal Republic- We are the Royal I discovered Royal Republic while listening to Kerrang’s new music show one night, and absolutely fell in love with them. I looked up their tour dates and it just so happened that they were coming to Birmingham a few weeks later. So, in all my eagerness, I showed up several hours before the show, before the band had turned up. So, I got to meet them on their way in, then the manager called me in to watch their sound check, then I sat and had a beer with the band and after the show, I was given a set of drumsticks and a signed drumskin, which I still have. Other than this amazing experience, this album is a lot of fun. It energises me, it’s encouraging, and it opened my eyes to more European bands.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhcGNN9r1D4[/youtube]

10. Queen- A Kind of Magic Thought I’d finish on another classic. This is my favourite Queen album, it’s the one I play the most and I find it inspiring. It’s one of the few albums I can use as background noise, but also not be bored if I’m giving it my full attention.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw[/youtube]
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Good question Doggers.
It's taken me 3 days to get enough time to consider & compile this list!
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1. Remasters - Led Zeppelin (1990)
Opening on a compilation album, sorry but I cant easily choose a single LZ album, every one is a classic. If you tied me up and forced me to choose one album, I'd probably go with IV
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pPvNqOb6RA[/youtube]

2. Melody A.M. - Royksopp (2001)
I remember hearing this CD playing while drinking in a posh friend's jacuzzi with some (way way out of my league) girls. Maybe I was drunk but each track seemed to be better than the last. It was worth getting out and trying to hide my boner to find out what album it was. Classy
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xhdy9zBEws[/youtube]

3. Vaccine - Younger Brother (2011)
I don't think there is a single track on this album that I dislike, they're all greats in my book. The latest release from a relatively unknown pair electro wizards that seem to be honing their craft specifically for my ears.


4. Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow (1996)
This one is a bit of a curveball, but its thrown in there because it always reminds me of a summer holiday spent in a camper van on the Dorset coast.


5. anus At The End Of Everything - The Flashbulb (2012)
The Flashbulb is one of my more recently discovered fav artists. I'm not a huge fan of some of his work, but all of it seems to have a unique flair. I nearly chose Soundtrack to a Vacant Life, but I reckon this one edges it. Sometimes I stick it on low volume in earbuds and drift off to sleep with it playing. Usually this is because the Mrs is having one of her snory nights, but each track really flows together and it deserves my full attention ideally.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAc9zjsI9g[/youtube]

6. Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree (2007)
When I feel like I need a bit of a moody rock-out, this album tends to hit the spot. Not sure what else to say...
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8tgLNgXCLA[/youtube]

7. Give Up - The Postal Service (2003)
I love this album for the stories it tells as much as the electro synthy feel that I'm partial to. The crisp beats and entertaining lyrics on most of the tracks make it hard for me to get bored of them.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wrsZog8qXg[/youtube]

8. Origin of Symmetry - Muse (2001)
I spent quite a while trying to work out which of Muse's albums I would take with me on my 10-CD quota endless roadtrip. I knew I wanted one, but which! Hard to pick but I went with the classic Origin of Symmetry. I think plug-in-baby tipped it for me.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbB-mICjkQM[/youtube]

9. In Rainbows - Radiohead (2007)
This one was tricky. I do like quite a lot of radiohead's stuff, but not everything. Maybe 50% of their tracks annoy me somewhat. I had quite a few potentials on my list that I cut (below), to put this one in, but only just. There is one track on this album that in particular. There are not many songs I could play on repeat for quite some time before I got fed up of it. Jigsaw falling into place is one such track.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pimjvnUsxqk[/youtube]

10. The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (1973)
Saving a classic for the end. I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan, and while there are tracks on other Pink Floyd albums that I actually prefer to the ones on this, when taken as a whole, I think Dark side of the moon really takes some beating.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kcet4aPpQ[/youtube]



What kind of rubbish CD rack can only hold 10 disks? I need space for at least 5 more!
The runners up:

Play - Moby (1999) I like how happy this album is, in contrast to most of my selections which tend to have a more darker feel to them.
Visions - Grimes (2012) I got introduced to Grimes a year or two ago (thanks Grimmie) and I really quite like this album.
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Another blast from my teenage years
Changesbowie - David Bowie (1976) Another compilation, but I think you have to in order to capture Bowie's awesomeness on one album.
Dive - Tycho (2011) A more obscure album, but a very relaxing listen, I recommend.


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lol wordfilter: Οpus = anus :lol:
also, this thread makes my browser cry
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