Steely Dan - Aja
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Dire Straits - Self Titled
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Jackie Brown OST
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Nirvana - Nevermind
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Pixies - Bossanova
Needs Bowie but otherwise perfect…
Damn forgot Bowie. I like the mid-late 70’s.
Mostly replying as a personal challenge; I doubt anyone cares about my opinion. I think this is a hard but interesting challenge and I could probably spend a lifetime perfecting it, but this is my unadulterated first pass:
- “Stardust” - Willie Nelson
- “Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness” - Smashing Pumpkins
- “Blue Lines” - Massive Attack
- “Kind of Blue” - Miles Davis
- “Wildflowers” - Tom Petty
- “Blind Melon” - Blind Melon
- “Loaded” - The Velvet Underground
- “At War with the Mystics” - The Flaming Lips
- “Dire Straits” - Dire Straits
- “Pretty Hate Machine” - Nine Inch Nails
Fuck. How do you make a list like this without regretting every decision you made?!
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Weird Al, all of them.
I anticipate a metric ton of “best of” albums, but I’ll give it try avoiding that. In no particular order:
- Billy Joel - the Stranger
- Genisis - Genisis
- Beach Boys - Pet sounds
- the Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Muse - Resistance
- Rush - Permananent Waves
- Radiohead - OK Computer
- Boston - Boston
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
- Linda Ronstadt - What’s New (that will throw a few folks off the trail)
Linda Ronstadt - What’s New (that will throw a few folks off the trail)
Not really, your tastes are very similar to mine. Although “What’s New” was just a gateway drug and now my music library is full of albums by Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O’Day, Carmen McRae, Joao Gilberto, Frank Sinatra and more.
Oh and updating my own list because I listened to it this weekend - Songs in the key of life, Stevie Wonder
Otis Redding - Otis Blue Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On Michael Jackson - Off the Wall James Booker - Classified The Meters – Rejuvenation Darondo - Listen to My Song James Brown - Live at the Apollo Dr. Dre - The Chronic Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid Anderson .Paak - Malibu
I think being able to draw a line from your classic albums to your modern hits is hella cool. Your list makes a lot of sense.
Hell yeah
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311 - Grassroots
Tool - Undertow
Meshuggah - Obzen
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion
Dr. Dre - 2001
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
Paul Oakenfold - Transport
First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle
Bazooka Tooth over all of aes’ other work?
Controversial I know. There was a point where I listened to that album everyday at work for months. Could be swapped for Hail Mary Mallon - The Bestiary
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Tool - 10,000 Days
Rush - Test for Echo
Metallica - Metallica
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Michael Jackson - HIStory
BIGBANG - MADE
[bodyendtag] - Information Superhighway
Kumi Koda - BEST 2000-2020
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Wow, a fan of the later Rush albums! I also dug those. It’s always felt like unpopular opinion for me to tell anyone, even other Rush fans, “I looove Presto.” (I know that’s not “later” Rush, but still.)
Presto is amazing!!! So much of their 90s-00s discography is so slept on.
Yeah! 😊🤘
Difficult…
- Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
- Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
- Prequelle - Ghost
- Oh, Inverted World - The Shins
- Ten - Pearl Jam
- Tubular Bells II - Mike Oldfield
- Vast - Vast
- English Settlement - XTC
- The Friends of Mr Cairo - Jon and Vangelis
- Appetite For Destruction - Guns n Roses
Gemini Syndrome - Memento Mori
Gemini Syndrome - Lux
The Beatles - One
Queen - Greatest Hits
Queen - Greatest Hits II
Aerosmith - Greatest Hits
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
NWA - Greatest Hits
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits
In no order:
- Mothership - Dance Gavin Dance
- Reimagined - Hail the Sun
- The Artist in the Ambulance - Thrice
- Appeal to Reason - Rise Against
- In Silico - Pendulum
- Good Kid - Good Kid
- Rhythm, Chord & Melody - The Reign of Kindo
- Wake - Hail the Sun
- To Speak, To Listen - Eidola
- NieR:Automata Original Soundtrack - Keiichi Okabe
- Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
- Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
- Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
- Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
- Nick Drake - Pink Moon
- Ella Fitzgerald - The Cole Porter Songbook
- Ray LaMontagne - Monovision
- Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
- Tonic - Lemon Parade
- The Beatles - Abbey Road
Geez that’s tough. Let’s see if I can do 10:
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
- Johnny Cash - At Folsum Prison
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- B-52s - B-52s
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Massive Attack - Mezzanine
- Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard
- Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
- The Beatles - Abbey Road
Number one by far: Perfect Circle Thirteenth step.
The rest are in the order I think of them off the top of my head:
System of a down: Toxicity and Mezmotize
Tool Aenema
Smashing pumpkins: Melon Collie
CCRs Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd: Echos
Metallica S&M
Live Throwing Cooper
Weezer
This is hard but I’ll give it a go:
- The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
- Dance Gavin Dance - Happiness
- Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
- Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin
- Midland - On the Rocks
- Volumes - Via
- King Gizzard - I’m in Your Mind Fuzz
- Rush - A Farewell to Kings
- Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog
- Basement - Colourmeinkindess
