# What album are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302 "2000-06-14T03:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/41 "2000-06-15T01:31:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Ben Folds Five–“Whatever and Ever Amen” > \*\* Ben Folds and his cohorts are vastly under-rated. I saw them live at the House of Blues in New Orleans, and they put on one of the best live shows I have ever seen. Ben really gets into it, heart and soul. They did a great rendition of “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.” Okay, my album choice would be “The Beatles” AKA “The White Album.” ---
**Author:** ![dook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dook)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/42 "2000-06-15T01:42:52Z")
Moe said: > [@](#): > > \*\* > ELP - Brain Salad Surgery : so exciting and brilliantly written it just sends me to another world. > \*\* One word, Moe… Toccata 🙂 I try to listen to that at least once a day… -dook the weird ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/43 "2000-06-15T01:57:34Z")
Elvis Presley’s “Elvis '56” But if I’m being honest, it’s more like Nine Inch Nails “the Fragile.” Though I worship the King, I’m still a nut for NIN. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/44 "2000-06-15T02:32:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > “The Goldberg Variations” as performed by Glenn Gould (the 1955 recording even though the newer one is great)\*\* Hey! I yoosta work for the guy who PRODUCED that album! Howard Scott…check the credits. Wonder whatever happened to that old fucker…he was bald as a cueball and had the HUGEST walrus moustache, back in '84… ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/45 "2000-06-15T03:10:13Z")
So many Rush quotes, so little time… _If their lives were exotic and strange They would likely have gladly exchanged them For something a little more plain Maybe something a little more sane_ – _You know how that rabbit feels Going under you speeding wheels Bright images flashing by Like windshield towards a fly Frozen in that fatal climb But the wheels of time Just pass you by…_ * * * _We see so many tribes - overrun and undermined While their invaders dream of lands they left behind Better people - better food - and better beer Why move around the word when Eden was so near The bosses get talking so tough And if that wasn’t evil enough We get the drunken and the passionate pride Of the citizens along for the ride_ ---
**Author:** ![Barney111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Barney111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barney111)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/46 "2000-06-15T04:05:32Z")
I’m an old fogey, too. Gotta be “Late for the Sky” by Jackson Browne. ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/47 "2000-06-15T04:37:27Z")
Goldfinger “Hang Up’s” its like my whole like, my horrible luck with women. its not my favorite, but it definately speaks to me. right now i am listening to NOFX’s newest. “Pump Up the Valium” its good, THE album that gave me the most goosebumps. is a MetallicA album, actually its kinda a rough sounding album, Kill Em ALL. but the late great Cliff Burton’s Bass solo, it was like he reached out from the grave and spoke to me. it affected me so much i had to pull over and litsen to it again. the strange part is i was not a metallica fan when he died, i was only 5 i belive, (born in 1980, not sure when he passed) but it changed me forever ---
**Author:** ![Buddy\_Holly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Buddy\_Holly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buddy_Holly)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/48 "2000-06-15T04:44:25Z")
Add It Up- Violent Femmes Sure, it’s kinda of a greatest hits album, so that’s sort of cheating, but it was my first Femmes experience and it spoke to me like nothing had ever spoken to me before. Since then, I’ve also discovered a love for Bob Dylan, but his albums don’t really represent me as well as that single one did. ---
**Author:** ![argyle87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@argyle87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/argyle87)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/49 "2000-06-15T04:57:48Z")
I’ve got to second fnord, Kill 'Em All is life changing. After I heard that, I was hooked on the hard stuff forever. “Motorbreath” still gives me goosebumps! BTW fnord, is “Pump Up the Valuum” as good as they said it would be? I am not much of a NOFX fan but I enjoy the early albums (Liberal Animation, etc.). Is it fast? ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/50 "2000-06-15T05:07:16Z")
its fuckinghilarious. probably the most vulgar cd i have ever heard, transgender operations, and a reprise of Louise. some is slow, but most is fast. all of it funny. ---
**Author:** ![argyle87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@argyle87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/argyle87)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/51 "2000-06-15T05:31:35Z")
I’ll have to get it. Liza & Louise is my favortie NOFX song. ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/52 "2000-06-15T05:38:08Z")
I’ll never forget the first time you kissed me NOW I WANT YOU TO FIST ME ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/53 "2000-06-15T15:37:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > One word, Moe… Toccata 🙂 I try to listen to that at least once a day… > > -dook the weird > \*\* Good man. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/54 "2000-06-15T16:52:41Z")
“Combat Rock” by the Clash or anything by Eddie Cochran. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/55 "2000-06-15T17:28:49Z")
There’ve been so _many_ good albums that my life has been wrapped up in, along the way. Thirty years ago, it was _Sweet Baby James_, Tull’s _Aqualung_, Cat Stevens’ _Tea for the Tillerman_, CSNY _Four-Way Street_, and a bunch of others. Fifteen years ago, it would have been _Graceland_, Mellencamp’s _Scarecrow_ and _Lonesome Jubilee_ albums, and Si Kahn’s _Home_ and _Unfinished Portraits_ albums. Speaking of South African music, Swiddles, you might like one of my '90s mainstays, Johnny Clegg and Savuka, particularly _Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World_ and _Third World Child_. (_CCBW_ is the album that’s most like me, now, in answer to the OP.) After _Graceland_, it was hard not to like Johnny Clegg. The other album that I’ve been playing nonstop the past few years is Joan Osborne’s _Relish_. Anybody know what happened to her? She kinda fell off the edge of the earth. But that one album was pretty amazing. ---
**Author:** ![corvidae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@corvidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corvidae)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/56 "2000-06-15T17:50:51Z")
Today, I’m definitely Beck’s _Mutations_. ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/57 "2000-06-15T18:05:46Z")
Until recently, my life was Tom Wait’s _Small Change._ Now it’s a little closer to Ani Difranco’s _Up Up Up Up Up Up_ What the hell am I doing with my life? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/58 "2000-06-15T18:40:07Z")
**Murmur - R.E.M.** This album really opened up some “doors of perception” for me. It was such a huge paradigm shift from what everyone else was doing musically at the time that it really stood out. The murky lyrics, the layered sound and jangling guitars. Nothing I had heard before prepared me for it. (You could hear the influences of Velvet Underground and the Byrds, but R.E.M. was light years beyond anything those groups had done.) I was completely entranced from the first listen. This may sound silly to those who don’t love music as much as I do, but this album even helped determine my choice of graduate schools. I was so taken with it that I decided to go to Athens, GA so I could immerse myself in the music scene there. UGA was already on my list of possibilities, but Murmur was the clincher. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/59 "2000-06-15T18:50:30Z")
Yep yep yep. Little Earthquakes is definitely the album for me. Check the sig. 😉 And whoops, song changed for today. Today it’s “Don’t Speak,” by No Doubt. I’m not a huge fan of the band, but today the song is just speaking to me. > [@](#): > > Memories. Well, they can be inviting, but some are altogether mighty frightening. > As we die, for you and I, with my head in my hands I sit and cry. > Don’t speak - I know just what you’re saying, so please stop explaining. Don’t tell me ‘cause it hurts. > Don’t speak - I know what you’re thinking, and I don’t need your reasons. Don’t tell me ‘cause it hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302/60 "2000-06-15T18:55:51Z")
I saw Tull mentioned, so let me just add Thick as a Brick to the list. Wow!! what a fantastic piece of music. also: Jane’s Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual Bela Fleck - Tales From the Acoustic Planet Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior, and Live Prokofiev - 2nd & 3rd piano concertos Yes - Tales from Topographical Oceans Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Ravi Shankar & Phillip Glass - Passages Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-are-you/22302.md?page=4)