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.
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.
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
My dad would fall asleep to this album when I was growing up. It’s really special.
‘Falling asleep’.
I have seen people pass out while that album was playing.
No, he would literally queue the album up after he tucked me in to bed and then got ready to go to bed himself.
I’m sure many people have done drugs while listening to Pink Floyd, and my dad sure did in his youth, but he truly used that album as a sleep aid lol
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
That and the dark side of the moon. The two last songs (eclipse and brain damage) are ao frigging great.
Jagged Little Pill
That’s an “80-percenter”! My personal benchmark for a great album is 80%+ of perfect songs.
Hybrid Theory
My first thought as well.
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.
@YeahIgotskills2 @als I feel the same… discover nirvana way late arround 2010, I feel its simple and a masterpiece at same time
Discovery - Daft Punk
Not so easy to answer! But Vivaldis four seasons has been a great companion over the last 50 years
I recently rediscovered my love for this work and also discovered that it’s part of a larger work: Il Cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione. For those that like the four seasons, you’ll probably like the rest.
So many of the greatest violinists have recorded the four seasons it’s difficult to pick a favourite but for me it’s Federico Guglielmo. I usually prefer a clean style but the expression is excellent.
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.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
I got this for dissolved girl (knock knock, neo) and the rest of it sounds different. It’s a good different. I was disappointed at first, but - unlike another hit/album mismatch finger eleven - I grew to really like the rest of it as a completely separate entity from the catalyst track that made me get it.
Linkin Park’s Meteora or HybridTheory
R.I.P. Chester 🫡
Demon Days by Gorillaz
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
although Cat is a misogynistic asshole, his music is still fire.
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.
“We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank” is tied for me
I’ve tried so hard to like Modest Mouse, but they just don’t do it for me and I don’t know why.
Have you tried…
or especially
Yeah, I’ve listened to almost everything they’ve released. They seem like a band I should love. I dunno…
I’m drawn in by the authenticity of their early music, the pure emotion, and the sometimes enigmatic lyrics. Being a punk kid when I heard them, I was attracted to Isaac Brock’s raw vocals even though the music was in general much less aggressive than what I was typically listening to then.
These days I mostly listen to hiphop so it’s been a journey. Modest mouse is still my favorite. They represent a time in my life when I was first learning to be my authentic self.
YESSS
I carry that album in my soul for real haha
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.
I learned a few years back that the original vinyl pressing of this had a completely different track order than the the CD version (and I think was three LPs). I changed the track order on my digital version to match this (without the extra tracks that are near impossible to find) and it works so much better (and I love the album). I’d love to get my hands on a copy but can’t find them for less than $300 if you’re lucky.
I just read about this. It’s related to the amount of bass a song has, and heavy songs tend to play better on the outside of a record, than closer inside. The needle can actually skip.
Stuff like this fascinates me, the ways in which physical limitations can impact a piece of art.
Wow! What an interesting addition!
Mine is Siamese Dream
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.
