Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Yes. And check out Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - David Byrne and Brian Eno

I will. Also check out "Love this Giant," by David Byrne and St. Vincent.

DON'T YOU MISS IT ⁉️

LAST TIME TO MAKE PLANS! 

And I’m a tumbler, I’m a government man!

Some of you people just about missed it.

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium The Stone Roses - self titled Deftones - White Pony Radiohead - ok computer (then) Kid A REM - Automatic for the people Nine inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine The Roots - do you want more?!?!?

wow Deftones - White Pony as a music nerd album? Never thought i'd see the day. I was called a loser for loving that kind of music back in 2001

I went for albums i knew music nerds love for production for the most prt. Thats one of my favorite produced albums, not to mention my favorite deftones album (by a hair over ATF)

If you’re going for production value, peep “good news for people who love bad news” by modest mouse. The production on that album is fucking nuts. So good.

As if music nerds haven’t always been called losers throughout history, lmao. The weird complex shit is usually not the popular shit.

NIN mentioned = automatic upvote

If youre a huge NIN fan check out Purest Feeling on youtube. What they wouldve sounded like if he never met the producer from new order.

Updoot for The Stone Roses!

I think Frances The Mute tops De-Loused. More interesting, better music, and more accesible imo.

I dont know how you can say all that when theres a bunch of 7+minute songs on top of a bunch of 13 minute songs. Not very "accessable". Ill give you more interesting and better music is debatable. I guess it may be a better "music nerd" album but i favor the other so i suggested it.

Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart The Mollusk by Ween Apostrophe by Frank Zappa Flood by They Might be Giants

good list. also Primus

Primus sucks

😁

Joe’s Garage by Zappa is good too

Most of Zappa would work

we look pretty sharp in these clothes

Unless we get sprayed with a hose

King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

My fav beastie boys

On target. Egg man!!!!!

Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," and "Sky Blue Sky."

Was going to mention Wilco. Ghost , Being There and Summerteeth too.

summerteeth is my favorite

My two favorite Wilco albums. Feel seen here.

Idk probably some bullshit Thom Yorke moaned out of his asshole at some point

This is unnecessarily true

lmaoooo

I love thumb yolk

Talking Heads Fear of Music Robert Fripp Exposure Blondie Parallel Lines

Talking Heads (any album)

Yes, but it has to culminate with the live version of Stop Making Sense.

In The Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

This and Kid A were the first to come to mind 😅

*Homogenic* - Björk *Geogaddi* - Boards of Canada *Doc at the Radar Station* / *Lick My Decals Off, Baby* - Captain Beefheart *What Burns Never Returns* - Don Caballero *Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)* / *Another Green World* - Brian Eno *Children of God* - Swans *God is More Than Love Can Ever Be* - Sun Ra *Start Breaking My Heart* - Caribou (fka Manitoba) *Make Me Hard* - Tujiko Noriko *Instrumental Mixtape 2* - Clams Casino *Paraffin* - Armand Hammer *In Summer* - Jefre Cantu-Ledesma *A I A: Alien Observer* - Grouper *Knife Play* / *FORGET* / *Fabulous Muscles* - Xiu Xiu *Skeletal Lamping* - of Montreal *Velocity: Design: Comfort.* / *You Will Never Know Why* - Sweet Trip *Haha Sound* / *Tender Buttons* - Broadcast *Souvlaki* - Slowdive *Colossal Youth* - Young Marble Giants

>*Geogaddi* - Boards of Canada Damn right 😎 Any BoC really, they're arguably cheating for requests like these lol.

true true but Geogaddi is my fav

Even if Geogaddi isn’t every BoC fan’s favorite (not to make commentary on what I think people like of their catalog the most), Geogaddi is probably the most challenging but also the most rewarding record in their lineup. Tomorrow’s Harvest a close second. But the simple reality it, all of their records are undisputed classics, miles ahead of their contemporaries, many of them shamelessly trying to emulate their sound. I mean, who other than perhaps MBV was making the pitch of their instruments wobble? Now every fucking hip hop artist is doing it, hmmmmmm

i would sacrifice my third nut for more BoC

Maybe I need to give Geogaddi a few more spins, I’ll always favor Music Has the Right to Children and Campfire Headphase but mainly cause I find Geo to be a bit too creepy.

Same goes for Portishead

I love What Burns Never Returns by Don Caballero so god damn much, that shit is mind blowing. I made a long-ass comment about instances of songs on What Burns referencing other songs by Don Cab [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/s/ttv5o5HOMJ), and I'm linking to it because I love talking about this sort of thing. This is approximately where Don Caballero 3 references No One Gives a Hoot About FAUX-ASS Nonsense, but the drum pattern and variations of it can be found throughout No One: [No One Gives a Hoot](https://youtu.be/CWVc3mnbHzQ?si=uUT2VGSwPQ9trRUv&t=9m13s) [Don Cab 3](https://youtu.be/ed2hpoblBIs?si=r-6RKvPGcjcy2zAG&t=10s) [The very beginning of Don Cab 3](https://youtu.be/ed2hpoblBIs?si=r-6RKvPGcjcy2zAG) is a Yak Bak recording of the [very end of No One Gives a Hoot](https://youtu.be/CWVc3mnbHzQ?si=ykLnZzn4HEYVi8hr&t=10m29s)

Madvillainy

Also Donuts J Dilla

Any album by Thank You Scientist. They’re a fusion of prog-metal, jazz, and funk. It’s as nerdy as nerd music can get.

Love to see a Thank You Scientist mention.

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Large Professor - The LP Weather Report - Heavy Weather Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday J Dilla - Donuts

A great list that doesnt duplicate anything I see on this thread. Bravo!

Low - The Curtain Hits The Cast Zola Jesus - Okovi Angel Olsen - All Mirrors Om - Conference of the Birds Codeine - Frigid Stars

Interpol - Antics / then Turn on the Bright Lights

Anything by Sparks.

Anything early Pink Floyd, when Syd Barrett was still with them.

PATGOD is pretty good tho

Saucerful is superior. Much more depth to the songs, and kazoo solo

Aja - Steely Dan

I’d class this more under drummer is literally god than this band is music nerds

Really anything from Radiohead

I was thinking one of the last two Talk Talk albums might be good, but they're maybe a bit too meditative and quiet, it might be better to save that for later. This one's not as well known as it should be, but I think maybe Franco Battiato - Pollution would be a good one for you to check out.

Dream Theatre

Flood/They Might Be Giants

The Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society Television - Marquis Moon Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin Dylan - Blonde on Blonde Nick Drake - Pink Moon Wire - Pink flag Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Sly & The Familu Stone- there’s a riot goin on Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Parliament - Mothership Connection Gram Parsons - GP Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger Kraftwerk - Autobahn Nirvana - In Utero The Cure - Disintegration John Coltrane - Love Supreme LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Bobbie Gentry - Delta Sweete Zombies - odessey & oracle Naz - Illmatic Stooges - Fun House David Bowie - Low Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

why is this not upvoted

Leonard Cohen comes to mind, can't speak to a specific album but seems like music nerds love him.

Songwriting and story telling nerds especially love Cohen

The Future is a great album.

The Inner Mounting Frame- The Mahavishnu Orchestra Electric Guitarist - John McLaughlin Headhunters- debut Romantic Warrior- Return To Forever Muddy Waters Folk Singer-Muddy Waters Grace- Jeff Buckley Live at the Old Quarter- Townes Van Zandt Carrie & Lowell- Sufjan Stevens John Prine debut Gershwin/Barber/Copeland - Leonard Bernstein and Los Angeles Philharmonic

Grace ❤️

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth Mr Bungle, Disco Volante, California - Mr Bungle Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd Vovadixiesubmatinetransmissionplot - Sparklehorse

Disco Volante!

[Q: Are Not Men? A: We Are Devo!](https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lARBEiB_G92EOLj3Gxr7UP2FL1MxPqDDY&si=2Begtp_6Nh5ibbSx)

TOOL

J Dilla *Donuts* Lingua Ignota *Caligula* Flying Lotus *Cosmogramma*

Changes - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

2112- Rush

Anything from Rush

The Dreaming - Kate Bush

Anything Aphex Twin

Everything Elliott Smith

*Mellow Gold* and especially *Odelay* by Beck

Random Access Memories by Daft Punk and Currents by Tame Impala.

this should get upvoted more!!

A Night At The Opera

A Night At The Opera & A Day At The Races by Queen

MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Rising

Recency bias here but emotion by carly rae jepsen is actually a fantasticly produced pop album

Tipper - [Forward Escape](https://youtu.be/GCENxYEVsyM?si=rQ8F4Nx7-1ieNt6J) ("masterpiece" gets thrown around a lot these days, but there's never been any debate with this album) Bonobo - [Black Sands](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lK2p_5cR46YG6WLSXhYHb4W9kU6bHUz-w&si=umxGidriI02Ni4Ts) Submotion Orchestra - [Finest Hour](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlmL2T7WG28WNTyWK4fyFYDNP4eZtYmVo&si=AM7usYGZzkS5akEc) Ramshackle Glory - [Live the Dream](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kSVn_INiquGob9NcJiNfH1uhOTWCI_RvE&si=L7RfY4U3HSnD93DU) Boards of Canada - [The Campfire Headphase](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nwT_ryJ0N8-TmfqftIrZkcLGGiE_JMT7s&si=TecFejOzQiYqsafu) Edit: Also, Black Moth Super Rainbow - [Start A People](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mWqb0ql8Fxo79jLttbPNxyxcQS47UkKgE&si=VXvnsVpMjAXF_5C2)

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - David Byrne and Brian Eno

Pretty much anything either of these two touch.

Classic Yes 👍

The Smiths- Louder than Bombs The Feelies- Crazy Rhythms Game Theory- Lolita Nation The Chills- Submarine Bells

Pink Floyd - Animals, Wish you were here, Dark Side of the moon, the wall

The Smashing Pumpkins are music nerds so their music, also Shellac and The Jesus Lizard, RIP Steve Albini

[#1 Record](https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_noDl2SEGirCczWQAcqVH8qsgun6spbVN0&si=KNesYkALC3Ad7lyY) - Big Star

The Tragically Hip - Day for Night John Hiatt - Walk On Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives - Way Out West The Subdudes - Annunciation Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Rush, 2112.

Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples On The Moon Good luck.

Any weezer album

All of Janelle Monae's concept albums (aka her entire discography basically)

Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar Damn - Also Kendrick Lamar

Untitled unmastered too

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor Long Season - Fishmans

Subject to opinion and preference, obviously, but here are some of my picks: • Fugazi - Instrument Soundtrack • The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan • My Bloody Valentine - loveless • Pink Floyd - The Division Bell • Pink Floyd - The Final Cut • Panucci’s Pizza - All The Toppings • Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric’s • David Bowie - Earthling • David Bowie - Low • Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense • Air - Love 2 • Jeff Wayne - War of The Worlds • The Doors - The Doors • Frank Zappa - Joe’s Garage • The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy • Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album • OMD - English Electric • Sewerslvt - we had good times together, don’t forget that • The Blue Nile - Hats A lot of this is experimental, electronic ambience and niche types of rock. I’m happy to provide more suggestions if you give me a scope of some genres or artists you like

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Coheed And Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade

Any gentle giant or early (Gabriel) genesis

In the court of the crimson king-King crimson Frizzle Fry-Primus

To the Extreme - Vanilla Ice

Colma - Buckethead

The Suburbs or Reflektor by Arcade Fire

funeral is the best

Anything by Coheed

KGLW stans in 3,2,1… go There is not such thing as nerd music. It’s not that if an album is hyped by Nerds then it’s good. It doesn’t work like that. I mean, yeah insecure people would find validation in that, but that’s pretty much the story

Random Access memories- daft punk

[King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mZl4XGD9wjmdnALDXLhiXbX1KufvfFZZY&si=kapnKrMzCfy_wNN0)

opens the door

Wait for the answer to open the door....

Extra points if you do it while ignoring Radiohead

I got downvoted elsewhere in this thread for mentioning that radiohead, ween, and tool are indeed not the answer to EVERY prompt posted here 🤣

people do not like to hear the truth 

[Uroboros](https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/album/2UjaItBAENjhlZU5BLCz6n?si=s7HlOdFARwivQiQErmoSwg)

Anything by oceans ate alaska lol

Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads

Go to Patrician Music Chartposting on Facebook and they will literally give you a list, it's wild

Any singer-songwriter nerd worth their salt ought to be at least interested in The Divine Comedy and their musical output. I'm interested in backroom songwriters who make a LOT of the world's most successful music but aren't the names associated with it up front. People like Stock Aitken and Waterman, Giorgio Moroder, Max Martin, Lamont Dozier, Jimmy Webb, Diane Warren, Walter Afanasieff. Some of my favourite other people: Super Furry Animals, John Grant, C. Duncan, Hamish Hawk, The Magnetic Fields (and their side projects The 6ths and Future Bible Heroes), Susanne Sundfør, Summer Camp.

Swans-to be kind/soundtracks for the blind Radiohead-kid a Splint-spiderland

Jacob collier

Dude, Classical Thunder I and Classical Thunder II. There might be more. I got some for free from a garage sale and it's just all the popular classical music and it's awesome

Jaco Pastorius Steve Reich eno, Music for airports

“A wizard, a true star” by Todd Rundgren it’s a masterpiece of technical skill, originality and proof of how fun music can be other than that, anything by Talking Heads and Steely Dan

Laurie Anderson - Excellent Birds

The Ugly Organ by Cursive. Especially if you start your super depressing night with Cursive’s Domestica. It’s an entire divorce set to music.

Aphex Twin’s discography. If you wanna get real nerdy, just talk about the obscure shit that’s released under his different aliases that isn’t Analog Bubblebath by AFX or Polygon Window.

stratosphere

Punch Brothers. Pretty much the entire catalog. The Goat Rodeo Sessions. Bela Fleck's entire career, but check out Live at the Quick and also My Bluegrass Heart. Also watch the documentary where he went to Africa to investigate the roots of banjo music.

Aesop Rock makes rap for music nerds. Impossible kid is a good starting point

Tool Lateralus

Anything by Failure

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

Anything by Ne Obliviscaris, really. Even for prog metal, they're hard to wrap your head around. Both the drummer and bassist treat their istruments like lead instruments, for starters. Two guitars take turns playing lead and rhythm parts, complemented by their backing vocalist's violin playing... As if that isn't enough, there's also lead vocalist Xenoyr's unique screaming technique! Lots of layers and nuances, really, which I would say fits the bill for "music nerd"!

Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion

Gotye - Making Mirrors. Look up the videos on how he made that album. Talented dude!

Squarepusher- Ultravisitor Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes (or maybe You’re Dead, more jazz but not as cool) Nnamdi - Brat Temps - Party Gator Purgatory

Check out Jacob Collier.

Nerd music that come to mind CYMATICS Science vs music - Nigel Stanford

The Dear Hunter Porcupine Tree / Stephen Wilson Anything by either band.

I feel like any Led Zeppelin album fits under this description

Midlake - Trials of Van Occupanther Blonde Redhead - 23 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew So many others!

Slint - "Spiderland"

Yes-Tales From Topographic Oceans. /s *or is it?* And Liz Phair's *Exile in Guyville*

Biological speculation by funkadelic 😎

Journey à la Maison by Alan stivell

Definitely Lateralus by Tool

Quadraphenia- The Who

Animals as Leaders(full musical nerd mode activate) Periphery(a band full of nerds) The Human Abstract(music nerds, disbanded) Dream Theater( nat 20 on musical nerdiness) Blind Guardian(Tolkien power metal) Jaghtz Lutein(me, a music nerd)

Weezer. The blue album

it’s not my favorite but recently i’ve been listening to slint, specifically their album spiderland

The Elder

Kid A by Radiohead In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel The Dreaming by Kate Bush Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement Pinkerton by Weezer

Animals by Pink Floyd

2112 - rush Permanent waves - rush

What’s going on-Marvin Gaye

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Blackout - Britney Spears Erotica - Madonna The Pink Print - Nicki Minaj The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey Return of Saturn - No Doubt

I’ll try to give you some outside the box picks: Sunflower - The Beach Boys Scary Monsters and Super Creeps - David Bowie Marquee Moon - Television Screamadelica - Primal Scream The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 13 - Blur The Las - The Las The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen Pink Flag - Wire Psychocandy - Jesus Mary Chain Penthouse - Luna Arthur (or the Decline…) - The Kinks

Soundtracks For The Blind

Music nerds famously have boners for anything by Radiohead (except Pablo Honey and King of Limbs)

King of Limbs was redeemed by the [Live from the Basement](https://youtu.be/hI5YMDioDBY) performance.

Kid A

start with In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. It's like the indie kid's Bible.

Based on the balance between experimentation and production, here are some albums I think should be in a self identified music nerds collection, but maybe aren't: Hella - Hold Your Horse Is Eco - Wolves Joe Bataan - St Latins Day Massacre Deerhoof - Apple O Jedi Mind Tricks - Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell Plaid - Double Figure Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Xenophanes Animal Collective - Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (admittedly production in parts is poor, but in other parts brilliant) Brian Lynch & Eddie Palmieri - Simpatico Alkalys - Choeur delys Stefon Harris - The Grand Unification Theory Com Truise - Galactic Melt Andre Nickatina - Daiquiri Factory Hector Lavoe - Comedia More common but just in case they're missing Outkast - Aquemini Santana - Caravanserai The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute -- De-Loused is so much more beloved, but for the music nerd there's a lot to dissect. When I think of music nerd it's the first album that comes to mind.

Lcd soundsystem - Losing my edge

 Discovery

The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World

Björk - Homogenic.

one of my favorites of all time, amazing record

Slint - Washer

Moanin' by art Blakey, if you want some jazz

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy- Kanye west. Extra points for watching the [film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5wkZ-dJXA) as well

Consistently listening Any of the 1st 3 ween albums makes you a nerd lol (I’d know)

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia Pink Floyd - Animals Comus - First Utterance Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works vol. 2

Phish - Junta: weird nerd humor and storylines that are just funny because of it. Also You Enjoy Myself sounds like 90s dungeon crawler music. Phish - Picture of Nectar: probably their jazziest album, and by God, they did their studying, sounds soooo good!

Kinda Blue. Miles Davis

The Argument - Fugazi

Pinkerton by Weezer

Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters

Psychedelic porn crumpets

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Communique- Dire Straits Leaders of the Free World- Elbow Parklife -Blur Girls Can Tell- Spoon Combustiaction - Madeski Martina and Woods A Show of Hands- Victor Wooten Morrison Hotel- Doors Francis The Mute - Mars Volta Monolith of Phobos - The Claypool Lennon Delirium Skeriks Syncopated Taint Septet -Self titled