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Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise

So I'm going through my collection.. and getting a headache trying to come up with a list for this subject. I have so much music to wade through.

After an hour or so of looking through a few directories and listening and trying to come up with a list.. I have 2. That's right 2.

NIN--The Fragile
Queen--A Night At The Opera

I just recently became familiar with this guy. I like his music very much.

I've never gotten into NIN very much, but I'll take your word on that because Night at the Opera is one of my all-time favorite albums. :)


of course, Indian classical recordings count. If it sends you, it counts.
I'm not familiar with a lot of names, Ravi Shankar and Zakir Hussain...I should know more, its quite embarrassing. But I do love to listen to both Hindi and Arabic traditional music.

I am quite enamored with Tom Waits' Alice, as well.

A good place to start with NIN is their debut "Pretty Hate Machine" which is stuning in it's intensity and completeness.

Pretty Hate Machine is awesome.. but I think The Fragile is even better. It has a better flow and has more creative being to it. Trent was gone for a while then came out with The Fragile. I love all his albums but to me this one is by far the most realized.

Can't dispute that, but I've found that to a NIN-Virgin, PHM is easier to listen to than Fragile. :thumbsup:

you are correct..sometimes I forget about people being NIN virgins

Hard as it is to understand, some people have nevr had the good fortune to be experienced in the ways of Reznor! :lol:

forgot a fully realized album, only remembering last night while bouncing around a cta bus after a couple of pints:

dusty springfield: dusty in memphis.

Off the top of my head...

Devo - Freedom of Choice
B-52's - Whammy!

Two awesomely 80's albums.

I have to say that a lot of my albums which I consider "fully-realized" were albums that I listened to when I was young because my parents listened to them. These include:

Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Heart - Heart
Yes - Classic Yes
Yes - Big Generator
Yes - 90125
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Allman Brothers - Eat A Peach
Led Zeppelin - I
Led Zeppelin - II
Led Zeppelin - III
Led Zeppelin - IV
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Robert Plant - Nirvana
Robert Plant - Now & Zen
Pearl Jam - Ten
Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree
REM - Automatic for the People
REM - Monster

And albums I consider "fully-realized" which I cannot attribute to my parents:

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Weezer - The Blue Album
Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Green Day - Dookie
Live - Throwing Copper
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Howie Day - Australia

Ironically, I don't consider any of the albums of my two favorite bands (DMB and OAR) to fall into this grouping. DMB has a few that come close for me, but I guess I just prefer their live renditions so much that their studio albums always fall short in my mind. If this was a Best Live Album thread, however, my list would probably include a vast majority from these two bands.