Cd's that are great from start to finish.

[Steven S. Dallas]

Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath. Especially cool, because it also has a song called "Black Sabbath" on it.
Planes Mistaken For Stars- Up In Them Guts
Black Keys- Rubber Factory or Thickfreakness
Beck- Midnite Vultures
Built to Spill- Keep It Like A Secret
David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Can you tell I'm in the "B" section of my iTunes library? I could go on a while...

[thephatkid]

Less Than Jake - losing streak or really any cd they have is wonderful
Pennywise- Pennywise
Goldfinger-stomping ground
Tenacious D (already mentioned)
any 311 cd
dead milkmen greatest hits
minor threat complete collection
the queers-love songs for the retarded
any beastie boy cd
mc paul barman dont know what the cd is called but it is awesome
dr dre chronic 2001
the roots phernology
and more that i cant think of at the present moment

[yogachik]

this is a rerun, but I can't find last years thread on this topic. I seem to remember it was started by Iceman and somehow deteriorated into personal conflict as people fought their taste. I think I started the conflict.

Anyway - some good suggestions here, particularly Massive Attack, Portishead, Radiohead (but I'd add The Bends as the must-have), Arcade Fire, Air, REMs Document, and the Zep and Elton John ideas.

Also:
Joni Mitchell's Blue
The Who - Who's Next
Pete Yorn - Music for the Morning After
Morcheeba - Big Calm
Beastie's Paul's Boutique
Elvis Costello's first 4 albums
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
Doves - get every album, start with Lost Souls
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Verve - Urban Hymns
U2 - Joshua Tree (this might have been mentioned, don't remember)
Stereolab - Sound-Dust
Dido - Life for Rent
early 70s Bowie

Then there's the requisite Miles Davis, John Coltraine, Billy Holiday, etc...

[CantDog]

[QUOTE=yogachik]
Zero 7 - Simple Things
QUOTE]

Heh, as soon as I saw that you posted, I knew Zero7 would be on the list.

[jimmy page]

I'll second "Darkside of the Moon: by Floyd and "Keep it Like a Secret" by Built to Spill

and add:

"Sacred Fire: Live in South America" by Santana
"Who's Next" by the Who
"The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion" By The Black Crowes
"In Step" by SRV
"Blood on the Tracks" by Bob Dylan

[Buster Highmen]

Hot Rats, Burnt Weenie Sandwich, Bongo Fury - Zappa.
Disraeli Gears, Wheels Of Fire - Cream.
Untitled, Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Byrds.
Cosmos Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival.
A Tribute To Jack Johnson - Miles Davis.
Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Beggar's Banquet - Rolling Stones.
Double Nickels on The Dime - The Minutemen.
Movement, Power, Corruption and Lies - New Order.
The Clash, London Calling - The Clash.
Drums and Wires, English Settlement - XTC.
Still, Closer - Joy Division.
LZII - Led Zepplin.
Echos - Pink Floyd.
Anthology - The Supremes.
Gong Est Mort - Vive La Gong, Angel's Egg, Live Floating Anarchy '77, Espresso II.

[Jax]

Here are some of my favs:


Jimi Hendrix-Band Of Gypsys

Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine

311-Music (things went downhill once they moved to la-la land)

Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger

The Beatles-Abbey Road

Ween-Chocolate and Cheese

Widespread Panic-Space Wrangler (ok, maybe NOT the chicken song)

Keane-Hopes and Fears (Soft, but beatiful music)

Smashing Pumpkins-Pisces Iscariot

Evgeny Kissin, piano- Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3/ Boston Syphony Orchestra, with Seiji Ozawa conducting

[CantDog]

easy star all-stars: Dub Side of the Moon. I like it more than the pink floyd version

[Lostinthetrees]

Santana - Abraxas
Doors - LA Woman
Stones - Exile on Main St. (imho), Get Yer YaYa's Out, Sticky Fingers
<Floyd - Meddle
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew, Miles Live/Selim Evil
CSN - 1st album, 4 Way Street (live)
Marley - Uprising, Catch a Fire
<hendrix - band of gypsies, are you experienced?
Greatful Dead - Workingman's Dead, Skullfucker(live album w/ skeleton & roses cover), American Beauty.

Found a few more while listing last week:

Alanis Mori. - MTV Unplugged
Roxy Music - Avalon
Bonnie Raitt - Give it up
Elton John - Tumbleweed, Madman
Beatles - Revolver
Allman Bros Band at Fillmore East., Eat a Peach (if you skip Mountain Jam the rest of the tunes are solid.)
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow (her release after Tues Night Music Club.)

[A-wreck]

What type of music is zero7? Built to spill? Neutral milk hotel?
I don't recall ever hearing these bands.

Hot rats...used to have that one....it's on the list now.

[PJ2001]

Below is a review of Neutral Milk Hotel from Pitchfork that does a much better job describing them than I could ever do. I've introduced a lot of people that found out about The Shins after Garden State to NMH and they've all liked them a lot.

Pitchfork review of In An Aeroplane Over The Sea:
As good indie pop acts grow fewer and further between, the driving force of the underground is growing decidedly noisy and abstract. But while fab acts like Gastr del Sol, Flying Saucer Attack and Tortoise continue to pulverize traditional song structure, there's one psych-rock band making music that's just as catchy as it is frightening.

From the opening "King of Carrot Flowers," In the Aeroplane Over the Sea shifts from acoustic folkiness to loud, fast punk rock with little or no warning. It features a noisy horn section and a dreamy singin' saw, all rolled into a package that does a credible job of blending Sgt. Pepper with early 90's lo-fi.

Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Magnum writes songs that read like bad dreams. He inherits a world of cannibalism, elastic sexuality and freaks of nature. We can only assume he likes it there.

[A-wreck]

Dj. shadow is a must. Especially since he's a detroit native. I used to have a couple of them and will be picking them back up for sure.

[A-wreck]

Whaaaa? I've been mis-informed like a mother fucker. I knew he lived in california now but I thought he grew up here. Time to find out who told me that and kill them.

[Steven S. Dallas]

Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum writes songs that read like bad dreams. He inherits a world of cannibalism, elastic sexuality and freaks of nature.

That's about right. No idea what happened to these guys.
Do yourself a favor and iTunes "Holland 1945" off Aeroplane. Good one.

[A-wreck]

Massive attack-check
Herbie Hancock-check
the cult-check

So far so good. I have yet to be disappointed in a cd I bought because some people on the internet told me to.

Edit for: If you like hip hop check out: dj premeir- new york reality check 101.
It's from a few years ago but everything on it is good.

[NorCalSJK]

Coldplay- Parachutes
Thursday- War All The Time
Weezer- Blue Album(mentioned, again)
Metallica- Kill 'Em All
Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American
Outkast- Aquemini
Jack Johnson- Brushfire Fairytales
Radiohead- The Bends

[milkman]

NIN- The Downward Spiral
Thievery Corporation- Any album
Thunderball- Scorpio Rising

[runethechamp]

My newly compiled almost complete soundtrack from the Uprising.

[Out_to_lunch]

U2- The Joshua Tree
Dispatch-All Points Bulliten

I know I have more... but thats good for now

[SkiJunky05]

Jill Scott- words and sounds vol. 1
Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
Another vote for Zero 7.
Notorious BIG- ready to die

Sigur Ros- Von, Agaetis byrjun, or ( )

[powpig]

Rush - All The Worlds A Stage
UFO - Strangers In The Night
Kyuss - Sky Valley, ...And The Circus Leaves Town
Tool - Aenima
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Ozzy - Blizzard Of Oz, Diary Of A Madman
Rainbow - Rising
Scorps - Tokyo Tapes
Pat Travers Band - Live...Go For What You Know
The Who - Live At Leeds
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Van Halen - I, II, Women & Children First
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
AC/DC - High Voltage, Let There Be Rock
Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
Sabbath - Volume IV
Deep Purple - Made In Japan, In Rock
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Buckethead - Population Override, Thanatopsis-Axiology

[Dr. Send]

Eric Clapton - Unplugged

[freshies]

the clash: first album ("the clash") and "london calling"
the who: "whos next"
zep: zep 1
stones: "let it bleed", "sticky fingers" and "exile"
uncle tupelo: "no depression" and the compelation
wilco: "being there" "summerteeth" and "YHF"
pixies: "surfer rosa" "tromp de la monde"
janes: "nothings shocking"
VU: "white light, white heat" and "nico"
dylan: "blonde on blonde" and "blood on the tracks"
rem: "reckoning" and "lifes rich pagent"
elvis costello: "my aim is true" "get happy" and "this years model"
smiths: "queen is dead" "louder than bombs" (kinda a compelation, but solid all the way through)
the replacements" "tim"
jimmi: "axis: bold as love" and "electric ladyland"
bob: "kya"
beatles: "revolver" and "rubber soul"


so many more...but these all come to mind as complete song-cycles/albums, CDs/LPs/Tapes that I would listen to from start to finish w/no fast-forwarding, etc.

[freshies]

Whaaaa? I've been mis-informed like a mother fucker. I knew he lived in california now but I thought he grew up here. Time to find out who told me that and kill them.

he lives right here where i do: mill valley. no shit.

[FNG]

mc paul barman dont know what the cd is called but it is awesome

It's Very Stimulating

In addition to many good ones mentioned already:

Audioslave - Self Titled
Avalanches - Since I Left You (Probably my favorite album to listen to all the way through)
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Filter - Amalgamut
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Garbage - Self Titled
Gob - Foot in Mouth Disease
Gorillaz - Self Titled
Korn - Self Titled & Follow the Leader
Less Than Jake - Anthem
Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood
Murder by Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?
NIN - The Fragile & With Teeth
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
Quarashi - Jinx
Radiohead - OK Computer
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up!
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X (2nd Favorite)
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Tenacious D - Self Titled
Third Eye Blind - Self Titled
Any White Stripes Album