I don’t usually have opinions about these things (certainly not informed ones) but I’d have to say that Concrete Blonde’s Bloodletting is pretty damned good as a whole.
I would like to add:
XTC - Black Sea
XTC - English Settlement
XTC - Skylarking
Allman Bros. - Live At The Fillmore
Peter Gabriel - 1
Midnight Oil - Diesel & Dust
How about:
The Clash - The Clash
Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs And Stories
The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
Prince - Sign ‘O’ The Times
The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
R.E.M. - Chronic Town (EP, if that counts)
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
The Housemartins - London 0, Hull 4
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
Television - Marquee Moon
The English Beat - I Just Can’t Stop It
Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing
Live - Throwing Copper
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
TheEels - Electroshock Blues
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Donald Fagan - The Nightfly
U2 - The Unforgetable Fire
Pearl Jam - Ten
Elvis Costello - This Years Model
The Tragically Hip - Fully Completly
Pearl Jam, Ten
Weezer, Weezer
The Replacements - “Tim,” “Pleased to Meet Me,” and (although any 'Mats fans might kill me for this) “Stink”
Tom Waits - “Closing Time,” “Small Change,” “Mule Variations,” “Bone Machine”
Fugazi - “In On the Kill Taker”
Toad the Wet Sprocket - “Dulcinea”
Travis - “The Man Who”
And to Pezpunk…big ups for mentioning Jets to Brazil’s “Orange Rhyming Dictionary,” which since I bought it hasn’t left my turntable.
tool - aenima
A few not previously mentioned:
[ul][li]**R.E.M. - Murmur[/li][li]The BoDeans - Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams[/li][li]Jason and the Scorchers - Lost and Found and Fervor[/li][li]Grateful Dead - American Beauty[/li][li]Split Enz - True Colours[/li][li]English Beat - Special Beat Service[/li][li]U2 - War[/li][li]Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park and Born to Run[/li][li]Dire Straits - Making Movies[/li][li]Nirvana - Unplugged[/li][li]Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream[/li]Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now[/ul]
Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Weezer - Weezer
Led Zep - 1 thru 4
Skid Row - Skid Row
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Morphine - Yes
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
The Who - Tommy
Damn near anything the Beatles ever made
ACDC - Back in Black
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Sparklehorse - VivaDixieSubmarineTransmissionPlot
Archers Of Loaf - White Trash Heroes
Archers Of Loaf - All The Nations Airports
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Who - Who’s Next
Television - Marquee Moon
Loud Family - Interbabe Concern
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
REM - Fables Of The Reconstruction Of The Fables
The Triffids - In The Pines
Ween - The Pod
Husker Du - Metal Circus
The Replacements - Tim
Pixies - Every Album
Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Pulp - Different Class
Sebadoh - Harmacy
J. Geils Band - Love Stinks
Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Blondie - Plastic Letters
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
ABBA - ABBA
Genesis - Genesis
Tool - Aenima
Toadies - Rubberneck
Weezer - Weezer, Pinkerton
They Might Be Giants - John Henry, They Might Be Giants, Severe tire Damage, Flood
Pavement - Westing (by Musket and Sextant), Wowee Zowee, Slanted And Enchanted, Terror Twilight
Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights
Hum - You’d Prefer An Astronaut, Downward Is Heavenward
(my secret shame) Verve Pipe - Villains (except Freshman)
Jimmies Chicken Shack - Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
Deftones - Around The Fur]
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Neverhood Soundtrack
And many more i just can’t think of
Air Moon Safari
PS, I can’t believe I am not the only person in the entire world who has enjoyed the power and the glory that is Michael Penn’s Free-For-All album.
Beatles-Revolver, Sgt. Pepper
Muse-Showbiz
REM-Automatic for the People, Document
Better Than Ezra-How Does Your Garden Grow?
Live-Throwing Copper
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
NIN-downward spiral/broken
Front Line Assembly- Tactical Neural Implant
Beatles- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonley Hearts Club Band
VnV nation- Empires
Front242- Tyranny >for you<
Rammstein- Sehnsucht
Tool- Ænema
LeÆther strip- Self-inflicted
Depeche Mode- Music for The MAsses/Violator
Wolfsheim-Spectators
Download- Eyes of stanley pain
Delerium-Karma
Crystal Method-Vegas
Juno Reactor- Shango
Assemblage 23- Contempt
Flesh Field- Viral Extinction
Skinny Puppy- Too Dark Park/ Remissions
Funker Vogt- We came to Kill
Pink Floyd- The Wall
VAST- Video Auditory Sensory Theater
Einsturzende Neubauten- Halber Mensch/End Neu
Wumpscut- Music for the Slaughtered Tribe
Pet Shop Boys- Nightlife
New Order- Substance
Ahh, so many good ones. It seems like my tastes lean toward HalberMensch’s. I knew it from the “242” attached to the screenname… here’s my list:
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The Beatles- Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and the White Album
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VNV Nation- Praise the Fallen
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Front 242- Tyranny for You
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Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
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New Order- Substance
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Joy Division- Substance
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Frontline Assembly- FLAvour of the Weak
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Sugarcubes- Life’s Too Good
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Nitzer Ebb- Belief
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Smashing Pumpkins- Gish
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Pixies- Dolittle
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Laibach- Kapital
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MC 900 Foot Jesus- Hell With the Lid Off
I’m going to have to say A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms because I can listen to it over and over and over for hours and not get sick of it. Plus it just seems so perfect. [quite fitting, really].
Also, the Fragile - NIN. I might be biased though as NIN is my fave band, but this album just has an atmosphere about it that seems so flawless.
KoRn - Follow the Leader and Issues
Def Leppard - Hysteria
The Wedding Singer Soundtrack - Volume One
The Matrix - Music from and inspired by the MP.
Gone! in 60 seconds - ditto
Dido - No angel
Orgy - Candyass
Chant - I through III
Summer Thunder - Sounds of Horror
Metallica - Everything but especially …And Justice For All
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
The Cure - Galore
Depeche Mode - Greatest Hits
Spawn - The Album
Aerosmith - Big Ones
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill and Ill Communication
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Tool - Undertow
Phil Collins - No Jacker Required
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Crystal Method - Vegas
MTV’s Amp - I and II
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
Guns and Roses - Lies and Appetite for destruction
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Garth Brooks - The Hits
Strife - In This Defiance
Skid Row?
Ok, here is mine:
Led Zeppelin I,II,ZOSO, HotH and Physical Grafiti
Pink Floyd Meddle, Wish you were Here and Dark Side of the Moon
Aerosmith Rocks and Toys in the Attic (ok scratch Rocks becuase of Home Tonight)
The Who Who’s Next
Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
Black Sabath Paranoid
a long jump to
Nirvana Bleach
Weezer Weezer and Pinkerton (I noticed these a lot, cool)
Soundgarden BadMotorFinger
NOFX Punk in Drulic and Pump up the Valium (the OP said the Decline but thats cheating becuase its only one song, but a great song none the less)
and im going to sneak Green Day Dookie on here.