I posted a Lustmord sample, not long ago. The last track of "the place where the black stars hang". There is a continuous 14 Hz tone in it

I plan to bring it to the speaker shop when I'll go and buy the speaker I ordered, and ask him to play it on his biggest speaker

It's great to see another fan of the The Goldberg Variations. I started with that Gould recording and so now I know every "hum" in there. I'll try to find that Frisch version.

BTW, I also recommend the 1996 version by Kurt Rodarmer on guitar. I understand that he had guitars made specifically for the various parts and then recorded them separately in the studio. It's amazing!

I know these. All other stuff you list I never heard off :/

In no particular order:

Alasdair Fraser - Dawn Dance
Dire Straits - On every Street
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Enigma - The Screen behind the Mirror
John Zorn - The Gift


Also worth mentioning:

Afro Celt Sound System - Volume 1 - Sound Magic
Jan Garbarek - I took up the Runes
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
Tim Juckes - New Age Rock (I bet noone knows that one )
David Arkenstone - In the Wake of the Wind
David Lanz & Paul Spear - Natural States
Ichiko Hashimoto - RahXephon O.S.T.1

It's interesting. I never heard the Goldberg on anything else as harpsichord or piano.

If you want another splendide Goldberg version, listen the Blandine Verlet's recording on a Hemsch instrument (Astrée/Naïve).
Frisch version is edited by a small by amesome french editor, called Alpha. The recording quality are very good, always.

Top 5:
1. Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979)
2. Hum - Downward Is Heavenward (1997)
3. Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory (1999)
4. Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut (1995)
5. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (1993)

Rest of Top 10:
6. Fear Factory - Obsolete (1998)
7. KMFDM - Nihil (1995)
8. Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien (1987)
9. Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993)

Honorable mention (alphabetical):
Bush - Sixteen Stone (1994)
Cobalt 60 - Twelve (1998)
Green Day - Dookie (1994)
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (1987)
Live - Secret Samadhi (1997)
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (1996)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets (1986)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Are You Normal? (1992)
Pearl Jam - Ten (1991)
Pig - The Swining / Red Raw & Sore (1999)
Placebo - Black Market Music (2000)
Pop Will Eat Itself - The Looks Or The Lifestyle (1992)
Sister Machine Gun - Burn (1995)
Tool - Aenima (1996)
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension (1996)


Of course, ask me again in a few months and I'm sure there would be a few changes...

Not a common assortment (and that is an understatement), but these albums are quite unique and certainly worth your time *if* you ever get to lay your ears on them:

Virgin VS - Virgin (1981)
Moon Riders - Aozora Hyakkei (1982)
YMO - Solid State Survivor (1979)
Air - Moon Safari (1998)
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (1988)

Techno Pop Academy was the great resource that helped me find out about the first three bands listed above.

-CTB

OK, here goes:

Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells III

How could I forget it!
The great Tom, although I prefer older stuff like his solo "Full moon fever" and also "Hard promises".
Single song: Mary Jane's last dance

Hail Rock'n'Roll!

Brilliant album. Do you know if they're still active, or if Jean-Luc DeMeyer is working on anything similar nowadays? Went to see them in '98 at the Gotham Nights festival here in Oslo, excellent show - would love to see them again...

In no particular order:
Jethro Tull - Stand up
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Skalariak - Skalariak
Bob Dylan - Desire
IAM - L'école du micro d'argent

Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pay Attention
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Håkan Hellström - Känn Ingen Sorg För Mig Göteborg (swedish)

Ulver - William Blake's Themes, Perdition City
Coffins - Coffins
Me - Album 3

Weird al Yankovic - Running with scissors
Weird al Yankovic - Bad hair day
Weird al Yankovic - Weird al in 3D
Weird al Yankovic - Dare to be stupid
Weird al Yankovic - Greatest hits 2

Hmmm ... Did I get that one right?

1. James Gang.....Rides Again
2. Rush...............Moving Picture
3. Patti Smith.......Easter Album
4. Jimmi Hendrix....BBC Sessions
5. Robin Trower....Bridge Of Sighs

Damn, As I write I keep thinging of more. This list could go on and on forever.

hrm... i don't like "5" so much...

booker t and the mg's - green onions
otis redding - otis blue
marvin gaye - what's going on
jimi hendrix - are you experienced
pink floyd - wish you were here
led zeppelin - III
rolling stones - sticky fingers
john mayall - bluesbreakers with eric clapton
fleetwood mac - then play on
jeff beck group - truth
free - fire and water
savoy brown - street corner talking
janis joplin [big brother and the holding company] - cheap thrills
stooges - fun house
mc5 - high time

geesh... 15 and i still have tons left...

ow that's a tough one..

1) Misfits - Walk Among Us (1982) that's for sure
2) Danzig - II: Lucifuge (1990)
3) Dio - Dream Evil (1987)
4) Misfits - Earth A.D./Wolfsblood (1983)
5) Led Zep IV

Cobalt 60 are still around. However, they have changed the name to C60. I saw them about a year ago. Great show.

Who goes to a deserted island with only five albums?

1. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
2. Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade (Ljubljana RSO)
3. Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
4. Led Zeppelin - II
5. Rachmaninoff - Symphony #2 (Baltimore SO)
6. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
7. R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
8. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
9. The Beatles - The Beatles
10. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Honorable Mention: The Clash - London Calling

I hadn't planned on adding this one (not because I don't love it) but for the first time in almost 3 years of daily Winamp listening, two consecutive tracks, Clampdown & The Guns of Brixton, played consecutively on SHUFFLE. So, apparently this is my computer's current favorite....

5 favorites (but there are much more):

Michael Jackson - Thriller
Metallica - Black Album
Rage against the machine - Rage against the machine
Fettes Brot - Außen Top Hits, Innen Geschmack
Michael Jackson - Dangerous


PS: there are so many great works to be mentioned...

In no specific order my 5 favorite albums are:

- Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving (info)
- the Wiseguys - The Antidote (info)
- the Prodigy - The Fat of the Land (info)
- Toshiyuki Honda - Metropolis Original Soundtrack (info)
- Röyksopp - Melody A.M. (info)

Although the description says all times my favorites tend to change now and then, these are the ones I came to think of right now.

It's a little sadistic asking this ;-)

Bad Religion - Suffer
Sick Of It All - Scratch The Surface
Alanis Morissette - MTV Unplugged
Into Another - Ignaurus
Downset - Do We Speak A Dead Language ?

Sorry, but I like them too much to leave them out :

Pennywise - Unknown Road
Majority Of One - 2000 Years Of Indecision
Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy
Ignite - Past Our Means
Avail - One Wrench

Not necessarily in this order.

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Rush - Moving Pictures
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College
The Who - Quadrophenia
Tool - Lateralus

Oh this is a fun thread. Its definately hard to pick out the top 5 but there are a small handful of albums that i feel clearly stand out above everything ive heard. These albums are listed in succession but i view them as all being on the same plane, not one after the other

TOP PICKS
1. Opeth- My Arms Your Hearse
2. Acid Bath- Paegan Terrorist Tactics
3. NIN- The Fragile
4. Emperor- The Discipline of Fire and Demise
5. Covenant (of Norway) Nexus Polaris
6. Death- The Sound of Perserverance (I literally bawled when Chuck Shuldiner died)
7. The Gathering-If_Then_Else
8. Cannibal Corpse- Gallery of Suicide
9. Metallica- And Justice for All
10. Morbid Angel- Domination
11. Ulver- Perdition City
12. God Forbid- Determination

and of course I have to have my honorable mentions
Kmfdm- Xtort
Extol- Undecieved
Immortal- Damned in Black
System of a Down-Toxicity
Nevermore- Politics of Ecstacy
Megadeth- Youthanasia
I, Parasite- Horseslayer

Jeez so many favorites: BalSagoth, Believer, Broken Hope, Borknagar, Cradle of Filth, Deicide, Depeche Mode, Dimmu Borgir, Dismal Euphony,
Galactic Cowboys, The Haunted, In Flames, Katatonia, Korn, Machinehead, Meshuggah, Metallica, My Dying Bride, Old Mans Child, Orbital, Pantera,
Polygon Window, Sepultura, SLAYER, Soulfy, Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, Steve Vai, Suffocation, Testament, Theory in Practice, Tool,
Tristania, White Zombie... etc... etc.

I kind of ignored the 5 album limit

I wonder if ill still be listening to all this stuff when im 60.....

Favorites of all time -

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
3. Green Day - Dookie
4. Pearl Jam - Ten
5. Pink Floyd - The Wall
6. Led Zeppelin - IV
7. Nirvana - Nevermind
8. Beastie Boys - The Sounds Of Science
9. Sublime - Sublime
10. Sublime - The 7 Song EP

Honorable Mentions -

1. Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
2. Aerosmith - Big Ones
3. Presidents Of The United States Of America (Self Titled)
4. Eminem - The Eminem Show
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Live Shit: Binge & Purge (Mexico City) - Metallica ---> A must have for every metal fan
Rust In Peace - Megadeth ---> The pinnacle of Speed/Thrash Metal
Back In Black - AC/DC ---> Classic Hard Rock
Appetite For Destruction - GNR ---> You may or may not like GNR attitude , but you can't ignore this album
Symphony Of Enchanted Lands - Rhapsody ---> Impressive kind of Symphonic Metal.


Rude Awakening - Megadeth ---> Wanted!

Favorites:
Amorphis - Tuonela (1999)
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance (1998)
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001)
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times (1995)
Raise Hell - Holy Target (1998)

Honorable Mentions:
Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes (1994)
Annihilator - Set The World On Fire (1993)
Benediction - The Grand Leveller (1991)
Benediction - Transcend The Rubicon (1993)
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer (1992)
Carcass - Heartwork (1994)
Carcass - Swansong (1995)
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (1997)
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions (1999)
Entombed - Clandestine (1991)
Manowar - The Triumph Of Steel (1992)
Meshuggah - Chaosphere (1998)
Moonspell - Irreligious (1996)
Moonspell - Sin/Pecado (1997)

...etc

My current obsession is 386DX.
There's a sneaky preview available, some free 128k mpthrees directly from the author.
I bet you'll like the concept and especially the line-up:

1) Luomo - Vocalcity
2) Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
3) Uusitalo - Vapaa Murari
4) Atjazz - Labfunk
5) Vladislav Delay - Naima

Tough one... lets go with these, in no particular order:

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
David Bowie - Heroes
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
The Cure - Disintegration

I feel bad for leaving out albums by:

Pink Floyd
Pixies
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Tool
Wilco
Led Zeppelin
Ministry
Joy Division
Nirvana
and of course Radiohead

1) Bob Dylan, "Highway 61 Revisited".

There is no number two. The others are all down there far below...

In no particular order:

System Of A Down - Steal This Album!
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Slipknot - Slipknot (Digipak)
Slipknot - Iowa
KoRn - Life Is Peachy

...

that's not an easy question. I just mention some album I like much in no particular order:

AC\DC - Live
AC\DC - Flick of the Switch
Metallica - Garage inc (CD2)
Metallica - Load
Soulfly - Primitve
GunsNRoses - Appetite for Destruction
GunsNRoses - Use Your Illusion II
Axel Rudi Pell - Oceans of Time
Marylin Manson - Mechanical Animals
Marylin Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Iced Earth - Alive In Athens
ManOwaR - Hail To England
Iron Maiden - Best Of the Beast
Megadeth - Risk
HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
ZZ-Top - Rythemeen
Ozzy Osbourne - No more Tears
...

I can't justify naming just my 5 favourite albums so I will name my five favourite playlists instead (and the albums contained in them)

In no order

1. Manic Street Preachers - All Songs (Generation Terrorists, Gold Against The Soul, The Holy Bible, Anything written by Ritchie on Everything Must Go and a few singles)
2. The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
3. Aphex Twin - Drukqs
4. Atari Teenage Riot - All Songs (60 Second Wipeout & Live in Philadelphia 1997, Live at the Brixton Academy 1999 and Redefine The Enemy)
5. A selection of John Williams stuff, with all the star wars music in there

All of them ogg vorbis at q3. I have the the albums stored safely if I want higher quality.

Honourable Mentions

Nirvana
The Clash
Ultra-Sonic (Scottish bouncy techno)
Pop Will Eat Itself
Björk

Madonna - Ray of Light
Sophie Ellis Bextor - Read my lips
T.A.T.U. - 200 KM/h in the wrong lane.
Infernal - Infernal Affairs
Swan Lee - Enter

Subject to change

I think I'll post my current favourites, too. (Seems like I was a little over-excited with Dire Straits when I first posted in this thread )

In no particular order:

Dire Straits - [1991] - On Every Street
Eagles - [1994] - Hell Freezes Over
Pink Floyd - [1988] - Delicate Sound Of Thunder - Live
Eagles - [1976] - Hotel California

I can't decide what else to choose... certainly one of these:

Dire Straits - [1985] - Brothers In Arms
Pink Floyd - [1987] - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Bruce Springsteen - [1987] - Tunnel Of Love
Mark Knopfler - [1983] - Local Hero Soundtrack

That still looks a little... "limited" or "restricted"... oh well. There's more good music to discover all the time.

Let's give it a try.

In no particular order:

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia - a Friday Night in San Francisco
edit: Oops almost forgot: The Who - Who's Next

going on
Focus - Moving Waves
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
The Cranberries - Burry the Hatchet
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

Just from the top of my head (hat?). It's only a fraction of what I listen to, but certainly favorites.
--
Ge Someone

I'll take favorite to mean "listen to the most often"

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol2 -
Arovane - Tides -I've been playing these two at night every night for the past three years.


Gescom - Keynell
Autechre - EP7
Tool - Lateralus
AFX - Hangable Auto Bulb 1&2
Cylob - Lobster Tracks

My Top Ten

1) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
2) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
3) Led Zeppelin - IV
4) Roger Hodgson - In The Eye Of The Storm
5) Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
6) The Alan Parsons Project - The Eye On The Sky
7) The Police - Greatest Hits
8) Queen - Innuendo
9) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
10) Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygen

For me, it would be (in no particular order)
1.- David Bowie "Low"
2.- The Chemical Brothers "Surrender"
3.- The Flaming Lips "The Soft Bulletin"
4.- Radiohead "Kid A"
5.- Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"

Those are, hmm, "international" artists. You know, pretty much known by everybody on this forum (and the world!). But my favorite albums in my language (spanish) are:

1.- Gustavo Cerati "Bocanada"
2.- Cafe Tacvba "Yo soy"
3.- Los Tres "La espada y la pared"
4.- Charly Garcia "MTV Unplugged"
5.- Zurdok "Hombre sintetizador"

There you go. Of course, just five CDs each is just too cruel.

top 5 favourites in no particular order:

adiemus - songs of sanctuary
delerium - karma
hybrid - wider angle
era - era 2
loreena mckennitt - the mask and mirror

of course, i have so many other great albums. these are literally the ones that top my list

My faves are boring, yet notable electronic music:

Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do...
BT - Movement in Still Life
Basement Jaxx - Rooty

Those are my faves off the top of my head, anyhow. I've likely overlooked something. Each is incredibly cohesive as an album, each in a unique way.

No order

Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - Middle
Pet Shop Boys - Behavior
Zero 7 - Simple things
Modonna - Ray of light
Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock (one of the most sampled album)
Seal - Human Beings (if i have to pick one)
Jam & Spoon - Tripomatic Fairytales 2002 (best ambient album, hard to find)
Massive Attack - Protection
Talk Talk - Spirit of eden

Aphex Twin : I Care Because You Do
-- when I first bought this, I took it back to the shop in disgust. My, I've changed

William 0rbit : Pieces in a Modern Style
-- Needs no introduction.

Autechre : Incunabula
-- An atmosphere totally unmatchable. Seems to summize life.

Another Late Night : Fila Brazilia
-- Listened to on so many drives home from amazing nights, amazing weekends, life changing events... Pinnacle of ahem, 'chill out'

Aphex Twin : 26 Mixes for Cash
-- RAR! All those good mixes that you could previously only get as a 128kbps Xing MP3. Brilliant, and why hadnt anyone heard of his mix of Nine Inch Nails before now? Superlative.

--Yep, thats my most listened to album ever. By a factor of 5 or more, I'd say...

Dream Theater "Images And Words"
Kings'X "Gretchen Goes To Nebraska"
Genesis "Selling England By The Pound"
Deep Purple "Made In Japan"
Beatles "White Double"

Same here, but only because i play it while i fall asleep. Then I like to wake up to a nice mix of Come To Daddy, Ventolin and RDJ album

some of my favs:

kruder & dorfmeister - k & d sessions
prodigy - experience
faith no more - the real thing (or angel dust? )
massive attack - mezzanine
refused - the shape of punk to come
future sound of london - lifeforms e.p.

regards; ilikedirt

Tears For Fears - "Raoul and the Kings of Spain"
Madonna - "Ray of Light"
Toni Childs - "Union"
Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk"
Roxy Music - "Avalon"

Kahala Tomomi - Love Brace
The Blue Hearts - Super Best
Amuro Namie - 181920
Mr.Children - Shinkai
globe - globe

...only Japanese music... B)