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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    1 year 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

  • kommadieb@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year 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).

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

    Honorable mention

    The Black Keys - Thickfreakness The White Stripes - Icky Thump CeeLo Green - The Lady Killer

    I have very little concept of what songs are from which albums anymore thanks to modern streaming subscriptions.

    • rustyspoon@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I’ve just started listening to Siamese Dream again, it’s one of my go-to summer albums. My favorite Pumpkins album my far, It’s just so crisp and crunchy in such a pleasing way

  • metal_opera@beehaw.org
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    1 year 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
  • pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • RAFbombhead@beehaw.org
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    1 year 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)

  • Pantoffel@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    A few I can think of right now:

    AC/DC - If You Want Blood (maybe cheating a bit because it’s a compilation of songs from different albums, but it’s the best live album of all time to me and AC/DC at their rockingest.)

    All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker or Nothing A The Ideal (both albums warrant a full playthrough almost always.)

    Elephant Tree - Elephant Tree (my favorite album of the last decade)

    Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (although Elder keep getting better and better, and are ever more amazing live, this album has a special place in my heart)

    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (masterpiece from beginning to end.)