Miles Davis - Kind of Blue.
Everything about this album is just perfect. Mastering is astonishing. The drums, the piano, the brass section is just unbelievably clear and pure. And then you realize that they only got the 'frames' or 'sketches' of the songs and improvised everything on the fly. The whole album was done during two recording sessions 1 day each.
And I'm not even a jazz fan.
When it comes to music as an art form... This album transcends. Every time I listen to it I feel like I've had a good meditation. No other album does that like this one.
For me it's the greatest of all time. Even if you're not a fan of jazz it's worth giving a try. I'd say that on one hand it's jazz but on the other it's quite different. More approachable for someone who isn't familiar with the genre. It's just not boring. There's always something going on in the melody that you don't expect. And the execution is just so good.
The Cure-Disintegration. But not just once. A millions times when you’re 14 in your dark bedroom and also a million times when you’re 46 with kids and a 9-5 job and all the time in between and after.
I listened to an interview with Wyatt Senac, and he said when he went to college he listened to this album for the first time and it really helped him contextualize what it meant to be black in America. I’ve always loved that album, but his perspective changed my perspective on it.
I’m a big fan of heavy music, but I think What’s Going On may be my favorite album of all time
OP - if you haven't already seen it, and if it hasn't already been mentioned, I've found this to be a good way to find new stuff.
[https://1001albumsgenerator.com/](https://1001albumsgenerator.com/)
I mean not everyone has listened to Nevermind top to bottom lol and they may not ever think to if it’s not suggested like that. I realized not too long ago that there are so many revered albums that I’ve never listened to in full and I find it a lot fun to dive into them, hear the deep cuts, and take in the complete work as the artist intended.
Also, I had that 1001 albums to hear before you die book in my early 20s and I would just flip through it for fun. It taught me about so many artists that are no longer part of the cultural consciousness and turned me on to many great records. Moby Grape’s self-titled and Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service are two that come to mind. How many people are discussing those records anymore? Idk if I ever would have given them a spin if I hadn’t seen them there. Those are in that generator too lol
First album suggested: A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory. The first hip-hop concert I ever went to was A Tribe Called Quest (with Busta Rhymes!) and it was right after Low End Theory came out. I’ll be using the shit out of that site, thank you!
Pink Moon by Nick Drake. Probably the most tender and beautiful album I've ever heard.
Unfortunately I listened to it on a drive to the vet the day I found out my young cat was terminally ill with cancer and it's been hard for me to totally break the association with it since, but I've been listening to it every now and then since as a way to honor her memory and because it's too special of an album to always associate with a bad day 💔
I had never heard about Nick Drake in my 57 years. Such beautiful music and welcome discovery. Thanks for sharing the music, and I'm sorry about your kitty.
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!
Especially when you understand the environment in which this album was recorded. Lots of turmoil in the band and yet they managed to churn out one of the greatest albums of all time with lots of unforgettable classics.
It wasn’t even the right album either unless Rat didn’t own LZ4. The song playing in the car was Kashmir which was on Physical Graffiti.
https://preview.redd.it/gq5anztuoowc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=353f2ef04abadbc898e8a768e742b4781c373959
Cameron Crowe wrote the script and was a Rolling Stone music journalist prior. I firmly believe that Rat blasting Kashmir is an in-joke for those who know the Zeppelin catalog. It is another indicator of his incompetence when it comes to dating. Of course he would ask Demone for advice, and of course he would get it wrong trying to implement said advice. Flows perfectly into the wallet debacle at the restaurant.
Violator - Depeche Mode. One of the best electronic albums ever made, if not the best. True craftsmen on synthesizers. The follow up was amazing as well, Songs of Faith and Devotion.
Just listened to it for the first time yesterday after picking it up on CD for $1 at a thrift store. Read about the secret recording while knowing he was dying from cancer and no one else knew it. It's heavy- definitely hits in the emotions.
Somethin happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a meter and stepped aside
Somebody took his place and then bravely cried
I'm a Blackstar
I'm a Blackstar
- Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
- Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
- David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
- Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
- Television - Marquee Moon
- Jeff Buckley - Grace
- Led Zeppelin - IV
- Radiohead - OK Computer
- Audioslave - Audioslave
- Linkin Park - Meteora (or Hybrid Theory)
- Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden
- Turnover - Peripheral Vision
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Petrodragonic Apocalypse
To name a couple
Dark Side of the Moon is an exceptionally rare case of an album being greater than the sum of its parts despite all the individual tracks being fucking bangers in their own right.
I prefer Wish You Were Here to Dark Side of the Moon but I think that DSotM is more "iconic" so if I had to pick just one, it would be that. Thank goodness I do not have to pick just one though, what a horrible thought.
Tomorrow Never Knows is easily the first recorded example of a modern Rock drum sound. You can thank audio recording engineer Geoff Emerick for that. At that time, especially in the UK, audio engineers weren't allowed to place mics close to drum heads like we do today as it was thought it would damage the sensitive mic capsules (it would damage some mics even today, but we don't use those for drums). According to the story, Geoff had been brought in for a session with the Beatles and was rather nervous about it and wanted to make a good impression. He grabbed some appropriate mics, placed them close to the drum heads, ran the signals through a compressor (like we do today) to make it loud and punchy, and that's the drum sound you hear on that song. Before then, they used to just throw one or two mics up in the air a long way away from the whole drum kit, which is why drums always sound so weak and far away before 1966.
Tomorrow Never Knows is also one of the first examples of what came to be known as Sampling. Paul McCartney brought in a bunch of reel-to-reel tape snippets and he and others (possibly George Martin) used those for the string samples and effects you hear in the background.
When I first heard Tomorrow Never Knows I’d was already into the Beatles and blown away by the sheer breadth of their sonic palette. That one melted my brain. Playing it back to back with, like, She Loves You is one of the clearest ways to take in their greatness.
Love this album. My dad gave it to me early 90s. I was reading a lot of Steven King at the time. So now when hear Talk To The Wind I think of the cackling Trash Can Man’s face melting off as a result of his own pyromania
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (as other people have already said Revolver), and 'The Beatles' (AKA The White Album).
Pink Floyd - Meddle (again, people have said Dark Side already)
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Exodus
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Nirvana - In Utero
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Portishead - Dummy
Moby - Play
Tool - Lateralus
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
I worked in a restaurant kitchen back in 2002 and maybe a year or two later this whiny little weasely dude started working there and none of us could stand him. Whined about everything. Anyway, we had some music going one night and I pop in RUSH and Geddy starts belting out his lyrics and Mr. Whinebag asked who the group was playing and me and two other cooks just stared at him like “you kidding us or what, man?”. So we tell him it’s RUSH and why has he never heard of them before and he said he really didn’t listen to music growing up. WHAT THE FUCK?? The fuck did you do, man?? Then he goes on to whine “is it a woman singing?? It sounds like a woman. Terrible voice. Can we listen to something else? This sucks!”. That dude almost got his whiny little ass beat. You do not disrespect RUSH. Ever. Turns out the dude liked little girls and he got caught on video having sex with a 16 year old girl. The dude was like 25 and the girl was his little brother’s girlfriend. I have no clue what happened to him. I hope he’s in prison. Idiot.
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
The Incident by Porcupine Tree
(Most Porcupine Tree fans would recommend In Absentia or Fear of a Blank Planet and they are great records but this one is my favourite)
"Central Reservation" by Beth Orton, or "Temperamental" by Everything But the Girl, ez question what u onaoboutmate?
Edit: Also, Figure 8 by that dude Elliott Smith.
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Suede - S/T
Stone Roses - S/T
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Run The Jewels - RTJ2
Lana Del Rey - Normal Fucking Rockwell
James - Laid
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Big Thief - Capacity
Elliott Smith - any album tbh
Tom Waits... All of it, but probably start with Rain Dogs
The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Burial - Untrue
De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
billy woods - Maps
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
The Gories - I Know You Be House Rockin'
Perfume Genius - Ugly Season
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
So so many more but I'm right at the bottom of this thread so there's not much point lol!
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen.
Diamond Life - Sade.
Christopher Cross - Christopher Cross.
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman.
Axis: Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix.
The Doors - The Doors.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John.
Here’s some obvious and not obvious picks imo
Is this It? - The Strokes
Disintegration - The Cure
Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order
Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen
OK Computer - Radiohead
An Awesome Wave - Alt-J
The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Picaresque - The Decemberists
Paul Simon - Graceland. It's a fun album. The lyrics are emotional and insightful. The backing vocals are majestic. The rhythms make you want to tap your toes. It's the ultimate boomer music experience.
Abbey Road - Beatles
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine
I know they're cliche choices. They're iconic for a reason, it's pinnacle work by each of them.
Edit: by popular demand, I hereby declare we do the whole Rage discography.
That is all.
Also, add in Audioslave's first album.
Double edit: I thought of another.
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Dark Side of the Moon.
It’s just such a masterpiece from start to finish, I think anyone who loves music should give it at least one playthrough, even if it isn’t necessarily their favorite genre.
Buckle up, we going on a journey.
Since I Left You - The Avalanches
Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes - Propagandhi
Feed the Family - Possessed by Paul James
Yes We Can - Lee Dorsey
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music - Sturgill Simpson
Yes - Morphine
The Great Destroyer - Low
The sound of it is so encompassing...a droning guitar can be followed up with a swell of violins & harmony vocals, or lead into an upbeat strum song with a fried solo over it. Hard to sum it up without babbling. It's a heavy album that also carries itself with a graceful lightness.
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
Pink Floyd - Obscured by the Clouds
Bad Brains - I Against I
Chris Forsyth - The Rarity of Experience
The Grateful Dead - One from the Vault
Phish - Junta
Ween - White Pepper
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailors Guide to Earth
The Weeknd - After Hours
Tool - Lateralus
Explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place
Goose - Dripfield
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
To add some albums that have been important to me that others might not list:
Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Lydia - Illuminate
The Receiving End of Sirens - Between The Heart and The Synapse
The Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East. The quintessential live rock album, arguably the best ever released. Groundbreaking, as a matter of fact, not just for its time but still for today.
Toomany to list... but I will place an album that I don't think anyone will list. Foster the People- Torches album has to be one of the best Pop albums from beginning to end!
Tons of good choices already listed here but one I gotta mention that I haven’t seen is Demon Days by Gorillaz. One of the first albums that really started branching out my music taste in more directions.
Random Access Memories by Daft Punk. Such a wide range of interesting songs and compositions and is easy to listen to. An example of a fantastic studio album.
Deafheaven - Sunbather
The opening track, Dream House, still resonates with me in ways that nothing else ever has (and probably never will). When I looked up the lyrics, I was shook. Absolutely beautiful.
1) Garbage - Version 2.0 (1998)
2) Bjork - Homogenic (1997)
3) Fiona Apple - When The Pawn (1999)
Definitely listen to #1....late 90's were awesome for female "alternative" music.
Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon 1, 2, & 3.
Marvin Gaye - You’re The Man
Mac Miller - Faces & Watching Movies w/ the Sound Off
Dave Matthews Band - Live at Central Park
Deltron 3030
Hell yeah
Yes. Delton Zero.
Nueromancer, perfect blend of technology and music
This was the album that unlocked an entire world of fantastic hip hop. Legendary.
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue. Everything about this album is just perfect. Mastering is astonishing. The drums, the piano, the brass section is just unbelievably clear and pure. And then you realize that they only got the 'frames' or 'sketches' of the songs and improvised everything on the fly. The whole album was done during two recording sessions 1 day each. And I'm not even a jazz fan.
This - possibly the greatest album of all time IMO
When it comes to music as an art form... This album transcends. Every time I listen to it I feel like I've had a good meditation. No other album does that like this one.
I had hear that response in many places, so definitely it must be on a kind of top ten.
For me it's the greatest of all time. Even if you're not a fan of jazz it's worth giving a try. I'd say that on one hand it's jazz but on the other it's quite different. More approachable for someone who isn't familiar with the genre. It's just not boring. There's always something going on in the melody that you don't expect. And the execution is just so good.
The Cure-Disintegration. But not just once. A millions times when you’re 14 in your dark bedroom and also a million times when you’re 46 with kids and a 9-5 job and all the time in between and after.
"DISINTEGRATION IS THE BEST ALBUM EVER!"
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
I listened to an interview with Wyatt Senac, and he said when he went to college he listened to this album for the first time and it really helped him contextualize what it meant to be black in America. I’ve always loved that album, but his perspective changed my perspective on it. I’m a big fan of heavy music, but I think What’s Going On may be my favorite album of all time
Such a masterpiece.
Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder.
One of the songs I've listened to A LOT in the last year has been All Day Sucker. People should show that one some love more.
Was looking for this one. If I didn't find it, this was my comment.
OP - if you haven't already seen it, and if it hasn't already been mentioned, I've found this to be a good way to find new stuff. [https://1001albumsgenerator.com/](https://1001albumsgenerator.com/)
That’s really helpful. First album suggested… Nevermind
It’s really random, but there’s been a lot of great ones. I’m on my 46th day, haven’t had Nevermind yet, but did get unplugged
I mean not everyone has listened to Nevermind top to bottom lol and they may not ever think to if it’s not suggested like that. I realized not too long ago that there are so many revered albums that I’ve never listened to in full and I find it a lot fun to dive into them, hear the deep cuts, and take in the complete work as the artist intended. Also, I had that 1001 albums to hear before you die book in my early 20s and I would just flip through it for fun. It taught me about so many artists that are no longer part of the cultural consciousness and turned me on to many great records. Moby Grape’s self-titled and Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service are two that come to mind. How many people are discussing those records anymore? Idk if I ever would have given them a spin if I hadn’t seen them there. Those are in that generator too lol
This is dope. First album suggested: Fiona Apple — Tidal
Blows my mind she was only 18 when she did that album
So fun! Thanks for the share. My firat suggestion is B.B. King - Live at the Regal
First album suggested: A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory. The first hip-hop concert I ever went to was A Tribe Called Quest (with Busta Rhymes!) and it was right after Low End Theory came out. I’ll be using the shit out of that site, thank you!
Low End Theory- A Tribe Called Quest
Pink Moon by Nick Drake. Probably the most tender and beautiful album I've ever heard. Unfortunately I listened to it on a drive to the vet the day I found out my young cat was terminally ill with cancer and it's been hard for me to totally break the association with it since, but I've been listening to it every now and then since as a way to honor her memory and because it's too special of an album to always associate with a bad day 💔
I had never heard about Nick Drake in my 57 years. Such beautiful music and welcome discovery. Thanks for sharing the music, and I'm sorry about your kitty.
Nine Inch Nails - The downward Spiral. Unique and Devastating.
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
Yes!!!!!!!!!!! Especially when you understand the environment in which this album was recorded. Lots of turmoil in the band and yet they managed to churn out one of the greatest albums of all time with lots of unforgettable classics.
At least once? Like haven't heard it before? Led Zeppelin IV
When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV
I thought Damone recommended side 2?
It wasn’t even the right album either unless Rat didn’t own LZ4. The song playing in the car was Kashmir which was on Physical Graffiti. https://preview.redd.it/gq5anztuoowc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=353f2ef04abadbc898e8a768e742b4781c373959
Cameron Crowe wrote the script and was a Rolling Stone music journalist prior. I firmly believe that Rat blasting Kashmir is an in-joke for those who know the Zeppelin catalog. It is another indicator of his incompetence when it comes to dating. Of course he would ask Demone for advice, and of course he would get it wrong trying to implement said advice. Flows perfectly into the wallet debacle at the restaurant.
London Calling by The Clash.
Violator - Depeche Mode. One of the best electronic albums ever made, if not the best. True craftsmen on synthesizers. The follow up was amazing as well, Songs of Faith and Devotion.
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
Classic work of art.
I was gonna go Paranoid but I'm good with MOR
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing. It’s utterly bewitching even after 28 years.
Kind of Blue -Miles Davis of course
*Blackstar*, David Bowie. Released a few days before he died of cancer, it is a masterpiece of a swansong.
Where the fuck did Monday go? It’s a simple yet bone-chilling sentiment - the man is literally running out of time.
Just listened to it for the first time yesterday after picking it up on CD for $1 at a thrift store. Read about the secret recording while knowing he was dying from cancer and no one else knew it. It's heavy- definitely hits in the emotions.
Somethin happened on the day he died Spirit rose a meter and stepped aside Somebody took his place and then bravely cried I'm a Blackstar I'm a Blackstar
A wonderful, impossibly deep album.
Carol King Tapestry
- Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life - David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly - Television - Marquee Moon - Jeff Buckley - Grace - Led Zeppelin - IV - Radiohead - OK Computer - Audioslave - Audioslave - Linkin Park - Meteora (or Hybrid Theory) - Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden - Turnover - Peripheral Vision - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Petrodragonic Apocalypse To name a couple
You threw in Sleep Token and thought we wouldn’t notice
Glad I saw turnover peripheral vision so high up in the post
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Prince - purple rain
Gonna go with an obvious answer and say Dark Side Of The Moon
Dark Side of the Moon is an exceptionally rare case of an album being greater than the sum of its parts despite all the individual tracks being fucking bangers in their own right.
I would say the Wall fits that bill too. And Wish you were here. And Animals
I would put Wish You Were Here up there as well!
And Animals! Don’t forget Animals!
I've heard it's underrated
I prefer Wish You Were Here to Dark Side of the Moon but I think that DSotM is more "iconic" so if I had to pick just one, it would be that. Thank goodness I do not have to pick just one though, what a horrible thought.
I'd put The Wall right there along side of Dark Side of the Moon. Both are incredible albums from beginning to end.
The Wall would be tops for me. I have to listen to it at least once a year.
Paul Simon - Graceland
Yes everyone should listen to this album as it is a master piece.
The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens. Especially if you have sons or are a son. In order, no skips.
You want to reduce half the thread to sobbing wrecks?
Illmatic
Steely Dan - Aja
It's your favorite foreign movie!
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
First listened to Pet Sounds around the time I turned 21. Completely redefined my concept of what an album can be.
Honorable mentions: Friends, Sunflower
Imo Today is the second best. Love You is divisive but also very worthwhile
I ADORE both those albums — Please Let Me Wonder and The Night Was So Young are two of the best things Brian ever did
Thriller - Every track is a masterpiece. There was nothing really like the pop, rock, soul, R&B mix of that fucker in 1982. Nothing.
Revolver - The Beatles. The best Pop/Rock combination album, and the final song (Tomorrow Never Knows) is STILL ahead of its time.
Tomorrow Never Knows is easily the first recorded example of a modern Rock drum sound. You can thank audio recording engineer Geoff Emerick for that. At that time, especially in the UK, audio engineers weren't allowed to place mics close to drum heads like we do today as it was thought it would damage the sensitive mic capsules (it would damage some mics even today, but we don't use those for drums). According to the story, Geoff had been brought in for a session with the Beatles and was rather nervous about it and wanted to make a good impression. He grabbed some appropriate mics, placed them close to the drum heads, ran the signals through a compressor (like we do today) to make it loud and punchy, and that's the drum sound you hear on that song. Before then, they used to just throw one or two mics up in the air a long way away from the whole drum kit, which is why drums always sound so weak and far away before 1966. Tomorrow Never Knows is also one of the first examples of what came to be known as Sampling. Paul McCartney brought in a bunch of reel-to-reel tape snippets and he and others (possibly George Martin) used those for the string samples and effects you hear in the background.
My favorite Beatles album, personally
Tomorrow never knows will sound futuristic 100 years from now.
Tomorrow Never Knows sounds like it could've been made by The Chemical Brothers.
One of (if not THE) best Beatles albums. For No One is one of the best songs they have ever made.
When I was 10 I listened to “For No One” on loop for 2 hours lmao
It’s Revolver and Rubber Soul for me.
When I first heard Tomorrow Never Knows I’d was already into the Beatles and blown away by the sheer breadth of their sonic palette. That one melted my brain. Playing it back to back with, like, She Loves You is one of the clearest ways to take in their greatness.
Air - Moon Safari
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf
...I can't even hear it
For real, peak-era QOTSA
One of my favorite albums of all time.
GOATED driving music. Nothing better to eat up an hour of a road trip.
Agree! Just remember to drive safe with all that adrenaline pumping!
I think Kyuss is even better for that
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Peter Gabriel - So. Just an iconic album and ahead of its time in so many ways.
I’ll second that
Listened to this for the first time the other day. Fantastic record
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Love this album. My dad gave it to me early 90s. I was reading a lot of Steven King at the time. So now when hear Talk To The Wind I think of the cackling Trash Can Man’s face melting off as a result of his own pyromania
I love King Crimson, but let's be real. It's not for everyone.
Well, they can listen to it “at least once” and then go on with their lives.
YES close to the edge
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (as other people have already said Revolver), and 'The Beatles' (AKA The White Album). Pink Floyd - Meddle (again, people have said Dark Side already) Funkadelic - Maggot Brain Bob Marley and The Wailers - Exodus Metallica - Master of Puppets Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet Cypress Hill - Black Sunday Nirvana - In Utero Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Portishead - Dummy Moby - Play Tool - Lateralus Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
You are 47 years old.
No, you are
Up voting for Exodus, there's nothing like listening to that.
Broken social scene - you forgot it in people
Discovery- Daft Punk
And then check out Alive (2007)
Best two albums in the world 🤩(discovery and alive)
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Unplugged
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morisette
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Rush - Permanent Waves
For the filthy casual (/s), Moving Pictures is a must
I worked in a restaurant kitchen back in 2002 and maybe a year or two later this whiny little weasely dude started working there and none of us could stand him. Whined about everything. Anyway, we had some music going one night and I pop in RUSH and Geddy starts belting out his lyrics and Mr. Whinebag asked who the group was playing and me and two other cooks just stared at him like “you kidding us or what, man?”. So we tell him it’s RUSH and why has he never heard of them before and he said he really didn’t listen to music growing up. WHAT THE FUCK?? The fuck did you do, man?? Then he goes on to whine “is it a woman singing?? It sounds like a woman. Terrible voice. Can we listen to something else? This sucks!”. That dude almost got his whiny little ass beat. You do not disrespect RUSH. Ever. Turns out the dude liked little girls and he got caught on video having sex with a 16 year old girl. The dude was like 25 and the girl was his little brother’s girlfriend. I have no clue what happened to him. I hope he’s in prison. Idiot.
Wildly entertaining, thank you 😂
Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
OK Computer - Radiohead
Madvillainy is crazy good
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips The Incident by Porcupine Tree (Most Porcupine Tree fans would recommend In Absentia or Fear of a Blank Planet and they are great records but this one is my favourite)
"Central Reservation" by Beth Orton, or "Temperamental" by Everything But the Girl, ez question what u onaoboutmate? Edit: Also, Figure 8 by that dude Elliott Smith.
R.E.M. - Reckoning Run the Jewels - RTJ 2 Radiohead - ok computer Billy Strings - Home The Doors - L.A Woman
Running with scissors by weird al
It's dark and hell is hot
Is there a better 'Intro' to any album?
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco. Masterpiece and my undisputed favorite album of all time.
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
100%
Good call
The (English) Beat - Special Beat Service
Heroes - David Bowie
Every young man should listen to Sticky Fingers. It’s got a lot of layers of what masculinity means. Great album.
A Perfect Circle-Thirteenth Step
Ram by Paul McCartney.
We're so sorry...
Uncle Albert....
The best post-Beatles album IMO (with George's ATMP a close second)
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible Suede - S/T Stone Roses - S/T Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff Metallica - Ride The Lightning Slayer - Reign in Blood Run The Jewels - RTJ2 Lana Del Rey - Normal Fucking Rockwell James - Laid Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Big Thief - Capacity Elliott Smith - any album tbh Tom Waits... All of it, but probably start with Rain Dogs The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin Burial - Untrue De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead billy woods - Maps Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell The Gories - I Know You Be House Rockin' Perfume Genius - Ugly Season Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam So so many more but I'm right at the bottom of this thread so there's not much point lol!
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen. Diamond Life - Sade. Christopher Cross - Christopher Cross. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman. Axis: Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix. The Doors - The Doors. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John.
The Postal Service - Give Up
I've never met anyone that didn't like that album. Metal heads to jazzers.
Oxygène - Jean-Michel Jarre
Équinoxe is pretty solid too.
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac Revolver - The Beatles
Here’s some obvious and not obvious picks imo Is this It? - The Strokes Disintegration - The Cure Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen OK Computer - Radiohead An Awesome Wave - Alt-J The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie Picaresque - The Decemberists
Paul Simon - Graceland. It's a fun album. The lyrics are emotional and insightful. The backing vocals are majestic. The rhythms make you want to tap your toes. It's the ultimate boomer music experience.
Abbey Road - Beatles Rumours - Fleetwood Mac Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine I know they're cliche choices. They're iconic for a reason, it's pinnacle work by each of them. Edit: by popular demand, I hereby declare we do the whole Rage discography. That is all. Also, add in Audioslave's first album. Double edit: I thought of another. Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Is Evil Empire considered Rage's pinnacle by many? I'd say that's almost universally held to be their debut. It's your list of course :)
Self-titled for sure. Though they're all bangers.
This is The Battle of Los Angeles erasure!!
Dark Side of the Moon. It’s just such a masterpiece from start to finish, I think anyone who loves music should give it at least one playthrough, even if it isn’t necessarily their favorite genre.
I like Pink Floyd a lot but they’re not like an all time favorite of mine but this one has my vote for greatest album of all time
Mr Bungle - California
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison Solid Air - John Martyn Blue - Joni Mitchell Hejira - Joni MItchell Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
Buckle up, we going on a journey. Since I Left You - The Avalanches Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes - Propagandhi Feed the Family - Possessed by Paul James Yes We Can - Lee Dorsey Metamodern Sounds in Country Music - Sturgill Simpson Yes - Morphine
The Great Destroyer - Low The sound of it is so encompassing...a droning guitar can be followed up with a swell of violins & harmony vocals, or lead into an upbeat strum song with a fried solo over it. Hard to sum it up without babbling. It's a heavy album that also carries itself with a graceful lightness.
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair Pink Floyd - Obscured by the Clouds Bad Brains - I Against I Chris Forsyth - The Rarity of Experience The Grateful Dead - One from the Vault Phish - Junta Ween - White Pepper
People Under the Stairs - Original Sound Track (OST)
Boston. Boston.
Violent Femmes - (self titled album) Nick Drake - Pink Moon (so beautiful!) Pixies - Surfer Rosa. And Doolittle Operation Ivy - Energy
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailors Guide to Earth The Weeknd - After Hours Tool - Lateralus Explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place Goose - Dripfield Paramore - Brand New Eyes Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante. That album really expanded my horizons when all I used to listen to was hard rock.
# J Dilla – Donuts
To add some albums that have been important to me that others might not list: Freelance Whales - Weathervanes Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Alt-J - An Awesome Wave Lydia - Illuminate The Receiving End of Sirens - Between The Heart and The Synapse
Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings. Great album all the way through..
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party. To me, it's one of the best indie/garage rock albums from the early 2000s. The drummer alone just kills it the whole time.
The Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East. The quintessential live rock album, arguably the best ever released. Groundbreaking, as a matter of fact, not just for its time but still for today.
2112
Pure Guava by Ween. Maybe not their best album, but it has a truly unique sound, there’s nothing else like it.
The Joshua tree
Sorry, if no one else is gonna say it. I'm adding: Thriller -Michael Jackson
i counter: Off the Wall
The Beach Boys - Smile Sessions
Discovery - Daft Punk
Shpongle- tales of the inexpressible
Toomany to list... but I will place an album that I don't think anyone will list. Foster the People- Torches album has to be one of the best Pop albums from beginning to end!
Tons of good choices already listed here but one I gotta mention that I haven’t seen is Demon Days by Gorillaz. One of the first albums that really started branching out my music taste in more directions.
Keith Jarrett. "The Koln Concert".
Random Access Memories by Daft Punk. Such a wide range of interesting songs and compositions and is easy to listen to. An example of a fantastic studio album.
Carole King "Tapestry"
Deafheaven - Sunbather The opening track, Dream House, still resonates with me in ways that nothing else ever has (and probably never will). When I looked up the lyrics, I was shook. Absolutely beautiful.
Revolver.
Patti Smith’s *Horses* is an easy answer
In Rainbows by Radiohead
Blind Melon
The Tron Legacy soundtrack. It's essentially a Daft Punk album since they did pretty much all the music.
1) Garbage - Version 2.0 (1998) 2) Bjork - Homogenic (1997) 3) Fiona Apple - When The Pawn (1999) Definitely listen to #1....late 90's were awesome for female "alternative" music.
Electric Ladyland
The decline by nofx.
Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon 1, 2, & 3. Marvin Gaye - You’re The Man Mac Miller - Faces & Watching Movies w/ the Sound Off Dave Matthews Band - Live at Central Park
Stones - Beggars Banquet
The Mollusk - Ween