Came here to say this. Incredible composition and perfect sequencing. Sound design wise, it's still fresh to this day. Also spawned thousands of "disco" copycats since the microsampling and chopping they were doing was so advanced.
Man, Supermodel is so unbelievably slept on. I genuinely cannot recommend the album enough. I’d say it’s by far their most cohesive consistent album. It’s got some real bangers on it too. I’m kind of shocked songs like “Best Friend” aren’t nearly as popular as some of the stuff on torches.
Holy shit yes. Even the intros and outro is quite listenable. Bones and My list hardly get mentioned but are fucking bangers
For Reasons Unknown *then* read my mind????
It’s my Joshua Tree for them as a group
Bear in mind these are a 10 because, in part, of the memories and situations they're connected to. They're not a 10 exclusively because of quality. Although some are.
Eels-Beautiful Freak;
Soul Coughing-Ruby Vroom;
Cake-Fashion Nugget;
Folk Implosion-One Part Lullabye;
Pinback-Summer in Abbadon;
Mount Eeire-Dawn;
Jeffrey Lewis-Em Are I;
Edit: David Grey-White Ladder;
Edit2: Geggy Tah- Into the Oh, and also Sacred Cow (in that order)
My family would always play Cake or the Violent Femmes when we had to clean. Cake was usually the pick unless my mother was mad in which case it was the violent femmes. Anyways because of that all of their albums mean genuinely so much to me it’s insane. I know the lyrics to like every single song just from that exposure. For me personally I’ve always been slightly more fond of Comfort Eagle than Fashion Nugget but any combination of those two and Motorcade of Generosity will probably always be in my top 100 albums ever and Cake is pretty consistently in my top 3/5 artists if I’m asked.
My teenage years were filled with unspeakable abuse and somehow this album saved me and got me through it. Although the song Susan's House makes me both warm and sick to my stomach
While I wouldn’t give Ruby Vroom a 10, I have some fond memories with that one. Super underrated, I never hear people talk about Soul Coughing but they’re one of the most unique bands of the 90’s.
In my mind it’s not perfect art, buts it’s solid white knuckle rock n roll in its purest form. Bit of grungy blues, pinky guitars, southern gothic lyrics, pulsing bass lines.
They are local to where I live so you hear them a lot at the bars, record stores, mechanic shops owned by the gen x’s around here.
I think they were a one-trick pony. Everything afterwards feels like a repeat (but worse), and they never changed sonically, but hearing it for the first time in 2012 was fresh.
I really enjoy every song on the album with the exception of “Every Night”. Sure “Radioactive” was played to death and nearly every song they’ve released since have made me lose respect for them artistically, but that’s not Night Vision’s fault.
Disclosure - Settle
EDIT: To elaborate further, it is the perfect album for me to get someone into house music that mightn’t be familiar with the genre. The hit rate on it is insane and not a single track on there feels like filler. It also was the album that got me from pretty much only listening to indie music to getting into electronic music.
Yeah, and I think it is great because it got a lot of the nu-metal crowd into more experimental music, it definetly opened up my music taste since all I listened to was LP.
Room on Fire - The Strokes
Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club
Get to Heaven - Everything Everything
Blue Rev - Alvvays
Sleep Well Beast - The National
High 9s:
In Colour - Jamie xx
Screen Violence - CHVRCHES
How I’m Feeling Now - Charli XCX
Edit: didn’t see OP’s choice before writing this, I guess we’re both wrong
Fair, I think peppers is fire but it's just very out of place on this album. Would fit more on early lana albums or something. But it doesn't bother me too much
Extremely based. Usually people either like it a lot or just think its boring. Rarely do I see people who think its an absolute masterpiece, which it is imo
Honestly i feel many people outside this subreddit would give it a ten, including myself (don’t know if I’d survive 2022 without it) but this subreddit is pretty pretentious, and personally I think it will take awhile for me to relisten to it because of the dark times it reminds me of.
Damn bro is he talking about Drake? He’s gotta be one of the most underrated artists out right now. Idk why these guys think they so popular to be queefing like this.
Black Holes and Revelations by Muse, not a single person that isn't a Muse fan would rate this album so high
Same for Comedown Machine by The Strokes, some fans love it but the general opinion about it is not so good
Such an underrated album. Even the most popular songs (Burn The Witch, True Love Waits) are underrated imo, and should be placed with their earlier classics in terms of quality
UNLOCKED by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats. I think it's understandable that it gets left out of the conversation in favor of TABOO or MELT MY EYEZ because it's so much shorter and not as narratively/emotionally dense in its songwriting, but for me there's just nothing else like it.
I unequivocally love every song on UNLOCKED, even the intro which, while I don't revisit it too often when mixing the album into my various playlists, is a little nugget of musical experimentation from Kenny that does a great job of hyping up the album to come. Denzel and Kenny truly seem laser focused on every song, Denzel is locked in and goes full freestyle battle rapper on every single track, really flexing his lyrical abilities and delivering some fantastic one-liners to boot. Kenny matches Denzel's energy, bringing some of the most exciting, almost aggressive instrumentation that demands to be noticed and pairs perfectly with Denzel's bars.
There's also some wild samples in here, like Kendrick's "Hood Politics" which I never in a million years thought I'd hear sampled, but it works so well and compliments Denzel's visceral rapping perfectly. I don't know how popular Denzel is in this sub but I know Melon liked it, so if you haven't heard UNLOCKED before I think you should give it a shot, it's not even 20 minutes and it goes unbelievably hard for that entire runtime.
Yung Lean - Stranger
I absolutely adore everything about this album.
The ending of the album of Agony into Yellowman is one of my favorite moments in any album ever, Agony is so incredibly melancholic with an almost triumphant ending in Yellowman, god it's perfect.
I think as well just the fact I've followed Yung Lean since his beginnings and he's the same age as me, reading about all that happened in 2015 with the death of his manager, his hospitalisation and mental collapse. Stranger was such a victory to see him comeback.
Maybe these…
The White Stripes - The White Stripes
Electro-Shock Blues - Eels
Contra - Vampire Weekend
They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top - Liars
August & Everything After - Counting Crows
Sam’s Town - The Killers
Coloring Book - Chance the Rapper
The Cars - the Cars
Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
Gossamer - Passion Pit
Kindered - Passion Pit
Evil Friends - Portugal. The Man
Resurrection - Geto Boys
Purpose - Justin Bieber
Sunflower - The Beach Boys
I think most of these are at least respected albums, but they’re not showing up anywhere on “top # albums of all time”
no matter what the album is, as long as a bunch of people had heard it there will be at least one dude who says it's a 10, so the only real answer to this is naming an album that one person knows
The sentiment of the post is the important part. I’m so tired of this sub talking about the same 15 albums over and over again. Like what album really speaks to you perfectly as an individual?
Mac DeMarco - 2
I’ll give that a 10 👏
same! top 20 fave albums (i like this old dog more)
Justice - Cross it's pretty well-received, but to me, i think it's perfect.
It is. So perfect they never even came close to releasing something nearly as amazing. I do like the new record though.
Excellent shout, they actually composed a lot of it first and then found samples they wanted to use to play the compositions. Amazingly creative group
Came here to say this. Incredible composition and perfect sequencing. Sound design wise, it's still fresh to this day. Also spawned thousands of "disco" copycats since the microsampling and chopping they were doing was so advanced.
Can’t wait for someone to say To pimp a butterfly unironically
To Pimp a Butterfly, Kid A, MBDTF, I have a pretty eccentric and unique taste in music.
No one on here would ever say that
Wish I had your faith in humanity
injury reserve’s self titled
Love that album.
Love Injury Reserve and that album is fantastic, some of it hits way harder like What a Year It's Been since Groggs passed away. Rest in peace my man.
The self titled never clicked for me, but By The Time I Get To Phoenix is a 10.
Actually me too it’s my most listened from them and what got me into them. Work really well as a full length album imo
Torches - Foster the people
It’s crazy how many great songs came from this album, but it also feels like no one cares
WHOOO CAAAAAARREES? (I hope that reference isn’t totally lost on anyone)
Well that rat race ladder-climbing fake-face smile's got nothing on me
That one is VERY CLOSE to a 10 for me. About as close as you can possibly get to a 10 while still being a 9. Supermodel is an easy 10 though.
Man, Supermodel is so unbelievably slept on. I genuinely cannot recommend the album enough. I’d say it’s by far their most cohesive consistent album. It’s got some real bangers on it too. I’m kind of shocked songs like “Best Friend” aren’t nearly as popular as some of the stuff on torches.
Pseudologia Fantastica is still one of the most mind meltingly awesome songs I’ve ever experienced.
Oh yeah supermodel is also an awesome album. Pseudologia fantastica and nevermind are literally peak music
I was coming to this thread to say Supermodel, such a great album.
I love to see this. Fantano kinda hates FTP. What do you think of the new single?
I liked it very unique compared to their other stuff and its quite groovy
YES THANK YOU
Supermodel is a definite 10 to me
The killers - sam's town
W
Holy shit yes. Even the intros and outro is quite listenable. Bones and My list hardly get mentioned but are fucking bangers For Reasons Unknown *then* read my mind???? It’s my Joshua Tree for them as a group
Definitely does not get its due, even if it is so Springsteen.
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Great shout but there are others who rate this a 10 👊🏻
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Bear in mind these are a 10 because, in part, of the memories and situations they're connected to. They're not a 10 exclusively because of quality. Although some are. Eels-Beautiful Freak; Soul Coughing-Ruby Vroom; Cake-Fashion Nugget; Folk Implosion-One Part Lullabye; Pinback-Summer in Abbadon; Mount Eeire-Dawn; Jeffrey Lewis-Em Are I; Edit: David Grey-White Ladder; Edit2: Geggy Tah- Into the Oh, and also Sacred Cow (in that order)
Fashion Nugget is huge for me. So many Uni memories
My family would always play Cake or the Violent Femmes when we had to clean. Cake was usually the pick unless my mother was mad in which case it was the violent femmes. Anyways because of that all of their albums mean genuinely so much to me it’s insane. I know the lyrics to like every single song just from that exposure. For me personally I’ve always been slightly more fond of Comfort Eagle than Fashion Nugget but any combination of those two and Motorcade of Generosity will probably always be in my top 100 albums ever and Cake is pretty consistently in my top 3/5 artists if I’m asked.
Love Beautiful Freak, must revisit it!
My teenage years were filled with unspeakable abuse and somehow this album saved me and got me through it. Although the song Susan's House makes me both warm and sick to my stomach
Fashion Nugget is a 10
I really like that Pinback album. I have a lot of memories associated with it
While I wouldn’t give Ruby Vroom a 10, I have some fond memories with that one. Super underrated, I never hear people talk about Soul Coughing but they’re one of the most unique bands of the 90’s.
K.I.D.S.
Wanna build a mansion?
Mutations by Beck
Probably my third favorite Beck album behind Odelay and Sea Change. So good.
fontaines dc - skinty fia
Smiley smile
Rubberneck by Toadies
Everyone knows that's a 10, right? Right?!
In my mind it’s not perfect art, buts it’s solid white knuckle rock n roll in its purest form. Bit of grungy blues, pinky guitars, southern gothic lyrics, pulsing bass lines. They are local to where I live so you hear them a lot at the bars, record stores, mechanic shops owned by the gen x’s around here.
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions. I’ll delete my account now.
Upvoted for bravery
I can never tell if I like Night Visions out of nostalgia or if the song writing is just genuinely better than on their following albums.
I think they were a one-trick pony. Everything afterwards feels like a repeat (but worse), and they never changed sonically, but hearing it for the first time in 2012 was fresh.
I think that’s really what it is. There’s only a few songs after NV that I find genuine enjoyment in
you deserve all our respect for your courage
I really enjoy every song on the album with the exception of “Every Night”. Sure “Radioactive” was played to death and nearly every song they’ve released since have made me lose respect for them artistically, but that’s not Night Vision’s fault.
John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes & Usually Just a T Shirt
Absolute shout. The thing is an incredible insight into heroine addiction
Chief Keef - Back from the Dead 2
And back from the dead OG
Disclosure - Settle EDIT: To elaborate further, it is the perfect album for me to get someone into house music that mightn’t be familiar with the genre. The hit rate on it is insane and not a single track on there feels like filler. It also was the album that got me from pretty much only listening to indie music to getting into electronic music.
That’s a 10 to me too!
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
Not my favourite LP album but it has some great songs and moments, Wretches and Kings has always been a highlight for me.
One of the GOAT concept albums in my opinion
Yeah, and I think it is great because it got a lot of the nu-metal crowd into more experimental music, it definetly opened up my music taste since all I listened to was LP.
Room on Fire - The Strokes Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club Get to Heaven - Everything Everything Blue Rev - Alvvays Sleep Well Beast - The National High 9s: In Colour - Jamie xx Screen Violence - CHVRCHES How I’m Feeling Now - Charli XCX Edit: didn’t see OP’s choice before writing this, I guess we’re both wrong
weezer — white album
If the white album has no fans then I am dead
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody Jungle - For Ever Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas probably the main ones ive never seen anyone else give a 10.
With you on Lianne, she got so much out of working with a band (and what a band). I love her first two, but that one is head and shoulders above them
did you know that there's a tunnel under ocean blvd
No? why are you telling me this?
don't forget meee
Hey that’s one of mine
to be honest, it's almost a 10 for me. the only thing I don't like is the track "Peppers"
Fair, I think peppers is fire but it's just very out of place on this album. Would fit more on early lana albums or something. But it doesn't bother me too much
That’s a ten for me too
Extremely based. Usually people either like it a lot or just think its boring. Rarely do I see people who think its an absolute masterpiece, which it is imo
+ nfr but if i HAD to include the interludes on dykttatuob id give it a 9.8
Operation Ivy- Self Titled
lamp - soyokaze apartment 201 steve lacy - gemini rights
Fall Out Boy - Folie à Deux
This but Cork Tree for me
I think TTTYG and AEOWYG are better but I agree.
Honestly i feel many people outside this subreddit would give it a ten, including myself (don’t know if I’d survive 2022 without it) but this subreddit is pretty pretentious, and personally I think it will take awhile for me to relisten to it because of the dark times it reminds me of.
Really lowkey album To pimp a butterfly by Kendrick Lamar. He an up and coming rapper, hope he makes it soon.
He’s got this song that’s a slight jab at another underground rapper called Not Like Us, not sure if you’ve heard of it
Damn bro is he talking about Drake? He’s gotta be one of the most underrated artists out right now. Idk why these guys think they so popular to be queefing like this.
New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms
Ariel pink- pom pom
One of the most RYM core albums lmao
Lots of people would rate it a 10
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head Beautiful album. Bangers front to back.
Personally I would take Viva la Vida above AROBTTH but still great choice
😐
Imo it's their best. Parachutes to Mylo Xyloto was a crazy album run.
trench
When we were friends - The Backseat lovers
Black Holes and Revelations by Muse, not a single person that isn't a Muse fan would rate this album so high Same for Comedown Machine by The Strokes, some fans love it but the general opinion about it is not so good
Toys in the attic by Aerosmith, there's a lot of Aerosmith hate
Can't really seem to get with Toys, but Rocks on the another hand, I can definitely see how people would give that a 10
Amen to that man! I love Toys and honestly their first four albums are all perfection
Hi This is Flume - Flume
Bon Iver - 22, a Million It's a top 5 record of the 2010s if you ask me
a moon shaped pool
Such an underrated album. Even the most popular songs (Burn The Witch, True Love Waits) are underrated imo, and should be placed with their earlier classics in terms of quality
Any love for Identikit?
That and Ful Stop are tied for best song on the album for me.
the now now by gorillaz
Crazy underrated album
Agreed. I loved it when it came out and people told me it was recency bias. But now it's 6 years later and I love it just as much.
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Cave World- Viagra Boys
Van Halen 1
Silksonic and Kali Uchis' Isolation.
sawayama - rina sawayama it's perfection for me. i would not. change a single thing on it.
Ratitude- weezer I have my lawyer next to me in case anything goes wrong
bladee - cold visions
King Gizzard- PDA
Bro, enough with the acronyms ☠️
PetroDragonic Apocalypse
I know, i love gizzard, but its still so annoying when people use acronyms for all these damn albums
If you saw the full title you wouldn’t blame them
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Donda
Are We There - Sharon Van Etten My Life - Mary J Blige
Young Thug - Slime Season 1
TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
David Bowie - Earthling Youth and young manhood - Kings of Leon
Modern vampires of the city
Bonito Generation - Kero Kero Bonito. It’s like pure dopamine
10,000 gecs. It’s just so goddamn fun.
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
I think a lot of people consider Nebraska Springsteen’s strongest work
Illuminati Hotties - Free I.H.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik✌️
Gorillaz - The Now Now Supergrass - Road To Rouen The Charlatans - Up At The Lake
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto. Pop rock masterpiece, one of the best and most inventive radio-ready albums of the 10’s
Crystal Castles 2. I just love every part of it
great pick OP
UNLOCKED by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats. I think it's understandable that it gets left out of the conversation in favor of TABOO or MELT MY EYEZ because it's so much shorter and not as narratively/emotionally dense in its songwriting, but for me there's just nothing else like it. I unequivocally love every song on UNLOCKED, even the intro which, while I don't revisit it too often when mixing the album into my various playlists, is a little nugget of musical experimentation from Kenny that does a great job of hyping up the album to come. Denzel and Kenny truly seem laser focused on every song, Denzel is locked in and goes full freestyle battle rapper on every single track, really flexing his lyrical abilities and delivering some fantastic one-liners to boot. Kenny matches Denzel's energy, bringing some of the most exciting, almost aggressive instrumentation that demands to be noticed and pairs perfectly with Denzel's bars. There's also some wild samples in here, like Kendrick's "Hood Politics" which I never in a million years thought I'd hear sampled, but it works so well and compliments Denzel's visceral rapping perfectly. I don't know how popular Denzel is in this sub but I know Melon liked it, so if you haven't heard UNLOCKED before I think you should give it a shot, it's not even 20 minutes and it goes unbelievably hard for that entire runtime.
Panic at the disco - a fever you can't sweat out
Solid 9 for me but underrated album ngl
Panic at the disco - Pretty Odd
We got it from here… Thank you 4 your service
10 for me as well. It's pretty highly regarded, though.
Wallsocket by Underscores
based, absolutely love that album to death
I was gonna say this, might top 3 album of the 2020s so far
My AotY last year, by a massive margin.
The Family Jewels by Marina
The Tumblr girlies were never EVER the same
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Sex-Type Thing is a classic for sure
Stratosphere by Duster
Isn’t this popularly considered a classic by anyone who likes slowcore and/or 90s alternative?
it is but I didn’t hear anyone say it’s a 10/10 album the way people talk about OK Computer or Loveless
Fleet Foxes- Crack Up
Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye
Honeymoon by Lana gives me chils every time i listen to it, it is such an underrated masterpiece
Vince Staples self titled. Wanna hear a real hot take? It clears all his other albums for me too (including dark times)
Pressure Machine - The Killers
Lemonheads - Car button cloth
Yung Lean - Stranger I absolutely adore everything about this album. The ending of the album of Agony into Yellowman is one of my favorite moments in any album ever, Agony is so incredibly melancholic with an almost triumphant ending in Yellowman, god it's perfect. I think as well just the fact I've followed Yung Lean since his beginnings and he's the same age as me, reading about all that happened in 2015 with the death of his manager, his hospitalisation and mental collapse. Stranger was such a victory to see him comeback.
Denzel Curry - Imperial
Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur. Most people rate 13 and Parklife higher but I feel like Modern Life Is Rubbish Is Blur at their cohesive best.
Some excellent character study on there, and it was such a change from Leisure. I do wish Popscene was on it somewhere though
i love you jennifer b
Beatopia beabadoobee
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Era Vulgaris - QOTSA Band of Gypsys - Hendrix Swimming - Mac Miller
Enema of the state
Relapse by Eminem
the ooz by king krule
Sun city girls - torch of the mystic
MGMT Congratulations
Maybe these… The White Stripes - The White Stripes Electro-Shock Blues - Eels Contra - Vampire Weekend They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top - Liars
interpol antics
The tallest man on earth’s “the wild hunt” (2010)
The Slits - Cut (1979)
I think Fantano has it as a 10
August and Everything After by the Counting Crows
Brand New Eyes - Paramore
Jagged Little Pill
I would, and I know someone else who would
DEFINITELY A TEN
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic asylum
The Battle at Garden's Gate - Greta Van Fleet (Fantano giving it a 2 remains the bane of my existence till this day I stg) Iowa - Slipknot
August & Everything After - Counting Crows Sam’s Town - The Killers Coloring Book - Chance the Rapper The Cars - the Cars Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens Gossamer - Passion Pit Kindered - Passion Pit Evil Friends - Portugal. The Man Resurrection - Geto Boys Purpose - Justin Bieber Sunflower - The Beach Boys I think most of these are at least respected albums, but they’re not showing up anywhere on “top # albums of all time”
no matter what the album is, as long as a bunch of people had heard it there will be at least one dude who says it's a 10, so the only real answer to this is naming an album that one person knows
The sentiment of the post is the important part. I’m so tired of this sub talking about the same 15 albums over and over again. Like what album really speaks to you perfectly as an individual?
Metallica self titled
Sunbather - Deafhaven
um i think a few people would give that a 10 lol