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| My Favorite Song From My Favorite Albums Part II
Decided that since I have some new 5's I would look back at some of my favorite tracks from my favorite albums. I am including some of my favorite albums of my 4.5's, so I will be creating another list in the future for 25 more albums that I would like to talk about. | | 1 |  | Cursive
The Ugly Organ
After a rather perfect opening styled by its chaotic first few songs, it reaches an unexpected climax in Gentleman’s Caller. While the first few songs are brash and albeit slightly tongue and cheek, there is a menacing aura to this song that details a drunken rampage of spousal abuse. The strings are abrasive, the vocals are laced in alcohol, and the lyrics are among the most disturbing on the album. Yet its in the sober morning that the song truly shines, halfway through the song transforms into the albums most chilling moment. “Whatever it takes to make you feel, like you’ve been the one behind the wheel. The sunrise is just over the hill, the worst is over…”. The repetition of the line “the worst is over” never fails to give me chills. | | 2 |  | Deafheaven
Sunbather
Dream House: Dream House is among one of the most heard and important black metal songs of the past decade. While it is easily Deafheaven’s most popular song, there is no reason for it not to be. From the opening chords, it sets the dreamy and aggressive tone that Deafheaven became known for with a symphonically beautiful melody to it. The vocals are shrill and emotional, but do not detract from the other instruments in the slightest. The final section of the song is arguably one of the most emotional moments in music of the past decade, and although the “I want to dream” climax has been meme'd to death, it still remains as one of my favorite moments of music in quite some time. | | 3 |  | El-P
Fantastic Damage
Stepfather Factory: This song transcends hip-hop in some of the best ways. Dealing with the serious themes of family replacement and spousal abuse, El-P creates an atmosphere of electronic despair unlike anything he has done. It really is unlike El-P to sound so serious, yet he pulls it off with a level of sincerity that he has never matched. By the 2nd chorus the beat distorts and is absolutely breathtaking, ending with a chilling final verse that solidifies itself as one of my favorite hip hop songs ever. | | 4 |  | Gang of Youths
Go Farther in Lightness
Say Yes to Life: Go Farther in Lightness is a journey through frontman Dave Le'aupepe lose of his wife and the depression that follows. It’s a sad story that is slightly tinged with hope and forgiveness along the way, and this is comes to light the most significant in the albums conclusion track “Say Yes to Life”. The lyrics are essentially a personal conversation aimed at himself, but it comes out as so honest and relatable that there is beauty to it that I find completely stunning. It builds and builds until it climaxes into a spectacular display of hope and coming to terms that it really sends the journey off on a perfect note. | | 5 |  | Ojne
Prima Che Tutto Bruci
Sull'Altro Lato Del Fiume: This hidden screamo masterpiece is home to some of the best scream/post-rock since Barrow’s Though I’m Alone, and the consistently brilliant song writing made it really hard to choose my favorite. However the fourth song, Sull'Altro Lato Del Fiume is so beautiful, interesting, and gripping that I figured it had to be my favorite. Within an album of so many incredible moments, this song if full of them. There are crazy fun riffs, passionate vocals that are unlike anything screamo has to offer, and wall of sounds that would make Funeral Diner jealous. | | 6 |  | Rolo Tomassi
Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Contretemps: This song is massive. Rolo Tomassi’s Time Will Die and Love Will Bury it came out of no where, releasing by far my favorite album of 2018 so far and probably unbeatable at that. Led by one of the best female metal performances in quite some time, Eva Spence’s clean and harsh vocals are powerful and dense, and that remains true for the albums penultimate track. While the other two epic tracks, The Hollow Hour and A Flood of Light, may have been able to take this spot, there is just something so special about this track. The drumming especially on this track is just perfect, especially as it progresses there I a certain moment where the drums are just unrelentingly beautiful. If you haven’t given this song/album a shot yet, now is the time to try out one of the year’s best outings. | | 7 |  | Swans
Soundtracks for the Blind
Helpless Child: Helpless Child is one of the best songs I have ever heard. After getting on a huge Swans kick where I listened to every single one of their albums chronologically, this was the one track that stood out as something so utterly remarkable and entrancing, that I couldn’t believe it. Helpless Child transcends sonically, and contrasts so heavily with almost everything Swans is known for. While there are moments of weirdness and there certainly is a disturbing aura to it, there is this sublime beauty to it that is unlike anything they had ever done. Michael Gira’s vocal performance is filled with emotion, spilling out some of his best lyrics to date. The “You drug me with kindness, so I can pretend I exist” line is especially devastating. Yet its with the albums concluding section that the band presents of the best Post-rock sections in any song ever. This beautiful and melancholy build is unlike any other and the genre, and it really cannot be discussed without hearing it. I | | 8 |  | (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World)
We, Burning Giraffes
Zoe Machete Control: This overlooked post-rock album is among one of the few that I feel are essential listens for modern post-rock, heavily influenced as like a hybrid of Yndi Halda and Godspeed you!, this band applies gorgeous string work with climactic build ups and poignant crescendos. Zoe Machete Control, is perhaps my favorite song by them simply for the incredible concluding crescendo, where after a dense form of chaos the strings are released and they cannot sound much better. | | 9 |  | 0edit
Neotokyo
Tin Soldiers: For those of you who haven’t played Neotokyo before, it’s a pretty badass shooter with an almost impossible difficulty curve at this point. However, that shouldn’t stop anyone from experiencing this incredible soundtrack. Tin Soldiers is perhaps the crowning jewel of this sprawling electronic epic of a soundtrack, with some just breathtaking passages that need to be listened to. | | 10 |  | Akira Yamaoka
Silent Hill 2
Theme of Laura/Betrayal: I have these two tied for a significant amount of reasons, but most importantly because it all depends on my mood on which I feel is better. Theme of Laura is the opening track to one of my favorite games of all time, and that shining opening guitar is among one of my favorite peaks in the album along with the glowing synth that follows it on its chorus. Theme of Laura is a triumph in what is otherwise an extremely dark and moody game, which is where Betrayal comes in. Betrayal is really fucking dense, and not in a way you might think it would be. Its led loud clanging chains and a soul piercing synth that never fails to give me chills. In context to the game, Betrayal is the moment of realization that really cements itself in the player’s memory. | | 11 |  | Anberlin
Cities
*Fin: I think a lot has been said about Anberlin’s magnum opus, but this song really is as good as everyone says it is. It is a sprawling piece of Christian rock that the group could never really reach again in terms of musical accomplishment. The lyrics are among some of the best that Stephen Christian has ever wrote, and that angelic choir is so chilling combined with the emotionally pounding instrumentation. | | 12 |  | At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
Arcarsenal: This song encapsulates everything that made At The Drive-In so fucking good. An onslaught of tribal drumming followed by the janky guitar is energetic and fierce, and leading into the first verse this song bursts into flames. The vocals are fierce and the lyrics are so surreal that its hard not to find them enjoyable. My main highlight for the track however has to be the guitar within the first two verses, I always found it to be just so badass. | | 13 |  | Animal Collective
Feels
Banshee Beat: Animal Collective has never really been known as subtle, or at least not as much as their LSD influenced chronicles in Merriweather Post Pavilion, Strawberry Jam, and even for the majority of Feels. Yet Banshee Beat is something much different. It is melancholy and filled to the brim with nostalgia, however it remains entirely true to what made Animal Collective themselves. Its quirky, has awkward lyrics and vocals, but it just works so well | | 14 |  | Barrow
Being Without
An Absent Crown, My Diadem: I feel like I gush way too much about how great of a band Barrow was, but mostly I aim all my positivity on their magnum opus Though I’m Alone. Being Without has such wonderful tracks on it, and its best being An Absent Crown, My Diadem. This is an 8 minute long epic of a post-hardcore/post-rock song that deals with the lose of lose for a significant other. Yet its within its violent middle half, filled with vile hatred and disgust; that the uplifting conclusion can truly stand tall. At this point its pretty much clear that I’m a sucker for the ending parts of epic songs, and that is no different here. That squealing guitar final guitar is glorious, and the lyrics send the song off in the best possible way. “I have seen a greater light than a body within my bed, naked from the warmth of a love within my head.” | | 15 |  | Broken Social Scene
You Forgot It in People
Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl: This song is precious. While everything on Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot it in People is unique, the brilliant “Anthems” is something of its own kind. Amongst the incredible tracks of KC Accidental, Almost Crimes, Pacific Theme, and quite a lot of others, Anthems is this slow nostalgia and romantic build accompanied by icy cold female vocals and a delicate banjo. The “Park my car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me” part is especially so relatable that it never fails to make me shudder. | | 16 |  | Buckethead
Electric Tears
All in the Waiting: This beautiful acoustic track is among Buckethead’s finest. It is a peaceful ode to life that is almost unmatched on the album, but I can’t help but relate the track to waiting for the winter and just taking a stroll around town. It simply creates an atmosphere of love from just two guitars that I can’t help but appreciate. | | 17 |  | Burial
Untrue
Archangel: This is pretty much the song that got me into trip-hop. Without it I probably never would have listened to Endtroducing… or Dummy. Burial’s Archangel is powerful piece of electronica that creates an atmosphere of surreal darkness. The voices fade in and out while a mesmerizing beat bounces in and out. “Let it be alone” is repeated throughout, and while the meaning of it starts out alien and unrecognizable, it gets more and more relatable as the song progresses. | | 18 |  | Carissa's Wierd
Songs About Leaving
Low Budget Slow Motion Soundtrack Song for the Leaving Scene: While Ignorant Piece of Shit is perhaps the best song on the album, I have always had a soft spot for “Slow Motion Soundtrack”. It’s a slow brooding track with minimal intricacy, but beautiful instrumentation. The vocals are as melancholy as ever, but while the lyrics read “I’ll just keep waiting for you” it never sounds hopeful. Even as the piano begins to build and the strings start to swell, it continues to beat the listener down with emotion. | | 19 |  | Converge
You Fail Me Redux
Last Light: Converge’s 2nd best opener is home to one of drummer Ben Koeller’s best drumming sections, and one of my favorite drumming performances in all of hardcore. Its fast, hits extremely hard, and its accompanied by a loud and abrupt guitar by the 2nd verse that is just so badass. By the time the song is coming to a close, the listener is gifted with a destructive breakdown that is one of Converge’s finest. | | 20 |  | Dear and the Headlights
Small Steps Heavy Hooves
Midwestern Dirt: This overlooked indie rock gem is home to some of the genre’s most jarring and heartfelt pieces. However, closing track Midwestern Dirt is something so special. Dealing with an abusive marriage, the track is a progressive piece of sadness and lost love that is constantly tinged with this sense of hope. While it starts off slow, it constantly builds until it bursts and blooms. The acoustic guitar is replaced by a soaring electric guitar, and the vocals swoon and swell the final line of “And you stay above me forever, like you stay above me now” in repetition so beautifully. | | 21 |  | Defeater
Lost Ground
Singin’ New York Town: This track is arguably my favorite on this classic hardcore EP due to its ending. Its the climax to the entire EP where the main character realizes he has lost everything, and it will never come back. However, the final lyrics are so chilling that its hard not to appreciate the album just for this part alone. “I beg and I plead for her god to hear me, He's just a coward, just a thief. I pray and I pray for him to answer me. I hear nothing, I hear nothing I beg and I plead for her god to hear me.I hear nothing, nothing.” | | 22 |  | Dinosaur Jr.
You're Living All Over Me
Little Fury Things: The opener to Dinosaur Jr.’s noise rock opus You’re Living All Over Me is lo-fi rock perfection. The wanky guitar opening followed by the harsh screams of “forever” are mesmerizing, and the song does not let up. Say what you want about the vocals, but I feel there is this dream like quality to them that makes them fit with the music pretty well. The noisy cacophony of sound by the songs end is bliss. | | 23 |  | Do Make Say Think
You, You're a History in Rust
A With Living: If Talk Talk were still doing music today, I bet they would sound a lot like what is displayed in Do Make Say Think’s A With Living. This is a shining example of lo-fi post-rock done to an exceptional degree, with vocals and lyrics that bring the sprawling and vast instrumentation alive. | | 24 |  | dredg
El Cielo
The Canyon Behind Her: The Canyon Behind Her is massive. After a quite long and epic concept album that is El Cielo, The Canyon Behind Her brings perfect closure to not only the album, but the themes surrounding it. Amidst booming and distorted guitars and Gavin Hayes extremely passionate vocals, this song encapsulates all the emotion of the album throughout its duration. The “I cannot find the other half” section followed by monk chants would be cheesy on any other album, but Dredg make it sound blissful. | | 25 |  | World's End Girlfriend
The Lie Lay Land
We Are The Massacre: This is one of the most haunting songs I’ve had the pleasure of listening to. Among the horrifying screams of death and misery, there is this somber and poignant harmony that begins to slowly resonate and build. While it is a beautifully devastating build, the song climaxes into a haze of noise that is so downright chilling. While this is one of the artist’s more unrecognizable tracks, it is perhaps one of his best. It is a gloomy testament to death through music, and it is among one of the saddest song’s I’ve ever heard. | |
hogan900
10.17.18 | Going to Finish the additional 25 by the end of the weekend, just wanted to spread the word for some stuff people may not have jammed before/showcase some of my favorite songs of all time. | veninblazer
10.17.18 | You forgot to name the song off the Rolo Tomassi album. | hogan900
10.17.18 | ah thanks for edit | hogan900
10.17.18 | elaborate friend | furpa
10.17.18 | Some excellent albums here! Good choices. My favourite tracks would differ slightly but all in all good picks my dude. | hogan900
10.17.18 | hey thanks man, you have any you want to call out? I pretty much love all songs from these albums so it was kind of hard to choose | goblinilbog
10.17.18 | 9 is an awesome album | alamo
10.17.18 | electric tears is divine ♥___♥ my favorite track from it is Sketches of Spain | hogan900
10.18.18 | 9 and 10 are def my fav game soundtracks of all time. And man sketches of Spain is gorgeous | BlindHouse
10.18.18 | This is a cool list. On Rolo Tomassi, you said "there I a certain moment where the drums are just unrelentingly beautiful." What is that moment? I'm curious because I love the album too and play drums myself. | hogan900
10.18.18 | @blindhouse the 2nd verse of contretemps before the climax, just so awesome | NorthernSkylark
10.18.18 | Low Budget Slow Motion Soundtrack Song for the Leaving Scene
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10.18.18 | @NorthernSkylark glad someone agrees with me for that one, nobody ever actually mentions that when talking about the album haha |
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