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GO GET 10 CDs or LPs you own, keeping the genre as far apart as possible...

Last post Jul 09, 2008, 10:47 AM by matthewpiano. (32 replies)
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Posted on Mar 07, 2008, 3:14 PM

GO GET 10 CDs or LPs you own, keeping the genre as far apart as possible...

Quick as possible go and get hold of 10 albums from as diverse genres as you can... (ones you actually listen to) :)

Boards of canada - The Campfire Headphase - IDM

Nirvana - Incesticide - Grunge

Portishead - Portishead - Trip Hop

Stars of the Lid - And their refinement of the decline - Ambient

EF - I am responsible - Post-rock

My Dying Bride - The light at the end of the world - Doom Metal

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss - Thrash Metal

Ludovico Einaudi - I Giorni - Classical Piano

Matisyahu - Youth - reggae

Morbid Angel - Blessed are the sick - Death Metal

Can you tell I'm bored :)

Posted on Mar 07, 2008, 3:41 PM

49725

Re: GO GET 10 CDs or LPs you own, keeping the genre as far apart as possible...

Yes.

I'm not going to get them, because I'm not where they are. But:

1) Moving Pictures (Rush)

2) Court and Spark (Joni Mitchell)

3) Eastmountainsouth (Eastmountainsouth)

4) Live and Dangerous (Thin Lizzy)

5) Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A (Michaelangelo Chamber Orchestra - free with my MF CD Player)

6) Made of Bricks (Kate Nash)

7) Twisted (Del Amitri)

8) Rodrigo y Gabriela (Rodrigo y Gabriela)

9) Indigo Girls (Indigo Girls)

10) A Walk Across the Rooftops (The Blue Nile)


But instead it just kept on raining

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Posted on Mar 07, 2008, 4:45 PM

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1) Jethro Tull - A Passion Play - Prog

2) Nick Drake - Pink Moon - Folk

3) Sunn 0))) - The Black One -Drone

4) Slayer - South Of Heaven -Thrash

5) Gillian Welch - Hell Among The Yearlings - Bluegrass

6) Four Brothers - Makorokoto - Soukous

7) Funkadelic - Maggot Brain - Funk

8) Thin Lizzy - Chinatown - Rock

9) Sugababes - Change - Pop

10) Massive Attack - Blue Lines - Electronica

As I work 2 mins from a FOPP it's a dangerous possibility that I could go and buy all these after work.......

 

Posted on Mar 07, 2008, 4:54 PM

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[quote user="CaptainHowdy"]

1) Jethro Tull - A Passion Play - Prog

2) Nick Drake - Pink Moon - Folk

3) Sunn 0))) - The Black One -Drone

4) Slayer - South Of Heaven -Thrash

5) Gillian Welch - Hell Among The Yearlings - Bluegrass

6) Four Brothers - Makorokoto - Soukous

7) Funkadelic - Maggot Brain - Funk

8) Thin Lizzy - Chinatown - Rock

9) Sugababes - Change - Pop

10) Massive Attack - Blue Lines - Electronica

As I work 2 mins from a FOPP it's a dangerous possibility that I could go and buy all these after work.......

 

[/quote] LOL so you dont own them? That was sort of the point :)

Posted on Mar 07, 2008, 6:12 PM

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1. 10cc The Original Soundtrack

2. Al stewart- Past Present & Future

3. Alan Parson -Tales of Mystery & Imagination

4. Andreas Vollenweider - White Winds

5. Azam Ali - Portals of Grace

6. Black Sabbeth- Never Say Die

7. Buddy Rich- The Greatest Drummer That Ever Lived

8. Cardiacs- On Land and in the sea

9. Ennio Morricone- The very Best of Ennio Morricone

10. Peter Green & The Splinter Group - Soho Live

Spinal Tap:Does for rock and roll what "The Sound of Music" did for hills

Posted on Mar 19, 2008, 6:20 PM

49787

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1) Sue Jorge - Cru

2) Klaxons -  Myths of the Near Future

3) Amadou and Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako

4) The Clash - London Calling

5)  The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

6) Ike and Tina Turner - Live in Paris 

7) Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say

8) Jay-Z - The Blueprint

9) The Mars Volta - De Loused in The Comatorium

10) M.I.A - Kala (this album probably has 10 genres on it on its own!) 

Posted on Mar 19, 2008, 9:05 PM

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"7) Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say" - Totally unforgivable... :)P

Posted on Mar 19, 2008, 9:14 PM

54350

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1)Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz goes to college - Jazz

2)Sleeper - Smart - Britpop

3)Massive Attack - Protection - Trip hop

4)Nirvana - unplugged in new york - Rock

5)Bob Marley - 1968-74 - Reggae

6)The Shirehorses - worst album in the world ever - Novelty

7)Alanis Morissette - jagged little pill - Pop

8)Buzzcocks - Operator's Manual - Punk

9)Morcheeba - big calm - Lounge

10)Aphex Twin - selected ambient works 85-92 - Ambient

With apologies for 6)...


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Posted on Mar 21, 2008, 1:24 PM

54350

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[quote user="fr0g"]"7) Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say" - Totally unforgivable... :)P[/quote] 

LOL i have a soft spot for Girls Aloud! there is nothing wrong with liking pop music and they do it damn well at the moment!

Posted on Mar 21, 2008, 9:44 PM

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I would not even try to explain. I'm amazed that someone who obviously loves music has gone and bought that album and then told a forum of hifi fans!!!
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Posted on Mar 23, 2008, 3:13 PM

55412

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Big Smile  Oh well! The shame, the shame!

Posted on Mar 27, 2008, 12:59 PM

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1. Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns - Math rock

2. Nigel Kennedy - Bruch Violin concerto - Classical

3. Drive by Truckers - Brighter then Creations Dark - Alt country

4. The Fall - Grotesque - Post punk (?)

5. Slint - Spiderland - Post rock

6. Sons & Daughters - This Gift - Pop/punk

7. St Germaine - Tourist - Acid jazz

8. Neurosis - Given to the Rising - Prog metal

9. Feist - Reminder - Alt folk pop

10. Jesus Lizard - Goat - Noise rock

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Posted on Mar 27, 2008, 5:10 PM

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1. Bob Marley - Exodus

2. Metallica - Re-load

3. The Cure - Wish

4. Katie Melau - Call off the Search

5. Elvis Presley - Elv1s 30 #1 Hits (I have just about every songs he ever recorded!)

6. Ernest Ranglin - below the bass line

7. Garth Brooks- No Fences
 
8. Frank Sinatra - Vegas box set

9. Michael Bolton - Greatest Hits 1985-1995 (Embarrassed)

10. Mahler - Symphony No. 9

 




NOTE: I don't benefit from anything in this post. All my posts are based on my personal views and musical tastes.

Posted on Mar 27, 2008, 8:02 PM

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Using WMP genres (not mine)

1) Madeleine Peyroux - Half the Perfect World (Jazz)
2) Chieftains - Tears of Stone (World)
3) The Clash - Combat Rock (Alternative)
4) Dolly Parton - Greatest Hits (Country).....my wife's not mine!
5) Madonna - Ray of Light (Dance)
6) Prodigy - Fat of the Land (Electronica)
7) Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (Metal???)
8) Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X (Pop)
9) Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture (Reggae)
10) Credit to the Nation - Take Dis (Rap & Hip Hop)

Posted on Apr 07, 2008, 7:57 PM

49725

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Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden - Heavy Metal, Black Sabbath - Paranoid - another kind of Heavy Metal, Slayer - Reign In Blood - another kind of heavy metal, Metallica - Master of Puppets - a variation on Heavy Metal, System of a Down - Toxicity - armenian heavy metal, Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll, a gentlemans Heavy Metal, Rush 2112 yer thinking mans heavy metal, ACDC, Back in Black, yer drinking mans heavy metal, Judas Priest - British Steel, yer leather fetish stereotype gay man's Heavy Metal,
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