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What albums do you know inside and out?
There are tons of albums that I absolutely love, but some get much much more attention than others. Some of this is a result of back when I was just getting into music...I just didn't have a whole lot of music, so what I did have I dissected to a ridiculous degree. Sometimes I just run across an album that I can't stop listening to and it is soon added to my ever growing list of essential albums.
So, what albums do you know inside and out? You know what I'm talking about. You know every note like the back of your hand. Hell, you may have even found mistakes or listened so deeply you could hear the band members talking in the studio to each other. Listening has become an automatic, cathartic experience. Here are some of mine: https://s3.amazonaws.com/storenvy/pr...ger_large.jpeg Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger This was one of the first albums that I was really proud to show off. It sounded badass and I didn't know many other kids at school who listened to it. It's a grunge album that I still listen to today...and I will probably always listen to it. This also kicked off a giant 90's alt rock/grunge phase for me, which lead to the discovery of the album that changed it all... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ameseDream.jpg Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Considering this is the album that changed my life and resulted in the music fiend that I am today, of course I know it inside and out. I know every song on guitar. I know the story behind every song and I have listened to it so many times that I don't even think about the lyrics when I sing along to it...I just do it. http://www.soundstagedirect.com/medi...k_computer.jpg Radiohead - OK Computer The album that taught me the art of the grower. It sat on my shelf for ages after I first got it...the first listen having not done much for me. One day, I felt like I didn't want to let it become a waste of money so I stuck it on and was BLOWN AWAY. All the sudden, I just GOT it. I then listened to it over and over and over. http://www.allaccess.com/assets/img/...eofthemoon.jpg Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Another of my early-days-of-music albums. After hearing some comparisons to Radiohead, I was inspired to actually check out a whole album. Again, it didn't do much for me at first, but coming fresh off my "grower album" awakening, I gave it more of a chance. This kind of positively reinforced the grower idea because I couldn't get enough eventually. It basically started a huge prog rock phase for me that then lead to discovering... http://radiopotato.com/wp-content/up...-pictures1.jpg Rush - Moving Pictures If the Smashing Pumpkins inspired my love of music and motivated me to learn guitar, Rush taught me how to play it with some skill. I credit Alex Lifeson for teaching me how to play guitar properly. Once I heard this, I was immediately hooked. It had everything I wanted. Crunching guitars, a singer with a unique voice, and catchy music with SKILL. Another album that I also know (most) of the songs on guitar for. Ok, one more... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_S4SHMyFmmX...+Headphase.jpg Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase I had always had a decent respect for electronic music, but I didn't realize what it could do until I heard this. Despite how many times I've listened to it, the feeling I get from listening to it is still unreal. If I ever feel like things are getting TOO out of hand for me, I bust out my studio headphones and get lost in this. It's pure meditation. And a few honorable mentions... Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory Megadeth - Rust In Peace Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas The Cure - Disintegration David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust Dr. Dre- The Chronic 2001 The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking Mars Volta - Deloused In the Comatorium Deftones - White Pony Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Sonic Youth - Dirty Tool - Lateralus White Stripes - Elephant Asobi Seksu - Citrus |
I'd have to say these three.
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Off the top of my head
Black Sabbath - First 6 Albums + First 2 Dio era Albums Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Primal Scream - Screamadelia & XTRMNTR Judas Priest - Everything from Rocka Rolla till Painkiller Rolling Stones - Satanic Majesties / Sticky Fingers / Beggers Banquet / Get Yer Ya Ya's Out / Let It Bleed / Exile / Goats Head Soup / Some Girls Van Halen - Everything with David Lee Roth Iron Maiden - Everything up to Somewhere In Time The Cure - Everything up till Head On The Door AC/DC - Everything with Bon Scott + first 4 Brian Johnson albums Motorhead - Everything up till 1916 Aerosmith - Everything up till Pump MC 5 - Kick Out The Jams The Fall Everything from Live At the Witch Trials to Extricate / The Infotainment Scan / Everything from Levitate to Imperial Wax Solvent The Clash - Everything except Cut The Crap New York Dolls - S/T Hanoi Rocks - Everything from Bangkok Shocks to Two Steps From The Move Ozzy - First 3 albums Groundhogs - Thank Christ For The Bomb Damned - Damned Damned Damned & Machine Gun Etiquette Public Image Ltd - Everything from S/T to 'Album' Alice Cooper - Everything from Pretties For You to Trash (Except Lace & Whiskey & Zipper Catches Skin) Bowie - Everything from Hunky Dory to Let's Dance (Except Pin Ups & Young Americans) This could go on longer than I thought. |
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Some of those albums I've listened to almost every week for around 25 years.
Which is pretty scary. I didn't listen to Van Halen for something like 10 years maybe even more, put on a few albums a couple of years ago & still knew them off by heart. |
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Disclaimer: I am basically going to list some of my "most played albums overall" on last.fm.
Death Grips – The Money Store Danny Brown – XXX Aesop Rock – Labor Days Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Kendrick Lamar – Section.80 The Clash – London Calling Madvillain – Madvillainy The Pixies – Doolittle People Under The Stairs – Fun DMC Cunninlynguists – Oneirology The Breeders – Last Splash A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory The Roots – Phrenology The xx – xx Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II Primal Scream – Screamadelica The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses My Bloody Valentine – Loveless The Replacements – Let It Be Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma Public Enemy – Fear Of A Black Planet Massive Attack – Mezzanine Tom Waits – Rain Dogs Aceyalone – All Balls Don't Bounce The Dirtbombs – Ultraglide in Black Ugly Duckling – Bang For The Buck Death Grips – Exmilitary Mos Def – Black On Both Sides Beck – Odelay Bloc Party – Silent Alarm The Replacements – Tim Since only getting into music in the last two or three years (basically when I created my current last.fm account) I find that most of my "most played" are albums that helped me "discover" alternative music, (see ITAOTS and Doolittle, or Labor Days). Albums like The Money Store are so high up because they are my current favourites in my phase or really getting into music, where I have spent every last moment consuming as much as I can. There are loads of others that I have listened to at least ten times (or more on CD), but it had to end somewhere. |
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If those are from you just getting into music, then you've done a great job. There are some choice cuts there. I think there is a huge difference between when I got into music and how the current generation does it. I could never have shotgunned it so much. I would scour forums and read magazines and then buy a couple albums a week hoping one of them was worth my time. I found some great stuff, but I found a LOT of crappy stuff, too. It really limited how risky I was willing to get with my music as well. |
I definitely did it the other way, the old, boring way: get into one band, decide then to see what else is out there like them, essentially move through phases.
So my first ever albums bought were ELO and Genesis, which then moved me on to Supertramp, Marillion, Twelfth Night, Pallas et al and began my "progressive rock" phase, during which I had a mini-phase of Van der Graaf Generator, even the solo Peter Hammill albums. Later I got into metal via Maiden and then Saxon, Leppard, Motorhead, Twisted Sister and so on. Nowadays I'm trying to break out into different genres, though with limited success. I must say though, my discovery of Tom Waits certainly broadened my musical outlook and allowed me to listen to music I would never have envisioned listening to prior to that. It's been a slow but steady growth since then, and I mean slow. Albums I know inside out: Marillion's first four, Genesis from Wind and Wuthering to about Duke (I know the others too, just not as well), Maiden to Fear of the dark, all the Mostly Autumn catalogue, all the Shadow Gallery and all the Threshold albums, all the Asia albums, all the Bob Seger up to and including The fire inside, Bon Jovi from Slippery on, Springsteen from Born to run to Tunnel of love, ELO from El Dorado to Secret messages, Supretramp from Crime to Famous last words, and probably a whole lot more I can't think of. Oh yeah: and Jeff Wayne's "War of the worlds" --- I love that album! |
Yeah, most of them are my first few albums I loved in a particular genre. I have kept listening to them over three years, therefore they have so many plays.
I agree about the "shotgun" approach, but I am certainly more selective in the way I go about it. |
Every Zeppelin studio release.
Sabbath's 1st 3 and Sabotage. Rush 2112 & Permanent Waves Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here & The Wall King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King White Stripes - De Stijl, White Blood Cells & Elephant Jimi Hendrix - 3 studio releases Beastie Boys - Liscence to Ill Eagles - On the Border & Desperado Crosby Stills Nash & Young - So Far Steve Miller Band - GH 1974-1978 Blind Faith - Self Titled Chicago - Transit Authority ELP - Tarkus CAN - Tago Mago Tull - Thick as a Brick Yes - The Yes Album Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson Holly Golightly - Up the Empire Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said Fleetwood Mac - Rumours & Then Play On Bob Marley - Legend Queen -News of the World, Jazz, Day at the Races, & Night at the Opera Steely Dan - Aja Boston - Self Titled De La Soul - 3 ft High Ace Frehley - Kiss Solo album Van Halen - Self Titled Dino - The Essential Dean Martin Cure - Standing on a Beach (The singles & B-sides) Metallica - Master, Kill em All & ...And Justice Ozzy - Blizzard & Diary Prince - Purple Rain ELO - GH |
Oh boy, this is rough.
Aesop Rock's Labor Days... well, just about his whole discography at this point Beck's main releases Gogol Bordello's discography El-P's Fantastic Damage Deltron 3030 Tool's discography Sublime's discography Cake's discography Powerman 5000's early rap-funk-metal up until Tonight the Stars Revolt when they switched to spacesuits and then pop-punk after that X| Godsmack's discography Disturbed's early releases X| Hieroglyphics' discography, including individual members' albums, but not so much their most recent material 2012 because I've been slackin' Buckethead's discography, give or take Led Zeppelin's discography Black Sabbath's first few with Osbourne, Ward, Iommi, and Butler Pink Floyd's discography System of a Down's discography Yeah, this is an ongoing list. And I'm good for now. |
Everything by Tool, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Isis, Mastodon, SOAD, Primus, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies, Ween, Beck, Faith No More, Helmet, Melvins, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, 80s Metallica, Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Black Keys, Body Count, Biohazard, Rage Against the Machine, Pavement, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground circa-Lou Reed.. Probably a lot more.
Lots of others that I have a lot of, but they've released so much stuff thay I could never listen to it all probably, like Buckethead. |
Actually should add The Bends as well as the first two Oasis and Arctic Monkeys albums.
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Gosh, there's a lot, but off the top of my head:
Lydia - Illuminate Lydia - This December; It's One More and I'm Free Pedro the Lion - Control Pedro the Lion - Whole Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors Bright Eyes - Letting off the Happiness Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name Eleventh He Reaches London - The Good Fight for Harmony The Smiths - The Queen is Dead A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms A Perfect Circle - eMotive Tool - Aenima Greg Laswell - Three Flights from Alto Nido Get Well Soon - Vexations iwouldsetmyselfonfireforyou - Believes in Patterns Why? - Alopecia Ariel Kill Him - Alpha is Down The Late Cord - Lights from the Wheelhouse 1905 - Voice Sparklehorse - Vivadixisubmarinetransmissionplot Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Knight of the Soul The Magic Numbers - S/t The Magic Numbers - Undecided Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights Saetia - A Retrospective Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo Weezer - Pinkerton I think I'll stop there for now =/ |
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I pretty much know this album inside and out, as you say. I know every song lyric, I can play them all on guitar, and most of them on bass, and it's just my go-to album when I feel like putting on some good music. There are certainly other albums that I know really well and listen to all the time, but this tops the list. |
Here's a partial list...Some of the collections here are special to me as they contain a lot of songs that were never put on any albums, especially when it's by a band who did a lot of stand alone singles
Closer - Joy Division Raw Power - Iggy and The Stooges The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain The Velvet Underground and Nico White Light/White Heat - Velvet Underground A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles Revolver - The Beatles Rubber Soul - The Beatles S/T (better known as The White Album) - The Beatles Past Masters Volume 2 - The Beatles The Best of The Music Machine (Now for the double disc of The Ultimate Turn On collection) This Last Night in Sodom - Soft Cell Hit by Hit - The Godfathers Fixed - Nine Inch Nails All the Best - Stiff Little Fingers A Date With Elvis - The Cramps Paint Your Wagon - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Smashed Hits - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Aftermath - Rolling Stones Between the Buttons - The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones Easter Everywhere - 13'th Floor Elevators Bull of the Woods - 13'th Floor Elevators Between 10'th and 11'th - The Charlatans The Ramones The Black Album - The Damned Strawberries - The Damned If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul - (Some Bizzare Compilation It'll End in Tears - This Mortal Coil Wilder - Teardrop Explodes Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur Parklife - Blur The Great Escape - Blur Definitely Maybe - Oasis S/T - Rialto Stigma - EMF Scott and Scott 4 - Scott Walker (Love 2 and 3, though) After the Lights Go Out - The Walker Brothers S/T - Love Forever Changes - Love Head - The Monkees This Is Spinal Tap (Soundtrack) The Great Rock n Roll Swindle (Soundtrack) Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols The Small Price of a Bicycle - The Icicle Works Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds More later... |
duga, you have exquisite taste.
Pedestrian, I feel the same way about The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. It was such a monumental release in more ways than one, and it awes me that it resonated so strongly in my teens and continues to resonate as I move beyond teenage angst and into the world of young professionalism. I can't ****ing wait for their new stuff to come out. Excerpt from Wikipedia: Quote:
http://batzbatz.com/uploads/posts/20...ipes__2003.jpg The first album I ever replayed ad nauseum, I know it like the back of my hand. I maintain that "Ball and Biscuit" is one of the best blues/garage rock tracks ever recorded and easily the best song on the album. And how could I forget the riff from Seven Nation Army that defines a generation and epitomizes the alternative rock era of music? |
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There are dozens of albums I could say I know inside and out, but rather than list them all, I'm going to mention the first one that came to mind:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lood-Vinyl.jpg They Might Be Giants—Flood Similar to what Duga said in the OP, in my early years of buying my own albums (junior high) I didn't own very many and thus listened to each one a lot. Flood is one of the most extreme examples. I listened to this album so many times as a 13 and 14 year old that my dad once told me that he had gone from hating it to loving it through what I can only imagine was a Chinese water torture -esque experience in repetition for him. I can sing every word of this album, and I can't help but indulge that ability every time I listen to it, which happens surprisingly often for an album that I've owned for 22 years. It's actually sort of an internally underrated album for for me. It rarely springs to mind when I think of personal favorite or most influential recordings, but it surely deserves a place in the pantheon. It has heavily influenced my own songwriting in many subtle ways and is an album that I've never lost an interest in over all these years. |
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Same goes for a bunch of other shit but this album is kinda weird to know by heart. I still think the album cover is beautiful though. |
TMBG is definitely on my list of bands where I know most of their early stuff top-to-bottom.
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I definitely know every note, verse, and chorus of Lincoln.
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these few in particular:-
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wow.....it's so nice to see so much They Might Be Giants love :)....like both Janszoon and Engine....Flood was a very important record for me when i was young....and i agree that Lincoln is their masterpiece (maybe not masterpiece....but my go to album)....i have been known to make entire rooms of people shut the fuck up just so we can hear "i don't want the world, i just want your half" :)
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Their later stuff is pretty awful though. That Malcolm In the Middle song sounds like it was done by blink 182 or some ****. They Might Be Blink-182?
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jesus christ.....for some reason thinking about They Might be Giants flashed me back to my room in 1990 and the fact that my walls were covered with those god awful huge cd boxes :)
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I sort of agree about s/t. It's little uneven—I'm not a fan "Hotel Detective" for example—but at its best it's fantastic. My favorite tracks are probably "She's an Angel", "Absolutely Bill's Mood" and "I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die". Quote:
Make a hole with a gun perpendicular To the name of this town in a desktop globe Exit wound in a foreign nation Showing the home of the one this was written for My apartment looks upside down from there Water spirals the wrong way out the sink And her voice is a backwards record It's like a whirlpool and it never ends Quote:
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i only have Lincoln and Flood
both I quite like i don't listen to them that often, though I really wore out Flood when I first got it |
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Other ones for me. All Smashing Pumpkins albums Primal Scream - Screamadelica Alice In Chains - S/T Megadeth - Rust In Peace and Peace Sells Most REM releases Most Pearl Jam Releases Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible & Everything Must Go The Who - Sell Out and Live At Leeds Pixies - Doolittle and Bossanova All Sabbath releases with Osbourne Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica Many more but I'm good for now, haha |
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Arcade Fire - Neon Bible The first time I listened to "Funeral" by Arcade Fire, I sadly admit that I really hated it. I know, shame on me. Therefore, I never gave Neon Bible the chance until a couple years later. But when I finally listened to it, WOW. Instantly connected to Arcade Fire. Went back, listened to Funeral, kicked myself in the ass for not appreciating it the first time. I've listened to Neon Bible multiple times on multiple locations and each time it gets better. Easily my favorite album. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6LlGbjx-Av...Of+Command.jpg At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command My older brother got me into this band. I listened to it once when I didn't appreciate music as much as I do now, so I didn't really get it. The moment I started getting really experimental with the music I listened too, I rented the record from my local library and I connected with it and listened to it on a daily basis. I even put it on my to-do lists for the day for almost a year. This album propelled me to listen to more punk bands with weird high-energy spirit. None will ever come close to At The Drive-In though, they created a sound all their own. http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/...me-fiction.jpg Spoon - Gimme Fiction Gimme Fiction is as art rock as they come. One of the many things I appreciate Spoon for is their artistic approach to their music, it's unlike any rock album I've ever listened too. It might not be the best Spoon album to listen to first if you're trying to become a fan, listen to Kill The Moonlight or Girls Can Tell for that. But if you're a Spoon analyst like I am, you can agree this album is nothing less than amazing. There's plenty more albums, I just don't feel like typing anymore. |
Neon Bible is another album I know very well, though I'm not sure I'd boast that it was inside and out. I'm reserving that for albums I've heard hundreds of times.
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and this one for sure:-
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And Elephant is still something I love to listen to. These days the track I like the most is Black Math...there's something so raw and energetic about it. Coming off the heels of Seven Nation Army, it would have been hard to keep an energy going and they nailed it. I like to play it on guitar, too. It's simple but a load of fun to play. Quote:
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And all this talk about TMBG has inspired me to check them out. They are a band I've always seen mentioned in discussions, but I was never really motivated to listen to anything by them. Gonna go listen to Flood now... |
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I know the first two Justice albums inside out. As burning said, I know other albums really well but I don't care to mention them all. Just the one (those two albums aren't very different) that tops the list. :) Cross http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploa...ross_cover.jpg A Cross The Universe http://i36.tinypic.com/sbpru0.png |
Hmm, here's a small list of albums that have permanently been absorbed into my psyche.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows (2008) Absolutely sublime from start to finish, and part of what made it work was it was far more consistent than their debut LP which kind of switched gears halfway through. I did a lot of driving through the desert in 2009 and this was my go-to soundtrack for those long drives. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg Corb Lund - Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! (2007) If I had this on vinyl I doubt the thing would be able to play anymore. This album was absolutely monumental for getting me over my preconceived notion that all country (besides Johnny Cash of course) sucks. Perfect blend of history, ballads, and humour, with really good storytelling and song writing, I still come back to this album at least once a month, if not more. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oBEoQsgRG_...rland-1991.jpg Slint - Spiderland (1991) Like many people, I failed to see the importance of this album on my first listen. There was barely any singing and the spoken word portions were so hard to hear that unless you were wearing headphones or had really good speakers and were playing the album loudly, you'd miss a lot of what was being said. Either way I decided to burn it onto a CD and keep it in my car, that was in 2009 and the fucking CD is still in my center console. I know every lyric, I know every heavy section, and I can keep the beat on my steering wheel. http://img.noiset.com/images/album/s...disc-8199.jpeg Strapping Young Lad - City (1997) This is one of my oldest CD's that I still have. I purchased this in the fall of 2002, aka my freshman year in high school, aka the worst year of my life. All the friends I made in Middle School got to go to a different high school, and instead I had to go to one way the fuck on the other side of town (a 20 mile round trip) because I was in that zoning. I don't want to get into the nitty gritty details, but suffice-it-to-say the year sucked, but because I owned this album it sucked a little less. I practically always had this album in my CD wallet and I almost always listened to it on the bus ride home to help me unwind. http://images.hhv.de/catalog/old_det...111/111160.jpg Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (1993) Another album from my youth, and one I have spent years mastering. I know the band isn't the most well respected around here and I've always kind of struggled to explain why I like Type O Negative so much. I like how they never took themselves too seriously and were always able to poke fun at the seriousness of metal and the Goth subculture, while still remaining a centerpiece of it. In any case, while I think October Rust (1996) is a better album overall, Bloody Kisses was my first and is the one I've spent the most amount of time memorizing. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973) This was one of the albums I got into in part thanks to my father. He was trying to find something we could bond over, and while we did have a lot of fun playing golf and pool together, he figured he could pass on some of his musical knowledge. Dark Side of the Moon was one of those albums that we listened to on a car ride to the interior of B.C. and definitely helped make the boring drive a lot more fun. http://fridaetv.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/iggg.jpg Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power (1973) I hold the incredibly unpopular opinion that this is really the only Stooges studio album worth owning. I've had both Funhouse and their self-titled debut, and while there were certain songs on them that were good, I never liked sitting down and listening to the whole thing through. Raw Power on the other hand is an album I can listen to repeatedly and never get bored of, even the titular "Raw Power" which has that really annoying keyboard clanging throughout the song. I'm sorry but John Williamson was a better, and more engaging guitarist than Ron Asheton could have ever been. http://img.noiset.com/images/album/t...ver-24898.jpeg Television - Marquee Moon (1977) Probably the only vinyl album I regret selling, and not just because it was an original pressing, but because of the magic I felt when I first heard it on vinyl. It was just one of those situations where everything was right, the mood, the sound, the temperature, the time of day, everything was in its right place for me to get the best experience possible from that album. http://www.cluas.com/images/music/al...e-Vultures.jpg Beck - Midnight Vultures (1999) For the longest while this was my go-to album to prove to people that I didn't just listen to depressing or angry music. In fact, I probably listened to this album on my stereo as many times as I've listened to City by SYL to help cheer myself up. I don't know why this album is so widely disregarded as one of his worst, especially considering it followed Mutations (1998) (which I personally think was his worst). Now just for a list of album and band names Smashing Pumpkins - Gish (1991), Siamese Dreams (1993), Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness Killing Joke - Killing Joke (2003), Hosannas From the Basement of Hell (2006), Democracy (1996) The Cure - Disintegration (1989) Pixies - Doolittle (1989) Portishead - Dummy (1994) |
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