[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?

 

[falis]

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

 

[A Love Supreme]

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

 

[goober-george]

Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill

 

[festivus528]

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.

 

[rehabitat]

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

 

[gbacic]

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.

 

[tattoou2]

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Keith Jarrett - The Vienna Concert

 

[hycanth]

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

 

[radu]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
 
Emotional rollercoaster...

 

[radiohlite]

Nirvana - In Utero
Radiohead - Kid A
The Stooges - Raw Power

 

[Jaska]

Quote:

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

 

[falis]

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

 

[tru blu]

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

 

[nkk]

 
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