The Syndicate

I'm with you though that the sax is better. You should listen to all of Coltrane's stuff. I'm an even bigger Coltrane fan than I am a Davis fan.

Dude, that is awesome. Miles had so many solid records. I'm more a fan of the fusion/electric period myself but that's just me.

Updated for AMSP:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Radiohead

Kid A
OK Computer

A Moon Shaped Pool
The Bends
Amnesiac

The King of Limbs

In Rainbows

Hail to the Thief

Pablo Honey

Subject to change though, especially since I've only heard it 5 times thus far.

Bagpipes are the best.

Ricochet wrote:If you want rabbit hole descending, I posted on RYM back in 2010 (... wait, almost six years ago? fock! my life, I want it back ) with a list I had written on a blog, with what I called "oddities" of avant-garde, nu free jazz, experimental and electroacoustic nature. These albums are basically the high gloss of what got me initiated in those genres back then. Mind you, though, these is actual a pretty mild selection. Dante hasn't seen shit in Inferno, compared to what can lurk in the depths of these orientations.

I do love me some insane music.

Ricochet wrote:

thellama73 wrote:How come no one else has joined me in doing a Nurse With Wound list?

Too many albums, from what I can see.

Yeah, it is intimidating... but that didn't stop me with respect to Zappa.

thellama73 wrote:How come no one else has joined me in doing a Nurse With Wound list?

I would, but I haven't heard enough yet. I should really work on getting more albums though, since I've liked what I've heard. The recommendation was much appreciated by these ears.

I'll take on E.S.T.

Esbjörn Svensson Trio

Leucocyte

Viaticum
Seven Days of Falling
Tuesday Wonderland

From Gagarin's Point of View
Strange Place for Snow
Live in Hamburg
Good Morning Susie Soho
Winter in Venice

Plays Monk
301
When Everyone Has Gone

Live '95

Not too far off from yours, Rico.

Pet Sounds is clearly a dark blue affair.

Since they're one of my favorite bands of all time and I've been on a kick lately (part in thanks to Rico's inclusion of Bela Fleck in his E.S.T. game, props Rico).

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Live Art

Live at the Quick
UFO Tofu

Rocket Science
Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Jingle All the Way
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
The Hidden World

Little Worlds
Outbound
Left of Cool

I generally am not a fan of listening to recorded live material, but the Flecktones are an exception to that rule. And as much as I'm a fanboy, they don't exactly have ridiculously solid studio albums, despite (1) the fact that I historically and presently listen to them pretty regularly, more than most bands, and (2) how amazing they are just in general and in a live setting. I just couldn't justify very high album placement even though I extremely enjoy them.

How about some LCD Soundsystem due to their unexpected reunion? And maybe some other electronic artists?

LCD Soundsystem

Sound of Silver

This Is Happening

LCD Soundsystem

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Kraftwerk

Trans-Europe Express
Radioactivity
The Man Machine

Computer World
Autobahn
Minimum Maximum
Electric Cafe

Tour de France
The Mix

Kraftwerk 2
Ralf und Florian
Kraftwerk

I'll do some other electronic artists later. There's those two at least. I'm a Kraftwerk fanboy, if you couldn't tell, and think LCD Soundsystem is pretty amazing as well. Always been a huge electronic fan.

Maybe if I'm crazy enough I'll try Tangerine Dream later.

Loving the combined list, G-Man. Can't wait to see more!

Polo wrote:Keep in mind that Blasquiz' voice sucks butts on that album, but the rest is magnificent. Especially Top's solo on Sowiloi (KMX-B12).

Good to know.

Polo wrote:It's a really nicely recorded live session they did for Radio Bremen back in '74. The tapes went around the interwebs for years until the band decided to remaster them and release them officialy. The drums themselves sound particularly amazing, with stellar clarity; you can hear every ghost note clearly.

Sounds like I need to get this.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:A Tribe Called Quest

The Low End Theory

Midnight Marauders
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

Beats, Rhyme, & Life
The Love Movement

Mine is the same except I'd probably give The Love Movement an uglier color. RIP Phife.

Understandably, it's definitely the worst one; I have a soft spot for it though. All of their material is so good.

In remembrance of the recently deceased Phife Dawg, and because A Tribe Called Quest not only produced one of my "desert island albums" but also remains my all-time favorite hip hop group, here's a ATCQ rainbow.

A Tribe Called Quest

The Low End Theory

Midnight Marauders
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

Beats, Rhyme, & Life
The Love Movement

I get to see Magma in concert this Sunday in Austin (something I never thought would ever happen). I haven't listened to them much in a while, but today starts my marathon in anticipation, so I think I'll be shooting up a Magma rainbow at some point this week. So Magma fans, I'm intrigued to see what your rainbows would look like. I need to relisten before even thinking about my rainbow though, because it's been a few years now since I listened to them religiously.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Who wants to join me in doing a Frank Zappa rainbow list including all live, studio, compilation, collaberation, xenochronic, posthumous, EP, cover, arranged, conducted, bootleg, remastered, rereleased, unofficial, and contributed albums?

Me! Me!

This will take a lot of thought though, which I'm not currently capable of.

Here is a Frank Zappa quiz to see if you can name all of the albums. I made it a couple years ago. :P

Yes, there are currently 141 of them (that I know of).

You've showed me this before! I can't remember what my score was though.

Nice story, Rico.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I would karaoke much more often if anyone had B&S or Crowded House.

Both great bands from my experience, but I'm not familiar enough with all of their output to rainbow them, since I've only heard a couple of albums from each.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Who wants to join me in doing a Frank Zappa rainbow list including all live, studio, compilation, collaberation, xenochronic, posthumous, EP, cover, arranged, conducted, bootleg, remastered, rereleased, unofficial, and contributed albums?

Me! Me!

This will take a lot of thought though, which I'm not currently capable of.

It's funny you say that, Jay, I had a similar initial issue with Sigur Rós way back when, then suddenly they clicked BIG TIME for me when I tried listening to ( ) again on a whim.

Epignosis wrote:That's Eloh on vocals, by the way.

You bet, I should have mentioned how much I appreciate Tasha's contributions as well. Really awesome.

Epignosis wrote:Still never heard of them. Ask MP how little I've heard of them.

Exactly.

Seriously though, I can't ever thank Rob enough for what he did for me. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what wedding gift I would get for Daisy in anticipation of last August 8th, but nothing was good enough. I began gravitating toward a music box, but I wanted the gift to be unique to us, so I was only happy with the idea if the music box was able to play a Sigur Rós song when opened. I wasn't even sure if such a thing was possible. After some searching, I uncovered that it was, and found a willing vendor on Etsy. I backed out though after just still not feeling totally right about it; the music box sacrificed some of the elegance I desired in order for it to play Sigur Rós, but the real killer is that I wouldn't be able to get it play a particular song that I wanted.

Don't ask why or how, but "Staralfur" organically became the "our song" of our relationship, since Sigur Rós was the band that Daisy and I really bonded over. She had never heard of them before I introduced them to her, and being that music is very important to both of us, one of the first things we talked about was music, and I've shared many bands/artists with her over the years and vice versa. There was something that really struck a chord with her about Sigur Rós though, and it didn't take long before they became the band we listened to when we were together, for a while all the time. Even though Takk... is her favorite album, we both found the beauty of "Staralfur" to be a fitting 'relationship song' for us. If you'd ask either of us exactly how it happened though, I'm not sure we even know. It just sort of happened. We didn't even truthfully consider a different song for the processional for the wedding.

We saw Sigur Rós live in Detroit on April 1st, 2013, and it was one of the best concerts I've ever seen (which is tough to say; I've been to many good concerts over the years) in the beautiful Fox Theatre (the exact opposite of downtown Detroit, it was stunning). It definitely became one of our most treasured experiences together.

So, fast forward to my proposal; I spent months agonizing over how I would do it. In the end, I decided to capitalize on the one thing unique to us, Sigur Rós, and I bought Ágætis byrjun on vinyl, since we had talked about getting their records on vinyl before -- but hadn't yet, since most of them are either relatively or ridiculously expensive. At first I wanted Takk..., since that was her favorite album, but it was way more expensive and realized that Ágætis byrjun made more sense given that it contained "Staralfur". Anyway, my proposal was pretty simple, but I ordered the vinyl without her, taped the ring box real good to the album cover, then stuck it back in the shipping box as if I hadn't opened it. I knew she was off work on a particular Saturday (July 26, 2014), and wanted to surprise her then because I knew we'd have some time alone, and had a whole evening planned (dinner, etc.) thereafter. Long story short, she loved it, and awesomely she had planned a surprise for me that same day; I hadn't thought I was going to see some of my friends (Draconus, Russtifinko in particular) again before leaving for San Antonio a week or so later, especially with Russtifinko having recently moved to Cleveland, so she surprised me with them coming over... anyway, that's a different story, so I won't continue further along that path. It turned out to be the perfect proposal day, even if my plans for after the proposal were completely altered.

All the more reason I wanted the wedding gift to have to similarly reflect our history with Sigur Rós. After backing out of the music box idea, and mulling for a few days, I had a sudden idea. Knowing Rob for almost a decade now (crazy to say), and thinking specifically of his most recent Christmas gift for Roxy in the gift exchange where he covered some of her favorite bands, I knew the man could write, and more importantly, cover music really well. I thought, if only there was some way to recapture that night when we saw Sigur Rós live in concert, but to put a new refreshing twist on it... and I approached Rob with the idea of covering literally the entire setlist (plus "Staralfur" as the final bonus track, since they didn't play that live when we saw them). He was hesitant at first, especially given his relative unfamiliarity with the band (he had heard ( ) years ago but it didn't make an impression), but being the friend he is, agreed to it.

The resulting gift literally was the best possible outcome I could have asked for, blowing away the already very high expectations I had for Rob's musical abilities. And Daisy absolutely loved (and still loves, of course) the gift, and couldn't believe it when I told her at the wedding with CD in hand. I really couldn't be more thankful for the way that it worked out, and according to Rob, he gained an appreciation for the band in the process, so who could have asked for anything better?

Anyway, that's the story of Rob, Sigur Rós, and my relationship/wedding.

I absolutely love Sigur Rós.

( )
Ágætis byrjun
Takk...

Valtari

Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

Kveikur

Von

Iron Maiden

Somewhere in Time
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Powerslave

Brave New World
Piece of Mind

The Number of the Beast

Iron Maiden

Killers

Yes, Somewhere in Time is the best. If you don't think so, you haven't heard it enough.

I have heard some of the rest, but not enough to comfortably place them anywhere, though I doubt the ones I've heard would place above Killers. Need to work on that.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Iron Maiden


Powerslave
Somewhere in Time
Brave New World
The Final Frontier
Piece of Mind

The Number of the Beast
A Matter of Life and Death
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Book of Souls
Iron Maiden

Killers
Dance of Death

The X Factor
No Prayer for the Dying
Virtual XI

Fear of the Dark

CAUGHT SOMEWHERE IN TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Now for the band that so many people call the fathers of progressive metal even though I don't think any of their albums are remotely progressive metal save maybe for 1-2. They're still old favorites of mine.

Queensryche (shut up, I can't get Google to load to find an umlaut)

Promised Land
Operation: Mindcrime

Empire
Tribe

Operation: Mindcrime II
Rage for Order
Queensryche (EP)
Hear in the Now Frontier
Q2K

The Warning
Queensryche (2013)
American Soldier
Dedicated to Chaos

Take Cover

Wow, my list would look pretty much exactly like this.

King Crimson

Discipline
Larks' Tongues in Aspic

Starless and Bible Black
Three of a Perfect Pair
Red

The Power to Believe

Beat
Islands

Thrak
Lizard
In the Court of the Crimson King

In the Wake of Poseidon

The ConstruKction of Light

My ranking of the Belew era is bound to be odd; I don't care. Belew era ftw.

S~V~S wrote:I have to agree here; I am not a big WHO fan, BUT Quadrophenia ranks highly in my favorite album lists. It stands the test of time, while most Who recordings are now pretty dated.

How about one more? That'll give you all three new artists to tackle, at the least.

The Who

Quadrophenia

Who's Next

Tommy

The Who Sell Out

My Generation

The Who By Numbers
Who Are You

Haven't heard any of the few others. Quadrophenia is the main album I'll ever spin if I ever want to listen to The Who; I almost never listen to any of the others, including Who's Next or Tommy, these days.

I could try ranking The Who, but my list will be controversial I'm sure.

How about Talking Heads?

Remain in Light
Fear of Music

Speaking in Tongues

More Songs About Buildings and Food
77

Naked

True Stories

Little Creatures

Who next?

G-Man wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I got this idea after seeing the rainbow colored album rankings in G-Man's The Wall (Speed Game) thread.

I'll give you all an artist or band, then you give me your ranking of their albums. We can always take turns nominating bands and artists as well, whatever you all want. Sounds fun, doesn't it?

Feel free to use whatever colors you want, but I'm going to be using the following color/ranking scheme, comparable to a 5-star rating on RYM or PA:
Perfect -- 5.0
Almost Perfect -- 4.5
Awesome -- 4.0
Good -- 3.5
Average -- 3.0
Somewhat Poor -- 2.5
Poor -- 2.0
Abysmal -- 1.5
Anti-Music -- 1.0

Rating scale question- Say I have an album I feel is worth a 4.25 (again, I'm grading each song and taking an average for my album score)... Do I color it in Awesome Green (4.0) or in Almost Perfect Blue (4.5)? Would you say that a perfect album is strictly 5-stars or anything 4.6 stars and up? Just trying too hard to be accurate here.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Sounds like a good time for some turquoise.

Warning: Extremely major fanboy alert.

Rush

Moving Pictures
Hemispheres
Clockwork Angels

Power Windows
Permanent Waves
Hold Your Fire
Signals
Counterparts
Roll the Bones
A Farewell to Kings
Grace Under Pressure

Caress of Steel
Snakes and Arrows
Vapor Trails
2112

Presto
Fly by Night
Test for Echo

Rush
As many bands and artists as I've grown to love and continue to know and love, nothing will ever top Rush for me.

Oooooh Rush! I'm going to do that too.

How's that, G-Man, Mr. 1 band per week? :P

Alright, I'll do Beatles 1964-onward as well, curious to see what everyone else thinks.

Beatles, from 1964 onward:

The White Album

Abbey Road

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Magical Mystery Tour

Rubber Soul

Revolver

Let It Be
A Hard Day's Night

Help!

I actually hated The Beatles for a while, especially because my brother went through a period of obsession with their earlier material (he preferred it, I have no idea why). Eventually I opened my mind enough, and consider The White Album to be an essential album (in fact, I ranked it #1 on my essential albums list). I still much prefer later Beatles though, and only consider Sgt. Pepper's, Abbey Road, and White Album to be heavily worth listening to. My opinions on The Beatles are likely very unconventional.

Led Zeppelin

Physical Graffiti

Houses of the Holy

Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV

Presence
Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin II

In Through the Out Door

Coda

I'm not the biggest Zeppelin fan, and always found them to be a bit overrated particularly when compared to some peers. I can appreciate the impact they had on rock music though, and I certainly don't dislike them.

Intriguing to see that we have a really similar ranking though, Jay. I always thought my ranking of LZ albums was particularly unconventional.

You think Led Zeppelin albums are more recognizable than Bowie?

I'm fine with doing multiple artists at a time though, so let me mull over that and I'll provide my Led Zep rankings in accordance with my rainbow system above. Warning: My list is likely to be controversial, since I like Bowie a lot more than Led Zep.

G-Man wrote:Sheesh, MP! One band/artist at a time. I'm working my way through Pink Floyd for the other thread right now but maybe I'll tackle Bowie next week.

Fine with me, take your time.

First up... how about David Bowie, in honor of his legacy and unfortunate passing earlier this year?

Low
Station to Station
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Hunky Dory
Heroes

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs

Lodger
Blackstar
The Man Who Sold the World

Young Americans
The Next Day
Outside
Heathen

David Bowie
Earthling
Let's Dance

Hours...
Reality
Black Tie White Noise
Tonight
Never Let Me Down

I got this idea after seeing the rainbow colored album rankings in G-Man's The Wall (Speed Game) thread.

I'll give you all an artist or band, then you give me your ranking of their albums. We can always take turns nominating bands and artists as well, whatever you all want. Sounds fun, doesn't it?

Feel free to use whatever colors you want, but I'm going to be using the following color/ranking scheme, comparable to a 5-star rating on RYM or PA:
Perfect -- 5.0
Almost Perfect -- 4.5
Awesome -- 4.0
Good -- 3.5
Average -- 3.0
Somewhat Poor -- 2.5
Poor -- 2.0
Abysmal -- 1.5
Anti-Music -- 1.0