What album/artists are a MUST buy?

hogfather · 7 Jan 2006 at 09:38

GREAT calls by chrisd and Arcade Fire!

Also add Sultans of Swing, and instead of Slanted and Enchanted or Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, I'd skip straight to Terror Twilight for a pavement record. Its more accessible, so once you "get" their sound, you can work your way back toward Slanted.

Roberta · 7 Jan 2006 at 10:36

Arcade Fire said:
Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun (instrumental/post-rock/space rock/Icelandic/awesome)

If you like that have you tried The Cocteau Twins? I'd recommend Heaven Or Las Vegas.

My Must haves are:

Come On Pilgrim - Pixies
Ritual de lo Habitual - Jane's Addiction
Incesticide - Nirvana
Black Cherry - Goldfrapp
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

plus loads that have already been mentioned!

Dange · 7 Jan 2006 at 11:10

De-loused In The Comatorium- The Mars Volta
Oh Inverted World- The Shins
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots- The Flaming Lips

Big Chris · 7 Jan 2006 at 12:19

Roberta said:
Ritual de lo Habitual - Jane's Addiction.

A damn fine choice there, most definitely an album not to be missed (same goes for Nothing's Shocking too actually...)

Weebull · 7 Jan 2006 at 17:23

Rachel said:
Incubus - A crow left of the murder.

Probably the weakest Incubus album of them all, imo. If I had to choose one it would be Make Yourself, easily.

Andr3w · 7 Jan 2006 at 17:31

blink 182 - greatest hits

seriously

benjo plz. · 7 Jan 2006 at 17:31

Redfox said:
the stone roses - the stone roses, probably the best debut album of all time

Yep that would be one of mine, as well as (not sure how well this will go down but) The Libertines - Up The Bracket. Also Origin of Symmetry by Muse, Absolution is probably as good as, if not better than Showbiz. I'd also say Dire Straits Sultans of Swing as well.

hogfather · 7 Jan 2006 at 18:01

oh my god yeah, up the bracket is a must.

Carzy · 7 Jan 2006 at 18:16

The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium (one of my favourite albums ever)
Sigur Ros - Takk (Agaetis Byrjun has already been mentioned, but Takk is also an amazing work of art)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (easily their best imo)
Cursive - Cursive's Domestica (probably their best, but Semantics is pretty good too)
Rammstein - Sehnsucht (mmmmmm)
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place (Memorial is probably my favourite post-rock song ever)
Bjork - Homogenic (was never really into Bjork, listened to this album, was blown away)
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (amazing chilled electronic ambience)
Radiohead - Kid A (their best album

)
Isis - Celestial (one of the greatest post-rock bands ever)
Yaphet Kotto - Syncopated Synthetic Laments For Love (simply the best hardcore album released)
Tool - Aenima (as already mentioned)
Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn (just mindblowing melodic post-rock)
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (I've been listening to this album a lot lately, it's pretty perfect)
Mastodon - Leviathan (metal defined.)

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm into post-rock quite a lot lately, thanks to Big Chris

SidewinderINC · 7 Jan 2006 at 21:30

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for destruction
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Nirvana - Unplugged in NY

lee32uk · 7 Jan 2006 at 21:36

U2 - The Joshua tree
U2 - Achtung baby
REM - Green
REM - Reveal
REM - Monster
Pearl jam - Ten
Lacuna coil - Comalies
The strokes - Room on fire
The goo goo dolls - Gutterflower

benjo plz. · 7 Jan 2006 at 21:46

How about Anthony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now?

cleanbluesky · 7 Jan 2006 at 21:52

Phnom_Penh said:
How about Anthony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now?

Have only seen the performance on Johnathan Ross and it is safe to say I was far less than impressed...

benjo plz. · 7 Jan 2006 at 22:02

cleanbluesky said:
Have only seen the performance on Johnathan Ross and it is safe to say I was far less than impressed...

Yes I agree with that, but that didn't stop it being album of the year for 2004 :\.

Carzy · 7 Jan 2006 at 23:21

cleanbluesky said:
Have only seen the performance on Johnathan Ross and it is safe to say I was far less than impressed...

It's an extremely good album though regardless of live performance.

raz0rr · 8 Jan 2006 at 00:54

Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Permanent Waves
Tool - Lateralus
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Ayreon - The Human Equation

Yewen · 8 Jan 2006 at 14:47

Bullet for my Valentine = The Poision

And the best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler = Private Investigations

philio16 · 8 Jan 2006 at 14:55

Muse - Origin of Symmetry

Yewen · 8 Jan 2006 at 15:13

philio16 said:
Muse - Origin of Symmetry

That is a great album, especially the orange one

benjo plz. · 8 Jan 2006 at 15:15

Yewen said:
That is a great album, especially the orange one

Orange one? :confused:

, I didn't know there were any others... unless you mean the singles and the album...