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What's your favorite band's best album? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Dream Theater "Awake" (1994). Extraordinary from the first to the last note. 75 minutes of phenomenal prog metal. They've made good and great albums before and after, but they never excelled the pure class and artistry displayed on this album.

Bruce Dickinson "The Chemical Wedding". I never liked Iron Maiden much, but Dickinson's solo stuff is a different class. Fresh, creative, varied, energetic. Most of his solo albums are well worth the listen, but "Chemical Wedding" stands out for its high variety and creativity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

For Queen, take a listen to their second album, Queen 2. It's quite underrated, as only Seven Seas of Rhye is on the greatest hits.

However it's a phenomenal record, full of their musical experimentation that would find critical fruition in night at the opera, but a bit more raw and moody.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The Gold Album - Autechre

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nonagon Infinity - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Though their other 25 albums are awesome too.

I am also partial to their album PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: an Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation. Probably my favorite metal album, and they aren't even a pure metal band.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

"August and everything after" Counting crows

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

NIИ - The Downward Spiral is the common choice, but The Fragile is a much more complete album. However, my personal favorite is Year Zero.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I would say Pretty Hate Machine is probably the best known. My favorite is Broken. You are probably correct about Downward Spiral being the consensus among the fan base as a whole. What I really like about NIN is that I enjoy all of their albums. Many other bands I like have some that I avoid. Probably my least favorite NIN album is Fixed and it's still pretty listenable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is subgenre dependant, decade also.

A favorite these days:

Crass - Penis Envy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

April by Sun Kil Moon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I will need to check that out. I’ve only listened to a few so far; love Benji & tiny cities is great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Touch by Eurythmics

and

Music For The Masses by Depeche Mode

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Visions by Haken. Pariah's Child by Sonata Arctica.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Either The Wall by Pink Floyd or In Rainbows by Radiohead

Or The Money Store by Death Grips

Or ænemia by Tool

Or Dirt by Alice in Chains

Or-

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or Currents by Tame Impala

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

OR WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Bille Eilish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

OR Random Access Memories by Daft Punk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

OR The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Avalon by Roxy Music.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My Arms, Your Hearse by Opeth.

Edit: tied with BURN, PIANO ISLAND BURN by The Blood Brothers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Paul's Boutique

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The Beatles by The Beatles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Beatles answer: Revolver

Non-Beatles answer: Sunny Day Real Estate - the pink album

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Fantastic Planet by Failure

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Master of Puppets

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Time by the Electric Light Orchestra. that period in the late 70s and early 80s where synthesizer music was getting popular but hadn't fully codified norms yet is chock full of incredible music, and Time was one of those albums while also being the culmination of a lot of the rock and pop that came before it. add an engaging and heartbreaking story and you have a winner

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Have you heard the remastered version with additional tracks? Julie Don’t Live Here is especially poignant.

Also, the album Eldorado.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Fluisteraars first, dromers, is absolutely amazing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a 3 way tie between Back in Black, Led Zeppelin II and Wish You Were Here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

LZ II is a perfect album. But then LZ IV is too... And also Physical Graffiti... It's hard to pick just one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The Afterman: Descension

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

American Idiot is better than Dookie in my opinion but apples and oranges on that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Insomniac for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Probably my favorite mixing on any GD album. The bass is nice and meaty without overpowering anything else in the soundstage, truly excellent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ween - Quebec
Favorite band is very tough. It’s probably Ween, and Quebec slightly over The Mollusk for me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mmm, my order of favorite Ween albums would be Chocolate and Cheese, Quebec, White Pepper.

But Mollusk has some bangers on it too (Buckingham Green).

Why yes, yes I am down with the brown.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you listen to the Deluxe C&C yet? The “new” songs are really great

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I have not! Gotta give that a listen, thanks for the heads-up!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Born to Run. Wait...Darkness on the Edge of Town. Wait...Nebraska...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It’s a tie for me

Pearl Jam. (1991). Ten [Album]. Epic Records.

A Tribe Called Quest. (1991). The Low End Theory [Album]. Jive Records.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Here's my thing about 'Ten'.

I love the first half of this album. It's some of the best music I know in the genre. High energy, catchy, passionate. But somehow, the second half feels to me like the band ran out of ideas and gas. After 'Jeremy' it's all pretty average, low-energy stuff, with the exception of 'Garden'.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

My fuck, Low End Theory is one of the best albums in history.

You on point, Tip?

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