The Dillinger Escape Plan

Ok, so I've got one more post to make before the year's out. Today (December 29, 2017) marks the final day of this band's existence, since they've decided to burn out instead of fade away. Their final show is tonight, and their last album was released last year. This band has had an insane career throughout their 20 year existence, marked by numerous line-up changes, explosive live shows, and consistently hard-hitting, forward-thinking albums. Without a doubt they are one of the greatest, most progressive and influential bands in hardcore and metal, and this is the perfect time to look back at the amazing work that solidified their legacy. Without further ado, The Dillinger Escape Plan. 1997-2017.

The Dillinger Escape Plan (1997)

1. Proceed With Caution

2. I Love Secret Agents

3. Monticello

4. Cleopatra's Sling

5. Caffeine

6. Three For Flinching (Revenge Of The Porno Clowns)

7. Sugar Coated Sour (Live)

8. Abe The Cop (Live)
9. The Running Board (Live)

Note: Last 3 tracks are bonus tracks on the 2000 reissue

Under The Running Board (1998)

1. The Mullet Burden

2. Sandbox Magician

3. Abe The Cop

NJ (1998)

1. Nora - The Power Of

2. The Dillinger Escape Plan - 4th Grade Dropout

3. Nora - Murder One

The Dillinger Escape Plan/Drowningman (1999)

1. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Jim Fear

2. Drowningman - My First Restraining Order

Calculating Infinity (1999)

1. Sugar Coated Sour

2. 43% Burnt

3. Jim Fear

4. #..

5. Destro's Secret

6. The Running Board

7. Clip The Apex... Accept Instruction

8. Calculating Infinity

9. 4th Grade Dropout

10. Weekend Sex Change

11. Variations On A Cocktail Dress

Irony Is A Dead Scene (2002)

1. Hollywood Squares (feat. Mike Patton)

2. Pig Latin

3. When Good Dogs Do Bad Things

4. Come To Daddy (Aphex Twin cover)

Cursed, Unshaven and Misbehavin': Live Infinity (2003)

1. Jim Fear

2. Destro's Secret

3. Sandbox Magician

4. The Mullet Burden

Miss Machine (2004)

1. Panasonic Youth

2. Sunshine The Werewolf

3. Highway Robbery

4. Van Damsel

5. Phone Home

6. We Are The Storm

7. Crutch Field Tongs

8. Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants

9. Baby's First Coffin

10. Unretrofied

11. The Perfect Design

Plagiarism (2006)

1. Unretrofied

2. Wish (Nine Inch Nails cover)

3. Angel (Massive Attack cover)

4. Jesus Christ Pose (Soundgarden cover)

5. Like I Love You (Justin Timberlake cover)

6. The Perfect Design

Ire Works (2007)

1. Fix Your Face

2. Lurch

3. Black Bubblegum

4. Sick On Sunday

5. When Acting As A Particle

6. Nong Eye Gong

7. When Acting As A Wave

8. 82588

9. Milk Lizard

10. Party Smasher

11. Dead As History

12. Horse Hunter

13. Mouth Of Ghosts

Option Paralysis (2010)

1. Goodbye, Mona Lisa

2. Good Neighbor

3. Gold Teeth On A Bum

4. Crystal Morning

5. Endless Endings

6. Widower

7. Room Full Of Eyes

8. Chinese Whisperers

9. I Wouldn't If You Didn't

10. Parasitic Twins

One Of Us Is The Killer (2013)

1. Prancer

2. When I Lost My Bet

3. One Of Us Is The Killer

4. Hero Of The Soviet Union

5. Nothing's Funny

6. Understanding Decay

7. Paranoia Shields

8. CH 375 268 277 ARS

9. Magic That I Held You Prisoner

10. Crossburner

11. The Threat Posed By Nuclear Weapons

Dissociation (2016)

1. Limerent Death

2. Symptom Of Terminal Illness

3. Wanting Not So Much To As To

4. Fugue

5. Low Feels Blvd

6. Surrogate

7. Honeysuckle

8. Manufacturing Discontent

9. Apologies Not Included

10. Nothing To Forget

11. Disassociation

Live Infinity (2019)

1. Sandbox Magician

2. Jim Fear

3. Destro's Secret

4. Clip The Apex... Accept Instruction

5. 43% Burnt

6. The Mullet Burden

7. Sugar Coated Sour

8. The Running Board

9. Abe the Cop

Compilation Songs

Damaged I & II (Black Flag covers) (2002)

My Michelle (Guns N Roses cover) (2004)

Rebel Yell (Billy Idol cover) (2004)

Best Of 2017

As is now tradition, here's my list of the 50 "best" albums of 2017 to close out the year. As always, don't take this as an objectively ranked list, these are just my personal favourites. Feel free to share some of your favourites with me, I'd love to know what you guys have been listening to for the past 12 months. Thanks for a great year and your persistence in never letting this blog die. I hope you have a good end of year, and I'll see you in 2018.

Honourable Mentions:

Frail Hands - S/T
No Omega - Culture
People Like You - Verse
Cloakroom - Time Well
Massa Nera - Los Pensamientos De Una Cara Palida


50


The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir

49

Rainer Maria - S/T

48 

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers

47

Shizune - Cheat Death, Live Dead!

46

Sect - No Cure For Death

45

Ty Segall - Ty Segall

44

All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal

43

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice 

42

Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex

41

The World is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Always Foreign

40

Queens Of The Stone Age - Villians

39

METZ - Strange Peace

38

Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun

37

The xx - I See You

36

Tigers Jaw - Spin

35

Incendiary - Thousand Mile Stare

34

Björk - Utopia

33

Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart of Life

32

Career Suicide - Machine Response

31

Laura Marling - Semper Femina

30

Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy

29

Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm

28

The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

27

St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

26

Jay-Z - 4:44

25

Remo Drive - Greatest Hits

24

Priests - Nothing Feels Natural

23

Drake - More Life

22

Perfume Genius - No Shape

21

Alvvays - Antisocialites

20

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

19

Sorority Noise - You're Not As _____ As You Think

18

Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights

17

Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood

16

the Mountain Goats - Goths

15

The Menzingers - After The Party

14

Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

13

Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy

12

Code Orange - Forever

11

Single Mothers - Our Pleasure

10

Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory

9

Brockhampton - Saturation

8

Brockhampton - Saturation III

7

Brockhampton - Saturation II

6

The National - Sleep Well Beast

5

Brand New - Science Fiction

4

Converge - The Dusk In Us

3

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

2

Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

1

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me