I'm with my dad:

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

I also enjoy Bob Dylan's "Blood On The Tracks" and any P.J. Harvey. I'm certain that I'm forgetting some obvious material that I love. (Oh, and the Neil Young live recording from Vancouver that almost broke up my parents' marriage. That one's awesome and totally worth my dad starving everyone for a week.)

Go!

*note: I'm likely about to flunk out of college in a mere 3 hours. Until then, we party on wine and ignore this fact.

i'm not sure i feel right in replying to this thread.

please be more specific: albums which spur insanity? albums which document the musician's descent into insanity?

i think you mean the former.

the postal service's give up is a heck of a thing to listen to if you're having marital strife, i cn tell you that.

jayryan wrote:i'm not sure i feel right in replying to this thread.

please be more specific: albums which spur insanity? albums which document the musician's descent into insanity?

i think you mean the former.

the postal service's give up is a heck of a thing to listen to if you're having marital strife, i cn tell you that.

Soundtracks to insanity. I wish that I could think of a better way of phrasing it. "Insanity" isn't even the right term. "Uncertainty" or "destined failure" would be more appropriate, really.

What I'm looking for is the best album to accommodate that general feeling of losing it, personally.

Jeremy Enigk - "Return of the Frog Queen"

White Light White Heat VU

arab on radar's soak the saddle.
any harry pussy.
some material off of aphrodite's child...
uh.....hhmmmmmm......

the doors soundtrack?

Six Finger Satellite -
Paranormalized or Severe Exposure

For myself, Ornette Coleman's Tomorrow is the Question or some good frantic Rachmaninoff would do it.

Steely Dan would be the ideal soundtrack for the murderous rampage to follow.

God, I hate Steely Dan.

I have been committed on four separate occasions and have always thought Spiderland was a very good musical representation of the decent into insanity. Labradford's Prazision and various Stars Of The Lid tracks are good too.