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I Mother Earth - Scenery & Fish

90's Canadian rock, with "Shortcut to Moncton" as my favourite track, and "One More Astronaut" as the album's biggest single. I listened to this one end to end so many times, and there's not a bad song on it, my fave just in terms of number of listens. It's aged okay. I don't replay it obsessively like I did in my late teens

My Arms, Your Hearse by Opeth

Will the Circle be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt band and friends.

there are lots of other great ones, but there is a reason this keeps coming up as a defining album in folk or bluegrass music circles.

The one that has pictures of my love ones both those with me and those I only have memories left. Its white and has gold trim bought it in a KMart in late 80s and its been with me for so many moves. It was one of the few things left behind when my house got robbed. So I thank them for that.

Vitalogy - Pearl Jam

The Mark, Tom, & Travis Show by Blink 182

The Story So Far self titled

Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Cool & Steady & Easy - is high on my list at the moment.

Sol - Seeming

The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd or Hybrid Theory from Linkin Park

What a delightfully impossible question.

I hate it when someone names a totally obscure album that no one’s ever heard of just to be cool, but I looked through my whole collection and no other single album felt right as my Favorite Album Of All Time, which I have to underscore is different than what I think is the best album of all time.

So anyway, my personal favorite album of all time which I can listen to any time and which transports me to a different place and time in my life:

Model Engine - The Lean Years Tradition

I’ve been saying that for 15 years or so and it remains true, but I don’t expect folks will listen to it and be blown away. That said, it’s an amazing album that came along at just the right time to get baked into my personality forever.

My favorite album that’s more well known, and which I would argue is genre defining: Sunny Day Real Estate - The Pink Album

My favorite album of the last 5 years is Rosalia - Motomami

Music is so fucking great isn’t it? I think it is one of the better things to come out of humanity.

Computerwelt by Kraftwerk.

But Remain In Light by Talking Heads is a very close second.

IV by Black Mountain and Private Tales by Sleepy Sun.

I don’t really grasp genres very well so I’ll just call them rock. But I love these albums with all my heart, front to back.

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

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

One is impossible.

• Rush - Grace Under Pressure (Moving Pictures is fantastic and the cliche choice, but there's something about this one I love.)
• The Knife - Silent Shout (Some reviewer called it "Haunted House" and that is the perfect descriptor. Eerie and intriguing electronic music.)
• The For Carnation - The For Carnation (What became of Slint after Spiderland. This one doesn't get anywhere near as much recognition, but I think it's the more mature work overall. Groovy, minimalist post-rock.)
• The Delgados - The Great Eastern (Hard to choose between their albums, too, but I think this one was a perfect straddling of their rockier bits and their symphonic dreampop that they leaned hard into later on. Great band!)
• R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant (This one or its followup: Document which won them more accolades, but I think is slightly less consistent. Their peak-songwriting, IMO.)
• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (I know a lot of people love everything they've done, but I think they've never really topped the atmosphere of this one.)
• Cocteau Twins - Treasure (At the time there was nothing else like it. There still isn't quite.)
• The Afghan Whigs - 1965 (One of their less-popular albums, but I think Dulli and co nailed the RnB rock formula with this one. Their newer stuff is also pretty great.)
• Basement Jaxx - Rooty (I'm torn between this and Kish Kash. Rooty is maybe slightly more consistent. Wall-to-wall banging big beat pop tunes. Fantastic production.)
• Vektor - Terminal Redux (I went through a metal phase for some years, and this one still stands out. Amazing thrash-prog with a vocalist who sounds like a banshee from outer space. Amazing stuff!)
• Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light (Gonna catch hell for this one. They were a very popular thrash band, then they fired their singer and went black metal. It was an unpopular decision with most of their fans. I think they knocked it out of the park. They haven't made an album since, though..)
• Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot - The Son of Chico Dusty (The [somewhat] underrated member of Outkast. This album goes hard. Lots of interesting collabs, too.)
• Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (Peak alt-hip-hop IMO. RIP Gift of Gab)
• Glenn Gould's recording of the Goldberg Variations.

I'd better stop...

tie between Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and Coletta's "Idealism". I can also confidently say anyone who likes Pink Floyd should check out Coletta.

Chikoi the Maid is really good https://chikoithemaid.bandcamp.com/

i'm really bad at describing music genres but it has this mixture of electronic and rock music that i really like. (it has no vocals btw)

i think my favorite song so far is Affliction https://chikoithemaid.bandcamp.com/track/in-affliction-yakui-the-maid-cover

Relapse by Eminem