caninesapien

I actually quite hate making 'top' anything lists, because I can't make decisions.  This list leaves out so many of my favourite musicians and feels so incomplete as far as even touching on enough different styles or moods.The more I think about it, the more I would add and it would get tougher to decide, so I tried to not over-think it (ha!).   But every album here I can listen to the shit out of straight through and never get tired of.   It is probably a pretty odd list for some of you, but whatever.  Oh and I broke the rules because there are 11:
 
Tool - Lateralus
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Faith No More - Real thing
Beatles - White album
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
Tea Party - Edges of Twilight
Pearl Jam - Ten
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
Belly - Star

Is that something people say that you can't stand or are you explaining what sewage is? 

No punk list should never exclude MINUTEMEN

The funny thing for me is that top 10 was pretty easy, but having a top 25 would be infinitely harder for me. I listen to so much fucking music that even a top 50 would be challenging, but my top 10 are damn solid as my favorite so they're easier to place. Like, how would I sort out the following:
 
13th Floor Elevators, 65daysofstatic, Aeges, Agnostic Front, Akuma, Alexisonfire, Alice Cooper, Alice In Chains, Alkaline Trio, All Get Out, All Them Witches, Allman Brothers, Amen Ra, At The Drive In, Badbadnotgood, Bad Brains, The Band, Baroness, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Benjamin Booker, Between The Buried And Me, Big Black, Blaak Heat Shujaa, The Black Angels, Black Flag, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Sabbath, Black Star, Black Tush, Black Pussy, Blackalicious, Blackout, BLCKWVS, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Melon, Bloodhorse, Blueneck, Blues Traveler, Blur, Bob Dylan, Boosk, Brant Bjork, The Bronx, Buddy Guy, Bush, The Buzzcocks, Caspian, Cave In, Ceremony, Cheap Trick, Childish Gambino, Chuck & Mac, Clutch, Circle Jerks, Coheed And Cambria, Colaris, Colour Haze, Conditions, Converge, Counting Crows, Creedence, Cult Leader, Cult Of Luna, Curse The Son, D.R.I., The Damned, Danger Mouse, Danzig, The Darkness, Dave Grohl, David Bowie, Daylight, The Dead Milkmen, The Dead Weather, deadhorse, Deafheaven, Death From Above 1979, Death of Lovers, The Decendents, Del The Funky Homosapien, Deltron 3030, Desert Sessions, The Detroit Cobras, The Devil & The Almighty Blues, The Distillers, Dinosaur Jr., Dio, D.O.A., Doomriders, The Doors, D.R.I., Dr. John, Eagles of Death Metal, Earl Hooker, Earth, Earthless, Earthlings?, East of The Wall, Edgar Winter, Ef, Elder, Electric Prunes, Electric Wizard, Engine Down, Eric Clapton, Every Time I Die, The Explosion, Fall of Troy, Father John Misty, Fear, Farside, Fear Before, FIAD, Fidlar, Fireball Ministry, Fleetwood Mac, Flipper, Foghat, Foo Fighters, Foxboro Hot Tubs, Frank Turner, Fu Manchu, Fugazi, Gary Clark Jr., Gaslight Anthem, Gates, General Lee, The Germs, Ghost, Giants, Gifts From Enola, Gin Blossoms, Glaciers, Glassjaw, Gnarls Barkley, Goatsnake, Gob, God Is An Astronaut, Godspeed, Gojira, The Gories, Gorillaz, Graveyard, Green Day, The Greenhornes, Greenleaf, Grouper, Hands, Hark, Harsh Toke, He Is Legend, Henry Rollins, High On Fire, Hootie & The Blowfish, The Horrible Crowes, Horsehunter, Husker Du, If These Trees Could Talk, International Noise Conspiracy, Iron Chic, ISIS, Jack White, Jakob, James Brown, James Gang, Jawbreaker, Jeff The Brotherhood, Jets To Brazil, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmie Vaughan, Jimmy Eat World, Joan Jett, Joe Walsh, John Garcia, John Lee Hooker, John Mayer, Johnny Cash, Jonny Lang, Jonsi, Joy Division, Judas Priest, June of 44, Junius, Jurassic 5, Justin Timberlake, Kadavar, Karma To Burn, KISS, Kokomo, Kvelertak, Kyuss, Lagwagon, Lantlôs, Lavinia, Lead Belly, Led Zeppelin, Letlive, Lighting Hopkins, Little Richard, Living End, Locrain, Low, Lumbar, Magic Circle, Mammatus, Mammoth Mammoth, Mantar, Mariachi El Bronx, Mars Volta, Masters Of Reality, Mastodon, Matchbox 20, Maybeshewill, Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, MC5, The Melvins, Metz, Midtown, Mike V. & The Rats, Ministry, Minor Threat, The Minutemen, Misery Signals, Misfits, Modern Life Is War, Mogwai, Molly Hatchet, Moneen, Mono, Monobrow, Monolord, Mooseblood, Mos Def, Mothership, Motorhead, Mountain, Mountain Witch, The Movielife, Moving Mountains, Moving Sidewalks, Muddy Waters, Mudhoney, Mute Math, Mutoid Man, Naked Raygun, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Neil Young, The Network, New Found Glory, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Norah Jones, Nothing, O'Brother, Oak, Obsidian Kingdom, The Ocean, Old Man Glood, Olten, Omega Massif, Orchid, Otis Redding, Ozzy Osbourne, Pallbearer, Palms, Paul McCartney, pavement, Pearl Jam, pg.lost, Piebald, Pink Floyd, Polaris, The Protomen, Polaris, PUP, Queen, Queens of The Stone Age, Quicksand, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, The Ramones, Ray Charles, Red Fang, Red Sparowes, The Replacements, Revolution Mother, Robert Johnson, Rod Stewart, Roky Erickson, Rollins Band, Rosetta, Roy Orbison, Rush, Russian Circles, Saaad, Salem's Plot, Sainthood Reps, Scarlet, Scream, Screaming Trees, Set And Setting, The Shaking Sensations, *Shels, Shiner, The Shrine, Shooting Guns, Shy Low, Sigur Ros, Silverchair, Sister Hazel, Sleep, sleepmakeswaves, Slint, Smashing Pumpkins, Social Distortion, Son House, Sons of Huns, The Sonics, Sound City, Soundgarden, Spiral Shades, Steve Earle, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stiff Little Fingers, The Stooges, The Strokes, Suicidal Tendencies, Sum 41, Sumac, Summoner, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superheaven, Supersuckers, Swans, The Sword, T-Rex, Tad, Taj Mahal, Taking Back Sunday, Talib Kweli, Tampa Red, Taylor Hawkins, Taylor Swift, Ted Nugent, Temple of The Dog, Tenacious D, Texas Hippie Coalition, Texas Is The Reason, Them Crooked Vultures, These Arms Are Snakes, Third Eye Blind, This Will Destroy You, Thisquietarmy, Thrice, Thursday, Tom Petty, Tombs, Torche, Touche Amore, Toundra, Trent Reznor, Truckfighters, T.S.O.L., Tuber, Turbonegro, Turnover, Tyler The Creator, U.S. Bombs, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Unwound, Valley of The Sun, The Vandals, The Vines, Violent Femmes, The Wallflowers, Wander, Wang Wen, The War On Drugs, Weezer, Whirr, White Reaper, The White Stripes, The Who, Wilco, Willie Nelson, Windhand, Wire, Witch, Witchcraft, Wolfmother, X, Year of No Light, Zac Brown Band, ZZ Top
 
That's just fucked. And that's just the tip of the iceberg....

I don't have one of those awful Crosley turntables. I have an Audio Technica AT-LP60. If you're just going to throw lame accusations, then either please contribute to the topic or get lost.

I was talking to a dude between bands at a show with my friend and he referred to us as "you cats," people in his anecdotes as "this cat," etc. I could stand it, but I thought it fit with people talking about terms of endearment.
As far as what I can't stand, music edition:
*is playing/listening to something remotely emotional* "What are you playing/listening to? It makes me wanna kill myself."

"snag."

"snag."

This. The Grandaddy/Arm of Roger album that just got the fun little limited release on vinyl for the first time....we're talking a full pressin of 200 pieces took 9 months for the plant to press it and get it back to the label. How many millions of soundtracks and major label reissues that came in after they place their order in January this year were pushing it back in line?
There's a reason that you see/find soundtracks in thriftstores.....
you'd be damn hard pressed to find jawbreaker records in a garage sale or at a thrift store....
RSD styled novelty pieces are sincerely ruining something I find a lot of joy in. I don't care that anybody enjoys different genres on the format, I do care that we need 4-5 limited variants for every single new pressing of everything.....the fact that more goes into variants than properly mastering the audio to maximize the sound quality of the format is bothersome.
With everybody having to throw these together to even attempt to get them pressed in under a year's turn around without outsourcing to the Czech Republic....I just. Seriously, it's less about people's preferences and more about the product actually meaning more than a mantle-piece to music enthusiasts.

Where are you getting the idea that I am justifying this? I fully believe that this lady deserves a refund and that the seller has screwed her around.
 
But I also don't believe that this guy is a scammer and that he sold records that he knew to be in awful condition cackling to himself as he informed her over and over that they were in great shape knowing that he'd soon have her money and there was nothing she could do about getting it back because he had this little plan all worked out.
 
He's just one of the many people listing huge amounts of stock for sale without really bothering to check the accurate condition of any of it (or sometimes if they even actually own a copy at all) and just chucking in the vague "NM/EX" for everything. He's probably been doing this for a decade and is too trusting in his memory of what he has and in what condition. I think he is lying about him checking the stock, but I think in his head the records were in the condition he graded them as being in, and he's defensive that somebody is challenging him on that.
 
Rather than just saying "this guy is wrong, demand a refund!" it's better to acknowledge that these people exist, that there's nothing we can do about them existing and that it's better and more productive to talk about how to identify them so people know to avoid them in the first place.

^ pretty faithful reissue then?
 
lol jk

My advice is to look elsewhere for advice, unfortunately. Or learn to wade through the bullshit posts in here.

I do not think this was worth being pressed on vinyl
I do NAAAAT

Is her last name Samsonite?

Is her last name Samsonite?

baggage. be warned.

I know this has been discussed before — and if someone wants to link me to the thread that works — but was wondering what sleeves you guys and gals use to store your records on shelves? If you can leave links that'd be great!

My 45rpm In Utero is Greatest Hits enough for me.

The "Man Advice" thread reminded me about this (note - don't go to that thread if you don't need to)
 
This whole notion of "beard pride". I don't know how prevalent this is around the world but over the last year or so I'm seeing all the facebook shit like "A REAL MAN grows a BEARD!" or "A beard is a sign of class and dignity" or "Yes, you can touch my beard!" or, the worst - "Date a man with a beard - growing a beard takes patience - the patience needed to put up with your bullshit!"
 
Fuck all that horrible shit. I grew a beard because I'm lazy and my girlfriend likes it. There's nothing fucking noble about it, it's just hair I keep on my face.

I found this question on another forum and hadn't ever really thought about it before. I tried to go through my top ten, which is always difficult, and expected the number to be a lot less, but I'm on nearly half women artists/bands and half men. Just thought it was an interesting question to think about.
 
For the record, mine, in no order
 
Hendrix/Band of Gypsys - Band of Gypsys
NIN - The Downward Spiral
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City....
Harvey Milk - Special Wishes/Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
Diamanda Galas - The Divine Punishment
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Can - Tago Mago
 

Not everything is a trap by the sexism police, guys. but then I guess wusspunk just isn't a genre favoured by female musicians

I found this question on another forum and hadn't ever really thought about it before. I tried to go through my top ten, which is always difficult, and expected the number to be a lot less, but I'm on nearly half women artists/bands and half men. Just thought it was an interesting question to think about.
 
For the record, mine, in no order
 
Hendrix/Band of Gypsys - Band of Gypsys
NIN - The Downward Spiral
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City....
Harvey Milk - Special Wishes/Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
Diamanda Galas - The Divine Punishment
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Can - Tago Mago
 

The "Man Advice" thread reminded me about this (note - don't go to that thread if you don't need to)
 
This whole notion of "beard pride". I don't know how prevalent this is around the world but over the last year or so I'm seeing all the facebook shit like "A REAL MAN grows a BEARD!" or "A beard is a sign of class and dignity" or "Yes, you can touch my beard!" or, the worst - "Date a man with a beard - growing a beard takes patience - the patience needed to put up with your bullshit!"
 
Fuck all that horrible shit. I grew a beard because I'm lazy and my girlfriend likes it. There's nothing fucking noble about it, it's just hair I keep on my face.

the future

I have no need for a greatest hits compilation, but if they left off Teen Spirit I would buy it just out of respect.