Albums or Artists you use to clean your ears

You know how it goes. Get in a wave of listening to a bunch of new music. Start feeling real hyped about a new artist or sound etc. Then you go and throw on ___________ and suddenly all the new stuff feels trivial.

For me Tri Repetae and Ae in general. I love me some new music but yeah....sorry kids.

merzbow

enslaved - below the lights

always gives me a hype enema, so pure, intense and isolated from the rest

and tons more of corpse

The Ear Buds. wicked band of Brothers.

  On 3/8/2012 at 11:42 PM, primusluta said:

Ae in general.

yeah. but i've listened to autechre almost every day for ten years so it's one of those things that just makes me feel more like myself at this point.. which is always good for flushing out unwanted influences.

gantz graf in particular makes a nice enema

napalm death, carcass, and slayer's reign in blood.

Probably go back to square one when I was listening to Radiohead.

The Fall - Perverted By Language or Hex Enduction Hour. Nice choices there kaini btw, I fucking love Scum and Reek Of Putrefaction (have the original vinyls).

short sharp shocks. that's the key to a good earcleaning.

I'm not sure what you guys mean by ear cleansing. You mean something that just batters your senses? Or something that was done so well that not much has been able to reach it's level of awesome since?

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Albums or Artists you use to clean your ears

 

Whenever I start listening to thrash, I always end up thinking "meh" and looking for my Slayer cds

There's not really much point listening to thrash once you've heard the first 3 slayer albums. Especially the first one. Most metal makes me feel that way actually, but for the respective pioneers of the other genres. :l

  On 3/9/2012 at 9:31 PM, couch said:

level of awesome since

my music

autechre

boards of canada

smashing pumpkins

in no particular order

all of those artists builds up my ears filled with earwax harmoniously then disposed of with q-tips

  On 3/9/2012 at 10:39 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

  On 3/9/2012 at 9:31 PM, couch said:

level of awesome since

Onward to Golgotha - Incantation

Altars of Madness - Morbid Angel

Under the Sign of the Black Mark - Bathory (I think the other earlier ones may have had more impact if they were more accessible in the States early on, you had to import them way back then)

Something about those in the extreme metal category just struck a nerve that hasn't been struck much since the 15-20-whatever years that they came out.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92, haven't heard much else with a vibe like this that just feels so...right. It's still fresh every time I listen to it.

Tri Repetae is the cold mechanical and claustrophobic version of Saw 85-92. Different approach to a similar vibe, or something.

Disraeli Gears - Cream

Sad Wings of Destiny - Judas Priest, feels like nearly every popular metal idea is drawn directly from this album(and the next one after it).

I know there's a few more albums I go to for this, that have never let me down. My brain is just derping.

The first Metallica album is good to blow the cobwebs away.

I worship Slayer too. Legends, no contest. Unlike Metallica lol.

There are more metal people on WATMM than I would have guessed

But, uh...can't think of anything really. I mean, I still like most of the stuff I listened to back in the day pretty well, but my tastes change & generally what I'm most excited about is whatever music I'm currently into.

edit: I guess if I interpreted the question in a different way I'd say Jandek is good music to listen to when I start getting too focused on overly-complex technical stuff.

also some of the more off-the-wall free jazz/improv stuff like derek bailey, flaherty corsano duo, or peter brotzmann's machine gun (which is a fucking amazing album and would quite possibly appeal to some of the more extreme end of metal fans here too.

Iron and Wine

Autechre

The Cinematic Orchestra

Frank fucking Zappa

SOAD - Toxicity

Boris with Merzbow

I'd say Neil Young too. Just sort of flushes all the nonsense out and gets my brain re-synchronized.

Put on some Burial, Squarepusher, Drexciya or any Gerald Donald project and go

Why do other people bother making music?