One of my favorite things to do while stoned is listen to albums that are really unique, artful, and/or jam packed with soul and energy, as in that head space music just hits completely differently and it just lends to me finding a deep love and appreciation for the art of music. What’re some of your favorites?

  • CM400@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 months ago

    Oh, man, so many. There’s the obvious like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon or Rush’s 2112, but Rust in Peace by Megadeth is superb, In Step by Stevie Ray Vaughan as well. Muse, however, has a few albums that are incredible, especially when you’re in the headspace to pick out little details. Their Black Holes and Revelations album is a banger from front to back, Simulation Theory is Velvety and interesting, Drones is jarring in a very good way, and The Resistance is harmony-rich and beautiful.

    Also, I’m not familiar with the whole album, but the song White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane has one of the best vocal performances ever.

    • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      6 months ago

      Egg!

      Egg, oh an egg comes out of a chicken

      Egg, oh a chick comes out of an egg

      Egg, oh an egg comes out of a chicken

      Egg, oh a chick comes out of an egg

      Egg, oh an egg comes out of a chicken

      Egg, oh a chick comes out of an egg

      Egg, oh an egg comes out of a chicken

      Egg, oh a chick comes out of an egg

    • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      6 months ago

      Oh man. California is a masterpiece. Musicianship is top notch, with so many different moods and styles, it’s like they had enough ideas to make 3 albums but somehow managed to cram everything into one.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    Delton 3030 is a rap opera set in the dystopian future. Amazing album start to finish.

    Interstellar 55555 is an animated story for daft punks Discovery album which is a banger on its own. Once you watch the movie you never hear the album differently.

    Green Day’s American Idiot is a concept album that was good enough to turn into a real musical.

  • TheFuzz@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 months ago

    I love Röyksopp Profound Mysteries. There are several albums. The songs with Susanne Sundfør are amazing.

  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    Bitches Brew by Miles Davis.

    I once got really stoned and fell asleep while listening to it on a loop. I had all these insane dreams where I was walking through a pitch black jungle. I could feel all this stuff, the different textures of plants, the ground under foot, animals brushing by in the night, but I couldn’t see anything: a totally non-visual dream. It wasn’t scary, just super weird. Never experienced anything like it before or since.

  • cabbage@piefed.social
    91·
    6 months ago

    King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King.

    It’s just exploding with creativity and craftsmanship throughout the album. The opening tune (21st Century Schizoid Man) was unlike anything anyone had ever heard at the time it was released, and there’s honestly still not much like it out there. And the transition to Moonchild after it is equally mind-blowing just for the contrast alone. The title track remains one of the most incredible things I’ve heard.

    Zappa also has a lot of good candidates for this list. I’m soft for Freak Out, where the madness started, but some might argue something like Joe’s Garage is a better example.

  • Thassodar@lemm.ee
    4·
    6 months ago

    I haven’t used Lemmy to promote myself until now, but check me out: www.thassodar.com

    All my songs have no words, vary from chill to drum and bass, and I’ve been making them for about 4 years. My most recent EP is primarily chill, and my SoundCloud has the latest 4 tracks I put out last month.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    3·
    6 months ago

    Back in grade school we had a teacher who played us 'Stan Freidberg Presents The United States Of America!" It’s an old comedy alboum full of silly songs about the Founding Fathers. Certainly mindblowing, creative, and unique.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    AMAROK by Mike Oldfield. Not just the music itself (it’s quite a trip), but the story of its development:

    He was under contract for Virgin to produce another long form album, but he and Branson had a falling out. Regardless, Branson threatened legal trouble if Oldfield didn’t go through with it. He was hoping for a record with radio-friendly hits like “Shadow on the Wall” and “Moonlight Shadow” that could be peddled to radio stations.

    So Oldfield composed AMAROK. It contains one single track, spanning the entire length of the 60+ minute album. That way, Branson couldn’t simply lift any tracks and use them as singles.

    But wait, there’s more! Since Oldfield knew that if he did this, Branson would simply make a selection of excerpts from the album and use those as singles. This had been done before while they still got along or even before he signed with Virgin, so they knew it could work, cfr the “Incantations”, “Ommadawn”, “Hergest Ridge”, …

    The “Amarok” track is… a special kind of composition. It’s by no means bad - it’s actually pretty great from a technical standpoint. But what you decidedly cannot do, is attribute it to any specific genre, nor easily mark the beginnings and endings of the different “tracks” comprising the record.

    Thus, Oldfield won this battle and Amarok was pretty much impossible to use for radioplay. I still enjoy it to this day though.

  • TheControlled@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

    “Closer” popularly known as “The ‘I Wanna Fuck You Like an Animal’ Song”, is just the tip of the iceberg. Admittedly it’s a pretty big tip 😏

    • higgsboson@dubvee.orgEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      That album also featured Adrian Belew (of Zappa, King Crimson,Talking Heads) on “textured synth guitars.”