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?
“Gorillaz - Demon Days” It is like a story unfolding, where they really have fun with the music, and effortlessly meld through different genres.
I know I am alone on this but,
my chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge
Discovery by Daft Punk is a no skip for me. Also food and liquor by lupe fiasco.
This will probably get buried in the comments, but Lohio by Ass Ponys is a really solid album. Just banger after banger.
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.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Twin Fantasy - Car Seat Headrest
Perfect from Now On - Built to Spill
+1 for Twin Fantasy. I haven’t listened to a lot of CSH’s discography but man that album… every time I hear a song I’m pulled back in and end up listening to the whole thing. It’s amazing how quickly those 15 minute songs seem to end.
Blackwater Park - Opeth
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).
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Rumours, Ziggy Stardust
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
Not Breakfast in America?
Breakfast in America is a very good album, but I think Crime of the Century has the stronger songs (Bloody Well Right, Asylum, Rudy, title track) and better concept (even though it isn’t a concept album)
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)
i listen to a lot of songs from albums that have a lot of filler on them, but the one i always listen to straight through is born to run. thunder road is how every album should start, every side flip should be rewarded with born to run, and every album should end with jungleland.
throw-in: the sound of three fans clapping to welcome thunder road was also the perfect way to start the live set.
Revolver by the Beatles
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
BTBAM - Colors
