mammoth1

and pack serious punches. that's what this thread is about. that force you to feel something, anything. (I need more and more of these)

my contribution is: How It Feels to be Something On, by Sunny Day Real Estate. it's by far the most underappreciated albums of the nineties of which I know. by the end of it, my pupils are ride symbols.

 

MusicMan

OK Computer would be an obvious choice that a lot of people share strong feelings for. The Flaming Lips albums "The Soft Bulletin", "In a Priest-Driven Ambulance", and "Hit to Death in the Future Head" are all gems that create a world of their own. Also Beck's "Sea Change".

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Ok C... there was a year when I didn't listen to anything else. (one of it's makers may be a'lurkin so I got a bit gun shy about mentioning it.) the flaming lips are good good good, yoshima battles the pink robots is a-mazing but the only other I've heard is clouds taste metallic. how do the other albums you mentioned compare to those? I like sea change but its so clearly heartbroken I'm never in the mood to listen, and if I WERE in that mood, listening would just make me feel 10 times worse. but I agree, slick little album. I rock midnight vultures when I'm feeling beckish. (groan-worthy play on words)

any others? as a whole, for me the jury is out on Pink Floyd's Animals, but Dogs is it's own little universe. and I love how they ride that single phrase at the end of the song forever.

MusicMan

Sea Change is definitely a depressing album, but it's not always best to have things end with a happy ending, it perpetuates the lies we grew up believing. Sometimes when you hear others express their pain better than you can express your own, especially if its the same pain you're feeling...it helps you let go of it. That album was very therapeutic for me.

As for the Lips' other albums compared to what you've heard...The Flaming Lips break all kinds of genres and sonic barriers, and you absolutely must hear those. Soft Bulletin is close to the Yoshimi sound, but much better IMO. But they both are very passionate albums that tell a great story. The other two are earlier works that are a little more loud and experimental, but they also have some very tender moments. My life sucks right now because I don't currently have working copies of them, and it's even worse that I'm having to talk about how amazing they are without being able to listen to them.

If you buy those and do not like them, I will personally buy them back from you. You have my money-back guarantee that you'll like them a lot.

A few others worth mentioning

Sigur Ros - ()
Steve Roach - Darkest Before Dawn
Steve Roach - Well of Souls (both are dark-ambient music)
Enya - Paint the Sky With Stars

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no argument on "sea change"-- if anything it's too effective for me. when I'm in that mood I listen to elliott smith's "Either/Or" or "from a basement on a hill"-- similarly full of total desolation, but of a different type. I'll check out that flaming lips stuff-- can't wait.

hermitbadger

For me Amnesiac by radiohead, dark, powerful, disturbing, cocoonlike, tenderness, acceptence, with a quiet defiance....
Also bring you my love - PJ Harvey, i'd never heard a woman so powerful and moving, in her vulnerability and ability to accept the darker side of human nature........

roondiggy

the last four RADIOHEAD albums did for me. Jeff Buckley's Grace is another and like Mammoth1 i am all about elliot smith's albums. I got a chance to see him here and his van broke down in vegas so he left his band and got on a plane and played the show here. He took requests the whole time it was one of the most intament settings i have ever been in.