Mind-Blowing Albums

[siperwrx]

Inspired by http://traversingboard.com/showthread.php?t=4664.
This is different from "Top albums of the decade" thread because I want to know what albums changed your lives (i.e. dramatically altered your perspectives.) I don't want generic "really great albums." I want ones you don't think you could live without. Limit to 5 within the 2000's era. Any genre (except rap...just kidding. but not really.)

1. Deftones - "White Pony"
2. dredg - "El Cielo"
3. Karnivool - "Themata"
4. Killswitch Engage - "Alive or Just Breathing"
5. Tie between Lamb of God "Ashes of the Wake" and Sigur Ros "Heim"
--I can do that because I started the thread.

I'm mainly doing this because I'm tired of what's coming out these days and want to dig into some stuff I may have missed over the years. If anyone can find me some songs like Nahemah - Subterranean Airports, I'd love you forever.

[cribble]

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Anything by Talk Talk. Especially Laughing Stock and Spirit of Eden; absolute master pieces.

[David]

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Washed Out's Life of Leisure EP. Normally most of the stuff recommended via Pitchfork is hipster garbage, but this EP is disarmingly brilliant. It's nostalgic electronic music done right.

Also, Letting Up Despite Great Faults's eponymous album.

[kata rokkar]

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Washed Out's Life of Leisure EP. Normally most of the stuff recommended via Pitchfork is hipster garbage, but this EP is disarmingly brilliant. It's nostalgic electronic music done right.

Also, Letting Up Despite Great Faults's eponymous album.

Yeah, a lot of people are dismissing the chillwave movement right now but I love it. Listening to Toro Y Moi at night sets the mood just right.

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Arcade Fire - Funeral: It still makes me emotional every time I listen to it. Everything about this album speaks to me with charm and innocence.

Bjork - Homogenic: The first real album I bought from her catalogue. The amount of genius and originality in this album is too much to bear.

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall: The album that started it all. I blame this record for my obsession with music and performance altogether.

[SoundscapeMN]

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[Frank Nit]

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Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
Metallica - The Black Album
Bone Thugz-n-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
Makaveli - The Don Killuminati...The 7 Day Theory
Deftones - Around the Fur
Deftones - White Pony
dredg - El Cielo
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Sole - Selling Live Water
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this is in chronological order. so i guess 2003 was about the last time my perspective on music changed, at least as far as outside influences go. i grew up on my parents' beatles, jimi, pink floyd, etc. albums and i started rebelling against that stuff around the age of 10. i wish i could say those classic rock records blew my mind, but it's kind of where music started for me so i can't really say it changed my life when it was always a part of it. even during my adolescence when i was rebelling against it, i kind of always secretly admired it. so as you can see, i started out with the polar opposites in my youngest years while eventually coming full-circle to "modern rock's version of pink floyd" (remember those comparisons?), then again back to rap. there are definitely albums i like more than the ones in my list, but these are the ones that literally changed my life, and i'm not going to come up with some revisionist history just because i like some things more now. i really don't listen to any of those albums in that list more than once a year (likely less), save for bone thugs because it's great driving music. i honestly listen to colbie caillait more than deftones at this point in my life, but i can't say that her music is changing my life. i guess i'm just trying to say that i don't see my mind being blown by a record again. i hope i'm wrong.

[dsv]

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Would love to chime in on this but...AAHHH!!

[siperwrx]

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Great suggestions, keep 'em coming. I wish we could move this to the "dredg" topic forum considering nobody posts anything interesting there anymore.

[dsv]

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Def Leppard's "Hysteria" would've been the first album to blow my mind but I was so young at the time that I really didn't have a mind to be blown yet.

[siperwrx]

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I think Aerosmith's "Get a Grip" was my first blown-mind sans fully-developed mind album.

[Zenjiro]

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Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
Metallica - The Black Album
Bone Thugz-n-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
Makaveli - The Don Killuminati...The 7 Day Theory
Deftones - Around the Fur
Deftones - White Pony
dredg - El Cielo
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Sole - Selling Live Water
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this is in chronological order. so i guess 2003 was about the last time my perspective on music changed, at least as far as outside influences go. i grew up on my parents' beatles, jimi, pink floyd, etc. albums and i started rebelling against that stuff around the age of 10. i wish i could say those classic rock records blew my mind, but it's kind of where music started for me so i can't really say it changed my life when it was always a part of it. even during my adolescence when i was rebelling against it, i kind of always secretly admired it. so as you can see, i started out with the polar opposites in my youngest years while eventually coming full-circle to "modern rock's version of pink floyd" (remember those comparisons?), then again back to rap. there are definitely albums i like more than the ones in my list, but these are the ones that literally changed my life, and i'm not going to come up with some revisionist history just because i like some things more now. i really don't listen to any of those albums in that list more than once a year (likely less), save for bone thugs because it's great driving music. i honestly listen to colbie caillait more than deftones at this point in my life, but i can't say that her music is changing my life. i guess i'm just trying to say that i don't see my mind being blown by a record again. i hope i'm wrong.

this list is pretty terrible...seriously consider picking up some real hip hop your mind will be blown for real

[Kyte30351]

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No particular order, and a little drunk so this might go on for a bit...
Facing New York - Get Hot (while I love their previous efforts, this album just blew my mind and resonated with me perfectly)
dredg - El Cielo (had heard Leitmotif but at the time it just did nothing for me, then the industry demos and the leak came and I was forever changed)
Sans Seraph - After the Rain
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun (wasn't the first record of theirs I had heard, but one of my favorites at this point)
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (one of the first full albums I ever listened too, and while I grew up with their music and others from the 50s-late 70s it has always stuck with me)
The Black Crowes - Three Snakes and One Charm (again not the first record I had heard from them, but just got me so good)
Boom Boom Satellites - Photon
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (I could probably just say all of their albums, but "Naive Melody" is just about the most beautiful song ever written in my opinion)
Juno Reactor - Beyond the Infinite (made me realize electronic style music could really kick ass)
Paulson - All At Once
The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
The Mayan Factor - 44
The Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1 (grew up on the album as a kid, but didn't rediscover it until the rerelease, just awesomeness in audio form)
Typhoon Ferri - Detergency

[AnewKINDofFEELING]

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Rush - Hemispheres (I was lucky to be blown away at a very young age by this one)
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Hum - Downward is Heavenward
Blind Melon - Soup
King Crimson - Discipline
Porcupine Tree - Signify
dredg - El Cielo
Mew - Frengers
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Cat Power - You Are Free
Day One Symphony - A Vicious Circle
Pink Floyd - Animals
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?
Emily Wells - The Symphonies: Dreams Memories & Parties
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!

That's a good start

[theis]

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Hum - Downward is Heavenward
Blind Melon - Soup
King Crimson - Discipline
Pink Floyd - Animals
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?

Great picks.

[AnewKINDofFEELING]

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dredg - El Cielo
Mew - Frengers
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Cat Power - You Are Free
Day One Symphony - A Vicious Circle
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?
Emily Wells - The Symphonies: Dreams Memories & Parties
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!

That's a good start

I can't limit it to 5, but those are the ones from the last decade.