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| | My 10 favorite Albums of all time | | 1 |  | Pain of Salvation
In the Passing Light of Day
This album only got my attention in June 2017 which also was the moment I discovered Pain of Salvation. I enjoy "Remedy Lane" as much as this record and regard it to be a 5 too, but the background story woven in here gets me more and I think of Ragnar Zolberg's background vocals as a component in favor of "In the Passing Light of Day". And: The solo in "Angels of Broken Things" just SLAPS and the title track with the western guitar is amazing if you commit to it. | | 2 |  | Ethel Cain
Preacher's Daughter
I adore her voice, the guitar parts and the production of this one. Okay, to be fair I like almost everything about these first two records. In this one:
How "American Teenager" tricks the listener - and Barack Obama apparently. The climax in "A House in Nebraska" with the piano leading to one of the least expected guitar soli. The chapel bells and the bass-lead outro of "Family Tree". How "Thoroughfare" is built-up and how it tricks the listener AGAIN. How dirty and swampy "Gibson Girl" sounds and its guitar solo. The doom and despair of "Ptolemaea" and that last "STOP!" which is very metal for a non-metal album.
And EVERYTHING about "Sun Bleached Flies". A gospel containing the lines "God loves you, but not enough to save you" and "If they strike once, then you just hit 'em twice as heart." Not exactly what the bible says, but works way better for the concept. The last lines are more suitable for a closer than "Strangers" but I love the cynicism and the album's final solo. | | 3 |  | Leprous
Coal
AAA-AAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAA-AAA-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAA-AAAAAAAAA
Ahem. The dense atmosphere of despair and distrust this album creates - amazing. Just let it immerse you! The rhythm section (Rein Blomquist on bass and Tobias Anderson on drums) is extremely coordinated. In terms of guitar work this might be the heaviest Leprous record (e.g. the breakdown in "Coal") and Tor Oddmund Suhrke gets his moments to shine, first of all the mid-part of "Echo". Einar Solberg shows his enormous vocal abilities and range - in "Salt" the verses climax into a high chorus, only piano-driven at the start. And then there's Contaminate Me" - one of the most intense songs I've listened to and one of my top favorites. It demonstrates how a Crossover should sound like: Ihsahn joins quite abruptly with the first chorus, which makes it darker and fits perfectly to the song's lyrics and tone, until violin player Håkon Aase surprises with an artsy / jazzy outro. | | 4 |  | The War On Drugs
Lost in the Dream | | 5 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park | | 6 |  | Joni Mitchell
Blue | | 7 |  | Tom Petty
Wildflowers | | 8 |  | Fleetwood Mac
Rumours | | 9 |  | Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures | | 10 |  | Def Leppard
Pyromania | |
pizzamachine
09.09.23 | 10 of em. Count them! :D
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Good job!! There’s ten albums! Yaaaay!!! :D | DarkSideOfLucca
09.10.23 | I don't get it, why isn't this just obZen by Meshuggah over and over again? | hillbillyag
09.10.23 | Big fan of 5-9. Good choices. I will have to check out some of your top ones. | Ryus
09.10.23 | 6 is in my top 10 as well :] | DarkSideOfLucca
09.10.23 | Yeah in all seriousness, there's some good stuff here. I actually haven't checked out that Pain of Salvation record, so I should get on that. Big fan of Remedy Land and Perfect Element, used to listen to them all the time back in high school. | JohnnyoftheWell
09.10.23 | this is a very fucking chaotic list lol
6 thru 9 really do be a list-within-a-list. can fw 5, 6, 9 for sure | RemedyLane99
09.10.23 | @PizzaMachine I just wasn't ready :D
This is very chaotic because my taste in music is as chaotic. I can enjoy the most genres of music if the content and music move me in one or the other way.
@JohnnyoftheWell Unfortunately, I enjoyed parts of "Take Me Back to Eden" very much too, which is, I gotta admit, a HUGE clusterfuck.
These ten albums (or eleven indeed) are pretty close and it was quite a hard decision for me between "Pyromania" and "Born to Run" because I absolute adore Clarence Clemons' saxo play. And there was one rule for myself: only one album per artist. Otherwise, it would have been PoS and Opeth twice.
Basically, there are two types of albums on these lists:
1. Classics (and other albums discovered in hindsight) that caught me during the first listen but continued to grow and grow further. I had discovered the most of them during the pandemic when there was enough time to give my "album bucket list" some attention. Except for "Wildflowers" - my father is a huge Tom Petty fan and this was one of the few albums he didn't own but when I listened to his whole discography (Travelling Wilburys too) this one became my favorite.
2. "In the Passing Light of Day", "Preacher's Daughter" and "Blue" (also Category 1). which held position Number 3 in between for some time. These are albums of their own kind: very honest, blunt and thus quite exhausting listening experiences - totally worth it.
The first two positions were very clear because of these albums' atmosphere and the story behind them.
Funny thing is that I was busy when both were released, so I discovered them a few months after.
"In the Passing Light of Day" released in January 2017 when I still went to grammar school and had a tough exam phase (many teachers had been ill before - "exam jam" to catch up time.
"Preacher's Daughter" was released in May 2022 and I just missed it. First attempted to listen to it at once this January. Somehow managed it, but, holy cow... | RemedyLane99
09.10.23 | @DarkSideOfLucca. TbH I prefer "Destroy Erase Improve" over "obZen" - Bleed is an absolute banger of course.
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09.10.23 | I prefer non growly Opeth to growly Opeth | RemedyLane99
09.10.23 | Well, my favorite Opeth song is "To Bid You Farewell", followed by "Bleak" (okay, that's an extremely dark and partly growly one) and "Faith in Others". | pizzamachine
09.10.23 | 5 does slap though | TheArtofTheGanja
09.10.23 | Certainly a unique list. Surprised to see Def Leppard on here | menawati
09.11.23 | High n Dry > Pyro though | Minortimbo12
09.12.23 | Fair list. |
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