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  • TheMightyGreg
    Editor Shmeditor
    • Nov 2006
    • 1361

    5 Albums 4 Eva

    After my monumental stupidity last night (refer to the 'I am a cock thread' for details) I was unsuprisingly a bit chatty and so my flatmate and I started talking about the most important subject in the world....music, which lead on to the age-old (but highly important) question of if I you could only listen to 5 albums for the rest of you life what would they be? When i told him i didn't think my 5 would not include an EDM mix, album or compilation, he looked at me as if I'd just told him I was acatully a woman or something like that.

    Now, I completely understand his suprise and outrage. I have, as he argued, spent the better part of 10 years clubbing, listening to EDM, DJing and basically devoting large portions of my life to it. All this is true, and I've been thinking about it a lot today and i stil think that no EDM would feature in my 5.

    One reason for this is that although at the moment EDM accounts for about 75% of the music I listen to, there hasn't been one ( and by one I mean a single, standout piece) album or compilation that i have consistently listened to for years and years and years. Yes, there have been sets and mixes that i have spanked for months and months, but inevitably they all come and go, whereas they are some non-EDM albums that I've been listening to week in week out for years, and I know i will continue to do so. As cheesy as it sounds they have been the soundtrack of my entire life, and that's why i could not do without listening to them.

    Anyway, for those of you who care, I think my 5 would be:

    Radiohead 'The Bends'
    Massive Attack 'Protection'
    Zero 7 'Simple Things'
    Snoop 'Doggystyle'
    Sufjan Stevens 'Illinois'

    Sasha 'Involver' and Leftfield 'Leftism' come close, but I think not close enough.

    Would be really intersted to know what you guys think of this.
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  • diegoff
    Are you Kidding me??
    • Jun 2004
    • 3851

    #2
    Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

    deffinitely:
    Pink Floyd - Animals
    Metallica - Metallica
    Rodiohead - The Bends
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Nirvana - In Utero
    Itīs a spiritual thing!

    feb 2021 https://soundcloud.com/diegoarv/pand...os-inflamables
    Sept 26th https://soundcloud.com/diegoarv/earthling-vibes
    May 1st 2020 https://soundcloud.com/diegoarv/current

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    • Dhar_2
      meat and potatoes
      • Jun 2004
      • 18906

      #3
      Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

      damn coke hogger!!!

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      • day_for_night
        Are you Kidding me??
        • Jun 2004
        • 4127

        #4
        Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

        radiohead - ok computer
        the tragically hip - day for night (duh!)
        tool - aenima
        sasha - gu 13 disc 1
        sasha & digweed - communicate disc 2

        but i'd be really pissed about the other 50 or so albums that I can't live without either...

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        • 88Mariner
          My dick is smaller
          • Nov 2006
          • 7128

          #5
          Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

          i think BT's ESCM would be satisfactory if we're sticking to Albums and not Compilations (which would be outside of the point here).

          I would probably suggest Adam F's Colours album or perhaps Goldie's 'Timeless' album, too.
          you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky

          it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

          Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....

          ----PEACE-----

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          • tiddles
            Encryption, Jr.
            • Jun 2004
            • 6861

            #6
            Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

            coltrane - live at newport 1963
            miles davis - sketches of spain
            hybrid - wide angle
            some best of muddy waters album
            shakti - saturday night in bombay

            i love list threads

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            • TheMightyGreg
              Editor Shmeditor
              • Nov 2006
              • 1361

              #7
              Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

              Yeah ESCM is quality, but I still don't think itwould make the grade
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              • GregWhelan
                Are you Kidding me??
                • Jun 2004
                • 2985

                #8
                Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

                Sasha San Francisco - the best comp ever IMO

                U2 - Achtung Baby - pure aural ecstacy

                James Holden-Balance 5 Disc 1

                Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

                Tears for Fears - Songs From The Big Chair

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                • karaquazian
                  Addiction started
                  • Feb 2006
                  • 302

                  #9
                  Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

                  dj shadow - in tune and on time
                  beastie boys - ill communication
                  the beatles - abbey road
                  tool - lateralus
                  danny howells - 24/7

                  but that's just off the top of my head, sasha's GU Ibiza and DT's GU London would def. be top contenders, but things are always changing. For instance, here's a playlist in my itunes entitled "My Life in Music 2007"

                  Six All That Remains
                  Ricky's Theme The Beastie Boys
                  Bullwinkle 2 The Centurians
                  Ode To My Family The Cranberries
                  Fascination Street The Cure
                  Honeyroot Danny Howells
                  Blood On The Motorway DJ Shadow
                  You Can't Go Home Again DJ Shadow
                  The World Is A Ghetto DJ Shadow from Schoolhouse Funk
                  Blood Francois Dubois
                  Horizons LTJ Bukem
                  Overkill Men At Work
                  Battery Metallica
                  Orion Metallica
                  Hasty Boom Alert Mu-Ziq
                  Us And Them Pink Floyd
                  Spirit's in the Material World
                  Understandable Smooth Ras Kass
                  The Zephyr Song Red Hot Chili Peppers
                  far cry Rush
                  Once In A Lifetime Talking Heads
                  The Grudge Tool
                  Wings For Marie / 10,000 Days Tool
                  Burn My Shadow UNKLE
                  Be Thankful for What You Got William DeVaughn

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                  • robophobia_1
                    Addiction started
                    • May 2007
                    • 288

                    #10
                    Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

                    sasha - involver
                    steve lawler - lights out 2 - cd 2
                    jimmy van m - bedrock - cd 1
                    jonathan lisle - original series
                    richie hawtin - DE9:transitions

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                    • Miroslav
                      WHOA I can change this!1!
                      • Apr 2006
                      • 4122

                      #11
                      Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

                      hmmm... I can't think of all at once. But for right now:

                      DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
                      Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
                      Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks mix


                      I gotta think a bit more about the other ones and add em in later.
                      mixes: www.waxdj.com/miroslav

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                      • Duff McKagin
                        Gold Gabber
                        • Sep 2004
                        • 690

                        #12
                        Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

                        Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled
                        Pink Floyd - Darkside of the moon
                        Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antartica
                        311 - Grassroots
                        Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

                        probably just because i've been listening to these a lot lately i'm sure led zeppelin's bbc session's might have a place in there
                        Fly? Yes. Land? No!

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                        • 88Mariner
                          My dick is smaller
                          • Nov 2006
                          • 7128

                          #13
                          Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

                          U2-Achtung Baby
                          Adam F - Colours
                          DJ Shadow - Entroducing
                          Johnny Cash - American IV
                          Caia - Enter the Magic Dragon
                          you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky

                          it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

                          Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....

                          ----PEACE-----

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                          • floridaorange
                            I'm merely a humble butler
                            • Dec 2005
                            • 29106

                            #14
                            Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

                            this is what comes to mind without much thought:

                            1) Paul Oakenfold - Transport
                            2) Nirvana - Bleach
                            3) Stone Temple Pilots - Core
                            4) Outkast - Atliens
                            5) John Digweed - GU019 L.A.
                            Last edited by floridaorange; November 12, 2007, 03:28:17 AM.

                            It was fun while it lasted...

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                            • AntonyM
                              DUDERZ get a life!!!
                              • Oct 2004
                              • 6415

                              #15
                              Re: 5 Albums 4 Eva

                              Five that influence my musical tastes
                              Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
                              Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
                              NWA: Straight Out of Compton
                              The Residents: Mark of the Mole
                              Talking Heads: Remain in Light

                              Honorable Mentions:
                              James Brown: Live at the Apollo
                              Funkadelic: Funkadelic
                              Love and Rockets: Express
                              Boogie Down Productions: By All Means Necessary
                              Peter Tosh: Legalize It
                              Originally posted by Shpira
                              So came back last night...
                              Sven Vath was amazing...he played a god damn killer set...ended up going to that and came to at like 10 am in some whore house in south Amsterdam...no idea how I ended up there...friday was a bit of a blur got really drunk and visited several parties can't remember a whole lot to be honest hehe...saturday was probably the best day that I recall...started up in the nearest coffee shop and going from party to party...beautiful woman, beer and weed...finished the night by taking some shrooms and listening to an amazing elke kleijn set...sunday...i met a nice girl who worked at one of the coffee shops and ended up talking to her for like 6 hours...was supposed to meet her at some DnB party...but instead went for a steak and walked around red light district bars drinking and smoking...monday took it easy went to a coffee shop and took a taxi to airport....

                              All in all...I think I will be going back there some time soon
                              Originally posted by Illuminate
                              Let me get this straight.

                              So white-middle class Americans have been told by their Television sets to be fearful of:

                              1. Mexicans/Latinos from the South bringing drugs and killings n' shit.
                              2. African Americans cause mos def they are raging a race war and want to occupy America like how the plebs occupied Wall St.
                              3. Iranians/Afghans/Any one of middle eastern origin to be quite frank, cause you know Islam...
                              4. North Koreans/Chinese cause you know everything...

                              Am I close here?

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