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Love Collective Soul and Rage Against the Machine. I’ve got a few:
Jeff Rosenstock's WORRY. is a 10/10 masterpiece that hits just as hard every time I put it on
David Bowie's Low and Talking Heads' Remain In Light are the platonic ideal of what an album should be
A New World Record by ELO.
One record I will regularly play from start to finish is Alt-J - An Awesome Wave.
Weird suggestion, but I really like Montero by Lil Nas X
To pimp a butterfly
Deer - The Beautiful Undead. Does anyone have suggestions for similar music? Can't find anything like it
Kayah i Bregović. This album is amazing from the beginning to the end: the composition, her voice, the lyrics (I don't speak Polish so I follow them through translations), everything.
Someone else already mentioned David Bowie, but not this album: "Heroes". Yeah, the titular song is great, but so are the others - and the album as a whole is fun, diverse, trippy.
I tend to listen to music by the album, so after getting used to one any not-so-great songs will start to shine in their own way?
That said, a bit of genre whiplash here:
Here we go, brace yourselves
Against The Current - Past Lives
Can't Swim - This Too Won't Pass
Chief State - Tough Love [EP]
Before I Turn - Lovelorn
Bearings - Hello, It's You
Dorothy - Gifts From The Holy Ghost
Four Year Strong - Brain Pain
Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden's Gate
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Intervals - The Shape Of Colours [instrumental, heavenly]
I Prevail - TRUE POWER
Knuckle Puck - While I Stay Secluded [EP]
Knuckle Puck - 20_20
Mayday Parade - Sunnyland
Micheal Jackson - Thriller
Movements - Feel Something
Neck Deep - All Distortions Are Intentional
Neck Deep - The Peace And The Panic
Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You
Nothing But Thieves - Moral Panic
Palaye Royale - Fever Dream
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Paramore - Paramore
Paramore - After Laughter
Seaway - Big Vibe
Seaway - Vacation
Sleeping With Sirens - How It Feels To Be Lost
Sleeping With Sirens - Madness
State Champs - Kings Of The New Age
The Story So Far - The Story So Far
The Story So Far - What You Don't See
The Structs - YOUNG&DANGEROUS
Tiny Moving Parts - Pleasant Living
Yonaka - Don't Wait Till Tomorrow
Yonaka - Sieze The Power
Yours Truly - Self Care
Yours Truly - Afterglow [EP]
Thats about it, those are some of my favourite/[near-]perfect albums/EPs.
Some I've been listening to lately:
@dessalines @Ilikemoney The Dismemberment Plan’s Emergency and I is on my list (which I still gotta post) as well ❤️
Rumours, Ziggy Stardust
Ott - Mir The Oh Hellos - Through the Deep Dark Valley Electric Light Orchestra - Time Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Reading through these posts I’m totally blown away by the diversity of some of the posters’ selections. Also…a LOT of albums I need to check out!!
Mew - Frengers Architecure in Helsinki - In Case We Die of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? Tally Hall - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum The Strokes - Is This It? The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Nightmare of You - Nightmare of You The Fiery Furnaces - EP The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder Memory Tapes - See Magic
EPs Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves Locale A.M. - The Characters Miami Horror - Bravado
Frengers is a great album. Haven't listened to that in a while, thanks for reminding me
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz At Massey Hall
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, In A Silent Way
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Land
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Talking Heads - Remain In Light, Speaking In Tongues
Aretha Franklin - Live At Fillmore West
Deodato - Prelude
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave
Earth Wind & Fire - Head To The Sky
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Fishbone - Truth And Soul, The Reality Of My Surroundings
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D-Evolution
Nina Simone - Black Gold
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Paul Simon - Graceland
Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
Chick Corea - Light As A Feather
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang
That's probably enough for now...
"Warrior" by Anilah is one of my favorites, not sure if it's technically an album or an EP. I don't even know what genre to call it. The closest things I know are neoclassical groups like Dargaard, but I don't think it fits under that label. It's definitely not metal either, maybe folk music or electronic?
This will probably get buried in the comments, but Lohio by Ass Ponys is a really solid album. Just banger after banger.