I’m going to listen to the top 3 upvoted albums and give you my honest unfiltered thoughts.

Please explain what makes the album special to you. For context, lyrics are very important to me, so I gravitate to music with good storytelling.

Alright! Results are in. I’ll be listening to:

  • Lateralus - Tool
  • To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
  • Pink Moon - Nick Drake
  • Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins

(I know I said 3, but I couldn’t resist!)

  •  ystael   ( @ystael@beehaw.org ) 
    2•2 years ago

    Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind

    This album sums up 20 years of Swans’s first incarnation in a double disc that’s part melancholic wall-of-noise drone rock, part found-sounds ambient soundscape, and just a little bit of callback to the aggressive noise that they started with. Taught me to enjoy not-purely-electronic music again, after several years as a fairly pretentious experimental/IDM head. There are lyrics, but much of the storytelling is between and behind the lyrics, not in them.