What is your go-to album or albums?
 

I'm talking about the shit you listen to when nothing else will do the trick. You've listened to this album 86 times and counting, it's always there to fall back on in your time of musical need.

My two are:
Converting Vegetarians II by Infected Mushroom
The Black Parade by MCR

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tbh I still haven't heard the black parade, even tho recently it seems like a lot of people have started considering it a classic? maybe not recently but from what I've seen, people are starting to appreciate it more and more.

celer - discourses of the withered
autechre - confield
william basinski - melancholia

all 10/10s imo. discourses of the withered is celer's best work and one of the best drone albums, period. confield is idm at it's most potent and progressive. and melancholia has some really great memories associated with it.

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alphabetical order:
36 - Memories in Widescreen
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 3
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Belong - October Language
Celer - Discourses of the Withered
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is a Stream
Steve Roach - Darkest Before Dawn
Totorro - All Glory to John Baltor
Robert Rich - Somnium
William Basinski - A Red Score in Tile
William Basinski - Melancholia
Yodaka - Betrayal and Reincarnation

I get alienated really easily, so a lot of the albums listed feel lonely, melancholic, or meditative to some degree. The only album that wouldn't fit the aforementioned three descriptors is Hex, and Hex, to me, is the prettiest album that I've listened to. I usually listen to it in the afternoon when I don't feel too bad.

I used to listen to a few other albums regularly too (Kashiwa Daisuke's 88 and Program Music I, 2814's Birth of a New Day), but I don't listen to them anywhere as often as I used to these days.

edit: nice picks choof

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Speedin Bullet 2 Heaven - Kid Cudi
The Masturbation Sessions - GG Allin
Believe - Justin Bieber

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Pendulum - Hold your Colour / In Silico
Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
Sublime - Sublime
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory?
The Postal Service - Give Up
Tool - Lateralus
Filter - Title of Record
Korn - Issues / Follow the Leader
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Billy Talent - Billy Talent II
Paul Young - The Secret of Association
System of a Down - Toxicity

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My go-to changes with the wind these days but I would go with Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92. It's sort of like a musical ground state for me, like visiting an old comforting friend.

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Ben Johnston - String Quartets Nos. 1, 5, 10
Toby Twining - Eurydice
Roland Dyens - Naquele Tempo
Emptyset - Emptyset
Mouse on Mars - WOW
The Residents - Demons Dance Alone
Frank Bretschneider - Isolation
Ryoji Ikeda - +/-

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Worlds- Porter Robinson

only album where i liked every damn song

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i got a lot of these

Sweet Trip - Velocity : Design : Comfort
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Autechre - Confield
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Busdriver - Temporary Forever
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Can - Future Days
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Daedalus - Invention
Faust - Faust IV
The Flashbulb - Kirlian Selections
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
NEU! - NEU! '75
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Silver Apples - Silver Apples
Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

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cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Sweet Trip - Velocity : Design : Comfort
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Faust - Faust
KIKIYAMA - Yume Nikki OST
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop
William Basinski - Melancholia
Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
Isabel's Dream - Monomara

these are all god tier picks as well:

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I haven't listened to "an album" since there started being ways to get songs besides buying the cassette or cd

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surely there are albums that warrant full listens for you?

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Swan Lake and Mozart's Requiem

also the FF11 ost

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My two are both "listen to these songs in order or else you're a bastard" albums, so it's basically like a 2 hour song when I listen to them.

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the only excuse to not be listening exclusively to full albums in order is if you are listening to classical/jazz or dance music.
otherwise you arent actually listening to music and your brain is just pretending to hear sounds that arent actually entering your ears correctly

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My work day consists of several 30+ minute drives, so I get full album listens in often. Here's several I've listened to a couple times in the last 2 weeks in no order.


The Inheritors - James Holden
Koda Vista - Joywave
L.O.W. - Jan Roth
Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
Jessica Rabbit - Sleigh bells
Tres hombres - ZZ Top
Wavering Radiant - Isis
Twoism - Boards of Canada
Canto Ostinato for two pianos and two marimbas - Simeon ten Holt

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I guess I did buy the album

Snarky Puppy - We Like It Here

At a concert, but I still end up youtubing individual tracks when I want to listen to one. I otherwise don't think I've -owned- in any form, a full album of -anything- since I was a teenager.

I think "warrant" isn't the right word to use here.

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Are probably the two I'd pick before most anything else.

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Lateralus, and Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory are always going to hold a special place in my heart.

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Shrines by Purity Ring
If You Wait by London Grammar


only 2 albums where i like every song and ill go back and listen fairly often

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For lack of a better Name by deadmau5
Perplexagon by Kebu

Those two albums are the ones I always find myself listening again

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Clams - Clams
River City Extension - The Unmistakable Man
Portugal. The Man - In the Mountain in the Cloud
Room306 - at Doors
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation

memory's a thing so this is hardly exhaustive

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New World Shadows by Omnium Gatherum
Population: Declining by Hail the Villain

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primus - pork soda
down - nola
dying fetus - reign supreme
operation ivy - energy
pantera - the great southern trendkill
streetlight manifesto - full discography every album is 10/10
megadeth - rust in peace

ive probably listened to all these albums hundreds of times at the minimum and still go back to them regularly, tried to make the genres a bit varied

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Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror
This is THE go to album for me. i could (and have) listen to this thing on loop for weeks and it'll never get old. Hell even writing this made me want to put it on.
Here are some other honorable mentions though:

Avantasia - Metal Opera through Wicked Symphony
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Demons and Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King
Luca Turilli - Kings of the Nordic Twilight
Luca Turilli - Prophet of the Last Eclipse
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Sonata Arctica - Days of Gray
Sonata Arctica - Pariah's Child
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Twilight Force - Tales of Ancient Prophecies

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Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
ASC - Realm of the Infinite
Borealis - Glittervoice
Burial - Untrue
The Daysleepers - Creation
The Flashbulb - Arboreal
Hydeout Productions - 2nd Collection
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Instra:mental - Timelines
Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City

Happy to see this here!!

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The Killers - Hot Fuss
Royksopp - Melody A.M.

and if I'm in the mood for memes Starbomb

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Yesss Röyksopp Melody AM has been my jam for nearly a decade now o.o

Edit: Yppah - Eighty One is another great album

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Therion - Secret of the Runes
Yes - (basically any album)
Pendulum - Hold your color
Nero - Welcome Reality
Borgore - Borgore Ruined Dubstep
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

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Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Belong - October Language
Max Corbacho - Ars Lucis
SleepResearch_Facility - Deep Frieze
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
GAS - any, but especially Narkopop

VNV Nation - Standing / Burning Empires
Hiroyuki Oda - Thirty

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

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hell yeah

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Almost all the ambient stuff listed up there are my anxiety meds - I spent fully 18-20 hours cooped up at a friends place after bad stuff happened, listening to Stealth on repeat, basically sleeping at will


It was a really weird experience because I wasn't high or anything, the music is just that soporific

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Lots of good picks here!

Whenever I need to focus on a work related task, my magical album is Fallen by Evanescence. Don't ask me why, it always does the trick! I guess it puts me in a complete state of dread where I don't fear the consequences of doing a "bad job", so I just start executing.

When I actually want to listen to music, albums from Neal Morse really make me feel at ease (in particular, Question Mark, similitude of a dream, sola scriptura)

And I have to give a shoutout to In the Court of the Crimson King, the album that just keeps on giving.

I really want to list so many more albums, damn. Music is such a gift.

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Solid pick. I've listened to We Like It Here for a solid month before switching to anything else. Guess it's time for a revisit!

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"Tarot Sport" by Fuck Buttons

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Hybrid Theory is the only album I've ever liked.

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The keyboard solo in Lingus is one of the most transcendental pieces of performance I think I've ever seen.

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*agrees in Fallen by Evanescence*

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Wish You Were Here

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all good picks but you are objectively wrong for picking narkopop over Koenigsforst or pop

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oh yes
Harmony in Ultraviolet a million times over, but also:
Agora - Fennesz
Ravedeath, 1972 - Tim Hecker
Returnal - Oneohtrix Point Never
The Sea Swells a Bit - Aidan Baker
Weleer - Machinefabriek

These always get the job done.

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All of the ambient/drone picks in this thread make me happy.

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That's a big fuckin' +1 from me, boys

Also there are some other fantastic mentions in this thread so I won't repeat all of them in my list but off the top of my head

Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do/Drukqs/RDJ
Arovane - Lilies
Lunatic Calm - Metropol
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today...
Ratatat - Ratatat
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
The Flashbulb - Resent and the April Sunshine Shed
Tycho - Past is Prologue
Utabi - Manchurian Candy

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Mine as of late seem to be:

Ziltoid the Omniscient - Devin Townsend
Sky Blue - Devin Townsend
Pretty much every album Chaotrope has ever put out
Just Shapes and Beats OST
Malina - Leprous

I forgot a couple:
Chocolate Wheelchair - Venetian Snares
A buncha Kurorak songs that I don't think have an album but might as well be one.


And that's about it to my knowledge.

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American Idiot - Green Day
Social Distortion -Social Distortion
Some Nights - Fun.

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Naglfar - Diabolical
Rise against -The unraveling
Black tongue - Nadir
The last ten seconds of life - Soulless hymns
UADA - Cult of a dying sun

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Noisia - Outer Edges
Pretty much the magnum opus of the best & most well-produced bass music trio ever

The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II
IMO the most underrated hiphop album out there... Deserves to be up there with 36 Chambers, Low End Theory, etc. They did many things on this album 30 years ago that I haven't heard since

Jacob Collier's whole discography
If there's a musical prodigy alive in 2020, it's Jacob Collier... Knows basically everything about music theory, mastered like 30 instruments, 6 octave vocal range. Lovely blend of r&b, folk, and pop

Daft Punk - Discovery
No explanation needed

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I'm relistening to Dream Theater's Scenes From A Memory. Seriously, that album will NEVER get old for me.

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Venetian Snares' albums (2002-2010 era), Drumcorps' Grist album, DevNull's 230 BPM Eternal album, and Terminal 11's Additions To Arsenal album.

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Timberland shockvalue2

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grimes - art angels
the unicorns - unicorns are people too

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amazing albums

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just looking through this thrread again and i see lots of good stuff but this post stood out

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Tool - Lateralus
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Carpenter Brut - Trilogy
Infected Mushroom - Legend of the Black Shawarma
Linkin Park - Meteora
Turmion Kätilöt - Technodiktator

Turmion Kätilöt is probably a band not many people in the states have heard of but they fuckin jaammm

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nara leao - dez anos depois
luomo - vocalcity
yo la tengo - i can hear the heart beating as one
the caretaker - an empty bliss beyond this world
stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline
animal collective - merriweather post pavilion
guided by voices - bee thousand
madvillain - madvillainy
prefab sprout - steve mcqueen

+1s:

endtroducing
clouddead
heaven or las vegas
music for 18 musicians
the devil and god...
since I left you
A I A: alien observer (YES)
untrue
harmony in ultraviolet
returnal
a love supreme
no more stories
bizarre ride

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My go-to album is any album by Tool. Not my fav band, but still my go-to album.

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nin - ghosts i-iv + v and vi
the jim yoshii pile up - their entire discography
xiu xiu - a promise

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protest the hero - kezia
i see stars - new demons
sufferer - self titled album
the color morale - know hope
death from above 1979 - if you're a woman, i'm a machine
the flashbulb - kirlian selections
goreshit - either of the semantics albums, but goretrance 9 is nice too
camellia - galaxy burst
progamers - reloaded or final stage
phantogram - voices

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goretrance 9 poggers


i used to listen to these a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsldNxD2mW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybLuFOxSH3w

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the bends radiohead .

ever heard of them?

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aren't they like muse but with aphex twin influences?

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Ok, I'll be that guy and say the Ridge Race R4 Soundtrack.

Shit's cool and always puts me in a better mood.

For real adult albums I'll probably always be down to listen to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It's both a highly overrated and underrated album, if that makes sense, but I've always liked it.

EDIT: Since someone mentioned Fallen, there was a time where I absolutely would have named The Open Door my favorite album. I still think it's a decent listen, but probably wouldn't preach about it.

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Cross by Justice, Inhuman Rampage by Dragonforce, Squaredance by K^2, I could go on all day.