Wednesday, October 14, 2015

The Rehashed Idea of a Music Pantheon, or My "Top" 100 Albums


Certainly, some may notice that I have already done this, and veritably 30ish of these artists/albums reappear from that list. However, I decided to add on some artists and albums in an effort to make a top 100 list of albums. Many artists are not here because I forgot or struggled to decide on their most moving work of art - so if something is not here, that is probably why. I have become rather out of touch with my favorite musics so this became an issue of memory, not simply judgment. By now means will this list never change - in fact, count on it. I could find a few new albums that totally deserve to be here over others. Maybe I'll realize Pan Sonic's Kesto really deserves to be on here. Maybe I'll one day realize that folk, hip hop, electronic (non-ambient), ska, etc exist too and it's not all just rock and metal music. Someday. Before I engage the same complaints, see this list, that purports to be my music pantheon, and judge me accordingly. (Easy on the tomatoes, though.)


Table 1. The albums tentatively included inside my music pantheon. Listed in no particular order. This list is a terrible attempt at representing my favorite albums, but it really just ended up being a representation of my music taste but with more artists on it.
Artist
Album
Asobi Seksu
Citrus
ClariS
Party Time
Brian Eno
On Land
Eluvium
Nightmare Ending
Harold Budd
Avalon Sutra
Brian Eno and Harold Budd
The Pearl
Asian Kung Fu Generation
Sol-Fa
Dead Can Dance
Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Babymetal
Babymetal
Yo La Tengo
I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
Do Make Say Think
Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Gojira
From Mars to Sirius
Murray Perahia
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Deaf Center
Pale Ravine
Opeth
Still Life
The Pillows
Happy Bivouac
Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, and Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker OST
Akira Yamaoka
Silent Hill 2 OST
Blur
Think Tank
Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings OST
Warpaint
Warpaint
Throwing Muses
Throwing Muses
Sonic Youth
EVOL
Neurosis
Live at Roadburn 2007
Deftones
Koi No Yokan
Mogwai
Come On Die Young
Slowdive
Souvlaki
Cormorant
Dwellings
Joy Division
Closer
My Dying Bride
The Dreadful Hours
Yndi Halda
Yndi Halda
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, John Luther Adams
Become Ocean
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor[1]
Travis
The Boy With No Name
Agalloch
Marrow of the Spirit
Shonen Knife
Let's Knife
Behemoth
The Satanist
Deafheaven
Sunbather
Clint Mansell
The Fountain
The Cure
The Head on the Door
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
NaS
Illmatic
Hole
Live Through This
Interpol
Turn on the Bright Lights
Isis
Panopticon
Joe Hisaishi
Spirited Away OST
John Williams
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban OST
Katatonia
The Great Cold Distance
Koh Ohtani
Shadow of the Colossus OST
Laal
Umeed e Sahar
Lostprophets
Start Something
Luna
Bewitched
Low
I Could Live In Hope
Massive Attack
Mezzanine
Mazzy Star
So Tonight That I could See
The Melvins
Houdini
PJ Harvey
Dry
Pulp
Different Class
The Roots
Things Fall Apart
Russian Circles
Enter
Hiroyuki Sawano
Attack on Titan OST
Sigur Ros
Agaetis Byrjun
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Juju
Wipers
Youth of America
Wire
154
Wolves in the Throne Room
Two Hunters
Yuck
Yuck
Beck
Mutations
Belly
Star
Boris
Amplifier Worship
Nils Frahm
Screws
Dir en grey
Withering to Death
Cursive
Ugly Organ
Norma Jean
Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child
DJ Krush
Jaku
Menomena
Moms
DJ Okawari
Diorama
Mono
You Are There
Fountains of Wayne
Welcome Interstate Managers
Sigh
Graveward
Dodecahedron
Dodecahedron
Nachtmystium
Silencing Machine
Pallbearer
Foundations of Burden
Altar of Plagues
Teethed Glory and Injury
Mitsuko Uchida: Cleveland orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concertos #23 and #24
Explosions in the Sky
The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
My Bloody Valentine
Isn't Anything
Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
Batman Begins OST
Herbert Tachezi
Bach: Toccata & Fugue, Organ Works
Mahito Yokota
Super Mario Galaxy OST
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Okami OST
Martin O'Donnell
Halo 3 ODST OST
Stone Temple Pilots
Tiny Music….
Jenny Lewis
The Voyager
Cocteau Twins
Garlands
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psychocandy
Anathema
The Silent Enigma
New Order
Lowlife
Nirvana
In Utero
Radiohead
Amnesiac



[1] This refers to Dvorak’s “From The New World”

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