What's an album or song that illustrates the human experience?

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Elena · Answer

Reliquia by Rosalía (and the whole LUX album): Not to be dramatic but this album is transcendent. I cried listening to it the first time, and seeing her perform it live was genuinely a spiritual experience which also brought tears 🥲. Every time I listen I cannot help but dance like I’m possessed. She sings in THIRTEEN languages on this album! The music is deeply stirring and the lyrics are profound. Rosalía wants us to never forget that the sacred and the profane are the same.

Adelaide · Answer

Talking Heads: This Must Be the Place.:  “I’m just an animal looking for a home and… share the same space for a minute or two” 💔

jmd · Answer

Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue: Time, regret, longing, passing in and out of other people’s lives

Spines, Flicks, and Wax · Answer

The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary Remaster) LP (Pink Floyd): It sounds strange but I feel this album more than I hear it and I've never really understood why.

I heard "Us and Them" when I was 12. My heart and brain went aflutter.

Dylan · Answer

Dave - PSYCHODRAMA: A brilliant concept album told in a captivating storytelling style through the lens of a therapy session. Explores themes of mental health, relationships, incarceration, race, poverty + the impact of systemic inequalities.

Also, this is so spooky, I started re-listening to this album again today after not listening to it in a few years. Then I was  wondering if he was coming to my city any time soon, so I looked it up & I saw he is on tour at the moment & THEN I saw he is playing here LITERALLY TONIGHT!

Dylan · Answer

Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again: goosebump-inducing reflections on life's dualities and the ever-evolving experience of being human

Dylan · Answer

Lykke Li - The Afterparty: being so sad while also being so sexy is BACK BABY and so is the Swedish queen of yearning

Dylan · Answer

Princess Nokia - GIRLS: a journey through the femme experience: from rage (Blue Velvet, Medusa) to romance (Matcha Cherry). The writing is genius and articulates ~girlhood is a spectrum~ so gorgeously. The pop culture nerd in me is also obsessed with all the references.

chio · Answer

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