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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. | 1 | | Anberlin 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 | 3 | | Goo 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." | 4 | | Neutral 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. | 5 | | Have 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..." | 6 | | Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
A chilling and prophetic summary of where the youth of today stand... | 7 | | Radiohead 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. | 8 | | Rush Grace Under Pressure
Why this particular album? Because nuclear apocalypse is a lot scarier than universal domination by a guitar-burning religious cult. | 9 | | Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Welcome to the machine... | 10 | | Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation
I always appreciate albums that deliver spiritual messages without being preachy or cheesy. | |
natey
01.28.09 | I wish my English class read "Brave New World". Not that I didn't love Anne Frank | NOTINTHEFACE
01.28.09 | Anne Frank is pretty good, but A Brave New World is just brilliant. Huxley was a man before his time. | Athom
01.28.09 | mangum. | NOTINTHEFACE
01.28.09 | fix'd | TheLuckyFew
01.28.09 | Some good music here. Does A Brave New World get any better as it goes along? The reason I ask is because I put it down after about 2 chapters, and never picked it up again. But if it gets better I may give it another go. | Knott-
01.28.09 | needs ok computer. big time. | Asiatic667
01.28.09 | Whoa, I can't beleive you didn't mention Manic Street Preachers THE HOLY BIBLE, that would fit this category perfectly | soundless
01.28.09 | lol | natey
01.28.09 | I was being sort of sarcastic about loving Anne Frank, not that she doesn't have her worth I guess.
1 is really good. I didn't get into 10. Nothing hit me aesthetically | Poet
01.28.09 | I need to hear 6 big time. | NOTINTHEFACE
01.28.09 | A Brave New World's first few chapters are exceedingly boring, but it's worth the effort to plow through it. About halfway through it gets awesome.
10 didn't impress me the first couple of times, either, but it grew on me and I think it easily outstrips the disappointing lame-ness that was New Surrender. | Captain North
01.28.09 | I lost the game... | Masochist
01.28.09 | Oooh...LOTS of good music on here! 'Cities' is my favorite Anberlin record; #2 is always a good listen; I'm going to get that Porcupine Tree record soon; Pink Floyd goes without saying and the comparison of "Lost..." to "New Surrender" makes a lot of sense to me (as I associate them together, as well).
As for #2...the lyric that always stands out to me in that regard is "Sunday, I remember paper beats rock," which I take to mean that even in the church, money will always come before religion (paper=money; rock=Jesus...yeah). Actually, I think the entire song ("Upgrade^Brigade") is somewhat anti-deifying-of-Jesus (lines like "I'm figuring out that the one thing he's not is above and beyond")...but I could be wrong. | NOTINTHEFACE
01.28.09 | I've never noticed those things before. Very interesting. I think "White Picket Fence" and "Walls of Jericho" have some references to Bush and the oil industry, but I can't be sure. For some reason Anberlin and Underoath go together in my mind, even though I was listening to Underoath for about two years before I was listening to Anberlin. Maybe the fact that they're labelmates? | Tulannical
01.28.09 | all good albums for the ones i've heard. I might get 2; the songs i heard were really good |
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