Demon Days by Gorillaz
Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Metallica (Black Album)
Claude Debussy - Claire de Lune
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Rush - 2112
Mr. Bungle - California
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Getz/Gilberto/Jobim - The Girl from Ipanema
Mozart’s Requiem (good place to peak!)
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Cynic - Focus
Death - Human
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Radiohead - Kid A
Deftones - White Pony
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
The Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Kid A was genius, I’m curious on your thoughts of In Rainbows?
Meh. Didn’t suck but nothing will have the cohesiveness of that album.
Peaked at Pablo Honey. Radiohead after that was meh. Take it or leave it.
Opinions. This person has em.
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Thank you for correcting the original poster on this one.
Once they went from metal to hard rock, it was over for me.
It’s bizarre to hear anyone mention anything other than Master of Puppets. As an old school death metal guitar player turned jazz geezer, Master of Puppets is, by a wide margin, unanimously considered the best metal album of all time by most metal musicians who know their shit.
Do you like guitars? Yngwie, Vai, Johnson.
Yeah. But I’m just naming ones I can think of where the album was never eclipsed. It just so happens that that is the case for those guitar players…and it’s not like we’re going to hear Yngwie or Johnson somehow suddenly reinvent themselves this late in their careers.
For example, I’m a HUGE fan of Khruangbin and Julian Lage but….what will Julian Lage or Khruangbin give us in the future? We may never know if they have peaked until that time has passed.
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bruhhhhhhhh
White Album? Abbey Road? I mean, even if you aren’t a big fan of Yellow Submarine or Magical Mystery Tour, how can you say freaking Abbey Road is a comedown from Sgt Pepper’s?
Actually, you might be right. I’ll take the Beatles out. They were good all along.
Disagree a lot about Radiohead. They are probably one of the best bands with the best discographys ever. Almost every album are very, very good
I find this to be an accurate representation of Thom nowadays: https://youtu.be/mwR6Se-WzgY?si=psInrHdVvVOe9PzC
Endtroducing
They Might Be Giants - Flood
A Perfect Circle - 13th Step
NIN - The Fragile
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Not their last album before Roger Waters left the band (that was The Final Cut, the album which followed), but it was far superior, and arguably their best album-- and inarguably their magnum opus.
The David Gilmour-led era of Pink Floyd was ok, but it would never reach the fevered heights and sick intensity of the Roger Waters days.
I agree except that Dark side of the moon is clearly Pink Floyds magnum opus.
I understand that Roger is a divisive character (personally I love him despite his flaws), but god damn he could write an album.
More popular, more commercially successful, and more accessible to casual fans. Agreed.
But for magnum opus, I gotta agree with the wall for a few reasons
- They made a movie out of it
- The ode to the intense para social relationships that revolve around stardom and how a truly crazy creative can take advantage of it in scary ways was not only true back then, but predictive of how much worse it would get in current time.
- DSotM always seemed like a lot of good ideas in an unordered list. I felt like they could be scrambled and the album would be similar, except for the first and last songs… Meanwhile the wall tells a story of pain, alienation, search for meaning, lashing out, and then a quest for self-forgiveness.
Best guitar solo of all time helps too
Gorillaz fell off? Since when?
Yeah wtf is OP smoking their last album was one of my favs of the year
And Justice For All… By Metallica
Master of Puppets > …And Justice for All
Wait you think the Gorillaz fell off after Demon Days???
Not dramatically but it was the best and none topped it.
That’s arguable, and even then it could only ever be considered marginally better than Plastic Beach. Even if you don’t like the new stuff, PB is fire.
Wait a second, no way you’re slandering Plastic Beach like that. PB is equal to DD, some days it hits better even.
Plastic Beach is good, but I like Demon Days more. Gorillaz fallen since PB.
Demon days > anything else gorillaZ
Sure, but I wouldn’t call PB “falling off.” Still, Gorillaz still makes bangers these days, even if the albums themselves aren’t as good. Desolé slaps.
Plastic Beach is better for the simple fact that it contains Sweepstakes. I’ve come to learn that a lot of people dislike that song a great deal, which blows my mind. Mos Def is aces and the production on that track is brilliant.
I’m more of an Empire Ants man myself, but I get what you’re saying. It’s such a fun album.
Stone Roses - Stone Roses.
Their debut album put them on a very high pedestal that they were never able to match.
Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt
Blood Sex Sugar Magic by Red Hot Chili Peppers