The -Suggest a music album- Topic

Dualnames · Tue 14/12/2010 05:18:15

Simple as that. Just include a picture of the album if possible, as song if you like with a youtube link, and please a reason why you like it so much.
And here's my part:

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

Well, cause it's a very sad record, and probably his best imho. The songs are great, there are no filler songs in my opinion. If you're into folk or Neil Young, you should get this album now!

Phemar · Tue 14/12/2010 10:59:39

Excellent choice, Dual

These are some of my favourite albums ever:
(I chose these not because of individual song greatness, but because of the greatness of the album as a whole.)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, The Wall (I prefer the film to the album, but both are good.)
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Offspring - Americana
Nirvana - Nevermind

Iliya · Tue 14/12/2010 11:41:45

Here are my favorite albums:

Depeche Mode - Black celebration (86), Music for the masses (87), Violator (90), SOFAD (93)
Pearl Jam - Vs
Twin Peaks Soundtrack - Fire walk with me (music by Angelo Badalamenti)
The Cure - Disintegration (89), Wish (92)
Al Di Meola - Orange and blue (94)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (94)
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Metallica - Metallica (91), Load, Reload
EMF - Schubert dip, Stigma (92), Cha cha cha (95)
Faith No More - Angel dust (92), King for a day fool for a lifetime (95)
Mr. Bungle - Disco volante (95)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's milk (89), Blood sugar sex magic (91)
Chroma Key - Dead air for radios, Get back in the car

Chicky · Tue 14/12/2010 12:13:14

One for you Zor -

Quarterblind - The Root Of Affliction

But really...

Radiohead - Amnesiac, The Bends, Kid A.
Nirvana - In Utero, With the lights out.
Sonic Youth - Dirty, Goo, NYC Ghosts and Flowers.

Barricus · Wed 15/12/2010 09:05:38

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Primus - Antipop and The Brown Album

Tuomas · Wed 15/12/2010 09:17:42

Here's some new albums if you don't want to go for the oldies:

Pendragon - Pure, out 2008

I just discovered this album, though I've known the band for several years now. Their best piece is from the 90's, Masquerade Overture. Anyway, Noe-prog.

Then there's:

Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up (2010)

Saw them at a concert just now, didn't really like them, but the album is fine.

Then there's a new album coming 2011 from bands such as Rush and Marillion, so I recommend you check them out at that point.

OHOH and my personal absolute favorite:

Pure Reason Revolution - Hammer & Anvil (2010)

Brilliant stuff, though all the records this year seem to sound more or less alike

EDIT: oops, forgot one.

Gazpaco - Missa Astropos

A great crossover band from Norway

Guybrush Nosehair · Wed 15/12/2010 17:44:10

The Beatles - Abbey Road. Greatest album of all time. Period.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way. One of the greatest albums to come out in years.

Dispatch - Bang Bang. It's not easy to get me to listen to bands that started post 80's, but Dispatch's Bang Bang has made its way into my collection.

Al_Ninio · Wed 15/12/2010 20:51:08

Man, it's hard to pick. I'll list some that I've been listening to in my MP3 player recently.

Lift to Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

Sort of like "Explosions in the Sky with vocals", kinda. (Produced by Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins, Dualnames!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lhvX-Ba5kc

Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss

More of that post-rock stuffs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXTVDOHt-No

Swans - White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

Not usually a popular choice among Swans fans, but still my favourite Swans album. Can't wait to see them this April!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW9K0jazrbU

Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye

Still one of the best albums I have ever heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw5STrIXRqA

Rincewind · Sun 19/12/2010 02:23:53

Couldn't agree with you more on Kayo Dot and Yndi Halda, Al_nino! Two wonderful albums, quite possibly two of the best albums of the 00's. Can't wait for Yndi Halda to release a new one. Damn, now you got me in the mood of posting some suggestions too.

Godspeed you! black emperor - "F# A# (Infinity)" (1997)
Post-rock never got any better than this. I love GY!BE and everything they've done, but out of all their albums, this is still the one that I cherish the most. An orchestrated, instrumental, noisy and absolutely epic soundtrack to an imaginary apocalypse. Can't even begin to describe how ecstatic I was when I finally got to see them live in London this wednesday.

Bohren & der Club of Gore - "Black Earth" (2002)
A modern masterpiece. Wonderfully dark, slow and sleazy doom jazz that evokes the feeling of driving through an abandoned ghost town in the outskirts of a backwoods american town with the gun still smoking in the glove compartment. Imagine Angelo Badalamentis soundtrack to Twin Peaks slowed down and infused with an even greater sense of dread and foreboding, and this is what you get.

Boards of Canada - "Geogaddi" (2002)
One of modern electronicas greatest achievements. Amazing electronic music that manages to sound organic as well as syntetic - ancient as well as futuristic - haunting, yet nostalgic. "Geogaddi" sounds as if beings from the far future had recorded alien music and managed to send it back in time to be broadcasted and recorded with pre-ww2 technology.

The Cure - "Pornography" (1982)
Their darkest, and in my opinion, very best album. An anguished musical descent into madness and bleak nihilistic depression, backed up by some of the best songs ever to come out of the post-punk-movement as well as an incredibly minimalistic, yet muddled and hazy production that only adds to the pitch-black atmosphere. Plus, how can you not love an album that opens with the line "It doesn't matter if we all die"?

John Foxx - "Metamatic" (1980)
An ice-cold synthpop classic that still sounds just as chilling as it did back then. Superbly retro-futuristic in its style/theme, "Metamatic" is filled with masterful melodies as well as an ominous electronic mood that brings you images of a decaying, urbanized Britain where man and machine are slowly beginning to merge.

Slowdive - "Souvlaki" (1993)
Shoegaze at its catchiest and dreamiest. Filled with hazy, reverb- and effect-drenched guitars and whispered vocals, this is of the best albums of the 90's, bar none. Dream-like, melancholic and marvelously crafted pop music that goes straight for the subconscious.

Radiant · Sun 19/12/2010 10:28:38

Anian · Sun 19/12/2010 11:32:32

So what, it took like about 2 posts before people started suggesting heavy, death and whatever metal and similar spawns? Always with the freakin' metal. If I want to have somebody screaming at me and making me nervous for an hour, there are more interesting things around.

Tuomas · Sun 19/12/2010 11:54:40

I think this thread would serve it's purpose well if people tried to come up with guiding genres or something. Also, Hope you don't think of my suggestions as heavy

Radiant · Sun 19/12/2010 12:13:46

Quote from: anian on Sun 19/12/2010 11:32:32
So what, it took like about 2 posts before people started suggesting heavy, death and whatever metal and similar spawns?

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Dualnames · Sun 19/12/2010 12:37:35

Hey Rincewind, I've been wondering about Metamatic a long time now, but now you kind of convinced me to give it a try!

Rincewind · Sun 19/12/2010 16:35:03

Quote from: Dualnames on Sun 19/12/2010 12:37:35
Hey Rincewind, I've been wondering about Metamatic a long time now, but now you kind of convinced me to give it a try!

Ah, glad to hear that - you definitely should! And don't forget to check out the amazingly bleak and retro-futuristic music videos, as well: http://youtu.be/v78Jmrb1hPY & http://youtu.be/bL6rcCdx8KA

Such a wonderful mash of the weird angles and lighting from german expressionism mixed with that lovely early 80's grey and dreary dystopian feel.

Disco · Sun 19/12/2010 23:24:44

IQU - Sun Q

This album has stuck with me since first listen in 2005. Theremin music that isn't cheesy! The entire album can be heard on demand from their website at iquiqu.com/audio/sunq . A couple of the songs overstay their welcome, but it is not overly self-indulgant. I especially recommend tracks 1, 2, 6, and 8.

Bonus youtube track: Horse Killer

LimpingFish · Sun 19/12/2010 23:33:01

Some albums that have been on rotation lately:

Godbluff - Van der Graaf Generator

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull

Imaginos - Blue Oyster Cult

Volume III: 1978-1984 - Goblin

Blues Run the Game - Jackson C. Frank

Al_Ninio · Mon 20/12/2010 17:53:11

Marry me, Rincewind.

Rincewind · Tue 21/12/2010 00:32:40

Quote from: Al_Ninio on Mon 20/12/2010 17:53:11
Marry me, Rincewind.

Hey, I'm free - let's go to Vegas and do it!

2ma2 · Tue 21/12/2010 03:15:02

Quote from: anian on Sun 19/12/2010 11:32:32
So what, it took like about 2 posts before people started suggesting heavy, death and whatever metal and similar spawns? Always with the freakin' metal. If I want to have somebody screaming at me and making me nervous for an hour, there are more interesting things around.

In deed there is. Saxophonist GOD John Zorn along with the crew of jazz slash grindcore group Naked City released their self-titled album at the end of the 80's, blending a vast variety of musical influences into a cacophony worthy Azatoth himself.

Visuals accompanying the albums we're not much more uplifting.

It's hard to believe that these guys may evoke a stronger negative reaction than Norwegian True Black.