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« on: June 13, 2003, 12:47:38 pm »
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Elton John : Greatest Hits 1970 - 2002
Tori Amos : Little Earthquakes
Nirvana : Nevermind
Ani Difranco : Out of Range
Concrete Blonde : Still in Hollywood
The Beatles : Rubber Soul
Cry Cry Cry
DJ Encore feat. Engelina: Intuition
Sarah McLachlan: Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
Fiona Apple : When The Pawn...
Soul Miner's Daughter : The Sacred & Profane
Josh Joplin Band : Useful Music
Vanessa Carlton : Be Not Nobody
Josie & The Pussycats Movie Soundtrack
Great Expectations Movie Soundtrack
Moulin Rouge Movie Soundtrack
Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV Sountrack
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cast : Once More With Feeling
Jagstar : Crazy Place
Queen : Greatest Hits 1
Jekyll & Hyde Original Broadway Cast Recording
Miss Saigon Original Broadway Cast Recording
Rent Original Broadway Cast Recording

added after reading others (means i agree on...):
Bare Naked Ladies: Gordon
No Doubt: Tragic Kingdom
Lisa Loeb: Tails
Fiona Apple: Tidal

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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2003, 12:53:56 pm »
Yourself or Someone Like You - Matchbox 20
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Shabooh Shoobah - INXS
My Own Prison - Creed
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morrisette

The End

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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2003, 01:03:51 pm »
Steph, I'm gonna go with you on the OMWF soundtrack. it is truly cool, even though I don't really care for Joss since season 6.

V. Carlton- Be Not Nobody
M. Branch- Spirit Room
M. Jackson- basically everything except Millenium
Black Sabbath- all the old music
Pink- Missundastood
A. Lavigne- Let Go
Starbuck is mai waifu

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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2003, 03:42:25 pm »
In no particular order....



Third Eye Blind  - Self titled
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Coldplay - Parachutes & A Rush of Blood to the Head
Incubus - Morning View
MXPX - The Ever Passing Moment & Let it Happen
Thursday - Full Collapse
Eric Clapton - From the Craddle
Rooney - California Blue
Feeder - Comfort in Sound
Josh Groban - Josh Groban
Charlotte Church - Enchantment
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday, Lillywhite Sessions, Under the table and
                                 Dreaming
Juliana Theory - Love & Emotion is Dead
Vanessa Carlton - Be Not Nobody
Mariah Carey - Butterfly
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom & Return of Saturn
Remy Shand - The Way I Feel (or something like that....can't quite
                       remember)

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« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2003, 06:14:40 pm »
The Backstreet Boys-(pratically all of their albums, including their ch.1 hits)
Nick Carter-Now or Never
Mariah Carey-Charmbracelet
Vanessa Carlton-Be not Nobody
Evanescence-Fallen
Michelle Branch-The Spirit Room
Britney Spears' first album
Christina Aguileras first album
Lillix-Falling Uphill
Madonna-American Life
Alicia Keys-songs in A minor

There's more, I just can't think of any right now...

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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2003, 06:56:35 pm »
The Nightmare before Christmas soundtrack!

:)

one of my favorites.

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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2003, 07:14:13 pm »
Thursday- Full Collapse
Danny Elfman- The Nightmare before Christmas Soundtrack
John Corigliano- The Red Violin Soundtrack
Vanessa Carlton- Be Not Nobody
Something Corporate- Leaving through the Window
Dashboard Confessional- The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Vanessa Mae- The Best of Vanessa Mae
Jonathan Larson- Tick, tick...boom! Soundtrack

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« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2003, 08:47:45 am »
Tom Petty: Wildflowers
Queens of the Stone Age: all
King's X: Dogman
Jimi Hendrix: anything
Motorpsycho: Trust Us
Masters of Reality: sunrise on the sufferbus
Fiona Apple: When the Pawn
Alice in Chains: Dirt
Kyuss: Welcome to Sky Valley
Ben Harper: welcome to the cruel World
Led Zeppelin: 1
Gemma Hayes: Night on my Side
Soundgarden: Superunknown
Foo Fighters: Colour and the Shape
Red Hot Chili Peppers: BSSM
Meshell Ndegeocello: Bitter
Tool: Lateralus
Massive Attack: Blue lines/Mezzanine
Dj Shadow: Endtroducing
Daniel Lanois: Acadie
Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball
The Meters: The Meters
Radiohead: Anything
Doyle Bramhall II: Welcome
Cream: Best of
Jonatha Brooke: 10 cent wings
Chocolate Genius: Black Music
Faith No More: King for a Day

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« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2003, 09:06:32 am »
Less Than Jake- Losing Streak and Anthem
MxPx- The Ever Passing Moment
Jewel- any of them, they're all cool
Something Corporate- Leaving Throught The Window
Lisa Loeb- Hello Lisa
Nessa- Be Not Nobody
Unsung Zeros- Moments from Mourning
The Suicide Machines- Battle Hymns
New Found Glory- self titled
Five Iron Frenzy- Proof That The Youth Are Revolting (Live)
Halo Friendlies- Get Real
Ten Things I Hate About You soundtrack
Further Seems Forever- The Moon is Down
"We are made to bleed
And scab and heal and bleed again
And turn every scar into a joke
We are made to fight
And f**k and talk and fight again
And sit around
And laugh until we choke"
-Ani DiFranco

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« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2003, 09:45:59 pm »
Here are mine

Lee Ann Womack--I Hope You Dance
Sheryl Crow--Sheryl Crow
Tori Amos--Scarlet's Walk
Vanessa Carlton--Be not Nobody
Norah Jones--Come Away With Me
Jewel--Pieces of You
Shawn Colvin--A Few Small Repairs
Allison Moorer--Miss Fortune
Avril Lavigne--Let Go
Fiona Apple--Tidal
Michelle Branch--The Spirit Room
Amanda Marshall--Amanda Marshall
Natalie Imbruglia--Left of the Middle
Madonna--Ray of Light
Jewel--This Way
Sheryl Crow--C'mon, C'mon
Mary Chapin Carpenter--Stones In the Road
Dixie Chicks--Home
Say you would say you could
say you'd come and stop the rain
say you'd try and hold me tight
and you just give me away
Make me high on lullabies
a melody for me to sway
say you would say you could
and you don't do anything

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« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2003, 06:51:55 am »
I love top 10 lists!!!!!!!  Gives me a chance to be pretentious!

First off, Some of you all are WAY to willing to throw new pop albums on your lists WILLY NILLY!  N'sync? Michelle Branch?  You can't put these albums up there with the GREATS yet cause you don't have perspective yet.  I say if an album hasn't been out ATLEAST 5-10 years then you can't truly judge how great it is.

That being said.... top 10 albums in biographical order (ascending)....

Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
This album introduced me to music as a whole.  I still treasure it as the greatest pop album EVER.  Pure joy.

Led Zepplin - 4
Best.  Rock Album.  Ever.

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Established PJ as more than just grunge hanger-on's.  Showed their diversity and range.  Full of dark and emotional songs.

Nevermind - Nirvana
Saved rock and roll from the synths and hair bands that enchained.  Amazing lyrics if you take the time to listen.

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Introduced a generation to the "piano chick" album.  Me and a Gun is still one of the most emotional songs ever.

Counting Crows - August and Everything After
The most "catchy" album of all time.  Full of hooks and rifts that won't go away.  Every song, from start to finish, could have been a radio hit.  This is one I expect to show up on "classic rock" stations in 20 years.

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Tough call between this and Dark Side, but songs like "Wait for the Worms" and "Mother" have enough pure emotion and anger to give it the edge.

Fiona Apple - Tidal
This song reads like a diary of a troubled girl.  It's pure heartbreak from start to finish.  Authors and producers should take a lesson from Fiona in how to develop a character.

Jethro Tull - Aqualung
This album just rocks out.  Best piano opener for a song ever appears on Locamotive breath.  The whole album just SCREAMS about the excesses of human life.  Fat Man, Aqualung and Locamotive Breath are all about the consequences of our indulgences.

The Who - Who's Next
The anthem for a generation.  Nuff said.

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« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2003, 07:02:00 am »
Quote from: "BigE"
Natalie Imbruglia--Left of the Middle


Normally, i wouldn't directly attack a top 10 choice since, first and foremost, it's about personal taste.

But in this case, I want to point out that the song "Smoke"  off of this album is tied for the WORST lyrics of all time.

What is it tied with, you may ask?  "Take the money and run" by the Steve Miller band.  With such rhyme schemes as "Billy Mack is a detective down in texas.  Knows exactly what the facts is".  Or the always amazing rhyme of "They headed down to, ooh, old El Paso
That's where they ran into a great big hassle".

Someone tell Steve that THOSE DON'T RHYME.

Then Natlie contributes the always deep and thought provoking line "What's up with that?" to the music world.  As in;

"My Lullaby, hung out to dry
What's up with that
It's over
Where are you dad
Mum's lookin' sad
What's up with that
It's dark in here"

but she says it OVER AND OVER throughout the song ruining a GREAT chorus with HORRIBLE verses.  That ALONE should knock "Left of the Middle" off the list!
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« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2003, 07:36:21 am »
andrew as always has agreeably good taste and i love explainations - i dont have time or energy to explain my choices - but agree with why andrew chose his - i love diverse albums that tell a story  and as for the josie soundtrack - its just fun - and hell its the cool chick from letters to cleo - why not!

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« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2003, 11:37:59 am »
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Iron Maiden - Powerslave / Somewhere In Time
Impellitteri - Screaming Symphony / Crunch
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory (Metropolis pt.2)
Narnia - Desert Land
Control Denied - Control Denied
James Murphy - Convergence / Feeding The Machine
Steve Vai - Passion And Warefare
Michael Angelo - No Boundaries
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony / Go Off

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« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2003, 11:42:44 am »
Quote from: "kev222"
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Iron Maiden - Powerslave / Somewhere In Time
Impellitteri - Screaming Symphony / Crunch
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory (Metropolis pt.2)
Narnia - Desert Land
Control Denied - Control Denied
James Murphy - Convergence / Feeding The Machine
Steve Vai - Passion And Warefare
Michael Angelo - No Boundaries
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony / Go Off

-Kev


I think of all those bands, the only two I know are Iron Maiden and Queensryche.

Normally, i'd go check out the rest of them, but judging from the two I do know, im guessing I wouldn't like the rest of them either  :wink:
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