albums that transport you to places

[METALMAN]

By this I mean they give you a really evocative feeling of a certain place or time. Like "Takk" by Sigur Rós makes you feel like you are jumping in puddles in Iceland, Berlin era David Bowie makes you feel like you are in...Berlin...at night and The Eagles make you feel like you are driving in a vast, empty part of America listening to really naff music. Although I do like the naff music. >_>

So, yeah...name your own please.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Boards of Canada puts me out in a random scrubland in the 60s for some reason. For me it just evokes the era of a deserted, barren land around the time of the space race. REALLY hard to explain though.

Feeder's "Polythene" and "Yesterday Went Too soon" throw my RIGHT back to the first term of my first year of uni in 1999. I was listening to a lot of Feeder right then and went to see them live for the first time at that point. Man they were SOOOO good back then. "Insomnia" is just brilliant.

I have a passing "liking" of Kaiser Chiefs. Nothing more really. They're good but not mindblowing for me and their music seems to be a guilty pleasure cos I enjoy it but feel kinda self-aware listening to it. Dunno why. Anyway I'm REALLY into "Oh my God" right now and playing it loud in my headphones walking home from work or something mainly cos of the lyrics "Never been this far away from home". Makes me feel a billion miles away from England but some kind of ambassador

"Happy Songs for Happy People" and "Mr. Beast" by Mogwai make me feel like I'm sitting in a tiny intimate cabin that is in a vast expanse of open land. Delicate intimacy with vast undertones I guess.

[probablyoliver]

Willy Mason's "Where The Humans Eat" may be the best walking album ever.

[YI]

Murder By Death reminds me of the Old West.

"Endings Of A New Kind" by Taken By Cars is so boy-racer in a flash car storming down built up Tokyo streets at night, shit.