Top 10 Australian Albums you should own after your 30:

1.The Honeymoon is Over- The Cruel Sea
2. Hourly Daily- You Am I
3. All is Forgiven- Tex Don and Charlie
4. Double Allergic- Powderfinger
5. Back in Black- AC/DC
6. Roll on- The Living End
7. Big Big Love- Little Birdy
8. Awake is The New Sleep- Ben Lee
9. Anything By NICK CAVE- Birthday party, the Bad Seeds and solo stuff.
10. Wolfmother- Wolfmother


Disagree? I dont care!!!!

1. Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon
2. Porcupine Tree -- In Absentia
3. OK Computer -- Radiohead
4. Live -- Throwing Copper (although sometimes The DIstance to Here might take this spot)
5. Pink Floyd -- Wish You Were Here
6. Love -- Forever Changes
7. Alice in Chains -- Dirt
8. Jimi Hendrix -- Are You Experienced?
9. Porcupine Tree -- Up the Downstair
10. Led Zeppelin -- Physical Graffiti


In yo face bitches

Very well done Tabucky. You have great taste for someone on a Live message board. (no offense to anyone)

Thanks dude. As I've stated before, you, too, have some good taste my friend. Matter of fact, you made me buy the Devin Townsend Band's recent album, and I enjoyed it, so good on you. Do you have any more must-buy recommendations?

(I also picked up Anathema's A Fine Day To Exit, Anathema being a band which you, along with other people, recommended to me. I really love that album, the first few songs are truly stellar. I'm gonna try to buy some more of their albums for Christmas.)

in no order:

Live - The Distance To Here
Mr. Bungle - California
Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder
Our Lady Peace - Naveed
Live - Throwing Copper
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Live - Secret Samadhi
Dishwalla - Pet Your Friends

Great CD!!

Yeah Anathema have done some great stuff, you should download their new song from their website... it's kinda poppy, but very beautiful... got quite a radiohead vibe.

I know I've said it before, but you should definitely try some Opeth. Especially Damnation (if you haven't already). It's definitely not something that you'll love at first listen, but IMO its an amazing album. Very subtle, and if you like PT, SW is completely plastered over the album. I mean, he plays mellotron, piano, does backing vocals, produced, mixed, mastered, and even contributed lyrics to one of the songs. Great album.

Do you like/know King's X? You might like them, check out Gretchen goes to Nebraska. They're described as 'groove rock', but I wouldn't be surprised if Steven Wilson had been influenced by them, some parts of Deadwing and In Absentia are very reminiscent of that album. Big harmonies, and they use the telephone voice effect in a similar way to SW does. (I think it came out in '89, so quite a while before Porcupine Tree did the whole heavier rock/metal thing)

Have you tried any Pain of Salvation? They're one of my favourite bands.. absolutely amazing writing. Try Be, or Remedy Lane. Again, they're definitely not albums you'll appreciate at first listen, but give them a go.

Apart from those albums in your top 10, what are some of your other favourite artists?

Yeah, Anathema is awesome-- I only have their album A Fine Day to Exit, and a handful of their other songs. I hear they were doom metal when they started off for a while...do you have any album of theirs to recommend from this time period? I will def check out the song on their website when I get the chance. I know I'll be picking up A Natural Distaster for a Christmas present for me, because it seems to be rated highest wherever I look.

Funny you mention Damnation like that, because I own the album and absolutely love it. It is very subtle, as you say, and the songwriting is great. Really good album. I know basically every other Opeth album is death metal, which sounds pretty interesting...what should I go for next? I wish I had seen Opeth when they came around last Winter.

I've heard a lot about King's X and Pain of Salvation, and I'll do my best to get my hands on some of their stuff. There's just so much music out there that it's hard to keep up sometimes without being out hundreds or even thousands of dollars. I'm relying on CD's being Christmas presents so that I won't be burning a hole in my wallet.

So, other music I like. Well, I recently compiled a top 50 artists list that I posted on my myspace. Mainly I like classic rock, grunge, prog, and alternative rock, with some metal bands too. Here's the list:

1 Pink Floyd
2 Porcupine Tree
3 Radiohead
4 Jimi Hendrix
5 Cream
6 Live
7 Alice in Chains
8 Love
9 No-Man
10 Neil Young
11 R.E.M.
12 Collective Soul
13 Blackfield
14 Led Zeppelin
15 Stone Temple Pilots
16 Talking Heads
17 The Who
18 Soundgarden
19 Incredible Expanding Mindfuck
20 Joe Walsh
21 Peter Gabriel
22 Ben Harper
23 Bass Communion
24 King Crimson
25 Kraftwerk
26 Dredg
27 Procol Harum
28 Gary Numan
29 The Cars
30 Outlaws
31 Speak No Evil
32 Tortoise
33 Candlebox
34 Pearl Jam
35 Sponge
36 Temple of the Dog
37 Lynyrd Skynyrd
38 Steve Miller Band
39 Cheap Trick
40 Free
41 Tom Petty
42 Lacuna Coil
43 UB40
44 Bush
45 Oceansize
46 Anathema
47 Riverside
48 Opeth
49 Kino
50 Travis

The list goes on and on after that, but at least right now, those are my favorites.

Dude, I think you would really like Dust to Dust. They are a now defunct metal band, but their debut album, which is self-titled, is fucking awesome. It really has a prog-rock feel to it, with keyboard layerings that just sound really cool. I'm not sure you would like it, but I think it's definitely worth checking out. Don't go for anything off their second album, Sick, though, because it's vastly different.

You, my good sir, have a great taste in music.

Thanks man. If you had a more extensive concert history, I might be able to tell you if you did, too.

This post has been edited by Tabucky: Sep 21 2006, 11:30 pm

Ha, out of your list, I like the following...




That's at least half...nice. I don't know much of the doom Anathema stuff... I do have a compilation of some of their early work though, called Resonance II (I think...). Pretty interesting.

Yeah, Opeth's other albums are indeed death metal... though since Still Life, they've been much more progressive... and there's a lot of beautiful clean acoustic passages too. DEFINITELY buy Blackwater Park, its an amazing album. Again, produced by SW, it's another one of my favourite albums ever. (Listen to the song 'The Funeral Portrait', at the end theres some of the most beautiful, intense vocal harmonies I've ever heard)

I'll definitely check out Dust to Dust as soon as I can. Love finding new music..

This post has been edited by Alex: Sep 22 2006, 3:37 am