Submitted by SupOrSalad t3_z43t46 in headphones
It's night, listening with my K371 and listening through Alive 2007, and Roule, these albums just take me back and remind me of being a kid without any of life's stress. I used to listen to Alive every day at high-school on my old crappy headphones. I can't imagine how it would have blown my mind in my younger years listening to these songs I love with better equipment
Yes. Excellent choice. Never expected that album name to get posted here!
Avalanches - Since I Left You
A masterpiece, that one.
I like "We will always love you".
Top o my list is probably either Unforgettable Fire or Europe 72. Floyd is nice too. Most say dark side which is awesome but I'm one of the freaks that likes Final Cut. Post is a good set it and forget it album as is Hunger and Thirst (the new digital deluxe version).
Watching Gary Numan live shows from the 80s really puts me in a different world for some reason
I have listened to Vangelis: El Greco more than 1000 times. 'nuff said.
Airdrawndagger
Underrated album. Have you hear Sasha’s Refracted Live performance?
I'm all about albums. I have my headphones on 8 hours a day just floating from album to album, always trying to find new music.. chasing the dragon.
Burial for example needs multiple re-listens every year.
Oh heck yeah. Recently went back to Green Day, Evanescene, and Avril Levigne (Let Go 20th Anniversary Album) since I got the 1060C which is a planar tuned for bass.
I finally come to understand the songs meaning, much deeper than when I was a teenager.
Superheaven- Ours is Chrome
Superheaven- Jar
Webbed Wing- What's so Fucking Funny?
Turnstile- GLOW ON
Fall out Boy- From under the Cork Tree.
Knuckle Puck- Copacetic
Blind Guardians 'A Night at the Opera' is a great album I can sit down and just listen to through and through and do nothing else meanwhile. Few albums do that for me, as I tend to prefer listening to music while gaming or doing chores. Listening to that album with a pair of nice and rather flat pair of headphones that are open back really makes it sound better than back when I listened to it with crappy boomy headphones that I bought for thirty bucks.
Nightfall in Middle-Earth for me :)
A Night at the Opera is great too, though. Both of these albums really sound like a kind of Opera, with how well-connected the songs are.
Man it's interesting how I love Blind Guardian music but always disliked their sound production, both original and remixed. The only time they got me with their production is Imaginations Through the Looking Glass on DVD.
I mostly prefer their live albums honestly. My most listened to albums would be A Night at the Opera, followed by Tokyo Tales and their 2003 Live album. They have a good mix of my favorite songs, and on top of that they are just amazing live. Live albums also don't have to have the best mixing either, as long as you get that wide feeling and energy.
Gaucho by Steely Dan
Kiss Land by The Weeknd
Are you me? Listened to Alive 2007 yesterday for the same exact reason :)
I put on some of my recently discovered albums on when I just want to de-stress, particularly because I find myself focusing less on the details in these albums and just vibe
James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart
Madeon - Good Faith
The James Blake album sounds really good. I get what you're saying about the vibes.
Oingo Boingo - Good For Your Soul
Someone called it Lego Racers music and I'm hooked 🙂
Soooo many, but right now:
Built to spill - perfect from now on
Brian eno - another green world
The cure - disintegration
Hammerfall - Live against the world
one of my all time favorite bands. love them even more after i got my new set of speakers and hifiman sundaras. feels like i am closer to them now
10,000 Days and Fear Inocolum by Tool; I can listen to either of those front to back and get entirely immersed in the music.
The disrespect to Aenima and Lateralus! Jk I get it. I cycle between Lateralus and 10000 Days being my favorite album. Right in Two is perfection.
That's my favorite aswell :)
Not so much an entire album, but when The Count of Tuscany comes up on my playlist by Dream Theater, I have to stop what I'm doing because the song totally demands attention, all 20 minutes of it. It's a masterpiece and listening to it is an event.
Wow. Black Clouds & Silver Linings is the most pleasing-sounding album by Dream Theater to my ears. And The Count of Tuscany is one of their coolest 20+ min songs.
Nostalgic songs tend to be the trend but that is highly subjective. I have found that soundtracks (particularly for orchestral renditions) tend to be great for this. Even if you are not familiar with the source material, it can be an enjoyable experience to hear the whole thing from the beginning to the end (as they are usually prepared for a live audience). The effect is stronger if you are familiar with the source material and I do encourage people to look for series that may have an orchestral rendition.
I included an album that is an example of that.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMWQMqE7m7Pqt6e7ptBJcvJL-O67ARZi_
Tasha Cobb's Leonard - Heart. Passion. Pursuit.
Extreme Power Metal by DragonForce. I'm very new to metal, but this whole album is straight up insane. The riffs are cold and while the lyrics are kinda odd I still feel them lol.
Queen - A Night At The Opera and Black Sabbath- Headless Cross
>K371
Super Eurobeat mixes all the way!!
Conan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love;
Radiohead - Amnesiac;
Any album by Morphine;
Nick Drake - Pink Moon OR Five Leaves Left.
To name a few.
Meiko - Plays favorites
For me it's Stevie Wonder - Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants and Zbigniew Preisner - Silence, Night and Dreams.
I dissociated to Solar Power by Lorde and Dragon New Warm Mountain by Big Theif almost every night over summer lol. Honestly that feeling of full escape and comfort is a big part of what got me into audio over the past shitty year
manowar- gods of war
Darkside - Psychic
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Moloko - Things to Make and Do
Morcheeba - Big Calm
Strunz & Farah - Heat of the Sun
Feeltwood Mac - Rumours
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There's more but I'm too lazy to type. I listen to music 5-8 hrs a day and usually have at least 1-2 albums I go through in their entirety.
Suicide silence/ the cleansing
Last 3 albums of cattle decapitation
JamesPond2500 t1_ixp4dgq wrote
Loads of them tbh. The first three Fresh Aire albums by Mannheim Steamroller, Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene through Chronologie, pretty much any album by Kraftwerk, and the Selected Ambient Works compilations by Aphex Twin/Richard James. That's only a few of them though.