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I proudly present to you my all time album top 25. Only one condition applied: I must know each album for more than a year, because - simply put - new is good. Enjoy!

25) Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens
24) Funeral - Arcade Fire
23) Dirty Words - The Departure
22) Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined - Mono
21) Achtung Baby - U2

20) Secret Samadhi - Live
19) OK Computer - Radiohead
18) Grace - Jeff Buckley
17) Industrial Silence - Madrugada
16) Film School - Film School

15) Yanqui U.X.O. - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
14) Finelines - My Vitriol
13) Ten - Pearl Jam
12) Mandylion - The Gathering
11) Throwing Copper - Live

10) A Certain Trigger - Maxïmo Park
09) And The Glass Handed Kites - Mew
08) Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
07) He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms - A Silver Mt. Zion
06) Peregrine - The Appleseed Cast

05) Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo
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20)Marilyn Manson:Mechanical Animals

19)David Bowie:Earthling

18)PJ Harvey:Is This Desire?

17)Graeme Revell:The Crow: City of Angels

16)Muse:Hullabaloo Soundtrack

15)Tori Amos:From the Choirgirl Hotel

14)Korn:Untitled

13)Jeff Buckley:Grace

12)Puscifer:V is for Vagina

11)Velvet Revolver:Contraband

10)Rob Thomas:Something to Be

9)Soundgarden:Down on the Upside

8)Stone Temple Pilots:No.4

7)10 Years:The Autumn Effect

6)Live:Secret Samadhi

5)U2:Pop

4)Powerman 5000:Tonight the Stars Revolt!

3)Our Lady Peace:Clumsy

2)Filter:Short Bus

1)Nine Inch Nails:The Downward Spiral

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Other:
These are artists whose music you MUST own, but I couldn't decide an a specific album.

5)Neverending White Lights

4)Led Zeppelin

3)Bob Dylan

2)The Rolling Stones

1)Aerosmith

thank you mediocre ;)


Name your top 10 artists on last.fm

1 Live
2 Eminem
3 Boards of Canada
4 The Chemical Brothers
5 Coldplay
6 Daft Punk
7 Aphex Twin
8 Alicia Keys
9 Eels
10 Beefcake

Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
That must be Da Funk, it was hyped big on MTV when it came out I think. I loved the video, but loved the music even more. Not your everyday lame house music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZQ_vSDXXXI

What is your favorite album of 2?
I think that must be Encore. It's a tough choice because all his albums are very good, but Encore contains what I feel are his best tracks: Yellow Brick Road, Mosh and Mockingbird.


How many times have you seen 4 live?
Twice I think, or at least twice. I can remember them at the Lowlands festival in the Alpha tent, and in 013 in Tilburg. I must've seen em more often, because they used to be my favorite band, but these two I can remember quite well.
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Rush Snakes & Arrows
There have been a some releases this year that I have not lived up to expectations. This is not one of them…

Gazpacho Night
…and neither is this. Just go and buy it!

Pink Floyd Animals
My favourite Floyd album.

Pain of Salvation Scarsick
ProgMetal or whatever the hell they call it at its very best. Daniel Gildenlow is a genius!

Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death

Live Secret Samadhi

Nerina Pallot Fires
Hey it's not prog and it's not metal but I don't care

Roger Waters Amused To Death
His best solo album

Isis In the Absence of Truth

Secret Samadhi has been described as the “sound of full retreat.” The dark, brooding, and outright weird album was a conscious attempt by Live to steer away from the success they had achieved with 1994’s Throwing Copper. Samadhi was at times so ambiguous that lead singer Ed Kowalczyk said to this day he still has no idea what some of the songs are really about. The album’s beauty and failing was the fact that, at its core, it seemed to be about nothing. Live’s 1999 release, The Distance to Here, is direct reaction to the darkness of Secret Samadhi. Gone are the distorted industrial sounds of “Lakini’s Juice,” the anger of “Heropyschodreamer” and the odd lyrics of “Freaks.” In its place are lighter melodic sounds, themes of water, “God, Love and Spirit” and a drive for meaning over emptiness. These changes make The Distance to Here important to understanding Live as a band because it stands as the end point of one journey and the start of another.

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this is kinda off the same tangent as the last entry, but it's now recognizng four more misundertood albums.

5. Bleed Like Me
4. Winning Days
3. Secret Samadhi
2. Machina/The Machines of God
1. Yield

all of these albums went by mostly unnoticed, in some cases understandably so (why really would anyone give a shit about Live's third album?). However, I took care to notice and i'm glad i did in all 5 of these cases.