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Been expanding my music collection recently and I am curious, what are your 3 most favorite albums, and what's one song you'd recommend from each?
Links encouraged!
Choosing different artists for each is also encouraged. >.>
Presently, mine would have to be...
3.) Greatest Hits by Foo Fighters
Been listening to Foo Fighters for years. It's an impossibly rare band that can put out an instantly classic album every time, but it's still an exceptional band that can totally sell you on at least one or two songs each time. 'Cause when that compilation album drops, you're gonna be rolling in your favorites. And that's what this is.
Sadly, it omits a few of my old favorites (no DOA, no Generator) and it was released prior to some of my new favorites (no Bridge Burning, no Something From Nothing) and instead it includes early stuff like Big Me, and This Is A Call. But that's not Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters crashed the party in 1997 with Everlong, kept rocking for 10 years and then reminded us they still had a bone to pick with The Pretender:
Will 2017 see another earth-shattering rock song? I hope so.
2.) Sequence Meditation by Access
No, you're seeing that correctly, the cover art is featureless black.
This is by far my most obscure album, and I happened upon it completely on accident. After liking Wings in my Eyes so much (better known as Hitomi No Tsubasa, one of several theme songs to the anime, Code Geass), I decided to dig around for more stuff by Access.
What I happened upon was a stunted, low-quality, minute and a half MP3 of a REALLY COOL instrumental track that abruptly ends. I was so intrigued that I pursued the lead to a Japanese wiki page that cited the song as Chemical Synapse, the beginning of the 1st Mvt. of something known as "Sequence Meditation". I found it on Amazon.jp and bought it blind.
So what is it? I'm still not entirely sure. I THINK it's a compilation album of instrumentals Access would briefly insert between their regular track listings. They just made an entire album out of it. Normally, Access is an 80s-inspired synthpop duo, but these instrumentals are something else, they're epic, dramatic, melancholy, uptempo, downtempo, soundtrack, VICTORY music, all with a common leitmotif that ties them together in some grandstanding clash of keyboard and guitar that begs to be played in a stadium.
This is the only one of the three tracks I've found in it's entirety. It's called Sequence Meditation 2nd Mvt.: Confusion. It contains the songs, Quantum Trip, Spectral Memory, and Touch Off.
1.) Beyond The Horizon by People in Planes
Links encouraged!
Choosing different artists for each is also encouraged. >.>
Presently, mine would have to be...
3.) Greatest Hits by Foo Fighters
Sadly, it omits a few of my old favorites (no DOA, no Generator) and it was released prior to some of my new favorites (no Bridge Burning, no Something From Nothing) and instead it includes early stuff like Big Me, and This Is A Call. But that's not Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters crashed the party in 1997 with Everlong, kept rocking for 10 years and then reminded us they still had a bone to pick with The Pretender:
2.) Sequence Meditation by Access
This is by far my most obscure album, and I happened upon it completely on accident. After liking Wings in my Eyes so much (better known as Hitomi No Tsubasa, one of several theme songs to the anime, Code Geass), I decided to dig around for more stuff by Access.
What I happened upon was a stunted, low-quality, minute and a half MP3 of a REALLY COOL instrumental track that abruptly ends. I was so intrigued that I pursued the lead to a Japanese wiki page that cited the song as Chemical Synapse, the beginning of the 1st Mvt. of something known as "Sequence Meditation". I found it on Amazon.jp and bought it blind.
So what is it? I'm still not entirely sure. I THINK it's a compilation album of instrumentals Access would briefly insert between their regular track listings. They just made an entire album out of it. Normally, Access is an 80s-inspired synthpop duo, but these instrumentals are something else, they're epic, dramatic, melancholy, uptempo, downtempo, soundtrack, VICTORY music, all with a common leitmotif that ties them together in some grandstanding clash of keyboard and guitar that begs to be played in a stadium.
This is the only one of the three tracks I've found in it's entirety. It's called Sequence Meditation 2nd Mvt.: Confusion. It contains the songs, Quantum Trip, Spectral Memory, and Touch Off.
1.) Beyond The Horizon by People in Planes
These guys popped up, idled for a few years, peaked with this album and then vanished off the face of the planet. Shame, cause it's easily my go-to favorite CD to pop in. They're like alternative rock but harder, synthier, and moodier, and with the right splash of variety to switch it up. Every song feels different and memorable. People in Planes is most often suggested hand in hand with the song, Pretty Buildings, but as much as that's a great song, I prefer the crunchier Mayday (M'Aidez):
What are your favorite albums?
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First and foremost, his music just resonates me on a really powerful level. But I also see his work as extremely well-made musically. I love how his music seems to organically flow from segment to segment.... making each part of a song go together like PB&J is incredibly hard to do, but Vernon seems to do it effortlessly. Vernon's music, I GUESS, is not for everyone - I find that sentiment strange, though, because his music is definitely for me and it's hard to see how anyone could dislike it.
