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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
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.
Demon Days by Gorillaz
Not so easy to answer! But Vivaldis four seasons has been a great companion over the last 50 years
Linkin Park’s Meteora or HybridTheory
R.I.P. Chester 🫡
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.
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.
Mine is Siamese Dream
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.
Air, Moon Safari
Fuck yeah, my wife and I used to make love to this album.
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.
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
Everyone I’ve talked to seems to gravitate to Doolittle or Come On Pilgrim as a favorite Pixies record, or the album that defines their vibe. But for me this album was my entry point not just for them, but to a bigger musical world and I’m forever grateful for that.
Such a great album!
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.
Murray perahias recording I reluctantly think may be superior.
Yes, this. So much character. Gould was an amazing pianist!
I don’t really know. Kinda depends in the mood I’m in I guess.
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Alice in Chains - Facelift
FIDLAR - FIDLAR
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
EDIT (some more):
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Pearl Jam - Ten
Soundgarden - Superunknown
