 | Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In
Buy used from: £2.58 Possibly the greatest album ever written. Feedback, angular hardcore.....all round genius really. Go buy!
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 | Young Team by Mogwai
Buy used from: £6.13 My favourite band. They've never written a bad song so I chose this one cos it got the ball rolling. Beauty, noise, guitar effects, feedback. They sum up everything I love about music.
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 | Jane Doe by Converge
Buy used from: £7.37 Beautiful yet brutal. Jacob has one truely mental scream too....'sounds like dead people' is one reaction I've heard to this record.
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 | Antenna by Cave In
Buy used from: £2.82 Amazing! My second favourite band churn out another classic. Star gazing, effects laden rock. Don't listen to Incubus when these guys are making music. Incubus suck by the way.
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 | Calculating Infinity by Dillinger Escape Plan
Buy used from: £6.98 Possibly the most brutal CD I own. Technical brilliance but combined with the knack of writing great songs. Like being punched in the face. Lots.
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 | Oceanic by Isis
Buy new: £10.28 / Used from: £7.99 Post-metal genius. I defy you not to think of stormy ocean landscapes when listening to this. A perfect record, right down to the sleeve art.
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 | The Argument by Fugazi
Buy used from: £4.00 These guys are legends. They've made so many great albums but their latest could well be their best.
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 | Deloused in the Comatorium by Mars Volta
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £3.93 Pushes back boundaries for fun. Omar's guitar work is incredible and as for the drumming.....you won't find a debut this year.
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 | Mono by Icarus Line
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £0.98 Seeing as Good Charlotte are apparently punk nowadays, it's great to see a real punk band around. Their new album looks to be a corker; if The Stooges became a progressive stoner band.
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 | Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You Black Emperor
Buy new: £10.08 / Used from: £8.99 Incredible cinematic post-rock. In my humble opinion it's their best album. There's 19 of the buggers too!
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 | The Shape of Punk to Come by Refused
Buy new: £10.29 / Used from: £4.94 Can I scream?!! Groundbreaking, this laid the way for a host of modern hardcore bands. The melding of hardcore, punk, electronics, jazz and even dance makes this one a classic.
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 | United By Fate: UK Special Edition by Rival Schools
Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £3.50 Walter Schriefels-what a dude. Fantastic post-hardcore, with some superb (but very subtle) lead guitar lines and use of effects.
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 | Jesus Christ Bobby by Minus
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £7.39 Not to be confused with the retard nu-metal band of the same name. This is fantastic Icelandic noisecore. Their new LP saw a drastic change of direction is still excellent. Noisiest live band ever.
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 | Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.50 Much darker than 'Rated R' and all the better for it. Desert dry guitars and a nice turn from Mr Grohl on drums.
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 | White Pony by Deftones
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.49 Chino and his merry band provide us with an art metal classic. Don't call this nu-metal whatever you do.
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 | Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence by Glassjaw
Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £1.99 I never get tired of this album. Daryl's voice is incredible and they've got a good thing going with the twin guitar attack. Lots of wah pedal craziness (nice).
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 | Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.98 One of those coffee table/dinner party staples but a mighty fine record nonetheless. 'Private Press' could never hope to match it.
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 | Burn Piano Island Burn by Blood Brothers
Buy used from: £2.85 Mental dual vocal assault (we'll have none of that Linkin Park lameness here) combined with crazy time changes and glockenspiels. Lyrically they're my favourite band too.
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 | Lateralus by Tool
Buy used from: £7.64 Just a quality album really.
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 | Community Music by Asian Dub Foundation
Buy new: £10.29 / Used from: £1.19 Oh yeah! Punk guitars, Indian samples, reggae, banghra, dub and dance. One of the best British bands around. Go see em live!
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 | Madonna by And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £3.44 Influenced by the likes of Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, these boys dish up some seriously spot on, intelligent noise.
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 | Spiderland
Buy used from: £7.74 Anyone who claims to like post-rock should include this. Revolutionary for its time.
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 | End Transmission by Snapcase
Buy new: £7.27 / Used from: £2.00 Hardcore veterans go all progressive on us and are none the worse off for it.
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 | Carpe Diem by Will Haven
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £2.50 Dense, dark offering from Sacremento's finest hard/noisecore mob. This brilliant album got me into hardcore. For that I thank them.
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 | Wiretap Scars by Sparta
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £2.99 Deceptively complex post punk record from ex ATD-I boys.
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