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For those who have been watching the topic list lately you've probably noticed a thread that was consistently up there where I rated a bunch of music that other people recommended. If you came in there looking for good music it may have been a little hard to follow, but in this thread I have compiled all of the albums I gave an 8/10 or higher to in that thread to be used as a nice reference for some people looking into some really good music. Its far from definitive since its just based on what was mentioned in the thread, I'd usually include more jazz, rap, country, funk, classical, electronic, noise, etc. in the mix but there's still lot of good stuff in the rock and pop vein to listen to in this thread. Enjoy.


Absolute must hear masterpieces
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Big Star - #1 Record
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
The Cure - Disintegration
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division - Closer
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Misfits - Walk Among Us
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nirvana - Bleach
Pixies - Doolittle
The Replacements - Tim
Sonic Youth - Goo
Wire - Pink Flag


Among the finest of its kind
Animal Collective - Feels
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Boston - Boston
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
Bright Eyes - Lifted, or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Dio - Holy Diver
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Lightning Bolt - Ride the Skies
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Misfits - Static Age
Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something
The Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg
The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
New Order - Substance
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
R.E.M. - Reckoning
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
The Replacements - Let It Be
Rudimentary Peni - Death Church
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Swans - Filth
Terry Riley - In C
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Torche - Meanderthal
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Huge personal favorites
Animal Collective - Hollinndagain
The B-52's - The B-52's
The Beach Boys - Wild Honey
The Beach Boys - Friends
The Beach Boys - 20/20
The Beach Boys - Sunflower
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - The Beatles [White Album]
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Big Star - Radio City
Big Star - 3rd
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Vol 4
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult
Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Blue Öyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Boris - Akuma no Uta
Brighter - Laurel
Brighter - Singles 1989-1992
Bright Eyes - Every Day and Every Night
Bright Eyes - Don't Be Frightened of Turning the Page
Bright Eyes - Oh Holy Fools
Bright Eyes - There Is No Beginning to the Story
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bright Eyes - Noise Floor (Rarities 1998-2005)
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Crass - The Feeding of the Five Thousand
Crass - Penis Envy
Crass - Christ: The Album
The Cure - Pornography
The Cure - The Head on the Door
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
David Bowie - Low
Death - Spiritual Healing
Death - Human
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Death - Symbolic
Death - The Sound of Perserverance
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
The Doors - The Doors
Drive Like Jehu - Drive Like Jehu
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
The Flaming Lips - Hit to Death in the Future Head
Frank Zappa - We're Only in It For the Money
Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')
Fugazi - Fugazi
Fugazi - Repeater
Fugazi - The Argument
Full of Hell - Roots of Earth Are Consuming My Home
Full of Hell - Rudiments of Mutilation
Funeral Diner - The Underdark
Gene Clark - White Light
Gene Clark - No Other
The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar!
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson - Islands
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
King Diamond - Abigail
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
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Huge personal favorites (continued)
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
Minutemen - Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Morrissey - Viva Hate
The Mountain Goats - Zopilote Machine
The Mountain Goats - Nine Black Poppies
The Mountain Goats - Ghana
The Mountain Goats - Satanic Messiah
The Mountain Goats - Moon Colony Bloodbath
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
My Bloody Valentine - Tremolo
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - Hormoaning
Nirvana - Incesticide
Nirvana - In utero
No Age - Nouns
of Montreal - The Gay Parade
OutKast - Stankonia
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Pixies - Bossanova
Pixies - Trompe le monde
The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
Prince - Dirty Mind
Prince - Purple Rain
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Queen - A Night at the Opera
R.E.M. - Chronic Town
R.E.M. - Murmur
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
R.E.M. - Document
R.E.M. - Green
R.E.M. - Out of Time
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
R.E.M. - Monster
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Radiohead - The Bends
The Replacements - Hootenanny
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony
Rush - 2112
Rush - Permanent Waves
Rush - Moving Pictures
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
Sleep - Dopesmoker
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Suburban Lawns - Suburban Lawns
Swans - Cop
Swans - Greed
Swans - Public Castration Is a Good Idea
Swans - Children of God
Swans - The Burning World
Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Swans - The Great Annhilator
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Mother of All Saints
Touché Amoré - Is Survived By
Unwound - Reptition
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Weezer - Weezer [Blue Album]
Weezer - Pinkerton
The Who - My Generation
The Who - Live at Leeds
The Who - Who's Next
Wire - Chairs Missing
Wire - 154
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Yes - Fragile
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Pretty impeccable taste.

Bright Eyes being the only exception... you honestly think that whiny fuck boi co-opting an Americana sound for his emo musings is great???
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KronoCloud posted...

Pretty impeccable taste.

Bright Eyes being the only exception... you honestly think that whiny fuck boi co-opting an Americana sound for his emo musings is great???

I honestly don't see the problem with Conor, his writing is that kind of rough, blunt honesty I crave and I realize he may come across a bit over the top at times but he consistently manages to move me. Not for everyone, but his music was a big part of my youth
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Bump
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Lmao
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Literally no Is This It - The Strokes
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InstaReturns posted...

Literally no Is This It - The Strokes

Decent record but pretty average
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