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Mr Hyde wrote:Difficult to make a list that doesn't go on for ages so these are a few of the albums that I will always want to have a copy of, I have lost/replaced all of these at least once:

Orbital: In sides

Aphex Twin: Selected ambient works 85-92

DJ Shadow: Endtroducing

definatly man but also

jedi mind tricks - visions of ghandi

dilated peoples - the platform

chimaira - self titled

placebo - black market music

posrtishead - dummy

wu-tang clan - 36 chambers

Couldn't do without:

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Deftones - Adrenaline
Tool - Aenima
Human Waste Project - E-lux
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Orbital - In Sides
Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station
Burial - Untrue
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Breach - It's Me God

amongst a shitload of others

Hmm, well at the moment the albums I've got on repeat are

Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news
Reuben - Racecar is racecar backwards
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Capdown - Pound for the sound
The Shins - Oh inverted world
Biffy Clyro - The vertigo of bliss

Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain
Mogwai - Young Team or Government Commissions
Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
E.L.O. - Out Of The Blue
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Sianspheric - The Sound Of The Colour Of The Sun
Tortoise - TNT
GY!BE - Everything they've ever done.
Byla - Byla
A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble...
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Neutral Milk Hotel - ITAOTS
Leftfield - Leftism

pitchfork much? best music ever though.

braintax - birofunk

best lp ever made

lots of what's already been stated plus...

faith no more - angel dust
hey & hansen - l'éléphant cruel
mikkel metal - brone and wait
Rhythm and Sound - Rhythm and Sound
Roberta Flack - First Take (favorite record ever)
the nostalgia 77 octet - weapons of jazz destruction
slayer - seasons in the abyss

standard.

Mr Hyde wrote:Difficult to make a list that doesn't go on for ages so these are a few of the albums that I will always want to have a copy of, I have lost/replaced all of these at least once:

Orbital: In sides
The Orb: UFOrb
Underworld: Second toughest in the infants
The Prodigy: Experience
Kruder & Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions
Aphex Twin: Selected ambient works 85-92
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing

haha thats basically my childhood

I never know how long to make these lists (not that I do this often ), but how do you know when an album is one of your favourites? I thought about it, and its probably the ones you have listened to the most in your adult life. The ones you always go back to, regardless of how many times you've heard them, often sacrifising listening to new music or stuff you have you know is really good but haven't given the time of day (yet) because you were listening to these albums. It should therefore be a very personal list, a soundtrack to your life, if you will, not just a list full of "classics" or cool underground shit. Because of this, the dilemma is what to leave off it.

Anyway these are my "favourites":

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
UB40 - Signing Off
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Bonobo - Dial "M" For Monkey
Spacemonkeyz vs Gorillaz - Laika Come Home
Burial - Burial
Nas - Illmatic
Royksopp - Melody AM
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
Fugees - The Score
Enigma - MCMXC a.D.
Modeselektor - Hello Mom!
Leftfield - Leftism
Portishead - Dummy
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Richard Dorfmeister - A Different Drummer Selection
Kasabian - Kasabian

I've just listened to Wagon Christ - Musipal again, and have to take it off my list. Its not the great after all. The first half is brilliant, but the 2nd half sketchy. Natural Suction and Perkission and two of the best breakbeat songs I've ever heard though.

Hopefully one day my list will be twice as long. I just have to listen more, and resist the urge to skip track/change album, and generally become a more patient listener.

Anyway, there's my philosophy on the subject. None of you probably even give a shit, but it makes a day in office with fuck all interesting to do and the boss on holiday go that much quicker.

Have I taken this too seriously?

Rancid - And out come the wolves
Lars Fredrikson and the Bastards - self titled
Dropkick Murphys - any albums
The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale
Immortal Technique - revolutionary vol 1/2
Soulfly - all albums
Transplants - self titled
wu tang - 36 chambers
Gza - liquid swords

drexciya - neptunes lair
dj shadow - entroducing
dizzee rascal - boy in the corner
system of a down - toxicity
mix master mike - anti theft device
matthew herbert - around the house
gravediggaz - 6 feet deep

that's just scratching the surface, now that i think about it.

slipknot - slipknot

one of the best metal albums there is to date imo

they should av stopped there thou and they would av been remembered as legends.

bon iver - "for emma, forever ago".

first perfect american album I have heard in years. Haunting stuff.

http://www.myspace.com/boniver

sublime - 40 oz to freedom
sublime - robbin the hood
nofx - punk in drublic
nofx - white trash, two heebs and a bean
operation ivy - energy
rancid - ...and out come the wolves
beastie boys - pauls botique
beastie boys - check your head
goldie - incredible sounds of dnb
goldie - timeless
a guy called gerald - essence
vex'd - degenerate
the zombies - oddyssey and the oracle
dj shadow - entroducing
suba - sao paulo confessions
genesis - turn it on again
company flow - fun crusher plus
the roots - things fall apart
the roots - do you want more?
common - resurrection
de la soul - stakes is high
mos def and talib kweli are black star
mos def - black on both sides


update/how could i forget these:

jamie lidell - multiply
squarepusher - do you know...?
squarepusher - feed me weird things
squarepusher - go plastic
squarepusher - big loada
squarepusher - hard normal daddy
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92
aphex twin - druqks
boards of canada - music has the right to children
boards of canada - geogaddi
machine drum - urban biology
aceyalone - a book of human language
freestyle fellowship - to whom it may concern

Casino Versus Japan - Whole Numbers Play The Basics

Quality Ambient Bliss. Would definitely recommend it. Would be awesome on a audiophile type sound system...

Dj Shadow - Endtroducing(and premptive strike)
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Rage against the machine - self titled & evil empire
Raekwon - Only built 4 cuban linx

alright, here it goes..... (limited to) 25 "stuck on island with some dynaudios" albums for me...

DJ Shadow - Live: In Tune and On Time (cause its got all my fav tracks, and its an awesome mix/experience)

Cinematic Orchestra - Man With a Movie Camera (reminds me of winter, love it)

Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur

QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Brian Auger and The Oblivion Express - Closer To It

Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique

Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport

Amon Tobin - Splinter Cell Soundtrack

Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where

Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Slipknot - Slipknot

Kid Loco - A Grand Love Story

Jimmy Smith - Root Down

Incubus - Make Yourself

Aesop Rock - Labor Days

Nightmares On Wax - In A Space Outta Sound

Nightmares On Wax - Mind Elevation

Bonobo - Days To Come

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Prince Paul - Itstrumental

Medeski, Martin, & Wood - Uninvisible

Medeski, Martin, & Wood - End Of The World Party

and some Sinatra album, i donno which.

misery signals - of malice and the magnum heart
glassjaw - everything you ever wanted to know about silence
prayer for cleansing - the rain in endless fall
ryker's - ground zero
metallica - and justice for all
36 crazyfists - the tide and its takers
deftones - around the fur
poison the well - the opposite of december...a season of separation
thumb - exposure

why not..

artists:
luc ferrari
basic channel/rhythm & sound
the meters
scott walker
albert ayler
cocteau twins
the byrds
king tubby
the modern lovers
nick cave & the bad seeds
iannis xenakis
galaxie 500
madlib
shuggie otis
rhys chatham