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?
Live at the Old Quarter, Townes Van Zandt. Townes at the height of power, and before the years took too much of a toll, a live album including just the perfect amount of chatter and ambience to give an impression of what the night was like, the goofy dad-humor blending into some of the best American songs ever written. I won’t argue that he was better than Dylan, but I prefer him, and with a slightly different lyrical style he was absolutely worthy to be mentioned in the same breath.
I don’t know this specific recording but I love his music since I first heard it in The Big Lebowski. I learned to play Dead Flowers too. Will give this a listen, cheers
I actually enjoy his buddy Guy Clark a little more, and respect him very nearly as much, but Guy is just a little more country and didn’t have quite that same level of soul-deep hurt that you need to really cross genres as a “beautiful loser” icon.
Swans - The Seer
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Octavarium by Dream Theatre. Its a whole album themed around the number 8.
Also pretty much any album by Muse, but if I had to narrow it down I would say my favorite from them overall is Absolution, followed by Black Holes and Revelations.
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane, Kind of Blue - Miles Davis, Doolittle - Pixies, Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips, Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest, Radiohead - OK Computer
Porcupine Tree - Staircase Infinities 1994 album remastered in 2008. Also Piped Link
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Deep Forest
Music by Cavelight by Blockhead. My fav stoned album of all time, probably.
This is a weird one, but I’m going to say Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team. It has the vibe of kids playing on a playground in the 80s and 90s. Like, double Dutch jump rope, neon colors, excited chatter… Pure, innocent joy. It isn’t actually about any of those things, but the way the band uses samples, lots of trumpet (the most triumphant instrument), and the sung/rapped/chanted/cheered vocals really make it feel like that. It’s not experimental though, these are catchy, banger pop songs. One of my favorite albums of all time.
Global Goon: Plastic Orchestra one of my my favorite albums of the year, and very unique. Global Goon is really underappreciated and i think they are amazing.
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.
Yeah, very much the first deltron album, it rocks. Second one has some good inter-track bits and a few good songs, but the first one, phew.
Love me some Del.
Now you got me listening to Mistadobalina
Also for anyone interested check out Hieroglyphics they’re amazing.
Some more modern/mainstream ones:
I love Janelle Monae and the Archandroid albums are fantastic.
Alt-J, we saw them live and my kids said “I just want to lay on the ground and listen”, and that’s a pretty good description of it.
AWOLNATION, the music is heavy but nice to sleep to, it is dreamy in some way.
KNOWER FOREVER
and Clown Core https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_rPd_ufK4
sounds like squarepusher had a baby with Nav Katze
