More pointless list fun!

[terpsiKore]

Yes, this is just a variation on the recommendations/new music thread, but I was wondering what are the TOP-FIVE ALL-TIME records of Xiu Xiu fans (call it a microculture experiment). Excluding Xiu Xiu, of course, or else our lists would be WAY too homogenous. And not the records you feel should go at the top of such lists, but those albums you go to over and over again, each time surprised at how great they are.

Here are mine (in no particular order):

Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - The Swimming Hour
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Barafundle
The Need - The Need Is Dead
Jeff Buckley - Grace

Cheers!

[smithcorey]

in no order:

Matmos/People Like Us/Wobbly- Wide Open Spaces
Matmos- The West
Philip Glass- Koyaanisqatsi
The Animal Collective- Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Bjork- Homogenic

BUT THERE ARE SO MANY MORE!!!! CHECK THESE OUT, GUYS!

[dr. strangelove]

let's see if i can only name 5...

beach boys - pet sounds
velvet underground - velvet underground and nico
elvis costello - imperial bedroom
neautral milk hotel - aeroplane over the sea
x-mal deautschland - fetisch

christian death - only theatre of pain - runner up
pogues - rum, sodomy and the lash - runner up (well, it would probably knock x-mal off the list, but i thought of it later)

[the genius of seth]

pink floyd - Dark side of the moon
legendary pink dots - brighter now
soft cell - non-stop erotic cabaret
radiohead - ok computer
shocking blue - at home

[iOmIbUGo]

radiohead - kid a
OvO - Cicatrici
joy division - unknown pleasures
pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain
the microphones - mt. eerie

[Slow Cooked Ham]

Radiohead- Kid A
Joy Division- Closer
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Who- Who's Next
The Beatles- s/t

[steven]

The Robot Ate Me - They ate themselves
The Fitness - Call Me For Together
Radiohead - KID A
Tracy + the Plastics - Culture for Pigeon
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think

...these are what I'm listening to most right now, but it would take way too long to make a top five all time list.

[Veck]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane over the sea
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I see A Darkness
Pixies - Doolittle
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Augie March - Sunset Studies


yeah, maybe it's a stage, but damned if it hasn't lasted for the past two years, but I love Will Oldham

so I guess one of those could be replaced by Velvet Underground & Nico, since it's really not fair that two are taken up

[drewpod]

I'll give it a shot...

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Snap Crakk - And The Sea Closed In Over Us
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust...
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Pixies - Doolittle

runners up....Any Boys Next Door/Birthday Party

[Jurmy]

Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle

runners up: Talking Heads - Speak in Tongues
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

[FloatingDowntheLiffey]

somewhat embarrassing i suppose--but i loved these guys long before zach fucking braff did. FUCK OFF ZACH BRAFF--WE MAY HAVE THE SAME ALMA MATER BUT YOUR NOSE IS BIG AND YOUR MOVIE PAPER THIN!!!!

(maybe this should be a guilty pleasure list)


death cab - we have the facts
bjork - greatest hits
elliott smith - xo
std - stay what you are
radiohead - amnesiac

*and obviously smiths - queen is dead

[drewpod]

bauhaus! yes!!

[TheColossus]

Do you all just share the same CD collection?

[FloatingDowntheLiffey]

with the exception of meutral milk--i dont think theres a single record REPEATED more than once

[dead flamingo]

as far as i can think of it right now, this is probably the top 5 list of my fav.

nine inch nails - "the fragile"
múm - "yesterday was dramatic today its ok"
rilo kiley - "the execution of all things"
radiohead - "kid a"
new order - "substance 1987"