Rank The Albums!

yukbon said:
Live at leeds
Who's next
Tommy
Quadrophenia
Who are you
Sing my generation
The who sell out
Everything else

Leeds and next are the only two I'd consider absolutely must-have. And leeds is one of those albums where the deluxe reissue version really adds a lot.
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1. Who’s Next
2. Leeds
3. Tommy
4. Sell Out
5. Quadrophenia

The rest have good songs, but the above five are their only truly realized albums. And like you said, Leeds and Next are the only must-haves. Tommy and Quadrophenia are wildly overrated.
 
Sonicpharmacist said:
1. Who’s Next
2. Leeds
3. Tommy
4. Sell Out
5. Quadrophenia

The rest have good songs, but the above five are their only truly realized albums. And like you said, Leeds and Next are the only must-haves. Tommy and Quadrophenia are wildly overrated.
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I'd go as far as saying that you can cover all the Who you need with Leeds and a solid best-of like ultimate collection or hits 50. The studio albums are pretty spotty, IMO. Even "Who's Next", which has some real grade-A bangers on it, definitely has some skippable songs.
 
wokeupnew said:
M83

  1. Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
  2. Saturdays = Youth
  3. Before the Dawn Heals Us
  4. Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
  5. Digital Shades Vol. 1
  6. M83
  7. DSVII
  8. Junk
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M83

Before the Dawn Heals Us
M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Saturdays = Youth
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Digital Shades Vol. 1

I don't remember DSVII and haven't checked out Junk. I got into them from Before the Dawn Heals Us and went back and checked out their earlier albums. I know Dead Cities is usually beloved but I never got into it like I did Before the Dawn & M83 self-titled.

Janet Jackson

Janet
Rhythm Nation 1814
Control
The Velvet Rope
Damita Jo
All For You

I didn't listen to anything before or after these albums.
 
zomgbear said:
I got into them from Before the Dawn Heals Us and went back and checked out their earlier albums. I know Dead Cities is usually beloved but I never got into it like I did Before the Dawn & M83 self-titled.
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I listened to Dead Cities and Before the Dawn back to back when I ranked them and I was surprised how similar those two albums are. They definitely share a lot of similarities but Dead Cities is much more shoegazey/noisy.
 
wokeupnew said:
I listened to Dead Cities and Before the Dawn back to back when I ranked them and I was surprised how similar those two albums are. They definitely share a lot of similarities but Dead Cities is much more shoegazey/noisy.
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Yeah i think that might be the reason why. I thought Before the Dawn was really interesting in the blending of the style Shoegaze / Electronic style. Not heard much like that before that album came out. Dead Cities seems like a jumping stone into that album. I'll probably revisit it again. I didn't hate the album by any chance - just didn't like it as much as his others.
 
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Went down a New Order rabbit hole over the last several months. Was obsessively trying to find good copies of all the 1980's LPs. But I also revisited their later material, which I had largely dismissed over the years. I was pleasantly surprised by a few of them, which held up very well.

1. Low-Life (1985)*
2. Power Corruption and Lies (1983)*
3. Technique (1989)*
4. Music Complete (2015)
5. Movement (1981)
6. Get Ready (2001)
7. Brotherhood (1986)
8. Republic (1993)
9. Waiting for the Sirens Call (2005)
10. Lost Sirens (2011)
*depending on my mood, these might swap around the top 3 in any order.

I didn't place Substance because it's a compilation, but it would probably rank #4 mainly because despite the great songs, it isn't really constructed well as an album. And the LP pressing is meh.
 
Turbo said:
Went down a New Order rabbit hole over the last several months. Was obsessively trying to find good copies of all the 1980's LPs. But I also revisited their later material, which I had largely dismissed over the years. I was pleasantly surprised by a few of them, which held up very well.

1. Low-Life (1985)*
2. Power Corruption and Lies (1983)*
3. Technique (1989)*
4. Music Complete (2015)
5. Movement (1981)
6. Get Ready (2001)
7. Brotherhood (1986)
8. Republic (1993)
9. Waiting for the Sirens Call (2005)
10. Lost Sirens (2011)
*depending on my mood, these might swap around the top 3 in any order.

I didn't place Substance because it's a compilation, but it would probably rank #4 mainly because despite the great songs, it isn't really constructed well as an album. And the LP pressing is meh.
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this is an excellent ranking!

I did one a while back and ended up including Substance because it has loads of non-album tracks.

wokeupnew said:
New Order
  1. Low Life
  2. Power, Corruption & Lies
  3. Technique
  4. Brotherhood
  5. Substance 1987
  6. Music Complete
  7. Movement
  8. Waiting For the Sirens' Call
  9. Get Ready
  10. Lost Sirens
  11. Republic
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wokeupnew said:
this is an excellent ranking!

I did one a while back and ended up including Substance because it has loads of non-album tracks.
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Little differences on the back end but we're extremely similar! I think Republic ranks a little higher for me because I played the hell out of it back then, so it's more familiar than the Siren albums (those I only familiarized myself with recently), but still not great in retrospect. In my recent plays, it was Brotherhood that disappointed me the most. I know the album well, but the idea of placing the guitar tracks on one side and the synthpop on the other kind of wrecks the cohesion of the record in my opinion. And Music Complete was a revelation. So good! Lots of Technique in it. I ended up picking up a vinyl copy.
 
Turbo said:
Little differences on the back end but we're extremely similar! I think Republic ranks a little higher for me because I played the hell out of it back then, so it's more familiar than the Siren albums (those I only familiarized myself with recently), but still not great in retrospect. In my recent plays, it was Brotherhood that disappointed me the most. I know the album well, but the idea of placing the guitar tracks on one side and the synthpop on the other kind of wrecks the cohesion of the record in my opinion. And Music Complete was a revelation. So good! Lots of Technique in it. I ended up picking up a vinyl copy.
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I may have only listened to Republic one time years ago and I never seem to go back to that one. Brotherhood was the very first New Order album I really gravitated towards and I love some of the non-single songs; "Weirdo", "Way of Life", "Every Little Counts". I've never thought about the sequencing. As for Music Complete I bought the fancy box with all the extended edtions back after it was released in 2015 but I never ended up listening to it so I sold it last year. I need to pick up a regular copy though. I was pleasantly surprised with how much they sounded like old New Order on that one. "Singularity", "Plastic", "Academic" and "Superheated" are all bangers. Actually, now that I think of it, there's no bad songs on that one. It's a very, very solid album.
 
Turbo said:
Went down a New Order rabbit hole over the last several months. Was obsessively trying to find good copies of all the 1980's LPs. But I also revisited their later material, which I had largely dismissed over the years. I was pleasantly surprised by a few of them, which held up very well.

1. Low-Life (1985)*
2. Power Corruption and Lies (1983)*
3. Technique (1989)*
4. Music Complete (2015)
5. Movement (1981)
6. Get Ready (2001)
7. Brotherhood (1986)
8. Republic (1993)
9. Waiting for the Sirens Call (2005)
10. Lost Sirens (2011)
*depending on my mood, these might swap around the top 3 in any order.

I didn't place Substance because it's a compilation, but it would probably rank #4 mainly because despite the great songs, it isn't really constructed well as an album. And the LP pressing is meh.
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No asterisks allowed buddy. PCaL should be number 1 solely on the strength of Your Silent Face.
 
Ginormousthumbs said:
No asterisks allowed buddy. PCaL should be number 1 solely on the strength of Your Silent Face.
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Turbo said:
Without the asterisks, my order stands as-is then, with PCaL and Technique smidgens behind Low-Life. ;)
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You can't disagree with Stephen Morris, Low-Life is the GOAT New Order album

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Tim Hecker
  1. Harmony in Ultraviolet
  2. An Imaginary Country
  3. Radio Amor
  4. Ravedeath, 1972
  5. Virgins
  6. Mirages
  7. Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
  8. Dropped Pianos
  9. Konoyo
  10. Love Streams
  11. Anoyo

An Imaginary Country is my personal favorite, but I think Harmony in Ultraviolet is objectively his best. I was surprised that I've listened to it the most according to last.fm. His first 6 albums until Ravedeath, 1972 are classic. He leaned into very boreal, droning ambient with those albums that is similar to Biosphere, Thomas Köner, Gas, etc. All of those albums feel like a complete unit, flow from song to song with a uniform theme. With Virgins, which tbf is a very good album, he started getting more esoteric, abstract, more percussive, and less droney. Songs are staggered and with less of a cohesive theme. They're fine albums but less magical than the others.
 
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