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Smashing Pumpkins are really the odd ones out in my music taste, I'm a complete new indie rock kid.

1) The Libertines, Self titled
2) Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
3) Dirty Pretty Things, Waterloo to Anywhere

The Libertines just sum up what is so good about British music, no one can deny that they (and possibly Franz Ferdinand) started the new wave of indie punk rock thats everywhere now. The albums just amazing, It doesn't matter what anyone says about him, Pete Doherty is one of the best writers around.

Bloc Party are just so talented musicly, I'm seeing them in february a few days before their second album comes out. Their music is very modern and very progressive (but not in the prog rock sense thank god.)

Waterloo to Anywhere is the best modern punk album around, like the libertines very British (possibly because its fronted by a man who used to be in the libertines), very good music and lyrics, some songs which are quite similar to Behold! The Night mare in the sense that they have tempo changes midway thru the song which work really well.

Also, I love 80's new wave like the cure and Echo and the Bunnymen but i don't have favourite albums by them

People have been using the terms "punk" and "indie" in a ridiculously gratuitous way as of late...

Anyway, I agree with you Believe. That last sentence sums it up perfectly:

wow, it's to hard to name just three, but I am a big fan of 80s hardcore punk, goth rock, and grunge. That might be why I like SP, they had a goth element and a grunge element.

I was raised on prog rock, and I knew almost every Rush album by the time i was three. Needless to say, I hate them now, except for 2112, which is still a decent album, and their newer albums, but between 2112 and the 90s is complete shit

Old garage rock is cool too:)

The non-SP album I'm into now, because my brother is always playing it everywhere (it's funny because this isn't what i normally listen to)

Muse - Absolution

TWo Thumbs up for this review. I totally agree and Bjork Totally slipped my mind. I guess because I put her music on such a different level. It's really like going to church. To quote the RZA "She has a voice that can communicate with the gods."

"Joga" is so emotional - it's like a conversation with God - a prayer set to the the landscape of those powerful strings. She is the BEST female musician in my eyes.

And while we are on the topic of female artists:

I'd like to add Sade - Love Deluxe to my list. It's a perfect album.

Tool- Ae nema
Alice in chains - dirt
Therion - crowning of atlantis
Pearl jam - ten
Satyricon - the forest is my throne.

they are the best, but smashing pumpkins are fuckin Gods

Tommy Heavenly6 - Tommy Heavenly6
Jem - Finally Woken
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
The Hours soundtrack
Placebo - Once More With Feeling Collection
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Lisa Loeb - Nine Tales (haven't listened to that one in a while)
The Cure - Disintegration

There are lots of other albums that I like, but these are the only ones I can think of that I thoroughly enjoy from start to finish and can listen to repeatedly.

three, huh? how 'bout a non-sp "desert island dozen"?
joy division-unknown pleasures
david bowie-low
elliott smith-s/t
the smiths-hatful of hollow (a comp, i know)
the cure-faith
guided by voices-bee thousand
radiohead-ok pc
rem-up
echo and the bunnymen-heaven up here
wire-chairs missing
spoon-girls can tell
the replacements-let it be

at least at this exact moment, anyway...

What a nice way to shorten the album name! XD

you gotta love...

Silent Steeples- dispatch
Exile on Main Street- Rolling Stones
London Calling- the Clash
Appetite for Destruction- GNR
What's the Story Morning Glory- Oasis
By the Way- Red Hot Chili Peppers( ONLY WORK BY RHCP I LIKE)
Tommy(Thats my name, haha)-The Who
Origin of Symmetry- Muse
showbiz- Muse
December's Children- The Rolling Stones
Dookie-Green Day
Kerplunk- GReen Day
Fast Japanese Spin Cycle-Guided By Voices


Thats alot.....heh-heh-heh........well they are great albums..LISTEN TO THEM

Absolution by Muse
Funeral by Arcade Fire
Plans by Death Cab For Cutie
the Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails
Dookie by Greenday
What's the Story Morning Glory by Oasis
OK Computer & the Bends by Radiohead
Admission Committee (not sure if that is right.) by Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn

and other I can't think of...

Led Zeppelin 4 (dont have roman numerals)
tool-aenema
depeche mode-songs of faith and devotion
whats the story morning gllory-oasis
out of time-REM
second toughest in the infants-Underworld
the fragile-NIN
The Cure-Disintigration
The Police-regatta de blanc
Skinny Puppy-brap
Hole-Live through this
Orbital-orbital
David bowie-heroes
there are so many I could go on forever.

I know those 3 ones and they're enough to show that you have a great taste in music!

in no particular order...

anything by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
40 Oz. To Freedom -- Sublime
The Blue Album -- Weezer
What's the Story, Morning Glory? -- Oasis
Jagged Little Pill -- Alanis Morissette
Licensed to Ill -- Beastie Boys
Tidal -- Fiona Apple
Dummy -- Portishead

etc, etc, etc...

I'm not even gonna try to limit this to three, but here are some of my favorites (i'm probably still forgetting something...). i'll limit it to one per artist.

Gogol Bordello: Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Madvillain: Madvillainy
J Dilla: Donuts
Quasimoto: The Unseen
Pixies: Surfer Rosa
Talib Kweli and Mos Def are Black Star
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Beck: Odelay
Gorillaz: Demon Days

You have excellent taste Evando...Not too many people know about Lord Quas and Kudos on the Coltraine, J-Dilla, and Black Star

I have The Forgotten Arm by Aimee Mann. I just saw it in a shop, had never heard of her and know nothing about her music, but I bought it anyway. I find it to be an alright album - how does it compare to her other work?

I like "Lost in Space" better.

Ok...

Thank you! Muse's new album pretty good although it takes many listening to fully appreciate it.