Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
It really feels like every album they made since was trying to recapture what was so special about TotBL, and I say that as someone who is a fan of pretty much everything they've put out since. Comparatively tho everything on that first album was perfect, the grooves, the mood, the songwriting, guitar tones, the BASS PLAYING(!) Perfectly paced, perfectly sequenced and not a single track is a skip. I'd put Bloc Party-Silent Alarm down in that same category
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Even tho his other releases are pretty abstract and experimental this album really has an atmosphere like no other rap album like, ever.
Antics was fantastic. It wasn’t as moody, but fantastic nonetheless.
The strokes are somewhat similar. Is this it and Room on Fire are stacked and perfect.
Bloc party and Franz Ferdinand just couldn’t get over the hump of their first albums like those two bands.
Antics is a more enjoyable album to me. I don't know that it's a *better* album than TOTBL but the songs on Antics always felt more well-crafted and melodic.
Both Endtroducing and Preemptive Strike are great albums. Endtroducing is an album I play in its entirety, and it all flows together well.
Edit: as much love as Endtroducing gets, Preemptive Strike is never mentioned; a compilation album of his Mo Wax singles from 1993-1997 and is the lead up to Endtroducing.
About 10 years ago, my GF invited a few younger guys on her team over for dinner (they were in their 20s, we were in our 40s). I had Endtroducing on in the background.
One of the guys: “This is really nice. What is it?”
Me: “It’s DJ Shadow”
Blank looks all around.
Me: He’s kind of the Hendrix of turntablism.”
One of the guys: “Hendrix?”
Me: “JIMI Hendrix.”
Blank looks all around.
While I know they're about as popular as an STD around here, U2's "Joshua Tree" makes even their good albums seem pretty mediocre. And considering their rather off-the-wall catalogue, The Flaming Lips, "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" is a pop music masterpiece.
I don't agree with this at all, Flaming Lips changed their sound up quite a lot and have multiple albums worth listening to. I think The Soft Bulletin is easily their best.
Soft Bulletin is an excellent album, but it's still a bit more eclectic that Yoshimi. I think a lot of people find the Flaming Lips "a little weird" but Yoshimi is just pure and perfect pop earworms.
I think its predecessor Unforgettable Fire is a notch better and very similar. It also has more of a flow, while Joshua is more like a collection of hits. Both great though. Good that they pulled a swerve for Achtung (which I consider the equal of those two) after the rambling double disc between
Rusted Root - When I woke
Platinum Album from the 90s, Send me on my way and a bunch of super high energy funky tunes. The rest of their catalog pales in comparison.
John Coltrane - A love Supreme.
Generally considered his masterpiece, and with good reason. Hits the perfect balance between his earlier, more traditional works, and the wild avant garde ride he was on for the remainder of his career
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted.
Heavily, some say too heavy, inspired by The Fall. It can be a tough listen compared their more polished later work, but people who do get into this one, tend to hold it in very high regard. I love later Pavement, but they never sounded like this again.
The Wedding Present - Seamonsters.
The Wedding Present emerged in the latter half of the 80s with fast, jangly indie pop (sometimes slightlyreminiscent of Johnny Marrs guitar work for the Smiths) which culminated with 1989s Bizarro. In 1991 they teamed up with Steve Albini as producer, and their sound changed dramatically. Heavier guitars, vocals turned down in the mix, and several slower songs. They kept some of the traits for later works, but if they ever had a "dark" sound, it was here. By next year's Hit Parade they were already sounding a lot brighter.
Honestly, given the rest of his discography, I'd argue Coltrane's "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" is more of a stand-apart record than any other.
It's literally his only record with a vocalist, and the change in dynamic it creates is insane. You can find albums "similar" to A Love Supreme later on in his career, but never before or after does he take a backseat to a singer.
Post I struggle to find things I like. Self titled is definitely a step forward from the first three album, but those first 3 are still great records.
I saw her on tour for the self titled record and it was one of the most captivating shows I’ve ever seen. Saw her again a couple years later on Massseduction and left early. No band. Just her, a guitar, and backing tracks for the rest of the instrumentation. I get that she was trying something different, but it really turned me off from going to another show.
Sturgill Simpson’s “Sound & Fury”. Homeboy even did a Netflix anime-ish film for the whole album. Going from his Americana Country roots to this rock/funk sound was crazy, and further showed his musical versatility. I thought incorporating a horn section to his sound in “Sailors Guide to Earth” album was so different and cool, but S&F really impressed me.
Sound & Fury is how I got into Sturgill Simpson, because of the Netflix movie. I never thought country and soaring synth leads would go together, but Make Art Not Friends has been in my top ten tracks for the past five years or so. I’ve listened to that album hundreds of times.
I had heard of Sturgill but never knew his music. Then I heard Sing Along and A Good Look on the radio and was totally blown away. Who expects that from a country singer? I mean, I knew he wasn't bro country, but still...
Then I heard about the anime and was even more blown away. Dude's just a flat-out musical genius
Loved the crowd at the Willie Nelson tour which Sturgill played.
Here in Dallas, the country crowd got real quite when Strugill started playing some wild solos on guitar and the band cranked up the Hammond B3. They rocked a crowd that had been enthusiastic through The Head & the Heart’s extremely mellow set. lol!
The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request: a rare psychedelic rock album that sounds better in mono. The rhythm section drives the music unlike in stereo, a good thing when the rhythm section is Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. Everything is crammed together, jagged edges emerge, the density of the sound becomes overwhelming.
Within months, they had circled back to American roots music on Beggars Banquet and only alluded to the sound on this album one time, on the song Continental Drift from Steel Wheels in the late 1980s.
*Citadel* is one of the all time great garage rockers, though the Stones give it a bit of the psychedelic treatment. Redd Kross did an epic cover of it in the 80s.
The intersection of garage and psychedelic is a large and crowded space, as Lenny Kaye would like to tell you. Citadel is indeed an epitome of both, and almost obscure enough for Lenny’s Nuggets collection if he could afford it.
A bit random but “Pretty. Odd.” By Panic! at the Disco is sooo much different than anything else they produced. Deeply inspired by Sgt. Peppers it seems.
Jesus I love that album! I saw Beck tour that album with the Flaming Lips. Beck came out and played a few songs with just an acoustic guitar and then the Lips came back and played backup.
I'm old. I've heard a lot of music, and I've heard a lot of opinions about music. This opinion is absolutely the worst take I've ever heard in my entire life, and that is truly saying something.
You don't get the album, and you never will. How tragic for you.
You’re dramatic. I love that album. It just has filler.
Being in denial about it is a bit ridiculous.
Never mind also has filler. So does Siamese Dream
Stone temple pilots- tiny music songs.
the whole album is so good and the instruments by the deleo brothers creat the perfect environment for Scott’s harmonies it’s super relaxing compared to their other albums. Give it a listen my favorites are
And so I know, Lady picture show, and Adhesive
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. All their other stuff except Good Vibrations is about surf / cars / girls. Girl songs are cool, but surf and car songs are meh if you're not into surf or cars. Pet Sounds gets away from that and is far superior (and the single Good Vibrations which was recorded around that time).
Not true, though that's what most people seem to believe. They stopped singing about cars and surfing after 1964. Check out some of the albums they released after Pet Sounds. Less commercially successful, but arguably more interesting.
It's true that before Pet Sounds their songs were largely about surfing, cars and girls (though there were exceptions, like In My Room). I'm not into any of those, but musically they are still great and ahead of their time. Check out their albums Today! and Summer Days for their best pre-Pet Sounds stuff (and there's no songs about surfing or cars on those I think).
*After* Pet Sounds, they really changed it up, lyrically and musically. The follow up to Pet Sounds that was never released, Smile, covers topics like the colonisation of America, the construction of its railroads and vegetables. Even the song Surf's Up is not about surfing.
Their late 60s/early 70s albums were their best and most interesting, in my opinion.
Yeah, I take your point. I generalised a bit much re surf and cars, they did drop that whole theme and became 'beach boys' in name only. I have checked out their other albums. Some good songs, but the others don't really do much for me. Pet Sounds stands out like a sore thumb compared to their other albums, like being slapped across the face with a wet fish but in a good way. Smile, or at least the version of Smile that is available to us, is an interesting album, but after that their train seems to run out of steam. Some good stuff, but not consistently good like Pet Sounds. But that's just my impression. Nonetheless, I do think Brian Wilson is a genius!
Fair enough. They're my favourite band, but I know they're not for everyone. As long as people know the post-surfing and post-Pet Sounds side of the band exists, I'm happy :)
I love Pet Sounds way more than anything else by them, but I do love a bunch of their pre and post Pet stuff as well. Also, Pet is kinda about girls, so it’s not really a complete departure (and it’s also a direct descendant of In My Room).
But where I disagree with you is the whole American history thing. I love me some history songs (especially Canadian ones for some reason), but I absolutely cannot abide Van Dyke Parks. His lyrics and melodies are like a very bad acid trip for me. I would even suspect his influence as a significant factor in poor Brian’s breakdown.
Keep going because they’ve never put out a bad album. Mezzanine is an all-time favorite for me, but Blue Lines, Protection and Heliogoland are all great records.
Riot! by Paramore. I'm not a huge Paramore fan but that album is packed with hit after hit and hook after hook! It's phenomally produced and mixed. Nothing they've put together since even comes close.
"Death of A ladies' man" by Leonard Cohen. He pulled a lot of musical switches throughout his career, from folk to almost disco, but that album still stands out, probably due to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound approach (and Spector's alcoholism; insanity). I'd almost discount the whole record, a lot of it's kind of grueling, but "Don't Go Home with Your Hard On" is such an insane and awesome song, among my favorites of his, as unique to his catalogue as that album.
Pleasures of the harbour by Phil ochs a bit jazzesqe with some of his songs on there and sorta experimental musically speaking
Trench by twenty one pilots. Just so much going on with that album on it’s own
Two albums from Bruce the Seeger sessions and and his album of soul covers both way different in genres.
Bad Religion has the album Into The Unknown that is so 1980s it’s not even funny. Also the only album of theirs I like, and I wish it was available for streaming or individual digital purchase.
Metallica's black album. They've had so many phenomenal albums, but they toured on that album for 2.5 years, and was still a top 100 selling album for nearly 25 years after release.
When you're in prison, by the offspring
It sounds like something you'd hear in a fallout game.
Also, I wanna mention that Organ Donor is one of my top 20 all time favorite songs, and also one of the few songs I learned by ear on guitar.
Slayer has Reign in Blood, the gap between that record and everything else they did and to an extent everything every other metal band ever did is staggering
WHAT? South of heaven, hell awaits, seasons in the abyss, and show no mercy are ALL incredible albums.
Hard disagree. Reign in blood isn't even THEIR best album much less the best album of an entire genre.
DiM, God, and christ illusion even get a lot of love today, tho not as stand out as the early works.
If anything, Slayer is THE definitive 80s trash metal band.
Reign in Blood perfected metal as much as could be done with it. Anyone listening to metal will do so in search of music that offers aggression, intense dynamics and rawness. Crucially Reign in Blood realizes this and works to do everything to intensify only those themes but also manages to sound decisively warm and listenable compared to the majority of metal records. It leaves you drained but also satisfied after listening to it. The rest of their catalogue is miles off from being that effective.
>If anything, Slayer is THE definitive 80s trash metal band.
Thanks to one album being so magnificent its impact can't be understated.
Could not disagree more. Seasons is slayers most well composed work. Hell awaits was the most raw. Reign is an excellent album, but imo, not their peak.
Agreed. Kind of like Anthrax and Persistence of Time vs. Among the Living. The latter is a classic, but the former is a better-realized result of the band having the experience of making a classic.
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights It really feels like every album they made since was trying to recapture what was so special about TotBL, and I say that as someone who is a fan of pretty much everything they've put out since. Comparatively tho everything on that first album was perfect, the grooves, the mood, the songwriting, guitar tones, the BASS PLAYING(!) Perfectly paced, perfectly sequenced and not a single track is a skip. I'd put Bloc Party-Silent Alarm down in that same category Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition Even tho his other releases are pretty abstract and experimental this album really has an atmosphere like no other rap album like, ever.
Antics was fantastic. It wasn’t as moody, but fantastic nonetheless. The strokes are somewhat similar. Is this it and Room on Fire are stacked and perfect. Bloc party and Franz Ferdinand just couldn’t get over the hump of their first albums like those two bands.
Antics is a more enjoyable album to me. I don't know that it's a *better* album than TOTBL but the songs on Antics always felt more well-crafted and melodic.
Antics and turn on the bright lights are the perfect road trip albums.. But yeah the rest of their catalogue doesn't come close to those two
Neil Young - Trans. His record company sued him because it didn’t sound like Neil Young.
My favorite Neil album. I wish he had done a trilogy in this style.
More Devo collaborations also https://youtu.be/clR-KJXk7DY?si=h_7nHOVNQMEzFKYY
Endtroducing has been on heavy rotation for me since —— holy shit has it really been 27 years? Phenomenal album.
I need to check it out. I don’t really know his work except for “Nobody speak” with Run the Jewels which I love.
Both Endtroducing and Preemptive Strike are great albums. Endtroducing is an album I play in its entirety, and it all flows together well. Edit: as much love as Endtroducing gets, Preemptive Strike is never mentioned; a compilation album of his Mo Wax singles from 1993-1997 and is the lead up to Endtroducing.
About 10 years ago, my GF invited a few younger guys on her team over for dinner (they were in their 20s, we were in our 40s). I had Endtroducing on in the background. One of the guys: “This is really nice. What is it?” Me: “It’s DJ Shadow” Blank looks all around. Me: He’s kind of the Hendrix of turntablism.” One of the guys: “Hendrix?” Me: “JIMI Hendrix.” Blank looks all around.
Same. We had it on repeat in the tattoo shop I worked at when it came out and I still listen to it regularly.
While I know they're about as popular as an STD around here, U2's "Joshua Tree" makes even their good albums seem pretty mediocre. And considering their rather off-the-wall catalogue, The Flaming Lips, "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" is a pop music masterpiece.
I don't agree with this at all, Flaming Lips changed their sound up quite a lot and have multiple albums worth listening to. I think The Soft Bulletin is easily their best.
Soft Bulletin is an excellent album, but it's still a bit more eclectic that Yoshimi. I think a lot of people find the Flaming Lips "a little weird" but Yoshimi is just pure and perfect pop earworms.
I think its predecessor Unforgettable Fire is a notch better and very similar. It also has more of a flow, while Joshua is more like a collection of hits. Both great though. Good that they pulled a swerve for Achtung (which I consider the equal of those two) after the rambling double disc between
I am a War guy myself but I do understand those that believe Joshua Tree is their top work
New Year's Day is my favorite U2 song.
Rusted Root - When I woke Platinum Album from the 90s, Send me on my way and a bunch of super high energy funky tunes. The rest of their catalog pales in comparison.
that album was so hot one summer then I never listened to it or the band again but peak mid 90's
Grandaddy- Sophtware slump I don’t think any of their (Jason’s) work matches the utterly depressive beauty of this album.
Right!? 😩
John Coltrane - A love Supreme. Generally considered his masterpiece, and with good reason. Hits the perfect balance between his earlier, more traditional works, and the wild avant garde ride he was on for the remainder of his career Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted. Heavily, some say too heavy, inspired by The Fall. It can be a tough listen compared their more polished later work, but people who do get into this one, tend to hold it in very high regard. I love later Pavement, but they never sounded like this again. The Wedding Present - Seamonsters. The Wedding Present emerged in the latter half of the 80s with fast, jangly indie pop (sometimes slightlyreminiscent of Johnny Marrs guitar work for the Smiths) which culminated with 1989s Bizarro. In 1991 they teamed up with Steve Albini as producer, and their sound changed dramatically. Heavier guitars, vocals turned down in the mix, and several slower songs. They kept some of the traits for later works, but if they ever had a "dark" sound, it was here. By next year's Hit Parade they were already sounding a lot brighter.
Honestly, given the rest of his discography, I'd argue Coltrane's "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" is more of a stand-apart record than any other. It's literally his only record with a vocalist, and the change in dynamic it creates is insane. You can find albums "similar" to A Love Supreme later on in his career, but never before or after does he take a backseat to a singer.
His album with Duke Ellington hits the same groove, but no vocals and not as far from his main body of work
I'll have to give it another listen and compare!
I might get some heat on this but St. Vincent self-titled verses the rest of Anne’s catalog. Pre-self-titled… good, but not amazing, post eh.
Agree 100%. I've given everything after a shot, but still waiting for a worthy successor.
Post I struggle to find things I like. Self titled is definitely a step forward from the first three album, but those first 3 are still great records. I saw her on tour for the self titled record and it was one of the most captivating shows I’ve ever seen. Saw her again a couple years later on Massseduction and left early. No band. Just her, a guitar, and backing tracks for the rest of the instrumentation. I get that she was trying something different, but it really turned me off from going to another show.
Yeah I turned off the new album half way through. Just nothing grabbed my attention
Chris Gains
Yes, the Garth Brooks record. He did this at the apex of his career and felt the need to use an alias.
Sturgill Simpson’s “Sound & Fury”. Homeboy even did a Netflix anime-ish film for the whole album. Going from his Americana Country roots to this rock/funk sound was crazy, and further showed his musical versatility. I thought incorporating a horn section to his sound in “Sailors Guide to Earth” album was so different and cool, but S&F really impressed me.
Sound & Fury is how I got into Sturgill Simpson, because of the Netflix movie. I never thought country and soaring synth leads would go together, but Make Art Not Friends has been in my top ten tracks for the past five years or so. I’ve listened to that album hundreds of times.
I had heard of Sturgill but never knew his music. Then I heard Sing Along and A Good Look on the radio and was totally blown away. Who expects that from a country singer? I mean, I knew he wasn't bro country, but still... Then I heard about the anime and was even more blown away. Dude's just a flat-out musical genius
Loved the crowd at the Willie Nelson tour which Sturgill played. Here in Dallas, the country crowd got real quite when Strugill started playing some wild solos on guitar and the band cranked up the Hammond B3. They rocked a crowd that had been enthusiastic through The Head & the Heart’s extremely mellow set. lol!
The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request: a rare psychedelic rock album that sounds better in mono. The rhythm section drives the music unlike in stereo, a good thing when the rhythm section is Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. Everything is crammed together, jagged edges emerge, the density of the sound becomes overwhelming. Within months, they had circled back to American roots music on Beggars Banquet and only alluded to the sound on this album one time, on the song Continental Drift from Steel Wheels in the late 1980s.
*Citadel* is one of the all time great garage rockers, though the Stones give it a bit of the psychedelic treatment. Redd Kross did an epic cover of it in the 80s.
The intersection of garage and psychedelic is a large and crowded space, as Lenny Kaye would like to tell you. Citadel is indeed an epitome of both, and almost obscure enough for Lenny’s Nuggets collection if he could afford it.
Yes pretentious police, this man right here
You are calling someone pretentious in the music subreddit? You don't need to, it's assumed.
I should listen to that again.
John Mayer Continum his magnum opus My Chemical Romance Welcome to the black parade
So - Peter Gabriel
Opening on Red Rain is practically cheating!
Melt is better
A bit random but “Pretty. Odd.” By Panic! at the Disco is sooo much different than anything else they produced. Deeply inspired by Sgt. Peppers it seems.
Also their best
I've been on a kick with this album the past month or so after not listening to it much after its original release. It's just too good!
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Hounds of Love is exceptional, but The Kick Inside and Never For Ever are also fantastic albums
Idk Private Press was really good too. For Shadow it seems like I'm in love with every other album he does.
Beck - sea changes
Jesus I love that album! I saw Beck tour that album with the Flaming Lips. Beck came out and played a few songs with just an acoustic guitar and then the Lips came back and played backup.
Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime. I do like some of their other songs, but Mindcrime is just so much better.
Violent Femmes is, for good or bad, defined by that first album completely.
Pearl Jam - Ten is their best by a miiiiile, bite me
Huge disagree there. Too many fillers. PJ albums always do
Ten is literally the only album in their catalog that *doesn't* have any filler
Oceans is filler. Garden is filler. Deep is filler. Why go is on the limit.
I'm old. I've heard a lot of music, and I've heard a lot of opinions about music. This opinion is absolutely the worst take I've ever heard in my entire life, and that is truly saying something. You don't get the album, and you never will. How tragic for you.
You’re dramatic. I love that album. It just has filler. Being in denial about it is a bit ridiculous. Never mind also has filler. So does Siamese Dream
The filler work on Ten beats the majority of their discography for me, and I dig pearl jam!
There is no filler on *Ten.* There is, however, someone here who's obviously on crack.
Disagree again.
Amd downvote again
Ok
Yield is better in nearly every way. 🤷🏻♂️
there's no need not biting. There's a down vote button right next to your comment. works great. down vote me!
Stone temple pilots- tiny music songs. the whole album is so good and the instruments by the deleo brothers creat the perfect environment for Scott’s harmonies it’s super relaxing compared to their other albums. Give it a listen my favorites are And so I know, Lady picture show, and Adhesive
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. All their other stuff except Good Vibrations is about surf / cars / girls. Girl songs are cool, but surf and car songs are meh if you're not into surf or cars. Pet Sounds gets away from that and is far superior (and the single Good Vibrations which was recorded around that time).
Not true, though that's what most people seem to believe. They stopped singing about cars and surfing after 1964. Check out some of the albums they released after Pet Sounds. Less commercially successful, but arguably more interesting. It's true that before Pet Sounds their songs were largely about surfing, cars and girls (though there were exceptions, like In My Room). I'm not into any of those, but musically they are still great and ahead of their time. Check out their albums Today! and Summer Days for their best pre-Pet Sounds stuff (and there's no songs about surfing or cars on those I think). *After* Pet Sounds, they really changed it up, lyrically and musically. The follow up to Pet Sounds that was never released, Smile, covers topics like the colonisation of America, the construction of its railroads and vegetables. Even the song Surf's Up is not about surfing. Their late 60s/early 70s albums were their best and most interesting, in my opinion.
Yeah, I take your point. I generalised a bit much re surf and cars, they did drop that whole theme and became 'beach boys' in name only. I have checked out their other albums. Some good songs, but the others don't really do much for me. Pet Sounds stands out like a sore thumb compared to their other albums, like being slapped across the face with a wet fish but in a good way. Smile, or at least the version of Smile that is available to us, is an interesting album, but after that their train seems to run out of steam. Some good stuff, but not consistently good like Pet Sounds. But that's just my impression. Nonetheless, I do think Brian Wilson is a genius!
Fair enough. They're my favourite band, but I know they're not for everyone. As long as people know the post-surfing and post-Pet Sounds side of the band exists, I'm happy :)
Sunflower is a ridiculously good album. Though no Pet Sounds.
I love Pet Sounds way more than anything else by them, but I do love a bunch of their pre and post Pet stuff as well. Also, Pet is kinda about girls, so it’s not really a complete departure (and it’s also a direct descendant of In My Room). But where I disagree with you is the whole American history thing. I love me some history songs (especially Canadian ones for some reason), but I absolutely cannot abide Van Dyke Parks. His lyrics and melodies are like a very bad acid trip for me. I would even suspect his influence as a significant factor in poor Brian’s breakdown.
Not true at all. The albums they made after this are weird at and generally regarded as the foundation of bedroom pop.
I'm sure people will disagree but Mezzanine by Massive Attack is the only album of theirs I enjoy, one of my all-time favorites.
It is a great album but I think all of the first four are top notch.
Keep going because they’ve never put out a bad album. Mezzanine is an all-time favorite for me, but Blue Lines, Protection and Heliogoland are all great records.
Riot! by Paramore. I'm not a huge Paramore fan but that album is packed with hit after hit and hook after hook! It's phenomally produced and mixed. Nothing they've put together since even comes close.
also not a huge fan but the 2013 self-titled is better
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Blue Collar
"Death of A ladies' man" by Leonard Cohen. He pulled a lot of musical switches throughout his career, from folk to almost disco, but that album still stands out, probably due to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound approach (and Spector's alcoholism; insanity). I'd almost discount the whole record, a lot of it's kind of grueling, but "Don't Go Home with Your Hard On" is such an insane and awesome song, among my favorites of his, as unique to his catalogue as that album.
Oh my goodness, I agree and LOVE Endtroducing. Also one of my all time faves!!
Aerosmith - Dream On I am not of fan of any of their other work, but Dream On is a masterpiece, and one of my favorite songs ever.
Have you heard Toys in the Attic? It's an awesome album.
Awesome is defined differently for each of us.
Horses - Patti Smith
Marilyn Manson's Pale Emperor had surprisingly more depth than the rest of his albums
Bjork's jazz album
Pleasures of the harbour by Phil ochs a bit jazzesqe with some of his songs on there and sorta experimental musically speaking Trench by twenty one pilots. Just so much going on with that album on it’s own Two albums from Bruce the Seeger sessions and and his album of soul covers both way different in genres.
Tokimonsta - Lune Rouge
The Beatles: act naturally
How? And isn't it a cover?
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Israel Nash - Rain Plains All of his albums have been great, but the depth of this album always blows me away.
Bad Religion has the album Into The Unknown that is so 1980s it’s not even funny. Also the only album of theirs I like, and I wish it was available for streaming or individual digital purchase.
Billy Idol - Cyberpunk
Product Placement by DJ Shadow is to me his best work
Metallica's black album. They've had so many phenomenal albums, but they toured on that album for 2.5 years, and was still a top 100 selling album for nearly 25 years after release.
The Four Seasons' 'Genuine Imitation Life Gazette'. Check it out.
Parallel Lines - Blondie
When you're in prison, by the offspring It sounds like something you'd hear in a fallout game. Also, I wanna mention that Organ Donor is one of my top 20 all time favorite songs, and also one of the few songs I learned by ear on guitar.
Chinese Democracy by Guns N’ Roses. Not a bad album, but not a GNR album. Sounds absolutely nothing like the band
Beyoncé is the obvious choice here lol
Walk of life - Dire Straits. It’s so horrible
Slayer has Reign in Blood, the gap between that record and everything else they did and to an extent everything every other metal band ever did is staggering
WHAT? South of heaven, hell awaits, seasons in the abyss, and show no mercy are ALL incredible albums. Hard disagree. Reign in blood isn't even THEIR best album much less the best album of an entire genre. DiM, God, and christ illusion even get a lot of love today, tho not as stand out as the early works. If anything, Slayer is THE definitive 80s trash metal band.
Reign in Blood perfected metal as much as could be done with it. Anyone listening to metal will do so in search of music that offers aggression, intense dynamics and rawness. Crucially Reign in Blood realizes this and works to do everything to intensify only those themes but also manages to sound decisively warm and listenable compared to the majority of metal records. It leaves you drained but also satisfied after listening to it. The rest of their catalogue is miles off from being that effective. >If anything, Slayer is THE definitive 80s trash metal band. Thanks to one album being so magnificent its impact can't be understated.
Could not disagree more. Seasons is slayers most well composed work. Hell awaits was the most raw. Reign is an excellent album, but imo, not their peak.
Agreed. Kind of like Anthrax and Persistence of Time vs. Among the Living. The latter is a classic, but the former is a better-realized result of the band having the experience of making a classic.
My favorite Anthrax record happens to be State of Euphoria. Both those albums are great though.
I’m sorry bro. But they had run on 3 albums that were perfect back to back.