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
That and the dark side of the moon. The two last songs (eclipse and brain damage) are ao frigging great.
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
Jagged Little Pill
That’s an “80-percenter”! My personal benchmark for a great album is 80%+ of perfect songs.
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.
Discovery - Daft Punk
Linkin Park’s Meteora or HybridTheory
R.I.P. Chester 🫡
Demon Days by Gorillaz
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
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
YESSS
I carry that album in my soul for real haha
“We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank” is tied for me
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.
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.
Tastes change for sure. I’ll have to give them another shot some other time.
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
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.
Air, Moon Safari
Fuck yeah, my wife and I used to make love to this album.
Premiers Symptômes is also great.
I didn’t like the following albums as much as the first two.
Album I would listen to start to finish on any given day: Rubber Soul by the Beatles.
Favorite overall album to listen to: Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.
Most important album: London Calling by The Clash
Chutes is legendary
Feel like it was a defining sound for many millennials.
The Battle of Loss Angeles by RATM, probably?
Soul Food by Kognitif if we’re measuring it by how much I love it relative to it’s popularity
Had to scroll too far for a Rage album 🫡 it’s funny how New Millennium Homes is still so fucking relevant (I mean they all are but I fkn love that song).
Goldberg Variations. In particular, the 1981 recording played by Glenn Gould.
Anything by Glenn Gould! (As long as the recording removes the vocals…)
Yes, this. So much character. Gould was an amazing pianist!
Murray perahias recording I reluctantly think may be superior.
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
