Hey ML2T2! Which albums would you recommend to anyone?

Wu-Tang Clan - "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" 1993

The Beatles - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Cub Band" 1967

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Original Soundtrack 2000

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls Love this band.

Homestuck - All of them see user flair

Band of Horses - Everything All the Time The closest I'll get to country.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Already been posted, but it's just too good.

C418 - Minecraft: Volume Alpha Some great chillout music.

Dream Theater - Octavarium Absolutely love this album.

Swarms - Old Raves End It saddens me how few people know about this band.

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular Great band, great album.

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Love Pirate Jet and Empire Ants.

Souleye - PPPPPP Soundtrack of VVVVVV.

Explosions in the Sky - The Rescue Album made in 8 days, completely free, and great music, what's not to like?

Sleep Dealer - Shadows of the Past Excellent album, reminds me of EitS.

Sleep Dealer - The way home See above.

Psycosis - Sweet Plastic Acres Gorillaz + MLP= Yes please.

Flashygoodness - Tower of Heaven OST Excellent album, great electronic music.

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Great album, especially love 1901.

That's all from me.

There are a few good ones on my list. First off would be my two favorite albums of all time: Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and OK Computer by Radiohead.

Going further... hrm, I don't know. I'd also recommend Dark Side of the Moon and Zeppelin IV, but that pretty much rounds out my classics. After that I'd probably recommend Counting Crows's August and Everything After, Death Cab For Cutie's Transatlanticism, and NIN's Pretty Hate Machine, although those three really aren't the kind to be recommended to absolutely everyone.

I'm much more of an album guy than a single-track guy, so I've got a wealth of good albums I'd like to share. Really makes me wish I could just post albums all the time instead of individual tracks...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Lift your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven"

Well I don't know about ANYBODY, but The Fragile by NIN, 2112 by Rush, Meteora by Linkin Park, The Wall by Pink Floyd... those are a few.

Other than the big two Radiohead albums, I would say Hospice by The Antlers and On Avery Island by Neutral Milk Hotel. The Antlers is a concept album about a hospital worker and a terminally ill patient, and On Avery Island is greatly overshadowed by In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Both are amazing albums.

The first non-instrumental track from Hospice, Kettering.

The first track from On Avery Island, Songs Against Sex.

Too many to list! I'll keep it to down to one to keep myself from rambling.

Light Chasers by Cloud Cult.

Cloud Cult makes amazing music. Some of their songs are so personal it's almost unnerving, especially after you realize how much of it was written to help the songwriter cope with the death of his son. Despite their troubled past, the band seems insistent on having a happy ending.

Oh man, I have so many.

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory is pretty much the best concept album I've ever heard, I listened to it five times in a row the first time I got it.

Tool - Lateralus, especially if you listen to it rearranged into The Holy Gift.

A Perfect Circle - The Thirteenth Step: Prog is just pretty much the greatest thing ever.

Daft Punk - Alive 2007 I think I'm gonna stop writing these blurbs, not much to say in them

Cody Beebe and the Crooks - Friends of the Old Mill

Buckethead - Enter the Chicken

Black Tide - Light From Above

Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

System of a Down - Hypnotize/Mezmerize

Tool - 10,000 Days

Tornado Rider - Sneth Rock!

So yeah, those are all albums that I could happily listen to on repeat, they are pretty much perfect. I'm sure there are more, but I cannot be bothered to go digging through all my stuff any more.

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The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists.

I don't think I've heard a better album.

Belbury Poly - "The Willows" - Brings to mind images of various time periods, through the eyes of people who either wouldn't live to see them, or would only know about them what they read in history books.

Oneohtrix Point Never - "Returnal" - Makes me feel like an alien observing Earth for the first time.

Infinite Third - "(eardrops)" - Free ambient music by Billy Mays III.

Belong - "October Language" - asome drone bros

Eleven Tigers - "Clouds are Mountains"

The Flashbulb - "Soundtrack to a Vacant Life"

VHS Head - "Trademark Ribbons of Gold"

Bonobo - "Black Sands"

Baths - Cerulean

Off the top of my head, and trying to keep the list brief:

Her Majesty - The Decemberists (tough call here between that and Castaways and Cutouts)

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

This Side - Nickel Creek

It Came From the Sea - Various artists (mixed by Bonobo -- it's a bunch of triphop tracks mixed into one continuous, hour-long experience)

My personal recommendation would be Nujabes - Modal Soul.

Edit: Have to add Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain. It changed me.

The BQE by Sufjan Stevens!

Olias of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson/Tubular bells by Mike Oldfield/Joes Garage,acts one and two by Frank Zappa/Are you experienced by Jimi Hendrix...so many more

Coheed and Cambria's second album: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

I have been listening to this album for about 4 years now.

There is also the Vitamin String Quartet. Taking popular music and adding a classical touch.

Lets end on a full quartet note: Break of Reality's album Spectrum of the Sky is calming. Much like the post rock I am just getting into.

I'm going to have to go and hunt through my collection to find some of my favourites... I'll be back in a while.

Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

Not everyone will like PAtD, but if you like "I Write Sins, not Tragedies" (their only song to really make it big off that album) give it a listen. Even though PAtD is not one of my top 20 favorite bands, I could not believe that I loved as many songs on this album as I did. Each song is as good as, if not better than their biggest hit... except Build God, Then We'll Talk which is decidedly my least favorite. Make sure you give Intermission a listen, it's... interesting.

Cowboy Bebop OST.

Bôa - Race of a Thousand Camels

ROY BROWN

CHARLIE PARKER

The Pillows - Little Busters

If there is one thing everyone must hear, it is "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" played by one man with an acoustic guitar. Here is a YouTube link - it does not match the power of a live performance