No Dylan? Y'all are Phillistines.

Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks.

I'm the world's biggest Dylan fan, and truth to tell I prefer his much later stuff to his classic stuff. But, this album is perfect. There's not a wrong note, not a wrong line, not a lame song. Every song is moving. And it contains possibly his best lines ever:

He felt that emptiness inside
To which he just could not relate

Educate yourself, edify yourself. Listen to the album, first to last straight through. Several times.

Oh, and I still listen to Pink Flloyd's The Wall a couple times a year straight through. It's so gorgeous.

Follow the Leader and Issues by Korn are my all-time favorite albums. The songs in them are heartbreaking and soothing at the same time, and also very relatable, help you to get through major shit in your life.

Tears for Fears - Elemental

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Soundtrack
Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn, Soundtrack
Dancer in the Dark, Soundtrack

Quality necro. :)



Some of my picks:

Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
Criminally overlooked. The lyrics seem to be a bit tighter and more coherent overall than on many of Cornell's other projects that I've heard; I get the impression this was due to his collaborators on this album, Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider.

Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
Not a huge Springsteen fan in general, but this is a great acoustic album, chock full of story songs about down-and-out people doing desperate things.

Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
Holds up surprisingly well for a hard rock album that came out in a time when probably two thirds of the popular hard rock albums were nu metal that would, in many cases, be incredibly cringe-inducing for anyone listening to them for the first time now.

Counting Crows - August and Everything After
From what I can tell, they seem to have peaked with this, their first album. Considering the height of the peak, though, I wouldn't necessarily even call that a shame.

Fiona Apple - Tidal
Despite her vocals being being somewhat "rougher" in some ways than on subsequent albums (she dips down below her comfortable range too often for my liking -- a tactic which she seems to have used much more sparingly later), I find the songs are more reliably aligned with my personal tastes; the highs (quality-wise) are not necessarily as high as on, say, When the Pawn, but there aren't any songs I'm just ambivalent about, either.

Chevelle's album is actually really nice. Reminds me a bit of American Head Charge.

I think I remember that name from back when that sort of rock was popular, but I can't say that I've ever heard any of their songs.

Well, their most famous song is probably Just So You Know and they were popular once, but I guess they will soon disappear completely as a band as their frontman is in deep shit because of the drug abuse and legal troubles.

I'll throw in a few.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Consistently one of the best emotional albums out there, every second is a joy to listen to and should be done in a single sitting.

Yes - Close to the Edge

Really meaningful album to me, each piece in the journey is a different aspect of a whole picture. Siberian Khatru has have one of the greatest licks in all of prog rock, and ends it all out on a high note.

I like a lot of albums, but these two are the most "complete" to me, which is what I value apparently.

I don't do albums. Mainly because I rarely have that much dedication towards a single artist or group. I have an extremely eclectic taste in music.

But one album I can safely say without a shadow of a doubt, that I do appreciate to an extreme level, and can listen (and have listened) to it on repeat, almost indefinite.

Jeff Wayne's musical version of War of the Worlds (1978), with Sir Richard Burton as the narrator and journalist.

I love everything about it, the story, the music, the sound effects, the way the story is told by Sir Richard himself (in his very gentleman like voice), and the way the whole thing fits together to create nearly 100 minutes of pure bliss...

"More than Words" was ok, I guess, but I wasn't that big a fan of Extreme.