# The best album by your favorite bands **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976 "2008-12-19T21:08:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/1 "2008-12-19T21:08:24Z")
Yeah, I guess that’s pretty general, but I’ve been listening to a lot of full albums lately and could use some suggestions. Genre doesn’t really matter, though if it’s a band most people haven’t heard of, it might be helpful to state the genre in your post. A few to start: Eels - _Electro-shock Blues_ The Jesus and Mary Chain - _Psychocandy_ The Cure - _Disintegration_ Tori Amos - _Little Earthquakes_ 10,000 Maniacs - _In My Tribe_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/2 "2008-12-19T21:13:37Z")
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros-Streetcore Violent Femmes-Why Do Birds Sing? Mustard Plug-Big Daddy Multitude Iggy &The Stooges-Raw Power ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/3 "2008-12-19T21:16:56Z")
Yes - **Drama** Joe Satriani - **Strange Beautiful Music** Travis Larson Band - **Burn Season** Marc Bonilla - **EE Ticket** Bozzio, Levine, Stevens - **Situation Dange** rous ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/4 "2008-12-19T21:21:12Z")
Uh oh. I think I’m too old for this thread. Well here goes nothing. The Beatles: _Rubber Soul_ The Stones: _Let It Bleed_ Jefferson Airplane: _Surrealistic Pillow_ Buffalo Springfield: _Last Time Around_ The Who: _Who’s Next_ Crosby, Stills & Nash: _Crosby, Stills & Nash_ Neil Young: _Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere_ Steely Dan: _Countdown to Ecstasy_ Joe Jackson: _Big World_ ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/5 "2008-12-19T21:27:34Z")
**Depeche Mode** Black Celebration **VNV Nation** Empires **Anything Box** Worth **The Cure** Disintegration **Death Cab for Cutie** Transatlanticism **Nine Inch Nails** The Downward Spiral ---
**Author:** ![HookerChemical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@HookerChemical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HookerChemical)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/6 "2008-12-19T22:12:15Z")
Jethro Tull: _Thick as a Brick_ Dream Theater: _Scenes from a Memory_ Marillion: _Fugazi_ Blue Oyster Cult: _Blue Oyster Cult_ Porcupine Tree: _Fear of a Blank Planet_ ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/7 "2008-12-19T22:16:22Z")
Lyle Lovett - _Joshua Judges Ruth_ AC/DC - _Back in Black_ Lucinda Williams - _A World Without Tears_ ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/8 "2008-12-19T22:17:08Z")
Tool, Undertow SoundGarden, Loud Love K.D. Lang, Ingenue Betty Davis, Betty Davis Soul Coughing, Ruby Vroom ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/9 "2008-12-19T22:46:24Z")
The Smiths - _The Queen Is Dead_ Tom Waits - _Heart of Saturday Night_ The Pogues - _If I Should Fall From Grace With God_ Bob Dylan - _Time Out of Mind_ Lucinda Williams - _Car Wheels on a Gravel Road_ Chris Whitley - _Living With the Law_ Ryan Adams - _Heartbreaker_ The Band - _The Band_ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/10 "2008-12-19T22:50:53Z")
Beatles – Abbey Road The Who – Who Are You Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die The Band – The Band Bonzo Dog Band – Urban Spaceman (aka The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse). The Kinks – Low Budget Lyle Lovett – And His Large Band Soft Machine – Third Blood Sweat and Tears – Child is Father to the Man Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead Cream – Disraeli Gears Allman Brothers Band – Live at Filmore East. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/11 "2008-12-19T23:09:15Z")
Mine are mainly from the **Smooth Jazz** genre. (1) **The Rippingtons:** _Moonlighting_ (2) **Spyro Gyra:** _Morning Dance_ (3) **Fattburger:** _T.G.I.Fattburger_ (4) **Count Basic:** _More Than The Best_ (5) **Incognito:** _Tales From the Beach_ (6) **Craig Chaquico:** _Four Corners_ (7) **Ken Navarro:** _Love Coloured Soul_ (8) **Kim Pensyl:** _Pensyl Sketches #1_ (9) **Dotsero:** _Fresh Pants_ (10) **Down to the Bone:** _Cellar Funk_ ---
**Author:** ![Redfrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Redfrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redfrost)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/12 "2008-12-19T23:14:29Z")
**Tool** -_Lateralus_ **Jane’s Addiction** -_Ritual De Lo Habitual_ **Rolling Stones** -_Exile on Main Street_ **Nine Inch Nails** -_The Fragile_ **Beastie Boys** -_Check Your Head_ **N.W.A.** -_Straight Outta Compton_ **Paul Westerberg** -_Suicain Gratifaction_ **Peter Gabriel** -_Passion_ _The Velvet Underground & Nico_ **Norah Jones** -_Feels Like Home_ ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/13 "2008-12-19T23:34:57Z")
I like **No Doubt** ’s Beacon Street Collection much better than Tragic Kingdom or any of the others. I’m a fan of **Aerosmith** ’s Nine Lives, which I’m sure is heresy. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/14 "2008-12-20T00:14:08Z")
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, obviously. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III. Nice acoustic stuff on there. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks. The Doors - The Doors The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers. No, Exile on Main Street. No, Sticky Fingers. Wait, Exile on Main Street. Let me rethink that…Sticky Fingers. Exile on Main Street. Actually, definitely Sticky Fingers. Or Exile on Main Street. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/15 "2008-12-20T00:17:01Z")
Bright Eyes - Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God ---
**Author:** ![twit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/16 "2008-12-20T01:18:59Z")
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique Lloyd Cole - Don’t Get Weird on Me, Babe Cindy Morgan - Listen U2 - Zooropa Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix The Orb - Orbus Terrarum The Bogmen - Life Begins at 40 Million Prince - Lovesexy Duran Duran - Notorious REM - Automatic For the People Ministry - Psalm 69 Money Mark - Mark’s Keyboard Repair Johnny Cash: American IV: The Man Comes Around ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/17 "2008-12-20T01:49:26Z")
Radiohead - OK Computer Pearl Jam - Ten a-ha - Hunting High And Low Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu John Entwistle - Smash Your Head Against The Wall Morrissey - Vauxhall and I Cream - Fresh Cream George Harrison - All Things Must Pass ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/18 "2008-12-20T01:51:11Z")
Rush - Moving Pictures Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets Incubus - Morning View Wolfmother - Wolfmother STP - No. 4 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells Nada Surf - High/Low The Cars - The Cars (the [2-disc deluxe edition](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifixq9kldse) is awesome) The Refreshments - Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy Gorillaz - Gorillaz Blackmore’s Night - Under A Violet Moon A-Ha - Hunting High and Low (seriously…it’s a really good album) The Kinks - Give The People What They Want Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Full Moon Fever The Reverse Engineers - Max Q (there’s a really obscure one for you, very Rush-inspired) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/19 "2008-12-20T03:33:19Z")
Genesis (Peter Gabriel era) Selling England by the Pound Genesis (Phil Collins era) Wind and Wuthering Emerson, Lake, and Palmer -Tarkus Dire Straits- Telegraph Road Queen- A night at the Opera Cream - Wheels of Fire Rolling Stones - Aftermath ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976/20 "2008-12-20T03:41:53Z")
Dream Theater: _Octavarium_ Emerson, Lake & Palmer: _Brain Salad Surgery_ Jethro Tull: _Thick as a Brick_ or _Heavy Horses_ (tie) Rush: _Signals_ Genesis (Gabriel era): _The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway_ Genesis (Collins era): _And Then There Were Three_ The Who: _Tommy_ Yes: _Close to the Edge_ Black Sabbath: _Sabbath Bloody Sabbath_ Iron Maiden: _Powerslave_ Motorhead: _Another Perfect Day_ Slayer: _Seasons in the Abyss_ Ayreon: _Into the Electric Castle_ Bathory: _Hammerheart_ Pain of Salvation: _Scarsick_ Symphony X: _Twilight in Olympus_ Queen: _A Night at the Opera_ The Cure: _Disintegration_ Depeche Mode: _Black Celebration_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-by-your-favorite-bands/477976.md?page=2)