squarepusher your top (x) artists/bands

mine is a top 25, in alphabetical order:

if i had to limit it to a top 5:

please feel free to order yours more significantly, narrow down to a lower-magnitude ranking, and/or discuss why these are your favorites (*anticipates a healthy-sized xxx post* )

mini-essays on each of my top 5:

cocteau twins

squarepusher

underworld

ozric tentacles

kate bush

I could say FX Twin, Underworld, or more known artists but i think these albums stand out.

Not nec in this order.

Apparat - especialy Duplex though Ellen Alien and Apparat did a fantastic album called Orchestra of Bubbles

Bjork - The non sucking albums

Daniel Vernunft also known as Shiva Chandra did albums such as Spicy Moments and Symbol

Darshan Darshan - Awakening - Yes is goa trance

Jaia - Blue Energy

Biot - Saturation

Union Jack - There Will Be No Armagedon

Meta Matics/Norken Death or Passwords, Mind Mushing Git

Opus - Mind Fruit

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled

Saafi Bros. - Mystic Cigarettes

Thats already ten... thease bands

Here are few more great albums.

Man with no name - Earth Moving the Sun

Chicane - Far from the maddening crowds

Eastern Sun - In Emptyness

Multiplex - Pinghaus Prequencies

Hallucinogen - The Loan Deranger - Twisted - and Selftitled Hallucinogen

Ok, I'll play.

Top Seven:

RDJ

The Pixies

Fugazi

of Montreal (before they went all trashy disco)

Guns N Roses

David Bowie (not totally cheating. I was born in 79 and Scary Monsters came out in 80)

Pink Floyd still counts

Honorable Mentions:

My Bloody Valentine (almost made my Top selects)

Metallica (were amazing there for a spell. you gotta admit)

Faith No More (almost made my Top list for the album Introduce Yourself alone)

Janes Addiction

High On Fire

Fela Kuti

Popol Vuh

Donovan

Squarepusher (up until Go Plastic)

Neil Young

Elliott Smith (he has been creeping up there lately, in a kinda postmortem way though)

why would you do this

ladytron

1mouse on mars because they are postmodern and absurd. they are smart while being fun, very fun. they are cool

i didn't realise. everything about them fits my worldview. they transcend the electronic realm in many ways

they are great. they are both fun, technologically complex, and avant garde in nature. they have a sense of humor. also i have been listenin them so long so it is pretty fun to hear it. haha

i believe if I lived in 70s I would say CAN was my #1. since I live today I say MoM. I think Mouse on Mars could be called something like 'the CAN' or the 'Faust' or something of the 00s

haha

1.5 Squarepusher. he is really important to me. his music is ingenious. it is not always as good as some times but most of the time I consider it very special to me

2 My Bloody Valentine - I tripped balls to them and I thought about girls when I wasn't high. they have good guitars. honestly this band is really important 2 me

3. Chemical brothers - they are really important to me. I think they're the best when I grew up with them. it was great haha

4. John Zorn - he does some pretty crazy polystylstic music. honestly this is really important in my life. therefor i have to give him a spot!

5. Meat Beat Manifesto - he does sampling in a really good way. it is very important 2 me

edit:

6. Weezer. Rivers Cuomo is a sociopath of pop music. I think The Blue album was the very first album I listened to that was prominently a rock/lyrical/pop album. I thought I would include this here because I followed them for many years, only a year or two ago did I disown them fully. I was a strong supporter of Make Believe, The Red Album, and even Raditude to a certain extent.

  On 5/18/2011 at 12:35 AM, tht tne said:

 

cocteau twins

 

 

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probably because my first exposure to the band was their 1984 masterpiece treasure, i fell in love immediately with robin guthrie's shimmering cascades of guitar, and most emphatically with liz fraser's joycean, otherworldly vocalisations. i believe their body of work stands firm as being far ahead of its time, as well as cohesive and consistent, with the ep's and singles providing some of their best work. this is one band that--even though they were active from my year of birth to 1996, when i was 13--i most regret not having seen live. when they promised to reunite for coachella in 2005, i was all the way ready to spare no expense, but it was not to be. to this day, if i meet a cocteau twins fan, i am instantaneously friends with that person.

 

 

I don't want to be friends but this band is amazing. The reason they are particularly amazing is not this:

that MBV sounds shockingly similar, almost to the point where one scratches their head saying, 'Why is Loveless considered so groundbreaking? Why does the Jesus and Mary Chain [shit] get so much credit when it essentially sounds like CT were the main influences. So much so that it nearly sounds like a ripoff and the whole thing is a sham'

but that their music is great, thoroughly thought out and creative melodically and imaginative. excellent

Do we count artists that began in our lifetime, or artists that may have been around before but released material during our lifetime? I'm gonna go with the former, just to narrow it down.

Ah fuck it. I can't do this. I'd have to think too long and hard about it. Not worth it. Sorry guys.

I change my opinion of music so often, I don't think I'd be able to make a consistent list.

  On 5/18/2011 at 10:36 PM, Braintree said:

I change my opinion of music so often, I don't think I'd be able to make a consistent list.

Top 9 artists.

1. Autechre

2. Zao

3. Project 86

4. BoC

5. Eisley

6. Flying Lotus

7. Coheed and Cambria

8. Locust Toybox

9. Kettel

I don't understand why being active during your lifetime is necessary, am I not allowed to like jazz?

Chronological order ; I don't love all these artists / band at the same level but they all make/made something I musically love :

Pink Floyd

Radiohead (rarely listen to them now but they were a fuckin discovery several years ago)

Aphex Twin (music's son of god)

Squarepusher

Plaid

Autechre

BoC

Erik Satie

Ceephax

Coil

Chris Clark

Modeselektor (they made to few releases but there's something in their music I find mind-blowing. I just fear they go hype next but don't even know if they're gonna release any more)

Mr Bungle

the list wasn't exhaustive

In no particular order:

ET

ET's Brother

ET and ET'S Brother together as "Reptilian Zapruder"

Jefferson Starship

That's all I can think of, really.

  On 5/21/2011 at 2:23 AM, baph said:

In no particular order:

ET

ET's Brother

ET and ET'S Brother together as "Reptilian Zapruder"

Jefferson Starship

 

That's all I can think of, really.

wot no KLAATU?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcgZCXHPkCo

my fav letter X bands

XTC

X-RAY SPEX