this cries out for part two and three. Maybe genre or era focused (classic rock, or 70’s rock)?

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

definitely thought about lumping it into genres but this video was the test pilot to see if a part 2 would be worth it

@patrickreichert1442

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts say no more! I know you know what I like to watch #OhCaptainMyCaptain

My 10's: Albums I can listen to back to front and never be sick of. Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses Type O Negative - October Rust Zeromancer - Zzyzx Tiger Army - III: Ghost Tigers Rise Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong of the Right Rush - Signals Radiohead - Kid A Mnesia Portishead - Dummy Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party Mercyful Fate - Melissa King Diamond - Them/Conspiracy Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids HIM - Razorblade Romance Drab Majesty - The Demonstration Deftones - Diamond Eyes The Cure - Pornography Cradle of Filth - Midian Between the Buried and Me - Colors Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero Junius - Reports from the Threshold of Death

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

interesting, year zero a 10? i mean it's a good album dont get me wrong and does Kid A Mnesia count as a single album? that's kind of cheating :p definitely signals of course.

@Ghoulstille

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts Well they released Kid A Mnesia as a single release so I count it and Yep to me Year Zero is a 10, When I listen to it it's always back to front with no skipping I can't say that about The Downward Spiral. 10 years ago perhaps Downward Spiral would have been in Year Zero's place but now it's my go to Nails album. The subject matter is surreal considering the state of the world.

10. Debut - Bjork 09. Mezzanine - Massive Attack 08. Automatic For The People - REM 07. Live Through This - Hole 06. Stories From The City Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey 05. Ray of Light - Madonna 04. Imaginary Day - Path Metheny Group 03. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morrisette 02. Violator - Depeche Mode 01. Nevermind - Nirvana

We are on the same wavelength. I'll add Tool - Lateralus, REM - Automatic for the People, QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf, Pearl Jam - VS, Soundgarden - Superunknown, and Metallica - Master of Puppets.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

those are all solid picks. I wanted to throw an REM record on here but couldn't decide because so many of them are 10's in my opinion. but automatic is almost an 11

@rodtaylor5476

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts I could easily throw Green, Monster, and New Adventures on that list. To me they are solid tens. Out of Time is a solid 9.

Great List, I'm a huge fan of early Smashing Pumpkins, I even prefer bleach over Nevermind! Cliqued now but the all the Pixies Albums for me, the fight club popularity frightened me off. I was in a band in the 90s. we covered 'wish' and 'Jesus Built my hotrod' by Ministry 🤣 yeah i know

All perfect picks. I would also suggest that mbv's Loveless, Silversun Puckups' Carnavad and Alt-J's An Awesome Wave are also tens.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

silversun pickups are one of those bands that i keep meaning to listen to but then forget about them when i actually pull spotify up... i like a lot of their singles, really love "doesn't matter why"

solid list. I would just add jane's addiction ritual de lo habitual. it was alternative music’s equivalent of led zep 4, with three days being their stairway to heaven.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

yeah i need to check that record out, i liked porno for pyros

Man these albums are incredible. I would throw in: Live - throwing copper Pearl Jam - ten Dave Matthews band - under the table and dreaming Tool - lateralus Tragically hip - fully completely (my Canadianianity is showing)

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

never checked out Tragically Hip.. i wonder why they never hit in the states... but yes those others are all 10's although i'm not a huge pearl jam fan

Great video and I definitely agree. Actually I listened to Siamese Dream today based on this video and am going to listen to OK computer tomorrow. Two other 10/10 albums in my opinion include Foo Fighters Colour and Shape album and Silverchair Neon Ballroom.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

even though im not a huge foo fan Colour and Shape is their best one imo .. though i've heard a lot of good things about chasing light

@jackdecker9634

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts I agree with your previous video about foo fighters being a generic rock band. Anything after their third album was generic rubbish where every song sounded the same. Colour and Shape though was legendary.

Have you heard In The Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel? Or Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate? I'd probably say those are the only two 90's albums missing in this list...or Loveless by MBV. The 90s had some good stuff.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

loveless i just recently checked out and i understand the hype.. I honestly did not get into NMH or SDRE, but I did give it an honest try

Top 10/10 for me: 10. Crux by Moontooth 9. NRTHNDR by RWD 8. The Long Dream I by Ebonivory 7. Phototroph by Moontooth 6. The Remnants of Losing Yourself in Someone Else 5. Maps of Non-Existent Places by Thank You Scientist 4. 3rd Degree - The Raising by Gemini Syndrome 3. Good Apollo I'm burning star IV part I by Coheed & Cambria 2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth III by Coheed & Cambria 1. Second Stage Turbine Blade by Coheed and Cambria

@brianvillatoro6588

Жыл бұрын

No f*cking way, a Thank You Scientist Fan🥰🥰 the opener a Salesman Guide is easily their best song, I will say Stranger Heads Prevail is a personal preference on which is their best album

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

the only band i've heard of here is coheed

@yeahboi1286

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts I like obscure music

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

@@yeahboi1286 nothin wrong with that

What set Smashing Pumpkins apart from all their contemporary alt-rock bands, and ultimately resting on a tier unto themselves (in my opinion), is that SP weren’t afraid to be sad And I love all those other 90s alt rock bands too. It’s just that SP is flat out better When it comes to Radiohead, I don’t get them. Karma Police is a pretty good song but overall I don’t get ‘em. They don’t hit me in the heart or give me any form of emotional connection. Yorkes vocals always sounded like a malnourished ghost to me. It’s not really fun or exciting music Anyway, I’m always interested in more Smashing Pumpkins content from you. Cool stuff on your channel regarding them. I dug (and mostly agreed with) your Atum reviews 🤙🏼

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

lmaaaooo ''a malnourished ghost'' is by far the funniest description of someone's vocal sound i've ever come across well done sir or madam

@raffin2040

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts sir, and thanks 😆

"Ava Adore" by Smashing Pumpkins may not be everyone`s favourite, but - for my taste - each song on that album is just right. I would also recommend the Pumpkins cover of "Never let me down again" by Depeche Mode.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

i love adore and whaattttt they did a cover of never let me down?!? thank you for telling me this!

Sent here from Red Cow! Great job man. Enjoying your music.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

thank you for checking out my channel, i hope you like our collab videos that should be coming out this week

Great video. I love all your videos but your music critiques are the best. I wonder if you took the best songs from Mellon Collie to make one disc, would it be their best album?

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

oh without a doubt 100%

What up Josh!! Dude I totally agree with Melancholy, they were so close but it kinda fell short. As a Chicagoland native, I actually have a great story about the song "Today". The legend states that it was actually stolen by the Pumpkins from another local band called "Busker Soundcheck" the reason I know this is because I grew up with the band "Karma" from New Lennox Illinois who actually played with Busker and remember them playing the song first. Not sure of the validity but those guys never lied to me in my life lol

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

well if i ever interview billy (which is a goal of mine) i will ask him about this

The point you make about an album in total providing context to individual songs is true... ....and forgotten!

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

indeed.. it was surprisingly so much more enjoyable listening to ''smells like teen spirit'' in the context of the album instead of just hearing it on the radio

Hey, I'm Justin.

Pretty late to this, but I have a theory about what happens to people's creativity after so many years. They "make it" and then they are not living the experience of the average person anymore. Since everyone's struggle is inherently unique, creativity is also unique as it has to take the forms of the constraints placed around it. Billy, and others like him, no longer have the same struggles he had when he was young and cannot relate as much to the average person like he did in those prior albums. Neutral Milk Hotel knew this and stopped producing albums as Jeff stated somewhere that he believed he had reached the peak of his creativity.

@DancingwithGhosts

8 ай бұрын

i would generally agree with this assessment but then you have mid-career comebacks like Green Day's "American Idiot", I thought they were totally washed up after 2000's "Warning" album.. then BAM.. Green Day becomes just as relevant in the 00's as they had been in the 90's.. there aren't many examples of this happening with bands but every now and then it does

@LOP4795

8 ай бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts I like that example. I didn't even think about it that way, but I guess it can happen!

The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot Nirvana - Nevermind Pink Floyd - The Wall Radiohead - Ok Computer Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion Slipknot - Slipknot Kraftwerk - Computer World Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication Stevie Wonder - Talking Book XTC - Drums and Wires

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

8 out of these 10 i 100% agree.. i've never heard the porcupine tree or stevie wonder records so i can't say

@ilmanuel5524

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts An off topic question: what are your favorite progressive rock bands? Mine are: Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Rush, Supertramp, The Alan Parsons Project, Porcupine Tree, Electric Light Orchestra and Tool.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

@@ilmanuel5524 i think you just named all of the prog rock bands that exist :p my favs are rush, genesis and pink floyd.

@ilmanuel5524

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts LOL actually no, I'm not a huge fan of Yes, ELP. I never liked Van Der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Camel and all these underground bands. Those 9 that I mentioned are the only bands in the genre that I often listen to. But if I have to name only three I say: Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

@@ilmanuel5524 i think my problem with king crimson is the constant line-up changes, you never really got a feel of who the band really was

One day I'll give Siamese Dream a spin. Just never really got into SP.

I love In Utero sooooo much more than Nevermind, but I do like and respect it. Downward Spiral is also fantastic, an album I enjoy more and more every time I listen to it. What do you think of Joy Division? I think even as far as 10/10 albums go, Closer is a perfect record.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

*unpopular opinion alert* brace yourself... i can't stand Ian Curtis's voice. I don't know how they got as popular as they did with a singer who sounded like that.

TDS

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

I've not heard of Low or Slint... Love the first AIC record.. that one gets over-shadowed by ''dirt''. Love me some boards of canada. Ghost is pretty good but not my favorite.

@brianvillatoro6588

Жыл бұрын

Bro chose Facelift over the following 4 AiC albums, that is a very different and interesting choice

@beszt95

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts Definitely give Spiderland a listen, and the Low album is good if you're in the mood for something slow, moody, and desolate. Agree Dirt overshadows Facelift, I like Dirt but a few of the tracks miss the mark for me (Sickman for example) while all of the tracks on Facelift are just right. Good shit liking BoC. Ghost has been questionable recently but they've got many great tracks to their name, and imo Opus is perfect, especially with the Here Comes the Sun cover bonus track at the end

@beszt95

Жыл бұрын

@@brianvillatoro6588 All of their first 5 releases are great, but Facelift is the best of them imo. 1995 self titled is the weakest but still good. I'd rank them Facelift, Jar of Flies, Dirt, Sap, self titled

@brianvillatoro6588

Жыл бұрын

@@beszt95 Nice, is Sap even an album? It's like 4 songs, when I referenced first 5 I counted 2009's Black Gives Way

Agreed on all 100%

I got so many 10’s honestly but here are just some of them. Type O Negative - October Rust Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine AC/DC - Let There Be Rock Rhino Bucket - Get Used To It No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom Garbage - Garbage The B-52’s - The B-52’s My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Ol’ Dirty Bastard - Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version Ramones - Ramones Pilotredsun - Achievement Metallica - Ride The Lightning The Lords Of The Underground - Here Come The Lords King’s X - Dogman Pist.On - Number One

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

nice! I'll definitely check some of these out, I JUST listened to MBV's loveless like yesterday and yeah it was pretty good/shoe-gaze-y

Qotsa - like clockwork

Good video. What’s your opinion of Nirvana’s other albums Bleach and In Utero? Do they hold up as well as Nevermind?

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

as far as being cohesive works that have strong melodies and songwriting i would have to say no. Although I think Bleach is a bit more cohesive than In Utero, but the polish wasn't there... which a lot of old-heads probably like but I personally prefer the job Butch Vig did on Nevermind

Allen parsons tales of mystery an Imagination was a great album

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

i loveeee alan parsons

@6753abc

Жыл бұрын

Also old "Yes" is another you can throw in the mix

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Peter Gabriel - So Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Supertramp - Crisis What Crisis Primus - Antipop Nine inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Tool - Lateralus Beatles - Abbey Road Kraftwerk - The Man Machine Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

wow we have a lot of same tastes in music... TPAB is definitely a 10 as is man machine.. i almost included man machine in this video actually.. antipop was an interesting choice for primus seeing as most people would say pork soda. Dark side of the moon is definitely a 10 but im so burned out on that record. yes to genesis and peter gabriel, and if i were to select a beatles record i would go obvious and it would be sgt. peppers

@manuelmusic5101

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts For me Pork Soda is absolutely not perfect, it's a great album but it's not perfect. It's full of jams and experiments (interesting for sure) that don't interest me that much. But the good songs on the album are masterpieces, such as My Name is Mud, Welcome to this World, Bob and Mr Krinkle. Instead Antipop I think has the perfect tracklist, every song is full of hooks. The production and the overall performance of the band is also top notch. It's their most choesive album.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

@@manuelmusic5101 and you gotta love how they revived ''the heckler'' and made it a hidden track.. that was such an awesome gift to the fans back in the day.. that was back when you could still surprise people with hidden tracks

@manuelmusic5101

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts Yeah, awesome hidden track!

great list. mcis is a 10 tho.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

the songs that i could do without from MCIS: Cupid de Locke, Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Take Me Down, Beautiful, Lily (my one and only), farewell and goodnight... Siamese Dream has exactly 0 songs that i would remove

Based on other 10/10 albums that people are putting in the comments, it seems like I have VERY different taste in music from the rest of this channel's audience.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

please let me know some of your 10's i'm curious

A little late to the party but one album I'd call a 10/10, would be Blur's Self titled from 1997, it's just all around great, with how different it is

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

not a huge blur fan but i thought park life was their big record?

@fillertitle8729

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts funny enough it was but it was the self titled that got them huge internationally w/ Song 2 If you haven't listened to the self titled I'd very much recommend it

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

@@fillertitle8729 oh wow yeah song 2 is like a staple of not only rock but music in general..

@fillertitle8729

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts lol

Pisces Iscariot is a 10/10.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

hmmm.. it's a great album of b-sides .. i donno about a 10 though.. I do love Hello Kitty Cat, that's such an underrated song.. there's actually a lot of underrated songs on there (probably because it was never marketed as a proper album)... i'd give it a 9 out of 10

@gomiwomi

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts It's even better than many bands' frontline albums. Corgan was spitting out good songs at a high rate in that era. Plume is a droning sludge fest and it is my favourite track on the compilation.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

@@gomiwomi im also surprised soothe didnt make it onto an actual album

@gomiwomi

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts Yes.

TOOL: Opiate / Undertow / AEnima.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

i dont consider undertow S-Tier.. prison sex and sober are the best tracks off that album, they also happen to be the singles i'm aware of that but all the other songs on there are kinda meh.. opiate and aenima i can get behind though and lateralus

@manuelmusic5101

Жыл бұрын

@@DancingwithGhosts What do you think of 10.000 Days and Fear Inoculum?

@xtraflo

Жыл бұрын

When Lateralus came out I could tell something was gone. Especially after Perfect Circle changed Maynard's approach to music. Those tracks you mentioned are more or less the songs Everyone Knows but Tool fans enjoyed the entirety of all 3 records.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

@@manuelmusic5101 10,000 days was decent, i feel like their fans were way more into the album than I was. Fear Inoculum was garbage.. sounded like a bunch of songs that weren't good enough to make it onto Lateralus.. I think a lot of people were disappointed with that record

@manuelmusic5101

Жыл бұрын

​@@DancingwithGhosts Honestly I struggle to find a song that I really like even in 10.000 days. Yes "The Pot" is pretty cool, but that too sounds like a recycling of Schism but much less interesting. The whole record feels like a recycle of what they've done in the past. Even the much loved Vicarious and Jambi never said much to me. But uh...Fear Inoculum was totally garbage.

All normie choices. Overrated stuff other than Siamese Dream, really. But hey, that"s just like, my opinion, man.

@DancingwithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

normie is the new hispter, nobody cares about your weird underground bands anymore.