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- Michael Jackson - Off the wall
- She Wants Revenge - self titled
- Metric - Synthetica
- Prick - self titled
- The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
- ISIS - Oceanica
- Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
- Pixies - Doolittle
- Massive Attack - Blue Lines
- Sigur Ros - Takk...
- Cake - Fashion Nugget
- Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
I need to give We Will Always Love You another listen or two. I became fixated on Running Red Lights and it eclipsed the entire rest of the album for me.
Since I Left You is finally starting to feel its age, but it might belong on a list like this too simply for the way it flows together.
- Sunken Condos - Donald Fagen
- Letter from home - Pat Metheny
- Industrial Silence - Madrugada
Oasis - Definitely Maybe.
It's a no-skipper and has been for as long as I've been into music.
Makoto Matsushita - First Light
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Psychology, Presto
Dogs in a Pile - Bloom, Not Your Average Beagle
Nautilus - Refrain
Teako Onuki - Mignonne, Sunshower
Grateful Dead - Cornell 5/8/77, American Beauty
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Bad Religion - No Control, The Empire Strikes First
Led Zeppelin - II, IV
Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
War Bringer - Woe to the Vanquished
Havok - Conformicide
Loudness - Thunder in the East
Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places
Rainbow - Difficult to Cure, Straight Between the Eyes
Casiopea - CASIOPEA, Asian Dreamer, Material
Phish - Farmhouse, Hoist
Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
Might've went a bit overboard lol
Deer - The Beautiful Undead. Does anyone have suggestions for similar music? Can't find anything like it
This will probably get buried in the comments, but Lohio by Ass Ponys is a really solid album. Just banger after banger.
Jeff Rosenstock's WORRY. is a 10/10 masterpiece that hits just as hard every time I put it on
David Bowie's Low and Talking Heads' Remain In Light are the platonic ideal of what an album should be
"Tales of Mystery and Imagination," by the Alan Parsons Project, is a near-perfect concept album in my mind. It's cross-genre while still feeling being interconnected.
I also love John Mellencamp's "Mr. Happy Go Lucky." To my frustration, though, the version of it on the streaming services I know of is missing the interstitial tracks on the CD. I think that actually takes a lot away from it as they had provided transitions that made it feel more like a complete work.
"Glaciers," Blue Sky Black Death, follows the annoying trend of titling tracks with roman numerals but feels like an hour-long DJ set that flows very naturally. A very different album with a similar trait in my mind is F#A#Infinity, Godspeed(!) You(!) Black Emperor(!).
A more ambient choice, Jon Hopkins "Immunity." "Psychic" from Darkside (Nicolaas Jaar with Dave Harrington) also comes to mind.
I'm having trouble thinking of really new examples right now... I kind of feel like the album has faded out as an art form and a lot more releases today seem more like just grab-bags of tracks, probably because of the streaming delivery model. There's definitely some counterexamples out there, though.
Love Collective Soul and Rage Against the Machine. I’ve got a few:
- Big Data - 3.0. Great story exploring AI ethics before it was hype.
- Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. I wish I got the alternate timeline where the band continued this direction rather than going for pop. So much chaotic good energy.
- The Donnas - Spend the Night. This one is just plain fun.
- The Beatles - Let it Be. Two of Us is my favorite on this one, but every song can stand up on its own.
Rumours, Ziggy Stardust
Sufjan Stevens' Illinois is a masterpiece.
Weird suggestion, but I really like Montero by Lil Nas X
One record I will regularly play from start to finish is Alt-J - An Awesome Wave.
A New World Record by ELO.
To pimp a butterfly
Kayah i Bregović. This album is amazing from the beginning to the end: the composition, her voice, the lyrics (I don't speak Polish so I follow them through translations), everything.
Someone else already mentioned David Bowie, but not this album: "Heroes". Yeah, the titular song is great, but so are the others - and the album as a whole is fun, diverse, trippy.
I tend to listen to music by the album, so after getting used to one any not-so-great songs will start to shine in their own way?
That said, a bit of genre whiplash here:
- Runes by Bury Tomorrow
- My Head is an Animal by Of Monsters and Men And as mentioned by DathKnight, El Camino by The Black Keys
AC/DC's 3 Mutt Lange albums spring to mind (Highway to Hell, Back In Black, For Those About to Rock). Metamodern Sounds in Country Music and Sound 'n' Fury by Sturgill Simpson as well.
Glass Animals ZABA. Willing to die on this hill.
Sitting on my record player as we speak! 😂
The vinyl sleeve is absolutely gorgeous.
It is incredibly coherent and each song very much fits into the theme they were building. I love the theme of the Island of Dr Moreau (sp?) and the Jabberwocky nonsense word stuff. It's very sensual. It's not mind-blowing or anything but it is a perfect album for what they were trying to accomplish (sensual, kind of dangerous but whimsical, alluring, smooth, playful, sexual). It makes a good album to buy on vinyl because with vinyl you don't really skip songs and it favours albums that are more thematically coherent like Zaba is.
The Great War by Sabaton. Every song is a banger.
I have loads of albums, and it depends on my mood as to what I think is perfect at a certain time. Some of mine are, and in no particular order;
Sparks - Kimono In My House
Bowie - Blackstar
Bowie - Earthling
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Pixies - Doolittle
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Divine Comedy - Casanova
The Rezillos - I Can't Stand The Rezillos
Madness - Keep Moving
The Beloved - X
Adam and The Ants - Prince Charming
The Who - Who Are You
Lush - Lovelife
Sleeper - Smart
Echobelly - Everyone's Got One
Pulp - His n' Hers
Oh, I will stop, I could go on for ages.
No love for QOTSA? At least 3 spectacular albums, in no particular order:
Like Clockwork, Songs for the Deaf, Villains (contentious, I know, but I love it)
I would swap Villains for Rated R, but they are all good tbh
Some I've been listening to lately:
- Talk Talk - spirit of Eden
- Prefab sprout - Steve Mcqueen
- The dismemberment plan - Emergency and I
@dessalines @Ilikemoney The Dismemberment Plan’s Emergency and I is on my list (which I still gotta post) as well ❤️
Ott - Mir The Oh Hellos - Through the Deep Dark Valley Electric Light Orchestra - Time Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz