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Comments from nominator - I have added a link to the most streamed song on Spotify if the nominator did not include any

ABBA - Arrival:
ABBA is a Swedish pop band that that put out a series of hit albums and songs in the 70s and 80s. Arrival is considered one of their best albums and has a few big hits you've heard before, like Dancing Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s , Money Money Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0 , and Knowing Me, Knowing You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrzicaiRLU . If you want fun, easy listening pop, this is the album for you!

Babymetal - Babymetal:
Babymetal basically created an entirely new genre with this album that by no means should have actually worked, combining heavy metal instrumentals with j-pop vocals. Somehow it ended up capitalizing on the best of both genres, making something that is legitimately metal as all hell while having a wildly differnet sound from anything that came before it. I considered going with one of their other albums, Metal Resistance or Metal Galaxy (all three are great) but I feel like it makes more to introduce them via their self-titled debut which pretty much immediately knocked it out of the park.

This song is what made them go viral initially and the one that introduced most people to the band to begin with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY

Bjrk - Homogenic:
A beautiful, otherworldly album. Bjork has four albums I would love to cover, but Homogenic has always stood out as her best to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hMHLwqPR4

Blmchen - Jasmin:
Style: Ballad, Euro House, Happy Hardcore, Synth-pop (according to Discogs)

I don't think that this topic series has covered this style of pop yet (correct me if I'm wrong). Album is in German.

Note, the original release of this album had 13 songs but the version on Spotify/Youtube has 15 (after some research I discovered that this was a special edition released like a year later). Normally I wouldn't be pushing for bonus songs to be included, but one of those extra songs is one which I think people are most likely to have heard before, so it feels right that it should be ranked. So I'm nominating all 15 songs even though it adds an extra 7 minutes.

Sample song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAISp5C8CE

dEUS - The Ideal Crash:
Belgian art-rock band. The Ideal Crash isn't as experimental or artsy as predecessor 'In a Bar, Under the Sea', but the creativity and art is still there, it's just interwoven into the music more subtly. The band at its peak, an album with amazing consistency and quality throughout.

Sample track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0hPLvWPvac

Enya - A Day Without Rain:
AKA the album with Only Time on it. Her most acclaimed album is Watermark, but when I listen to it I get mostly vibes and that doesn't work very well in this format. My favorite album is Dark Sky Island, but I'm more curious to see the opinions of the rest of A Day Without Rain when put up against the most pervasive song in Enya's discography. Plus I think this album is great too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI

Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_GjLs9YOrcLCgTdhrb4xr6DUA5cAuSmJ

Japanese psychedelic rock band beloved by Rate Your Music. I'm not familiar with most of their work. Their highest rated album, Long Season, is one continuous song, so I'm nominating this instead. Open to changing based on feedback.

KMFDM - Nihil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdmhFhxJIXQ

Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores:
Since we recently did a Portuguese-speaking album with Clube da esquina, I figured it'd also be cool to cover a Spanish-speaking album. It's a really cool modern take on Mexican folk music. Some really good songwriting and Lafourcade's voice is fantastic.

Sample track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5CZ83o1Z8

Lordi - The Arockalypse:
Just pure fun heavy metal out of Finland. This album has Hard Rock Hallelujah, which made history when it won Eurovision in 2006. Link to that song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H4mJXcQaRU

Machinae Supremacy - A View From The End Of The World:
machinae supremacy are a swedish metal (but not particularly heavy) band who sing mostly about video games and use a SID synthesizer, the chip from the commodore 64, to get authentic 8-bit sounds. this is my favourite album of theirs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQJXLqqKB1w

Nouvelle Vague - Novelle Vague:
This French-based band basically does bossa nova covers of rock and pop tunes with a heavy focus on the 80s. So it's kind of in line with the stuff I typically nominate with a bit of a deviant twist. They're pretty catchy and I honestly feel like I've heard their cover of "I Melt With You" in commercials before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeX8Ah1eSt8

Polysics - Now is the Live!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBhxnlnLIM

Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEUjbBMOUBg