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I don't really know. Kinda depends in the mood I'm in I guess.
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Alice in Chains - Facelift
FIDLAR - FIDLAR
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
EDIT (some more):
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Pearl Jam - Ten
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Not so easy to answer! But Vivaldis four seasons has been a great companion over the last 50 years
The Downward Spiral [NIN halo 8]
Linkin Park's Meteora or HybridTheory
R.I.P. Chester 🫡
One is impossible.
I'd better stop...
I have two I think:
"Who will survive and what will be left of them?" by Murder By Death
It's a cohesive concept album with a really kick ass Western story about the devil taking over a small Western town. Cowboys and zombies and demons and holy shit it's just so fucking cool. I think it was written as a theological thesis.
"Pink Lemonade" by Closure in Moscow. Every track is an absolute fucking banger. The technical musicianship and brilliant use of genre and style are seriously like nothing else I've ever heard.
Runnerups for me in no particular order: Justamustache - Thunder Birds are Now! Bleeds - Wednesday, there goes the neighborhood - kid kapichi, the software slump - grandaddy
Demon Days by Gorillaz
Oof that’s a hard one. One of the below:
Jimmy Eat World ‘Clarity’
Mineral ‘The Power Of Failing’
Neutral Milk Hotel ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’
The Decemberists ‘Picaresque’
I definitely like seeing Picaresque up here, fantastic album.
Hey if you like that, well I can't really explain why this album is similar, but try "England Keep my Bones" by Frank Turner.
Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness.
It is not to my tastes anymore, but at the time when I was very swept up in it, it was truly an immersive and transformative experience. As a piece of art, I feel that it was a tremendous success.
I learned a few years back that the original vinyl pressing of this had a completely different track order than the the CD version (and I think was three LPs). I changed the track order on my digital version to match this (without the extra tracks that are near impossible to find) and it works so much better (and I love the album). I'd love to get my hands on a copy but can't find them for less than $300 if you're lucky.
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
I've tried so hard to like Modest Mouse, but they just don't do it for me and I don't know why.
Have you tried...
or especially
"We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" is tied for me
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV.
That album is a masterpiece.
Vital Remains - Let Is Pray
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Crass - Penis Envy
Aus-Rotten - The Rotten Agenda
Dayglo Abortions - Feed Us a Fetus
It's somewhere between those this year. It would've been totally different five years ago, will be totally different five from now.
So many…
Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life
Surf’s Up by the Beach Boys
The Glow pt 2 by the Microphones
The Velvet Underground by the Velvet Underground
Mignone by Taeko Onuki
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson
wallsocket by underscores
Townes Van Zandt by Townes Van Zandt
The Stone Roses by the Stone Roses
…
I could go on forever I think you get it
Air, Moon Safari
Premiers Symptômes is also great.
I didn't like the following albums as much as the first two.
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Back in Black by AC/DC, The Bends by Radiohead, Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park, A Place For Us to Dream by Placebo - this one is a compilation album, but it has some very cool versions of older songs that I like more than the originals. Nevermind by Nirvana, Hysteria by Def Leppard.
The Mark, Tom, & Travis Show by Blink 182
The Story So Far self titled
The Battle of Loss Angeles by RATM, probably?
Soul Food by Kognitif if we're measuring it by how much I love it relative to it's popularity
Had to scroll too far for a Rage album 🫡 it's funny how New Millennium Homes is still so fucking relevant (I mean they all are but I fkn love that song).
Album I would listen to start to finish on any given day: Rubber Soul by the Beatles.
Favorite overall album to listen to: Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.
Most important album: London Calling by The Clash
Goldberg Variations. In particular, the 1981 recording played by Glenn Gould.
Yes, this. So much character. Gould was an amazing pianist!
October Rust - Type O Negative.
The quintessential goth metal album. Their layers of sound, Pete’s incredible ability to make the most sardonic lyrics sound romantic and the bands utter control of melodic harmony make it an album that I have listened to an innumerable amount of times since its release.
There really is something special here than no band since has captured on tape. It came out when I was a sophomore and immediately became something that I knew would be with me my entire life.
This album bleeds sensuality with a not so subtle wink and nod to the ridiculousness of the human condition in a way few, if any before or after it ever have. It is equal parts sexy and hilarious. Type O was a band whose depth was often missed by the outlandish nature of who their frontman Peter Steele was. A man capable of being a sulking giant with a broken heart one second and a sexy rock and roll god doing a centerfold photoshoot for Playgirl the next.
I never stopped loving this band for that perfect mixture of mischief, tongue in cheek self awareness and Gen X melancholy they brought to everything they did. There are great albums by them before this one and great ones after. But October Rust stands as a truly unique album without peer in my heart for all time.
Moving forward a little,
This is a pure slab of American Black Metal by way of a multi-instrumentalist that grew up on 90’s alternative, particularly Tool. It bridges the gap between two eras of metal so effortlessly it boggles the mind at times. Erik Wunder played all the instruments and was the primary songwriter on this album and it is so complete in a way that can only be achieved through that singular of a vision. It’s like a dark mirror version of the first Foo Fighters record in a myriad of ways. He sadly passed away last year and was only able to perform these song live a few times in the decade and half since its release. I was lucky enough to catch two of those performances and they were as beautiful as I had hoped.
His passing hit like a brick as I was able to talk quite a bit with him on Facebook in during the early years of the band and spend some time in person when they played near me. He was always very gracious and intelligent in person. He had that specific blend of honesty and intelligence that separates the good from the great in music. I often wonder what could have become of the band if he had been able to find more stable vocalists and the ability to create while sober. It’s a real bummer we will never know.
Finally,
…Like Clockwork- Queens of the Stone Age
This is one of those albums that came at exactly the right time in my life to become an encapsulation of moments of darkness and hope being perfectly intertwined. It gave me a place to put my sadness, my longing, my fears and my dreams while I sorted out who I would be for the second half of life on this planet. There are moments of spite that feel so real you can almost feel the tension in the rooms that inspired it. Then there are moments of such soulful beauty and longing you can’t help but get lost in thoughts of heartbreak right along with the band. I truly believe Josh Homme wrote his opus here. It’s the perfect Queens album and, in my opinion, the greatest rock and roll album of all time.
October Rust is SUCH a good album. Type O w/ Peter Steele (is there Type O without?..) was really something special. Love You to Death & Wolf Moon for me from that album. Unreal stuff.
I was listening to Cobalt today! Gin. I didn't know he died. That sucks. I like the double album he did after Gin, too, but I don't come back to it nearly as often as Gin.)
Counting Crows- August and Everything After. Perfection from start to finish.
what an absolutely brutal question! yet my answer never changes:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Can't pick one or two.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
London Calling - Clash
The Gift - The Jam
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Tin Drum - Japan
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Synchronicity - The Police
Remain In Light - Talking Heads
New Traditionalists - Devo
La folie - The Stranglers
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
Everyone I’ve talked to seems to gravitate to Doolittle or Come On Pilgrim as a favorite Pixies record, or the album that defines their vibe. But for me this album was my entry point not just for them, but to a bigger musical world and I’m forever grateful for that.
