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Einstürzende Neubauten:

1. Halber Mensch
2. Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T
3. Haus Der Lüge
4. Silence Is Sexy
5. Alles Wieder Offen
6. Tabula Rasa
7. Kollaps
8. Lament
9. Richterskala
10. Ende Neu
11. Alles In Allem

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Slipknot :

1) Iowa
2) Slipknot
Spoiler: show
Starting here, we quit the golden era of the band

3) Vol.3: (The Subliminal Verses)
4) All Hope Is Gone
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The band could have stopped here, no need to continue without guys like Paul Gray and Joey Jordison who were so important for them, but they decided to move ahead, so...

5) We Are Not Your Kind
6) .5: The Gray Chapter
7) The End, So Far (I hope so, even if they have been able to deliever 3 or 4 good tracks since, this band has kinda died with Paul Gray)

The Prodigy :

1) The Fat of the Land
2) Music for the Jilted Generation (could have been better without the useless and boring Narcotic Suite)
3) Experience
Spoiler: show
Starting here, we quit the golden era of the band

4) Invaders Must Die
5) Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
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Starting here, we enter the shit zone

6) The Day Is My Enemy (only saved by Wild Frontier and Invisible Sun)
7) No Tourists

Rammstein :

1) Mutter
2) Sehnsucht
3) Herzeleid
Spoiler: show
Starting here, we quit the golden era of the band but things are still pretty good

4) Reise, Reise
5) Liebe ist für alle da
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Here, there aren't so good

6) Rosenrot
Spoiler: show
Here, you start to wonder if they really needed to make a comeback

7) Rammstein
8) Zeit

And for live albums/DVDs, Live aus Berlin blows everything, there's absolutely no debate.

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Silent Hill official soundtracks:
1. Silent Hill 2 (Slightly overrated game, but credit where credit is due. It does a fantastic job of cramming the story into one whole listen)
2. Silent Hill 3 (Firebrandx's Complete Soundtrack Ultimate Edition is a must listen, though. From both a sound design and musical POV, it's some of Yamaoka's finest work. "You're Not Here" is my 3rd favorite vocal track in the series)
3. Silent Hill 0rigins (Fungo's Complete Soundtrack is a must listen, though, and is honestly the superior way of listening to the ST, even if a few tracks are missing. "Shot Down In Flames" is my 2nd favorite vocal track in the series)
4. Silent Hill 4: The Room (I don't think I've ever listened to the 2nd disc all the way through, but the Limited Edition ST is a fantastic supplemental listen. "Tender Sugar" is my favorite vocal song of the series)
5. Silent Hill: Homecoming (Latter half is a little weak but the rest is beautifully haunting)
6. Silent Hill (Too many short tracks for me to rank it higher, but still a good assortment of dark ambient sounds)
7. Silent Hill: Downpour (I'm sorry, but the Jonathan Davis song is NOT GOOD *boom*, but Daniel Licht (RIP) gave it a good shot and his contributions are still worth a listen)
8. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (The one with the most "least memorable" pieces IMO. Nothing bad, just nothing that really stands out that well outside the vocal tracks which hit close to home for me since the story is centered around divorce and unreliable memory)

Samplehunter wrote:(could have been better without the useless and boring Narcotic Suite)

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rodox_head wrote:
Samplehunter wrote:(could have been better without the useless and boring Narcotic Suite)
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I can't stand 3 Kilos and I wish the whole thing was released as an EP, then, some tracks could have been available in their full versions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for ... nd_content

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Back in the 90s, artists were given a full cd to fill. The maximum capacity of one is 80 minutes.
I'm not saying this is the case for The Prodigy, but many albums I know from that time period really could've done with being trimmed out a bit. (Jilted has more material than a standard album runtime but just under the amount to be classified as a double album.)

I'd take The Division Bell as a prime example. I should say, I really enjoy all of the material, but I look at it, and fairly often it says to me that the band wanted to make the most out of the new format.
And this is coming from a prog fan who loves long excursions! :lol:
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Samplehunter wrote:
rodox_head wrote:
Samplehunter wrote:(could have been better without the useless and boring Narcotic Suite)
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I can't stand 3 Kilos and I wish the whole thing was released as an EP, then, some tracks could have been available in their full versions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for ... nd_content
I honestly wouldn't have minded if Poison got cut for the full version of One Love, it always feels like a flow-breaker to me :| . Hell, I probably wouldn't mind if 3 Kilos was cut but I'll be damned if I want to live in the timeline where Skylined and Claustrophobic Sting are absent.
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Front Line Assembly:
1. Implode
2. Tactical Neural Implant
3. Millennium
4. Hard Wired
5. Artificial Soldier
6. Epitaph
7. The Initial Command
8. Civilization
9. Gashed Senses & Crossfire
10. [FLA]vour Of The Weak
11. Caustic Grip
12. Improvised Electronic Device
13. Wake Up The Coma
14. Echogenetic
15. State of Mind
16. Corrosion
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Depeche Mode:
1. Violator
2. Playing the Angel
3. Speak & Spell
4. Some Great Reward
5. Music for the Masses
6. Songs of Faith & Devotion
7. Exciter
8. Memento Mori
9. Black Celebration
10. Sounds of the Universe
11. Delta Machine
12. Ultra
13. A Broken Frame
14. Construction Time Again
15. Spirit
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Regarding Front Line Assembly, I never really cared for anything after Implode except for Improvised Electronic Device and Echogenetic (and its surprising dubstep influences).

Everything before Caustic Grip, which was far from a masterpiece, sounds kinda meh to me. For the 1992-1999 period and the 2010-2013 phase, I don't really know how I would made my ranks, but Tactical Neural Implant, Millennium, Hard Wired and [FLA]vour of the Weak all deserve a mention.

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Susumu Yokota:
1. Greenpeace (as Stevia)
2. Symbol
3. Sakura
4. Fruits Of The Room (as Stevia)
5. MIX
6. Plantation (as Ringo)
7. Cat, Mouse and Me
8. Fallen Angel (as Prism)
9. Sound of Sky
10. Mother
11. Love Or Die
12. Distant Sounds of Summer (with Rothko)
13. Wonder Waltz
14. 1999
15. Metronome Melody (as Prism)
16. Image 1983 - 1998
17. Baroque
18. The Frankfurt-Tokyo Connection
19. Over Head
20. Dreamer
21. The Boy and The Tree
22. 1998
23. Laputa
24. Kaleidoscope
25. Magic Thread
26. Grinning Cat
27. Triple Time Dance
28. Acid Mt. Fuji
29. Will
30. Zero

Subject to change over time, but I think I can confidently say that "Will" and "Zero" are at the bottom, and "Greenpeace" is a definite #1 spot. Given how genre-fluid he was, It's difficult to definitively say which is better than the other. I'm actually still not completely done with his stuff. I haven't yet listened to Anima Beat or his Ebi albums.

"Zero" was actually the first album of his that I ever listened to, so it's kinda disappointing to see it end up at the bottom. :|
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In here is a tragedy, art thou player or audience?
Be as it may, the end doth remain:
all go on only toward death.
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There is nothing which cannot become a puppet of fate
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