What is your most recommended album?

OK Computer.
I have tried to find something more pleasing to my ears for about 3 years since I first heard it, but have failed.

Aenima <3

Pushit :

"Just remember I will always love you,
Even as I tear your fucking throat away.
it will end no other way."

Scenery and Fish by I Mother Earth, featuring the incomparably beautiful "Shortcut to Moncton"

i couldn't tell you how many times this album, and that song in particular, kept me sane on long drives with heavy thoughts.

[Edited on May 12, 2005 by hecubus]

Nomeansno-One
song: Our Town
I had liked this band for a while, but this album and this song changed how Iistened to a lot of music, especially punk


Roger Waters-Amused To Death
song: Watching TV
Before this album, I listened to mostly Hip Hop and this album changed that overnight. Of all the songs on the album, Watching TV is probably the most personal track and it almost makes me cry when I hear it.


Fuggees-The Score
song: Manifest
This is just an amazing album and it just epitomizes so much that is great about Hip Hop to me. I really can't pick just one track, but Manifest is probably the purest Hip Hop song on there. And for the record, I prefer their first album, I just heard this one first.


Queens of the Stone Age-Rated R
song: Either track Mark Lanegan sings on
I had heard of these guys for a few years when I got this cd for about $5 at a used CD store in Arizona, after I listened to it, my musical tastes changed immediately and I've been devouring every stoner, doom, and sludge band I can ever since(I know they aren't doom or sludge, but the three styles are pretty interconnected). I just like the Mark Lanegan's songs best of all the QotSA songs.


Misfits-Collection 1
song: Bullet
This is the first non mainstream punk album I ever listened to(yeah, I know, their image is everywhere, but the Misfits are not mainstream). And Bullet's just a sick song

I'm far too indecisive to put just 1 album, so iv'e chosen 10. No order of importance, just 10 albums and songs that I think people really need to have in their lives.

Jeff Buckley - Grace - Mojo Pin.
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico - Venus In Furs
Arcade Fire - Funeral - In The Backseat.
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - Wouldn't It Be Nice.
The Beatles - White Album - Hapiness Is A Warm Gun.
John Coltrane - Blue Train - Blue Train
De La Soul - 3 Feet high And Rising - Me, Myself And Eye.
The Doors - The Doors - People Are Strage.
Low - Long Division - Shame.
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven - Gathering Storm

Oh yeah almost forgot:

Every Radiohead album except Pablo Honey.

i can't narrow it don to one either, so here's a few diehard faves -

Cex - being ridden
Down - nola
El-p - fantastic damage
NIN - pretty hate machine
Talking Heads - stop making sense
Dead Kennedys - in god we trust, inc
Beastie Boys - time to get ill
Slayer - god hates us all
Old Man Gloom - christmas
DJ Shadow - entroducing
Botch - we are the romans
Pantera - vulgar display of power


...but there are so many essential tunes that have never been on albums... from Windowlicker to all my old drum'n'bass 12"s...

i would hate to be stuck on a desert island with only ten discs to choose from.

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

double post

[Edited on May 14, 2005 by bonsaisuperstar]

Another vote for Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

Autechre - LP5

Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst

Excellent question, rife with possibile answers and unbridled enthusiasim. Here are a couple albums that alternated my existence irrevocably.
Broken Social Scene- You Forgot it in People
song: Anthems for a seventeen year old girl, or Lover's Spit

Radiohead- Kid A
song: Kid A

These albums and songs represent some of the most unique, beautiful and creative music committed to tape in recent, or any comtemporary memory.
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