I do things differently around here.

Lately I’ve been thinking about albums that have a sort of cutting room floor aesthetic that are less highly curated and more of a choppy, messy glimpse into a musician’s creative life. Initially started thinking of this based on the new Nirosta Steel album being compiled from over 40 years featuring different versions and audio fidelities.

These albums might have disparate aesthetics or “vibes” but come together to highlight a sort of visit to the studio of the musician. I feel like they can tend to be long double albums but I don’t feel like that’s necessarily the case.

What are some of your favorite “messy” albums?

Albums that have this aesthetic imo include:
The life of Pablo
The white album
Selected ambient works volume 2
Arthur Russell’s world of echo
Double nickel’s on the dime
Blonde

It's always bizarre to me how Jefferson Airplane, one of the leading bands of the 60's psychedelic movement, turned into Starship, the poster child of 80s corporate rock. It wasn't a complete Ship of Theseus moment either. Grace Slick sang lead vocals on "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" as well co-lead on "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now".

Heart Attack - Sum 41

Ny-Quil - AFI

Edit - I forgot about Never Wake Up - Sum 41 even though it's on the same album as Heart Attack, those dudes must be sleepy.

They rather compare kdot to Jesus than say he did sum wrong

Exai by Autechre

Bands included: Celtic Frost, Swans, Ween

They got me…

Kesha - basically invented that "drunk 24/7 partygirl" genre of music INCLUDING BRAT

Charli xcx & sophie - influenced hyperpop which is one of the most discussed genres lately

Arca & björk - helped more experimental music go mainstream (eg, arca producing songs for kanye west and madonna)

1. Björk 2. Shakira 3. Ellie goulding

Every once in a while i run into this, was pretty surprised to find out this album was made by comedian James Acaster and has multiple features from Quelle Chris. this group has 40 total members.