The Best "Wasted" Albums

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It's midnight and you've had a fair few, so you decide it's time to listen to that favourite album of yours. An album that when sober isn't quite the same because it can't take you that place it does while being pissed as a skunk.

Here's mine:

Electric Ladyland: Jimi's masterpiece is excellent while sober but it just isn't the same while you're spaced out on the sofa, with your eyes closed and volume loud. The squealing solo's the crunching drums and fantastical lyricism mean you end up actually in Electric Ladyland - "Have you ever been...to Electric Ladyland" - Yes, Jimi, Yes I have. Thank you. (P.S. This album get's better the more drunk/high you actually are)

Led Zeppelin: Anything by the 'greatest' rock band ever seems even better when pissed, the English-folk inspired lyrics, the steady but complex rhythm of John Bonham - the bluesy-rocky riffs of Page. Dazed and Confused, Stairway to Heaven all take you to that place you just cannot reach while sober, Zep' fans call it the Mothership. (I was there last night)

Live At The Filmore East: The Allman Brothers crowning moment came in the hazy, booze fuelled hours of the famed performance at the now legendary Filmore East gig venue in New York City. Looking at the length of some of the songs: 13minutes, 19 minutes and 23 minutes for three of the greatest rock-blues based music ever you'd be surprised how fast the moments go while totally rat-faced. Beware, you may lose an hour or two in no time.


If you've not been totally hammered and listened to your favourite album, then you have to try it.

Or if you have an album you don't really like, give it another go - pissed and see what it's like.

List your own favourite wasted albums or even just recommend some to try. For piss-heads like me.
 
good call on the allman brothers

Blue Lines is great to keep cool to. Check your Head is great if you're kinda upbeat stoned.

Television's, Marquee Moon is great if you want to sit and listen.


The list is endless though. And I misunderstood.

Drunk it has to be Exile on Main Street.
 
Anything from BRMC gets me going and gives a second wind, wanting to throw TVs out windows and the like.

Anything from Tool.
 
I think alot of Dylan albums work this way too
 
Anything by Black Sabbath is good to chill out to when drinking.
 
Good call on Deltron Nilsson....Dan & Del are very under appreciated

How has Dark Side of The Moon not been mentioned yet? Wasters



 
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