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Favorite non-metal album



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Posted by I_Die_Often, 31.12.2009 - 00:55
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?
06.09.2012 - 20:36
IronAngel

Written by Fat & Sassy! on 06.09.2012 at 20:17

Written by IronAngel on 01.03.2012 at 00:02

Kate Bush - The Dreaming


I just got this album the other day. A simply stunning piece from the very first listen. Although, I think I like Hounds of Love better. But then again, I don't know what good for me. I don't know what's good for meeee.



Awesome. Yeah, I have a hard time deciding between the two. Hounds is perhaps more balanced and polished, it's like the perfect pop album. I love how the two sides of the vinyl are actually different too, the first part being a ridiculous hit parade and the latter calming down for some atmospheric, stranger pieces. But the Dreaming is just so in-your-face and bold, with really cool overblown production. I think it may also be more consistent, never really losing steam. Having two tracks less (I think?) has probably something to do with that.

Still, both those albums are among my most beloved. I like everything she's done, but they stand out.

Could add something from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to my list, but I have a hard time picking a favorite album.

EDIT: I just played The Dreaming again, and I'm pretty sure it's my favorite. It opens with similar memorable pop songs as Hounds (perhaps not quite as strong), but it's the second half that makes the difference. Hounds has plenty of cool, experimental tracks like Jig of Life, Waking the Witch and Watching You Without Me, but they're a bit incoherent with the rest of the album. The Dreaming does it better, in that of the 5 last tracks three are absolutely stunning: The Dreaming, Night of the Swallow and Get Out Of My House. An album which can save its strongest moment to the very end without relying on any filler before that is perfectly balanced.
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07.09.2012 - 05:49
Fat & Sassy!

Written by IronAngel on 06.09.2012 at 20:36

EDIT: I just played The Dreaming again, and I'm pretty sure it's my favorite. It opens with similar memorable pop songs as Hounds (perhaps not quite as strong), but it's the second half that makes the difference. Hounds has plenty of cool, experimental tracks like Jig of Life, Waking the Witch and Watching You Without Me, but they're a bit incoherent with the rest of the album. The Dreaming does it better, in that of the 5 last tracks three are absolutely stunning: The Dreaming, Night of the Swallow and Get Out Of My House. An album which can save its strongest moment to the very end without relying on any filler before that is perfectly balanced.


Indeed, but I think the first few tracks of Hound of Love seal the deal for me. The Dreaming does have much better flow (and the second half of the album is 10/10 brilliant), but I think the singles on Hounds of Love and more typical 80's sound and production win me over. I still adore both albums and her previous ones a lot though. Her discography is incredibly consistent. ^~^
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07.09.2012 - 09:49
Guib
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Im ashamed of some of them but here it is... I know its not only THAT ONE CD, but its too hard to chose man...

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Linkin Park - Hyrbrid Theory
Green Day - Dookie
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Steppenwolf - The Second
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Taktika - Mon Mic, Mon Forty et Mon Blunt
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Nirvana - Nevermind
Sham 69 - That's Life
Manu Militari - Voix De Fait
The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
Les Colocs - Les Colocs
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07.09.2012 - 10:47
Jaeryd
Nihil's Maw
This is totally gonna be unmetal, but whatever. Here it goes:

Dear Agony - Breaking Benjamin
Phobia - Breaking Benjamin
Absolution - Muse
The Open Door - Evanescence
One Day Remains - Alter Bridge
Weathered - Creed (I know, I know... shut up)
Speak for Yourself - Imogen Heap
Anatomic - Afro Celt Soundsystem
Mozart's Requiem - Neville Marriner (composed by Mozart, performed by a choir and orchestra, which was in turn conducted by Neville Marriner)
Halo 3 ODST Original Soundtrack - Martin O'Donnell
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07.09.2012 - 15:44
Angry Chair

Nirvana - Nevermind

By a country mile.

Also Nirvana's In Utero is a good shout.
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12.09.2012 - 10:31
X-Ray Rod
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Written by Guib on 07.09.2012 at 09:49
Massive Attack - Mezzanine


Fuck yeah...

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12.09.2012 - 12:42
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
New discovery: Deratizéři - Folk's Not Dead...czech punk with occasional folk elements (2nd song)



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19.09.2012 - 02:33
Guib
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Written by X-Ray Rod on 12.09.2012 at 10:31

Written by Guib on 07.09.2012 at 09:49
Massive Attack - Mezzanine


Fuck yeah...

d[-___-]b





eh eh eh glad you agree
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20.09.2012 - 06:16
Void Eater
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I've been listening to this album so much for like the past month; the first time I've ever gotten so into a non metal album.

Also been listening to this a ton lately.



And this would be without a doubt my favorite non metal album. There's two songs on here that aren't immortal timeless classics, and the rest is among the best music I've heard.



I'm sure some people will agree with this one .
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15.10.2012 - 13:57
doreen

Well my favorite is Lady Gaga's 'The Fame Monster' and 'Born This Way'.
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07.12.2012 - 00:14
CobiWan1993
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My personal favorite non-metal album is sort of a tie between Foxtrot by Genesis and Music for the Masses by Depeche Mode. Both are awesome and provide a ton of atmosphere.
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02.01.2013 - 20:47
Nemo Atkins

There's one album I got this Christmas which is probably going to be my biggest guilty pleasure for a long time: Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven On Earth". That said, a close second is "The Best Of Clive Gregson" (for the benefit of those who don't know who he is, he's a folk rock performer who founded a band named Any Trouble in the late 70's and pretty much caused another UK singer-songwriter boom when he went solo in the mid-late 80's).
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02.01.2013 - 20:52
R Lewis

Definitely "AB III" from Alter Bridge. Simply great.
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08.01.2013 - 00:49
Ilahiya Khinzir
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The soundtrack of Conan the Barbarian by Basil Poledouris and the soundtrack of Kull the Conqueror by Joel Goldsmith. Every metalhead should have listened to this soundtracks.
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14.01.2013 - 13:33
emily66012@

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
Pink Floyd - Meddle
GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Hank Williams - The Ultimate Collection
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
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24.01.2013 - 02:22
Zombie94

Too many to list just one:

Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Green Day - American Idiot
Blink 182 - s/t
Blink 182 - Enema Of The State
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Strokes - Is This It
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Daft Punk - Homework
Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
RHCP - Blood Sex Magik
RHCP - Californication
Tenacious D - s/t
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24.01.2013 - 21:58
Skeletonryche95

Wishbone Ash-Argus
Aphrodite's Child-666
The Stranglers-Rattus Norvegicus
Rush-2112
The Misfits-Static Age
Crystal Castles- (II)
Ladytron- Gravity the Seducer
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
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30.01.2013 - 14:59
Jtbmetal123

Nirvana - Nevermind. This is the best Non metal album in my opinion.
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16.04.2013 - 10:13
Jaeryd
Nihil's Maw
Well, I can't think of any specifically--there's quite a few to choose from--other than the last album I just listened to. So I'm just going to say Comus - First Utterance.
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16.04.2013 - 14:36
Rhiannon
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She & Him - Volume One; Volume Two
Vangelis - Voices; 1492: Conquest of Paradise
Daft Punk - Tron: Legacy Soundtrack
Green Day - American Idiot
Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics
Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials
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22.06.2013 - 00:52
Panterica

Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema
Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Pearl Jam - Ten
Radiohead - Kid A
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
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22.06.2013 - 23:08
Lit.
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Demon Days by Gorillaz.
Lotta good memories associated with that album and that band. They remain one of the few bands I listen to fully outside of metal.
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23.06.2013 - 01:57
CobiWan1993
Secundum Filium
I really like Seal's first four albums, The Smiths are great, and Depeche Mode's work is really good too!
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30.07.2013 - 09:02
Lady GaGa
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Public Image Ltd - Flowers Of Romance

Post-punk/experimental project from Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols. I listened a lot to that album when my best friend commited suicide, since then it has always been one of my fav album of all time.




Not an easy band to get into but to me its one of the best out there.
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15.12.2013 - 21:15
Azhu

Here is a few..

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Eminem - Recovery
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
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08.03.2014 - 01:06
DyingWorld

Too tough to pick one. There's so much music out there, it could be any of these:
Swans - The Great Annihilator
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Alice Cooper - Killer
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Samhain - November Coming Fire
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Rush - Moving Pictures
Nirvana - In Utero
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
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08.03.2014 - 01:31
Boxcar Willy
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I have so many it's so hard to choose. I hate Pink Floyd however, so you won't see that here at least

Frameworks - Small Victories
Swans - The Seer
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Low - I Could Live In Hope
The Story So Far - Under Soil And Dirt
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Notorious B.I.G - Ready To Die

Lots of stuff I'm forgetting, obviously.
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08.03.2014 - 04:09
AngelofDeth
Cyborg Raptor
These are my favorite non-metal listenings!

Rock:
Vains of Jenna - The Art of Telling Lies
Taking Dawn - Time to Burn
The Darkness - Permission to Land(yes the band is more than a one-hit wonder)

Rap/Hip Hop:
Warren G - Regulate...g funk era
Lil Wayne - I Am Not A Human Being

New Retro Wave (80's revival electronica)
Miami Nights 1984 - Turbulence
Lazerhawk - Redline

Other:
Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits
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08.03.2014 - 12:44
IronAngel

Written by Boxcar Willy on 08.03.2014 at 01:31

Low - I Could Live In Hope


Srsly. So fucking beautiful.
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08.03.2014 - 17:41
Boxcar Willy
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Written by IronAngel on 08.03.2014 at 12:44

Written by Boxcar Willy on 08.03.2014 at 01:31

Low - I Could Live In Hope


Srsly. So fucking beautiful.

I know, I just zone out listening to it.

Now I have to listen to it again
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