Originally Posted by Rickenbacker (Post 750540)

Reveal is actually totally underrated. Imitation of Life might be the best song of the decade, not even exaggerating. Critics cast the record off as a U2-like attempt at commercialism, and then bash it further for failing at finding that commercial sound, noting all the little bells, whistles, blips and dings that beautifully adorn the album (see I've Been High) as dated and irrelevant. I disagree with this. Rather than trying to conform, I think R.E.M. was taking the retro sound of Up one step further; upping the electronic beats and adding more and more synths until it became sort of however close R.E.M. could get to a Kid A like album (I've Been High would fit right at home on the latter if Thom sang it). A noble failure at changing the popular sound, as opposed to a noble failure at conforming to a pre-established popular sound is what Reveal is, in essence. But still, viewed out of that context it's a beautifully lively album that deserves much more respect than it has been given.

Originally Posted by Tyler Durden (Post 752165)

In no order

Sigur Rox - ()
Radiohead - Kid A
Gorrilaz- Demon Days
Immortal Technique- The Revolutionary, Vol. 2 (Just listen to the lyrics.)
The Strokes- Is This It?
Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
Doves- The Last Broadcast
Mutemath- S/T (I had a road trip in '06 with this album playing non stop.)
Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Originally Posted by music_phantom13 (Post 751911)

:D I'm pretty sure it was me during the time you were getting me into post rock stuff.

As for my list, in no order whatsoever:

Madvillain - Madvillainy
Dinosaur Jr - Farm (even though it's new, I think I have to put it on here)
Mice Parade - Obrigado Saudade
Dirty Elegance - Finding Beauty in the Wretched
Mt. Eerie - Wind's Poem
Xploding Plastix - Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents
Opeth - Blackwater Park
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
TV on the Radio - Desparate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms

After those, it's a tie between a lot of stuff: Through the Looking Glass by Alias, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Operation Doomsday, Mm..Food, Deltron 3030, Beautiful Freak by the Eels, The Great Depression by Defiance, Ohio; and Everything Ecstatic are some of the things that jump to mind.