Entry-Level Hipster
Posted: May 2nd, 2011 | Author: ERIC | Filed under: Music | Tags: hipster shit | No Comments »Here are the albums I enjoyed. They are sub-headed by row, and prioritized by how much I dug it. Unless otherwise noted:
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Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Airplane Over the Sea
Radiohead- Kid A
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
Radiohead- OK Computer (barely made it)
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (prioritized, as I didn’t listen to it until way after the rest of this list)
Daft Punk- Discovery
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Kyuss- Welcome to Sky Valley
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Godspeed You Black Emperor- FA8
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Aphex Twin- Richard D. James Album
Boards of Canada- Music Has the Right to Children
Weezer- Blue (got a lot of points on nostalgia)
Radiohead – The Bends (might be my favorite Radiohead album yet)
Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise (good album, if creatively stifling for me)
Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
Interpol – Turn On the Bright Lights
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Sigur Ros- Agaetis byrjun
The Strokes- Is This It
The White Stripes- White Blood Cells
TV On The Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
Panda Bear- Person Pitch
TV On the Radio- Dear Science
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Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
The National- Alligator
Radiohead- In Raindbows
The Mars Volta- De-Loused in The Comatorium
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Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
Atlas Sound- Logos
The Mountain Goats- The Sunset Tree
Beck- Odelay
Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral
Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
The Hold Steady- Separation Sunday
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The Who- Who’s Next
Slint- Spiderland
David Bowie- Low
Neil Young- After the Gold Rush
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Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
Beatles- Rubber Soul
The Replacements- Let It Be
Kraftwerk- The Man Machine
Pixies- Doolittle
Nick Drake- Pink Moon
Michael Jackson- Thriller
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The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
Prince- Purple Rain
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Beatles- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (nearly got axed, but retained for Lucy… for now.)
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Led Zeppelin- Led Zepplein IV
The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed
The Velvet Underground- Loaded
Beatles- Revolver
Pixies- Surfer Rosa
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Pink Floyd- Tommy (listened after the list)
Fleetwood Mac- Rumors
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Bob Dylan- Bringing It All Back Home
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
Pink Floyd- Animals
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Iggy Pop- Lust for Life
The Ramones- The Ramones
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
The Stooges- Raw Power
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Bob Dylan- The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
King Crimson- Red (finally an album by them I enjoy!)
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Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
The Doors- The Doors
The Beatles- Abbey Road
The Kinks- The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin II
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
Neil Young- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Lou Reed- Transformer
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Genius/GZA- Liquid Swords
A Tribe Called Quest- The Low End Theory
Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang
Notorious BIG- Ready to Die
Kanye West- The College Dropout
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Kanye West- Late Registration
Mos Def- Black on Both Sides
Jay-Z- The Blueprint
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Dr. Dre- 2001
NWA- Straight Outta Compton
Eric B. & Rakin- Paid in Full
Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III
Run DMC- Raising Hell
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Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Burzum- Burzum
Burzum- Filosofem
Mastodon- Leviathan
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Opeth- Blackwater Park
Mastodon- Crack the Skye
Burzum- Det som engang var
Mastodon- Blood Mountain
Morbid Saint- Spectrum of Death
Windir- 1184
Some More Notes:
- Of the 190 albums counted (some were skipped due to length or unavailability), I liked 99 of them, or 52%.
- I didn’t care to weigh my percentage of albums enjoyed by genre.
- 67% of /mu/-core
- 62% of pitchfork-core
- 51% of classics
- 43% of hipster-hop
- 50% of heavy /mu/tal
Conclusion: I will like just about anything half of the time, and thus wasted quite a bit of time listening to many albums.
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