I often think about stellar albums. The ones where they’re really isn’t a skip-able track. Off the top of my head, these come to mind: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Collective Soul Collective Soul (blue album), Bush 16 Stone, and Green Day Dookie. What are some of your perfect albums?

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    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.

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    Tool - Aenima

    Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience

    Dead Can Dance - Spirit chaser

    Depeche Mode - Violator

    Faith No More - The Real Thing.

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      Spiritchaser is amazing. Dead Can Dance in general is really good music.

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        Personally. DCD is my all time favorite artist for over 30 years of my life. Every album of theirs is perfection. Aion and Spleen & Ideal are my favorites.

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          I’d go with “Within the Realm of a Dying Sun”. Track 7 (“Summoning of the Muse”) is my favorite song by any artist.

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    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).

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      Lovely to see a mention of PSB here. Inform - Educate - Entertain is such a great record, and I loved Bright Magic so much that I bought it on CD so I could rip the highest quality possible for my iPod.

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      A Lesson in Crime was definitely a fantastic debut, I’m also a big fan of their Champ album. Breakneck Speed is one of my favorite songs!

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    Discovery by Daft Punk is a no skip for me. Also food and liquor by lupe fiasco.

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    • 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
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    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.

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      It’s been almost a year since The Forever Story came out, but it was a classic in my mind from the first second I heard it. I haven’t listened to as much hip hop these past few years but that album pulled me right back in.

      I’m not the biggest fan of J Cole, but he’s discovered and boosted some amazing artists.

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    • Dream Theater: Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
    • Pink Floyd: The Final Cut
    • Tool: Lateralus
    • The Prodigy: The Fat of the Land
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    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

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    “Gorillaz - Demon Days” It is like a story unfolding, where they really have fun with the music, and effortlessly meld through different genres.

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      I’ve always been more of a Black Parade fan, but Three Cheers is possibly a more cohesive experience that doesn’t jump around different genres as much.

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        I like the fact that The Black Parade jumps genres it really adds to the ‘world-building’ and storytelling of the patient and the parader.

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    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.

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      Siamese Dreams is one album I have been able to go back to year after year and enjoy from start to finish. First album I ever owned.

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      I’ve just started listening to Siamese Dream again, it’s one of my go-to summer albums. My favorite Pumpkins album my far, It’s just so crisp and crunchy in such a pleasing way

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

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      It’s odd but Kid A didn’t click with me until after I’d heard Amnesiac. I think the follow-up album might’ve worked as a kind of gateway into a more electronic sound.

      I listened through Amnesiac maybe half a dozen times before I was curious and tried Kid A again, and it was like I was hearing a completely different album. It’s funny to have my opinion of an album change so much by listening to something else entirely.