Favorite EPs
 

What are your top 5 favorite EPs?


Will post mine later. I'm narrowing it down now.

my beautiful son - hole

my top 5

1. young liars by tv on the radio
2. woodland whites and spring curls by benjamin wetherill
3. The DNA will have its say by Some Girls
4. hole Ep by 65 days of static
5. slow riot for new zero kanada e.p. by godspeed you black emperor

hmm. rough guess, but in no particular order:

Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada- GY!BE
Pretty Little Lightning Paw- Silver Mountain Reveries
Kill Yr Idols and the SY EP (both as one, i dont know which to put..)- SY
Vaya- ATDI
Chapel Of The Chimes- Xiu Xiu

honourable mentions-
Heads Up!- DFA1979
and both of Varge!'s ep's.

I'm going to attempt to order them.

1) Animal Collective - Prospert Hummer
2) Xiu Xiu - Chapel of the Chimes
3) At the Drive-in - Vaya
4) Arcade Fire - EP
5) Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills

Others:
Xiu Xiu - Tu Mi Piaci
Xiu Xiu - Fag Patrol
Modest Mouse - The Fruit That Ate Itself

oh oh & kill yr idols

My three favourites (all from the mid-1980's):

The Baby Men - For King Willy
Frankfurter - Eat
David Sylvian - Words With The Shaman

shit. i meant to add this one to the Hon. Mentions.

Swim by Feeder

do you mean Boards of Canada???

i can only think of 3.

hole - my beautiful son
sy - master dik
sy - kill yr idols

Helium - Pirate Prude
Erase Errata debut 7" EP
Hush Arbors - Landscape of Bone
MV & EE with the Bummer Road - Who Do You Love
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (that is if you count the british double ep version)

sy - kill yr idols
arcade fire - arcade fire
mbv - tremolo
gybe! - slow riot
ride - ride
decemberists - tain
portishead - glory box
flaming lips - ego tripping
pere ubu - datapanik in the year zero

EPs
 

SYR2 is exactly what you need to fill a spare half hour.

SYR3 beats it, but is it an EP at almost an hour? Whatever, it has J O'R on it, and that's 'the best' for me.

I almost always prefer a band's ep's to their lp's..

I've always thought of the first sonic youth album as an EP, but apparently it's not?

I like:
Prospect Hummer - Animal Collective
Green Cosmos - Deerhoof
SYR 1
Watery, Domestic - Pavement

burzum - aske

Furniture EP by Fugazi is class.

subject to change, but:

EPs:
1 R.E.M. - Chronic Town
2 The Beatles - Lady Madonna/The Inner Light
3 Chickasaw MuddPuppies - White Dirt
4 Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
5 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 1:Two Virgins
6 Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth
7 Sonic Youth - SYR1: Anagrama
8 Pixies - Come on Pilgrim
9 My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
10 Sonic Youth - SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom

Singles:
1 John Lennon - Imagine b/w Working Class Hero
2 Ciccone Youth - Into the Groove(y)
3 Duran Duran - Girls on Film
4 Duran Duran - Planet Earth *
5 Pavement - Trigger Cut Plus 2
6 Sonic Youth/Mudhoney - Touch Me, I'm Sick
7 Kate Bush - Running up that Hill
8 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - (Just Like) Starting Over b/w Kiss Kiss Kiss
9 Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
10 Sonic Youth - Halloween II



*The United States space agency NASA has a long tradition of playing Duran Duran songs for astronauts on space missions. They have often been known to play this song loudly when a space shuttle is due for arrival (along with "Hold Back The Rain" if the weather is poor). source:wikipedia

I had to stretch both of these into top tens. Great topic, HaydenAsche.

the fall - slates

but if that's not an EP but a mini-lp then:

my bloody valentine - tremolo
my bloody valentine - you made me realise
killdozer - burl
liimanarina - maailman tylsin vittumaisuus
dead kennedys - in god we trust inc

Uzi - Sleep Asylum

Being a former Radiohead diehard, I go for this one:

I wasn't sure if that qualified as an EP. It is fantastic. Radiohead rules.

slayer - haunting the chapel
die kreuzen - cows & beer
hüsker dü - metal circus
ruins - ruins ep
at the drive in - vaya

sy - kill yr idols
battles - ep c and b ep (cheating, i know)
john wiese and daniel menche - behold the scathing light
...and you will know us by the trail of dead - relative ways
radiohead - com lag (2plus2is5)

gah!! forgot animal collective's prospect hummer

sonic youth s/t
rem chronic town
husker du metal circus
i have more i cant remember

The new Jesu EP 'silver' is incredible. Thats my fave at the moment.

it indeed is an EP. This was actually the first CD that I ever purchased.
And it fucked my brain for good.

"Permanent Daylight" is one of the most brilliant songs that I've ever heard.

Oh, I know. I love that cd. For some reason, Target here in town has about 6 copies of it right now.

my favorite EP is from Civil Disobedience. i wish it would eventually make it on cd or at least cassette...

Nervous Breakdown-Black Flag

After a lot of thought this is probably my favorite EP, EVER. For the words, pictures, and music.

I think it's been rereleased or something to that effect... music world here has tons of them. I've been meaning to pick it up...

ooh ooh oh.

Shit, Cantankerous, you love that band, don't you?

Rhetorical question.

you don't really have to ask.

yeah i do. you want to know how much? i have a single they released in 1991 for sub pop singles club of the month and i have every color it was released in and beyond that i have every other single they ever released AND the EPs AND the albums.

I haven't gotten into EP's yet myself. I have a paperrad EP (for those who have the lightning bolt DVD, they do that cool animated video).

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Really like EP's, longplayers often are too long, but don't own much.
Radiohead - You might be wrong (best Radiohead cd)
Boards of Canada - In a Beatiful Place Out in the Country

Nervous Breakdown-Black Flag
Six Pack-Black Flag
In a Car-Meat Puppets
Watery Domestic-Pavement
Signals, Calls and Marches-Mission of Burma
Ok/No Way-Mission of Burma