Albums of profound significance and sentimentality

[Reign in Acai]

There's countless albums in which we listen to and enjoy. And then there's albums that can figuratively make your soul jump out of your chest. Music that you attach to some point in your life where things just weren't "peachy". Whether it be a heavy metal assault that lets you blow off steam after the woman you thought you loved took a shit on your proverbial heart strings. Or the melancholic melodies that help you cope with the death of a dying love one. Music that reminds you of who you were. Several years ago I felt alot of detachment towards society. (I still do, but it's not the sentiment of "everyone's a tard, they should off themselves") My car was impounded, I had several thousand dollars in tickets, got canned from my job, was spending every cent I had on a chubster who I thought was a "soul mate", my family's house caught on fire, and I had to become "tim the tool man taylor" everyday after spending a full shift at work, and several hours on buses with beaners just to get home and work another 6 hours tearing down dry wall, tile, and burnt planks...yadda yadda [/George Costanza]

The point I'm trying to get at is Allah is Great, Allah is Great. Allah in this case being a pseudonym for "Music". What albums do you listen to now that sentimentally remind you of a time and a place in your lives when you were struggling with the general hardships of "being"? This may be cliche, but Agalloch- "The Mantle" is this album for me. The ending of the "Hawthorne Passage" in particular leaves me with goosebumps that are unparalled to this day.

When in doubt, turn to music.

Does everyone here have an album that makes them retrospectively evaluate their lives? If so let's hear it. Small story included por flavor.

 

[KILL TULLY]

NWOBHM in general reminds of me of great times in my life when I heald naive and fancifull notions of the "metal scene" in general before I was fully into the whole Boston scene and relized just how gay and lame shit can be.

 

[Night Mare]

The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Linked to the most ridiculously, unbelievable happy time in this life to date, It's been a long time and I would still give anything to be back there.
Also, John Frusciante - Shadows Collide with People is linked to the same time, depending on my mood those two albums, among others, can make me feel on top of the world, or like complete shit. The latter right now.

 

[Nico]

Opeth - Morningrise has that effect on me, not really sure why though. It just takes me back to a time and a place when things were hard - but simpler.

Also, Use Your Illusion I and II got me through a lot of hard times. Still do, in fact. Metallica's Ride the Lightning probably would as well, but I haven't heard it in about 5 years, so I can't really say.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

Albums as a whole? hmmm.... no, not really, at least not that I can think of, mostly just individual songs.

 

[General Zod]

As for whole albums? Only one. Steve Vai's "Sex and Religion". It reminds me of the loss of one of my closest friends. Still can't listen to it.

Zod

 

[Arunas]

Godpeed You Black Emperors F#A# just melts my mind. It doesn't remind me of anything but it makes me stop and think about everything. Unreal
Ulver's Perdition City works kind of similiar, but it's a night album Try going through an empty city in the night with Perdition City on headphones

 

[cthulufhtagn]

well mr. acai, we finally agree on something...the mantle is an album i listened to a lot when i was going through some depression a couple years ago, still reminds me of it in some ways. but more than that it kinda just makes me generally reflect on life, not many albums have that power

hilariously enough, sonata arctica always reminds me of an ex-gf who i am not such a big fan of these days and it makes me laugh

paatos - timeloss and anekdoten - gravity i strongly associate with last summer, one of the most kickass times ever

these guys remind me of good times in kind of a sad nostalgic way:
the coma lilies (myspace)
^^check out the song "fin", my friend described it as the kind of song that "makes you rethink your life"

yea i guess i have a pretty strong tendency to associate albums with times in my life or just reflecting on life in general...to me that's a big part of music, having that connection with your life past or present

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

i didn't listen to music during my depression, didn't want to do, hear or eat anything at all.

 

[NAD]

Morbid Angel - Domination made me angry at an ex-bint for years because around the time when that one came out, she ripped my heart out and stepped on it. Years later I finally figured out why I always felt so angry when rocking out to it, haha.

I mostly have positive memories attached to great albums though.

 

[KILL TULLY]

Oh and that fucking song "Since you've been Gone" I can't hear without committing fucking genocide because of some fucking broad, fuck.

 

[Trylakos]

Godpeed You Black Emperors F#A# just melts my mind. It doesn't remind me of anything but it makes me stop and think about everything. Unreal
Ulver's Perdition City works kind of similiar, but it's a night album Try going through an empty city in the night with Perdition City on headphones

holy shit, these are the two I was going say, and I agree about the night album. I only live in a small 10000 person town, but its still neat to awlk around to it at night.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Chemical Wedding, because I was listening to it constantly during one of the best months of my life, including an incredible week in Maui. Still makes me think of sitting on the coastal cliffs with my headphones on, listening to "The Tower" and watching the waves below and thinking "I'm going to go ahead and get my shit together just so I can afford to come back here one day."

And also Master of Puppets because that album sent me down the long road to metal. Still probably my favorite album of all time.

There's a handful of individual songs, but those are the two full albums that stand out.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Tool - ænima ...just reminds me of a time in high school...I lived off that album
Agalloch - The Mantle ...just reminds me of camping...take it with me on every camping trip I go on

there are a lot more that I cant hink of righ away

 

[Nate The Great]

There's a ton of them for me. Most significant:

Anathema - Alternative 4 (takes me back to a sad, depressing, difficult time . . . ultimately overcome . . . this album was important throughout)

Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick (it was like discovering fire . . . this was the first REAL metal album I owned)

 

[Krilons Resa]

Anathema - Alternative 4 (takes me back to a sad, depressing, difficult time . . . ultimately overcome . . . this album was important throughout)

Yeah thats one

 

[Demilich]

a little unusual for this board but:

Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors
Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers

My girlfriend's recent favourites and the soundtrack to the most turbulent and difficult 6 months of our lives. She/we have stopped listening to them, but for a while, this is pretty much all we heard when we were together. I never thought I'd even like these albums, but have come to appreciate each one.

 

[Night Mare]

Death Cab for Cutie - Plans

Death Cab are one of those veeery sentimental bands, Transatlanticism and The Photo Album were both played heavily for a while way back when, as well as Mogwai - Ten Rapid, all still affect me heavily even now.

 

[Krilons Resa]

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