Music For A Mood Altered State??

[Khorn]

What is your favourite disc(s) for listening to in a mood altered state?(if you ever get into one):D. One of mine is It's A Beautiful Day's self titled album.

[lennonfan]

for those who can appreciate albums for mood alterations, I offer the following:
Kaliedoscope-Side Trips
The Fool
Velvet Underground and Nico
Nico-Icon
Yma Sumac-Voice of the Xtabay
Country Joe and the Fish-Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Flying Burrito Bros. - Burrito Deluxe
Kraftwerk-Autobahn and Trans Europa Express
Moby Grape-Wow
Fleetwood Mac-Then Play On
Queen II
Marshall Maclulan-The Medium is the Massage
the 13th floor elevators
Grateful Dead-Anthem of the Sun
Frank Zappa-Lumpy Gravy
Gong-Camembert Electrique

and that's just for starters:)

[d. brasco]

So many albums I love fit this category that I haven't the foggiest where to begin. I will say that almost any great album sounds a whole lot better under such a state--even ones that you don't think would apply.

Don

[Jeffrey]

Hi,

Maybe I could name bands instead of lp's since almost all of their early lp's apply:

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Grateful Dead
Quicksilver Messenger Service

-Jeffrey

oh yea, Jimi Hendrix!

[aashton]

In total agreement with lennonfan on the Kraftwerk albums

my shortlist additions would be

Pink Floyd - Relics
Yes - Tales from Topographical Oceans
Rush 2112 - first side (depending on the type of mood)

All the best - Andrew

[d. brasco]

Originally posted by Jeffrey
Hi,

Maybe I could name bands instead of lp's since almost all of their early lp's apply:

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Grateful Dead
Quicksilver Messenger Service

-Jeffrey

oh yea, Jimi Hendrix!
Jeffrey, with your permission I would like to add your choices to my earlier post. Those sound pretty good to me!;)

Don

[Burningfool]

A few, um, personal favorites that fit the bill from my bad old days:

The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
Neil Young - Harvest
The Church - Constant In Opal (from Remote Luxury)
The Grateful Dead - Dark Star - St. Stephen - The Eleven (from Live Dead) and From The Mars Hotel
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Tom Waits - Closing Time
The Beatles - The White Album (my old orange label Capitol version)
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane (with picture sleeve to stare at, but handled carefully of course)
Sam Phillips - The Indescribable Wow
Willie Nelson - Stardust (Columbia WLP copy - WOW!)
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (for those edgy times)
Larry Norman - So Long Ago The Garden (orignal MGM gatefold copy)
Guy Clark - Old #1
Willis Alan Ramsey (my Shelter vinyl then, the DCC disc now)
George Winston - Autumn (I know, I know...)
Old & In The Way
Glass Harp - Songs In The Air (a compilation LP)

I could go on and on...

[Dave]

Children Of The Sun by Billy Thorpe can be very involving when in an altered state of mind.:cool:

[Highway Star]

Side 2 of Small Faces Ogden's Nut Gone Flake where Happiness Stan goes on his little 'adventure'. :cool:

[MagicAlex]

How about 'Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Klattu' for a single song and a couple of good moody albums are 'Wish - The Cure', 'Dance Pieces - Phillip Glass' and 'Eastern Sounds - Yusef Lateef'.

Just about anything by Yusef Lateef!

[Larry Naramore]

Music that alters my state of mind with instant "Flashbacks" without the substances.
Country Joe and the Fish (Rock Coast Blues), Janis Joplin (most anything) Cab Calloway (Are You Hep To The Jive?), Wyonie Harris (Whiskey!)

Music is now my drug of choice.

[martinimaster]

How about a nice intimate Getz Gilberto.

[mcow1]

Originally posted by Jeffrey

Grateful Dead
Quicksilver Messenger Service

-Jeffrey

oh yea, Jimi Hendrix!
Jeffrey,
I have to use these myself great choices. I also have to add:
Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord
John Klemmer - Touch (for those mellow alterations)
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of (for those introspective ones)
HP Lovecraft - S/T
and for real alteration
Boris Karloff reading Legend Of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

[Khorn]

Originally posted by martinimaster
How about a nice intimate Getz Gilberto.

Agreed, I really wish that they would get around to a decent remaster of 'Jazz Samba Encore!' if only for the cut O MORRO NAO TEM VEZ, which is my fav.

[TommyTunes]

Trust me Codine and Black Sabbath are made for each other.

[Sound]

Honestly?
When my mood is 'altered' nothing sounds right , sorry.
I rarely turn on anything for those few occassions.
I need a couple glasses of wine or something every morning to acheive my daily 'unaltered' state.
Now all of my favorites (Karrin Allyson, Little Feat, Radiators, Ray Brown Trio, Rusted Root, etc..) of the time , are turned up and sound fabulous.

[Randy W]

Tonight's the Night - Neil Young

[Jeffrey]

Originally posted by d. brasco

Jeffrey, with your permission I would like to add your choices to my earlier post. Those sound pretty good to me!;)

Don

Hi Don,

Mi list, su list! Glad ya liked my choices and hopefully they have brought you as much fun over the years as they have me.

-Jeffrey

[Jeffrey]

Originally posted by mcow1

Jeffrey,
I have to use these myself great choices. I also have to add:
Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord
John Klemmer - Touch (for those mellow alterations)
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of (for those introspective ones)
HP Lovecraft - S/T
and for real alteration
Boris Karloff reading Legend Of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Hi,

Thank ya, thank ya very much. Glad to see my many years of extensive research are appreciated.

Nice additions, especially the Boris Karloff!!

-Jeffrey

[mcow1]

Originally posted by Jeffrey


Hi,

Thank ya, thank ya very much. Glad to see my many years of extensive research are appreciated.

Nice additions, especially the Boris Karloff!!

-Jeffrey

I had many years of research with the Dead and Quicksilver myself. Glad you like that Karloff title, it's a hoot to listen to.:D

[vex]

Lots of good discs for this topic... just a few of my faves:

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
George Harrison - Wonderwall Music
Van Der Graaf Generator - Aerosol Gray Machine
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Jah Wobble - Invaders Of The Heart
Verve - Urban Hymns
Orb - Orbus Terrarum
Can - Flow Motion
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Bjork - Vespertine
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth
Legendary Pink Dots - Crushed Velvet Apocolypse
Hatfield & The North - Hatfield & The North
Henry Cow - Leg End
Spacemen 3 - Sound Of Confusion
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Ah, just thinking about the music makes me want to pack my bags...

[Joseph]

Pretty well anything by the Flaming Lips especially The Soft Bulletin will alter my mood!

[GoldenBoy]

I offer the following, for those certain instances when one is dwelling in a parallel universe. ;)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Beatles - The White Album
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Led Zeppellin - I
Led Zeppellin - II
Led Zeppellin - Physical Grafitti
Bjork - Vespertine
Bjork - Homogenic
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Beck - Odelay
Beck - Mutations
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Mother's Milk
The Pixies - Trompe le Monde
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Slayer - South of Heaven
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
The Rollingstones - Exile on Main Street
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Michael Penn - March

and a whole lot more.
:cool:

[aashton]

How could I have missed

The Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

You need to really start worrying when you can understand the lyrics
Now where did I leave my medication ?

All the best - Andrew

[syogusr]

Originally posted by Khorn
What is your favourite disc(s) for listening to in a mood altered state?(if you ever get into one):D. One of mine is It's A Beautiful Day's self titled album.

Right on!! IABD is, well, it is just awesome, to use a worn out word. I also happen to like Brian Eno's discs. also some Spirit, Miles, Floyd, and Doors!:)