Rank A Discography

[Samplehunter]

It hurts to see Ultra ranked so low.

I'm sure I offended a good portion of the DM fan base by putting a post-Wilder album at #2

Even though I find that the Wilder era was their best ever (especially the 1986-1993 sequence), I also enjoy Exciter (produced by no other than the late Mark Bell) and find Playing the Angel good also, but they're kinda dead after it if you ask me.

Like I said, I wouldn't change the first three post-Alan albums, but his remix of In Chains (from Sounds of the Universe kinda makes you wish he was still in the band:

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Compared to the poor and boring original, there's no debate for me:

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[SamuraiDrifter]

I'll use this as a start to check on their discography, because I really enjoy Go Hawaii

You absolutely should! He's one of my absolute favorites. One of the very few artists who is able to create a truly ethereal, otherworldly atmosphere like BOC does (though CVJ has his own unique style).

Alright, here's another one.

Christ.

1. Distance Lends Enchantment To The View
2. Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle
3. Pylonesque
4. Blue Shift Emissions
5. Cathexis Motion Picture Soundtrack
6. Curio

Of course this ranking is entirely relative within the discography, I love everything Christ. has done.

[rodox_head]

Even though I find that the Wilder era was their best ever (especially the 1986-1993 sequence), I also enjoy Exciter (produced by no other than the late Mark Bell) and find Playing the Angel good also, but they're kinda dead after it if you ask me.

Like I said, I wouldn't change the first three post-Alan albums, but his remix of In Chains (from Sounds of the Universe kinda makes you wish he was still in the band

I actually love SOTU and Delta Machine (I go back and forth between which more) and I easily agree with you there. If I were to use In Chains for a soundtrack I'd easily go for the Wilder mix. Spirit is the only album I actually dislike, CTA is more of a mixed bag to me. There were some good tracks that got left out of both SOTU and DM.

Exciter is an underrated one though; I Feel Loved is genuinely one of my favorite DM songs out of their whole discography.

Now I'm curious as to how you'd rank them

[Samplehunter]

Exciter is an underrated one though; I Feel Loved is genuinely one of my favorite DM songs out of their whole discography.

Freelove and the full version of Easy Tiger (why do we have the shortened one on the album actually?) would be my favorites of this album:

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Now I'm curious as to how you'd rank them

If you're talking about the Alan ones, I don't really know, but maybe Songs of Faith and Devotion would be first ahead of [i]Music for the Masses|/i].

[Orbited insanitarium]

Radiohead.

A very hard one for me, because I rank a few albums on the same height.

1. Ok Computer
2. In Rainbows (OK Computer/In Rainbows change from time to time)
3.Kid A
4. A Moon Shaped Pool
5. Amnesiac
6. The Bends
7. Hail to the Thief
8. The King of Limbs
9. Pablo Honey

Never understood the thing about In Rainbows. The 1993-2003 period, by far my favorite of the band (and I know that it's pretty varied, though I would say that the 1997-2001 sequence was their best ever), blows it out of the water.

I'm really into their more electronic and experimental era, but I would even take anyone of Pablo Honey tracks rather than the entirety of the 2007 album.

Well, I can certainly see the appeal behind In Rainbows. From a sound design perspective, for me, it's phenomenal. I'd dare say that everything on that album was expertly executed. (But I know that's not everyone's opinion and I respect that.)

In Rainbows is Radiohead's "stereo tester".

And I suppose the big split of the two eras probably comes from the band moving from EMI Parlophone to XL Recordings.
It might be just me though, that has a fondness for the latter period more than the 1993-2001 incarnation.

[SamuraiDrifter]

Kanye West:

Late Registration
Yeezus
Kids See Ghosts
The College Dropout
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Graduation
808s & Heartbreak
The Life of Pablo
Watch The Throne
Ye
Donda
Jesus Is King

[SamuraiDrifter]

Also, since we're doing Radiohead:

OK Computer
Kid A
A Moon Shaped Pool
In Rainbows
Amnesiac
The King of Limbs
Hail To The Thief
The Bends
Pablo Honey

[rodox_head]

The Monkees:
1. Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd.
2. Head
3. Headquarters
4. Missing Links, Vol.2
5. Good Times!
6. The Birds, The Bees, & The Monkees
7. Instant Replay
8. The Monkees
9. More of The Monkees
10. Missing Links
11. Missing Links, Vol.3
12. The Monkees Present: Micky, David, & Michael
13. Justus
14. Changes
15. Pool It!

[SamuraiDrifter]

^Makes me want to do an older group too.

The Beatles:

1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Revolver
4. Abbey Road
5. White Album
6. Rubber Soul
7. Let It Be
8. Please Please Me
9. Help
10. Yellow Submarine

[Josh]

Tim Hecker

1. An Imaginary Country
2. Radio Amor
3. Harmony in Ultraviolet
4. Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
5. Ravedeath, 1972
6. Konoyo
7. Anoyo
8. Love Streams
9. Virgins
10. Dropped Pianos

I stopped at my favorite top 10. Pretty much everything he's done I enjoy on some level, but between remixes, collaborations, EPs, and film scores, I thought this would suffice as core material. For me, Hecker is right there with BoC in creating music that leaves me feeling changed after listening. I have a lot of memories and emotions connected to his music.

[rodox_head]

^Makes me want to do an older group too.

The Beatles:

1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Revolver
4. Abbey Road
5. White Album
6. Rubber Soul
7. Let It Be
8. Please Please Me
9. Help
10. Yellow Submarine

The Beatles are hard for me to rank since their first 5 albums are a whole different story. Despite that, my list would basically be identical to yours.

[squid]

I'll jump on the Radiohead bandwagon:

1. Kid A
2. Amnesiac
3. In Rainbows
4. A Moon Shaped Pool
5. Hail to the Thief
6. OK Computer
7. The King of Limbs
8. The Bends
9. Pablo Honey

As shown in my list, I'm much more of a fan of their electronic side rather than the rock/alternative rock of their earlier years.

David Bowie (what I have properly listened to, at least):

1. Low
2. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
3. Station to Station
4. Hunky Dory
5. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
6. Heroes
7. Blackstar
8. Diamond Dogs
9. Lodger
10. The Man Who Sold the World
11. The Next Day
12. Young Americans
13. Let's Dance
14. Aladdin Sane

Ziggy could be my #1 on another day, that and Low are both 10/10 albums IMO. His 70's run was seriously incredible. Still can't believe he crammed so many amazing albums with very different styles into such a short period.

[Orbited insanitarium]

The Flaming Lips

1. The Soft Bulletin
2. At War With The Mystics
3. Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
5. King's Mouth
6. Clouds Taste Metallic
7. American Head
8. Embryonic
9. In a Priest Driven Ambulance
10. Oczy Mlody
11. Hit To Death Into The Future head
12. The Terror
13. Oh My Gawd!!!
14. Heady Fwends
15. Zaireeka
16. Hear it is
17. Telepathic Surgery

[rodox_head]

Killing Joke:
1. What's THIS for...!
2. Killing Joke (1980)
3. Night Time
4. Hossanas From the Basements of Hell
5. Pandemonium
6. Killing Joke (2003)
7. Pylon
8. Extremities, Dirt, and Various Repressed Emotions
9. Fire Dances
10. Democracy
11. Revelations
12. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
13. Outside the Gate

I actually still have yet to listen to Absolute Dissent and MMXII

[Josh]

I actually still have yet to listen to Absolute Dissent and MMXII

You definitely should. Might change your rankings.

[rodox_head]

I actually still have yet to listen to Absolute Dissent and MMXII

You definitely should. Might change your rankings.

From what I heard through crusty old YT uploads, "Absolute Dissent" is easily top 5 material .

[SamuraiDrifter]

The Beatles are hard for me to rank since their first 5 albums are a whole different story. Despite that, my list would basically be identical to yours.

I really love their psychedelic stuff.


Aphex Twin (Albums only)

1. Selected Ambient Works 85-92
2. Selected Ambient Works Vol. II
3. Syro
4. drukqs
5. Chosen Lords
6. I Care Because You Do
7. Richard D. James Album

[rodox_head]

The Sound:
1. All Fall Down
2. Thunder Up
3. From The Lion's Mouth
4. Propaganda
5. Jeopardy
6. Heads & Hearts

The Police:
1. Zenyatta Mondatta
2. Ghost in the Machine
3. Outlandos d'Amour
4. Synchronicity
5. Regatta de Blanc

Reggie & the Full Effect:
1. Songs Not to Get Married To
2. 41
3. Promotional Copy
4. Under the Tray
5. Greatest Hits 1984-1987
6. Last Stop: Crappy Town
7. No Country for Old Musicians

[rodox_head]

Recently revisited my 2nd favorite band at the end of high school with a fresher perspective:

System of a Down:
1. Steal This Album!
2. Toxicity
3. System of a Down
4. Mezmerize
5. Hypnotize

Dolmayan still rocks the drums as I thought back then, but I was surprised to find that STA! is my current favorite since back then I for sure would have said Mezmerize. Toxicity may have some of the best individual songs, but STA! makes a better full listen IMO. Hypnotize has great songs (Holy Mountains, Vicinity of Obscenity, Tentative, and Stealing Society as my favorites) but is the only one where I tend to skip certain tracks. Tankian's lyrics > Malakian's lyrics if I were to be completely honest.

[Orbited insanitarium]

Arctic Monkeys

1. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
2. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
3. Humbug
4. Am
5. Suck It And See
6. The Car
7. Favourite Worst Nightmare