Daily Outfit -- 19th February 2009
[ 19 February 2009 ]
Purple wool hat (itchy!)
Necklace by Aroha Silhouettes
Royal blue racerbank tank dress from American Apparel
Sequinned hooded jacket from Forever 21
Pyramid stud belt
Stockings & suspenders (I didn’t take a picture of me lifting my skirt this time, that would make it 3 days in a row & you know… I might get accused of being an attention seeker! HAHA! You’ll just have to take my word for it!)
Guess platform mary janes
Ye olde watch & bracelet assortment
GOOD NEWS! You can win the necklace I’m wearing! (Well, not this exact one. That might be kind of weird.) My friend Tania recently founded Aroha Silhouettes, a jewellery company which recycles old vinyl records to make fabulous pieces. Clever, huh? She wants to give away a necklace each to FIVE lucky nonpareils — you even get to choose which one you want!
To be in for your chance to win, just tell us what your favourite album is & why!
One of my all-time favourites is Disintegration by The Cure, especially on vinyl, played on a rainy day. It’s perfect from start to finish! So… how about you? You have 48 hours to enter, & winners will be notified via email!
P.S. Hey, remember this day last year?!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Now I’m off to listen to it!
my dad has this huuuuge record collection, and each christmas (even though i’m 19 now!) we put on sesame streets christmas. it’s soo silly, but it’s full of memories from when i was little. i love it!
my favorite part is during the 12 days of christmas, when cookie monster belts out “AND ONE DELICIOUS COOKIE” it’s absolutely hilarious.
it’s beginnning to sound a bit wonky at times because its so so old, but i hope it never completely ruins.
My favourite album is Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous”. The reason for this is that when I first got into his stuff, I was quite young (10ish) and easily amazed by things. And so while I loved the kind and caring music he did, as well as the old rock & R ‘n’ B hits, the courageous and darker stuff featured on Dangerous really facinated me. There was sex and betrayal and cool attitudes. All of that, plus the range of different musical styles featured on the album (hiphop, rock, ballads and pop) just clinched it for me.
if we wanted to send you unsolicited goodies that we made because we thought you might like them, how might we go about that?
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The Blue Man Group – How to be a Megastar
Just the title does it all for me….How to be a Megastar!! It is my fav because it just reminds me of everything my other half and I have done over the past 3 years and what we have accomplished together. It also reminds me of my holiday to Florida last year and the one coming up this year too!!
I cannot help but jump around and dance and sing to the songs, its just all about movement and having a great time!! Which to me is all that the Blue Man Group stand for!!
The darker songs on the album, give me a chance to reflect upon things, on how my life is going and how I feel, it also lets me vent!!
Alicia – Sea of Ghosts — Aww! Well, I’m leaving the country in less than a week so it’s not the best timing. Want to ask me again when I get back to the States? I’ll have a more permanent address then :>
My parents used to have a lot of vinyl playing when i was growing up, and my favourite was always the Beatles’ White Album. I was always asking dad to put on “helter skelter” for me :)
DEFINITELY, Madonna`s “True Blue”. The cover, the songs, the era…and mainly because it was my first album ever. I memorized the words before I even knew English. La isla bonita chorus went something like…
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had no clue what it was saying. but it all made sense later on.
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Gilberto Gil, Kaya N’Gan Daya. Perfect Brazilian reggae!! I named my dog Kaya after the album.
p.s.
I really love your outfit and poses from last year, very space age pimpin!!
I was about to comment on how great the necklace was, when I saw the giveaway!
My favourite album is probably The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers. It’s definitely one people either love or hate, but the harrowing stories behind some of the songs (themes on the album include the Holocaust, anorexia, Thai prostitution and international politics) inspired me to read and learn a lot about things I may not have learned so much about otherwise, and I met a lot of my best and closest friends through Manics fan-dom!
Hmm..
The Boys Like Girls debut album!
it’s really awesome, and its something you can groove to! :D haha
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde is perfect—the photo of him on the cover, the tracklist, the lyrics, his ideal of “that thin wild mercury sound”...it’s fantastic. And Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is the greatest closing track of all time.
Switchfoot – Beautiful Letdown
I think because it is one of the last ‘albums’ I ever listened to in full. Now I only own one or two songs:(
I got it for Christmas my sophomore year, I think. I listened to it over and over. I got it out the other day and could still sing all the songs and definitely knew which one was coming next before it even started!
The songs meant a lot to me at that time in my life and the memories that jump out of their hiding places while listening to them make me squeal!
At the moment I’m listening to
Ani Difranco’s Official Bootleg Series Sampler
all the time. I like it very much, the way she sings and talks to the audience is perfect and on some points of it I just have to get up and move, preferably with a hula hoop!
Ah favourites are always difficult to pick out but, I think it would have to be Iggy & The Stooges – Raw Power. I may have mentioned during the icing days of christmas, it’s just, whenever I listen to that damn album it manages to get me all, hot & bothered ahem..! One of the most incendiary albums I’ve ever heard & I love it!
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My favortie is definitly The Beatles “Beatles for Sale”. All the songs make me thik of building birdhouses with my grandpa ( who died in 2006), living on a farm, digging tunnels in the huge snow piles, and making blanket forts with my brothers and sister before they hit puberty. I had so many adventures with that album playing in the background, and if we had to come home, my dad would stop the album as a signal. I loved living in the country. :)
As a dyed-in-the-wool Durannie (probably dating myself as well!), I would have to say my fave album is the first Duran Duran album. I used to listen to it on vinyl and cassette constantly when I was a teenager, and listening to it now makes me think of the cloudy gray days in California when my now-boyfriend used to walk me home from school when we were little kids. I love every song on that album. A close second is Faith by The Cure, which also evokes memories of gorgeous cloudy days.
I was going to comment on that necklace before I even read that they were being given away. I just can’t stop looking at it.
And this might be really corny/silly, but the “albums” I listen to and love the most are CDs that people have made for me, specifically one my boyfriend made me one day before I was taking a long drive by myself. it was completely random and his purpose in choosing the songs was to entertain me on my drive alone. it was so funny to go from a sweet love song to a spice girls song then to a song I could really rock out to… I really loved it and I still do!
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie. It’s like my ultimate perfect record…and it has such a stunning title anyway ;)
Patti Smith – Horses.
I searched for literally YEARS to find this on vinyl, and then in July last year I finally found it and it was pretty much one of the happiest purchases I ever made, raving to the old guy that owned the record store about Patti, and how amazing she is.
I took it home, put it on the record player and jumped around my lounge room, flinging myself on the couch, rolling around on the floor and dancing like a complete lunatic.
It’s my favourite because, for a debut album it is an amazing achievement. Her cover of Gloria and the song ‘Land’ is my favourite song of all time, a 9 minute epic in three parts that never fails to make me dance.
My second is definitely ‘Takk…’ by Sigur Rós. I own this on vinyl as well, and ‘Saeglopur’ with the richness of an analog medium never fails to make me cry.
i love tori amos’ “scarlet’s walk” because it’s a journey across america and i can listen to the entire thing all the way through over and over again. it has a little bit of everything, i think.
I’m on this ridiculous ‘The Bends’ kick right now. No one should find Radiohead uplifting, but it’s great for stalking across campus – Ray Bans on, coat billowing and having a good think.
That and ‘You Could Have It So Much Better’ by Franz Ferdinand. It is by no means perfect, but it a) contains my favourite song and b) was released six days before my sixteenth birthday and I was in love with the band and was becoming really happy.
Love the dress from last year!
That necklace is amazing! I want the eclipse shaped one! Such great ideas. You find the most awesome things on etsy, I suck at etsy seraches.
And the purple hat is so cute. It does look itchy though, don’t you hate that?
“Come On: Feel the Illinoise” by Sufjan Stevens. I’m not even from Illinois! It whispers of corn fields and corrupt politicians! Speaks to me of Abraham Lincoln and rivers long and wide! Something so catagorically American! A chip in the block of history! And those gathering strings! The haunting voice! The song names! “Decatur, or Round of Applause for Your Stepmom”! “For Mary Todd, Who Went Crazy, But For a Very Good Reason”! “The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!” E-gasp!
“Take Off Your Pants and Jacket”, by Blink 182
Whenever I’m listening to it, I feel like I’m back in high school again.
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
This was actually my mom’s favorite album when SHE was growing up, so I’ve been listening to this since I was in utero, I guess. It’s one of maybe three or four albums I know every single word to every single song, but the only one that makes me think of my mom whenever I hear it. My best friend and I are seeing them when they come to NYC next month, and I can’t wait to call my mom during “Don’t Stop”!
Without a doubt my favorite is “The Monkees” I would play it non stop when I was little and I loved it. when I moved from the US to Spain, it got lost in transit… And I’ve never been able to get another copy
My favorite album is probably scream (‘78) by sioxsie and the banshees. Its dreamy, it captures the feeling of an era, siouxsie’s voice is awesome, the lyrics are abstract so they either make you think, make you laugh, or you can project your own life experiences on them or the mood in which they’re sung.
Ok, firstly, I love the new phto layout with the polaroid thing. Very cool.
Secondly, love the outfit. I am determined to remix my terribly bland wardrobe this year.
Thirdly, my favourite album in the universe is OK Computer by Radiohead, especially when you’re gettin’ down in a Mustang with a beautiful boy who spent the last hour telling you all about the ditry poem he’s doing a uni thesis on.
Fourthly, I was wondering if you might be able to help me out with a camera problem. I got a Sony A300 DSLR for Christmas, and I am wanting to buy a tripod to go with it- but I have no idea where to start. Any ideas?
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The Beatles ‘1’ – Don’t know why, it just ‘sings to me’
mmm :)
hmm this is hard. either pulp – different class or the smiths queen is dead! or maybe a bright eyes album…gosh i can’t decide!
Light Grenades by Incubus,
I’ve been playing that album regularly for over 2 years and it never gets old, it is SO good!
Hmm, probably “Stunt” by the Barenaked Ladies, because it was the first album I ever became completly obsessed with. ♥
I love your outfit! You pair colors so amazingly great :)
Mh…my favorite Album is probably the Soundtrack of the Amélie movie. I love listening to it because it just fits to any situation. It makes me happier when I am already happy, cheers me up when I am sad. It is perfect for rainy days as well as sunny days. I also connect it to the move (duh!) which is one of my all time favorites. I guess Amélie is one of my heroines, taking pleasures in the little things in life that seem so unimportant to many. I think more people should be like her!
Kanye West, Graduation. ALWAYS pumps me up and puts me into a good mood!
Hands down (for me) is David Bowie’s ‘(The Rise and Fall of) Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’ album.
I remember being young and listening to my parents old record and loving ‘Starman’:
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks hed blow our minds
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
Hes told us not to blow it
Cause he knows its all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
Oh! Lovely outfit, and no one would mind another picture of Gala lifting her skirt! :) hehe.
I think my favorite album has to be “Yourself or Someone Life You” by Matchbox 20. I used to listen to it all the time years ago when trying to fall asleep, then recently rediscovered it after Rob Thomas’s solo album came out. Great songs, that I never get tired of listening to!
Love the outfit the blue looks absolutely stunning with your pink hair!
Mmh fave album..
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to tell
I remember buying the singles of this album on 7” just because i loved the cover-artwork. This album is just pure raw kick-assin love, every girl should own it.
I know it is a more recent one, but Jason Mraz’s We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. is phenomenal! I started listening to it obsessively when I was away from home for the first time in London, and used it to fall asleep to every night. Every song is mellow and calm and just beautiful. Even now after I’ve listened to it forever I still love every minute of it! And bonus points for actually seeing Jason Mraz crossing the street in London! Eeeeeee!
Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends.
Just the mood of this, and when I first heard it (17! Aww!) brings back so many memories of being on the cusp of adulthood & the relationships it reminds me of!
I’ll love it forever! And drunk TBS rockouts can’t be beat.
My favorite album right now is, hands down, “Boys and Girls in America” by The Hold Steady. The catchy, dancedancedance-able beats! The raw and risqué lyrics! The singer’s bare naked voice that sounds of sandpaper and hundred-year-old whiskey!
i dont listen to music much, mostly because i dont have my computer with me, and my ipods been dead for a few weeks. but my favorite album has to be the Across the Universe soundtrack. ive never heard beatles songs, but i love the songs revolution, i get along with the help of my friends, being for the benefit of mr. kite!, all my loving, among others. i need to hear the beatles in all their glory, now!
Loooove it, btw.
The Idiot – Iggy Pop.
this album gets me in the mood for drinking, yelling, dancing and swooning. As soon as I heard it I knew i would be an Iggy Pop fan for life. It was a sound i had never heard before, and one i haven’t heard (done properly) since. I’m off to grab my huge headphones and put on the disc, Gala!
I don’t know if I’ll have any luck being my birthday today (24 baby! thank you thank you!) but my favorite album is …. there’s way too many! I like music far too much to pick just one! But if i HAVE to I’ll say “Are you experienced?” by Jimi Hendrix ARGH Can it be the top 10? lol so hard! By the way, love your outfit as usual!
i hate to pick favorites and want to say something leonard cohen or radiohead because those are artists i can listen to nonstop. but the album i really owe a lot to is sleater kinney’s “dig me out”. i first heard this when i was a miserable little sadface in high school and it really picked me up out of that. those girls became great role models, especially since my mom had kind of took off when i was very young and my sister was at the age where hanging out with your younger sister is not cool. the women in sleater kinney were simultaneously feminine and incredibly strong which i admired. i don’t know if i would have been the same happy, charming, tough as nails, and girly person that i am today without having taken a listen to that album when i did
Such fun elements in this outfit. Sequins! Studs! Platforms! And I love the bright blue against your hair.
My favorite album has got to be John Vandeslice’s “Pixel Revolt.” Each song is tells a story that is as riveting as a well-made film, with rich characters, plot twists, the whole megillah. Plus that man can write a HOOK.
Being an old hippie,my favorite album is Janis Joplin’s Pearl. Its the first album I bought and I still have it.
The cover is like a work of art with a great picture of Janis on it. One of my paintings(a portrait of my parents from their wedding 6o years ago) was in a juried show hanging next to a full life painting of Joplin. I appreciate your free spirit and sense of self….
My favourite album is ‘Sleeping With Ghosts’ by Placebo. They are my favourite band, but there’s something extra special about this album. I love every single song.
my favorite album of all time is AIR’s soundtrack for the “the Virgin Suicides.” even though there are very few words, it’s everything i’ve ever said, thought, or felt. it’s like that album was written just for me
Oops! I forgot to give a reason.
The reason I love this album so much is that the songs are unbelievably beautiful. And they cover every mood. There are songs on this album which make me feel like dancing (which is odd, I never dance), songs which make me feel hopeful, songs which make me feel sad, songs which make me feel dreamy, and I never get tired of listening.
I’m currently in love with “Several Arrows Later” by Matt Pond PA.
Something about it makes me intensely happy inside.
oo h.a.r.d question!
Well, one of my favs is ‘Undiscovered’ by James Morrison.
I can’t get over his voice!!
For me, it’d have to be Old World Underground, Where are You Now? by Metric because I can listen to it any day, any time and I feel like dancing. They’re my favourite band of all time & I love love love Emily Haines!
Ash Wednesday by Elvis Perkins. This is one of the most beautiful albums I’ve ever heard. From start to finish, every song is perfect. If this was the only record I could listen to for the rest of my life, I’d be content.
Virgin Prunes …If I Die, I Die
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Every track gets me pumped or makes me think of having the weirdest circus themed party yet!
My favorite album of all time is Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All. It’s perfect from start to finish. It energizes me, it reminds me of some awesome memories, and I can sing along to all the guitar solos (which I do, often). It’s something that I could listen to during any mood and be satisfied.
1995’s “Dear You” by Jawbreaker is without a doubt my favorite album. It succinctly blends Jawbreaker’s familiar punk rockery with Blakes ever poignant lyrics, sating my need for “emo” without actually crossing that line. Having undergone throat surgery shortly before recording the album, Blake’s voice is left raspier than usual, making the songs feel almost whispered and raw. I get chills just writing about it.
With songs like “I love you so much it’s killing us both” and “Jet black” (my personal favorite, I even have a tattoo in it’s honor; a black jet. Rather painfully ironic, I know, but I love it) the album carries itself fluidly from start to finish, and fourteen years later I am still completely in love with it.
“Surfacing” by Sarah McLachlan is hands down my favorite album, ever. I grew up listening to it on road trips with my mother, while cleaning the house, while getting ready in the morning…I love this album.
In fact, I think I’ll take a Gala-hint and go start my morning right with some “Surfacing” action, right this very second!!
Ciao :]
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Its a little cliche but listening to that record always makes me feel like dancing around the house (naked or in underwear seem to be the preferences) like a crazy person. There is something primal and yet fun and quirky about it. Each voice is amazing and the chorus together produce such an amazing sound. Not to mention the musicans on the tracks have some amazing skills that are lost amongest the technology of today. Its just a great album that I use to reconnect with ny inner 80’s hippie child.
Love that American Apparel dress!
It’s hard to choose what album is my absolute favorite, because it depends on my mood…but a really really good one that I listened to Non-stop for a good year was “Stripped” by Christina Aguilera. It got me through my first breakup and first time someone cheated on me (different guy). it was rough, but the whole strong lyrics with her ridiculous voice are a killer mix in this album. love love love it! :)
“The Look” by Roxette! I first heard it when I was about five years old and I loved it. Marie’s voice is gorgeous and their music is all about fun. ♥
awww, but i was enjoying the saucy skirt-lifting stockings and suspender shots! :p
as for favourite albums? i’m gonna pull a cliche and say that’s like asking a parent who their favourite child is. but weezer’s blue album has always held a special place in my heart, and i’d say it was probably my first favourite album. that was the album that made me realize in high school that i didn’t need to worry about fitting in, that i’m awesome just the way i am, and that there are other people out there with the same kinds of thoughts and feelings as me!
it’s nearly impossible for me to pick a favourite album, but for now i’ll go with Blue Bell Knoll by Cocteau Twins. it reminds me of being driven down the winding hills of coastal california, smelling the strawberry air through the slightest crack in the window. such a beautiful album to perfectly define such beautiful moments…
Have you heard Friendly Fires? I feel so young and scene for saying that their debut self-titled album is my favourite, but I haven’t ever heard anything so close to exactly how perfectly it captures my ears :> it’s totally mesmerising, and completely impossible to stop listening to.
Oooh fun, I was just staring at that necklace, haha!
One of my top all time favorites is Abbey Road by The Beatles. Every now and then I get this urge and just loop it continuously while I go about my day. Everything about it is perfect— it has the most wonderful blend of upbeat, relaxing, and sexy (I could listen to “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” all day). It’s so hard to pick a favorite Beatles album but that has to be it for me. ♥
Third Eye Blind’s self-titled album, which is flawless in my opinion. Best if played while driving on a summer day with the windows down. I recommend singing (or screaming) along to Semi-Charmed Life with the love of your life in the passenger’s seat :)
I have to say, the one album I always go back to is Alice in Chains Unplugged. I have completely moved away from 90s music (finally!) but that album still gives me chills.
Without doubt nor hesitation – “Thriller” by Michael Jackson.
Santa gave me this record when I was eight years old and it’s the first piece of vinyl I ever owned. I still have it, and I will probably die with it. After 25 years it still stands the test of time and everything about it is infallible – production, mastering, lyrics, and the way it never stops making me feel young, alive, and awed by the power this album has to put a smile on my face and a spring in my step, even on my bleakest of days. And to me, that is what music is all about.
Oh my goodness! My favorite album is most definitely Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
Very close seconds: The Beatles’ White Album, Sigur Ros’ (), and mewithoutYou’s Brother, Sister.
Third Eye Blind ftw! Childhood memories, aaaah… (:
But actually Pink Floyd – Echoes. Maybe too serious, but always supports the mood. No matter if I’m crying, laughing, dancing, jumping up-and-down, trying to sleep – Echoes is great!
Gala I seriously loove the Cure, I am crazy for Disentigration. It’s probably my favorite album, but since you already claimed it, I’ll go with Blooflowers. Try listening to them back to back!
Hunky Dory – David Bowie, hell yeah!
I would be a very happy girl should David Bowie ever decide to tour again. I saw him last time around & it was amazing. He has so much glam in his soul!
Tigermilk by Belle and Sebastian – also perfect from start to finish and sure to uplift my spirits and put a huge smile on my face.
My favorite album is Red by King Crimson. The entire album is perfect chaos and they are fathers of progressive rock!
THE books…they are from your soon to be hometown!! Its a cellist, Paul de Jong and Nick Zammamuto, found sound artist. They sample Ghandi in track 7, saying “and non participation in anything you believe is evil” I frickin love how playful, fun, romantic and edgy their music is. For albums, well: The Lemon of Pink. For necklaces: Divided.
thanks Gala. I have just become a fan and your words turn up in the most unusual ways during my day, thanks for the inspiration!!
natalia.
Youth Novels by Lykke Li and their Knocked up remix just envelop my heart and squeeze it!
Gran Turismo by the Cardigans….The sounds and the lyrics just drive me crazy, they are so good!
The only time I listen to a whole album is when I’m in the bath, it’s a toss up between A Day Without Rain by Enya or 19 by Adele. I love hopping in a bath with the Comforter from Lush and chilling out to one of those two. Especially if I’m home alone so I can sing along :)
As for the outfit, your hat may be itchy but it kicks ass! I’m a fiend for anything purple lol.
i think my favourite album that i actually have on record is probably u2’s the joshua tree. and not entirely because i love it so much, but, because it belonged to my father and i claimed it as mine recently. for myself, though, i’ll always love patrick wolf’s wind in the wires ;D
My favourite album is And the Glass Handed Kites by Mew. Beautifully written and mesmerising, you’ll have to listen to the album from start to finish to fully appreciate its dark splendour. The cover looks pretty dodge, but hey as they say, never judge a book/record by its cover… A masterpiece. :D
By the way, you look wonderful as always, Gala. :) Is it just me, but whenever I see a new photo of you your hair looks like it’s getting brighter and brighter? Hehe! Absolutely love it. How often do you touch up the colour?
My favorite album is Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. It’s so odd, and it tells so many stories. I especially love in the second track when it starts out, “I love you jesus chri-i-ist! Jesus christ I loooove you ye-e-es I dooooOOOOOOoooo!!” There is so much mental and sexual discovery, it’s really fascinating to listen to.
Love that outfit!
My favorite record is Doolittle by the Pixies. Partly because it’s one of the few albums I actually own on vinyl, but also because it is just fucking awesome. Every time I listen to it, I am reminded of what an amazing band they were. And there’s not a bad song on the album.
Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” is the one album I can always put in my record player and never get tired of. It’s the type of music that propels you into your car for a long, spontaneous drive to nowhere, windows down, singing along at the top of your lungs. It turns me into a happy girl who picks a flower to put behind her ear, or a girl who walks around in flowing dresses in the middle of winter. It makes me feel saucy and romantic at the same time, and when listening to it I want to put on a corset under that flowing, prim dress and woo all the cute boys I see. The album turns winter into spring, and makes me about burst with a feeling of newness that I can’t really describe!
marquee moon by television. it just makes me think of good times in the past.
slick dogs and ponies – louis xiv
i’ve found it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but i personally am in love with every single song! dance-along-able, sing-along-able, terribly addicting, fun and raunchy. i listen to it pretty much all the time and it only gets better with each play.
gorgeous outfit :)
My favourite album is def. the first one I ever bought at the age of 12- Destiny’s Child – Survivor. All the songs on there were great, I remember popping it into my cousins portable cd player and going wild dancing to all the songs. Independant Woman, Survivor, Bootylicious (ahem ahem)...but in the end it really inspired me to be strong woman!
If You’re Feeling Sinster by Belle & Sebastian, no question.
It is a beautiful album and every single song resonates. It’s quiet but powerful and the sentiments, of longing to be elsewhere, of kissing just for practice, of girls dreaming of horses and nostalgia and past and future and every little moment in between…and perfect as a whole and each individual track.
The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance. It is creepy and funny and dancey and dark and a whole bunch of opposites mixed into one. I have not much else like it in my music selection, and it just stands out, where somehow the songs make m e happy in the most twisted way. Every girly deserves to love her darker side.
No question, Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell. Because how could you not love and laugh at Meatloaf?? I dream of seeing him in concert…one day!
At Worst…The Best of Boy George and Culture Club by Boy George and Culture Club of course! It brings back memories and has a wide variety of music on one CD.
Regina Spektor: Soviet Kitsch.
I first saw this on vinyl in my summer roomate’s room. She was a lovely faery-like dancer friend of mine. We ended up collaborating on a dance to it. It was called “Maybe You Should Just Drink a Lot Less Coffee and Never Ever Watch the 10 ‘o’ Clock News” and we performed it as part of a summer dancefest in our front yard. So whenever I hear this record I think: summertime, dancing in grass with cute girls, saying the names of fruit in spaztic voices, and singing the lyrics over and over acapella in our living room till we knew ever word.
Favorite album is definitely Hunky Dory by David Bowie. It was my dad’s first Rock and Roll album, and mine too! He kept the tradition going. It has the most wonderful mix of glam, rock, and funky jazz that makes you just melt into the music.
My favorite album of the moment is Sleep’s Dopesmoker. It is hilarious and brutal and a one hour long track. I LOVE ITTTT.
My favorite album right now is Electric Arguments by the Firemen. The Firemen are made up of Paul McCartney and British music producer Youth. Youth takes a Girl Talk-esque approach to mixing McCartney’s songs, but really retains the melodic approach that influences all of McCartney’s work. It’s a beautiful album that really brings me to another place. It’s perfect for chilling out, meditating, yoga, or even having a coffee on a bench while watching the world go by. I think you’d really like it, Gala.
Graceland by Paul Simon! I love listening to Paul Simon’s voice and lyrics mixed with South African musical influences.
I think I’m going to have to settle with Deerhoof’s Runners Four. That album just makes me want to go outside and start my own parade. It makes everything I’m doing feel colorful and a little groovy.
I got this lovely, lovely album a few years ago for my birthday from a friend of my father’s that I’d met only once before. I immediately associate it with bright sunshine, pastel drawings on cement, and jumping in puddles.
My favorite album is Fabulous Muscles by Xiu Xiu. There is nothing better than brutal honesty in song form.
One of my favorite albums would have to be “Apologies to the Queen Mary” by Wolf Parade. They sound like chanting tribal Native Americans on crack. The whole album has such a good beat and sound to it and is perfect for summer road trips.
my favorite album is Tom Waits’ “Alice”. Its dark, intense, emotional, warm, sophisticate, playful, circus-y!, crazy, unlistenable for a few songs and soothing for all the rest. its a delicious album.
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Easy. “Howl” by Empires. Because it’s there to cheer me up when I feel down, and cheer me more when I’m already in the clouds. I think it’s the only album I can hear to non-stop without getting tired of. Just because all songs are different and special from one another, and still for some reason all my brain cells just nod along to any song, no matter the genre doesn’t fit my usual likings, they all agree it’s okay. It’s the perfect soundtrack for a road trip, or for cooking and dancing all troubles off.
Because it’s reconforting to know the band sent it themselves to me. That they packed it and put it in the mail for me to be able to listen to it the correct way.
You know an album is your ultimate favorite when you see it on your shelf and it just makes you smile.
My favorite album is Radiohead’s OK Computer. This album has been like a best friend to me ever since it came out. (It’s surprising to me that it’s 12 years old already! The sentiments and melodies seem as fresh and innovative as ever.) I’ve grown up with this album and it’s grown up with me; it’s stayed by my side when friends became enemies, when foreign countries became homes away from home, and when a dorky, outcast 7th grader became a confident and successful woman. :-)
Every time I come back to it, I find something new, whether it’s a guitar lick or a particularly inspiring collision of words—“collision” because each idea is full of momentum and forces its energy upon each other idea, like ideological fireworks.
Somewhat less poetically, I also put it on as loud as I can (until my neighbors complain) and play my violin along with it. The sound fills every square inch of available space and envelops me and my little instrument like a musical hug. And really, could you ask for anything better than a musical hug?
These necklaces are awesome!!
My favorite record of all time is Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea”. The album is EPIC and perfect in every way. I also always think of a certain boy whenever I listen to it, making it even better.
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“In Love and Death” by the Used.
It was my favourite at the peek of my emo phase and it’s still my favourite now.
It’s full of meaningful love songs and songs of haterd and spite.
I read somewhere that Bert McCracken wrote the whole album after the death of his ex-girlfriend who was carrying his child at the time and you can really feel what he was feeling as well as being able to put your own emotions on it.
Sounds cheesey and very emo-esque but the lyrics really do touch you like nothing I’ve ever heard before.
Broken Social Scene – You forgot it in People
because it plays to your heart
& melts your mind
and makes my eyes gleam.
We listen to the cure religiously at Robert Geller. For me, one of the few albums I can listen to front and back is Pheonix – Alphabetica and Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
my favorite album?
that is a REALLY hard question to answer but honestly the one album that I never get sick of- and have listened to on a consistent basis since i was 13 or so is
Weezer- Blue Album (s/t)
Its the perfect road trip album but its also something i can listen to while getting ready or while making dinner.
it has stood the test of time and it never fails to put me a good mood.
its not the best album to ever exist (nor are they even my favorite band!)- but its my favorite album because of its place in my life.
My favorite album is probably ANY of those old 80’s one’s. like anything by Loverboy. I used to buy them and collect them so I would have a cupboard full of crazy haircuts and amazing outifts! Sometimes I would even copy the outfits slightly but use my own flair to it.
As far as music goes, Tom Waits/Closing Time. It helps me when I’m sad or upset. It helps me fall asleep. I love it.
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The space theme is awesome and carries throughout the album without being ridiculous (well, only in a good way!) and it’s 70s Glam Rock with excessive glitter you can just hear in all the music. Plus it’s Bowie – how can you not like?!
I just La La Love you outfit!!!! The sequinned jacket makes me think of a mermaid. And the little wool hat is so adorable. Not to mention I admire you for being able to walk in those shoes, I am too much of a flat foot to be graceful in something like those. But who knows maybe one day right? Any ways, the shirt/dress is cute and makes your pink hair just pop right out and your blue eyes to. And I love the necklace missy! Another outfit that is oh so adorable! Congrats Gala!
I have so many. But I’ll go with the one that first popped into my head when you asked the question…
Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, by My Chemical Romance!
It’s one of those life altering albums that turned my world upsidedowm when I first got it as a sophmore in high school. And before anyone accuses me of being Emo, let me just say that I discovered MCR Loooooooong before they made it onto MTV or VH1, and long before anyone decided to label them “Emo”.
MCR were inspiring and creative and their second album (their first being, I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love, also one of my favorites) revitalized my love for music and even though it’s been four years since I got that cd and I don’t listen to it as much, it will always be the first one that pops into my head when asked, “what is your favorite cd?”
Best Album? Pulp’s “Different Class” is one of the few albums I can still put on and listen straight through without skipping a track.
Ahhh, I have been drooling over that beautiful stack of books for months!
A favourite on vinyl: Billy Joel – The Stranger.
Billy never fails to make me happy-nostalgic. As a cassette in my parents’ player or a record in a friend’s collection, he’s been in my life forever. Listening to Billy you can lie on the floor of a dark room and dream up whole worlds, or (and!) you can dance the night away on your balcony like a nerd!
He’s classic!
Born in the U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen. I love it. Not only fantastic music but my dad told me when I was a baby putting on this record was the only thing that would get me to settle down and sleep.
Gala, that outfit is darling!
My favorite album would be Interpol’s “Turn On the Bright Lights”. From the opener “Untitled” (which almost rivals the Cure’s long intros leading into a song but doesn’t come close) to the last song “Leif Erikson”, that album is perfect to write to while drinking a cup of coffee on a rainy day. It’s also a very cinematic album, you can’t help but imagine you’re in a movie when listening to it.
Hehe I certainly remember what a stir last year’s outfit caused!
I need to start hitting up AA though, that is a definite. Also, your pink hair and that bright blue is a great combination!
In An Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. I cannot express how amazing I find this album. It has an assortment of all instruments played on it, from bagpipes to musical saws. The lyrics are quirky and beautiful, sung in Jeff Magnum’s poignant voice. There’s a song about a two headed boy; there’s a song about Anne Frank. This album take me through the whole emotional spectrum it’s so powerful, but it’s the album I always play when I need cheering up because it’s that lovely.
I suppose that would be Room Noises by Eisley. I wasn’t very into music before that, and it was the first album that I fell totally in love with. All of my friends did as well, so I have all these wonderful memories of listening to it with them.
black holes and revelations by muse.
muse is truly and amazing band, both in terms of technicality and emotion. there is few in this world i would not give to watch them live. i live in the philippines and the chances of muse playing here are nil.
Love, Love, LOVE the royal blue. The AA racerback dress is one of my favorites, I have it in so many colors and now I know what my next one will be.
Oh i love that album by the Cure.
Infact i’m inclined to go with the Cure too. It’s a tough one. On vinyl i love to listen to Boys Don’t Cry but on CD Pornography. I love this band, they are timeless.
patti smith – horses
reminds me of happy times and happy people
Okay, firstly: that necklace is superamazingsexycool. You look like a robot – this is a good thing.
Secondly: right now, my favourite album is my old vinyl copy of Patrick Wolf’s Lycanthropy. It’s the sort of album that really suits the scratchy vinyl hiss (one of my favourite sounds!)and it’s such a raw, ripped from the heart record. It’s too open and true to be perfect, but the flaws have always made me love it more. Any record that makes you want to kick out at the world, strip off in the street, and run howling down the road has got to be a winner, right?
I bought Apocalyptica’s self titled album as a birthday gift to myself two years ago today! It’s good to practice self love right? And nothing says ‘I love you and appreciate you and I want to nurture your senses with unique and gorgeous music’ like Finnish cello metal. Apocalyptica was also utilized as an icebreaker to approach my boyfriend who was a notorious metal-head! It gave me the courage to meet the love of my life. It is truly the best gift I’ve ever received from myself! This is an amazing album that is saturated with a unique blend of metal and classic cello that is curiously calming yet invigorating at the same time.
So now I think I’ll go listen to it and reminisce while having a happy happy birthday!
the beach boys: pet sounds
the all encompassing greatest record of all time. the harmonies they do give me goosebumps. their use of out of the ordinary instruments (bike bells, dog whistles) to make something so beautiful is basically the motto of my life: creating beauty where no one else sees it, taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary, making something amazing from what someone else would consider a single-use object, twisting the ideas of function. plus, it’s the kind of music that makes your heart feel good.
It’s really hard to pick a favorite but since we’re talking vinyl I’ll pick my old standby for when the turntable is on. That would be Fly Like An Eagle by Steve Miller Band because all the songs are dreamy and the copy I have isn’t perfect so it lightly crackles.
Rufus Wainwright (his self-titled album).
The first chords play and every time I know I will listen to it the entire way through. It is just right when you are in love, it is perfect when you are out of love, and I can sing every lyric.
It is impossible for me to choose a very favourite album, but one of the best has to be Jack’s Mannequin’s new album, The Glass Passenger. Not only is the sound incredible, but the tracks always help me to remember to perservere whatever the odds; Andrew McMahon, the frontman and ex-frontman of Something Corporate, has battled cancer and is still making fantastic music. The fact that he’s had such a massive obstacle and is still doing what he loves the most is a massive inspiration to me.
Those necklaces are adorable. So much fun!
My favourite album is Crowded House’s Recurring Dream. My brother gives me flack for owning so many “best of” compilations, but I don’t care! I never go on a road trip without this one. It’s got a great mix of songs to bop along with and more mellow ones. I could listen to Neil Finn all day, swoon.
U2-all that you can´t leave behind. It´s a lifesaver when I get up at 5 am to go to work, makes me feel very relaxed yet optimistic. Just what you need when working in a call center :)
Those necklaces and earrings are fantastic! Especially the stacks of books, so cool!
Favorite album: Girlfriend, by Matthew Sweet.
First off, the video for the title track is anime! Second, the title truck is pure fun and wonderful to dance/jump around to. Third, it was one of the first albums I bought for myself (I’m still awful about not buying albums and just sponging off everyone else), and it was sort of a statement of independence after a break-up, because my boyfriend would NOT have liked that music. It’s all about heartbreak and then falling in love again. I listened to it tons in college, and I still drop various tracks onto my iPod. The lyrics to “Does She Talk” are so handy to hurl at a guy who values outward appearances over substance: “She’s just your size, she’s sexy, she’s beautiful, does she talk?” And a darling photo of Tuesday Weld is the album cover! It’s like a perfect storm of stuff I love!
Easy – Vintage Michael Jackson “Off the Wall”. I love dancing around the house to it on a rainy day. It’s always guaranteed to lift my spirits and put me in a happy, hyped up mood. “Don’t stop till you get enough” is the money song.
I recently found it on vinyl too – that baby cost 50 cents!
SCORE!!!
Blondie – Parallel Lines: my ultimate happiness-inducing album
(*)Another Side of Bob Dylan(*) by (obviously) Bob Dylan. I absolutely adore this album. I was raised on Bob Dylan by my parents, and have excellent memories of running around the house with both of them and my brother, singing. As I got older it got better, and they took my brother and I to Dylan shows and introduced us to his whole collection. The reason that I’m able to pick this album as a clear favorite is because of 2 very important songs on it. The first is (_)To Ramona(_), which my mother played for me when I was going through a hard time in high school. Its essentially a song to tell you that the hard times will go by, and that you are beautiful and wonderful and the rest of the world just doesn’t get it. That song is the reason I was able to stay myself in high school, the reason I made it through a lot of years. The other song is (_)It Ain’t Me Babe(_), which taught me a lot about learning to find a relationship that actually worked me. I dated a lot of people who weren’t at all who I was looking for, but it took Bobby to wake me up to that.
It is the perfect album. Dylan is young and wonderful, his poetry is included, and the raw truth in his words in undeniable.
Bjork’s Medulla. The album is almost entirely a capella.
Human beat boxing, too! Nuff said.
Wow, I love listening to Disintegration when it rains, too!
Amazing.
Anyway, my favorite album would have to be.. The Man Who by Travis. I listened to it to help myself get through heart break in High School AND in College. Love the music, and the band is absolutely charming as hell. Scots do it best!
Actually, Walkie Talkie by Air is damn good. It’s just really delicious to listen to at any time of day to give your day a little bit of magic. Especially wonderful to listen to when driving in the car late at night! Trippyyy! Fun to swerve around and drive semi-recklessly to when there’s no one around :)
My all-time favourite (vinyl) album is The Velvet Underground’s “The Velvet Underground and Nico”. It is a perfect rainy Sunday afternoon album, great for listening to while lying on the floor reading comic books or for dancing/flailing around to.
Every single song is great, Lou Reed’s a punk rock maniac, Nico has the most amazing deep voice, and it gets MEGA bonus points for the Andy Warhol cover art.
<3! <3!
Can’s album titled Future Days. It was immediately striking, and has been an absolute favourite of mine since a few summers ago. It’s dreamy and ethereal, I always listen to it after a bad day. I was really happy to find a copy of it on vinyl on a trip to Berlin!!
my favourite album for the past 12 years has been sloan’s one chord to another! totally reminds me of being young and crazy and i dont know how to explain it but it sounds so canadian. it makes me happy.
too easy gala.
my favorite album. as in vinyl, as in there are people that still know what those are, is The Magic of ABBA.
it truly is magic.
Chiquida is my favorite song and it plays every day at work. It reminds me to refocus and calm down.
As i was listening to it yesterday my record player sketched out and now the turntable is spinning crooked
i am very sad about it :C
The Fame by Lady Gaga, I can’t listen to it enough! I think she’s fantastic!
Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. Cla-ssic.
and also Viva la Vida by coldplay, it’s quite amazing. too bad they’re sued!
Jason Mraz’s “A Jason Mraz Demonstration”.
Why?
Because it kicks so much ass.
And it’s all of his lesser know stuff (yeah, I am kind of a Mraz snob. Don’t judge me too harshly) that is just as amazing, brilliant, insightful and fun as his LPs, if not more so. And because it kicks so much ass.
my favorite album has to be Pocket Symphony by Air.
It is good from start to finish and very calming and relaxing.
its a tie b/t interpol’s turn on the bright lights b/c its so raw and amazing and breathtaking and theres just something so absolutely fantastic about it that i can’t put into words. and then the beatles white album b/c the beatles were my first true loves as a little girl and it doesn’t matter what my mood is b/c the white album (and really the whole beatles discography) will always be there for me.
yumm
My favorite ‘album’ is actually a complementary CD that came along with a book by my favorite author, John Connolly. The CD has some of the most beautiful, spooky music I’ve ever heard. Most of it’s alt country/neo folk. From the bright “When in Rome” (Nickel Creek) to the haunting “Ghost of the Girl in the Well” (Willard Grant Conspiracy) to the amazing lyrical “Still Waters”.
Quite aside from musically, the album will always hold a special place in my heart because it encouraged me to look at other genres apart from bubblegum pop; it was my gateway to Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Sufjan Stevens…and many others. It also taught me how to use music to help me with my own writing.
Also: Read John Connolloy’s books while you’re at it. A psychic detective, gay hitmen, with the right amount of reality to the supernatural. May not be quite your cup of tea, Gala, but anyone else who adores a good pulp-y detective story should enjoy them!
Wow. That’s some epic TL;DR right there.
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i’ve got to say… neveroddoreven, by a local band called theset. they play here about 2x year, and i go every time, buy something, and sing and dance along in the front row. they even know who i am… kind of (“the girl with the huge, gorgeous eyes!”) they are so incredible, and i am so proud of them, and i can listen to their full album all through, multiple times in a row.
My all time favourite is The Joshua Tree by U2 (which I can’t play on Winamp at the moment… cries) it was the music I was brought up on, my mum and I love u2.
My favorite album hands down is the Journey Greatest hits album. Cause you can never go wrong with Journey.
Choosing an all time favorite album is soooo difficult because I absolutely loooove music! There are always so many variables to consider like the weather, where I am in my life etc.
I do know that my absolutely favorite album for road trips is MURDER BALADS by NICK CAVE and the BADSEEDS!!! It’s a staple! Every time I listen to this album I transcend into some nether world filled with gunslingers, poker games, sultry lust, thunder and tumble weeds! And the line in Stagger Lee “I’ll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boys asshole” cracks me up every. single. time. I freakin’ l<3ve nick cave.
This might seem like I’m sucking up – but, seriously, Atmosphere – When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold. Firstly – best! title! ever! Secondly – it’s like a novel you can read with your eyes closed: perfect for bus trips and car journeys and otherwise unengaging adventures!
My favourite album is definitely U2’s “Pop”. U2 is my favourite band (they brought my best friend and I SO much closer through our love for them!) and this has so many different sides of their music. There’s dancey electronic songs, rock songs, AND really beautiful solemn songs on it too. It’s definitely one of their underrated albums.
Plus on the tour, they came out of a giant goddamn mirrorball lemon.
One of my favorite albums is actually fictional (but still so good!) – All About Lily Chou Chou is an independent Japanese film about a boy named Shinji who obsesses over the (fictional) Japanese singer Lily Chou-Chou. When the film released its soundtrack, it also released one of Lily Chou Chou’s albums (Kokyu) – and it’s totally amazing, all dreamy and evanescent.
This is a really hard question…my tastes vary so much!
I would have to say that, at this moment in time, I would have to declare a tie between Alanis Morrisette’s “Jagged Little Pill” and Fiona Apple’s “When the Pawn…” These are two of a select few albums that I can play in their entirety and not dislike a single song on them.
My favorite album…what comes to mind is My Chemical Romance’s “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge”. It was what I was constantly playing in my first year of high school and it just means SO so so much to me. I don’t care what anyone says or if anyone judges me based on it, but I can sing/dance/rock out to every song on that album and it always makes me feel better. It’s what started me on my journey into high school and now I’m leaving high school and I still love it to pieces — it’s one of the few albums I know that I can listen to all the way through and love EVERY song.
My true favorite album is The Ugly Organ by Cursive. Not only is it the first cd I ever went out and bought for myself, it’s a rollercoaster. It’s half rock-opera, half hymnal for the haunted. When I first picked it up, with it’s snaggle-toothed keyboard, I didn’t know what to expect but I bought it anyways. I listened to it until it cracked in half, and then I bought the green vinyl and hung it on the wall. All of Cursive’s music was instrumental to my teenage years, easing me out of high school at 14 and into college at 16, and The Ugly Organ was always somewhere I could go to be alone.
Certainly Pet Sounds [the Beach Boys] or, more recently, Viva la Vida [Coldplay]. Why? Because Pet Sounds doesn’t sound stereotypically Beach-Boy-ish and Viva la Vida wasn’t too stereotypically Coldplay-like either :) Yay for shaking it up a tad.
I f£%king love that necklace. Am I allowed to say f£%king here?
Fav album… Pendulum – Hold Your Colour. It took me a while to get into Pendulum, especially since they were always held up as ‘competition’ for Concord Dawn… thus fueling the traditional cross-tasman rivalry. I hang out with a lot of Australians here in the UK, and evenings partying and listening to ‘fasten your seatbelt’ are amazing memories. Years later, if I’m on a long drive, feeling a bit down or whatever, this is still the album I turn to. I also saw them close the main stage at 4am at Exit Festival in Serbia, danced so hard my boobs fell out of my strapless dress. LOVE IT!!!!!
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream.
Because every song on the album is utterly beautiful and it’s so calm and anf floaty and grungey and innocent and dirty all at the same time. My favourite song would have to be Mayonaise.
you can read minds i swear.
I love love love the cure but i might have to go with galore. it just holds alot of beautiful people and places in my mind. i can listen to that album for hours and hours. even my two year old daughter has caught on, i just have to put that cd on or play the ipod and she tells me “we are listening to the cure” ha!
second place would be blondie- parallel lines.
My old standby is Blonde on Blonde, BUT, I’ve recently become taken with Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures. Every single song on that album is good, and it has a wonderful uniformity to it, even if it’s all kind of dark.
Bright Eyes – Fevers and Mirrors.
I just can’t explain it. I used to listen to this album every.single.day…all.day.long (well, after school) when I was a senior in high school. Something about Oberst’s raspy voice paired with those ridiculously enchanting lyrics that are somehow drenched in both pain and hope just gives me the chills. It’s also an album you can grow with. It used to mean something completely different to me when I was a young, angsty teenager than it does now that I’m a more mature young woman. I seem to find more & more hope laced in the lyrics than I ever did in high school. Amazing!
I’m going to have to echo your Disintegration by The Cure. The opening of Plainsong makes me feel like I’m in love!
of all of the many many many albums i have, i’d have to say antony & the johnsons’ i am a bird now is constantly on repeat and will probably always be a favourite record of mine.
its so timeless and emotive, and moves me in ways that no other record i have does. antony’s voice fills me with a sort of calm and hope and love – which seems to be exactly what all music should do, but only this album really accomplishes for me. it defines a very particular time in my life, a struggle, and the ability to overcome.
& not to mention, it has one of the most stunning covers ever: images.uulyrics.com/cover/a/an…
i have to say, my favourite album of all time (at least right now!) is the forrest gump soundtrack because it’s timeless and it always makes me feel super happy jumpy dance-y. it’s fantastic!
Dead Letters by The Rasmus. This was one of the first albums that I bought (the very first was one of Aaron Carter’s in fourth grade. I had the biggest crush on him.), and it was when I was in eighth or ninth grade. When I discovered The Rasmus, the song I heard was “In the Shadows”: I’ve been watching/I’ve been waiting/In the shadows/For my time/I’ve been searching/I’ve been living/For tomorrows/All my life.
That song spoke to me so incredibly, and I needed music then probably more than I ever have. I was very young (thirteen, since it was probably early my freshman year of high school and I wouldn’t turn fourteen until March), and very alone, and I had only just realized that music was one of my passions. I felt clichely misunderstood and I was very shy, and middle school had been horrible on me. Music was, at the time, the only way I had of knowing there were people out there who felt the way I did, and the entire album struck those chords of loneliness and the love I was imagining someday finding.
The album came to me just when I needed it.
Oh Gala, I hate to be one of those folks that lurk around and only come out to comment when there’s an obvious benefit, yet I can’t help it. I hereby swear I’ll contribute more.
Right. So back on track, my favourite album is “Who Killed Amanda Palmer?”, by Amanda Palmer, of course. It has plenty of amazing piano-themed songs, and they are all catchy, with amazing lyrics.
I feel hopeful, heartbroken, and so ridiculously inspired whenever I hear the album.
Polka Dot Dot Dot – Love Letter to New Zealand
a group from washington that recently played in my current hometown of Davis, California. i had to buy their album after they performed.
there’s something great about small-town artists, because their performances are so personal and so are their albums. it’s not something that I could just pick up at any record store, and that’s what makes it special to me.
youtube their videos, it’s sensationaaaal
David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. Not only is the album art great, but it is one of those albums that just sounds better in vinyl. It’s definitely one of my prized possessions.
Plus, its Bowie. You can’t go wrong with that.
my favourite recordwould have to be the pushbike song….
reminds me of primary school and kindy hehe “riding along on my pushbike hunny a bicycle made for two” hahaha and all the crazy sounds in it….. mmm goood times
The best of the Pixies!!!! Tracks to live your life to: Wave of Mutilation , Hey (my 1# song !!!), Caribou, Nimrods Son and Bone Machine. Amaaaaaaazzzzzinnnnggg!!
Wow, that is one cute necklace! I’m a bit of a maths nerd and love geometric patterns and optical illusions. :-)
An album I pull out again and again is Daisies of the Galaxy by the Eels. E’s albums are always deliciously dark with a dash of hope, but this one also has eerie elements of child’s play and some surprisingly danceable pop.
Neutral Milk Hotels ‘in a aeroplane over the sea’ album.
When I first heard this album in was the soundtrack to my winter. It speaks to me in volumes, I never thought music could reach. Each year apon the first snow, I pull it out and play it religiously til spring comes and melts it all away!
OK Computer by Radiohead.
um…because i lost my virginity with that playing in the backround! ha ha. it wasn’t as depressing a moment as you’d think it would be, despite the Radiohead soundtrack :)
My favourite album, of all time, hands down, no competition, is “Almost Here”, by The Academy Is… It is seriously the only album in my collection that I can listen to all the way through without skipping a song. The songs are all beautifully crafted, the vocals are great (I want to marry William Beckett’s voice… Or y’know, just marry him).
I listen to this album when I’m sad, bored, happy, doing homework, dancing, trying to fall asleep… It’s been part of my life for more than four years (which is actually a substantial portion of my life), and the most important thing it’s done for me is kickstart my obsession with music. After seeing how fantastic one album could be, I started exploring other genres and bands and eventually it grew into the collection I have today. If you haven’t already, I definitely suggest you check it out.
My fav album would definitly have to be frogstomp by silverchair, it was the first non ‘pop’ and secondhand album i ever bought. and it was the start of something beautiful for me.
the album is to the point, full of innocence yet could not be full of more wise words. all from a group of 15 year olds. amazing
i’m going to say that my favorite album is going to be save the last dance the soundtrack. it may not be my most favorite album right now but it is definitely the one that i will remember forever. i absolutely loved for like 5 years after i got it. i can listen to it from start to finish. it will always just stand out for me because it was the first album that ever made me really get into music. it’s super good to dance to too. =)
my favorite album (going back to when i was about 3 or 4 years old!) is michael jackson’s “thriller”. i would put that record on when i was very little and i would dance my heart out with my neighbor day after day…after day…... whew! it is so funny thinking back on it! thanks for making me laugh today! every time i hear any of those songs, i just want to dance and i am not quite sure why! my mom was big into blues and classic rock so i am sure she’d preferred if i’d chosen something like b.b. king or something! however, i am a rolling stones freak—obsessed—so i have to say any stones records are killer as well! i just don’t remember dancing until i collapsed listening to them! i WILL inherit her stones records one day—my favorite (aesthetically, as she’s got them framed) is “their satanic majesties request”. but i do love their bluesy stuff!
thanks for the run down memory lane!
‘Ella and Basie! Sunny Side of the Street’ by Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie. lol
I wish I could say something cooler, but I love this album. It feels like walking downtown on a summer day with a few friends.
I have the same dress. I am in love with it because it just gets so much mileage! Versatile in the most perfect way.
My favourite album would have to be Vampire Weekened’s self titled album. I know it’s an indie cliche to say this but I just love what they do with unusual instruments. Besides cape cod/ivy league reminiscing and African beats go so well together. It’s a very innovative album.
It’s so hard to choose one!
Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses. I’ve loved the energy of it since I was ten!
My honourable mentions would be Generation Terrorists by Manic Street Preachers, Hand Built by Robots by Newton Faulkner (he cheers me up so much!) and Takk by Sigur Ros.
That was hard! Please don’t make me choose a favourite book! ;)
Patrick Park’s “Everyone’s in Everyone” has been my favorite album since I discovered it a couple months ago. I love all the songs and the lyrics are just beautiful, specially “Life is a Song” and “Here We Are”.
Fave album has got to be Live Through This by Hole. It never ever gets old for me, and i love me some crazy ass Courtney. :OP
Hi!
Well one of my favourites its One Cell In The Sea, by A Fine Frenzy.
Alison Sudol’s voice it’s just delightful for everytime of the day!
Great outfit!
Definitely has to be my Dad’s original copy of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – so crazy, such awesome songs.
Plus when we play it Dad tells us about the time he saw the Beatles play live for free at his uni when they were just starting out – priceless!!!
One of my all time favourites (as I have many depending on mood) is the Soundtrack to My Best Friend’s Wedding. I know it isn’t a classic or anything, but it reminds me of when I was younger, and dancing with my mum to the songs, and just being blissfully happy.
My absolute favorite album would be Running On Empty from Jackson Brown. It’s soulful and full of rock. Plus if you look at the insert most of the songs were recorded in places like his hotel room at the Holiday Inn, a Greyhound bus, etc. You don’t get more authentic than that, honey.
One of my favorites is Better Than Ezra’s Closer.
1. I love all the songs (which almost never happens, there’s usually at least one on an album that I don’t love)
2. I can listen to it no matter what mood I’m in (which also almost never happens)
I think it’s probably Automatic for the people by R.E.M.
There are many albums I love, but this one…
it is probably the first album I really listenend just because I wanted to.
And it’s so perfect, so sad and still kinda comforting, with so many great songs in it. Favourite one has always been Try not to breathe, makes me cry in that good way that makes you feel good after is finished. SO cathartic.
(sorry for my bad english, I’m italian mothertongue :D)
Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy – Mindless Self Indulgence. I can always listen to this album, and it always gets me in the mood to party. They’re so crazy and un-pc.
It’s not an actuall record, but my favorite album has to be Marvins Marvelous Mechanical Museum by Tally Hall. Their sound is nice and different, and almost all of their songs make me instantly happy when I hear them. They actually started not to far away from where I live, and the name of their album is an actuall place. It’s a little arcade, and my friends and I go there a lot. But back on the album, it’s great and upbeat, and not all of the songs are about love and relationships, which is a great change to alot of the mainstream artists right now. They’re just so different, and that’s why I love them.
NIN – ghosts I-IV
somethings just sound good ?
Beatles, Beatles, Beatles!!!!
I can’t even pick out a favorite album because they are all ridiculously lovely and awesome and everything yummy in the world!
favorite album – How To Start a Fire by Further Seems Forever. This band went through 3 different singers, starting with Chris Carraba of Dashboard Confessional. How To Start A Fire was when they peaked (in my opinion) with lead singer Jason Gleason. His song writing is evocative and emotional, with his choice of words full of double meanings and very open to interpretation. The music is probably considered Rock/emo but it’s full of complex harmonies and chord progressions, inspired by jazz and classic rock. Even if there were no vocals I think I would still be in love with this album! Unfortunately the band only recorded one album with Jason, before replacing him with John Bunch (formerly of SenseField), who i think was a huge step down from Jason. Sadly, the band is no longer. But How To Start A Fire will very likely always be my favorite album!
My favorite album is The National — Alligator. It’s just so perfect, and one of the only albums I listen to as such. I saw someone refer to it somewhere as the soundtrack of 20-something life, and it’s true for me.
Oh oh oh! I hope I win :)
No Disguise – Casey Desmond
I received a free online download of this album.
She’s a local artist.
What a voice. Blows me away every time.
Perfect for every occasion.
Meaningful lyrics, sweet melodies, catchy riffs.
What more can you ask for.
12/12 A+
My favourite is Vulgar – Dir en Grey, because it’s violent and hardcore but in a really soft, beautiful, musical way. Listening to it makes me feel swept up in some magical, alternate universe where everything goes my way :]
My favorite album is “The Queen is Dead” by the Smiths. It’s rare that I find an album where I like every single song, but I definitely do on that one. And I think the lyrics are fantastic, and I can definitely relate to them.
“Call Me Irresponsible” by Michael Buble. His voice is truly amazing, and his covers of songs are breathtaking. They’re perfect for day of bumming around & relaxation, to cheer me up when I’m in a bit of a rut, or for a romantic date ;]. My favorite song is “Everything” & “Me & Mrs. Jones”...truly beautiful.
xoxo
Awwww, it’s the return of the itchy hat! :DD
I don’t buy albums much anymore, but I think my favorite is…Do You Feel, by The Rocket Summer.
My favorite album would have to be Hidden Vagenda by Kimya Dawson because its music that makes me think and feel. Like about everything and every emotion I know of, and not much makes me do that!
Sleeping with ghosts by placebo. Because it gives me a strange euphoric detachment that i love.
This is what home feels like: kicking up your feet on the dashboard, drawing invisible sine waves with your hand sticking out of the window, wind roaring— but not quite as loudly as the way my voice is bellowing to music, intertwined with my sweetheart’s.
2006 summer drives pretty much established my all time favorite album: Kevin Devine’s Make The Clocks Move. Yes, the music is good. Yes, KD is one talented, thoughtful fellow. But most of all, that album is the only one I’ve ever fallen in love to. That’s why it’s my favorite.
Love that purple hat! My favourite album is most definitely In Our Bedroom After the War by Stars. Amy Millan’s voice is like honey.
My favorite album changes all the time. Right now it is Davy by Coconut Records. I love it because I love all the songs. They are fun and all so different. I also like it because it shows how much Coconut records music has grown from his first album. It is just amazing.
norah jones’ “come away with me”
and
the shins’ “chutes too narrow”
(:
both just bring up tons of memories and I can listen to them over and over again.
Difficult!
Prog, by the Bad Plus. Fantastic Album.
all of the moffatts album. =D ahh yes i am one of those youngsters before who go gaga with those cute boybands. i wasn’t really particular with buying music albums before but when they came out in public i’m like, gather all my savings and buy their cd. their album “It’s a Wonderful World” was the first album i bought in my entire life. hahaha!
Abba Gold: Greatest hits always puts me in a good mood.
I love love love love LOVE Holiday In Rhode Island by the Softies. It’s so gentle & soothing, but at the same time it has these bluesy/jazzy edges that make it very groovy & lovely to listen to. It must always be listened to from start to finish, & is great accompaniment for sleeping, waking up, reading, rolling around on the floor, moaning for no reason, sipping chardonnay, etc. Yum!
Tenacious D’s Pick of Destiny. Yep Yep Yep… It’s a perfect soundtrack when I’m with my friends goofing off and not being serious. It’s so funny!
This is definitely an impossible question — have you never seen High Fidelity, Ms Darling?! “All time top five favourite records? In the club, or at home? OK tell you what… why don’t I just make you a tape?”
Basically I have about 50 all-time, never-get-bored-of-them, favourite albums… then I go through phases where I will listen to the same song from the same album over and over and over and then move on. Right this minute though I am completely obsessed with Jim Bianco’s album “Sing” — I saw him in a tiny, packed club in Edinburgh about this time last year and it was probably the best gig ever. Here’s the awesomest song from that album… sultry! + great video with burlesque tattooed lady. What’s not to love?: vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus…
xx
I think one of my favorite albums is probably No Doubt’s Rock Steady! It’s sexy & fun & chill all at once, and Gwen Stefani’s smooth voice is just so sultry. Love it, love it.
Another top favorite— The Glass Passenger, by Jack’s Mannequin. It’s a 2008 release and it totally knocked almost everything else off my favorites list. Andrew McMahon is just amazing, amazing, amazing! It’s seriously a brilliant album.
“Final Straw” by Snow Patrol
Before Grey’s Anatomy, before they were big in Aus, before the radio played them every second song, I was in London, sitting on the staircase in my very dodgy hostel because a French guy was seducing a drunk American girl in our dorm room and put this song on my walkman and was transported away somewhere else. And years later, listening to it still gives me goosebumps.
My ultimate stuck on a desert island with one album and a hand-crank gramaphone . . . or coconut radio or whatever I can use to play it is most definitely The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. David Bowie never gets old, and although I have many ‘favorite’ albums by new artists I always get tired of them, and so if I had to pick one to listen to over and over it would be Bowie. I had the good fortune to see him live 5 years ago. He played Ziggy Stardust as the encore, and it was . . . totally amazing.
Oh, and the 3-D cube optical illusion-esque necklaces are amazing as well.
My favorite album is Urban Hymns by the Verve. It’s full of the most beautiful, sad and bad ass songs about life shit but in the end the message is positive and beautiful. Every single song is fucking perfect but it features my top two favorite songs of all time: “This Time” and the well-known “Bitter Sweet Symphony”.
Mogwai – Mr. Beast
While it’s probably not one of their longest albums, it’s by far my favorite. Mr. Beast was the first Mogwai album I ever listened to and on the first track I was blown away.
Each of these songs take me somewhere, but not along for the ride, know what I mean? Some other bands in Mogwai’s genre of music SHOW me different places, which is wonderful, but Mogwai, specifically this album has songs that relate to me in such a way where I feel as though I am a part of the action and the noises and melodies are simply translating what I’m feeling. Whether those emotions are downcast or grand, the songs on this album for me are exquisite echoes.
Nine Inch Nails, “Year Zero” album, has to be my favorite right now. It’s just perfect for riding around the city at night on the train. Reflecting on life and all manner of notions that pop into my head.
Yo La Tengo’s “And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out.”
Whenever I listen to this album, I’m automatically transported back to the summer I fell in love for the first time. It’s uncanny how music does that, right? I taste tangerine popsicles, I feel his hand on my shoulder as we danced in the street, I smell wild flowers from bike rides to the prairie, all over again. It’s the most disconcertingly visceral thing.
In any case, the album’s sometimes strange, unconventionally melodic, disgustingly sentimental. I love it.
I think I’d probably have to go with Sufjan Steven’s “Come On! Feel The Illinoise!” for this one. The man can play everything, the album is full of oboe solos, and often his lyrics read like poetry.
And who can honestly dislike a guy who wears a pair of giant, glittery eagle wings and a scouts outfit on stage???
xx
because i cannot follow directions… here’s a FEW of my favorite albums right now :0)
for emma, forever ago — bon iver
greatest hits — journey (because… journey is great. and ideally you only need their greatest hits album anyway, right? right guys??)
astral weeks — van morrison
p.s. this is so cool, it’s still feb. 19 here but it says i’m posting “tomorrow.” it’s like having a conversation with my future self whoaaa.
sleater-kinney, the woods!
i am claiming this as my favorite because it’s currently in my car on repeat and i can’t actually pick a favorite. :)
this album is just….screamy goodness that reminds me how awesome i am
I’m fairly certain that my favorite is A Fine Frenzy’s “One Cell in the Sea.” I never get tired of it, her voice is gorgeous, and that girl can play a piano. And I follow her on Twitter, ha. Lyrically she’s very literary, which I totally appreciate too!
Hips and Makers by Kristin Hersh (1994)
I recently saw Throwing Muses (in which Kristin Hersh is the lead singer) and have been FANGIRL obsessed every since. My ipod is like a shrine to Kristin, she is a) the most awesome and inspiring woman alive b) an amazing lyricist c) a friggin fantastic singer and d) a very talented guitarist and musician. EPIC LOVE for her and it’s hard to choose a favourite album but this one is tops at the moment. “married a boxer to keep me from fighting / i married a brewer to keep me from drinking / we have hips and makers / they keep me dancing”
WIN
If I’m allowed to narrow it down to only vinyl, I’d have to go with Harry Nilsson’s, “The Point.”
It’s more of a story album but it has some good songs such as, “Me and My Arrow”, which I love. And overall, it’s just a really trippy and strange songstory of pointy-headed people. You should definitely check out the movie version- it’s narrated by Ringo!
Seabear’s The Ghost That Carried Us Away
Icelandic delight! I don’t even know how I discovered this band, but they’re so delicious that it doesn’t even matter. Okay I guess these are the best reasons I love them:
1) I can type their name with one hand (left) which makes it really easy to find them in itunes
2) Purrrfect for driving at night,
3) Leaving me full of dreamy sighs.
4) Two out of twelve songs have animals in their titles
5) The animals in question are owls and cats so A PLUS for Adorable!
Oh that’s a really hard question to answer but ill try..
Tools aenima its fantastic after a few too many red wines and a smoke, smoke…. ;0)
My favourite album is The Sound of White by Missy Higgins. It’s the only album I own that I can positively say I love every single song on!
My favorite album is Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette. I first had it on cassette tape when I was in 4th grade (right around the time it came out). It was one of the first cassettes I picked out for myself and the first one that wasn’t my mom’s style of music. On my 12th birthday my parents gave me a cd player and a copy of that album on cd. A couple years ago I loaned the cd to a “friend” and never saw it again. I just purchased it again on cd today and it still makes me smile.
It’s amazing to me that there could even be a cd that I liked when I was in 4th grade that wouldn’t make me cringe. Let alone a collection of music that still means a lot to me, even if the meaning has changed over the years. My favorite song is “Perfect” from that cd.
Awww Gala you look gorgeous! I want to win too :p The necklaces are pretty cool looking.
My favorite album is A Natural Disaster by Anathema.
It makes me cry haha, but is gooooooorgeous music, I really REALLY love it!! It helped go through some crisis in my life and it always reminds me of the good things inside…
besitos!
I loooooove Bloc Party’s latest album; ‘Intimacy’. I love every song on it and the album cover is hot!!! :P
this answer is ever changing! at the moment, the postal service’s “Give Up”. it’s so mellow, it makes whatever you’re doing seem like a scene from a movie. it’s perfect for trudging through snow or late night train rides or sipping cider on a park bench.
and i like the song lyrics a lot- my favorite line might be: “I’ll be the platform shoes and undo what heredity’s done to you/ You won’t have to strain to look into my eyes”
Kind of newer and obscurer :) but
New Surrender
by Anberlin
I love his voice, and the lyrics, and walking around the city listening to it and just watching nature go by (especially the birds flying home).
Hi Gala,
This is my first time commenting – and what better time than now about the music i love and in the year and month that i know is the most awesome! I wanted to thank you for always inspiring me. You’ve made 2009 seem so filled with magical possibilities!
Third Eye Blind – Third Eye Blind
I’ve never grown tired of this album since i first heard it when i was 14. Every song makes me feel something different! I’ve listened to it through my first break up. Through my secret late night conversations with cute boys, through happy crazy moments with my best friends and quiet times in my room.
Even now 11 years later, i still find myself reaching for their album at my most momentous moments.
There is a song in there for every event – To smile to, cry to, sing loudly along to and dance to!
Its just crazy awesome!
I have a tiny vynil collection but i dooo love it and expend it slowly.
My favorite on vynil is def. Tina Turner’s ‘Foreign Affair’. When i was a kid it nearly made me feel orgasmic when i saw the cover and heard the music. Insane, huh?
My favourite album..well it’s probably one that I recently found covered in dust and unidentifiable substances under my brothers bed when switching bedrooms with him…Michael Jackson’s HIStory! When I got that the first time it came out I was ten and I must have played that on repeat for about a year! It is still without a doubt just the best collection of perfect pop songs ever made. Then eventually it got lost and although I found the box and it contained disc 2 some years later, I never found (the far superior) disc 1 and I was gutted. So when I eventually found it in a very questionable state I literally didn’t breathe as I put it into the player to see if it worked..and it did! Of course I then couldn’t find the box at the time and it was too old a cd for the software to get any track data off, so I had to go through and identify each song from memory (easily done, I defy anyone to not know all of those songs or to have a favourite!)
Oh No by OK Go
It’s one of those albums that has different feel and sound for every song but each song still completely retains the sound identity of the band
My favourite album is ‘Like Drawing Blood’ by Gotye. He’s most famous for the song ‘Heart’s a Mess’ and I’m so stoked that an Australian artist has produced such a beautiful album!! Gotye’s work is an amazing mix of samples and his own vocals and each song sends shivers down my spine.
This incredible piece of work is the result of many hours spent hunched over a computer in various bedrooms around the place. You can’t listen to his music and not be affected.
Kira Kira’s album Our Map To The Monster Olympics.
It is deliciously whimsical, sometimes a wee bit creepy. Also, I cannot listen to it without feeling that I am back in Iceland, roadtripping in a janky little rental Honda and watching the sun rise in the interior.
Tough one. I have hard time deciding between the album that has affected me for years and years or the two albums that I’m currently very obsessed about.
Maybe I’ll go for the one I have a long history with and that would be Michael Jackson’s Dangerous. I got it when I was still very young. Back then I couldn’t see MTV at my home tv, but when ever I went to visit my grandparents, I sat my whole holiday in front of the TV watching MTV. Not understanding a lot about it but it was so cool and there were lots of MJ songs played.
Yeah, that’s my pic of my favorite album. But have to mention those two albums I’m currenty mad about. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You and The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing. Both are very happy albums that have saved MANY of my days lately. ♥
K’s Choice – Paradise In Me
The first album I owned, but kind of because of a mistake. My dad found it in his cd case after coming home from a 1 year work thingy abroad and he had no idea who’s it actually was. So I was allowed to have it.
All I knew was the artist’s name, there was nothing else on the cd. I listened to this cd a million time without knowing the actual names of the song. To be honest I still don’t know all the names.
It’s so lovely to see such a diverse love of music!
I agree with the Amelie Soundtrack vote, Yann Tiersen makes beautiful music.
My favourite album would have to be the John Mayer Trio’s ‘Try’. I liked Mayer’s music prior to this, but he really challenged the status quo with this album and introduced me to blues and soul artists that I’d never truly appreciated.
♥it’s the first album i ever owned – vinyl, age 8 ♥i can’t listen to it with out weeping ♥perfect, rain or shine ♥it reminds me of simpler times
♥it reminds me of my dad.Dammit i was gonna say Disintegration myself ;P.
I don’t think i could pick just one, and as much as i want to reach into the grunge of my teenage days i’ll go with the more recent ‘Walking with Strangers’ by the Birthday Massacre.
For pretty much all of 2008 and the latter part of 2007 i was obsessed with that album. It came out not long after a boy introduced me to the band, and when he and i were no longer (friends/lovers/whatever we were!) i had moved into my own flat, was living alone for the first time, and went two weeks without then net or a phone or tv. Just the computer, speakers and that album. I will always remember listening to it while getting ready for uni, while thinking about that boy, putting it on to cry, or to dance, or feel any one of the huge range of human emotions.
That album is one of those that will forever remind me of a person, of a time, of a place, and of myself. Of a pretty interesting, upsetting and wonderful year, of health problems, friend problems, exciting discoveries, deepening of great friendships and one of my bigger ‘inner journies’. So not only is it a record i still love despite having played over and over sometimes just it for days on end, it is a time capsule and a statement about who i was and who i am :-).
Sorry that was long! Always had that problem with uni essays too ;P.
eeek am I too late? I hope not – though
I’m going for ‘Live in Hyde Park’ by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, because there’s a story to it for me…I was right there for that concert, in 2004!
It was the first big gig I had ever been to. We got there, waited AGES, strategically positioned ourselves at the front of the queue, got rained upon…and then when the gates opened, we did a mad dash right across Hyde Park to get to the front, and I was one of the front runners. I felt like I was leading an army to battle – it was liberating! I was on the front railing, right in the centre, with 80,000 people behind me. Chicks on Speed opened and they were truly rubbish (they had a bad attitude and got booed and bottled off the stage), then the legendary James Brown played, he was awesome and I’m glad I got to see him live before he passed on. Then they made us waaaiit, and RHCP came on right as the sun was setting. I screamed so loud when Anthony got on the stage, I sang every word and took photos and screamed more and lost my voice and my fingernails turned blue from the cold and the staff wanted to pull me over the rails and take me to the medical place because they thought I was getting crushed – and I put up a fight when they tried to lift me out, so they left me alone :) I wasn’t leaving that railing for love nor money! and I sang and screamed and jumped about some more and felt the crowd behind me – and when we left I bought a huge T-shirt and bargained with some French (I think) guy for him to sell me his T-shirt as well because he had the one I wanted and they sold out. He did, he gave it to me right off his back, and I still have it :D And we went home looking like nothing on earth but high as kites…and literally passed out from exhaustion. Good times!
Eve 6 self titled album is my favortie. Everyone always knows at least one song of thereand they are all great to dance too!!
My favorite has to be Funeral by Arcade Fire. That album emotionally takes me where no other album has.
I’m only 19, so I don’t have nearly enough experience with vinyl. I am, however, fortunate enough to have hippies for parents! My all time favourite album on vinyl is easily The Who’s Tommy. When I was very young I wasn’t allowed to watch the movie because my parents thought it was a little too much for a child, but I could still listen to the album. I didn’t really understand any of the more adult themes, but I fell in love with the music. At six years old, I believe I could sing every word to that album, and did not understand what would be wrong with lyrics such as “I’m the gypsy, the acid queen…” or “Down with the bedclothes, up with the nightshirt! Fiddle about, fiddle about, fiddle about!”
Hope I’m in time to enter!
I usually hate it when people ask this type of question, i always say different things for different moods… but really it’s probably easy, the album i listen to probably everyday often more than once. Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer? It has only been out less than a year, but still… i think it will always be amongst my top few if it does loose rank at some point in the future, which it may not.
It has different types of songs, which is good, can suit more than one mood, and it’s just beautiful. and amazing. It can make me cry, and smile, and forget, and remember, and be, and dream, and think, and LOVE AMANDA PALMER, but that last one’s not hard.
x
I agree on Disintegration, also Through the looking glass by Siouxsie and the Banshees, this band was my lullaby as I grew up and everything they cover turns out better than the original! Great moods through the album and vinyl sound is just yummy!
Hey, your clothing colors match your tattoo. :D
The album? Breaking Benjamin- Phobia. The lyrics are a mix of romance and hate, and often times in the same breath. I don’t know the story between the songwriter and the woman, but whatever happened, all the emotion is packed into every song.
My favorite album is ‘Surfer Rosa’ by Pixies. I think the main appeal to me is that all if not most of the songs have some mention of sex. Every song has been my favorite at some point.
My favourite album is Oh, Inverted World by The Shins. I love this album because it reminds me of Atlanta. When I listen to it I’m purely happy.
Hearts On Fire by Cut Copy. On Vinyl. Played loud while flicking the lights.
Funeral by Arcade Fire.
It’s dreamy, gloomy, and gorgeous.
I don’t really have favorite albums – I’m one of those ones who always has their ipod on shuffle! I rarely listen to albums straight since… well, since before I had a computer with a CD burner so I could make my own mixes. So, a long time!
That said, one album which I’ve managed to listen to straight through lately in In Ear Park by Department of Eagles. It’s great background noise for doing boring things (making Italian flashcards, waiting for the train…), and the songs flow into each other quite well so that I often don’t even notice when one ends.
oh wow that’s an extremely hard question, though one of my all time favorites is definitely the brown album by orbital, it makes me want to explode and dance like a tornado :D
Excuse me, but did anyone else think that the girl in the MAC ad just crawled into a giant tulle ruffle, uh… female genitalia in that video?? I couldn’t have been the only one, surely! Honestly, Freud would have a field day with the art director :s
Recently I have been loving Bic Runga’s Beautiful Collision – our geek computer guy put me onto her and I am sooooo glad.
I love it because she sings about little things that are so familiar and yet she isn’t really singing about little things at all! She reminds me to love Now! Not wait for later to feel love for someone or to invent ways it might not work – but to just appreciate the love I have right now! I adore her voice too – so sweet and full of feeling.
Gala I absolutely love every outfit you wear … but you have to see this – the Love on a leash Puppy purses were recently modelled on the cat-walk in the Cannes Shopping Festival –
www.cannesshoppingfestival.com…
But remember you were one of the first to ever model one !! Thanks so much,
Donna …
PS If you would like another one just let me know… or if you have nayone in NZ interested in distributing them over there I would be interested.
Oooh, am I too late? I hope not because that necklace makes me DROOL. Yes, that may sound a little melodramatic, but it’s true. It happens whenever I see jewelry. I am an addict.
BUT—- to the point.
I want to say Flight of the Conchords because it is sooo hilarious! Each day I have a new favourite song (Inner City Pressure today!)
Really though, Grow Up And Blow Away from Metric is LUUURVE. I love Metric because they are so unique! According to Last.fm, the closest artists are Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton (the lead singer’s side project), Rilo Kiely, and Stars. None of those sound remotely like Metric. (Although excellent bands.) Grow up and Blow Away is still different from their other albums because it’s (at least I think) a lot mellower. I still love Old World Underground and Live it Out, but somehow Grow up and Blow Away has that something extra! (Plus- they’re CANADIAN!)
I guess I would have to say my favourite album is White Pony by Deftones.
This album was my first foray into “heavier” music, and from the first guitar riff I was hooked and got into so many other great bands.
Their music gave me courage, power and make me walk tall. When I was listening to it I felt invincible.
And when I listen to it now, I still do.
I’m blown away by her necklaces..! If I had the $$$, I would buy everything in a heartbeat
My favorite album is “Bedroom Recordings” by Elephant Parade. They are a folk-y, tweeish, indiepop band that I discovered last year. I love this album because the songs put me in a warm, cosey place. Somewhere in the future like drifting in a boat, lowkey dancing on friday nights. *sigh
‘Elephant’ by The White Stripes because it makes me bounce and sing along involuntarily. Work of GENIUS!
My favourite album is Final Conversation of Kings by The Butterfly Effect. It is growth, and love, and sadness, and quiet desperation, and acceptance, and finality, and hope, all at once.
I love the wool hat! I’ve always wanted to wear hats, but I think they look silly on me, because my hair is really curly!
My mouth dropped when you put what I was gonna put. Mannn I guess Disintegration isn’t a super obscure favorite album choice. With that being said, I’m gonna have to say it’s a tie between Bright Eyes “Lifted” and The Smiths “The Queen Is Dead”. hawla!
the cardigans – first band on the moon.
Each song has it’s own beautiful uniqueness, to me no one song sounds exactly alike and I want to put on classy, to colorful, to crazy, to cool outfits dancing sensually while blowing bubbles and cooking something exotic! that’s not weird, is it?
Ugly Casanova “Sharpen Your Teeth”; it’s their only album! Honestly, i can’t really think of a favourite album – this is my favourite album of this moment.
so, even if now i can’t win, i love you for doing this! i’ve just been reading all the comments and they made me very happy :]
my music taste varies quite a lot, but the one album that makes me smile no matter what, the album that i absolutely adore every single song on there is a ‘marks and spencer’ drivetime compliation cd i stole from my dad. any cd with babylon zoo’s ‘spaceman’, blondie’s ‘call me’, ad’s ‘mr wendal’ and ‘i’m still standing’ has to be all kinds of awesome, right?
love the new polaroid layout thing, btw. and you’ve seriously made me sad for the sequin cardi shaped hole in my life.
peace and bubbles xxx
Sarah McLachlan’s Surfacing album. The only album I have ever liked every single song on.