bigc wrote:Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over the Sea

I can't believe that I forgot to mention Neutral Milk Hotel. Good call! "On Avery Island" is also just as fantastic for mental meltdowns.

other things that I forgot:

-Henrick Gorecki "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
-any Mozart
-Margo "Songs from the Woods/Songs from before and After the Leisure Class"

Probably something by the Insane Clown Posse, since they have "insane" right there in their band name. I've thankfully never really heard anything by them, though.

H-GM wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:What I'm looking for is the best album to accommodate that general feeling of losing it, personally.

The Telescopes - Taste

wow! I've played in that band. Yep, they're fucking mental.

For me:

Seventeen Seconds
Faith
Pornography

of and by The Cure

Ben Adrian

So how come no one has mentioned Big Star 3rd yet? That album is the most beautiful nervous breakdown ever documented by modern recording equipment.

santana's last 2 albums he has done with the current superstars of the recording industry. he had to be insane to agree to that decision.

Mark Lansing wrote:So how come no one has mentioned Big Star 3rd yet? That album is the most beautiful nervous breakdown ever documented by modern recording equipment.

Hey hey!

I was scrolling down the page and thought I would have to mention it!

bri2u2002 wrote:Sebadoh III

I thought of this record the other day. Specifically, the last song on it. "As The World Dies, The Eyes Of God Grow Bigger."

This song is pretty insane! The lyrics! The first fuckin' line of the song is "Descended from Emerson into this life"! That has to be the best opening line of all times.

Salut Eric Gaffney, writer of this song.

That song is pretty crazy. I think Eric G. is a little crazy, so it fits. Hey, what about Skip Spence's 'Oar'? That's a breakdown album if I ever heard one. Beautiful, though.

John W. wrote:That song is pretty crazy. I think Eric G. is a little crazy, so it fits.

Eric G. lives in San Francisco, Italia (unless he moved recently), and is always trying to keep his band (the horribly-named "Fields Of Gaffney") together. I ought to give him a hug sometime.

John W. wrote:Hey, what about Skip Spence's 'Oar'? That's a breakdown album if I ever heard one. Beautiful, though.

I am dealing with current insanities with the huge help of this record, which I have loved for many years.