Autechre most important albums of your life

[Guest ruiagnelo]

FSOL

 

 

possibly my alltime favorite.

it's a mind expanding experience. it changed my perspective on music and on the capacities of the human imagination.

[Guest Greg Reason]

The Beatles - Revolver

 

Meshuggah - Nothing

 

John Coltrane - Live at Birdland

 

Devin Townsend - Infinity

 

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

 

Peter Gabriel - Up

[Redruth]

 

 

[cichlisuite]

octex - idei lahesna

snd - makesnd cassette

monolake - interstate / cinemascope

john coltrane - blue train

sun ra - angels and demons at play

robbie basho - venus in cancer

coil - the remote viewer / musick to play in the dark

harold budd & brian eno - the pearl

zoviet france - shouting at the ground

popol vuh - in den garten pharaos

arvo pärt - tabula rasa

philip glass - koyaanisquatsi

autechre - amber / garbage

harold budd & cocteau twins - the moon and the melodies

biosphere - cirque / substrata

joanna newsom - ys

[Capsaicin]

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (early high school years)

Aphex Twin - RDJ/IDCBYD/SAW85-92/SAWII

The Orb - Adventures Into the Ultraworld

BOC - Geogaddi

Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich

Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough

Autechre - Confield

Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2

Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance

Ween - The Pod/Quebec

The National - Alligator/Boxer

Stars of the Lid - Refinement of the Decline

A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory/Midnight Marauders

 

I think

[spratters]

John Coltrane - A love supreme

Charlie Parker - With strings/big band

Squarepusher - Music is one rotted note

Miles Davis - Kind of blue (probably the one with the most feelings for)

Dr Dre - The Chronic

Grooverider - Mysteries of Funk

A Guy Called Cerald - Essence

Battles - Mirrored

Terry Callier - Timepeace

Fleet foxes - Fleet foxes

Herbie hancock - Head Hunters

Stan Getz - Apasionado

 

just off the top of my head

[Guest GrandPopPoplock]

endtroducing is boring

 

 

lmfao

[Guest dese manz hatin]

aphex - saw 1/drukqs/rdj album

bob dylan - blonde on blonde/highway 61 revisited

boc - music has the right

dre - the chronic/nwa - straight outta compton

digitalism - idealism

[Redruth]

 

 

 

 

[kaini]

[YEK]

and how!

[Guest AcrossCanyons]

gorillaz - self titled

 

incubus - everything I suppose, particularly S.C.I.E.N.C.E

 

bear vs. shark - everything

 

by listening to these albums/bands each got me a step deeper into loving music. bear vs. shark was the last jump into new sounds and since then my tastes have continually expanded into the music-craving behemoth I am today.

[The Green Kingdom]

Off the top of my head, a little sampling of my favorites going back to the mid-80s.

 

V/A - Kings of Rap

Run DMC - Raising Hell

Iron Maiden - Live After Death

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Wes Montgomery - Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation, Hot Rats

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

Yes - Fragile

Mr. Bungle - all

The JBs - Funky Good Time Anthology

The Roots - Do You Want More?

A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders

The Beatles - 1967-1970 (Blue Album)

Radiohead - OK Computer

Bob Marley - Legend, Exodus

Brain Eno - Ambient 1, 2

Roni Size - New Forms

Boards of Canada - MHTRTC, Geogaddi

Autechre - Tri Repetae

Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy, Selected Ambient Works

Stereolab - Dots and Loops

Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll, Heaven or Las Vegas

Air -Moon Safari

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Tortoise - TNT

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

Slum Village - Fantastic pt2

Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork

Neil Young - Massey Hall 1971

Satie - Piano Works

Fennesz - Endless Summer

Gas - Nah & Fern

Pole - 123

Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of...

Four Tet - Rounds

Shuttle 358 - Understanding Wildlife

Taylor Deupree - Northern

Fourcolor - Air Curtain

Christopher Willits - Folding and the Tea

Animal Collective - Feels

Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers

The Boats - We Made It for You, Faulty Toned Radio

Max Richter - Blue Notebooks

Burial - Untrue

Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

[Guest arbee]

smashing pumpkins - siamese dream

smif n wessun - dah shinin'

method man - tical

a tribe called quest - low end theory

de la soul - de la soul is dead

cocteau twins - treasure

cocteau twins - heaven and las vegas

boards of canada - music has the right to children

aphex twin - richard d james

aphex twin - saw 2

autechre - draft 7.30

autechre - confield

miles davis - bitches brew

john coltrane - a love supreme

 

many more actually, i guess... whatever !

[Guest Ranky Redlof]

Legowelt: Classics

Boc: Geodaddi

Aphex twin: SAW, chosen lords

Antony Rother: Popkiller

Nathan Fake: Drowning in a sea of love

[sidewinder]

I think that these being "the most important albums in your life", it would be helpful to have a little story behind them rather than just listing them out. Otherwise it's just like a meaningless list of favorite albums.

 

But, it is fun to make lists.

[Guest Billov]

 

Michael Jackson - Thriller/Bad

Gorillaz - G Sides

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication/Blood Sugar

QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf/Rated R

Radiohead - Amnesiac/Hail to the Theif/Kid A

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Aphex Twin - RDJ Album

The Knife - Deep Cuts/Silent Shout

Autechre - Tri Repetae/EP7

Honey is Cool - Focky Focky No Pay

Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

The Black Dog - Spanners

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

 

in order of discovery... each album marking a new direction of sorts, ends up in some sort of spiraling jumble.

[eugene]

I think that these being "the most important albums in your life", it would be helpful to have a little story behind them rather than just listing them out. Otherwise it's just like a meaningless list of favorite albums.

 

But, it is fun to make lists.

 

my initial post had 2-3 sentences about every album in my list but it kinda seemed too self indulgent to me and i trimmed it all, but i think you're right, after a a couple of pages it seems way too dry. ill fix mine tomorrow.

[doorjamb]

 

BELIEVE

[Guest AcrossCanyons]

I think that these being "the most important albums in your life", it would be helpful to have a little story behind them rather than just listing them out. Otherwise it's just like a meaningless list of favorite albums.

 

But, it is fun to make lists.

 

my initial post had 2-3 sentences about every album in my list but it kinda seemed too self indulgent to me and i trimmed it all, but i think you're right, after a a couple of pages it seems way too dry. ill fix mine tomorrow.

exactly what I did lol

[vamos scorcho]

endtroducing is boring

 

 

lmfao

 

 

ahahaha

[Zephyr_Nova]

I'm not ready to compile a whole list right now, but I just listened to Jim O'Rourke's Insignificance for the first time today, and I reckon it's probably going to be one of the most important albums of my life. I know I'm 9 years late on this one, but I'm kind of glad. The second half was staggeringly good... connected with me in a way that I haven't felt in a while. The ending's absolutely perfect. I was hesitant to listen to anything else afterward because I knew it would probably seem shitty by comparison, and I was right. To be fair, I put on a Pink Mountaintops album I found at the library, and I think it really was just shit, no comparison needed. Anyway, yeah, Jim O'Rourke's the fucking man apparently. Where was I?

 

To reiterate:

Jim O'Rourke, Insignificance

 

Funny that an album titled Insignificance would leave such an impact. It's also got the most ridiculous inlay ever, wish i could find the whole package posted online to view. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignificance_%28Jim_O%27Rourke_album%29

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[Guest Gbiscuit]

I don't have any elaborate story of how these albums changed my life because it saved me during a bout of severe depression and mulyiple attempted suicides or anything cool like that; they simply are and gorgeous.

 

Slowdive - Souvlaki

BoC - Trans Canada Highway EP

Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

[Redruth]