As I wrote in my All My Ideas Are Stolen blog post two days ago, I really like blogs that are obsessed with a particular topic and research/ write the shit out of it. This is also the case with Pop Thruster, a blog/website I learned about after its creator Eric Berlin wrote to me, in which he makes a countdown of his 1000 favorite albums of all time, and actually goes into the trouble of writing in detail about them, much like what Mark Prindle did with the most amazing music review site of all time, albeit without the scatological humor I guess.
At this point he's at #393 with Public Enemy's Apocalypse 91. I'm not sure I agree with lots of his album choices, mainly some hip hop and punk ones (dude, Wu Tang's The W and A Better Tomorrow really? - I'd also go for Faith No More's Angeldust over The Real Thing, Cappadonna wtf he sucks, the whole pop punk Green Day/NOFX abhorrence, Alice In Chain's Dirt - I worship the s/t), and I haven't heard many of the albums presented, mainly the 60s rock/pop stuff, but just for the record I'm going to give a heads up to Immortal Technique's Revolutionary Vol. 2, ODB's Return To The 36 Chambers, Wish You Were Here (though I'm more of an Animals or Live at Pompeii type of guy), Soundgarden' Superunknown (hands down their best album, I was very lucky as an 11-year-old to have a cousin who had it on vinyl and lent it to me to get blown up by fucking "Mailman" and the title track), Motley Crue's Dr. Feelgood, Black Flag's Damaged, Whitesnake, Fleetwood Mac's Rumors (too low, though), and most Neil Young.
So, just for the record I'm also going to throw in some of my all-time favorites, although not in the most particularly correct order, as I tend to change opinions often. Some of them however are in order of preference. Say readers, would you like to give some thoughts too?
Anathema - Pentecost III
Chet Baker & Wolfgang Lackerschmid - Ballads For Two
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Soft Machine - Third
Robert Turman & Aaron Dilloway - Blizzard
Burzum - Filosofem
Arvo Pärt - De Profundis
Keelhaul - Subject To Change Without Notice
Shora - Malval
Foreigner - 4
Merzbow - Venereology
Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox
Grouper - Ruins
Culver - The Reincarnation Of Tara
Smut - Piano One
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, The El-Daoud
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Christian Death - 1982 - Only Theatre Of Pain
Riot - Fire Down Under
Witchblood - Ecsed
Popular Radiation/Witchblood - Split tape
Whitesnake - Slip Of The Tongue
Skullflower - Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch To DieSystral - Fever
Integrity - Systems Overload
The Gerogerigegege - Yellow Trash Bazooka
Integrity - Humanity Is The Devil
His Hero Is Gone - Monuments To Thieves
Neil Young - On The Beach
Neil Young - Harvest
Slint - Spiderland
Dying Fetus - Destroy The Opposition
Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Idris Muhammad - Power Of Soul
Burial - Rival Dealer
Stephan Micus - Athos
The Haters - Drunk On Decay
Neurosis - Souls At Zero
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Sunset Mission
Rainbow - Rising
Shostakovich - King Lear
Shostakovich - Hamlet Suite
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Cave In - Jupiter
Urban Sax - Live In Pori 1984
Metallica - And Justice For All
Knut - Challenger
Psychic TV - Themes
Dalek - Abandoned Language
Clock DVA - Buried Dreams
SPK - Zamia Lehmanni
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Kickback - Forever War
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Guru - Jazzmatazz Vol. 1
Congress - The Other Cheek
Earth - Hex Or Printing In The Infernal Method
All Out War - For Those Who Were Crucified
Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams
Harm - Everything Turns Out To Be A Triangle Of Death
Ved Buens Ende -Written In Waters
Virus - The Black Flux
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Gate - Saturday Night Fever
Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
Current 93 - I Have A Special Plan For This World
Eric Lunde - Suites For Solo Analog Cassette Recorder
Khanate - Things Viral
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Swans - Young God
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Calineczka - The City Behind The Fence
Dead Can Dance - Spleen & Ideal
Merula - Sleep
Nico - Desertshore
GZA - Liquid Swords
Uphill Battle - Wreck Of Nerves
Guts Pie Earshot - Wait
Stuart Chalmers - The Heart Of Wilderness
King Crimson - Red
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Genesis - Trespass
Shub Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite
Tonetta - 777
Watch Repair presents The Mystic Umbrellas - Journey To The West
Pauline Oliveros - Stuart Dempster - Panaiotis - Deep Listening
Blutwurst - Tenebrae
The Necks - Mindset
Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Death In June - All Pigs Must Die
Edward Artemiev - Stalker, Solaris, Mirror
Makiladoras - Discography 2001-2004
Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
Troum - Tjukurrpa (Part 2 - Drones)
Waz Hoola - Multiply Infinity By Reality
Zao - Self-Titled
Thanos Mikroutsikos - O Stavros Tou Notou
Kyriakos Sfetsas/Katerina Gogou - Sto Dromo
Manowar - Hail To England
Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
Culver - Vampires Of The Third Reich
Magma - Kohntarkosz
Sunn O))) - White2
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Corrupted - Dios Injusto
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Necromantia - split with Varathron
Extreme Noise Terror - Are You That Desperate
Atrax Morgue - Sickness Report
Dolorian - Dolorian
Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey
Halo - Guattari
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
Wolf Eyes - Undertow
Nausea - Extinction
Dirty Beaches - Stateless
Catharsis - Passion
Brainbombs - Fucking Mess
William Basinski - The Deluge
William Basinski - On Time Out Of Time
Malign - Divine Facing
World Burns To Death - No Dawn Comes...Night Without End
Gehenna - The War Of The Sons Of Light With The Suns Of Darkness
Amebix - Arise
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Deep Purple - Deep Purple
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Lustmord - Rising
Tragedy - Vengeance
Etta James - Life Love and the Blues
Death - Human
Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity
Isis - Oceanic
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Cursed - Two
Ire - I Discern An Overtone Of Tragedy In Your Voice
Robert Rich - A Troubled Resting Place
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Live At Pompeii
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Otis Rush - Mourning In The Morning
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
Maurizio Bianchi & Land Use - Psychoneurose
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Shikari - Complete Discography
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Heaven Shall Burn - Whatever It May Take
Suffocation - Despise The Sun
Benjamin Britten - Sinfonia Da Requiem
Sed Non Satiata - Mappo
Amanda Woodward - La Décadence de la Décadence
someones got a lot of time on their hands...I know the feeling...
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