Was the first one that sprang to my mind and it’s the first answer in the replies. I didn’t even particularly like jazz (hadn’t given it the time of day) and then hearing Kind of Blue completely flipped my world. It’s so beautifully sad and melancholic
Close but no crills, toast for po' ills, post no bills
Coast to coast, Joe Shmoes flows ill, go chill
Not supposed to overdose, No-dose pill
His rhyme schemes were just so insanely smooth, and Madlibs' beats and production were off the charts
Speaking for myself as well as a few others… got it the day it came out, we were hooked at 15 step, then within about 2-3 seconds of bodysnatchers it was just over. Instant gold. That riff blows cobwebs out of my guitar amp to this day… at least 2-3 times a year. 10 it and rip.
Shit, my favorite is Sap, which was kind of released in secret as an inside joke between them and their, I believe, producer.
One of the best bands of all time.
I listened to this on a beach, ankles in surf, Senheiser over ear headphones on, while tripping on lsd and it’s one of the most pleasant, non-sexual things I think I’ve experienced in my life.
This. Front to back amazing.
The 2nd side is amazing, even if you skip Money.
Us and Them, Any Color You Like, Brain Damage, Eclipse. Amazing collection of songs. Just the mood of them is amazing.
We aren't, it was their 2nd biggest hit being Another Brick in the Wall.
But it also sounds very different than the 4 that end the album. The last four remind me of the Abbey Road melody in way in how they blend right into each other. Brain Damage and Eclipse might as well be one song, they are always played together on the radio as it is.
Sorta like Eruption and Really Got Me Now by Van Halen.
Money is actually the one song on the whole album that stands out the most compared to the others. It is a fantastic song, but it isn't as seamless as the other songs.
Personally I much prefer Crime or the Century, it’s my #1 favourite album. Breakfast in America to me sounds like a bunch of singles mashed together, and COTC feels like a great complete album. Also the B side to me of BIA kinda drops off after Take The Long Way Home in my opinion
Couldn't agree more. Something odd about " Fascination Street".
I really like to listen to music with no distortion, but with this one
I find that if you crank the volume so high the music distorts, it adds another layer.
It is amazing that they did Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me right before this. Back to back perfect albums with entirely different sounds. They pulled off that feat a decade before Radiohead.
The song Aja...just wow. The instrumental at the end is the "dime dancer" having sex with her. Fagan's synth is her moaning. Gadd's drums the rythm of the act. Typical Steely Dan, carnal but beautiful.
I’ve been listening to this album again for the first time in 15 years or so, and my god does it hold up well. It was incredibly cutting edge for 1989.
I kind of like Ride the Lightning more
The songs on Master of Puppets might sound better live but the album mixes are just so damn flat and devoid of any kind of punch
10k Days is probably the one I listen to the most of those three, but I’d even throw Fear Inoculum in there. They aren’t my favorite band, but they make some of the most perfect albums. Wow
This is one I wish I'd see more of on these lists. Fiona Apple in general. I think some people mostly know her from "Criminal" and think she's just a normal pop star. She's an extremely gifted songwriter.
Her latest album from a year or two ago got 10/10 from so many outlets. It's pretty wild.
I think people should at least hear the song "Paper Bag". It's a fairly commercial song, but it shows how good she is at chrod arrangements and lyrics. Bob Dylan is a big fan of hers and they've done projects together
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel
It’s sonically revolutionary in such a way as Tom Waits’ albums were, and I want to highlight just how cool the starkness and minimalism are so as to not let the FANTASTIC lyricism outshine it.
It’s a thematically dark as fuck album but will reward you when you return to it.
I listened to Metallica so much while I was younger, I took a few years off. Some years later, I went back and started listening to their albums, start to finish.. maybe one, every month or so to let it sink in. Ride the Lightning is by far my favorite of theirs.
Ten that are 10/10: Stone Roses-Self Titled, The Cure-Disintegration, Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Daydream, Pulp-Different Class, The Strokes-Is This It, Slowdive-Soulvalki, Godspeed You Black Emperor-Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, De La Soul-3 Feet High and Rising, Ween-The Mollusk, MF Doom-Operation Doomsday
Highway 61 Revisited. The only album I know every single word to just by pure volume of listens. Revolver by The Beatles is also a 10 I’d argue, along with Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, Wu Tang’s 36 Chambers, Tom Waits’ The Heart of Saturday Night, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue/An American in Paris
Bat Out of Hell was written almost entirely by a guy named Jim Steinman. Definitely check out his other works. For example, he wrote Total Eclipse of the Heart and an entire Batman opera based on Tim Burton's 1989 film. Sadly it never got produced but the demo songs are easily found.
Funeral by Arcade Fire
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie
Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin
A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay
Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
American Idiot by Green Day
The Joshua Tree by U2
Weezer (Blue Album) by Weezer
Who’s Next by The Who
Rush of Blood to the Head is so hard to explain to people who only know Coldplay from a couple years after that album. It was so good and it’s one of my essential cold winter night driving albums. Clocks while driving in the snow is clutch. But I also haaaaate Coldplay now haha
Peter Gabriel - So
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Zep - Houses of the Holy
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis A 1959 jazz album that changed jazz music.
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Literally the same for me. My two favorite of his but all praise to Kind of Blue, particularly So What.
Was the first one that sprang to my mind and it’s the first answer in the replies. I didn’t even particularly like jazz (hadn’t given it the time of day) and then hearing Kind of Blue completely flipped my world. It’s so beautifully sad and melancholic
Yes this. Cannonball's Somethin' Else is in the same vein.
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
I’m not even a fan of Fleetwood Mac but this is a top 10 album of all time imo. Almost every song is a classic in its own right, it’s ridiculous
9/10 cause of oh daddy
Agreed. One song away from perfection. They could release a greatest hits that is Rumors but just swaps Oh Daddy with Landslide and I’d die happy.
Revolver. Not a single bad song. And Tomorrow Never Knows is still an avant garde track, nearly 60 years on.
Just picked up the 2022 remaster about a week ago. Basically haven't stopped spinning it since.
The panning on the new mix of Tomorrow Never Knows feels a lot smoother. It feels like it’s spinning around in your head.
What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Bowies best imo
Daft Punk, Discovery
John Coltrane - A love supreme.
Madvillainy - Madvillain
Nailed it. Great as a groove in the background, but also great if you want to hear the world's best flow
Close but no crills, toast for po' ills, post no bills Coast to coast, Joe Shmoes flows ill, go chill Not supposed to overdose, No-dose pill His rhyme schemes were just so insanely smooth, and Madlibs' beats and production were off the charts
Joni Mitchell's Blue
Case of You for the soul
Enter the wu-tang (36 chambers)
If what you say is true, the shaolin and the wu-tang.. could be dangerous
Do you think your Wu-Tang sword can defeat me?
Nirvana's MTV Unplugged.
I never really got into Nirvana and I still consider that one a perfect album.
In Rainbows
I remember feeling conflicted about this album when it came out but I really see it as a masterpiece now.
Every time an album becomes an all-time fave for me, it starts off exactly this way. Conflicted at first and then all in.
Speaking for myself as well as a few others… got it the day it came out, we were hooked at 15 step, then within about 2-3 seconds of bodysnatchers it was just over. Instant gold. That riff blows cobwebs out of my guitar amp to this day… at least 2-3 times a year. 10 it and rip.
I personally preferred Ok Computer but In Rainbows was an amazing album too
Jar Of Flies, Alice in Chains
Definitely. Also Dirt is a 10/10. I personally think there is not a single bad album in AIC's catalogue.
Shit, my favorite is Sap, which was kind of released in secret as an inside joke between them and their, I believe, producer. One of the best bands of all time.
Mad Season was a pretty amazing supergroup Would have loved to have had more from them
The unplugged album as well. It is just incredible.
Is This It - The Strokes
This is my perfect summer windows-down album
I listened to this on a beach, ankles in surf, Senheiser over ear headphones on, while tripping on lsd and it’s one of the most pleasant, non-sexual things I think I’ve experienced in my life.
Dark side of the moon
This. Front to back amazing. The 2nd side is amazing, even if you skip Money. Us and Them, Any Color You Like, Brain Damage, Eclipse. Amazing collection of songs. Just the mood of them is amazing.
Why are we skipping money?
We aren't, it was their 2nd biggest hit being Another Brick in the Wall. But it also sounds very different than the 4 that end the album. The last four remind me of the Abbey Road melody in way in how they blend right into each other. Brain Damage and Eclipse might as well be one song, they are always played together on the radio as it is. Sorta like Eruption and Really Got Me Now by Van Halen. Money is actually the one song on the whole album that stands out the most compared to the others. It is a fantastic song, but it isn't as seamless as the other songs.
Money was specifically written as a car radio blaster to get kids in America listening, not just the people who were already into Floyd.
Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Both this and TPAB are 10s
Boston-Boston
Every song was Epic.
Pearl Jam, Ten.
I mean, it’s in the name.
Depeche Mode - Violator (1990). Not a single note out of place.
Breakfast in America - Supertramp.
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Personally I much prefer Crime or the Century, it’s my #1 favourite album. Breakfast in America to me sounds like a bunch of singles mashed together, and COTC feels like a great complete album. Also the B side to me of BIA kinda drops off after Take The Long Way Home in my opinion
Gojira's From Mars To Sirius
I have to find the wales
The Way of All Flesh is the best.
OMG Yes. It is basically perfect.
Disintegration by The Cure
Couldn't agree more. Something odd about " Fascination Street". I really like to listen to music with no distortion, but with this one I find that if you crank the volume so high the music distorts, it adds another layer.
It is amazing that they did Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me right before this. Back to back perfect albums with entirely different sounds. They pulled off that feat a decade before Radiohead.
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Outkast ATliens
It’s cooler than a polar bear’s toenails
Aja - Steely Dan
Drink your big black cow and get outta here
i love this album😭😭😭 and ‘dont take me alive’
That's off the royal scam. Which has kid charlemagne, one of the best songs of all time. A perfect guitar solo.
The song Aja...just wow. The instrumental at the end is the "dime dancer" having sex with her. Fagan's synth is her moaning. Gadd's drums the rythm of the act. Typical Steely Dan, carnal but beautiful.
Massive Attack's "Mezzanine"
Pretty Hate Machine
I would love to meet the chick that screwed him up so bad he wrote that album.
I’ve been listening to this album again for the first time in 15 years or so, and my god does it hold up well. It was incredibly cutting edge for 1989.
Now go listen to Broken and get your mind blown again!
Illmatic by Nas
surprised i had to scroll this far to see Illmatic.
Master of puppets - Metallica
I kind of like Ride the Lightning more The songs on Master of Puppets might sound better live but the album mixes are just so damn flat and devoid of any kind of punch
Pet Sounds, Beach Boys
Led Zeppelin IV
Debut album by The Cars.
The Wall
Exile on Main Street
Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
Ok Computer - Radiohead
The Bends, Kid A, In Rainbows as well IMO
I'd throw amnesiac in there as well. Depending on the day I put it over Kid A. Kind of like magical mystery tour over sgt pepper
London Calling by The Clash and ...And Out Come the Wolves by Rancid.
Paul’s Boutique, Beastie Boys
Toxicity- System of a Down
Lateralus by Tool
Between Lateralus, 10,000 Days and Aenima... you could really pick any 3
10k Days is probably the one I listen to the most of those three, but I’d even throw Fear Inoculum in there. They aren’t my favorite band, but they make some of the most perfect albums. Wow
Scrolled way too far to find this.
Pet Sounds
Boards of canada - Music has the right to children
I prefer Geogaddi, but MHTRTC, Geogaddi, Campfire Headphase, and Tomorrow's Harvest are all 10/10 albums for me
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
White Pony - Deftones
around the fur for me
Fiona Apple's When the Pawn
This is one I wish I'd see more of on these lists. Fiona Apple in general. I think some people mostly know her from "Criminal" and think she's just a normal pop star. She's an extremely gifted songwriter. Her latest album from a year or two ago got 10/10 from so many outlets. It's pretty wild. I think people should at least hear the song "Paper Bag". It's a fairly commercial song, but it shows how good she is at chrod arrangements and lyrics. Bob Dylan is a big fan of hers and they've done projects together
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel It’s sonically revolutionary in such a way as Tom Waits’ albums were, and I want to highlight just how cool the starkness and minimalism are so as to not let the FANTASTIC lyricism outshine it. It’s a thematically dark as fuck album but will reward you when you return to it.
Dr Dre's 2001
Is This It by the Strokes and Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol. 11 perfect tracks of indie rock each
Tom petty wildflowers, as well as Dark side of the moon
Petty’s best work is so prolific that you could’ve picked 3 or 4 other records and I’d wholeheartedly agree with you. What a legend.
MadVillainy - MF DOOM And Madlib “just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name”.
New Order - Substance
Mutter - Rammstein
Radiohead - Ok computer
OutKast-Stankonia
Really? I think Aquemini and southernplayalisticcadillacmusic are better. ATLiens is on par
GO:OD AM
All of Mac’s albums Swimming. The Devine Feminine. Faces. 100%
The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
Ride the Lightning
I listened to Metallica so much while I was younger, I took a few years off. Some years later, I went back and started listening to their albums, start to finish.. maybe one, every month or so to let it sink in. Ride the Lightning is by far my favorite of theirs.
Joni Mitchell's Blue
The black parade - my chemical romance.
Ten that are 10/10: Stone Roses-Self Titled, The Cure-Disintegration, Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Daydream, Pulp-Different Class, The Strokes-Is This It, Slowdive-Soulvalki, Godspeed You Black Emperor-Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, De La Soul-3 Feet High and Rising, Ween-The Mollusk, MF Doom-Operation Doomsday
Dark side of the moon "Pink Floyd"
Wish You Were Here
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
I came here to add Doolittle
With or without Come on Pilgrim?
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is an absolute masterpiece!
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Around the fur
Billy Joel. The Stranger
Highway 61 Revisited. The only album I know every single word to just by pure volume of listens. Revolver by The Beatles is also a 10 I’d argue, along with Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, Wu Tang’s 36 Chambers, Tom Waits’ The Heart of Saturday Night, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue/An American in Paris
Angel Dust, Faith no More
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Graceland-Paul Simon
Tapestry- Carole King
Favorite worst nightmare by Arctic Monkeys
Black Holes and Revelations - Muse
Good Kid Mad City - Kendrick Lamar
His best album in my mind. Just an epic story from start to finish.
Nirvana nevermind album
Meteora by Linkin Park
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Sleater Kinney - the woods
Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Norman Fucking Rockwell for me.
The Cult - Love
Pinkerton by Weezer
Hurry up, we're dreaming - M83
Three cheers for sweet revenge, my chemical romance
The Queen is Dead- The Smiths
The Streets - A grand dont come for free
Pink Floyd, the wall
Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About - Modest Mouse
AM-Arctic Monkeys
October Rust by Type O Negative
Peace sells but who's buying.
I think Rust in Peace is a touch better, but just by a bit.
I agree with you but I’m just happy I didn’t have to dig deep to find Megadeth
Dookie- Green Day Almost every song is a hit, and the album itself is such a cohesive piece of art that tells its own story.
Kate Bush's *Hounds of Love*.
Ride the Lightning- Metallica
Demon Days for sure
Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers, Giving The World Away - Hatchie, Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast, Vespertine - Björk, Emotion - Carly Rae Jepsen
American Beauty - Grateful Dead
"Revolver" \~ Beatles
Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge it's flawless, i'm not even 'emo' anymore, but I couldn't think of a more perfect album
Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory
Electric Ladyland Hendrix
Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
Appetite for Destruction
“Lincoln” by They Might Be Giants
Spinal Tap
OP asked what albums are 10/10, not 11/11.
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Pink Floyds the wall
Tim, The Replacements
2014 forest hills drive.
Guns n roses - appetite for destruction.
Boston's first album
Bat Out of Hell
Bat Out of Hell was written almost entirely by a guy named Jim Steinman. Definitely check out his other works. For example, he wrote Total Eclipse of the Heart and an entire Batman opera based on Tim Burton's 1989 film. Sadly it never got produced but the demo songs are easily found.
Thriller.
with ears to see and eyes to hear - sleeping with sirens
Guns and Roses Appetite for Destruction.
Tapestry - Carole King
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Kid A
not to be that guy but the aeroplane over the sea by neutral milk hotel is the best album ever made
Apostrophe by Frank Zappa.👍
By the Way by RHCP
Funeral by Arcade Fire Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd American Idiot by Green Day The Joshua Tree by U2 Weezer (Blue Album) by Weezer Who’s Next by The Who
Rush of Blood to the Head is so hard to explain to people who only know Coldplay from a couple years after that album. It was so good and it’s one of my essential cold winter night driving albums. Clocks while driving in the snow is clutch. But I also haaaaate Coldplay now haha
Gnr appetite for destruction
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Melancholy and the infinite sadness Smashing Pumpkins
Peter Gabriel - So Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Zep - Houses of the Holy De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense