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[blinkin biggie]

heres a question

if you purchased a CD and after listening though wow!!
what makes that wow factor to yourself??

whats albums has anyone listened to lately and thought its a great album and why??

[Ollie]

dunno its a tough question and different for different bands. Usually for me a good album has the right songs in the right places and tells a story.

you need about a million things happening at once to make you go "wow" after listening to an album or cd.

1. you need to actually get into the music you're listening. if you're feeling it, that's a good start.

2. you need to be in the right mood for what you're listening. if you're feeling down and what you're listening to is generally quite introverted or depressed, you probably won't feel any better after listening to it.

3. you may have to listen to something completely new to actually get the "wow" effect. if it's something done a million times before, then you won't be very surprised with what you're hearing.

4. the album/cd needs to have a healthy mix of different styles. if you're listening to 10 minutes songs for an hour, you'll probably lose your attention span, or if the songs sound all the same. you need something fast and something slow. something hard and something soft.

5. the music needs to have all the right "parts", ie. vocal, guitar, drums, chopsticks, whatever. if the vocals suck in your opinon, but the bass line sounds sweet, you'll have divided opinions. no "wow" factor.

6. while you're listening, you need to be in the right kind of "situation". if you listen to something and it brings back a particularly good memory, you'll be very...uh...happy.

7. and of course taste. it all comes done to one thing really.

[paul-shand]

mesmerise system of a down
number of the beast iron maiden
machine head deep purple
master of puppets metallica
bleach nirvana
through the ashes of empires machine head
adrenalize def leppard
sessions for robert j 2 eric clapton
early days led zepplin
back in black ac/dc

that albums gave me the wow factor,
you need to have a good first track to grab the listener by the balls

ie imperium battery invaders

fat paul

[Dinosaur]

erm...well I would say it needs to have songs on it

[delboy]

i recently bought the new stones album and was subtely impressed that the band manage to stay alive to actually make it! (though charlie watts had a couple of brushes with the reaper during the recording process!)

[Time Machine]

It's the tunes for me, man!

I just know when an album's great. Just get that feeling that I'm never gonna get bored of it, ever. I'd be here all day, but most recently, been digging 'Ambulance Ltd', but ask me that in a year!

[Bodast]

I reckon Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd is a pretty perfect album. I'm not sure why exactly, and it's not even my favourite Floyd album as far as songs are concerned but it's just perfectly constructed, and when it gets to the end, you don't feel like you've just listened to a row of songs, but one long composition with a beginning, a middle and an end. After all, that is the first thing you learn when you're writing stories so I guess albums should do it too.

[head ache]

my favourite albums are:

Badmotorfinger-soundgarden
Aenima-Tool
The Bends_Radiohead
In Utero-Nirvana
Loveless-My Bloody Valentine
Doolittle-Pixies
Grace-Jeff Buckley
wish you were here-Pink Floyd
London Calling-The Clash
Diamond Dogs-David Bowie

the only thing these albums have in common is that i love every song on them.

start with some kick ass songs, end with some kick ass songs and have some kicks ass songs in the middle .
thats how you make a great album.

Aphex Twin - 'I care because you do.' A totally unpredictable album, one you could listen to hundreds of times yet never really hear everything, always discovering new parts you apparently never noticed before.