The insufferable Rob Gordon in me can never resist a Top 10
Most listened and most influential are somewhat different, so I’ll go with most listened (from fleeting memory)
Aphex - RDJ
Crow soundtrack
Beatles - Peppers
Kendrick - Good kid
Dilla - Donuts
Miles - Kind of Blue
Beethoven - Late Piano Sonatas (Pollini)
Radiohead - Kid A
Joy Division - Closer
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
I was just talking with a good friend about this album… Shaking The Habitual has my favorite aspects of Peter Gabriel, Dead Can Dance and Kate Bush all on one record. Probably top 10 for me.
So alright, we’re in this now so I’ll give it a go. I think an alltime top 10 should be albums you’ve gone back to periodically in your life and continue to be meaningful. So in no particular order, the other nine:
I’ll stick to 10 ( edit : not really)
No particular order ( Except for the first ) :
. Prince - Parade
. Mr Bungle - Discovolante
. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
. Fishbone - Chim Chim’s Badass Revenge
. Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra - Take Off ! ( all of them really…)
. Rachel’s - The Sea And The Bells
. Motorpsycho - Blissard
. The Residents - The Mole Show
. Disasterpeace - Hyper Light Drifter OST
. The Beach Boys - Smile
I’ll just link the “less known” to keep the thread less overcrowded :
@psychetropic Yeah…“The Lamb Lies Down in Broadway” is also a favorite of mine, and the shock was pretty intense when “discovering” : “Back in N.YC” long after Buckley’s version. That made the cover even crazier.
Edit : These toplists are horrible because you always miss a crucial entry after you’ve done it…So, as a “secret track” proposition, i must add this last but (definitely) not least :
Lfo - lfo and their other albums
Global communications - 76:14
Autechre - incunabula
Telefon telaviv - ……
The black dog - bytes or spanner’s
A b12 album
Manna - manna
A modeselektor album
An early orbital album
underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Elliot Smith - Figure 8
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
Little Brother- the Listening
Slum village - fantastic vol 2
Atjazz- labfunk
Led zeppelin ii
Jimi Hendrix - axis bold as love
People under the stairs- OST
Machinedrum - urban biology
Ronnie laws- pressure sensitive
Mobb deep- hell on earth
Radiohead - in rainbows
I love all music since a little kid, but when I found hip hop as a teenager is when things really changed for me. So definitely a hip hop heavy list
The Chameleons-Script of the Bridge
The Smiths-The Queen is Dead
Depeche Mode-Violator
Radiohead-Kid A
Slowdive-Souvlaki
My Bloody Valentine-Loveless
Boards of Canada-Geogaddi
M83-Before The Dawn Heals Us
Burial-Untrue
Rival consoles-Persona
If we’re talking about top ten that I’ve been listening to a lot recently influencing what I’m currently making then it’s these:
Rival Consoles-Articulation
Com Truise-Persuasion System
Black Moth Super Rainbow-panic blooms
Boards of Canada-Tomorrow’s Harvest
Thundercat-Apocalypse
Washed Out-within without
Oneohtrix point never-magic Oneohtrix point never
Small black-limits of desire
Cocteau twins-heaven or Las Vegas
Keudo-Slow knife
In no particular order, these are perhaps the most influential records in certain periods of my life. Interesting to note that although I own and enjoy loads of newer music none of it made the impact that these did. I’m not sure the influence me directly in a musical sense but I’m sure it still informs my preferences.
Joni Mitchell - court and spark
Eric Clapton - Backless
Radiohead - Kid A
Beth Gibbons + Rustin Man - Out of Season
Portishead - Portishead
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Patsy Cline - Greatest Hits
Beck - Midnight Vultures
Esthero - breath from another
I was lucky enough to see Skinny Puppy around that time, in a really shitty warehouse in a scary part of Washington, DC. An incredibly cathartic show, unforgettable especially because I was dragged there by a friend thinking it was a metal show, and I didn’t want to go.
