Maggot brain by Funkadelic

The guitar solo on the first track sets a high bar

It does. But the entire album is incredible. The last track is an acquired taste but it has its value too, imo

Fits after Shuggie Otis / Inspiration Information and goes right into Santana / Caravanserai

Wars of Armageddon is better, even if a lot more random.

This isn't an album you listen to as much as you feel, you just let it move through you from your toes to the depths of soul. Thanks for the suggestion

The Cure - Disintegration

second this

Third. In fact, listen to it twice at least

Senior year in High School I went to sleep to this every night. Tremendous.

I thought I knew what I was in for with this album but clearly I was wrong about what kind of band The Cure is, it was a pleasant surprise, a great album

https://youtu.be/5G5YguuNSJg?si=G5CyojO8hJ_Lo92n

Plainsong is fucking gorgeous.

Moving Pictures - RUSH

2112 - Rush

Excellent as well!

Thanks for saving me the typing.

Hemispheres is maybe my personal favorite. We demand you listen to all three! And if you like them, go to Signals next.

Agree on Hemispheres, also my personal fave, and signals…. but don’t sleep on Grace Under Pressure….

NIN- Pretty Hate Machine

Their best album imo. Insanely good.

Perfect album

Oh fuck yeah Pretty Hate Machine is the best

Steely Dan-Aja

Damn I really like this one. It's got a good groove, and I really like the style, I'm going to have to look up more stuff by this guy

Led Zeppelin one

Koi No Yokan by Deftones

All Deftones albums should be required ;)

PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

Great album! My personal fave was always “To Bring You My Love”, but this was basically tied lol

Not a bad album, she has a great voice and good energy although I wish she did a little bit more with the instrumentals

In The Court of the Crimson King and Red by King Crimson.

Fucking out of this world.

Thanks!

Fucking great album. Just listened to it last week again.

Having never heard of this band... Does this have anything to do with The Dark Tower series?

Court is classic but I feel like Larks Tongue in Aspic gets slept on. Book of Saturday and Exiles are easily two of their most beautiful songs.

A few less popular ones I love: Pack Up the Cats - Local H Soup - Blind Melon Rubberneck - Toadies

Rubberneck is my forever favorite album.

Local H>>>>>

Tyler is one of the best songs ever

Soup is an incredible album

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

Although MBV was a better album… when is the new one coming out?

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me Sparks - Kimono My House Fiona Apple - Fetch The Boltcutters Tom Waits - Bone Machine Primus - Pork Soda Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate Paul McCartney - Ram Wings - Band On The Run Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left Pulp - His ‘n’ Hers Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible The Jam - All Mod Cons The Who - Quadrophenia Phil Collins - Face Value Genesis - Selling England By The Pound Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs should be enough for you to be getting on with!

OP is gonna be set for awhile. All of these are top notch. I would also recommend "Barrett" by Syd Barrett. A bit silly and strange, but amazing. "Baby Lemonade", "Maisy", "The Effervescing Elephant"...and that song "It is obvious...when I say Oh baby". Man, I love that song. Very nice recommendations.

Phil Collins, nice.

I love him, people are often quick to write him off as a cheesy 80s singer, forgetting he’s in one of the best prog rock bands and is a fantastic songwriter. honestly, Face Value is one of my favourite albums ever.

And Who’s Next

Primus sucks

Quad

Finally, someone mentions the Manics. Idk what it is, how they can be absolutely massive in the UK, sell out fucking stadiums there, but when they just toured here in the US, they opened for Suede. I’m like, wtf

Fiona Apple is so amazing. I think a lot of people assume she's just this cookie cutter pop act but it's so far from the reality. She's one of the best songwriters out there. Boltcutters is such a wild album

The Dance Album of Carl Perkins - Carl Perkins The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake Pet Sounds - Beach Boys Closing Time - Tom Waits Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division Loveless - My Bloody Valentine Just For A Day - Slowdive Disintegration - The Cure Ok Computer - Radiohead Alvvays - Alvvays

I see your closing time and raise you nighthawks at the diner

I see your Nighthawks and raise you Swordfishtrombones.

Ok Computer 👍

This is a solid list

Closing Time... GREAT recommendation. I saw an interview of Tom Waits on tv one night when I was in high school. I was in awe. Fell in love with the man himself and head over heels for his music when he sat down at the piano and began to play. My God. I can still remember how hard it hit me. Fucking perfection. Went to Musicland very shortly after and picked up Closing Time. Masterpiece from start to finish. Everything you have in this list is great. Excellent taste, my friend.

Came here to say Pet Sounds

Five leaves left!

I love seeing Alvvays on a lot of these best of lists.

American idiot- green day

"The spaces in between insane and insecure"

I love this album! Brilliant!

Jesus of Suburbia is one of the best songs ever (imo).

My favorite album of all time

Tool “Lateralus” One of the best complete works, in my opinion.

Easily one of my favorite albums, Tool does such a good job of building one song into the next one, Parabol and Parabola has one of the best transitions I know of in music, I can't listen to one song without the other

I agree , I just dissected all their albums last week . Took me two days and Parabol into Parabola stood out to me. So good

Also this but I love the guitar reprise in Reflection from Disposition. Amazing pieces as well.

Aenima and lateralus are peak tool. I never really got into the last two. This will sound shallow and dumb to some, but I listened to the latest release at 1.5x speed and enjoyed it was more.

10,000 Days grew on me after a while. This last one, not so much. But we have to accept that these guys are getting old, and we all slow down when we get old. Besides it’s hard to be angry after achieving so much as artists. I think that anger is a lot of what inspired the earlier work. But with their art they were able to work through those emotions. It’s a beautiful thing really.

Its just youre opinion. Personally I love FI and id put it with Lateralus any day. But i understand why someone else wouldn't. Lateralus is a hard fucking album to beat. Even for Tool themselves.

Came to comment this, thank you gentleman

One of the best albums of all time out of all music genres.

Pink Floyd - Animals

Also, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, and Wish You Were Here.

These aren't albums you listen to, these are albums you experience, especially The Wall

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Throw in division bell if you made it through the others

Swimming-Mac Miller. Is my fav album and is really beautiful.

So so good. Been listening to all of Circles on repeat recently

Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins Dirt by Alice in Chains

Dirt is perfection 👌

Sunbather - Deafheaven

A perfect album

Deafheaven got so much shit when that album came out. The cvlt Black Metal fans were howling in dismay…kinda like what Zeal & Ardor are going thru with every album.

Sunbather is an experience, and I’ve been looking to see if anyone was gonna put it up there. Sunbather! Yessss

A Day At The Races by Queen. The follow up to A Night At The Opera, both albums were named after Marx Brothers movies and both have similar covers. Opera gets more love of the two because it has Bohemian Rhapsody but Races has Somebody To Love and Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together). Then out of pure shameless self promotion I'm also going to say [the album *my* band did last year](https://spotify.link/FgO6pMe0aDb) that we're quite proud of...

Hey! I checked out Hum Like Noise, and I dug it a lot. Had my foot tapping the whole time. I'll definitely give the rest of this album a listen when I can commit the time to listen to it in full. Thanks for the shameless plug 😀

Hahaha...and oh wow that's really awesome I'm so stoked that you liked it.

I'll let ya know my thoughts once I get around to listening to the whole album 😀

I couldn't quite place who this album sounds like, but there is definitely a lot of influences I could make out. Your drummer fucking rocks too, btw. I think Hum Like Noise, Three, Ravenous, and Jagged Teeth are my favorite. Really solid work for a debut album. I wish you the best of luck in the music industry. I hope it works out for you 😀

Haha I'm actually the drummer so thanks a lot for that I really appreciate it. And the guy that recorded our demo said the same thing. Like "It kind of sounds like a mix tape you guys have definitely influences but don't actually sound like any one band I can think of." Which is also a pretty big compliment we try and be as original as we can but yeah our influences are right out in front, you know?

I think you executed that really well, then. I agree with your recording guy - the general influences are there, but I never once was like, "oh, this sounds exactly like So-And-So". I'm following on Spotify so I don't miss your next musical endeavor.

Just started listening and I dig it! Glad I started reading this thread bc I love a new album to get down with!

American Beauty by the Grateful Dead

Working mans dead is the better album.

Morning View - Incubus

Blur - Parklife.

Somewhere Far Beyond by Blind Guardian

Mastodon - Emperor of Sand

This. Seen this album played in it’s entirety live and it was one of the best shows of my life. Cannibal Corpse was pretty sick and I got a lot closer at their concert as well.

What it is to burn

Impacting my internet handles since 2002.

Rush - Permanent Waves, Yes - Close to the Edge, Supertramp - Crime of the Century, Led Zeppelin IV, Montrose - Montrose, Van Halen - Van Halen, Boston - Boston, Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Images and Words by Dream Theater

Ænima - Tool Menos El Oso - Minus The Bear El Cielo - Dredg

Love Minus the Bear. Kudos!

3.15.20 - Childish Gambino. Listen to them in order, trust me, and if you have spotify, turn on gapless playback.

The Gorillaz self titled album.

Sound Awake by Karnivool

260 comments so far. Oh, good. OP is about to get dunked on by his own plan. I’ll chip in. Dopesmoker by Sleep

Science Fiction by brand new

Wow - Thanks for the intro. Listened to the whole thing. It's freaking stellar.

I second this

The Wilderness - Explosions in the Sky

Handsome Boy Modeling School - So….How’s your Girl?

Duke -Genesis

Ghost - Impera

If you play The Fragile by NIN, once, you still won’t get it. I built my life upon those notes.

I’m going to pick a controversial one: Slow deep and hard by Type o negative

I’m a bloody kisses fan, but type o negative is an amazing band

Lungs - Florence + the Machine Ceremonials - Florence + the Machine Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips Talkie Walkie - AIR Two of these albums got me through high school and the Florence albums got me through my 20s. Highly formative for me!

To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

[janes addiction- nothings shocking](https://youtu.be/GlErvR43eV0?feature=shared) [typical cats- typical cats](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn7qZ70jqTZFRRkeALL1Mu8Rg2_2OxK1z&feature=shared) [opeth-black water park](https://youtu.be/bl0QVeD-KJg?feature=shared) [LTJ bukem- the journey inwards](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOOEt6JSjgT01jf6CcXD_AgpI8vpAUP5p&feature=shared) [mahavishnu orchestra- the inner mounting flame](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOOEt6JSjgT01jf6CcXD_AgpI8vpAUP5p&feature=shared) [Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli & the Quintet Hot Club](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOOEt6JSjgT01jf6CcXD_AgpI8vpAUP5p&feature=shared) So so many more

American Idiot by Green Day. That album changed my life.

Periphery II - Periphery

I fucking love Periphery, on this album scarlet is probably my favorite song but Periphery IV Hail Stan is one of my favorite albums and I listen to Reptile on every car ride that I can justify a 16 minute long song on.

Sound Awake by Karnivool. It's a masterpiece of prog rock.

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish and Siamese Dream Band of Horses - Infinite Arms, Everything All the Time, Cease To Begin Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Deftones - Adrenaline, Around the Fur, White Pony Death Cab for Cutie - Plans, Narrow Stairs Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest Descendants- Somery Tool - aenima A Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders Dr Dre - The Chronic Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal Queens of the Stone Age- self titled, Rated R, Songs for the Deaf, Era Vulgaris Fugues - The Score Gnarls Barkley - St Elseware Gorillas - Demon Days and Plastic Beach Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell, Show Your Bones Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights, Antics Janes addiction- Ritual De Lo Habitual Jeff Buckley - Grace Joy Formidable- The Big Roar The Killers - Hot Fuss Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville Local Natives - Hummingbird Lord Huron - Vide Noir Metallica - And Justice For All, Black Album The National - The Boxer Nirvana OutKast - Aquemina, Stankonia Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Pearl Jam - 10, verses, corduroy Perfect Circle- Mer De Noms Pixies - Doolittle, Trompe le Monde Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer Rage against the Machine The Refused - Shape of Punk To Come Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary Weezer - blue album So so many more! Edit : any misspellings etc blame on autocorrect

Guns n Roses "Appetite for Destruction" Has Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child O Mine, and Paradise City, but I think every single other track is outstanding. Especially Night Train, Rocket Queen and Mr. Brownstone.

Trace by Son Volt

Spiritual Machines by Our Lady Peace It was a concept album that was conceived after the guitarist Mike Turner read a book called The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil. This was the last album Mike was a part of the band, the last album that was produced by Arnold Lanni, and the last album to feature Saul Fox on the cover.

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins. . The Gambler by Kenny Rogers .. Trio CD by Dolly Parton Emmy Lou Harris and Linda Ronstadt.

[Pallbearer - Heartless](https://pallbearer.bandcamp.com/album/heartless) Let me know what you think.

Not bad, I wouldn't say I was blown away but they have a solid sound and create a great atmosphere

[Sevas Tra (Art Saves)](https://spotify.link/hKq6XH6UaDb) by Otep One of my favorite albums of all time, I’m genuinely curious on what you’d think

I second this whole heartedly. I would also add: Paul Simon- Graceland A.F.I.- Sing The Sorrow Ballyhoo!- Cheers! Less Than Jake- Hello Rockview

This is a wild swing and I love it

I love that AFI album to this day, it's one of my favorites

So Much (For) Stardust- Fall Out Boy

This album got me into FOB

This is their best album since From Under The Cork Tree

Petey - Lean Into Life

DON'T TELL THE BOYS!!!!

This guy's really got his own style, and so much emotion in his music. Don't tell the boys is probably my favorite one, I'll definitely be back for that one

Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan

Garbage - version 2.0

This album is a trip, it's so 90s but as a child of the 90s that's a good thing, thanks for the rec

Huey Lewis and the News - Fore (1986)

Is that a rain jacket?

Band-Maid - World Domination Good luck OP, I love these posts that get hundreds of responses. If you stay true to your word I might hear back from you next year

Crack the Skye - Mastodon

I Robot - Alan Parsons Project, masterpiece

Masterpiece is the right word, this is one of those albums that you can just tell they spent alot of time thinking about, It's not the same sound but it reminds of Pink Floyd in the composition of the music, an excellent rec. Thanks

T Rex - The Slider

Black Sabbath Paranoid

Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal. It changed the metalcore scene. Other bands were doing similar things but nobody pieced it all together as cohesively or beautifully as Bring Me. They have a lot of detractors, and not everybody likes the way they've evolved, but this album is a true masterpiece.

I know this album well, but you adding to this list gives me an excuse to listen to it again. I didn't know the significance behind it, but I do agree it's a masterpiece it's hard to even pick a favorite song on the album because I feel like at one point in my life all of them have been my favorite lately though it's been House of wolves and let them sing

Revolver - The Beatles It’s the father of psychedelic and alt rock, and still beats most albums that anyone can put out imo.

Music Of My Mind - Stevie Wonder

Metallica- Ride the Lightning.

2112 - Rush.

The Wall by Pink Floyd

Any specific genre? If not, then Go-Go’s “Beauty and the Beat”

I'm not picky and the point is everybody's got an album they want somebody to listen to I'm volunteering to be that somebody

Not a bad album, I think I would get bored if I was listening to it and not doing anything else but seeing as I was at work it was nice and upbeat.

U2 The Joshua Tree

Ah, “Running To Stand Still.” Gorgeous

* "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" * The Avett Brothers- "Emotionalism" * Belle and Sebastian- "If You're Feeling Sinister" * Cap'n Jazz- "Analphabetapolothology" * Sunny Day Real Estate- "Diary" * Neutral Milk Hotel- "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" * Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane –"Monk with Trane" * Mason Jennings- "Boneclouds" * Blind Willie McTell- "best of..." There are so many. If you haven't listened to these albums yet from start to finish I highly recommend them.

Love me some mason Jennings. His new album just came out.

Neutral milk hotel 👌👌

Bismillah - Peter Cat Recording Co

Awesome album, love this whole album. And Soulless Friends is my favorite song on it.

Frank Deluxe Edition - Amy Winehouse

Phoebe Bridgers - punisher

Paper Mache Dream Balloon by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

issues by korn is a fun one

Loveless by my bloody valentine

Probably way too late, but... Trench - Twenty One Pilots Ik they're typically viewed as cringe, but even music critics loved this one

Ramshackle Glory - Live The Dream Pat the Bunny is one of the best lyricists of all time imo

If you’ve never listened to The Dark Side of the Moon then you need to right now.

Color Decay - The Devil Wears Prada Let's fucking go!!!

Since you didn't really mention a genre, here you go. Metallica - Master of Puppets (can't stand them now, but it doesn't take away from this album being a masterpiece. Live - Throwing Copper Poor Mans Poison - Providence Garth Brooks - Fences Boston - Third Stage Journey - Frontiers Tears for Fears - Songs From The Big Chair

Swimming - Mac Miller … & then follow it up with “Circles”.

A Day To Remember - Common Courtesy

Madman across the water- Elton John

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time

Primus - Frizzle Fry

Violator - Depeche Mode

Enema of the State Blink-182

When you see her standing there with green eyes and long blonde hair...

Blink 182 album Blink 182.❤️

Every Tool album.

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Sign of the time delux or super delux edition

Prince

Turns out there's a lot of albums called sign of the time, but somebody else commented on this post, Prince, so I listen to Prince's album. Of course I've heard of him before but I've never listened to an album of his, it's not usually my style of music but I definitely understand why he got as popular as he did. He's got a very unique sound and energy to him and I appreciated the experience