IN CONCERT, JANIS JOPLIN (May 1972)

In Concert is a live album by Janis Joplin. It was released in 1972 after Joplin's death as a double-LP. The first record contains performances with Big Brother and the Holding Company, recorded at various locations in 1968 and 1970, and the second with the Full Tilt Boogie Band.I grew up with this album, it was the first great one of my childhood.

1. Down on Me
2. Bye, Bye Baby
3. All Is Loneliness
4. Piece of My Heart
5. Road Block
6. Flower In The Sun
7. Summertime
8. Ego Rock
9. Half Moon
10. Kozmic Blues
11. Move Over
12. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
13. Get It While You Can
14. Ball and Chain

#14 Ball and Chain

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MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (October 1995)

The twenty-eight-track album was released as a two-disc CD and triple LP. The album features a wide array of styles, as well as greater musical input from bassist D'arcy Wretzky and second guitarist James Iha.

I don't like this one as much as I do Adore but it is probably the best in The Smashing Pumpkins career.

Dawn to Dusk

1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2. Tonight, Tonight
3. Jellybelly
4. Zero
5. Here Is No Why
6. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
7. To Forgive
8. An Ode to No One
9. Love
10. Cupid de Locke
11. Galapogos
12. Muzzle
13. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
14. Take Me Down

Twilight to Starlight

1. Where Boys Fear to Tread
2. Bodies
3. Thirty-Three
4. In Arms of Sleep
5. 1979
6. Tales of a Scorched Earth
7. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
8. Stumbleine
9. X.Y.U.
10. We Only Come Out at Night
11. Beautiful
12. Lily (My One and Only)
13. By Starlight 
14. Farewell and Goodnight

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LONDON CALLING, THE CLASH (December 1979)

This album is brilliant. The album's subject matter included social displacement, unemployment, racial conflict, drug use...

An album to make you think!

1. London Calling
2. Brand New Cadillac
3. Jimmy Jazz
4. Hateful
5. Rudie Can't Fail
6. Spanish Bombs
7. The Right Profile
8. Lost in the Supermarket
9. Clampdown
10. The Guns of Brixton
11. Wrong 'Em Boyo
12. Death or Glory
13. Koka Kola
14. The Card Cheat
15. Lover's Rock
16. Four Horsemen
17. I'm Not Down
18. Revolution Rock
19. Train in Vain

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CALIFORNICATION, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (June 1999)

The album's subject material incorporated various sexual innuendos commonly associated with the band, but in terms of themes it is more varied than previous outings. Lust, death, contemplations of suicide, drugs, globalization, and travel are all part of themes introduced in the album.

An album I grew up with and never got tired.

Best goddamn bass player in the world.

1. Around the World
2. Parallel Universe
3. Scar Tissue
4. Other Side
5. Get On Top
6. Californication
7. Easily
8. Porcelain
9. Emit Remmus
10. I Like Dirt
11. Velvet Glove
12. Savior
13. Purple Stain
14. Right on Time
15. Road Trippin'

#9 Emit Remmus

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THE SKY'S GONE OUT, BAUHAUS (October 1982)

One year after Mask, Bauhaus released a different but just as good album.

I love this one too!

1. Third Uncle
2. Silent Hedges
3. In the Night
4. Swing the Heartache
5. Spirit
6. The Three Shadows Part I
7. The Three Shadows Part II
8. The Three Shadows Part III
9. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
10. Exquisite Corpse
11. Ziggy Stardust*
12. Party of the First Part*
13. Spirit [Single Version]*
14. Watch That Grandad Go*

*bonus tracks

 

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MASK, BAUHAUS (October 1981)

Bauhaus expanded their style a bit on Mask, particularly by incorporating keyboards and acoustic guitar.
I love the way they play.

1. Hair of the Dog
2. The Passion of Lovers
3. Of Lillies and Remains
4. Dancing
5. Hollow Hills
6. Kick in the Eye
7. In Fear of Fear
8. Muscle in Plastic
9. The Man With the X-Ray Eyes
10. Mask
11. In Fear of Dub*
12. Ear Wax*
13. Harry*
14. 1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash*
15. Satori*

*1998 re-release

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BRAIN DRAIN, RAMONES (May 1989)

My favourite Ramones album!

About the making of the album, Dee Dee wrote in his autobiography, Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones: It was tough recording the Brain Drain album because everyone took their shit out on me. I dreaded being around them. It drove me away--I didn't even end up playing on the album. Everybody in the band had problems; girlfriend problems, money problems, mental problems.

1. I Believe in Miracles
2. Zero Zero UFO
3. Don't Bust My Chops
4. Punishment Fits the Crime
5. All Screwed Up
6. Palisades Park
7. Pet Sematary
8. Learn to Listen
9. Can't Get You Outta My Mind
10. Ignorance is Bliss
11. Come Back, Baby
12. Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)

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THE SMITHS, THE SMITHS (February 1984)

One of the most genious albums of all time.

Awesome debut from this historical band, their first record also made history!

1. Reel Around the Fountain
2. You've Got Everything Now
3. Miserable Lie
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves
5. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
6. Still Ill
7. Hand in Glove
8. What Difference Does It Make?
9. I Don't Owe You Anything
10. Suffer Little Children

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WILD MOOD SWINGS, THE CURE (May 1996)

Although this album was poorly received by many Cure fans I like it.

Very deep lyrics is what you will find here.

1. Want
2. Club America
3. This is a Lie
4. The 13th
5. Strange Attraction
6. Mint Car
7. Jupiter Crash
8. Round & Round & Round
9. Gone!
10. Numb
11. Return
12. Trap
13. Treasure
14. Bare

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AND ALL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN, NINE INCH NAILS (January 2002)

The live album contains music recorded during the Fragility v2.0 US tour in 2000; Disc 1 is a live album of their normal set list of the time, while disc B contains a studio album titled Still containing "deconstructed" versions of previous NIN songs and some new material.

CD1-Live

1. Terrible Lie
2. Sin
3. March of the Pigs
4. Piggy
5. The Frail
6. The Wretched 
7. Gave Up
8. The Great Below
9. The Mark Has Been Made
10. Wish
11. Suck
12. Closer
13. Head Like a Hole
14. The Day the World Went Away
15. Starfuckers, Inc.
16. Hurt

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CD2-Still

1. Something I Can Never Have
2. Adrift and at Peace
3. The Fragile
4. The Becoming
5. Gone, Still
6. The Day the World Went Away
7. And All That Could Have Been
8. The Persistence of Loss
9. Leaving Hope

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HOLY WOOD (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), MARILYN MANSON (November 2000)

The album's plot is a "parable" that takes place in a thinly-veiled satire of modern America called "Holy Wood", which Manson has described as "very much like Disney World [...] I thought of how interesting it would be if we created an entire city that was an amusement park, and the thing we were being amused by was violence and sex and everything that people really want to see." Its literary foil is "Death Valley", which is used as "a metaphor for the outcast and the imperfect of the world."

I bought this album when it was released because I was a fan at the time.

This album is really a balance between the previous two that I also posted.

Although I think this album is good, the previous two are better.

1. GodEatGod
2. The Love Song
3. The Fight Song
4. Disposable Teens
5. Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)
6. President Dead
7. In the Shadow of the Valley of Death
8. Cruci-Fiction in Space
9. A Place in the Dirt
10. The Nobodies
11. The Death Song
12. Lamb of God
13. Born Again
14. Burning Flag
15. Coma Black: a.Eden Eye b.The Apple of Discord
16. Valentine's Day
17. The Fall of Adam
18. King Kill 33º
19. Count to Six and Die (The Vacuum of Infinite Space Encompassing)

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EXPERIMENTAL JET SET, TRASH AND NO STAR, SONIC YOUTH (May 1994)

 

I really love listening to this when I'm on the streets, for it has many different moods in a single album, genious! When the volume of the album is turned up, especially in between tracks, one can hear Sister being played in its entirety.

1. Winner's Blues
2. Bull in the Heather
3. Starfield Road
4. Skink
5. Screaming Skull
6. Self-Obsessed and Sexxee
7. Bone
8. Androgynous Mind
9. Quest for the Cup
10. Waist
11. Doctor's Orders
12. Tokyo Eye
13. In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader
14. Sweet Shine

#1 Winner's Blues

 

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CLOSER, JOY DIVISION (July 1980)

Very deep and brilliant.

I find this so beautiful it makes me cry. 

1. Atrocity Exhibition
2. Isolation
3. Passover
4. Colony
5. A Means to an End
6. Heart and Soul
7. Twenty Four Hours
8. The Eternal
9. Decades

#7 Twenty Four Hours

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BLUE LINES, MASSIVE ATTACK (April 1991)

Blue Lines is generally considered the first trip hop album, although the term was not coined until years later.

1. Safe From Harm
2. One Love
3. Blue Lines
4. Be Thankful for What You've Got
5. Five Man Army
6. Unfinished Sympathy
7. Daydreaming
8. Lately
9. Hymn of the Big Wheel

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TWICE UPON A TIME, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (October 1992)

This is the second "part" of the singles compilation.

It combines newer songs than the previous one.

I don't know which album I love the most.

1. Fireworks
2. Slowdive
3. Melt!
4. Dear Prudence
5. Swimming Horses
6. Dazzle
7. Overground
8. Cities in Dust
9. Candyman
10. This Wheel's on Fire
11. The Passenger
12. Peek-a-Boo
13. The Killing Jar
14. The Last Beat of My Heart
15. Kiss Them for Me
16. Shadowtime
17. Fear (of the Unknown)
18. Face to Face

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THE BEDLAM IN GOLIATH, THE MARS VOLTA (January 2008)

Excellent album in my opinion. The album's creation process was subject to "bad luck controversy" after the band's bizarre experience with a ouija that Rodriguez-Lopez bought as a gift for Cedric Bixler-Zavala.

If you don't know this album and you like experimental rock, you'll love it! 

1. Aberinkula
2. Metatron
3. Ilyena
4. Wax Simulacra
5. Goliath
6. Tourniquet Man
7. Cavalettas
8. Asgadez
9. Askepios
10. Ouroborous
11. Soothsayer
12. Conjugal Burns

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ONCE UPON A TIME, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (December 1981)

I won't be posting compilations often but this one is truly great, it is filled with songs that I really love from this band.

The second "part" of this compilation will be posted soon.

1. Hong Kong Garden
2. Mirage
3. The Staircase (Mystery)
4. Playground Twist
5. Love in a Void
6. Happy House
7. Christine
8. Israel
9. Spellbound
10. Arabian Nights

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ADORE, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (June 1998)

One of those perfect albums with no need for introduction. Beautiful music in a time of things uncertain for this band, probably one of their best work.

Recording the album proved to be a challenge as the band members struggled with lingering interpersonal problems and musical uncertainty in the wake of three increasingly successful rock albums and the departure of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Billy Corgan would later characterize Adore as "a band falling apart."

1. To Sheila
2. Ava Adore
3. Perfect
4. Daphne Descends
5. Once Upon a Time
6. Tear
7. Crestfallen
8. Appels + Oranjes
9. Pug
10. The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
11. Annie-Dog
12. Shame
13. Behold! The Night Mare
14. For Martha
15. Blank Page
16. 17

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BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (September 1991)

Red Hot Chilli Peppers is a great band no matter what you say, with very talented people. Personally, Flea is a source of inspiration as a musician and as a person.

This album is one of their best works, full funk and rock and roll.

1. The Power of Equality
2. If You Have to Ask
3. Breaking the Girl
4. Funky Monks
5. Suck My Kiss
6. I Could Have Lied
7. Mellowship Slinky in B Major
8. The Righteous & the Wicked
9. Give It Away
10. Blood Sugar Sex Magik
11. Under the Bridge
12. Naked in the Rain
13. Apache Rose Peacock
14. The Greeting Song
15. My Lovely Man
16. Sir Psycho Sexy
17. They're Red Hot

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MEZZANINE, MASSIVE ATTACK (April 1998)

 A great soundtrack for pretty much everything. One of my favourites!

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1. Angel
2. Risingson
3. Teardrop
4. Inertia Creeps
5. Exchange
6. Dissolved Girl
7. Man Next Door
8. Black Milk ("Black Melt" on later releases)
9. Mezzanine
10. Group Four
11. (Exchange)
12. Superpredators

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DAMNATION, OPETH (April 2003)

Great ambience is what you can find inside this album.

Very different from their other albums, it goes back to their influences.

Album produced by Steven Wilson, main composer in Porcupine Tree.

 

1. Windowpane
2. In My Time of Need
3. Death Whispered a Lullaby
4. Closure
5. Hope Leaves
6. To Rid the Disease
7. Ending Credits
8. Weakness

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THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL, NINE INCH NAILS (March 1994)

Very good industrial album mixed with many sounds and good lyrics.

It is a concept album detailing the destruction of an undisclosed man.

1. Mr. Self Destruct
2. Piggy
3. Heresy
4. March of the Pigs
5. Closer
6. Ruiner
7. The Becoming
8. I Do Not Want This
9. Big Man With a Gun
10. A Warm Place
11. Eraser
12. Reptile
13. The Downward Spiral
14. Hurt

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THREE IMAGINARY BOYS, THE CURE (May 1979)

Debut album from The Cure. It is a post punk album if you ask me.

This album makes me think about when I was a young boy.

1. 10.15 Saturday Night
2. Accuracy
3. Grinding Halt
4. Another Day
5. Object
6. Subway Song
7. Foxy Lady
8. Meathook
9. So What
10. Fire In Cairo
11. It's Not You
12. Three Imaginary Boys
13. The Weedy Burton

#12 Three Imaginary Boys

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BLANK GENERATION, RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS (September 1977)

One of punk'n'roll classics, it's a must listen for everyone who appreciates the genre. Richard is a great musician.

1. Love Comes in Spurts
2. Liars Beware
3. New Pleasure
4. Betrayal Takes Two
5. Down at the Rock and Roll Club
6. Who Says?
7. Blank Generation 
8. Walking on the Water
9. The Plan
10. Another World
11. I'm Your Man
12. All The Way

#7 Blank Generation

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GOOD, MORPHINE (September 1992)

While it was the alternative crowd who immediately latched onto Morphine, their music was geared more toward the jazz scene -- a wailing saxophone, lead bass (played with a slide), and lyrics influenced by '50s beat poetry were all-important ingredients.

 

1. Good
2. The Saddest Song
3. Claire
4. Have a Lucky Day
5. You Speak My Language
6. You Look Like Rain
7. Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave
8. Lisa
9. The Only One
10. Test-Tube Baby/Shoot'm Down
11. The Other Side
12. I Know You (pt.1)
13. I Know You (pt.2)

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ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN (August 1964)

Listen to all the song and read all the lyrics, you will understand why I'm posting this!

1. All I Really Want To Do
2. Black Crow Blues
3. Spanish Harlem Incident
4. Chimes of Freedom
5. I Shall Be Free No. 10
6. To Ramona
7. Motorpsycho Nitemare
8. My Back Pages
9. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
10. Ballad in Plain D
11. It Ain't Me Babe

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WISH, THE CURE (April 1992)

This is one of my favourites of all time. It reveals the inner soul of a person that could be any human being on this planet, love is the answer to all the problems, people just don't know that.

1. Open
2. High
3. Apart
4. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
5. Wendy Time
6. Doing the Unstuck
7. Friday I'm in Love
8. Trust
9. A Letter to Elise
10. Cut
11. To Wish Impossible Things
12. End

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