-Boards of Canada Music has the Right to Children *Really just one of the most interesting takes on the trip-hop genre I've ever heard. Mixing analog fuzzy, ambient synths and legit hip-hop beats into one of the most serene yet upbeat masterpieces ever made. -Geogaddi *BOC continue their Analog friendly trip-hop style going here with added influence from 70s styled BBC national geographics. Such a beautiful album. -Twoism *BOC get a bit weird, a lot more dissonant psychedelia influences on this one. Youtube the video for the title track set to Watership Down :S
-Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights *One of the greatest post-punk records released ever, let alone this decade. It's about as gloomy as any doom album can be but in a much lighter, rawer sense almost.
-Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works vol 1 & 2 *Well the first disc is almost like a Klaus Schulze meets Daft Punk affair, but that makes it great as tracks like Xtal, Green Calx and Tha are as great in a upbeat setting as they are chilled out. Disc 2 is very much in the regular, drony ambient style and it is an interesting record in itself as well, having tracks that could be considered beautiful and melancholic, to near-Lustmord like darkness. -Come To Daddy Taking influence from extreme metal on the title track, as well as mixing together some of his ambient work and drum n bass influences on a few others, made this one of the most perfectly well rounded electronic albums I've ever heard. It's got robotic grit, technological atmosphere and static production yet it's so human in every way.
-French Teen Idol El Siete es la luz *Some of the most beautiful Ambient/Post-Rock I've ever heard. Really just majestic in every way.
-John Stanford Deep Space *If there was an ambient album I could perfectly describe as enducing a feeling akin to floating through space, it's this one. Blissfull.
-Klaus Schulze X *The German ambient master himself. Not only is this record epic and chilled, it features songs based around interesting characters, giving the album a somewhat sympathetic connection, something a lot of ambient albums don't have.
-Coven Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls *The epitome of Occult Rock, I really wish Coven could have released more material then they did. Some of the most creepy yet psychedelic and totally 60s sounding psyche rock you'll ever hear.
-David Bowie Space Oddity *What can I say? Sort of Dylan-y at first but way, way more entertaining. The title track is still one of the greatest, most melcholicly beautiful and atmospheric songs in rock history and tracks like God Knows I'm God and Letters to Hermoine really show the greatness this man would go onto achieve. -Hunky Dory Life on Mars, Quicksand, Ch-ch-ch-changes! Need I say more? -Alladinsane *Really the peak of his glam rock period, the inclusion of the saxophone in some tracks really give it a huge sound and make it just grand. -Low *Just the epitome of Bowie and Kraut Rock weirdness. The songs that fit the more rock orientated side are fantastic, and there's even some ambient tracks such as subteraneans, showing Bowie would embrace all new aspects of music as he found them. My favourite Bowie album. -Outside *Bowie does NIN style Industrial!? Bitchin!
-Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# Infinity *You know you have a great album when it tells a tail with very little to no lyrics whatsoever. GSY!BE will always be the masters of post-rock in my eyes
-Gorillaz Gorillaz *Just such a refreshing take on the Hip-Hop genre, adding post-punk and electronica influences into a essential UK style of hip-hop to make an incredibly catchy, upbeat yet somehow dark record. -Demon Days *Continuing the similar style of the previous disc, but refining it ever so slightly to be even more powerful then the last. Totally deserved all the attention it got that year. -Plastic Beach *I didn't like this record at first, but it eventually grew on me. Dropping a lot of the rock elements and becoming more focused on the synths, Damon Alburn manages to recreatre the 80s Hip-Hop vibe of rappers like Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambata perfectly. At first it seems very poppy, and there is some of that, but it's another genious record from the Gorillaz if you look pas it. -The Fall *Gorillaz do almost BOC styled trip-hop, but threw in some interesting instruments as well such as ukelees and pipes. Just absolutely breath taking, easily my favourite record from them. Trip-Hop, Hip-Hop and ambient fans a like will dig this
-Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist *TBH to this day I still really can't quite put my finger on what genre Junius are. There's a lot of Post-rock elements, but it has a lot of focus on the vocalist and definetly follows regular songs structuring. There's a lot of heavy, almost post-metal riffs, but they definetly aren't a metal band. I though shoegaze, but it was way too clean and refined to be anything like My Bloody Valentine. I'm somewhat able to draw connections to the later work of Anathema and Katatnonia but I guess in the end they are just one of the pieces that influence this great band. Atmospheric, beautiful, almost kind of proggy too depressive rock(I guess?) at it's best.
-The Killers Hot Fuzz *Although they fell from grace pretty quick, the debut release from The Killers was awesome. Joy Division like post-punk melodies, New Wave esque synths and just enough rock n roll riffing and solos to make it interesting and respectable. Smile Like you mean it is still one of the most beautiful songs ever imo.
-King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King *What is there to say about In the Court that hasn't been said? Dark, Brassy, jazzy, head spinning prog rock with a touch of late 60s claustrophobia? HELL YA! -Lark Tongues in Aspic *More of the same, great, headspinning, heavy Prog rock from KC! -Red *Heavy KC at it's best.
-Matthew Good Band Beautiful Midnight *The album that brought the band the most sucess, it really is just a great, heartfelt catchy alternative rock record. Load me up and the Future is X-rated still find themselves in my head without warning. -Underdogs *More of an acoustic sense of sereness on this one, making it different from other relases. -Avalanche *Technically Matthew Good's first solo album, taking more from the Underdogs style of soulful, acoustic alt rock, but with plenty of almost ballsy alt rock riffing strewn though the record. Weapon is still such a beautiful song.
-Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral *Calustrophobic, robotic and anxious, this is the epitome of Industrial rock. When you're not being bombared by metal-equal, heaviness from the industrial synths and guitars the echoing, dark peacefullness takes a nice contrast to even the record out. -Ghost I-V *Definitely way more in the vein of some of Trents predecessors such as Brian Eno, Coil and Throbbing Gristle, this is a album of brief, rule-less instrumental songs, consisting of piano, acoustic guitar or ukele to just 4 minutes of Merzbow-ish static.
-Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf *Not much to say, the epitome of Stoner rock and Alt rock together. Who in this day and age doesn't know at least half the words to No One Knows? *Rated R albeit a bit more primordial the SFTD, Rated R was still a great record with catchy riffs, howling choruses and just great writting.
-Radiohead Hail to the Theif *Radiohead meets industrial-ish electronica. Really just a phenomenally weird album. Think Radiohead if it was assimilated by the Borg.
-Sisters of Mercy Floodland *The catchiest Gothic ROck record ever, containing a lot of those catchy post-punk/new wave choruses and grandeur. LUCRETIAAAA MY REFLECTION!!!
-Steve Vai Passion and Warfare *This man is a guitar genius and this an example of such. The atmosphere and soul found in tracks like Blue Power and For the Love of god show that anyone who believed "Shred" has no soul, were painfully misinformed.
-Van Halen Van Halen I *If you were a guitarist in 1978, this record made you shit your pants. I may not have been one of those guitarists, but god damn do I still understand how groundbreaking a lot of stuff found on this record would end up being, even if it was more of what it popularized and not what it particularly invented. - Van Halen II *More of the great Van Halen, albeit more catchy and chorus orientated. -Women and Children First *Somewhat underrated I feel, despite having a lot of fan favourites. One of the more middle grounded Van Halen records, which is why I love it so much. - 1984 *Okay Jump is cheesy as hell, but you gotta admit it was cool the first time you heard it. And songs Like Panama and Hot For Teacher show that EVH was not going to give up on the guitar just yet. -A Different Kind of Truth *best.comeback record. EVER. Didn't do anything for me at first, but the more I listened to it the better it became.
-Weezer Blue Album *The eptiome Weeer album. So cheerful and upbeat, yet also innocently, quietly melencholic
-Eyedea and Abilities By The Throat *Anybody who says Hip-Hop has no emotion needs to listen to this record and then promptly gtfo.
-Cannibal OX The Cold Vein -Trippy, atmospheric synths, bombastic hip-hop beats and some of the most entertaining lines in Hip-hop history? You just may have my favourite Hip-Hop album of all time on your hands...
-Jedi Mind Tricks The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological, and Electro-Magnetic Manipulation of Human Consciousness * -Rory Gallagher Blueprint -Stevie Ray Vaughn Texas Floods -Daft Punk Discovery, Homework, Human After All -Amon Tobin Bricolage, Supermodified -Nobuo Uematsu The soundtracks of Final Fantasy VI, VII, VIII, IX and X -Discharge Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing -Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) -Coil Scatatology -Velvet Acid Christ Fun With Knives -Bohren Und Der Club of Gore Black Earth -Alexisonfire Alexisonfire -...Of the Wand and the Moon Nighttime Nightrhymes -New Order Power, Corruption and Lies -Television Marquee Moon
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