Albums that will never be the quite same

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Lets hear the story of that one time an album had such an impact that every successive listen pales in comparison... Inspired by the Loveless thread. There might be another thread on this somewhere, but whatever.

(I know there could be hundreds, but pick one with an interesting story)

Mine is New Order's Substance compilation; listened to it as I drove home from the beach one night while the LSD was wearing off. The redness of the sky faded as headlights, brakes lights, and reflector flashes danced around the highway...the white lines on the street blurred into synth patterns. I was in a Michael Gondry video minus the twee. New Order has never sounded as good.

― later arpeggiator, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

my loveless post in a slightly extended form to get this fine thread going:

my most intense experience with my bloody valentine's music was in the winter of 1992 (got the year wrong in the other thread) when i listened to loveless in my car going home to luxembourg after a carnival party in trier. usually that ride took about 45 minutes at the time (the motorway wasn't finished yet i think). it took me more than two hours as the fog slowed me down to 20-30 kilometers per hour. i was really thrown back onto the music as i didn't see a thing. and the music was as nebulous as my view. it was like a kind of negative feedback. i can't say how happy i was when i fell into my bed.

― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

i forgot to say that from then on i loved loveless less with each subsequent listen. seeing them live didn't help. they never sounded as good again as on that tape in my car in that winter night when their music had merged with the fog outside.

― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Do albums ruined by seeing the band live count? After attending an overcrowded sweatbox of a club gig, in which I was ripped on beer and (medically necessary) cold medicine and totally convinced Gibby Haynes was going to set the building on fire and kill us all, I could never muster my former levels of enthusiasm for the Butthole Surfers' studio work again. It just didn't have the perilous thrills I'd gotten from the live experience.

― unperson, Saturday, 19 May 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

That happened to me at a Decemberists show, then this whale came outta nowhere and ate Colin Meloy and everything was okay.

― later arpeggiator, Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

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