Last Album you listened through

Dahlia's Tear ‎– My Rotten Spirit Of Black

my favorite out of this bands discography more noisy and darker than the first album.

Daft Punk - Human After All

Not as good as Homework or Random Access Memories (haven't listened to Discovery yet, btw), but still pretty good. It could stand to be longer and more fleshed-out, but it has its merits ("Human After All," "Robot Rock" and "Technologic" rank up there with the best of 'em) and I consider it a worthy addition to my library.

The following is everything I listened to today. Though most of it was what I played over the speakers at work. Sometimes when I get to take over on music there I just have a big shuffled playlist of everything I have that's work appropriate, but I also have two work playlists specifically meant for "album shuffle" mode, one mellow and one slightly less mellow - today I had the mellow one one, and you can probably guess which of these albums belong to it:

Monty Python - Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Beatles - Revolver
Various Artists - Music for Dancefloors: Cream of the Bosworth Library Sessions
Paul Simon - Graceland
Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack
Janelle Monáe - Electric Lady

Both Melissa and Don't Break the Oath by Mercyful Fate, and Let It Be by The Replacements. Might listen to some Fields Of The Nephilim albums later, too...

Just spent the last SEVERAL hours playing Pokemon and listening to all three of the original Fields Of The Nephilim albums AND every Meat Puppets album from Meat Puppets II to Monsters. Yes.

My ears hurt. In the best possible way.

edited 17th Apr '14 11:15:12 AM by sharkcrap11

Big Big Train's The Underfall Yard. Beautiful, accomplished, and painfully elegaic—its invocation of an England-That-Was is almost like Boethius set to music. (And God knows, we could use a Boethius or three.)

edited 18th Apr '14 8:56:43 AM by Jhimmibhob

Talking Heads - Remain In Light

My favorite album of all time, and it keeps getting better every time I listen to it.

Mayhem - Chimera

While I've always been curious about black metal, one of the things that's bothered me about it is the insistence on "trve kvlt" lo-fi done-in-Grandma's-basement-with-a-Panasonic-tape-recorder sound quality. Chimera, on the other hand, is one of the best-produced black metal albums I've ever heard, and by that, I mean I can actually clearly hear individual notes! The music comes across as much more powerful for it, as well. I honestly don't get why Mayhem's fans tend to shit all over this album; this is so far my favorite of their catalog.

Meshuggah, Contradictions Collapse

Good stuff, definitely got me interested in checking out other albums of theirs...although the singer reminds me of James Hetfield trying to channel Tom Araya when he's singing in his lower register.

Givers - In Light

Their only album. Just a matter of time...

The Modern Lovers

Immediately loved Roadrunner, Pablo Picasso is currently running through my head on occasion, and all the rest is pretty good. Not sure how I'll feel when I listen to it a second time.

Out of the Cellar by Ratt.

Yeah, I like hair metal, so what? But good hair metal, not all the late 80s crap.

Going into White Zombie's La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 now. Yeah, I'm a bit complicated.

edited 28th Jul '14 4:54:00 PM by AndyLA

Loose by Nelly Furtado.

Pretty good album for what it was, I'd say.

Soundgarden - Down On The Upside. A facebook friend arbitrarily decided it was the "summer of 96", and starting this Monday, I decided to do the same - Listening to one album from 1996 a day. So far, the other two have been Weezer's Pinkterton and Eels' Beautiful Freak.

Marillion — Misplaced Childhood

I love that album.

Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun. This is, quite honestly, one of the best albums I've ever listened to. Now I'm a Mastodon fan. I also managed to listen to Gramatik's Beatz and Pieces vol. 1 a couple of months ago (I especially recommend The Drink is called Rakija).

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin

An absolute classic that does not disappoint.

One of the seventies/eighties Fleetwood Mac albums. Either Tango in the Night or Rumours. Both were pretty good to listen to.

Blood Ceremony, the Eldrich Dark.

These guys get better and more tightly constructed each album. Man why isn't there more folk stoner doom?

I recently got myself the original CD releases of the first two Men At Work albums (cause the remasters sound like crap at times). Listened to each at least 3 times from beginning to end.

An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer - Absolutely one of the greatest musical comedy albums of all time (and probably one of my top 10 favorite albums overall).

edited 17th Aug '14 6:27:42 PM by ColonelCathcart

St. Vincent, St. Vincent—I have gained a new appreciation for the production and layering on "Every Tear Disappears". Great song, now that I've let it sink in.

Pink Floyd — The Wall

Look mommy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky...

Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire. The vocals and lyrics seem a little silly to me now. But I still like the music, and in general RATM are one of the least embarrassing options when I want to revisit my 90's teen angst.

Genesis - Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot. Classic Progressive Rock, anyone? Probly gonna listen to Selling England By The Pound tonight, as well...