Recommend One Album

[Chainsaws_of_War_2]

Analogue Players in a Digital World by Showtek.

Best. Album. Ever.

This thing is my alternative to coffee in the morning, it just gets you going.

 

[AgentNein]

River City Rebels-Hate To Be Loved

If you dig glam rock (NY Dolls, T-Rex, etc) at all, find a copy of this album RIGHT NOW. They wear their influences on their sleeve, and it helps that the album was produced by Sylvain Sylvain! It's funny actually, these guys started out as a fairly by the numbers punk band, and then promptly lost most of their fans after putting out this album, cuz it wasn't punk enough or some shit. It's funny because the only reason why the NY Dolls weren't considered punk was because they predated the movement by a few years (and actually inspired a lot of it's sound). They further alienated their fans by putting out a folk album next, Keepsake of Luck (which was also really good). And also they had sex with all of their fans girlfriends, which I'm sure didn't help matters.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

The Plight- Winds Of Osiris

Do you like punk? Do you like Thin Lizzy? If you do, you love this. Perhaps the vocals are poor, but they are a punk band after all. Great catchy riffs in songs like Winds Of Osiris, and Lifted To The Sun is a beautiful instrumental piece. Some of the best use of bass in punk; rather than just following the guitar lines it's used to build energy and give the songs a rather cool atmosphere. Garunteed to get you pumped for anything.

 

[noodlestreet]

 

[Frog_Girl]

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
all at once, no breaks. there is a reason it was on the top 100 billboard charts for so long!

 

[RRilef]

Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós.
The video below is, according to me, the best song on the album.
It's called Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása, which means 'Good Weather for an Airstrike'.
The whole album is not just music, but true art.

hmmm... the ending of the song got cut off. Pity.

I usually don't cry from music, in fact, I never did before, but I seriously don't think I could handle watching the actual video from what little I watched and didn't just listen.

 

[PolarBearClub]

Strung Out - Teenage Suburban Wasteland

simply brilliant

A+

Band: A Wilhelm Scream
Album: Mute Print

wow you might be one of the first people I know who've actually heard of Strung Out. They're awesome, yet no one knows who they are

Yeah, started getting into them around about the time EOSD came out. Check out the forum on their official site if you're up for chatting to other fans, though it's not the biggest community. I'm on their as feet_first. And if you haven't heard the band I mentioned, check them out!

 

[lacktheknack]

The Silent Hill 2 soundtrack... a soundtrack.

 

[bob-2000]

All Hail West Texas- The Mountain Goats. That album has great storytelling.

 

[DarkenedWolfEye]

Three Days Grace - One X Genre is Metal/alternative rock.
Or, Timeless Miracle - Into The Enchanted Chamber, but that's harder to get ahold of. It's a Metal pagan band.

 

[lordvader77]

Somewhere in the Between, Streetlight Manifesto. Ska-punk music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UTPKL-UGY

 

[arsenicCatnip]

River City Rebels-Hate To Be Loved

If you dig glam rock (NY Dolls, T-Rex, etc) at all, find a copy of this album RIGHT NOW. They wear their influences on their sleeve, and it helps that the album was produced by Sylvain Sylvain! It's funny actually, these guys started out as a fairly by the numbers punk band, and then promptly lost most of their fans after putting out this album, cuz it wasn't punk enough or some shit. It's funny because the only reason why the NY Dolls weren't considered punk was because they predated the movement by a few years (and actually inspired a lot of it's sound). They further alienated their fans by putting out a folk album next, Keepsake of Luck (which was also really good). And also they had sex with all of their fans girlfriends, which I'm sure didn't help matters.

Okay, I'm totally looking this up because of my recommendation:

The New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (2006, Roadrunner Records)

The Dolls were glam-punk pioneers back in the seventies, and even though most of the original band is gone (the only remaining original members are David Johansen on vocals and Sylvain Sylvain on rhythm guitar and backup vocals), the music remains. Johansen has recruited new blood in the form of Steve Conte on lead guitar (Conte has worked with Yoko Kanno on a lot of anime soundtracks, and also leads his own band Steve Conte and the Crazy Truth) and Sami Yaffa on bass (Yaffa is best known for his work with Hanoi Rocks), incorporating blues, rock, and a little jazz. There are also several well-known guest artists (Michael Stipe, Bo Diddley, and Iggy Pop) on this, the Dolls' first new album in nearly 30 years.

Standout tracks: 'Take A Good Look At My Good Looks', 'Maimed Happiness', 'Dancing On The Lip Of A Volcano'.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Pearl Jam: Ten
Nirvana: In Utero
Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff
Soundgarden: Superunknown
Alice In Chains: Dirt
Faith No More: Any album...Mike Patton is a genius and I have a signed LP (quick trivia, he played the anger sphere in Portal, the Darkness in The Darkness and all of the vamp/zombie things in I Am Legend amongst other things)
Oh yes, Staind: Break The Cycle

As a Mike Patton fan I have to put forward:

Peeping Tom by Peeping Tom.

It's his big collaboration album, and don't be scared folks, because it's not very metal at all, but I love every track.

It features such a wide range of artists, Massive Attack, Norah Jones, Rahzel, Bebel Giblerto and yet somehow works.

I seem to remember him saying it was his attempt at a pop album, from someone who doesn't like pop music.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

And strangely it was because I decided to listen to NMH. Argh!

Spoiler: Here it is

 

[Jovlo]

Spoiler: cutting this short

Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós.
The video below is, according to me, the best song on the album.
It's called Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása, which means 'Good Weather for an Airstrike'.
The whole album is not just music, but true art.

hmmm... the ending of the song got cut off. Pity.

I usually don't cry from music, in fact, I never did before, but I seriously don't think I could handle watching the actual video from what little I watched and didn't just listen.

I'll describe it to you then, as it's quite a good video:

Spoiler: There's no actual airstrike in case you wondered ;-).

A boy plays with two dolls near the water. His very manly father notices this, gets angry and throws the dolls into the water. Another boy saw it happen and later fishes the dolls out of the water. The father then makes his son join a soccer team, so he can learn to be a real man. One of the team-mates is the boy who fished up the dolls, and he gives them back. Next there's a soccer game, with lots of people watching. Our boys team wins and the team celebrates with a meat pile. When they stand up again, the two boys stay on the ground, kissing. Next are a lot of baffled or angry faces from the crowd (even that of Sigur Ros' singer, he's gay himself). You see a flash forward or a flash back with the two boys frolicking through nature, being happy together. And then they are back on the soccer field, being dragged apart by their parents. It ends with the image of two dolls flying through the air.

 

[Vern]

It's been mentioned, which is surprising, but Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. I'll cheat and throw in Bone Machine by Tom Waits.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

Gorillaz: Demon Days. Its an increadible blend of music generes and instruments similar to a modern day Beatals album. The songs are creative, the beats are great, and it's overall an excellent album to listen to.

 

[MorsePacific]

Jurassic 5's Feedback. I've been listening to it for days now.

 

[Snownine]

Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is a rock album. It is very likely my favorite album of all time, only challenged by some of RHCP's other work.

 

[replingham153]

Linken Park: Meteora. fantastic album. love it. Also recommend Eminem: The Eminem Show.