ITT: Albums that reward active listening.

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bump wtf post some shit dudes

memememe im so cool and above else

go fuck yourself you arrogant piece of shit

>>73500673
i have actually never listened to sigur ros at all... but ive been meaning to for a while. is this album a good starting point?

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>>73500430
this and also pic related

>>73500728
No id start with Agætis, then (). After that then whatever but this is definitely their magnum opus imo

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first listen: shit but the singles and a few deep cuts are good
second listen: eh its 50/50
third listen: good but lonestar, butch lullaby and seventies tv show theme are shit
fourth listen: literal AOTD material

>>73500210
how does it reward active listening I actually want to know

>>73500785
did you listen to his last project with jesu? just dropped a couple weeks ago. went right under /mu/'s radar but it is fucking GOOD like best shit ive heard from mark since benji.

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>>73500793
no matter what aspect of the music you tune in to, there is something great to be taken from it. for me personally, elvin's decisions on the drums blow me the fuck away and always really make me think of my own drumming and rhythm in general.

>>73500827
Yeah I really liked it, it would honestly be better than benji if it werent for the two big singles that came out before it. Every other track is near flawless, I still like Common As Light more to be honest

>>73500210
Every good album ever

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>all good music

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>>73500967
>>73501006
post some examples then

>>73501082
http://scaruffi.com/music/best100.html
https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart

>>73501006
come on, you know what he means. there's plenty of music that you can totally appreciate even while not focused on it and some can ONLY be appreciated through focus

>>73500672
sounds like you're the only one with butthurt pretensions
how do you even post that just from the sight of an acclaimed jazz album and think you're the right headed one?

>>73501082
Soundtracks for the Blind
How I Loved You
The Seer
F#Ainf
Lift yr skinny fists
Spiderland

Literally any good music

>>73501209
any good music will reward active listening but not all good music requires active listening to be rewarding

>>73500728
U should listen to all the post rock mu suggests desu and listen to Kveiker after AB at least

>>73501233
Yes I agree

Thank God for Mental Illness

>>73500672
passive listener detected

>>73501108
this is an album that has never clicked for me... can somebody shed some light please

i like most of Type-O's discography but this one kind of escapes me

>>73501358
http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/typeoneg.html
i hate doing this, but this a million times more articulate and concise than anything i could say about it right now

>>73501439
>The sounds on this album are always dense and tragic, and give no hope of truce. This record is pervaded by a post-industrial "Wagnerism" akin to Foetus, and follows the ultrapunk rhetoric, yet is always derailed by an explosion of uncontrolled psychiatric imbalances. Slow, Deep and Hard makes a sonic trip into Dante's deepest sub-levels: into the hell of the alienated mind, into the hell of the post-industrial society, and into the hell of the human condition. The singer or the listener does not emerge from any of the three, and instead finds an uncomfortable home in all three. The music is a proclamation of hell and heaven, of holy sacraments and unholy crimes.
>The high-sounding titles of the songs (which generally have nothing to do with the themes of the text and instead refer to scientific phenomena and fiction) add an additional unknown and critical exegesis to the work, similar to psychiatric therapy. Perhaps the liturgy created by Steele is a perverse form of a Grand Guignol mocking the "Rocky Horror." It implies first and foremost a search for a deity. Even Freud would have lost his way in this maze of aberrations and turpitude.
>The quintessence of the hatred that reigns supreme in the most deprived areas of the metropolis, the rock of Type O Negative feeds the nightmares of people swarming among the outcast people and ruins of post-nuclear cities. It absorbs and reflects their monstrosities, the monstrosities of their murderous fantasies, their paradoxical existence, which, in spite of an Apocalypse, is in spite of themselves.

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when I sat down and paid attention to this entire thing, it felt like it all built up the last track and man did it blow me away

>>73500430
Literally came in just to post this. Very nuanced and well-developed.

>>73500210

TRU.

>>73500793
>>73500885
this as fuck.

Every time I listen to it I try to pay more attention to one of the players in particular and elvin jones always leaves me flabbergasted. really such an exciting player.

>>73500793
For one, hearing the "A Love Supreme" melody part popping up all the time is neat, and you might not notice that if you're not paying much attention.

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unironically this
because if you're doing it right, you're the composer now
all these other albums, you're still some entrapped audience

Pretty much any good album