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The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Blink 182 -Take of your pants and jacket
Pornography by the Cure. So dismal
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.
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.
Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle. I've listened so many times start to finish, absolutely in love with it.
ahhh thanks for the reminder this exists. it's like an instant time warp for me to a different era
Came here to say this exact album.
Colin James - Fuse
Relapse by Eminem
What a hard question. But i always come back to Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Ditto. Ride the lightning was my, "and the rest was history" moment. Never even cared about music until then.
Angel Dust by Faith No More.
Opeth - Blackwater Park
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.
The hunting party by linkin park
Came out on a perfect time for 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.
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
Myrath - Tales of the Sands
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Led Zeppelin - dark side of the Moon
TARANTULA
Hybrid Theory
My first thought as well.
Ecliptica (Original album, not the revisited one) - Sonata Arctica
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Jeff Buckley "Grace"
Such a hard question.
Old - Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees
New - Fontaines DC Romance
Borrowed - Cafe Tacuba Avalanche de Exitos
Blue - Nick Drake Bryter Later
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.
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.
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.
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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
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. (it has no vocals btw)
i think my favorite song so far is Affliction https://chikoithemaid.bandcamp.com/track/in-affliction-yakui-the-maid-cover
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.
oh fuuuuuuuuuuuck. been a long time since I was heavy into Floyd... was surprised to see people in this thread picking it over dark side, completely forgot shine on was off it... one of the greatest songs of all time easily
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Right now it's a toss-up over:
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Graceland by Paul Simon
Time by Electric Light Orchestra
She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper
(I really love them all; other top contenders are Born to Run by Springsteen and Untitled by Blink-182)
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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.
Discovery - Daft Punk
I don't have a favourite album of all time, but I do have favourites for certain genres/vibes.
For just putting on as some music in the background it's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin
For metal, it's Behemoth, either The Satanist or I Loved You at Your Darkest.
For electronic music, Biceps Isles is great, and when I used to run, it's great exercise music. But in that same vein Palaces by Flume is also excellent.
For down tempo vibes it's gotta be Mezzanine by Massive Attack, although Music has the right to Children by Boards of Canada is a very close second. And fuck actually Dummy by Portishead
For more classic easy listening vibes, Chicago 2 by Chicago.
For something I think anybody can enjoy, it's plastic beach by Gorillaz. It's their best album by far and I love a concept album.
When I want to hear BEAUTIFUL music that also goes hard, it's John Hopkins immunity. I had the title track play at my wedding and it captured the vibe perfectly.
So I guess no, I don't have a favourite album
Hybrid Theory (Linkin Park) is objectively the greatest album of all time in my subjective opinion
My Head is an Animal (Of Monsters And Men) is probably my personal favorite though
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