Oooh, Cowboy Mouth. They put on the best show ever, I don’ t think their albums come anywhere close to doing em justice.
Grant Lee Buffalo “Copperopolis”
" “Mighty Joe Moon”
Jeff Buckley “Grace”
Nanci Griffith “Flyer”
YES “Tormato”
Smashing Pumpkins “Siamese Dream”
Beck “Sea Change”
Radiohead “The Bends”
" “OK Computer”
well, we’re an eclectic bunch aren’t we ?
Anything by Traffic or Goose Creek Symphony.
For totally different mindset times you understand.
Talking Heads: '77 and Side 1 of Remain in Light
King Crimson: Discipline; Thrak
XTC: English Settlement; The Big Express; Oranges & Lemons; the Dukes material; Black Sea; Skylarking
The The: Dusk; NakedSelf
The dB’s: Repercussion; Like This
The Smiths: Meat is Murder; A Hatful of Hollow
The Golden Palominos: Blast of Silence; Pure
Poi Dog Pondering: Liquid White Light [double-live LP]
The Specials: The Specials
The B-52’s: The B-52’s
Jellyfish: Spilt Milk; Bellybutton
The Pixies: Surfer Rosa
Elvis Costello: Blood and Chocolate; Imperial Bedroom
The Damned: The Light at the End of the Tunnel [Disc 1]
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
David Bowie: Lodger
Roxy Music: Roxy Music [their debut LP]
Southern Culture On the Skids: Dirt Track Date
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Madder Rose: Tragic Magic
Candidate: Nuada [I’ve been listening to this since I bought it a year ago]
“The Wicker Man” soundtrack
“Blade Runner” soundtrack
Damn you, Scrivener! I forgot Bellybutton!
Another vote for:
Tool - Aenima
NIN - And All That Could Have Been (i’m especially partial to the second disc)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
I’d also like to add
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around. Truly a great final album by a musical legend.
No charge this time, lil lady. As Spider-Man said on an episode of Family Guy, after saving Peter, “everybody gets one.”
I was also thinking of that one, similarly-named Doper. The way they made the album–entirely out of samples–is also pretty amazing.
The other one I was thinking of was A Taste of Complete Perspective by Elevator (known as Elevator Through in the US). After three albums and a few EPs of alternating between dope-addled garage rock, derivative psychedelia, and lousy junk that frankly should never have been recorded, Rick White’s solo project managed to tear off this multilayered, strangely affecting concept album. Another album that, like Dummy, really needs repeated listens to “get.” I suppose listening to it under heavy doses of drugs wouldn’t hurt either.
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Odelay - Beck
Sea Change - Beck
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon
*The Wind[/ii] - Warren Zevon
John Prine - John Prine
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles
“Talking with the Taxman About Poetry” - Billy Bragg
“Blood on the Tracks” - Bob Dylan
“Tim” - The Replacements
“Beggar’s Banquet” - Rolling Stones
“J.D. Crowe and the New South” - self-titled
“Handel’s Water Music” - conducted and violin by Yehudi Menuhin
Skillet38! I was beginning to think I was the only person in the entire world who ever even HEARD of Tormato by Yes! That is definitely a favorite.
Others I listen to endlessly and love again each time:
Leo Kottke - One Guitar, No Vocals
David Bowie - Young Americans
Meat Loaf - Bad Attitude (not really his best work, but still my favorite)
Paul Simon - Graceland
Elton John - Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player
The Who - Tommy
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and The Wall
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
Queen - Day At The Races and Night At The Opera
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
Peter Gabriel - So
The Smiths -Hatful of Hollow
The Clash - London Calling, Give em Enough Rope
The Cure - The Top
Radiohead - OK Computer
Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP
PJ Harvey - Dry
Doves - Lost Souls
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
The The - Soul Mining
Funny this thread should come up; I just recently dug up my copy of
Emergency Broadcast Network: Telecommunication Breakdown
to hear one song, and ended up playing through the entire album again, wondering to myself, “Why did I ever stop listening to this record?” Then I realized that it’s because the album is so cool that after I’ve heard it I’m physically exhausted.
In fact, I’ll change this a little to the records that I’ve owned for more than 2 years, and still make me feel spent after hearing them:
The The: Dusk
The Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God (just the first 3 songs is enough to wear me out)
Poi Dog Pondering: Volo Volo
Art of Noise: In No Sense? Nonsense!
Soul Coughing: El Oso
:dubious:
Are you kidding me? I love Yes, but Tormato has to be their worst album ever! Well, IMHO, of course. I’m just highly surprised you single that one out. 
Amazing albums:
Rush - Moving Pictures (1981)
Rush - Counterparts (1993)
Tool - AEnema (as so many have already said, brilliant!) (1994)
Dream Theater - Images and Words (1991)
Camel - Dust and Dreams (1992)
Yes - Relayer (1975)
Dire Straits - Love over Gold (1982)
Savatage - Streets (1989)
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime (1988)
The Tea Party - The Edges of Twilight (1997)
Placebo - Without you I’m nothing (1998)
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here, Final Cut, The Wall (various years)
Marillion - Brave (1994)
Marillion - Script for a Jester’s Tear (1983)
I’ll stop now.
Forgive me if the dates are off by a year or so.
King Crimson, “In The Court of the Crimson King”. Maybe a bit obvious, but it still leaes me breathless.
There has never been an album that sounded anything like Van Morrision’s ‘Astral Weeks’, before or since.
Moody Blues - To Our Children’s Children’s Children (and all 6 of the other “core 7” albums)
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Paul Simon - Graceland
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s
Pink Floyd - DSOTM
I second that. If all anyone knows of this band is Love Shack, then they’re missing out. This album is just amazing…from the stellar production to the nasty guitar sound, to the wacked out lyrics. “Hero Worship” is one of the greatest punk songs ever.
A Couple More albums that I can’t believe I forgot to mention is:
Devo-Q:Are We Not Men A:We Are Devo,
Television-Marquee Moon,
both New York Dolls studio albums
Two albums that are still amazingly BAD (when in theory they should have been at least pretty good):
The Chequered Past album and Steve Stevens and the Atomic Playboys. Ugh.
Jon
Non-YES people feel free to skip
AHA, that’s why it’s the perfect litmus test for true YESfandom, because it is so wonderful that it’s just not that obvious how wonderful it is.
It takes more than a modicum of devotion to perceive is all… Come on, Silent Wings of Freedom ! Lay Off the Whale ! Release, Release !
I’ll give you Circus of Heaven for the dustbin.
IMHO there was something so over the top about the frenzy of Rick’s keyboard playing. Damn he kept Steve Howe on his toes trying to compete. Sprinkle in Jon’s inpenetrable mysticism and Chris’s usual brilliance, not to mention it was the last gasp of non-80s style drumming from Alan White, and you have to love it (well, you don’t, but I do)
Gates of Delerium it aint, but it’s a beautiful and beloved cluster fk in my book.
btw, there are 4 outtakes from Tormato on the new box set. I haven’t heard them yet…
cheerio 
The Dreaming (1982) and Hounds of Love (1985) by Kate Bush. Just incredible stuff.