music self-meme, very online edition

favorite album
soundtrack to a mysterious dream
fav track: genesis

best narrative
yeah yeah there's not a narrative across the whole thing. but every song is a little story
fav track: secrets of the undersea bell

favorite cover
the best cover of black sabbath's iron man

i'll listen someday
confession: i get radiohead and LCD soundsystem mixed up. once i was like "yeah of course i've listened to radiohead, i like this one song of theirs" and i searched up "dance yrself clean" and it was not radiohead.

personal impact
my boyfriend showed me this album when we were first a thing, so it's very special to me and hits a lot of emotions
fav track: coconut

bad day cure
listened to this on a road trip to the grand canyon. immaculate
fav track: sagebrush

you enjoy but most don't
i didn't know this album was polarizing on release and is not fondly remembered today...for me, only honeymoon beats out born to die
fav track: summertime sadness

you don't enjoy but most do
literally don't understand why this is considered her masterpiece. it's on everybody's "best of the 21st century so far" lists. like why?
fav track: cinnamon girl

underrated
the azealia banks dethroner has arrived
fav track: vacation

overrated
i just feel like everything this album does visions does better?
fav track: flesh without blood

not really my thing, but...
i like exmilitary a little more but it's not linkable here
fav track: hacker

best instrumental
it's fun to imagine a dark fantasy movie set to this music. try it
fav track: irby tremor

best vocals
robin pecknold has many imitators and few equals
fav track: heard them stirring

simple but fun
music for when you're a hoe with love in your soul
fav track: who is in your heart now?

best mixtape
is this technically an EP? whatever, it's great. mini mix vol. 1 is great too
fav track: EXO

consistent discography
i wish vyvanse gave me the drive moby seems to have. bald energizer bunny
fav track: homeward angel

biggest letdown
humanz was gonna go in this spot, but when i browsed the tracklist...i actually think that album is aging well. this one kinda isn't
fav track: skinny ape

biggest surprise
i wish she'd dropped everybody knows i'm sad as the lead single instead of butterfly (so the fandom could've stopped panicking)
fav track: rollercoaster

best soundtrack
high fidelity orchestral beats to study forbidden knowledge or peel your skin off to
fav track: the dreams begin

most unique
did they ever find the witch cults?
fav track: i see, so i see so

favorite band
keep killin it, estonia
fav track: drifting

favorite solo artist
i'm glad he got famous, he deserves it
fav track: elephant

best EP
daydream pop
fav track: body in the water

most depressing
music for when you're already dead but no one else has noticed because you're still walking
fav track: look on down from the bridge

very niche album
modern vangelis blade runner type
fav track: souvenirs tapis dans l'ombre

album that should be more known
i hope these two take off someday
fav track: holy soul

album in a language that's not english
there's a tiny bit of english here but let me have this
fav track: starlight dreams

something you can't get into
feels like i'm missing something
fav track: guided by angels

your guilty pleasure
i don't even like this genre but peter steele's voice does something to me
fav track: love you to death

happy album
it's ✨fun✨
fav track: kizunami

nostalgic album
my mom had this one in the mid 90s. i still go back to it
fav track: don't speak

angry/aggressive album
🤘
fav track: abra cadaver

album that got you into a genre
transport yourself
fav track: lament for the aurochs

favorite concept album
intense and beautiful
fav track: the light

favorite song
mr. henri rousseau's dream is my favorite piece of music ever

strangest album
field recordings fill me with the lost-place lost-time emotion i'm sure there's an elegant word for in a different language
fav track: gahlitzerstrom

short album
nepo baby musicians (but the music is still good)
fav track: we fall down

long album
i only knew this dude as a TES music shitposter, so listening to this the day it dropped was surreal--like imagine if silvagunner revealed he'd been toby fox the whole time
fav track: the serpent

colorful album
psychedelic anatolian rock with a really nice sound variety
fav track: ilgaz

repetitive/monotone album
my favorite work by caretaker (though i did run empty bliss down to a nub in my 20s)
fav track: no one knows what shadowy memories haunt them

most ambitious album
fond memories of exploring this album's ARG (and a pirate scan of rise of the ogre) with my boyfriend
fav track: rhinestone eyes

middle of the road album
i like this album but i always want this band to go a little harder. melt my fucking face off, yanno?
fav track: the W.A.N.D.

album from your country
fine work from my country (of california). if you thought i was gonna put blood sugar sex magik here, take your assumption and give it away give it away give it away now
fav track: surf goth

influential album
my dad still spins this and it's still great
fav track: broken

trippy album
unique sounds with a timeless quality. i can only tell this is from the 70s because of the geodesic dome hut on the cover art
fav track: resa

new album
the sensation of haunted by gentle spirits
fav track: crime of passion

old album
going to the sacrifice, you want anything?
fav track: dance of the earth

danceable album
brain caffeine. music like this has gotten me through so many late-night research papers
fav track: jump up and down

favorite compilation
ethereal, in the sense of belonging to the sphere of ether beyond the reach of man
fav track: leaf

late night album
another boyfriend album. one of the few albums where the cover is completely indicative of the music
fav track: something about you

vibes album
i don't remember what i was looking for when this fell in my online lap, but i'm very glad it did
fav track: dreary moon

gym album
only with headphones. i don't want my ass kicked
fav track: hazel eyes

relaxing album
how did i get this far in without any vaporwave, the only genre i listened to in 2014
fav track: valley breeze

underrated artist
good for when you like a bit of fuzz in your dreampop
fav track: schism trek

ambient album
smooth ambient d&b with a world music bent
fav track: hollow

album you used to love
i do still like this album but i OD'd on son lux and it doesn't hit the same. check out his version of "black waters" btw
fav track: lost it to trying

love the music, hate the artist
i'll always love this album but iykyk
fav track: atlantis