Isbjørn

One of the mods could create a (locked) thread for it, sort of like what Batty did for Unknown Soldier's Pounding Decibels journal:
http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-meta...y-history.html

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Goofle

Anybody could do that if they wanted. Takers?

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Frownland

43. John Coltrane - Ascension (1966)

One of Coltrane's best works that came later on in his career when he started going into his free jazz bent. The album consists of two forty minute improvisations around a variation of the song "Acknowledgement" from A Love Supreme, a record that's just as great. The big band has so many good players including Pharoah Sanders, Elvin Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Archie Shepp, Art Davis, and McCoy Tyner, plus of course Trane is the highlight of this group. The band starts off with the theme and plays forward, falling into and out of it seamlessly. There are parts where the theme is played that sounds like a drunk big band and then it'll simmer down into free jazz. Coltrane took the chaotic nature of free jazz with this record and swiped it clean of its abrasiveness making, dare I say, an accessible free jazz album. This album has so many great moments, if you're a jazz fan who hasn't really looked into free jazz this is a very good place to start (along with Ornette Coleman's Shape of Jazz to Come). Almost any Coltrane album could have made the list and it's very likely that I'll add another of his before this list is up.

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Isbjørn

I'm on it.

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Goofle

Moved it to the journal section, so posts would need to be moderated.

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Isbjørn

Alright, so I decided to do one:

44. Finntroll - Nattfödd (2004)



There's already two black metal albums on the list, so I didn't see why I shouldn't add this. But while Hvis Lyset Tar Oss is cold and harsh, and Ultima Thulee probably is cold and harsh, too (I don't know, never listened to it), this one will make you want to dance till you drop. With goblins and trolls. It's not pure black metal, but a mix between that and "hummpa", which is, apparently, the name of a Finnish style of folk music.

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Justthefacts

45. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command



To me, seems like a very underrated record to some, but this changed the way I listen to music today. Not only did I ease up to Hardcore music, but it opened my mind to other bands not just hardcore. Ear piercing guitar shreds, dark funk infused bass lines, and Cedric's voice has and will never sound so fierce, so primal as it does on this album.

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Isbjørn

^ Nice pick. Reminds me of how this list should totally have some Fugazi.

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Dylstew

46. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation [2013]
please don't hate me for this..xD.
A pop punk (Or should I say pop with distortion guitars..) album by The Wonder Years.
This was one of the first bands I listened to, so when this album came out I gave it a try out of nostalgia, Even though I didn't really care too much for the band anymore.
But this album totally got me back into them. I got emotionally invested with this album. The music itself is just catchy (very poppy) punk music, just less happy sounding than their early albums. But the music really compliments the lyrics, which are probably the reason I got so attached to the album. To me the whole album is about emotion. Soupy's lyrics are very personal yet relateable at the same time. It's not meaningless pop punk. In the last song they kind of tie many of the sings together. I guess you could say this album the last part of their trilogy with the general theme of ''growing up''. ''The Upsides'', '' Suburvia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing'', ''The Greatest Generation''.

Oh and yeah, we definitely need a Fugazi album here..
I'd pick Repeater.
Still want to listen to that At The Drive in album, I like what I've heard from it on youtube, but that was a pretty long time ago. Should've listened to that album a lot earlier.

Josef K

I think The Argument is their best, but Repeater is essential.