500 Albums!

[OutLoudHeyHey]

So, my goal for 2010 is to listen to 500 albums that I've never heard before. Any suggestions? Just throw any albums you like out there and I'll add 'em to my list.

[bradsonemanband]

3 melancholy gypsys - grand caravan...
P.O.S. - never better
owen - at home with owen
american football - self titled
mineral - end serenading
the hanks - distance
darci cash - in the company of strangers

[cshadows2887]

I'll do 5, I won't be greedy.

Damien Rice - O
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Dan Fogelberg - Netherlands
Evaline - Postpartum Modesty: A Portrait of Skin
Gratitude - Gratitude

[Mibabalou]

well 5 people need to listen to are

Nevermind - Nirvana
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Brand New - Deja Entendu
The Postal Service - Give Up

[XchrisX]

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
Moving Mountains - Pneuma
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Passion Pit - Manners
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Mansions - New Best Friends

[fantasma]

Cat Stevens-Teaser and the Firecat

[cshadows2887]

Cat Stevens-Teaser and the Firecat

Shit, yeah.

[IWasaCamera]

Since there will surely be tons of whiny shit and classics listed, give these a try for some variety:

Bill Evans - You Must Believe In Spring
Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Spring Heel Jack - Disappeared
Mance Lipscomb - Texas Sharecropper & Songster

[apsterling]

Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad
Fact - s/t
Air Traffic - Fractured Life

[Mibabalou]

and here are a few more

Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2
Just Surrender - If These Streets Could Talk
Midtown - Forget What You Know
Scary Kids Scaring Kids - The City Sleeps In Flames
The Starting Line - Based On A True Story
2Pac - All Eyez on Me
Alexisonfire - Crisis
The Sound Of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and The Sun

[suplina]

and here are 5 you maybe have not heard

Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2


<3

mewithoutYou - It's All Crazy, It's All False, It's All A Dream, It's Alright
Liferuiner - No Saints
Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - What It Takes To Move Forward
The Wonder Years - The Upsides
The Wonder Years- Get Stoked On It!
La Dispute - Vancouver
La Dispute - Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between Vega And Altair
Cursive - Happy Hollow

[Regards]

Lifestory: Monologue - Hold Me In The Wind, My Friend

[tyramail]

heartsounds - until we surrender
cartel - chroma
the fauns - the fauns
jj - n° 2
wale - attention:deficit
paper route - abscence
does it offend you, yeah? - you have no idea what you're getting yourself into
the years gone by - forever comes too soon

[only the clouds]

Moving Mountains - Pneumathis this this. also:

Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Burning Airlines - Identikit
Jawbreaker - Dear You
The Rocketboys - 20,000 Ghosts
As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
House of Heroes - The End Is Not the End
Therefore I Am - The Sound of Human Lives

[kearn1tm]

Goblin -- Suspiria
Muslimgauze -- Baghdad
Les Savy Fav -- Go Forth
Cage -- Movies for the Blind
Gliss -- Devotion Implosion
Québec -- Together We Have Grown, Together We Shalll Bloom
Lee Fields & The Expressions -- My World

[BryterJonah]

So, my goal for 2010 is to listen to 500 albums that I've never heard before. Any suggestions? Just throw any albums you like out there and I'll add 'em to my list.
http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart

An easy enough list to pick and choose from all the way to 500.

[brokenmixtape]

The Weakerthans- Reconstruction Site

[sleepyseanzzz]

every weird al album ever

[myplanforescape]

Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting it On
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
The Violent Femmes - s/t
Rocket From the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream
Glifted- Under and In

[queenofcrouton]

Crime in Stereo - The Troubled Stateside
Kevin Devine - Brothers Blood
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Defeater - Travels

[TheOtherAndrew]

Laura Stevenson and the Cans: A Record (http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur019.htm)

[Brokenhill]

Pink Floyd - 'The Wall', 'The Dark Side of the Moon', or 'Wish You Were Here'

Thursday - 'Full Collapse'

[just-in.]

Latterman - ...No Mater Where We Go!
Fireworks - We Are Everywhere
Title Fight - The Last Thing You Forget
No Trigger - Canyoneer

Those are the albums I listened to today.

[friskycurtain]

Stole Your Woman - In Your Box
Bayside - Self Titled
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Relient K - Mmhmm
Senses Fail - Still Searching

[TriangularDuck]

alcest - souvenirs d'un autre monde
homesick for space - please continue
porcupine tree - the incident
the gay blades - ghosts
the brobecks - violent things

[stereokiller]

I'll give one.

The Matches - A Band In Hope

[Jake Gyllenhaal]

Metro Station

Every time you click on their ad on the front page, AP.net gets 5 cents!

[anthonydarko]

Here's a few for ya:
Zombi- Surface to Air
The Dillinger Escape Plan With Mike Patton- Irony Is A Dead Scene EP
Emperor- In the Nightside Eclipse
Copeland- Beneath Medicine Tree
Andrew Jackson Jihad- Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns
Pig Destroyer- Prowler In The Yard
Boris- Pink
Mastodon- Leviathan

[EasySkankin]

Thelonious Coltrane - Straight, No Chaser
Desaparecidos - Read Music | Speak Spanish
Pedro The Lion - Control
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue volume 1 & 2

yeah i know i went one over

[cshadows2887]

Goblin -- Suspiria
Muslimgauze -- Baghdad
Les Savy Fav -- Go Forth
Cage -- Movies for the Blind
Gliss -- Devotion Implosion
Québec -- Together We Have Grown, Together We Shalll Bloom
Lee Fields & The Expressions -- My World

Is that Goblin as in Dario-Argento-is-a-band-member Goblin? If so, props.

[anthonydarko]

Goblin -- Suspiria
Muslimgauze -- Baghdad
Les Savy Fav -- Go Forth
Cage -- Movies for the Blind
Gliss -- Devotion Implosion
Québec -- Together We Have Grown, Together We Shalll Bloom
Lee Fields & The Expressions -- My World
Awesome soundtrack for a classic film.

[awakeohsleeper]

Sleeping at Last - Storyboards

[tfar06]

what have you already listened to? HAHAHAHA. cant reccomend unless you havent listened yet!

[gjpinizz]

thats like almost 2 a day. relient k- mmhmm and four year strong- rise or die trying, my 2 favorites of the decade

[bolgy99]

Québec -- Together We Have Grown, Together We Shalll Bloom

Dude. Respect.

[Deadbolt23]

500 is easy.

[kearn1tm]

Is that Goblin as in Dario-Argento-is-a-band-member Goblin? If so, props.

Argento was never officially a band member, but in Deep Red and Suspiria, he took a hands-on, collaborative approach to recording.

Awesome soundtrack for a classic film.

Yep, and that Cage album I rec'd has a track that samples it.

[murrich]

Busta Rhymes - Genesis

[brothaman]

this this this. also:

Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Burning Airlines - Identikit
Jawbreaker - Dear You
The Rocketboys - 20,000 Ghosts
As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
House of Heroes - The End Is Not the End
Therefore I Am - The Sound of Human Lives

best list, purely because of hopesfall and therefore i am.

[brothaman]

best list, purely because of hopesfall and therefore i am.

oh, and of course house of heroes.

[ilovesofie]

Mest - Wasting Time & Useless ID - No Vacation From The World (underrated pop-punk)
Plushgun - Pins & Panzers
The Get Up Kids - On A Wire
The Ataris - Welcome The Night
Lit - Lit
Bad Religion - Generator

[dpetty21]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-Damn The Torpedos

Alkaline Trio-Goddammit

Mad Caddies-Duck and Cover

Transplants-S/T

[ThePartialGlow]

The Refreshments - Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy
The B-52's - Cosmic Thing
James McMurtry - Childish Things
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

[rj reynolds]

Andrew Jackson Jihad albums are not only wonderful, but short too. Tons of EP's. You could definitely pad your numbers by listening to them.

[ZoSo1886]

Cursive - The Ugly Organ
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3
The Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim

[COREhorizon]

<3

mewithoutYou - It's All Crazy, It's All False, It's All A Dream, It's Alright
Liferuiner - No Saints (?)
Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - What It Takes To Move Forward
The Wonder Years - The Upsides
The Wonder Years- Get Stoked On It!
La Dispute - Vancouver
La Dispute - Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between Vega And Altair
Cursive - Happy Hollow


One of these doesn't quite fit on this list...

[neurosis]

The Replacements - Let It Be
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute

[Yakacack]

The Urge - Receiving The Gift Of Flavor
Guiltmaker - Dilemmas
Joy In Tomorrow - Life Is About People

[kwsqd]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out & Time Further Out
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Ahmad Jamal - Digital Works
Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto

[sissyfist]

The Holy Bible...Manic Street Preachers.

[Brand-new-123]

The Earth and Everything In It - The Healer's Hands, The Beggar's Palms
Eef Barzelay - Bitter Honey

[kbi the crowing]

So, my goal for 2010 is to listen to 500 albums that I've never heard before. Any suggestions? Just throw any albums you like out there and I'll add 'em to my list.


Aughra/Mosh Patrol - Is There Anyone Else Outside?

We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls

Hella - Hold Your Horse Is

Maps & Atlases - Trees, Swallows, Houses / You and Me and the Mountain (two EPs, basically an album?)

Weerd Science - Friends & Nervous Break Downs

Fuck Buttons - Street Horrssing

[xJesusFreakx]

My friend asked me a similarly open-ended request, and I gave her the following list of favorites and name-drops. It has some stupidly obvious albums, but hey, you can always just skip those ones if you'd like.

dc Talk - Jesus Freak
The National - Boxer
Bradley Hathaway - A Mouth Full of Dust
Hands - Creator
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Taylor Swift - Fearless
mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Project 86 - Songs to Burn Your Bridges By
Weezer - Pinkerton
Regina Spektor - Songs
Nirvana - In Utero
David Crowder*Band - A Collision
Labradford - Mi Media Naranja

Beyond this, I back whatever IWasaCamera and kearns1tm suggested, even though I haven't heard those albums myself, because their recommendations very (if ever) end up being duds.

[TurbulentCo]

The 5 I'm listening to the most right now.

1. Blacklisted - No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me
2. Set Your Goals - This Will Be The Death of Us
3. A Day To Remember - Homesick
4. The Falcon - Unicornography
5. Banner Pilot - Collapser

And one that will be coming out this year you should check out

Alkaline Trio - This Addiction

[klawansie7]

The 5 I'm listening to the most right now.

1. Blacklisted - No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me
2. Set Your Goals - This Will Be The Death of Us
3. A Day To Remember - Homesick
4. The Falcon - Unicornography
5. Banner Pilot - Collapser

And one that will be coming out this year you should check out

Alkaline Trio - This Addiction

hey you live by me, ish.
(i'm acutally from buffalo grove but i go to school in bloomington, IN)

and good choice, for sure.

[TurbulentCo]

I have a lot of friends that go/went to isu.

[jbertclassic]

Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth
Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out Of Something

[kearn1tm]

Dude. Respect.

I picked it up on a whim at the record shop a few months ago. Damn good stuff.

[CobraLucha]

Nas- ILLMATIC

Andy Pratt- S/T (may be the greatest record of all time)

[cshadows2887]

Argento was never officially a band member, but in Deep Red and Suspiria, he took a hands-on, collaborative approach to recording.



Yep, and that Cage album I rec'd has a track that samples it.

Huh. Interesting. My buddy just got the version of Suspiria with the soundtrack and the liner notes list him as playing instruments and co-writing. They let him have a lot of involvement for somebody not in the band. Either way, they made some awesome music.

[cshadows2887]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-Damn The Torpedos


Do you like Hard Promises? I think I might like it even more than Damn.

[HelloxAlone]

The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys

[dpetty21]

Do you like Hard Promises? I think I might like it even more than Damn.


I'm not sure I've listened to it all but I like what I've heard. Not to be unoriginal but I do like the Waiting a ton. Everything the man puts out is gold.

[cshadows2887]

I'm not sure I've listened to it all but I like what I've heard. Not to be unoriginal but I do like the Waiting a ton. Everything the man puts out is gold.

"The Waiting" was a huge hit for a reason, man. No shame. My fav track on that is prob "Insider" with Stevie Nicks. Nice to see some Tom Petty love.

[kearn1tm]

Huh. Interesting. My buddy just got the version of Suspiria with the soundtrack and the liner notes list him as playing instruments and co-writing. They let him have a lot of involvement for somebody not in the band. Either way, they made some awesome music.

For Suspiria and Deep Red, yes, he was very involved in the arrangements, but never worked with them before or after. I'd hardly call him a member if it's simply for "two soundtracks" and nothing more, considering how prolific they are. Argento is also only a novice at instruments (he was more trying to capture mood/ambiance).

[Pat k]

You have to listen to Illmatic by Nas. Just promise me you'll listen to Illmatic.

[IWasaCamera]

It might help to know what you've actually listened to.

[Nourez]

Just tossing out what I've been listening to lately

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood
La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
New Found Glory - New Found Glory

[bolgy99]

I picked it up on a whim at the record shop a few months ago. Damn good stuff.

I'm just amazed that this little Aussie band got their stuff overseas. Good to see that good music gets out there for more people to hear.

[cshadows2887]

For Suspiria and Deep Red, yes, he was very involved in the arrangements, but never worked with them before or after. I'd hardly call him a member if it's simply for "two soundtracks" and nothing more, considering how prolific they are. Argento is also only a novice at instruments (he was more trying to capture mood/ambiance).

Huh. Good to know. I can honestly say my knowledge of Goblin is limited to Suspiria. Deep Red is in my Netflix queue though. Are they worth checking out beyond that?

[rising_tied]

I havnt read anything in this thread so I dont know what kinda music you like.. But if you havnt. Listen to either of Enter Shikari's CDs

[T-bag]

I'll do 5, I won't be greedy.

Damien Rice - O
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Dan Fogelberg - Netherlands
Evaline - Postpartum Modesty: A Portrait of Skin
Gratitude - Gratitude


You kids with your dan fogelberg and zima hula hoops and pac man video games. Pac man is punk. You are not.

[secretsociety92]

The Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through And Leave
Ultravox - Vienna

[T-bag]

The sisters of mercy is punk.Keith flint is punk.

[MickShamrock]

In Case Of Fire - Align The Planets
Kerbdog - Kerbdog
Therapy? - Troublegum

[Carlo Marx]

i haven't read any of the prior posts, so i apologize if these have already been named

television - marquee moon
audio karate - lady melody
jawbreaker - 24hr revenge therapy
elvis costello - blood & chocolate
atmosphere - when life hands you lemons, you paint that shit gold
black sabbath - paranoid
ryan adams - heartbreaker
baroness - red album
miles davis - sketches of spain
blackalicious - blazing arrow

[georgedcc]

I hate to piss on your dreams, but 500 albums in a year is very ambitious. That's a lot of listening. But good luck with it! I'll give you some scottish suggestions;

Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky, The Vertigo Of Bliss, Infinity Land, Puzzle, Only Revolutions
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight, Sing The Greys
Twin Atlantic - Vivarium, A Guidance From Colour
The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile
My Latest Novel - Deaths And Entrances
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
There Will Be Fireworks - There Will Be Fireworks
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters, Forget The Night Ahead
Idlewild - Hope Is Important, Make Another World, Post Electric Blues, Warnings/Promises, The Remote Part, 100 Broken Windows.