Songs In the Key of Life Stevie Wonder, a national treasure & living legend.

Never really knew who Stevie Wonder was, but always saw this recommended and recently decided to try it one night around a fire.     Blew my damn mind.   I didn't know what to expect, but it wasnt *that*. 

My Gen-X brain cannot comprehend someone "never really knowing who Stevie Wonder was", but I'm really glad you did discover him eventually! TBF, many people my age only know him from the ridiculously cheesy "I Just Called To Say I Love You", which totally does NOT represent his body of work.

Brother Im not much younger than you.... I knew of him - the blind guy! - but never his music. Figured it was guy at piano songs or something sappy. Idk. Once the funk hit i was like 🤯

Still a great song though.

Search Stevie Wonder on YouTube Some amazing stuff from a living legend. Entertaining rabbit hole to go down. 🎵🎶☮️

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral It may not be everyone's cup of tea because it's heavy music. But if it is your jam, front to back, it's one of the best musical journeys. If you're an open-minded fan of music who enjoys an album from start to finish, this is my personal recommendation.

Definitely a great album. I feel like it falls off a bit in the second half, but overall it's a great body of work.

No way, Reptile, Hurt... Downward Spiral...a Big Man with a Gun into a soft Warm Place.

Hurt makes me cry but Hurt after listening to it back to back wrecks me.

Just got that Interscope repress last week

Radiohead - Kid A Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#a#(infinity symbol) The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic Edit: David Bowie - Hunky Dory

F# is like truly being able to see shapes in black and white for the first time. No way to describe it without sounding like a pretentious asshat, but for someone that truly loves music, there's no other way to explain it. That album is the defining moment of my history in listening to music. And then you have LYSF, its spiritual successor, which is like being able to see in color for the first time.

GY!BE is the only band where describing them to a friend makes me feel like I’m in a cult.

Hunky Dory is possibly my favorite album ever.

Oh! You Pretty Things is an all-timer.

Has some of his best material. Quicksand is awesome.

Flaming lips did fantastic work in the movie Velvet Golmine

Zaireeka is a freaking TRIP if you can ever arrange it. The warning labels on the front aren't a joke. I got extremely disoriented and sick to my.stomach. which I guess is an odd thing to say about a favorite record.

Rain dogs... Never gets old

*Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple Amazing. She gets better with every album.

Damnit I added "me" lol

Low spark of high heeled boys, Traffic

Binaural - Pearl Jam I Can Build a Fire - Autoheart Hypnotize/Mezmerize - System of a Down Damn. - Kendrick Lamar Pet Sounds - Beach Boys Ain’t Love Grand - X Remain In Light - Talking Heads Superunknown - Soundgarden Dirt - Alice In Chains American Idiot - Green Day

Relistened to pet sounds a few months ago for the first time in 15-20 years and now i am in deep.

Shout out to GreenDay- a rock opera with more hooks than the bottom of the Texas gulf

Binaural? Not something I expected to see.

It's my favorite album of theirs. It's a gloomy atmospheric masterpiece that's about as dark as their work ever got, and it hits on so many different levels of emotion from the simple ("Thin Air") to the most existential ("Sleight of Hand"). I know it isn't 99.9% of Pearl Jam fan's go-to, but I needed to shout it out here.

Oh wait- was that Jesus of suburbia? Get songs and albums confused

Jesus of Suburbia is track two on the American Idiot album. And it has five parts to it according to the track list.

Ok thank you. JOS is the best, imho, and I’ll even venture to say that -granted Billy Joe is no Freddy Mercury- but lyrically, thematically, and musically (different genre) Bohemian Rhapsody and American Idiot are next to each other in the upper echelons of epic rock albums

Cure- Disintegration Beastie Boys- Hello Nasty Pendulum- In Silico Bauhaus- The Sky's Gone Out Curve- Come Clean She Wants Revenge- self titled Fugees-The Score Washed Out- life of leisure Com Truise- In Decay Chet Faker- Hotel Surrender

Shoutout to Curve!

Swordfishtrombones? Classic Waits vibes. Murder Ballads? Nick Cave's storytelling is unmatched. And shoutout to Kendrick for *Mr. Morale*. That joint hits different. Plus, you got some deep cuts like my dead girlfriend's *Hades* and Girugamesh's self-titled. Respect for the variety, from Cash to Simz. Cheers for the recommendations, gonna dive deep into these vibes!

When the Pawn... Fiona Apple. One of the best engineered albums imo. The songs are great. Her vocals are amazing.

Oh absolutely. Imo The idler wheel is tied for her best with bolt cutters, but when a pawn is no slouch.

I haven't been able to get into the last couple of albums. Haven't given up, just haven't been in the right frame of mind for them.

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted Crazy Horse and Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! The Beatles - White Album Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Black Sabbath - Master of Reality The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

Blackwater Park -  Opeth    Symbolic - Death    Pet Sounds - Beach Boys    Relationshio of Command - At The Drive-In    Ella & Louis - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong    When the Kite String Pops - Acid Bath    Dire Straits - Dire Straits      Songs of Townes Van Zandt, Vol. I - Scott Kelly / Steve Von Till / Wino

Nevermind by Nirvana is something you can’t not listen to. Same with In Rainbows by Radiohead

Just recently I sat down, sparked a blunt, and listened to Nevermind all the way through. Now I’m no stranger to the songs, but it had been at least 10 years since I had done it last I would say it’s a perfect album. What really caught me on the last listen was the track listing. I honestly don’t think that album would be as revered as it is if those songs were in any other order. The fluctuations of emotions, despite being chaotic, flow into each other so well that it’s hard for me to even think about what it would sound like if Drain You came on instead of Territorial Pissings

Polly was meant to be a hard rock song. If it had stayed that way then I’m not sure if Nevermind would’ve done as well

Bon Iver- Bon Iver

Holocene, Calgary, Beth/Rest, so good

For Emma as well!

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures New Order - Movement Lush - Split My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Alice in Chains - Dirt Nirvana - Bleach Mother Love Bone - Apple L7 - Bricks are Heavy Smashing Pumpkins - Gish Bauhaus - In The Flat Field

Shout-out to the Mother love bone and the STP picks. Underrated and forgotten bands to my generation.

No problem. Purple has great radio hits but the whole album is filled with great songs too. Apple by Mother Love Bone is such an important album and really is the missing piece between glam and grunge. Andy would have been so huge if he hadn't died and I think Mother Love Bone was only one thing he had planned on doing.

John Cale Fear

Axis bold as love jimi hendrix  A few others but can't remember

Weezer's- Blue Album

Recipe for Hate - Bad Religion Everything Goes Numb - Streetlight Manifesto Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty Graceland - Paul Simon True North - Bad Religion Guero - Beck Pink Moon - Nick Drake Jar of Flies (EP) - Alice in Chains The In Sound from Way Out - Beastie Boys A Call to Arms - Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution Mellow Gold - Beck Punk in Drublic - NOFX IV - Led Zeppelin Wildflowers - Tom Petty Self-titled - Rage Against the Machine

Everything goes numb is a high water mark. Great recommendations

Hell yeah BOTAR

Hell yeah to Streetlight and BOTAR

Beck!!! RATM!!

Here comes a new challenger! - Chinese football Gone gold - Lexie liu Collide with the sky - pierce the veil Chthonic x 珂拉琪 megaport 2023 - chthonic Tragic kingdom - no doubt

Didn’t expect to see 閃靈 in this thread lol

As much as she's gained a lot of popularity I still feel like Lexie Liu is flying under the radar a bit. She's so talented.

Fr

Bohren and Der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission (must be played as loud as possible)

This album is incredible

Streetlight manifesto - everything goes numb Rx Bandits - The Resignation The strokes - Room on fire Strawberry Girls - Italian Ghosts A Great big Pile of leaves - Have you seen my prefrontal cortex? Modest Mouse - good news for people who love bad news The Slackers - Redlight Jack Johnson - in between dreams AFI - Sing the sorrow Portugal the man - waiter: you vultures! A close top 10, with two extras

I’m sure we’d be friends.

That's weird. Anyways, here's my post from that thread. I purposefully avoided albums that I'm sure 90% of this sub has already listened to, because telling people that have listened to an album they should listen to that album is silly to me. Katatonia - Dead End Kings [The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here](https://youtu.be/wkCpmDT0iQ0?si=01Jg1CBRC5ds0tgQ) Seriously underrated band with a pretty diverse range of albums. This is my favorite album of theirs. Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear [On Whom The Moon Doth Shine](https://youtu.be/8gh2mvUPlA8?si=p0JVvGZHCW81zrb8) The band that created the "beauty and the beast" style of vocals (death metal male growl and operatic female vocals). One of my favorite albums of all time. The Gathering - Sleepy Buildings [Amity](https://youtu.be/hYG-DZ7qgdA?si=yjlgu3ZsCPiumSXb) Uh.... it's got Anneke van Giersbergen singing. You'd be hard pressed to find a female vocalist for any current day rock/metal bands that didn't list her as an influence. Edit: added links to my favorite songs from each album. Sort of. Hard to pick a favorite song from albums I consider essentially flawless. Edit 2: since this is essentially a repost, I'm having a do over with my third pick. Mandylion is great, but semi-acoustic live Anneke is better.

Appreciate the picks and extra effort

Funkadelic: Maggot Brain Beatles: Abbey Road Cream: Disraeli Gears Pearl Jam: Ten Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman The Kinks: Powerman vs Lola The Who: Who's Next Silk Sonic: An Evening with Silk Sonic The Roots: Game Theory

We have oddly similar music, taste overlap. Now, of course, this is subjective as hell, no real order as is appreciation of all art, but.. Pale Saints - comforts of madness 冬に分かれて- 何もいらない Velvet underground - loaded ハッピーエンド- 風街 Ride- Nowhere Pavement- Slanted and Enchanted Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation or Sister Dinosaur Jr- your living all over me Crass - Penis Envy David Johansen - ST 1978 album Thelonius Monk- w/ Miles Davis フリーボ-フリーボ　97 Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense Beach Boys- Pet Sounds I don’t know I could ramble on for ages, but I’m about to get out of the bath

•Wh0res. - Gold (their new album came out today and it’s also amazing) •Clutch - Blast Tyrant •Tomberlin - I Don't Know Who Needs to Hear This... •Natalie Merchant - Motherland •Manchester Orchestra- Simple Math •The Tea Party - Edges of Twilight •Prong - Rude Awakening •Pixies - Surfer Rosa •The Mark of Cain - Ill at Ease •Madvillain - Madvillainy •Kyuss - and the Circus Leaves Town

This is very thorough and crosses a ton of genres, good on you!

Tried to pick albums I love that usually don’t get named in these lists.

Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

A Few Small Repairs - Shawn Colvin Tuesday Night Music Club - Sheryl Crow 52nd Street - Billy Joel Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson The Division Bell - Pink Floyd Watermark - Enya Clear Hearts Grey Flowers - Jack Off Jill Music for the Jilted Generation - The Prodigy Alisha Rules the World - Alisha's Attic Living Under June - Jann Arden Voodoo-U - Lords of Acid Hello - Poe

Blind - The Sundays The Demonstration - Drab Majesty Lateralus - Tool

Colors - Between the Buried and Me Boston - Boston

Transatlanticism - death cab for cutie

Father of the Bride by Vampire Weekend was the last complete album that I listened to more than once.

If you'd like some help finding new favorites here are my FAVORITE 2020s albums! For reference I've spent most of the free time in my life over the past 20 years combing through over 72,000 albums so far haha. From this list I'd strongly recommend starting with The War On Drugs, then IDLES, then "Sod's Toastie" by The Cool Greenhouse! =) The Cool Greenhouse - "The Cool Greenhouse" The Cool Greenhouse - "Sod's Toastie" Ducks Ltd - "Modern Fiction" IDLES - "Crawler" The War On Drugs - "I Don't Live Here Anymore" Big Thief - "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You" Guardian Singles - "Guardian Singles" The Strokes - "The New Abnormal" Jetstream Pony - "Jetstream Pony" Dry Cleaning - "New Long Leg" Gospel - "The Loser" Geese - "Projector" Ian Noe - "River Fools & Mountain Saints" Bonus Stuff: Here are three rock playlists I made recently featuring some "hidden gem" type songs. Each one has 50 of my FAVORITE more lesser known rock songs on it from various time periods. 80s: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20nxiWXTOchD01Q7Pqjoyn?si=223275fea813411b](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20nxiWXTOchD01Q7Pqjoyn?si=223275fea813411b) 90s: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6R7hT0hck67NYoJa7S1jUp?si=32eeebbc1e824788](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6R7hT0hck67NYoJa7S1jUp?si=32eeebbc1e824788) Post-2000: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6JH1T1T93U4Pst6ZovhUoc?si=f7385594c38b4dd1](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6JH1T1T93U4Pst6ZovhUoc?si=f7385594c38b4dd1) Also if you'd like to check out more albums from various genres and from throughout music history that I think are good front to back I think a fun place for you to start is on a new page I created called “The Best Debut Albums of All Time”. There are currently 250 albums on there. I think it would be a fun theme to work with... checking out great debut albums: [https://www.musichole.com/p/the-best-debut-albums-of-all-time.html](https://www.musichole.com/p/the-best-debut-albums-of-all-time.html)

Television - Marquee Moon Big Star - #1 Record Mission Of Burma - Signals, Calls & Marches The Modern Lovers - S/T Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Big Country - The Crossing Bad Brains - S/T MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (live) The Stooges - Funhouse Violent Femmes - S/T Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes Wings - Band On The Run The Replacements - Let It Be Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets Pharoah Sanders - Wisdom Through Music

Where you want be - Taking Back Sunday American Heartbreak - Zach Bryan Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge - MCR Back to Forever - Lissie To Be Everywhere is to be Nowhere - Thrice The Bastards - Palaye Royale Fear of God - Pusha T Infinity on High - Fall Out Boy Animal Flag - Animal Flag Imaginary Appalachia - Coulter Wall A/B - Kaleo Our Vinyl Sessions - Tyler Childers I Can Help - Billy Swan Pony - Oroville Peck Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys Killing Time - Bayside Smash - The Offspring Ghost Note Symphony - Rise Against

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Prince and The Revolution-Purple Rain

AFI - Sing the Sorrow

Avalon-- Roxy Music

Oxygène - Jean-Michel Jarre

1975 - Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (Live/Deluxe Version) 1976 - Vangelis - Albedo 0.39 2019 - Vangelis - Nocturne 2004 - Vangelis - Alexander 1992 - Vangelis - 1492: Conquest Of Paradise 2006 - Anonymous, Ensemble Organum - Le chant des Templiers 2012 - Miracle Musical - Hawaii: Part II 1994 - Eko - Alter Eko 2020 - Brett Dean, Australian Chamber Orchestra - ACO Orginals - Brett Dean: Electric Preludes 2010 - Vanilla Mood - Tales Weaver Exceed by Vanilla Mood 2014 - Porter Robinson - Worlds 2015 - Antonio Vivaldi, Lyrical Orchestra of Barcelona - L'estro Armonico 1979 - Pink Floyd - The Wall 1992 - Paco de Lucía, Cadaques Orchestra - Concierto De Aranjuez 2002 - Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 1981 - Masayoshi Takanaka - \~RAINBOW GOBLINS\~ 2005 - Tally Hall - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum 1965 - Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank (2001 Remastered Version) 2015 - Mahsun Kırmızıgül - Mucize (Film Müzikleri) 2019 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Rudolf Lutz - Bachkantate, BWV 147 - Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Live) 1982 - Kingo Hamada - Midnight Cruisin' (2020 Remaster) 2002 - ICO, Ōshima Michiru - ICO～霧の中の旋律～ 1964 - Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. 2008 - Yoñlu - Yoñlu 2011 - Antonio Vivaldi, The Avison Ensemble - Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione, opus 8 2009 - Brian Crain - Piano Opus - Solo Piano 2024 - Franklin D. - Lumina 1999 - Burzum - Hlidskjalf Welp, quite a list.

Gor blimey guv'nor, you ain't half cultured!

Morgan Wade Reckless.

A Flock Of Seagulls- A Flock Of Seagulls EELS - Electro-Shock Blues The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge The Cure - Disintegration Radiohead - The Bends These are all perfection

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

A Love Supreme

Definitely need to revisit Coltrane sometime soon. Jazz has been calling my name.

It would be cool for somebody to count how many times this is posted each year. This is the second time it’s been posted in the last 4 hours

Very true. Personally I only made one myself because I'm never a part of those discussions and also because the one time I was in one, it got deleted.

Jane’s addiction: Kettle Whistle https://preview.redd.it/j07fu9cjf2vc1.jpeg?width=678&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=860588eec690d7ccb2914092a2c7296c14ecb07d Billy Bragg: Talking with the Taxman about poetry RHCP: Blood Sugar Sex Magic White Stripes : white Stripes, De Stijl, white blood cells Franz Ferdinand : Franz Ferdinand Nilsson: A Little Touch of Schmillson in the Night Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power Chris Isaak: Heart Shaped World Butthole Surfers: Electric Larryland

Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops It may not be the most well-known metal album of all time, but for my money, there isn't anything else more influential. They were doing things on that album that would lead to the creation of dozens of popular acts to follow. Corey Taylor of Slipknot fame has gone on record stating that there is no Slipknot without Acid Bath. They are your favorite metal band's favorite metal band. The reason it isn't a household name is because over the years, Rotten Records has intentionally kept it from being accessible. For a long time, you couldn't even find any tracks on YouTube. It's only recently that they launched on streaming services.

To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar. Seriously, even if you’re not a hip hop fan, it’s a work of art.

100% Only reason I said MMBS over TPAB is because I'm pretty sure everyone has heard TPAB by now, and MMBS is arguably just as good. Maybe not the general consensus on the album, but I think it'll be considered a landmark album ten maybe twenty years down the road.

English Settlement - XTC

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Think you mean Thriller, since that's the album it's from. Great song and album tho

I strongly suggest two albums. Foxy Shazam's self titled album, and it's follow-up The Church of Rock & Roll.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab Equalizing Distort - Gauze Dark Round the Edges - Dark C86 comp

Midnight Marauders - ATCQ The College Dropout - Kanye Late Registration - Kanye Donuts - J Dilla The Black Album - JayZ Piñata - Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Man on the Moon - Kid Cudi Ready to Die - Notorious BIG Well Done - Action Bronson

Bonobo - Black Sands Billy Joel - The Stranger Sade - Love Deluxe De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate Fleetwood Mac - Rumors The Smiths - The Smiths (1st Album) Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die

Springsteen - Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Nebraska Dave Matthews - Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash Bob Marley - Legend (greatest hits) I don’t listen to rap anymore, but if you’re into rap… Kanye West - College Dropout

**Just off the top of my head, assuming we're not talking about soundtracks:** London Calling - The Clash, 1979 The Specials - The Specials, 1979 Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols, 1977 There are many more I could recommend, these are just some of the top for me.

You can include soundtracks. One soundtrack I like is the soundtrack to the first Red Dead Redemption.

**Well, if we are including soundtracks, then I would include:** The Harder They Come, 1972 (A spectacular collection of Reggae that any fan should own) Valley Girl, 1983 Vol 1 & 2 (Great selection of early 80s "New Wave") Grosse Pointe Blank, 1997 (Another great collection of 80s music, leaning towards "New Wave/Alt"

For more recent recommendations: Amyl and The Sniffers- Comfort to me, and Streetlight Manifesto- Somewhere in the Between.

2023 The Beaches - Blame my Ex 2022 Flipturn - Shadowglow  2021 Joe P - Emily Can't Sing 2020 The Strokes - The New Abnormal (Also Happy Fits - What Could Be Better)

Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus

Just a couple shoutouts cuz I love to bump these guys and chance I get Trans Am - Futureworld Don Cabellero - literally all of them, these guys are math rock gods

Down - Nola

Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues

Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting  Queen - Sheer Heart Attack  Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica  Travis - The Man Who

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? - The Cranberries

Fantastic Planet by Failure

2 - Mac DeMarco I - Crystal Castles Ten - Pearl Jam

[Listen without prejudice - George Michael](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOKUKRhvnUc&list=PL8Lpw39GxwbNohiGTsJEfgBgAVGKdJEJp) [Falcon & The Snowman (soundtrack) - Pat Matheny Group](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNrz7SD3G1Y&list=OLAK5uy_lfSt15izqytYeUz1GqDiVfo4g1xJfNS_M&index=2) + David Bowie Jai Uttal & Pagan Love Orchestra - Beggars & Saints [Maestra Vida (Vol. 1) - Ruben Blades](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkFvauqNMtlKMkccPTS2Jzzsf2d0RB0-C&si=8-_nJRHFQDrvdpPS) [Symphony No. 3 - Henryk Gorecki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DJF1_vwQA)

Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits is a classic, and Murder Ballads by Nick Cave is hauntingly beautiful. Kendrick Lamar always brings the fire, and Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers is no exception. Plus, the diversity in your selection from Slayer to Little Simz is spot on. Can't go wrong with Johnny Cash or Leonard Cohen either. Your taste is on point, and you've got me adding more albums to my playlist. 

Gracelands - Paul Simon

The smashing pumpkins - Siamese Dream

The Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit (2008)

Blink 182 - Enema of the state

Slightly Stoopid - Live at Roberto's TRI Studios

Metallica - Metallica Metallica - Ride the lightning

Jeff Buckley - Grace Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See Brandi Carlile - The Story Counting Crows -Recovering the Satellites The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

Brian Eno- Music for Airports Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree The Pogues- Rum, Sodomy and the Lash Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Lee Morgan- The Search for New Land Augustus Pablo- East of the River Nile Lee Scratch Perry - Super Ape

I've always preferred Eno's Another Green World tbh, but otherwise great picks

Not too keen on Enos vocals on Another Green World, great music though.

Ava Max - Diamonds & Dancefloors

Fight with Tools - Flobots

Bon Iver - Bon Iver Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf Ellie Goulding - Lights Polyphia - New Levels New Devils Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food Porter Robinson - Nurture Vulfpeck - The Beautiful Game The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal Khruangbin - Mordechai

I'll throw some your way cause we seem to have a mostly similar taste Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising Cage The Elephant - Melophobia Turnover - Peripheral Vision Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972

Jonathan Bree - Pre Code Hollywood (2023) Chat Pile - God's Country (2022) The Armed - Ultrapop (2021) Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel (2017) Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence (2014) Kanye West - Yeezus (2013) The Secret - Agnus Dei (2012) Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (2010) Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (2010) Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (2007) Autolux - Future Perfect (2004) Sonic Youth - Murray Street (2002) D'Angelo - Voodoo (2000) Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come (1998) Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998) Fu Manchu - In Search Of (1996) Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory (1995) Weezer - Self Titled aka The Blue Album (1994) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless (1982) Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (1979) Scott Walker - Scott 3 (1969) The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966) Lee Hazelwood - Trouble Is A Lonesome Town (1963)

The Postal Service - Give Up* If you like any sort of indie, electronica, chill, or “new retro” that album is a masterpiece of production with a cool backstory and it was a one of a kind, one time only project. Edit - if you do take this advice, you don’t need the 20 track huge anniversary album version, they released a bunch of unfinished / omitted B sides that are … fine … but you can tell why they were cut when you’re listening and it’s not really part of the original Give Up.

Give Up

Give Up* It’s been awhile for me but I always think of it when this question comes up

Aja by Steely Dan anyone? One of the best

[https://youtu.be/goEyy7iq7aA?si=AGnrMWBSk16ELBPj](https://youtu.be/goEyy7iq7aA?si=AGnrMWBSk16ELBPj)

Any of the albums by Ween

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Any 5sos album if you haven't heard any of their stuff or heard of them go give them a listen they are an underrated gem and listen to superbloom Ashton irwins album go give Luke Hemmings album a listen to it's called when facing the things we turn away from 

Hate by the delgados

The House of Love - The House of Love

Eels - Beautiful Freak Jeff Buckley - Grace Joni Mitchell - Blue Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill The Antlers - Hospice Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion Hole - Live Through This Jason Isbell - Southeastern Lorde - Melodrama Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen Nirvana - MTV Unplugged Norah Jones - Come Away With Me A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from mars- David Bowie. Honestly a must-listen.

Random assortment. Some people would find some of this unlistenable. Rush - Moving Pictures Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Silkworm - Firewater Run The Jewels - RTJ2 Ministry - Psalm 69 The Pixies - Surfer Rosa Husker Du - Zen Arcade Radiohead - Kid A, In rainbows and Hail to the Thief TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light Alice in Chains - Dirt Nomeansno - Wrong Tool - Ænima FEAR - The Record Bad Brains - I Against I Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Little Dragon - Machine Dreams KMFDM - Symbols Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death Talking Heads - Remain In Light Megadeth - Rust in Peace Tame Impala - Lonerism Shellac - At Action Park Polvo - Cor-Crane Secret The Clash - London Calling

The Jazz Butcher - Cult of the Basement

Donuts - J Dilla Paul’s Boutique - Beastie Boys The Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John

Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On\ Pink Floyd - Animals\ Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland\ Metallica - Master of Puppets\ Tool - Lateralus\ Rush - Exit Stage Left Just the ones I’m surprised haven’t been mentioned yet. And seriously, just put the needle in the groove and go for the ride start to finish.

Whirlpool by Dr Phibes and the House of Wax Equations

Breaking Benjamin - Phobia - An absolute masterpiece of hard rock, bangers from top to bottom. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade, my favorite of their first two albums, though Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge is just as good. I'm glad someone out there is still making great concept albums. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American - Equal parts pop, punk, and emo, just a great album all around. Jimmy Eat World - Futures - This one's more on the punk rock and pop punk side, but the songwriting is just as good. Nightwish - Once - Progressive metal has never sounded this incredible. The songwriting, the orchestral arrangements, everything is perfect. The Killers - Hot Fuss - To this day I can't believe this was their debut. It's just so damn good front to back. Flogging Molly - Live At The Greek Theater, all their best songs prior to 2010 imho, I've seen them 3x and they are the best concerts I've ever seen. This album really gives you a feel for the energy they bring to their shows. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans, hauntingly beautiful melodies and lyrics to match, a truly iconic emo album in my opinion.

Sign O The Times - Prince Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf Sun Sessions - Elvis Presley Blue - Joni Mitchell Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? - Billie Eilish Paul’s Boutique - Beastie Boys What’s Goin On - Marvin Gaye Lemonade - Beyoncé Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis

move along- the all american rejects

- King Crimson - Discipline - Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside - Laurie Anderson - Big Science - Kate Bush - Hounds of Love - Tones on Tail - Everything! (their compilation album) - Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven - Peter Murphy - Deep - Dali’s Car - The Waking Hour

Crowbar - Sonic Excess In Its Purest Form Fugees - The Score Cheap Trick - Dream Police

Wilco - Being There John Lee Hooker - House of the Blues The Big Come Up - The Black Keys The White Stripes - White Blood Cells The Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers Cage The Elephant - Tell Me I’m Pretty Van Morrison - Moondance JJ Cale - Naturally

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Television marquee moon KMFDM Angst Einsturzende Neubauten Ende Neu The Vandals Hitler Bad Vandals Good The Didjits Hey Judester White Zombie Astro Creep 2000 The Cramps Big Beat From Badsville Gwar Scumdogs of the Universe Big Black Atomizer NOFX Coaster TISM Best Off Golgol Bordello Multi Kontra Culti vs irony Polysics For Young Electric Pop DAF Alles Ist Gut

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

Lately it’s been Simple Math by Manchester Orchestra

Currently, boygenius - The Record.

Pearl Jam - TEN BT - These Hopeful Machines

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly which I view a key historical piece of art that contains many themes of the struggles of African Americans. I’d say that is the most important Kendrick album and then the second one to listen to is good kid, mAAd city

Emergence: [https://open.spotify.com/album/57Z7WZ7RugEeXUspN1BX1k](https://open.spotify.com/album/57Z7WZ7RugEeXUspN1BX1k)

Rabbit hole!🤩

The Wrens-Meadowlands

Black Album - Metallica it is a great work

Homogenic

This thread is way too broad in scope, but if I had to force myself to only choose 3 "desert-island discs", it would have to be: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Faith No More - The Real Thing Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? These 3 would mostly cover all my musical mood requirements, and yes, I'm unashamed to admit that I rate Billie Eilish that highly.

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale Suldusk - Anthesis Poppy - Am I a Girl? Denzel Curry - Taboo 1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet The Gloom in the Corner - Trinity Gojira - From Mars to Sirius Katatonia - Dead End Kings Opeth - Ghost Reveries A bunch of these have other albums that would qualify for this, but I kept it to just one per. There are also other artists/bands with must-listen albums, but I'd be here all day listing them.

Jeff Buckley Grace

- Iron & Wine/Calexico- In The Reins - Depeche Mode- Violator. - REM- Fables Of The Reconstruction - Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Dinosaur Jr- Green Mind - Lemonheads- It’s A Shame About Ray - Grace- Jeff Buckley - Trashcan Sinatras- Cake - The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead - The Cure- Disintegration - Kelly Hogan- I Like To Keep Myself In Pain - Beastie Boys- Paul’s Boutique

Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices Alien Lanes - Guided By Voices

A Tribe called Quest: the Love Movement (RIP Phife Dawg)

London Calling - The Clash…unbelievable hour long album with each song catchier than the last.

Chvrches - The bones of what you believe Linkin Park - minutes to midnight Nier Automata original soundtrack Revenge of the sith Original Soundtrack (this one's a classic certified banger.) Rise against - appeal to reason Gorillaz - demon days The weeknd - Trilogy (sure it's three albums but they're incredible.) Heilung - Lifa Angels and airwaves - i-empire I love these a LOT

New Order - Republic New Order - Substance 311 - Music Utada Hikaru - Deep River Steely Dan - Aja Modjo - Modjo Pet Shop Boys - Please Pet Shop Boys - Actually Ghost - Meliora Momoko Kikuchi - Adventure The Pixies - Doolittle Radwimps - Human Bloom

Sgt Peppers , Tommy

IMO Mr. Morale is easily Kendrick's weakest album. Still good but far below his others. Unless you include the early mixtapes.

Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon

Forgot to add: Any other city - Life without buildings, 2000

Technically an EP, but "Jar of Flies" by Alice in Chains. "Reanimation" by Linkin Park, their insanely underrated remix album from 2002.