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BroSpence

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 01:48

Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
Tool - ALL SONGS
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire, One Word
Sigur Ros - Popplaglaid (untitled 8)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Shakti - Joy
and so many more.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 01:50

_JC_ wrote:

Dark Ambient music is amazing at ear-traumatizing volume.

However, for the sake of the thread:

Kayo Dot---Gemini becoming the tripod

Neurosis---Aeon

Melvins & Lustmord---Pigs Of The Roman Empire

mmm hmmm. ill add boris's Genbo Ki to that list.

basically every godspeed! song.

Echoes - floyd

EDIT - oh and Ride of the Valkyries obviously. listening to that song at less than deafening volume is a crime against humanity.

Edited by keiser willhelm - August 21 2008 at 02:09

What im listening to

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 03:12

First three that came to mind (or maybe I'm just stealing from other posters):

King Crimson - Fracture

Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity

Tool - 46 and 2 (many songs by tool are best at high volume, but this one stands out for me)

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 03:34

ha! great idea for a topic!

listened to “once“ by BLACKFIELD in my car this morning.
this one needs to be at least at 11, esp. when that
massive guitar riff comes in.

progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false?

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 04:30

Um...
The Sisters of Mercy - Some Kind of Stranger. Embarrassed

but also:
Peter Gabriel - Rhythm of the Heat
and
Dead Can Dance - Black Sun.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 04:58

Here's ten I always turn the volume up on:

Can - Mother Sky
Don Cherry - Chenrezig
Byard Lancaster/Sonny Sharrock - Satan
Magma - Stöah
Enslaved - The Dead Stare
King Crimson - Fracture
Henry Cow - Half Asleep, Half Awake
PFM - Impressioni di Settembre
Slayer - War Ensemble
Tangerine Dream - Fly and Collision of Comas Sola

Except that they're all some of my favorite tracks, I can't find much logic to it. The tracks generally tends towards hard, dark, frenetic or somewhat catchy... maybe.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 05:04

There aren't many loud runs of my oh-so-eccentric music at home, because the neighbours don't like it when people aren't very "neighbourly"...but then there's the car, with its lust for reckless driving and thirst for trepidation at high speed, only quenched through loud and stimulating music. One can't deny the car its needs, so off the Rockmobile goes in the night with:

King Crimson - Red
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Tool - Grudge
Van Halen - Pleasure Dome
Paatos - Sensors
Rainbow - Kill the King
Threshold - Light and Space
Anekdoten - The Great Unknown

and also:
Morte Macabre - Lullaby (not exactly an absolute thrill instigator, but very unsettling track to play on the "road less traveled")
Pain of Salvation - Her Voice (one used to blast an emotional barrage, through the headphones' damaging volume)

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 09:38

Anything my Meshuggah and Opeth (especially Mouth Licking what you've bled and When though)
Tool - The Grudge, Eulogy, Hooker with a Penis
Dream Theatre - Glass Prison
VDGG - Man Erg, Sleepwalkers
KC - Level Five, Facts of Life, Red, In The Court
Anathema - Wings of God

It goes on. And on. And on.

But answering your question, my all time favourite out of those would have to be The Grudge, when it finally kicks in at about 3 minutes. Utter brilliance.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 10:19

Well certain things have different effects when loud.

Awaken by Yes is even more ambient and amazing when it's cranked to high hell.

But listening to Lemmings by Van der Graaf is my favorite max volume song.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 10:52

Larks' Tongues In Aspic pt. 1 - King Crimson
Fracture - King Crimson

Really all that matters, if I had to stretch a bit further.

South Side Of The Sky - Yes
Open Country Joy - The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Break On Through - The Doors
Sleepwalkers - Van Der Graaf Generator
A Louse Is Not A Home - Peter Hammill

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 11:04

oh I love loud music...but I'll try to have some restraint here

VdGG - Godbluff (the whole album)

IQ - Headlong, the part when all that tesion releases

Yes - Yours is No Disgrace

Banco - Metamorfosi

BJH - After the Day (live)

Biglietto per L'Inferno - Confessione

Chicago - Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon...I swear those first two albums are going to ruin my hearing for good...

Kansas - Mysteries and Mayhem (nearly busted my car speakers)

Focus - beginning of Hamburger Concerto

ELP - Knife Edge

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 11:05

Genesis - Duchess
King Crimson - Starless
Split Enz - Abu Dhabi

"I'm a dinosaur" - Adrian Belew

"I am a camera" - Trevor Horn

"I am yourself" - Keith Emerson

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 15:12

Well, this is something that changes with time... Right now I love to listen 5:15 by The Who at MAX volume Big%20smile

Also Tool - Eulogy, Maudlin of the Well - Gleam in ranks (I love the drumming of this song), Van Der Graaf Generator - Arrow and Carry stress in the jaw - Mr Bungle LOL

, among others

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 18:48

I just got Scott Walker's The Drift. The second track, Clara, is absolutely menacing; perfect for playing at bone rattling level.

Edited by _JC_ - August 21 2008 at 20:07

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 18:54

Something Metal usually

Some Meshuggah, Opeth's Blackwater Park or Judas Priest. Tongue

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 19:25

I'm surprised at the reaction this thread got, overnight and it already has two pages. Keep up the good work guys. Clap

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 20:48

I can't play anything at max volume - that would shred the wallpaper and probably cause structural damage to my house.

However, I do play music very loudly when I can, especially Metal, which has to be loud by definition.

The non-metal albums I like to play very loudly are Tangerine Dream's Force Majeure and Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

What?

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 20:54

King By-Tor wrote:

Far Cry by Rush!
One Little Victory by RUSH!!!
Animate by some Canadian band
By-Tor and the Snow Dog by dirk, lerxt and pratt
Natural Science by the band with the naked man in their symbol

There's more, I'm sure.

I am wondering what is your favorite band