Albums (or songs) to be Buried With

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Stealing an idea from podcast about movies (which @TKC has already done in the Entertainment forum).

You have died. You’re at the pearly gates of musical heaven but in order to get in, you have to tell the gatekeeper your answers to the following questions. You can choose a song if you can’t think of an album

What’s the first album you remember hearing?

What’s the scariest album?

What album made you cry the most?

What album is generally seen as awful but you love it anyway?

What album did you love when you were younger but you listened to it recently and realised it wasn’t any good?

What album means a lot to you, not because of its quality, but more for the associations it has with a special memory?

What’s the sexiest album?

What album makes you laugh the most?

What album do you find most relatable?

What is objectively the best album ever made? Not your favourite album, but the one you’d play to an alien who wanted to know what music was

What album could you listen to again and again and never get bored of?

If you’re allowed in to heaven, you can bring one album with you to play to all the other people up there when it’s your turn to DJ. What are you bringing?

Here’s the other thread if anyone’s interested

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What’s the first album you remember hearing?

With The Beatles, especially Please Mr Postman

What’s the scariest album?

Scott Walker The Drift - have to have a light on when listening or I get too spooked

What album made you cry the most?

Emotionless robot reporting for duty.

What album is generally seen as awful but you love it anyway?

The Horrors’ first and best album. Or has that been rehabilitated now?

What album did you love when you were younger but you listened to it recently and realised it wasn’t any good?

The Larrikin Love one. It’s still good in my memory version of it.

What album means a lot to you, not because of its quality, but more for the associations it has with a special memory?

Quite like Pineapple Thief’s Your Wilderness because father in law loves it and I went to the tour with him and he bought me a copy from the merch stand.

What’s the sexiest album?

Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See

What album makes you laugh the most?

Ivor Cutler - Jammy Smears

What album do you find most relatable?

Kurt Vile - b’lieve I’m goin down

What is objectively the best album ever made? Not your favourite album, but the one you’d play to an alien who wanted to know what music was

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

What album could you listen to again and again and never get bored of?

Highway 61 Revisited

If you’re allowed in to heaven, you can bring one album with you to play to all the other people up there when it’s your turn to DJ. What are you bringing?

Afrocubism - s/t

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What’s the first album you remember hearing?

Like, really hearing? Gotta be that Mars Volta one, maaaan

What’s the scariest album?

Idk, The Haxan Cloak’s Excavation dish some scary noises, maybe that?

What album made you cry the most?

The Sophtware Slump #ICryEverTim

What album is generally seen as awful but you love it anyway?

I’m pretty sure Fun Lovin’ Criminals’ Mimosa is probably pretty bad, right? WRONG!

What album did you love when you were younger but you listened to it recently and realised it wasn’t any good?

I stand by my younger self’s taste. That dude had a real good ear.

What album means a lot to you, not because of its quality, but more for the associations it has with a special memory?

The Secret Handshake’s One Full Year.

What’s the sexiest album?

Will Haven - Carpe Diem best listened to with no headphones on.

What album makes you laugh the most?

One of Pkew Pkew Pkew’s, probably the first one the most, but I tend to laugh.

What album do you find most relatable?

Duke Lion Fights The Terror by Big Dumb Face

What is objectively the best album ever made? Not your favourite album, but the one you’d play to an alien who wanted to know what music was

Are they a friendly alien? Can we relate to eachother? If so, Queen Of All Our Hearts, Carly Rae Jepsen’s Emotion, if not, some old jazz in the hope they might just go away.

What album could you listen to again and again and never get bored of?

Either of the last two Spanish Love Songs albums. Love that band.

If you’re allowed in to heaven, you can bring one album with you to play to all the other people up there when it’s your turn to DJ. What are you bringing?

In Rainbows, you little busters! Tsh tsh tsh! 15 steps blurpdy blurpdy blurp waaaaaaah and a videotape. Fuckin’ banging.

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What’s the first album you remember hearing?
The Cure - Disintegration, I think. Probably wasn’t actually the first album I heard but the tape was in my dad’s car a lot. There is a home video of me as a baby absolutely raving on the carpet to some old 90s dance music though, so it could well have been Orbital or something

What’s the scariest album?
Geogaddi by Boards of Canada captured my imagination in that way - the sheer darkness contained in that album, man.

What album made you cry the most?
I’m weird in that I don’t really physically cry, but Hospice by Antlers definitely HIT, specifically ‘Two’

What album is generally seen as awful but you love it anyway?
Can’t really think of anything I like that’s widely thought of as bad tbh. I seem to like Strangers to Ourselves by Modest Mouse a lot more than a lot of people though

What album did you love when you were younger but you listened to it recently and realised it wasn’t any good?
Can’t think of anything specific. I’d say some of the trip-hop stuff I got into as a teenager strikes me as really flat and empty these days though.

What album means a lot to you, not because of its quality, but more for the associations it has with a special memory?
This is tricky because usually the quality feels kind of inseparable from the special-ness, if that makes sense. ‘We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank’ by Modest Mouse and ‘Quaristice’ by Autechre s spring to mind as albums I associate more with really specific holidays than I do with the actual enjoyment of them though (even though I like both albums)

What’s the sexiest album?
f̶e̶e̶l̶ ̶f̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶h̶e̶c̶k̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶b̶a̶n̶d̶c̶a̶m̶p̶,̶ ̶m̶a̶d̶a̶m̶ all I can think of is that the line " I can wash away what seventeen cold showers couldn’t wash away" on ‘Actor’ by St Vincent makes me feel all funny

What album makes you laugh the most?
‘Madvillainy’!

What album do you find most relatable?
‘Actor’ by St. Vincent

What is objectively the best album ever made? Not your favourite album, but the one you’d play to an alien who wanted to know what music was
Might just be an absolute prick and say a recording of ‘4"33’ by John Cage. I’d look at the alien and go “aaaahhh, do you see?”

What album could you listen to again and again and never get bored of?
‘Lonesome Crowded West’ by Modest Mouse. Or maybe something by Yo La Tengo - one of those big sprawling albums where the style shifts loads, yet feels tonally consistent.

If you’re allowed in to heaven, you can bring one album with you to play to all the other people up there when it’s your turn to DJ. What are you bringing?
getting flashbacks to that anxiety when teachers said you could bring a CD in on the last day of term or whatever. For some reason, I feel like ‘Quique’ by Seefeel would be good heaven vibes

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Great answers!

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What’s the first album you remember hearing?
Probably my mum’s copy of ‘Rubber Soul’ which didn’t spark a lifelong love of the Beatles. My very first album was a cassette of David Bowie’s ‘Scary Monsters’ which I suppose set me on a path.

What’s the scariest album?
Skinny Puppy ‘Too Dark Park’

What album made you cry the most?
Mark Eitzel - ‘Songs of Love’

What album is generally seen as awful but you love it anyway?
Probably a late period REM album like ‘Reveal’

What album did you love when you were younger but you listened to it recently and realised it wasn’t any good?
Loads of early 80s punk and hardcore albums that were beloved in my teenage years.

What album means a lot to you, not because of its quality, but more for the associations it has with a special memory?
Not necessarily a good memory but Johnny Cash’s cover of ‘Hurt’ which came on the radio whilst driving accross country to be at my dad’s deathbed - I still struggle to listen to it.

What’s the sexiest album?
Any of Mazzy Star’s - Hope Sandoval :heart_eyes:

What album makes you laugh the most?
William Shatner ‘The Transformed Man’

What album do you find most relatable?
Dunno, it has changed depending on where I am in life.

What is objectively the best album ever made? Not your favourite album, but the one you’d play to an alien who wanted to know what music was
Beach Boys ‘Pet Sounds’ - I know predictable.

What album could you listen to again and again and never get bored of?
Dag Nasty - ‘Can I Say’. Still sounds as fresh and urgent as when I heard it as a teenager in 1986 (a long time ago).

If you’re allowed in to heaven, you can bring one album with you to play to all the other people up there when it’s your turn to DJ. What are you bringing?
I’d pass. I have been a DJ and wasn’t too successful - clearing the dance floor with Half Japanese b sides.

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What’s the first album you remember hearing?
My parents didn’t really have music on in the house so the first musical memory I have was really liking George Harrison’s Got My Mind Set On You when it came on the radio. First album I suppose was probably Queen’s Greatest Hits which somebody brought along on our P6 school trip and got the bus driver to play the whole way there and back.

What’s the scariest album?
Remember being pretty freaked out by Can’s Tago Mago when I listened to it on headphones in the dark

What album made you cry the most?
John Martyn’s Solid Air if I’m feeling vulnerable, particularly May You Never. Robert Wyatt’s Shipbuilding always makes me cry

What album is generally seen as awful but you love it anyway?
Prince - 20Ten

What album did you love when you were younger but you listened to it recently and realised it wasn’t any good?
Green Day - Insomniac didn’t hold up well apart from a couple of tracks

What album means a lot to you, not because of its quality, but more for the associations it has with a special memory?
The Antifolk New York compilation makes me think back to our first New York trip and visiting The Sidewalk Cafe

What’s the sexiest album?
Song: Handsome Boy Modelling School ft Cat Power - I’ve Been Thinking

What album makes you laugh the most?
Hard question as music doesn’t really go with humour very well, does it? Feels like cheating to steal @Gert’s answer so I’ll go Half Man Half Biscuit - Back In the DHSS

What album do you find most relatable?
Not sure what it would be these days but as an angsty teen it would have been In Utero

What is objectively the best album ever made? Not your favourite album, but the one you’d play to an alien who wanted to know what music was
Prince - Purple Rain. Dirty Mind is my favourite of his albums but I don’t think there’s really anything to change about Purple Rain.

What album could you listen to again and again and never get bored of?
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

If you’re allowed in to heaven, you can bring one album with you to play to all the other people up there when it’s your turn to DJ. What are you bringing?
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters

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This is very tiring, I’d be buried with XO and have done.

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What’s the first album you remember hearing?

The Smurfs - Father Abraham In Smurfland

What’s the scariest album?

i’ll go for a song:- Frankie Teardrop by Suicide.

What album made you cry the most?

Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space…

What album is generally seen as awful but you love it anyway?

Not sure anyone has an opinion on it now but Sheep On Drugs ‘Greatest Hits’ got some pretty bad reviews at the time.

What album did you love when you were younger but you listened to it recently and realised it wasn’t any good?

probably something like Pop Will Eat Itself -‘Best Of’ or Carter USM’s ‘The Love Album’.

What album means a lot to you, not because of its quality, but more for the associations it has with a special memory?

Patrick Wolf - ‘The Bachelor’

What’s the sexiest album?

FKA Twigs - LP1

What album makes you laugh the most?

Nick Cave &TBS - ‘O’Malleys Bar’

What album do you find most relatable?

For most of my life, probably Bowie’s ‘Low’. its like a comfort blanket to me now

What is objectively the best album ever made? Not your favourite album, but the one you’d play to an alien who wanted to know what music was

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

What album could you listen to again and again and never get bored of?

David Bowie - Low (again)

If you’re allowed in to heaven, you can bring one album with you to play to all the other people up there when it’s your turn to DJ. What are you bringing?

Sparks - No.1 Song In Heaven

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What’s the first album you remember hearing?
Neil Young - After the Goldrush

What’s the scariest album?
GYBE - F#A# (whilst not scary, the constant bleakness is like nothing else)

What album made you cry the most?
N/A

What album is generally seen as awful but you love it anyway?
Arcade Fire - Everything Now

What album did you love when you were younger but you listened to it recently and realised it wasn’t any good?
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By The Way (not listened recently recently, but it’s pretty shit)

What album means a lot to you, not because of its quality, but more for the associations it has with a special memory?
QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf

What’s the sexiest album?
Air - Moon Safari

What album makes you laugh the most?
Cheekface - Emphatically No.

What album do you find most relatable?
Martha - Blisters in the Pit of My Heart

What is objectively the best album ever made? Not your favourite album, but the one you’d play to an alien who wanted to know what music was
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On

What album could you listen to again and again and never get bored of?
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

If you’re allowed in to heaven, you can bring one album with you to play to all the other people up there when it’s your turn to DJ. What are you bringing?
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection

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What’s the first album you remember hearing?

The first album I listened to and engaged with as an album (rather than something my parents put on in the car) would be Be here Now by Oasis. Though when I was really young my mum had a record of the Planets by Holst that I used to love.

What’s the scariest album?

Cw - known abuser of women

I still have to say Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson was the album that scared me the most, but also fascinated me in equal measure. It was the first time I ever heard anything so dark and strange (when I was 13) and was a life changing moment.

What album made you cry the most?

Music doesn’t really make me cry, but Fevers and Mirrors by bright eyes was my depression album for a long time and the one I’d turn to when down in a hole of immeasurable sadness.

What album is generally seen as awful but you love it anyway?

Probably something by Insane Clown Posse, let’s just say the amazing jeckel brothers.

What album did you love when you were younger but you listened to it recently and realised it wasn’t any good?

Darkest Days by Stabbing Westward. Used to play it a lot but recently found it unlistenable…

What album means a lot to you, not because of its quality, but more for the associations it has with a special memory?

Muse -Black holes and revelations. I saw them play Leeds on that album tour and got together with my first serious girlfriend that weekend and watched them play in the pairing rain huddled close together. It was a genuinely lovely moment.

What’s the sexiest album?

Probably something by Insane Clown Posse, let’s just say the amazing jeckel brothers.

What album makes you laugh the most?

John Grant can always make me chuckle so ill just go with the Queen of Denmark.

What album do you find most relatable?

Probably also John Grant, Pale Green Ghosts.

What is objectively the best album ever made? Not your favourite album, but the one you’d play to an alien who wanted to know what music was

Probably something by Insane Clown Posse, let’s just say the amazing jeckel brothers.

What album could you listen to again and again and never get bored of?

System of a down’s self titled debut.

If you’re allowed in to heaven, you can bring one album with you to play to all the other people up there when it’s your turn to DJ. What are you bringing?

Girl Talk - Feed the animals. My absolute go to when handed the aux at a party*.

*Nobody ever hands me the aux at a party.

Is “hand me the aux” even still a thing now that apple removed the cable input?

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Your Wilderness is a great album by a great band and not one I expected to see mentioned here :slight_smile: