Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Albums to listen to before you die

I'm listening through the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, in no particular order. It seems good for getting me to listen to things I'd never bother to listen to otherwise. Genres I never explore. Artists that don't really interest me. Weird stuff that has more artistic merit than musical. It's a good exercise, I think, to experience more things in life.


I'm going to list some albums by artists that aren't on that list, that I would put on such a list, if I was making one:

  • Nat King Cole - Love Is The Thing (1957)
  • Wendy Carlos - Switched On Bach (1968)
  • J.A. Seazer - Kokkyō Junreika (1973)
  • Roy Orbison - Black And White Night (1988)
  • Skunk Anansie - Paranoid And Sunburnt (1995)
  • Kirsty MacColl - Tropical Brainstorm (1999)
  • Yuki Kajiura - FICTION (2008)
  • The Protomen - Act II : The Father Of Death (2009)
  • Module - Shatter the Original Videogame Soundtrack (2009)  
  • Square Enix Music - NieR Gestalt & NieR Replicant Original Soundtrack (2010)
  • Perturbator - I Am The Night (2012)
  • Yousei Teikoku - 神パラ楽典 ~神様と運命革命のパラドクス ボーカルアルバム~ (2013)
  • Algiers - Algiers (2015)
  • Prelude To Ecstasy - The Last Dinner Party (2024)
Discussion on each album after the break!