Some good stuff in here, all of you, thanks for keeping the thread going. It's nice to see people recommending shiz because in the past when I've done this, it's been mostly me and that gets boring.

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I'll just list four that's been on my mind/been listening to a lot lately.
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Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson:
The Parallax II: Future Sequence - Between the Buried and Me:
Disintigration - The Cure:
These are magnificent. Well, I've never actually listened to The Parallax 2 because I haven't gotten around to it, but Between the Buried and Me are magnificent so I have no doubt that album is too.

Also, for the record; it's true that people don't really give Marilyn Manson enough credit, because his first 3 albums are awesome. Really was something special... he was provocative but had a nice satirical bent to everything he did. People didn't want to see the meaning behind his words because they'd rather just look at the "freak" and criticize/judge him.


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Re: Killing Joke. I'm the opposite. I prefer their newer stuff for the most part, but I pretty much like all their albums. It's amazing to me how they can be like, 50 years old, and still have more energy and anger than a lot of younger bands. Night Time is a great album though and the best of the old stuff. Then I like Democracy and Pandemonium the most from the 90s. And then their last two albums from this decade. It's actually kind of weird now that I look at the order of their albums and I notice what I prefer. Kinda cool too.
Oh, that's fair enough that you like their more recent stuff. It's always interesting to see how peoples' music taste can differ - you could write a thesis on this kinda thing.
Yeah, definitely.


I guess my next contribution to this thread is... Dirty Beaches - Badlands

Sometimes I have a hard time getting into this indie "lo-fi" movement because sometimes the quality is just way, way too low and doesn't actually add to the song. It's like it's a trend sometimes to just make it sound as crappy as possible. Hell, you can apply that to Black Metal as well, because even though Black Metal is one of my favourite forms of metal, sometimes the bands just record with the worst equipment because they feel like they have to... not because it can lend to a darker, rawer feel. This happens with indie bands as well once in a while.

But I love Dirty Beaches. Badlands was the first album I discovered by him (as far as I know it's still one person). It's a little experimental, but a little rockabilly as well.

To sum up the feel of the album, I have to use a movie reference. There was a movie in the 70s called Badlands, about two killers on a road trip/murder spree. They were in love with one another. Like any road trip, there were the highs and the good times, but then ultimately they were murdering people too so it had a dark feel at the same time. Dirty Beaches picked an appropriate name for this album because it's hard not to visualize the movie, that time and place, that mood and atmosphere, when listening to it. Some of the songs are more upbeat, "chase" songs, whereas some are more introspective. The way he uses the lo-fi approach is appealing because he makes it sound haunting and that compliments what I assume he was going for. I really don't think it's a coincidence he chose Badlands as the title.

Here's a full playlist, minus one song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edV1...5139EA&index=2

Here is that one song, and it's actually my favourite. Fans of old music may be familiar with the main riff that plays throughout because it's ripped from another song, but he re-imagines the idea behind it and makes the song his own:
Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1npX5-CP0A