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Metal Album Cover Art Where the Image Sounds Like the Record
Metal Album Cover Art Where the Image Sounds Like the Record
by record_digger  • 
7 in common: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Leviathan and 5 more
This metal album cover art gives you a clue about the record before you put it on. Look at the mess of voices in a painted crowd, the scale of a ship in a storm, or the space around a single...
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Concept Albums With Immersive Storytelling Across Both Sides
Concept Albums With Immersive Storytelling Across Both Sides
by record_digger  • 
In common: Operation: Mindcrime
For listeners who like an album to tell a story, or hold one idea from first track to last, these records reward hearing in order. Each earned its place because recurring themes, linking passages...
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Metal Albums for People Who Already Love Hard Rock
Metal Albums for People Who Already Love Hard Rock
by record_digger  • 
In common: Crack the Skye
The boundary between classic hard rock and heavy metal is often narrower than newcomers imagine. Before metal splintered into extreme subgenres, its foundation was built on the exact same virtues...
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Albums That Feel Like a Journey through an Imaginary Place
Albums That Feel Like a Journey through an Imaginary Place
by record_digger  • 
In common: Into the Electric Castle
On one record, an orchestra ushers you toward an island made of discarded plastic. On another, a synthesized voice sends you into the year 2095. The pleasure is in hearing where an album takes you...
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Alternative Albums of the 90s Beyond Grunge and Britpop
Alternative Albums of the 90s Beyond Grunge and Britpop
by record_digger  • 
More from record_digger
The best alternative albums of the ’90s open up whole branches of the decade. Start with shoegaze guitars, riot grrrl’s direct address, industrial drums, or a college-radio album that turns small...
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Rhythm Games Where Music Carries the Story
Rhythm Games Where Music Carries the Story
by game_tinkerer  • 
On a similar theme
A song can change what a scene means before a character explains it. These rhythm games and musical arcade hybrids give tracks, transitions and performance a role in the narrative. A Musical Story...
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Miles Davis Jazz Fusion Albums in Order and Where to Start
Miles Davis Jazz Fusion Albums in Order and Where to Start
by record_digger  • 
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Hear Miles Davis’s jazz fusion albums in release order, from the electric piano on Miles in the Sky to the funk and studio layering of the later records. Start with In a Silent Way for space, A...
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Songs That Tell Their Story Without a Conventional Chorus
Songs That Tell Their Story Without a Conventional Chorus
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On a similar theme
A song can carry you for several minutes on a guitar figure, a single voice, or a line that keeps changing meaning. Some of these recordings work through one verse after another. Others save a...
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Hip-Hop Albums That Tell a Story across the Tracklist
Hip-Hop Albums That Tell a Story across the Tracklist
by record_digger  • 
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Rap has always been storytelling, but carrying one narrative across a whole album takes real discipline. These records earned their place because the skits, interludes and changes of mood build a...
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Albums with Opening Tracks That Set the Whole World in Motion
Albums with Opening Tracks That Set the Whole World in Motion
by record_digger  • 
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The first track can teach you how to hear everything that follows. Here, a classroom roll call sets up an album’s conversations about love, a country ballad gives a story its recurring tune, and a...
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Musical Cast Albums with Stories You Can Follow by Listening
Musical Cast Albums with Stories You Can Follow by Listening
by record_digger  • 
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A good cast recording can tell you who just walked into the room or why a line matters the second time you hear it. These albums use narration, recurring songs, or scenes between numbers to keep...
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Albums with Closing Tracks That Change How You Hear the Record
Albums with Closing Tracks That Change How You Hear the Record
by record_digger  • 
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Some album endings send you straight back to the first song. A melody returns with a different weight, the loudest record in the room falls quiet, or a voice you weren’t expecting gets the last...
Music
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Metal Albums with Room for Beauty and Restraint
Metal Albums with Room for Beauty and Restraint
by record_digger  • 
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Metal does not have to be a relentless blast to knock you off your feet. Some of the genre's most crushing moments only work because the band knows when to step back, pick up an acoustic guitar or...
Music
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Rap Songs with Storytelling You Can Picture
Rap Songs with Storytelling You Can Picture
by record_digger  • 
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Great narrative rap works like a short film: clear scenes, believable dialogue, sharp characters and tension that keeps you leaning in. These songs earned their place because you can see the story...
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Albums Everyone Should Hear at Least Once
Albums Everyone Should Hear at Least Once
by record_digger  • 
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For curious listeners building a foundation, these records each show something an album can do that a playlist cannot: a continuous mood, a studio idea, a group conversation or a voice that...
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Heavy Metal Albums Built Around Memorable Riffs
Heavy Metal Albums Built Around Memorable Riffs
by record_digger  • 
On a similar theme
A great metal record lives or dies by its riffs: physical, memorable and recognisable from the first few notes. These albums earned their place because the riffs carry the whole record, not just...
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