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Added 2020-08-23 04:49:35 +0000 UTCWhat's your favorite album and why?
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I'm going with Lil Rob 1218 Part 2. The first volume had Summer Nights which was a banger in 2005. After I listened to that album I got hooked into his discography and his next hit was Stuck With You. It took over a year to release but Part 2 hit hard! That whole album was fire to me and measured up to what I enjoyed in Hip-Hop at the time!
davis376 .
2024-10-10 00:56:24 +0000 UTCPet Sounds - the pinnacle of baroque pop. Fantastic sound design, perfect harmonization and chord progressions, beautiful instrumentation that sounds like a heavenly circus in your dreams. Brian Wilson is a genius
Emerson B
2020-08-25 05:16:55 +0000 UTCJay-Zs The blueprint released on September 11th 2001. I remember going to Circuit City around 12pm w/ everything still going on. It was a ghost town. Such a soul filled album. Also, The Roots Game Theory released 2 days before my son was born. I remember it being the backdrop to everything going on. Incredible album. Music and movies really do put a time stamp on those impactful/special moments in our life.
Jmas85
2020-08-25 04:14:40 +0000 UTCYeezus. The psychedelic minimalist rap album that captured Kanye’s decent into madness beautifully and was his last true stamp of unchecked ego. MBDTF was the album everyone wanted from him and Yeezus was the album he made for himself which added philosophical merit to it. He even modeled the tour after the Holy Mountain and that’s how I learned about Jodorowsky. The whole thing polarized me at twenty two years old and is the last album that was able to shape me as a person. New albums are only good for simpin’.
plutopower
2020-08-24 00:55:55 +0000 UTC“Soviet Kitsch” by Regina Spektor. The storytelling in her lyrics is magnificent and it moves me every single time I hear this album.
Matthew Mertens
2020-08-23 18:46:59 +0000 UTCRain Dogs by Tom Waits. I never heard an album where each song sounds completely different from the others. He uses so many different instruments throughout each song and he always changes up his style. I can't even explain what the style is, because its so different from anything I've ever heard. Every song is written like a poem with a very charming touch of melancholy & dirty realism. My personal favorite songs off the album would be Hang down your head and Jockey full of bourbon.
Christian Sanaploianu
2020-08-23 16:12:59 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite things about this question is that I'll now have new albums to check out. My favorite album, which hopefully won't change before I finish writing this, is I'll Be Your Girl by The Decemberists. Every time I listen to it it's fresh. The lyrics sing about complaints we all have at some point, or many points, in our lives e.g. "Oh, for once in my life/Could just something go right?". There's a happy sounding song about everything being awful, which I hear as trying to stay hopeful and optimistic even when everything seems to be going wrong. It could also be heard as making fun of people who complain about little things way too often. There are harsher/more somber sounding songs before the final title track brings it back to the calm, hopeful optimism which says to me: no matter how difficult things are there's always someone out there who can help.
Reggie Clark
2020-08-23 12:27:07 +0000 UTCPure Comedy by Father John Misty. I love it's grand and theatrical instrumental textures and Josh Tillman's smooth singing voice but its the album's words that really get me. What has been penned in this album is a grand statement on humans and the human condition. It's simultaneously darkly humorous as well tragic and cynical but doesn't come to a completely forlorn conclusion by the end. It feels like an epic artistic statement that encompasses every aspect of human life.
Tyler Shobe
2020-08-23 08:56:03 +0000 UTCIt feels weird to pick a more recent album considering all the life-changing older music that is out there. But the album that has meant the most to me for the last 6-7 years is Sunbather by Deafheaven. The band combines so many of my favorite genres from shoegaze and black metal, to post-rock, indie, and screamo-- like it's tailor-made for my tastes. The way the music builds and crescendos, juxtaposing chaos and anguish with hopefulness and beauty is endlessly cathartic for me. It always gives me something to latch onto emotionally no matter what mood I'm in. And the lyrics, indecipherable as they may be due to the screamed delivery, are beautiful surrealist poems in their own right; with relatable themes of the aimlessness of young adulthood, insecurity, depression, and substance abuse. All of their albums, but especially Sunbather, hold a really special place in my heart and have helped me work through some of the most difficult points in my life.
Andrew Reed
2020-08-23 06:24:01 +0000 UTCHip Hop: Aquemini (OutKast): fuses together east coast lyricism with southern soul. Combines the experimentation of Stankonia with the soothing sound of ATLiens...the perfect hip hop album Indie Rock: Funeral (Arcade Fire): listening to the album for the first time was an out-of-body experience for me. The lush instrumentals (piano, bells) combined with the unique vocals were one of a kind.
Michael Smith
2020-08-23 05:26:10 +0000 UTCMichael Jackson's Thriller and Bad. I love Thriller because of Billie Jean, Thriller, and Human Nature but Bad has Bad, Leave me Alone, Man in the Mirror, and the criminally underrated Liberian Girl. Both albums are the best of what pop music has to offer.
Wolfman Brandon
2020-08-23 05:14:57 +0000 UTCRecently stories from city stories from the sea pj harvey. Its striking all kinds of chords . Its so amazing. Love every single song. We float is possible one of the greatest album closers. I definitely wanna here ur thoughts. I sent you another message on here about my journey to pj harvey . Unfortunately if you read that you'll see how it took me sooo long to get into her music . We need a separate pj harvey video.
swift minus one
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