I love music that is thick, textured with a reverberating aura; it is hard to describe. I think the bands I like illustrate better.
I hate standard guitar rock with its mandatory leads, superficial hooks and trendy wit, which throws most American music out the window.
The Cure
Favorite album: tough call, but maybe Pornography (I am not a big album person with the Cure).
Favorite (10) Songs: The Figurehead, Siamese Twins, The Same Deep Water as You, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Kiss, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Like Cockatoos, The Snakepit (really listen to that guitar melee after the singing), End, The Drowning Man.
Live recordings
Cocteau Twins
Favorite album: The Box Set (not a big album person with them either).
Favorite (10) Songs: Pink Orange Red, Blue Bell Knoll, Love's Easy Tears, Beatrix, Throughout the Dark Months of April and May, Serpentskirt, The Spangle Maker, Sigh's Smell of Farewell, Alice.
Live recordings
Dead Can Dance
Favorite album: Aion, but Within the Realm of a Dying Sun is right there too.
Favorite (10) Songs: Emmeleia, Yulunga, Indus, The Arrival and the Reunion, Song of the Sibyl, The End of Words/Wilderness/The Promised Womb (they strike me as one unit), The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove, De Profundis, Circumradiant Dawn, Avatar, all of ...Dying Sun, Host of Seraphim, Chant of the Paladin, Echolalia, Mother Tongue... okay that's more than ten.
Dead Can Dance Title Page: from where do they come...
Radiohead
Favorite album: OK Computer or The Bends, they are both remarkable.
Favorite (10) Songs: Paranoid Android, Just, Fake Plastic Trees, Talk Show Host, Lucky, Street Spirit, Polyethylene, Pearly, The Bends, Exit Music...?
Slowdive
Favorite album: Souvlaki edges out Just for a Day.
Favorite (10) Songs: Primal (the ultimate Slowdive), Souvlaki Space Station, When the Sun Hits, Here She Comes, Spanish Air, Melon Yellow, Blue Skied an' Clear, Rutti, J's Heaven, Dagger.
Enough of that, I won't go through MBV (Loveless tops all, Sometimes especially), Portishead (Live Recordings) or Spiritualized.
