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Let's Build Loren (the albums that have shaped my life)
I have other journals that I wanted to resurrect maybe, the travelogue, Distortion is just free form nonsense... But here, like many others, I'm gonna get down on the music. This is dedicated to the albums that have molded and shaped this human being. Here's a table of contents.
Slint - Spiderland W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol Sonic Youth - Murray Street The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Planning for Burial - Leaving Assuck - Anticapital Lowercase - Kill the Lights Faith No More - Album of the Year Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops Def Leppard - High n' Dry Painkiller - Execution Ground Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo Fates Warning - No Exit Misfits - Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady by Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later Chokebore - A Taste for Bitters Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun NoMeansNo - Wrong Codeine - The White Birch Today is the Day - Willpower Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights Kick this off This album is like if life was music. The feelings evoked are all 100% true to their nature. I connect with it in a strange and cryptic way, the lyrics aren't outright saying anything blatantly, but I still feel the connection. It's like a wrapping up of angst in a blanket. This is when we start the downward tread. It's very mundane. Let all the anger out little by little until it's gone, and it's quiet. |
This album tells the story of a neglected boy who ran away from home to pursue rockstardom. The events unfold, and he becomes a slave to excess. It takes a heartwrenching emotional turn with "The Idol", which is a song that has moved me to tears on multiple occasions, including a live show that killed with a gnar solo section. By the end, he's grown and hangs himself during his last concert. Punk rock forever. Glam metal in my ass. I love this album |
Love this journal so far!
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It's pretty hard to choose a favorite Sonic Youth album, but I wouldn't hesitate to choose this one. I think it is the most realized go at their noisy, feedback 4ever distortion riddled post-rock style. It's also an easy and relatively short listen in their discog at 45 minutes. There's never a dull moment, in my opinion, and it is recommended for people getting into them. I might also add that I find this to be one of the best showcases of their musicianship, specifically guitar, there is some shredding all over this album to make anyone jealous of these chops. And, it's just all around pleasant. |
right in the heart of the Jim O'Rourke years for Sonic Youth....personally i think the albums between A Thousand Leaves and Rather Ripped are their best....nice choice :)
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At any given moment, my choice would either be Murray Street, A Thousand Leaves, Daydream Nation, Washing Machine, or Sonic Nurse (as far as full lengths go, some of the SYR albums are amazing)
So I've heard every SY full length, and every SYR ep, along with most of the other EPs, and I can honestly say they don't have any material that I don't at least like. It's pretty impressive considering the enormous catalog of music they have. A lot of people will dis albums like NYC Ghosts & Flowers and the Eternal, but I still love them. SYR 9 is an underrated piece that I really enjoy, and I think it has one of their all time greatest tracks with "Thème d’Alice". Guess I'll get some obvious choices out of the way. Naming a favorite album is near impossible, but to say this is mine wouldn't be a stretch. I have connected with almost all of these lyrics in one way or another and personally find them all to be amazingly deep with emotional heaviness and all that fruity stuff. Combined with the incredibly bright, warm, and comfortable sound of the music, a truly remarkable work is put together. Some of the best sounds and noises ever put to tape are in this record, and it's very moving from beginning to end. One time I had a seizure while listening to "Luna", and it was really weird and for some reason made a track I already loved and connected with deeply even more resonant in my life. It was a very surreal instance. |
Planning For Burial - Leaving
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3327608028_16.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkK2...2CFFEBB615489F This is a dreary and gloomy album, musically and emotionally. It is very personal with it's sparse delivery of depressive lyrics and harsh guitar squealing. It takes from shoegaze, post-rock, some kinda extreme metal, drone and ambient, indie stuff. This album is smeared front to back with a plethora of feedback drenched guitar tracks, all played by it's sole member. It has some of the most amazing moments in this world of music, I think, specifically the two best tracks "Being a Teenager and the Awkwardness of Backseat Sex" and "Verse/Chorus/Verse". A simple and sombre guitar motif is repeated through to the end, along with some dismal piano. When that track is over, the piano subsides softly as the title track takes you away. It is the end now. It is a peaceful ending. It is your funeral. And you are happy. Dress me in my best suit I want to look good In my coffin Thank you and goodnight Farewell my friends So are the last words of this album uttered and a light ambient piece envelops the audience. |
I'm a grindcore maniac these days, and I can credit that to Assuck. They were my first grind band, and they did such a good job of pulling me in. This is really tight, actually. The drumming here is amazing and some of the best (if not the best) in the death/grind world. Gruff death metal vocals and thick guitaring. It's like hardcore kids playing death metal, and the result is a super heavy, fast, and amazingly executed twenty minutes of brutality. |
Thought about posting in one of the regular threads as I've been revisiting this heavily as of late, but it dawned on me how much this album actually means to me and how large of a part of my life it's been since I discovered it. That and the underlying belief that no one pays attention to things I post that will never leave me no matter what anyone says because I'm a god damn psychoPATH..... So I'll put it in here which is ultimately a contradiction because if I already think that than why would I think people read my journal? Jk though, never mind all that, people read it probably. This is a masterpiece of indie rock, a true 10/10 in my eyes. It features a strong loud-soft dynamic, subtle musical shifts awash in repetition, and the most important part, building catharsis. The last track here "You're a King" (played with sludge metal band Toadliquor) builds into some of the most utterly heart jerkingly powerful vocals I've ever heard regardless of genre. Listening to the whole album gives this finale more meaning, more emotion, more appreciation for the delivery. This album is one I'd call perfect. Also a shoutout to the second track "Slightly Dazed", which is amazingly mesmerizing and has an undeniable black metal influence. That simple drum pattern is basically the epitome of depressive black metal. If you don't like this then chances are you just don't like music. |
FNM are my favorite band so here's this. It's not necessarily my favorite from them, although that is a hard choice, but I've managed to build a weird connection with it throughout my life. It was the only album they'd made while I was alive (up until now), and was the first I ever heard from them since my dad played the CD a lot while I was growing up (it's ****ing mine now though). Therefore there's a lot of moments on this album that I can't remember ever not knowing, they've just been with me from the get go. All of "Collision", the intro to "Stripsearch", the vocal howls and melody from "Mouth to Mouth", and more. This album is a part of my being. |
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Just gonna keep it going because I'm very low on things to occupy my time. At least I can kill a few minutes with every entry.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...tring_Pops.jpg As it stands right now, this is my number one metal album of all time. My dad let me borrow the CD to listen to many years ago, I was probably 12? I didn't ask for it after hearing it played, he just busted it out of nowhere one day. And I'm thankful for that. I can imagine this being one of, if not the first extreme metal albums that would be tattooed onto my brain forever, at the time when I was just letting things play, and my extreme metal enjoyment was very casual. Here we are now, and I know this album like the back of my hand, maybe even better. Every single lyric, every riff, everything down to the smallest note or sound. And yet, even after thousands of plays through this album, it has never grown stale. I'm not ever bored or not interested in it, instead it's like "**** yeah, I know every riff, and I know right where they are, and I can't wait for any of them." Yes, it does an amazing job remaining fresh. There is no other album like it, not even the bAnd's second album matches the morbid and deranged universe sculpted by this album. A melting pot of grunge, sludge/doom metal, punk, blues, death/black metal, psychedelia, and everything in between. While it is almost unfortunate that there's nothing out there quite like it when you're hungry for more, that also makes it that much awesomer, a hulking obelisk carved with convoluted and esoteric patterns, towering solemnly above the sea of heavy metal. |
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I only discovered this album a few years ago thanks to the Metal Wars thread, but it's quickly become a top 5 metal album easily, and it's currently my second most listened to album on Last.FM. It's heavy in a doom way, intense in a hardcore punk way, brutal in a death metal way, creepy in a... goth way? But never is it anything less than ****ing badass. I just queued it up and "The Blue" is obliterating me as it always does and always will.
P.S. And pretty much everything else that Dax Riggs (Acid Bath singer) has touched has been gold as well. |
Oh and "Scream of the Butterfly" is one of the greatest songs ever recorded.
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I've lived this album from the first time I heard it, up to now, and through to the end. One of my all time favorites and frankly life just wouldn't be as awesome without it. So if you don't like that, then you can file a complaint with Trouble Salad Inc, or write a letter and send it out and I won't ever read it or even get it because I don't have an address. Anyway, there's absolutely nothing special or original about this, just an old school piece of rockin and catchy NWOBHM. I love every track, pretty much know all the words. "You Got Me Runnin", "Let it Go", and the title track are some if my top jams of forever. Quiet Riot hella ripped off the verse part from Let it Go in the Metal Health song. |
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Painkiller - Execution Ground https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/execution-ground That's my main man John Zorn. Another one of my main men Mick Harris. So Painkiller is free jazz meating grindcore and they shrad out some bitchin stuff. This album though, is a hulking pile of cosmic boulders and ruins and the metaphysical statue of eternity. They still do jazz and grind blasts, but this is all interwoven with twisted dub and ambient music, and experimental fields of sound. It's a complicated yet leisurely listen (at least for me) all at the same time. It's a blast of phat dub with shredding jazz here and there. Then there's disc two, which contains two strictly ambient renditions of some of the disc one tracks. John Zorn opened me up to a world of music that I thought only existed in my wildest dreams. I thank him for that. The dub is nice man |
Guts of a Virgin was not only my introduction to Zorn but Bill Laswell as well
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First screamo album I listened to and it remains number one. It was no doubt that I would fall in love after the 15 second blast 1:30 into "Interview at the Ruins". to this day that is one of the absolute best and most epic segments of music I've ever heard. They pack so so many ideas into these songs, it's almost unrealistic how someone can craft this music. They also succeed in showing that chaos in music can be as beautiful as anything else. |
Well I'm not exactly sure what to say about this one shaping my life, but I do know it did something somehow. It's one of the metal albums I've been listening to the longest and one of my first CDs. I'm not a huge prog metal fan (especially non-extreme prog like this), and in all honesty I like the John Arch/more fantasy power metal era of Fates Warning better. But this album has it's own special place in my heart even if I can't put my finger on its impact. I do love it though. Every track gets 5 stars from me and all remain prevalent soundscapes within my brain that I'll never forget. "Silent Cries", "In a Word", "Anarchy Divine", they've been with me for a very long time, and I imagine that will stay true. |
I believe this was the first punk album I listened to on my own accord, and it is just factually the best Misfits album (if you're not a ****ing poser bitch). I liked all kinds of punk that I'd been hearing from my parents (this was their CD), and I picked out an album to blast one day. This one looked looked the most badass. And at very high volumes, the badassness travelled through the music and into my mother****ing skull. It still stands as a monster hardcore classic, ****ing heavy, ****ing hard, ****ing fast, ****ing dark, ****ing **** you in your stupid ****ing face |
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Been meaning to listen to that. Might get on it after the Mondo and Glam Rock albums.
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Very hard to decide between this and White Noise for an entry, but I went here. I have such a strong admiration for this album, I've learned a lot from it, sarcastic or otherwise. Musically it is top tier industrial/noise rock, with dual bass clanging and mechanical drum clanks. It dips into experimental stuff on occasion as well. Tod A is one of my all time heroes and voices, and a simply amazing songwriter. He does satire and that stuff at pretty much the highest level, but also can prove to be poignant. The lyrics are always beautiful either way. I feel like calling his songwriting "life changing" might be a bold statement, but if any lyrics ever were, these would at least be among them. "Room 429" is actually my favorite song ever for lyrics. So dreary, apathetic, yet so revealing and moving. Every line us a gift from god. What you don't understand is where everything's leading When all of the signs you see still point to overload As you reach out your hand, a shattered picture's receding Like tail-lights along that lonesome stretch of broken road 'Cause you've been to the past and it's just a reminder A recollection of faces that will never come to call When you've cut through the mask When you've been through the grinder Sometimes you forget that you had ever been there at all |
by far one of the greatest albums ever made. like ever.
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Chokebore - A Taste for Bitters It's not my favorite, that spot is reserved for the brilliant Anything Near Water, but this more of an album that "shaped my life". I heard this first, as my dad had this CD. I really liked it so much, the sound grabbed me. Really depressive in tone noise rock, great dynamic shifts, and crushing lyrics delivered through a really great voice from Troy Von Balthazar. Not like a "good" singer, but **** the world. His voice is one of a kind, very personal and perfect for the sad rock we have here. The lyrics are a great display of depression and apathy and all that good stuff. Bringing you down while lifting you up. Great music, voice, lyrics, style. Great band that is forever an important part of my life. |
All of these albums have evoked emotional response, but this one here has managed to bring about a plethora of different feelings during different listens. It's brought to life feelings of existential sorrow, societal anger, peaceful optimism and more. It is my top Neurosis album and I could never not love it. I must say, this specific album possibly has the best/most daunting opening seconds to anything i've heard. The sample, followed by the first lyrics that slither into your psyche like some kind of transcendent reptile lord. my eyes were jaded, so close to the center I could not see Never have I heard the tone set for an album so perfectly. That line does an amazing jib to introduce the experience you are about to have over the next hour or so. Should you endure, all the way through the monumental drumming ritual "Cleanse", you come out a new man |
my favorite album by far by Neurosis....and the first time i saw them was on this tour...that show changed my life
that sample in the beginning is Paul Bowles reading from his book The Sheltering Sky....you should read this book i agree 100% with you....this album is really more a rite of passage than just a musical experience....great choice |
I knew where the sample was from but I haven't read that one yer
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Gotta do the obligatory NMN post, everyone knows they're like my favorite band
Pretty sure this was the first I'd heard, and anyone will tell you that it is a masterpiece of punk music. It's at the perfect spot in their discography, they're in their absolute prime. Striking an untouchable balance of the oddball funky post punk they played in their earliest days, the noisy and complex free hardcore of Sex Mad, the progression of that style and expanded suite jams of Small Parts, and a precursor to the more developed and experimental as well as accessible punk that'd come after, and with their tongues digging as deep into their cheeks as ever. Listening to thus album it's plain to see that each musician is a damn master of their respective instrument, and they're just superb crafters of high energy, insanely tight, intricate, and well thought out hardcore music. And here, they have graced us with a flawless album that absolutely does not let up in it's constant flow of rocking |
That youtube url thing has 3 consecutive lowercase f's. Cuz **** ****ing ****ers. This is some cold depressive black metal for pussies (or you just don't dig extreme metal). Highly dynamic and smooth indie rock, or sadcore if you think of that as a legitimate genre of music... like me. It's an essential record I think, much slower and pacing than the Chokebore album I posted but no less crushing on your little cold heart. It's a bit post-rockish, hypnotic by way of repetition, ever building. It is a little bit monotonous tbh, but that's what gives it it's mundane charm. sad |
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Today is the Day - Willpower Titd are pretty much one if the most wicked bands ever. The kinda twisted and evil music you should show to people who think straightened haircore is brutal. Over their career they have pushed all kinds of boundaries, musically, emotionally, **** you-ly. With a decent sized discography that ventures into chaotic noisecore/rock, extreme metal, noise experimentation, post hardcore and **** like that. But it was early in their career when they hit a major stride with Willpower. It's not ad terrifying as they might had become, but it's just so very very spectacular. Compared to say, their double monster album Sadness Will Prevail, Willpower is catchy and memorable, textural, precise, emotional in a more personal way, and succinct. Pretty short album but it doesn't waste any time at all, rocking, killing, stabbing and ****. It's very listenable when you hold it next to SWP or something. It's just outrageously good. One of the best albums ever you stupid bitches. You know how many stats out of 10 I'd give it? ****ing 10. You don't love me, I don't care |
I put a list in the OP if that is something that would matter :basketbal
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I want to get way more into Today Is the Day than I actually am. Like, they have great **** and great ideas, but I just haven't heard the songs to really hook me like I always hope they will. But Temple of the Morning is def awesome.
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Dunno what to say really, just a wonderful ska punk album, my favorite as a matter of fact. It's one of the albums I've listened to and loved the longest, and I almost guarantee I've listened to this more than any other album. Every track a banger, every hook a lover, every word a friend. |
I'm with Mondo....Today is the Day has literally done nothing bad....a couple of ok/good albums and several life changers....the first three i really lump into one....some of the greatest albums ever put out on AmRemp....but In The Eyes of God and Temple of the Morning Star are probably my favorite albums buy them....i proudly wear a Sadness Will Prevail hoodie daily......
i really hope you have but just in case you missed out of the UXO release earlier this year....just because Chris Spencer and Steve Austin together is exactly what it should be |
I haven't listened to Kiss the Pig but I'm a fan of everything else. The early stuff is especially awesome, yeah the SWP/Eyes of God metal stuff is great, but they had such a distinct and original misanthropic take on noise rock and post hardcore like nothing else.
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That's my name in the title.
That's right, this has been about me the whole time, consider your world rocked. I feel compelled to mention this, it's from a split between the Endless Blockade and the Bastard Noise called the Red List. Even while listening to Sonic Youth and loving the integration of noise and drone and the unlimited sonic capabilities therein, I wasn't sold on full on harsh noise yet. Endless Blockade are a powerviolence band sure, but do power electronics for days. And, such as some of this monster track, it's anadulterated noise annihilation minus the rock setting. I listened to the split once and thought it went mad hard |
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