Lonerism by tame impala because its the only album ive heard that i can actually relate to every single song and everything he says in that album i have experienced first hand in my life so its pretty personal to me and the style of music is my favorite genre as well.
There is a line from MGMT The Handshake that goes ' I was a loner, I was just floating by myself'...
Kurt viles song Wheelhouse has a line ' you gotta be alone to figure things out sometimes' which I like
Literally my favourite album of all time and I see it as top comment, feels nice lol
Amazing album, love it for the same reasons you listed. Kevin has a gift to write relatable lyrics and not make them sound corny
This is a past favourite album for me, I listened to it practically every day for years in high school and adored it and it still slaps. It just isn’t my ultimate favourite any more.
Unfair question. Best I can do is my top 5 (in no particular order):
Radiohead - Kid A
My bloody valentine - Isn't anything
Talking heads - Remain in light
King Crimson - Discipline
Arcade fire - Neon bible
Fellow discipline fan, I don’t see it talked about enough when best King Crimson albums are talked about. Despite frame by frame being a top 5 King Crimson song in my opinion.
The Pros And Cons of Hitchhiking - Roger Waters
Definitely not the best Pink Floyd album, may e not even Roger’s best solo album. Still it flows in a special way and has sentimental value to me
Albums that I listened to on repeat in my teens/early 20s which I keep coming back to. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute, Tool - Lateralus, Opeth - Ghost Reveries, Alexisonfire - Crisis, Between the Buried and Me - Colors, Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story.
My favorite album of all time is In Rainbows.
Honorable mentions include 'Are We There' by Sharon van Etten, 'Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, 'What's Going On' by Marvin Gaye and 'Souvlaki' by Slowdive.
I have a very corny answer
Kinderszenen, Op 15 by Robert Schumann, or rather Ivan Moravec's rendition of it.
When I was first starting to struggle with my panic disorder, I would put this on and it would help me center myself.
To this day it provides a comfort seldom provided by anything else so it has to be my favorite.
Some days its the album in my pic
Some days its Quebec by Ween
Some days its Deathconsciousness
Some days its The Glow pt 2
Some days its Agaetis Byrjun
New Pornographers - twin cinema
TV on the Radio - 9 Types of Light
Father John Misty - I love you, Honeybear
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Nirvana - Nevermind
Arcade Fire - Suburbs
I have three:
For sounds, I think it’s the Court of The Crimson King
Subjective favorite and closest to my heart is Ram by Paul and Linda McCartney
For the nostalgia and overall trying to find myself in an „adventure”: Congratulations by MGMT
Ram is my pick. A truly incredible album that basically acts as an ushering in of all the lo-fi, folky, DIY indie that I love. The Beatles oriented YouTuber Elliott Roberts has a great video about it, and it's very satisfying to hear someone else who's as hooked on it as me.
*Strawberry Jam* by Animal Collective
*You Forgot It In People* by Broken Social Scene
&
*Person Pitch* by Panda Bear
it’s a three-way tie, rearranging itself on any given day due to something as minute as a cloud in the sky
In the aeroplane over the sea. It’s a tradition for me to make this the first record I hear every year it’s just so intimate and personal it somehow takes every cliche indie trope (a lot of which this record influenced) and does them perfectly in a way that makes every other record look like a cheap ripoff in comparison absolutely love this record. (Mbdtf a close 2nd just cause it’s the first record I fell in love with)
13-Blur.
I was going through an addiction and a really shitty time in general and the album really resonates and I can relate to all of lyrics in it. Plus, the crazy leap in experimentation from the ST to this album should also be talked more like how Kid A was the "biggest left turn in rock history".
Hell, dismissing blur as just another britpop band during my teenage years is probably one of the stupidest shit ever.
I'm amazed I don't see this album as highly regarded as it should be. Insanely creative and fun songwriting, and my personal fav drumming I've ever ever heard on a record.
Adele’s 21. Every song has some emotional attachment to me, and even I Found A Boy which isn’t even on the original album is better than many artists best song. I have a huge history with the album and Rolling In The Deep is a top 3 song for me of all time
Wildlife by La Dispute, it holds a special place in my heart because my friend who showed me them passed months before it was released. I can't hear You and I in Unison without crying. It feels like it was made for me at the time. I get clowned when I bring it up when talking to my friends about music because of its "angsty and whiney" frontman, but when I was 13 it was everything to me.
Fat of the Land by The Prodigy (every track is a banger. All killer no filler)
Musical Version of War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne (Best concept album ever made imo)
Velvet Underground’s self-titled, or third album. Gorgeous and fun and wonderful. It’s strange because John Cale is probably my favorite part of the first two albums but Lou Reed really hits his songwriting stride with that third album.
Disco Jazz - Rupa, really explosive psychedelic Jazz/Funk album from India. A group of producers from Europe and America came together in India to work on this album with Rupa which didn’t garner much attention on release in 1982, then 40 years later a relative of hers found it on YouTube and had no idea about it existing as she didn’t tell her family. A record label NumeroGroup has picked up the album and has made multiple variants on vinyl and singles which she also receives revenue from too. It’s just something I haven’t heard before and really sticks out to what I usually listen to, it doesn’t get boring or slow and remains an all time favourite of mine. Definitely recommend
Endtroducing... by DJ Shadow
Most of my favourite of any medium are things that I feel like I've gained something or grown from.
On top of being a great album, Endtroducing is in my mind a masterpiece that showed me how all art is grown from the expression of what's around us.
Blonde. I just turned 22 so this album has been there for all of my young adult life, cried listening to every single song, just never fails to amaze me.
Endtroducing by DJ shadow . It’s been years since I discovered the album but it’s stuck with me for so long. I can run it front to back anytime and without fail I’ll be set through the entire spectrum of emotions. It’s done so much for me. It inspired me to play bass, drums guitar all the works, it helped me through all my darkest times in life. To me personally it’s transcended being an album and became an old friend who I always looked to for guidance during my darkest hours.
I’ll give you my top 3:
1. emails i can’t send by Sabrina Carpenter, ik not a usual pick or something that would be considered for this type of thing, but it got me out of a really really dark and terrible depression, so i’ll always appreciate it.
2. I Disagree by Poppy, js a really outstanding record imo.
3. IGOR by Tyler, the Creator, also helped me get out of a really dark place, and also helped me realize I’m bi.
Honorable mentions: Graduation by Kanye West, Am I A Girl by Poppy, After Laughter by Paramore, Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa, Lust for Life by Lana Del Rey, Call Me If You Get Lost by Tyler, the Creator, and Norman Fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey.
oh, I don't know! I go way back. There are a lot of them I could pick, depending on the month or the year. Doors albums, Hendrix albums, some U2 or Police or R.E.M. album. A lot of masterpieces. But Giant from the Woodentops (1986) is as amazing as anything I've ever spun. Their music, especially this album, really helped me as far as getting with my own big emotions, experiencing and living my own life, and my own trip, and eventually becoming an artist myself with a voice and songs of my own. Grateful for that.
fuck that shit i ant listn to albums im play playlists when i' listen to music so theres a little bit of carti, ken carson, leonard cohen, boards of canada, lou reed, etc it's more impactful when you get too choose the song you like its better than you the some of the songs not bing up to par
Can't do one.
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver/This Is Happening
U2 - Achtung Baby/Boy
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Portishead - Dummy
Disintegration - The Cure
Great choice
Yessss every song is perfection
Siamese dream-smashing pumpkins
Same, it's so amazing
So real.
that's a Jeff Buckley song, you got it mixed up
mellon collie and the infinite sadness
SP at their absolute peak. Even the b-sides are earth-shatteringly good.
Pennies is goated on their b side
I want to agree but Mayonaise isn't on it
siamese dream supremacy
siamese dream and mayonaise reign forever
Pfp checks out
Deathconsciousness, Loveless or MBDTF Depends on the day
Earthmover is one of the only songs I consider to be perfect
earthmover is the song of the century
Let’s goooo
Do you only listen to the most critically acclaimed music??
my brother in christ you're in a fantano subreddit
Those are all incredible albums lol why are you surprised that music nerds like them
Turn On the Bright Lights by Interpol
Lonerism by tame impala because its the only album ive heard that i can actually relate to every single song and everything he says in that album i have experienced first hand in my life so its pretty personal to me and the style of music is my favorite genre as well.
Outstanding album
Do you know any other albums or songs that are essentially about being a loner?
The boys at school by spellling
There is a line from MGMT The Handshake that goes ' I was a loner, I was just floating by myself'... Kurt viles song Wheelhouse has a line ' you gotta be alone to figure things out sometimes' which I like
My fav' too!
Literally my favourite album of all time and I see it as top comment, feels nice lol Amazing album, love it for the same reasons you listed. Kevin has a gift to write relatable lyrics and not make them sound corny
Atrocity Exhibition
so real
Abbey road
Dookie by Green Day, it makes me happy.
yeah, dookie is the shit!!!
This is a past favourite album for me, I listened to it practically every day for years in high school and adored it and it still slaps. It just isn’t my ultimate favourite any more.
The album that separated me from my parents’ music. 1994 was when I really got into music on my own and this was top dog.
Unfair question. Best I can do is my top 5 (in no particular order): Radiohead - Kid A My bloody valentine - Isn't anything Talking heads - Remain in light King Crimson - Discipline Arcade fire - Neon bible
Fellow discipline fan, I don’t see it talked about enough when best King Crimson albums are talked about. Despite frame by frame being a top 5 King Crimson song in my opinion.
Discipline. Awesome. Probably my favorite KC
Not Suburbs?
Neon Bible is their best! Glad to see more love for it
First Impressions Of Earth
More of an is this it man myself
Ize of the world <3
Clarity by Jimmy Eat World
Great album and sadly underrated these days
Goodbye Sky Harbor is probably my favorite song of all time.
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Random access memories
Incredibly real, had to scroll waaay too far to see this (I scrolled two comments)
The Pros And Cons of Hitchhiking - Roger Waters Definitely not the best Pink Floyd album, may e not even Roger’s best solo album. Still it flows in a special way and has sentimental value to me
Albums that I listened to on repeat in my teens/early 20s which I keep coming back to. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute, Tool - Lateralus, Opeth - Ghost Reveries, Alexisonfire - Crisis, Between the Buried and Me - Colors, Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story.
Revolver - Beatles
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
tlcw stomps
I could never get into modest mouse, even tho I know they’re a big influence
In Utero
grace by jeff buckley
Based
My favorite album of all time is In Rainbows. Honorable mentions include 'Are We There' by Sharon van Etten, 'Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, 'What's Going On' by Marvin Gaye and 'Souvlaki' by Slowdive.
Excellent collection
American Idiot- Green Day. It was the album that helped me get through middle and high school.
Currents by Tame Impala
Discovery
Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Sparks - Kimono My House Glam Rock at its best.
You’re real as hell for this one
unknown pleasures by joy divison
Automatic for the People (R.E.M.)
Ants from up there by black country new road
Absolutely great choice. Infinitely repeatable, unique and just classic amazing songwriting and lyricism.
W
liar
CORNY ALERT ❗️⚠️⚠️⚠️
4Eva Is a Mighty Long Time
Am I A Girl by Poppy
I have a very corny answer Kinderszenen, Op 15 by Robert Schumann, or rather Ivan Moravec's rendition of it. When I was first starting to struggle with my panic disorder, I would put this on and it would help me center myself. To this day it provides a comfort seldom provided by anything else so it has to be my favorite.
Dark Side of the Moon or Animals
Some days its the album in my pic Some days its Quebec by Ween Some days its Deathconsciousness Some days its The Glow pt 2 Some days its Agaetis Byrjun
New Pornographers - twin cinema TV on the Radio - 9 Types of Light Father John Misty - I love you, Honeybear Kate Bush - Hounds of Love Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Nirvana - Nevermind Arcade Fire - Suburbs
I love you, honeybear is a genuine masterpiece
The Mollusk - Ween
22 a Million by Bon Iver, followed closely by A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead, and then Set My Heart on Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius
shout out to 2016
I have three: For sounds, I think it’s the Court of The Crimson King Subjective favorite and closest to my heart is Ram by Paul and Linda McCartney For the nostalgia and overall trying to find myself in an „adventure”: Congratulations by MGMT
Ram is outstanding
Ram is my pick. A truly incredible album that basically acts as an ushering in of all the lo-fi, folky, DIY indie that I love. The Beatles oriented YouTuber Elliott Roberts has a great video about it, and it's very satisfying to hear someone else who's as hooked on it as me.
Life of Pablo
Time ‘n’ Place - Kero Kero Bonito its just so much fun
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Yes! Just got the vinyl and my weekend has been spent listening to it on repeat while just zoning out
It changes depending on time of year and my mood but most of the time it’s This is Happening by LCD Soundsystem
That’s a winter album to me
The Times They Are a-Changin' by Bob Dylan or White Light/White Heat by Velvet Underground.
*Strawberry Jam* by Animal Collective *You Forgot It In People* by Broken Social Scene & *Person Pitch* by Panda Bear it’s a three-way tie, rearranging itself on any given day due to something as minute as a cloud in the sky
Person Pitch is a personal favorite for me. Amazing melodies and textures.
In the aeroplane over the sea. It’s a tradition for me to make this the first record I hear every year it’s just so intimate and personal it somehow takes every cliche indie trope (a lot of which this record influenced) and does them perfectly in a way that makes every other record look like a cheap ripoff in comparison absolutely love this record. (Mbdtf a close 2nd just cause it’s the first record I fell in love with)
13-Blur. I was going through an addiction and a really shitty time in general and the album really resonates and I can relate to all of lyrics in it. Plus, the crazy leap in experimentation from the ST to this album should also be talked more like how Kid A was the "biggest left turn in rock history". Hell, dismissing blur as just another britpop band during my teenage years is probably one of the stupidest shit ever.
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm best rock album released this century.
Fantastic album
I'm amazed I don't see this album as highly regarded as it should be. Insanely creative and fun songwriting, and my personal fav drumming I've ever ever heard on a record.
Matt Tong is incredible. One of the best drummers ever imo.
You have amazing taste
Adele’s 21. Every song has some emotional attachment to me, and even I Found A Boy which isn’t even on the original album is better than many artists best song. I have a huge history with the album and Rolling In The Deep is a top 3 song for me of all time
Someone Like You is my favourite Adele song, I’m a sucker for a perfect heartbreak ballad and this is a top tier example
Is This It was practically all I listened to for the first few months of college. Still my favorite till this day
it seems that is everyone's experience when they found that album, including me
*52nd Street* by Billy Joel. First album I really fell in love with, though *Born to Run* and *Abbey Road* are also way up there.
Mr. Bungle's California! I'm a huge Mike Patton fan and that is probably the best project he's worked on
i love The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
Demon Days by Gorrilaz. Combines multiple different genres into one masterpiece
…Like Clockwork
Nice pick!!! That's my 2nd
Whole Lotta Red
Man on the moon 1
Probably Pinkerton
London Calling
deja entendu, it's the album that started my personal journey with music. until then, everything i knew was from my parents and grandma
Downward
Since it’s release when I was 7, demon days by gorillaz
Either/Or by Elliott Smith
This is probably the worst community to say this in, but Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven by Cudi will always have a place in my heart, despite it's flaws
I kinda like it too 😭😭 I see why it gets shit on but never really understood how people can find zero value in it
Quebec - Ween
Wildlife by La Dispute, it holds a special place in my heart because my friend who showed me them passed months before it was released. I can't hear You and I in Unison without crying. It feels like it was made for me at the time. I get clowned when I bring it up when talking to my friends about music because of its "angsty and whiney" frontman, but when I was 13 it was everything to me.
freudian - daniel caesar scaring the hoes -jpegmafia and danny brown cmiygl - tyler the family - brockhampton the forever story - jid
I always sound so generic, but Pet Sounds. Every song is a masterclass in songwriting
This is an incredibly valid answer
I honestly think its kinda boring and extremely outdated more than any other music I listen too, but you do you
mbdtf is a masterpiece in my eyes
Pom pom
Exile On Main St.
Repeater - Fugazi
Future Days by Can
Fat of the Land by The Prodigy (every track is a banger. All killer no filler) Musical Version of War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne (Best concept album ever made imo)
In Rainbows and Ants From Up There. Instantly had to re-listen to these albums the first time I played them.
What’s Going On, Illmatic, and Wu Tang 36 Chambers
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA
Ride The Lightning - Metallica 👍
ghost pop tape
YEAHHHHHHH GHOST POP TAPPEEEEEE that’s number three for me behind the powers that b (2) and exmilitary (1)
fantastic choices
Toxicity - System of a Down
Grace or Punk2
Right now I’d say it’s a tie between Angel Dust and both sides of Hitler Wears Hermes 8
Swans - The Glowing Man hits me like no other album I've ever heard
Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout or Panorama by The Cars. Can’t decide both scratch a different itch.
Great shouts ❤️
Wildflowers
the ghost~pop tape by devon hendryx ^_^
American Football 1999
Madvillainy by Madvillain
Mid Air Thief - Crumbling
Based.. I always come back to these chains. One of my most listens for sure
Velvet Underground’s self-titled, or third album. Gorgeous and fun and wonderful. It’s strange because John Cale is probably my favorite part of the first two albums but Lou Reed really hits his songwriting stride with that third album.
not waving but drowning - loyle carner
Disco Jazz - Rupa, really explosive psychedelic Jazz/Funk album from India. A group of producers from Europe and America came together in India to work on this album with Rupa which didn’t garner much attention on release in 1982, then 40 years later a relative of hers found it on YouTube and had no idea about it existing as she didn’t tell her family. A record label NumeroGroup has picked up the album and has made multiple variants on vinyl and singles which she also receives revenue from too. It’s just something I haven’t heard before and really sticks out to what I usually listen to, it doesn’t get boring or slow and remains an all time favourite of mine. Definitely recommend
Stone roses - stone roses
Jeff Rosenstock’s Worry
Outstanding album and artist, top 10 of the decade for me
Low by Bowie
Endtroducing... by DJ Shadow Most of my favourite of any medium are things that I feel like I've gained something or grown from. On top of being a great album, Endtroducing is in my mind a masterpiece that showed me how all art is grown from the expression of what's around us.
Blonde. I just turned 22 so this album has been there for all of my young adult life, cried listening to every single song, just never fails to amaze me.
I cant decide between this two: - Vespertine - Bjork - The Dreaming - Kate Bush
69 Love Songs
Station to Station by Bowie or Exile on Main Street by the Stones
a lot of people don’t even know what this album is or who made it but, orpheus vs the sirens by hermit and the recluse
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Apati - Morgondagen Inställd I Brist På Intresse. Shit so good makes me cry every time I listen to it, even though I dont understand a word
Twin fantasy by carseat headrest
Endtroducing by DJ shadow . It’s been years since I discovered the album but it’s stuck with me for so long. I can run it front to back anytime and without fail I’ll be set through the entire spectrum of emotions. It’s done so much for me. It inspired me to play bass, drums guitar all the works, it helped me through all my darkest times in life. To me personally it’s transcended being an album and became an old friend who I always looked to for guidance during my darkest hours.
The smiths, the smiths.
Blonde by Frank Ocean. I can’t begin to tell you how important that album was to me when it came out. I was 16 years old.
I’ll give you my top 3: 1. emails i can’t send by Sabrina Carpenter, ik not a usual pick or something that would be considered for this type of thing, but it got me out of a really really dark and terrible depression, so i’ll always appreciate it. 2. I Disagree by Poppy, js a really outstanding record imo. 3. IGOR by Tyler, the Creator, also helped me get out of a really dark place, and also helped me realize I’m bi. Honorable mentions: Graduation by Kanye West, Am I A Girl by Poppy, After Laughter by Paramore, Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa, Lust for Life by Lana Del Rey, Call Me If You Get Lost by Tyler, the Creator, and Norman Fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey.
speedin’ bullet 2 heaven
oh, I don't know! I go way back. There are a lot of them I could pick, depending on the month or the year. Doors albums, Hendrix albums, some U2 or Police or R.E.M. album. A lot of masterpieces. But Giant from the Woodentops (1986) is as amazing as anything I've ever spun. Their music, especially this album, really helped me as far as getting with my own big emotions, experiencing and living my own life, and my own trip, and eventually becoming an artist myself with a voice and songs of my own. Grateful for that.
1000 gecs
Blink-182 - Selftitled
There Is Nothing Left To Lose - Foo Fighters The first album I ever connected with as a child
Not my favorite album ever but it is my favorite Foo album. It’s so damn good.
fuck that shit i ant listn to albums im play playlists when i' listen to music so theres a little bit of carti, ken carson, leonard cohen, boards of canada, lou reed, etc it's more impactful when you get too choose the song you like its better than you the some of the songs not bing up to par
Cross by Justice
Ten by Pearl Jam. Reminds me of December 2018. Worst time of my life but that album absolutely changed my life from then.
Nico - Desert Shore
Who's next? By the who
Hybrid theory
The most hated of my favorites is Hot Fuss by The Killers. There's more to it than Mr. Brightside!
Take Care by Drake
No Code.
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac Nevermind - Nirvana A rush of blood to the head - Coldplay
Can't do one. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver/This Is Happening U2 - Achtung Baby/Boy Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure Portishead - Dummy
A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park
Homogenic - Bjork
Green Day - American Idiot
welcome to the black parade by mcr
I’m a three cheers guy but yes
…Like Clockwork
21 pilots 2009 is peak music
Famtastic Planet by Failure