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| Colorfulllllll Albummmmmmmms
I've never understood why more people don't use vision-oriented words when talking about
music. For me, a lot of albums have a sort of quality to them that is almost impossible to
describe any other way than by "color." These are albums that I feel have a strong and vibrant
"color" that is as important their sound as any other aspect of the music. Tell me any obvious
ones that should be here, or your own personal favorite color albums. Enjoy. | | 1 |  | HORSE the Band
Desperate Living
All Colors: There are a lot of greens and reds on this album, but at some point or another, I think HORSE
has succeeded in creating a part that reminds me of almost any color I can think of. | | 2 |  | Animal Collective
Sung Tongs
Translucent Green: For me, if you could see this album, it would be a blur of leaves with the sun shining
through them, kind of a light, carefree green color that's basically just pure euphoria. Heaven will be this
color. | | 3 |  | Converge
Jane Doe
Orange: Like fire. This is probably one of the more obvious ones, but I don't think there is a better
incarnation of orange sound. | | 4 |  | Lady Gaga
The Fame
Pink, Black: I get the sense with this album that the music is an almost translucent pink color, happening
over a stark black backdrop, so that there is a huge contrast between the generally light sound of the
songs, and the creeping sense of darkness that also permeates much of the album. | | 5 |  | envy
A Dead Sinking Story
Icy Grey: Like the sky on a really overcast day, reflecting off the surface of really dark water. | | 6 |  | pg. 99
Document #8
Red: Red scribbles over a black background, very bleak. | | 7 |  | The Blood Brothers
Burn Piano Island, Burn
Yellow: It just is. this one is hard to explain, but its very chaotic, like a party with everyone wearing yellow
shirts running around with no pants on, fighting and having sex. | | 8 |  | The Mars Volta
Amputechture
Sandy Brown, Tan: Sounds like the way you imagine the Sahara desert looks. | | 9 |  | Circa Survive
Juturna
Blue-grey, Slate: Like the blue of someone's hazel colored eyes. There are also hints of purple here or
there, but the purple was much stronger on On Letting Go. | | 10 |  | John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
Forest Green: Like the dark, earthy green of moss growing on the trunk of a tree in a dense forest. It's
really a pleasant image, but it has it's dark edge too. Honorable mention goes to Mesa Verde's The Old
Road, which has a very similar color throughout much of the album. | | 11 |  | Tera Melos
Tera Melos
All Colors: Much like the HORSE album, if you can think of a color, it's in there. But HORSE tends to have
distinctly different colors in different songs or different sections of songs, whereas on this album, every
new chord or guitar line brings with it a new color spectrum, so the whole thing has a feeling like
watercolor paint colors constantly shifting and twisting around each other. Really the most colorful album I
can think of. Honorable mention goes to At the Drive-In's Relationship of Command, which has much the
same effect of constantly shifting colors, but seems to have darker, more solid colors, and isn't quite as
beautiful as Tera Melos. | |
sniper
04.26.10 | Tell me how crazy and weird I am. | Parallels
04.26.10 | 2-4 i like
especially 4. | MUNGOLOID
04.26.10 | Outkast - Atliens: black and green
| sniper
04.26.10 | I've never heard that Outkast album, but I like those colors. | eternium
04.26.10 | Should of added Dark Side of the Moon. | sniper
04.26.10 | Dark Side of the Moon is purple when they are doing the slowish stuff, and more green for a lot of the "epic" moments. | Enotron
04.26.10 | brilliant list | LegendofPittman
04.26.10 | Dark Side of the Moon gives me a very Blue feeling.
BtBaM - Colors - Green | sniper
04.26.10 | BTBAM's stuff bores me mostly, so they didn't get included, but if I went with a metal album, it would be Protest the Hero's Fortress, and it would be chrome. | like a cat
04.26.10 | I get the same feeling on 8. I've never really tried thinking of colors while listening to an album, i just think of the band performing it. | sniper
04.26.10 | Yeah, Amputechture reminds me of dying of thirst. | Blindsided
04.27.10 | This list is really really awesome. | sniper
04.27.10 | Yeah, it took a while too, thanks for re-bumping ;) | zarquan99
04.29.10 | DUDE!!!! thats crazy!! I do that too!! whenever I listen to something I put a color to it. For me an album that has a lot of "color" is between the buried and me's Colors!! haha. Maybe thats why I like it more than other ppl. Well the whole album is sort of dark-blue-ish for me but its really the individual songs that have colors for me:
1. The Backtrack - Light Blue/White
2: The Decade of Statues - Black all the way
3: Informal Gluttony - very colorful... Yellow, Green and Orange
4: Sun of Nothing - Yellow, Orange
5: Ants of the Sky - RED
6: Prequel to the Sequel - All Shades of Orange
7: Viridian - Purple, Dark Blue
8: White Walls - All Shades of Blue
Im crazy... have you heard Colors Sniper01?
| zarquan99
04.29.10 | Hey what do other ppl do when they listen to music??? like what do other ppl think about thats not colors? For me Dark Side of the Moon is definitly dark blue, with like flashed of bright colors. I thought Protest the Hero's Fortress was chrome also... thats why I didnt like it.... to artificial. Ok Ill shut up now... I jsut havn't heard of any1 else who puts colors on their music. | sniper
04.29.10 | Yeah man, I've heard Colors, but I'm not a big fan of BTBAM, so it didn't make the list. And I've never even thought of music as being without color, it's just the natural intellectualization for me. I honestly don't know what other people think of whe they listen to stuff. It would be pretty cool to do studies on that kind of thing though. | zarquan99
04.30.10 | Yeah it would be cool to do a study on that... | sniper
07.02.10 | I'm proud of this list, you guys should all read it and leave comments. | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | Sniper are you autistic? | sniper
07.02.10 | Idk are you a post-op tranny? | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | pre-op :c | sniper
07.02.10 | Oh, I'm sorry man or whatever. But no I'm not, good question though. | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | eh whatevs, im broke now, but hopefully ill make dollas in a few years or some shi | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | A City Safe From Sea - Understudies - bright green, just fun and happy
Rinoa - Past Maidens - a contrast of a really deep navy and a pale blue due to the melancholy yet uplifting atmosphere
etc. | sniper
07.02.10 | Yeah good luck I hope that all works out for you. Make sure you're so hot no one will care that you used to have a dick. | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | I'M WORKING ON IT... but it's impossible to gain weight with my diet. :c | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | also, check my list from yesterday so i can gloat all up on yew :p | sniper
07.02.10 | Cool shit. Those are three good albums. | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | Oh, Orchid - None More Black
GUESS THE COLOR LOLOLOL | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | im just doing songs | sniper
07.02.10 | Sandy brown. | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | no no no, its black silly | sniper
07.02.10 | Sky blue? | witchxrapist
07.02.10 | i see what you did there! | sniper
07.02.10 | Me too. |
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