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Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Classic Album Perfectly Matches Your Vibe? Rumours · Dark Side · Purple Rain · Nevermind

Eight specific questions: what you walk out of a record shop holding, where you do your best listening, what you do with a song you love, how you behave the week something ends. Answer honestly and we will tell you which of the four biggest records ever made has been describing you this whole time.

🪞Rumours(1977)

🔺Dark Side(1973)

🏍️Purple Rain(1984)

🌊Nevermind(1991)

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01

What do you walk out of a record shop holding? You went in for one thing. You never leave with one thing.

ASomething I already know every word to. BA record I plan to sit with alone. CWhichever one has the best cover. DSomething nobody at work has heard of.

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02

What do you do the week a relationship ends? Rumours exists because five people all did this at once.

ATell all my friends everything, immediately. BGo quiet and think about it for months. CBuy an outfit and go out looking incredible. DPlay one album until the neighbours complain.

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03

What is playing in your car on the way home? The twenty minutes nobody else gets a vote on.

AWhatever the person beside me picked. BOne album, start to finish, no skipping. CSomething I can sing at full volume. DA playlist nobody else would recognise.

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04

How do you behave in an argument with a friend? Be honest. Somebody is reading this over your shoulder.

ASay everything, then apologise tomorrow. BGo silent and work out what I think. CMake it a performance and win the room. DLeave, and stay gone a while.

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05

Where do you stand when the lights go down at a gig? Everybody has a spot and nobody ever changes it.

AIn the middle with my whole group. BRight at the back, properly listening. CFront row, hands up, no phone out. DBy the sound desk where the mix works.

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06

Which film do you put on when you cannot sleep? The one you have seen so often it works as a nightlight.

AAlmost Famous, for the hundredth time. BBlade Runner, mostly for the atmosphere. CStop Making Sense, turned right up. DClerks, or something equally scrappy.

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07

What do you do with a song you have fallen for? The first forty-eight hours tell you everything.

ASend it to twelve people within an hour. BReplay it alone and say nothing. CLearn it well enough to perform it. DGuard it until the band gets big.

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08

What do you want a great record to do to you? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your album.

AMake the mess feel worth it. BMake me think about something properly. CMake me want to be looked at. DMake me feel like I found it first.

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Side A, Track One Your Album Is…

Nevermind turned thirty-five last month and the arguments started up again immediately, which is what these four records do. Here is yours, what it says about you, and the case for it being the best album on the list.

Rumours

You are the beautiful disaster who keeps everybody together anyway. Rumours was made by five people who were all breaking up with each other in the same room and refusing to stop working, and it came out sounding like the sunniest record of the decade.

• You process everything out loud, in company, and your friends know far more than they should.
• It won Album of the Year at the 1978 Grammys and has sold somewhere past forty million copies since.
• Daisy Jones & The Six was built almost entirely on this era, which is how you know the drama still sells.
• Your risk is the band's risk, which is mistaking the chaos for the thing that makes you good.

Dark Side of the Moon

You are the one who went quiet and came back with a theory. Dark Side is an album about time, money, pressure and losing your mind, built so carefully that it still sounds like it was finished yesterday.

• You need silence and a long walk before you can tell anybody what you think.
• It spent well over nine hundred weeks on the Billboard 200, a run no other album has come close to.
• The Wizard of Oz sync myth has outlived several generations of stoned students and refuses to die.
• You can overthink a thing until it stops being fun, and the people around you notice before you do.

Purple Rain

You are the main character and you have never pretended otherwise. Purple Rain is an album, a film and a complete personality delivered at once, by somebody who decided he was going to be the most interesting person alive and then simply was.

• You walk into a room and adjust it, and you would rather be talked about than ignored.
• Prince won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score in 1985, and nobody has won it since.
• The film is a genuinely strange piece of work, and the title track live is still the high-water mark.
• Your weakness is needing the audience, which is fine until the night nobody turns up.

Nevermind

You want it on your own terms or not at all. Nevermind is the record that dragged the underground into the middle of the mainstream and then spent the rest of its life uncomfortable about having done it.

• You are suspicious of anything everybody agrees on, including the things you loved first.
• It knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard 200 in January 1992 and changed what radio sounded like.
• It turned thirty-five in September, and the reissue arguments have been running ever since.
• Your flaw is that liking something popular feels like losing, and you miss good records that way.