25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

dankrsta · 06-09-2010, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by gunnels

I just checked out some other songs from this album. I like it. Kind of like Death in June, only better. =)
Oh, and the heavy part of 'Her' made me jump in my seat. I'll definately have to check this band out.

Oh Swans are much better than Death in June. One of my all time favorite bands. From this 90's period I would also recommend The Great Annihilator (1995) and especially Soundtracks for the Blind (1996/97) their final album.

**Janszoon** · 06-09-2010, 04:10 AM

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Originally Posted by gunnels

I just checked out some other songs from this album. I like it. Kind of like Death in June, only better. =)
Oh, and the heavy part of 'Her' made me jump in my seat. I'll definately have to check this band out.

Heh. Yeah, I love how that part just kind of jumps out like that.

Death in June are one of those bands I've always heard of but never actually listened to. Sounds like I should check them out.

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Originally Posted by Engine

Janszoon -- your # 21 and 22 are kind of blowing my mind.

I've been meaning to check out the Unsane album for a long time but I haven't heard the thing. your review is confirmation that I need to.

On the Swans album you wrote about: it's just fu@king uncanny because that is my favorite Swans album (that I know of: I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of thier music) and I have been half-assed searching for a used copy of that CD for years. I know that it's something I need to have a physical copy of.

That's funny. Great minds, you know.

Not only is that Unsane album good but really all their stuff is worth checking out—their 90s output at least, I still haven't gotten around to giving either of their albums from the 00s a listen.

As far as Love of Life goes, it's unfortunately really hard to track down because it's out of print. I had the cassette for years and years but was never able to track down the CD until an ex-girlfriend of mine somehow managed to find it for me for Christmas.

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Originally Posted by dankrsta

Oh Swans are much better than Death in June. One of my all time favorite bands. From this 90's period I would also recommend The Great Annihilator (1995) and especially Soundtracks for the Blind (1996/97) their final album.

I love both of those albums. White Light From the Mouth of Infinity and Die Tur Ist Zu are amazing as well.

Engine · 06-09-2010, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

As far as Love of Life goes, it's unfortunately really hard to track down because it's out of print. I had the cassette for years and years but was never able to track down the CD until an ex-girlfriend of mine somehow managed to find it for me for Christmas.

I just checked Amazon and I can get a used CD for about $40.
That'll probably have to wait. Maybe I'll survive long enough after the moon hits the Earth to do some serious looting in search of a copy. MP3s will have to do for now