Best Ever Albums

Re: Best music to visualize

CharlieBarley — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:12:26 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 09/14/2020 18:12

I don't think I get many visuals when listening to albums

But if you do and you are inspired by album covers, what about the Beatles White Album?

I am sure you could get a load of visuals from that album yet it has a plain white cover

Re: Best music to visualize

RoundTheBend — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 01:12:58 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 09/14/2020 05:12

Skinny wrote:

When I was younger, I often used to see this when I was listening to music:

I never see it anymore, though.

Good memories.

I remember winamp having a pretty cool one back in the late 90s that was like this, but responded more. Feel like the Microsoft version was more a loop that almost matched.

Also MTV is something I wish wasn't bastardized/devalued in our culture. Sure we still have music videos, but I miss having that "curated" if you will. I guess VJ's are dead?

Re: Best music to visualize

baystateoftheart — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:34:31 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 09/11/2020 23:34

saltfish wrote:

I was hoping for more original visualization like ... lethal's example

🤣 It's nostalgic and funny, but not terribly original I'm afraid.

Re: Best music to visualize

Patman360 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:58:13 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 09/11/2020 15:58

Personally I tend to tie in music to the place I first listened to it (or I guess where it first properly 'clicked' with me in some instances) if that makes sense? For example, when I play I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, one of my favourite albums ever, it always reverts back to this riverside walk I took on the way to uni, I could do that walk 10+ times a week and the bulk of that time I'd have that album playing, it just kinda felt right around there weirdly. Anyway, there's other examples of this, that's the one that springs to my mind clearest currently. I like being out and about and I generally travel alot anyway and I almost prefer listening to music in that sort of scenario, just feels right most of the time.

Re: Best music to visualize

Spyglass — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:52:28 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 09/11/2020 15:52

Here's a better example without the album cover involved. When I checked out Gold Record by Bill Callahan, I was imagining being by the lake with an old log cabin on a beautiful cloudy day with a bright, silver sky. I get a similar feeling with other Americana albums but Callahan does it better than most.

Re: Best music to visualize

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 08:23:55 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/11/2020 12:23

Of course album covers are chosen to reflect the music, all I'm saying is that it seems to bias the listeners experience in visualizing music. And I have a hunch that those images are often chosen with hefty extramusical bias as well (maybe in Irrlicht's case, being released by kosmichemusik label Ohr at a time when space films were soundtracked with a certain kind of ghostly-wailing organ or synthesizer -- why not choose an image of a church? Or a burnt out amplifier?). Everyone's everything is 100% awesome, but I was hoping for more original visualization like synaesthesia or lethal's example or something else. Visualizing Mick Jaggar's jeaned ass while listening to Wild Horses is expected, also, horses, and hospital beds. Visualizing harmonica sounds as a kind of western flavor isn't further off (thank you Ennio). But how do you visualize non-lyrical music for which you have no context? That's interesting

Re: Best music to visualize

AfterHours — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 01:25:12 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 09/11/2020 05:25

saltfish wrote:

OK. No need to get bitchy. Pretty sure there's a reissue of Irrlicht with an ominous, spacey cover too. Just seems like you're thinking about album covers

Maybe artists often (not always) choose a cover that has some correlation to the music they made?

I mean, Irrlicht clearly is ominous, spacey music...

Re: Best music to visualize

Skinny — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 01:11:15 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 09/11/2020 05:11

When I was younger, I often used to see this when I was listening to music:

I never see it anymore, though.

Re: Best music to visualize

Spyglass — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:11:42 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 09/11/2020 02:11

saltfish wrote:

OK. No need to get bitchy. Pretty sure there's a reissue of Irrlicht with an ominous, spacey cover too. Just seems like you're thinking about album covers

Ambient electronica always reminds me of space. And even if the cover comment was true, you seem to forget that album covers oftentimes represent the essence of the music within.

Re: Best music to visualize

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:54:59 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/11/2020 01:54

OK. No need to get bitchy. Pretty sure there's a reissue of Irrlicht with an ominous, spacey cover too. Just seems like you're thinking about album covers

Re: Best music to visualize

Spyglass — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:41:39 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 09/11/2020 01:41

saltfish wrote:

So you connected it to a similar music with which you already had visuals associated

Any "pure" visualization? Is that even possible?

You completely missed it there.

A: No, I didn't. Please read the original post again before replying.
B: Yes, pure visualization is possible. It's even a part of some forms of meditation.

Re: Best music to visualize

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:47:50 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/11/2020 00:47

So you connected it to a similar music with which you already had visuals associated

Any "pure" visualization? Is that even possible?

Re: Best music to visualize

Spyglass — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:33:24 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 09/11/2020 00:33

saltfish wrote:

Pretty sure you're getting that from the covers/titles

Ok, how's this? I listened to Irrlicht by Klaus Schulze and I visualized evil spirits coming down to Earth for an attack. It was slow-building like the Rite of Spring and Night on Bald Mountain segments of Fantasia rolled into one.

Does this satisfy you?

Re: Best music to visualize

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:27:36 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/11/2020 00:27

Pretty sure you're getting that from the covers/titles

Best music to visualize

Spyglass — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:09:54 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 09/11/2020 00:09

Everyone of us must have formed mental pictures from a song at one point. When I'm focusing on nothing else, I do that pretty easily. Gas albums tend to make me visualize being out in the woods, for example.