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?

  • joshLaserbeam@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    A few of my favorite classics:

    • Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
    • Opeth - Blackwater Park
    • Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
    • Yes - Close To The Edge
    • Supertramp - Crime of the Century
    • Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
    • Genesis - Duke
    • Nektar - Remember The Future
    • Camel - Moonmadness

    And for newer stuff, I’d go with Anno Domini High Definition by Riverside and English Electric by Big Big Train

  • PanaX@lemmy.ml
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    2 years 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.

  • kommadieb@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years 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).

  • TerryMcGinniss@feddit.dk
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    2 years ago

    “Gorillaz - Demon Days” It is like a story unfolding, where they really have fun with the music, and effortlessly meld through different genres.

  • rustyspoon@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I agree with a lot of what people have already mentioned, so I’ll add a few I haven’t seen yet

    • Turnstile - Step 2 Rhythm
    • Signs of the Swarm - The Disfigurement of Existence
    • Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
    • Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
    • Meshuggah - Obzen
    • Panic at the Disco - Pretty Odd
    • Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
    • Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
    • Oso Oso - Sore Thumb
    • Polyphia - New Levels New Devils
  • kyrla@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Radiohead’s Kid A has no filler tracks. Anyone who thinks Treefingers is filler is wrong

  • metal_opera@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago
    • Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
    • Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
    • Good Kid, MAAD CIty - Kendrick Lamar
    • When the Kite String Pops - Acid Bath
    • Crimes of Passion - Pat Benatar
    • Metropolis Part II - Dream Theater
    • Master of Puppets - Metallica
    • Rust in Peace - Megadeth
    • A Boat on the Sea - Moron Police
    • Painted from Memory - Evlis Costello & Burt Bacharach
    • Operation Mindcrime - Queensrÿche
    • American Idiot - Green Day
    • Ten - Pearl Jam
  • RAFbombhead@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 years 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)

  • DarbyDear@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    For more mainstream music, I have to put forward “By the Way” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and “Demon Days” by the Gorillaz. For a slightly deeper cut, “The Protomen” (a.k.a. “Act I”) and “Act II: The Father of Death” by the Protomen. I usually jump through shuffled music or skip songs, but these albums are all ones that I can listen to straight through.

  • a_lemming@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago
    • The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
    • Fugazi - The Argument
    • Slint - Spiderland
    • American Football - LP1
    • toe - The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety
    • The Cure - Disintegration
    • TTNG - Animals
    • Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
    • At The Drive-in - Relationship of Command
    • Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
  • nowrongnotes@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 years ago

    Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz At Massey Hall

    John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

    Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, In A Silent Way

    Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Land

    Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection

    Talking Heads - Remain In Light, Speaking In Tongues

    Aretha Franklin - Live At Fillmore West

    Deodato - Prelude

    Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave

    Earth Wind & Fire - Head To The Sky

    Dave Brubeck - Take Five

    Fishbone - Truth And Soul, The Reality Of My Surroundings

    Esperanza Spalding - Emily’s D-Evolution

    Nina Simone - Black Gold

    The Roots - Things Fall Apart

    Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile

    A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

    Paul Simon - Graceland

    Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On

    Chick Corea - Light As A Feather

    Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters

    Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang

    That’s probably enough for now…