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Metallica, "Master of Puppets", 1986
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This album came out a year before I was born but I swear my Dad must have been playing it as the first time I heard it I felt a bit of deja vu. One of my favourite Metallica albums.
"Battery"
"Welcome Home(Sanitarium)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Dfo4zDduI
Geezer
Against Me!, "Searching for a Former Clarity", 2005
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1.Miami – 5 stars
2.Mediocre Gets You Pears (The Shaker) – 4 stars
3.Justin – 3 stars
4.Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners – 4 stars
5.From Her Lips to God's Ears (The Energizer) – 5 stars
6.Violence – 5 stars
7.Pretty Girls (The Mover) – 4 stars
8.How Low – 3 stars
9.Joy – 4 stars
10.Holy Shit – 5 stars
11.Even At Our Worst We're Still Better Than Most (The Roller) – 4 stars
12.Problems - 5 stars
13.Don't Lose Touch – 5 stars
14.Searching for a Former Clarity – 5 stars
The fourth album from Against Me! on my countdown, and the one that turned me onto the band. I remember the first times I heard From Her Lips and Don't Lose Touch. I'd certainly call this a life-changing event for me. And for that, here's 3.
"Problems"
"From Her Lips to God's Ears (The Energizer)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL61NTUC2sE
"Searching for a Former Clarity"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HK9o-w0cpQ
Leestu
Sonic Youth, “Dirty”, 1992
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An all-round awesome album. When it came to choosing the songs I realised there are no obvious favourite stand out songs. For me (oxymoron alert) EVERY song is a stand out. Any two will do so for no particular reason….
“Drunken Butterfly”
“Purr”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEZiFZ8w_gE
NSpan
B-52s, "The B-52s", 1979
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"52 Girls"
"Dance This Mess Around"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K8jiFhmBAY
numbersix
Low, “Secret Name”, 1999
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A few weeks back I picked Low’s 1994 debut album as one of my favourites, complimenting their simplicity and intensity. By 1999 the band had grown tired of their style and started venturing outwards. And their first attempt in doing so resulted in their strongest record.
The minimalism is still there, but there’s an added lusciousness to their sound. Mimi Parker’s songs are more delicate, more impassioned. She even manages to pretty much hold an entire song together (Days of) with her vocals. Yet there are some lovely pop songs, such as Starfire or Immune. A gentle dash of strings help expand the sound, as evidenced on the climactic Soon. There’s even gloomy sonics on opener I Remember and Don’t Understand, demonstrating an appreciation of how studio recordings can differ from a live set-up. Overall this shows a band playing with their core sound and growing even better as musicians.
"Soon"
"Immune"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIR7KiAOBHM
Ron Burgundy
Air, "Talkie Walkie", 2004
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"Cherry Blossom Girl"
"Mike Mills"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1j5ZekeKw
silversurfer
Joy Division, "Closer", 1980
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Closer with a pronounced "s" or a "z"? When I first picked up this record a good 15 years or so ago, I wasn't quite sure how to pronounce it? Was this to be the sound of a band becoming more intimate, bearing their soul even more? Or was it an untimely indication of where the band where heading? I knew this was the last Joy Division record, and the thought of the latter left a decidedly chilling feeling with me. Thankfully, it wasn't the case, but still, with the title and cover image, it is rather ominous. The music, however, while a progression on from their debut Unknown Pleasures, sees the band still at the height of their powers. It's a record which on the surface appears cold and clinical, with the icy, tinny guitars and synths providing an eerie backdrop to one of the most spine-tingling vocals ever to grace a record. However, Ian Curtis had possibly never been more honest in his lyrics. Again, possibly a little unnerving when lyrics such "a cry for help, a hint of anaesthesia/ the sound from broken homes, we used to always meet here" on Colony, or "Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away" on Twenty Four Hours hint at the tragic end which would follow Curtis, but still this harrowing insight into his work is all the more emotional for it. The sound hints at the direction New Order would eventually follow, with the disco-beat and electro-pop of the likes of Isolation igniting the soul on what is for me one of the saddest, most beautiful records ever conceived.
"Passover'"
"Decades"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMAB3r6EjcM
transformers
The Doors, "The Doors", 1967
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"The Crystal Ship"
"Break on Through (To the Other Side)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJQwnAhXnBk