Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
although Cat is a misogynistic asshole, his music is still fire.
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Pornography by the Cure. So dismal
Blink 182 -Take of your pants and jacket
Brothers in arms- Dire Straights
It's a hard one.
- My beautiful dark twisted fantasy-Kanye
- Good kid Mad city- Kendrick lamar
- Will have to be a tie between any of lil Wayne's Carter series. Though Carter II might just ice it.
Yellow by Baroness.
Well, technically its a double album: Yellow & Green. And I would say Green is a close second.
Something about it just blew my mind. Like, I had heard Baroness before, stuff from Red and Blue. They had a song or two on the early Guitar Hero games. I just thought "oh another okay metal band, whatever". Yellow and Green were just... Different. The tone, the vocal style. The whole approach to writing ans playing guitars was different than what i was used to. Thr production has this kind of modern dirtiness, like the noise came from radiation or something. The lyrics are absolutely battling, as they were translated across multiple languages and the meaning was only clinging to them by a thread. The album art is incredible too. The bass is perfect, never too much or too little. The drums use disco and other dance beats along side this metal-ish music in a fantastic way.
It kind of felt it cane fron another dimension. A different timeline where English and western music evolved similarly to ours, but jjsy different enough to be uncanny.
I listen to too much music to pick just one lol.
- Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
- AC/DC: The Razor's Edge
- Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Ozz
- Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer
- Metallica: Ride The Lightning (shoutout to And Justice for All, tho)
- Foo Fighters: The Colors and the Shapes
- DragonForce: Inhuman Rampage
- Motorhead: Rock N' Roll
- Oasis: What's the Story, Morning Glory?
- Styx: The Grand Illusion
- Jesse Welles: Patchwork
I should probably stop.
Relapse by Eminem
What a hard question. But i always come back to Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Angel Dust by Faith No More.
The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
In my opinion, it's one of the most solid albums ever, start-to-finish - the kind of album that's great on tape.
100% awesome album.
you can't even hear em!
this is one of the dozen or so albums that I'll listen to front to back. I appreciate when an album is put together as a whole work and not just a bunch of songs smahmshed together
do I know for sure that album was made that way? no. but it feels like it.
Opeth - Blackwater Park
The hunting party by linkin park
Came out on a perfect time for me
Hybrid Theory
My first thought as well.
nine inch nails - year zero
nin has a huge catalog but this one had some special magic. i remember reading that Trent wrote and recorded it on a tour bus. you can hear little slip ups sometimes where he starts singing a beat early then caught himself. he left it in. it's raw and angry and sad and damning and hopeless all at once.
the lyrics are very much of their time, but becoming more and more relevant as we sink deeper into late-stage capitalism.
Paradigmes - La Femme
If you enjoy alternative kinda trippy pop, it slaps
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
Shine On is so beautiful. Then the middle songs, especially the title track, scratch that more catchy, accessible itch.
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Myrath - Tales of the Sands
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Led Zeppelin - dark side of the Moon
TARANTULA
Discovery - Daft Punk
Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle. I've listened so many times start to finish, absolutely in love with it.
Came here to say this exact album.
ahhh thanks for the reminder this exists. it's like an instant time warp for me to a different era
Nirvana - Nevermind
No question. I got it when I was 15 in '91. Over the years, I've seen countless bands of various genres. My tastes evolved, and frankly, some of the records and CDs I loved at that age have not held up as my taste and musical appreciation broadened, but this one's timeless. For a while, I preferred In Utero for its rawness, but Nevermind is basically flawless in my opinion.
Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
I honestly have no idea. My first favorites were Dookie and Smash, and I don't enjoy either any less than I did, then.
So many…
Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life
Surf’s Up by the Beach Boys
The Glow pt 2 by the Microphones
The Velvet Underground by the Velvet Underground
Mignone by Taeko Onuki
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson
wallsocket by underscores
Townes Van Zandt by Townes Van Zandt
The Stone Roses by the Stone Roses
…
I could go on forever I think you get it
Such a hard question.
Old - Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees
New - Fontaines DC Romance
Borrowed - Cafe Tacuba Avalanche de Exitos
Blue - Nick Drake Bryter Later
Not so easy to answer! But Vivaldis four seasons has been a great companion over the last 50 years
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Currently I'm in a rediscovery / re-appreciation phase so:
Sinead O'Conner - The lion and the Cobra
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
Probably all time favourite, although it fades in and out of rotation:
Dream Theater - Metropolis pt2
Sgt. Peppers.
I've got it on vinyl and this is definitely the way to hear it. Not because of quality but because it has to be heard in one go, not as separate songs.
I've heard it many times throughout the years and I still find new meanings to the songs depending on where I am in my own life.
Fixing A Hole is still one of the best songs I've ever heard. Harrison's guitar, McCartney's vocals and lyrics are all top notch.
Chikoi the Maid is really good https://chikoithemaid.bandcamp.com/
i'm really bad at describing music genres but it has this mixture of electronic and rock music that i really like.
i think my favorite song so far is Affliction https://chikoithemaid.bandcamp.com/track/in-affliction-yakui-the-maid-cover
Linkin Park's Meteora or HybridTheory
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
So modest mouse is my favorite band. The first song I heard was Alone Down There on a skate video. I loved it, but it was uncredited. So for a year I didn't know who made this amazing music. Then I started dating a girl who was into a bunch of indie shit I had never heard, and The Moon and Antarctica had come out that year. It is also indelibly etched into my soul. The first song she played for me was Wild Pack of Family Dogs, which I loved. Then I heard the song from the skate video again and everything clicked.
My favorite album though is The Lonesome Crowded West.
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tie between Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and Coletta's "Idealism". I can also confidently say anyone who likes Pink Floyd should check out Coletta.
Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness.
It is not to my tastes anymore, but at the time when I was very swept up in it, it was truly an immersive and transformative experience. As a piece of art, I feel that it was a tremendous success.
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I don't really know. Kinda depends in the mood I'm in I guess.
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Alice in Chains - Facelift FIDLAR - FIDLAR Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
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