swampfox Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 I'll start off with some under-appreciated classic rock albums. In Rock - Deep Purple Don't expect Smoke On The Water. These songs are complex and rock harder than anything on Machine Head. Child In Time has some of Ritchie Blackmore's best guitar playing. Sabotage - Black Sabbath Probably their best album besides Masters of Reality. (Paranoid is over-rated) Must listen to the album if only for Megalomania, which is very cool. Draw The Line - Aerosmith Yeah, not many hits on this one, but it's my favorite album of theirs. It even has Joe Perry doing vocals on one song. Last album before most would say the band went downhill. Love It To Death - Alice Cooper From when it was an actual GROUP called Alice Cooper. Their first hit record, and it has no throwaway tracks. The song Black Juju sounds a lot like The Doors. This is getting taxing... from now on, just the album names and group. Fireball - Deep Purple Eldorado - Electric Light Orchestra Animals - Pink Floyd (their best album, but sadly always overlooked) Queen/Queen II - Queen Leftoverture - Kansas Don't Look Back - Boston Rising - Rainbow Pieces of Eight - Styx Love Gun/Ace Frehley/Alive II - KISS (Yah, I love Ace Frehley.) Sorry that was so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vjgx Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Some of my favorite albums of all-time: Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris - Audiovent Deloused in The Comatorium - The Mars Volta Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Mountain - Mastodon Carnavas - Silversun Pickups The Information - Beck Make Yourself - Incubus Morning View - Incubus Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails Icky Thump - The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes Revelations - Audioslave Vegas - The Crystal Method Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine Demon Days - Gorillaz Inhuman Rampage - DragonForce Mezmerize - System of a Down Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys Wolfmother - Wolfmother 10,000 Days - Tool St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterFanatic Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Homer, I was highly disappointed in the new Foo Foo Fighters album. It is still early and it might grow on me, but I am still waiting on the next "Colour and the Shape". In my car now: ELO - Time (1981) This is what you would get if you cross-breeded the Beatles with Daft Punk. Very much ahead of it's time and still sounds just as good today. Strong Tracks: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hVkEHBbv4Fg Twilight Hold On Tight (Yeah ... that song from the car commercial) http://youtube.com/watch?v=wSEVhQoka8E Here is the News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrakenKing Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Trentemoller - The Last Resort: Very downtempo ambient music... great to listen to when you're under the influence. Iris - Wrath: Synthpop at it's best. They usually play over in Europe, even though they're from Texas. Just had a tour with De/Vision. Muse - Any Album: What can I say, they're awesome! 30 Seconds to Mars - 30 Seconds to Mars: Forget about that "A Beautiful Lie" Bullcrap. The first, self-titled CD shows 30STM at it's best! Great live. Seen them about 6 times. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City: Incredible music, mixed with awesome lyrics. Great band live, seen them twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceDragon Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 30 Seconds to Mars - 30 Seconds to Mars: Forget about that "A Beautiful Lie" Bullcrap. The first, self-titled CD shows 30STM at it's best! Great live. Seen them about 6 times. They are good live, aren't they? If you wanna listen to heavy metal, but you have an overbearing headache, can I suggest The String Quartet Tribute To Atreyu? The atmosphere's still there, but there aren't any lyrics, no guitars, basses nor drums. All instruments are immitated by string instruments, generating a copy-cat like, original sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragoncoaster1292 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 All right, here we go: My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade Sparks - Hello Young Lovers Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything Cake - Comfort Eagle Smashing Pumpkins Adore and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness I have more, but I'm tired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennywood!007 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory, and Minutes To Midnight Blink 182- Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Enema Of The State, and Greatest Hits Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication, Stadium Arcadium. and Greatest Hits Motion City Soundtrack- Even If It Kills Me Paramore- All We Know Is Falling, and Riot! Yellowcard- Ocean Avenue, Lights and Sounds, and Paper Walls ....more to come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vekoma Fan Boy Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Disturbed: The Sickness, Believe, Ten Thousand Fists, and what ever the hell their 4th album is! Blink 182: Take off Your Pants and Jacket, Enema Of The State (Yes, I know, right above me...) Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape Nirvana: Nevermind, From the Muddy Banks of Wishkah Papa Roach: Infest, The Paramour Sessions EDIT: Hey, lookie there, 1500 posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATman Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Across the Universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen Heretic Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 This is a mix but here are a few I love. edit-- The list turned out way longer than I thought, so I've had to cut some out. Oh well. First I will echo anything by Assemblage 23. The FunkerVogt mix of "disappoint" is very good if you can get a hold of it. Much better that the original I reckon. I guess you could call it EBM-trance with a melodic style. My friend calls it "Gay Club music", but its totally not. VNV Nation - Future Perfect: The album that really kicked of the whole futurepop genre. Thoughtful lyrics along with a pop-trance mix make for music you can dance to, or just sit back and listen to. Also from VNV... Matter and Form, but only because the last two tracks are awesome. Lightwave is a dance instrumental that will instantly make you think of playing WipEout. Perpetual is a sort of Rock-EBM mix that works really well and just sounds really nice. It has shades of the 80s goth stuff to it. The Crystal Method - Vegas. A very nice album, that has a dancey, but chilled vibe to it. Plus, anything that samples The Dark Crystal has to get extra points. Iron Maiden - Brave New World. I almost put Number of the Beast here, as Hallowed be Thy Name is still my favorite Maiden track. But this album just has such an energetic, rejuvenated feel to it, echoing the way things were going for the band at the time. Energetic, lively, all the things we love from Maiden, but a little older and wiser. Let the track keep running right to the end of the last track with the volume up and you will heart Nickos voice caught on tape, echoing the feelings of many a Maiden fan at the time. To/Die/For - All Eternity. The debut for the band after they re-named from mary-anne to get out of a bad contract. The band has a new line-up now which is still good, but this is my fave album. It narrowly beats Epilogue as their best. Its depressing goth rock, but harder that Evanescence or The Rasmus. Its all vampires and death and pain, but musically, its very good. In the Heat of the Night is the best track i reckon. The band truly kick ass live, and play much harder on stage. Paradise Lost - One second. Hardly any two albums from these guys sound the same. They are always changing their sound, which is a good thing. This is my favorite, just ahead of Draconian Times. They turned down the hard rock and turned up the synths. Some truly beautiful songs with a dark but not depressing feel. Highly recommended. Listen to it and you will find it hard to believe that these guys were one of the original pioneers of doom metal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 I figure it's kind of dumb to recommend albums everyone knows, so here goes: Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump is a very good but unfortunately very unknown album. Think something like OK Computer plus Twin Peaks. The nine minute opening track is a favorite of mine. Caribou's Andorra is also good; think modern-day psychedalia. The Cardigans' First Band On The Moon, which features their hit song, Lovefool, is overlooked as a full album. It's one of those ones that leaps from track to track without a pause in between. On top of that, the mastering is incredibly good. Mad Pudding's Grand Hotel is an album I haven't stopped listening to since I saw them live in 1998. It's the most Canadian album ever, but it's practically impossible to find. Supergrass's Road to Rouen is one of my top five albums, even though it only has nine songs. It's melancholy British guitar pop, sort of hard to describe. Think cloudgazing on a rainy day. Jon Brion's Punch-Drunk Love soundtrack, another top five. I could listen to this all day long and not get tired of it. Ugly Casanova's Sharpen Your Teeth, an offshoot of Modest Mouse, is a dusty, smoky album, with lots of weird stuff in it. If you like Modest Mouse, chances are you'll like this. The Dandy Warhols' Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia. It's difficult to describe this one. The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka is the most experimental album ever: there are four CDs, each one with the same songs on it, only each corresponding track has something different on it. You have to get four CD players to play it, and it's worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas2 Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion 'nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savemagicmountain Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 Bright eyes- Lifted or Rilo kiley- take offs and landings The Islands- Return to the sea Desapericidos- Read Music Speak Spanish jenny lewis- rabit fur coat Yeah Yeah Yeahs- fever to tell Death Cab for cutie-transatlantisism Two gallants- self titled Mewithoutyou-brothers sisters just to name a few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycamps Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Aiden: Conviction My Chemical Romance: You Brought Me Your Bullets I Brought You My Love Blaqk Audio: Cex Cells AFI: Sing the Sorrow From First to Last: Dear Diary, My Teenage Angst Has A Bodycount Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swampfox Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 I forgot to mention a great band called Electric Wizard. Get their album Dopethrone if you like sludgey doom metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiCoastal Kid Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Radiohead In Rainbows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesMC Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms"- 1st album recorded specifically for the (then new) CD digital format. Skip Money For Nothing, but check out "One World", "Your Latest Trick", "Ride Across The River", and "Brothers In Arms" Crisp production and the music literally "takes you elsewhere". Probably the best mellow album ever recorded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavslayer Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Every Iron Maiden album as they are simply the greatest band in the history of the universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjaco Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Tonic - Head on Straight, Lemon Parade, Sugar Sister Hazel - Fortress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterExpert13 Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 These two....I love their music! Maroon5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATman Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 In Rainbows - Radiohead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanSe_Colombia Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Veronica Orozco - Veronica Orozco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socalMAN123 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Boys Like Girls - Boys Like Girls Yay for album names that are the same as the artist name! ---Brent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytoremember Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Youth&Young Manhood~Kings of Leon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Heres an album alot of people would probably dig but do not know about: Cave-In album: Antenna This band goes back a little bit. Around the era of bands like Snapcase and Boy Sets Fire. The thing about this album is that theres more pop to it and they pull it off real well. If you know Cave-In of old, they were damn near a hardcore band and were probably considered "emo" because they pulled those tricks before anyone knew what it was. Somehow they were grouped with that scene. Check it out if you like rock / alternative. Its also really well recorded and mixed. (if your into that stuff) btw....Anybody have this album? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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