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Last Active 01-19-23 2:27 am
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| the big 15
hit 1500 ratings after around 3 years on sput. love this site love you all this place is the coolest. list is the albums i've found here that have had the greatest impact on me. feel free to slide recs | | 1 |  | Hum
Downward Is Heavenward
this was the album that got me on the site in the first place---i had no musical knowledge outside of what came on the local alt-rock station other than my dad's grunge and pop punk shit. heard 'Stars' on the radio and jammed this album while doing some homework in my sophomore year of high school and it blew my mind. i had never heard guitars this big or lyrics that meant so much | | 2 |  | Failure
Fantastic Planet
now that i had had my first taste of sput i was hooked. down the rabbit hole i went, discovering this gem next. i was so glad i had found something like Hum and man this album was my favorite for a while. i got my first ski pass around the time i downloaded this: many a night was spent out in the cold blue snow with this record. the final five songs (deservedly) get a lot of hype but Blank and Dirty Blue Balloons gave me my first real taste of slowcore | | 3 |  | Have a Nice Life
Deathconsciousness
this album still feels so crazy. the lore surrounding it was so intriguing to me and it had such a massive reputation in my head until i finally gave it a spin. there's just nothing out there that sounds like this and next to nothing that's able to sonically convey the despair that Deathconsciousness can. wish i could go back and listen to this for the first time again | | 4 |  | Slint
Spiderland
this album has been beat to death but holy fuck man hearing this with my virgin ears was absolutely incredible. it feels like such a sophisticated record, like the band members all were just perfectly in tune to the vision on this album---the atmosphere is the most convincing i think i've ever heard. hearing good morning, captain for the first time was likely the single most musically defining moment of my life. totally unmatched. | | 5 |  | Bjork
Post
as i tried to get my musical feet under me, i unknowingly and accidentally became a bit of a rockist loser. this album gave me a taste of the epicness that can only come from a pop record. this album is so singular---bjork is such an odd personality and translates beautifully, considering the diverse array of pop gems found in the tracklist: Army of Me, Hyperballand, It's Oh So Quiet, and Isobel are all incredibly distinct masterclasses of their respective sounds! | | 6 |  | Injury Reserve
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
found this on the 2021 staff list and holy cow. a lot has been said about this being a kind of post-hip-hop record and i wholeheartedly agree. the way that this embraces hip-hop tropes and characteristics while still entirely being its own thing is incredible. the concept uniting the album really pushes it into that upper echelon of music i think---the thing you've GOTTA hear, the record you just CAN'T miss | | 7 |  | Kanye West
Yeezus
it would be foolish to say that i only know Kanye from sputnik---he was such a cultural giant for all of the 2010s. however, i had kinda pigeonholed him as frat-rap based on the graduation trilogy. i jammed this because of the "yeezus grew on me" jokes and goodness gracious this is a hyperbolic expression of rap braggadocio in the best way possible. combined with the rather left-field but still slick production, this is a masterpiece that made the soil for experimental hip-hop in the teens very fertile. | |
JoyfulPlatypus
09.17.25 | Congrats on the milestone!
Also, I'll die on the hill that #5 is the best Bjork album. Even compared to Vespertine & Homogenic. | Hawks
09.17.25 | Very nice! | arthropod
09.17.25 | muy bien
guess I'll check Hum, I like Stars but never went any further | Supercoolguy64
09.18.25 | Fantastic planet is a classic, I listened to it on the ride back from a trip to mammoth lake a couple of years ago so I think of that trip whenever I listen to it | Futures
09.18.25 | thanks for sharing man, i always love to see what people got from here and how it pushed their musical evolution. such a deep pool of music knowledge and information here that it's interesting to see what paths people go down. i could write way too much on the topic! love the yeezus respect. | nickisnotarapper
09.18.25 | This has me listening to Hum as well, pretty fantastic stuff.
I'm from Phoenix and got to see Injury Reserve come up in real-time. Miss that group, RIP Groggs. | platttt
09.18.25 | frankly i do think i like you'd prefer an astronaut a tad more than downward is heavenward but i can confidently claim that downward is heavenward changed my life. such an epic album | Kimm
09.24.25 | Oh my god I thought it was someone's 15th birthday
Enjoyed reading this, I love hearing personal attachments/associations with different albums. Gonna check some of these out this week m/ |
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