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Album of the day thread... | by BuggedEyes | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
| Some of my favorite albums... |
by nin_man |
2003-07-11 12:49:32 |
(and a whole album is damned hard to come by these days) in no particular order:
Well, who doesn't like "The Wall" and "Dark Side Of The Moon" by Pink Floyd? They're just good. With or without The Wizard Of Oz.
"Odelay" by Beck. He, too, is just good. I get the impression that he doesn't really know what he's doing when he makes a record, choosing instead to make it up as he goes along. It works.
"Ill Communication" by the Beastie Boys. Rap hadn't gotten annoying yet, and three Jewish guys didn't get shot for trying their hand at being thugs. It's a silly album, but it works.
"The Fragile" by Nine Inch Nails (should that even be capitalized?) dropped my jaw the first time I heard it. And the second. And the third. And so on. He did things with sound that nobody knew could be done, and made amazing music with it. It's one of those rare albums that would work as an instrumental OR an acapella, and the range of music found here is as vast as anything I've ever heard in one place.
"The Downward Spiral" by...well, you know. I like an album that tells a story. It seems to be a forgotten art, or maybe it really IS hard to do. It seems that on their eighth release, NIN finally hit their stride. They're not supposed to be a techno group like Reznor tried to be on "Pretty Hate Machine" and they can't quite pull off pure metal as heard on "Broken" so, logically, this album brings them both together. It ain't glamorous, for sure, but it's still beautiful in its own way.
If greatest hits albums count, then I'm going to include "Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Greatest Hits" on my list. Tom Petty's music is pure. It's rock as it was always meant to be. It's not overpowering, but it's not light and fluffy, either. It's music that never gets old or dated. Kinda like Tom Petty himself.
Metallica's Black Album and "...And Justice For All" are, to me, some of the best metal ever. It's rare that a band can ever really be at its best early in its career. It needs time to mature and establish itself an identity. While Cliff Burton was arguably the best bass player ever, Metallica's music as a whole didn't really seem to come into its own for me until I heard "One". From there, and into the next album, they came as close to acheiving sonic perfection as I've heard. Metal is hard to make musical. It's supposed to be gritty and harsh and abrasive. The problem is, it all starts to sound alike before long - until these two albums came along. Even all these years later, wow.
The Clash: "The Clash". This here is their album. Is it not nifty? Punk rock has a nasty habit of being whiny and pretentious (if one can be pretentious with a safety pin in one's face) and inaccessible. The Clash are none of those. The music, as simple as it is, is nothing short of brilliant. "London Calling" would just about make this album great by itself.
Oh, I almost forgot Metallica's "S&M"! Can you mix metal and a symphony? Yes you can! Will it make Andrew Lloyd Weber walk out? I'm glad it did! Should they do it again? Not with their current album!
I had never heard of Bjork before "Post" but she sure won me over with this one. Her music is weird. She's even weirder. I like it. She goes from jungle to industrial to Broadway to whatever the hell "Hyperballad" is with so much ease, you wonder when exactly she made the leap.
I'm gonna quit now before I go grab my CD case and start flipping through it. Lord knows I'm not even close to finishing my list. |
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And such is why... | by DeadEyez | 2003-07-11 16:52:50 |
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