Five albums that define your taste in music

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    What five albums define your musical tastes best? :)
     
    Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
    Childish Gambino - because the internet
    Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
    Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    Drake - Nothing Was The Same

    [will explain later]
     
    Cher - Cher
    Crystal Castles - III
    Janet Jackson - All For You
    Lil' Kim - Hard Core
    Madonna - Hard Candy

    crystal castles is interchangeable with any mariah carey album but it's in there for the sake of variety
     
    Clarity by Jimmy Eat World
    #1 Record by Big Star
    The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid by Stars of the Lid
    Painful by Yo La Tengo
    Leaves Turn Inside You by Unwound

    or something like that. picking 5 is really tough. I'll explain this later.
     
    De-loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
    My Everything - Ariana Grande
    1000 Forms of Fear - Sia
    Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
    Back to Bedlam - James Blunt

    Some of these are my favorites. Aha is not my favorite Kings album, I just put it over any others for sake of getting across what I like and it's more of a nitty-gritty, but just...idk. It's an honest album, if that makes sense. De-loused is chaotic and probably not something expected of me, though it was all I listened to years ago, haha. Just take it as a representative of all the weird shit I listen to that people wouldn't expect of me. I really do like anything...except country, but that's besides the point. I'm a big fan of pop music and I think Ariana's music is very exceptional in the barrage of pop music today. Similar with Sia, who I think fits a more darker pop kind of tone and she keeps things very personal and her videos with Maddie are phenomenal. I don't know another album that, I feel, expresses how I feel often times. Back to Bedlam is a favorite of mine, but it's more there to represent nostalgia overall because I like older music (older than it of course). It's an album I can go back to time and time again, like plenty of others, but that one stands out to me the most. It was pretty ahead of me when I first got it and listened to it (all the time, I might add) so listening to it now when I think I have a better grasp of things is a refreshing take on it. Can't wait to see how it sounds when I'm older and what I think of it then.
     
    Nevermind - Nirvana
    The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
    Forest Hills Drive - J.Cole
    Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Pablo Honey - Radiohead

    Most of the things here are my favorite bands/artists and I pick the ones I have a copy of and mostly listened to most of the time. Picking is really tiresome -.- even if it's 10 albums it still wouldn't be enough for it to show my music taste lol. But yeah, mostly rock and hip-hop. :3
     
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    Joey Bada$$ - 1999
    Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
    Big Pun - Capital Punishment
    The Strokes - Comedown Machine
    Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah
     
    The Internet - Ego Death
    Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
    Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
    Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE
    N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton

    picking five took me like a day and all except The ArchAndroid are interchangeable with something else probably
     
    Come Around Sundown Kings of Leon
    Marshall Mathers LP 2 Eminem
    Total Life Forever Foals
    Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin
    * The Black Album Metallica

    Not the perfect representation of my musical tastes (the fifth), but the others are spot on really. I'm really into Metallica lately though? So I put an asterisk there cause it's like...I'm digging this type of stuff atm, but longterm probably wouldn't describe my tastes fully.
     
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    About That Life - Attila
    Madness - Sleeping With Sirens
    Badlands - Halsey
    Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A
    My Own Lane - Kid Ink
     
    The Book of Mormon - Original Broadway Cast Recording
    Burst Apart - The Antlers
    The Idler Wheel... - Fiona Apple
    Parallel Lines - Blondie
    Purple Rain - Prince

    These aren't necessarily my favourite albums of all time (no Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, for example, as yes I am a cliché on occasion), but collectively they are pretty representative of the variety of music that I like. Keep on reading for brief rationales of each of them.

    I have a shitload of music from other media (e.g. film, TV, theatre), mostly from musicals but also a few soundtracks for good measure. The Book of Mormon isn't my favourite musical but this album is one of the ones I listen to the most on occasion, although something like Avenue Q Cast Recording or the Nashville Original Soundtrack or one of the seven (yes, seven) Cowboy Bebop score albums could have taken its place.

    Burst Apart represents all of the indie rock I listen to, which is much less of a blanket statement than it sounds. I'm quite specific on an album-to-album basis as to what I like. The Antlers' next album, for example, is frequently great but all-too-often bogged down in orchestrations that feel hemmed in when listened to on headphones; Arcade Fire haven't released an album without a few lulls (and their later albums are particularly rough) etc. I don't entirely know how to describe what separates certain albums from one another in my esteem, but I just know it when I hear it. Other albums jockeying for this slot included Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem and Simple Songs by Jim O'Rourke.

    Fiona Apple represents my all-encompassing love for the piano. If you stick a random-ass piano into any song, I'll probably enjoy it at least 10% more than I would have done. It's the reason I can tolerate 'She's So Lovely' by Scouting for Girls - an objectively awful, horrible, turgid song that I have a small affection for nevertheless. I imagine part of my love is because I used to play piano for many years as a child. It's been a loooooong-ass time since I've done so, either on a keyboard or ivory-tinkler itself, but I love hearing their sounds whenever I can. Other albums that could have been here include Mary Ann Meets The Gravediggers by Regina Spektor and I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin. (Oh, and the full title of the album above is The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. Fiona Apple sure knows how to name 'em!)

    If given a choice between two albums to listen to from the first time, with one being from an all-male band and the other from a band with a significant female presence, I'll first listen to the one by the significant female presence any day of the week. I only listened to Parallel Lines for the first time a few weeks ago, but it's a complete banger. 'Heart of Glass', 'Sunday Girl', 'One Way Or Another', 'Hanging on the Telephone'; and they're just the ones that I'd heard of beforehand! There are so many gems on here that are improved by Debbie Harry's raw energy and pulsating vocals that just wouldn't be as effective as if a man were singing them. I'm going to love digging into this one more and more. Other possibilities include No Cities To Love by Sleater-Kinney and St. Vincent.

    Finally, I looooooooooove soul/funk. Love it more than any white boy conceivably should. Purple Rain is another recent discovery and it completely blew me away with how seamless it is, despite technically being a film soundtrack and a partial live album. It's just such a sexy album to listen to, and get your groove on. That the title track is by far one of the lesser efforts (despite its 8 minute+ length) says it all. Other contenders include Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder and Black Messiah by D'Angelo.

    (If I had room for six albums, I'd have included Wondrous Bughouse by Youth Lagoon as a representative of my occasional dalliances into electronic music. It's a weird one that takes a number of listens to fully appreciate - at least in my experience - but it's verrrrrrrry rewarding when it finally clicks for you.)
     
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    This was tough (:t003:) but I've chosen not necessarily my favourite, but 5 that definitely represent the spectrum haha.

    Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
    The Killers - Sam's Town
    David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    Counting Crows - August and Everything After
    Panic! at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

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    Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)
    Gas - Zauberberg
    Fat Jon - Repaint Tomorrow
    Big Bud - Infinity + Infinity
    Pink Floyd - Meddle
     
    Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP 2
    Hopsin - Pound Syndrome
    Tech N9ne - Special Effects
    Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
    Amaranthe - Amaranthe
     
    I'm going to give ten instead because five is inadequate:

    Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
    Judas Priest - Painkiller
    Slayer - Reign in Blood
    Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
    Mayhem - De Mysteris Dom Sathanas
    Death - Scream Bloody Gore
    Nightwish - Oceanborn
    Orphaned Land - Mabool
    Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
    Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
     
    it is EXTREMELY RARE that i find an album i can listen to all the way through without skipping songs out of dislike or annoyance, and right now i could only name maybe four: the balcony (catfish & the bottlemen), room 93 (halsey, and to be fair, this one is an EP, but Badlands comes out soon and that will be... my bitch...), paradise (lana del rey), beyonce (beyonce......), too weird to live, too rare to die (panic! at the disco), disgusting (beartooth)...

    some typical, some DIFFERENT it's just very hard to find an album that i enjoy in its entirety and i CANNOT say something "defines" my taste if it doesn't wholly
     
    Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
    Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    Muse - Absolution, Origin of Symmetry
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
     
    Wasn't gonna post anywhere in this forum other than the WAYLT thread but I changed my mind.

    Metallica - ...And Justice For All

    Trivium - Shogun

    Three Days Grace - One-X

    Machine Head - The Blackening

    Iron Maiden - Number of The Beast

    That's about right. Yes I have a very heavy preference for more intense music.
     
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