What’s one album that you’d pay $$$ to hear for the first time again?

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Maya · Answer

In Colour - Jamie xx: space keeps expanding and expanding

chelsi · Answer

In Evening Air - Future Islands: I will never get over this album. It’s one of those albums that makes me wonder - what if I had gone my whole life without hearing these songs? If it’s for you, it’s one that separates your life into befores and afters.

Nitabel · Answer

A Seat at the Table (Solange): So lush, gentle, and a masterclass in storytellling.

BORSCHT BABY · Answer

Accuse by Alaska: this album <3

south africa, 1999

Dylan · Answer

Kelela - In The Blue Light: a live unplugged album that gives me goosebumps. healing. i went to a listening room event where we silently lay on the floor next to strangers and listened to this vinyl.

there's also a documentary <3

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!

Haley James · Answer

Blonde — Frank Ocean: This was my number one played album for three years straight. It changed my life. Almost every song has made a unique impact on me. I'll never be over it.

BORSCHT BABY · Answer

Song of the Sleeping Forest by Susumu Yokota: Japan <3 2004

incredible album

BORSCHT BABY · Answer

Another Dream by Brenda Ray: one of my favorite albums ♡

recorded over the years 1993-2006 in Jamaica and England

rory · Answer

two star and the dream police: i knowwwwwwwwww i KNOW

Allison · Answer

Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour Album: My comfort album. Such beautiful songs from top to bottom!

Becca Mandy · Answer

Sound and Color | Alabama Shakes: This album hits all the points for me, no skips

JZ · Answer

Blood Sugar Sex Magik: My teenage self was so amazed the first time I heard this!

JZ · Answer

These Are The Vistas by The Bad Plus: Mind-expanding jazz.

JZ · Answer

A Go Go by John Scofield: This album absolutely boogies, but… the only thing is… you have to turn it up really loud.

It’s mixed in a very conservative way that makes it sound a bit thin at lower volumes.

LizK · Answer

The Low End Theory by Tribe Called Quest: It’s 1992. I’m twenty years old, high as hell, sitting couch-style on a twin bed in a shitty college apartment with Chris, Matt, Mike and Jen, listening all the way through to this record for the first time, all of us awestruck.

Tim Sondrup · Answer

God Shuffled His Feet by The Crash Test Dummies: Changed my life.

Hayley Adams · Answer

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel: Not a single filler track

Anniebraves · Answer

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: Still holds up.

Xavier · Answer

Far Caspian - Autofiction: Top to bottom a great album. Perfect for driving.

Anna · Answer

Four-Calendar Café: Just beautiful.

Ginny Branch · Answer

Outkast Aquemini: Atlanta is not always the easiest city to love ( the heat! The traffic!) but Outkast is one of our finest exports and this album is perfect. Ditto to Stankonia. Really their entire discography is 🤌

Ginny Branch · Answer

Beyoncé Lemonade / Renaissance: Two different albums but both equally amazing. Two concerts I also wish I could relive!

Ginny Branch · Answer

Michael Jackson’s Thriller: I wish I could go back and hear it for the first time and never know about all the other stuff we all know now that makes me sad.

Amy Amsterdam · Answer

Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet: I was 21. It’s like 3 lifetimes ago and I still love that album, but it was the start of the 90s and outlived the 90s.

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.

chio · Answer

a fever you can’t sweat out

Karen · Answer

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: New York, 1999. Rooftop bbq in the West Village. This is playing.

Rish · Answer

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: Absolute 10/10. It's Ziggy Stardust. It's amazing. Need I say more? From front to back, this album is nearly perfect. Opener Five Years is one of my personal favorite Bowie songs. Moonage Daydream and It Ain't Easy are other standouts from Side 1. Side 2 keeps up the quality. The last three songs on the album are all incredible. My personal favorite has to be closer rock n roll suicide. The way the song builds with Bowie’s vocals is so powerful. Dare I say it’s a perfect song. It’s not my favorite Bowie album from a purely aural perspective, but it is the album that has made me feel the most.

Jamie · Answer

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee: My first introduction to Waxahatchee and a really new era in her music. I could listen to this forever. Lyrics, music, everything.

kitty · Answer

Turnover - Peripheral Vision (2015): No skips!!!!! The perfect fall album

Allie Blum · Answer

Nonagon Infinity by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Wait for the answer to open the door 😎 (NOT available on Spotify)

Sally · Answer

Acid Rap by Chance the Rapper: And only available on Soundcloud. 🙏

Leah Jereb · Answer

MUNA Dancing on the Wall: Newer but damn it’s good

Spines, Flicks, and Wax · Answer

Led Zeppelin Houses Of The Holy LP (Reissue, Remastered): "The Rain Song" still makes me cry. Happy tears 😊

Eric F · Answer

Deloused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta 🪼: Blew my teenage mind.