Which of these is romantic?

Definitely the Spiritualized album, but the lyrics could apply to a "romance" with drugs or religion as well as romance, love and lust with another person. Which is the brilliance of it all, really.

That's the obvious pick. My other choices would be Slowdive and Talk Talk. I think Yo La Tengo's most romantic record is Painful; the one here is too sonically diverse to come across that way, to me.

As for the other albums...pretty consistently great, all of them. I don't personally care for Lush, Sigur Ros or Teenage Fanclub but I can see the appeal. Haven't heard the Parks and Recreation record. Otherwise, all great records; don't let the lack of romance turn you away!

As for most romantic song: "Just Like Honey" from the JAMC record.

either of the YLTs, the slowdive, the JAMC. i would find the GbV way too distracting for romance.

Lush is romantic in an atmospheric shoegaze sense. or slowdive. stone roses had a really romantic song on that album (in a good way).

Oh, I didn't see that YLT - Painful was actually on the list, too. That's a fucking great record.

Psychocandy may be the most romantic album of all time.

this is a fine romance

what do you mean by romantic? as in you can fuck to it?

in which case, Curve?

seems like romantic in a sort of Baudelaire sort of way

Sigur Ros then.

I do think all of these records can have a place in your heart though.

yes...a heart drowned in the creek next to ophilia...

(i like almost all of these records dearly, mind you)

and given this wikipedia take on romanticism:

Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.[1] It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature.

The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity in untamed nature and its qualities that are "picturesque", both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and custom, as well as arguing for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage.

its fair to call these romantic in an aesthetic sense..like those poets on your side, but unlike the decadent on mine

Certainly NOT that Slint record.

I'd go with Painful on this one.

By "Romantic" I basically mean that... the record for the most part sounds like an expression of Love or some other similar feeling.

Thanks for the recommendations. I'm also interested in recommendations from other genres.

ICHTHBAO would be the smooching record of choice from this particular selection

also it's v long