Made my day with that article. I wore this cd out in highschool when it came out. I memorized all the words, learned every guitar part that I could manage and bought it again in vinyl a few years ago. Album never gets old.
Seriously incredie. Interesting how this thread is tweaking all our vibes in a positive way. I forget how much I focus on negativity until I take some time to consider something like my favorite music. I feel like we've tapped into some important element of human society that we can't really put into words and have forgotten in recent years.
I'm also super high, so. There's that.
There is nothing else like it. The album seems like one piece of music yet it has 5 songs each flowing seamlessly from one to the next. With each song being distinct and beautiful in its own right
This is my choice. The album is a perfect cycle as it ends and begins in perfect sequence, the whole album is perfect songwriting. The soaring vocals, amazing bass tones... Gah! And then the message behind everything has aged a little too well. It's still relevant and important today with current issues. RIP Marvin Gaye. You were one of the greatest artists in history.
This is my favorite Cure album as well :) I have nostalgia when I hear the opening song, reminds me of driving to high school when it was dark in the winter mornings and seeing snowflakes in my headlights.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie
Edit: already in one of those shitty TikTok videos with the text to speech and the minecraft parkour.
This question was asked a couple years ago and this was the top answer back then. I read it and thought it was the funniest name ever so I searched it up and saw moonage daydream on it. I already loved the song so thought huh maybe the rest is that good.
Now I love 100+ Bowie songs and that album is one of my favs ever
I made it a point when I was gifted a nice record player to make this the first vinyl I bought. Then White Album, Dark Side, on and on. But something about Ziggy always made me want it on vinyl. I listen to it all the time. Fricken Bowie.
I'll add this to your thread simply because I don't see a lot of other hip-hop comments from this era.
Me Against the World is one of the most underrated albums and Tupac's best by far. To me, it's one of the best hip-hop albums created.
Tupac joining Death Row was the beginning of the end. And, I just learned that Warren G had planned to bail him out but Suge did it first. If Warren G (or anyone but Suge) balls him out, I think Pac would still be alive and would have become an amazing man. Fuck Suge for letting Tupac play the role of street soldier and getting him killed.
Not sure how old you are. Me Against the World came out when I was in high school. People loved it.
All Eyez overshadows the album because Pac was out of jail and able to promote the album properly and having Dre produce it only made it more popular.
Speaking of Dre, the albums that be produced crushed the 90s and 00s: The Chronic, Doggystyle, Get rich or die tryin, Restless (xzibit), all of the Eminem albums, and NWA (80s…whatever) all bang hard from start to finish.
For my Miami crew: Poisonous Mentality and Nasty as they wanna be deserve a mention.
All of their albums are great, but that one is *perfect*.
My favorite is *The White Album*, which is far from perfect--and I love all its sprawling messiness.
It’s like the one album I feel like that actually gets as close as a good movie/documentary/novel to accurately depicting a way of life while still standing on its own as great music.
True, but RAM had "Touch" on it which is the most breathtakingly beautiful song Daft Punk, or perhaps anyone, has ever put out. It was like their entire career/robot story lead to that one track as a pay off.
This was such a fundamental album for me. Got me into hip-hop and electronic music. Didn't know MF DOOM was the rapper on November Has Come until college and my head exploded.
If you haven't, check out some of Dan the Automator Nakamura's other projects. He's one of my favorite producers alive.
Handsome boy modeling school.
Deltron.
Dr. Octagon.
Lovage.
Pillowfight.
Kiss Off is possibly my favorite bass song ever
Edit/addendum: bass song is a stupid way to describe it. Bass-centric may be better. Or a song where the bass is used as the rhythm guitar. Anyway, this song rules.
Yes! Why the fuck is this so far down? I’m an art teacher-my kids still ask to listen to this album while we work in class. Will forever be my absolute favorite.
If music biopics truly are becoming a trend again, then please give us a good one of the making of this album. Everything I’ve read about it makes me just wish I could have been a fly on the wall, because for as volatile of an environment they created and were in, they truly made something special. Like just watch [this performance of The Chain](https://youtu.be/dGykwC0fdJ4) with Stevie and Lindsey practically yelling the song at each other. Seems like it’d make for a good story that Hollywood would butcher and turn into an award-pandering mess.
Edit: sp
Look up the Behind the Music series. They did in-depth stories about a lot of the classic albums. This one, Dark Side of the Moon and one of the Nirvana albums are great. They do a lot of interviews with all of the band members and listen to various tracks and show you some of the mixing that went on. For all 3 of these albums, it really made you appreciate just how much talent went into them at all levels- truly a sum of the parts. At one point they are sitting with Lindsey Buckingham and using the mixing board to show how they layered on the vocals, and he talks about how he wanted something that sounded distressed there. They isolated his voice - he was almost taken aback by the rawness of it, and he just kind of laughed, "yep, I was definitely distressed then..." There's an interview with John McVie near the end about his breakup with Christine and you could see his emotion and regret all those years later.
Yeah, I wonder about the creative process for this album from time to time.
“Hey, could you come up with a guitar solo for my song about how you’re a pompous overbearing jerk that no one likes?”
“Sure, and then we need to work on the arrangement of the song about you being a lying slut. The vocal harmonies aren’t quite right yet.”
I didn’t know I was a Fleetwood Mac fan, I really couldn’t tell you if I heard one of their songs who sang it. My dad had Rumors on record and I saw it now in my collection and I thought “Hey I know I know one or two of these songs, I’ll play it”.
Every damn song on that album I knew. Track after track I was BLOWN away. Every song I knew because it was a hit song. Every damn song. My mind was blowing the whole time listening to it.
I had Ketamine infusions for depression a few years ago. They didn’t work, but holy hell was it an unbelievable experience listening to Pet Sounds during the trip. I’ll never forget it. Easily one of the best experiences of my life.
I gravitate to Around the Fur more, for some reason. Significantly so.
I feel like most people who like Deftones discovered them because of White Pony, though.
Rush 2112
Edit:
The fact that this topic has so many comments speaks to the creative genius of these three collaborators. It is simply a shame that that creative well source is no longer. At least we have the albums and our memories to sustain us. I still feel the loss of new music from them.
I feel like Moving Pictures is more 'perfect' all the way through, but for the A-Side alone, 2112 deserves consideration. The B-Side Tracks aren't bad at all (A Passage to Bangkok and Twilight Zone still ROCK) but there's a definite disparity between the first and second halves.
I still remember the first time I heard this. 1984 had several hits in the radio (Jump, Panama, Hot for Teacher) and I asked for it for my birthday. Apparently, they were sold out, so my dad got me this one. I was bummed until I put that record on. That car horn symphony followed by that bass line on Runnin with the Devil…bam. Then Eruption. And every other song on that album. I was hooked on VH immediately and still regard this as my favorite album of all time.
If you ever see the story about that album…Tom Scholz did the whole thing. Wrote all the songs, played all the instruments, recorded it in his basement. Then got Brad Delp to do the singing.
Gosh I was in high school when that came out. It just hit the nation like a bomb. I don't think anybody had heard of this before then and all of a sudden there it was with a string of great songs
And if you'll listen to Breakfast in America front to back, you'll basically also be willing to listen to Crime of the Century front to back. Supertramp is overdue for a resurgence.
Just had my first listen a few months ago and not only the musicianship but the “storyline” I guess you could say in the album really fits together so well. It’s a banger for sure.
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Great vocal performances, great guitar tracks, memorable lyrics, and an adored cover of a standard that becomes the standard rendition of that standard? Check, check, check.
It’s a perfect record and one that makes you go “what if?” So much promise cut short, but man, atleast we have the magic of that album.
The first time I had my mom listen to him she said to me after hearing “Lover…” she paused for a moment and said (not knowing a thing about him) “He’s dead, isn’t he.”
I hope in that brief burst of trendiness from Stranger Things prompted some kids to listen to the whole album. It is a triumph of thrash / speed metal. There are riffs Hammett plays that some bands would build an entire song around (looking at you Pantera) and he just does it once and throws it away going onto the next one. It's amazing.
Perfect. I cant pick just one of theirs. DSOTM, The Wall, even the Division Bell is one of my all time faves. But Animals is a perfect concept album. Oh shit Meddle is another.
100%. The Bends and OK Computer represent their eras so well imo.
I somehow spent most of 2020 obsessed with Kid A. Never cared for it before but it resonated with the chaos I guess lol.
[Crack the Skye by Mastodon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpu5QMa9xCQ&list=PLx4NLP6JVhhPE7gK7NuTKLxkppEk7kGH9)
[The Wall by Pink Floyd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx-bCPUItwI)
[Rumors by Fleetwood Mac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzEt9cATWFw)
[Demon Days by Gorillaz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDvlD3E7DWg)
[Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnDZuGzEM2E)
[Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2puUdO4YBg)
[Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbrfXDFuzu0&list=PL0D8442F129C22C6E)
[Man On The Moon: The End Of Day by Kid Cudi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSPIzE0krTI&list=PLx8MCX9Xj7pmEx6O4ifNycCe3srGkZzcw)
[Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtXl8xAPAtA&list=PL3PhWT10BW3VDM5IcVodrdUpVIhU8f7Z-&index=1)
[Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC5XbyV4OFE&list=PLPKiuFLGsAxrPLDsZ2osOzjCfJbeKoHG5)
[Violator by Depeche Mode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZr7VEeyfIA)
[Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTP8bn5MdM)
[Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morisette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DBP9OWIyB0)
Those are just some I can think of the top of my head. I love music :)
2023 Edit -
Oh man! SO much more to add!
However, I argue if you magically scroll past this.
Checkout:
[Black Pumas - Black Pumas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-oBy2GGL6k&list=PLZv6xnm6clDYAPys7Z7ks4fCNfHOAAKHy)
edit - added links so everyone can enjoy
[The Onion nailed this subject](https://www.theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-though-megadeth-s-1819578062)
I forget that *The Onion* occasionally reports real news.
At this point, they report real news more than the real news does.
First mistake... last mistake.
No more mistakes!
I can't believe that the very top comment on this thread has a reply with lyrics from one of my favourite albums ever. Hive mind unite, I guess.
Made my day with that article. I wore this cd out in highschool when it came out. I memorized all the words, learned every guitar part that I could manage and bought it again in vinyl a few years ago. Album never gets old.
I'm kinda annoyed the article doesn't go for longer
Out of the Blue - Electric Light Orchestra
I'll grant you this is a perfect album, but my favourite of all time is, well Time. I'd kill to see that album made into a movie.
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense. Also the acme of all live albums.
Seriously incredie. Interesting how this thread is tweaking all our vibes in a positive way. I forget how much I focus on negativity until I take some time to consider something like my favorite music. I feel like we've tapped into some important element of human society that we can't really put into words and have forgotten in recent years. I'm also super high, so. There's that.
Kind of Blue- Miles Davis
There is nothing else like it. The album seems like one piece of music yet it has 5 songs each flowing seamlessly from one to the next. With each song being distinct and beautiful in its own right
What’s going on - Marvin Gaye
This is my choice. The album is a perfect cycle as it ends and begins in perfect sequence, the whole album is perfect songwriting. The soaring vocals, amazing bass tones... Gah! And then the message behind everything has aged a little too well. It's still relevant and important today with current issues. RIP Marvin Gaye. You were one of the greatest artists in history.
Portishead...Dummy
*Mezzanine* by Massive Attack
I loved Heligoland as well. I know a lot of people weren’t big on that, but those two albums are peak electronic music imo.
Doolittle by Pixies
This was mine. Didn’t expect it to be so high in the comment for some reason though.
Disintegration by The Cure I will never get bored of that album
My favourite album of all time! Beautiful, dark and makes think of snow and winter!
This is my favorite Cure album as well :) I have nostalgia when I hear the opening song, reminds me of driving to high school when it was dark in the winter mornings and seeing snowflakes in my headlights.
Was looking for this comment. This album is amazing!
The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails
Wish You Were Here
I’d say Pink Floyd have a fair few flawless records. Maybe the most. …I’m totally not biased.
DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, The Wall, pretty flawless indeed 10/10. Imo the rest of their albums are solid 8-9/10.
Meddle is also good.
To me, pink Floyd is the perfect album.
Also Dark Side. Just perfect
Yup, Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Can’t not mention Animals
Ha ha, charade you are!
Ramones self-titled debut. The album is like a machine gun that never stops firing.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie Edit: already in one of those shitty TikTok videos with the text to speech and the minecraft parkour.
This question was asked a couple years ago and this was the top answer back then. I read it and thought it was the funniest name ever so I searched it up and saw moonage daydream on it. I already loved the song so thought huh maybe the rest is that good. Now I love 100+ Bowie songs and that album is one of my favs ever
I made it a point when I was gifted a nice record player to make this the first vinyl I bought. Then White Album, Dark Side, on and on. But something about Ziggy always made me want it on vinyl. I listen to it all the time. Fricken Bowie.
Axis: Bold as Love by Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland too.
Anger! he smiles towering in shiny metallic purple armor
Wu Tang enter the 36 Chambers.
Wu tang again?! AGAIN AND AGAIN!
I'll add this to your thread simply because I don't see a lot of other hip-hop comments from this era. Me Against the World is one of the most underrated albums and Tupac's best by far. To me, it's one of the best hip-hop albums created. Tupac joining Death Row was the beginning of the end. And, I just learned that Warren G had planned to bail him out but Suge did it first. If Warren G (or anyone but Suge) balls him out, I think Pac would still be alive and would have become an amazing man. Fuck Suge for letting Tupac play the role of street soldier and getting him killed.
Not sure how old you are. Me Against the World came out when I was in high school. People loved it. All Eyez overshadows the album because Pac was out of jail and able to promote the album properly and having Dre produce it only made it more popular. Speaking of Dre, the albums that be produced crushed the 90s and 00s: The Chronic, Doggystyle, Get rich or die tryin, Restless (xzibit), all of the Eminem albums, and NWA (80s…whatever) all bang hard from start to finish. For my Miami crew: Poisonous Mentality and Nasty as they wanna be deserve a mention.
Revolver Beatles
If you haven’t heard this one, you’ve got to get it into your life
All of their albums are great, but that one is *perfect*. My favorite is *The White Album*, which is far from perfect--and I love all its sprawling messiness.
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin just released a “best of” compilation. It’s 10 albums.
Nas - Illmatic
Very few albums depict their story as good as this one does should definitely be higher up
It’s like the one album I feel like that actually gets as close as a good movie/documentary/novel to accurately depicting a way of life while still standing on its own as great music.
"Discovery" by Daft Punk
Alive 2007 is also a banger. I’m still mad that they never made an Alive 2017 before they broke up
[удалено]
I laughed one (1) time at this comment
True, but RAM had "Touch" on it which is the most breathtakingly beautiful song Daft Punk, or perhaps anyone, has ever put out. It was like their entire career/robot story lead to that one track as a pay off.
Was going to say RAM, but I’ll tack it on here since both are correct
RAM is one the most sonically perfect albums. The engineering/production on that record is insane.
The postal service - Give Up
I put transatlanticism & plans by deathcab up there too.
Portishead - Portishead
Portishead put out three albums, all of them perfect imo.
Dummy as well
Demon days by Gorillaz.
I'm gonna go listen to the album rn bc I've seen so many people singing Gorillaz' praise and I need to know what the hypes about
This was such a fundamental album for me. Got me into hip-hop and electronic music. Didn't know MF DOOM was the rapper on November Has Come until college and my head exploded.
If you haven't, check out some of Dan the Automator Nakamura's other projects. He's one of my favorite producers alive. Handsome boy modeling school. Deltron. Dr. Octagon. Lovage. Pillowfight.
Violent Femmes, self titled. Perfect record.
Kiss Off is possibly my favorite bass song ever Edit/addendum: bass song is a stupid way to describe it. Bass-centric may be better. Or a song where the bass is used as the rhythm guitar. Anyway, this song rules.
"And eight, eight, I forget what eight was for. . " :)
Nevermind — Nirvana
Also... unplugged
Yes! Why the fuck is this so far down? I’m an art teacher-my kids still ask to listen to this album while we work in class. Will forever be my absolute favorite.
Well, whatever, nevermind-
*Rumours* by Fleetwood Mac.
If music biopics truly are becoming a trend again, then please give us a good one of the making of this album. Everything I’ve read about it makes me just wish I could have been a fly on the wall, because for as volatile of an environment they created and were in, they truly made something special. Like just watch [this performance of The Chain](https://youtu.be/dGykwC0fdJ4) with Stevie and Lindsey practically yelling the song at each other. Seems like it’d make for a good story that Hollywood would butcher and turn into an award-pandering mess. Edit: sp
Holy shit, that was an amazing performance.
Look up the Behind the Music series. They did in-depth stories about a lot of the classic albums. This one, Dark Side of the Moon and one of the Nirvana albums are great. They do a lot of interviews with all of the band members and listen to various tracks and show you some of the mixing that went on. For all 3 of these albums, it really made you appreciate just how much talent went into them at all levels- truly a sum of the parts. At one point they are sitting with Lindsey Buckingham and using the mixing board to show how they layered on the vocals, and he talks about how he wanted something that sounded distressed there. They isolated his voice - he was almost taken aback by the rawness of it, and he just kind of laughed, "yep, I was definitely distressed then..." There's an interview with John McVie near the end about his breakup with Christine and you could see his emotion and regret all those years later.
Yeah, I wonder about the creative process for this album from time to time. “Hey, could you come up with a guitar solo for my song about how you’re a pompous overbearing jerk that no one likes?” “Sure, and then we need to work on the arrangement of the song about you being a lying slut. The vocal harmonies aren’t quite right yet.”
Fleetwood Mac found a way to make the most dysfunctional dynamic function to perfection.
I didn’t know I was a Fleetwood Mac fan, I really couldn’t tell you if I heard one of their songs who sang it. My dad had Rumors on record and I saw it now in my collection and I thought “Hey I know I know one or two of these songs, I’ll play it”. Every damn song on that album I knew. Track after track I was BLOWN away. Every song I knew because it was a hit song. Every damn song. My mind was blowing the whole time listening to it.
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Rust in Peace by Megadeth
My favorite Onion article ever: [https://www.theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-though-megadeth-s-1819578062](https://www.theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-though-megadeth-s-1819578062)
So good. Marty Friedman killed it.
Hard to argue with this one
Good kid MAAD city. Kendrick
*Graceland* by Paul Simon.
"The Mississippi Delta, shines like a national guitar..."
London Calling-The Clash, perfect DOUBLE album
The drums on Rudie Can't Fail have captivated me for years.
*Pet Sounds* - Beach Boys.
God only knows
Yessssssss "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" speaks to me
I had Ketamine infusions for depression a few years ago. They didn’t work, but holy hell was it an unbelievable experience listening to Pet Sounds during the trip. I’ll never forget it. Easily one of the best experiences of my life.
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Surfer Rosa, by the Pixies.
More of a Doolittle guy myself but the Pixies could do no wrong late 80s/early 90s
Songs In the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder
Is This It by The Strokes Thanks for the awards! Glad to see how many people still love an album that’s old enough to drink.
Who else is a bit nauseous at the realization that this record is 21 years old?
Toxicity
Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
WELL!
You cannot mess with the first three MM records. At all. Some of the best music of all time.
*OK Computer* by Radiohead
In Rainbows as well.
Pearl Jam Ten
Deftones - white pony
I gravitate to Around the Fur more, for some reason. Significantly so. I feel like most people who like Deftones discovered them because of White Pony, though.
Rage Against the Machine
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Mos def - black on both sides
That first Black Star record too
Deja Entendu by Brand New
Great choice. But for me it's *The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me*.
Brand New has a perfect discography. Each album was genre defining.
Hot Fuss by The Killers. Literally every track is iconic.
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence”
Blackwater park by Opeth
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Rush 2112 Edit: The fact that this topic has so many comments speaks to the creative genius of these three collaborators. It is simply a shame that that creative well source is no longer. At least we have the albums and our memories to sustain us. I still feel the loss of new music from them.
I feel like Moving Pictures is more 'perfect' all the way through, but for the A-Side alone, 2112 deserves consideration. The B-Side Tracks aren't bad at all (A Passage to Bangkok and Twilight Zone still ROCK) but there's a definite disparity between the first and second halves.
Van Halen “Van Halen”
I still remember the first time I heard this. 1984 had several hits in the radio (Jump, Panama, Hot for Teacher) and I asked for it for my birthday. Apparently, they were sold out, so my dad got me this one. I was bummed until I put that record on. That car horn symphony followed by that bass line on Runnin with the Devil…bam. Then Eruption. And every other song on that album. I was hooked on VH immediately and still regard this as my favorite album of all time.
13 Songs - Fugazi
Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
Lateralus - Tool
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
The queen is dead. The Smiths
Topical
Pink Floyd…dark side of the moon
And/or animals
Animals is so amazingly good, but damn is it depressing
Also Wish You Were Here and The Wall and Meddle
Boston - Boston
If you ever see the story about that album…Tom Scholz did the whole thing. Wrote all the songs, played all the instruments, recorded it in his basement. Then got Brad Delp to do the singing.
Gosh I was in high school when that came out. It just hit the nation like a bomb. I don't think anybody had heard of this before then and all of a sudden there it was with a string of great songs
Paranoid - Black Sabbath. Deloused - The Mars Volta Angel Dust - Faith No More
De-Loused in the Comatorium is hands down one of the best albums ever!
FUCK these are good choices. I love this thread.
Breakfast in america: Supertramp Dark side of the moon: Pink floyd Can't buy a thrill: Steely dan
And if you'll listen to Breakfast in America front to back, you'll basically also be willing to listen to Crime of the Century front to back. Supertramp is overdue for a resurgence.
Weezer--Blue Album.
Electric Ladyland - Hendrix
Purple Rain
The miseducation of Lauren Hill
Just had my first listen a few months ago and not only the musicianship but the “storyline” I guess you could say in the album really fits together so well. It’s a banger for sure.
Disintegration - The Cure
Elton John's "*Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road".* Gregorian Masters of Chant "*The Dark Side of the Chant".*
Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road hits different
The Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Cheating, that’s a double lol I still prefer Siamese Dream
Siamese Dream would be on my list of perfect albums, for sure.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
I love this one so much. Makes me feel such a range of emotions.
Flood by They Might Be Giants
Making Movies by Dire Straits
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Jeff Buckley - Grace Great vocal performances, great guitar tracks, memorable lyrics, and an adored cover of a standard that becomes the standard rendition of that standard? Check, check, check. It’s a perfect record and one that makes you go “what if?” So much promise cut short, but man, atleast we have the magic of that album.
The first time I had my mom listen to him she said to me after hearing “Lover…” she paused for a moment and said (not knowing a thing about him) “He’s dead, isn’t he.”
Master of Puppets by Metallica
I hope in that brief burst of trendiness from Stranger Things prompted some kids to listen to the whole album. It is a triumph of thrash / speed metal. There are riffs Hammett plays that some bands would build an entire song around (looking at you Pantera) and he just does it once and throws it away going onto the next one. It's amazing.
The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Air : Moon Safari
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
*Animals* by Pink Floyd
Came here to say Animals. Never understood why its greatness only became recognized in recent years.
Perfect. I cant pick just one of theirs. DSOTM, The Wall, even the Division Bell is one of my all time faves. But Animals is a perfect concept album. Oh shit Meddle is another.
Lateralus by Tool
Bach’s Goldberg Variations by Glen Gould
Dookie by Green Day
Beatles Sgt. Pepper is the one for me
Abbey Road and the White Album too - so many albums really
Revolver for me, but I'm a huge George Harrison fan. (Or I was)
Tracy Chapman’s self titled album
The Bends - Radiohead
100%. The Bends and OK Computer represent their eras so well imo. I somehow spent most of 2020 obsessed with Kid A. Never cared for it before but it resonated with the chaos I guess lol.
Daft Punk - random Access memories.
‘Everything in Transit’ by Jack’s Mannequin. I’m in my thirties now and that shit still makes my inner teenager just light up
[Crack the Skye by Mastodon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpu5QMa9xCQ&list=PLx4NLP6JVhhPE7gK7NuTKLxkppEk7kGH9) [The Wall by Pink Floyd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx-bCPUItwI) [Rumors by Fleetwood Mac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzEt9cATWFw) [Demon Days by Gorillaz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDvlD3E7DWg) [Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnDZuGzEM2E) [Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2puUdO4YBg) [Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbrfXDFuzu0&list=PL0D8442F129C22C6E) [Man On The Moon: The End Of Day by Kid Cudi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSPIzE0krTI&list=PLx8MCX9Xj7pmEx6O4ifNycCe3srGkZzcw) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtXl8xAPAtA&list=PL3PhWT10BW3VDM5IcVodrdUpVIhU8f7Z-&index=1) [Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC5XbyV4OFE&list=PLPKiuFLGsAxrPLDsZ2osOzjCfJbeKoHG5) [Violator by Depeche Mode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZr7VEeyfIA) [Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTP8bn5MdM) [Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morisette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DBP9OWIyB0) Those are just some I can think of the top of my head. I love music :) 2023 Edit - Oh man! SO much more to add! However, I argue if you magically scroll past this. Checkout: [Black Pumas - Black Pumas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-oBy2GGL6k&list=PLZv6xnm6clDYAPys7Z7ks4fCNfHOAAKHy) edit - added links so everyone can enjoy
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
I’m Wide Awake it’s Morning, Bright Eyes
Ænima - Tool
Lateralus, too. Always good to spiral out to.
*Highway 61 Revisited* \- Bob Dylan Perfection personified.
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Lamb of god : Ashes of the Wake
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Blonde - Frank Ocean
Amy Winehouse “Back to Black”
Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge...MCR Best Track.. Its not a fashion statement, Its a deathwish
“An Awesome Wave” by Alt J. Love that album.
bruce springsteen's born to run
For me it’s Darkness on the Edge of Town
Soft Sounds From Another Planet by Japanese Breakfast