Musical poll time

[effervescible]

I'm curious. Do you guys have an album that just sticks with you no matter how much time has passed? Not even necessarily the most important one to you, or your favorite...just something about it.

Yesterday I pulled a stack of CDs from a forgotten box in my TV stand storage, and ripped them to mp3. One was Tori Amos' "Boys For Pele" and damned if it doesn't still pack an emotional gutpunch. I'm not sure why, but it always, always does this to me. "Doughnut Song" had me choked up in my cubicle. It's not even the first Tori album I heard, or the second, so that can't be why. I wonder who else feels this way about an album, and what it is. Not sure about the why. Maybe the why isn't important.

I do remember that putting this CD on always helped me write. Maybe I should try that again.

Comments

[frog-rocket.livejournal.com]

No matter how long I walk away from them, Keane always gets me every time. The first album I bought, in my senior year of high school, was Hopes and Fears. They're probably my favorite band, and that is hands down my favorite of their albums.

[jmcgarry.livejournal.com]

I have dozens, but they are often mood or subject associated. Early Bowie albums transport me back almost instantly to highschool. Dieselboy's mixes A Soldier's Story and System Upgrade (and to an extent his own Dungeon Master's Guide) put me in a hyper, alert functional state which I often use to do housework.... for me it's like having about 8 cups of coffee. The cerebral sort of Scandinavian artists like Sigur Rós, Amina, Varttina all put me in a very focused state where I can write well and quickly and get a lot of work done or read and chill. A Silver Mount Zion's He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms makes me think of all the pets that have passed through my life.

Basically, I think music is my drug, it can so easily manipulate my mental and emotional states.

But Tori... "Pretty Good Year" and "Hey, Jupiter."

[c0untmystars.livejournal.com]

Fiona Apple for me. All three of her albums. And Garbage Version 2.0.

[angelinamaria.livejournal.com]

Elastica.

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

Pele is my favorite Tori album. I remember just where I was the first time I heard it, and I still love every song on it.

[vivien]

...Me, too!!!

I have a few copies of it so I always have it near. I adore that album in a visceral way I can't explain.

[emiweebee.livejournal.com]

I always like rediscovering albums.

Even if they suddenly upturn me, it's...an experience.

[buttercup0222.livejournal.com]

Tori!!!! I believe Pele is a masterpiece, but I have to be in a certain mood to really get into it. From the Choirgirl Hotel still blows me away every damn time though. Isn't it so great to pull an album out years later and discover that it still hits you right in the gut?

[edge-chan.livejournal.com]

Eiffel 65's "Europop". Not matter how many times i listen it or people thinks they're so outdated, i still loved it.

[kawree.livejournal.com]

classic rock resounds in me a lot. i know that sounds cheesy, but my dad used to listen to a lot of classic rock when i was a kid--Bruce Springsteen, The Grateful Dead, Steely Dan, old Aerosmith, Tom Petty, etc--and i still love all of that old stuff, corny as it may be. it's very nostalgic and never fails to kind of cheer me up.

also Sugar Ray's 14:59 always throws me back to senior year of high school.