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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.
Hybrid Theory
My first thought as well.
Yellow by Baroness.
Well, technically its a double album: Yellow & Green. And I would say Green is a close second.
Something about it just blew my mind. Like, I had heard Baroness before, stuff from Red and Blue. They had a song or two on the early Guitar Hero games. I just thought “oh another okay metal band, whatever”. Yellow and Green were just… Different. The tone, the vocal style. The whole approach to writing ans playing guitars was different than what i was used to. Thr production has this kind of modern dirtiness, like the noise came from radiation or something. The lyrics are absolutely battling, as they were translated across multiple languages and the meaning was only clinging to them by a thread. The album art is incredible too. The bass is perfect, never too much or too little. The drums use disco and other dance beats along side this metal-ish music in a fantastic way.
It kind of felt it cane fron another dimension. A different timeline where English and western music evolved similarly to ours, but jjsy different enough to be uncanny.
Sgt. Peppers.
I’ve got it on vinyl and this is definitely the way to hear it. Not because of quality but because it has to be heard in one go, not as separate songs.
I’ve heard it many times throughout the years and I still find new meanings to the songs depending on where I am in my own life.
Fixing A Hole is still one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. Harrison’s guitar, McCartney’s vocals and lyrics are all top notch.
Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle. I’ve listened so many times start to finish, absolutely in love with it.
ahhh thanks for the reminder this exists. it’s like an instant time warp for me to a different era
Came here to say this exact album.
What a hard question. But i always come back to Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Ditto. Ride the lightning was my, “and the rest was history” moment. Never even cared about music until then.
Currently I’m in a rediscovery / re-appreciation phase so:
Sinead O’Conner - The lion and the Cobra
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
Probably all time favourite, although it fades in and out of rotation:
Dream Theater - Metropolis pt2
Pornography by the Cure. So dismal
I listen to too much music to pick just one lol.
- Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
- AC/DC: The Razor’s Edge
- Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Ozz
- Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer
- Metallica: Ride The Lightning (shoutout to And Justice for All, tho)
- Foo Fighters: The Colors and the Shapes
- DragonForce: Inhuman Rampage
- Motorhead: Rock N’ Roll
- Oasis: What’s the Story, Morning Glory?
- Styx: The Grand Illusion
- Jesse Welles: Patchwork
I should probably stop.
Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
I honestly have no idea. My first favorites were Dookie and Smash, and I don’t enjoy either any less than I did, then.
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
although Cat is a misogynistic asshole, his music is still fire.
The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Blink 182 -Take of your pants and jacket
I don’t have a favourite album of all time, but I do have favourites for certain genres/vibes.
For just putting on as some music in the background it’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin
For metal, it’s Behemoth, either The Satanist or I Loved You at Your Darkest.
For electronic music, Biceps Isles is great, and when I used to run, it’s great exercise music. But in that same vein Palaces by Flume is also excellent.
For down tempo vibes it’s gotta be Mezzanine by Massive Attack, although Music has the right to Children by Boards of Canada is a very close second. And fuck actually Dummy by Portishead
For more classic easy listening vibes, Chicago 2 by Chicago.
For something I think anybody can enjoy, it’s plastic beach by Gorillaz. It’s their best album by far and I love a concept album.
When I want to hear BEAUTIFUL music that also goes hard, it’s John Hopkins immunity. I had the title track play at my wedding and it captured the vibe perfectly.
So I guess no, I don’t have a favourite album
