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Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

In my opinion, it's one of the most solid albums ever, start-to-finish - the kind of album that's great on tape.

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman

although Cat is a misogynistic asshole, his music is still fire.

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

Shine On is so beautiful. Then the middle songs, especially the title track, scratch that more catchy, accessible itch.

Hybrid Theory

Nirvana - Nevermind

No question. I got it when I was 15 in '91. Over the years, I've seen countless bands of various genres. My tastes evolved, and frankly, some of the records and CDs I loved at that age have not held up as my taste and musical appreciation broadened, but this one's timeless. For a while, I preferred In Utero for its rawness, but Nevermind is basically flawless in my opinion.

Jagged Little Pill

Yellow by Baroness.

Well, technically its a double album: Yellow & Green. And I would say Green is a close second.

Something about it just blew my mind. Like, I had heard Baroness before, stuff from Red and Blue. They had a song or two on the early Guitar Hero games. I just thought "oh another okay metal band, whatever". Yellow and Green were just... Different. The tone, the vocal style. The whole approach to writing ans playing guitars was different than what i was used to. Thr production has this kind of modern dirtiness, like the noise came from radiation or something. The lyrics are absolutely battling, as they were translated across multiple languages and the meaning was only clinging to them by a thread. The album art is incredible too. The bass is perfect, never too much or too little. The drums use disco and other dance beats along side this metal-ish music in a fantastic way.

It kind of felt it cane fron another dimension. A different timeline where English and western music evolved similarly to ours, but jjsy different enough to be uncanny.

Discovery - Daft Punk

Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle. I've listened so many times start to finish, absolutely in love with it.

Not so easy to answer! But Vivaldis four seasons has been a great companion over the last 50 years

Pornography by the Cure. So dismal

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

What a hard question. But i always come back to Metallica - Ride the Lightning

I listen to too much music to pick just one lol.

• Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
• AC/DC: The Razor's Edge
• Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Ozz
• Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer
• Metallica: Ride The Lightning (shoutout to And Justice for All, tho)
• Foo Fighters: The Colors and the Shapes
• DragonForce: Inhuman Rampage
• Motorhead: Rock N' Roll
• Oasis: What's the Story, Morning Glory?
• Styx: The Grand Illusion
• Jesse Welles: Patchwork

I should probably stop.

Linkin Park's Meteora or HybridTheory

R.I.P. Chester 🫡

Demon Days by Gorillaz

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

Sgt. Peppers.

I've got it on vinyl and this is definitely the way to hear it. Not because of quality but because it has to be heard in one go, not as separate songs.

I've heard it many times throughout the years and I still find new meanings to the songs depending on where I am in my own life.

Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness.

It is not to my tastes anymore, but at the time when I was very swept up in it, it was truly an immersive and transformative experience. As a piece of art, I feel that it was a tremendous success.

Right now it's a toss-up over:

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

Graceland by Paul Simon

Time by Electric Light Orchestra

She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper

(I really love them all; other top contenders are Born to Run by Springsteen and Untitled by Blink-182)

Hybrid Theory (Linkin Park) is objectively the greatest album of all time in my subjective opinion

My Head is an Animal (Of Monsters And Men) is probably my personal favorite though

The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me

Blink 182 -Take of your pants and jacket

I don't really know. Kinda depends in the mood I'm in I guess.

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Alice in Chains - Facelift

FIDLAR - FIDLAR

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

EDIT (some more):

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius

Pearl Jam - Ten

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Air, Moon Safari

Album I would listen to start to finish on any given day: Rubber Soul by the Beatles.

Favorite overall album to listen to: Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.

Most important album: London Calling by The Clash

It's a hard one.

1. My beautiful dark twisted fantasy-Kanye
2. Good kid Mad city- Kendrick lamar
3. Will have to be a tie between any of lil Wayne's Carter series. Though Carter II might just ice it.

Goldberg Variations. In particular, the 1981 recording played by Glenn Gould.

The Battle of Loss Angeles by RATM, probably?

Soul Food by Kognitif if we're measuring it by how much I love it relative to it's popularity

Currently I'm in a rediscovery / re-appreciation phase so:

Sinead O'Conner - The lion and the Cobra

The Doors - Morrison Hotel

Probably all time favourite, although it fades in and out of rotation:

Dream Theater - Metropolis pt2

Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged

If I had to pick just one.

Oof that’s a hard one. One of the below:

Jimmy Eat World ‘Clarity’

Mineral ‘The Power Of Failing’

Neutral Milk Hotel ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’

The Decemberists ‘Picaresque’

Relapse by Eminem

Random Access Memories by Daft Punk

I honestly have no idea. My first favorites were Dookie and Smash, and I don't enjoy either any less than I did, then.

Ecliptica (Original album, not the revisited one) - Sonata Arctica

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Brothers in arms- Dire Straights

The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette