Your Favorite Album

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Or, alternately, the album that had the greatest impact on your life but is not necessarily your favorite?

Mine's more of the latter, but it is certainly one of my favorites: The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. It was my first exposure to music that was considered "dark" or "experimental" by any means (before this album I was cultivated on Top 40s Pop Hits). It was the gateway drug to practically every band I enjoy today. And it still sounds just as fresh and powerful as when I first stumbled upon it!
 
For me, it's Karajan's recording of Mozart's Requiem. I discovered it in my early teens and fell in love with it immediately. I grew up in a very sad and awful environment, but the music played in that environment always jarred with the tragic nature of the lives being lived there. Bubble-gum Latino pop and cheerful Pet-Shop-Boys disco served as the jarring and bubbly soundtrack for lives of plague, of starvation, of oppression, of short, terrible life, and slow, terrible death.

When I discovered Mozart's Requiem it was a revelation for me. It was music that took living and dying seriously and approached it with a certain gravitas and solemnity. It provided a refuge for me from the all the false cheerfulness and trivialization of life that was an essential component not only of the little world that I inhabited but of the whole world of "late global capitalism", a world that persists even to this day.
 
Musically, Dillinger Escape Plan's Calculating Infinity. As a guitar player and someone who is interested in music composition, this was the album that completely shattered every idea I held about song structure, instrumentation and artistic expression. Still blows my mind to this day, and there still isn't anything like it out there. Their live shows were pure, visceral chaos.

Meshuggah's Catch 33 is another album that changed the way I looked at rhythm and displacement. It's amazing what patterns they arrange on top of a simple 4/4 time signatures.

Personally, too many to list.
 
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I haven't decided whether I need that massive Dylan compilation. What interests me about the track listing is that it explodes the myth (which I had believed) that there were at most two studio takes of "Like a Rolling Stone." Holy shit.
 
Astral weeks is a good call, but it's a toss up between the white album by the Beatles or red by King crimson.
 
It has to be Yanqui UXO by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. "Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls" is my favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw6zTAKWGeo
 
I guess the one album that has meant the most to me, over the longest period of time, is Aenima by Tool. I referred to it as my "bible" when I was younger and liked the attention I got from such outlandish statements.

As I've gotten older I've kind of lost interest in loud music. It literally hurts my head. I now listen to old country music, fully aware of how un-cool that makes me.
 
Impetigo - Ultimo Mondo Cannibale was an almost religious experience for me when I discovered it in my teens, one of my all-time favorite albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNY4lPBoH2w
 
Can't pick one favorite per se but I can at least do a top ten, though even that tends to change every now and then. But for the moment I would say:

A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (Siouxsie & the Banshees) 1982
The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails) 1994
The Marble Index (Nico) 1968
The Holy Bible (Manic Street Preachers) 1994
Imperium (Current 93) 1987
Horse Rotorvator (Coil) 1986
Dead Can Dance (Dead Can Dance) 1984
Tusk (Fleetwood Mac) 1979
Days of Open Hand (Suzanne Vega) 1990
Like a Virgin (Madonna) 1984
 
I generally like Classical and Baroque, also Jazz. But sometimes I need to spend some time clearing my head and soul with Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Stimmung." Here a link to the whole album on Youtube. It's not for everyone, even many Stockhausen fans don't like it. To get a representative taste, try starting at 3:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hPkJW95jsw
 
I like a lot of these. Peepshow is probably my favourite Banshees.

Been enjoying Horse Rotorvator recently. Still waiting for Imperium at a decent price.

I can't separate First Utterance from the Song To Comus compilation and the bonus tracks like "All The Colors Of The Dark"

Off the top of my head...

Yes - Close To The Edge
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Emperor - (first two albums)
Devil Doll - Sacrilegium
Cardiacs - Sing To God
The Cure - Disintegration
Con Dolore - This Sad Movie
Piano Magic - Low Birth Weight
Autumns - Angel Pool
Cranes- Loved
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
Swans (a bunch)
American Music Club - Mercury
Jacula - Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus
Bongwater - Power Of Pussy
Lycia - Burning Circle And Then Dust

Many I'm forgetting but the above are making me realise how I've neglected music for years.
 
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