Re: best of 4AD

o.k. I'll do it too: (top 5 best 4ad albums ever)
1- birthday party "junkyard" (best 4ad band ever!!!)
2- colin newman "not to"
3- wolfgang press "bird wood cage"
4- pixies "surfer rosa"
5- matt johnson "burning blue soul"

honorable mention:
Xmal deutshland
in camera
mass (early wolfgang)
gilbert/lewis (cupol)
mystre de voix bulgares
harold budd
peter nooten
TMC's first one
oh yeah, and some band called bauhaus...

:D

~bore

http://www.mp3.com/morteville




---- In [email protected], tom topkoff <nitzer24@y...> wrote:
> 
> A longtime person here, mainly lurking and reading....
> 
> I couldn't let this go without putting in my opinion: 
> In no particular order as these are my favorite 4ad
> records of all time....period:
> 
> His Name Is Alive:  Mouth By Mouth.  Warn's production
> is so crazy and so vivacious.  Makes everything else
> he's ever produced seem bland.  I've listened to it a
> million times and always hear something new.
> 
> Cocteau Twins:  Treasure.  Could you find anything
> more beautiful? That's what really got me hooked! 
> 
> Lush:  Split.  Arguably not their best record, but it
> just holds a ton of memories of good times and bad.
> 
> Mojave 3:  Ask Me Tomorrow.  About the only record on
> the planet that makes me cry.
> 
> Scheer: Infliction.  Dense, loud, and beautiful all at
> the same time.  Never heard anything this loud be so
> lush and so thoroughly textured.
> 
> Close to the list:  Unrest-Perfect Teeth and Dead Can
> Dance-Spleen and Ideal.
> 
> Got to see Mojave and Scheer in Austin when they
> toured with Lush.  Lush played a larger, opening that
> night, and the two remaining bands played in a smaller
> club.  It was amazing. Also saw HNIA do a small fairly
> acoustic gig after the release of Stars of ESP.  Very
> neat.  Karin drew a rose and Warn put some neat
> ramblings in my copy of King Of Sweet (in sharpie, of
> course)
> 
> okay. back to lurking.  Thanks for listening.
> tom @ hybridmagazine.com
> 
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