Albums that are physically/mentally/emotionally exhausting, yet highly recommended?

Mahavishnu Orchestra: "Inner Mounting Flame" and "Birds of Fire"

Ronald Shannon Jackson: "Mandance"

Sam Rivers: "Sizzle", "Crystals", "Inspiration" (Rivbea All-Star Orchestra), "Aurora" (Rivbea Orchestra)

I'm sure I can think of a few more that are not mainly jazz, but that could get you started.  I happen to like that kind of music.  Don't forget your Mahler.

- Ed

Pharoah Sanders - Karma

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

John Coltrane - Ascension
Boris - Flood

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind

Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill

ISIS - Oceanic

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

King Crimson - Red

Neurosis - Given to the Rising

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

- Nice avatar, goober-george. One of my favorite bands.

Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa

Kronos Quartet - Black Angels

Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No. 3

Sting - The Soul Cages

Beck - Seachange

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Celtic Frost - Monotheist

Skin Chamber - Wound

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Pink Floyd - The Wall

The Necks - Aether

Sunn O))) - White 1

Yonlu - A Society in Which No Tear is Shed is Inconceivably Mediocre

Read the story on the album and it becomes very emotionally draining but beautiful.

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Keith Jarrett - The Vienna Concert

I like this thread.

I'm not sure if this album can be considered exhausting to listen to but it certainly has a very creepy/paranoid mood to it.

The Residents - Duckstab

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Emotional rollercoaster...

Nirvana - In Utero

Radiohead - Kid A

The Stooges - Raw Power

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Originally Posted by fuseboxx 

I would give examples, but that might influence the replies too much so just reply based on how you understand the question.

 

Any albums anyone can think of that can be described as very draining and exhausting yet they still consider to be really good?

Genesis - Trespass

Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Tim Buckley "Starsailor".  Could have sworn I posted this yesterday but it's not there.

- Ed

Off the top of my head…

Cecil Taylor - Conquistador

John Coltrane - Sun Ship

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

The Clash - London Calling

The Libertines - Up The Bracket

Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions (To Hold Us Back)

M.I.A. - Kala

The Arcade Fire - Funeral

Jules Hemphill & Abdul Wadud - Live from New York

The Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime

X - WIld Gift

Stravinsky's The Firebird.  The one by Bernstein and the LSO is favored, but any will do.

Mahler's third.  CSO with Bernard Haitink is my favorite right now, but the PSO's performance of it this weekend with Manfred Honeck promises to be stunning (and thus the CD will be good).

-Nkk