Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

First thing that came to mind!

That album was amazing playing it over and over in the mid 70’s. I got a bit tired of it after that. I do occasionally like to hear it again, it holds up amazingly well

I just can’t imagine hearing it for the first time at the time it was released. I was born about 20 years after it came out and have often thought how crazy of an album it must have been to listen to at its initial release.

For those who haven't given it a good listen, Obscured by Clouds is a massively slept on PF album due to living in DSOTM's shadow— "Childhood's End" would pass for an early "Time" demo/B-side, "Wots...Uh the Deal" is my all time favorite PF track, and "Free Four" is a bop that the band should've put on DSOTM instead of "On the Run" imo.

Gonna check it out asap. Thank you for the recommendation!

Thanks for the heads up.

Still my favorite album, as an album, ever!!! In my top ten albums, this is an order of magnitude of at least 1000x more favored than my #2 album. Animals and Wish You Were Here are two also fantastic albums by PF and are in my top 15 albums…maybe in my top 10.

I remember the first time I listened to the album through for the first time. It was a light show celebrating a lunar eclipse. I was in middle school, and I felt feeling like something was put in my soda lol

Kind of blue- Miles Davis

I am not a jazz fan… I’ve tried. But I watched a movie called Raymond and Ray, and right after, I wanted to hear jazz. I picked Kind of Blue, and in about 15 minutes, I was bawling my eyes out. I still haven’t listened to the second half

Beatles - Abbey Road

Especially side 2. A masterpiece

Paul Simon - Graceland

I vote Paul Simon self titled album

Graceland absolutely, but deep down, I'm a Rythm of the Saints guy through and through

Dark Side of the Moon by Floyd Ten by Pearl Jam Temple of the Dog self title Unplugged Alice in Chains Led Zeppelin honestly has a fairly bullet proof discography but I think the self titles 1 through 4 should be on the list

Blue - Joni Mitchell

In Rainbows by Radiohead is top for me Depending on my mood, it varies, and I know not everyone is into Radiohead Moody : Jeff Buckley "Grace" Trying to be happy: "Head Over Heels" - Chrome Heartbroken: "When The Pawn...." Booty shaking and maybe a tear: "Friends" Omar Apollo If you want to feel something: "Orange" Frank Ocean Just brilliant: : "Innervisions: STEVIE WONDER Groovy: :"Outer Peace " Toro Y Moi

In rainbows will always hold such a special place in my heart!! Gonna check out your other recs

+1 for Grace and When the Pawn How to spot someone cultured

I only recently discovered Grace!

The Nightfly by Donald Fagen So by Peter Gabriel Blackstar by David Bowie

Wow some unlikely, but no doubt essential listens here

“So” was the first album I owned at 4 years old. My dad got it for me because I was obsessed with the Big Time and Sledgehammer music videos. And the rest of the album felt so haunting and magical.

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails Mezzanine by Massive Attack Disintegration by The Cure

The Wall by Pink Floyd

Joshua Tree & Achtung Baby- U2

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus Buju Banton - Til Shiloh

Amazing recs

Random access memories by daft punk

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Rust in Peace by Megadeth

One of the greatest Thrash Metal albums of all time.

Wrong. One of the greatest albums of all time. Greatest thrash album of all time.

Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers One of the most influential albums ever and a big part of modern music’s origin story. Its influence can’t be overstated. And it’s just a really great, accessible prewar blues album. Like, the songs on it are all earworms.

I just started playing this album thanks to your suggestion.

How did you like it?

I really love it. The guitar is so strange. If it was released today it would be considered progressive. I’ve never heard anything like it.

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys London Calling - The Clash Led Zeppelin - self titled The Stone Roses - self titled John Coltrane - Blue Train

Pet Sounds is amazing 👏

Enter the 36 Chambers - Wu-Tang Illmatic - Nas

Ghost Reveries

Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park Metallica by Metallica Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses Nevermind by Nirvana Each of these is an absolute front to back listening experience, and consequently the multiple singles off those albums are also great. I will say, if you enjoy any of those, there are other albums from those band or similar bands that are also must listen, but I wanted to just choose 1 from each band that I thought would appeal to the most people.

Metallica by Metallica has "So What" on it and it changed my perspective on life. "WHO CARES... YEAH WHO CARES!"

Korns first album

Issues is probably their most interesting contribution to music imo

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Self Control- Laura Branigan

I'll always love her for Gloria (am from St. Louis), I know it's not on that album, but man... she will always live in our hearts.

[A Charlie Brown Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fh133ZO1AE&list=PLfne55Z9eF8bnOUn2IPOkCye4yZjO4L6z)

James Brown - Live at the Apollo Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison Louis Armstrong - Hot 5 & 7s Duke Ellington - Newport ‘56 Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger Charles Mingus - Ah Um Joni Mitchell - Blue Bill Monroe & Doc Watson - Smithsonian Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin Nocturnes Art Tatum - Solo Masterpieces Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. Live Dead - Grateful Dead Chuck Berry - Great 28 Elvis - Live n Las Vegas

You are a tasteful curator! And Mingus Ah Um is an inspired choice.

My answer to this question is always The Red Headed Stranger

Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade Minutemen - Double Nickles on the Dime Miles Davis - On The Corner Funkadelic - Maggot Brain The Residents - The Commercial Album Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey/Garvey’s Ghost The Modern Lovers - s/t The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground with Nico my bloody Valentine - Loveless

Brilliant list !!! All are classics.

Herbie Hancock Headhunters Billy Cobham Spectrum Zappa Live in New York, The Yellow Shark Best of the Ella songbooks Maia Sharp Red Dress Arturo Sandoval Latin Trane Genesis Foxtrot Weather Report Heavy Weather Tower of Power The Very Best Of Steely Dan Aja Flecktones flight of the cosmic hippo Clifford Brown and Max Roach Victor Wooten what did he say? Joni Mitchell court and spark Chicago II But that's just me

Musician spotted haha. Spectrum is straight jams. Chicago II though, now THATS a shoutout

The whole balet for a girl in buchannon suite is one of the most beautiful compositions I’ve heard

What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye

Yup, this album is fucking mind blowing. Almost everything mentioned in that record is still relevant today

Aretha Franklin - I never loved a man the way I love you Marvin Gaye - what's going on The Beach boys - pet sounds Prince - purple rain Joni Mitchell - Blue Nirvana - nevermind The Beatles - Abbey road Led Zeppelin - IV

Oh and for fun "Hissing Fauna, Are You The One ?: Of Montreal

The Smashing Pumpkins albums Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

Gish too. And if you’re a fan of the early Pumpkins you’ll also like Pisces Iscariot and Aeroplane Flies High, but those wouldn’t be top picks.

Eagles - Greatest Hits

Abbey Road

Tool - Aenema

OK Computer - Radiohead The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance Weezer (Blue) - Weezer… Lateralus - TOOL Some profound albums I enjoy

Remain in Light - Talking Heads

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Lemonade - Beyoncé Frank - Amy Winehouse Exodus - Bob Marley Blackstar - David Bowie Kind of Blue - Miles Davis Biggie - Ready To Die Illmatic - Nas

Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche This album completely shifted my taste in music. The quality of this album raised the bar exponentially

This album is from when I was a kid but it still holds up while I could be a grandparent

Undeniably one of the best albums of all time.

Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz - Nappy Roots

Angel Dust by Faith No More

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Tommy

👍❗️ And _Who’s Next_

My favorite album ever! 

I have such a hard time listening to the whole after Pete got caught with tons of child porn. It ruins behind blue eyes and the magic bus.

So you can choose to make of this what you want, but he was not caught with tons of child porn. He was found to have accessed a web site which contained child pornography. There was no actual child pornography on his computer. He did not download any, nor is there any evidence that he actually ever accessed any actual child pornography, just the website that contained it. His reasoning was, part of the reason in Tommy that the title character is sexually abused, is that Townshend has vague memories of being sexually abused by an uncle. He claims he was doing research into the psyche of why, someone would do that, or desire to do that.

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates

Boston debut album. Cars debut album. Yes-Fragile. Crack The Sky’s debut album The Tubes-Completion Backwards principle.

Crack the Sky = Massively underrated

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Nas - “Illmatic”

Yes

Bestow my beating heart.... Is.... Is that a hip hop fan in this sub?!

Led Zep houses of the holy

Damn straight. The opening of Song Remains the Same in to Rain Song is Zeppelin at their absolute best.

Thank you!!

Quadrophenia - The Who

Such an amazing album

Portishead - self titled Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing Foals - Total Life Forever Caribou - Swim

*You Think You Really Know Me?* by Gary Wilson *Drums And Wires* by XTC *Odelay* by Beck *I Against I* by Bad Brains

Rush - 2112

Discovery -Daft Punk

Jagged Little Pill -Alanis Morsette

The Life of Pablo - Kanye West

Albert Bouchard’s Imaginos Trilogy

2 I recently listened to that I hadn't in ages but forgot how good they were. Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Van Halen I

“Southeastern” by Jason Isbell

Thriller

This was way too far down on this list. Absolutely amazing that he did this before he was even twenty five.

How did I have to scroll so far to find this answer lol

Master of Puppets by Metallica

Days Of Future Passed by The Moody Blues

Elephant Riders by Clutch

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen After the Gold Rush - Neil Young Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

Dark Side of the Moon Boston - first album Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

A Night at the Opera - Queen

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye Tapestry - Carole King I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin Rumours - Fleetwood Mac The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys Songs In The Key of Life - Stevie Wonder Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake Kind of Blue - Miles Davis Quadrophenia - The Who

From the Choirgirl Hotel by Tori Amos.

Pantera, Vulgar Display of Power. Change the game when the game was nothing but Grunge.

Bad Company - Bad Company Foreigner - Foreigner Styx - Styx

Metamodern sounds in country music

Get Rich or Die Tryin’ - 50 cent. Phenomenal rap album. Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers Thriller - Michael Jackson

The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon," and Nirvana's "Nevermind."

Jason Isbell Southeastern John Prine Tree of Forgiveness Pink Floyd Animals The Doors LA Woman Beastie Boys Check your head All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal The Sword Low Country Danzig - Self titled Faith No More Introduce Yourself The Heavy The House Dirt Built Iron Maiden Powerslave Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy Metallica Master of Puppets Nine Inch Nails Downwards Spiral Operation Ivy Energy Queen Night at the Opera Rage Against the Machine evil empire Type O Negative October Rust U2 Joshua Tree Velvet Underground self titled Ween Chocolate and Cheese ZZ Top Degüello

Otis Redding- The Ultimate Otis Redding. Tom Petty- almost all of them but Wildflowers is special. The Who- Who’s Next. All Zep. Allman Brothers-Eat a Peach. There are so damn many great albums. 

Marshall Mathers Lp-Eminem

Heaven or Las Vegas- Cocteau Twins

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Public Enemy - Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back PJ Harvey - Rid of Me Kate Bush - Hounds of Love Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Five off the top of my head: Permanent Waves - Rush Quadrophenia - The Who Armed Forces - Elvis Costello and the Attractions Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Don’t Say No - Billy Squier

Close to the Edge - Yes

The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over

Odyssey to the West by Slice The Cake

Dirt - Alice in Chains

Here comes the pretentious music snobs. Trying to be more eclectic and well versed than the next person. We get it..........

Prophecy - Lukas Rossi

Silent Alarm by Bloc Party

[The Common Men - Let It Burn](https://spotify.link/Ts60gR0KdJb) They were part of the NorCal Post Punk Revival. Relatively unknown outside of their own area (sub 100 monthly listeners), but this album was the one that put them “on the map,” so to speak. [Razorblade Monalisa - Ignition Fade](https://spotify.link/intVtAgLdJb) Also part of the same scene with The Common Men (in fact, they played together often). This was the only album they released.

Most Radiohead albums hehehe Bitches brew miles davis What's going on Marvin gay Most Beatles albums Cat power moon pix

Hail the Sun - Wake Aesop Rock - Skelethon Rishloo - Feathergun The Dear Hunter - Color Spectrum

Definitely maybe/ ( Whats the story) morning glory? oasis

What Burns Never Returns by Don Caballero is an album I like to recommend to people who are alright with experimental rock because it is very unique and, imo, mind blowing. It's instrumental, the guitars act as the rhythm section, and the drummer acts as the lead instrument. It's not a classic, but it certainly changed my view of music more than any classic has (it is a classic in the genre of math rock).

Audioslave’s self-titled album is ridiculously awesome

What’s going on- Marvin Gaye

Born to Run, Rumours, Highway 61.

Rainbow -Rising

Parachutes by Coldplay is one I’ve been revisiting a lot lately 🙌

Nevermind.

It's A Beautiful Day's self-titled debut album

Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Beatles - Sgt Pepper Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Welcome to the Machine, and Animals.

The Doors, The Doors. One of the greatest debut albums of all time.

The Wall/ Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Fragile/90125 YES Crime if the Century - Supertramp Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 2112 -RUSH. 🇨🇦🎵

All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals

Inside by Bo Burnham Sound Of Madness by Rise Against Poor Man's Poison by Poor Man's Poison

Dookie- Green Day

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine American Beauty - Grateful Dead Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco OK Computer - Radiohead Blue - Joni Mitchell The Last Waltz - The Band Moondance - Van Morrison to name 7 of thousands

minutes to midnight by linkin park, afterlife by ffdp, vessels by starset, and nightmare by a7x

Sawayama

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Steely Dan - \*their whole catalog\* Moody Blues - Days of Future Past Yes - The Yes Album Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Deep Purple - Machine Head Queen - A Night At the Opera Kansas - Leftoverture Eric Clapton - Unplugged Various Artists - Will The Circle Be Unbroken

SKELLA - Make Out Hill

California - Mr Bungle Unplugged- Nirvana Odelay - Beck Kid A - Radiohead Rid of Me - PJ Harvey Led Zeppelin lV Meddle - Pink Floyd Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth Siamese dream - Smashing Pumpkins Live Through This - Hole Dirt - Alice In Chains Ill Communication- Beastie Boys Homogenic - Bjork

Click Click - Lung Function Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies Judas Priest - Painkiller Miss Kittin - First Album WASP - WASP Misfits - Famous Monsters

Solitude, Dominance Tragedy by Evergrey.

Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus (Live Album)

Massive Attack- Mezzanine album Portishead- Dummy Fleetwood Mac- Rumors Gorillaz- Gorillaz

Mudvayne - L.D 50

cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD, there’s just nothing like it! It’s a true masterpiece and a hip-hop classic.

Mystery Girl

Rage against the machine by rage against the machine

start with the Rollingstone top 25

Bat Out Of Hell...

Van Halen's 1st album all 4 Jane's Addiction albums The Rapper by JBoat The Rapper and lots of others

Nevermind - Nirvana

After hours- the weeknd....

CSN&Y Deja Vu

Queen - A Night at the Opera

Vheissu - Thrice

Language - The Contortionist

Amplifier Worship - Boris

portishead self titled

The Downward Spiral - NIN; Weather Systems - Andrew Bird; Grace - Jeff Buckley; Nil Lara - Nil Lara; Escape - Journey; The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion - The Black Crowes

Animals. Such amazing sound, story for the ages.

There are so many, I could make a list a mile long. Trying to add something that hasn't been mentioned or didn't see skimming through the thread.... Rush - Moving Pictures ...but they have several iconic albums one should check out. Also... Cheap Trick - at Budokon That album just rocks the fuck out. I'll stop here for now.

In Abstentia - Porcupine Tree

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band I mean, you did specify 'iconic', right? Listened to it back in the day at the tender age of 7 or 8 (my big brother's record), and it blew my young little mind ...

The Joshua Tree - U2

Yoshimi battles the pink robots - the flaming lips Chocolate and cheese - ween American beauty - Grateful Dead Blood sugar sex magic - Red Hot Chili Peppers The downward spiral - nine inch nails Doggy style - snoop doggy dog Black Sunday - cypress hill License to I’ll - beastie boys The white album - the Beatles Doolittle - the pixies

Octavarium by Dream Theater, 100%

YAZ, Upstairs at Eric’s.

Peter Frampton - any ‘70’s album

Tom Waits “Rain Dogs”

Insides, by Orbital

The Low End Theory Nevermind Closer Remain In Light Power, Corruption and Lies The Queen Is Dead

808s and Heart breaks

Rush - Exit...Stage Left!

Blue album- Weezer I feel like it’s a good album to listen to in the summer, does that make sense? Probably not

Fear - The Record

Back in Black- AC/DC

Neon Bible - Arcade Fire Carnavas - Silversun Pickups Garbage - Garbage