Posted February 09, 2016
The soundtrack to the film Gladiator, because I used it to study and get through my final high school year. I used to listen to each track, beginning to end, except for 'Patricide', which was the only one I skipped.
Matewis
By Toutatis!
Registered: Jan 2011
From South Africa
PainOfSalvation
Elleshar
Registered: Mar 2013
From Spain
Posted February 09, 2016
I'll list 10 i can pick quickly but there are so many out there:
Camel - Mirage 1974
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding 1998
Von Hertzen Brothers - Love Remains the Same 2008
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 1975
Pearl Jam - Ten 1991
Queensrÿche - Rage for Order 1986
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element 2000
Levantis - The Sound of Dolphins 1998
Vangelis - Blade Runner OST 1994
Suidakra - The Arcanum 2000
Camel - Mirage 1974
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding 1998
Von Hertzen Brothers - Love Remains the Same 2008
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 1975
Pearl Jam - Ten 1991
Queensrÿche - Rage for Order 1986
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element 2000
Levantis - The Sound of Dolphins 1998
Vangelis - Blade Runner OST 1994
Suidakra - The Arcanum 2000
Elvis is Dead
Find me in STEAM OT
Registered: Dec 2012
From Other
Maxvorstadt
I is more stronger than Darth Vapour!
Registered: Apr 2014
From Germany
Posted February 09, 2016
Vangelis? Ah, the man who made the boozer hymn! :-)
PainOfSalvation
Elleshar
Registered: Mar 2013
From Spain
Luned
Dude, I'm a Lady
Registered: Oct 2008
From United States
Posted February 09, 2016
Webb Wilder: Doo Dad
nightcraw1er.488
hip/edgy!!
Registered: Apr 2012
From United Kingdom
Elvis is Dead
Find me in STEAM OT
Registered: Dec 2012
From Other
Posted February 09, 2016
very funny.
The second disc sounds like it's being played backwards already. :P The first disc has some classic rock tunes on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selfqEH-JnY
The second disc sounds like it's being played backwards already. :P The first disc has some classic rock tunes on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selfqEH-JnY
nightcraw1er.488
hip/edgy!!
Registered: Apr 2012
From United Kingdom
Posted February 10, 2016
The second disc sounds like it's being played backwards already. :P The first disc has some classic rock tunes on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selfqEH-JnY
B0SC0
Vote Bunnylord
GOG.com Team
Registered: May 2015
From Poland
Posted February 10, 2016
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Absolutely love this album - from start to finish, an entrancing experience that keeps me locked in whenever I settle down to give it a full listen
Machine head - The Blackening
I think this album captures the fury, wrath, ferocity and beauty that is metal music. It goes through the motions and every track has its own unique element that makes it distinct
Rosetta - Flies to Flame
I still can't classify what this is... Ambientic Metal is the best I can come up with, but it's engaging and relaxing at the same time. I don't know can you classify 4 tracks as an "album", but the run-time definitely makes up for it.
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Nothing better than sitting down with a bottle of wine or some brews, and chilling to this Jazz masterpiece. Blue in Green was one of the first tracks to draw me to Jazz and still gives me the chills
Only ones that come to mind at present, but I'll add more later if I think of them
Honourable mentions
Metallica - Master of Puppets
The band's Magnum Opus and undeniably an all-time great album, the only thing keeping it off this list is that I think Damage Inc. is a TERRIBLE song.
Tool - Lateralus
Love the main tracks on this album, but while I love the transition tracks on Thirteenth Step, I find the ones on Lateralus detract from the experience too much.
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Again, another weak closing track that prevents this albums presence on the list.
Martin O'Donnell/Michael Salvatori - Halo ODST Soundtrack
Dismissing this as it's a soundtrack, but still a personal favourite as I can sit down and listen to this in bliss, in it's entirety, without a moments thought or hesitation
Edit: Formatting - Also forgot to add Miles Davis! :(
Absolutely love this album - from start to finish, an entrancing experience that keeps me locked in whenever I settle down to give it a full listen
Machine head - The Blackening
I think this album captures the fury, wrath, ferocity and beauty that is metal music. It goes through the motions and every track has its own unique element that makes it distinct
Rosetta - Flies to Flame
I still can't classify what this is... Ambientic Metal is the best I can come up with, but it's engaging and relaxing at the same time. I don't know can you classify 4 tracks as an "album", but the run-time definitely makes up for it.
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Nothing better than sitting down with a bottle of wine or some brews, and chilling to this Jazz masterpiece. Blue in Green was one of the first tracks to draw me to Jazz and still gives me the chills
Only ones that come to mind at present, but I'll add more later if I think of them
Honourable mentions
Metallica - Master of Puppets
The band's Magnum Opus and undeniably an all-time great album, the only thing keeping it off this list is that I think Damage Inc. is a TERRIBLE song.
Tool - Lateralus
Love the main tracks on this album, but while I love the transition tracks on Thirteenth Step, I find the ones on Lateralus detract from the experience too much.
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Again, another weak closing track that prevents this albums presence on the list.
Martin O'Donnell/Michael Salvatori - Halo ODST Soundtrack
Dismissing this as it's a soundtrack, but still a personal favourite as I can sit down and listen to this in bliss, in it's entirety, without a moments thought or hesitation
Edit: Formatting - Also forgot to add Miles Davis! :(
Post edited February 10, 2016 by B0SC0
Cavalary
RIP GoodOldGOG:DRMfree,one price,goodies,community
Registered: May 2011
From Romania
Posted February 10, 2016
Start to end and on a personal level?
Nightwish - Century Child
Ask me for a Nightwish song and it'd be Ghost Love Score any day (and if it was amazing originally, Floor's first version stunned me all over again and even more at the time... though the one she eventually settled one leaves me quite cold, sad to say), but as the album with the most songs with both great sound and personal meaning overall, definitely Century Child. Not Slaying the Dreamer and The Phantom of the Opera, but except those two...
Antichrisis - A Legacy of Love
Stumbled into them back then during an awful time and when I eventually got around to a proper listen I kept thinking I'd have written that (if I could write lyrics, I mean). Not that keen on sound, but really got me.
Around that time I also included Edenbridge's Sunrise in Eden and Arcana albums, for the sound. For the past several years though, harder and harder to be sufficiently stuck on something, since I know and keep learning of so many good bands. Nightwish will always be special, but considering that they seem to try to avoid that now, with this completely un-relateable last album, I've been lacking that sort of deep impact for quite a while... While at the same time, as I was saying, being too flooded with great-sounding stuff to even keep track anymore.
Nightwish - Century Child
Ask me for a Nightwish song and it'd be Ghost Love Score any day (and if it was amazing originally, Floor's first version stunned me all over again and even more at the time... though the one she eventually settled one leaves me quite cold, sad to say), but as the album with the most songs with both great sound and personal meaning overall, definitely Century Child. Not Slaying the Dreamer and The Phantom of the Opera, but except those two...
Antichrisis - A Legacy of Love
Stumbled into them back then during an awful time and when I eventually got around to a proper listen I kept thinking I'd have written that (if I could write lyrics, I mean). Not that keen on sound, but really got me.
Around that time I also included Edenbridge's Sunrise in Eden and Arcana albums, for the sound. For the past several years though, harder and harder to be sufficiently stuck on something, since I know and keep learning of so many good bands. Nightwish will always be special, but considering that they seem to try to avoid that now, with this completely un-relateable last album, I've been lacking that sort of deep impact for quite a while... While at the same time, as I was saying, being too flooded with great-sounding stuff to even keep track anymore.
AnimalMother117
New User
Registered: Dec 2013
From United States
Posted February 10, 2016
That is a perfect album.
I don't have a ton of albums I would consider to be too perfect, normally there is one song or two that screws everything up. A few The Offspring albums come close. Gin Blossoms' New Miserable Experience would have been without that last track. Nearly ruins the album with its presence. Let's see, otherwise I've got:
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (mostly I can listen to the entire thing, there are some songs that are not as good as others but very nearly a perfect album)
The Cars - The Cars
The Cars - Candy-O (I have quite a soft spot for these two albums, I love each song on both)
The Outfield - Voices of Babylon (by all means their best album, even if some of their really good songs were on others)
Def Leppard - Hysteria (Excellent, the only problem is that I think that Women and Rocket sound the same)
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
Yes - 90125 (Pretty much the only Yes anything that I like, but I love this album)
Rush - 2112
Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
Strange point of contention, I only think Def Leppard's Pyromania is good to meh but my brother (with whom I agree on almost anything) insists it's also a perfect album. I also want to say Kelun - Kelun but I can't find a track listing and i never owned the album personally.
I don't have a ton of albums I would consider to be too perfect, normally there is one song or two that screws everything up. A few The Offspring albums come close. Gin Blossoms' New Miserable Experience would have been without that last track. Nearly ruins the album with its presence. Let's see, otherwise I've got:
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (mostly I can listen to the entire thing, there are some songs that are not as good as others but very nearly a perfect album)
The Cars - The Cars
The Cars - Candy-O (I have quite a soft spot for these two albums, I love each song on both)
The Outfield - Voices of Babylon (by all means their best album, even if some of their really good songs were on others)
Def Leppard - Hysteria (Excellent, the only problem is that I think that Women and Rocket sound the same)
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
Yes - 90125 (Pretty much the only Yes anything that I like, but I love this album)
Rush - 2112
Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
Strange point of contention, I only think Def Leppard's Pyromania is good to meh but my brother (with whom I agree on almost anything) insists it's also a perfect album. I also want to say Kelun - Kelun but I can't find a track listing and i never owned the album personally.
Bavarian
lil rascal
Registered: Sep 2010
From Austria
Posted February 10, 2016
2Pac - All Eyez on Me
Bushido - Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline
Creutzfeld & Jakob - Gottes Werk und Creutzfelds Beitrag
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
D.I.T.C. - D.I.T.C.
DCS - 1999 ... Von Vorne!
Hans Söllner - a jeda
IAM - L'école du micro d'argent
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Massive Töne - Kopfnicker
Nirvana - Nevermind
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Offspring - Smash
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Bushido - Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline
Creutzfeld & Jakob - Gottes Werk und Creutzfelds Beitrag
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
D.I.T.C. - D.I.T.C.
DCS - 1999 ... Von Vorne!
Hans Söllner - a jeda
IAM - L'école du micro d'argent
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Massive Töne - Kopfnicker
Nirvana - Nevermind
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Offspring - Smash
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Post edited February 10, 2016 by Bavarian
JudasIscariot
Thievin' Bastard
GOG.com Team
Registered: Oct 2008
From Poland
Posted February 10, 2016
Megadeth's So Far, So Good, So What? (the ORIGINAL not the remastered!) is by far one of my favorite albums :)
Potzato
Village Resident
Registered: Sep 2008
From Spain
Posted February 10, 2016
Moonspell - Wolfheart
Dark tranquility - Projector
Paradise Lost - Symbol of Life
Rise Against .... practically everything.
Dark tranquility - Projector
Paradise Lost - Symbol of Life
Rise Against .... practically everything.