Songs/Albums That Feel Like A Religious Experience?

Rory Gallagher/taste - Sinner Boy (Live)

 

Ah! Someone beat me to it!

These two - incredible. Unmatched.

 

Slik - Forever And Ever

 

Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-Englar

 

Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

 

Also...
Beethoven's 7th Symphony 2nd movement Allegretto
Allegri's Miserere (Tallis Scholars recording)
Brian Eno - The Big Ship

 

Sisters Of Mercy - Temple of Love (Original Version)

 

Van Morrison -Astral Weeks
Moody Blues -Days Of Future Passed
Chris Isaak -Forever Blue
Side 2 Of Abbey Road
Miles Davis -In A Silent Way
Ottmar Liebert - Leaning Into The Night (try it, get it, get it, get it......gorgeous under rated gem)

 

Stealing a little thunder from Robin L. From Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day.

MEANTIME 'PERT, who had been busy trying, with little success, to plant doubts about the girl in Hunter's mind, had also learned through elements of the T.W.I.T. something of his earlier adventures and the frailties resulting, and appointed herself a sort of anti-muse, hoping out of meanness to provoke Hunter at least into work unlikely to endear him to the British public. Her history was soon to undergo a certain adjustment, however. In September, Hunter would invite her to accompany him to Gloucester Cathedral, where as part of that year's Three Choirs Festival, a new work by Ralph Vaughan Williams would be having its first performance. Ruperta, who despised church music, must have seen some irresistible opening for idle mischief, because she went along wearing a sportive toilette more appropriate to Brighton, with a hat she had always found particularly loathsome but kept handy for occasions just such as this. The composer was conducting two string orchestras set like cantores and decani facing each other across the chancel, with a string quartet between them. The moment Vaughan Williams raised his baton, even before the first notes, something happened to Ruperta. As Phrygian resonances swept the great nave, doubled strings sang back and forth, and nine-part harmonies occupied the bones and blood vessels of those in attendance, very slowly Ruperta began to levitate, nothing vulgar, simply a tactful and stately ascent about halfway to the vaulting, where, tears running without interruption down her face, she floated in the autumnal light above the heads of the audience for the duration of the piece. At the last long diminuendo, she returned calmly to earth and reoccupied herself, never again to pursue her old career of determined pest. She and Hunter, who was vaguely aware that something momentous had befallen her, walked in silence out along the Severn, and it was hours before she could trust herself to speak. "You must never, never forgive me, Hunter," she whispered. "I can never claim forgiveness from anyone. Somehow, I alone, for every single wrong act in my life, must find a right one to balance it. I may not have that much time left."

 

Prince--Purple Rain

The song, not the album. Although if church were like "Darling Nikki," I'd be the first one there every Sunday.

 

Huh, I'm really surprised at the lack of two big ones:

1) The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (1967)

I've had some very pleasant spiritual experiences with this one; it's great for re-organization of the mind.

2) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
Which is arguably the greatest piece of art ever conceived.

I also agree with the love for A Love Supreme, Lateralus and In The Aeroplane Over The Sea!

 

Alans Psychedelic Breakfast -Pink Floyd- alcohol and weed fueled euphoria
On a Boat-Claude Debussy-sober meditation euphoria

 

"A Day In The Life", by The Beatles. There's a before and an after.

 

Patti Smith Group - Easter
Also Break It Up

The Beatles - Across The Universe

 

I listened to that for the first time the other night as I went to sleep, and often when I hear records then and they catch me in that "between awake and asleep" state, they almost induce lucid dreaming for a few minutes before I conk out. But that Hollis record put me into this like 30-minute trippy but super-calming trance that felt like astral projection or something. Crazy.

 

etc.

 

This probably more than any other!

 

Not sure why I chose this. It is very emotional. I think Green and Kirwan lost their way in life and needed help. These old photos of the band make me sad :-(

 

Let it Be - The Beatles
A Day in the Life - The Beatles
That Lonesome Road - James Taylor
Song for Athene - John Tavener

 

Definitely this one, The Gloaming. To me it was the best album of last year...a special one.​

 

John Tavener - Funeral Canticle

 

Had a religious experience reading this post.

 

Offering - Another Day