Music

Going by music genre:

Hip Hop: To Pimp A Butterfly (by Kendrick Lamar), The Forever Story (JID), Madvillainy (MF DOOM), Hell on Earth (Mobb Deep)

Electronic: Selected Ambient Works (Aphex Twin), Exai (Autechre), Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique (μ-Ziq)

Black Metal: Filosofem (Burzum), Panzerfaust (Darkthrone), Pure Holocaust (Immortal), Exuvia (The Ruins of Beverast)

Death Metal: Scream Bloody Gore (Death), Realm of Chaos (Bolt Thrower), Under the Sign of the Black Mark (Bathory)

Country: Southbound (Doc Watson), Poor David's Almanack (David Rawlings)

I'm just breaking into country and jazz. If anyone has some classic must-listen albums, I'd be all ears.

This is going to be a random list but:

Tool - Lateralus

Green Day - American Idiot

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory and Meteora

Basically anything by Animals As Leaders

Iron Maiden - Number of the beast

Sepultura - Arise and Chaos AD

Nirvana - Bleach and Nevermind

Elder - Lore and Reflections of a floating world

Blood Incantation - Starspawn

Killswitch Engage - Alive or just breathing

Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Architects - LF/LT

Dr Dre - 2001

• Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse
• Sgt Pepper, The Beatles
• The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga
• Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Elton John
• Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy

The first album that I ever bought back in the day from my pocket money was Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park.

Only later I found out that this feeling of listening to every song of an album multiple times without getting bored or just not liking some or most of them is not the norm.

I enjoyed the album right away. But only after being disappointed in all other albums that I bought over the next months I started to realize what an incredible gem Hybrid Theory is.

I had the same magical feeling with Meteora. Sadly, the following albums could not keep it up for me.

I still love HT and M to this day and listen to it monthly. Amazing albums by an amazing band.

Ok, now that more people have posted long lists, I don’t feel so bad about mine ;)

• Arcade Fire – Funeral
• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
• At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (also their EPs Vaya and In/Casino/Out)
• Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
• Mercury Rev – Deserter's Songs
• My Morning Jacket – Z
• Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
• Radiohead – OK Computer
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• The Decemberists – Picaresque
• The Diggs – Commute
• The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
• The Libertines – s/t
• The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
• The Notwist – Shrink
• Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson in Crime (just a fantastic debut; barely an album though)

German:

• Deichkind – Niveau Weshalb Warum

Some may be an acquired taste (PSB?, also I know that The Libertines’ is not everyone’s favorite – but it’s mine :). The Arcade Fire, even though I don’t listen to them these days that much, is decade-defining for me, as is Radiohead’s OK Computer (together with Nevermind, although for some reason it didn’t make this list).

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea

how do you not have Dark Side of the Moon in that list?

The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Honorable mention

The Black Keys - Thickfreakness The White Stripes - Icky Thump CeeLo Green - The Lady Killer

I have very little concept of what songs are from which albums anymore thanks to modern streaming subscriptions.

Radiohead's Kid A has no filler tracks. Anyone who thinks Treefingers is filler is wrong

Makoto Matsushita - First Light

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Psychology, Presto

Dogs in a Pile - Bloom, Not Your Average Beagle

Nautilus - Refrain

Teako Onuki - Mignonne, Sunshower

Grateful Dead - Cornell 5/8/77, American Beauty

Anthrax - Spreading the Disease

Bad Religion - No Control, The Empire Strikes First

Led Zeppelin - II, IV

Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien

War Bringer - Woe to the Vanquished

Havok - Conformicide

Loudness - Thunder in the East

Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places

Rainbow - Difficult to Cure, Straight Between the Eyes

Casiopea - CASIOPEA, Asian Dreamer, Material

Phish - Farmhouse, Hoist

Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife

Might've went a bit overboard lol

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!!

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique is and always will be an absolute masterpiece to me. It was awesome 20 years ago and still goes hard to this day.

The first two that came to mind:

• Bob Mould - Workbook
• The Stone Roses - self-titled debut

• The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
• Fugazi - The Argument
• Slint - Spiderland
• American Football - LP1
• toe - The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety
• The Cure - Disintegration
• TTNG - Animals
• Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
• At The Drive-in - Relationship of Command
• Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Mezzanine - Massive Attack

The Fat of the Land - The Prodigy

Some I've been listening to lately:

• Talk Talk - spirit of Eden
• Prefab sprout - Steve Mcqueen
• The dismemberment plan - Emergency and I

I know I am alone on this but,

my chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge

A few of my favorite classics:

• Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
• Opeth - Blackwater Park
• Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
• Yes - Close To The Edge
• Supertramp - Crime of the Century
• Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
• Genesis - Duke
• Nektar - Remember The Future
• Camel - Moonmadness

And for newer stuff, I'd go with Anno Domini High Definition by Riverside and English Electric by Big Big Train

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

This will be a wild mix of genres:

• Portishead - Dummy
• Jean-Michel Jarre - Les concerts en Chine 1981
• The black Keys - El Camino
• ZZ Top - Eliminator
• Console - Herself
• The glitch mob - Drink in the sea

and some albums I already saw here.

Bonus:

• Peter Fox - Stadtaffe => this is impressive because it is one of the very few german speaking artists I like and it is a genre that I usually dislike

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.

Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise

BTBAM - Colors

It's cliche, but Dark Side of the Moon. There's a reason it's on every list of all time best albums. The whole thing just flows so well together.

Fragile - NIN Mezzanine - Massive Attack

Ott - Mir The Oh Hellos - Through the Deep Dark Valley Electric Light Orchestra - Time Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

No love for QOTSA? At least 3 spectacular albums, in no particular order:

Like Clockwork, Songs for the Deaf, Villains (contentious, I know, but I love it)

Revolver by the Beatles