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.