Favourite Albums/Album Recommendations

Originally Posted by Alex

@Above poster: Dude, why would we even think of mentioning Avenged Sevenfold when you have f-cking Slipknot up there?

Speaking of Avenged Sevenfold.



If you liked City of Evil, try Waking the Fallen. It's just as good, if not a little bit better.

Pretty much every track is good if you can get past the screaming vocals. (Which I don't really like.)

What? I like them both! What's wrong liking A7X and Slipknot?
I do have Waking the Fallen, and i actually enjoy the screaming vocals.

I tend to LOVE greatest hits albums the best. There is one album I grew up with that I still love to this day:
Human Being by Seal

Transistor - 311

Definitely one of my favorites. A very natural, watered-down, and at the same time, artificial and experimental album. No two tracks are the same. Like all of 311's albums, it takes some time to get used to. The songs range from mellow to hard from funky to smooth and fill all the areas inbetween. It's everything I'm looking for in an album. I love it.

I kind of feel like doing a top 10 albums list, and I think this is a decent enough thread for it. Obviously, I recommend all of these albums. Bolded tracks are my absolute favorites.


1. Make Yourself - Incubus

1. Privilege
2. Nowhere Fast
3. Consequence
4. The Warmth
5. When It Comes
6. Stellar
7. Make Yourself
8. Drive
9. Clean
10. Battlestar Scralatchitca
11. I Miss You
12. Pardon Me
13. Out From Under


2. Dookie - Green Day

1. Burnout
2. Having a Blast
3. Chump
4. Longview
5. Welcome to Paradise
6. Pulling Teeth
7. Basket Case
8. She
9. Sassafras Roots
10. When I Come Around
11. Coming Clean
12. Emenius Sleepus
13. In the End
14. F.O.D.


3. Superunknown - Soundgarden

1. Let Me Drown
2. My Wave
3. Fell On Black Days
4. Mailman
5. Superunknown
6. Head Down
7. Black Hole Sun
8. Spoonman
9. Limo Wreck
10. The Day I Tried To Live
11. Kickstand
12. Fresh Tendrils
13. 4th of July
14. Half
15. Like Suicide


4. Waking the Fallen - Avenged Sevenfold

1. Waking The Fallen
2. Unholy Confessions
3. Chapter Four
4. Remenissions
5. Desecrate Through Reverence
6. Eternal Rest
7. Second Heartbeat
8. Radiant Eclipse
9. I Won't See You Tonight Part 1
10. I Won't See You Tonight Part 2
11. Clairvoyant Disease
12. And All Things Will End


5. City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold

1. Beast and the Harlot
2. Burn It Down
3. Blinded in Chains
4. Bat Country
5. Trashed and Scattered
6. Seize the Day
7. Sidewinder
8. Wicked End
9. Strength of the World
10. Betrayed
11. M.I.A.


6. S.C.I.E.N.C.E. - Incubus

1. Redefine
2. Vitamin
3. New Skin
4. Idiot Box
5. Glass
6. Magic Medicine
7. A Certain Shade of Green
8. Favorite Things
9. Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity love song)
10. Nebula
11. Deep Inside
12. Calgone


7. Insomniac - Green Day

1. Armatage Shanks
2. Brat
3. Stuck With Me
4. Geek Stink Breath
5. No Pride
6. Bab's Uvula Who?
7. 86
8. Panic Song
9. Stuart and the Ave.
10. Brain Stew
11. Jaded
12. Westbound Sign
13. Tight Wad Hill
14. Walking Contradiction


8. Stop Drop and Roll!!! - Foxboro Hot Tubs

1. Stop Drop and Roll
2. Mother Mary
3. Ruby Room
4. Red Tide
5. Broadway
6. She's a Saint Not a Celebrity
7. Sally
8. Alligator
9. The Pedestrian
10. 27th Ave. Shuffle
11. Dark Side of Night
12. Pieces of Truth


9. Morning View - Incubus

1. Nice To Know You
2. Circles
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Just A Phase
5. 11Am
6. Blood On The Ground
7. Mexico
8. Warning
9. Ehco
10. Have You Ever
11. Are You In
12. Under My Umbrella
13. Aqueous Transmission


10. Down on the Upside - Soundgarden

1. Pretty Noose
2. Rhinosaur
3. Zero Chance
4. Dusty
5. Ty Cobb
6. Blow Up The Outside World
7. Burden In My Hand
8. Never Named
9. Applebite
10. Never The Machine Forever
11. Tighter And Tighter
12. No Attention
13. Switch Opens
14. Overfloater
15. An Unkind
16. Boot Camp

Merriweather Post Pavilion is by far my favorite album of the year thus far, and will definitely be in my top five at the end of the year.

My Girls, Summertime Clothes, Bluish, Lion in a Coma, and Brothersport are probably the highlight tracks, but the whole album is very listenable.

I really think the production is great, it feels like Animal Collective's entire career as been working up to this. They mix great avant-garde ambiance with perfect pop sensibility, and top it off with complex rhythm and bass. I really can't recommend it more highly.

^ My friend gave me Meriweather Post Pavilion, but I haven't listened to it yet. Looking forward to it, though.

Originally Posted by nolan

^ My friend gave me Meriweather Post Pavilion, but I haven't listened to it yet. Looking forward to it, though.

Animal Collective inspires a lot of hate and usually brings up arguments about the value of experimental/ambient music, but I think they generally have a good enough sense of pop and respect for the listener to strike a good balance. Their only major mistake was Campfire Songs in my opinion. Although Danse Manatee wasn't great either, possibly worse, but I think it gets too much ****.

I don't know if you've listened to Person Pitch, Panda Bear's 2007 solo album (his third I think), but that's also a favorite of mine.

Also, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's eponymous debut is pretty good too. Reminds me of Architecture & Morality, which is probably my favorite 80's synth albums and definitely OMD's best. If I ever make a movie, I want to have a scene with someone lip-syncing Joan of Arc. I love that single for some reason, his voice is just the right mix of uncomfortably off-key and passionate.

Favorite Albums:


FFVII Advent Children Soundtrack - Nobuo Uematsu


Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Seperation


Sigur Ros - Me› Su› Í Eyrum Vi› Spilum Endalaust


Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season



August Burns Red - Messengers

My album purchase of the week! (Yay look at me making cameo appearances outside of the clan arena)

Firstly! Icehouse - Man Of Colours. (September 1987)


Right, well I absolutely love this album to pieces. Of all the Icehouse stuff I've heard over the last few years, most of my favourites have come from this album, so I legitimised my pirating of said songs and purchased the album itself (At a lovely $9.95! Thankyou Rocking Horse. <3) the other day and got to hear the rest of it.

Some song's I'd recommend off the album: (basically the stuff they released, actually.) (And totally not because I'm laughing at Iva Davies' 80s hair either. >_>)

1. Crazy - Feel free to laugh at his hair.
2. Electric Blue. - My personal favourite.
3. Man Of Colours. - A bit of a slower song.
4. My Obsession. - I also quite like this one.

The flashbulb - Soundtrack to a Vacant Life.


The most beautiful album ever heard c:
If you like it you should reallt get Kirlian Selections also!

uhmmm top 10 albums...

1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Slint - Spiderland
3. maudlin of the Well - Bath
4. John Frusciante - Smile From The Streets You Hold
5. Sonic Youth - EVOL
6. Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream For Crow
7. Wire - Chairs Missing
8. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
9. Boris - Flood
10. Oval - Diskont 94

Honourable mention to Mr Bungle's Disco Volante

You alsolutely MUST lissen to Cake - Comfort Eagle

Best album in a while <3

Yeah I've heard it.

Larks Tongues in Aspic by King Crimson

Its Robert Fripp, so just do it!

Ohhh... everyone should hear that album! It's perfect!


I recommend...
Teenage Panzerkorps - Games For Slaves

Basically a sort of lo-fi type band that sound like Joy Division and The Fall. Fronted by a husky German (though all their members are spread out across the world I think).

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
(August 19, 2008)

Songs for the Jersey shoreline. New Jersey gets a lot of flack for being a bit of a dump of a state, but some awesome stuff has come out of there. The Gaslight Anthem being one of the better things churned out by the Garden State in recent times. Following in the footsteps of Bruce Springsteen and other pioneers of the Jersey sound, vocalist Brian Fallon and the rest of the band power their way through twelve tracks with only a short break near the end for "Here's Looking at You, Kid" to catch their breath.

The record opens with "Great Expectations" and the sound of a record needle hitting the vinyl. An appropriate sound to start an album that wouldn't sound out of place in the turntable era. Fallon sounds a lot like you would expect Springsteen to sound like if he had a bunch of tattoos and grew up listening to punk rock.

Each track is a real winner, most of the ones that really jump right away are grouped to the start, including the title track, "Old White Lincoln," and "Film Noir."

The subject matter is decidedly Jersey, themes include growing up working class and driving with girls. The tracks are chock-full of references to Springsteen (natch), Tom Petty, Bob Seger, Counting Crows, and Bob Dylan. Some cleverly veiled, some out-right homage.

Bottom line: This is one of my favourite records right now and if I had heard it last year when it was released, it would have been a serious contender for album of the year. If you like good old rock music, Springsteen, or punk you will probably find something to love on this album.

Originally Posted by Jandek

Ohhh... everyone should hear that album! It's perfect!

Yeah, I'm listening to it right now :3

Sounds okay

Just read through the thread and thought I'd post some favorites. (don't hate please Dx)
Santi- The Academy Is...- Probably my most most played album. Has great variety. Highlights: Same Blood, Everything We Had, Seed, Chop Chop, and You Might Have Noticed.

All We Know Is Falling- Paramore- Great debut from a great band. Highlights: All We Know, Here We Go Again, Emergency, Pressure, and My Heart.

If Only You Were Lonely- Hawthorne Heights- A great album kind of depressing though Highlights: Dead In The Water, This Is Who We Are, Saying Sorry, Decembers, and Pens And Needles.

and
Folie A Deux- Fall Out Boy- Had extremely low expectations after their last album but was pleasantly surprised. Highlights: Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes, She's My Winona, w.a.m.s, (Coffees For Closers), and What A Catch, Donnie

Do EPs count? I'm going to say yes.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, PARTICULARLY:
Anything by Modest Mouse (They deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. **** METALLICA)
Satanic Panic in the Attic and Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?- Of Montreal
Sing Along With the Acid House Kings- Acid House Kings
Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, and Wives EP- Voxtrot
Microcastle/Weird Era Continued-Deerhunter
The Midnight Organ Fight-Frightened Rabbit
Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes
Oh, Inverted World- The Shins
OK Computer-Radiohead
Icky Thump-The White Stripes

Originally Posted by Lunchbox*

Do EPs count? I'm going to say yes.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, PARTICULARLY:
Anything by Modest Mouse (They deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. **** METALLICA)
Microcastle/Weird Era Continued-Deerhunter
OK Computer-Radiohead
Icky Thump-The White Stripes

YES... you have gained my respect.