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Love me some godspeed. First time seeing them live was at coachella while on psychedelics and what an experience. I've been lucky that they've played in my area a lot ever since then. Always a great time.
I dont know what this says about me but my favourite album is "He Has Left Us Alone but..." but jeepers creepers if Lift isnt up there too.
good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar. I know it's not the deepest of cuts but the production is great, the lyrics are top notch, and it came out like a month after I moved to Los Angeles so it holds a special place in my heart.
It's probably the better album like as a piece of art I just don't have the same emotional attachment to make it my favorite.
And the album art is easily one of the best ever.
I fucking love radiohead. The only accomplishment I have in life is seeing them 9 times. They're so good live.
Storm Corrosion is the best work Wilson has done post-Porcupine Tree. Ljudet Innan is a transcendent song.
Maybe it's the Seinfeld effect but when I was getting into music in high school I never vibed with Radiohead a ton. It's good music and everything but it never blew my mind like other bands.
My dad lost his Wallet on payday after going to a Moody Blues concert on Long Island once, with like two weeks' pay inside. It is the only artist I was forbidden from listening to as a kid. Now? I can appreciate them a good bit, they put out some good stuff.
If you like king crimson, I'd say Seventh Sojourn and In Search Of The Lost Chord
Blood on the Leaves is an all time banger.
Saw Hudson Mohawke play it at a outdoor show one time and was rolling so hard it was a wild experience.
Any record that can put bon iver chief keef an kanye on the same track and have it flow is something special tbh
Depends on the day. Today, It's American Beauty by the Grateful Dead.
ETA: forgot to say why. At different times, I've heard genres like bluegrass and blues as "feeling good about feeling bad," and I guess that's how I feel about this album. It always makes me feel good and relaxed.
Aren't the studio albums of grateful dead not huge in the fandom vs. obsessing over specific live recordings - being a jam band and all.
The Dead made two near-perfect studio albums: Working Man's Dead and American Beauty. Deadheads hold those two in high esteem but the real fandom is in obsessively arguing about which show from March 1977 is the most sublime.
I think so? I'm not really much of a deadhead, actually. For me, it's all about this one specific album. I've heard some live recordings and they didn't hit me the same. You had to be there? idk
That's fair, I was mostly basing this off the dead episode of And Introducing, Chris Wade's podcast.
I've never listened to that podcast. Been meaning to check it out for a while now, I'll have to do that one of these days.
It's worth a listen. Song vs Song, Switched on Pop, Blink-155 (now 155 pod) are some other music podcasts I enjoy.
Yeah that seems to be the consensus, but I really enjoy a lot of the studio albums from the 70s. To me they're just so compact and fun to listen to. It feels so daunting to listen to a live set, and I don't enjoy the sound as much. I agree that you probably had to be there live to get the full experience.
I love American Beauty. I just find it so comforting to listen to, and in fact I listened to it today. Always a good choice.
Did you ever watch Freaks and Geeks? That scene where she's listening to "Box of Rain" and just vibing is probably the most I've ever related to a scene in a TV show.
It's been a while since I watched the show and I'm not sure how well it holds up, but I really loved it at the time.
Abbey Road - The Beatles
I really only discovered The Beatles around the time I had a midlife crisis in my 30s. I'm not a rock n roll guy. I really only listen to reggae and ska, or bizarre stuff like Boingo, Devo, Zappa, etc. Anyhow, this album hit me, and specifically the medley at the end of the album, like a ton of bricks when I needed it the most. There's something very cathartic about listening to album front to back.
When the album has a nice finale like that medley its nice to let it play all the way through and build to that moment. When I made mixtapes and later CDs for people in middle school and highschool (and fucking minidiscs, remember those pieces of shit?) I would agonize over the track order. You gotta have a good track order. Letting the musician decide the order of the tracks by playing the whole album is fun and I like to indulge it when I have the time.
It just barely didn't make the cut, the UK release of their self titled is probably my favorite 77 era punk record.
Huh, I'll share a few.
For oldies, probably
or maybe Discipline, but I feel like Beat has that extra pizzazz to it.
For less popular stuff, maybe
Black Bear -- The Cinnamon Phase
is a really comfortable album. I listen to it alongside stuff like
and
Of course, these are all albums that can conceivably be good on chapo, because they are bear themed, to some extent. This is probably the most poppy of Landlady (sorry for reactionary name) albums, but
Landlady -- The World is a Loud Place
is a great place to jump in. I might be the only person on Earth to prefer Keeping to Yourself, but I'd prefer if people didn't listen to Dancing in My Car once and never pick up another one of the band's tracks.
Hmm, another good album is
Their followup HTBAHB is also great, but Dreamland is dogshite and should never be applied to one's ears. Just dropping a few more,
I only listen to union music, smh.
The Symposium -- The Symposium
A nice album to disassociate to.
Just a downright masterpiece.
Rather than going through this whole comment, I made a playlist that you should put on and forget about. It's just some nice music in the background.
I love King Crimson but have never listened to Beat. Larks Tongue in Aspic is my favourite by them.
Careful Kid is probably one of the few albums I have every song memorized, the only. The only fault I can find with it is that some songs aren't the mixes from Yabadum -- Yabadum; though that might just be because the Yabadum cuts feel fresher since I listened to them second. Were you a fan of Yabaum?
Damn I just posted that Dreamland was my favorite 2020 album in another thread :sadness:
Blackbear is great, and glass animals are so good! Glad to see someone else who likes 'em
My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. It sounds like an opiate high feels. Even though I quit using a long time ago it always bring me back.
Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. Henry Rollins will back me up on this one.
Elliott Smith's Either/Or (I was a really depressing guy when I was young).
Beach House's Bloom
Arcade Fire's Funeral
On The Might of Princes - Where You Are And Where You Want To Be
Hopesfall - No Wings to Speak Of
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennae to Heaven
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Off Minor - The Heat Death Of The Universe
AND ITS NAME WAS EPYON - VISIT TO A GRAVE
city of caterpillar - city of caterpillar
Indisposed / to be gentle - Letters To
Jimmy Еаt World Bleed American
Kimbra - Vows AND ONLY THIS VERSION OF THE ALBUM!
Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
This is a list of albums I will play front to back almost any time i put it on.
Listened to Yank Crime for the umpteenth time the other day. Luau always kicks my arse.
So with you. Drive like Jehu are the most important band of 90 so for me
Good Against Me! Pick, that version of Walking is Still Honest is cry as fuck. Shape of Punk to Come is also amazing. I went full crust but this would be very close to my 13 year old favorites list.
this is pretty much what this is for me, lol. I just invested so much into listening to these albums growing up, and there are a few newer ones on this list.
I dedicated my life to punk. As a result I'm pushing 30, have no job, several drug problems and live in a place built in the 1920s with no heat. Honestly I've had a fucking blast.
Drive like Jehu stands undefeated for the type of music they invented. Guaranteed to injure yourself if you skate with them in your earphones
Oh, i have more
Pageninetynine - Document #5
Pageninetynine - Document #8
Pageninetynine/Circle Takes The Square - Document #13/Pyramids Wrapped In Cloth
Circle Takes the Square - As The Roots Undo
Pique/Apostles of Eris - 12in Split
Heavy Vegetable - Frisbee
Liturgy - Aesthetica
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium.
Oh dear, I like so much that it's hard to pick favourites. But if I had to recommend a few that are dear to me, I would say:
- Bonobo - Black Sands (music mostly instrumental, without lyrics and manages to convey such emotion regardless) second to
- Bonobo - Days to Come (similar vein to black sands)
- The Glitch Mob - Drink the Sea (a classic in electronic, unique sounds and production, still good today)
- Aldous Harding - Aldous Harding (new zealand style gothic folk, aldous has a neat and unique way of singing)
- Clever Girl - No Drum and Bass in the Jazz Room (oozes such good and lively energy, juxtaposed by being sadly the only album they ever made)
- Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples (japanese psychedelic goodness)
- Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place (for the mood when you're in a questionable time n place)
- Pretty Lights - Spilling Over Every Side (cool soundscapes and electronic sampling collage-ery)
- Esbe - Bloomsday (pleasant! chill)
- Odesza - A Moment Apart (odesza are wonderful with production, soundscapes)
- Siamés - Bounce into the Music
- Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata (particularly for the song Justice for Saint Mary, which takes you on an 8 minute journey from this is chill, this is nice to oh now this is metal, ok to wtf is happening, I definitely shouldn't play this in a church, it's great)
And, if I may, a single song to add on the end which is very nice:
- Shawn James - Curse of the Fold
Because he's got a fantastic voice.
I saw Bonobo live and god damn him and his band were amazing. Haven't heard of the other stuff on that list but I'll check it out.
I got to see Kikagaku Moyo a couple years ago at a small venue and it was one of the best shows I've been to, especially since I went in practically blind. Loved them ever since.
