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If You're Willing To Play The Game, We're Gonna Ride On The Gravy Train...

For me, one of the most effective ways to get something meaningful out of an album is if it says something poignant and moving about society as a whole. These are the ten albums I would give to a Human Situation class to analyze.
1Anberlin
Cities


This heart-wrenching album details the human response to tragedy. Songs like "Hello Alone", "Alexithymia", and "Fin" speak to every human heart that isn't made of death metal anthems.
2 Fair to Midland
Fable From a Mayfly: What I tell you Three Times is True


I always get the feeling that there's some ingenious political commentary going on in these allegorical lyrics, but as of yet I can't really make sense of them. lol
3Goo Goo Dolls
A Boy Named Goo


"Sleeping on the White House lawn ain't never changed a thing... just look at all the washed out hippie dreams. A visionary coward said that anger can be power, as long as there's a victim on TV."
4Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea


I just recently got into this, but Mangum's themes of sex, death, religion, and oppression are relentlessly offensive (in a good way) and relatable.
5Have A Nice Life
Deathconsciousness


"And when the world hates a body, it just throws itself away to a place where our hands can't reach..."
6Porcupine Tree
Fear of a Blank Planet


A chilling and prophetic summary of where the youth of today stand...
7Radiohead
Kid A


I got this at the same time I was reading A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley for English class. It hit me really hard with its images of a thought-deprived, manufactured, and clone-populated world.
8Rush
Grace Under Pressure


Why this particular album? Because nuclear apocalypse is a lot scarier than universal domination by a guitar-burning religious cult.
9Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here


Welcome to the machine...
10Underoath
Lost in the Sound of Separation


I always appreciate albums that deliver spiritual messages without being preachy or cheesy.
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