One of my favorite things to do while stoned is listen to albums that are really unique, artful, and/or jam packed with soul and energy, as in that head space music just hits completely differently and it just lends to me finding a deep love and appreciation for the art of music. What’re some of your favorites?
Delton 3030 is a rap opera set in the dystopian future. Amazing album start to finish.
Interstellar 55555 is an animated story for daft punks Discovery album which is a banger on its own. Once you watch the movie you never hear the album differently.
Green Day’s American Idiot is a concept album that was good enough to turn into a real musical.
Yeah, very much the first deltron album, it rocks. Second one has some good inter-track bits and a few good songs, but the first one, phew.
Love me some Del.
Now you got me listening to Mistadobalina
Also for anyone interested check out Hieroglyphics they’re amazing.
Oh, man, so many. There’s the obvious like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon or Rush’s 2112, but Rust in Peace by Megadeth is superb, In Step by Stevie Ray Vaughan as well. Muse, however, has a few albums that are incredible, especially when you’re in the headspace to pick out little details. Their Black Holes and Revelations album is a banger from front to back, Simulation Theory is Velvety and interesting, Drones is jarring in a very good way, and The Resistance is harmony-rich and beautiful.
Also, I’m not familiar with the whole album, but the song White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane has one of the best vocal performances ever.
I love Röyksopp Profound Mysteries. There are several albums. The songs with Susanne Sundfør are amazing.
Mr Bungle - California and Disco Volante are unique and quite a trip.
Fantomas - The Director’s Cut is another good one to add on to these.
Egg!
Egg, oh an egg comes out of a chicken
Egg, oh a chick comes out of an egg
Egg, oh an egg comes out of a chicken
Egg, oh a chick comes out of an egg
Egg, oh an egg comes out of a chicken
Egg, oh a chick comes out of an egg
Egg, oh an egg comes out of a chicken
Egg, oh a chick comes out of an egg
Oh man. California is a masterpiece. Musicianship is top notch, with so many different moods and styles, it’s like they had enough ideas to make 3 albums but somehow managed to cram everything into one.
Did not expect disco volante in this thread.
Not really a specific album but check out Lorn in general.
Easy Star All Stars - Dub Side of the Moon
Most of these fit into the inventive, otherworldly or both kind of vibe.
As a studio, Ninja Tune is very interesting.
Here’s one of my favorite Lorn tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEBIsUsvheA
Weigh me down is awesome! I really like 555-5555
The concept album Hospice by The Antlers is excellent.
Set in New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, which the second track is named after, Hospice tells the story of a relationship between a hospice worker and a female patient suffering from terminal bone cancer, their ensuing romance, and their slow downward spiral as a result of the woman’s traumas, fears, and disease. The story of her deterioration also serves as a metaphor for an abusive relationship. Frontman Peter Silberman has been reluctant to divulge explicit details regarding the meaning of the record, and the extent to which it is autobiographical.
I’m not a very emotional person, but I feel the highs and lows quite profoundly. I think it’s the music pairing perfectly with Pete’s voice—which is almost acted/in-character at times—and the lyrics. Always appreicate a good concept album and this is a favourite.
This is sooo sad and so good. I love this album, it’s really incredible.
The part in Atrophy with the sounds of glass breaking evoke broken bones and searing pain, just as the patient would be feeling, is so amazing.
“I’d happily take all those bullets inside you and put them inside of myself.”
And then:
"Someone, oh anyone. Tell me how to stop this
She’s screaming, expiring, and I’m her only witness."
That song is so sad.
So many good lyrics though:
“And told me something that I didn’t know that I wanted
To hear that there was nothing that I could do to save you
The choir’s gonna sing and then this thing is gonna kill you”I love lyrics in Wake, the realisation of what he went through and now it’s over. And without noticing, the music builds into unleashing so much by this point…
Don’t be scared to speak
Don’t speak with someone’s tooth
Don’t bargain when you’re weak
Don’t take that sharp abuse
Some patients can’t be saved, but that burden’s not on youDon’t ever let anyone tell you you deserve that
I discovered this album while working for a hospice equipment rental company. It helped me understand the emotions of people going through such intense loss. It’s beautiful and ugly at the same time. It somehow manages to capture the full spectrum of emotions of that experience. This is one of the great albums of this millennium. I don’t know how the artist captured it so well, but I hope he found some relief from his hospice experience by creating that album. 10/10.
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All my songs have no words, vary from chill to drum and bass, and I’ve been making them for about 4 years. My most recent EP is primarily chill, and my SoundCloud has the latest 4 tracks I put out last month.
no one’s mentioned Tool - Lateralus
pretty much anything by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters, or Thrust
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
I am not familiar with Sunn O))) but given your other tastes I want to check them out
I saw Sunn and Godspeed You Black Emperor at different times in the same venue (Brooklyn Masonic Temple) and they were both the best show and the worst show I’ve ever seen in my life, respectively. Walked out halfway through Godspeed, it was so bad. Anyway, Sunn O))) rocks
Days of Future’s Past by the Moody Blues, the one with the London Symphony.
I haven’t done it in a long time, but I used to turn out all the lights and lay on the floor and listen to this album from start to finish, it’s so good.
Savage sinusoid - Igorrr
Cheval is a whole assortment of vibes
Not Spirituality & Distortion?
Can’t go wrong with frank Zappa’s joes garage experience in my opinion
Not if you’re into appliances with marital aids stuck all over them
Apex by Unleash the Archers.
It’s a power-metal concept album, telling the story of an immortal being cursed to carry out the wishes of their summoner - in this iteration, “the Matriarch” - to kill her three sons so she may also gain immortality. The lead vocalist’s range is unlike anything else I’ve heard. It is incredibly well done.
Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta
I don’t have any way to describe this. It’s eccentric and awesome. The drums and guitars are powerful and delicious. Where were you when exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed?
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of the Moon
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - K.G.
Pendulum - Immersion
“Koan Sound - Led By Ancient Light” is a journey from start to finish. I sat in my dark living room stoned a while ago and listened to the album from front to back and it brought me across the universe and back
AMAROK by Mike Oldfield. Not just the music itself (it’s quite a trip), but the story of its development:
He was under contract for Virgin to produce another long form album, but he and Branson had a falling out. Regardless, Branson threatened legal trouble if Oldfield didn’t go through with it. He was hoping for a record with radio-friendly hits like “Shadow on the Wall” and “Moonlight Shadow” that could be peddled to radio stations.
So Oldfield composed AMAROK. It contains one single track, spanning the entire length of the 60+ minute album. That way, Branson couldn’t simply lift any tracks and use them as singles.
But wait, there’s more! Since Oldfield knew that if he did this, Branson would simply make a selection of excerpts from the album and use those as singles. This had been done before while they still got along or even before he signed with Virgin, so they knew it could work, cfr the “Incantations”, “Ommadawn”, “Hergest Ridge”, …
The “Amarok” track is… a special kind of composition. It’s by no means bad - it’s actually pretty great from a technical standpoint. But what you decidedly cannot do, is attribute it to any specific genre, nor easily mark the beginnings and endings of the different “tracks” comprising the record.
Thus, Oldfield won this battle and Amarok was pretty much impossible to use for radioplay. I still enjoy it to this day though.
Thank you for this.
