10/10 Albums

Oceanic.

Though I would have chosen "False Light" from it, it is the most brutal and angry sounding piece of Music that I know of. I always play it on guitar when I am feeling pissy. The concept of the album (drowning) is amazing.


My 10/10 albums:


Foals - Antidotes




Fantastic album. It introduced me, as a general more ambient, post rock lover to actual 3:30 timestamp "pop" songs, mixed with noise and "trying to play techno with analaogue instruments" like they say. Tight as fuck drums/bass section and guitars that sound like flying colibris or "dreams of a dying eagle". Easily 10/10, that stuff introduced me to more stuff than I can dream off on guitar. I listen to this album atleast twice a week.

Heavy Water - Postrock mixed with swell beats at the end
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Two Steps Twice - Polyrhytmic guitars to the max, fucking great, amazing höhepunkt
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Pink Floyd - Meddle




Fantastic album that I stole from my father back when I was 11 or so to listen to these strange noises I heard when I put my ear to the wall when the LP was spinnin'.
"Echoes" is uber and I dont think I have to explain that track. Just recently discovered there is an ambient track in Bloodlines that straight out rips parts of the Ambient section of "Echoes". Lol'ed, fantastic.

"One of these days" taught me well how to use the delay pedal wisely (and this from a bass player ffs! )
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"Pillow of winds" just so moody, reminds me of my romantic obsession of the Kwan Middle west and the beauty that lays in it.
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The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters




Fucking good noise-ambient-folk stuff. Hard to categorize. I like to call me as a german from saxonia (saxonian dialect is considered the worst in german language families) instead of a german - the stuff the singer from Twilight Sad sings sounds similar in english - he is a scot, you can barely understand what he is singing, but it sounds nice to a foreigner. Scottish folk-sounding songs mixed with harsh walls of analogue noises, postrock and pop. This is good. I have worked with them myself on private basis (did some conceptual design) and they are amongst the nicest people I have ever met. Beautiful.

Good example of cryptic sounding singing with harsh noise later on:
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The Smiths - The Queen is Dead





Need not to say much about this album. This band is IMO bigger than the Beatles and has more "to say". Morrisseys lyrics are always spot on - you don't even have to be a mouthbreathing cellardwella' to identify yourself with his lyrics - everyone was in such a situation atleast once in a life. The best crooner currently living on earth - fuck current "Indiepop" bands and their shitty attemps to copy the style of the Smiths. Big.

Best Song on Earth. Period.
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Wanted to drop "Some Girls are bigger than others", but for me, this one is even more relevant to me.
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Sigur Rós - ()




Simply the best "Post Rock" album I know. It sounds very "entrueckt" - I dont know how to call it. THey come from Iceland and there is just not another band I know from another country that have a similar sound. This is probably my most listened and weathered vinyl. (I have a signatured one from one of the concerts, fuck yea!11)

This was the song that made me open to a whole lot of different sounding music when I randomly saw it on MTV. Who knows, maybe I would be still stuck in the 80oies and be a Metallicafag by now if not for them. Magic.
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One of the slowest and most depressing songs I know. Great use of instruments, minimalistic.
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Ok, that was all for now, I think. There are a lot more, but I dont want to post so much in this thread at once.

There is not a single bad album posted so far. Codex, I am proud of thee.