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
never heard of any of these
Weirdly insulting thing to say. Maybe listen to them.
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.
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’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.
- 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…
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
Hell yeah
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.
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
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
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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
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Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
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Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
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Pink Floyd - Animals
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Paramore - Brand New Eyes
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Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-LA DEE DA
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Yes - Drama
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Yellowcard - Yellowcard
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My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
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Mariya Takeuchi - Love Songs (I’ve never actually listened to this in full but I love “September” off this album)
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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.
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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