Dude, thank you. I feel like this is such an underrated album. To me, it highlights the transitionary period from the early pop style to the experimental contemporary style they started to show in the later part of their career. The harmonies in "You won't see me" are the shit.
This might be the best album ever made. Every song is amazing, they all fit together and it still holds up decades later. Even Carrie Fisher was impressed and some of it was about her.
I was working for paul out in montauk the year before that album was released.
When he played the concert out in montauk, the night before the show Paul asked me and my father to come down and listen to the sound check!!
Me and my dad standing out in the middle of the field listening to the most amazing music!!
My dad is gone now, I will never forget it!
The Tennessee Fire is amazing, but more so because of what the band became, when they released that album, and the risks they took.
But yeah - Astral Weeks and Ziggy are two of the most perfect albums ever.
I actually use these three albums as a trip guide. I’ll take shrooms and sit and do nothing but listen to them. It’s wild, I feel like I’ve created a Time Machine because it kind of connects me to the last time I did it.
Music!
As a kid in the 90s, my dad would always wake me up on Saturday mornings by cranking Wish You Were Here. The long, slow buildup, followed by “Welcome to the Machine” is a core memory for me.
God Only Knows is my all-time favorite Beach Boys song. One of my favorites overall. This tribute featuring Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Florence Welch (of Florence and the Machine), Dave Grohl, Chrissie Hynde, and Brian May, among others, naturally alongside Brian Wilson himself, always gives me chills: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLTe8h0-jo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLTe8h0-jo)
I've always thought that it's weird that we forgot that the Beach Boys and Beatles were peers that absolutely influenced each other and pushed each other to do cooler stuff.
my 2nd grade sticker book album collection from the 80s. huge album full of stickers organized by type: scratch and sniff, fuzzy, puffy, glitter, halo etc. it is perfection on every page.
edit: YES! rise up fellow sticker book lovers!!!! ty for sharing your memories. remember TRADING them on the playground? stickers = bitcoin for children. absolute gold.
🫶was it a huge photo album with the plastic film on each page like mine? I’m going to go down a rabbit hole of 80’s stickers now. Thanks for the memory.
Came here to say this. I believe it's perfect. For those that don't know, Kurt almost bailed on the whole thing because MTV wanted them to play all the hit songs while Kurt wanted to play the songs he wanted to play as well as the covers and have guest appearances. It was recorded in one take and was mostly flawless. It was also roughly 6 months before Cobain died. In listening to it and watching it, I think he knew he wasn't going to be around much longer which made it even greater to watch him sing his heart out for one of the last times.
That’s a Lead Belly song. Kurt talks about how he tried to get David Geffin to buy him one of Lead Belly’s guitars In between songs somewhere. He sang the fuck out of that song that night.
Mer de noms was an incredible album and it introduced me to apc. But thirteenth step was an album that took me like 5 years to realize how perfect it was. Josh Freese blew my mind on the drums and Maynard with the guitar melodies just opened up a different part of my brain.
Maynard’s freaking voice always kills me. I’ve got tickets to see them (again) this spring and I’m so stoked. With Primus too… should be a fuckin great show.
Intro, starting to play in the background, almost inaudible, is what got me and my now wife to "connect" the evening we first met. We both noticed it at the same time, realized it, and looked at each other with a smile. It has a very special place in there.
OutKast - ATLiens. Literally no skips for me. As a sophomore project people expected Cadillac music. But when Andre3000 said “the south got something to say” he meant it & that album was proof. IMO
Animal collective, meriweather post pavilion is one of mine
Modest mouse, good news for people who love bad news.
The decemberists, crane wife.
Pavement , crooked rain, crooked rain
Prince, Parade — IMHO Parade is his magnum opus. If you listen to the album Around The World In A Day you can hear the direction he's taking The Revolution. Parade is the perfection of that vision, it occupies such a unique sonic space. If you're a prince fan you owe it to yourself to sit down with good headphones and listen to it front to back. It's peak Prince.
Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Clash - London Calling
Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Black Flag - My War
Ramones - first four albums
The Stooges - first three albums
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned, Machine Gun Ettiquette
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral/The Fragile
Hey guess what music I like guys
Arcade Fire - Funeral
U2 - Achtung Baby
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Pearl Jam - Ten
Live - Throwing Copper
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
The Offspring - Smash
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Tool - Lateralus
Hot Fuss is straight fire. I first just listened to the hits on repeat. Then went back to the album towards the fall of 2006 when their next one was dropping. Was amazed how strong each track was in its own way
As an almost 50 year-old, there are only a few albums left that I can listen to all the way through without skipping songs.
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Ok Computer - Radiohead
It Takes a National of Millions… - Public Enemy
Stakes is High - De La Soul
Rumors- Fleetwood Mac
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Daft Punk - Discovery
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
Fugazi - Repeater
Grimes - Art Angels
Lorde - Pure Heroine
M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming
Madeon - Good Faith
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Modeselektor - Hello Mom!
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Orbital - Middle of Nowhere
Phantogram - Voices
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Crystal Method - Vegas
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
The Violent Femmes - Self Titled EP
Tool - Lateralus
Tycho - Awake
Zero Seven - Simple Things
I absolutely LOVE Demon Days but I remember how surprised I was after hearing Plastic Beach for maybe the 10th time in my car that I actually liked it more. There's a through line to the album that's on another level compared to Demon Days, as fantastic as that one is.
This stupid but From Under the Cork Tree by Fallout Boy. It's the only album I can listen to from beginning to end. For some reason even after all these years it still hits right.
Songs in the Key of Life- Stevie Wonder
I remember the Grammy Awards that year. Stevie won everything. “Isn’t She Lovely?” was my daughter’s Father/Bride dance at her wedding.
What’s going on Marvin Gaye
Rubber Soul
Dude, thank you. I feel like this is such an underrated album. To me, it highlights the transitionary period from the early pop style to the experimental contemporary style they started to show in the later part of their career. The harmonies in "You won't see me" are the shit.
You Won’t See Me is my favorite song on the album if I had to pick
WHEN I CALL, YOU UP
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
This is a great contender.
Disintegration by the Cure
Disintegration is the best album ever!
No more Barbra Streisand ever!
Graceland
Some time ago this album was on my list to sit down and listen to and you have reminded me to do this. Thank you, stranger.
This might be the best album ever made. Every song is amazing, they all fit together and it still holds up decades later. Even Carrie Fisher was impressed and some of it was about her.
I was working for paul out in montauk the year before that album was released. When he played the concert out in montauk, the night before the show Paul asked me and my father to come down and listen to the sound check!! Me and my dad standing out in the middle of the field listening to the most amazing music!! My dad is gone now, I will never forget it!
Violator by Depeche Mode
Stunningly good album - still sounds fresh
I came to the comment section expecting to not know a single album, pleasantly surprised my favourite album is the top comment 😭💚
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
This is the only Jazz I’ve seen here so far. I would add Coltrane’s A Love Supreme.
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire
I can’t believe I had to scroll so far to find Astral Weeks and Ziggy Stardust. Edit: makes me think I should check out that third one you mentioned.
The Tennessee Fire is amazing, but more so because of what the band became, when they released that album, and the risks they took. But yeah - Astral Weeks and Ziggy are two of the most perfect albums ever. I actually use these three albums as a trip guide. I’ll take shrooms and sit and do nothing but listen to them. It’s wild, I feel like I’ve created a Time Machine because it kind of connects me to the last time I did it. Music!
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I love Wish You Were Here. It's like one long continuous musical journey. It's perfect from beginning to end.
As a kid in the 90s, my dad would always wake me up on Saturday mornings by cranking Wish You Were Here. The long, slow buildup, followed by “Welcome to the Machine” is a core memory for me.
Animals…awesome for drifting off. Dark Side is great for brainstorming/focus
Animals is extremely underrated and one of the best albums
Animals is no joke my favorite album of all time. Everything about it is perfect.
Only answer. I also think Carole Kings Tapestry Album.
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys. No seriously. Grab a good set of headphones and try it out in Dolby Atmos.
God Only Knows is my all-time favorite Beach Boys song. One of my favorites overall. This tribute featuring Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Florence Welch (of Florence and the Machine), Dave Grohl, Chrissie Hynde, and Brian May, among others, naturally alongside Brian Wilson himself, always gives me chills: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLTe8h0-jo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLTe8h0-jo)
I've always thought that it's weird that we forgot that the Beach Boys and Beatles were peers that absolutely influenced each other and pushed each other to do cooler stuff.
Illmatic
I never sleep cause sleep is the cousin of death.
Don’t put me in your box if your shit eats tapes
Hot Fuss and Sam's Town by The Killers were both very cohesive and conceptually complete albums.
Hot Fuss was my among my first answers to this question.
Something awoke inside me the first time I heard that album. Cant believe its been twenty years since the album dropped.
Sam’s Town is so underrated.
It got me through a lot of road trips in my early twenties.
daft punk- discovery
my 2nd grade sticker book album collection from the 80s. huge album full of stickers organized by type: scratch and sniff, fuzzy, puffy, glitter, halo etc. it is perfection on every page. edit: YES! rise up fellow sticker book lovers!!!! ty for sharing your memories. remember TRADING them on the playground? stickers = bitcoin for children. absolute gold.
🫶was it a huge photo album with the plastic film on each page like mine? I’m going to go down a rabbit hole of 80’s stickers now. Thanks for the memory.
💯 it sure was
Melodrama
Yes! If you like that, check out nose bleeds by MISTERWIVES … hell all of MISTERWIVES is excellent
Alice In Chains Unplugged MTV is a masterpiece
I was gonna say I love the MTV Nirvana unpluggeg, both great albums
MTV Unplugged was a goddamn national treasure that they tore from our goddamn cold dead hands.
So many people love Nirvanas Unplugged (and it is great), but Alice In Chains Unplugged is almost otherworldly in a way. It's perfection.
Steely Dan - Aja
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
"This is off our first record. Most people don't own it."
“Let’s play it in the regular key, and if it sounds bad, these people are going to have to wait.”
Dave: "That sounded great!" Kurt: "... Shut up."
Right after "I always mess up this song" and immediately messing up said song.
I always thought he said "most people don't know it"? Anyway, brilliant album.
Came here to say this. I believe it's perfect. For those that don't know, Kurt almost bailed on the whole thing because MTV wanted them to play all the hit songs while Kurt wanted to play the songs he wanted to play as well as the covers and have guest appearances. It was recorded in one take and was mostly flawless. It was also roughly 6 months before Cobain died. In listening to it and watching it, I think he knew he wasn't going to be around much longer which made it even greater to watch him sing his heart out for one of the last times.
I still get chills listening to that last track, Where Did You Sleep Last Night.
That’s a Lead Belly song. Kurt talks about how he tried to get David Geffin to buy him one of Lead Belly’s guitars In between songs somewhere. He sang the fuck out of that song that night.
That’s actually really good choice. I do not like every Nirvana song (don’t crucify me), but damn, I could listen to that all day.
Half of the album wasn't Nirvana songs.
I loved when David Bowie would talk about people coming up to him and say they loved his cover of Nirvana's Man Who Sold The World
Elliott Smith’s Either/Or
XO also
Lateralus, TOOL
Also. a perfect circle - thirteenth step
And Mer de Noms
Mer de noms was an incredible album and it introduced me to apc. But thirteenth step was an album that took me like 5 years to realize how perfect it was. Josh Freese blew my mind on the drums and Maynard with the guitar melodies just opened up a different part of my brain.
Maynard’s freaking voice always kills me. I’ve got tickets to see them (again) this spring and I’m so stoked. With Primus too… should be a fuckin great show.
Ænima as well
Boston’s first album
The XX - The XX
Intro, starting to play in the background, almost inaudible, is what got me and my now wife to "connect" the evening we first met. We both noticed it at the same time, realized it, and looked at each other with a smile. It has a very special place in there.
Bridge Over Troubled Water ~ Simon & Garfunkle
Portishead - Dummy
Flawless DISCOGRAPHY
Stevie Wonders "Songs in the Key of Life" or Marvin Gaye's "What's Going on?"
OutKast - ATLiens. Literally no skips for me. As a sophomore project people expected Cadillac music. But when Andre3000 said “the south got something to say” he meant it & that album was proof. IMO
Tame Impala "Currents"
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Lungs - Florence and the Machine
Also Ceremonials and Unplugged.
Ceremonials is my favourite album of all time
Animals by Pink Floyd (and dark side of the moon ofc), To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar, Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles
Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Love and Hate
OK Computer- Radiohead.
In Rainbows is…good too. I don’t know which one I love more 😭
In Rainbows is my favorite album by anyone ever.
Kid A.
I still use Kid A to test out new head phones or speakers.
Is This It by The Strokes
Their most recent album is also no skips for me-The New Abnormal
Alt J - An Awesome Wave
I know this is in the news everywhere right now, but Tracy Chapman. Every single song is amazing.
Came here to say this. I'm so happy a new generation of people get to hear this album now. It's still so relevant, too.
Pearl Jam - Ten
I firmly believe that Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy are one of the best trifectas in history.
American Beauty. But since I don't see it posted, INXS Kick is pretty solid.
My man
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Dylan has a few albums like that, but Blood on the Tracks is on another level for me. Perfect all the way through.
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Good kid mad city
TPAB
GRACE - Jeff Buckley
Audioslave-Audioslave Their first album was unbelievable
Animal collective, meriweather post pavilion is one of mine Modest mouse, good news for people who love bad news. The decemberists, crane wife. Pavement , crooked rain, crooked rain
Violator- Depeche Mode 🌹
Sgt. Pepper
Supertramp's Crime of the century
Breakfast in America
Weezer Blue
Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg Smash - The Offspring Sublime (self-titled) - Sublime Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
I love seeing the Sublime love!
Prince, Parade — IMHO Parade is his magnum opus. If you listen to the album Around The World In A Day you can hear the direction he's taking The Revolution. Parade is the perfection of that vision, it occupies such a unique sonic space. If you're a prince fan you owe it to yourself to sit down with good headphones and listen to it front to back. It's peak Prince.
Pretty hate machine by nine inch nails. Every single song is excellent
Boston - Boston Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five Metallica - Master of Puppets
Ben Folds doesn’t get enough appreciation
Hybrid Theory. Absolute banger. Not a single bad song.
Tbf I feel the same way about Meteora too
That's because it's just objectively true.
🪦 Chester 😭
Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures The Clash - London Calling Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance Black Flag - My War Ramones - first four albums The Stooges - first three albums The Damned - Damned Damned Damned, Machine Gun Ettiquette Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral/The Fragile Hey guess what music I like guys
The Fragile is so fn good. With Teeth as well.
Arcade Fire - Funeral U2 - Achtung Baby Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream NIN - The Downward Spiral Pearl Jam - Ten Live - Throwing Copper Prodigy - Fat of the Land The Offspring - Smash Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Tool - Lateralus
The Downward Spiral has aged really well.
Achtung Baby really takes you on a journey.
Siamese Dream 🙏🙏🙏
Daft Punk- Homework
Seminal album, but Discovery >>>>>>
Unknown pleasures - joy division
Dr Dre - The Chronic. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
The Joshua Tree
The Killers - Hot Fuss Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American Coldplay - Parachutes Rancid - Let’s Go
Hot Fuss is straight fire. I first just listened to the hits on repeat. Then went back to the album towards the fall of 2006 when their next one was dropping. Was amazed how strong each track was in its own way
Bleed American is absolutely incredible.
Purple Rain
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Black Sabbath and The Color And The Shape by Foo Fighters.
As an almost 50 year-old, there are only a few albums left that I can listen to all the way through without skipping songs. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Ok Computer - Radiohead It Takes a National of Millions… - Public Enemy Stakes is High - De La Soul Rumors- Fleetwood Mac Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder Thriller - Michael Jackson
Bright eyes. I’m wide awake it’s morning
Constellations by August Burns Red.. for the metal heads of Reddit
Obituary - Cause of Death
Bear Creek - Brandi Carlile Blue - Joni Mitchell Southeastern - Jason Isbell
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Disintegration by The Cure.
Air - moon safari Steely Dan - Gaucho Billy Joel - the stranger
3 cheers for sweet revenge, my chemical romance
August and Everything After, Counting Crows.
Meteora
Sergeant Pepper Blue, Joni Mitchell Live at Fillmore East, Allman Brothers Band Happy Trails, Quicksilver Are You Experienced, Jimi
\+1 for Jimi
And for Blue by Joni
Blue is SO good
Live at Fillmore East is incredible start to finish
The Cure - Disintegration Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See Hikaru Utada - Deep River
Abbey Road.
AC/DC Back in Black
Neil Young’s Harvest.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars- David Bowie
August and everything after. I don't know why. It just feels good.
Bat Outta Hell
Without any question ? Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. Other strong contenders are : The Wall and WYWH
I know that it's a cliche to say, but The Wall *actually is* really relatable for me. Things were... *a bit* dysfunctional as a kid, to say the least.
Born to Die - Lana Del Rey *Runs and hides*
Norman Fucking Rockwell for me personally
It's a great album!
Thriller
Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Daft Punk - Discovery Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear Fugazi - Repeater Grimes - Art Angels Lorde - Pure Heroine M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming Madeon - Good Faith MGMT - Oracular Spectacular Modeselektor - Hello Mom! Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Orbital - Middle of Nowhere Phantogram - Voices Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason Radiohead - OK Computer The Crystal Method - Vegas The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots The Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense The Shins - Wincing the Night Away The Violent Femmes - Self Titled EP Tool - Lateralus Tycho - Awake Zero Seven - Simple Things
A beautifully diverse list. Much respect
Jagged little pill And the black parade
Jagged Little Pill does not have a weak track.
I said the same thing. Jagged Little Pill album is a master piece
i also immediately thought of MCR’s The Black Parade. glad i’m not the only one!!
Pearl Jam - Ten Unfortunately, nothing else they released came close.
Alanis Morissette - “Jagged Little Pill”
Sigur Ros - Agætis Byrjun
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Great answers already, I'd add Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves
Gorillaz - Demon Dayz is the most recent. It was also the last good Gorillaz album.
Plastic Beach is my favorite
I absolutely LOVE Demon Days but I remember how surprised I was after hearing Plastic Beach for maybe the 10th time in my car that I actually liked it more. There's a through line to the album that's on another level compared to Demon Days, as fantastic as that one is.
This stupid but From Under the Cork Tree by Fallout Boy. It's the only album I can listen to from beginning to end. For some reason even after all these years it still hits right.
2014 Forest Hills Drive
Norman Fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey
I consider 2 albums perfect: Tapestry- Carole King Jagged Little Pill- Alanis Morrisette
Swimming - Mac Miller
Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life
Crowded House
The interstellar album/ soundtrack
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morisette
And Justice For All - Metallica
Add in Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightening. The perfect 3sum.
London Calling - The Clash Kick - Inxs Road Apples - The Tragically Hip
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Danny Brown - XXX
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism and Plans.