[b]If any decent drummer could play as well as Rick Allen, there would be far less starving musicians out there who aren't half as good as they aspire to be. Give the man some credit. Majority of people would have never picked up a drumstick again after a tragedy like that.
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OK, the man has a strong will and all that. Alls I’m saying is what he does isn’t that hard. He’s not a phenom or anything.
There are lots of drummers and other musicians who starve but are way more talented than Rick Allen.
[i]Originally posted by Powerbait[/i]@Jan 3 2005, 10:26 AM
[b] The Shins ruined the greatest punk band of all time. I think one of my roommates stole my copy of [i]Oh! Inverted World[/i].
“New Slang” is a great song, so is “Girl on the Wing.” I really should listen to “Chutes Too Narrow” some more. [/b]
Was listening to Chutes Too Narrow again today and thought of this thread. If you can get used to the helium induced vocals, this is a great album.
I’ve respected these guys even more since I saw that Austin City Limits show. Very solid band.
The ones that come to mind first are: #1 all-time ever) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf #2) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Hail to the Theif
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
My list is kinda short cause I don’t usually listen to albums, but instead end up listening to all the songs by themselves over a period of time. I’m just including the cream of the crop. Only albums that I listen to and never get the desire to skip a single song. Also the album has to go together and actually be worth listening to in order. Not just a bunch of songs put on one CD and called an album.
Alice in Chains: Facelift
Billy Joel: The Stranger
Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill
Counting Crows: August…
Guns & Roses: everything
Metallica: And Justice for All
Pearl Jam: Ten
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger
Toad the Wet Sprocket: Fear
Tool: Undertow
U2: The Joshua Tree
Van Halen: 1984
And for the record, Cinderella is the best live band ever!!!
Now remember, I have a few years on me, but Rolling Stones- Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out, Springsteen- The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle- Born to Run- Edge Of Darkness, Allman Brothers- Eat A Peach, Blackfoot- Strikes, Eagles- Hotel California, most Buffett. Regards, Oldniner
I dont think these are the best of all time…just a few of my all time favorites
Steely Dan- Aja (record reminds me of playing in the front yard as a kid)
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Sublime-40 oz to Freedom (music for me, like most people I think, ties closesly with memories. This record evokes the most memories for me.)
Neil Young- Harvest (one of the most melancholy albums I have ever heard)
Jethro Tull- War Child
Yes- Close to the Edge (lived through a tornado listening to this record)
Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled (never had a feeling towards music the way I did the first time I heard this record
Beach Boys- Pet Sounds (maybe the best record ever made)
Superdrag- Respectfully Yours
Pixies- Surfer Rosa
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake Its Morning (this guys is just terrific, great songwriter)
The Beatles - Revolver
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (my wifes favorite album of all time, she only listened to country before we married and never heard a Zeppelin tune)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
Any of the above could play on my iPod over and over for days and I dont think I could ever get tired of them.
Led Zepplin Physical Grafitti and III (who am i kidding, its all great).
The Scorpions - Best of Rockers and Ballads (I know, no greatist hits, but Love at First Sting wasn’t that good)
Huey Lewis Sports (I’m a bitch, I know)
Beastie Boys License to Ill and Paul’s Boutique (one of the greatest albums ever)
Run DMC’s King of Rock
Public Enemy’s Yo! Bum Rush the Show and Nations of Millions
Stetsasonic’s In Full Gear
Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full
Boogie Down Productions By All Means Neccesary
Original Concepts Live from the Basement at Colley High (If anyone has a CD copy of this and will burn it for me, please PM me)
Pearl Jam’s 10
Nirvana’s Nevermind and In Uturo
Alice in Chains Jar of Lies
Bush Sixsteen Stone (I’m a Bitch, I know)
STP Core
Soundgarden Superunknown
Chevelle Wonder What’s Next
Three Days Grace Three Days Grace
Audioslave Audioslave
Shinedown Leave a Whisper
Blink 182’s Enema of the State
Motion City Soundtrack Commit this to Memory
I could go on for days
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie
[QUOTE](music for me, like most people I think, ties closesly with memories.)[/QUOTE] But if Songs for the Deaf brings back memories, you must have some pretty Fed up memories haha.
No, I’m actually the same way. Songs for the Deaf has been in my home CD player and car CD player, once I got a car with one, ever since it came out. It is the only CD I never change out of my 6 disc changer. So I have a ton of memories with that album being played. Going on 5 years now that I’ve been listening to this thing and I still love it!
My Bloody Valentine - "Loveless"
Beach Boys - "Pet Sounds"
DJ Shadow - "Endtroducing…"
Wu-Tang Clan - "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"
New Order - "Power, Corruption, and Lies"
Beastie Boys - "Paul’s Boutique"
Mos Def - "Black on Both Sides"
Sigur Rós - "Ágætis Byrjun"
Radiohead - "OK Computer"
Bjork - “Post” and "Homogenic"
Dr. Dre - “2001” (IMO this album blows The Chronic out of the water)
Joy Division - "Closer"
Beck - "Odelay"
Brian Eno - "Apollo - Atmospheres and Soundtracks"
Fiona Apple - "Tidal"
Daft Punk - "Homework"
Deltron 3030 - "Deltron 3030"
Ghostface Killah - "Pretty Toney Album"
GZA/Genius - "Liquid Swords"
Raekwon - "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx"
PJ Harvey - "To Bring You My Love"
The Roots - "Things Fall Apart"
Notorious B.I.G. - "Ready to Die"
Animal Collective - "Feels"
Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
Sonic Youth - "Daydream Nation"
The Flaming Lips - "The Soft Bulletin"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Let Love In"
TV on the Radio - "Return to Cookie Mountain"
and you can throw a couple of Tom Waits albums on the list too.
Kind of a mix of favorites/what I think are all time greats.
Bump for a slow day. My updated and expanded list:
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies, Unplugged
Alison Krauss - Live
Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach, The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East
Audioslave - Audioslave, Revelations
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
Beatles - All of them (especially The White Album, Abbey Road, & Let it Be Naked)
Ben Harper - Fight for Your Mind
Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker
Bob Marley - Legend
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Candlebox - Candlebox
Chris Cornell - Unplugged in Sweden
Coldplay - X&Y
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Dave Matthews - Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash
Derek & The Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek Trucks Band - Songlines, Out of the Madness
Dr. Dre - The Chronic 2001
Eric Clapton - Unplugged, From the Cradle, Blues,461 Ocean Blvd.
Hootie & the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View, Fairweather Johnson
Iron Horse - Fade to Bluegrass (Metallica tribute)
Jimi Hendrix - Blues, The Ultimate Experience
John Lennon - Working Class Hero
Led Zeppelin - All of them (especially IV, Houses of the Holy, & Live at the BBC)
Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said, Are You Gonna Go My Way
Marshall Tucker Band - Where We All Belong
Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You, More Than You think You Are, Mad Season
Metalica - Metallica
Nirvana - Nevermind, MTV Unplugged
Oasis - What’s the Story Morning Glory
Pearl Jam - Ten, Vs., Vitalogy, Yield
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
Radiohead - The Bends
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire, The Battle of Los Angeles, Renegades
Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Stone Temple Pilots - Core, Purple
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Weezer - Weezer (blue Album)
Various Artists - I Am Sam Soundtrack (Beatles Covers), O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
If you like this then check out everything else they’ve ever done. It’s almost all good.[/QUOTE]
I thought their first one was better, but both are quite good.
I thought their first one was better, but both are quite good.
You must be confused. Their first album was OK Calculator. It is a fine CD but it is really messy and stuff. You are talking about their second album, "Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes" right?
[QUOTE=49or bust;241984]You must be confused. Their first album was OK Calculator. It is a fine CD but it is really messy and stuff. You are talking about their second album, “Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes” right?[/QUOTE]
Yea, that is what I ment. I forgot about OK Calculator, “Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes” is my favorite of theirs.
I was listening to Coheed and Cambria’s Good Apollo the other day and forgot how great this record is. If you like prog music…love bands like Yes, Genesis, Rush, and Jethro Tull…you should love this band.
Another new band that I have been crazy about is the Silversun Pickups…NA and I talked about this band in some other random thread somewhere. They are getting a lot of hype right now but they are worth every ounce of it. Carnavas is just a great, great record.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Secret Lives of the Freemasons - This Was Built to Make You Dance
The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
Eric Clapton - From the Cradle
Anything from the Beatles
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
The Who - Who’s Next?
The Eagles - Hotel California
AC/DC - Back in Black
-Unknown Hinson - Rock n Roll’ is Straight From Hell
-Grand Funk Railroad - Closer To Home
-Deep Purple - Machinehead
-Haste the Day - Burning Bridges
-King’s X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
-Rush - 2112
-Still Remains - Of Love and Lunacy
-Kansas - Leftoverture
-Blue Oyster Cult - On your feet or on your knees
-Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
-Incubus - Science
-Atreyu - The Curse
-Sevendust - Animosity
-Van Halen - Fair Warning
-Black Sabbath - Sabotage
-Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
-Santana - Marathon
-Gov’t Mule - Dose
As you can see I like some things I’m sure noone on this board has heard of haha. But of course there are tons more I could add, I just can’t think of it all while im sitting here at work.