What are your top 10 Alt. albums?

[The_Poet]

Name em!

[eckohed]

Define Alt.

[The_Poet]

Define Alt.

Indie Rock/Pop-Rock/Dance/Go-Go/Trip Hop/Downtempo/Acid-Jack/Electronica/Lo-Fi

[Copper Scroll]

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
Nirvana - Nevermind
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Bjork - Homogenic
Bjork - Vespertine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Beck - Odelay
David Bowie - Low
Velvet Undergroud & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico

[nineteen80sbaby]

My current top ten:

New Order "Technique"
Depeche Mode "Violator"
Depeche Mode "Music for the masses"
Ryan Adams's entire discography :king:
Pinback "Summer In Abbadon"
Interpol "Turn on the Bright Lights"
Interpol "Antics"
Morrissey "Bona Drag"
Sigur Ros - "Ágætis Byrjun"
Al DiMeola "Elegant Gypsy"

others:
Postal Service "Give up"
Duran Duran "Rio"
Roxy Music "Avalon"
The Smiths "Strangeways, Here We Come"
Black Sabbath "We sold our souls for rock 'n roll"

[Borg166]

Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Enigma - The Screen Behind the Mirror
Peter Gabriel - Up
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Steve Roach & Vir Unis - Blood Machine
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina
Saul Stokes - Fields
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Verve - Urban Hymns

[The_Poet]

Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Enigma - The Screen Behind the Mirror
Peter Gabriel - Up
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Steve Roach & Vir Unis - Blood Machine
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina
Saul Stokes - Fields
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Verve - Urban Hymns


Interesting list. Does that New Radicals album sound anything like their hit song?

[Borg166]

Interesting list.

I try to be very open-minded and it usually produces weird lists like that. If I had to choose a 11th pick, it would probably be Everything But the Girl's Temperamental or NIN's The Fragile.

Does that New Radicals album sound anything like their hit song?

Yep. If you like the single, you'll love the rest of the album.

It has a nice summer vibe to it, but it takes a little while to grow on you because most of the other songs aren't as in-your-face as "You Get What You Give." However, once the album finally hits you, I guarantee you that you won't be able to get it out of your CD player.

Here's a live performance of the album opener, "Mother We Just Can't Get Enough (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_I7DUwCik)". The video quality's bad, but it's still watchable. The chick doing the background vocals, Danielle Brisebois, is the other main member of the band. She wrote Natasha Bedingfield's recent #1 hit "Unwritten."

Gregg Alexander produced and wrote a lot of songs for other artists after he broke up the New Radicals too. You have to have the stomach for cheesy pop music to appreciate some of it, but it's fun stuff if you can handle it.

[Paul]

ten recent things I've been into:

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Urinals - Negative Capability...Check It Out!
Sly And The Family Stone - Fresh
Incapacitants - Sec End
Melvins - Bullhead
Boris - Pink
Merzbow - 1930
Landed - Everything's Happening
Mission Of Burma - The Obliterati
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets

[Copper Scroll]

Sly And The Family Stone - Fresh
Have you heard There's a Riot Goin On? How you love that?

[Paul]

I actually got an import re-issue package of both Stand and There's A Riot Goin' On, and both are superb. There's A Riot is pretty difficult, but I like it a lot. Stand might be my personal fav Sly record though.

[Copper Scroll]

I actually got an import re-issue package of both Stand and There's A Riot Goin' On, and both are superb. There's A Riot is pretty difficult, but I like it a lot. Stand might be my personal fav Sly record though.

Yeah, Stand is packed with hits... and Fresh does a lot of interesting things musically.

Riot is my favorite though because it works best as a statement and as a work of art. It's a deep record.

[Zayus]

Going strictly by your definition of alt....

Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Nirvana - In Utero
Radiohead - Kid A (not only one of my favorite alt albums, one of the best albums ever)
Alice In Chains - Dust
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Bjork - Post
Bjork - Homogenic
Beck - Seachange
Beck - Mutations
Gorillaz - Demon Days

Honourable Mentions
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Radiohead - OK Computer
AFX - Analord Series, I Care Because You Do
Beck - Odelay, Mellow Gold, Midnite Vultures
Tricky - Maxinquaye, Pre-Millenium Tension
Massive Attack - Blue Lines, Mezzanine
Portishead - Portishead, Dummy
Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle, California

[Juicer]

The whole jamiroquai catalogue =D

[Zayus]

Jamiroquai are good, not great. They've had one fantastic album

[hustlemania]

pixies- doolittle
nirvana- nevermind
portishead- dummy
fugazi- repeater
sweetback- self titled
10,000 maniacs- our time in eden
living colour- self titled
judgement night- ost
dinosaur jr- bug
milk- self titled