Album Thread
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ITT we post (With Album Art):
>An Album You Love
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
>What Makes You Love It
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
>Link To Album
My entry:
>An Album You Love
Patagonian Rats by Tera Melos.
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Math rock infused with jazz (contains some piano and sax), and beachy pop rock. Not math rock in the same sense as untitled, the split and drugs to the dear youth.
>What Makes You Love It
It is an extremely underrated album with a lot of interesting sounds on it. It comes from a band of three people, and they have a sound of a six person band. The sound is very full. Nick Reinhart's pedal board is large and diverse. Great basslines. There are moments of reverby breakdowns, soft quiet loops with somber singing/chanting over it, a sax solo, a great dance song, math rock wankery. The lyrics really have no particular meaning to me as they are quite abstract like all of TM's shit. The vocal delivery is very different too, sometimes it is almost like a bark, a chant, a whisper. The lack of lyrical content does not really matter because the music fully communicates through the guitar work. This album is very guitar-heavy, as all of Tera Melos' stuff, not to undermine the ability of the other members.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
I used to own this album on record, as I was a small record collector. My friend Tanner spent the night, and the next morning he stayed around for a while. We were in a band skramz band together at the time. I remember that it was a clowdy morning, which was rare. I put on this album, and we just sat in silence listening to it. He painted me a picture of an octopus that I still have. It is very dear to me.
>Link To Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2QsZ75ESuk
Please keep this thread free of r9k buzzwords, fem-hate, chad this, beta that. You guys are my only friends right now, and I want to have a good time here on the 4chans.
>>25408805
Ha, looked up this band literally twenty minutes ago for the first time, except I looked into the debut.
Both sound nice enough (I'd like to be into 'fullness of sound' as well), but too emotionally uniform and too metalish for me.
Good thread and good effort, OP.
>An Album You Love
Burn, Piano Island, Burn by The Blood Brothers
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Sassy Hardcore, Sasscore, Post Hardcore, etc.
>What Makes You Love It
No other band really did what The Blood Brothers did. This album in particular is not my favorite by them, but it stands out to me because it still holds a lot of that aggressiveness that made them great. This is an album that manages to make a great danceable record while also being a hardcore record. The dual-vocals on it are incredible. The track Ambulance vs. Ambulance really shows this. The vocals almost drip with anger and sexuality. Sasscore has always been a weird genre because it is very sexual, but it is sexual in the way rape or sexual assault is sexual. It is like fucking someone and then smashing their head in with a metal baseball bat. It really takes getting used to the bizarre sounds on this record, but once you do, it is absolutely fantastic.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
I remember I was in my room with a friend. This friend was pretty much my brother in every way but blood. We did everything together. I played this album out loud and we spent the hour moshing to ourselves, breaking shit, punching one another. Call us autistic. I dare ye.
>Link To Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik44dRjenVU&list=PL987D11651C68514F
>An Album You Love
American Football by American Football. The self titled. You guys all know this album.
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Emo.
>What Makes You Love It
Guitar tone. The softness of it. It is just a very neutral album. The most you can say about it is that the vocalist sounds like a complete faggot. It is a very important album in emo, as it pretty much single-handedly influenced every emo band that existed at the time and all the emo bands since then. This album is to emo as Led Zeppelin is to rock, or as Black Flag is to punk. It is a passive album to me, not wholly interesting. Just important for its time, and it reminds me of some memories of the past. I really only listen to it when I go through winter. It is one of those winter albums for me.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
I was broken up with and I listened to this record a lot after words. I also listened to a lot of Title Fight. God dammit.
>Link To Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqRNSwXQUwA
>>25408872
Thanks anon.
I find that this album is emotionally uniform in terms of this intonation or pitch of the vocals, but the mood of the playing changes quite a bit throughout.
What is an album you like?
>>25408979
I love this album, however I will have to say that Crimes is much better. The production is better, the songs are better written, the structure is more developed.
>An Album You Love
I Saw The Sun EP (Bootleg) - Slowdive
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Shoegaze/Dream pop with post-punk and indie rock influences.
>What Makes You Love It
Some of their later material is over-produced in my opinion, this Bootleg contains unreleased material and some of the aforementioned later material in a rougher, lo-fi live sounding state. This leads to an ethereal quality, like you have uncovered some piece of ephemera from the foggy distant past of the mid-nineties.
A lot of the tracks are well suited for contemplation or walks and drives at early morning/twilight. The instrumental material is particularly well suited for a film score. They have a strange spacious, airy quality which tickles the minds eye.
Songs are quite sad or happy in a bittersweet way. Reminds me of the monumental turbulence of teenage thought and emotion and the sheer importance and magnitude of things during those years.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
Difficult to say, I discovered it about eight years ago during a period of seclusion so I have no memorable experiential markers surrounding it.
It did provide some solace to me and rekindle a sense of innocence and the ideal pursuit of authentic emotions and aesthetic.
>Link To Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz4joc_fc4s
>>25409185
This is OP. I have only listened to Souvlaki? I believe it is called by Slowdive. It is a lot more produced than this, but I like this a lot. I don't listen to enough shoegaze. This album sounds a lot darker.
>An Album You Love
Standard by Scandal
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
I guess J-rock but they can sometimes stray to the more pop side.
>What Makes You Love It
Honestly not too sure. I'm normally not too into straightforward rock music but Scandal has a great sound. I really like the vocals too, obviously the all female group members set them apart from a lot of other bands. I like japanese music in general because I'm a weeb but also because it keeps my mind off the lyrics and I can focus more on the vocals as an instrument. I also like a lot of bands with abstract or indistinct lyrics.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
I took the Amtrak last year from Philadelphia to Minneapolis and I pretty much listened to Scandal the entire time, this album in particular. (about a 36 hour ride.) I listened to them even as I was dozing off on the train, I guess it kept me grounded or in my own world as I watched the countryside pass by.
>Link To Album
Can't find the album but here's one of my favorite tracks which I could not find on youtube anymore for some reason,
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2tfrfm
I used to browse /mu/ religiously in high school and discovered a ton of great music but I got so burned out and gave up. I pretty much just listen to jpop anymore.
>>25408979
This album is the bomb diggity.
>>25409240
Yea I dig the darker feeling on some of the tracks.
It is lighter though still melancholic on other tracks like silverscreen, i believe and Like Up.
Nice mixture of light and dark throughout.
If you like this I recommend their EPs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowdive_discography#Extended_plays
>An Album You Love
OK Computer by Radiohead
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Radiohead.
>What Makes You Love It
Radiohead.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
Listening to this album.
>Link To Album
You have all heard it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GMbEdKk5vM
>An Album You Love
24:26
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
hip hop
>What Makes You Love It
it's refreshing.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
laying in bed listening to it on a summer night
>Link To Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ZytRGWMfQ
>>25409240
>>25409330
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXBe96kQP24
They had a short lived electronica/coldwave phase as well.
>>25409155
>What is an album you like?
I hate to admit it, but I don't remember the music I listen to. So I can't in any honesty talk about any album.
But the last one I listened to is this:
Valentyne Suite by Colosseum
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dOAGUg6EVec
I find it quite lively for its age (1969). Songs I have internalized are the first two and the final suite (around 18:20). Apparently jazzy as well.
>>25409356
I am digging famiglia
>>25409384
Love this stuff.
One part blues, one part acid drenched Bacchanalia.
>>25409471
Happy to hear.
When it comes to psychedelia (and age), the only other two records I know and love are In-A-Gadda... and The United States of America.
>Album You Love
Deja Entendu by Brand New.
>Genre
Alternative/indie rock.
>Why I Love It
Every song is a masterpiece.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
Seeing Brand New play live at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 2009 and performing several songs from the album. Also, listening heavily to the album during the summer after my first year of college.
>Link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbn1k8sL1U
>>25409515
I am trying to like this album, but I am too biased after spending the better part of my highschool years unabashedly hating pop punk.
>>25408805
>>25408979
>>25409122
>>25409242
>contains vocals
You guys are not listening to REAL music.
>>25409740
I will take the bait. What is real music?
>protip: there is no such thing as good music. There is only level of complexity, you fucking faggot.
>>25409760
I'd argue that REAL music is just noise, there is not need for vocals that follow some kind of lyrics. Vocals are added to appeal to pop music.
>An Album You Love
Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Singer songwriter/folk
>What Makes You Love It
Lyrically one of the best albums of all time. And a lot of the songs give me feels
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
Walking to my house in the rain after college for about a month straight
>Link To Album
No full album on YouTube so I'll link a song instead
http://youtu.be/6fMnF0Fvdpo
>>25409789
Actually, random white noise is the exact opposite of music. But if you like the sound of it, go right ahead. I used to listen to Boris' noisier shit, and to SunnO))).
However you are insinuating that vocals are only an element for pop music, when that is false. As if the difference between noise music and pop are the vocals. You do know that there are a lot of other genres that do not contain vocals, yet have musical qualities to them?
I am taking this bait hard, aren't I.
>>25409789
Vocals are added to appeal to pop music, yeah right. That's why almost all popular music genres that aren't pop will at least sometimes contain vocals and why classical and folk is full of vocals too. Vocals are popular because the human voice is the most diverse instrument and we're all born with it, get over yourself. "Real music is just noise", the fuck does this even mean, do you mean real music has to lack vocals or real music is harsh noise trash you can make in 5 minutes in audacity? If you mean the former then you neglect to remember that vocals are an instrument, if you mean the latter then you need to get some taste and study some theory and stop browsing /mu/.
>>25409981
Most of /mu/ is not even like this. What gutter trash. Thanks for roasting that anon, anon.
>>25409981
Vocal literally distracts from music. I often think 'there's a nice song underneath, if only it weren't obscured by the vocalist'.
>>25410031
Sadly you get a lot of pretentious teens who say stuff like that from /mu/ even if it's not most people. They just care about image and want to look different and argue stuff like that which no one but them would take seriously. Like if you dislike vocals, okay I guess, but own up to that and don't make up nonsense about how it's for pop music or music with them isn't "real".
>>25410133
You just need to treat it like another instrument. Vocal melodies will often lead the same way any other melody instrument will lead over top of harmony instruments, e.g: a violin over guitars. I used to get distracted a lot by vocals, but it's just a matter of learning to listen to different parts and treat vocals like another part of the music. I find it can also depend on vocal style. For example I find I like some vocal styles and voice types a lot better than others, and easier to blend in, bass and contralto singers are less distracting to me than high pitched tenors and sopranos. Sometimes a bad vocalist can ruin a song, band or album though, that sucks.
>>25408805
>An Album You Love
Purpose
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Modern pop
>What Makes You Love It
JB is a good singer and puts feelings into his songs
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
none yet
>Link To Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrGPLG07Anw
>>25408805
>An Album You Love
James Blackshaw-Sunshrine Celeste EP
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Instrumental Primativist Guitar/Improvisation (think John Fahey)
>What Makes You Love It
All of James Blackshaw's works are amazing so it is hard to chose the one of the other.
I tend to turn back to Celeste and Sunshrine the most however. I am not a musician so I can't explain technically why it is so great but the songs are crisp, sharp, airy, expansive, playful. It is just mostly just one guitarist, but his picking sounds like an ensemble.
Strong Spanish, Mideastern, Indian, Bluegrass (maybe) influences. Earthy tunes, yet feel like religious reveries. Interestingly one of his other works, The Cloud of Unknowing is named after an anonymously written Christian Mystical Text from the middle ages.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
Sharing it with same mates who were out on a barmy night walk after smoking a spliff. It fitted in and lifted the experience seamlessly.
>Link To Album
tracks in order skylark is ok but the real highlights are Celeste part 1 and Sunshrine
>Sunshrine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f4SpZXjFlM
>Skylark's Herald Dawn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaD329X8CU8
>Celeste part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zlc6ZkpVI
>Celeste part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxiTDyhqEUY
>Sunshrine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f4SpZXjFlM
>>25410615
whoops posted sunshrine twice.
>An Album You Love
Down Colorful Hill by Red House Painters
>What Genre You Would Describe It As
Slowcore: a style of soft rock music that was initially in opposition to the grunge movement. Characterized by its slow, minimal, hazy production and often sad lyrical content
>What Makes You Love It
The beautiful melodies, beautiful lyrics about depression, losing love, and the fear of growing up. The long, winding songs that tell stories and build with their great guitar work and minimalist drumming (the drums and guitar both sound amazing on this album by the way).
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
A week during my senior year of high school where I was home alone and had access to around 800mg of oxycodone. It was the only time I will ever do opiates and I was considering trying to overdose on it. Listened to this album and the other amazing RHP album Rollercoaster a lot while in that haze. Bad times.
>Link To Album
https://youtu.be/ZCQkwqiilQk
>>25410615
Love this. Thank you anon.
>Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
>Grime
>It's just so fucking London
>My adolescent years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GyvRCjQwD8&list=PL0A1D1F575FC93078
>An Album You Love
Elder - Dead Roots Stirring
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Stoner Metal
>What Makes You Love It
It's heavy jams all the way through. It's like jumping into a mudslide and letting the current take you.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
I'd always listen to it on my way back from college to home, which meant winter or summer break
>Link To Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mZvARd0hY0
>An Album You Love
Suljettu by Absoluuttinen Nollapiste
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Progressive Rock
>What Makes You Love It
It's a concept album that tells the story of a single father and his son who live in an isolated village. The village folk suspect the father of molesting his son and everybody shuns them. The father is disappointed in his son whom he views more as a girl than a boy. The son then drowns himself in the river which runs through the village and his father is suspected of doing this. The father runs away from the police, swims to the island in the middle of the river and dies as his heart breaks.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
When I heard the ending for the first time, I nearly cried. The instrumental work is phenomenal.
>Link To Album
The whole album used to be on Youtube but here is the final piece, the climax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WHbyJ8aY78
>>25410930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HITHygbE_BA
Not as heavy but you might like this.
>>25411022
I'm 2 minutes in and I'm digging it
>>25410999
Pretty dark, not unexpected from Finland.
>All these great albums
Great job guys
>An Album You Love
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
It's mostly Post-Rock, but has some ambient and field recordings
>What Makes You Love It
My first album that made me rethink the whole concept of music. I was into metal and hated anything that wasn't. This album opened my eyes to what music can be. Since listening to this album, I've explored music I never thought I would ever hear. This album is also one of the only albums that has painted a vivid picture or movie in my head when I listen to it. It really is an experience if you listen to it at night and focus on it.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
Dropped acid while listening to it on my phone. Kinda scary, but overall was one of the best (if not the best) experience I had in my entire life.
>Link To Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu0kGvKujCg
>>25410930
Holy fuck, this band kicks ass.
>mfw theyre playing a gig where i live in a few months
thank you for posting this anon
>>25410512
I just got ready to make fun of some pleb bands earlier on and then this comes along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a7a28NifQc
It's one of Burzum's amazing ambient albums. I love traditional music, magic and nordic saga, so this stuff is the shit for me
>An Album You Love
everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?, The Cranberries
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Popish rock I guess?
>What Makes You Love It
Very dark sound, the singer's voice
Is haunting. All of the songs I absolutely love. One of my favorite all time albums to listen to at night. "Dreams" is extremely emotional.
>A Great Memory You Associate With it
Driving around the country at three in the morning with this being the only CD in my car. It was with a girl whom I once thought that I loved. Bittersweet memories.
>Link To Album
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQqVQNe7uORApx2RkYaGsW7joc6x6gZ86 [Open]
>>25411586
Godspeed are fucking amazing. I've always loved mogwai, and a friend recommended me Lift and it blew me away.
>>25412559
>Mogwai
Love them too, Mogwai Young Team is my fav album by them. Overall really like post-rock now.
>>25408805
>An Album You Love
The Glow pt. II
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
Folk, singer-songwriter, post-rock, lo-fi, indie, ambient
>What makes you love it
The album sounds like traveling alone in the snowy mountains and freezing to death. It has rich acoustic soundscapes, haunting overtones, and beautiful, sprawling lyrics with recurring themes of nature, heat and cold, light and dark, loneliness and longing. I truly can't recommend this album enough, even if you don't think it's something you'd normally be interested in. At least check out the opening track; it will give you a pretty good idea of what the rest of the album will be like.
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
Driving through rural Maryland near Ellicott City and Baltimore county as it snows, being the only one on the roads. Exploring an abandoned house near some horse farms. Laying down on a snowy road and smoking a cigarette.
>Link to Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sgq8l1m9W0
>>25412740
Goddamn, that sounds comfy as fuck anon. I'm super jealous.
>>25408805
WE'RE JUMPING OUT OF OUR SKIN TONIGHT
SOMETHING TOOK MY BRAIN FOR A RIDE
NOW WE'RE CARVING OUT YOUR NAME
FORGOT JUST HOW TO SAY IT
I GUESS IT'S OFF TO BED THEN FOR NOW
I'LL HAVE TO CALL YOU LATER
I'LL CALL YOU LATER
>>25412740
I live about 20 minutes away from Phil and I've met him multiple times at a local record shop and a local grocery store.
This record is the soundtrack of my teenage years hiking alone around the real Mt. Erie all night
>>25412740
>>25411586
OP here. I love both of these albums. The Microphones was a personal band for me around my friends, but Godspeed was always a shared love amongst me and all of my bandmates. We took a lot of inspiration from them, even though we played a different sort of music.
>An Album You Love
by the throat
>What Genre Would You Describe It As
eletric hip hop with a little rock
>What Makes You Love It
the message behind the songs and memories
>A Great Memory You Associate With It
talking with my freinds days before they died
>Link To Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiFE0N9o0D4
>>25412828
Maryland is seriously one of the comfiest states in existence. I've never been but I suspect Washington rivals it.
But you have mountains, shoreline, abandoned fishing towns, little historic districts...
>>25409185
>indie rock influences
you fucking retard
Can't be asked to type a lot of shit, this is just a really comfy album.
Albums I love (1/2)
>album I love
Pretty much all recordings of Europe '72
>genre
Folk rock and a bit of psychedelia
>why I love it
To be honest, this is the album I grew up with. It's been with me through good times and bad. The lyrics to many of the songs are really authentic and powerful. The instrumentation is absolutely great and it's been a big part of my life, as unpopular as it is.
>great memory
This will go mostly the same with the next album too. You see, my dad and I are members of the sons of confederate veterans, so I gained an interest for confederate history. My dad saved a good chunk of change for us to go on a trip through Virginia from Tennessee to see many of the landmarks. My dad brought several of his favorite CDs to play on our trip. One of them was "What A Long Strange Trip It's Been: the Best of the Grateful Dead". We played it and the next album through most of the trip. This with the backroad scenery and fresh air made this probably the peak of my childhood. The Europe '72 tour songs were my favorite.
>linx
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZmCfm_xd8E
And
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2TdsUfJumrM
I personally recommend Brown Eyed Woman from Tivolli Gardens.
P.s. Chris, politely fuck off and let me discuss music. I'd let you do it all the same. Return the favor.
>>25418666
(2/2) (satantrips celebration edition)
>album
Blood on the Tracks
>genre
Folk rock
>why I love it
This album, from my point of view, paved the way for the way we see modern music (that being non classical rock). The instrumentation is astounding. Every single word rings true and glows like burning coals. It is also an album I built my life around a good part.
>memories
Like I said before, I remember those Virginia hills and mountains with these songs playing like it was just yesterday. It is something that you simply have to experience to understand. It was my comfort in the middle of my parents divorce and still is to this day. Rambling over.
>linx
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbV5sZdiOmeAp4Ia-KIP8ZT-j7UosOym9
I recommend you drink a bud wiser with this one, fellas.
Original albumps we all love
