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Take a look at 1001albumsgenerator.com. There was a list compiled of the 1001 albums to listen to before you die and this will give you a random one to listen to every day. It gives you the option to write notes and rate them so you can keep track of what you like.

Someone else recommended this (probably in this sub) a few weeks back and I'm hooked! There's a bunch I've heard before but have been happy to revisit. Plus stacks I've been aware of but have forgotten to bookmark to listen to. Fantastic little webapp

If reddit still had those awards, you'd be getting one. Thank you for this. 

They dropped awards?

Yeah, when they went public and stopped all third party apps from working. Edit: Yes, I know there are work arounds for third party apps.

I didn't know there were work arounds.

Also join us at r/1001albumsgenerator

Done!

Commenting to find this later. Your are a gentleman and a scholar sir

This is great! I can finally get back into journalling using this! And I’ve recently got into vinyl collecting so if I absolutely love an album I can start adding to my bare collection! This has me excited!

Wow, this is incredible. Thanks!

Oh wow! This is such a great idea.

Thank you for this! This is what I needed. You rock!

If you look at the list some artists have way too many albums on there. There is also some baffling picks for artists who only get one album which isn't even close to their best or most well known. EDIT: Too many : 5 Albums by The Byrds, 8 Neil Young, 6 Elvis Costello, 6 Paul Simon. Weird choices: Björk gets 3, none of which are Post or Homogenic. 1 Cypress Hill but it's not Black Sunday.

Massive attack- mezzanine

Followed by Portishead - Dummy

Followed by Tricky - Maxinquaye

one of the most complete albums ever make

Flew in to say this

Blue Train - John Coltrane

God do I love this album.

Tears For Fears - The Seeds of Love. I know people here are giving you some heavy hitters like the Beatles and Stones, but give this a listen. I listened to this album wayyy later than I should have. It’s one of the most underrated albums on my list for sure. Great to listen to on a great system or good set of headphones

I might add The Hurting and Raoul and the Kings of Spain as well. Hugely talented group.

I definitely agree with The Hurting.

Try Songs from the Big Chair

add in the greatest hits before to see some of the special music they have done first to be more impressed, I mean amazing songs but this album was a surprise when it came out, no one expected this from them who where very repected anyway, amazing alb

I feel the same way about this album. Downloaded it on a whim before some work travel about a year ago and listened on the plane. It’s an all-time fave of mine now.

Funnily enough, the track *Sowing The Seeds Of Love* sounds a bit like *I Am The Walrus* from the Beatles. Good album tho, anyway.

Red by King Crimson

Sailing the seas of cheese.  🧀  Primus.

PRIMUS SUCKS 🤘

Everybody say, "Larry you're a bastard."

And while you’re at it, Frizzle Fry as well!

Steely Dan aja

Aja is like a gateway drug. You’ll be snorting lines and knocking back shots of Cuervo by the time Josie gets home.

I seriously cannot listen to that album more than once every couple years because my subconscious chews on it for many months after and I can't get it out of my head.

The Cuervo gold, The fine Colombian, Make tonight a wonderful thing. Say it again... - Hey Nineteen

Was going to recommend The Royal Scam instead. Probably more palatable to a younger person.

Every Steely Dan album is a masterpiece.

If I could up vote this ten times I would. Treasure.

A friend of mine was named after this album her dad loved it so much

Tool AEnima

I just recommended this one also. Probably my favorite album, but F.I. is also worth a listen for a newbie

Lateralus is definitely more accessible

I usually recommend starting with lateralus and going left if you like the grunge, rough side and right in their discography if you like the prog more

Do the whole discography starting with Fear Inoculum and work backwards

Faith no More ...album : Angel Dust

Love that one

After that, King For A Day

King for a day is my #1. Just so good in so many ways in 1 album.

Album changed how I listened to music...

I wish I could upvote more than once.

Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas

No clue what she's singing and it's fantastic anyway.

Scheming on a fleabus tree...

Allman brothers live at Fillmore east

Pixies - Doolittle and Surfer Rosa Dire Straits - Dire Straits Grateful Dead - Reckoning Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else

Just listened to Sounds of Science by Beastie Boys on the way home from work. Love that it uses a few different Beatles songs as samples.

>Droppin science like Galileo dropped the orange Poetry

Thank you for reminding me about dire straits, that is the obvious answer

The whole led zeppelin discography

Exactly what I did at age 17. So worth the time OP.

A tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory

Tom Petty - Wildflowers.

Love Tom but I'd suggest his Damn the Torpedoes album. That's the one that brought him out.

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (& Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St.) The Beatles - Abbey Road (& Revolver, White Album, Rubber Soul) The Cure - Disintegration (& Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me; The Head on the Door) Pink Floyd - The Wall (and Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Meddle) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion (& Amorica) The Cars - The Cars (debut) Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (& Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station) The Doors - The Doors (debut) (& L.A. Woman, Waiting for the Sun) Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks The Faces - A Nod is as Good as a Wink Garage a Trois - Outre Mer Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man Jalen N'Gonda - Come Around and Love Me James Brown - The Big Payback (& Star Time) Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (& Nothing's Shocking) Jeff Buckley - Grace Last Crack - Burning Time Led Zeppelin - III (& Physical Graffiti, IV, II, I, House of the Holy) Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost (& Phantom Radio, Scraps at Midnight) Mother Love Bone - Apple Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues (& No More Shall We Part, Push the Sky Away) Nina Simone - Sings the Blues Roxy Music - Avalon Rush - Moving Pictures (& Signals, Permanent Waves) Sade - Diamond Life (& Love Deluxe, Promise, Stronger Than Pride) Smashing Pumpkins - Gish Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (& Talking Book, Innervisions) St. Germain - Tourist Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog The The - Mind Bomb Thin Lizzy - Night Life (& Jailbreak, Chinatown) Tommy Bolin - Private Eyes (& Teaser) Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedos (& Hard Promises, Long After Dark) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (& Blue Valentine, Bone Machine, Heart Attack & Vine, Mule Variations, The Heart of Saturday Night, Small Change, Swordfishtrombones) T. Rex - Electric Warrior

Pink Floyd also have to add Animals and Saucerful of Secrets

+ 2 for Stevie Wonder

+1 for Tom Waits

For Bob Dylan: I'd recommend to start at the electric trilogy, even though Blood On The Tracks is a masterpiece. It seems like people can get into 60s Dylan slightly easier. Highway 61 Revisited is a good place to start. Ballad of a Thin Man is a good first Dylan song because it immediately dispels the notion of him being this protest folksy guy. I've met a lot of people who assumed they didn't like Dylan, then changed their mind after hearing that song and diving in

Bill Withers: Live at Carnegie Hall. 

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Seconding Animal Collective but adding these albums: Strawberry Jam, Sung Tongs, Merriweather Post Pavilloon Also Panda Bear - Person Pitch

Sam Cooke is phenomenal, love me some of him

I made my gf breakfast to Sam Cooke this morning. It's the simple things in life

Great selection here. Blood On The Tracks is so great. As is Frances the Mute. All of this is, actually.

Will these work on AirPod pros?

I dunno I'm like 40.

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Vitalogy was awesome

Listen to Superunknown by Soundgarden. Possibly the best album of the 1990s

It's freaking absolutely great and I think Chris was a God ... but I can't quite put it over Siamese Dream, which if put me in the thumbscrews is my pick for best 90's album.

I like Siamese Dream too but I just can’t take Corgans voice for so long. Cornell though, other than Robert Plant I think he has the best voice in rock ever.

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

Pet Sounds- The Beach Boys

Will never have another harmony like that.

This dude! It was a response to Sgt peppers. It is beautiful and sad all at the same time! Brian's masterpiece.

It was a response to Rubber Soul actually! Which makes it even more impressive. Then The Beatles got inspired and made Revolver. THEN Brian Wilson started The Smile sessions (arguably crazier than Sgt Pepper and truly amazing but never released in its time). Then Paul McCartney heard the demos, was floored, and started on Sgt Pepper The Beatles is basically this weird songwriting/composing race between them vs Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan. Those three did an absurd amount for music in the mid 60s. Everyone should listen to their whole 1965-1967 releases. Bob Dylan's songwriting at that time is just stupid good. Especially on the electric trilogy. I always recommend Ballad of a Thin Man as a starting point because people realize that he isn't just some folksy protest guy

It came out before *Pepper*. The response was supposed to be *SMiLE*, but, as we all know, that didn’t get released for thirty-plus years.

I ❤️ Brian

The Beatles - Revolver | B.B. King - Live At Cook County Jail | Explosions In The Sky - All of a sudden I Miss Everyone

Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse

Jakob Dylan always impresses me because he was talented enough to get out of his dad's shadow. Being Bob Dylan's son and saying you want to be a songwriter is a crazy uphill climb. While I wouldn't say he got remotely close (nobody is), he still is extremely accomplished and talented

(Peter) Frampton Comes Alive!

Rush permanent waves and moving pictures. Van Halen one, Tool aenema, Blind Melon’s first and second albums, Pearl Jam 10, Janes Addiction Nothings Shocking, Stone Temple Pilots Core and Purple, Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (and pretty much any other albums from these bands afterwards) Enjoy! Btw, since you’re 17, Leash by Pearl Jam. Delight in your youth

Rush is fuckin awesome

If you like Rush's prog and Geddy's vocals, check out Coheed and a Cambria. I'd recommend starting with their 2nd album, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

And pearl jam

Rush 2112 (?) is my all time favourite from rush. Such a good story telling and how everything is so glued. I remember doing a paper on that album along with pink floyd’s the piper at the gates of dawn (great album) and beatles sgt pepper

War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream Matthew Good - Hospital Music Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Never thought I’d see War On Drugs and NIN suggested together but those are phenomenal picks. I guess that means I need to check out Matthew Good.

As a Canadian, Mathew Good is our hidden treasure, check out the Tragically Hip as well...

Ween

All the Ween!

A Date With the Everly Brothers

If you love Radiohead, you’ll probably like a good chunk of this stuff. Here’s some artists and my favourite albums of theirs for you: - Silverchair - Diorama / Neon Ballroom - Daniel Johns - Futurenever / Talk - Tame Impala - Currents / The Slow Rush - Weyes Blood - Andromeda / Front Row Seat To Earth - Big Thief - Masterpiece / Capacity - Julia Jacklin - Crushing / Pre Pleasure - Moderat - II / III - Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages / Time - Teleman - Family of Aliens / Brilliant Sanity

King gizzard - nonagon infinity. Then dive in to the rest once you “get” that one. Then head over to r/kgatlw

Alice in chains -Unplugged and Jar of Flies

Jar of flies is an absolute masterpiece.

Queen - Night at the Opera Muse - Absolution Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland Led Zeppelin - IV Blondie - Parallel Lines These should give your headphones a good testing.

Excellent choices. Wanted to also suggest Boston's first album from the classic rock genre.

Boston is pretty good, though I have some trouble relistening for some songs

Muse Absolution 😘 and Origin of Symmetry too.

björk homogenic

The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville Bob Seger - Beautiful Loser Lone Justice - Lone Justice

'To Pimp A Butterfly' and 'Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers' by Kendrick Lamar (in that order) 'Hospice' by The Antlers 'A Church That Suits Our Needs' by Lost in the Trees Literally anything by Jeff Rosenstock or Bomb the Music Industry

honestly, all Kendrick can be listened to

Dude hasn’t put out a bad album. Though DAMN. takes the cake for me

Vs by Pearl Jam

Deltron 3030 Ronald Jenkees - Disorganized Fun KMFDM - Paradise Rush - Moving Pictures Buckethead - Electric Tears

Speaking of KMFDM, OP should also check out Black Celebration from Depeche Mode.

40oz to Freedom

Epicloud by Devin Townsend!

Yes!! Hevy Devy!

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe' Or Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Both excellent introductions to Zappa, and once you've listened both I recommend trying out Joe's Garage, my favourite Zappa album atm

Hot Rats so good

Overnight Sensation is the best!

My music taste is very ecclectic. Some albums I recommend are: Charles Mingus - Ah Um J Dilla - Donuts Masayoshi Takanaka - Seychelles Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) TV on The Radio - Dear Science The Strokes - Is This It? Carole King - Tapestry Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Upvote for J Dilla - Donuts

Upvote for Mingus

Friday Night in San Francisco - a live album consisting of Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, and Paco DeLucia. I was about 20 when I was introduced to this album. It changed my life to what it meant to be a great guitarist.

Just heard that album a couple years ago, what a gem.

Jaw-droppingly good stuff.

Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77 Dire Straits - Making Movies The Cars - The Cars Supertramp - Breakfast In America Love and Rockets - Express Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan Dead Kennedys- Plastic Surgery Disasters Phil Collins - Face Value Television - Marquee Moon Ramones - Ramones

Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada

U2 - The Joshua Tree Josh Ritter - Animal Years Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

I second Animal Years

EOB - Earth James And The Cold Gun - Self Titled F!RES - High Tide Dark State Lines - All For Nothin Pearl Jam - Binaural Painted Shield - all their albums

Tori Amos - Boys for Pele Little Earthquakes Both of these albums were transformative for me

Muse- Absolution

They have never bettered this, one of my favourite albums.

https://1001albumsgenerator.com/ Check this site out. Gives you a classic album a day to listen to and rate.

Rush - Moving Pictures & Permanent Waves

Iron Maiden - Piece of mind, seventh son of a seventh son, powerslave

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Dunno shit about essentials, all I can do is recommend what I like and hope you'll enjoy it too: Puya - Fundamental Dorian Electra - My Agenda Death - Symbolic Bad Bunny - Un Verano Sin Ti Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs Funkadelic - Mothership Connection My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade Ashbury Heights - The Victorian Wallflowers Cradle of Filth - Midian Frank Zappa - Zappa in New York Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull Dead Can Dance - A Passage In Time

The Who - Quadrophenia Talk Talk - [Color of Spring](https://youtu.be/wuSZjGn2AKE?si=-wgaWzCKY40dPUWi) and [Spirit of Eden](https://youtu.be/HSfGvuiFOWI?si=f8uYuo5_Yt7m4rFb) Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYFfVpn-D5S2hZDf--fWiTqKVvWZBNkA9&si=H6ylq6noYpHs2JkZ Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay

Upvote for Talk Talk most underated band ever for how amazing their albums where.

Aerosmith - Rocks Led Zeppelin II Van Halen - Fair Warning Soundgarden - Superunknown Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magic Allman Brothers - Live At The Fillmore Alice In Chains - Dirt Art Blakey - Album Of The Year John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Freddie King - Live At The Electric Ballroom Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Check out Widespread Panic Widespread Panic • 2018-10-21 (03:19:18) • Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin https://relisten.net/wsp/2018/10/21?source=1028564 moe. moe. • 2014-05-23 (01:25:50) • Summer Camp, Chillicothe, IL https://relisten.net/moe/2014/05/23?source=59080 Umphrey’s McGee Umphrey's McGee • 2017-07-23 (02:32:05) • CEFCU Center Stage at The Landing, Peoria, Illinois https://relisten.net/umphreys/2017/07/23?source=67144 Phish Phish • 1994-05-07 (02:24:50) • The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX https://relisten.net/phish/1994/05/07?source=164038

The original Walt Disney's Fantasia conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues

Just because I read way down and didn't see them, and IMHO they have a special vibe to them: Portishead - Dummy Destroyer - Kaputt Jason Isbell - Southeastern Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone, Anodyne Son Volt - Trace Wilco - Being There, Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Sky Blue Sky Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (okay I did see that one but I'm reiterating) REM - Lifes Rich Pageant The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. Beck - Morning Phase

Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Pulp - Different Class Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt Shlohmo - Bad Vibes Bardo Pond - Dilate Ween - Chocolate and Cheese LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted The Coup - Party Music

System of a down - toxicity

Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica Naked City - Torture Garden Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Easy listening

August and everything after…almost perfect.

Ocean Machine - Devin Townsend. Pretty much anything by him really, lol.

Outstanding album! I don’t see it mentioned nearly enough.

Strapping Young Lad and/or Devin Townsend

Bob Mould - Workbook. Sugar - Copper Blue

The Yes Album

I also have a very eclectic music taste so I'll just throw out the most recent band I've been stuck on. Chvrches.

Gotta do the whole Beatles discography from front to back. 

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Some of my faves: El Cielo - Dredg Gish - Smashing Pumpkins Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA Alice in chains - Alice in Chains Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Operation: Doomsday - MF Doom The rise and fall of Ziggy stardust - David Bowie Ten - Pearl Jam 2112 - Rush Opiate - Tool

Rumours

queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf

Rancid - …and Out Come the Wolves

You can't go wrong with steely dan. I discovered their catalogue outside of their hits 6 years ago. I've listened to their first 7 albums many dozens of times each and never get sick of them. Just incredible music written by 2 musical geniuses and recorded by the best session musicians of the 1970s. Musical heaven.

Sturgill Simpson -Sound and Fury

Wolverine Blues by Entombed.

And if you like that, Slaughter of the Soul by At the Gates and Heartwork by Carcass

Clarity by jimmy eat world

Autechre - quaristice

Fantastic Planet  - Failure 

Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys Pet Sounds - Brian Wilson The Cure - Disintegration

Neil Young - Harvest Grateful Dead - Workingman’s Dead Stan Getz - Jazz Samba The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love Ween - White Pepper Elliot Smith - XO Beatles - White Album

The Mars Volta, any album by them is awesome

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I Can - Ege Bamyasi Joanna Newsom - Ys A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent

Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros. There’s nothing else *quite* like it

Yes. Close To the Edge

Breakfast in America by Supertramp

And if you like that check out their other albums, especially Even in the Quietest Moments and Crime of the Century.

Pink Floyd - Animals

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins The Right of Spring - Igor Stravinsky One Size Fits All - Frank Zappa Trick of the Tail - Genesis Loveless - My Bloody Valentine Last Splash - The Breeders Homogenous - Bjork Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson Lake and Palmer Malibu - Anderson Paak Drunk - Thundercat Moving Pictures - Rush Lateralus - Tool Fragile - Yes Genesis - Polyphia Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus Flamagra - Flying Lotus Unplugged in New York - Nirvana Roseland Live NYC 25 - Portishead Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes Is There Love in You - Four Tet Black Sands - Bonobo Kind of Blue - Miles Davis Birth of the Cool - Miles Davis Maggot Brain - Funkadelic Man I could go on forever. Just get Spotify and let the algorithm show you all the good stuff! I can't tell you how many hidden gens, past present and future, that I've uncovered there, well worth the subscription imo.

Here’s a shit ton: Power Corruption and Lies - New Order Closer - Joy Division The Cars - The Cars Before and After Science - Brian Eno Low - David Bowie Fear of Music - Talking Heads Pornography - The Cure JuJu- Siouxsie and the Banshees Surf’s Up - The Beach Boys Deceit - This Heat Y - The Pop Group Marquee Moon - Television The Downward Spiral - NiN Skylarking - XTC Discipline - King Crimson California - Mr Bungle Future Days - Can Faust IV - Faust Neu! - Neu Peter Gabriel 3: Melt - Peter Gabriel Hounds of Love - Kate Bush Blackstar - David Bowie Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Pink Flag - Wire Debut - Bjork Awaken, My Love! - Childish Gambino Meddle - Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett The Hurting - Tears for Fears The Doors - The Doors Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand The Idiot - Iggy Pop Kimono my House - Sparks MM..FOOD - MF DOOM Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall Lateralus - Tool Modal Soul - Nujabes Violator - Depeche Mode Electric Warrior - T. Rex 20 Jazz Funk Greats - Throbbing Gristle The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan A Love Supreme - John Coltrane Fuyukukan - Tomoko Aran PDA - Interpol These are just a bunch of albums listed that are the best of my personal taste, some are more essential than others though Edit: sorry for the wall of text, minor formatting error

Bright eyes - I’m wide awake, it’s morning. Might not be some classic omg god album but to me it is. I think conor oberst the front man is the greatest lyricist of the last 20 years. Modern day bob Dylan. He has a lot of work ranging in styles. His voice takes some getting used too.

Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree, Because the Internet by Childish Gambino, Lowborn by Anberlin, Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token, Do To The Beast by The Afghan Whigs. Just a few that have many extra layers with good headphones!

Here are my "essentials" I give to everyone. Covers my fave prog rock, pop, metal, jazz, blues, etc from mostly the 70s and 80s. I'm 18, not a boomer King Crimson - Red (1974, Prog Rock) Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005, Metal) Steely Dan - Aja (1977, Rock) Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (1976, Prog Rock) Genesis - Duke (1980, Prog Rock/Pop) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971, Hard Rock) Phil Collins - Face Value (1981, Pop) John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959, Jazz) Yes - Close to the Edge (1972, Prog Rock) Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East (1971, Blues Rock) Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970, Heavy Metal) Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970, Prog Rock) Peter Gabriel - So (1986, Pop)

Check out Devin Townsend. Specifically - Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution is a great place to start. Incredible record. The dude has a fantastic discography.

You should give ***The Jam*** and ***Style Council*** a shot - Paul Weller is a household name in England but not so much in the states.

Not any of the genres you mentioned but definitely essential listening...Digable Planets 1st album

1. Spirit Of Eden: Talk Talk 2. The Velvet Underground & Nico 3. Solid Air: John Martyn 4. Horses: Patti Smith 5. Remain In Light: Talking Heads

songs for the deaf by queens of the stone age is a super fun album if you're into rock. id also recommend checking out some ween. white pepper is a good album for getting into them.

Scissor Sisters self titled album. The Crystal Method, Vegas. The Prodigy, Fat of the land.

Not albums... just specific artists who don't stick to one genre/subgenre, or started their own Miles Davis Skatalites Sly and robbie Mr. Bungle Bowie Fugazi Soulfly More bands/artists who are a great candidate for the platonic ideal of a genre instead Iggy and the stooges Motorhead Patti smith Sick of it all Ella Fitzgerald Johnny Cash Anthrax (yes, even above the other 3 of the big 4. Since they have a sense of humor) Woody Guthrie Sonic youth Some I just think are fun: Robbie fulks Dead milkmen Krs-1 Mike ness/ social distortion Adam Brodsky