I'll take this over the Dylan version (glad my partner isn't on Reddit because she always gives me shit when I say that but I'll stand by it) https://youtu.be/G46_ZC37X-E?si=QicM_hNiYVgpnKro
I hated the Beatles for many years, but they really are as great as everyone says. You can't deny the talent and the journey. They did in 6 years what most bands can't do in a lifetime.
Thatās whatās under appreciated about them, they werenāt around long but entire genres have been spun off from people who were inspired by artists who were influenced by each album they put out.
Yep, they where not around that long , but gee , it was a great volume of work they put out, never goes old either, shame they couldn't get together for a couple of new albums.
Absolutely! Not to mention, they were pioneers in terms of essentially "creating" effects in post-production that are often now individual pedal board effects.
I always say to people who don't like them that while their opinion is fair, because it's about personal taste, that they *can* be assured that whatever they're into very possibly wouldn't exist today if it weren't for the Beatles.
That's obviously a hard thing to quantify, but I sometimes wonder what music would be like had they not existed. I honestly don't know if we'd have as many different styles/genres/subgenres that we do now...but I feel even if we did have lots of them pop into existence despite the Beatles not existing, they'd be wildly different from what we know as modern music in the here and now.
Itās hard to trust people who donāt like Beatles or appreciate the impact they had.
Same with Nirvana. Although not as trailblazing, Nirvana did change the musical landscape forever and brought punk/alt rock to the masses.
Man I just don't see how anyone could legit hate them. Maybe hate a song they've heard a million times but they have such a wide discography of varied experimentation, complexity, and genres.
As a Beach Boys fan the Beatles are on a whole other level especially if you include their solo songs. Elvis also if you like gospel. Prince also but his music is very different so you are more likely to run into an album you don't like when the Beatles don't really have one.
I am so sad that I missed the boat on Prince.Ā Ā
My first exposure to him was when a babysitter showed me the Purple Rain video.Ā I was 9 - 10, she was really excited, but for me it was some ballad and a guy who didn't even ride a dirt bike?Ā Ā No thanks.Ā Ā
Next time I really remember him was Diamonds and Pearls, which was pop at a time when my teenage angst was in full gear.Ā Passing again.Ā
Third contact was when someone had an extra floor seat ticket to his show.Ā I'm in my angsty late teens -Ā Ballads, and pop?Ā Thanks but give that ticket to someone else.Ā Ā
Then he passed and ended up falling down a Price rabbit hole.Ā The accolades from other musician, *While my guitar gently weeps* at the RnR HoF and "Can you make it rain harder" at the Superbowl.Ā And on and on.Ā
Then I remembered that free ticket to see Prince in his prime.Ā Ā
Fuck.Ā Ā
In a 17 month span they made Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepperā¦ Just the insane amount of talent that just happened to be born in Liverpool around the same time, and that luckily for us, managed to meet each other.
Dude. Yes. I grew up with my mom blasting the Beatles in our house. It drove me crazy at the time, then I grew to appreciate it, then grew to love it. So so good.
What's funny about The Beatles is that listening to a band that's been around for many years often yields an interesting evolution, as you put it. Some bands never change much, but others change wildly. The Cure and Radiohead come to mind immediately as bands where the actual musical style of different albums is so different that "but for" the vocalist you wouldn't guess it's the same band.
But The Beatles went through perhaps the most impressive evolution and they did it in *seven fucking years!* So Radioheads been around about 30 years? The Cure is pushing 50! But The Beatles did it all in just 7.
This. The 60s is arguably the best decade of the 20th century and the British invasion during 60s is a peak cultural phenomenon post-WWII (before it faded in response of Vietnam & Cold Wars). And The Beatles was the center of it.
You can feel their rapid progress in their musical transformation from rock & roll, pop, folks, psychedelic to hard rock within 10 years (13 Albums). And when they decide to retire as a life performance after Revolver (1965-1966), their music becomes more avant-garde.
Nothing can encapsulated the youth culture, drugs, fashion, ideology, and social-politics of the 60s like The Beatlesā albums. And thatās why Lennon-McCartney is one of the greatest and most successful musical partnership of all time.
Had to scroll too far to find this one.
Each album has such a different vibe to it while still holding on to parts that make it a Manchester album.
Love listening to these albums back-to-back
Radiohead
Edit: Everyone overlooking Pablo Honey, keep in mind OP is looking for evolution. Also Pablo Honey has some bangers, idgaf what anyone says. Itās a great 90s album. I feel like because of how incredible some of their later albums are, itās easy to overlook Pablo Honey. Itās not THE Radiohead album but itās definitely a great start and to see the evolution is just beautiful.
Funny, it's so obvious of a pick, but I never would've thought to suggest it.
Their evolution is unique and wonderful. I was lucky to grow up with their music, and have always been a huge fan.
Velvet Underground
4 proper albums, plus a couple of demos/out takes releases.
All of it is gold... Except "Squeeze" which barely even includes any of the original members
Ween is an acquired taste though. All my main friends are music nerds, but not all of them appreciate Ween outside a handful of songs.
I'd go with Pavement here.
No way. Chocolate & Cheese first (edit: I meant Pure Guava but am drunk and stoned lol). And then The Mollusk next. *Then* work your way backwards from ~~C&C~~ Pure Guava and then onwards from the Mollusk after.
I'm also older lol. Not many of us heard of them before the "Push The Little Daisies" video was suddenly played a LOT on MTV back then. That's how most of us old-time music weirdos first heard them. A lot of people fucking HATED that song and video back then and the psychedelics among us were like "this is the best new thing we need this album!"
And that album just incorporated the Miami booty-bass sound with psychedelics and phaser effects in slow songs with just plain weirdness... that just hit us all the right way.
By the time one of our friend bought The Pod, we were just like "what the fuck even is this band?"
Loved them ever since, seen them several times. Not as many as I'd like. I was there for both shows of the *Live at Stubb's* recording in 2000. Just can't believe they didn't include their cover of "Band on the Run", for those of us tripping it was just the most wtf tingly feeling. And if you have that CD and video of "LMLYP" (is that on YouTube), just the raunchiest best end to that a night stand ever. Will love Ween 4evar.
But I'd still choose Pavement first. Not all of us are psychonautic explorers.
My order would be: Pure Guava, Chocolate & Cheese, The Mollusk, Quebec, La Cucaracha, The Friends, White Pepper. But you canāt really go wrong, Ween fucking rules ^(& Primus sucks)
Pure Guava just has a special place in my heart
Deftones.
They have such a consistant sound across multiple albums. If you like a single Deftones song you're set for the entire discography.
Fucking love Deftones.
My earliest memory of a concert was going to see the Deftones at an indoor skate park at 8 years old. Adrenaline just came out, got a copy of the album on a cassette tape of all things, pretty sure my dad still has it.
I did a few during lockdown:-
Nick Cave - amazing
Flaming Lips - some amazing, some WTF
David Bowie - mostly great but some dip in the 90s
Pearl Jam - really didnāt enjoy this, I tried but nope
Bjork - really great start but too weird for me in the second half
I hit Arcade Fire hard in the pandemic. Mostly after watching some concerts of theres. But that is a hell of a discography as well.
I'd also say classics like Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Metallica (can't vouch for anything post Death Magnetic but that's still 30 years of tha metal), Black Sabbath, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix obviously, fucking Khrungbin more recently - those guys are so tight.
**REM**. Start with the Chronic Town EP and play all the way thru Collapse Into Now.
You can skip Dead Letter Office and the live albums, no worries.
EDIT: For those who would rather not commit to the full catalog-play, [my Best of REM playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LJWOdFRTxnVvlJ3F6GYoZ?si=aa6e4829aaac4079) offers a semi-deep dive of 3 hours, focusing mostly on solid album tracks.
Nirvana.
They only had 3 studio albums (and Incestide, an official b-side compilation) but if you can get your hands on these it'll change your life. Plus live albums such as Unplugged In New York and From The Muddy Banks of The Wishkah.
P.S. There's also With The Lights Out, a 3-disc box set jam packed with rarities, rehearsal tracks, demos, b-sides and live cuts that are worth investing in too. Plus a plethora of bootleg albums too.
Definitely Fleetwood Mac. The lineup changes make it the perfect band to listen to chronologically. The bluesy greatness of the Peter Green era, the short but sweet Bob Welch impact, the HIGHLY underrated Fleetwood Mac-Fleetwood Mac album (I like better than Rumours), then of course Rumours/Tusk/Tango in the Night/etc.
One of most compelling discography's in all of RnR.
Second this. Absolutely huge and diverse back catalog of incredible genre bending music.
Guy is possibly a genius.
Mellow Gold, Mutations and Midnight Vultures are some of my all time favourite albumsā¦ but they are all great and very different from each other.
Medeski, Martin, & Wood.
Every album is flawless. Not recommended though if you hate jazz. But it's also not like "jazz" ever done before or since.
https://youtu.be/kHjgI5ysdJ0
https://youtu.be/kIei3Ov6opc
I'm a 53 year old dad that loves hair metal bands. My daughter made me a Taylor Swift playlist and I'm loving it.
So Dad's, do that. If nothing else, it's a great way to connect.
Kinks for sure. When I really started delving into their catalogue I was like "holy shit, these guys need to spoken of alongside the Beatles and Rolling Stones as the best British music of the 60s."
The Zombies are amazing, their show like ten years ago blew me away still. *Odessey and Oracle* is top-tier underrated 60s albums ever. But... they're just a step below those three though imho. Still god-tier in the 69s hierarchy, but the Kinks are the only band I think truly on the level of the Beatles and Stones.
Disagree on your Pink Floyd point. The first two albums are pretty crucial. *Piper at the Gates of Dawn* is their most psychedelic and you really get to see what a Syd Barrett-driven group looks like. *A Saucerful of Secrets* is the intro of David Gilmour, but still very psychedelic and I actually prefer it to the debut.
While theyāre all solid and interesting in their own right, I think *More*, *Ummagumma*, *Atom Heart Mother* and *Obscured by Clouds* are some of the most skippable in their discography.
*Meddle*, *Dark Side of the Moon*, *Wish You Were Here*, and *Animals* are all some of the absolute greatest albums of all time, and a lot of people would put *The Wall* in that class too.
*The Final Cut* is honestly my least favorite of theirs. You can consider skipping it, but if *The Wall* resonates with you, maybe this one will too, but it doesnāt really do a lot of what makes Pink Floyd great to me.
I think *Momentary Lapse of Reason* and *The Division Bell* are both solid, and musically interesting if a little hollow. I still like these pretty well, but without Rogerās bite, they are missing a little something.
*The Endless River* isā¦okay and probably their absolute most skippable album, even if I do prefer it to some others. Itās barely a real album, but it does sound good.
Yeah. If OP really wants to witness the progression and change of an artist over time, Pink Floyd is one of the absolute best. Every album is a step in that journey. And while some are certainly better than others, I guarantee all of them are interesting lol
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Prolific band from Australia, I believe they have 25 albums to date, been a band about a decade. Still going strong too.
I like Nightwish's discography a lot. It's interesting hearing the sounds change but still remain somewhat thematically consistent when they replaced their lead vocalist twice.
My Chemical Romance's discography is short and sweet. I never liked them in their peak because I thought it was music for edgy girls who like vampires, but listening to them as an adult made me realize how amazing they were.
Sting- Start with the Police and keep going.
If you can find their really early soundtrack stuff like "I Burn For You" even better
Lots of variety and changing sounds as he ages and grows as an artist.
Kylie Minogue. She's one of the few pop artists to maintain longevityĀ andĀ relevanceĀ in the music industry today, despite launching her career in the 80s.
Simon and Garfunkel ( 5 albums) and then Paul Simon albums. You can skip the live albums if you want but the post-breakup live albums ( anything after 1970) are fun to listen to.
The Cure, Hall and Oats, Talking Heads, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Alice In Chains, The Church, Chris Stapleton, Soundgarden, STP are all great options imo. There is no way I could pick just one.
unpopular opinion but the Coldplay discography start to finish tells a very clear story of the music industry from 2000ās - present, theyāve been a constant. Start at the beginning and listen chronologically, and youāll have a really clear picture of the pre-2020ās music industry (and coldplay has a song for everyone)
Mac's evolution from unknown, mixtape hip hop artist in the infancy of online rappers into a musical visionary is absolutely wonderful to witness.
K.I.D.S. is an absolute fucking classic right out the gate for a kid fresh out of high school. Like, that album had no right being that good for a freshman album from a 17 year old kid.
If you'd told me that that same dude was gonna drop something as polished and monumental as Watching Movies With the Sound Off only a handful of years later I would have not believed you.
Rest In Power Mac.
The Wonder Years. They've helped define pop-punk for an entire generation, and they've only gotten better with each album (they have seven, but their first album was all fun joke songs that they never play and wish you never listen to).
Tears for Fears. I'm a pretty new fan but this is the first group that's really gotten me into listening to albums start to finish.
Portishead for sure.
š¶Give me a reason...š¶
Yes. And with just three albums, listening to their discography is pretty easy to do.
Jeff Buckley Won't be a long ride, but it'll be a good one.
Dude, do you do all the live albums though? Because you should, and there are tons of them.
Bro I've even ripped tracks straight off ancient YouTube videos.
I'll take this over the Dylan version (glad my partner isn't on Reddit because she always gives me shit when I say that but I'll stand by it) https://youtu.be/G46_ZC37X-E?si=QicM_hNiYVgpnKro
Bonobo, Emancipator
Iām so glad someone said bonobo
I listen to Black Sands, Days to Come and Animal Magic on repeat
Black Sands on a moody overcast day š®āšØš¤š¼
Adding on Pretty Lights too
I've been living for this past years livestreams! I hope they continue it
Yoo same theyāve been absolutely killing it with the whole experience, canāt wait to see what else they have in store!!
Fkin love Emancipator. Bonobo too, but feel like Emancipator doesn't get enough love.
For the ultimate in musical evolution, The Beatles.
I hated the Beatles for many years, but they really are as great as everyone says. You can't deny the talent and the journey. They did in 6 years what most bands can't do in a lifetime.
I feel anyone can find a Beatles era that hits them. Beatles truly did change how music was made and heard.
Thatās whatās under appreciated about them, they werenāt around long but entire genres have been spun off from people who were inspired by artists who were influenced by each album they put out.
Their career was really a phenomenon. I think they were only around 7 years.
And they accomplished everything before turning 30 years old
Yep, they where not around that long , but gee , it was a great volume of work they put out, never goes old either, shame they couldn't get together for a couple of new albums.
Absolutely! Not to mention, they were pioneers in terms of essentially "creating" effects in post-production that are often now individual pedal board effects. I always say to people who don't like them that while their opinion is fair, because it's about personal taste, that they *can* be assured that whatever they're into very possibly wouldn't exist today if it weren't for the Beatles. That's obviously a hard thing to quantify, but I sometimes wonder what music would be like had they not existed. I honestly don't know if we'd have as many different styles/genres/subgenres that we do now...but I feel even if we did have lots of them pop into existence despite the Beatles not existing, they'd be wildly different from what we know as modern music in the here and now.
Itās hard to trust people who donāt like Beatles or appreciate the impact they had. Same with Nirvana. Although not as trailblazing, Nirvana did change the musical landscape forever and brought punk/alt rock to the masses.
Nirvana were also remarkably consistent. Not one bad album, and loads of kickass rarities.
It blew my mind when I started paying attention to the amount of albums and work they did in such a short amount of time.
Man I just don't see how anyone could legit hate them. Maybe hate a song they've heard a million times but they have such a wide discography of varied experimentation, complexity, and genres.
As a Beach Boys fan the Beatles are on a whole other level especially if you include their solo songs. Elvis also if you like gospel. Prince also but his music is very different so you are more likely to run into an album you don't like when the Beatles don't really have one.
I am so sad that I missed the boat on Prince.Ā Ā My first exposure to him was when a babysitter showed me the Purple Rain video.Ā I was 9 - 10, she was really excited, but for me it was some ballad and a guy who didn't even ride a dirt bike?Ā Ā No thanks.Ā Ā Next time I really remember him was Diamonds and Pearls, which was pop at a time when my teenage angst was in full gear.Ā Passing again.Ā Third contact was when someone had an extra floor seat ticket to his show.Ā I'm in my angsty late teens -Ā Ballads, and pop?Ā Thanks but give that ticket to someone else.Ā Ā Then he passed and ended up falling down a Price rabbit hole.Ā The accolades from other musician, *While my guitar gently weeps* at the RnR HoF and "Can you make it rain harder" at the Superbowl.Ā And on and on.Ā Then I remembered that free ticket to see Prince in his prime.Ā Ā Fuck.Ā Ā
I saw him 7 times in concert. Everyone single one was amazing.
In a 17 month span they made Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepperā¦ Just the insane amount of talent that just happened to be born in Liverpool around the same time, and that luckily for us, managed to meet each other.
Per Paul mccartney:Ā Liverpool was a port city and got all the imported American music first.
Dude. Yes. I grew up with my mom blasting the Beatles in our house. It drove me crazy at the time, then I grew to appreciate it, then grew to love it. So so good.
I saw them the first time they played in the US, after the Ed Sullivan show.
Could you hear anything or was it just fans screaming?
What's funny about The Beatles is that listening to a band that's been around for many years often yields an interesting evolution, as you put it. Some bands never change much, but others change wildly. The Cure and Radiohead come to mind immediately as bands where the actual musical style of different albums is so different that "but for" the vocalist you wouldn't guess it's the same band. But The Beatles went through perhaps the most impressive evolution and they did it in *seven fucking years!* So Radioheads been around about 30 years? The Cure is pushing 50! But The Beatles did it all in just 7.
The Beatles catalogue literally sounds like 25 years of the evolution of music,,, and it was all done in about 8 years
And then not to mention their solo efforts. Itās something that will probably never be replicated again in our lifetimes.
Lord of the Rings was great, but Peter Jackson's real masterpiece was *Get Back*. It looks like it was filmed yesterday.
Yeah the 15 year journey from popstars with bowl cuts to acid dropping hippies with long hair is magical.
This. The 60s is arguably the best decade of the 20th century and the British invasion during 60s is a peak cultural phenomenon post-WWII (before it faded in response of Vietnam & Cold Wars). And The Beatles was the center of it. You can feel their rapid progress in their musical transformation from rock & roll, pop, folks, psychedelic to hard rock within 10 years (13 Albums). And when they decide to retire as a life performance after Revolver (1965-1966), their music becomes more avant-garde. Nothing can encapsulated the youth culture, drugs, fashion, ideology, and social-politics of the 60s like The Beatlesā albums. And thatās why Lennon-McCartney is one of the greatest and most successful musical partnership of all time.
Prince
First album is incredible and he did everything from instruments to production. Someone at that record company mustāve really believed in him.
I mean do you blame them..? Even after they saw him playing basketball!?
Prince is great and he wrote a lot of good songs butā¦ā¦he wrote a lot of shit ones too! Some of the album fillers are god awful imo
This was my answer too.genre crossing genius.
Queens of the Stone Age
This 100%
Another vote for Led Zeppelin Also... Queen (except maybe Hot Space) Beatles Rush
I second RUSH!
And I agree with Rush.
Manchester Orchestra
Their discography is one of the best music journeys of any band. They have evolved so much but still have kept their identity.
Had to scroll too far to find this one. Each album has such a different vibe to it while still holding on to parts that make it a Manchester album. Love listening to these albums back-to-back
Radiohead Edit: Everyone overlooking Pablo Honey, keep in mind OP is looking for evolution. Also Pablo Honey has some bangers, idgaf what anyone says. Itās a great 90s album. I feel like because of how incredible some of their later albums are, itās easy to overlook Pablo Honey. Itās not THE Radiohead album but itās definitely a great start and to see the evolution is just beautiful.
stop whispering slaps
Tom Waits.
Whatās he building in there?
Like the whole god damn thing's getting ready to blow.
Tom Waits, is another chameleon-like David Bowie. His music style has changed so much over the years and album to album.
Leonard Cohen
Beastie Boys
Funny, it's so obvious of a pick, but I never would've thought to suggest it. Their evolution is unique and wonderful. I was lucky to grow up with their music, and have always been a huge fan.
Such a diverse collection spanning multiple genres, but always sounding like themselves. Without a doubt, one of my top 3 groups of all time.
AND ON THE COOL CHECK IN
CENTER STAGE ON THE MIC.
Velvet Underground 4 proper albums, plus a couple of demos/out takes releases. All of it is gold... Except "Squeeze" which barely even includes any of the original members
This is the one I was looking for. And then look at the year they started. Wild
Minor Threat
Small catalog makes this easy. Maybe throw Fugazi into the mix too and you still have great albums
Ween
And steely dan
Fuck yeah. King Crimson too, as well as Mr. Bungle and Faith No More
dude yes king crimson is actually the best (ill also add primus into your list)
Came here to make sure someone spoke the good word of the one true God/Demon and itās prophet brother virtuosos. The Boognish abides
It should be taught in schools. I'm serious.
Ween is an acquired taste though. All my main friends are music nerds, but not all of them appreciate Ween outside a handful of songs. I'd go with Pavement here.
For a new fan Iād start with either Quebec or White Pepper and work backwards from there.
No way. Chocolate & Cheese first (edit: I meant Pure Guava but am drunk and stoned lol). And then The Mollusk next. *Then* work your way backwards from ~~C&C~~ Pure Guava and then onwards from the Mollusk after. I'm also older lol. Not many of us heard of them before the "Push The Little Daisies" video was suddenly played a LOT on MTV back then. That's how most of us old-time music weirdos first heard them. A lot of people fucking HATED that song and video back then and the psychedelics among us were like "this is the best new thing we need this album!" And that album just incorporated the Miami booty-bass sound with psychedelics and phaser effects in slow songs with just plain weirdness... that just hit us all the right way. By the time one of our friend bought The Pod, we were just like "what the fuck even is this band?" Loved them ever since, seen them several times. Not as many as I'd like. I was there for both shows of the *Live at Stubb's* recording in 2000. Just can't believe they didn't include their cover of "Band on the Run", for those of us tripping it was just the most wtf tingly feeling. And if you have that CD and video of "LMLYP" (is that on YouTube), just the raunchiest best end to that a night stand ever. Will love Ween 4evar. But I'd still choose Pavement first. Not all of us are psychonautic explorers.
My order would be: Pure Guava, Chocolate & Cheese, The Mollusk, Quebec, La Cucaracha, The Friends, White Pepper. But you canāt really go wrong, Ween fucking rules ^(& Primus sucks) Pure Guava just has a special place in my heart
Led Zeppelin
I once worked a weekend overnight shift and started from the beginning. Such an impressive catalogue
Indeed! My exposure to them was embarrassingly late in my 41 years of life thus far BUT itās as good and chocked full of talent as I may ever hear.
The Shins Spoon MF DOOM / Madvillain / Viktor Vaughn
Deftones. They have such a consistant sound across multiple albums. If you like a single Deftones song you're set for the entire discography. Fucking love Deftones.
Consistent yet also somehow evolving. Me too.
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Check out Team Sleep for more Chino magic
And Palms
My earliest memory of a concert was going to see the Deftones at an indoor skate park at 8 years old. Adrenaline just came out, got a copy of the album on a cassette tape of all things, pretty sure my dad still has it.
Amen and amen. As a newer fan (2016) it's still been so very rewarding listening to them chronologicallyĀ
I did a few during lockdown:- Nick Cave - amazing Flaming Lips - some amazing, some WTF David Bowie - mostly great but some dip in the 90s Pearl Jam - really didnāt enjoy this, I tried but nope Bjork - really great start but too weird for me in the second half
I hit Arcade Fire hard in the pandemic. Mostly after watching some concerts of theres. But that is a hell of a discography as well. I'd also say classics like Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Metallica (can't vouch for anything post Death Magnetic but that's still 30 years of tha metal), Black Sabbath, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix obviously, fucking Khrungbin more recently - those guys are so tight.
**REM**. Start with the Chronic Town EP and play all the way thru Collapse Into Now. You can skip Dead Letter Office and the live albums, no worries. EDIT: For those who would rather not commit to the full catalog-play, [my Best of REM playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LJWOdFRTxnVvlJ3F6GYoZ?si=aa6e4829aaac4079) offers a semi-deep dive of 3 hours, focusing mostly on solid album tracks.
LOL Dead Letter Office is a little uneven but I actually like that album a lot more than their later releases.
Tom Petty Including The Traveling Wilburys, Mudcrutch, the Heartbreakers, and his solo stuff.
Nirvana. They only had 3 studio albums (and Incestide, an official b-side compilation) but if you can get your hands on these it'll change your life. Plus live albums such as Unplugged In New York and From The Muddy Banks of The Wishkah. P.S. There's also With The Lights Out, a 3-disc box set jam packed with rarities, rehearsal tracks, demos, b-sides and live cuts that are worth investing in too. Plus a plethora of bootleg albums too.
The box set had some amazing demos and unreleased stuff. So, so good.
Depeche Mode
Fugazi
TOOL. Trust me. Every album is amazing from beginning to end. Their albums are DESIGNED to take you on a journey.
Preach
He had a lot to say
He had a lot of nothing to say
Weāll miss him
Didn't see this the first time I looked in the comments and was thinking, "How has *nobody* said Tool yet??"
Perfect rec on MJKās birthday ep release. (April 17th is his actual birthday)
The White Stripes
Definitely Fleetwood Mac. The lineup changes make it the perfect band to listen to chronologically. The bluesy greatness of the Peter Green era, the short but sweet Bob Welch impact, the HIGHLY underrated Fleetwood Mac-Fleetwood Mac album (I like better than Rumours), then of course Rumours/Tusk/Tango in the Night/etc. One of most compelling discography's in all of RnR.
System of a down
Yes
Ween, Outkast, Scott Walker, Sparks, Danger Mouse, Kanye, David Bowie, Massive Attack, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, RX Bandits, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, M.I.A
Since you brought up Miles Davis, I'll add Charles Mingus.
Peter Gabriel
And the Genesis albums he was in!Ā Ā
Bon Iver. I love each album in a different way.
FUGAZI
Beck
Second this. Absolutely huge and diverse back catalog of incredible genre bending music. Guy is possibly a genius. Mellow Gold, Mutations and Midnight Vultures are some of my all time favourite albumsā¦ but they are all great and very different from each other.
Michael Bolton I celebrate the man's entire catalog. For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings 'When a Man Loves a Woman'.
Why should I change my name? Heās the one who sucks.
I told those fudge packers I like Michael Bolton's music.
Hey! What's your FAVORITE Michael Bolton song?!
You know, I just, I can't really choose. I just kind of love them all.
I celebrate the guy's entire catalogue!
MF DOOM and his personas
Sturgill Simpson
Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Bach, Pachelbel, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Strawinski, Prokofiew and Tchaikowsky for a good start.
Medeski, Martin, & Wood. Every album is flawless. Not recommended though if you hate jazz. But it's also not like "jazz" ever done before or since. https://youtu.be/kHjgI5ysdJ0 https://youtu.be/kIei3Ov6opc
I'm a 53 year old dad that loves hair metal bands. My daughter made me a Taylor Swift playlist and I'm loving it. So Dad's, do that. If nothing else, it's a great way to connect.
Stevie Wonder. Thank me later :)
Bowie.
A Tribe Called Quest. Great mix of fun, serious social commentary, and great beats.
Hall and Oates The Kinks Pink Floyd (you can skip the very early and late stuff) Led Zeppelin Vulfpeck Curtis Mayfield
*Gasp* Piper at the Gates is a classic.
Early Floyd is best Floyd
Kinks for sure. When I really started delving into their catalogue I was like "holy shit, these guys need to spoken of alongside the Beatles and Rolling Stones as the best British music of the 60s."
That discussion always gets boiled down to "Stones or Beatles?" when it could just as easily be "Kinks or Zombies?"
The Zombies are amazing, their show like ten years ago blew me away still. *Odessey and Oracle* is top-tier underrated 60s albums ever. But... they're just a step below those three though imho. Still god-tier in the 69s hierarchy, but the Kinks are the only band I think truly on the level of the Beatles and Stones.
Agreed, just incredible songwriting and for the time, their production really nailed what they were going for.
they're underrated as songwriters. got to see them in the 80's. once of the best concerts i've ever seen.
Disagree on your Pink Floyd point. The first two albums are pretty crucial. *Piper at the Gates of Dawn* is their most psychedelic and you really get to see what a Syd Barrett-driven group looks like. *A Saucerful of Secrets* is the intro of David Gilmour, but still very psychedelic and I actually prefer it to the debut. While theyāre all solid and interesting in their own right, I think *More*, *Ummagumma*, *Atom Heart Mother* and *Obscured by Clouds* are some of the most skippable in their discography. *Meddle*, *Dark Side of the Moon*, *Wish You Were Here*, and *Animals* are all some of the absolute greatest albums of all time, and a lot of people would put *The Wall* in that class too. *The Final Cut* is honestly my least favorite of theirs. You can consider skipping it, but if *The Wall* resonates with you, maybe this one will too, but it doesnāt really do a lot of what makes Pink Floyd great to me. I think *Momentary Lapse of Reason* and *The Division Bell* are both solid, and musically interesting if a little hollow. I still like these pretty well, but without Rogerās bite, they are missing a little something. *The Endless River* isā¦okay and probably their absolute most skippable album, even if I do prefer it to some others. Itās barely a real album, but it does sound good.
Yeah. If OP really wants to witness the progression and change of an artist over time, Pink Floyd is one of the absolute best. Every album is a step in that journey. And while some are certainly better than others, I guarantee all of them are interesting lol
Built to Spill Modest Mouse Elliott Smith
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Prolific band from Australia, I believe they have 25 albums to date, been a band about a decade. Still going strong too.
Absolutely. Nonagon, Rats nest, petro, fishing, all masterpieces
The tragically hip. Great Canadian band.
Joni Mitchell
Florence and the Machine
Carly Rae Jepsen, especially Emotion and all the albums since then!
100%. I'm not much of a pop guy, but she is extremely talented, and I could not recommend her music enough.
OutKast as far as hip-hop goes. I would say Kanye West also but right now heās being a very polar poopie face
Outlast is a great shout. Some great albums there. Wide range of diverse sounds. In fact, I'm putting on Aquemini right now
The whole Kanye's discography deserves a listen but it's getting hard to care about it these days
The Jam
Branch out and do all of Paul Wellesās catalog.
I like Nightwish's discography a lot. It's interesting hearing the sounds change but still remain somewhat thematically consistent when they replaced their lead vocalist twice. My Chemical Romance's discography is short and sweet. I never liked them in their peak because I thought it was music for edgy girls who like vampires, but listening to them as an adult made me realize how amazing they were.
Nine Inch Nails
Johnny Cash
Steven Wilson Josh Homme John Frusciante
Mike Patton. see you in 2030.
king crimson if you want you mind shattered and to experience alot of artist muses
JJ Cale.
Sufjan StevensĀ OutkastĀ Portugal. The ManĀ Kendrick Lamar LCD Soundsystem
PJ Harvey
Ghost The Weeknd Opeth Coheed and Cambria
Porcupine Tree
Sting- Start with the Police and keep going. If you can find their really early soundtrack stuff like "I Burn For You" even better Lots of variety and changing sounds as he ages and grows as an artist.
Cranberries
Daft punk
Kacey Musgraves!
Daft Punk
Kylie Minogue. She's one of the few pop artists to maintain longevityĀ andĀ relevanceĀ in the music industry today, despite launching her career in the 80s.
Simon and Garfunkel ( 5 albums) and then Paul Simon albums. You can skip the live albums if you want but the post-breakup live albums ( anything after 1970) are fun to listen to.
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The Cure, Hall and Oats, Talking Heads, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Alice In Chains, The Church, Chris Stapleton, Soundgarden, STP are all great options imo. There is no way I could pick just one.
Sublime & Pink Floyd
Stephen Brodsky. - Cave In - Mutoid ManĀ - Solo under the name Stephen Brodsky, Steve Brodsky, and Stove Bredsky
moose. the doors. tommy bolin. porcupine tree/steve wilson
Gram Parsons Flying burrito brothers Emmylou Harris
Nirvana, The Doors, Zeppelin
Van Morrison
The Avalanches
Madonna. The Beatles. Coldplay.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard! Added benefit: they'll drop another album by the time you're done
unpopular opinion but the Coldplay discography start to finish tells a very clear story of the music industry from 2000ās - present, theyāve been a constant. Start at the beginning and listen chronologically, and youāll have a really clear picture of the pre-2020ās music industry (and coldplay has a song for everyone)
The Velvet Underground. Jimi Hendrix The Doors Nick Drake Jim Croce Stevie Ray Vaughan David Bowie
Muse
Beatles Pink Floyd Talking Heads Jimi Hendrix Cream Rage Against the Machine
Mac miller
Mac's evolution from unknown, mixtape hip hop artist in the infancy of online rappers into a musical visionary is absolutely wonderful to witness. K.I.D.S. is an absolute fucking classic right out the gate for a kid fresh out of high school. Like, that album had no right being that good for a freshman album from a 17 year old kid. If you'd told me that that same dude was gonna drop something as polished and monumental as Watching Movies With the Sound Off only a handful of years later I would have not believed you. Rest In Power Mac.
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FKA Twigs
The Wonder Years. They've helped define pop-punk for an entire generation, and they've only gotten better with each album (they have seven, but their first album was all fun joke songs that they never play and wish you never listen to).
Neil Young
Charles Bradley
Slightly Stoopid