If you were going Deaf...

[Evelys]

...and you had to pick a final album to listen to before your hearing got too bad to listen to music at all, what would that album be?

Or, if not a single album, 10 songs.

[Ham n Cheese]

greatest hits of the beatles or pet sounds probably

[ValkyrieIsAboutToDie]

(Edited for reasoning behind choices)

Single Album: Coheed and Cambria- In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

I know Coheed pisses off a lot of people (and I understand why), but when In Keeping Secrets came out during my senior year in high school, it didn't leave my 6CD in-dash changer for the next two years. Just so many great memories associated with the songs on here. Driving out East to Montauk on Long Island at dusk with A Favor House Atlantic blasting, singing along with friends, or heading over to Sayville Bowl for Midnight Bowling listening to Al the Killer. I'm still a young lad, and in my short time here on this planet no music contains more raw emotion and memories for me than C&C: IKSoSE:3.


10 Songs:

Moby- Porcelain: I associate this song with a number of good and bad times in my life. For some reason it expresses the highest highs and lowest lows of my emotional spectrum. Whenever I hear it, I just sit and stare wide-eyed towards some invisible horizon.

Pachelbel- Canon in D: A beautiful (yet crassly commercialized song) song that seems to pop up in my life at extremely strange yet ultimately fitting times.

Children of Bodom- Needled 24/7: I knew I needed a Bodom song here, because they just own my fucking soul, but I had trouble deciding which was my favorite. Lil' Bloodred? Mask of Sanity? Tough call, but finally I decided on Needled just because of that bombass Guitar/Keyboard duel in the middle.

Euphony & DJ Storm- Disappear: My favorite hardcore song. I think I listened to this close to 300 or 400 times while grinding Timbermaw faction last year in an attempt to be the first person on my server with a Defender of the Timbermaw... and it still hasn't grown stale.

RX Bandits- Nothing Sacred: I love the fucking Bandits (although I wish they'd touch a little more on their Ska roots nowadays) and this song is my favorite of all theirs. Reminds me of quiet, tired winter nights on the Florida beaches.

Tune Up!- Raver's Fantasy: Pure and unadulterated eurodance cheese, and I love every single second of it. The ending run may be my favorite 20 seconds of music in the world.

OC Remixes- (Ecco 2- Fury of Medusa/Zombies Ate my Neighbors- Neighburgers): More vapid guilty pleasures of mine that just make my ears so happy my Ipod earbuds get sucked into my head when I listen to them.

Everclear- White Men in Black Suits: First song I listened to off the first CD I ever purchased, and it's still one of my favorites. As a little whipper snapper I used to listen to this and enjoy nothing more than the harmony, always wondering what the lyrics meant. After a strange and turbulent but ultimately excellent relationship many years later in my life with a girl of questionable morals, I understood what Art was singing about.

Goldfinger- Superman: This song just makes me happy, no matter what mood I'm in. There's really nothing else to it besides that.

Frou Frou- Let Go: Was listening to this song the second I found out my dog, whom I had grown up with and considered a best friend, had died. BUT, there was a strange upside to it, because it helped me to see that the girl I was seeing at the time was a cold, heartless bitch, and helped me jump ship from that crapshoot just in time. She ended up fucking a lumberjack and gave him the clap.

[Cuppycake]

Originally Posted by ValkyrieIsAboutToDie

Single Album: Coheed and Cambria- In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

That's *exactly* what I was thinking when reading this thread. Well chosen =)

[brekk]

Pink Floyd - DSOTM

Edit: Possbily the Wall in its place it all comes down to Time vs. Comfortably Numb

[Plaid]

modest mouse - interstate 8 / this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think a bout

[Rune]

Not to sound flippant, but out of my 35 gigs of music, there really isn't any contest.

10 000 Days.

[Valc]

Bathory - Hammerheart

[Dantre]

Wish you were here - Floyd

Would definitely go out listening to Shine on

[Spare Oom and War Drobe]

lateralus no question

[AngryGerbil]

APC - 13th Step

My favorite thing about music is vocals/singing. Combine them with good music and you have a winner. Noone's vocals are quite like Maynard's, and nowhere else are they on display quite as prominetly as they are on 13th Step.

[Opulis]

Here it goes. Yet, I shall not spare you my reasons for each song. I for one would be interested in the reasoning you all have for creating your list, so I'll give mine. Presented in the order I would hear them.

1) Sonic Youth, Teen Age Riot -- Daydream Nation. Chosen first because it is work of many facets, and is a wonderful precursor to the memories that would follow in subsequent songs.
2) Wilco, Hummingbird -- A Ghost is Born. I know, it’s a cliché song to pick for an individual who considered himself to be a loner. There used to be a time I thought I'd be perpetually lonely, although some of the events of my life make that idea somewhat appealing...
3) Sleater-Kinney, A Quarter to Three -- The Hot Rock. My best vacation, a month of backpacking around Japan. Surreal took a new definition for me as I listened to this walking around Tokyo. Coming upon a massive square in an electric city, swarms of people surging past, while I stood in the middle of everyone with a cup of hot unfiltered sake in my hand.
4) Camera Obscura, Books Written for Girls -- Underachievers Please Try Harder. I arrived in Paris on Bastille Day, and stood at the top of the Eiffel Tower, alone, watching over a celebrating city after being rejected by the prettiest girl I'd ever seen.
5) ATB, Don't Stop -- Movin Melodies. Phuket, Thailand on New Years Eve. I walked through street festivals of underground kickboxing, pole-dancing transvestites, cobra wrestling, and wound up passing out in a dance club.
6) Weezer, Only in Dreams -- Blue Album. A personal classic. No stories attached, but to this day it remains one of my favorite songs.
7) Modest Mouse, Edit The Sad Parts -- Interstate 8. I told my friend that his long-time girlfriend was a stupid bitch and he deserved better. I left our hotel room with a black eye and blood in my mouth, to wander the streets of Hong Kong.
8) The Magnetic Fields, The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side -- 69 Love Songs Volume 1. My girlfriend and I took a vacation to Rome. We stood outside the Coliseum, I turned on my headphones as loud as they would good, and we sang this song together at the top of our lungs. People took pictures of us and laughed like we were lunatics.
9) Styx, Mr. Roboto -- Kilroy Was Here. I've developed a solo dance to this song. It's ridiculous, funny, embarrassing, and makes me happy. I'm usually up to the task at events (weddings, choice party moments...etc.) to present it. Everyone should have something akin to this, in my opinion.
10) Kanno Yoko, Green Bird -- Cowboy Bebop OST 2. One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. I would hope after I turn deaf, that the sound of her voice would always linger.

There you have it. Probably more information that anyone here could possibly care about besides myself, but take it, it’s yours.

~Opulis.

[Ham n Cheese]

I need to find 10 songs now. I feel like my answer was lazy, but Pet Sounds is such an amazing album feeled with ups and downs I'm sure I wouldn't regret the decision.

Good choices, Opulis. After two C&C choices I feared for this thread. Only in Dreams is a great song, the blue album is sad to listen to when you hear weezer's new shit, you wonder what happend to Rivers. Good unusual choice on Yoko Kanno too.

[Ham n Cheese]

1)The Album Leaf - Over The Pond (Not wanting to take up two slots on semi similar bands so I'll choose a joined effort in an amazing song)
2)Jon Brion - Here We Go
3)The Beach Boys - I'm Waiting For The Day
4)Björk - Pagan Poetry
5)Nine Inch Nails - The Day The World Went Away(almost made this my last song, another great song to hear before going deaf I would imagine)
6)Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
7)At The Drive-In - Napoleon Solo
8)Elliott Smith - Pitseleh (so many to choose)
9)The Wrens - Happy
10)Built To Spill - Broken Chairs (at just under 9 minutes that ends with a long guitar solo I feel it'd be a perfect song to hear right before going deaf)

I'd probably add "The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" if it wasn't 2 minutes. Also almost added "ratatat - cherry", "Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism", and half a dozen daft punk songs About 7 of those are interchangeable with other songs I love. But I was going for some variety, a few old, a few new, etc. If you haven't heard the songs on my list or Opulis' you should try at least a few of them out.

edit: removed "Nico - These Days" and put on Autumn Sweater <3

[Opulis]

Autumn Sweater is a great song. I love that entire album. I fell in love with the Album Leaf seeing them open for Pinback in San Diego, hadn't heard of them before that (was in 2002) so it was a total surprise. I like the Bjork and Elliott Smith choices especially, but for our beloved suicide king I probably would've chosen "Somebody That I Used to Know" from Figure 8. I'll check out Jon Brion, he's the only one on your list I wouldn't be able to comment on.

Nicely done, Ham.

~Opulis.