I often think about stellar albums. The ones where they’re really isn’t a skip-able track. Off the top of my head, these come to mind: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Collective Soul Collective Soul (blue album), Bush 16 Stone, and Green Day Dookie. What are some of your perfect albums?

  • PanaX@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Tool - Aenima

    Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience

    Dead Can Dance - Spirit chaser

    Depeche Mode - Violator

    Faith No More - The Real Thing.

  • RAFbombhead@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    No love for QOTSA? At least 3 spectacular albums, in no particular order:

    Like Clockwork, Songs for the Deaf, Villains (contentious, I know, but I love it)

  • kommadieb@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ok, now that more people have posted long lists, I don’t feel so bad about mine ;)

    • Arcade Fire – Funeral
    • Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
    • At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (also their EPs Vaya and In/Casino/Out)
    • Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
    • Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
    • My Morning Jacket – Z
    • Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
    • Radiohead – OK Computer
    • Radiohead – In Rainbows
    • The Decemberists – Picaresque
    • The Diggs – Commute
    • The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
    • The Libertines – s/t
    • The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
    • The Notwist – Shrink
    • Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson in Crime (just a fantastic debut; barely an album though)

    German:

    • Deichkind – Niveau Weshalb Warum

    Some may be an acquired taste (PSB?, also I know that The Libertines’ is not everyone’s favorite – but it’s mine :). The Arcade Fire, even though I don’t listen to them these days that much, is decade-defining for me, as is Radiohead’s OK Computer (together with Nevermind, although for some reason it didn’t make this list).

  • EponymousBosh@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago
    • Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse
    • Sgt Pepper, The Beatles
    • The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga
    • Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Elton John
    • Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy
  • balderdash9@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Going by music genre:

    Hip Hop: To Pimp A Butterfly (by Kendrick Lamar), The Forever Story (JID), Madvillainy (MF DOOM), Hell on Earth (Mobb Deep)

    Electronic: Selected Ambient Works (Aphex Twin), Exai (Autechre), Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique (μ-Ziq)

    Black Metal: Filosofem (Burzum), Panzerfaust (Darkthrone), Pure Holocaust (Immortal), Exuvia (The Ruins of Beverast)

    Death Metal: Scream Bloody Gore (Death), Realm of Chaos (Bolt Thrower), Under the Sign of the Black Mark (Bathory)

    Country: Southbound (Doc Watson), Poor David’s Almanack (David Rawlings)

    I’m just breaking into country and jazz. If anyone has some classic must-listen albums, I’d be all ears.

    • rustyspoon@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      It’s been almost a year since The Forever Story came out, but it was a classic in my mind from the first second I heard it. I haven’t listened to as much hip hop these past few years but that album pulled me right back in.

      I’m not the biggest fan of J Cole, but he’s discovered and boosted some amazing artists.