# Which album IS you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298 "2009-10-27T14:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/1 "2009-10-27T14:21:58Z")
Although the title dates me, which album/CD/recording/whatever - more than a single song - best speaks to or describes you? And why? The other day as I was working on my fish tanks, I put on Johnny Winter’s album **Nothing But the Blues.** (The turntable and our old vinyl is in the basement with my bigger tank.) Not only do I love acoustic blues and Johnny’s playing, but I was reminded again how perfectly so many of the lyrics matched my general mood/personality/lifeview. Of course, it kinda gave me pause to realize that the lyrics that spoke to me included: _I’m so tired of trying, trying to get along with you._ and _I’m too lazy to go out drinking, too mean to stay at home._ 😉 So which album (or whatever you wish to call it) was written and performed with you in mind? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/2 "2009-10-27T14:43:58Z")
After the painful break up of a long relation, almost everything on “Blood On The Tracks” by Bob Dylan made sense to me. I loved the album before, but only after this separation, I really could appreciate it entirely. I had the impression that every single emotion that is impressed in these songs was my own. This experience was relieving and hurtful at the same time. But although this was many years ago, it is still one of my favourite albums. So, it IS not me all the time, but it used to be, and I will identify with it as long as I’m able to listen to it. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/3 "2009-10-27T14:49:16Z")
Not necessarily literally, but Uncle Tupelo’s **No Depression** is like this for me. I have always found it to speak to me in ways that other albums do not. That or Eric Dolphy’s **Out to Lunch** , but since it’s instrumental, that’s getting into more abstract stuff there. Alternatively, **Chemistry** by Girls Aloud. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/4 "2009-10-27T16:39:29Z")
I think maybe Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big, and Buzzy by **The Refreshments.** ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/5 "2009-10-27T17:25:12Z")
The Allman Brothers Band’s **Brothers and Sisters**. I love the blues too, and hearing Jessica always puts a smile on my face. I know the whole album by heart and it always reminds me of great times back in the early 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/6 "2009-10-27T17:40:27Z")
Prolly Led Zep IV. With a side of Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/7 "2009-10-27T17:43:56Z")
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/8 "2009-10-27T17:55:15Z")
**Low** - David Bowie ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/9 "2009-10-27T18:01:10Z")
Wilco’s **A Ghost is Born**. That album has been in my life for about 5 years now and I have listened to it countless times. If it had been a cassette instead of a CD, I would have needed to replace it at least twice by now. Every time I listen to it, I find something else to love about it, and it hits me where I live. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/10 "2009-10-27T18:18:53Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > I think maybe Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big, and Buzzy by **The Refreshments.** That’s an awesome album. I think out of all the cd’s I own, I’ve had that one the longest. I guess for me it’s either **Moving Pictures** or **Signals** , but really it’s pretty much all of Rush’s catalogue. ---
**Author:** ![Loisseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Loisseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loisseau)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/11 "2009-10-27T19:17:11Z")
Irene Kral’s “ **Where is Love**?”. Perhaps the finest love ballad CD ever made; a duet only, with Alan Broadbent on piano. Every time I listen to it, it provokes new feelings-for this I’m thankful. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/12 "2009-10-27T20:53:36Z")
I cant pick a single disc. I can pick a playlist, but not a disc as I have different ‘sound tracks’ I mean, I have melancholy memory of past romance, I have mellow happiness, I have perky, I have gently sleepy after sex, I have banzai run in the car on the autobahn … ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/13 "2009-10-28T01:01:07Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > **Low** - David Bowie Funny, that — For me, it’s ‘Bowi’, by Nick Lowe. Google it up if you need to. It’s kinda funny, but I have been on a serious Nick Lowe kick lately, inspired by hearing his, “So It Goes” in the Adventureland movie. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/14 "2009-10-28T01:13:17Z")
This would probably change depending on when you asked me, but ATM I’d say **King Crimson** ’s **Larks Tongues in Aspic**. There is just so much depth and variety to that album, yet it is a perfect whole. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/15 "2009-10-28T01:22:13Z")
Because I’m in such a good mood at the moment, I’ll go with [Flight of the Conchords](http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Conchords/dp/B0014DBZXS/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1256692871&sr=8-6). ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/16 "2009-10-28T02:08:22Z")
Book of Secrets by Lorena McKennitt (Five stars, 486 reviews on Amazon) for years reflected my inner life. It was just hypnotic - I drove miles and miles in a raging storm, just carried away, surprised as hell how painless the trip was made with that music. The ugly, boring parts of life were made less so, somehow… Right now, though, no one album in particular. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/17 "2009-10-28T02:35:24Z")
Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/18 "2009-10-28T04:53:25Z")
Gerry Rafferty, **City to City**. I’ve owned it in vinyl, cassette and CD. Had the words to ["Right Down The Line"](http://www.lyricstime.com/gerry-rafferty-right-down-the-line-lyrics.html)printed on the funeral booklet when my late wife died 13 years ago. “Baker Street,” “Home and Dry,” yeah, good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/19 "2009-10-28T05:10:35Z")
_A Wizard, A True Star_ by Todd Rundgren. Sometimes confusing, sometimes pretentious, definitely sentimental, occasionally aggressive, eclectically-mixed, but also quite distinctive as a whole. Runner-up is _Exordium and Terminus_ by Zager and Evans. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/20 "2009-10-28T09:05:43Z")
_Misterioso_ - Theloniuos Monk. I love his music. Everything he plays feels just right and he has a real ability to express my exact thoughts in a musical way. Sometimes it feels as if there is complete synchronization between Monk’s subconscious and my own. Great stuff. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298.md?page=2)