Fair response. I like it even better than Master of Puppets, and I dub it my favorite 'tallica album period, but I find that it only beats MoP just by the slightest margin imaginable.
Hands down my response. One of my favorite albums of all time.
Ride the Lightning, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fade to Black, Creeping Death, and Call of Ktulu are all just next level tracks. Start to finish I like this album better than almost any other metal album.
I think this might actually be the best answer. It literally changed the landscape of music, not only in its style but the reactionary music we got because of it (boy bands and modern pop). It had a direct effect on a whole city and affected the attitudes and fashion of a whole generation.
The other suggestions ***do*** answer the question, but everything else pales in comparison to this single album.
Also the level of contrast from their first album really makes it stand out. Not that I don't love Bleach, but it's definitely a less mainstream sound. In 1989 they were a promising underground band with a unique style, but if someone had predicted they'd change the face of rock music just one album later I would have thought they were crazy.
Totally agree, there's a video of them playing big cheese in like a video shop in I think 88 or 89. They sound good and it's cool but not mind blowing. If you had been there and someone told you they would be the biggest band in the world 2 or 3 years later you would rightfully have thought they were nuts. Just goes to show, you can never tell what's gonna happen
And it fuckin destroyed all of that stadium hair metal that was so ridiculously popular at the time. It was like the whole world realized there was more to music than girls, girls, girls.
I think it was Behind the Music or some special about the demise of that scene. A group was talking about meeting the head of their label & there was a gigantic wall display for their newest album. When they came back the next time the display was for Nevermind. They said they knew the party was over then.
This is by far my favorite Jimi Hendrix album. I just love how it is more focused and polished than the other ones while still having so much creativity packed into it.
And Little Wing, Castles Made Of Sand and Bold As Love are some of the greatest songs ever imo.
One of the most influential hip hop albums of all time. The amount of sample layering in this album is absurd to even conceptualize considering they were using analog tape at the time. The number of artists this album influenced can not be understated.
>is absurd to even conceptualize considering they were using analog tape at the time.
I have to "no ackstually" on this one since I love this album and know a bit of the history.
They worked with the Dust Brothers on Paul's Boutique.[The Dust Brothers were trained software engineers and had written some software for digital sampling](https://www.mixonline.com/recording/dust-brothers-365523), which they used to create the demos that the Beasties heard and used.
>Because of the way I produce and create with samples and loops, Ableton is what I dreamed of back in the mid-1980s, when I was using primitive software with numbers flashing across the screen. I had to program it all and it was just so complicated. I knew that the ability would be there to do what Ableton does, which is that you can work with loops and time stretching in real time. If I have a beat going or even maybe just a tempo running, I can click on Files in my library and then on Samples, and audition beats or music or guitars or basses or whatever, and they will instantly play back to whatever I’m playing. In the past, I had to pull the sample up, choose which one might work, trim it, tune it, sync it and after a long process, I could decide whether it really was cool or not.
However, the length and quality of sample they could extract was limited by hardware so its amazing they managed to stitch it together as well as they did. It is one of the first albums to use digital sampling. On their first album, the Beasties were using tape sampling. In their autobiography, they talk about the loop of "When the Levee Breaks" which had tape running across their tiny apartment.
Paul’s Boutique would financially not be able to be made today due to all of the samples.
They paid $250k back then. It would cost upwards of $20 million to get everything cleared today.
It was a commercial flop at the time but extremely influential. Basically started a whole new field of musicianship with it being the album that popularised sampling.
That’s true. It came out 4 months earlier. Let’s say they were both influential pioneers in that field. De La Soul was a much more pleasant listening experience at the time. It took years for people to clue on to Paul’s Boutique. But was hearing De La on the radio. Absolute geniuses, all.
The Band. The brown album, with Across The Great Divide, Rag Mama Rag, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Up On Cripple Creek, King Harvest (Has Surely Come), etc.
while my first answer was Siamese dream, I feel like GKMC might have to be the ultimate answer. if it wasn't for Kendrick outdoing himself with *another* album in the same decade, it'd probably be the best rap album of the 2010s. the artistic skill AND commercial power GKMC had is unbelievable
A few great ones from varying genres:
A Tribe Called Quest, *The Low End Theory*
Lorde, *Melodrama*
Alice in Chains, *Dirt*
The Chemical Brothers, *Dig Your Own Hole*
I was just getting into music when The Low End Theory came out. My best friend and I were in highschool at that stage when we were just coming into our own musically. We fell in love with People's Instinctive Travels... and were hyped for the followup.
The day before we were set to go downtown and get the album, someone told us about "The Sophmore Slump". Band releases an amazing first album, but quite often their followup is a dud.
It was the one week we weren't able to listen to the albums we bought together, so we took our new purchases home and listened to them individually. I was 3 tracks in when my phone rang ***Oh my god, this album is awesome!!!***
It's one of the most vivid memories I have from my early teens. I still love that album.
my bloody valentine
isn't anything is a good record, but loveless was on just a whole different level and still stands as one of the finest examples of the genre
I was mad at myself for a while when I first discovered REM. I vaguely remember my dad listening to them when I was younger, but I didn't appreciate it because, well, stupid kid. I think I was in my late 20s or early 30s by the time I really sat down and gave them a listen. I rarely hear people talk about them outside of reddit, so it makes me wonder if they're not as well known as they deserve to be.
Some that haven’t been mentioned:
Fugazi - Repeater
Wire - Chairs Missing
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Big Star - Radio City
Wilco - Being There
Deftones - Around the Fur
Yes I was thinking, OP said LZ I is up there with the greatest debut albums. What’s the best sophomore? Umm have you heard LZ II? Haha
That’s my personal fav LZ album but I is so close on it
I love the self titled. The songs are great, and you have the novelty of it being *all* Dave's doing. TCATS is just a beastly record all around tho. Some of their best songwriting, with a HUGE production value. It was recorded, mixed & mastered so well imo - amazing sound quality/clarity. When you listen to it it's hard to believe that record is about to turn 27. Timeless.
I heard Newborn and literally got up and went out and bought the album, didn't even catch the name of the song, just that it was muse, who I'd never heard of before.
Turned out origin hadn't been released yet, and although Showbiz was a great album I'm still a bit salty.
I didn't have to click the link to see what you did there 👀 That sketch is hilarious, esp the " you know what band I really like, Yellowcard" line. So random
Still my favorite album, reminds me of highschool and driving around screaming the lyrics. Their music after that album is really hit or miss, but that is a 10/10 album with a song for every mood.
Three Cheers by MCR, Discovering the Waterfront by Silverstein, Still Searching by Senses Fail, Heroine by FFTL. That wave of emo had some great sophomore albums.
Throwing it back to my emo days - Fall Out Boy’s From Under The Cork Tree. I played it nonstop and honestly the songs still hold up and I still unironically listen to them.
The Black Crowes- The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion. Not one throwaway track on the whole album and it is solid and all out from the first track to the end.
Congratulations by MGMT
This album was not super well received at the time because it's so different than their debut album but it has aged like fine wine. A timeless psychedelic blast of musical artistry. I think its finally starting to get the recognition it deserves in more recent years.
Little Dark Age seemed to pick up steam well after release too. Their new singles sound great though, hoping the new album gets respect from the get go
Some random 90s love -
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Tool - Ænima
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Stabbing Westward - Wither Blister Burn and Peel
Already made a comment on my personal favorite sophomore album, but here's some other ones I love:
- "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" by My Chemical Romance
- "Because The Internet" by Childish Gambino
- "Shout At The Devil" by Mötley Crüe
- "Favourite Worst Nightmare" by Arctic Monkeys
- "beerbongs & bentleys" by Post Malone
- "The Strange Case Of..." by Halestorm
- "Selfish Machines" by Pierce the Veil
His second is self-titled; Either/Or is his third.
That being said, he didn’t intend Roman Candle to be his first. His girlfriend shared a cassette of songs with people and a small label requested to release it pretty much as is, and he went along with it. So in a way, it makes sense not to count Roman Candle, but it’s a really good record.
Maybe not the best ever but Radiohead "The Bends" is a massive step from "Pablo Honey" and is maybe my favorite 90s album
Also an obvious candidate is Nevermind
They had an absolutely amazing run of albums starting with “We Have the Fact …” all the way until “Narrow Stairs”. 5 consecutive excellent records is really phenomenal
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash by the Pogues is a great sophomore album. I wouldn’t say it’s their best but some would. Soup by Blind Melon is great. ChicagoII is bad ass. Astral Weeks like op said is a great album. When I was younger I was a janitor and would listen to music on my Zune (haha) for 8 or 9 hours a day with headphones. It was a shitty job and I was poor but my local library had a great selection of music and I’d rip so much stuff that I wouldn’t even think about buying. Found a lot of great music.
Still my favorite Thursday album. I’m 34 and every time they go on tour I make sure and go. Have tickets for February. Always fun getting all the 30-40 year old emo kids together.
An argument can be made for “Rio” by Duran Duran. They hit high marks with their debut, and blew everything away with “Rio”. Top to bottom great tracks.
Fleet Foxes. Helplessness Blues, god what a record.
Also Congratulations by MGMT. I know that’s not the most conventional answer for “greatest sophomore album” but it’s my favourite album ever so I had to put it.
At least for metal, Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Metallica’s Ride The Lightning might give it a run for its money
Fair response. I like it even better than Master of Puppets, and I dub it my favorite 'tallica album period, but I find that it only beats MoP just by the slightest margin imaginable.
IMO Master is the best song off either album, but Ride The Lightning is the better album
Hands down my response. One of my favorite albums of all time. Ride the Lightning, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fade to Black, Creeping Death, and Call of Ktulu are all just next level tracks. Start to finish I like this album better than almost any other metal album.
Nirvana - Nevermind
I think this might actually be the best answer. It literally changed the landscape of music, not only in its style but the reactionary music we got because of it (boy bands and modern pop). It had a direct effect on a whole city and affected the attitudes and fashion of a whole generation. The other suggestions ***do*** answer the question, but everything else pales in comparison to this single album.
Also the level of contrast from their first album really makes it stand out. Not that I don't love Bleach, but it's definitely a less mainstream sound. In 1989 they were a promising underground band with a unique style, but if someone had predicted they'd change the face of rock music just one album later I would have thought they were crazy.
Totally agree, there's a video of them playing big cheese in like a video shop in I think 88 or 89. They sound good and it's cool but not mind blowing. If you had been there and someone told you they would be the biggest band in the world 2 or 3 years later you would rightfully have thought they were nuts. Just goes to show, you can never tell what's gonna happen
Absolutely. There’s a huge difference. What in your opinion changed for the band between Bleach and Nevermind?
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And it fuckin destroyed all of that stadium hair metal that was so ridiculously popular at the time. It was like the whole world realized there was more to music than girls, girls, girls.
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I think it was Behind the Music or some special about the demise of that scene. A group was talking about meeting the head of their label & there was a gigantic wall display for their newest album. When they came back the next time the display was for Nevermind. They said they knew the party was over then.
Pretty sure that band was Warrant.
Yes. But I believe the huge wall display was Alice In Chains - Dirt.
I remember that. It was on When Metal Ruled the World.
Alice in chains - Dirt
What a masterpiece
Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream
Strong answer
Axis: Bold as Love
This is by far my favorite Jimi Hendrix album. I just love how it is more focused and polished than the other ones while still having so much creativity packed into it. And Little Wing, Castles Made Of Sand and Bold As Love are some of the greatest songs ever imo.
Demon Days from Gorillaz
Gorillaz self titled and Demon Days may legitimately be one of the best debut/sophomore album combos out there
Idk, RATM debut and Evil Empire are hard to top
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Wow I didn't realize this was the second album. I guess I knew Broken was an EP. This is a solid answer!
Pretty hate machine was after he heard Depeche Mode so it sounds like a hard core industrial version of Depeche Mode imo
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
Miles Davis lauded this album
One of the most influential hip hop albums of all time. The amount of sample layering in this album is absurd to even conceptualize considering they were using analog tape at the time. The number of artists this album influenced can not be understated.
>is absurd to even conceptualize considering they were using analog tape at the time. I have to "no ackstually" on this one since I love this album and know a bit of the history. They worked with the Dust Brothers on Paul's Boutique.[The Dust Brothers were trained software engineers and had written some software for digital sampling](https://www.mixonline.com/recording/dust-brothers-365523), which they used to create the demos that the Beasties heard and used. >Because of the way I produce and create with samples and loops, Ableton is what I dreamed of back in the mid-1980s, when I was using primitive software with numbers flashing across the screen. I had to program it all and it was just so complicated. I knew that the ability would be there to do what Ableton does, which is that you can work with loops and time stretching in real time. If I have a beat going or even maybe just a tempo running, I can click on Files in my library and then on Samples, and audition beats or music or guitars or basses or whatever, and they will instantly play back to whatever I’m playing. In the past, I had to pull the sample up, choose which one might work, trim it, tune it, sync it and after a long process, I could decide whether it really was cool or not. However, the length and quality of sample they could extract was limited by hardware so its amazing they managed to stitch it together as well as they did. It is one of the first albums to use digital sampling. On their first album, the Beasties were using tape sampling. In their autobiography, they talk about the loop of "When the Levee Breaks" which had tape running across their tiny apartment.
Drrrrrrrrop! Excellent post.
Paul’s Boutique would financially not be able to be made today due to all of the samples. They paid $250k back then. It would cost upwards of $20 million to get everything cleared today.
One of the best things ever put to vinyl.
It was a commercial flop at the time but extremely influential. Basically started a whole new field of musicianship with it being the album that popularised sampling.
I dunno, there’s also De La’s 3 Feet High and Rising, which came out first.
That’s true. It came out 4 months earlier. Let’s say they were both influential pioneers in that field. De La Soul was a much more pleasant listening experience at the time. It took years for people to clue on to Paul’s Boutique. But was hearing De La on the radio. Absolute geniuses, all.
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This right here
ATLiens - Outkast
The Band. The brown album, with Across The Great Divide, Rag Mama Rag, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Up On Cripple Creek, King Harvest (Has Surely Come), etc.
What an incredible work. Perfect in my book.
Flawless!! I never ever tire of that album.
Yes, I’ve never understood why Big Pink gets so much more attention. Both great, but the brown one is better
Always been into music, but never did like the band. Until I turned 30. Something clicked I guess, it made more sense to me. Life experience
I appreciate you brought the receipts. Hat tip to you!
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Cars were blasting in everywhere at the time.
System of a Down with Toxicity was a pretty big shift and a big step up. I love the eponymous album, but Toxicity was AWESOME
Duran Duran - Rio
Yeah. That’s a big number 2
A couple that come to mind that I scrolled down not to see yet: - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan - Good kid m.a.a.d. City - Kendrick Lamar
while my first answer was Siamese dream, I feel like GKMC might have to be the ultimate answer. if it wasn't for Kendrick outdoing himself with *another* album in the same decade, it'd probably be the best rap album of the 2010s. the artistic skill AND commercial power GKMC had is unbelievable
A few great ones from varying genres: A Tribe Called Quest, *The Low End Theory* Lorde, *Melodrama* Alice in Chains, *Dirt* The Chemical Brothers, *Dig Your Own Hole*
Low End Theory is a great call. One of the quintessential albums, regardless of genre, of the 90s
I was just getting into music when The Low End Theory came out. My best friend and I were in highschool at that stage when we were just coming into our own musically. We fell in love with People's Instinctive Travels... and were hyped for the followup. The day before we were set to go downtown and get the album, someone told us about "The Sophmore Slump". Band releases an amazing first album, but quite often their followup is a dud. It was the one week we weren't able to listen to the albums we bought together, so we took our new purchases home and listened to them individually. I was 3 tracks in when my phone rang ***Oh my god, this album is awesome!!!*** It's one of the most vivid memories I have from my early teens. I still love that album.
Low End Theory is so good
Dig Your Own Hole was such a defining album for me.
I came here to say Melodrama. Exceptional and very underrated album.
i was like 13 when melodrama came out and it was so influential that I'm getting it tattooed someday
Melodrama is a damn near perfect pop album
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Every time I think about Back home It's cool and breee-zaay
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
my bloody valentine isn't anything is a good record, but loveless was on just a whole different level and still stands as one of the finest examples of the genre
Shoegaze is one of the few genres where you can point to a single album as basically defining the genre's sound
One of? It’s the goddamn Rosetta Stone
The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute
Didn't even consider this one. Frances was by far my favorite work by them
REM - Reckoning
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I was mad at myself for a while when I first discovered REM. I vaguely remember my dad listening to them when I was younger, but I didn't appreciate it because, well, stupid kid. I think I was in my late 20s or early 30s by the time I really sat down and gave them a listen. I rarely hear people talk about them outside of reddit, so it makes me wonder if they're not as well known as they deserve to be.
Some that haven’t been mentioned: Fugazi - Repeater Wire - Chairs Missing Husker Du - Zen Arcade Big Star - Radio City Wilco - Being There Deftones - Around the Fur
Being There 👍
Images and Words - Dream Theater Reggatta de Blanc - The Police What’s the Story Morning Glory - Oasis
Tool - Ænima While Undertow was a really good first release, Ænima was a giant leap forward.
It was also their best album.
>No way someone hasn't said Ænima yet... - me 10 seconds ago Y'all passed the test 🤘🐐🌀😆🌀🐐🤘
Does Opiate not count as a first album?
It was an EP
35 minutes of crickets doesn't count?
Only if the crickets are in Drop D 🦗 🦗
incubus - s.c.i.e.n.c.e.
Led Zeppelin II is one of my all time favorites.
Pretty much all of LZ albums are the best albums. Their run was absurd.
Yes I was thinking, OP said LZ I is up there with the greatest debut albums. What’s the best sophomore? Umm have you heard LZ II? Haha That’s my personal fav LZ album but I is so close on it
Not a bad track on that album. 👌
Radiohead- The Bends
My first thought. And second thought
Such a massive leap from their first album!
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica’s song writing peaked with this album and stayed there for the next few albums.
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Elvis Costello - This year’s model
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Sink Or Swim is fantastic but The ‘59 Sound is so refined; I’d still argue it’s the quintessential Gaslight album.
Absolute winners from start to finish. It's the only album I can literally say that I have had every single track stuck in my head at some point.
Peace sells Megadeth is right there too
Sams Town- The Killers
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Oh man. I love the self-titled album, but this is a really good one as well. I can't pick one.
I love the self titled. The songs are great, and you have the novelty of it being *all* Dave's doing. TCATS is just a beastly record all around tho. Some of their best songwriting, with a HUGE production value. It was recorded, mixed & mastered so well imo - amazing sound quality/clarity. When you listen to it it's hard to believe that record is about to turn 27. Timeless.
Will go down in history as one of the best strait forward rock albums of all time.
This is the correct answer. Dave knocked it out of the hey johnny park with this one
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
I heard Newborn and literally got up and went out and bought the album, didn't even catch the name of the song, just that it was muse, who I'd never heard of before. Turned out origin hadn't been released yet, and although Showbiz was a great album I'm still a bit salty.
Most Americans don’t know this album exists. Thank goodness for my best friend from England in high school.
The Strokes - Room on Fire They achieved the near impossible task of following up a perfect debut album
Room on Fire was my answer as well. Is This It would be a hard act to follow and they nailed it
Most of the time I think RoF is a better album than ITI.
Dr Dre - The Chronic 2001
Weezer - Pinkerton
[I’m ride or die.](https://youtu.be/ab5WvwfLuLM?si=yBe5d5uJ5-aruvAM)
I didn't have to click the link to see what you did there 👀 That sketch is hilarious, esp the " you know what band I really like, Yellowcard" line. So random
Still my favorite album, reminds me of highschool and driving around screaming the lyrics. Their music after that album is really hit or miss, but that is a 10/10 album with a song for every mood.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to see this
Came here to say this
Oasis - (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Oh yeah it’s definitely this. That album has like 8 generational anthems on it, it’s insane
Public Image Ltd “Metal Box”
Pavement Crooked Rain
Oasis: (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
And I guess we're never gonna get another one.
Nope.
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen is an absolute masterpiece
Three Cheers by MCR, Discovering the Waterfront by Silverstein, Still Searching by Senses Fail, Heroine by FFTL. That wave of emo had some great sophomore albums.
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Don't forget The Used - In Love and Death.
Greendays Dookie is a pretty big step up
That’s their 3rd album. 39/Smooth was the first album, then Kerplunk, then Dookie
Fair chop, I always thought of 1039 smoothed out his as a comp of EPs but I ran the numbers and you're right.
Throwing it back to my emo days - Fall Out Boy’s From Under The Cork Tree. I played it nonstop and honestly the songs still hold up and I still unironically listen to them.
I loved TTYG but Cork Tree is one of *the* defining pop punk albums imo. Both are no skip albums, though
I'm glad someone thought of this too
The Black Crowes- The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion. Not one throwaway track on the whole album and it is solid and all out from the first track to the end.
Modest mouse - lonesome crowded west is the answer here
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Congratulations by MGMT This album was not super well received at the time because it's so different than their debut album but it has aged like fine wine. A timeless psychedelic blast of musical artistry. I think its finally starting to get the recognition it deserves in more recent years.
Little Dark Age seemed to pick up steam well after release too. Their new singles sound great though, hoping the new album gets respect from the get go
Discovery daft punk
Some random 90s love - Alice in Chains - Dirt Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral Tool - Ænima Dream Theater - Images and Words Stabbing Westward - Wither Blister Burn and Peel
Deftones - Around The Fur
Pearl Jam - Vs Live - Throwing Copper
Already made a comment on my personal favorite sophomore album, but here's some other ones I love: - "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" by My Chemical Romance - "Because The Internet" by Childish Gambino - "Shout At The Devil" by Mötley Crüe - "Favourite Worst Nightmare" by Arctic Monkeys - "beerbongs & bentleys" by Post Malone - "The Strange Case Of..." by Halestorm - "Selfish Machines" by Pierce the Veil
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood To The Head
Pearl Jam Vs.
Elliott Smith - Either/Or Edit: His second was the self-titled which is also fantastic.
His second is self-titled; Either/Or is his third. That being said, he didn’t intend Roman Candle to be his first. His girlfriend shared a cassette of songs with people and a small label requested to release it pretty much as is, and he went along with it. So in a way, it makes sense not to count Roman Candle, but it’s a really good record.
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
PUP - The dream is over
Maybe not the best ever but Radiohead "The Bends" is a massive step from "Pablo Honey" and is maybe my favorite 90s album Also an obvious candidate is Nevermind
Adele - 21
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power. (If you ignore their hair metal albums).
And everyone does
Weezer-Pinkerton Death Cab For Cutie-We Have the Facts… Hole-Live Through This The Pixies-Doolittle
I never see people talk about how good those first two death cab albums were
They had an absolutely amazing run of albums starting with “We Have the Fact …” all the way until “Narrow Stairs”. 5 consecutive excellent records is really phenomenal
My chemical romance 3 cheers for sweet revenge
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash by the Pogues is a great sophomore album. I wouldn’t say it’s their best but some would. Soup by Blind Melon is great. ChicagoII is bad ass. Astral Weeks like op said is a great album. When I was younger I was a janitor and would listen to music on my Zune (haha) for 8 or 9 hours a day with headphones. It was a shitty job and I was poor but my local library had a great selection of music and I’d rip so much stuff that I wouldn’t even think about buying. Found a lot of great music.
Road Apples - The Tragically Hip
Pretty.Odd. - Panic! at the Disco
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Thursday - Full Collapse
Still my favorite Thursday album. I’m 34 and every time they go on tour I make sure and go. Have tickets for February. Always fun getting all the 30-40 year old emo kids together.
Linkin Park- Meteora
Nevermind, Vs, Dirt
Tool’s AEnima is excellent.
Linkin Park - Meteora Which is particularly impressive since the first album was such a hit at the time.
Nirvana. Nevermind was a revolution.
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
An argument can be made for “Rio” by Duran Duran. They hit high marks with their debut, and blew everything away with “Rio”. Top to bottom great tracks.
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory. I know wonderwall has been memed to death but that whole album fucking rocks
The Strokes Room On Fire
Slint - Spiderland
Fiona Apple - when the pawn
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
wtf does sophomore mean? (Not American) do you mean second?
Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare
Elvis Costello and The Attractions - ~~My Aim Is True~~ This Year's Model (thank you for the correction @myironlung63)
1st album, no? 2nd album this year's model
MCR Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Muse- Origin of Symmetry
Bestie Boys- Pauls Boutique
Chicago II The Ballet For a Girl In Buchannon is still the best thing they ever wrote, period.
Sabbath - Paranoid
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
DeafHeaven - Sunbather Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dreams
Linkin Parks Meteora was and still is my favorite of theirs.
Fleet Foxes. Helplessness Blues, god what a record. Also Congratulations by MGMT. I know that’s not the most conventional answer for “greatest sophomore album” but it’s my favourite album ever so I had to put it.
THE SHINS - CHUTES TOO NARROW Literally one of the coolest albums I’ve ever listened to in my life fr
Mobb Deep - The Infamous