Rank The Albums!

zomgbear said:
Time to get controversial:

Erykah Badu

1. Baduizm
2. Worldwide Underground
3. New Amerykah: Pt 1
4. New Amerykah: Pt 2
5. But You Caint Use My Phone
6. Mama's Gun

I know Mama's Gun is usually regarded as her best but I always thought it was overall a bit boring (except a few songs) and almost never listen to the album as a whole.
Worldwide Underground is usually pretty low on other lists but I love it. But You Caint Use My Phone is technically a mixtape but that's where I would put it.
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I agree with you. I don't like Mama's Gun much at all either. Yet, Baduizm is in my top50 all-time (same with you).
 
Raided through my Godspeed You! Black Emperor collection on my full album collection play through so have this fresh on my mind

1. Yanqui U.X.O.
2. F♯ A♯ ∞
3. Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (EP - if it counts)
4. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
5/6 Luciferian Towers / Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascent! (TIE)
7. Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress

I don't have G_d's Pee At State's End! yet so not ranked.
 
zomgbear said:
Raided through my Godspeed You! Black Emperor collection on my full album collection play through so have this fresh on my mind

1. Yanqui U.X.O.
2. F♯ A♯ ∞
3. Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (EP - if it counts)
4. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
5/6 Luciferian Towers / Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascent! (TIE)
7. Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress

I don't have G_d's Pee At State's End! yet so not ranked.
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I didn’t realize it was allowed to rank anything but LYSFLAtH as #1.
 
avecigrec said:
F♯ A♯ ∞ is different on wax than on CD/digital. I knew the digital for years before hearing the wax. Can recommend.
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Same on Yanqui too - motherfucker=redeemer is extended and there's extra stuff at the end. I wonder if they do this on other albums. I think LYSF is the same on CD/Vinyl.
 
My GYBE! list is

1. peel session CD that I burned in 2001 / F# A# oo (tie)
3. lift your skinny fists
4. yanqui uxo
5. god's pee
6. allelujah
7. luciferian towers
8. asunder

i will admit to not giving asunder/towers/allelujah the attention i've given the others. the 'hung over as the queen in maida vale' is wonderful for the complete "heavenly man, heavenly child" speech sample,as well as the as-then-unreleased songs that eventually wound up on LYSFLATH (storm and world police were in the peel session IIRC) but that F# opening, nothing does it quite like that
 
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  1. F♯ A♯ ∞
  2. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
  3. G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
  4. Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada [EP]
  5. Yanqui U.X.O.
  6. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
  7. Luciferian Towers
  8. Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Both (7) and (8) are bad relative to the rest.
 
Godspeed

1. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
2. Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
3. F♯ A♯ ∞ / 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (tie)
5. G_d's Pee at State's End
6. Yanqui U.X.O.
7. Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
8. Luciferian Towers
9. All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling (not really a Godspeed record)
 
Rip_City said:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  1. F♯ A♯ ∞
  2. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
  3. G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
  4. Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada [EP]
  5. Yanqui U.X.O.
  6. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
  7. Luciferian Towers
  8. Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Both (7) and (8) are bad relative to the rest.
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MadLucas said:
I can get behind this ranking!
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Yeah, I'd say this is probably how my own ranking would look.
 
I don't think they have made a bad album... But here we go:

RAINER MARIA

Look Now Look Again
Long Knives Drawn
Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
S/T
A Better Version of Me
Past Worn Searching
 
MadLucas said:
I don't think they have made a bad album... But here we go:

RAINER MARIA

Look Now Look Again
Long Knives Drawn
Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
S/T
A Better Version of Me
Past Worn Searching
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Happy to see them get some love! I had a couple extra copies of their albums from some mystery grab bags I bought years ago and when I took them in to trade at my local they'd never heard of them and would take them (and they take everything! so I was shocked. Many moons ago when I saw them they were great live too!
 
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