The Album Recommendation Thread
 

I've been throwing a bunch of albums at a new guy in chat who wants to expand his listening library and I thought it'd make a good thread.

I don't think I need to explain how this works.

My recs so far:

Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is
They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18
They Might Be Giants - Factory Showroom
They Might Be Giants - Flood
The Allman Brothers - Live At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers - Eat A Peach

C'mon people, let's have 'em.

My top 5 favorite (I watched a lot of High Fidelity!):

1. NOFX- Heavy Petting Zoo
2. Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
3. The Descendents- Milo Goes to College
4. Against Me!- As the Eternal Cowboy
5. Black Flag- Jealous Again

Of course, if you're not into punk, these albums are not for you.

If you're well versed in punk, you've probably heard all these.

By the way, I love this thread idea Martian.

Well, if we're going to recommend Zappa albums, we should recommend

Zoot Allures

...as well. :)

But I'll have to give some thought to other recommendations...

Talking Heads - Remain in Light
X - Los Angeles
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
CSNY - Deja Vu
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Session
Beck - Odelay
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years

well, I guess I could come up with some after all...gotta go, gotta go, gotta go...

Instead of listing off a bunch of albums no one will listen to, I'll do this:



...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Wasted state Of Mind

Fucking brilliant. If you like the song then download their album "So Divided."

good call Manic_Skafe.

Alkaline Trio - Goddammit (I like every album, but this is probably the best)
DESA - Routes to Rapture (EP, available for free at desadesadesa.com)
Pinback - Pinback (nice and mellow)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea

That is all for now...got WAY too many to recommend

How about some forgotten and unfashionable gems of 70's prog rock?

Close To The Edge - Yes
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis

Workbook - Bob Mould
London Calling - The Clash
Martini Time - Rev. Horton Heat
RFTC - Rocket From The Crypt
Jonathon Richman - Jonathon Richman
From The Banks of the Mighty Wishkah - Nirvana

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - Score
Opeth - Damnation
Moonspell - Wolfheart
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Testament - The New Order

the format - dog problems
bowling for soup - drunk enough to dance
my chemical romance - welcome to the black parade
dinosaur jr. - earbleeding country (it's not country)
brand new - your favorite weapon

very nice!

i second these...with 1 difference.

4) Angry Samoans- The Unboxed Set

I was quite proud of it.

More recs:

G. Love and Special Sauce - Philadelphonic
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
Mogwai - Come On Die Young
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
B. B. King - Deuces Wild
Probot - Self-titled
Pulp - Different Class
Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding A Mosaic

There's no unifying theme to these. They're just a bunch of albums I like.

the entire Drive-By Truckers catalog

This album is fantastic...who would have thought they were from Canada.

I don't really like the other couple albums by them much though.

Bad Religion - Suffer
Burning Airlines - Identikit
Craig's Brother - Homecoming
Judgement Day - Dark Opus (seriously check them out if you haven't...Metal with Violin, Cello, Drums

I'm the new guy, but here are some recommendations of my own. :D

Gustav Holst - The Planets
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Agalloch - The Mantle
Anathema - Judgement
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

A propos of this thread, I have a very large music collection, and consequently find that there are things in there that I have ignored or overlooked since I first bought them.

I recently purchased a great book:

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The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion

It goes through the last 50 years, chronologically and pics the best albums from each year, gives a 1 page summary of the key points about the record and a short review. It's a great read, and fun to dip into.

As I read through it, I was gratified to find that from its ~850 pages I had about half of the records it recommends, which got me to thinking.

So last week, I added every album it recommends which I own a copy of to a play-list on my iPod.

It's really rather good.

Some of my favourites have already been mentioned:

Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

I will also add:

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Sarah Harmer - You Were Here
Weeping Tile - Valentino (this one is almost perfect)
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Radiohead - The Bends
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock
Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

I think we were separated at birth.

New additions:

Sloan - One Chord To Another
Sloan - Never Hear the End Of It
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Filter - Title Of Record
Green Jellÿ - Cereal Killer Soundtrack
Tom Waits - Small Change
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night

also, Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather
Leonard Cohen - The Future
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity

Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands

New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess

Louis Armstrong - Satchmo Live at Symphony Hall

Dexter Gordon - Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard

Charlie Parker - Jam Session

i find these to be excellent choices.

okay i think ill add a few here.

The Adicts- Songs of Praise or Sound of Music
Dead Milkmen- Big lizard in my Back yard
Catch 22- Keasbey Nights
Johnny Thunders and The HeartBreakers- L.A.M.F.
Radio Alarm Clocks- Time is on my side 7 inch
Misfits-Static Age
Reatards- I lie to much 7 inch
Stiff Little Fingers- All the best or Inflammable material
Sneaky Pinks- Self Titled 7 inch
Johnny Hobo and the Freight trains-Love songs for the apocalypse
The Replacements- Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the trash.

just a few of my favorites.

Mine are probably a little bit more mainstream but here they are:

Audioslave - Audioslave
Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion
Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World
Soundgarden - Superunknown and Down On The Upside
Coldplay - X &Y
Colin Hay - Going Somewhere
David Gray - Life In Slow Motion
Eagels - Hell Freezes Over
Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Gary Allen - Smoke Rings In The Dark
The Zepplin Remasters
Oasis - The Masterplan
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Puddle Of Mudd - Come Clean
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Staind - Break The Cycle
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
The Cult - Sonic Temple
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Trouble Is...
The Von Bondies - Pawne Shoppe Heart
Tool - Undertow
U2 - Joshua Tree

My vote for the best Zappa album would be Absolutely free.

Miles Davis:

Get up with it
Live evil
On the corner

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Dead Milkmen- Eat your Paisley
The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
Albert Hammond Jr - Yours To Keep
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Cinematics - A Strange Education
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism

Silversun Pickups-Carnavas

It took a minute to grow on me, but now I'm addicted.

This is the best thread ever:

-Death Cab For Cutie (The Photo Album, Transatlanticism, Narrow Stairs)
-Iron and Wine (Our Endless Numbered Days, The Shepherd's Dog)
-The Killers (Hot Fuss, Sams Town)
-The Virgins (The Virgins)
-The Von Bondies (Pawn Shoppe Heart)
-Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend)
-Ben Folds (Songs For Silverman)
-The Hold Steady (Boys and Girls In America)
-The Strokes (Is This It?, Room On Fire)
-Rilo Kiley (Under The Blacklight)
-Jack Penate (Matinee)
-Phoenix (It's Never Been Like That)
-Fleet Foxes (Fleet Foxes) AMAZING
-The Shins (Oh, Inverted World. Chutes Too Narrow)
-Coldplay (Viva La Vida)
-Ryan Adams (Love Is Hell, Easy Tiger) Easy Tiger being perhaps one of the best new albums I heard recently
-The New Pornographers (Twin Cinema)
-Sam Roberts (Love At The End Of The World)
-MGMT (Oracular Spectacular)

And so many more; I'm sure I will edit. BTW, those are the ones who have earned a spot in the "permanent cd case" where things don't get shuffled.

EDIT: Almost instantly!

-Albert Hammond Jr. (Your's To Keep, ¿Cómo Te Llama?)

Thunder, Lighting, Strike - The Go Team
A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets
Lost Horizons - Lemon Jelly
Who Killed The Zutons - The Zutons
Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
Dummy - Portishead

Wonderful album!

Some more I will recommend:

Front Line Assembly- Millennium
Leftover Crack- Mediocre Generica
Tiger Army- Music From Regions Beyond (Well really any of their albums, but that's the one I've been listening to most lately.)

FUN. - aim and ignite...happy, fun times!!!

placebo - Meds

this "album" only has one song. one glorious fucking song.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iZayj_Lrfw...%5B1999%5D.jpg
give these a shot, people.

Jay Reatard-Blood visions (had to grow on me)
king khan and the BBQ show- Self titled and Whats for Dinner
No Bunny- Love Visions (seriosuly, check it out)
Pixies- Surfa Rosa, Doolittle, Come on Pilgrim or Live at BBC
The Spits- 19 million A.C.

Still Feel Gone - Uncle Tupelo
Funhouse - The Stooges
London Calling - The Clash
Let It Be - The Replacements
Blacklisted - Neko Case

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The Misfits - Misfits (Collection I)

...

Mildly shocking.

They Might Be Giants - John Henry
That's my favorite TMBG album.

Dammit. Of course!

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Not only that, the Bedouin Soundclash all attended (& met) at Queen's University in Kingston. Much later than the Tragically Hip, who also met and attended Queen's. At least I was around for that.

Kingston is a small town where kids are brought together, often living away from home for the first time, and can generate some unique and lasting dynamics on their own with a fairly cosmopolitan and international admixture of cultures to draw upon.

Flobots- Fight With Tools
Muse-The Resistance

new list.

For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before The Ship Sank - Modest Mouse
Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal
I'm Going Away - The Fiery Furnaces
Little Joy - Little Joy
Thunder, Lightning, Strike! - The GO! Team
Visiter - The Dodos
Volume One - She and Him
Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
Way To Normal - Ben Folds
Whale Tooth EP - Whale Tooth
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
Get Guilty - A.C. Newman
Cassadaga - Bright Eyes

There you go.