The Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come … blending melodic, hardcore, jazz, and electronic into one punk album

Salmon - Paco Drop the Chicken … Very eclectic rap / punk, beat-oriented with lots of changes. A personal favorite “local” band.

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

Also Nightmares on Wax - Smoker’s Delight, for absolutely capturing a certain mood

I’ll throw my few in here:

Lemon Jelly - KY
Paul Simon - Graceland
Air - Moon Safari
Portishead - Dummy
Alt-J - An awesome wave

Metallica - …and justice for all
But not in a good way.

possibly Speak for Yourself by Imogen Heap but I’m not sure

Daft Punk

Discovery

I wanted to add some of my faves!

• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

• William Onyeabor - Who is William Onyeabor? - An enigmatic and reclusive Nigerian funk jazz wildman who was prolific and fairly popular in Nigeria in the 1970s. Let’s Fall in Love is so innovative!

• Miles Okazaki - The Sky Below - Just brilliantly innovative avante-garde jazz and guitar. I was struck when I first heard this album

• Smoke - Everything - A group of friends and musicians quietly got together in the heart of San Francisco to record this mysterious, challenging and psychedelic jazz trip. The whole album is a journey and should be heard at once, but if you just want a taste try this timestamp

• The Flying Luttenbachers - Destroy All Music - The song Fist Through Glass is the song that got me into jazz! I heard it on a late night radio show called Brave New Waves while coming down from mushrooms lol

KLF - the White Room . It is a quite unique combination of a early 90s dance album (with a few bangers that still sound good) and road movie soundtrack.

Also, excellent tread!

Ugly Casanova. Someone left modest mouse on the burner for too long and made a powdered concentrate.

Literally every album by The Mars Volta. Each one is unique and I’ll never find anything like them again.

Yanni-live at the Acropolis. There’s was a brief moment in 1994 when yanni actually achieved world peace. Also Tribute, another live album, that shows how unbelievably massive yanni was. He sold out a show at the fucking Taj Majal.

Anna ash and the family tree- hello friend, from bird above. An indie folk album that’s a perfect cross between a prairie home companion and the hipster folk Renaissance of the early 2000s.

Pity sex-dark world. One of the best albums out there. Emo shoegaze garagy jams with killer guitar work.

Prince - Sign O the Times

One of the few albums I listen to beginning to end.

Also, Pink Floyd. Pretty much any album, but specifically Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here.

A Grand Don’t Come For Free by The Streets. I love this album start to finish and it’s got a great story right through it.

First time I heard it I’d gotten an email from Vice promoting it and I clicked the link thinking it would just be the first 20 seconds of each song but it was the whole album! Was just starting a movie but I never watched it, just listened to the album straight through. So good.

My Life In The Bush of Ghosts by David Byrne and Brian Eno.

Just a few old ones…

Art of Noise - The Best Of … but all are good Yellow - Pocket Universe … but also The Essential Moloko - ? Kosheen - Kokopelli (I think)

I’m loving these comments, so many great albums! And a ton I’ve never hear of and will need to check out.

I have a few of these, but two that really jump out at me are

• The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of Niggy Tardust - Saul Williams
• Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By - Lovage
• Common People - William Shatner

These are albums that you’ve just gotta let play.

e: can’t believe I forgot Shatner!

• CocoRosie - Grey Oceans
• Cornelius - Point
• Opeth - Pale Communion