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| Top 10 Favorite Albums of All Time (2018 Edition)
The first in a series of lists that I want to do, where I'd lay out my ten favorite albums of all time in that given time in my life. More for me and seeing my own progression as a music consumer than anything (also entries 2 and 3 are tied, if you're wondering why there's 11 entries in a top ten list) | | 11 |  | Between the Buried and Me
The Great Misdirect
There's a very, very fine line between this and Colors in terms of my favorite BtBaM record, but this one comes out on top mostly because I think Swim to the Moon is their defining song and one of, if not their best. Oh, and the rest of the album is some of the best metal of any subgenre I've ever heard. | | 10 |  | Porcupine Tree
Lightbulb Sun
I've had my heart properly broken twice in my life. The second time hurt a hell of a lot worse than the first, which is almost impressive considering the shape I was in after the first one. At any rate, Lightbulb Sun was always what I turned to when it hurt the most. But I think what puts it so high is that I don't just associate it with heartbreak, I associate it with healing. And as of now, I'm still putting myself back together. | | 9 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
Simply one of the most transcendent and emotionally effective works of art I've ever beheld. But y'all know how good Kid A is. | | 8 |  | The Menzingers
On the Impossible Past
I think The Menzingers are the most important band to have ever come into my life. Since I first heard them when Rented World dropped, they've been with me in sickness and in health, through good times and bad. I will be amazed if I ever stop loving this band. Really, any of their albums could go here, but I chose this one because it meant the most to me in the heat of my passion for the band. | | 7 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
There are basically two part of The Downward Spiral. The part where you relate to it and the part where you're terrified to realize you relate to it. But that's just how I see it. | | 6 |  | Opeth
Still Life
Opeth is my favorite band of all time, and I think this is the greatest thing they ever produced (and unfortunately, most definitely will ever produce). I have a review if you're interested in more in-depth thoughts (even though I say that it's not my favorite Opeth record in that review, but just ignore that bit). | | 5 |  | Anberlin
Cities
If The Menzingers are the most important band to ever be in my life, Anberlin's Cities is the most important album. I think it's an album mostly about coming to terms with oneself, which is something I've struggled with all my life, and continue to struggle with. But this album came at just the right time (after that first heartbreak), when I felt the lowest and most worthless and hopeless I could possibly feel. It was my crutch for a long time, and I don't need it nearly as much as I used to, but it's effects will never leave me or lessen in my mind. | | 4 |  | Steven Wilson
Hand. Cannot. Erase.
*TIE FOR #3*
This album makes me weep like a wee bitch and I really don't know why. That's all. The only reason it's here, really. But I think there's a lot of value in that. | | 3 |  | The Mars Volta
Frances the Mute
*TIE FOR #3*
I have no idea how to explain why this is one of my favorite records. I was enraptured with it for months, trying to decrypt every deeply encrypted lyric, every bizarre or seemingly random musical choice and try to see how it all ties back into the concept and themes in the album. And I think I still come up short. Every time. | | 2 |  | Jason Isbell
Southeastern
This is the most powerful collection of songs I've ever beheld. Nothing can move me like 'Relatively Easy' or 'Elephant'. I don't know how this guy managed to take out a piece of me and put it on a record, but he did, and there's nothing I could ever do to thank him properly. | | 1 |  | Soundgarden
Superunknown
I think the entire rock world was shaken when Chris Cornell died. He was such a staple in that realm, one of the only really reliable figures it's ever had (but we don't need to talk about 'Scream', now do we?) So after he died, I took it upon myself to familiarize myself with as much of his work as I could, starting with Soundgarden. What I found, among many other fantastic things, on this journey was the most effective album I've ever heard. Simply put, I find it to succeed in every single thing it sets out to do. Whether that be to get you immersed in the murkiest, almost uncomfortable atmosphere it can (Head Down, Mailman, Black Hole Sun), to get you to feel as dejected and alienated as it does (Fell On Black Days, The Day I Tried to Live, Like Suicide) or to just straight up melt your face with some goddamn ragers, barn-burners, and general bangers (Let Me Drown, Spoonman, the title track), whatever it wants to do, it succeeds at with flying colors. So yeah. Go listen to it. Now. | |
BlazinBlitzer
06.10.18 | "Swim to the Moon" is BtBaM's best track agreed. Also, gj on 2. | JDubb
06.10.18 | Excellent list and descriptions. Very familiar with the greatness of #'s 1, 7, 9, and 10. Took a listen to the others on here. Angelina Cities was really good! |
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