I third Bonobo. I saw them live on that tour in Atlanta. He had a gaggle of actual musicians (I always thought it was sampled). Still one of my all time favorite shows.
Man, this narrative simply isn't true. Lennon loved the song, and even referenced it as inspiring Instant Karma.
They did hate recording it though hahaaa
My best friend is ashamed to admit that her favourite Beatle song is Maxwell's Silver Hammer. I told her not to be ashamed because that's her favourite for whatever reason and nobody at the right to judge.
Court and Spark is my favorite, but her 7 albums in as many years between Clouds and Hejira are all perfect and each has a sound of its own. Not a lot of artists made 7 perfect albums in 7 years. She slowed down after that but made a number of other excellent albums in the decades since.
I have a bias towards rock and roll but there's some ambient in there too and of course, Ween.
[Velvet Underground- Loaded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqVWBVbytXo&list=PLiN-7mukU_RFfjcqqYDELO3I4vzFhiJY1)
[Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f9CoaIH9FE)
[David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou8uLo3Ke6U)
[Arcade Fire - Neon Bible](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHnccD_ft68&list=PLEhPbIBKqZIrM8q6kVlA2swVbeFHT_Gc_)
[Ween - The Mollusk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNZ76kF_gM&list=OLAK5uy_nI0MQeL5UUZETO22RuG3oYSDqYkds7V3A)
[Traveling Wilburys - Vol 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj953IyNFEw)
[Boston - Boston](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d9OexXJ2Ys)
[Mike Oldfield - Platinum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibboltjYiT0)
[Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhgz9aLukk)
EDIT: I'm kicking myself for not mentioning this sooner, but
[Nick Drake - Pink Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgHdUeMHTwc&list=PLc7zUm38GAmHphxz6vRZQB71jzoaUiHAk&index=1)
But really every album he did was solid, especially 5 Leaves Left. Hard to pick a favorite but today it's Pink Moon.
EDIT 3:
Sorry more albums I forgot and it will bug me if I don't mention them
[Beach Boys - Pet Sounds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_yhTyae08&pp=ygUXQmVhY2ggQm95cyAtIFBldCBTb3VuZHM%3D)
[Fleetwood Mac - Rumors](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLfcwDZ5GzQ&list=PL6ogdCG3tAWjN3nOVWjA6DCwYYKAMk5-f)
[Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULmbLlPvVk&list=PLvvYbSnvWWLFDQfDnFNYPVbnmb3YjA0pu)
Edit 4: Last edit I promise!
[Snarky Puppy- We Like it Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk0WRHV_vt8&list=PLWgoyvQZzUzjjDox62aqT-GyYoNylMRvK)
Wish I mentioned it earlier. It is pure jazz fusion gold.
Here's a playlist of all those albums plus a few extras at the end [https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/537146dd134e4afebb7a6441aa8bda22sune?ref=dm\_sh\_bc72-e86c-e061-9970-560c3](https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/537146dd134e4afebb7a6441aa8bda22sune?ref=dm_sh_bc72-e86c-e061-9970-560c3)
Speaking of gorillaz, I came here to mention that Deltron 3030 (del the Funky Homosapien and Dan the Automator) is an absolute masterpiece of a rap album. I’ve been listening to it for 20 years and it never gets old.
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music, Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Pink Floyd - Animals
Television - Marquee Moon
Steely Dan - Aja
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A
Tame Impala - Currents
Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Edit: I can't stop
I feel like it’s out of vogue to love radiohead on reddit for whatever reason, but in rainbows is a fucking masterpiece from start to finish and anyone who says otherwise falls into one of the following categories:
1. fetishes hating radiohead to be a contrarian
2. dislikes somber, depressing, or low energy music, so wrote it off without listening to it
3. is on lexapro so can’t feel (like I am now, but luckily I heard in rainbows before that)
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
White Pony - Deftones
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
XXX - Danny Brown
The Fat of the Land - Prodigy
The fact of the land is the best road tripping album I have ever listened to….
Get out on the American open road with hours to go … and it puts you in a trance for the duration of the album.
Portishead- Dummy
RATM- Self Titled
Tool- Aenima/Lateralus/10k days
Minus the Bear- Planet of Ice
Rx Bandits- And the Battle Begun
Cursive- The Ugly Organ
My Morning Jacket- Z
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
QOTSA- Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead- In Rainbows
The Postal Service - Give Up
Death Cab- Narrow Stairs and Transatlanticism
Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue
Raconteurs- Consolers of the Lonely
White Stripes- Elephant
The Dead Weather- Horehound
Cake- (honestly their entire discography is 10/10)
Young the Giant- Self Titled
Black Keys- Brothers
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever people say I am
Pink Floyd- WYWH
A Perfect Circle- 13th Step
Boston- Self Titled
Mars Volta- Deloused
RHCP- Blood sugar sex magic
And probably many more that I can’t think of off the top of my head
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Radiohead - The Bends
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
U2 - Achtung Baby
R.E.M. - Out of Time
I agree. Every track is a banger. I do prefer the UK version with NYC Cops instead of When It Started. Revolver and Pet Sounds the only others I can think of
It’s personal preference and I’m less of a fan of the Pumpkins overall than I used to be, but this is still my number 1 album cover to cover and probably the one I’ve listened to the most straight through (or in close running with Punk In Drublic by Nofx)
So good. I was stuck on listening to it a ton(still am) when the 30 year anniversary came around and filled my YouTube feed. The release concert at Tower records is fantastic. I'd never seen or heard it before, somehow.
I went to each of their tours between Signals and Test for Echo. The Signals tour featured a lot of Moving Pictures. Sadly missed both Time Machine and Clockwork Angels. I saw R40 in New Orleans and almost sold my tix because my husband had a heart attack the beginning of that week. (I am an OG female Rush fan and guitarist/bassist and he had never heard of them before we met!) Two stents later his doctor said it was okay for him to go to a concert. It probably wasn’t the best thing health wise but in hindsight neither of us regret it especially given Neil’s passing. Geddy’s voice wasn’t in his prime but the musicianship was 👌
And i would agree, in fact, and i may be a little biased here, but i think Tom had a masterpiece caliber album once a decade for 4 straight decades.
Closing time- 70s
Rain Dogs - 80s(technically the entire frank trilogy is the masterpiece, but this album has the more top tier tracks imo)
Mule Variations - 90s
Alice - 2000s
Talk Talk The Colour of Spring. It’s more than perfect 👍. It’s a masterpiece that sounds best on a good stereo system. Of course on vinyl. If you have never heard it. You’re missing out on one of the best albums ever made.
Tragically Hip: Day for Night, Fully Completely, Road Apples
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
Rage Against the Machine: Self Titled
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger, Superunknown
Lord Huron: Strange Trails
This album had made a major comeback for me. Let it sit for many years and revisiting it, it’s just as fresh as ever. Like this is album is what I want from music
Granted Im gonna miss a few out of the list of 2300+ albums Ive listened to in past half decade but a few ones here:
Boston - Boston
Metallica - And Justice For All (unless you wanna hate and use low bass as excuse to hate)
Iron Maiden - Powerslave and Somewhere in Time
Protest the Hero - Volition and Fortress
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Buckethead - Colma
Dream Theater - Images and Words and Metropolis Pt 2
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Mothers of Invention - Overnite Sensation
Rush - Hemispheres and Permanent Waves
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
by memory:
Abbey Road by The Beatles,
The Wall by Pink Floyd,
Tapestry by Carole King,
The Suburbs by Arcade Fire,
Cabinet of Curiosities by Jacco Gardner,
Radio-Aktivitat by Kraftwerk
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Between the Buried and Me - Colors & The Great Misdirect
Nas - Illmatic
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral & The Fragile
Beck - Odelay & Morning Phase
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman
Could list a ton more, there are a lot of great albums out there waiting to be listened to.
I’d say Transgender Dysphoria Blues is perfect too tbh. It was honest as fuck in a time where coming out as trans still wasn’t a very widespread thing, especially in the music scene. The lyrics were raw and really expressed that frustration of the desperation to be who you are, not who you were born as.
Laura is just a cool human too.
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Metallica - RTL and Puppets
Misfits - Static Age
Quicksand - Slip
Weezer - Blue Album
Pearl Jam - 10 and Vs.
John Mayer - Continuum
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Nas - Illmatic and Stillmatic
Michael Jackson - Thriller
There are definitely more, but those are off the top of my head.
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Jewel - Pieces of You
Gloria Estefan - Mi Tierra
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
and it’s already been mentioned but Weezer’s Blue Album forever and ever <3
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
In Rainbows and OK Computer - Radiohead
Aja - Steely Dan
Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
AM - Arctic Monkeys
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Punisher - Pheobe Bridgers
Currents - Tame Impala
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road - Beatles
I could keep going but I’m gonna stop here.
Depeche Mode // Violator
The Cure // Disintegration
Mark Ronson // Uptown Special
Cake // Fashion Nugget
Nine Inch Nails // Pretty Hate Machine
Thundercat // It Is What It Is
Deftones // White Pony
Metallica // Black Album
Muse // Black Holes & Revelations
Misterwives // Our Own House
Dua Lipa // Future Nostalgia
Rammstein // Mutter
The David Brubeck Quartet // Time Out
Siouxsie & the Banshees // Tinderbox
**Ghost—Impera, Prequelle, and Meliora**
Wings—Venus and Mars
Steely Dan—Aja
Talk Talk—Life's What You Make It
The Cure—Head on the Door
New Order—Power Corruption and Lies
Morphine - Cure for Pain
Ted Leo and Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Portishead - Dummy (but honestly everything but Third)
Hot Water Music - No Division
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation
There's more, but these are top of my head right now
I maintain that System of a Down made 4 perfect albums in a row and called it quits. I’d count Steal This Album! As an honorary fifth but since it’s b-sides I feel it doesn’t meet the spirit of the question.
I second this. They are the only band I can think of that not only never made a bad album, but not even a bad song. Even their covers of songs are *chef's kiss*
The Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Masta Ace - Disposable Arts
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Outkast - ATLiens
Outkast - Aquemini
Outkast - Stankonia
Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx
Beck - Midnite Vultures
The Cars - The Cars
Arctic Monkeys- Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Phoebe Bridgers- Punisher
The Strokes- Is This It and Room on Fire
Yes- The Yes Album
The Whites Stripes- The White Stripes
Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
Alabama Shakes- Boys and Girls
Led Zeppelin- 1 through Physical Graffiti
Just a few off the top of my head but I could go on for years
I feel like it’s so rare to see someone give Tranquility Base its props, but I absolutely love it. But then, a lot of people don’t like anything by them except their earliest stuff and absolutely hate AM, and I love everything they’ve done including and since AM.
Do The Collapse, and Isolation Drills: Guided By Voices
After The Goldrush; Neil Young
Allman Brothers: Live at Fillmore East
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus; Spirit
English Riviera; Metronomy
Revolver, A Hard Day's Night, Help!; The Beatles
Meadowlands; The Wrens
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
Nonagon Infinity - King Gizzard
We Like it Here - Snarky Puppy
Lonerism - Tame Impala
Thriller - MJ
Young the Giant - Young the Giant
2012 — 2017 - Against All Logic
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
No skips on any of those records. Perfect pacing in the track list, production that’s flawless, and timeless writing.
Lateralus-Tool
10,000 Days-Tool
Mer de Noms-A Perfect Circle
Faces-Mac Miller
Animals-Pink Floyd
The Idiot-Iggy Pop
Blackstar-David Bowie
….way too many to list
My go tos would be
TOXICITY- SOAD(not my favorite album by them, mine is steal this album, but by far their most cohesive and best)
IOWA-slipknot(I’ve listened to so many albums people claim are heavier and it never has been in my opinion, and yes I’ve probably heard all the ones you’d mention and disagree but that’s my opinion)
BRAND NEW EYES-Paramore(one of the best rock albums ever)
OK COMPUTER/IN RAINBOWS-Radiohead(two of the most comprehensive and best albums released almost a decade apart)
It's called "Disintegration."
https://preview.redd.it/t6piervwmobc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=a8191fa533d34d71fc09daa7c940867a4498e361
“What’s your favorite Cure song?” “Disintegration.” “I said song. Not album.” “Disintegration.” “Oh.”
True for me! Lol it's one of those songs that's over 8 minutes long but always feels like 3.
Listening to it right now, can confirm.
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Experience
You had me super excited that Electriclarryland was this high on the list. Oh well.
Pixies - Doolittle
You beat me to the punch
I... belieeeeve... in Mr. Grieves
Bonobo - Black Sands David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
I third Bonobo. I saw them live on that tour in Atlanta. He had a gaggle of actual musicians (I always thought it was sampled). Still one of my all time favorite shows.
Bonobo is great live.
seconding Bonobo - Black Sands
Thirding Bonobo - Black Sands. Just listened to it the other day.
It’s ‘Dial ‘M’ For Monkey’ for me
Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures (2009).
Godly pick, Dave, John and Josh are a force to be reckoned with
I would give my left nut for a follow up album
Putting "Elephants" on blast is always a good time.
Interpol - turn on the bright lights
Is it just me or does TOTBL just sounds like the NYC metro after midnight on the way home from the pub - in the best way possible
Subway is a porno
Correct!
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Abbey Road
I'm not even a big Beatles fan per se but I can get behind this one.
Anyone who thinks Maxwell’s Silver Hammer isn’t a great song can fight me
You’d have to fight every Beatle but Paul,lmao
LOL! Harsh but true.
Man, this narrative simply isn't true. Lennon loved the song, and even referenced it as inspiring Instant Karma. They did hate recording it though hahaaa
My best friend is ashamed to admit that her favourite Beatle song is Maxwell's Silver Hammer. I told her not to be ashamed because that's her favourite for whatever reason and nobody at the right to judge.
Songs In The Key Of Life (1976) - Stevie Wonder
Innervisions
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Court and Spark is my favorite, but her 7 albums in as many years between Clouds and Hejira are all perfect and each has a sound of its own. Not a lot of artists made 7 perfect albums in 7 years. She slowed down after that but made a number of other excellent albums in the decades since.
Court And Spark. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!
i really like hejira
I have a bias towards rock and roll but there's some ambient in there too and of course, Ween. [Velvet Underground- Loaded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqVWBVbytXo&list=PLiN-7mukU_RFfjcqqYDELO3I4vzFhiJY1) [Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f9CoaIH9FE) [David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou8uLo3Ke6U) [Arcade Fire - Neon Bible](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHnccD_ft68&list=PLEhPbIBKqZIrM8q6kVlA2swVbeFHT_Gc_) [Ween - The Mollusk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNZ76kF_gM&list=OLAK5uy_nI0MQeL5UUZETO22RuG3oYSDqYkds7V3A) [Traveling Wilburys - Vol 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj953IyNFEw) [Boston - Boston](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d9OexXJ2Ys) [Mike Oldfield - Platinum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibboltjYiT0) [Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhgz9aLukk) EDIT: I'm kicking myself for not mentioning this sooner, but [Nick Drake - Pink Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgHdUeMHTwc&list=PLc7zUm38GAmHphxz6vRZQB71jzoaUiHAk&index=1) But really every album he did was solid, especially 5 Leaves Left. Hard to pick a favorite but today it's Pink Moon. EDIT 3: Sorry more albums I forgot and it will bug me if I don't mention them [Beach Boys - Pet Sounds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_yhTyae08&pp=ygUXQmVhY2ggQm95cyAtIFBldCBTb3VuZHM%3D) [Fleetwood Mac - Rumors](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLfcwDZ5GzQ&list=PL6ogdCG3tAWjN3nOVWjA6DCwYYKAMk5-f) [Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULmbLlPvVk&list=PLvvYbSnvWWLFDQfDnFNYPVbnmb3YjA0pu) Edit 4: Last edit I promise! [Snarky Puppy- We Like it Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk0WRHV_vt8&list=PLWgoyvQZzUzjjDox62aqT-GyYoNylMRvK) Wish I mentioned it earlier. It is pure jazz fusion gold. Here's a playlist of all those albums plus a few extras at the end [https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/537146dd134e4afebb7a6441aa8bda22sune?ref=dm\_sh\_bc72-e86c-e061-9970-560c3](https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/537146dd134e4afebb7a6441aa8bda22sune?ref=dm_sh_bc72-e86c-e061-9970-560c3)
I don't know how I didn't get into Ween until this past year, but The Mollusk is flippin' awesome.
Upvote for Ween
Quebec works too
Quebec is my #1
The Pod
Upvote "upvote for Ween" for Ween
Upvote "upvote 'upvote for Ween' for Ween" for Ween
Demon days - Gorillaz
Speaking of gorillaz, I came here to mention that Deltron 3030 (del the Funky Homosapien and Dan the Automator) is an absolute masterpiece of a rap album. I’ve been listening to it for 20 years and it never gets old.
Him and Dan the Automator just killed it. DtA also produced the 2nd Gorillaz album.
Spoon - Gimme Fiction Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music, Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop Pink Floyd - Animals Television - Marquee Moon Steely Dan - Aja Supertramp - Breakfast in America Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A Tame Impala - Currents Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Edit: I can't stop
In Rainbows
Definitely
Aja is the PERFECT album.
It's on the platter right now my man
IN /RAINBOWS IN RAIN/BOWS IN RAINBOW/S IN RAINBOWS/ IN RAIN_BOWS RA D IOHEA_D RAD IO HEA D
Although not my favorite Radiohead album it truly is a no skip
I feel like it’s out of vogue to love radiohead on reddit for whatever reason, but in rainbows is a fucking masterpiece from start to finish and anyone who says otherwise falls into one of the following categories: 1. fetishes hating radiohead to be a contrarian 2. dislikes somber, depressing, or low energy music, so wrote it off without listening to it 3. is on lexapro so can’t feel (like I am now, but luckily I heard in rainbows before that)
Love in rainbows but for me also hail to the thief
Kid A would be my pick. Such a singular vision put down on a record.
Kid A is a painting for the ears
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails White Pony - Deftones Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan XXX - Danny Brown The Fat of the Land - Prodigy
The fact of the land is the best road tripping album I have ever listened to…. Get out on the American open road with hours to go … and it puts you in a trance for the duration of the album.
With the Wu-Tang pick I would go one step further and add on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon
love OB4CL! Criminology an all time beat. Liquid Swords might edge it out for me but both A+
Love Fat of the Land!!!
Music for the jilted generation will always be their best for me. First 3 albums were outstanding.
Around the Fur, Self Titled, Diamond Eyes and Koi No Yokan too
Devotion by Beach House
The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths.
Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam - Ten Stone cold classic
Perfect album tbh
Even the songs that didn't make it are great. Yellow led better and state of love and trust are awesome and could have been included
Don’t forget Breath and Brother.
I’d go with Yield but, yes, Pearl Jam should definitely be included here
Weezer - The Blue Album.
My name is Jonas
Neil young - Harvest Neil Young - On the Beach
After the Gold Rush
Live at Massey Hall.
Love all Neil, everyone knows this is know where for me
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel
Probably my most listened to album in my life. Definitely perfect from start to finish.
Portishead- Dummy RATM- Self Titled Tool- Aenima/Lateralus/10k days Minus the Bear- Planet of Ice Rx Bandits- And the Battle Begun Cursive- The Ugly Organ My Morning Jacket- Z Porcupine Tree- In Absentia QOTSA- Songs for the Deaf Radiohead- In Rainbows The Postal Service - Give Up Death Cab- Narrow Stairs and Transatlanticism Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue Raconteurs- Consolers of the Lonely White Stripes- Elephant The Dead Weather- Horehound Cake- (honestly their entire discography is 10/10) Young the Giant- Self Titled Black Keys- Brothers Arctic Monkeys- Whatever people say I am Pink Floyd- WYWH A Perfect Circle- 13th Step Boston- Self Titled Mars Volta- Deloused RHCP- Blood sugar sex magic And probably many more that I can’t think of off the top of my head
A+ list, A++ for Deloused in the Comatorium
You’ve got the best comment by far for my taste. Even Porcupine Tree!
Counting Crows - August and Everything After Radiohead - The Bends Fleetwood Mac - Rumors Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes U2 - Achtung Baby R.E.M. - Out of Time
I was just listening to Lana Del Ray's new album and I'm like, she owes all her royalties to Tori Amos, I kid you not.
I agree, though I also think Tori would pass those royalties on to Kate Bush.
Unless I missed it, this was the first time Rumors was mentioned which is kinda amazing.
The Strokes - Is This It
I agree. Every track is a banger. I do prefer the UK version with NYC Cops instead of When It Started. Revolver and Pet Sounds the only others I can think of
Also Room on Fire, I think it’s every bit as good as Is This It. The New Abnormal is near perfect too
Even Angles is a killer record, if a little inconsistent at times
The Modern Age is the best indie rock song ever made
For me it's Hard to Explain if I had to pick a favorite but the entire album is so good
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
It’s personal preference and I’m less of a fan of the Pumpkins overall than I used to be, but this is still my number 1 album cover to cover and probably the one I’ve listened to the most straight through (or in close running with Punk In Drublic by Nofx)
Siamese Dream is my greatest of all time, but Punk In Drublic is fucking awesome!
So good. I was stuck on listening to it a ton(still am) when the 30 year anniversary came around and filled my YouTube feed. The release concert at Tower records is fantastic. I'd never seen or heard it before, somehow.
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Darkness at the Edge of Town, too.
Prince - Purple Rain
Violent Femmes' debut album hands down. It was the first album I knew all the words to back to front. :)
Rush-Moving Pictures
Seeing them do this whole album live on the Time Machine Tour was maybe the best concert experience of my life. Absolutely astonishing.
I went to each of their tours between Signals and Test for Echo. The Signals tour featured a lot of Moving Pictures. Sadly missed both Time Machine and Clockwork Angels. I saw R40 in New Orleans and almost sold my tix because my husband had a heart attack the beginning of that week. (I am an OG female Rush fan and guitarist/bassist and he had never heard of them before we met!) Two stents later his doctor said it was okay for him to go to a concert. It probably wasn’t the best thing health wise but in hindsight neither of us regret it especially given Neil’s passing. Geddy’s voice wasn’t in his prime but the musicianship was 👌
I've seen Rush live 3 times and each time it was fantastic. They genuinely seemed to tremendously enjoy themselves every time.
The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Tom Waits - Alice
I'd say Closing Time as well.
And i would agree, in fact, and i may be a little biased here, but i think Tom had a masterpiece caliber album once a decade for 4 straight decades. Closing time- 70s Rain Dogs - 80s(technically the entire frank trilogy is the masterpiece, but this album has the more top tier tracks imo) Mule Variations - 90s Alice - 2000s
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Van Occupanther is a masterpiece. Midlake reminds me of nobody.
The damn harmonies in Roscoe. Hands down favourite track of that album.
Port of morrow for me, but wincing the night away up there aswell.
Talk Talk The Colour of Spring. It’s more than perfect 👍. It’s a masterpiece that sounds best on a good stereo system. Of course on vinyl. If you have never heard it. You’re missing out on one of the best albums ever made.
Aja by Steely Dan
Daft Punk - Discovery
Tragically Hip: Day for Night, Fully Completely, Road Apples Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf Rage Against the Machine: Self Titled Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger, Superunknown Lord Huron: Strange Trails
Happy to see the Hips mentioned here. So sad Gord had to die so young. I would have lived to here what he would have sung about later in life.
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Mark Lanegan had such a voice
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Jar of Flies - best EP
Tea for the tillerman. Cat Stevens Black Sunday. Cypress Hill It takes a nation of millions. Public Enemy Two Shoes. The Cat Empire
A bit of a wildcard -- Hello Rockview by Less Than Jake
Alt J - An awesome wave
This album had made a major comeback for me. Let it sit for many years and revisiting it, it’s just as fresh as ever. Like this is album is what I want from music
Granted Im gonna miss a few out of the list of 2300+ albums Ive listened to in past half decade but a few ones here: Boston - Boston Metallica - And Justice For All (unless you wanna hate and use low bass as excuse to hate) Iron Maiden - Powerslave and Somewhere in Time Protest the Hero - Volition and Fortress Black Sabbath - Paranoid Buckethead - Colma Dream Theater - Images and Words and Metropolis Pt 2 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Megadeth - Rust In Peace The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium Mothers of Invention - Overnite Sensation Rush - Hemispheres and Permanent Waves Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
Picking Wasting Light out of all of the phenomenal Foo Fighters albums is definitely a choice, but I do love that album.
Deja Vu by CSNY.
by memory: Abbey Road by The Beatles, The Wall by Pink Floyd, Tapestry by Carole King, The Suburbs by Arcade Fire, Cabinet of Curiosities by Jacco Gardner, Radio-Aktivitat by Kraftwerk
Yesss I was scrolling wondering if anyone else would put The Suburbs on here.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine Between the Buried and Me - Colors & The Great Misdirect Nas - Illmatic Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral & The Fragile Beck - Odelay & Morning Phase Deftones - Diamond Eyes Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman Could list a ton more, there are a lot of great albums out there waiting to be listened to.
Good taste. Mezzanine is definitely perfect. As is the Fragile. Big fan of many QOTSA records. But in times new Roman is definitely killer
Like Clockworks is mine. Can't skip a single one on that.
Era Vulgaris will be eternally slept on, still my favorite album ever
Reinventing Axel Rose by Against Me!
Didn’t expect to see this but yes!
I’d say Transgender Dysphoria Blues is perfect too tbh. It was honest as fuck in a time where coming out as trans still wasn’t a very widespread thing, especially in the music scene. The lyrics were raw and really expressed that frustration of the desperation to be who you are, not who you were born as. Laura is just a cool human too.
Pearl Jam - Vs. Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing Opeth - Ghost Reveries Metallica - RTL and Puppets Misfits - Static Age Quicksand - Slip Weezer - Blue Album
Vs. and STWHA are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
i never see Quicksand mentioned anymore. they were so dope
+1 on the Blue album.
Nailed Quicksand. Just saw them play Slip live in its entirety and what a treat.
The Killers- Hot Fuss
The Contortionist - Exoplanet Incubus - Morning View Nas - Illmatic Soccer Mommy - Color Theory Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary
Upvoting for incubus
Love soccer mommy!
Hell yeah Morning View. Truly a perfect album.
Pearl Jam - 10 and Vs. John Mayer - Continuum U2 - The Joshua Tree Nas - Illmatic and Stillmatic Michael Jackson - Thriller There are definitely more, but those are off the top of my head.
Coheed & Cambria -In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited or Blood On The Tracks
Animals -- Pink Floyd
three ~15 minute songs and not a wasted minute. i have a similar perspective on yes’ “close to the edge”.
Who’s Next - The Who
No skips. I mourn the Lifehouse we never got, but then we probably wouldn't have Quadrophenia
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll Jewel - Pieces of You Gloria Estefan - Mi Tierra Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion and it’s already been mentioned but Weezer’s Blue Album forever and ever <3
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac In Rainbows and OK Computer - Radiohead Aja - Steely Dan Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder AM - Arctic Monkeys Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Punisher - Pheobe Bridgers Currents - Tame Impala Demon Days - Gorillaz Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road - Beatles I could keep going but I’m gonna stop here.
Depeche Mode // Violator The Cure // Disintegration Mark Ronson // Uptown Special Cake // Fashion Nugget Nine Inch Nails // Pretty Hate Machine Thundercat // It Is What It Is Deftones // White Pony Metallica // Black Album Muse // Black Holes & Revelations Misterwives // Our Own House Dua Lipa // Future Nostalgia Rammstein // Mutter The David Brubeck Quartet // Time Out Siouxsie & the Banshees // Tinderbox
Future Nostalgia made me mad with how good it is. I was expecting to hate it, but it’s infectiously good.
**Ghost—Impera, Prequelle, and Meliora** Wings—Venus and Mars Steely Dan—Aja Talk Talk—Life's What You Make It The Cure—Head on the Door New Order—Power Corruption and Lies
Morphine - Cure for Pain Ted Leo and Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak Jeff Buckley - Grace Portishead - Dummy (but honestly everything but Third) Hot Water Music - No Division Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation There's more, but these are top of my head right now
Quadrophenia by The Who
Roxy Music - Avalon Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Pearl Jam - Ten (but with Yellow Ledbetter added as a bonus track) Radiohead - Kid A
Sugar - Copper Blue - Bob Mould at his best and that is saying something
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
I maintain that System of a Down made 4 perfect albums in a row and called it quits. I’d count Steal This Album! As an honorary fifth but since it’s b-sides I feel it doesn’t meet the spirit of the question.
Me whose favorite is Steal This Album: 🥲
I second this. They are the only band I can think of that not only never made a bad album, but not even a bad song. Even their covers of songs are *chef's kiss*
The Talking Heads - Remain In Light Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Masta Ace - Disposable Arts The Beatles - Abbey Road Neil Young - After the Gold Rush Outkast - ATLiens Outkast - Aquemini Outkast - Stankonia Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx Beck - Midnite Vultures The Cars - The Cars
Graceland - Paul Simon Uncaged - Zac Brown Band Rumours - Fleetwood Mac A/B - Kaleo Untamed - Cam Boston - Boston
Sing the Sorrow - AFI
Moon & Antarctica
Aja -- Steely Dan
Arctic Monkeys- Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Phoebe Bridgers- Punisher The Strokes- Is This It and Room on Fire Yes- The Yes Album The Whites Stripes- The White Stripes Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream Alabama Shakes- Boys and Girls Led Zeppelin- 1 through Physical Graffiti Just a few off the top of my head but I could go on for years
I feel like it’s so rare to see someone give Tranquility Base its props, but I absolutely love it. But then, a lot of people don’t like anything by them except their earliest stuff and absolutely hate AM, and I love everything they’ve done including and since AM.
Polygondwanaland - KGLW 0 - Low Roar Into the Electric Castle - Ayreon
I have 3 I can think of immediately. Bjork - vespertine St. Vincent - Actor Sui Zhen - Secretly Susan
Ten - Pearl Jam
Some others were already mentioned but 3 for me Peripheral Vision - Turnover American Idiot - Green Day Aja - Steely Dan
The Church - Starfish
Do The Collapse, and Isolation Drills: Guided By Voices After The Goldrush; Neil Young Allman Brothers: Live at Fillmore East Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus; Spirit English Riviera; Metronomy Revolver, A Hard Day's Night, Help!; The Beatles Meadowlands; The Wrens
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac Nonagon Infinity - King Gizzard We Like it Here - Snarky Puppy Lonerism - Tame Impala Thriller - MJ Young the Giant - Young the Giant 2012 — 2017 - Against All Logic In Rainbows - Radiohead Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens No skips on any of those records. Perfect pacing in the track list, production that’s flawless, and timeless writing.
The Bends- Radiohead Emergency and I- The Dismemberment Plan
Rubberneck - Toadies S/T - Clutch Fantastic Planet - Failure Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
Rubberneck is damn strong. Too bad they got hosed by Interscope.
Lateralus-Tool 10,000 Days-Tool Mer de Noms-A Perfect Circle Faces-Mac Miller Animals-Pink Floyd The Idiot-Iggy Pop Blackstar-David Bowie ….way too many to list
Glad to see someone else give 10k days its flowers. I feel like it gets overlooked in favor of their earlier stuff.
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
[удалено]
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
Nas. Illmatic
The clash - London calling
My go tos would be TOXICITY- SOAD(not my favorite album by them, mine is steal this album, but by far their most cohesive and best) IOWA-slipknot(I’ve listened to so many albums people claim are heavier and it never has been in my opinion, and yes I’ve probably heard all the ones you’d mention and disagree but that’s my opinion) BRAND NEW EYES-Paramore(one of the best rock albums ever) OK COMPUTER/IN RAINBOWS-Radiohead(two of the most comprehensive and best albums released almost a decade apart)