20 music must haves.

[red]

since i know you won't download every single album everyone mentions,

im set to do so. no matter how much work it takes.

[mellowfellow]

I will try to mention artists that are not on the previous pages. One great thing about Oink is that you can browse by grenes. So if you are interested in INDIE music, you can just click on that and see which albums are the most downloaded, you can give those a try.

Dream Pop:

1. The Radio Dept.

2. Mew

Electro Pop

3. Junior Boys

4. Sally Shapiro

IDM/ELECTRONICA, AMBIENT

5 Susumu Yokota

6 Trentemoller

7 Lindstrom

8 Fennesz

Acoustica/Indietronica

8 ST: People I barely Know

9 Khonnor: Handwriting

10 Julian Fane: Special Forces

11 Villenueve: First Date

12 The whitest boy alive

French Pop:

Serge Gainsbourg

Keren Ann

Benjamin Biolay

Francoise Hardy

April March

Brazil Bossa Nova:

Joao Gilberto

Elis Regina

Tom Jobim

Astrud Gilberto

Japanese Pop/Electronica

Piana: Ephemeral

Tujiko Noriko

Cornelius

Techno:

Superpitcher

DJ KOZE

Kompakt compilations

Solo Piano/Modern Composers

Gonzales

Goldmund

Max Richter

Flim

Sylvain Chauveau

[Carl]

PIXIES - doolittle (but Trompe Le Monde will always be my fav)

[denimdestroyedmylife]

coldplay- parachutes

i secretly want this album so bad

[Double D]

I do believe I missed out Converge - Jane Doe which was pure stupidity on my part.

Secondly, I think The Lonesome Crowded West is a superior brand of Modest Mouse album, but that may just be me.

[cuddlysheep]

stephen bishops greatest hits? the man responsible for the soft rock movement with such hits as theme from arthur and my personal fave "on and on"

every single carpenters album ever

[Double D]

lol nAAAAAAh somehow I still think my choice is better than some shitty scandinavian pathetic bully victim music

You're a flaming moron. Attacking Opeth for being self-indulgent, meandering and overblown would be a fairly reasonable assault on their music, but at the end of the day in terms of musicianship they blow the arse off of 99% of your extremely limited taste in music.

You could legitimately argue back that in the field of popular/rock/jazz music perception on the esthesic level is all that matters (to translate: personal opinion is all that's important), but then seeing as that's the case, you'd just undermine your own claim that Opeth suck, because that's just an opinion based on superficial experience.

[Double D]

Oh, and anyone who doesn't own Heroes by David Bowie can go suck a big penis.

[Guest itsmeJT]

You're a flaming moron. Attacking Opeth for being self-indulgent, meandering and overblown would be a fairly reasonable assault on their music, but at the end of the day in terms of musicianship they blow the arse off of 99% of your extremely limited taste in music.

You could legitimately argue back that in the field of popular/rock/jazz music perception on the esthesic level is all that matters (to translate: personal opinion is all that's important), but then seeing as that's the case, you'd just undermine your own claim that Opeth suck, because that's just an opinion based on superficial experience.

haha i dunno what you're on about i just think opeth is for crybabies

ya nonce

[Carl]

Lets keep the insults to a dull roar, shall we?

Music is all subjective.

And to whoever said this thing was all indie rock? Hah!

A quick glance through it results in all kinds of musical genres.

[fade to black2]

hey red where's my rep

[Heartworm]

Grateful Dead - American Beauty (and everything else they made really...)

16 Horsepower - Sackcloth and Ashes

Can't think of any really great albums right now...

[notesee]

Already a lotta good shit listed in this thread so I'ma try to throw up some stuff that I didn't see while briefly browsing other's lists ..

1. The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette

2. Dead Boys - Young, Loud, and Snotty

3. Black Flag - Damaged

4. Fear - The Record

5. The Glove - Blue Sunshine

6. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope

7. Suicide - The 2nd Album

8. Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power

9. Cormega - The True Meaning

10. Lake - Gutter Block King Mixtape

11. Intelligent Hoodlum - Saga of a Hoodlum

12. Kaos - Courts In Session

13. Charizma & PBW - Big Shots

14. KMD - Black Bastards

15. MF Doom - Operation Doomsday

16. Luniz - Operation Stackola

17. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Live and Let Die

18. Biz Markie - Goin Off

19. The Chameleons - Script of a Bridge

20 Comsat Angels - Waiting for a Miracle

[Double D]

Popular music is all subjective.

Fixed it for you. And I definitely aready said that.

[mellowbonsai]

Can't believe no one has mentioned these (older shit):

The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in It For the Money

The Chicago Transit Authority - The Chicago Transit Authority

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Gong - You

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

T. Rex - Electric Warrior

Horace Silver - Song for My Father

Muddy Waters - At Newport (<----Essential!)

Bill Holt - Dreamies

Seu Jorge - Cru (this is a lot newer, but its my soundtrack every summer. this guy rose up from the favela slums of brazil as a musician and exported the sound of the 21st century samba revival of brazil to the world. the album is a great entry point to contemporary brazilian samba music. it was my unique privelage to see him perform stoned out of his mind in madison last summer. one of the best concerts ive ever been to.)

[Lucas]

Madvillain

Black star

Mos Def-Black on both sides

Wu tang - Enter the 36 chambers

Little brother - The listening

Foreign exchange - Connected

[poliopoliopolio]

van dyke parks- song cycle

seconded.

and:

innervisions

after the gold rush

viva last blues

your arsenal

moon pix

bakesale

what's the 411?

the metro area lp

gal costa

e. smith - roman candle & s/t

olivia tremor control - music from the unrealized film script [except the middle third]

eric's trip - love tara

dm - violator

the swirlies - what to do about them

tiger trap - s/t

[isoform]

dunno if these are must-haves, but these are records that have and will stick around my collection/s (some will be sentimental for obvious reasons... :]).

adicts - songs of praise

naked raygun - basement screams

cocteau twins - treasure

belle and sebastien - tigermilk

buzzcocks - singles going steady

gang of four - entertainment

raincoats - s/t

the specials - s/t

x - los angeles

big black - songs about fucking

david bowie - the best of 1969-1974 (if you got to start somewhere, eh?)

new order - substance (another compilation, haha)

jacques dutronc - les playboys

francoise hardy - the yeh-yeh girl from paris

wizzz: psychorama francais 66-71

stereolab - transient random-noise bursts with announcements // or // ABC Music: BBC Radio 1 Sessions

vashti bunyan - just another diamond day

somethings which are much more recent:

black lips - los valientes del mundo (or some such spanish language title....)

the whitest boy alive - dreams

kitsune maison compilation no. 3 (the best kits-comp so far imo)

cibo matto - stereotype A

kahimi karie - kahimi karie

metronomy - Pip Paine (Pay Back The £5000 You Owe)

broadcast - (anything really)

autolux - future perfect

what i second from the previously mentioned (overall mostly good stuff):

television - marquee moon

echo and the bunnymen - porcupine (NOT crocodiles, haaha)

all elliott smith rec's (+ either/or, from a basement on a hill).

the zombies - odessey and oracle (!)

joy division - permanent

[FootlooseSF]

I was wondering if someone could shoot me an Oink invite? +rep for whoever does. Thanks!

[JimJones86]

daft punk - discovery

daft punk - homework

air - premiers symptomes

air - moon safari

air - talkie walkie

avalanches - since i left you

beck - odelay

blackstar - mos def and talib kweli are blackstar

groove armada - vertigo

nas - illmatic

phoenix - united

wu tang clan - enter the wu tang (36 chambers)

pink floyd - dark side of the moon

joy division - permanent

dr dre - chronic 2001

game - doctors advocate

radiohead - ok computer

mylo - destroy rock and roll

strokes - is this it

entienne de crecy - tempovision