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Lt._nefarious

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Lenka - Lenka


Couldn't find full album on Youtube, soz.

The Divine Comedy - Milla Jovovich


I feel so left out, I'm not like you guys and gals in terms of music (mostly)... Aaaw...
 

King of Asgaard

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Mine is Manowar's Gods of War album.
It's 74 minutes of non-stop epic metal.
Not one second goes by without something awesome being played.
 

thesilentman

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The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Dream Theater)
Viva la Vida... (Coldplay)
Octavarium (Dream Theater, and for the next two)
Awake
A Dramatic Turn of Events

...are some of my favorite albums to listen all the way through. (And yes, I really like Dream Theater)
 

DrunkOnEstus

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Okay this post is going to be epic in size, but I did promise that I would respond and give back input. You guys are great, I've done a lot of listening so here it goes:


Goofguy said:
There are only really two albums I only listen from beginning to end.

Our Lady Peace - Naveed

Dredg - El Cielo

The former moreso because I've always listened to it from start to finish since it came out. The latter however, is like going on this awesome journey.
Thank you for bringing this up. I totally forgot about Our Lady Peace. Many think of them as "the Superman's Dead guys", but Naveed is a great album.

Nemu said:
DrunkOnEstus said:

There are Pink Floyd songs I like much more from other albums, but this is the only one I enjoy as a complete whole. Yes, more than The Wall
Major props to this selection. I LOVE this album, and I can't understand why it seems to be somewhat underrated. Pigs(Three Different Ones) is my 2nd fave Floyd song.


My full-length albums (at least, the ones I can think of right now, I may be back to add more) would be (in no particular order):

Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd: Animals
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
The Knife: Silent Shout
Radiohead: Amnesiac
Pearl Jam: Ten
Blur: Think Tank
Thank you for the props. I like your style, based on what you've listed. Amnesiac does have some songs I skip, but that album is very important to me. Radiohead was my introduction into loving music that wasn't heavy (I swear), so the spectrum that it opened (including Elliott Smith and Nick Drake) makes it something I revisit often. Blur was terribly underrated, and "song #2" should not have been their identifying song.

Blackdoom said:
Albums I enjoy listening beginning to end would include The Protomen both act 1 and 2 however this makes sense as they are meant to be listened all the way through.

I would also say Portal of I by Ne Obliviscaris in one album they manage to go all over the place in metal mixing progressive music with black metal, death metal and some other stuff. With some wonderful parts in there where you will have a duet between violin and guitar and both clean and harsh vocals doing a harmony or singing different versus at the same time.


DrunkOnEstus said:

The Locust are from another planet. Seriously. They came to earth to show off the musical power of Martians, and nobody is listening.
You are the only other person I know of that listens to the genius of The Locust I have yet to find a way to adequately describe them to other people when I talk about them.
Thank you so much for posting that. I was hoping to find new music, and Ne Obliviscaris is exactly the kind of technical and experimental sound that gets my spine tingling. Beautiful Stuff. Also, You listen to the locust?!?!? I've tried playing them in the car, at parties, wherever, and it takes less than 45 seconds for people to scream that it please stop. I'll never forget the day I first heard Plague Soundscapes, it literally changed my life and helped me realize that there's still boundaries left unbroken. In all the years since, maybe:


Has come close, but not quite there. I describe them as out of this world because to me they truly are.


The Diabolical Biz said:
DrunkOnEstus said:
I couldn't find an Elliott Smith album, but every single one of them would count if I could. He's my favorite musician in the history of human civilization.
Holy shit, I've never found anyone else who listened to Elliott Smith on here. Top notch stuff.

For the album, it's a no brainer:

I like your style too. I have vinyl of every Elliott Smith studio album (including New Moon), and bootlegs of almost every live performance that's been recorded. He and his art were (are) incredibly beautiful and I feel he was cut short before he got a chance to truly spread his wings. If I grow the balls I might post some of my covers, as I play about 1/2 of his discography. He's actually the reason I decided to get an acoustic guitar and expand from playing metal/electric guitar music. I went on a quest to find a Yamaha FG-180, the guitar from his earlier albums. If I sound obsessed, that word probably doesn't cover it. For the album, Nas is great for when I'm in a rap mood, and illmatic is a solid album. Good choice.

Duffeknol said:
Devin Townsend's Ocean Machine - Biomech

I can not stop listening to it until I've finished it. Every song is fantastic, and the trick he pulls on the last few seconds on the album makes it even better.
I absolutely agree with you, but I personally enjoy SYL more. His solo stuff is still very good and he's one of my favorite musicians. I can't wait to see what the "drug free, wife and kid" Devin puts out from his home studio. I've heard rumors that Ziltoid will make a return, and he said "I may have written the heaviest song I've ever done". You have my curiosity, sir.

SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
New Cattle Decapitation album is really fucking good. Better than I ever hoped to expect from those guys. Like, seriously. Monolith of Inhumanity is probably my favorite metal album of 2012 till now.

Other than that you've got Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do, Massive Attack - Mezzanine, and an absolute ton of death metal albums. If I listed all of them I'd be here all day.
I was going to put "To Serve Man" in the OP, but I felt there was too much heavy music already. I love your style as well. I wasn't aware that they had a new album, so thanks for the heads up. I'll be checking that out for sure.



The Artificially Prolonged said:
Just some of my favourite albums to listen right the way through;

Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
LA Woman - The Doors
Souvlaki - Slowdive
Beggar's Banquet - Rolling Stones
Black Acetate - John Cale
Munki - Jesus and Mary Chain
Rocket Fire - Ceremony

DrunkOnEstus said:
And this also.
How on Earth did I forget to put Loveless in the OP? To me, all other shoegaze doesn't speak to me because I've heard that album. Beautiful wall of sound, it is. Also agree on Velvet Underground, I kinda...listen to that album once a year for reasons. Subject matter of the album and all.

lacktheknack said:
Easy: Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin. Two and a half hours of happiness, fear, awe, paranoia, melancholy, sadness, and bliss. And only one of them has a title, the rest are known by the related picture on the inside.

Warning: Heavily repetitive and experimental, especially [grey stripe].
I'd be upset with myself if Aphex Twin wasn't in the OP. I personally enjoy Drukqs more, but only 0.05% more than Selected Ambient Works II. I need to see him live before it's too late.
 

DrunkOnEstus

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Page 2 Time! I keep my word.

TwoHeadedBoy said:
You and I seem to be on the same page here. I love that there's actually Elliott Smith love here, as I find none IRL. I couldn't get into Arcade Fire, but you know, opinions. I could have easily put any Smiths/Morrisey albums in the OP.

King of Asgaard said:
Mine is Manowar's Gods of War album.
It's 74 minutes of non-stop epic metal.
Not one second goes by without something awesome being played.
Somehow, I'd never listened to Manowar before. Thanks for posting that, I'll certainly be digging deeper into their work.

A few more albums!


Can't listen to just one song on that one.


Such a haunting, beautiful piece of work. I love her voice as well. One of the few albums to make me cry.
 
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Vault101 said:
there arent many albums I can say I like as a whole

probably though Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails mainly due to the fact its a concept album with a full blown narrative (I also like to think of it as a concept album for Mass Effect 3)
So, the last song makes all the songs before it completely pointless, until the full version of the song was released?

Sorry, had to.
 

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Some of my favorites:

I Care Because You Do- Aphex Twin

Boards of Canada- Geogaddi

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

The Chocolate Wheelchair Album- Venetian Snares

Kid A- Radiohead

The Money Store- Death Grips

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel

Untrue- Burial

Spiral Insana- Nurse with Wound

Crystal Castles I- Crystal Castles
 

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Imagine Dragons - All their EPs and full albums (yeah, I count It's Time as a full album)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
Roccocode - Guns, Sex, Glory
Van Canto - Hero
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

So many more, but those are the ones off the top of my head. If you haven't, I would check out all of Imagine Dragons stuff because it is all amazing. There is no bad Imagine Dragons song, only lesser ones.
 

Vault101

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thebobmaster said:
So, the last song makes all the songs before it completely pointless, until the full version of the song was released?

Sorry, had to.
not exactly...it does bring about a sense of hopelessness and sadness though

because you didn't ask for it...my song by song break down!

[spoiler/] The Begining of the End - the reapers have arrived, we were not prepared.. we think we've come so far we think we are the most advanced, we thourght we were amune from the aparent "cycle" we are just all the protheins and the races before...the cycle cant be broken

survivalism - perhaps just hysteria and chaos as the reapers attack, particually on earth

The Good Solder - a Cerberus Solder having second thourghts

[b/]I am trying to see
I am trying to believe
This is not where I should be
I am trying to believe [/b]

Vessel - an induvidual going through the indroctrination/reaperfication process..complely delusonal lyric:

[b/]I can leave all of this flesh behind
I can see right through the whole façade
I am becoming something else
I am turning into God [/b]

Me, I'm Not- somone going through indoctrination..again, not sure with this one

Captial G - although the tone suggests apathy and ignorance rather than determination, it does kind of remind me of the Illusive man or Saren Lyric:

[b/]Don't try to tell me that some power can corrupt a person
You haven't had enough to know what its like
You're only angry 'cause you wish you were in my position
Now nod your head because you know that I'm right... alright!

Well I used to stand for something
But forgot what that could be
There's a lot of me inside you
Maybe you're afraid to see [/b]


My violent heart - this one can go eather way, on one hand it can apply to the reapers or cerberus

[b/]Time will feed upon your weaknesses
And soon you'll lose the will to care
When you return to the place that you call home
We will be there, we will be there [/b]

on the other hand however, it can also apply to those fighting aginst the reapers (though not at first because the tone is rather omninous and confidently agressive)

[b/]On hands and knees
We crawl
You cannot stop us all
you wear our bones
our skin
We will not let you in [/b]

The Warning - perhaps the warning the prothiens sent out..or the veiws that some races have to each other..or even what the reaper starchild has to say to shepard

God Given - the fanatical racism of Cerberus, and how "humanity" will be the ones ot controll the reapers

[b/]This you cannot win
With the color of your skin
You won't be getting into the Promised Land
This is just another case
You people still don't know your place
Step aside, out the way, wipe that look of your face
Cuz we are the divine separated from the swine
Come on, sing along, everybody now
God given [/b]

Meet your Master - again, perhaps mainly cerberus reltaed, I imgaine the things they dont to other races and humans, and of coarse the "humanitys dominance" thing... it could also be from the perspective of the reapers

[b/]You've left quite a mess here under your stewardship
You thought you figured it out but you'll learn your place in this
Might take some convincing for you to see the truth
There are so many things we've got in store for you


Count down to the end
Gotta make it come faster, faster
Right around the bend
Is a coming disaster
Count down to the end
And we're headed their faster
Come on down my friend
It's time to meet your master [/b]

that might also involve the reapers, this could also perhaps be applyed to saren too

The Great destroyer - could be interpated like vessal..indoctrination and being delusonal (in a way it could be about Kei Leng because that guy seemed delusional in regard to his own prowess) but then in a way it could also apply to shepard, particually if he/she chooses "destruction" interestingly this is the "turning point" in the album, there some great doomsday even has occured...in relation to the game when shepard makes his/her choice with the crucible

In This twilight (my favorite song) this I imagine occurs at the end...in the colured explosions..its an "end of the world as we know it: type song, but also a somwhat upbeat, "hopeful" since that word is used alot in ME3

[b/]And the sky is filled with light
Can you see it?
All the black is really white
If you believe it
As your time is running out
Let me take away your doubt
You can find a better a place
In this twilight [/b]

seeing the outcome as somthing posative

Zero sum - the last song on the album, its not quite as upbeat, as "In this twilight" its more regretful and cynical and even haunting, I imagine from the perspective of Cerberus

chorus:

[b/]Shame on us, doomed from the start
May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts
Shame on us for all we have done
And all we ever were. Just zeroes and ones[/b] <- in the grand scheme of things we were really nothing,

[b/]And I guess I just wanted to tell you, as the light starts to fade,
That you are the reason that I am not afraid.
And I guess I just wanted to mention, as the heavens will fall,
We will be together soon if we will be anything at all.[/b] still hope in away...preparing for whatever is to come [/spoiler]
 

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Currently time 1 by wintersun oh my god the epicness of the 1st part of the album
seriously if you like metal you'll like these guys
 

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This was the very first album I enjoyed where I really found no "meh" songs. Epic all through out and affirmed that power/symphonic/prog metal is my genre of choice.
 

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There are exactly two of these for me, and they're the only albums I've ever rated 10/10.

U2 - Achtung Baby
Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House.

Oh, there are plenty of other albums I can listen to all the way through, like Fatboy Slim's You've Come A Long Way, Baby, and Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell, but they've all got something I skip almost every time out of routine (I've listened to everything else on YCALWB at least a hundred times more often than I've listened to Acid 8000) or tune out and don't listen to (Bat's Heaven Can Wait is patchy). But those two are, for me, spotless. It took a while to get a grip on AB's Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World, but I got there; Turnpike House's The Birdman Of EC1 is a slow burner that finally caught fire.
 

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Blue Stahli - "Blue Stahli"

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Stone Sour - "House of Gold and Bone Pt. 1"

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KMFDM - "WWIII"

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Godsmack - "Awake"

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and "Oracle"

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Sinch - "Clearing the Channel"

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Flipsyde - "We The People"

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and "The Tower of Hollywood"

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there is a shit ton more but these are the ones that I felt everyone should listen to at least once!
 

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DrunkOnEstus said:
lacktheknack said:
Easy: Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin. Two and a half hours of happiness, fear, awe, paranoia, melancholy, sadness, and bliss. And only one of them has a title, the rest are known by the related picture on the inside.

Warning: Heavily repetitive and experimental, especially [grey stripe].
I'd be upset with myself if Aphex Twin wasn't in the OP. I personally enjoy Drukqs more, but only 0.05% more than Selected Ambient Works II. I need to see him live before it's too late.
Both are fantastic. Still, the sheer scope and concept of SAW II wins for me. In theory, the songs are connected to the pictures in that Richard James actually has a synesthetic reaction (visual-aural) to them, and that's what he hears when he sees them (so I've been told). Plus, [rhubarb] is probably my favorite track of all damn time, followed by [stone in focus].

It's always nice to find a fellow Aphex Twin fan on here. :D
 

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I was curious as to what would make me finally make an account here, what controversial topic would compel me to put my two cents in. And in the end it was music that got me.

My current favorite album is "Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost" by Shpongle.
A close runner up would probably be "Kid A" by Radiohead.
And lastly I have to mention "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd.
 

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Glider by the Sight Below is one of the all time great ambient listens,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6be18GacTs

but for a normal kind of album Feists' The Reminder is one of the greatest albums ever made, period.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9y9oQR_OOM

Other great back-to-front listens include: Dark Side Of The Moon-You know who, don't play that game, Infinity On High-Fallout Boy, Ready To Die-The Notorious B.I.G., and finally Animal-Ke$ha (yeah, I know, it's all opinion man. I just think it's sonically brilliant and great fun, hell of a great concept album too).

Just think of it as one great weekend and the final track being the rise of the monday sun :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDPNGX6UMl8