Listmania! (split from Radiohead thread)

[bloop]

I'll play, though it seems like we do this in every Radiohead thread! 

We really do.  Let's do it with another band sometime.

[murlough23]

[bloop]

Here I thought you'd go in chronological order for Kutless.

I can't fairly rate their work.  I barely remember it, and I was pretty quick in taking it off my hard drive.

[murlough23]

Here I thought you'd go in chronological order for Kutless.

Meaning that they've gotten better over time, or worse? Neither would actually be true (their latest album is their best, or more appropriately, their least horrible, and their worship album is their most wretched).

Well, maybe I'll try it with a different band:

Burlap to Cashmere
1. Anybody Out There? A

OK, that wasn't very much fun.

[Brenden]

How about,

1. Pop
2. Achtung, Baby!
3. Zooropa
4. The Joshua Tree
5. HTDAAB
6. The Unforgettable Fire
7. AYCLB
8. War
9. Rattle and Hum

[Josh]

Pah! You haven't even heard them all!

1. The Joshua Tree
2. Achtung Baby
3. Pop
4. All That You Can't Leave Behind
5. Atomic Bomb
6. Boy
7. War
8. The Unforgettable Fire
9. October
10. Zooropa
11. Rattle and Hum

[Brenden]

All but two, and I'm working on that.

[bloop]

Gah!  Split this off!  It's LISTMANIA!

1  Achtung Baby!
2  The Joshua Tree
3  War
4  Pop
5  Atomic Bomb
6  The Unforgettable Fire
7  All That You Can't Leave Behind
8  Zooropa
9  Boy
10 October
11 Rattle & Hum

I think.  U2's catalog is hard to rank for me after #2.

[murlough23]

Y'all are funny.

U2
1. Pop A
2. The Joshua Tree A
3. Achtung Baby A-
4. War B+
5. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb B
6. All that You Can't Leave Behind B-
7. Zooropa B-
8. October B-
9. Boy B-
10. The Unforgettable Fire C+
11. Rattle and Hum C+

[Josh]

I can sympathize, bloop; I have a hard time with U2's catalog after #3 or 4.

[murlough23]

As do I. Beyond War, they just end up in clumps of "these are pretty good" and "these are really inconsistent, but have some classic songs".

[bloop]

1  Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2  Summerteeth
3  Being There
4  A Ghost is Born
5  A.M.

Cheating, but it's at least as good as Summerteeth - Kicking Television.

[Aaron]

Would Mermaid Avenue count for that list or would it not since it was primarily Billy Bragg with Wilco and not Wilco as the primary artist.

[Tom]

U2

1. Achtung Baby
2. The Joshua Tree
3. HTDAAB
4. War
5. All That You Can't Leave Behind
6. Pop
7. Zooropa
8. The Unforgettable Fire
9. Rattle and Hum
10. Boy
11. October


and a new one:

Smashing Pumpkins

1. Siamese Dream
2. Gish
3. Adore
4. Mellon Collie...
5. Pisces Iscariot
6. Machina

[bloop]

1  Adore
2  Mellon Collie
3  Siamese Dream
4  Machina I and II
5  Gish

[Josh]

Hmmm... I've been on a Tom Waits kick recently:

1. Rain Dogs
2. Blood Money
3. Real Gone
4. Alice
5. Bone Machine
6. Mule Variations
7. Swordfishtrombones
8. Closing Time

This guy has what may be the most consistently great singer-songwriter catalog out there; everything he's released since the early 80s has been exceptional.

[Tom]

i really NEED to check out Tom Waits. i'm pretty sure i'd like his music, but i haven't had the chance to hear much from him.

now here is a list that will probably be different for everyone here, and i admit my own order changes on occasion:

Over the Rhine

1. Drunkard's Prayer
2. Eve
3. Ohio
4. Good Dog, Bad Dog
5. Films For Radio
6. Patience
7. Darkest Night of the Year
8. "Til We Have Faces
9. Amateur Shortwave Radio

The Innocence Mission (positions 4-8 are pretty much in flux and negotiable as i don't believe they've ever made anything close to bad album.)

1. Befriended
2. Birds of My Neighborhood
3. Glow
4. Small Planes
5. Umbrella
6. Christ Is My Hope
7. S/T
8. Now the Day Is Over

[Aaron]

Where's the best place to get TIM albums? I can't find them anywhere

[Tom]

Where's the best place to get TIM albums? I can't find them anywhere

ITunes has all but their first 2 albums and Christ is my Hope. Sadly, I think they are out of print.

[murlough23]

I'll do Sufjan Stevens.

1. Illinois A+
2. Michigan A+
3. Seven Swans B
4. Enjoy Your Rabbit C+
5. A Sun Came D+

[Aaron]

Sunny Day Real Estate

1. Diary
2. How It Feels To Be Something On
3. Live
4. The Rising Tide
5. Pink EP

Third Day

1. Conspiracy No. 5
2. Time
3. self-titled
4. Offerings I
5. Come Together
6. Wire
7. Offerings II

[dgp11776]

[murlough23]

Third Day
1. Time A-
2. Third Day A-
3. Conspiracy No. 5 B
4. Come Together B-
5. Wire C+
6. Wherever You Are C
7. Offerings I C+
8. Offerings II C-

Delirious?
1. Glo A
2. Mezzamorphis A-
3. World Service B+
4. Audio: Lessover? B
5. The Mission Bell B-
6. King of Fools B-
7. Cutting Edge C+
8. Touch D+

Relient K
1. Mmhmm B+
2. The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek B
3. Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... But Three Do B
4. Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand B-
5. Relient K C

Caedmon's Call
1. Share the Well A+
2. Caedmon's Call A
3. 40 Acres A-
4. Long Line of Leavers B+
5. Back Home C
6. In the Company of Angels 2: The World Will Sing C
7. In the Company of Angels: A Call to Worship C-

Jars of Clay
1. Much Afraid A+
2. If I Left the Zoo A
3. Who We Are Instead A-
4. Jars of Clay A-
5. Redemption Songs B+
6. The Eleventh Hour B+
7. Furthermore C+

[Aaron]

Jars of Clay

1. Much Afraid
2. Who We Are Instead
3. If I Left The Zoo
4. Redemption Songs
5. Self-titled
6. The Eleventh Hour
7. Furthermore

Ben Harper

1. Live From Mars
2. Fight For Your Mind
3. The Will To Live
4. Both Sides of the Gun
5. Welcome To The Cruel World
6. Burn To Shine
7. Diamonds On The Inside
(not counting the album done with Blind Boys)

PFR

1. Them
2. Great Lengths
3. Goldie's Last Day
4. PFR



5. Disappear

[dgp11776]

I probably one of the more odd Jars of Clay lists:

1.  Who We Are Instead
2.  If I Left the Zoo
3.  Much Afraid
4.  Jars of Clay
5.  Redemption Songs
6.  The Eleventh Hour

[Aaron]

I won't attempt to rank the 28 Tony Bennett albums I have.

Likewise with The Choir and Daniel Amos for me, but I might take a crack at it tonight

[Aaron]

[Josh]

I probably one of the more odd Jars of Clay lists:

I'll give you a run for your money:

1. Who We Are Instead
2. Redemption Songs
3. If I Left the Zoo
4. Much Afraid
5. The Eleventh Hour
6. Jars of Clay

[Aaron]

Let's see what kind of reaction I get from Josh on this one


Ron Sexsmith

1. Retriever
2. Blue Boy
3. Cobblestone Runway
4. Grand Opera Lane
5. Whereabouts
6. Destination Unknown
7. Rarities
8. Ron Sexsmith
9. Other Songs

(to be determined is where Time Being will rank, once I hear the entire cd)

[murlough23]

[bloop]

1  Who We Are Instead
2  Much Afraid
3  Redemption Songs
4  If I Left the Zoo
5  The Eleventh Hour
6  Jars of Clay

[Aaron]

Adam Again

1. Dig
2. Perfecta
3. Homeboys
4. In A New World of Time
5. Ten Songs

[bloop]

1  The Velvet Underground
2  White Light/White Heat
3  The Velvet Underground and Nico
4  Loaded

1  Revolver
2  Sgt. Pepper's
3  White
4  Abbey Road
5  Rubber Soul
6  Magical Mystery Tour
7-whatever  Everything else

1  Homogenic
2  Post
3  Vespertine
4  Medulla
5  Debut

1  Agaetis Byrjun
2  ( )
3  Takk...
4  Von

1  The Soft Bulletin
2  Clouds Taste Metallic
3  At War with the Mystics
4  Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
5  Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
6  In a Priest-Driven Ambulance
Zaireeka is in there somewhere, but I haven't heard it the way it was meant to be.  I haven't really given much thought to their 80s material, but it's not as good as what they did in the 90s and beyond by all accounts.

1  Collision Course
2  Reanimation
3  Meteora
4  Hybrid Theory

[murlough23]

Sigur Ros
1. Takk... B
2. ( ) B
3. Agaetis Byrjun B
4. Von (I'm not even going to dignify this one with a rating, since much of it barely even qualifies as music)

The Flaming Lips (what I've heard of them, anyway)
1. At War with the Mystics B
2. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots B-
3. The Soft Bulletin B-
(I've heard Zaireeka, but as bloop mentioned, not in its proper context)

[bloop]

I didn't know Takk... became your favorite Sigur Ros album. 

All of their albums, other than Von, would get some variety of A (8.0 or higher) from me.  Some of the Flaming Lips records (anything before Soft Bulletin really), I've never rated.

[bloop]

1  Good Dog, Bad Dog
2  Ohio
3  Drunkard's Prayer
4  Eve
I have no other studio albums by them.  :-(

1  The Downward Spiral
2  The Fragile
3  Broken
4  Pretty Hate Machine
5  With Teeth

1  Pinkerton
2  Blue
3  Green
4  Maladroit
5  Make Believe

[murlough23]

I didn't know Takk... became your favorite Sigur Ros album.

Surprised? So was I. But as you can see, it's an arbitrarily close race.

NP: "Frustrating", Day of Fire

[Josh]

Let's see what kind of reaction I get from Josh on this one


Ron Sexsmith

1. Retriever
2. Blue Boy
3. Cobblestone Runway
4. Grand Opera Lane
5. Whereabouts
6. Destination Unknown
7. Rarities
8. Ron Sexsmith
9. Other Songs

(to be determined is where Time Being will rank, once I hear the entire cd)

I haven't even heard all of those, but I agree with your order for the ones I've heard, more or less. My list:

1. Retriever
2. Blue Boy
3. Destination Unknown
4. Cobblestone Runway
5. Whereabouts
6. Other Songs

[Aaron]

wow, I thought you would have heard his entire discography.  Learn something new every day.  anyhoo

[Brenden]

Sufjan Stevens

1. Illinois
2. Michigan
3. Seven Swans
4. The Avalanche
5. The Christmas EPs
6. A Sun Came
7. Enjoy Your Rabbit

Jars of Clay

1. Who We Are Instead
2. If I Left The Zoo
3. Much Afraid
4. Jars of Clay
5. The Eleventh Hour
6. Redemption Songs
7. Frail
8. Furthermore
9. White Elephant Sessions