EPs that are really F*cking awesome
 

Show me them.

Here are a few I consider the band's best work.

These Arms Are Snakes - This Is Meant To Hurt You

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Les Savy Fav - Rome (Written Upside Down)

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Nine Inch Nails - Broken

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Lymbyc Systym - Carved By Glaciers
(initially released as a 5-track EP, it was recently re-released with 2 additional tracks - remixes - that I'm sure weaken the impact of the EP)

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Some more top-notch EPs that may or may not be their best work.

Dillinger Escape Plan (with Mike Patton) - Irony Is A Dead Scene

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Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy

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Clark - Throttle Promoter (also Throttle Clarence)

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Tool - Opiate

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I'm Lonely (And I Love It) - Future Bible Heroes

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This EP is better than any of the full length albums I've heard from the Future Bible Heroes brand, just fully over the top with cheesy electronic dance music paired with the typical songwriting you'd expect from Merritt (which is by no means a complaint).. 'I'm as lonely as Mount Everest, and probably as high.' God love it.

Skinny Puppy - Remission
Their first official release from 1984. When released on CD, it came with a bunch of bonus tracks so I always thought it was an LP. I recently made myself a copy, trimming out the bonus tracks, to hear it as the EP it was intended to be.

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Squarepusher - Budakhan Mindphone

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Boards of Canada - Hi Scores

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The Mars Volta - Tremulant

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Some great ones:

TV on the Radio—"Young Liars"
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REM—"Chronic Town"
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Mr. Lif—"Emergency Rations"
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Godflesh—"Slavestate"
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HqLF_ZsyQC...eetcleaner.jpg

Young Liars is good indeed. And I just downloaded Chronic Town earlier.

Zero EP - Smashing Pumpkins

I'm not much of a Pumpkins fan anymore, but I decided to keep this EP because it was just a real nice heavy rock sound that was missing from Mellon Collie. OK now that album did have some heavy songs, but for every heavy one you had 1.5 soft mellow ones that I found to be really boring.

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flaming lips - b-sides

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oingo boingo - oingo boingo

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blackalicous - melodica

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dj shadow - midnight in a perfect world

Chronic Town is seriously one of their best releases so if you've never heard it you're in for a treat.

Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - A Call To Arms
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Choking Victim - Squata's Paradise
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Arab On Radar - Yahweh or the Highway ( I think it's an ep?)
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I do not have this... you wouldn't happen to have an upload would you?

Anyhow I can't believe I forgot this one

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Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - A Call to Arms

:D

Ah thanks for the reminder, I meant to check that out after you mentioned it in the other thread. I was a Pumpkins fan from Gish to Adore, but never heard this. I don't know that I'll like it though, because I really only like half of the material on Mellon Collie (a mixture of the soft and heavy, I think...it just depends on the track).

of course!

there's an album and an EP. tracklists are as follows:

melodica EP:
01 Lyric Fathom.mp3
02 Rhymes For The Deaf Dumb And Blind.mp3
03 Swan Lake.mp3
04 Attica Black.mp3
05 Cheezit Terrorist.mp3
06 40oz For Breakfast.mp3
07 Deep In The Jungle.mp3

melodica album:
01 Swan Lake .mp3
02 Lyric Fanthom .mp3
03 Attica Black .mp3
04 40oz .mp3
05 Rhymes For The Deaf, Dumb And Blind .mp3
06 Deep In The Jungle .mp3
07 Swan Lake (Instrumental) .mp3
08 Lyric Fathom (Instrumental) .mp3
09 Attica Black (Instrumental) .mp3
10 Deep In The Jungle (Instrumental) .mp3
11 Rhymes For The Deaf, Dumb And Blind (Instrumental) .mp3

let me know which you want. i know this is the EP thread, but i thought i'd check anyway :D

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Bingo-Master's Break-Out! Ep-The Fall

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Lazy Line Painter Jane-Belle and Sebastian

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Hee Haw-The Birthday Party

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Drag Racing Ep-Big Stick

Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country

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My Bloody Valentine had a ton of awesome EPs, some of the best of any band in my opinion.

Sunny Sundae Smile
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Lush had some fantastic early EPs; Gala was a collection of their first 3 and maybe their best release (they turned crappy later). It included Scarlet, my favorite song by them, and a lot of their noisier stuff!

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/l/lush/album-gala.jpg

Lastly, the Lazarus EP by the Boo Radleys could be my favorite EP from any band. It was the perfect combination of all their styles, and ran together perfectly.

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-384062-1235108191.jpeg

Oh yeah I forgot Call To Arms by BOTAR. That **** kicks ass. Thing is, I didn't bother getting EPs until somewhat recently, so my collection is a bit small. Oh well, it'll get better.

Yes! When I saw them last month they played Concertina, I couldn't believe it.

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Water Curses - Animal Collective
Single-handedly lead me out of the musical dark age that was 8th grade. Pretty damn powerful for 4 songs.

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Silver - Jesu

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Self-titled EP from Scratch Acid that predated most other post-hardcore.

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Stereolab's Crumb Duck -- their first collaboration with producer Steven Stapleton (of Nurse With Wound fame).

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Debut EP from the Minutemen. Released as an LP but seeing as it's all of 16 minutes long I contest this.

It's G-R-R-R-E-A-T!

I think I'll look into the Scratch Acid and Stereolab EPs. I've never really been into Stereolab but your description makes it seem interesting.

Seconded.

also these
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Vaya is a good one. But the Lagwagon one isn't all that great IMO. I've only played it once though, yesterday coincidentally.

The Black Keys - Chulahoma
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I cum twice each time I listen to this.

At The Drive-In have quite a few quality EPs. I was listening to El Gran Orgo earlier... it's another great one. Same goes for Stereolab. Also, there were more than a few kick ass no wave EPs, Mars, DNA, Swans, and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks (who only ever released EPs).

And of course:

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Really surprised no one mentioned that one yet. I'm sure that's got to be one of the best EPs ever.

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the first release by boy problems 2.0, boys & sex EP, is my personal EP of the year.

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Representin' da mainstream!

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Has two of their best songs on it and just generally kicks ass.

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Just two songs but they encapsulate the vibe of a lazy summer afternoon better than anything else I've heard (short of Cesaria Evora). I crank it up every July and almost cry from the melancholy.

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The only thing they put out, a pretty awesome bit of dance punk.

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Has two of their best songs, Drops in the river and Mykonos.

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In the reins - Iron & Wine and Calexico

Was lucky enough to see them tour it. One of the best gigs of my life. Don't much care for his solo stuff but this is sublime.

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Delorean - Aerton Senna

Really made my summer. Sweet indie-electro.

It didn't do much for me at first either, but I've grown to really appreciate the laid back, sort of reflective feel that it has.

It would have been in one of my first few posts if there wasn't a 4-image limit. I have no excuse for not posting it in another post, though. :D

This thread is just riddled with great releases.

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4834/pizzats9.jpg
This is probably my favorite thing they've done.

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Captures some of the best early stuff and of what is to follow.

To be fair I was surprised at myself as well, for some reason it didn't come to mind when I thought of good EPs. I guess for some strange reason I consider it an album, dunno why.

High Places s/t EP kicks ass.

http://ohmpark.com/wp-content/upload...high-place.jpg

and Xiu Xiu - Chapel of the Chimes

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...fthechimes.jpg

Great album but it's a full-length not an EP. A short full-length to be sure but still a full-length.

The cover is, but I copied the wrong art work... Here it is.

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/10474-high-places-ep.jpg

All their stuff is great though :).

^It's just too amazing.

Also, I have to go look up that Midnight in a Perfect World one now. ><



I'll toss in:

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One of my favorites

might as well keep this train rolling

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Halfway To A Threeway - Jim O'Rourke


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Burst & Bloom - Cursive

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Watery Domestic-Pavement
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Cherry Tree-The National
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The Beta Band-The Patty Patty Sound(all The 3 Eps are amazing though)

Guster's Satellite EP was awesome! Had a different version of On My Way Home.

nope, it's a full length

good album; their best is soak the saddle imo

Thor's Hammer was some good ****. Too bad they only came out with this:

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There are also many MBV EPs that are excellent, but my favorite:

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