ITT- Post your top five albums and why you like them

>Tallahassee-TMG
It was the first TMG album I ever listened to and it has a special place in my heart. I also like the storytelling.
>Emergency & I
The atmosphere of awkwardness and trying to fit into society is oddly intriguing. It feels like the sun is setting and you're contemplating your life.
>Electric Version-The New Pornographers
The first full album I ever listened too. And just some damn good pop.
>Split Milk- Jellyfish
It has that psuedo circus feel to it that the first track on The United States of America had. Very catchy.
>Bee Thousand
Short and sweet, cleverly written songs. Even catchier.

>Jane Doe - Converge
Probably the most cathartic album I have ever listened too. There isn't an imperfect second on this record.
>Talking Heads -Remain In Light
Absolute neurosis in music form. Also some of my favorite lyrics are on this record.
>Burial - Untrue
Extremely emotional album for me. Sounds excellent.
>Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Stunning atmosphere. Living in a part of Canada that is absolutely frigid for most of the year, this album sounds exceptionally good driving through a blizzard. Also it's black metal but not too lo fi that it becomes grating for me.
>Melvins - Bullhead
Every riff is brilliant. Sounds amazing stoned.

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>Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
The Ninth Wave is her absolute best work in my opinion, though I will admit the corresponding narrative is a wee bit too indirect for my liking. Title song is orgasmic.
>My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pure bliss in musical form. It's an album I can get lost in time and time again and I don't think I could ever get bored of it.
>Mercury Rev - Boces
Vividly grandiose orchestral sound, but scaled back just enough to where I don't just wish I was listening to classical music instead. The first three songs are absolutely perfect.
>Can - Tago Mago
Another very druggy album that's easy to get lost in - Halleluwah and Aumgn especially. Very colorful palette which makes listening to a massive 70 minute album not painful to get through.
>A.R. Kane - Complete Singles Collection
Weird choice because it's a compilation album and I only really like the first disc but I love the first disc so damn much I'm gonna completely disregard the tracks I dislike. Perfectly mixes Cocteau Twins and JAMC with a hint of dub and more often than not outdoes both.

>Groupers - Ruins
It's so fucking fragile and intimate and sad. I think I'm so attached to it because I listened to it a lot after my last break-up - a heartbreaking and confusing decision, with somebody I'll always be deeply stuck on. My callous shell can always be torn down by Grouper.

>Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
I don't know, it's hard to describe but I just love Elliott and his songwriting. Full of warmth, sadness and regret. Such a great album for tearfully ruminating on the past.

>Lisa Germano - Geek The Girl
I love it so much musically but it's also one of the most chilling, disturbed and depressing albums I've ever listened to. Cry Wolf and A Psychopath just straight fuck me up.

>Trist - Zrcadlení melancholie
I don't know if a darker or more desperate sounding two tracks exist. Fucking hell, you just have to listen to it.
Although I think this is one of those albums that you've got to be pretty messed up and distraught to fully appreciate.

>Jesu - S/T
Just beautifully dark, melancholic and brooding, plus I love how doomy and gloomy it is musically.
I think Broadrick writes music that connects to strong but introverted men who have loved and lost.
Another album that I love for almost the exact same reasons is Leaving by Planning For Burial - another quite similar solo male doom/shoegaze/drone/sludge metal artist.

I like this idea, it has a lot of potential to be interesting.

>Trust - Joyland
It is in my opinion the seminal darkwave/synthwave album of our generation
>Beach Boys - Pet sounds
This album really needs no explanation, but I love it cause it has some of the best early examples of modern song making.
>Love - Forever Changes
An album which has some incredibly vivid and surreal lyricism and progressive musician ship for the time/
>This Heat - This heat
Possibly my favourite experimental rock album of all time, it is seamless and tracks are sublime
>Everything Everything - Get to heaven
When I just want to chill with some easy rock-pop this is my go to album, and I can see it being this way for a long time.

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I started writing something, but realized that I am terrible at explaining why I like music.

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Write it anyway dude. Writing about music is tough and we all suck at it.

>Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum - Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head
Though I quite enjoy the music and find the fact that it sounds like it's being sung by someone alone in a basement adds a level sincerity to the mix, it is ultimately the fact that it has lyrics I can very much relate to that I can't find in pretty much any other music and the album becomes my outlet for those feelings
>Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
On the other hand, I love Bob Dylan's writing not necessarily because it captures feelings you can't get anywhere else, he sticks to pretty universal stuff, but the way he writes lyrics are often very fun and beautiful, and though most of my favorite songs of his are on other albums, this one has the added bonus of being the most cohesive while also having a good variety of sound and tone in the tracks
>Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Mostly, it's just a perfect album to get lost in while walking to work on a cold winter night as I have done many times, the way tracks flow into each other, the beautiful vocals and consistent tone, it's an album that has many great parts but is enhanced by the combination and sequence of the tracks (specifically stuff like The New/Leif Erikson)
>The Velvet Underground - TVU&N
To say the least, it influenced pretty much all of my favorite music that came after it, but more importantly, unlike their two other albums which have some great tracks but some misses, this album would still be great if it was released today
>Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid
I just love the fucking raw emotion, there's not much to say since it's pretty short and technically an EP, but every song is fantastic and full of the sort of pain and intensity I wish I could express if I wasn't so repressed

> Leaving by Planning For Burial
My nigga!

Even though it's one of my most-listened to albums ever, I always forget to list it because I think the last track shouldn't be there as the one before it is one of the best closers ever

>Women - Public Strain
I love the surprisingly violet lyrics and catchy instrumental melodies masked between a haze of noise. Venice Lockjaw into Eyesore is absolutely transcendental.
>cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
I feel like we need more stream of conciousness nonsense in lyrics. cLOUDDEAD doesn't waste any time on meaning anything, it spends all of it painting these gorgeous vistas with the lyrics and incredible ambient beats. Bike 2 is my favourite track ever.
>Arca - &&&&&
Not sure if EPs count, but whatever. Such a great grasp of blending bizarre sounds, wonky trap beats, and solo piano style ambiance.
>Autechre - Confield
I don't know what else to say, but I think this is a completely flawless record.
>Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
I don't think anything else has immediately struck me upon listening to a record as when I got to the end of this and heard Impossible Soul for the first time. For some reason it really gets me.

>Bud Powell - Jazz Giant
I'm usually caught between Jazz Giant and Genius of Bud Powell for lists like this, but I'll stick with JG because of my love for Cherokee. Bud Powell is a massive influence on me and my improvisation personally. Especially in his use of interval.
>Martin Frost - R. Schumann: Works for Clarinet and Piano
Again, close call between this and my other Schumann clarinet album with Gervase de Peyer, but I like the darker aura used in the Frost version to set the pieces. I really like Schumann's clarinet music for some reason and I think the thing that really makes this record work is the piano accompaniment and the way it switches between lumpy and glidey playing.
>The Meters - Struttin'
Not sure how to explain this one. I just really like the feel of all of it. From the unabashed vocals on Struttin' to the stark plucking on their Wichita Linemen cover, everything is sold so well. And this might sound dumb, but I really like the cover.
>John Handy - Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival
The first album I ever jammed to. Every player sounds unique but it all blends so well that I find myself picking a new star out of the bunch every time I listen.If I did pick a glue though, it might be Jerry Hahn's guitar.
>Art Pepper - Modern Art: Aladdin Recordings Vol. Two
While I thin Meets the Rhythm Section might be as an album (more cohesive, I guess?). I've listened to both so much that that guidline gave away and I just found myself coming back to Modern Art more. Probably because it's so slow and really gives Art Pepper a platform to perform on confidently. But yeah, another split.

>Schumann
my nigga
I'll admit I haven't listened to his clarinet stuff but his symphonies are some of my all time favorites in the orchestral repertoire.

>The first three songs are absolutely perfect.
If you like those, you should check out their best album, Yerself is Steam.

>A.R. Kane
One of the most underappreciated bands of all time. Absolutely brilliant.

>Manic - The Holy Bible
I could write a whole book about the lyrics, I'll not go into that. The perfect mix of post-punk, gothic and punk with slight industrial leanings. Has a truly unique clinical/claustrophobic atmosphere I haven't seen anywhere else.

>Brand New - The Devil and God
The delivery and lyrics are top notch. The guitar work is fantastic, specially the use of effects and the Modest Mouse influences. But mostly, the songwriting and mood are just fanntastic.

>Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Loveless meets Spiderland, played by Sonic Youth. Dreamy and apathetic. Sara Lundt's amazing drumming.

>Elliott Smith - From a Basement On a Hill
One of the greatest songwriters of our generation. Astonishing sense of melody, his heaviest guitar work, his darkest "album". Great lyrics too.

>Smashing Pumpkings - Mellon Collie
Ridiculously ambitious, 28 songs and virtually no filler, a fantastic journey through teenage moods. Also, really nostalgic album for me.

> GY!BE - Lift Your~
LYSFLATH is just amazing in every ways. Can't tell more.

> World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
The sounds he makes with electronic noises and strings, post rock crescendos are a pure fucking dreamy bliss and everything.

> Jambinai - Differance
Best Korean band in ages. Mixing post-metal and Korean instruments makes really original sounds and intense moments. Love it.

> *shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo
The horns are just fucking great in this album!! So emotionally powerful and arranged well, suits nice with post rock vibes

> Frenzy - Nein Songs
Another Korean post rock band, love the sophisticated and dense build-ups with a large scale. Love when the calm moments turn to those intense shits.

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>Exuma- Exuma
Responsible for my love of folk and just a fantastic album in its own right. Every song is fantastic.

>Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me
The vibe of this one is just so eerie and strange, while still upholding pop sensibilities. Makes for an intriguing, yet pleasurable listen.

>Ludus - Danger Came Smiling
Jazzy, loud, punky. Super good and fun.

>Mike Melvoin -- The Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog
I love a lot of early electronic music, and this is just one I found to be standout. Love it.

>Opus Avantra/Donella Del Monaco - Opus Avantra Donella Del Monaco
Italian prog rock with classical roots. Highly recommended for fans of Amon Duul II.

>David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
One of the best concept albums I've ever heard. Best vocal range on a Bowie album. Funk Bowie is best Bowie.

Best track: Sweet Thing Medley

>Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Classy as fuck jazz beats, Jay's best flow, amazing biggie verse on Brooklyn's Finest. All around a nearly perfect album

Best track: Brooklyn's Finest

>Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
The most amazing composition on a pop album you will ever hear in your life. Amazing orchestration. No two songs sound the same. Lots of interesting lyrical themes.

Best track: Where's the Orchestra?

>Bjork - Homogenic
Amazing voice. Amazing beats. Absolutely beautiful strings throughout. The only problem is it doesn't use the single version of 'All Is Full of Love'

Best track: Alarm Call.

>Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda
Amazing underrated jazz-funk album. Lots of energy and great to dance to.

Best track: Wiggle Waggle

that shels album is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.

I'll do some recs for you guys because fuck it this thread is so comfy (I'm )

Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona

Current 93 - The Inmost Light

You may have heard it but The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle

The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Magazine - Real Life

Fela Kuti - Zombie

Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb

Dirty Three - Ocean Songs

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

SKinny Puppy - Too Dark Park

>Slint - Spiderland
It's a revolutionary album that creates euphoric melodies and has an unconventional production style.
>David Kauffman And Eric Caboor - Songs From Suicide Bridge
A grossly, grossly underrated album. Compositions are rich and memorable, the lyrics are captivating and heart-wrenching, and every song is packed with raw, undiscovered, talent and emotion
>Elliott Smith - S/T
This album is pure bliss. It's hard to describe why i like this album, mainly because i would just be treading old ground. Needless to say, i just like how it sounds.
>Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
Fantastic record. Lyrics are so depressing and memorable that you'll cry your guts out to every one. Melodies are so crisp and polished. Perfect album to listen to on a rainy day, or just when you feel contempt
>Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Terrifying, breathtaking, and moving. This record is such groundbreaking piece of work. Filled to the brim with pure, uncut emotion. A must-listen for anyone

>Animals - TTNG
Even if it's an introductory to math rock, it still has a lot of emotion and some pretty good (If standard) guitar and drum work. Honestly miss their vocalist as their current one isn't nearly as good.

>Enjoy Your Rabbit - Sufjan Stevens
Easily Sufjan's most looked over album, but I really enjoy the patient feel of it. The instrument variety is still there with other Sufjan albums, as well. If you're into IDM at all, it's definitely a gem.

>Ride The Skies - Lightning Bolt
I love the Bass sound on this thing. So many variations in tone and pattern. The Drumming is spectacular on this one as well.

>Here Comes The Indian - Animal Collective
It has the tribal feel of Sung Tongs and Hollindagain, the singalong style and guitar of Strawberry Jam, and the atmosphere of Fall Be Kind. Gives me a perfect reason to love it.

>Amnesiac - Radiohead
I used to not be able to get into this album except for Knives Out and You And Whose Army, but this turned out to be my favourite album by radiohead. It gives a dark and heavy twist to Kid A. The Industrial sound is something that stays in your head. Almost every song barring Morning Bell has its place here.

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>Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
It's extremely relatable for me, and Sufjan is my boy.

>Grimes - Art Angels
Only just started listening to this, but it's more addictive than coke.

>Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
Also very relatable, Elliott Smith's style is great.

>Bon Iver - 22, A Million
It's very fresh, I like it a lot.

>The Antlers - Hospice
I can't listen to this album anymore cos it's simply too sad but it is a class album.

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>Patti Smith - Horses
Every single song is a different story that evokes some sort of emotion, which are amplified by her delivery. Highlight is the climax of the album, holy fucking shit.
>Swans - Children Of God
Keep in mind I grew up in South Carolina. This album puts me in a state in which everything I feel is so amplified that it's impossible to stop listening to it. Not to mention it's strangely catchy.
>Death Grips - Exmillitary.
This will forever be a favorite of mine because of one experience where I meditated for an hour before listening to it. I was in the perfect blank state where I let myself go to every single impulse, and when I sat down and listened to it, it guided me through it in a way that any fantasy I could have had then or any time I felt like that again would be fulfilled.
>Merzbow & Boris - Sun Baked Snow Cave
Listened to this album while falling asleep, I actually picked up on this concept of being forced to leave home for whatever reason, having a terrifying journey with some machine through whatever dream jungle my mind made up, and having to intergrate with the new place I was at, despite so little changing about my lifestyle as a whole.
>It's a tossup between Transylvanian Hunger, Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, and MBV.
Essentially they all have these musical progressions that somehow encourage relaxedness as well as activity that can either entrance me in a task or in my mind, and I love them all for it.

You sound like you grew up in an oppressive Christian household then reacted against it by turning new age spiritual. Not tryna hate, just my impression

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this is a pretty positive thread so I won't shit on you, but come on

>Yes - Close to the Edge
This is what happens when rock is given the same thought as literature. Nothing else compares really. These tracks reach intense, overwhelming emotional plateaus and yet they always feel like they're holding back, like they have more to give, which in a way is true as this album actually becomes more rewarding and more beautiful with time.
>Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
These tracks convey a sense of legitimate suffering. The opening tracks feel like dread setting in, but the overall experience of this album is earthy and sublime.
>Animal Collective - Feels
These are basically surreal images in the form of songs that drip with emotion. I've never really heard anything else this vivid in music on a sonic and emotional level. It's really indescribable.
>Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Something about the way this album goes in and out of sounding absolutely grim and industrial to sounding serene and glistening is really striking. Even the more direct tracks lend to this constant melancholy sadness.
>Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Really poignant take on prog and psychedelia coming from this band. The first three tracks instantly make it a masterpiece and the whole thing is just highly enjoyable.

It's just the way I say it. Like "Animals by TTNG" or "Here Comes The Indian by Animal Collective."

>Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Loved it from the second I heard it, it has Kanye's best beats and lyrics and it only gets better every time I listen to it
>Justice - Cross
Every song is perfect hype music and a banger, sad it'll never be followed up
>Death Grips - The Money Store
Same thing as Cross, it's just more raw because of MC Ride's vocals, but it could be followed up
>Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Funky as shit and great music just to have as background music to relax to, but if you pay attention the lyrics are great too
>Nas - Illmatic
The smoothest flow ever with great lyrics and beats that match perfectly

>Electric Light Orchestra - Face The Music
Great melodies and arrangements, more lovingly rock than the pop of Out of the Blue, great beginning, warm fuzzy end, great record.
>Local Natives - Hummingbird
Beautiful atmosphere, melodies and harmonies that treat you right, mighty jarring drums that still fit the work as a whole, made with a surplus of heart and loss, one of the greatest records of this decade.

>Billy Joel - The Stranger
Technically pop, but Billy Joel has the most well-used grit and balance of softness in it. Melodies and rhythms that haunt my existence, easily one of the greatest live incarnations of his group, accessible and understandable lyrics, Brenda and Eddy, lalala I like it

>The National - Trouble Will Find Me

I see this one as a person who fell to the lowest point, stumbling and crawling their way up through drugs and friends houses and excess. The swells are unbelieveably strong, the sadness gets downright beautiful, very vulnerable but masculine album, insanely good drums. Not good for parties, great for your lonely hour.

>Dr. Dog - B-Room

Beautiful tunes, great arrangements. I'm a sucker for harmonies. Feels like a very well thought out jam in the best way, hugely inspiring album, sounds very much like the band they are, Be the Void and Shame, Shame are on par with it but this Dr. Dog record is closest to me. Wonky in all the right ways.

>Owen - At Home With Owen
extremely pretty, sufficiently self-deprecating without going overboard, makes me feel okay about having a lackluster life

>The Brave Little Abacus - just got back from the discomfort—we're alright
appeals to my childish self with tv samples and toy pianos, insanely emotional vocals, lyrics that are unrelenting ("i wanna die when you're not here")

>Moving Mountains - Pneuma
romantic, bummer, massive

>Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
fun, makes me feel like i'm in high school (which is a good thing to me)

>Gregor Samsa - Rest
maybe the most beautiful album i know, it makes me feel at peace and puts me to sleep at night when i put it on

official cool dude. Marty Robbins is tight

No, family was fine with me but being an atheist bisexual didn't go down well at school

>>Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
>These tracks convey a sense of legitimate suffering.
Nailed it. Not a brutally depressing Deathconsciousness type of suffering, but rather an oppressive ennui and a longing for spiritual fulfillment.

Yeah man didn't expect to love that album as much as I did. Good shit. It's comfy and you can play it around normies and 90% of the time they'll be fine with it.

>John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
Barrett kicks ass on guitar and fiddle and with Otway's anarchic voice it's just a fun great listen with a mix of folk, rock, country and punk.

>Kevin Coyne- Marjory Razorblade
His blues guitar playing with moaning voice is fantastic with the dismal imagery of loneliness and mental illness he presents.

>Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
The lyrics are just on point and as Bowie points out Dylan's voice is like 'sand and glue'. It just works, it comes together so nicely and paints some great pictures in your mind.

>David Bowie- Hunky Dory
It feels like a complete album. Tracks like Changes are really relaxing and cosy and it just feels like a well rounded album that makes you feel safe.

>Leonard Cohen- Songs of Love and Hate
It's depressing but at the same time enlightening. The whole album is like a rainy day, but Cohen is the one stood outside and you are watching from your window. The tracks are just beautiful.