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Brothers in arms- Dire Straights

The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me

Blink 182 -Take of your pants and jacket

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.

It's a hard one.

1. My beautiful dark twisted fantasy-Kanye
2. Good kid Mad city- Kendrick lamar
3. Will have to be a tie between any of lil Wayne's Carter series. Though Carter II might just ice it.

Colin James - Fuse

Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle. I've listened so many times start to finish, absolutely in love with it.

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Relapse by Eminem

The hunting party by linkin park

Came out on a perfect time for me

What a hard question. But i always come back to Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Angel Dust by Faith No More.

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.

nine inch nails - year zero

nin has a huge catalog but this one had some special magic. i remember reading that Trent wrote and recorded it on a tour bus. you can hear little slip ups sometimes where he starts singing a beat early then caught himself. he left it in. it's raw and angry and sad and damning and hopeless all at once.

the lyrics are very much of their time, but becoming more and more relevant as we sink deeper into late-stage capitalism.

Paradigmes - La Femme

If you enjoy alternative kinda trippy pop, it slaps

Myrath - Tales of the Sands

Beyonce - Cowboy Carter

Pendulum - Hold Your Colour

Led Zeppelin - dark side of the Moon

Such a hard question.

Old - Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees

New - Fontaines DC Romance

Borrowed - Cafe Tacuba Avalanche de Exitos

Blue - Nick Drake Bryter Later

Ecliptica (Original album, not the revisited one) - Sonata Arctica

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Hybrid Theory

Jeff Buckley "Grace"

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.

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.

Chikoi the Maid is really good https://chikoithemaid.bandcamp.com/

i'm really bad at describing music genres but it has this mixture of electronic and rock music that i really like. (it has no vocals btw)

i think my favorite song so far is Affliction https://chikoithemaid.bandcamp.com/track/in-affliction-yakui-the-maid-cover

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

tie between Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and Coletta's "Idealism". I can also confidently say anyone who likes Pink Floyd should check out Coletta.

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.

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

One is impossible.

• Rush - Grace Under Pressure (Moving Pictures is fantastic and the cliche choice, but there's something about this one I love.)
• The Knife - Silent Shout (Some reviewer called it "Haunted House" and that is the perfect descriptor. Eerie and intriguing electronic music.)
• The For Carnation - The For Carnation (What became of Slint after Spiderland. This one doesn't get anywhere near as much recognition, but I think it's the more mature work overall. Groovy, minimalist post-rock.)
• The Delgados - The Great Eastern (Hard to choose between their albums, too, but I think this one was a perfect straddling of their rockier bits and their symphonic dreampop that they leaned hard into later on. Great band!)
• R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant (This one or its followup: Document which won them more accolades, but I think is slightly less consistent. Their peak-songwriting, IMO.)
• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (I know a lot of people love everything they've done, but I think they've never really topped the atmosphere of this one.)
• Cocteau Twins - Treasure (At the time there was nothing else like it. There still isn't quite.)
• The Afghan Whigs - 1965 (One of their less-popular albums, but I think Dulli and co nailed the RnB rock formula with this one. Their newer stuff is also pretty great.)
• Basement Jaxx - Rooty (I'm torn between this and Kish Kash. Rooty is maybe slightly more consistent. Wall-to-wall banging big beat pop tunes. Fantastic production.)
• Vektor - Terminal Redux (I went through a metal phase for some years, and this one still stands out. Amazing thrash-prog with a vocalist who sounds like a banshee from outer space. Amazing stuff!)
• Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light (Gonna catch hell for this one. They were a very popular thrash band, then they fired their singer and went black metal. It was an unpopular decision with most of their fans. I think they knocked it out of the park. They haven't made an album since, though..)
• Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot - The Son of Chico Dusty (The [somewhat] underrated member of Outkast. This album goes hard. Lots of interesting collabs, too.)
• Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (Peak alt-hip-hop IMO. RIP Gift of Gab)
• Glenn Gould's recording of the Goldberg Variations.

I'd better stop...

Right now it's a toss-up over:

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

Graceland by Paul Simon

Time by Electric Light Orchestra

She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper

(I really love them all; other top contenders are Born to Run by Springsteen and Untitled by Blink-182)