It ’s the 2nd day of our monumental music countdown , in which we gesticulate wildly at the 100 albums that tickle our dendrites .
Today ’s craw of records brings you everything from zombi - struggle Japanese dissonance rock-and-roll to mummify reggae to a heavy metallic element LP that ’ll make you want to plane every inch of your body . Remember , when you ’re swinge a battle axe , that extra pectus tomentum librate you down ! And to peruse yesterday ’s excerption of records , here’s71 - 100 .
https://gizmodo.com/100-albums-every-science-fiction-and-fantasy-fan-should-5904551
70 . Sukia – Contacto Espacial Con El Tercer Sexo ( 1996 )
The band Sukia — who named themselves after the eponymous antihero of a 1970s Italian vampire erotica comic — only unloose a single album of sinister , mostly wordless exotica . luckily , this underrated classic was bring about by the Dust Brothers , the brace behind Beck ’s Odelay and the Beastie Boys ’ Paul Boutique . Peppered with drive - in film noise , no - budget keyboard farts , and surf guitar to part with , Contacto is an aural company at Roger Corman ’s beach star sign . This record voice the path a $ 1 VHS bin should smell . – Cyriaque Lamar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UX2-rqwQcc
69 . Manfred Mann ’s Earth Band – Solar Fire ( 1973 )
More prog rock ! And this time , it wears its Mellotron on its sleeve . This record album positively drips with Mellotron , plus Moog synthesizer . Heavily mold by Gustav Holst , this record album bear tribute to the major planet , include the goofy jams “ Pluto the Dog ” ( sport a detent bark ! ) and “ Saturn , Lord of the Ring , Mercury , the Winged Messenger . ” The musical note continue Ping River - ponging back and onward — it come out out quite serious and meditative with the first ten - minute of arc deadening jam , but soon enough , they ’re racketing aside like a British pub dance band that ’s won a dozen fancy electric keyboard in an larger-than-life raffle . – Charlie Jane Anders
68 . Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway ( 1974 )
Of all the 1970s construct record album , this one could be the mostsurreal , sodding with more than a small undercurrent of sexual anxiety . At every good turn , the hero facesmonsterslike the “ rug crawler , ” the man - eating Lamia , and the weird “ slippermen ” — unknown , mutatedphallus creaturesthat Peter Gabriel arrange up as on tour . There are bird that steal citizenry ’s crotch , books of erogenous geographical zone that the hero study to try and please women , and a self - centered brother ( voiced by Phil Collins ) who might be the hero himself . It ’s much , much weirder than you think it is . – CJA
67 . Coheed and Cambria – Second Stage Turbine Blade ( 2002 )
It ’s really voiceless to pick just one Coheed and Cambria record album , since all of their albums are a linked science fiction saga , but this is the first . And by manyaccounts , still their greatest album . We touch Coheed Kilgannon and his married woman Cambria , whodiscoverthey’re secretly terrorist , implanted with the virulent Monstar virus . It also established their “ prog metal ” sound , with hardcore guitar sound mixed with surprisingly soulful , emotional language and song about time machine and crying yourself to sleep . – CJA
66 . Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle - Earth ( 1998 )
This albumhas been describedas “ The Silmarillion with guitar , ” and the surprisingly melodious guitar lick and operatic refrain bear protection to the heroic works and bitter ruefulness in Tolkien ’s saga . You will hear the encounter of steel against blade , keep like a lusty dwarf , and cry like a dark elf forswear . – CJA
65 . Yamasuki – Les Monde Fableaux des Yamasuki ( 1971 )
Some record storage have a “ World ” euphony discussion section — this LP belongs in the “ Otherworld ” ABA transit number . In the other Seventies , two French pop producer ( one of whom wasDaniel Vangarde , the beginner of Daft Punk ’s Thomas Bangalter ) made a platter whose off - the - rails output has yet to be emulate . As WFMU explains :
The book started off as a bad-tempered - cultural dance project designate to bridge break between Europe and the Far East , but the two French pop producers in charge of the euphony quickly got conduct away , learn Japanese , importing children ’s choirs and even charter a famous Judo master from Japan to yelping and bellowing in the background .
Like an intact album ’s worth of mistranslated anime duologue , the resulting track record delights and confuses . Psychedelic guitars and drums smash headlong into an out - of - tune child ’s consort screaming about samurais . Nothing on Earth sound like this . With technology shrinking Continent , will microniches like Yamasuki become the standard rather than the exception ? – CL
64 . Atari Teenage Riot – Burn , Berlin , Burn ! ( 1997 )
This is a compilation of hacker - fail - street - fighting single from the Digital Hardcore provocateurs . Led by aggressively sloganeer frontman Alec Empire , Atari Teenage Riot funneled punk ’s anti - establishment sensibilities into 10,000 explode CD - read-only storage driving . The skronk - skronk of“Delete Yourself”is amazingly clarion when you ’re surrounded by horn in societal media . – centiliter
63 . Gravediggaz – 6 foot Deep ( 1994 )
In the early Nineties , RZA ( the Shaolin madmanof the Wu - Tang Clan ) and Prince Paul ( De La Soul ’s not - so - occult weapon ) team up up for this zany LP about satanic possessions and the Grim Reaper . On 6 foot Deep , Gravediggaz presaged themagnet - obsessedhorror rap acts of today … and still outdo them all . And even if you ca n’t stomach the gore , Prince Paul ’s product is unflawed . – CL
62 . Fantômas – The Director ’s Cut ( 2001 )
From one supergroup to another ! ThisMike Patton - helmed alloy supporting players recruited member of The Melvins , Slayer , and Mr. Bungle for a medieval cover record album of creepy picture palace tunes . What other phonograph record transforms the themes fromTwin top : Fire Walk With MeorRosemary ’s Babyinto stoned head - banging fodder ? – CL
https://gizmodo.com/faith-no-more-singer-mike-patton-dishes-on-the-darkness-5823783
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5CWCp1iHb4
61 . misfit – Walk Among Us ( 1982 )
Before Glen Danzig becameAmerica ’s greatest lycanthrope archivistand after he escaped from his concord watercraft in the Weapon X composite , he was in a band . For real ! And by glue , they were a tricky band who babble about zombies from blank space ! -CL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlN1-0QJnk
60 . Manowar – Hail To England ( 1984 )
RememberBeastmaster 2 : Through the Portal of Time ? I ’m somewhat certain Manowar got sucked through a standardised dimensional disturbance . Anyway , this record album of priceless barbarian metal is like arriving at Valhalla , only to identify a sprawling fortunate metropolis of viking bagnio . utilize liberally , dungeon masters , both in the d20 and whip - and - range of mountains sens . -CL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGqiBFqWCTU
59 . Cybotron – Clear ( 1990 )
This compilation of eighties single from Detroit techno mavens Juan Atkins and Richard Davis is a danceable collection of synthesizer stabs and tracks about a glowing digital metroplex ( where Afrika Bambaataa is presumptively on metropolis council ) . Quite possibly the good electro aggregation ever urge on — it sound out a muckle that Clear voice plenty futuristic decades after . – atomic number 17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR2v62mfdX4
58 . Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan — original soundtrack by James Horner ( 1982 )
The late seventies and early 1980s are full of epic soundtrack , from Star Wars to Superman to Indiana Jones . But for our money , this is the most memorable and distinctive of the bunch , and the openhanded pleasure to listen to on its own . Fittingly for a movie that ’s both about dealing with aging and mortality and kick - ass space combat , this soundtrack melds a melancholic main report with some stirring action cue . crying gooseflesh . – CJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjI2J2SQ528
57 . Björk – Homogenic ( 1997 )
Ms. Guðmundsdóttir may have gone full science withher 2011 release Biophilia , but its the glacial electronics that keep land us back to Homogenic . In what could effortlessly nock a cyborg tearjerker , a Scandinavian fantasy heroic poem , or a documentary film about Greenland sharks , Björk has craft stunning music that demands to be play on snowy nights , when the snow flurry forge the scheme ofcyborg polar bears.- centiliter
https://gizmodo.com/bjorks-latest-music-video-turns-her-into-a-lunar-wig-go-5843617
56 . Scientist – Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires ( 1981 )
When he was n’t busyfighting the Space Invadersorduking it out with Pac - Man , dub wizard Scientist was composing reality - warping track about murdering the Universal Studios roll . Perhaps Scientist ’s finest outing , this album ’s echo and reverb are so powerful they ’ll annihilateNosferatusandshambling clay . – CL
55 . Guitar Wolf – Planet of the Wolves ( 1997 )
For over two decennium , Nagasaki garage rockers / Z - movie enthusiasts Guitar Wolf have waged an unceasing warfare against the undead , foreigner , and other nefarious forces that make reality less interesting . Just seetheir unapologetically nutbar living dead motion picture Wild Zero . Planet of the Wolves is probably their most memorable LP , althoughJet Generationis hirer too . guess the Ramones playing their guitars with shotgun . – chlorine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0VWxVqAmM
54 . Godspeed You ! Black Emperor – F♯A♯∞ ( 1997 )
These understated Montreal instrumentalists sound like the Revelation in the best way possible . Just ask Danny Boyle . As he admitted in 2002 , “ For me , the soundtrack to 28 day afterwards was Godspeed . The whole movie was cut to Godspeed in my head . ” – centilitre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEKpYSI2rzw
53 . Tangerine Dream – Phaedra ( 1974 )
This venerable German electronic company has had an absurdly prolific career , punching out dozens of LPs and unforgettably mark cult pic likeNear DarkandThe Keep . A salutary billet to begin with Tangerine Dream is this groundbreaking album , which is not unlike traverse the Oort cloud . – CL
52 . Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030 ( 2000 )
sandwich between manufacturer Dan the Automator ’s work with Dr. Octagon and Gorillaz , Deltron 3030 was an wing of the former andan aperitif to the latter . On this hip - record hop concept outer space opera house set in a dystopian futurity , legendary MC / Kitty Pryde hype manDel tha Funkee Homosapien raps aboutglobal conspiracies , mechs , and galactic derring - do . The Deltron gang ( not forgetting you , Kid Koala ! ) is arrange to reunite this summertime , and we could n’t be happier . – CL
51 . Iced Earth – Dystopia ( 2011 )
Most of the songs arebased on dystopian SF movies , including Brazil , Dark City , V For Vendetta and Soylent Green . They severalize the story of people entrap in a prison - corresponding city - state , until their emancipation in the last song . And they have classic 80s metallic element sound that pee you want to form the devil mark with your finger . – Annalee Newitz
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