# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/21 "2009-10-28T09:50:14Z")
Glorious Fool by John Martyn. If I was ever to write and record an album, this would be it. It’s the same combination of flawed and perfect as I am. ---
**Author:** ![Walpurgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Walpurgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walpurgis)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/22 "2009-10-28T10:19:32Z")
_Biscuits for Cerberus_ by Flipron, I think. Cheerfully melancholic, quirky and vulnerable at the same time. And, you know, accordions. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/23 "2009-10-28T15:40:46Z")
Nurse with Wound: _Sylvie and Babs’ Hi-Fi Companion_. (I really _didn’t_ even know he was dead until I was washing the blood off my hands.) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/24 "2009-10-28T19:27:36Z")
Right now, maybe Nebraska. Dark, sad and lonely and in search of the unattainable. With a dash of mass murder. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/25 "2009-10-29T06:06:04Z")
Pink Floyd: Animals ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/26 "2009-10-29T07:29:43Z")
Same as the poster above: **Pink Floyd Animals** The dark melancholy feel of it, and the notes of despair and helplessness, all of that speaks to the way I have been feeling these past few years. Lyrics such as: > [@](#): > > DOGS: > You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to, > So that when they turn their backs on you, > You’ll get the chance to put the knife in. > > And when you loose control, you’ll reap the harvest you have sown. > And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone. > And it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw > around. > So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone, > Dragged down by the stone. > > Who was born in a house full of pain. > Who was trained not to spit in the fan. > Who was told what to do by the man. > Who was broken by trained personnel. > Who was fitted with collar and chain. > Who was given a pat on the back. > Who was breaking away from the pack. > Who was only a stranger at home. > Who was ground down in the end. > Who was found dead on the phone. > Who was dragged down by the stone. > > PIGS: > You’re nearly a laugh > But you’re really a cry. > > SHEEP: > What do you get for pretending the danger’s not real. > Meek and obedient you follow the leader > Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel. > What a surprise! > A look of terminal shock in your eyes. > Now things are really what they seem. > No, this is no bad dream. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/27 "2009-10-29T10:02:47Z")
Beach Boys’ **Pet Sounds**. Everything about it resonates with me. Though I feel like I’m not worthy of claiming such a masterpiece. ---
**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/28 "2009-10-29T10:22:12Z")
I have never met a bad mood that Springsteen’s _Born to Run_ has failed to knock out of me. I’ve also never met a good mood that it hasn’t improved! So, pretty much full marks all around. ---
**Author:** ![mo50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@mo50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mo50)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/29 "2009-10-29T13:02:06Z")
Quadrophenia. Yes, I have issues! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/30 "2009-10-29T18:58:29Z")
Don Henley’s \*The \*\*End \*\*of \*\*the \*_Innocence_ ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/31 "2009-10-30T01:47:54Z")
Liz Phair’s _Exile in Guyville_. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/32 "2009-10-31T23:00:54Z")
Exile on Main Street. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/33 "2009-11-03T16:49:54Z")
_World Record_ by **VDGG** ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/34 "2009-11-03T16:56:06Z")
Bad Animals by Heart. I’m gonna go walk down an ornate staircase with slow-motion pigeons flying in the foreground now if you don’t mind. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/35 "2009-11-03T18:20:45Z")
An interesting idea. I have a lot of albums that I love for various reasons. Judgement by Anathema, for instance, is perhaps the most brilliant album I’ve ever heard, and while every song on there is beautiful and many touch on areas of my life, I think it only expresses one aspect. Many other albums I have a similar relationship, where they thoroughly explore a particular aspect. However, there is one album that I’ve felt a particularly strong personal attachment to ever since I “got” it, and that would be **Existence** by Dark Suns (lyrics: [DARK SUNS LYRICS - "Existence" (2005) album](http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/darksuns/existence.html)). Even from the title of the album itself, it sets the mood and gives an idea of what this album is about. The actual material is like a third person view of one’s own life, or the supposed moment right before death when one re-experiences all the meaningful events in one’s life. It explores many curious moments in life an excited perspective of youth looking forward, to love and love lost, to regrets and might have beens. This is very much the sort of way that I look at life, with lots of reflection on my past and looking forward to and trying to shape my future with a childish wonder. Musically it is an amazing album as well. There’s a very clear musical theme through the entire album such that each song has a distinct sound, yet each one just seems to fight right in with the others. There’s certain riffs and timbres that become associated with various concepts throughout the album that ties things together so that when I hear the vocalist or guitarist in a certain tone, or a particular scale or riff, I know what connection they’re trying to make or meaning underlies it. Moreover, each musician is enormously talented, freely using unusual rhythms and scales but blending them together perfectly. This, I think, is why it took me a couple listens to “get” it, because of the music, much like the concept and the lyrics, aren’t immediately accessible and require a deeper level of appreciation. And even more, the entire album, musically, conceptually, and lyrically all lead up to the final track which, if I had to pick a single track that represents me, it would be this. It is a look back and realization of how some things that seem so important simply are not, and vice versa. It is a realization of a beautiful life lived, despite the mistakes and the pains, and being satisfied with what we’ve left behind. And then the album reaches it’s pinnacle with one of the most emotive and powerful riffs I’ve ever heard, that gave me chills then and still to this day before, bringing us back to the very first riff of the album and closing out exactly where we began, and yet somehow after 78 minutes it seems as though simultaneously everything and nothing has changed. For what it’s worth, I HIGHLY recommend Dark Suns to fans of Opeth, Pain of Salvation, Anathema, and Porcupine Tree. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/36 "2009-11-03T18:24:19Z")
[Prodigy - Experience](http://www.discogs.com/Prodigy-Experience/master/8585)… full of energy, passionate tunes, but slightly naive and rough around the edges, and not really part of the mainstream (just like me :)). I can’t listen to these tunes without grinning and having a little boogie. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/37 "2009-11-03T19:33:19Z")
Madonna’s… uh, if I have to pick one, let’s go with \*\* American Life\*\*. Madonna’s music has a way of applying to my life in frighteningly accurate ways. [QUOTE=Nobody Knows Me] I’ve had so many lives Since I was a child And I realize How many times I’ve died [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=I’m So Stupid] Please don’t try to tempt me It was just greed And it won’t protect me Don’t want my dreams Adding up to nothing I was just looking for Everybody’s looking for something [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Die Another Day] I’m gonna avoid the clishe I’m gonna suspend my senses I’m gonna delay my pleasure I’m gonna close my body now [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Easy Ride] I want the good life But I don’t want an easy ride What I want is to work for it Feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298/38 "2009-11-03T20:37:29Z")
Cranberries - \*No Need To Argue \* Kind of naive, kind of moody, kind of blue, very melodramatic. Has one (and only one) chart toping piece. Band faded into oblivion since, releasing only derivative crap reminiscent of what worked in that album. So, you know. I’m a fun to be around party guy 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-album-is-you/515298.md?page=1)