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My personal top twenty albums

Posted by eljesT (edited )
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1. brand new - the devil and god are raging inside me

post-hardcore, emo

2. nine inch nails - the downward spiral

industrial rock

3. ratboys - gn

indie rock, post-country

4. la dispute - somewhere at the bottom of the river between vega and altair

post-hardcore, screamo, spoken word

5. brand new - déjà entendu

emo, pop-punk

6. kraftwerk - radio-aktivität

prog-synth

7. this town needs guns - animals

midwest emo, math-rock

8. toe - for long tomorrow

post-rock, math-rock

9. brand new - science fiction

post-grunge, art rock

10. kraftwerk - trans europa express

prog-synth

11. american football - american football

midwest emo, math-rock

12. kent - isola

post-rock, shoegaze

13. godspeed you black emperor - f#a#infinity

post-rock, ambient

14. kraftwerk - autobahn

prog-synth, krautrock

15. godspeed you black emperor - lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven

post-rock, drone, ambient

16. chvrches - the bones of what you believe

synthwave

17. camp cope - camp cope

indie folk

18. steve reich - music for 18 musicians

minimalism

19. weezer - pinkerton

indie rock, emo

20. now now - threads

indie rock, shoegaze

i have a rym page as well, but i rate albums on broader criteria there, so the list is a bit different

feel free to recommend stuff ^-^

4 comments

  1. jgb
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    That's a lot of math-rock. I could never get into it myself.

    That's a lot of math-rock. I could never get into it myself.

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    acr
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    I was really into the New American Football album when I first heard it. Both are incredible. They were ahead of their time. Lead singer at least went on solo with Owen at least. Threads was...

    I was really into the New American Football album when I first heard it. Both are incredible. They were ahead of their time. Lead singer at least went on solo with Owen at least.

    Threads was incredible. Now Now's new album is a fun listen. Very different after Jess Abbot left. Her Tancred stuff is OK.

    I think you'd really like Teagan and Sarah's So Jealous album.

    A few of my all time favorites close to what you have listed are Lonesome Crowded West, If You're Feeling Sinister, and Black Out by The Good Life.

    Those are probably in my top ten. OK Computer is way up there too.

    I like a lot of live stuff. Like Echoes at Pompeii.

    I was into Camp Cope's album for a while. How To Socialize and Make Friend's is a good song. It just got a little old after a while listening to them go on about how they're women and everyone everywhere gives them a hard time. Which maybe it's true. I'm not against that by any means it's just I can't relate to that so it just kind of got old to me which maybe sounds kind of mean I don't mean anything by it by any means. It's just like I said, I can't relate to it.

    Edit - I totally forgot about Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People. That album will always be in my top five.

    1. eljesT
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      oh yes, now now will never top threads without jess. i definitely agree with you about camp cope. i think the first three tracks on socialize are good, but the rest are meh. self titled is...

      oh yes, now now will never top threads without jess.

      i definitely agree with you about camp cope. i think the first three tracks on socialize are good, but the rest are meh. self titled is straight fire tho