The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America
Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat
The Rainmakers - Flirting with the Universe
XTC - Black Sea
Morphine - Good
Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
The Mattoid - Great Lovers
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog?
...or something like that...
I did not expect to find bloodhound gang on any of these lists.
Can't argue with it much. Jimmy Pop is a dumb white guy. Not old or new, but middle school. Fifth grade like junior high.
Man I’d take Drums and Wires if I had to pick an XTC album but it’s so great to see them mentioned
Wow… didn’t know anyone else had heard of The Rainmakers. I was a huge fan when they were touring around the flyover states. Saw them half a dozen times in Wichita. I still listen to their first three albums pretty regularly.
I happened on them when they put out their first album and have been a fan ever since, and that's even without ever getting a chance to see them live. Bob Walkenhorst is easily my favorite songwriter.
Flirting with the Universe is their fourth album - after a bit of a recording hiatus after The Good News and the Bad News, and it's far and away my favorite. It's obvious that they took their time and carefully crafted an album designed to showcase their talent. It's unfortunate that it still didn't manage to bring them the recognition they've always deserved, but I appreciate it.
It took me a long time to find out about their 4th and 5th albums. By the time I learned they'd been released, they weren't available in the US. My girlfriend ordered them from a brand new little web store front in Iceland, of all places. That was before the age of streaming, obviously.
Looking at wikipedia, I see they got back together in 2011 and made a couple more albums. I may have to track those down.
I happened to run across a CD of the fourth one used, a couple of years after it released. I didn't even know it existed before that, and definitely didn't know it'd end up becoming my favorite. And I still don't have a copy of the fifth. I do have the last two though.
25 On is sort of reminiscent of Tornado or The Good News and the Bad News - a return to form. It's pretty good on its own, but sort of suffers by comparison. Monster Movie is odd but interesting. It feels kind of self-indulgent, but in a good way - just a bunch of guys sitting around playing what they want to play just because that's what they want to play. It's a bit disjointed, but I like it.
I just now bought 25 On and Monster Movie. Haven’t listened yet because I’m stuck on zoom for another 90 minutes!
never heard of any of these
Weirdly insulting thing to say. Maybe listen to them.
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?!
I'm autistic, pick any ten albums and they will end up being my favourite albums as I continue to listen to them and they become my familiar.
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
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
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
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
7 I like and 3 I don't know. Here we go...
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! 😊🤘
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
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
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
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
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
I'll hate myself in a couple weeks for this selection because my taste varies week-to-week, but right now it'd be:
Devin Townsend: Ziltoid the Omniscient, Empath
Gojira: From Mars to Sirius, Magma
The Ocean: Phanerozoic I, Phanerozoic II (can I count these as one album?)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (I think they were going for a record for the longest album title ever).
Voivod: The Outer Limits
Mastodon: Leviathan and Crack the Skye
If Phanerozoic I and II count as a single album, then I'd ask if I can leave the last one open to be filled by a single random studio album of an artist of my choosing, replaced weekly/monthly.
I think I'd be pretty happy if I had these albums in a desert island scenario... especially if I could do some sampling/remixing 😜
The Planets - Gustav Holst
Billie Holliday on Verve
Charlie Parker on Verve
The Firebird suite - Igor Stravinsky
Gnossiene - Eric Satie
The Heart of Saturday - Tom Waits
Ready to die - The Notorious B.I.G.
20 Street Years - DJ Muro
Brilliant Corners - Thelonius Monk
Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley
Smart to have an eclectic list. Yet keeping a few standards because thats your vibe.
I reckon these would keep me going for a good old time.
Colors - Between the Buried and Me
The Shape of Color - Intervals
Handmade Cities - Plini
Odyssey to the West - Slice the Cake
Esoteric Malacology - Slugdge
Crux - Moon Tooth
Death of a Dead Day - Sikth
Daughters - Daughters
Oxidized - Frontierer
Doppelgänger - The Fall of Troy
I don't know how to appreciate Fall of Troy outside of F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. and its unpronounceable original version. Even seeing them live (they opened for Alexisonfire) left me feeling like i was missing something.
Doppelgänger has some reasonably accessible tracks outside of FCPREMIX. Try ‘act one, scene one’ or ‘mouths like sidewinder missles’. Your mileage may vary of course.
Nah that's exactly what i was looking for. Recommendations. I.listened to the album all the way thru and bounced off, so i figured I'd ask a fan next time i saw one.
Good looking out.
This question gives me anxiety. Would learn to play guitar I guess.
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Pink Floyd - Animals
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-LA DEE DA
Yes - Drama
Yellowcard - Yellowcard
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Mariya Takeuchi - Love Songs (I've never actually listened to this in full but I love "September" off this album)
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Same as above, I love "Stan" but have never actually listened to this in full, I picked the last two because I wanted some non-rock picks but I'm not much of an album guy in genres that aren't rock.)
Dammit for picking some real killers. Takeuchi? Tull AND STP? I like the cut of your jibb.
Ugh this is so tough!
The Beatles - Revolver
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Subhumans - The Day the Country Died
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Billy Idol - Whiplash Smile
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Iggy Pop - Soldier
CSNY - Déjà Vu
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Nirvana - Nevermind
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
REO Speedwagon - Live, You Get What You Play For
Head East - Flat as a Pancake
Foghat Live
Kyus - Welcome to Sky Valley
Albert Collins - Ice Pickin'
In no order:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Songs For The Deaf - Queens of The Stone Age
Still Still Stellar - Hoshimachi Suisei
You Won't Get What You Want - Daughters
Station to Station - David Bowie
Blackstar - David Bowie
Hunting High and Low - a-ha
Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode
DISCO4 :: Generations - Health
No order
Pickin' on Modest Mouse - Iron Horse
August and Everything After - Counting Crows
Closer to the Sun - Slightly Stoopid
Manners - Passion Pit
Dirt - Alice in Chains
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
Silent Steeples - Dispatch
The President of the United States of America - The President of the United States of America
Holy shit, one of these lists where I see albums I listen to haha. Why that particular Trivium album? Also, the black album gets all the love, but I'll take And Justice For All over it every day of the week.
I really like the whole composition of In Waves. It really feels like it's telling a story and all the songs flow so well into one another. I generally prefer albums that are whole and not just a collections of songs or singles. In Waves is probably one of my favorite albums for it's cohesiveness.
And yeah black album is great but I think MoP is just bangers all the way through. If I want thrash metal I want Metallica and I don't want to slow down haha.
Always a tough format to pick just 10, but here goes:
Leftfield - Leftism
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
But there's an awful lot that I would regret leaving behind.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Aha - Hunting High and Low
Roxy Music - Avalon
Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill
Beatles - One
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Elton John - Caribou
Subject to change without notice
Edit: format
Dire straits-self titled
Queen- night at the opera
Sublime-self titled
Peter Paul and Mary -self titled
Fleetwood Mac- rumors
Annenmaykantereit-Schlagschatten
Carole king- tapestry
Pete Seeger-If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle
Cream- strange brew
Dave Brubeck- time out
This is wild, I didn’t realize how dated my music taste skewed. I wanted frank turner, cistem failure, modest mouse, Amy Winehouse, and Adele, but I couldn’t cut anything else.
Aly & fila - beyond the lights(already own it)
Craig Connelly - believe in magic
Silicon soul - staring into space
Jazzanova - In between
Deep dish - junk science
Nuspirit Helsinki – Nuspirit Helsinki
Giuseppe Ottaviani - alma
Dj patife - no Estrada
Kevin Yost – One Starry Night
Can't think the last one.
There are some tragic omissions here but i think i could make do with these 10.
The Melody and the Enigmatic Nature of Volume - Evans Blue
10 times the first and last self-titled album of our school punk band "Auswurph" ! The bass had one string. The guitar 5, on a good day, on all other days more 3 to 4. The drums were stolen here and there -ask me how I know, I was the drummer - and our frontman was a certified psycho. No really, he was. Several stays in the psychiatry. I think there weren't even 10 cd's made... I can't remember exactly. Now as I think of it I can't remember anything of that time in detail, all a bit blurry, but one thing I can remember: it was the best album anyone had made since the invention of noise.
In chronological order...
1 & 2 - The Beatles (White Album) (1968) by The Beatles
3 - La Invasión de los blátidos (1992) by Cuca
4 - In Utero (1993) by Nirvana
5 - Historias (1994) by Arjona
6 - Insomniac (1995) by Green Day
7 - Version 2.0 (1998) by Garbage
8 - Dónde están los ladrones? (1998) by Shakira
9 - Americana (1998) by The Offspring
10 - Enema of the State (1999) by Blink 182
Looking through my collection here, ten is a lot easier that just one. In no particular order:
Roxy Music - Avalon
Philip Glass - Akhnaten
Electric Light Orchestra - Time
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
Ella Fitzgerald - Best of the Songbooks
Glenn Miller - A Legendary Performer
Mike Oldfield - Songs of Distant Earth
Vangelis - Blade Runner
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
The Cult - Love
(Ask me again next week, or next month, and my list will probably change).
Bro I honestly can't even name 10 albums. I've never liked listening to albums because after the singles are over most of the songs suck imo. I basically have one playlist and it's just all of my favorite songs from every genre mixed into one thing, and it's basically the only thing I listen to lol.
Not going to downvote you because your tastes are your tastes. But it's kind of sad that the artists you like can't come up with more than one or two good songs per album. Or maybe it's the industry itself since so few people buy albums. When I used to buy albums my favorite song was never the hit single.
Haha yeah people always bash on me because all my favorite songs are always just the top 100 or whatever... but that's why I like them, they're normally the bands upbeat, catchy songs lol.
Same! I think the only album that I listened to and thoroughly enjoyed every song was Adele’s 25.
Get some weed and put on dark side of the moon.
The album is an art form. It's just one that the modern media industry has destroyed.
I grew up on classic rock, my opinion still stands. Also I’m pregnant, so I had to cut the weed off :(
Maybe, Nirvana Nevermind? Fleetwood Mac rumours? Even meatloaf bat out of hell?
The MJ and dark side are just exquisite, but have you listened to an album in a situation where all you can figure out to do is listen to an album?
I'm an elder millennial. I suspect you're younger than me. We're done having children. You've just got to not have screens.
This whole thread is making me want to go find a bong. Man I remember when I saw the Pink Floyd laser show in college at the planetarium. Everyone was high as balls.
I’m in the middle of the millennial generation. Music just isn’t my thing. I prefer stories, I enjoy podcasts and old radio shows. Not everyone is going to like the same things, some prefer movies, etc. I appreciate you taking the time, but you just sound pretentious. I’ve listened to every album you named, my opinion still stands. And that’s okay, because it’s my opinion, just like how you like and can name all these albums and it’s your opinion that these albums are great.
I can name a lot more than 10 albums, but yes in some cases many of the songs are not interesting. In some extreme cases I have regretted not just buying the single instead.
There are a few albums, though, where I like every single song. But I couldn't be constrained to just them for my whole life, as that would exclude some really good stuff.
List just off the top of my head. Would be different if I thought about it longer.
know it's more recent stuff than not, but
Madvilliany - Madvillian
Drukqs - Aphex Twin
To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
Since I Left You - The Avalanches
The Glow, Pt. 2 - The Microphones
Late Registration - Kanye West
Remain In Light - Talking Heads
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
The Money Store - Death Grips
Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
Up From Below - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Off the top of my head and in no particular order:
Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
Blood on the Tracks: New York Session (Bob Dylan
Willie and the Poor Boys (CCR)
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Tally Hall)
1990 (Daniel Johnston)
Z (My Morning Jacket)
I Had A Dream That You Were Mine (Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam)
London Calling (The Clash)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
Roast Beef (Biff Rose)
If I thought about it longer, I'd probably end up with a more varied list as far as genre.
None? At that point, I'd just stop listening to music.
I can't play albums as it is, because hearing the same artist, the same songs, in the same order every time drives me crazy
What kinda music have you listened to? Bands/artists who compose albums with a central concept and/or sound are a lot easier for me to listen to than albums that are collections of unconnected songs. For an example, Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient, and Empath, or King Gizzard's PetroDragonic Apocalypse are way more listenable as a full album than some pop-music album designed to hit the top charts with maximum radio/streamablility.
I mean, yeah, the power of a well composed album is something special. The first 5 or 6 times...
But after that, I just can't do it anymore. If I had only 10 albums to listen to, they'd pretty much sit ignored except for maybe once or twice a year
If you could shuffle 10 albums worth of songs it wouldn't be that bad. I'm sure it would still get old but not knowing what's going to play next is a much different experience than having to be locked into a whole album at a time.
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.
Off the top of my head...
The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America
Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat
The Rainmakers - Flirting with the Universe
XTC - Black Sea
Morphine - Good
Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
The Mattoid - Great Lovers
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog?
...or something like that...
I did not expect to find bloodhound gang on any of these lists.
Can't argue with it much. Jimmy Pop is a dumb white guy. Not old or new, but middle school. Fifth grade like junior high.
Man I’d take Drums and Wires if I had to pick an XTC album but it’s so great to see them mentioned
Wow… didn’t know anyone else had heard of The Rainmakers. I was a huge fan when they were touring around the flyover states. Saw them half a dozen times in Wichita. I still listen to their first three albums pretty regularly.
I happened on them when they put out their first album and have been a fan ever since, and that's even without ever getting a chance to see them live. Bob Walkenhorst is easily my favorite songwriter.
Flirting with the Universe is their fourth album - after a bit of a recording hiatus after The Good News and the Bad News, and it's far and away my favorite. It's obvious that they took their time and carefully crafted an album designed to showcase their talent. It's unfortunate that it still didn't manage to bring them the recognition they've always deserved, but I appreciate it.
It took me a long time to find out about their 4th and 5th albums. By the time I learned they'd been released, they weren't available in the US. My girlfriend ordered them from a brand new little web store front in Iceland, of all places. That was before the age of streaming, obviously.
Looking at wikipedia, I see they got back together in 2011 and made a couple more albums. I may have to track those down.
I happened to run across a CD of the fourth one used, a couple of years after it released. I didn't even know it existed before that, and definitely didn't know it'd end up becoming my favorite. And I still don't have a copy of the fifth. I do have the last two though.
25 On is sort of reminiscent of Tornado or The Good News and the Bad News - a return to form. It's pretty good on its own, but sort of suffers by comparison. Monster Movie is odd but interesting. It feels kind of self-indulgent, but in a good way - just a bunch of guys sitting around playing what they want to play just because that's what they want to play. It's a bit disjointed, but I like it.
I just now bought 25 On and Monster Movie. Haven’t listened yet because I’m stuck on zoom for another 90 minutes!
never heard of any of these
Weirdly insulting thing to say. Maybe listen to them.
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:
Fuck. How do you make a list like this without regretting every decision you made?!
Weird Al, all of them.
I'm autistic, pick any ten albums and they will end up being my favourite albums as I continue to listen to them and they become my familiar.
I anticipate a metric ton of "best of" albums, but I'll give it try avoiding that. In no particular order:
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
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
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
7 I like and 3 I don't know. Here we go...
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! 😊🤘
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
Difficult...
In no order:
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
Geez that's tough. Let's see if I can do 10:
I'll hate myself in a couple weeks for this selection because my taste varies week-to-week, but right now it'd be:
Devin Townsend: Ziltoid the Omniscient, Empath
Gojira: From Mars to Sirius, Magma
The Ocean: Phanerozoic I, Phanerozoic II (can I count these as one album?)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (I think they were going for a record for the longest album title ever).
Voivod: The Outer Limits
Mastodon: Leviathan and Crack the Skye
If Phanerozoic I and II count as a single album, then I'd ask if I can leave the last one open to be filled by a single random studio album of an artist of my choosing, replaced weekly/monthly.
Edit: removed one because I miscounted.
Ziltoid and Empath.... hello, friend :)
Probably Rust in Peace
This is hard but I’ll give it a go:
I think I'd be pretty happy if I had these albums in a desert island scenario... especially if I could do some sampling/remixing 😜
Smart to have an eclectic list. Yet keeping a few standards because thats your vibe.
I reckon these would keep me going for a good old time.
I don't know how to appreciate Fall of Troy outside of F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. and its unpronounceable original version. Even seeing them live (they opened for Alexisonfire) left me feeling like i was missing something.
Doppelgänger has some reasonably accessible tracks outside of FCPREMIX. Try ‘act one, scene one’ or ‘mouths like sidewinder missles’. Your mileage may vary of course.
Nah that's exactly what i was looking for. Recommendations. I.listened to the album all the way thru and bounced off, so i figured I'd ask a fan next time i saw one.
Good looking out.
This question gives me anxiety. Would learn to play guitar I guess.
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Pink Floyd - Animals
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-LA DEE DA
Yes - Drama
Yellowcard - Yellowcard
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Mariya Takeuchi - Love Songs (I've never actually listened to this in full but I love "September" off this album)
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Same as above, I love "Stan" but have never actually listened to this in full, I picked the last two because I wanted some non-rock picks but I'm not much of an album guy in genres that aren't rock.)
Dammit for picking some real killers. Takeuchi? Tull AND STP? I like the cut of your jibb.
Ugh this is so tough!
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Nirvana - Nevermind
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
REO Speedwagon - Live, You Get What You Play For
Head East - Flat as a Pancake
Foghat Live
Kyus - Welcome to Sky Valley
Albert Collins - Ice Pickin'
In no order:
No order
I'm glad to see Breakfast in America here!
Sun ra - Sound Sun Pleasure
Ms Lauren Hill - The Miseducation of Lauren Hill
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Ethiopiques, vol. 21: Emahoy
Lucy - The Music Industry Is Pointless
Black Midi - Schlagenheim
Dean Blunt - Black Metal
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
My Body Valentine - Loveless
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time
....Fucking brutal question.....
Trivium - in waves
Lorna shore - the pain remains
Metallica - master of puppets
Sum 41 - does this look infected
Arch enemy - rise of the tyrant
Florence and the machine - MTV unplugged
Frank turner - positive songs for negative people
Highly suspect - mister asylum
Maybeshewill - not for want of trying
The mountain goats - the sunset tree
Holy shit, one of these lists where I see albums I listen to haha. Why that particular Trivium album? Also, the black album gets all the love, but I'll take And Justice For All over it every day of the week.
I really like the whole composition of In Waves. It really feels like it's telling a story and all the songs flow so well into one another. I generally prefer albums that are whole and not just a collections of songs or singles. In Waves is probably one of my favorite albums for it's cohesiveness.
And yeah black album is great but I think MoP is just bangers all the way through. If I want thrash metal I want Metallica and I don't want to slow down haha.
Always a tough format to pick just 10, but here goes:
But there's an awful lot that I would regret leaving behind.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Aha - Hunting High and Low
Roxy Music - Avalon
Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill
Beatles - One
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Elton John - Caribou
Subject to change without notice Edit: format
Dire straits-self titled
Queen- night at the opera
Sublime-self titled
Peter Paul and Mary -self titled
Fleetwood Mac- rumors
Annenmaykantereit-Schlagschatten
Carole king- tapestry
Pete Seeger-If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle
Cream- strange brew
Dave Brubeck- time out
This is wild, I didn’t realize how dated my music taste skewed. I wanted frank turner, cistem failure, modest mouse, Amy Winehouse, and Adele, but I couldn’t cut anything else.
Aly & fila - beyond the lights(already own it)
Craig Connelly - believe in magic
Silicon soul - staring into space
Jazzanova - In between
Deep dish - junk science
Nuspirit Helsinki – Nuspirit Helsinki
Giuseppe Ottaviani - alma
Dj patife - no Estrada
Kevin Yost – One Starry Night
Can't think the last one.
There are some tragic omissions here but i think i could make do with these 10.
Spirit World Field Guide - Aesop Rock
Good Kid M.A.A.D. City - Kendrick Lamar
Run the Jewels 3 - Run the Jewls
The Missing Man - AFI
Downtown Battle Mountain - Dance Gavin Dance
October Forever - Driveways
Gun Mouth 4 Hire: Horns & Halos 2 - Andre Nickatina
Divisi - A Lot Like Birds
Dedication 6 - Lil Wayne
The Melody and the Enigmatic Nature of Volume - Evans Blue
10 times the first and last self-titled album of our school punk band "Auswurph" ! The bass had one string. The guitar 5, on a good day, on all other days more 3 to 4. The drums were stolen here and there -ask me how I know, I was the drummer - and our frontman was a certified psycho. No really, he was. Several stays in the psychiatry. I think there weren't even 10 cd's made... I can't remember exactly. Now as I think of it I can't remember anything of that time in detail, all a bit blurry, but one thing I can remember: it was the best album anyone had made since the invention of noise.
In chronological order...
1 & 2 - The Beatles (White Album) (1968) by The Beatles 3 - La Invasión de los blátidos (1992) by Cuca 4 - In Utero (1993) by Nirvana 5 - Historias (1994) by Arjona 6 - Insomniac (1995) by Green Day 7 - Version 2.0 (1998) by Garbage 8 - Dónde están los ladrones? (1998) by Shakira 9 - Americana (1998) by The Offspring 10 - Enema of the State (1999) by Blink 182
Looking through my collection here, ten is a lot easier that just one. In no particular order:
(Ask me again next week, or next month, and my list will probably change).
Bro I honestly can't even name 10 albums. I've never liked listening to albums because after the singles are over most of the songs suck imo. I basically have one playlist and it's just all of my favorite songs from every genre mixed into one thing, and it's basically the only thing I listen to lol.
Not going to downvote you because your tastes are your tastes. But it's kind of sad that the artists you like can't come up with more than one or two good songs per album. Or maybe it's the industry itself since so few people buy albums. When I used to buy albums my favorite song was never the hit single.
Haha yeah people always bash on me because all my favorite songs are always just the top 100 or whatever... but that's why I like them, they're normally the bands upbeat, catchy songs lol.
Same! I think the only album that I listened to and thoroughly enjoyed every song was Adele’s 25.
Get some weed and put on dark side of the moon.
The album is an art form. It's just one that the modern media industry has destroyed.
I grew up on classic rock, my opinion still stands. Also I’m pregnant, so I had to cut the weed off :(
Maybe, Nirvana Nevermind? Fleetwood Mac rumours? Even meatloaf bat out of hell?
The MJ and dark side are just exquisite, but have you listened to an album in a situation where all you can figure out to do is listen to an album?
I'm an elder millennial. I suspect you're younger than me. We're done having children. You've just got to not have screens.
This whole thread is making me want to go find a bong. Man I remember when I saw the Pink Floyd laser show in college at the planetarium. Everyone was high as balls.
I’m in the middle of the millennial generation. Music just isn’t my thing. I prefer stories, I enjoy podcasts and old radio shows. Not everyone is going to like the same things, some prefer movies, etc. I appreciate you taking the time, but you just sound pretentious. I’ve listened to every album you named, my opinion still stands. And that’s okay, because it’s my opinion, just like how you like and can name all these albums and it’s your opinion that these albums are great.
@Klystron @DrSleepless
I can name a lot more than 10 albums, but yes in some cases many of the songs are not interesting. In some extreme cases I have regretted not just buying the single instead.
There are a few albums, though, where I like every single song. But I couldn't be constrained to just them for my whole life, as that would exclude some really good stuff.
#Music
Toe- For Long Tomorrow.
Delta Sleep- Ghost City.
Good kid- Good Kid 3.
Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Denial.
Radiohead- OK Computer.
Nirvana- Bleach.
RX Bandits- Mandala.
Stone Temple pilots- Core.
Blind Melon- Soup.
Mayday Parade- A Lesson in Romantics.
List just off the top of my head. Would be different if I thought about it longer.
know it's more recent stuff than not, but
Madvilliany - Madvillian Drukqs - Aphex Twin To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar Since I Left You - The Avalanches The Glow, Pt. 2 - The Microphones Late Registration - Kanye West Remain In Light - Talking Heads Illinois - Sufjan Stevens The Money Store - Death Grips Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
@DrSleepless
One look at my album collection tells me that that is not conceivable.
#Music @davetansley
Without giving it tons of thought:
An Awesome Wave - Altj
Camp - Childish Gambino
Dear - Keaton Henson
So Long Forever - Palace
High Violet - The National
Trouble Will Find Me - The National
Romantic Works - Keaton Henson
Up From Below - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Off the top of my head and in no particular order:
If I thought about it longer, I'd probably end up with a more varied list as far as genre.
None? At that point, I'd just stop listening to music.
I can't play albums as it is, because hearing the same artist, the same songs, in the same order every time drives me crazy
What kinda music have you listened to? Bands/artists who compose albums with a central concept and/or sound are a lot easier for me to listen to than albums that are collections of unconnected songs. For an example, Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient, and Empath, or King Gizzard's PetroDragonic Apocalypse are way more listenable as a full album than some pop-music album designed to hit the top charts with maximum radio/streamablility.
I mean, yeah, the power of a well composed album is something special. The first 5 or 6 times...
But after that, I just can't do it anymore. If I had only 10 albums to listen to, they'd pretty much sit ignored except for maybe once or twice a year
If you could shuffle 10 albums worth of songs it wouldn't be that bad. I'm sure it would still get old but not knowing what's going to play next is a much different experience than having to be locked into a whole album at a time.