alicewondered's top albums
1. Library Tapes - Fragment (146) 2. Horse Feathers - House With No Name (137) 3. The Wake - Here Comes Everybody + Singles (134) 4. The Aislers Set - Terrible Things Happen (133) 5. Akira Kosemura - Tiny Musical (126) 6. Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming (124) 7. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding (123) 8. Malory - Outerbeats (119) 9. Panda Riot - She Dares All Things (117) 10. Thee More Shallows - A History of Sport Fishing (115) 11. Slowdive - Souvlaki (111) 12. Stereolab - Switched On (111) 13. Thee More Shallows - Book of Bad Breaks (110) 14. The Sea Urchins - Stardust (107) 15. The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan (105) 16. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (104) 17. Beat Happening - You Turn Me On (103) 18. Einstürzende Neubauten - Silence Is Sexy (102) 19. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette (101) 20. Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (96) 21. The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters (92) 22. Erik Satie - 3 Gymnopédies & d'autres oeuvres de piano (92) 23. Mice Parade - Obrigado Saudade (90) 24. Gravenhurst - Flashlight Seasons (88) 25. Hymie's Basement - Hymie's Basement (87) 26. Pumice - Pebbles (87) 27. Sylvain Chauveau - Nuage (86) 28. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone (84) 29. Asobi Seksu - Citrus (83) 30. Thee More Shallows - More Deep Cuts (83)

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NUMBER 1
THIS GUY
"Hey guys I like Nine Inch Nails. That I means I like industrial, right? And know what it is, right? I am teh expert! I like KMFDM! Industrial is mah favourite genre! Nitzer Ebb who? Einstürzende Neubauten who? Throbbing Gristle WHAAAAT?

NUMBER 2
THIS GUY
"I think Metallica is a good band!"

NUMBER 3
THIS GUY
"Why do you guys listen to this gay-ass crap(usually Stars of the Lid or Merzbow or some big-name artist in a genre that his petty mind can't understand) Dave Matthews Band is where it's at"

I've been hunting for music from the 80's/70's in east Germany's underground. So far, I've got a list of bands (not all from East Germany), and very little success finding anything by them. I've also been looking for the "Keine Experimente!" compiliations, but no dice with that either. I did find a two disc compilation "Verschwende Deine Jugend - Punk und New Wave in Deutschland 1977-83", which I guess roughly means "Waste Your Youth - Punk and New Wave in Germany 1977-83". Einstürzende Neubauten and Malaria! are on it, but other than that I haven't heard any of the bands, so I'm excited to listen to it later... Also, I found an album by The Plastic People Of The Universe, who were from Czech Republic during the Communist regime. It's in FLAC format, though, so the songs are like 20 MBs a piece, and it's uploaded in different archives on [spam] so it's going to take forever to download. Anyway, they seem more like Prog than punk, so it wasn't exactly what I was looking for but still interesting nonetheless.

Die Skeptiker
Feeling B
Male
PVC
Big Balls And The Great White Idiot
Fehlfarben
The Buttocks
Slime
Razzia
Toxoplasma
Canalterror
NoRMAhl
Vorkriegsjugend
Chaos Z
Inferno
Blut + Eisen
Torpedo
Angeschissen
blumen am arsch der hölle
Dackelblut
EA80
Die letzten Recken
Schleim-Keim

I haven't searched all of them yet, but I did look for a while for a select few I was particularly interested in. Music from that time during East Germany just seems like it would be so intense, I'm frustrated I haven't come up with much yet.

You might find lots of funeral doom and doom metal in this list , by nature, doom is long, slow and atmospheric. The Industrial entries of the list are based on previous literary works and the Avant-garde entries are plain weird experimentation.

13.- Surgical Sound Specimens from the Museum of Skin - Fantômas 1:14:17
Tag: avant-garde
Yes, this is the infamous track where the last twenty minutes is sound of a turntable stylus stuck in the runout groove of a record. Conceived as a soundtrack for a horror film, the concept of death explored is less romantic ad more proper of a Cronenberg Body horror film.
12.- Rite Of Finality - Asunder 50:23
Tag: funeral doom
Beautiful instrumental intro with added violins and clean guitars, enticing you into a sense of security were not by the bass in the background which looms like a dark cloud, then the full storm begins with death growls and epic instrumentation, then the epic falls into a gloomy dark ambiance with long and slow chords. the piece ends in utter desolation.
11.- Helio)))sophist - Sunn O))) 46:18
Tag: drone doom
As usual with Sunn O))), the droning background becomes mesmerizing, until we realize that we have been drawn to a land of sorrow and torture, with hidden horrors abound, biomechanical behemoths roaming, oblivious to the destruction wrought by their claws, a grey haze rather than darkness. the piece ends fading out to nothingness.

10.-Sacrilegium - Devil Doll 45:49
Tag: avant-garde
An energetic symphonic intro gives way to a choral chanting "Sacrilegium", gloomy cabaret tunes, prog-rock instrumentals, music boxes and a singing narration in a cornucopia of emotions, the piece ends with some sampling and a backmasked message.
9.-Somnium Obmutum - Estatic Fear 32:09
Tag: symphonic doom
A slow and heavy riff in a nocturnal ambient, a doom melody that gives way to a piano intermezzo before returning to the death growls, the true essence of Doom is this counterbalance, soothing vs. neurotic, the riff accompanies us in this trip through calmness and despair.
8.- Macbeth - Laibach
Tags: industrial, martial industrial 31:59
A Soundtrack based on the play by Shakespeare. Some listings separate it in tracks whileas others list it as one song. I list it as one, as the march in the introduction is revisited and expanded in the latter art of the album (I know, as a self-contained album it features leitmotivs)
7.- Die Hamletmaschine - Einstürzende Neubauten 31:47
Tag: industrial
More than a soundtrack for the play by Heiner Müller, it features the complete text of the play, this is the complete performing experience, the voices of the characters are there, Hamlet and Ofelia. As the previous Shakespeare reinterpretation, this is a timeless piece from its own world where the same rules apply to tragedies.
6.- Demontain - Ufomammut 28:07
Tag: stoner doom
Ufomammut's psychedelic grooves are given plenty of room to breathe, heaviness and soothing ambients are balanced, you could say that all of Ufomammut's tricks are here.
5.- The Garden - Cathedral 26:59
Tag: doom metal
Classical doomsters understand the scope of long compositions and in this case Cathedral takes the opportunity to paint a Hieronymous Bosch-like garden with all colors available, a female voice, seemingly out of place, introduces us to this epic 9 part tragicomedy of glory and decay, from birth to death.
4.- Avide de sens - Ataraxie 24:00
Tag: funeral doom
An ending that never seems to end, the main riff could otherwise be use as the ending of any other song, but this is just the beginning. When I listen to this song walking down the street there is a kind of background droning sound that makes me think there is something behind me. (my favorite time to listen Funeral Doom is walking while it rains), the calm places just seem to enhance the despair-filled growls that ensue, the energy level is greater and stronger, the piece ends in a slow decay at ties to the next song.

3.-Funeral of Mankind - Night Must Fall 22:24
Tag: funeral doom
If all of mankind is being buried and we're attending the funeral, who's growling at us?
Inhuman rituals and chants, hidden entities, mankind has receded to be replaced by others, were they human once? were they born that way?
2.-Missing - Until Death Overtakes Me 21:43
Tag: funeral doom
A delicate dirge before meeting the denizens of the grave, the dead have some excellent taste on the music they choose for their own wakes.
1.-Cirith Ungol - Reverend Bizarre 21:10
Tag: doom metal
Tolkien inspired despair, it follows Sam and Frodo through Cirith Ungol, it describes the death and decay they encounter while trying to grasp to the tiniest of hopes. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh Burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Pleymo --- 6.81%
System of a Down --- 3.55%
Unswabbed --- 3.52%
KoЯn --- 3.22%
Soulfly --- 2.81%
Converge --- 2.38%
Watcha --- 2.17%
Deftones --- 2.12%
Amen Ra --- 1.77%
Rammstein --- 1.68%
Ill Niño --- 1.51%
De Kift --- 1.49%
American Head Charge --- 1.45%
Lofofora --- 1.43%
Sepultura --- 1.41%
(hed) Planet Earth --- 1.38%
Kandyss --- 1.36%
Primer 55 --- 1.34%
Tagada Jones --- 1.32%
Black Bomb A --- 1.28%
Enhancer --- 1.19%
AqME --- 1.01%
Venetian Snares --- 0.85%
The Dillinger Escape Plan --- 0.84%
Deadsun --- 0.84%
Ramallah --- 0.83%
Mass Hysteria --- 0.82%
Eths --- 0.77%
Slipknot --- 0.76%
Tool --- 0.73%
Leng Tch'e --- 0.73%
Einstürzende Neubauten --- 0.7%
Biohazard --- 0.63%
Spineshank --- 0.62%
Clone Inc. --- 0.61%
Feverish --- 0.6%
Kraftwerk --- 0.58%
PsyOpus --- 0.53%
Gojira --- 0.53%
Cypress Hill --- 0.53%
Dagoba --- 0.52%
Neurosis --- 0.5%
Demande à la poussière --- 0.48%
Machine Head --- 0.47%
Fis(ch)er --- 0.47%
Dominique Pauwels --- 0.47%
Laibach --- 0.45%
Crippled --- 0.42%
Reveille --- 0.42%
Mudvayne --- 0.42%

1. What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
Mr. Bungle - Sweet Charity

2. What is your favorite album by 2?
Radiohead - maybe...eh...the Pyramid Song?

3. What is your favorite lyric that 1 has sung?
The Mars Volta - I like the "L’ Via / Hija de Miranda / Tu Apellido se cambió / L’ Via / Sin Ojos me quieres dar / Una historia sin mi madre"-part in L'Via L'Viaquez ...it's funny to sing along when you don't know the language...

4. How many times have you seen 11 live?
Dead Can Dance - never

5. What is your favorite song by 7?
Robert Wyatt - Sea Song !!!!!!!

6. What is a good memory you have involving 20?
The Cure...they're quite omnipresent, so I guess there could be some memories

7. Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
David Bowie - Sunday maybe...but it's a nice way of being sad :)

8. What is your favorite lyric that 14 has sung?
Frank Zappa...impossible to choose one.

9. What is your favourite song by 19?
Björk - maybe (!) Bachelorette

10. How did you first get into 22?
Mike Patton - Faith No More of course.

11. What was the first song you heard by 21?
Kaizers Orchestra - Maestro

12. What is your favorite song by 4?
Jeff Buckley - Morning Theft / Dream Brother

13. What is a good memory you have involving 13?
Ween - the Spongebob Squarepants movie? ;)

14. Is there a song by 23 that makes you sad?
A Perfect Circle - Imagine !!!

15. What is your favorite album of 15?
Tim Buckley - Goodbye & Hello

16. What is your favorite lyric that 9 has sung?
Einstürzende Neubauten - don't know :(

17. What is your favorite song by 8?
Faith No More - there are about 4566534 favourites

18. How many times have you seen 5 live?
Tool - once

19. What is your favourite album by 12?
Joy Division - don't know

20. What is a good memory you have involving 25?
Air - don't know

21. What was the first song you heard by 18?
Tuxedomoon - no, it wasn't "No Tears", it was "A home away"

22. What is your favorite song by 17?
Ulver - Lost in Moments

23. What is your favorite album by 24?
At the Drive-In - don't know, Relationship of Command??

24. How many times have you seen number 10 live?
Can - Never. I'm not that old.

25. When did you start listening to number 15?
Tim Buckley - he had this special child......

26. How many of your top 25 have you seen live?
2. Maybe because the majority is already dead or something similar.

wolowina-saute's top albums
1. Beck - Modern Guilt (429) 2. Santogold - Santogold (424) 3. The Presets - Beams (295) 4. Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game (250) 5. The Cinematic Orchestra - Man With a Movie Camera (241) 6. Elysian Fields - Queen Of The Meadow (234) 7. Evan Bartholomew - Borderlands (233) 8. Brazilian Girls - New York City (223) 9. Martina Topley-Bird - The Blue God (214) 10. Elysian Fields - Dreams That Breathe Your Name (202) 11. The Legendary Pink Dots - Plutonium Blonde (194) 12. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (193) 13. The Legendary Pink Dots - Any Day Now (190) 14. Brazilian Girls - Talk To La Bomb (189) 15. Noir Désir - Des visages des figures (186) 16. Nat King Cole - Too Marvellous for Words (184) 17. Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls (180) 18. Ladytron - Witching Hour (180) 19. Portishead - Third (177) 20. Ladytron - 604 (171) 21. Stan Getz - Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl from Ipanema (162) 22. Stealpot - Mass Mess.AGE (158) 23. The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (156) 24. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (156) 25. Primus - Pork Soda (155) 26. Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen (154) 27. Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (149) 28. Tom Waits - Big Time (141) 29. Elysian Fields - Bum Raps and Love Taps (140) 30. The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur (138) 31. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (129) 32. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure (126) 33. Noir Désir - One Trip One Noise (122) 34. Pixies - Trompe le Monde (121) 35. Coil - The Ape of Naples (118) 36. King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair (117) 37. Ghostland Observatory - Paparazzi Lightning (115) 38. Gudrun Gut - I Put A Record On (114) 39. Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation (113) 40. David Bowie - Outside (111) 41. Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night (110) 42. The Knife - Deep Cuts (108) 43. The Legendary Pink Dots - Hallway of the Gods (108) 44. Hollywood, Mon Amour - Hollywood, Mon Amour (105) 45. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (104) 46. Jimi Tenor - Intervision (100) 47. Lech Janerka - Co Lepsze Kawalki (99) 48. The Legendary Pink Dots - The Golden Age (98) 49. Amon Tobin - Foley Room (96) 50. The White Stripes - Elephant (96)