This is a long list of various albums I've listened to and what I think about them. Also my favorite track from those albums, though don't expect me to go too in-depth with the individual tracks.

1968 - WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (25.08.17)

FAVORITE TRACK: Sister Ray

The second album from the Velvet Underground and my favorite one (as seen on the weird fanlisting I run for the band). The title track is the perfect opener to what the rest of the album sounds like; the banana album but far noisier and confrontational. Side 1 gets less noisy as it goes from song to song, so it isn't just loud noise from start to finish unlike other noise rock albums. The Gift and Lady Godiva's Operation both tell stories of tragedy, as read by Cale (with a Lou Reed jumpscare in the latter). If you get tired of the stories, you can also focus on the instrumentals which are pretty good too. Here She Comes Now is more abstract, and I initially didn't think too much of it, but now I've taken more of a liking to it after many more listens.

Then side 1 T-bones right into side 2 as I Heard Her Call My Name plays, swelling with guitar feedback that sounds like at any second, your speakers could just rupture, catch on fire, and fucking kill you. The main attraction of this album is Sister Ray, a 17-minute long epic about an orgy where a sailor dies because skill issue. What can I say, it's pretty much the peak of noise rock with all of its violent audio and primitive drum beats. I love all the tracks on this album and I think there really aren't any duds on it. It helps that it's only 6 tracks, so its easier for each track to have their own identity, though I've listened to this album way more so that probably has something to do with that.

1970 - KRAFTWERK - KRAFTWERK (25.07.03)

FAVORITE TRACK: Vom Himmel Hoch

The first studio album Kraftwerk released. Before Autobahn, they were pretty much a weird, experimental krautrock band with electronic instruments. And also some more traditional instruments like flutes and violins. Ruckzuck isn't a bad opening track at all. It eases you into the record with flutes before going into the more experimental tracks. Stratovarius is more aggressive while Megaherz is straight-up psychedelia in its purest form, unbound to the confines of musical structure. Then comes the ominous final track, Vom Himmel Hoch, going from ominous drones into epic arrays of drums and electronics makes for a great final track. Overall, definitely an underrated album that feels like a mix of psychedelic music and industrial before industrial was even a thing.

On an extra note, if you want to see an alternate version of this album, there's a live recording of the band performing it live in 1970, though it has a different track listing with different track names.

1995 - THE BENDS - RADIOHEAD (25.07.06)

FAVORITE TRACK: My Iron Lung

Radiohead's second album, though some call it their true debut and pretend Pablo Honey didn't exist. I definitely wasn't expecting the album to have a bit of psychedelia in it in addition to its overall alt rock sound. Definitely a gret album, and both the band and the production staff did an excellent job on it. I also really like that weird delayed piano sound in Planet Telex. Also in the title track how Thom's voice gets a bit compressed in the post-chorus. Just in general, the album shows how Radiohead really knew how to work those distortion pedals and it's kind of a shame they ditched that sound later on, but oh well. My Iron Lung especially, like that one's probably my favorite Radiohead song out of all of theirs and the distortion is a major part of why i love it so much. Pure fucking aggression right there.