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Godfather1388's top albums (overall)
1. Дэфолиант - Бестселлер (343) 2. Deep Forest - Essence Of The Forest (337) 3. Nautilus Pompilius - Крылья (295) 4. Sting - Greatest Hits CD1 (295) 5. Queen - Greatest Hits I (The Platinum Collection) (285) 6. Ант - Антрэпология (261) 7. The Offspring - Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace (247) 8. Amethystium - Aphelion (220) 9. Иезекииль 25:17 - Засада. Крепче стали (217) 10. Amethystium - Evermind (214) 11. Queen - Innuendo (207) 12. Amethystium - Isabliss (198) 13. Justice - † (Cross) (161) 14. Daft Punk - Discovery (160) 15. The Offspring - Greatest Hits (158) 16. Queen - Greatest Hits II (The Platinum Collection) (157) 17. Lesiëm - Auracle (151) 18. Пилот - Сказка о Прыгуне и Скользящем (150) 19. Secret Garden - Songs From A Secret Garden - 528 230-2 Mercury (150) 20. Antonio Vivaldi - Vivaldi-The Four Seasons and Violin Concertos (147) 21. Amethystium - Odonata (145) 22. Агата Кристи - Опиум (145) 23. Amethystium - Emblem [Selected Pieces] (143) 24. 25/17 - Только для своих (137) 25. Enigma - M C M X C a. D. (136) 26. ДДТ - Пролетела (Переиздание XXI век) (131) 27. Indian's Sacred Spirit - More Chants And Dances Of The Native Americans (128) 28. Paul Mauriat - The Best Of Paul Mauriat Vol.1 (128) 29. Queen - A Kind of Magic (128) 30. Basement Jaxx - The Singles (127) 31. Пилот - 1+1=1 (114) 32. Queen - A Night At The Opera (110) 33. The Offspring - Splinter (108) 34. Beatles - GOLDEN BEATLES (108) 35. Madonna - Celebration (94) 36. Queen - Jazz (90) 37. Queen - Works (90) 38. Daft Punk - Musique Vol. 1 (1993 - 2005) (90) 39. ДДТ и Юрий Шевчук - Прекрасная любовь (88) 40. Paul Mauriat - The Best of Paul Mauriat VOL II (87) 41. Enigma - Enigma Greatest Hits (86) 42. The Cure - Greatest Hits (86) 43. Depeche Mode - The Best Of - Volume 1 (82) 44. Пилот - Содружество (81) 45. Pet Shop Boys - Yes (Disc 1 - Yes) (73) 46. Queen - The Miracle (73) 47. Lesiëm - Mystic Spirit Voices (73) 48. Пилот - Война (Акустика) (72) 49. DotsFam - Zombusiness (71) 50. The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die (70)

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USA:The Mars Volta, Dream Theater, Michael Jackson, Spock's Beard, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Explosions in the Sky, Chick Corea, Elvis Presley, Pearl Jam, Pat Metheny Group, Victor Wooten, John Williams, Jordan Rudess, Cat Power, R.E.M., Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez, disney, Nirvana, Coheed and Cambria, Death Cab for Cutie, System of a Down, Megadeth, Interpol, Metallica

Japan:嵐, 菅野よう子, 植松伸夫,
L'Arc~en~Ciel, ORANGE RANGE, マキシマム ザ ホルモン, X JAPAN, モーニング娘。, Berryz工房, Gackt, Kitaro, NEWS, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, YUI, The Black Mages, 二宮和也, BECK OST, Buono!, KAT-TUN


UK:Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Mika, Jamie Cullum, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, The Beatles, Jamiroquai, Yes, Queen, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Rick Wakeman, Deep Purple, Ozric Tentacles, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Ozzy Osbourne, Marillion, Pendragon

Netherlands:Ayreon, The Gathering, Flairck

Iceland:Sigur Rós, Björk

France:Jean-Michel Jarre, Yann Tiersen, Deep Forest, Jean-Luc Ponty, The Dø

Germany:Enigma, Blind Guardian, Corvus Corax, Hans Zimmer, Tangerine Dream, 7for4

Sweden:Pain of Salvation, The Flower Kings, A.C.T, Opeth

Canada:Rush, Howard Shore, Diana Krall

Korea:Epik High, BIG BANG

Ireland:Enya, God Is an Astronaut

Argentina:Fito Páez, Miranda!

Chile:Los Tres

Jamaica:Bob Marley & The Wailers

Norway:Amethystium

Spain:Porta

Belgium:Urban Trad

New Albums to listen to and buy:

The Future Sound of London
Enigma -
Mike Oldfield - Music Of The Spheres
Deep Forest - Kusa No Ran

New Artists to try out:

Yann Tiersen - composer of Amelie etc. soundtracks
Empire of the Sun - recommended by Ryan
OceanLab - Sirens of the Sea
Fauxliage - Fauxliage - the latest offering from Delerium duo Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber featuring Leigh Nash.
Max Richter - check out his albums again and decide which is best.

Tracks (heard recently):

Bob Sinclar - World Hold On (at Coral Bay)
Blue Lagoon - Break My Stride (at Coral Bay)
Lupe Fiasco Ft. Young Jeezy & T.I. - Superstar (Remix) (everywhere)

Listen to other albums by:
Everything but the Girl - Like the Deserts Miss the Rain is a good collection, should listen to their earlier albums other than Tempermental in full.
Mediæval Bæbes
OMD
Chorus of Tribes - from Richard's collection, Deep Forest / Engima rip-off that's pretty good.

See also my playlists:
New and interesting
To Get
Good Greek

Modified: 04/12/09

Mr_ZEE's top albums
1. ATB - Trilogy (232) 2. U2 - U218 Singles (193) 3. Deep Forest - Pacifique (184) 4. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (141) 5. Depeche Mode - Exciter (119) 6. Tarkan - Karma (119) 7. Röyksopp - The Understanding (114) 8. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (110) 9. Editors - An End Has a Start (101) 10. Interpol - Our Love To Admire (101) 11. Recoil - Unsound Methods (101) 12. Enigma - Le Roi Est Mort, Vive le Roi! (99) 13. Depeche Mode - Ultra (98) 14. Enigma - The Screen Behind The Mirror (96) 15. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (94) 16. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel (94) 17. ATB - No Silence (90) 18. Paul van Dyk - In Between (90) 19. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (86) 20. New Order - Get Ready (86)

I’ve been working on this for a while now and everytime I think it’s finished I find something new or rediscover something old. So I’ve decided to just go with what I’ve got. Any recommendations will be very welcome!

100. Amon Tobin – Bricolage
99. Elbow – Leaders Of The Free World
98. 2Pac – Me Against The World
97. Lamb – What Sound
96. Luke Vibert – YosepH
95. Squarepusher – Selection Sixteen
94. Nightmares on Wax – Smokers Delight
93. Four Tet – Rounds
92. Jay-Z – The Black Album
91. Echo & The Bunnymen – Crocodiles
90. Goldie – Timeless
89. The Orb – U.F.Orb
88. Sufjan Stevens – Greetings From Michigan
87. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
86. Autechre – Untilted
85. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
84. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
83. Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher
82. 65daysofstatic – One Time For All Time
81. Sigur Ros – Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
80. Deep Forest – Deep Forest
79. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
78. Milieu – Night Currents
77. M83 – Before The Dawn Heals Us
76. Aphex Twin – Richard D James Album
75. Autechre – Incunabula
74. Genius/GZA – Liquid Swords
73. Red Snapper – Making Bones
72. Nas – Illmatic
71. 2Pac – All Eyez On Me
70. LFO – Frequencies
69. Wu-Tang Clan – The W
68. 65daysofstatic – The Destruction of Small Ideas
67. Talking Heads – Fear Of Music
66. Aphex Twin – 26 Mixes For Cash
65. Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death
64. Biosphere & Higher Intelligence Agency – Polar Sequences
63. Talib Kweli – Train Of Thought
62. Prefuse 73 – Surrounded By Silence
61. The Orb – The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
60. The Black Dog – Bytes
59. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
58. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
57. Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
56. Biosphere – Cirque
55. Fennesz – Endless Summer
54. The Future Sound of London – Lifeforms
53. Feedle – Leave Now For Adventure
52. Roni Size & Reprazent – New Forms
51. Xanopticon – Liminal Space
50. Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy
49. Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever
48. Burial – Burial
47. Venetian Snares – My Downfall
46. Susumu Yokota – Distant Sounds Of Summer
45. Prefuse 73 – Security Screenings
44. Biosphere – Shenzhou
43. iTAL tEK – Cyclical
42. Notorious B.I.G. – Ready To Die
41. Venetian Snares – Songs About My Cats
40. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
39. Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt
38. Fennesz – Venice
37. Milieu – Slow Lid Close
36. Minilogue – Animals
35. Radiohead – Amnesiac
34. Venetian Snares – The Chocolate Wheelchair Album
33. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 2
32. Lamb – Lamb
31. Prefuse 73 – Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
30. The Decemberists – Picaresque
29. Susumu Yokota – Sakura
28. Radiohead – Hail To The Thief
27. Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise
26. Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
25. Aphex Twin – I Care Because You Do
I Care Because You Do is one of those rare great, groundbreaking electronic albums which stands pretty much unimitated. Perhaps it is because it was released before digital production suddenly became widespread and drill & bass became the new thing. Perhaps it is just that no one else could inject the same sort of playfulness needed to make music like this really work. Whatever the reason, it’s genius.

24. Autechre – Chiastic Slide
Clanks and whirrs and mechanical noises all combine to make an album which soundtracks a post-apocalyptic world ruled by machines where beauty shines through in glimpses.

23. Arovane – Lilies
‘Lilies’ is the perfect title for this album and the emotions which it communicates. Melodies float over shimmering beats, beautiful, organic, fragile, and ultimately finite.

22. Explosions in the Sky – The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
This is an album which swoops and soars. The album is a journey through emotions and the listener is compelled to follow.

21. M83 – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Post-rock with synths. A truly epic record, full of energy.

20. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Enter The Wu-Tang sounds quite unlike any other album I’ve heard. Whilst the rapping is top class, what makes this album so brilliant is the production, which is rugged and raw and brilliantly original. It wasn’t until Prefuse 73’s debut, 8 years on, that someone came along and finally took up where Enter The Wu-Tang left off and took hip-hop to the next level.

19. Bola – Soup
Soup is a truly stunning work of ambient techno. It is beautiful, nostalgic, and lush.

18. Squarepusher – Ultravisitor
Ultravisitor is a sprawling masterpiece. Jenkinson draws upon all his work prior to this and the result is an album which astounds and intrigues. At times it is challenging, at others brutal, and at times beautiful. It sounds like a ‘best-of’, just with completely new material.

17. Envy – Insomniac Doze
This is post-rock meets screamo – despair, anguish, and anger permeate through the walls of noise that Envy create.

16. Venetian Snares – Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
Breakcore meets classical. The result is magnificent - never does this unlikely union sound at all forced.

15. Radiohead – The Bends
Ok Computer and the albums which followed it take different genres and seamlessly meld them together – they don’t really come under the classification of rock or pop. Comparing Kid A to a Coldplay album is like comparing Aphex Twin to Sufjan Stevens. The Bends, though, is simply a truly unbelievable rock album. Radiohead didin’t here deviate wildly from their contemporary rock bands. They just plain did it better.

14. Burial – Untrue
Untrue is haunting. Here Burial does for dubstep what Boards Of Canada did for what can loosely be termed IDM – he injects it with pure emotion and creates a record which is devastatingly dark and personal.

13. Squarepusher – Feed Me Weird Things
Occasionally someone comes along who tears up how you think about music. Squarepusher is one of those artists. Feed Me Weird Things is that album. Squarepusher Theme is that song. Hyperactive jazz bass guitar over hyperspeed breaks, over which Tom Jenkinson somehow remains in control. The rest of the album pushes drum & bass past its logical limits, bringing jazz along for the ride. The result is mind-blowing.

12. Radiohead – In Rainbows
It’s been out well over a year now, and I still get excited each time I hear the start of 15 Step.

11. Global Communication – 76:14
A lot of mid-90s ambient techno sounds quite dated these days – that isn’t necessarily a bad thing – but 76:14 sounds like it was produced yesterday, or perhaps even next year. It is incredibly lush, melodies floating around over spacey beats. If angels made music, it would probably sound like this.

10. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
Not a lot to say here. Beautiful and ethereal.

9. 65daysofstatic – The Fall Of Math
At their best, 65daysofstatic take the intensity of Aphex and Squarepusher and mix it with the emotional force of Explosions In The Sky and Mogwai. What results here is an album which never lets up. It is dark yet ultimately euphoric.

8. Sigur Ros – ( )
Clichés abound when talking about Sigur Ros, and rightfully so. This is the soundtrack to an icy landscape twinkling under the light of the stars.

7. Radiohead – Kid A
So much has been written about Kid A – about its originality, how derivative it is, about how it pushed the boundaries, about how it was too experimental, not experimental enough, pretentious, innovative, and so on. What matters is that it is a brilliant synergy of electronic complexities and rock sensibilities, and that it is devastatingly beautiful from start to finish.

6. Autechre – Amber
At once cold, metallic and austere, warm, organic and lush, Amber is an album which challenges and soothes. Each track slowly evolves as layers of beats and melodies rise and fall, each sound meticulously placed, yet at the same time it sounds like music made by nature, melodies intertwining as if they were meant to be that way. Amber is man and machine in perfect harmony.

5. Squarepusher – Go Plastic
Some music works by being simple, some by being complex. With simple music, the skill is in preventing it becoming mundane. With complex music, the skill is in pushing the complexity to the absolute limits without losing control of what’s going on. On Go Plastic, Squarepusher pushed the limits further than anyone else without losing control. This is calculated violence with sound – a series of sonic assaults which dance on the edge of the abyss without ever falling into complete madness.

4. Boards of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
This album is all about childhood. It is the embodiment of nostalgia for that innocent time in our lives when we grew up blissfully ignorant of the suffering in the world around us. At the same time, dark undercurrents drift below the surface of the music, bringing us back from that nostalgia to the real world.

3. Biosphere – Substrata
Biosphere paints pictures with sound. He constructs soundscapes which engulf the listener, drawing them in until they are part of the music. Substrata isn’t just an aural experience, it’s a whole atmosphere. It hypnotically demands your whole attention. It is sublimely beautiful organic ambient music which tells a story of the most beautiful isolation – isolation where you are not lonely; rather, isolation where you are at one with the world around you.

2. Sigur Ros – Takk…
Sigur Ros epitomise what great music should do - Jonsi sings in a language I don't understand, but the sheer power of the music communicates emotions too pure for words. Takk is by a long way the most beautiful album I have ever come across.

1. Radiohead – Ok Computer
It’s hard to say what makes Ok Computer so utterly perfect. It just works. It’s dark, uplifting, complex, simple, sparse, and dense. It’s a journey which draws you in, music which defies categorisation, drawing from so many different sources yet completely original in its execution. It is perfect.

Finally, as alluded to above, I’m always discovering new music so a favourite albums list is never going to really be complete. Here are some recent discoveries which would probably be on this list somewhere if I were to do it again now.

Murcof – Martes
Paavoharju – Yha Hamaraa
Nas – Untitled
Bola – Fyuti
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
Lights Out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide

Any comments are welcome and I would love some recommendations.

Now, my knowledge of coding is very basic, so bear with me if this is difficult.

For many artists with the same name, Last.fm could maintain multiple pages. One for each.
Now, how to differentiate?
This will take effort from the community, but I was thinking that songs could be categorized under a disambiguation page until a bunch of people confirm which artist they're by.

For example, I listen to a song tagged Rain. Let's say this song hasn't been categorized yet. Then I could click it in my profile to go to a page labeled Rain (disambiguation). Then I would vote for which Rain said song is by. Let's say I pick 비. Well if a bunch of people agree, then in the future it will scrobble it under 비. For everyone.

It's probably not perfect, so please comment with your thoughts. And some way to suggest this to Last.fm staff. =P

And comment with other artists of this nature if you'd like. I'll add them to the list below.

Other multiple identity artists:
Marble
Sonorous
Clover
BoA
Slaughter
Helix
Zebra
Rail
Giant
Dream
North
Doom
Leviathan
Rita
MELL
Iron Maiden
Racer X
James Murphy
Jeff Martin
Tank
Jaguar
A
Shiva
Demon
Raven
Catch 22
Avenger
Blaze
Ark
Cacophony
Fist
Ring of Fire
Deep Forest
Axis
Savage
outloud
IRA
Havok
Death

Mr_ZEE's top albums
1. ATB - Trilogy (215) 2. U2 - U218 Singles (193) 3. Deep Forest - Pacifique (183) 4. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (137) 5. Depeche Mode - Exciter (111) 6. Röyksopp - The Understanding (108) 7. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (107) 8. Tarkan - Karma (102) 9. Recoil - Unsound Methods (99) 10. Depeche Mode - Ultra (96) 11. Editors - An End Has a Start (92) 12. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel (92) 13. Enigma - Le Roi Est Mort, Vive le Roi! (91) 14. Enigma - The Screen Behind The Mirror (90) 15. ATB - No Silence (88) 16. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (86) 17. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (84) 18. Paul van Dyk - In Between (82) 19. Muse - Absolution (80) 20. Interpol - Our Love To Admire (77) 21. Editors - The Back Room (77) 22. New Order - Get Ready (77) 23. Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses (76) 24. Air - Talkie Walkie (76) 25. Enigma - A Posteriori (71) 26. Enigma - Voyageur (70) 27. Massive Attack - Collected (70) 28. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (66) 29. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (65) 30. Radiohead - In Rainbows (62) 31. Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Dream (61) 32. George Michael - Older (61) 33. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (60) 34. Chris Rea - The Best Of (58) 35. U2 - Pop (57) 36. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open (57) 37. Recoil - Liquid (57) 38. Recoil - Bloodline (57) 39. Keane - Under The Iron Sea (56) 40. Chris Rea - On the Beach (56) 41. Daft Punk - Discovery (55) 42. 30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie (54) 43. Rammstein - Mutter (53) 44. Enigma - Seven Lives Many Faces (53) 45. Air - Moon Safari (52) 46. Depeche Mode - Violator (51) 47. Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion (50) 48. Pink Floyd - The Wall (48) 49. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (48) 50. Massive Attack - Blue Lines (47)

YANBY'S TOP ALBUMS


1. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (225) 2. God Is an Astronaut - The End of the Beginning (200) 3. Tool - Lateralus (192) 4. Pink Floyd - The Wall (168) 5. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (167) 6. Emigrate - Emigrate (118) 7. Various Artists - 28 Days Later (112) 8. Tool - 10,000 Days (112) 9. Deep Forest - Pacifique (105) 10. Ляпис Трубецкой - Manifest (100) 11. Дельфин - Юность (99) 12. John Frusciante - To Record Only Water For Ten Days (84) 13. Tool - Aenima (82) 14. Joy Division - Control (80) 15. Clan of Xymox - Best Of (72) 16. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (72) 17. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (70) 18. Tool - Undertow (66) 19. Amethystium - Evermind (64) 20. Enigma - Seven Lives Many Faces (58) 21. Joy Division - Closer (58) 22. God Is an Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright (57) 23. Portishead - Third (55) 24. Tiamat - Skeleton Skeletron (53) 25. Ministry - Animositisomina (53) 26. Tiamat - Amanethes (49) 27. God Is an Astronaut - Far From Refuge (46) 28. Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (46)