A list of albums I happen to own.
Amongst the about-me-page, the photo-of-me, and other such nonsense people post to the internet, the list-of-albums-I-own is one of the things I (and, considering the lack of entropy amongst us humans, probably most everybody) obsessively look at.
So here is mine. It is as complete as I care to make it.
| Artist | Album | Format | Rating | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air | Moon Safari | CD | ******* | |
| Air | The Virgin Suicides | CD | ***** | Repetitious. |
| Tori Amos | Under the Pink | CD | ********* | |
| Aphex Twin | 26 Mixes For Cash | CD | ******** | Sounds very different from his other stuff. |
| Aphex Twin | Come to Daddy EP | CD | ********* | |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | CD | ********** | |
| Aphex Twin | Selected ambient Works Volume II | CD | ********** | People seem to hate this one. I rather like it. |
| Aphex Twin | The Richard D. James Album | CD | ********* | |
| Aphex Twin | Windowlicker EP | CD | ******** | |
| Aphex Twin | drukqs | CD | ******* | One good CD stretched across two. |
| Autechre | Anvil Vapre EP | CD | ********* | |
| Autechre | Draft 7.30 | LP | ******* | |
| Autechre | EP7 | CD | ******* | The "music about architecture" album. |
| Autechre | Gantz Graf EP | LP | ***** | |
| Autechre | Garbage EP | CD | ******** | |
| Autechre | Incunabula | CD | ******* | |
| Autechre | LP5 | CD | ******** | |
| Autechre | Tri Repetae | CD | ********* | |
| Bad Religion | Stranger Than Fiction | CD | **** | Another album MTV made me buy. TWENTY FIRST CENTURY DIGITAL BOY!!! Oh well. |
| Beastie Boys | Ill Communication | CD | ****** | |
| Beck | Mellow Gold | CD | ********* | |
| Beck | Mutations | CD | ******** | |
| Beck | Odelay! | CD | ******* | |
| Beck | Sea Change | CD | ********* | |
| Bjork | Debut | CD | ******** | |
| Bjork | Homogenic | CD | ********* | |
| Bjork | Post | CD | ********* | |
| Bjork | Selma Songs | CD | ******* | |
| Bjork | Vespertine | CD | ******* | |
| Blur | Blur | CD | ******* | People hate this for "Song 2", which is a shame. |
| Blur | Parklife | CD | ******** | |
| Boards of Canada | Music Has The Right To Children | CD | ******** | |
| Johnny Cash | American III Solitary Man | CD | ***** | Novelty. |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | No More Shall We Part | CD | ******** | |
| The Chemical Brothers | Dig Your Own Hole | CD | ******** | |
| The Chemical Brothers | Surrender | CD | ******** | |
| Leonard Cohen | Songs of Leonard Cohen | CD | ********* | |
| Leonard Cohen | Songs of Love and Hate | CD | ********* | |
| Leonard Cohen | Ten New Songs | CD | ******** | L.C. really needs to enter the nineties, man. Those synths... |
| Leonard Cohen | The Future | CD | ********* | |
| John Coltrane | Blue Train | CD | ********** | |
| Cornershop | When I was Born for the 7th Time | CD | ******** | |
| Elvis Costello | My Aim is True | LP | ********* | |
| Elvis Costello and The Attractions | The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions | CD | ******* | |
| Crash Test Dummies | God Shuffled His Feet | CD | ****** | Repays closer attention. |
| The Crystal Method | Vegas | CD | *** | |
| DJ Spooky Vs. Scanner | The Quick and the Dead | CD | ****** | |
| Daft Punk | Discovery | CD | ******* | A bit too clubby. |
| Daft Punk | Homework | CD | ******** | |
| Depeche Mode | Violator | CD | ****** | |
| Dust Brothers | Fight Club | CD | ****** | |
| Bob Dylan | Blood on the Tracks | CD | ********** | |
| Bob Dylan | Love and Theft | CD | ********** | |
| Bob Dylan | Time out of Mind | CD | ********** | |
| Elastica | Elastica | CD | ******** | |
| Brian Eno | Ambient 1: Music for Airports | CD | ******** | |
| Brian Eno | Ambient 4: On Land | CD | ******** | |
| Brian Eno | Music for Films | CD | ***** | |
| Fatboy Slim | You've Come A Long Way, Baby | CD | ****** | |
| Thomas Fehlmann | Visions of Blah | LP | ******** | |
| Filter | Short Bus | CD | ****** | Loses much appeal with time. |
| The Flaming Lips | Clouds Taste Metallic | CD | ******** | |
| The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | CD | ******** | |
| Fluke | Risotto | CD | ****** | |
| Future Sound of London | My Kingdom EP | CD | ******** | |
| Vincent Gallo | Recordings of Music for Film | LP | ***** | |
| Laurent Garnier | 30 | CD | **** | MTV made me buy this. |
| Girls Against Boys | Freakonica | CD | * | |
| Jeff Greinke | Cities in Fog/Cities in Fog 2 | CD | ******** | |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno | Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror | LP | ******** | |
| PJ Harvey | Dry | CD | ******** | |
| PJ Harvey | To Bring You My Love | CD | ******** | |
| Kristen Hersh | Sunny Border Blue | CD | ******* | |
| Korn | Follow the Leader | CD | ***** | |
| Korn | Korn | CD | ****** | Cathartic, if you're in the mood to not let it annoy you. |
| Led Zeppelin | Physical Graffiti | CD | ********* | |
| The Lounge Lizards | Queen of All Ears | CD | ******** | |
| Clint Mansell with Kronos Quartet | Requiem for a Dream | CD | *** | For such a good soundtrack, this is an amazingly bad record. |
| Marilyn Manson | Antichrist Superstar | CD | ***** | |
| Massive Attack | Mezzanine | CD | ******** | |
| Meat Beat Manifesto | Subliminal Sandwich | CD | ****** | |
| Morphine | Yes | CD | ****** | |
| Mu-ziq | Lunatic Harness | CD | ********* | |
| Mudhoney | My Brother the Cow | CD | ******** | |
| My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult | A Crime for All Seasons | CD | ******* | This one is really growing on me. |
| Negativland | Deathsentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak | CD | ******** | The book is the cool part. |
| Negativland | Helter Stupid | LP | ******** | |
| New Order | Best of New Order | CD | ******** | |
| Nine Inch Nails | Broken | CD | ****** | |
| Nine Inch Nails | Closer to God | CD | ****** | |
| Nine Inch Nails | Fixed | CD | ******* | |
| Nine Inch Nails | Further Down the Spiral | CD | ***** | The AFX tracks are the only standouts, so this is obviated by "26 Mixes" |
| Nine Inch Nails | Head Like a Hole EP | CD | ***** | |
| Nine Inch Nails | March of the Pigs EP | CD | ****** | |
| Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine | CD | ****** | Dated sounding. |
| Nine Inch Nails | Sin EP | CD | *** | "Get Down Make Love" is sorta OK. |
| Nine Inch Nails | The Downward Spiral | CD | ********* | |
| Nine Inch Nails | The Fragile | CD | ****** | Trent Reznor's parody of Nine Inch Nails. |
| Nine Inch Nails | The Perfect Drug Versions | CD | ******* | I hated this at first. Very strangely textured album. |
| Nine Inch Nails | Things Falling Apart | CD | ** | Shit. |
| Nirvana | Bleach | CD | ******* | |
| Nirvana | From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah | CD | ******* | |
| Nirvana | Hormoaning EP | CD | ******* | |
| Nirvana | In Utero | CD | ********** | The last good grunge record made. |
| Nirvana | Nevermind | CD | ********* | |
| Nirvana | Unplugged in New York | CD | ********* | |
| The Orb | Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld | CD | ********* | |
| The Orb | Orblivion | CD | ***** | |
| The Orb | Orbvs Terrarvm | CD | ******** | |
| The Orb | Pomme Fritz | CD | ***** | |
| The Orb | U.F.Off: The Best of the Orb | CD | ***** | |
| The Orb | u.f.orb | CD | ******** | |
| Orbital | In Sides | CD | ********* | |
| Orbital | Orbital 2 | CD | ****** | |
| Orbital | Snivilisation | CD | ****** | |
| Orbital | The Middle of Nowhere | CD | ****** | |
| The Pogues | If I Should Fall From Grace With God | CD | ******** | |
| Portishead | Dummy | CD | ********* | |
| Portishead | PNYC | CD | ****** | |
| Portishead | Portishead | CD | ********* | |
| REM | Automatic for the People | CD | ******** | |
| REM | Eponymous | CD | ******** | |
| REM | Monster | CD | ***** | |
| REM | Murmur | CD | ******** | |
| REM | New Adventures in HiFi | CD | ******** | |
| REM | Up | CD | ****** | |
| Radiohead | Airbag: How Am I Driving? | CD | ********* | |
| Radiohead | Amnesiac | CD | ********* | |
| Radiohead | Hail to the Thief | LP | ********* | |
| Radiohead | High and Dry EP | CD | ****** | |
| Radiohead | Kid A | CD | ********* | |
| Radiohead | OK Computer | CD | ********** | |
| Radiohead | Pablo Honey | CD | ******* | |
| Radiohead | The Bends | CD | ********** | |
| Rancid | Let's Go | CD | ****** | |
| Django Reinhardt | The Best of Django Reinhardt | CD | ******** | |
| The Rolling Stones | Some Girls | LP | ********* | |
| Salvo Beta | Abrasive Stuttering | LP | ******** | Damn impressive debut. |
| Shivaree | I Oughtta Give You a Hole in the Head for Making me Live in this Dump | CD | ***** | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | Adore | CD | ***** | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | CD | ****** | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | Siamese Dream | CD | ****** | |
| Sonic Youth | A Thousand Leaves | CD | ******** | |
| Sonic Youth | Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star | CD | ******* | |
| Sonic Youth | Washing Machine | CD | ******** | |
| Spacehog | Resident Alien | CD | *** | |
| Squarepusher | Go Plastic | CD | ******* | |
| The Sugarcubes | The Great Crossover Potential | CD | ******** | |
| Matthew Sweet | 100% Fun | CD | ******* | |
| They Might Be Giants | John Henry | CD | ******* | |
| They Might Be Giants | Mink Car | CD | ******** | |
| The Timeout Drawer | A Difficult Future | CD | ******* | |
| Tool | Aenima | CD | ******* | |
| U2 | Actung Baby! | CD | ******* | |
| U2 | The Unforgettable Fire | CD | ******* | |
| Underworld | Born Slippy EP | CD | ******** | |
| Various | I'm Your Fan: the Songs of Leonard Cohen | CD | ******** | |
| Various | Lost Highway | CD | ******** | You can't go wrong with industrial mixed with jazz (well, you can, but they don't here). |
| Various | The Crow Soundtrack | CD | ******* | Safe-for-movie-theater goth. |
| Various | Warp 10+3 Remixes | CD | ******* | |
| The Velvet Underground | Peel Slowly and See (box set) | CD | ********** | |
| Tom Waits | Frank's Wild Years | CD | ********* | |
| Tom Waits | Mule Variations | CD | ********* | |
| Tom Waits | Small Change | CD | ******** | |
| Ween | Chocolate and Cheese | CD | ******* | |
| Weezer | Weezer (blue) | CD | ******** | |
| Weezer | Weezer (green) | LP | ******** | |
| The White Stripes | Elephant | CD | ********* | Fucking awesome; totally makes me want to be a rock star. |
| White Zombie | Astrocreep: 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction, and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head | CD | ****** | |
| Yo La Tengo | I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | LP | ******** |
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