The Syndicate

tin man wrote:Carly Rae Jepsen - E*MO*TION

rules

The entire song was on a jukebox?

People who judge others for their music tastes are totally silly, and frankly I think many music enthusiasts restrict themselves because they want to be perceived a certain way instead of simply respecting their own whims.

I've heard an absolute pile of music from a pile of genres, and I can still get excited to hear my favorite Taylor Swift song.

No tastes are bad tastes. We like what we like!

Just added you Rico. DEAL WITH IT. :P

Crowded House/Split Enz, the former being the greatest pop band of all time (if my opinion was gospel). Also including Neil Finn solo albums and Finn Brothers albums. I am less familiar with Tim Finn's solo work.

Together Alone (Crowded House) - one of only two albums I would consider a candidate to be called my favorite album in all of music

Time on Earth (Crowded House)
Woodface (Crowded House)
True Colours (Split Enz)
One Nil (Neil Finn)
Intriguer (Crowded House)
Everyone Is Here (Finn Brothers)

Time and Tide (Split Enz)
Temple of Low Men (Crowded House)
Crowded House (Crowded House)
Try Whistling This (Neil Finn)

Conflicting Emotions (Split Enz)
Frenzy (Split Enz)
Waiata/Corroboree (Split Enz)
Dizzy Heights (Neil Finn)
Mental Notes (Split Enz)

See Ya 'Round (Split Enz)
Dizrythmia (Split Enz)
Second Thoughts (Split Enz)
Finn Brothers (Finn Brothers)

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.

I hate going to karaoke bars, but I love singing. I'm talentless, but it always makes me feel good.

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

Belle and Sebastian:

If You're Feeling Sinister
Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Tigermilk
The Boy With the Arab Strap

The Life Pursuit
Write About Love
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance

This is Just a Modern Rock Song
3.. 6.. 9.. Seconds of Light
Dog on Wheels
Lazy Line Painter Jane
Johnathan David

I'm Waking Up to Us
Books

Storytelling

Here's a comprehensive rainbow list for all of the Zappa albums I have listened to:

Hot Rats

I've a songs list for Sigur Rós too. /nerd

Turnip Head wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: orgasmic climaxes

I was in a big hurry to get off of that plane.

Great story, MP. I feel like I know you, Daisy, and Epi a little better than before after having read it. Thanks for sharing.

I also have a [much much much less meaningful] story about Sigur Rós.

The first album of theirs that I heard was ( ). And for about a year or two, I hated it. It had one of my lowest RYM ratings, and I wrote a review dubbing it the most boring thing I had ever heard in my life. This was a disappointment to me, because prior to listening to them I had anticipated liking them a lot. They were held in high regard by people with similar tastes to my own, and the general concept of the band sounded very interesting. It was because of those initial expectations that I continued listening even though I found it so miserably boring, like I was trying to force myself to like it more. It wasn't happening though, at least not until I branched out to Ágætis byrjun. There was very distinct moment when my perspective of Sigur Rós completely changed, and I talked about it a while back in a list I made for my favorite songs ever in an entry for "Viðrar vel til loftárása":

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I needed to spend a lot of time and energy towards the effort of making Sigur Rós enjoyable. The pursuit might be called wasteful and pointless by many, understandably, but for a song as pleasurable as Viðrar vel til loftárása I am extremely glad I did it. The piano melody alone is enough to make this song a nice listen, but it's the buildup to and arrival at one of the most orgasmic climaxes I know of that makes this song so great. The turning point for my perception of Sigur Rós came on an airplane, as I listened to Viðrar vel til loftárása on my ipod. I was staring out the window, only half awake. The timing and movement of the aircraft were perfect so that at the very moment the song's climax came to my ears, the sun appeared within my view. My spine is still recovering from the quake of shivers.

It's corny, but it's true. Ever since then, I suddenly loved nearly everything in their discography -- including the untitled album I had previously hated so much. It was like I had unlocked a secret level in a video game or something. :P

I think "Ísjaki" is the remarkable high of Kveikur, it's probably my second favorite track of theirs behind only "Viðrar vel til loftárása". Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust feels like a bloated caricature of Sigur Rós to me. "Ára Bátur" for example seems to follow the most typical Sigur Rós formula and it actually makes me laugh.

Sigur Rós

Takk...
Ágætis byrjun

Kveikur
( )
Valtari

Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

Von

Yeah I meant I couldn't load any pages that featured the word with the umlaut to copy. My wi-fi is basically a 28k modem right now.

Somehow The Syndicate is the only site that is consistently loading cleanly.

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

To be fair, I remember nothing about it after all this time. That's what my old ratings tell me.

Dream Theater

Images and Words

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Systematic Chaos

Train of Thought
Octavarium
Falling into Infinity
A Change of Seasons

A Dramatic Turn of Events

The Rush albums I've heard:

Permanent Waves

Moving Pictures
Snakes and Arrows

2112
A Farewell to Kings

Hemispheres

Sounds like a good time for some turquoise.

Here's a good place for some shameless self promotion.

Favorite Radiohead songs

Favorite Pink Floyd songs

Favorite Led Zeppelin songs

Favorite Beatles songs

Favorite Camel songs

Radiohead

Kid A

The Bends
OK Computer

In Rainbows

The King of Limbs
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief

Pablo Honey

I think Ten Years Gone is the best LZ song, so there's that. I absolutely love Down by the Seaside and Night Flight, those feature some of Plant's best lyrics ever. Sick Again is a moment of good heavy LZ. I could do without Boogie With Stu. I really think 90% of the album is great, and that's hard to manage with a double album.

Generally, I think Led Zeppelin music gets worse as it gets heavier. Not always, but usually. That's why I don't care as much for LZ1 and LZ2. They're at their best when they show off their capacity for diversity in songwriting. PG and HOTH are the best in that regard by far, in my opinion.

The White Album is very love/hate for most people. For me, it's the only Beatles album I didn't give at least a decent rating (I'd classify that as 3.0 or better).

I only did the albums starting in 1964 because I never bothered listening to the earlier ones.

I'm going to do my favorite prog band.

Camel

Dust and Dreams
The Snow Goose
Harbour of Tears
A Nod and a Wink

Mirage
Moonmadness
Rajaz

Rain Dances
I Can See My House from Here
Stationary Traveller
Camel

Breathless
Nude

The Single Factor

MovingPictures07 wrote: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.

No, I actually missed the part in your original post where you meant for everyone to follow with the artist you named. My bad.

David Bowie:

Low
Hunky Dory

"Heroes"
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Alladin Sane
Station to Station

Black Star

Heathen
The Next Day

That's all I have heard.

Beatles, from 1964 onward:

Abbey Road

Revolver
Rubber Soul

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
Help!
A Hard Day's Night

Let It Be

The White Album

I'll do some for bands that I think most would recognize:

Led Zeppelin

Physical Graffiti
Houses of the Holy

Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin [IV]

Presence
In Through the Out Door

Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin

Coda

Note -- bad colors don't necessarily mean I dislike the albums. I'm just using the spectrum more completely.