Originally Posted by batreleaser

weezer made some great tracks, but never a fill record. say it aint so is still nerd pop at its absolute best. i fucking love that song.

Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins

Foo Fighter's first album rocks. It's essentially a Dave solo album.

Originally Posted by Death & the Maiden

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Their debut album, when Paul Di'Anno was their vocalist. The follow-up Killers was alright, but then Di'Anno left and Bruce Dickinson became their singer and they went on to do that power-metal sort of stuff.

Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins

Nah I'm not really an Iron Maiden fan. Too cheesy for my liking.

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Oh fuck, totally forgot Weezer! I also kinda like Bikini Kill's "reject all american" and a few Jack Off Jill songs! Let's not forget the humor factor of stuff like Coal Chamber as well. "LO-CO! LO-CO!"

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

i agree that i like maiden more with dianno than dickinson although i have tons of respect for bruce, he's a very very intellingent person.

that said, my favorite maiden album is powerslave.

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new york loose - s/t
heavy as hell pop punk, un-riot grrrl 90's female punk; even ventured to slower, effects driven songs and always catchy. guitars like lawnmowers and simple, easy to identify lyrics. also the best cover of vu's "sunday morning" i've heard.

beirut - gulag orkestar
i love it, symphonic pop with just enough balkan influenced intervals to make it sound exotic, but mostly because the songs and arrangements kill. the second album is pretty boring and forgettable.

bikini kill - the singles
ok, i'm cheating; their best songs, their best version of their best song and their best produced shit. and totally fun.

poison the well - you come before you
the most forced hardcore band ever, forcing heavy, throat-scrapping parts with saccharine-filled stadium rock emo tunefulness done bad. for this record, they flew to sweden to record where refused did the shape of punk to come and actually pulled themselves together to write an album that blurs metal and punk into an original and deadly combination.

dillinger escape plan - calculating infinity
although their previous eps and irony is a dead scene are fantastic, their full lenght discog starts and ends here.

mr. bungle - disco volante
a masterpiece, a spazztic, genre hopping album that feels completely organic and it's quirky but at the same time scary, brutal and beautiful.

the clash - s/t
they were brilliant doing three chord ragers with slogans for choruses, but they gotten beaten by the genre-hopping bug and the multiple-disc-albums-that-could-be-great-in-a-single-disc bug.

ani difranco - dilate
she locked her toneless feminist propaganda shit to actually write good songs about her own life backed by the hardest riffs one can summon from a funked up, tuned down acoustic guitar.

the used - s/t
all the songs in this one are a winner; catchy, raging, sad, derivative enough but not too much. then their beginner's luck ran out.

dashboard confessional - the swiz army romance
the worst things someone could give chris carraba were professional studios and electric guitars. thankfully, he managed to record one proper album at least.

dream theater - awake
the only one where they wrote good (yet intricate) songs and used their virtuosic playing in the service of said songs. castratto vocals and cheesy keyboards notwithstanding.

wolf eyes (with anthony braxton) - black vomit
their noisiest, most intense and funniest release ever in a sea of mediocrity.

Originally Posted by batreleaser

i totally agree with you about dillinger, i fucking hate both their last two full lengths. i mean, theyre pulling a napalm death on us, pretty soon there wont be one original member left in that band.

Originally Posted by uhler

i used to like the first ptw record many many years ago. i think they were straight edge at the time too. i saw them live so many times too, since they are from florida.