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.

I’ll throw my few in here:

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

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

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

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

Daft Punk

Discovery

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

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.

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

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)