Your Desert Island Discs

Discussion
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Okay i’ll give this a shot. I’m assuming most people here tend to stick with music that they grew up on, or music that has special meaning to them for one reason or another which may be why there isn’t a lot of stuff from the 70s-early 80s as i assume most people on here are in their 20’s maybe early 30s. But for this reason a lot of stuff i’ll pick would be the stuff i was into 15 years ago in high school. cause honestly thats when i cared about music the most. sadly it is also when i lived in a small ass town and had no musical variety to choose from.

But just going off of stuff in front of me on my ipod:

as i said earlier, all cure from start>wish.
coil - hose rotovator, musick to play in dark vol 1
autechre - incunbula
catherine wheel - ferment
current 93 - thunder perfect mind
dead can dance - 81-98 box
delerium - karma
depeche mode - black celebration
laibach - singles
lycia - wake
minsitry - filth pig
mono - walking cloud…
morrissey - viva hate (never thought i’d choose a morrissey album over the smiths but whatever)
bloody valentine - loveless
new order - movement
nick cave - some sort of greatest hits cd
nin - TDS
nirvana - in utero, incesticide
police - ghosts…
sebadoh - bakesale, III
soundgarden - superunknown
sarah mclachlan - funbling…
slowdive - souvlaki
sunny day real estate - diary
swans - Greed/Holy Money, great annihilator
radiohead - ok, kid a
wax trax box - id take the entire pre tvt catalog if possible.
wu tang - 36 chambers
tribe called quest- peoples instinctive…

As for stuff like mark stewart/pop group (who i hadn’t knowingly listened to till last year) and the birthday party… if that stuff was coming out when i was into music i would have been all over it. i can appreciate it tremendously hearing it now but i’m sure it doesn’t mean as much to me as it does to someone who was hearing it when it first came out and was totally new sounding.

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Weeellllll…my fave albums (in order of greatness) would be:

The Stooges - Funhouse
Public Image - Second Edition
Tool - Aenema
David Bowie - Low
Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker
Slint - Spiderland
Mudhoney - SuperfuzzBigMuff
Godflesh - Pure
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Bad Brains - I Against I
Shellac - At Action Park
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Helmet - Meantime
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Ministry - Psalm 69
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Corrosion Of Conformity - Deliverance
Killing Joke - What’s This For…!
Liars - Drum’s Not Dead
Japan - Adolescent Sex
Magazine - Real Life

Doubt I could live without any of those!

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to fish:
why ministry’s filth pig?
curious choice.

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clock dva . yes. fantastic.DAF .Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft.fantastic. hair and all.
speaking of seventies, who hates alice coope? or ziggy stardust era bowie?so much that passed for music then was terrible.i WAS a very young teenager then, with a mission to hear music that didn’t suck.

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After some more thought, here is a bigger, better list from me:

Voivod - Angel Rat
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Killing Joke - S/T 1981
Dredg - Catch Without Arms
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Alice Cooper - Love It To Death/Killer/Billion Dollar Babies (I’d make a compilation of the best tracks)
Skinny Puppy - VIVISectVI
Enslaved - Frost
Entombed - Clandestine
Waltari - Torcha!
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Coil - Scatology
Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium
Lycia - Burning Circle Then Dust
Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium
Melvins - Houdini
Neurosis - Times Of Grace
Today Is The Day - Willpower
New Model Army - Thunder And Consolation (tough call choosing just one album, I’d prefer to make a compilation)
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

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Faith No More - Angel Dust

I was tempted to put this (and Metallica’s 'And Justice For All) in my list. The pinnacle of their career, pretty much, and they never really emulated its success later on. The next two releases were patchy at best. Both had their fair share of classic cuts, but also a fair helping of complete duds (Cuckoo For Caca, Take This Bottle, Home Sick Home, Got That Feeling). It was as if they weren’t sure of what type of band they wanted to be. Such a pastiche of styles was bound to hit and miss. King For A Day was such a flop that they cancelled their tour halfway through. They basically ran out of cash!

Patton never matched this album in terms of lyrical output after Angel Dust, which was snide and hateful and dripping with wit and clever turn of phrase. Later on his lyricals became SO middle of the road it was alarming - considering he was doing such remarkable stuff with Bungle at the same time.

Godflesh - Streetcleaner

Notice how everyone who lists a fave Godflesh album will either list Pure or StreetCleaner? I think that says alot about that band and the potential that was wasted by putting out crap metal/rock efforts like Songs Of Love And Hate or Selfless - which didn’t suit the band at all.

Killing Joke - S/T 1981

I should have listed this one too. Not sure why I didn’t. Actually, it’s probably because in the last ten years I’ve played it to death.

[repl]Coil - Scatology[/reply]

Interesting. I find Coil’s 80’s output rather impossible to swallow - those vocals!! It wasn’t until Love’s Secret Domain that they became somewhat of an enigma.

Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium

Hmmmm…

Melvins - Houdini

Good call, but definitely NOT one of their better releases. Check out Bullhead, The Maggot, Eggnog or LYSOL for classic Melvins. Houdini is good, but they’ve done so much better.

Neurosis - Times Of Grace

I have friends who worship these guys.

I don’t.

Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

I bought Arise but returned it. Tried to like them, but there’s just something missing. I dunno…

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Im familiar with the whole Melvins discography but I simply find Houdini to be the most uniform, fun listen. Sure, there are more interesting/experimental albums of theirs out there but sometimes I just dont feel like engaging too many brain cells and listening purely for pleasure.

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I love me some Love and Hate in Dub.

I’d probably also bring:
Legendary Pink Dots- Four Days
Throbbing Gristle- D.O.A.
The Orb- U.F.Orb
O Yuki Conjugate- Peyote
The KLF- Chill Out
The entire Twilight Circus discography!
Bob Marley & the Wailers- Exodus
Primal Scream- Vanishing Point

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to fish:
why ministry’s filth pig?
curious choice.

That’s a tough one to answer. I struggled with this album a lot when it first came out. I was 18 when Filth came out i had been getting more into stuff like the deftones adrenaline and korn’s first album as those were new at that time. Now this is going to sound crazy to a ton of old school fans but, as i listened to songs like Lava and The Fall over and over i finally realized just how great of a band Ministry was compared to most everything else coming out then. I know it was that way for a long time but that is when it first hit me. The drums, bass, distortion on that album are massive. And it was so brilliant not to put out another Psalm album like so many fans wanted back then (myself included) but it probably took me 6 months of listening to it to realize it. But we have seen where thats got Al since he’s been on his own.

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I could have said exactly the same thing. and for DSOTS as well.

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filth pig is a difficult listen.
so what.if the people whose music matters don’t do something difficult, there in itself is a problem.
give me something good and gorgeous and contemporary. PLEASE.