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Saw a tvshow about queen yesterday.And the making of a night at the opera.

And i started to think about the albums that ment most for me and that i think are the greatest.

Hmm,this gonna show how old i am.

1 queen-a night at the opera.

2 Pink floyd-the wall

3 prince.purple rain

Well,those are the albums that ment most to me all time

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a few "recent" favourites (by no means my greatest albums of "all time" as thats too difficult to even start to think about...)

radiohead - ok computer

the strokes - is this it ?

ben harper - welcome to the cruel world

jack johnson - on and on

leonard cohen - 10 new songs

muse - origin of symmetry

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while the Wall certainly is a great album...I prefer either "Animals" or "The Final Cut"

Wow, finally someone else who appreciates The Final Cut. I guess it did not have the global success it deserves because of its war related theme, that mainly Brits would be able to relate to (Falkland War). But great music and lyrics.

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a few "recent" favourites (by no means my greatest albums of "all time" as thats too difficult to even start to think about...)

radiohead - ok computer

the strokes - is this it ?

ben harper - welcome to the cruel world

jack johnson - on and on

leonard cohen - 10 new songs

muse - origin of symmetry

S_Pluto if you like Ben Harper and Jack Johnson, you might also like John Butler Trio's Sunrise Over Sea. PM me if you want a link to download a few 'samples'. ;)

Among my current favourites

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

Tori Amos - The Beekeeper

Susheela Raman - Music for Crocodiles

Coldplay - X&Y

Just started to listen to Jack Johnson's Sing-a-longs and Lullabies..., and David Gilmour's On an Island. First impressiion weren't too good.

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Everybody knows the best album of all time is The Clash's "London Calling."

can't think of any rock record to top london calling, really. are boxed sets cheating? if not, then the velvet underground boxed set.

my nomination for greatest record of all time is a jazz record from the 50s. :

jazz at massey hall, a concert featuring charlie parker, bud powell, max roach, dizzy gillespie and charles mingus. recorded by mingus. to my knowledge the only recording of this dream lineup.

damn tough to come up with an 'all time' list for me though coz i keep stirring the music pot and listening to new stuff.

favorite records of the 2ks so far, not in any order (and of course, concise and to-the-point as always):

dandy warhols/welcome to the monkey house: i used to hate this band because they're so pretentious and their work is a pastiche of "hip influences". now i love them for it. "we used to be friends" is the perfect sequel to "bohemian like me."

david sylvian/blemish: this guy's been around forever, and has done a lot of weird, artsy electronica, on his own and with people like ryuichi sakamoto. this record is soft and slow but i wouldnt call it 'laid back' or 'lounge,' there's a disturbing quality to it that disrupts that. "late night shopping" has to be the eeriest song about shopping ever.

johnny cash/american iv: the man comes around: this is among johnny cash's last studio recordings, he sounds about 300 years old. back around 1994, when country music--a genre he helped build--had no use for him, rick rubin stepped in and updated cash as a folk singer and introduced him to a range of new material. this record continues their collaboration. it's a bit uneven the parts that work, though, work brilliantly--his rendition of depeche mode's "personal jesus" has the balls and conviction that they always lacked. the best track is 9" nails' "hurt." love trent reznor dearly and mean it, but THIS low-tech, acoustic version is gut-bucket harrowing, the way the song is meant to be done.

mos def/ the new danger: proof that hip hop can do something besides puff up about 'pimpin' and bein a 'gangsta'. don't expect all warm and fuzzies though, he completely, brilliantly trashes jay z in "the rape over"

blackalicious/the craft: more positive hip hop, this time from the west coast. best tracks: "powers," "lotus flower" and "ego-sonic war drums."

colin meloy sings morrissey i'm not a big decemberists fan. i listen to them but don't really love them. and i used to hate the smiths and morrissey. how many songs about "i'm so miserable and i've nothing to wear" can one whiner write anyway? but this EP works for me, probably because of meloy's singing, which is free of both irony and melodrama, and thereby wrings the emotional core out of all the melodrama morrissey brings to the table (and that's a LOT of melodrama, although i've warmed up to his whining in recent years).

also, can't have the 2ks without the white stripes.. ok any band that can cover son house' "death letter"--and make it work--has my attention. death letter is on de stijl, elephant is probably the best record so far, with "seven nation army" (yeah, you've heard it before i'm sure) the best track. the michel gondry video for "the hardest button" is killer too btw.

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S_Pluto if you like Ben Harper and Jack Johnson, you might also like John Butler Trio's Sunrise Over Sea. PM me if you want a link to download a few 'samples'.

Among my current favourites

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

Tori Amos - The Beekeeper

Susheela Raman - Music for Crocodiles

Coldplay - X&Y

Just started to listen to Jack Johnson's Sing-a-longs and Lullabies..., and David Gilmour's On an Island. First impressiion weren't too good.

I don't know if I'm allowed to admit this .....and still be straight.....but I'm a big Tori Amos fan ....haven't heard the new jack johnson ......but i'll give it a look......x&y is a good , yes ...good....not great..

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S_Pluto if you like Ben Harper and Jack Johnson, you might also like John Butler Trio's Sunrise Over Sea. PM me if you want a link to download a few 'samples'.

Among my current favourites

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

Tori Amos - The Beekeeper

Susheela Raman - Music for Crocodiles

Coldplay - X&Y

Just started to listen to Jack Johnson's Sing-a-longs and Lullabies..., and David Gilmour's On an Island. First impressiion weren't too good.

I don't know if I'm allowed to admit this .....and still be straight.....but I'm a big Tori Amos fan ....haven't heard the new jack johnson ......but i'll give it a look......x&y is a good , yes ...good....not great..

it's OK to like tori amos. you were already issued a skirt when you signed on with jack johnson...

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the best track is 9" nails' "hurt." love trent reznor dearly and mean it, but THIS low-tech, acoustic version is gut-bucket harrowing, the way the song is meant to be done.

Truly one of the greatest tracks of all time. I'm a huge NIN fan but Cash's rendition is incredible...

"I hurt myself today

To see if I still feel

I focus on the pain

The only thing that?s real

The needle tears a hole

The old familiar sting

Try to kill it all away

But I remember everything"

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on the downward spiral ? ....sh*t...now you taking me back a few......

great song (hurt).......but I can't help but think it sucks a little now that I know you guys like it!

yeah sucks a little now, riiiiiight. press your skirt, go back to your jaqueline johnson and tori amos records, sensitive little poet boy. you clearly can't handle a good record...

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yeah sucks a little now, riiiiiight. press your skirt, go back to your jaqueline johnson and tori amos records, sensitive little poet boy. you clearly can't handle a good record.

easy now Zeusy.......I never for a second said it wasn't a good album or song.....I just said I think it lost credibility now that you guys like it....jees....touchy touchy...

he he

trent reznor is a bit of a **** though .......

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while the Wall certainly is a great album...I prefer either "Animals" or "The Final Cut"

I agree about The wall, but I prefer The Dark Side Of The Moon and The Division Bell:)

rookie!...the division bell was garbage!

No way was it garbage, it was different because Roger Waters was not involved, but garbage NEVER

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muse - origin of symmetry

origine of symmetry is good (new born is a great song) but i like more the last album of muse : absolution.

just a list of albums i like listening at moment :

a perfect circle - thirteen step

a perfect circle - emotive

bic runga - beautiful collision

bjork - post

edison chen - hazy

faye wong - fable

keane - hopes and fears

massive attack - blue lines

nirvana - in utero

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while the Wall certainly is a great album...I prefer either "Animals" or "The Final Cut"

I agree about The wall, but I prefer The Dark Side Of The Moon and The Division Bell:)

rookie!...the division bell was garbage!

No way was it garbage, it was different because Roger Waters was not involved, but garbage NEVER

while you'd be hard pressed to find to many better guitar players than David Gilmore....PINKFLOY stopped being pinkfloyd when roger waters left....his solo albums are more pink floyd than the current floy stuff....maybe you liked division bell...but it's NOT pink floyd! (ala that guy who said "it's not porridge!"

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