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    • JmWave [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

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      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.

  • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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    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.

      • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        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.

    • JmWave [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I fucking love radiohead. The only accomplishment I have in life is seeing them 9 times. They're so good live.

    • halfdeadreadhead [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Storm Corrosion is the best work Wilson has done post-Porcupine Tree. Ljudet Innan is a transcendent song.

    • dpg [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

        • SunshinePharmer [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          If you like king crimson, I'd say Seventh Sojourn and In Search Of The Lost Chord

      • HalfeMoon [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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.

    • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      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.

    • the_real_THICC_Shady [any]
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      4 years ago

      Any record that can put bon iver chief keef an kanye on the same track and have it flow is something special tbh

  • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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    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.

    • redbird [comrade/them,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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.

    • dpg [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • redbird [comrade/them,he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

      • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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

        • dpg [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          That's fair, I was mostly basing this off the dead episode of And Introducing, Chris Wade's podcast.

          • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            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.

            • dpg [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              It's worth a listen. Song vs Song, Switched on Pop, Blink-155 (now 155 pod) are some other music podcasts I enjoy.

      • MaximumDestruction [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

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    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.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

  • HalfeMoon [they/them,she/her]
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    Huh, I'll share a few.

    For oldies, probably

    Beat -- King Crimson

    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

    Nana Grizol -- Ursa Minor

    and

    Yabadum -- Careful Kid.

    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

    Glass Animals -- ZABA.

    Their followup HTBAHB is also great, but Dreamland is dogshite and should never be applied to one's ears. Just dropping a few more,

    Roofers Union -- The Mantle

    I only listen to union music, smh.

    The Symposium -- The Symposium

    A nice album to disassociate to.

    Gorillaz -- Plastic Beach

    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.

    Halfe's Variety Playlist for Easy Listenin'

    • halfdeadreadhead [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I love King Crimson but have never listened to Beat. Larks Tongue in Aspic is my favourite by them.

    • the_real_THICC_Shady [any]
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      4 years ago

      Damn I just posted that Dreamland was my favorite 2020 album in another thread :sadness:

    • Catrof [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I love seeing Careful Kid getting the appreciation I feel it deserves.

      • HalfeMoon [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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?

    • halfdeadreadhead [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Listened to Yank Crime for the umpteenth time the other day. Luau always kicks my arse.

    • Dumpster_fire_pants [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Drive like Jehu stands undefeated for the type of music they invented. Guaranteed to injure yourself if you skate with them in your earphones

    • Terminalfilth [they/them]
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      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.

      • Grownbravy [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        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.

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          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.

    • Grownbravy [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      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.

  • ShoutyMcSocialism [he/him]
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    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

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    Best I can do is a top ten in no order.

    Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony

    Antisect- In Darkness there is no Choice

    Deviated Instinct - Terminal Filth Stenchcore (hence username)

    Plutocracy - Snipin Pigs

    Chumbawamba - Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records

    Skaven/Dystopia split

    The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

    Crass - Penis Envy

    The Endless Blockade - Primitive

    Discharge - Why?

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        Drinking cheap beer with my recently on methodone roomate and spinning Swedish dbeat records right now!

          • Terminalfilth [they/them]
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            Chapo introduced me to leftists who aren't punks. We've got a super good punk/general left scene here, it's a small enough city everyone knows each other to some degree but big enough to do stuff. Got a show space/jam space/free food/screen print/recording studio/community center that is close to being fully owned outright and our band output is pretty well regarded it seems. Contagium and Napalm Raid are from here to not doxx myself too much.

            • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Sounds like a good place to be! I've already doxxed myself by posting my band here before, so I might as well do it again so you can give it a listen: https://ddsdmt.bandcamp.com/album/dine-siste-tanker

              • Terminalfilth [they/them]
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                I've heard that 92 release before actually! Here's my roomate and two of my best friends bands. I don't have anything recent online that I'm in.

                https://desperatetimes.bandcamp.com/album/peace-at-last