What is that one CD you have, that is not metal, that is one of your most favorites?
One that you believe belongs in everyone's collection.

For me it is Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
I love how the entire album sounds and feels, David Gilmours playing is full of emotion.
The song Wish You Were Here touches me every time I hear it, takes me back to when my father passed away...
Dark Side Of The Moon may be more popular, but for my ears, this is one of the greatest albums ever.

What is yours?

Should this be in the General Metal forum?

Anyway, my favourite probably is... "Power Windows" by Rush? Yeah, many Rush fans will bash me for this. But I have always been a sucker for keyboards and I just love everything about that album. It's catchy and at some parts very very beautiful. Sure, it's not at all as Progressive as we want Rush to be. But here they did something special and it worked out fine for me.

Written by Warman on 31.12.2009 at 02:36

"Power Windows" by Rush?

ech...Big Money is such a horrible song...there's just a lot of cheesy keyboard stuff on that album generally...the album before Power Windows (Grace Under Pressure) was a better "sucker for keyboards" album in my opinion...

Possibly Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here or Meddle, also Ágætis Byrjun and () by Sigur Rós and Signify by Porcupine Tree, there's a lot of non-metal albums I like(mostly Post-Rock and Prog Rock), but if I had to choose, those will make it.

General music Forum should have some similar kind of topic

Im going to go with Franco un-American by NOFX. The album was just amazing. more than half of the songs were good and i mean im not too big of a punk fan compared to a metal fan.

Written by Nailedtogold616 on 31.12.2009 at 04:47

Im going to go with Franco un-American by NOFX. The album was just amazing. more than half of the songs were good and i mean im not too big of a punk fan compared to a metal fan.

you mean "the war on errorism"? it's an incredibly boring and bland album by the band. waaaay too much nostalgia tunes. their best works were "Ribbed" and "White Trash, Two Heebs, and a Bean"... "Pump Up The Valuum" had some decent tracks as well.

this thread should be moved, and likely will be.

couldn't let the NOFX thing pass without taking a swipe. will respond at length after it's been relocated and i've thought some of the best non-metal through.

Moved to where?
so I know next time to post in a "proper" location

Written by I_Die_Often on 31.12.2009 at 04:58

Moved to where?
so I know next time to post in a "proper" location

either rock or general music forms. good thread idea - always good to expose strict-metalheads to good outside influences.

Bad Brains - Bad Brains

not too far from metal, but easily one of my favs of all time

The seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop soundtrack
Cage the elephant - Cage the elephant

From my "real cds" collection it would be probably soundtrack to Eragon (movie sucks, but the music really does not) and then one compilation of irish folk songs, but i gave it to my brother as a christmas present last year, so it is not really "mine"

and from those albums on my hard-drive...something from czech folk musician Jaromír Nohavica...either "Tři čuníci" (The Three Piggies), which are more funny and happy songs, or "Doma" (At Home), which is live concert containing more of his "serious" (and beautiful) works

Written by Guest on 31.12.2009 at 02:55

Written by Warman on 31.12.2009 at 02:36

"Power Windows" by Rush?

ech...Big Money is such a horrible song...there's just a lot of cheesy keyboard stuff on that album generally...the album before Power Windows (Grace Under Pressure) was a better "sucker for keyboards" album in my opinion...

Yeah, the album is kinda cheesy. And "Grace Under Pressure" is probably my second favourite Rush album.

Hum, this changes often.

I guess, right now, it would be Boys for Pele by Tori Amos. Her Under the Pink is also perfect.

Akira Yamaoka's Silent Hill 2 soundtrack. Portishead's Dummy, which is the quintessential trip-hop album. Hounds of Love, by Kate Bush. Souvenirs, by the Gathering. As for this year's releases, the best ones were Fever Ray's self-titled, Hong Kong, Baby! by Pintandwefall, and PMMP's Veden varaan.

Another one I play a lot is Cheap Tricks debut album.
They were a local band where I spent my early teens and turned me on to harder rock.
I've even seen them twice, and of course... I have a Rick Neilsen pick from a show.

Artist - Album - "Song"

Alan Parsons - A Valid Path - "Return to Tunguska"
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing - "Money for Nothing"
Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton - "Layla"
Foreigner - Complete Greatest Hits - "Jukebox Hero"
Journey - Greatest Hits - "Who's Cryin' Now"
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1980) - "Games Without Frontiers"
Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra - "Troy"
Supertramp - Breakfast in America - "The Logical Song"
The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination - "The Fall of the House of Usher: Pavane"

And my favorite non-metal song (excluding ones from the albums listed above) is definitely Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"!

Sorry for the "top 10" list so to speak: I just couldn't narrow it down to ONE album...

Pink Floyed The Wall 1,2 Amazing stuff

The Butterfly Effect's "Imago"

Every song on this album is pure gold. Particularly "Gone" and "Aisles of White".

Another album that ties with it would be Trial Kennedy's "New Manic Art".

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York!
Brilliant album, showing nirvana has skill! A rawly emotional album. Freakin brilliant.

I am adding Dropkick Murphys "Meanest Of Times" into list

Oh, it's impossible to choose, as I listen to a ridiculous amount of non-metal music. According to my 5 stars album on RYM, I'd say King Crimson's Red, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, Kashiwa Daisuke's Program Music I, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme and GY!BE's Lift Yr Skinny Fists would make a wicked top 5.

Something by Pink Floyd or Bad Religion. Which one...Don't know...Hard to pick...

I'll go first and foremost with the Vagrant Story OST by Hitoshi Sakimoto. As any OST it has its horrible tracks, but most of it really dark, beautiful and creepy stuff. Many metal bands that consider themselves 'dark' are just bland compared to this one.

Less important, but still really good, would be
Ludwig Von 88 - Houlala 2 - no they're not racists, but punks doing stupidly fun lyrics (in French)
Bérurier Noir - Viva Bertaga - I would kill to be able to got back in 1989 to see this punk band live
Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time - tripped out space prog rock. What else?

Written by AiwiAstwihad on 17.02.2010 at 18:58

Something by Pink Floyd or Bad Religion. Which one...Don't know...Hard to pick...

Quote for truth.

Put in The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, No Control, The Grey Race, Process Of Belief...

You won't be dissapointed

Crosby,Stills, Nash and Young - Déjà, Woodstock, the Who - Live at Leeds, anything by Frank Zappa, Yes - Yessongs, ...
Frankly, I think I like non-metal almost equally as much as metal

EDIT: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here!

Written by Darkside Momo on 17.02.2010 at 21:26

I'll go first and foremost with the Vagrant Story OST by Hitoshi Sakimoto. As any OST it has its horrible tracks, but most of it really dark, beautiful and creepy stuff. Many metal bands that consider themselves 'dark' are just bland compared to this one.

Nice choice! Easily one of the greatest video game soundtracks (to a hugely underrated game). I actually bought it at great expense many years ago as a Japanese import. Sakimoto's FF Tactics soundtrack is also exceptional.

Also agree with the guy who mentioned The Seatbelt's, the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack is beyond compare.

I listen to more non-metal than metal these days but a smattering of random favourites include:

Skullflower Orange Canyon Mind / IIIrd Gatekeeper / This Is Skullflower / Last Shot At Heaven
Igorrr Moisissure
Boards Of Canada Music Has The Right To Children / The Campfire Headphase
Depeche Mode Black Celebration / Music For The Masses / Violator
Fields Of The Nephilim Elizium
Throbbing Gristle The First Annual Report Of / Camber Sands
Whitehouse Asceticists 2006
Sutcliffe Jügend When Pornography Is No Longer Enough
Robedoor Rancor Keeper
Robedoor & Pocahaunted Hunted Gathering
Propergol Cleanshaven / Renegade
Incapacitants As Loud As Possible
Government Alpha Alphaville
The Gerogerigegege Tokyo Anal Dynamite
Double Leopards Halve Maen
NON Blood And Flame
Nurse With Wound & Cyclobe Angry Eelectric Finger 2 Paraparaparallelogramatica
Alec Empire Generation Star Wars
VNV Nation Empires / Futureperfect
Assemblage 23 Failure
The Prodigy Fat Of The Land
Lustmord Heresy
Atrium Carceri Kapnobatai
Desiderii Marginis That Which Is Tragic And Timeless
Sleep Research Facility Nostromo
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell
Dido No Angel

And the soundtracks to Shadow Of The Colossus and Shin Megami Tensei's Nocturne

I should probably just stop there.

Any Jimi Hendrix Experience album, or Band of Gypsys. That and I enjoy Santana's early releases.

Hard to pick just one. I'd probably go for something by Pink Floyd though as they never get old.

My top album is "The End of the Beginning" by God is An Astronaut. That album still blows me away just as it did when I heard it for the first time a year or so ago.

Other favorites-

Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind - I heard their other releases first but this is top for me.
Portishead - Dummy
Jakob - Solace