It really varies on two things: my mood and how often I listen to it. My friend gives me crap because I'll get an album and listen to it for a month or two almost nonstop, listening to other stuff now and then, but predominantly that one album, and then one day I'll stop and pick up another album and do the same. Good way to analyze the album. Anyways, to answer the topic:
Lateralus by Tool.
I've only recently had this album, although it's been out since 2001. It's gorgeous. One of the few albums that I can listen to over and over again and still find something new in. It's very abstract, which leads to multiple interpretations, no matter how many times you listen to it; such is the case with the correlation between between the Grudge and Triad/Faaip de Oiad, the first and last two tracks of the album. Just like good literature, it seems to grow with you.
Ember to Inferno by Trivium
Ember to Inferno reflected my junior year of highschool. I took the album as a whole as the life and death of a phoenix. Based on that idea, it was the first story I ever really knew to not have a happy or idealized ending; it dealt with the birth of a god, its heartless destruction while not looking towards the future, and finally its lonely death, when the world watched the sky erupt into flames, and then total black. I've painted so many pictures based on those ideas, mostly the final track, A View of Burning Empires. I can't listen to it too often since it's kind of depressing, but when I'm feeling tired it's a nice energy boost.
Blackwater Park by Opeth
Opeth is like an energy drink. You listen to it and the power just lifts you, but after awhile you crash, and with Opeth, you crash damn hard. Blackwater Park is a timeless album. Like Ember, this is another album I discovered during my junior year, from my friend that I mentioned at the beginning of this post. We used to sit around art and rock out to this album. The song Blackwater Park was like our theme song, and even to this day when we hang out, at random one of us will mention how "sick liasions rasied this monumental mark", and both of us will finish, "the sun sets forever over Blackwater park". Musically, Opeth is genius, the power of black metal, the abstractuarlism of progressive rock and amazing technical skill. Of all their albums, Blackwater Park still remains my favorite.
Weird Al in general.
How could I neglect him? I mean unless I'm seriously pissed, I love this man's work.
Lateralus by Tool.
I've only recently had this album, although it's been out since 2001. It's gorgeous. One of the few albums that I can listen to over and over again and still find something new in. It's very abstract, which leads to multiple interpretations, no matter how many times you listen to it; such is the case with the correlation between between the Grudge and Triad/Faaip de Oiad, the first and last two tracks of the album. Just like good literature, it seems to grow with you.
Ember to Inferno by Trivium
Ember to Inferno reflected my junior year of highschool. I took the album as a whole as the life and death of a phoenix. Based on that idea, it was the first story I ever really knew to not have a happy or idealized ending; it dealt with the birth of a god, its heartless destruction while not looking towards the future, and finally its lonely death, when the world watched the sky erupt into flames, and then total black. I've painted so many pictures based on those ideas, mostly the final track, A View of Burning Empires. I can't listen to it too often since it's kind of depressing, but when I'm feeling tired it's a nice energy boost.
Blackwater Park by Opeth
Opeth is like an energy drink. You listen to it and the power just lifts you, but after awhile you crash, and with Opeth, you crash damn hard. Blackwater Park is a timeless album. Like Ember, this is another album I discovered during my junior year, from my friend that I mentioned at the beginning of this post. We used to sit around art and rock out to this album. The song Blackwater Park was like our theme song, and even to this day when we hang out, at random one of us will mention how "sick liasions rasied this monumental mark", and both of us will finish, "the sun sets forever over Blackwater park". Musically, Opeth is genius, the power of black metal, the abstractuarlism of progressive rock and amazing technical skill. Of all their albums, Blackwater Park still remains my favorite.
Weird Al in general.
How could I neglect him? I mean unless I'm seriously pissed, I love this man's work.
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