Off-topic what's YOUR favourite album ever recorded and why?

[jannissary]

big question for everyone.

i've got a few which i'll gush about (in no real order)

1) the origin of my depression - uboa (listen/buy here)
this is a deeply personal, destructive and emotional album about the musicians lived experience as someone who is trans. it's a true masterpiece when it comes to both "storytelling" but also the harsh soundscapes that it crafts. obviously harsh noise as a genre isn't for everyone but this entire album is a distressing masterpiece.

2) repeater - fugazi (listen/buy here)
just a simply good post-hardcore album. i tend to listen to this most weeks during my commute to/from work. just a simply masterful execution.

3) e·mo·tion - carly rae jepsen (listen here)
arguably one of the greatest modern pop albums, nothing more to it. i've loved it since it came out and i still do. the b sides are also crazy good.

4) solitude - lord snow (listen/buy here)
probably the most visceral piece of screamo music released after it's popularity died in the mid 2000s. very harsh vocal combined with extremely good guitars makes for one of the best bits of music i've heard in a long time.

now share yours!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jazny]

3) e·mo·tion - carly rae jepsen (listen here)
arguably one of the greatest modern pop albums, nothing more to it. i've loved it since it came out and i still do. the b sides are also crazy good.

zackah it is time to CORF your kōhai

 

[Mofra]

Probably Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun

QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf up there too, ditto Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion

 

[Jazny]

Probably Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun

QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf up there too, ditto Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion

How Mofra listens to music

 

[Mofra]

How Mofra listens to music

That's just, like, your opinion man

 

[jannissary]

Probably Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun

QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf up there too, ditto Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion

blues for the red sun is amazing. one of my favourite metal/metal adjacent albums

 

[jannissary]

zackah it is time to CORF your kōhai

CRJ and kylie minogue makes me FEEL things okay...

 

[Mofra]

blues for the red sun is amazing. one of my favourite metal/metal adjacent albums

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you enjoy Alice in Chains - Dirt?

 

[Jazny]

My favourite album right now is:

So beautiful and weird and groovy!

Beautiful.



Mofra would love this song I think.


One of my most listened to albums as it's the first album I ever remember listening to and I still love it and play it a lot:

How beautiful is this song?

 

[jannissary]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you enjoy Alice in Chains - Dirt?

not one of my faves but it's up there, probably top 5/10

my top three would be something like
1) pig destroyer - prowler in the yard
2) electric wizard - dopethrone
3) boris - amplifer worship

 

[Mofra]

not one of my faves but it's up there, probably top 5/10

my top three would be something like
1) pig destroyer - prowler in the yard
2) electric wizard - dopethrone
3) boris - amplifer worship

Electric Wizard always pop up in my Spotify mixes based on what I listen to at the gym

 

[jannissary]

Electric Wizard always pop up in my Spotify mixes based on what I listen to at the gym

it's good, very heavy. if you want a taster, weird tales or funeralopolis from dopethrone are great

 

[Tyler Durden007]

As if it needed explanation...

 

[STPer18]

STP - Purple

 

[James Colorado]

Hardly a left of centre choice for metalheads, but my personal goat is Megadeth - Rust in Peace; the most virtuoso performance by a thrash metal band that has Mustaine at the peak of his songwriting prowess, with the most talented lineup the band ever had.

Followed very closely by Slayer - Reign in Blood (so aggressive, and conventional theory thrown out the window by self-taught musicians), Immortal - At the Heart of Winter (a revolutionary direction for Black Metal by Abbath incorporating Teutonic Thrash styling into their classic sound, thus taking inspiration from the directions their predecessors in the First Wave had moved onto), Sodom - M16 (dealing with the most brutal of topics; the fan made video for 'Marines' on YT is not for the faint of heart, considering the footage used is from actual news reports and archives of the era), and Marduk - Heaven Shall Burn When We Are Gathered (imo, the prime example of Swedish Second Wave Black Metal).

 

[caveman72]

Hardly a left of centre choice for metalheads, but my personal goat is Megadeth - Rust in Peace; the most virtuoso performance by a thrash metal band that has Mustaine at the peak of his songwriting prowess, with the most talented lineup the band ever had.

Followed very closely by Slayer - Reign in Blood (so aggressive, and conventional theory thrown out the window by self-taught musicians), Immortal - At the Heart of Winter (a revolutionary direction for Black Metal by Abbath incorporating Teutonic Thrash styling into their classic sound, thus taking inspiration from the directions their predecessors in the First Wave had moved onto), Sodom - M16 (dealing with the most brutal of topics; the fan made video for 'Marines' on YT is not for the faint of heart, considering the footage used is from actual news reports and archives of the era), and Marduk - Heaven Shall Burn When We Are Gathered (imo, the prime example of Swedish Second Wave Black Metal).

Rust in Peace is awesome

 

[James Colorado]

Rust in Peace is awesome

I did get the opportunity to see them play it in full (at Showgrounds, I think), which is an experience I will always cherish.

 

[Plugger35]

That album put every other heavy metal/hard rock album in the shade.

 

[Triggering Tiger]

Classic Meatloaf when he could actually sing.

 

[V_23]

Hipster Olympics going on in this fred. Name the most obscure band you can and, if anyone else likes them, pretend you never really liked them.

 

[Jazny]

Hipster Olympics going on in this fred. Name the most obscure band you can and, if anyone else likes them, pretend you never really liked them.

Megadeth, Tool, Stone Temle Pilots, The Smile (a radiohead offshoot) Queens of the Stone Age are obscure?

 

[Mofra]

Hipster Olympics going on in this fred. Name the most obscure band you can and, if anyone else likes them, pretend you never really liked them.

Spot the Fox FM guy

 

[V_23]

Megadeth, Tool, Stone Temle Pilots, The Smile (a radiohead offshoot) Queens of the Stone Age are obscure?

For non-boomers, yes? Never even heard of the two bolded.

 

[STPer18]

For non-boomers, yes? Never even heard of the two bolded.

Guarantee you've heard plenty of STP songs on the radio.

 

[Jazny]

For non-boomers, yes? Never even heard of the two bolded.

I'm probably younger than you and have heard of all of these bands. I don't like any of them really, they are too heavy, except for the one I posted! I do like one or two songs from STP and Tool though. Sour Girl and Interstate Love Song are cool songs. I love Reflection from Tool, very dark and cool sounding song and never gets too noisy. I was exposed to all these bands way more than I ever wanted to be.