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Best Albums to listen to on Headphones

EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
edited January 2008 in Other Music
Title pretty much says it all, trying to find gems I've never heard and also stuff I maybe haven't listened to on headphones yet that I already have...

Looking for Non-Pearl Jam albums

my picks for best headphone albums(other than Binaural) are NIN-Downward Spiral and Broken and TOOL-Anema

fire away!
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  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    Animals,DSOTM, etc - Pink Floyd
    Sap & Jar of Flies - AIC
    No Code (vinyl) - sorry
    Antichrist Svperstar - Marilyn Manson
    LA Woman, ST, Strange Days, etc - The Doors
    Rumours, The Dance - Fleetwood Mac
    Bridge over troubled water - Simon & Garfunkel
    Reign in Blood - Slayer
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  • BeavBeav Posts: 223
    Radiohead-In Rainbows
    Joanna Newsom- Y's
    The Mars Volta
    "Sooner or later you'll bare your teeth"
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  • LukinFanLukinFan Florida Posts: 29,098
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    No Code (vinyl) - sorry
    I agree- No Code rocks on the vinyl with HP
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  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    Animals,DSOTM, etc - Pink Floyd
    Sap & Jar of Flies - AIC
    No Code (vinyl) - sorry
    Antichrist Svperstar - Marilyn Manson
    LA Woman, ST, Strange Days, etc - The Doors
    Rumours, The Dance - Fleetwood Mac
    Bridge over troubled water - Simon & Garfunkel
    Reign in Blood - Slayer


    no need for apologies , i will check all of these out that i havent yet

    keep em coming
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  • Strangest TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    Band of Horses- Cease to Begin, Everything all the Time
    Tool- Lateralus
    Modest Mouse- We were dead..., Good News..., Moon and Antarctica
    Cowboy Junkies-Trinity Sessions
    Led Zeppelin (all) especially Physical Graffitti and Presense
    Pixies-Surfer Rosa, Doolittle
    My Morning Jacket-It Still Moves, Z
    George Harrison-All things must pass
    the Minions
  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
    Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Relevations
    Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    awesome !!
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  • AndySlashAndySlash Posts: 3,273
    Radiohead- Kid A
    The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute
    REM- Up
    Peter Gabriel- Up
    The Beatles- Love
  • journeymanjourneyman Posts: 135
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    Tool- Lateralus

    Hey, is this picture disc good quality? I've heard picture discs can be inferior.

    Television - Marquee Moon
    Bob Marley - Exodus
    The Wall

    As long as it's 180 g's or better it's all good!
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    alright, ones that i can think of off the top of my head is

    marilyn manson-mechanical animals
    type o negative-bloody kisses
    audioslave-audioslave
    tool-lateralus
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    LukinFan wrote:
    I agree- No Code rocks on the vinyl with HP

    i've never heard but i bet it's awesome!
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
    Radiohead - Amnesiac
    Beck - The Information
    Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
    NIN - The Fragile
    RHCp - Stadium Arcadium (so good in phones - John rips it on this disc but it's very underrated by "legitimate" music folk)

    Anything sounds better in headphones i'm thinking. Unless you're booming the bass party style
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • Strangest TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    journeyman wrote:
    Hey, is this picture disc good quality? I've heard picture discs can be inferior.

    Television - Marquee Moon
    Bob Marley - Exodus
    The Wall

    As long as it's 180 g's or better it's all good!

    Yeah, I got my copy thru the fan club but I believe there's no difference in the quality. They were all picture discs 180g sounds great.
    the Minions
  • Joe2TheRevengeJoe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    Massive Attack - Mezzanine
    You can't spell "dumb" without DMB
  • journeymanjourneyman Posts: 135
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    Yeah, I got my copy thru the fan club but I believe there's no difference in the quality. They were all picture discs 180g sounds great.


    Cool, I'm going to get it. Thanks. I wish Ænima was more readily available.

    The No Code lp is big, doesn't fit in usual poly sleeves. Mine is a bit warped but still sounds great.
  • uninnocentuninnocent Posts: 1,565
    as other(s) have said, dark side of the moon is amazing on headphones. tool's lateralus and ænema also work very well.
  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    Gardenparty wrote:
    Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
    Radiohead - Amnesiac
    Beck - The Information
    Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
    NIN - The Fragile
    RHCp - Stadium Arcadium (so good in phones - John rips it on this disc but it's very underrated by "legitimate" music folk)

    Anything sounds better in headphones i'm thinking. Unless you're booming the bass party style

    yeah but a lot of things sound bvetter than others
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Sigur Ros, Takk.. tried and tested.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • lukin420lukin420 Posts: 80
    DMB- Before These Crowded Streets
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    Some mentioned above that i have to give a nod to:

    No Code - PJ (though i give a personal nod to Vitalogy vinyl!)
    Up - REM
    Downward Spiral - NIN

    All albums that sound just absolutely phenomenal on vinyl with headphones!

    AND THEN
    This may be weird, but

    APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION - Guns N Roses

    Their is some guitar work on that album, that if you litsen to on vinyl with headphones just comes at you like crazy.

    I spent a summer when i was sixteen getting doped up on crazy nug topped with lots of way-too-good opium and then crashing out on a mattress with no frame ... listening primarily to Appetite on vinyl through headphones ...

    man ... i can't tell you ... it was probably my "formative" age and the aural manipulation of the substances ... but that shit sticks in my head. I swear you can hear like 3 or 4 guitar parts in a lot of that stuff if you listen.

    (also, on the subject of vinyl - and not necessarily headphones - Led Zeppelin III is ridiculously creamy. Mmm)
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Definitely Tool's Lateralus...many many subtleties that you can really only hear on headphones.
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    yeah but a lot of things sound bvetter than others

    Yes, i think we're both stating the obvious:)
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • bladworth116bladworth116 Posts: 344
    R.E.M.-Fables of the Reconstruction
    Catherine Wheel-Adam & Eve
    The Verve Pipe-Villains
    Mark Lanegan-Scraps at Midnight
    Cowboy Junkies-Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
    Peter Gabriel-Up
  • spongersponger Posts: 3,159
    Primus -Tales From the Punchbowl

    "Southbound Pachyderm" is especially appeasing to the ears
    reigning champion

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  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    Gardenparty wrote:
    Yes, i think we're both stating the obvious:)


    totally its one of those "thanks for the stunning report captain obvious" moments.
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  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    The Frames - Fitzcarraldo

    Korn - Unplugged

    The Jimmy Cake - any of their albums

    Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Live In Manchester/Dublin

    Bell X1 - Music In Mouth

    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uplift Mofo Party Plan
  • RicsardRicsard Posts: 1,943
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    Massive Attack - Mezzanine

    Agreed

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  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Pearl Jam - No Code
    NIN - Downward Spiral
    Down - II - A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
    Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
    Agents of Oblivion - Agents of Oblivion
    Acidbath - When The Kite String Pops
    Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States of America
    The Audreys - Between Last Night and Us
    Pearl Jam - Binaural
    Richard Thompson - Mirrorblue
    Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
    Alabama Thunderpussy - Fulton hill
    Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
    Jefferson Airplane - Best of
    Live - The Distance to Here
    Faithless - To All New Arrivals
    Covenant - Dreams of A Cryotank
    Richard Thompson - Sweet Warrior

    I could list hundreds... my job involves logging in at half 6 in the morning, slapping on the headphones, putting 10,000 songs on random and not removing them til I leave at 3... i'm a lucky gal :cool:
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Also... forgot my 'album of the moment':

    Dax Riggs - We Sing of Only Blood or Love

    EVERYONE should by this album and listen to it on headphones IMO, his voice is hypnotic... very Bowie-esque :D

    Actually, listen to anything connected to Dax Riggs on headphones. Acidbath, Deadboy and The Elephantmen, Agents of Oblivion, his solo stuff... his voice is simply stunning.
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • pjl44pjl44 Posts: 10,193
    Any Tool and Blue Lines by Massive Attack come to mind immediately...
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