Albums You're Digging II

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soooooooooo good
 
From their website...
"Wardruna is a Norwegian musical constellation set out to explore and evoke the depths of Norse wisdom and spirituality. Musically Wardruna has its main focus on the cultic musical language found in the near-forgotten arts of galder, seidr and the daily acts of the cultic life, mixed with impulses from Norwegian / Nordic folk music and music from other indigenous cultures"


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Screaming Trees - Dust (1996)
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Great alternative rock album, Lanegan's finest and last with the Trees.

Psychic Ills - Dins (2006)
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An acidic journey. Just one long hallucination after another.

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1998)
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Absolutely stunning composition. The rhythmic palpitations follow the work all the way through. It's difficult to separate one part from another, but that's what makes it so cohesive, so deliciously appealing.

Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me (1977)
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Every pedophile's unrealized potential lies in the crazy script offered by the lecherous man known as Gary Wilson. Mildly disturbing, mildly erotic, but fully entertaining.
 
Tarantual Hawk - Tarantula Hawk LP (1999)

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No lyrics, no singing, just pure progressive psychedelic metal about the life cycle of the Tarantula Hawk. Much better the second time around, this is finally getting the credit it deserves from me.

BONG - BONG Lp (2009)

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More progressive metal.

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)

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Just a great album. Great album.
 
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I have hazy memories of picking this up as my first ever Stones album years ago in the Fopp store in Oxford. I think it was the same time and place I got the White Album and Grinderman's eponymous effort too. Ah, the memories!

Great, great album. Worth having it for the title track and Monkey Man alone.
 
Draconian - Turning Season Within
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If you love Draconian you will love this album. The production was phenomenal compared to past albums and the heavy chugging riRAB are 10x heavier on this album along with the grunts. I was hoping Draconian wouldn't recycle their past albums and they didn't with this one. Seasons Apart is a great album opener and I personally thought it was their best album opener.
 
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Certainly not the finest album ever made but I love the production on this and it made major waves when it was released. Still a nostalgic fave.
 
No album has honestly moved me like this one has. I waited far too long to buy it...
Listen from start to finish to fully appreciate it and its' VERY heavy story. Absolutely heartbreakingly beautiful.[/QUOTE]

You don't even have to give a description for this album really; the cover pretty much does the job for you. Easily the most harrowing album I've ever heard and one of my favourites.
 
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This is a fun one to sing to though it's not poppy but it is simple. One of the few albums I listen to for the lyrics.

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This is the band everyone should name drop when there is a what's emo discussion.
 
Sadly that's really the only Galaxie 500 album I could get into. By the time they made another one, there were other shoegaze banRAB doing much more interesting things. That is still a damn good album, though.
 
Only in the sense that they popularized the genre, but I find it hard to believe that they were in any sense the first college rock band.

Musically, The Feelies were doing everything R.E.M. did on Chronic Town two years prior. They had the jangly guitars, the pounding rhythm section, the murabled vocals complemented by distant harmonies, and most of all, the devoted college student following. Not to mention that Radio Free Europe is basically a Feelies rip-off, even though it's a fantastic song.
 
In all honesty, besides Joyride, I don't like the album a whole lot, I don't like Human, that's for sure.

Right now, "Stop Making Sense, Talking HeaRAB Live 1984"
 
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