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feelflows : 7/27/2016 9:10 am
I have been listening to a lot of music in my travels lately. It got me to thinking about the great albums of the past 25 years. Best written, performed and produced. The "Sgt Peppers" or Pet Sounds. If I had to pick 3, for me it would be:

Blood Sugar Sex Magik - cover to cover a masterpiece. Their writing and playing were on point and Rick Rubin did an unbelievable job producing. The depth inside the music is unreal. Mouth forks, trash cans, toy pianos.

OK Computer - rarely does am album come out that sounds like nothing before it and be almost perfect. The guitars on this album are among the best. Songwriting was amazing and it's a very passionate album.

Black Messiah - D'Angelo. This album, to me, is a generational album. In my top 5 of all time. The funk of Sly, soul of James and his own darkness. Every song has great blending of genres. Hell, one song has steel pedal twang in it. This album doesn't get its due because the music industry sucks , but 20 years from now this will be considered one of the most influential albums of all time.
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This barely makes it within the 25 yr timeframe  
timintey : 7/27/2016 12:53 pm : link
One of my favorite non-Rush albums

first ones that come to mind  
Greg from LI : 7/27/2016 12:53 pm : link
Nirvana, Nevermind....I'll go to the mattresses on this one. In Utero is a great album too, but Nevermind just had better songs.

Helmet, Meantime

The Jesus Lizard, Goat and Shot. Shot doesn't get the critical love that Goat did but it's a personal favorite.

Sonic Youth, Dirty

Fugazi, The Argument and In on the Killtaker

Alice in Chains, Dirt

NIN, Broken....no, it's not a full length album and The Downward Spiral is the one everyone loves. I disagree. Broken is eight songs of utter brutality and rage. Love it.

Morphine, Cure for Pain

Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger

Megadeth, Countdown to Extinction

The White Stripes, Elephant

Ministry, Psalm 69

Jawbox, For Your Own Special Sweetheart

Everclear, Sparkle and Fade....highly underrated. Most people only remember Santa Monica, but there are no bad songs on this album.]

Johnny Cash, American Recordings

Tool, Undertow

Butthole Surfers, Independent Worm Saloon

Primus, Pork Soda
RE: My personal favorite  
feelflows : 7/27/2016 12:53 pm : link
In comment 13046793 Giantophile said:
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There are some good ones already mentioned here too.



Soup is great. My sleepers in the 90s were:

Soup
Amorica
Northern Soul - The Verve

I wore those out
oh, and forgot Danzig II: Lucifuge  
Greg from LI : 7/27/2016 12:54 pm : link
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Feelflows, I think you can take any of the D'Angelo albums  
Bobby Humphrey's Earpad : 7/27/2016 1:05 pm : link
and put them on your list - each was genre-redefining at the time. You can go back to his remake of Cruisin (album or live) from Brown Sugar and put it up against any track from Black Messiah.

The only thing about the Black Messiah album is that it is so complex that sometimes it can be an overwhelming listen, if that makes sense.
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Randy in CT : 7/27/2016 1:05 pm : link
Here's a few of mine that haven't been mentioned  
Saos1n : 7/27/2016 1:08 pm : link


Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Dust of Retreat
Cursive - Burst and Bloom EP  
Saos1n : 7/27/2016 1:09 pm : link
The Used - Box Full of Sharp Objects  
Saos1n : 7/27/2016 1:10 pm : link
RE: Feelflows, I think you can take any of the D'Angelo albums  
feelflows : 7/27/2016 1:12 pm : link
In comment 13047030 Bobby Humphrey's Earpad said:
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and put them on your list - each was genre-redefining at the time. You can go back to his remake of Cruisin (album or live) from Brown Sugar and put it up against any track from Black Messiah.

The only thing about the Black Messiah album is that it is so complex that sometimes it can be an overwhelming listen, if that makes sense.


I don't hear that, but I get it. When I put on Black Messiah I get taken in right away. I actually feel like I'm IN the album. I get the complex thing. I get that with Zappa at times.
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview  
Saos1n : 7/27/2016 1:13 pm : link
Giants Fan in Steelers Land  
JoeMoney19 : 7/27/2016 1:14 pm : link
We have very similar tastes. Tame Impala is definitely underrated. I'll check out Blak and Blu which is the one album you mentioned that I haven't listened to.

Some of my other favorites:

Animal Collective - Feels


Panda Bear - Person Pitch


Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside  
Saos1n : 7/27/2016 1:15 pm : link
alt country slant  
Luis in NJ : 7/27/2016 1:59 pm : link
Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac (though Faithless St and Pneumonia, also classics)
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
Ryan Bingham - Mescalito
Dave Alvin - King of California
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
RE: alt country slant  
feelflows : 7/27/2016 2:03 pm : link
In comment 13047119 Luis in NJ said:
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Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac (though Faithless St and Pneumonia, also classics)
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
Ryan Bingham - Mescalito
Dave Alvin - King of California
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot


No Jacksonville City Nights?? Psht.

Good call on all of them except Dave Alvin...I've never heard that. I will check it out.
dave alvin  
Luis in NJ : 7/27/2016 2:15 pm : link
his singing is a little rough - he'll be the first to admit it, but he is in the upper echelon of all time great song-writers. both king of california and blackjack david are both fantastic.
you want some great lesser known country/red dirt  
RicFlair : 7/27/2016 2:20 pm : link
Stoney Larue

Jason Boland
One I can't believe I left out  
pjcas18 : 7/27/2016 2:25 pm : link
Black Keys El Camino



and it could be any of the couple albums before this one too.
Thats not an El Camino, that's a Dodge Caravan  
Greg from LI : 7/27/2016 2:29 pm : link
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One of my favorites not already mentioned...  
j_rud : 7/27/2016 2:30 pm : link
Vietnam, self titled



You'll swear this album was recorded in a garage in 1970. An amazing slice of fuzzy stoner rock. That lineup could only keep it together for one album and an ep but GD was it good. I wish more people knew about this band
Proper, Poet, and the Pig - ( New Window )
RE: Thats not an El Camino, that's a Dodge Caravan  
pjcas18 : 7/27/2016 2:32 pm : link
In comment 13047173 Greg from LI said:
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Plymouth Voyager.
RE: One I can't believe I left out  
j_rud : 7/27/2016 2:38 pm : link
In comment 13047168 pjcas18 said:
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Black Keys El Camino



and it could be any of the couple albums before this one too.

That was their radio friendly turn but IMO it doesn't get any better than Thickfreakness with Rubber a Factory a close second
RE: RE: One I can't believe I left out  
pjcas18 : 7/27/2016 3:11 pm : link
In comment 13047190 j_rud said:
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In comment 13047168 pjcas18 said:


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Black Keys El Camino



and it could be any of the couple albums before this one too.


That was their radio friendly turn but IMO it doesn't get any better than Thickfreakness with Rubber a Factory a close second


I wouldn't argue that one bit.....for me I was late to the Black Keys party and because of the radio friendly release i dug up their other stuff and loved it. But that's what makes it iconic IMO even if not "better".
Rage Against the Machine  
weeg in the bronx : 7/27/2016 3:51 pm : link
Pearl Jam "Ten" and "Vs", Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America and Stay Positive, agree on Rancid "and out come the wolves"
Let's Go is a better album than Out Come the Wolves  
Greg from LI : 7/27/2016 4:56 pm : link
Unless you really dig their ska stuff, which I don't.
RE: Let's Go is a better album than Out Come the Wolves  
pjcas18 : 7/27/2016 5:05 pm : link
In comment 13047402 Greg from LI said:
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Unless you really dig their ska stuff, which I don't.


I like their ska stuff better.

Journey to the End of the East Bay is their best song.

I like Let's Go too, it's how I heard them initially - Salvation was worn out on my CD player, but I like even Indestructible better than Let's Go.

From Indestructible Born Frustrated is great.
Well, there ya go  
Greg from LI : 7/27/2016 5:13 pm : link
I'm just not crazy about their ska songs. Best song on ...And Out Come the Wolves for me is She's Automatic. Salvation, Radio, Nihilism, St. Mary, Hyena (from their first album) to me are better than anything on ...And Out Come the Wolves.
Alice Cooper's best solo album. Very underrated.  
Gman11 : 7/27/2016 5:13 pm : link
RE: Well, there ya go  
pjcas18 : 7/27/2016 5:16 pm : link
In comment 13047423 Greg from LI said:
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I'm just not crazy about their ska songs. Best song on ...And Out Come the Wolves for me is She's Automatic. Salvation, Radio, Nihilism, St. Mary, Hyena (from their first album) to me are better than anything on ...And Out Come the Wolves.


I like them all. Radio was written by the guy from Green Day I think. Or he co-wrote it. He almost joined Rancid before having the success with Green Day. Would have been a very different world, I like Rancid a lot, but Billie Joe just might have had a cool impact on Rancid - and I'm not a Green Day fan though I liked their first couple albums.
Some of my favorites (no dupes, dates back 30 years for  
Dave in PA : 7/27/2016 6:07 pm : link
Turn the Radio Off - Reel Big Fish
Lateralus - Tool
40 oz To Freedom - Sublime
Oh Inverted World / Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
Smoke em if you got em / The Full Custom Gospel Sounds - Reverend Horton Heat
Anchor Drops - Umphreys McGee
Bird in a House - Railroad Earth
Too Far To Care - Old 97's (honorable mention to Most Messed Up by Old 97's)
D - White Denim
Desaguou - Andre Sampaio
Highway Companion - Tom Petty
Shame Shame - Dr. Dog
Things We Do - Indigenous (album release was 1998 but I couldn't help myself. the song Holdin' Out is a great place to start with this very talented electric blues band)
And more  
Dave in PA : 7/27/2016 6:20 pm : link
Shake Hands with Shorty - North Mississippi Allstars
Til The Medicine Takes - Widespread Panic
Transistor - 311
3030 - Deltron
Too High To Die - Meat Puppets
Audioslave - self titled
Rodrigo y Gabriela - self titled
Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly
Queens of the Stome Age - Songs for the Deaf
Them Crooked Vultures - self titled
Above - Mad Season
Today We Sail - Boris Garcia
Love me some BBI music threads...  
trueblueinpw : 7/27/2016 6:55 pm : link
I really do. Music threads alone are worth the annual contribution.

Some great choices already. I'll add:

Suger, Cooper Blue (barely makes the 25 year threshold)
Temple of the Dog (ditto the time criteria)
Queens of the Stone Age

Looking forward to shagging down the ones noted that I haven't heard.
Dr Dog and White Denim...excellent choices  
j_rud : 7/27/2016 7:11 pm : link
I used to see Dr Dog play house parties in West Philly. I've gotta get plugged in to the local music scene again, those were some fun times
How did I forget this one?  
j_rud : 7/27/2016 7:15 pm : link
Mars Volta-De-Loused in the Comatorium


One of the most ambitious albums of my lifetime. Mind bending concept, defies categorization, and features some downright blistering musicianship
In the last 10 years for me...  
adamg : 7/27/2016 7:58 pm : link
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Anderson Paak - Malibu
Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
Leon Bridges - Coming Home
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Moses Sumney - Mid-City Island [technically an EP]
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Earlier stuff:
Jeff Buckley - Grace
A Tribe Called Quest- People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane

The Weezer albums mentioned  
St. Jimmy : 7/27/2016 8:18 pm : link
The compilation of Operation Ivy songs was released in 1991
Green Day - Insomniac
NOFX -Punk in Drublic
Any of Rancids first four albums
Lifetime - Hello Bastards
Catch-22 Keasbey Nights
Bouncing Souls - Maniacal Laughter
The Copyrights -North Sentinel Island
Let's see...  
Jim in Hoboken : 7/27/2016 8:39 pm : link
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Okkerivl River - Down the River of Golden Dreams
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
The Reindeer Section - Sons of Evil Reindeer
Anthony & the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
Bands of Horses - Everything All the Time
The National - Boxer
The Antlers - Hospice
Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
I gotta throw the flag on Op Ivy  
Greg from LI : 7/27/2016 9:13 pm : link
The compilation may have been released within the 25 years but those songs were all recorded in the 80s
RE: I gotta throw the flag on Op Ivy  
St. Jimmy : 7/27/2016 9:22 pm : link
In comment 13047685 Greg from LI said:
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The compilation may have been released within the 25 years but those songs were all recorded in the 80s
Yeah, I can't argue that.
Off the beaten track...  
JohnF : 7/27/2016 10:31 pm : link

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Original Soundtrack, Jeremy Soule (Composer)


The Music of Hans Zimmer: Definitive Collection

And my personal favorites:


Sun; Thomas Bergersen, composer

Battlecry, Invincible, Miracles, Illusions are all masterpieces from 2 Steps from Hell.
I'm not sure...  
feelflows : 7/27/2016 10:40 pm : link
how many punk/hardcore fans there are here, BUT...

If you like that stuff and you haven't listened to The Shape Of Punk To Come by Refused, you need to.

It's unlike any other hardcore album I've ever heard.
Great Stuff here...  
ChaChing : 7/27/2016 11:01 pm : link
Shout out to a Catch 22 mention (tho for me it was Alone in a Crowd - a ska album that's a story & depressing as shit). And similarly Less Than Jake. Might have to add Dookie, also some weezer tho I dunno them by album so well

40oz to Freedom should have been mentioned at least 137 times more. Can't pick a "greatest" but holy shit that's a great album. Easily the most stolen album of my college yrs too

And ya...QOTSA, Black Keys, White Stripes, Them Crooked Vultures all could find their way in. Just at the tail end of the 25 you still have Metallica's Black album & GnR Use Your Illusion (tho the latter as a start to finish album maybe not...still lots of great stuff).

A couple that I didn't see on quick look:

Jack White - Blunderbuss
Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock. Just got reacquainted last night...so good
SMiLE - Brian Wilson  
Phil in LA : 7/27/2016 11:07 pm : link
Martinis and Bikinis - Sam Phillips
Play - Squeeze
When I Was Cruel - Elvis Costello
Painted From Memory - Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Woodface - Crowded House
Burning Questions - Graham Parker
Monster - REM
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
Also  
Phil in LA : 7/27/2016 11:16 pm : link
This Perfect World - Freedy Johnston.
Achtung, Baby - U2
For me...  
Route 9 : 7/28/2016 2:33 am : link
1. Marshall Mathers LP
2. Slim Shady LP

...and the rest aren't even close. People who didn't even like eminem were buying his music and even in a time when piracy in music became a big thing, he still blew up the charts. The lyrical content on Marshall Mathers LP is untouchable and like he said, eminem from that point was his "own competition"

Maybe others are Linkin Park-hybrid Theory. That didn't have the shelf life as MMLP did. I was listening to that all the way until the eminem show came out in 2002.

I don't want to put Nirvana Never mind, if that is even elligible.
RE: Let's see...  
JoeMoney19 : 7/28/2016 11:05 am : link
In comment 13047614 Jim in Hoboken said:
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Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Okkerivl River - Down the River of Golden Dreams
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
The Reindeer Section - Sons of Evil Reindeer
Anthony & the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
Bands of Horses - Everything All the Time
The National - Boxer
The Antlers - Hospice
Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago


I like a lot of these as well. The National may be my favorite band. I think High Violet is their best album but Boxer and Alligator are right up there too. Bon Iver deserves mention on this thread and I like The Antlers a lot too. Anthony & the Johnsons took me a while to get into but it's a beautiful album. I'll have to check out some of these others. Good stuff.
RE: Great Stuff here...  
St. Jimmy : 7/28/2016 11:51 am : link
In comment 13047855 ChaChing said:
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Shout out to a Catch 22 mention (tho for me it was Alone in a Crowd - a ska album that's a story & depressing as shit). And similarly Less Than Jake. Might have to add Dookie, also some weezer tho I dunno them by album so well

40oz to Freedom should have been mentioned at least 137 times more. Can't pick a "greatest" but holy shit that's a great album. Easily the most stolen album of my college yrs too

And ya...QOTSA, Black Keys, White Stripes, Them Crooked Vultures all could find their way in. Just at the tail end of the 25 you still have Metallica's Black album & GnR Use Your Illusion (tho the latter as a start to finish album maybe not...still lots of great stuff).

A couple that I didn't see on quick look:

Jack White - Blunderbuss
Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock. Just got reacquainted last night...so good
I'll have to check out alone in the crowd. That is probably the only one I don't have. For me, at the time, once Kalnoky left I wasn't as into them. I recently got Permanent Revolution which is the story Leon Trotsky and liked it.
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Davisian : 7/28/2016 12:32 pm : link

RE: alt country slant  
10thAve : 7/28/2016 12:44 pm : link
In comment 13047119 Luis in NJ said:
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Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac (though Faithless St and Pneumonia, also classics)
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
Ryan Bingham - Mescalito
Dave Alvin - King of California
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

You should check out Lucero, they are also an excellent live band if you have the chance to see them.
It's all about preference, but here it goes  
Mike in Long Beach : 7/28/2016 12:55 pm : link
5. The National - High Violet
4. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. Jeff Buckley - Grace
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
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