Best Ever Albums

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:43:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/26/2013 05:43

SquishypuffDave wrote:

(I'm not going to mention Tom Waits because his songs are so vivid that we all picture exactly what he wants us to.)

Songs:

Boards of Canada - Beware The Friendly Stranger
This image already existed long before I heard the song. I am a child on a tricycle, living at a commune out in the country in the hills. It's a late autumn afternoon and wind is blowing. Everything is cast in a blue-green light. I ride around the corner of a small weathered wooden building and see a scarecrow walking towards me. Everything distorts and I cannot see his face clearly; my vision just blurs whenever I look at him. Then I die.

The imagery I get from Beware The Friendly Stranger is eerily similar

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

SquishypuffDave — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:32:38 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 02/26/2013 05:32

(I'm not going to mention Tom Waits because his songs are so vivid that we all picture exactly what he wants us to.)

Songs:

Boards of Canada - Beware The Friendly Stranger
This image already existed long before I heard the song. I am a child on a tricycle, living at a commune out in the country in the hills. It's a late autumn afternoon and wind is blowing. Everything is cast in a blue-green light. I ride around the corner of a small weathered wooden building and see a scarecrow walking towards me. Everything distorts and I cannot see his face clearly; my vision just blurs whenever I look at him. Then I die.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
The sun hangs low, glowing red in the polluted sky. Dust everywhere. The ground is tilted at a 45 degree angle, and a landslide has destroyed the city. Everything is brown, grey, red. A military aeroplane flies in the distance. A loud throbbing drowns out the screams.

Albums:

Aphex Twin - SAWII
Like listening to a secret, intensely alien conversation between inanimate objects and subsequently being driven mad by the omnipresent vibrations of the universe.

Death Grips - The Money Store
A naked, paranoid, inebriated vagrant staggers across a freeway, shouting the fibonacci sequence at drivers by.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Jackwc — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:05:04 GMT

Author: Jackwc

Posted: 02/26/2013 05:05

Slow Show

17 year-old me at a party in early 2010, humming the song to myself quietly while making glances across the room towards who will here be referred to as "Jamie Choi" and smiling awkwardly at her while I stiffly sip my flat Corona and think tipsy thoughts about ripping her clothes off and mounting her against the living room wall.

Eventually she notices me and she comes over and we talk but I'm too shy and nervous and I totally botch the whole thing and she gets distracted by her friends and goes to dance with them and I just watch.

In the real life version I joined them and ended up going out with her, but I prefer this lingering bitter ending.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:13:14 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/25/2013 23:13

Last night I listened to a few songs, all by Kansas:
The Wall,Can I Tell You, and No One Together.

I felt something BIG when I listened to 1 and 3. I found it was just nostalgia because the Best of Kansas was the first rock CD I've ever heard, as many people may know. I was around 3 when I first heard it.

The Wall - I pictured a block in front of Steve Walsh, the lead singer, and I thought about how everyone has a wall, a mental wall that can block us from what's right and what's important. Kinda sappy, but that's what it makes me think of.

Can I Tell You - All three verses are the same lyrics, so all I picture is the violinist doing his freaky solo. He can play!

No One Together - I look down a balcony from a very high, big, and cream colored building, looking down at the world and seeing what should be beautiful, but the beauty of nature is often shrouded by the chaos of men.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Shadow23 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:08:59 GMT

Author: Shadow23

Posted: 02/25/2013 14:08

These are just a few:

For No One by The Beatles gives me the picture of a lonely man standing in front of a house and his girl hiding in the windows.

In My Life by The Beatles makes me think of Stonehenge. Don't ask me why 🤔 I have no idea.

Life On Mars? by David Bowie gives me the picture of this sad girl walking around, watching shows and aleays looking at the sky and asking herself if there's freedom up there.

Hey You by Pink Floyd makes me imagine a young girl, afraid, cuddled up in a corner and not receiving the helping hand because she's on the wrong side of the wall

The entire Naked album by Talking Heads takes me to a jungle until I drown in the cool water...

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

sheep21 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:14:30 GMT

Author: sheep21

Posted: 02/25/2013 06:14

Certain memories come with song

Kasabian-Man Of Simple Pleasures reminds me of planes cause on a plane once that was all I listened too pretty much.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

MrFrogger — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:29:12 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 02/24/2013 23:29

Modest Mouse-The Lonesome Crowded West

I just picture driving around through the urban sprawls of the late 90's, and writing an album out of rage.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:27:16 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/24/2013 23:27

I am listening to this right now

'Geek The Girl' - Lisa Germano... I am seeing a young girl in a locked cell scraping random words onto a wall

This is a new image... not sure I had this one before!

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:06:12 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/24/2013 23:06

RFNAPLES wrote:

Any good song

OK. Examples???

btw, Rhymin and Stealin makes me feel like a bad-a modern day pirate. Of course, I'd replace the Brass Monkey with margaritas. I have to imagine a pirate ship with a three-man crew, and a pool table and TV below deck. The steering wheel's also a joystick. 😁

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

RFNAPLES — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:48:24 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 02/24/2013 22:48

Any good song

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:35:51 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/24/2013 22:35

John Fahey's Fare Forward Voyagers (the song and album) is a great one for me. On the surface it calls up an images of someone sitting in the middle of nowhere, contemplatively playing a guitar and looking off across some great plain into the sunset...but underneath that is this ghastly sense of foreboding, as it someone horrible tragedy was just around the corner, as if waiting for some great calamity that was sure to come. Its just eerie.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:42:01 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/24/2013 21:42

Most obvious example for me is Look on Down from the Bridge by Mazzy Star. To see the transit of Venus last year, I stayed up to catch the sunrise that day. Because I'm surrounded by trees where I live, I had to walk some kilometers to find an open place to watch the sky. I ended up on a corn field where I stood all alone in silence for a long time and watched how the sun slowly rose, and experienced how a beautiful summer day lit up. I recall that feeling when I listen to that song

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

GeevyDallas — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:37:25 GMT

Author: GeevyDallas

Posted: 02/24/2013 21:37

Room On Fire was the exact length of the time it took me to walk to college(give or take a minute) in first year and I used to always listen to it,I always picture my route whenever I listen to it now.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:57:48 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/24/2013 20:57

Magenta wrote:

hahah yeah... (I hope I haven't just ruined the song for you... that would be bad!)

For me I think it is the music rather than the words that put the images in my head... but I guess that is different for everyone!

For me it's both.

Animal by Def Leppard - Wolves running in the dead of the night through the mountains, and sometimes an adult version of me is singing atop a black rocky cliff. Or sometimes, I'm with a woman who scratches wolves fur and rubs it, when it's really me under that skin, while the full moon light shines on us. Cool song. I love the full moon.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:56:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/24/2013 20:56

That is incredibly beautiful Necharsian...

You know I don't get the music, but I love that it creates this for you!

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Necharsian — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:41:34 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 02/24/2013 20:41

Those who know me already know ive had 2 or 3 crazy ass experiences listening to this album but it's the best example for this thread.

The first three songs to me represent being completely lost in a frozen tundra or forest. Lost and frozen. Each one of those songs have an uneasy calmness about them followed by absolute terror. (Plain of Ida is the most terrifying song ive ever heard). It's a battle to stay alive and not succumb to the harsh winds, brutal snowstorm and the wolves (i always picture wolves for some reason).

Then comes the Prayer. It's like a temporary safehaven. For a moment it seems like survival may actually happen. But that thought is shortlived and it turns to a realization that death is imminent. It's the acceptance of death that makes this song so incredibly powerful.

Next two songs. This is no longer a journey to find your way back from where you came, but the slow journey of a man dying. These two songs are the perfect example of when i was trying to explain how black metal is more of the emotional side of death (rather than physical) with Jack and Saoirse. I imagine these songs are the depiction of the emotional weight of impending death. These are the last living moments and what the mind has to endure to reach the last final one.

Rigsthula. The last moment. It's bliss. A completely ethereal experience. This is the last time you will see anything ever again. It's slow motion; it seems like this moment will literally last forever. And then...

The Last Journey. Death. One last emotional burst and everything is gone. The tone of this song changes completely as life fades into the unknown. The beginning and end of the song are completely contrasted in style and emotion yet made symmetrical by those last and final screams. It's beautiful and hopeful. It's death.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:37:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/24/2013 20:37

purple wrote:

Imagining my favorite line (If you'll be my flotsam, I could be half the man I used to) is interesting in this context.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:34:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/24/2013 20:34

Magenta wrote:

'Baby's on Fire' - Brian Eno... Two very over the top drag queens standing on a street corner arguing and bitch fighting with each other.

Imagining my favorite line (If you'll be my flotsam, I could be half the man I used to) is interesting in this context.

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:33:04 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/24/2013 20:33

I am an incredibly visual person - pretty much everything I hear forms an image in my head of some description (and it isn't always pleasant!). This 'special' talent means that all songs I listen to give me some kind of visual and paint pretty pictures in my head. Anywhere here is a snap shot of what goes on in my head when I am listening to music!

'Isolation' - Joy Division... makes me think of sitting on an orange double decker bus driving through a washed out grey industrial city. As the bus drives past one grey non-descript building blurs into the next grey building and the rain keeps pouring down.

'Going to a Go-Go' - The Miracles... a jitterbug club in the 1940s. The place is packed to the rafters with people throwing themselves around the dancefloor to the constant thump thump of music

'No Rain' - Blind Melon... A warm sunny day eating a picnic of baguette and cheese in a poppy field that stretches for as far as the eye can see.

'Baby's on Fire' - Brian Eno... Two very over the top drag queens standing on a street corner arguing and bitch fighting with each other.

'Mr. E's Beautiful Blues' - Eels... a long white sandy beach with the sun beating down and a light ocean breeze

'Back to the Old House' - The Smiths... a row of condemned red brick terrace houses on a main road. There is a girl in the upstairs window of one of them looking down onto the street and waving

'Summertime Clothes' - Animal Collective... jumping out of an aeroplane and watching the clouds whoosh past as I plummet to earth.

'Nightclubbing' - Iggy Pop... a squalid run down bedsit.. the image focuses on a woman lying spreadeagled on the bed, totally out of it with a needle sticking out of her arm

'Son of a Gun' - The La's... a wooden clipper pitching and falling on a rough sea with no land in sight

'Nothing Natural' - Lush.... two laughing girls whizzing around on a waltzer at an old fashioned fairground. Their hair is whipping around their faces as the cars spin faster and faster.

'Harvest Moon' - Neil Young... two teenagers making out in a car on the edge of a forest. It's their first time and I can feel how nervous they are.

'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' - Neutral Milk Hotel... a guy in a waistcoat and trilby hat sitting on the steps outside the railway station, playing his guitar for passers by.

🤔

Re: Songs that make you picture or feel something.

MrFrogger — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:01:38 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 02/24/2013 20:01

dividesbyzero wrote:

As for albums, Boards Of Canada's Geogaddi is a really intense emotional experience.

This.

Also I forgot AC-In The Flowers, in which I always visualize this dreamy summer night sort of thing, probably chasing some girl, then there's the explosion, and It just takes it to another level