Flying Rabbit Wrote:
Hello. Fellow SY fan here. What's yr top 5 albums by them?
Tough one.
In no order (and subject to change):
NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
Self Titled EP
Dirty
Murray Street
paladisiac Wrote:
Sonic youth! 16 horse! other favs?
Sure. Since it is a rather open ended question, I'll just list some other random things from my collection...
Captain Beefheart (Trout Mask Replica: horrid cover, crazy music)
Cat Power (I just recently started understanding why people like her.)
Steve Reich (Hey. The man is a genious. Different Trains makes me cry)
Sufjan Stevens (indie darling, why not?)
Comus (Because I'm always looking for music left of the beaten path)
The Denver Gentlemen (you'd like them paladisiac if you haven't heard them already)
Eagles of Death Metal (One of the best rock shows I've seen)
The Evens (better than Fugazi, dangit!)
The Fiery Furnaces (especially Reheasing My Choir)
Gomez (How We Operate was my 2006 album of the year)
Harry Partch (Odd-ball composer who created is own instruments)
Kelly Clarkson (She's hotttt)
Sixpence None The Richer (beautiful)
Man Man (the best live show I saw last year. mixing Tom Waits and Frank Zappa? Killer)
Melt Banana (specifically Cell-scapes. I haven't gotten into their older, shorter material.)
mewithoutYou (In an environment like this, I suppose it could be considered a guilty pleasure, but I sure don't apologize.)
Pattern Is Movement (ooooh. their CD Stowaway knocked me onto my heels)
Phil Keaggy (one of the best acoustic guitarists ever)
Philip Glass (specifically Einstein On The Beach)
Radiohead (OK Computer is overrated. But Hail To The Thief was great)
System of a Down (probably the most creative mainstream modern rock band)
The Twilight Singers (hits me where it counts)
If you really like reading, I highly recommend my top 30 of 2006 list.
http://www.last.fm/user/SirTheory/journ ... 22/295725/ It's got some spelling errors and grammatical flubs, but I think it sums up what I am all about musically pretty well.