15 Albums List

[The_Crooked_Man]

In no particular order:
Aphex Twin- Drukqs
Aphex Twin- Richard D James Album
Proem- Negativ
Proem- Burn Plate no.1
Primus- Pork Soda (though my favorite Primus album rotates every few years)
Keef Baker- The Widnes Years
The Pogues- Very hard to pick a favorite. . .maybe Rum, Sodomy and the Lash?
Skinny Puppy- Bites
Amon Tobin- Permutation
Delerium- Faces, Forms and Illusions (this was before they went the pop-trance route)
Frontline Assembly- Tactical Neural Implant or Hardwired
Tangerine Dream - Tangram or Rubycon (good call Mr. Morley )
Klaus Schulze- Timewind
Mentallo and the Fixer- Revelations 23
Joe Cocker- Mad Dogs and Englishmen

[Adam-V]

(I used to have RH on original vinyl til some junky robbed me..)

Sorry to hear that.

I still have everything they ever released on vinyl except for The Damage Done. There was a time when I lived and breathed Sisters of Mercy but I lost interest some years after they stopped releasing new music and started dining out purely on the strength of their previous releases. Something they're still doing and it's been 20 years since Vision Thing.

Cheers,
Adam-V

[stk]

I haven't heard hide nor hair of them since VT..
The website is a pretty good read though. Funny guy, Eldritch.
Mate of mine works in touring and has been trying to get them over here. That fell through, but word from the inside is that some other promotor has got them to agree to an Aus tour.

Should be interesting..

[Adam-V]

Hehe, I'll believe it when I see it! Knowing my luck they'll tour here when I'm over in the UK later this year.

Cheers,
Adam-V

[PhineasFreak]

End of working week - empty car of music, first 15 out are:

Sven Väth - Touch Themes Of Harlequin - Robot - Ballet-Dancer
Digable Planets – Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)
Prodigy presents - The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One
They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18
De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State
Air - Moon Safari
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III
Pixies – Doolittle
Pavement – Terror Twilight
Chemical Brothers, The – Dig Your Own Hole
BT - IMA
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Velvet Underground, The & Nico (3) – The Velvet Underground & Nico
Aphex Twin - SAW
Orbital - Orbital (Brown Album)

[edit: glancing back over this list as i read others just added, it seems painfully clear this week i have regressed into a combination of attempts to comfort a messed up head with old favourites and some pure electronic genius...]

[zyathus]

KoRn - life is peachy
ratm - evil empire
sod - speak english or die
auricular - audion
atriohm & encephalopaticys - ukalen
easy star all stars - dub side of the moon
weezer - weezer (blue)
pierre schaeffer - symphonie pour un homme seul
soia - call to arms
beatles - sgt. peppers
bloodhound gang - one fierce beer coaster
marilyn manson - mechanical animals
catalepsy - traumatic space
fettes brot - auf einem auge blöd
mum - yesterday was dramatic, today is ok

[therk]

Bit random, but:

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Violator
The Cure - Disintegration
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Orbital - Brown Album
Leftfield - Leftism
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
Wedding Present - Seamonsters
Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Murcof - Martes
Global Communication - 76:14
Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure

[Clumsy]

1. The Velvet Underground & Nico
2. J. S. Bach - Das Kantatenwerk (can't name a specific volume)
3. Monteverdi - Vespro Della Beata Vergine (Gardener)
4. Cabaret Voltaire - Plasticity
5. Can - Ege Bamyasi
6. Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
7. The Orb - UFOrb
8. Psychick Warriors ov Gaia - Ov Biospheres and Sacred Grooves
9. Erik Satie - 3 Gymnopédies & other piano works, Pascal Roge
10. Suicide - The Second Album
11. The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
12. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
13. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
14. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
15. The Slits - Cut

[sb]

The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
The Wolfgang Press - Bird Wood Cage
Techno Animal - Re-Entry
808 State - 90
Renegade Soundwave - In Dub
Lassigue Bendthaus - Render
Cluster - II
Zoviet France - Shouting at the Ground
Alec Empire - Low on ice
Basic Channel - Lyot Rmx
The Orb - Adventures....
Scorn - Evanescence
Panasonic - Vakio
Bauhaus - Press the eject....

honorable mentions to: the cure, supersilent, +n, tones on tail, killing joke and rancho relax allstars.

[parasitk]

Trying to keep it one album per band/artist. Difficult, no matter what.

Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Led Zeppelin - IV
Pink Floyd - Animals
David Bowie - Low
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Arvo Pärt - I Am The True Vine
Coil - Moon's Milk In Four Phases
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Tool - Lateralus
Radiohead - Kid A
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
The Police - Reggatta De Blanc
Ben Frost - By The Throat
Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway
Ulver - Blood Inside

[appliancide]

frank zappa - freak out
steelpole bathtub - tulip
pigface - fook
coil - loves secret domain
cujo - adventures in foam
music should hurt - various artist (especially the killer bug track)
sleepytime gorilla museum - of natural history
celtic frost - into the pandemonium
shellac - at action park
throbbing gristle - 20 jazz punk greats
melvins - stoner witch
ween - the pod
weird al yankovic - dare to be stupid
sonic youth - goo
butthole surfers - piouhgd
kratwerk - trans-europe express

edit: I followed the rules and posted what came to mind as being the most influential without having to think too much about it. Then I posted and read through this thread. First of all, I would rock out to a mix tape made by most of you Second, I easily forgot twice as many as I posted.
Third, I have now tripled the amount of emoticons that I've used since signing up.

[langley]

duty now for the future - devo
oxygene - jean michel jarre
killing joke - killing joke
doc at the rader station - captain beefheart
dignity of labour - human league
space experience - john keating
low technology - pink industry
mccartney 2 - paul mccartney
metal box - public image
buster and glen/duckstab - the residents
empires and dance - simple minds
metamatic - john foxx
germfree adolescents - x-ray spex
and she closed her eyes - stena nordenstam
inestable - medio mutante

[appliancide]

If MW was a radio station, I would listen to it,

I just HAVE to add two glaring ommisions from my list that shaped my sensibilities quite a lot:

negativland - a big 10-8 place
wall of voodoo - the ugly americans

[Clumsy]

Fuck it, here's another 15...

1. Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
2. Lou Reed – Transformer
3. Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
4. Laurie Anderson – Big Science
5. Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food
6. Public Image Limited – First Issue (the first album)
7. Bow Wow Wow – Your Cassette Pet
8. X-Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents
9. The Reels – Beautiful
10. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
11. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
12. The Fall – Perverted by Language
13. REM – Green
14. Patti Smith – Horses
15. The Residents – Commercial Album

[solitaryzen]

If MW was a radio station, I would listen to it,

I just HAVE to add two glaring ommisions from my list that shaped my sensibilities quite a lot:

negativland - a big 10-8 place
wall of voodoo - the ugly americans

Can certainly say the same re. the Negativland album.

[solitaryzen]

Fuck it, here's another 15...

1. Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
2. Lou Reed – Transformer
3. Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
4. Laurie Anderson – Big Science
5. Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food
6. Public Image Limited – First Issue (the first album)
7. Bow Wow Wow – Your Cassette Pet
8. X-Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents
9. The Reels – Beautiful
10. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
11. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
12. The Fall – Perverted by Language
13. REM – Green
14. Patti Smith – Horses
15. The Residents – Commercial Album

The Reels album is a very interesting inclusion amongst the other company. Great Australian band... couldn't find the classic "Return" from the album you listed on youtube, so here's an earlier one:

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[Tomek Mirt]

cluster - sowiesos
deuter -aum
labradford - labradford
cabaret voltaire - three mantras
c cat trance - zuave
eno&cluster
budd&eno - pearl
blithe sons - wave and grass
pan american - quiet city
shriekback -care
popol vuh - aguire
cindytalk - camuflage heart
wolfgang press - the legendary...
neu! 2
african head charge - off the beaten track

[zapp550]

1.Bent- Programmed to Love
2.Sneaker Pimps- Splinter
3.Caribou- Up in Flames
4.Broadcast- Tender Buttons
5.Autechre- Chiastic Slide
6.Boards of Canada- MHTRTC
7.Dan Deacon- Spiderman of the Rings
8.Oval- Diskont 94
9.Sebastien Tellier- L'incroyable Vérité
10.Godspeed You! Black Emperor- F#A#
11.Radiohead- Hail to the Thief
12.Bibio- fi
13.Sigur Ros- Takk...
14.NIN- The Fragile
15. Shipping News- Three Four

[Diamat]

the stooges - funhouse
radu malfatti & taku sugimoto - futatsu
nico - desertshore
yes - fragile
Mattin & Taku Unami - Attention
John Cage - Empty Words, Part III: Live Teatro Lyrico Di Milano
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartets (Borodin quartet)
Morton Feldman - all piano
radu malfatti -s/t (wandelweiser editions)
taku sugimoto - opposite
This Heat - Deceit
Shellac - At action park
Neil Young - Dead Man -ost
Captain Beefheart - trout mask replica
Tom waits - raindgos

[msouthard]

brian eno - music for airports
stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline
nine inch nails - ghosts
tom waits - blue valentine
ulrich schnauss - far away trains passing by
clark - totems flare
steve reich - music for 18 musicians
boards of canada - music has the right to children
aphex twin - richard d james album
squarepusher - hard normal daddy
morphine - the night
ilkae - the light industry
autechre - chiastic slide
miles davis - kind of blue
david byrne & brian eno - everything that happens

[decaying.sine]

biosphere - substrata
nine inch nails - the downward spiral
the cure - pornography
jeff buckley - grace
the cure - disintegration
joy division - closer
muse - showbiz
nirvana - nevermind
the smiths - the queen is dead
morrissey - viva hate
nine inch nails - pretty hate machine
david bowie - the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars
radiohead - in rainbows
steve vai - passion and warfare
ministry - psalm 69

[thermionicjunky]

Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis - Live/Evil
Gil Evans -Gil Evans (Blues in Orbit)
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Jimi Hendrix -Live at Berkeley 1970
The Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Captain Beefheart- Doc at the Radar Station
Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Fred Neil - Fred Neil
Scott Walker - The Drift
Phil Ochs - Rehearsals for Retirement
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Steve Reich - Different Trains

[x2mirko]

in no particular order:

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Aphex Twin - Druqks
Brad Mehldau - Elegiac Cycle
Esbjörn Svensson Trio - From Gagarin's Point of View
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts
Burzum - Filosofem
PeterLicht - Stratosphärenlieder
16 Horsepower - Hoarse
Marc Copland - Haunted Heart & Other Ballads
Thelonious Monk - Monk Alone (Complete Columbia Sessions)
Bloodiest - Descent
Tool - Lateralus
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Charlie Parker - no particular album here. Just Charlie Parker

[aksen]

its interesting looking through this thread, and how many people basically said they struggled to keep it to 15 (or simply didn't). i had the opposite problem - i couldn't think of 15, mainly because the ones i did pick had such a massive impact on me that others didn't measure up (even though, as it is with everyone, all music you love at some point has some impact on you).

and 4 of the ones i picked aren't even albums, but compilations...

in order of purchase (as far as i remember):

public enemy - apocalypse 91
various - x-static volume 4 - radikal techno
various - in order to dance 4 (r&s records)
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92
plastikman - sheet one
various - drum and bass selection vol 3
autechre - garbage ep
various - endless 2 (manifold records)
boards of canada - music has the right to children
maeror tri - language of flames and sound

[langley]

was bored so i put all the lists into excel and generated wiggler charts...

most frequently mentioned bands (popular at the top):

aphex twin
pink floyd
nin
autechre
cure
brian eno
boards of canada
kraftwerk
depeche mode
skinny puppy
tom waits
miles davis
radiohead
sonic youth
tool
beatles
cabaret voltaire
coil
david bowie
tangerine dream
can
captain beefheart
joy division
orb
human league
jesus and mary chain
led zeppelin
neurosis
new order
wendy carlos
devo
klaus schulze
ministry
my bloody valentine
nirvana
orbital
talking heads
throbbing gristle
yes

most popular records:

the downward spiral
disintegration
music has the right to children
kid a
loveless
rain dogs
the fragile
bitches brew
dark side of the moon
isdn
psychocandy
switched on bach
violator
aenima
animals
autobahn
chiastic slide
chill out
here come the warm jets
i care because you do
kind of blue
metamatic
power, corruption & lies
selected ambient works 85-92
souvlaki
unknown pleasures
vivisect vi