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Albums like Music for the Masses 1987
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Music for the Masses
Albums closest to Music for the Masses
- Songs From the Big Chair 1985Also contemporary, inward and polished
- Abbey Road 1969Also polished
- Melodrama 2017Also contemporary, serious and polished
- Currents 2015Also inward and polished
- Some Nights 2012Also maximal and polished
- Strangeways, Here We Come 1987Also polished
- MAYHEM 2025Also maximal, serious and polished
- I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it 2016Also inward and polishedmore retro
- OK Computer 1997Also inward, serious and polished
- Heaven or Las Vegas 1990Also inward, contemporary and serious
- Wish 1992Also inward and polished
- Manic 2020Also contemporary, inward and serious
The same feel, in other forms
Books
Swing Time 2016Also contemporary
Nothing is true and everything is possible 2012Also contemporary and epic
I Cheerfully Refuse 2024Also contemporary
Series
The Sopranos 1999Also contemporary
Killing Eve 2018Also contemporary
Doom Patrol 2019Also contemporary and epic
Films
Thunderbolts* 2025Also contemporary
Life in a Metro 2007Also contemporary
In the Heights 2021Also contemporary
Games
The Artful Escape 2021Also contemporary and character-led
Nihilumbra 2012Also contemporary
The Talos Principle 2014Also contemporary
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