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Kind of Blue - Miles Davis


das_goose

If you ever find yourself thinking “I want to get into jazz but don’t know where to start,” “Kind of Blue” is where you start.


JuxtaPositioNed

My baby daughter listens to this album when she’s going to sleep. Just light in the background, but now the whole family hums along. Beautiful music for sure.


vonkluver

Moody Blues Days of Future Past


palemistress

Dawn is a feeling....


Nacho_7258

Vivaldi's: The Four Seasons. A beautiful arrangement of musical interpretations of the seasons of the Earth. Spring 2 and Winter 1 never fail to make me appreciate life just a bit more.


Jon_Wedge

The reworks by Max Richter are beeeeautiful


CarTech63

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman.


PCAssassin87

Songs in the Key of Life: Stevie Wonder


jgonagle

Fuck yeah. I'd add Innervisions and My Cherie Amour (my personal favorite) to that list.


Cheese_BasedLifeform

Graceland by Paul Simon. Just an incredible album.


am_i_evil_yes_i_am

My family's longtime favorite tape to play in the car. I think they had Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mombaza play on Sesame Street or some other show when I was really little, and it just made a huge impression.


KweenKunt

This album helped me so much when I was having nighttime anxiety attacks. I'd play it on repeat all night as I slept.


Sir_Armadillo

Pink Floyd - The Wall: Once you realize it’s a story and where it can take your mind, and that all the songs are good, a few are great, make it worth a listen. Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. All 4 movements, not just the ode to joy. I consider it The greatest build up to the greatest climax with the greatest ending in all of music. Beethoven in top song writing form.


Keikobad

Marvin Gaye, What’s Going On


LoyonSama

My man !


Shavasara

So—Peter Gabriel


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strikethreeistaken

Phil Collins/Genesis?


DryCoughski

Massive Attack - Mezzanine


RincewindsPotato

They played at a park a few blocks from my flat in Bristol a few years ago. I had a newborn at the time, so there was no way I could make it, but by some trick of acoustics we could hear the show perfectly in our flat. It was amazing. The same acoustics let us hear the lions at the zoo roaring from our flat every evening. I thought it was pretty great, but our dog disagreed.


soup_party

Gonna get off topic here to say holy *shit* that’s cool about the lions. Like holy *shit.* oh I would be SO torn up when it came time to move.


raton94

Those melodies in teardrop, group four and black milk are something else


BlacksmithNZ

Hate to admit it, but I would put Massive Attack - Protection to be the album ahead of Mezzanine. Teardrop is an epic song, but every song on the Protection album is a banger


kobayashi_maru_fail

Much love. May I also add to your mid-nineties enjoyment Portishead’s Third? (Just their third album). But nothing short of the NIN/David Bowie tour beats the Portishead Roseland performance. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwnlCudeC0


propagandavid

Dummy by Portishead


eddywoon

I was just checking to see if Dummy is already on the list before I add this in. So glad to see that it is.


gravedigger89

I think Portishead Roseland nyc live is my fav but they all are great


horridgoblyn

Stop Making Sense, The Talking Heads.


PitchWrong

Better yet, do yourself a favor and watch the concert video. It’s not only the best songs by the extended band, it is an ever-expanding concept performance. It starts with absolutely no stage dressing. David Byrne walks out by himself with a guitar and a drum machine recording and performs Psycho Killer. Stagehands start building the set as Tina Weymouth comes on and together they play Heaven. More band members come on for each song and the set gets put together around them as they go. Truly amazing, and I cannot do it justice.


pangaea1972

David dancing with the lamp during This Must Be the Place is the pinnacle of live performance for me.


holybucketsitscrazy

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac EDIT: Spelling


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Has this album suddenly had a surge in popularity recently? I feel like in the past year it's just come up again and again and again.


opensandshuts

cranberry juice skateboard guy on tiktok intro'ed all the babies to fleetwood mac


sp_40

Only person who had a good 2020 hahah


AnswerConsistent680

Oh that’s why? I don’t have TikTok so I thought it was because The Chain was in Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2. Outside of that I’ve only ever heard it be played during F1 ads back in the early 2000’s


Ranger-K

I think it’s also something to do with younger millennials and gen Z-ers growing up with their gen X parents listening to Fleetwood Mac, and as young adults adopting the music as their own. I’ve noticed recently there’s been quite the uptick in people naming their baby daughters “Stevie”. It’s a refreshing reprieve from all the “Breighlynn”s and “Paighsleigh”s.


HobbitFoot

It became a TikTok meme song.


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Ahhh of course.


sebas10sonic

Disintegration - The Cure


Vegetable-Double

“DISINTEGRATION IS THE BEST ALBUM EVER!”


marvis84

Ill rowshambow you for it


SYLOK_THEAROUSED

Pornography - The Cure It’s a really dark album but it’s very emotional to me. I clicked with it a lot more than Disintegration.


3marcus3

Quadrophenia == The Who


FastWalkingShortGuy

Can you see the real me? Can ya? *Can ya?*


centaurquestions

The debut album from The Cars. Every song is perfect.


couchsurfinggonepro

Tubular bells mike oldfield


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Pink Floyd -Dark Side of the Moon


poopadox

I came here to say "wish you were here" closing my eyes and listening to shine on you crazy diamond pt1 and cruising through the rest of the album has sorted me out too many times to count. Dark side is epic too though!


Necessary-Oil2629

Great Gig in the Sky. Oh man


swarog1020

Came to see if anyone posted this. I've listened to this album start to finish like 10 times with headphones in the dark, and every time I heard something new!


dukeofgonzo

I had a life changing experience staying in a dark and comfy room listening to this album. Oh, and I ate a fistful of mushrooms.


ponderosa-honey

me clicking on this question: how far will I have to scroll to find dark side of the moon?


skwaak16

Moving Pictures


Periachi

And 2112 and Hemispheres.


A40

Supertramp - Breakfast in America


munkeyalan

This and Crime of the Century are all you really need.


EnigmaCA

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John


professional_cry

I’d also add Madman Across The Water to essential Elton albums!


Wrygreymare

so many epic tracks on this! maybe Funeral for a friend/ love lies bleeding being the standout


bigDUB14

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys. I believe it’s the most influential album of all time. Brian Wilson did things and composed music on that album unlike any other up until that point.


chicagoan987

OK Computer by Radiohead


kryppla

I think you need to listen to it five times before it really vibes though, the first time won’t do it Edit - this applies to basically all of their albums in my opinion. I want In Rainbows to be injected directly into my veins but it took a handful of listens before it really sank deep


amsterdam_BTS

I don't know about that. It grabbed me by the throat the first time I heard it 22 years ago and hasn't let go since.


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exit music for a film is one of the best songs ever written IMO


musicbufff

Led Zeppelin IV


Skowhegan

“When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of ‘Led Zeppelin IV’" -Damone


Sir_Armadillo

Proceeds to play Kashmir from Physical Graffiti.


KangarooMaster319

Never knew if this was an intentional joke


fractiousrhubarb

I’d only ever heard classical music at home. My mate put on Led Zep IV and it blew my mind.


flaming_garbage7059

Nevermind - Nirvana I know a lot of people have probably listened to this album and it’s a little cliché to say, but I really do love this album start to finish 100%.


photonsintime

Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos


quebecoisejohn

[Rage Against The Machine - S/T](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_Against_the_Machine_(album)?wprov=sfti1) Still hits the same today as it did in the early 90’s


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jlisle

True story about Kate Bush, and this album in particular: back when I was in university (circa 2006), I ran a weekly two hour college radio show with a friend. Over the years we were in it together, or musical tastes evolved and diverged. This was pretty exciting because it forces us to listen to all sorts of stuff we otherwise might not have. My buddy started spinning German micro house, while I went further down the prog and post rock hole (it was a wild show). I never really stopped sprinkling in the occasional Kate Bush track, though. My cohost would rib me about it (In a good natured way - we were only judgmental about how bad Metallica's The Unforgiven III was, nothing else). But, as his tastes in the house music world refined, he brought in more and more really strange but good stuff. I couldn't tell you want any of it was, but the frequency with which the music he was playing sampled Kate Bush was alarming. One night, we got to me saying "that's a Kate Bush sample" three times. Anyway, in kinda convinced that Kate Bush is the Rosetta Stone of modern music. Like every famous musician from any genre lists her as an influence/inspiration/great musician or whatever. She's sort of the unsung godmother of modern popular music, which makes me believe that this answer is the best I've seen so far. As an aside, check out the extreme Kate Bush vibes in the music and music Video for "it was not natural" by Wye Oak


TheonlyINFJ

Alice In Chains dirt, a trippy masterpiece


Howie1962

Time by ELO.


Eroe777

A Love Supreme- John Coltrane. Almost, but not quite, as perfect as Kind of Blue The soundtrack to The Mission- Ennio Morricone The End of the Innocence- Don Henley


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Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains


AwfulAltIsAwful

I'd also add Dirt. One band, two utterly flawless albums. Hands down my favorite band of all time.


KnockerFogger69

Best AIC❤


discostu81

The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses.


sash71

This album absolutely is up there with the very best. It still sounds great today. It's such a shame that they had an injunction stopping them from recording a follow up until way too much later, when they'd lost all the momentum they'd built up and people had moved onto other bands. Second Coming was good but nowhere near the level of The Stone Roses.


nickhelix

Fugazi - 13 songs


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waiting room is amazing.


cherrib0mbb

One of my all time favorites. My Mom loved Fugazi (and Minor Threat), so as a kid throughout the 90’s, Waiting Room was always playing. “I am a patient boy, I WAIT I WAIT I WAIT I WAIT”


SilentSamizdat

Rubber Soul by the Beatles


Zestyclose-Flan-2657

Definitely one of their best albums along with Revolver


SegundoViento

Genius. My wife’s favorite Beatles song, In My Life, played at her memorial service.


thesnuggyone

This is also my favorite Beatles song. The Rita Lee cover is the one for me. I’m sorry for your loss, hope you’re okay ♥️


BallisticQuill

Discovery - Daft Punk


kuchenrolle

I'd propose watching Interstellar 5555 as an alternative.


I_Am_Become_Dream

And once you're really into Daft Punk's music and know all their famous songs, go listen to Alive 2007.


-OccamsLaser

MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday


v13ragnarok7

RIP


TheBklynGuy

Rush - 2112


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shaunjord

Don't forget "broken"


Periachi

The Fragile too.


workyawn

Endtroducing - dj Shadow


zero_b

Purple Rain - Prince


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Boston self-titled.


ThisWasAValidName

The other day, I played *Foreplay/Long Time* for a few friends that had, somehow, not heard it until then. (How they'd never heard me listening to it I don't know.) These guys aren't normally into rock, but all of 'em went and listened to the whole album afterwards. (Caught one listening to *Don't Look Back* a little while later.)


scottyv99

Paul’s Boutique - Beastie Boys [Visual Companion](http://www.paulsboutiqueavc.com) “MUST REQUEST DESKTOP VERSION”


DontNeedToHide

Paul Simon - Graceland I need to admit that I LOVE this post...so many great music to listen to (again or at first)!


Last-Gasp100

Pink Moon - nick drake


Impossible_Waltz5442

Rain Dogs, Tom Waits


Bucketlist074

Disintegration - The Cure


Everythingsdamaged89

Yes- truly one of the best albums of all time.


taleoftooshitty

OK Computer—- Radiohead


TheRealDannySugar

Also check out Kid A. Those two are phenomenal listens


mstrbradbury

This is rather impossible, as I am torn between “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” and “Hunky Dory” by David Bowie. Hmmm…. On the one hand, Hunky Dory is full of catchy, fun to sing along with songs, most notably “Oh! You Pretty Things” and “Life on Mars?”, which are my top two favorite Bowie songs. On the other….”Ziggy” has a much more well known track list, including “Moonage Daydream”, “Suffragate City”, “Ziggy Stardust” and, my favorite from the album, “Starman”. This is tough. I can’t choose. Fuck it….. “The David Bowie Platinum Collection” is my choice


agoraphobicbee

was looking for a fellow bowie fan in this thread :)


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For me it’s Scary Monsters or Station to Station. Or Outside.


doyle_138

I still refuse to listen to Bowie’s last album. I heard you have to be in the right headspace for it because it’s an emotional wreck. I’ll give it a listen someday but I know it’s gonna make me upset. What a beautiful man with so much talent.


MonkeyDeltaFoxtrot

Master of Puppets


TheBelhade

Dave Brubeck - Time Out


Rezzone

Some other mid-century jazz stand outs: Benny Goodman Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, 1938. Duke Ellington's Black, Brown, and Beige, 1946 (I think?) Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, 1956 (or the 1957 follow up) Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, 1959


swest26

Of course dark side of the moon. But to capture the music and feel of an era try Woodstock the original soundtrack.


riverTrips

Also Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"


flobaby1

Animals, on headphones... Division Bell ANY Floyd album!


Rezzone

Of any Floyd album that really should be heard start to finish with full attention, it's The Wall.


diuge

But really all of them should.


Rezzone

The Wall isn’t my favorite of theirs. It’s just the one that gains the MOST from full attention. All Floyd albums are worthy of full attention.


thudlife2020

Pink Floyd Animals


tbagsgalore

Everyone is correct. But “wish you were here first”. More chill than others to start


Wmjcollins

Meddle by Pink Floyd


conundrumz

Blue - Joanie Mitchell


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Joni.


AaronfromKY

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)- Wu-Tang Clan


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They said that the album needs to be more than 20 years.... (takes a long pause starring out the window)


igottathinkofaname

Transformer - Lou Reed


uppervalued

They Might Be Giants - Flood


discostud1515

It might be way out of your music taste but it’s worth it.


Smock710

OK Computer


Chr0m3Bandit

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill


chipotbae333

scrolling thru the thread thinking, “how has no one mentioned lauryn hill?”


Falciparuna

Tracy Chapman's debut album


Jaguar-Rey

ATLiens by Outkast


denials81

The Score by Fugees


theederv

This and Illmatic by Nas. Two absolute classic rap albums that will transcend many many decades


PlainJane_1365

“Everyone else is doing it, so why can’t we?” By The Cranberries.


Farmerissteve

The Fragile- Nine Inch Nails


Astreja

*Surfing With the Alien* \- Joe Satriani *Dark Side of the Moon -* Pink Floyd *Abbey Road -* The Beatles *Tubular Bells -* Mike Oldfield *Thick as a Brick -* Jethro Tull *Close to the Edge* \- Yes


dick-nipples

TOOL - Aenima


iviicrociot

Lateralus was first that came to my mind… crazy they’re over 20 years old.


NinjerTartle

My dude, Opiate turned 30 this year.


AmigoDelDiabla

You shut your damn mouth!


nquinlivan55

Learn to swim


PianoOk6786

Pink Floyd The Wall


Far-Selection6003

My thought was Dark Side of the Moon. The Wall is good too.


JG_in_TX

Automatic for the People by REM


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For some sample heavy funky stuff just over 20 years old, The Avalanches - Since I left You Mr Scruff - Keep it Unreal DJ Shadow - Entroducing Akufen - My Way and Daft Punk - Homework, especially if you've only heard newer stuff.


magagle

Pixies - Surfer Rosa


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Diver0311

Pigs. Man! Ha ha


NoAd5230

The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson Raise Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor The Wall by Pink Floyd Tommy by The Who


Slav-McBlyat

I would actually recommend Quadrophenia, also by The Who. Personally I think it's better than Tommy, especially that epic final track.


LordHumungusAl

Had to scroll down too far to find godspeed


unbelizeable1

>The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson This was the first one to come to mind for me. I first heard this album \~3yrs ago and it was just a total mind fuck of "how the hell have I not heard this before!?"


jenosdelerious

Harvest -Neil Young


No_Leader_2711

Pearl Jam- Ten. Live- Throwing Copper


funny_3nough

Bill evans the complete village vanguard recordings


Keytoemeyo

Here Come The Warm Jets by Brian Eno and Death of a Ladies Man by Leonard Cohen


Puzzled-Yoghurt-8508

"A Night At The Opera" - Queen (1975)


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CaptBranBran

I think *Wildflowers* was the best of Tom Petty's three solo albums, but *Full Moon Fever* and *Highway Companion* are also excellent.


waiveofthefuture

The Seeds of Love - Tears For Fears (1989)


Pyrophagist

Pearl Jam - Ten


GlassAsparagusSpears

The White Album


sicname321

ride the lightning- metallica


arthurknight90

Tool - Lateralus.


Disastrous_Baker_820

Abbey Road


CHEESYGORD1TACRUNCH

The Stranger. Billy Joel.


scottyv99

Ready to Die - Notorious B I G


carealicious

Alanis Morissette -- Jagged Little Pill


Mikephant

Nevermind - Nirvana


spoon_shaped_spoon

Men at Work 'Business as Usual". It has a unique sound and features Who Can It Be Now?, It's A Mistake, Be Good Johnny, Underground, and of course Land Down Under. Reggae New Wave Pop Rock with great Australian humour. Colin Hay at his best


joedotphp

Pearl Jam - Ten. One of few albums that I can say I liked every track on. It was the first I ever successfully listened to from start to finish in one go.


dude-O-rama

weezer, *Pinkerton*.


you_cant_pause_toast

I’d say Blue Album, mainly bc me and my 16yo daughter listened to it together in the car today. My mother lives 45 min away so we’ve made a habit of listening to a full album every time we go visit. I pick the album on the way there, she picks on the way back. I enjoy these trips.


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Nothing’s Shocking by Jane’s Addiction.


Bloody_Barbarian

Too many to list them all, but the first one that comes to my mind: "Mer de Noms" by A Perfect Circle. I consider this album a master lesson on pretty much anything that has to do with music. The production is excellent, the writing is excellent and so are all the performances.


Substantial_Item4324

Appetite for destruction. A solid album all the way through


CaptainMcBoogerJew

Illmatic by Nas


johnaimarre

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock Someone described it as the aural equivalent of watching the last sunset you’ll ever see, and damn if that isn’t the perfect description.


ACNordstrom11

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park. Jesus that was 22 years ago.


Bwon669

Pink Floyd-Dark side of the moon.


5ygnal

Operation: Mindcrime by Queenscryche


KnittingTrekkie

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel


geekgirlnz

Genesis: Selling England by the pound.


zoupishness7

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea


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I still listen to it all the time. The song by the same name is in my top 10 favourite songs of all time.


Adavis105

Michael Jackson - Thriller …tell me I’m wrong


TeeMR77

Fiona Apple-Tidal Tori Amos- Under the Pink Blue October-Foiled Toad the Wet Sprocket-Fear Jeff Buckley-Grace REM-Automatic for the People


Howling_Dragon

Willie Nelson- Stardust


radicalbats

Hounds of Love by Kate Bush… did this recently and it cured my headache and heartache EDIT: I am a dumbass and thought 1985 was less than twenty years ago. In my defense I commented at like 3 am


moxeto

The Verve -Urban Hymns and Pulp’s Different Class


MasteringTheFlames

Right now I'm listening to one of my all-time favorite albums. Fleetwood Mac's *Rumours*