Recommend An Album Thread

[cg124]

okay over the times on this board here I have learned about plenty of cool bands. Well I would like to buy some of their CD's except well sometimes the money isn't always there to get all their CD's. In here I figured you could name some bands and recomend their best album(or which one would be more suitable for someones first listen.) Understand? now lets start


Band:weezer

Album:the blue album

why: well this isn't exactly my favorite album from weezer,that title belongs to pinkerton,but for those who have yet to pick up a weezer CD this is the best way to start. This album is the first album from the band and it was a big start. You can't go wrong with this album at all. Every song is very enjoyable to listen to and the Album is fun to listen to in any mood. Are you in the mood to listen to some weezer? then say yes to blue.





yeah I know that sorta sucked,but oh well I'm sure you guys will be able to do better

[ZombieMan]

"La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1" - White Zombie
"Out of Exile" - Audioslave
"Life Is Killing Me" - Type O Negative
"October Rust" - Type O Negative
"Bloody Kisses" - Type O Negative

[cg124]

Thanks for contributing:)

[FVD]

Deep Purple - In Rock
Deep Purple - Machinehead
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Deep Purple - Burn
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Marillion - Brave
Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight
Marillion - Marbles
Spock's Beard - Snow
Ark - Burn The Sun
The Flower Kings - Space Revolver
The Flower Kings - Unfold The Future
Genesis - Foxtrot
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Rush In Rio

[cool_chik]

hilary duff - hilary duff
Hilary duff - metamorphosis
Jojo - Jojo
Missy Higgins - The Sound Of White
Good Charlotte - The Chronicles Of Life and Death
Greenday - American Idiot
Delta Goodrem - Mistaken Identity
Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography

[cg124]

hilary duff - hilary duff
Hilary duff - metamorphosis
Jojo - Jojo
Missy Higgins - The Sound Of White
Good Charlotte - The Chronicles Of Life and Death
Delta Goodrem - Mistaken Identity
Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography

**** NO!!!!!!


*crys in corner*


MTV what have you done to the children!!!!!

[Angelixx]

**** NO!!!!!!


*crys in corner*


MTV what have you done to the children!!!!!



**shoots cg out fo his misery**

**turns gun on self**

[A Guy]

Collective Soul - Youth

Is good

[Brock Landers]

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico(AKA "The Banana Album")
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of the Moon
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Weezer - Pinkerton

[PapaRoachRules]

can we also ask for recommendations?

Children of Bodom
3 Inches of Blood
AFI
Atreyu
CKY
Cold
Cradle of Firth
Danzig
In Flames
Opeth
Slayer
Sublime
Tool
A Perfect Circle
American Head Charger
Cannible Corpse
Coal Chamber

apreciate it if you guys could help me with a few of these. :)

[Ramplate]

Tina Turner - Simply the Best
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Yes - Yessongs
Eric Clapton - From the Cradle
Neil Young - Harvest
The Commitments - Movie sound track of The Commitments
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell I&II
Fleewood Mac - Rumors
Foreigner - Double Vision
The Who - Tommy

[Brock Landers]

can we also ask for recommendations?

Children of Bodom
3 Inches of Blood
AFI
Atreyu
CKY
Cold
Cradle of Firth
Danzig
In Flames
Opeth
Slayer
Sublime
Tool
A Perfect Circle
American Head Charger
Cannible Corpse
Coal Chamber

apreciate it if you guys could help me with a few of these. :)

Well, for one, I wouldn't buy any AFI, CKY or Cold albums.....;)

[cool_chik]

**** NO!!!!!!


*crys in corner*


MTV what have you done to the children!!!!!
Hahaha what are some good songs?
Like I'm wondering because i need to find more to download. I mostly like R&B, pop and rap what are some good songs in those genres?

[Systm0fD0wn]

I limited it to one recommendation per band, here it is...

Advance And Vanquish - 3 Inches Of Blood
Back In Black - AC/DC
Dirt - Alice In Chains
The War Of Art - American Head Charge
Spreading The Disease - Anthrax
Shadows Are Security - As I Lay Dying
Mafia - Black Label Society
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Nightfall In Middle-Earth - Blind Guardian
Boston - Boston
Tyranny Of Souls - Bruce Dickinson
Willy And The Poorboys - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hysteria - Def Leppard
Touched By The Crimson King - Demons & Wizards
Holy Diver - Dio
Fragments Of D-Generation - Disarmonia Mundi
Back For The Attack - Dokken
Octavarium - Dream Theater
Hotel California - Eagles
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
The Final Countdown - Europe
Tempo Of The Damned - Exodus
Obsolete - Fear Factory
Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses
Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken - HammerFall
The Rise Of Brutality - Hatebreed
The Glorious Burden - Iced Earth
The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
Imagine - John Lennon
Escape - Journey
Screaming For Vengeance - Judas Priest
The End Of Heartache - Killswitch Engage
Comalies - Lacuna Coil
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
(Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd) - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Countdown To Extinction - Megadeth
Kill 'Em All - Metallica
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Theatre Of Pain - Mötley Crüe
L.D. 50 - Mudvayne
XX - Mushroomhead
Enemies Of Reality - Nevermore
Once - Nightwish
Annihilation Of The Wicked - Nile
With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails
Frozen In Time - Obituary
Blackwater Park - Opeth
Blizzard Of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
Paradise Lost - Paradise Lost
The Wall - Pink Floyd
A Night At The Opera - Queen
Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche
Metal Health - Quiet Riot
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Rainbow
Reise Reise - Rammstein
Mighty Rearranger - Robert Plant And The Strange Sensation
Symmetric In Design - Scar Symmetry
Blackout - Scorpions
The War Within - Shadows Fall
An Elixir For Existence - Sirenia
Babylon - Skindred
Slipknot - Slipknot
Stabbing The Drama - Soilwork
Reckoning Night - Sonata Arctica
Stone Sour - Stone Sour
Pieces Of Eight - Styx
Toxicity - System Of A Down
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Brothers And Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
Permission To Land - The Darkness
Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Frances The Mute - The Mars Volta
Lateralus - Tool
Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister
1984 - Van Halen
Saints & Sinners - Whitesnake
Wintersun - Wintersun

[cool_chik]

Oh no i forgot two!
kelly clarkson - breakaway
Kelly clarkson - Thankful
They're really good and also
Anthony Callea - Anthony Callea

People should listen to "The Prayer" by anthony callea and then you will know not everything i listen to is 'crap'.

[Systm0fD0wn]

Hahaha what are some good songs?
Like I'm wondering because i need to find more to download. I mostly like R&B, pop and rap what are some good songs in those genres?
Download "Up Around The Bend" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

[cool_chik]

Download "Up Around The Bend" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
I downloaded it and listened to the whole thing. I'm after more R&B or soul not rock n roll.

[cool_chik]

what else?

[Systm0fD0wn]

:up::up::up: = Fantastic
:up::up: = Very Good
:up: = Good
:up::down: = Alright
:down: = Bad
:down::down: = Very Bad
:down::down::down: = Horrible
Children of Bodom
:up:
3 Inches of Blood
:up::up:
AFI
:down::down:
Atreyu
:down:
CKY
:down:
Cold
:down:
Cradle of Firth
:up::down:
Danzig
:up::up:
In Flames
:up:
Opeth
:up::up:
Slayer
:up::up::up:
Sublime
:down:
Tool
:up::up:
A Perfect Circle
:up:
American Head Charger
:up:
Cannible Corpse
:up::down:
Coal Chamber
:up::down:


Edit.. eh, damn... no up and down thumbs? Damn.

[cool_chik]

Are those rock songs?

[Systm0fD0wn]

Are those rock songs?
Yeah, rock/metal bands.

[Systm0fD0wn]

what else?
Coldplay, Maroon 5, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, The Black Eyed Peas, The Killers

[cool_chik]

Coldplay, Maroon 5, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, The Black Eyed Peas, The Killers
ok, ill rate them in what someone like me would think:
4, 9, 0, 1, 10, never heard.
Yeah, rock/metal bands.
I really don't like heavy metal really really really dislike it lol.

[Dracula]

Metallica: Master of Puppets
Pantera: Vulger Display of Power
Megadeth: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying
Gunz N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction
Stone Temple Pilots: Core
Soundgarden: Superunknown
Nirvana: Nevermind
Alice in chains: Dirt
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
System of a Down: Toxicity
Led Zepplin: Led Zepplin I
Black Sabbeth: Paranoid
Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind
AC/DC: Back in Black
Van Halen: The Best of Both Worlds (all you need IMO)

[JackBauer]

dimmu borgir-death cult armageddon

[Systm0fD0wn]

4, 9, 0, 1, 10, never heard.
Michael Jackson a 0 and The Beatles a 1? Are you insane?

[Frizzo the Clown]

Michael Jackson a 0 and The Beatles a 1? Are you insane?
We've already established that yes..yes she is. ;)

[Brock Landers]

ok, ill rate them in what someone like me would think:
4, 9, 0, 1, 10, never heard.

Bahahahahahaha.....ahahahaha.....oh wow, ahahahaha....

[eternally-lost]

I thought there would be a few sentences to say why those are good albums like cg124 had started out doing. I skimmed the list and they're just names it helps to have an idea of what it is. I do have to agree with Dracula's recommended list. Good work. :)

[AlfA P.O.A.]

I agree with Systm0fD0wn, 0 for weirdo, i will give the beatles a 2 i guess, not that great though

but this is comin from a person who mainly listens to heavy rock music

i recommend...............
Album: Far Beyond Driven
Artist: Pantera

[cg124]

I agree with Systm0fD0wn, 0 for weirdo, i will give the beatles a 2 i guess, not that great though


you rate the beatles as a 2?

[FVD]

Remember these are little kids who don't have a clue what real music is all about. They'd rather listen to rubbish like Maroon 5 and Good Charlotte and show no respect for how music came to be today even though it's mostly crap nowadays.

[Systm0fD0wn]

I agree with Systm0fD0wn, 0 for weirdo, i will give the beatles a 2 i guess, not that great though
Whoa, whoa... I called the person who rated that insane... I myself did not rate them like that.

[Systm0fD0wn]

show no respect for how music came to be today even though it's mostly crap nowadays.
Well, you have Dream Theater's "Octavarium" as your avatar... you obviously like that album and it just came out a few weeks ago. I wouldn't say todays music is all crap by any means... I find new stuff coming out all the time that is fantastic. I will agree however that music back in the 60's, 70's, and 80's definitely beats out todays age of music as a whole by far.

[FVD]

Well I should have been more elaborate then. Today's mainstream Top 40 scene. ;)

...and yes. Octavarium is f**king amazing. Their finest work since Metropolis Pt.2 :)

[Systm0fD0wn]

Well I should have been more elaborate then. Today's mainstream Top 40 scene. ;)
That I will pretty much agree with.
...and yes. Octavarium is f**king amazing. Their finest work since Metropolis Pt.2 :)
Indeed. The only thing that I find odd is that "I Walk Beside You" sounds so erieily similar to a U2 song... not like that is a bad thing, but still weird. Great album though.

[cg124]

Remember these are little kids who don't have a clue what real music is all about. They'd rather listen to rubbish like Maroon 5 and Good Charlotte and show no respect for how music came to be today even though it's mostly crap nowadays.


ughh two of my most hated bads of today. Lately I've been trying to get into different kinds of music from different time periods. I ussually look through my dads CD collection for different stuff.

[FVD]

Check out some Deep Purple. Basically if you can all get into Zeppelin and Sabbath, Purple are just as stellar. After all they were the 3 big bands of the 70's.

It's a start.

[JBond]

Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were the 3 big bands of the 70's? I'll agree with Zeppelin, but what about Pink Floyd, The Eagles, and even Lynyrd Skynyrd? ;)

[chewie]

I'll recommend Superunkown by Soundgarden. This is one of the few albums that I can listen to all the way through without skipping a track. This album would definatley be in my top 5.

[AlfA P.O.A.]

I like Pink Floyd, but I think they are over-played on the radio, so i just get sick of listening to them sometimes. But they are still good. You can't forget AC/DC, their first album was in 1974, that's a '70's band. You also got to have The Who as one of the greatest bands.

I also think two of the most overrated bands ever is Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, hey don't get me wrong they are both awesome as well, yet sooooooooooooooooooo overrated.

Remember these are little kids who don't have a clue what real music is all about. They'd rather listen to rubbish like Maroon 5 and Good Charlotte and show no respect for how music came to be today even though it's mostly crap nowadays.
Ummm just so you know you really don't listen to new music if you think its not good. There are so many new bands that are showing up on the mainstream that sounds like older music. I hate Maroon 5, they suck a$$. Good Charlotte's first album, it was self titled, was pretty good, but then it sucked a$$ after that. I mainly listen to heavy metal music and stuff like that. Even though the older music was good, I like newer stuff better

Here's my list of the decades on how good the music was:
1.) 2000's
2.) 70's
3.) 80's
4.) 60's
5.) 90's (even though Pantera was mainly in the 90's, the 90's are last)

Sorry Systm0fD0wn, I didn't look at the page before, but I still don't like The Beatles that much, my favorite song by them is Hard Day's Night

I recommend,
Album: '74 Jailbreak
Artist: AC/DC

[cg124]

Wait are you ranking the 2000's as the best decade for music?

[AlfA P.O.A.]

yes I am, I just like the newer music better, hey don't be hatin, I listen to everything, no rap crap though

[Brock Landers]

1.) 2000's

Stopped reading after that....

[cg124]

Stopped reading after that....


thank you brock, I almost stopped reading myself

[FVD]

Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were the 3 big bands of the 70's? I'll agree with Zeppelin, but what about Pink Floyd, The Eagles, and even Lynyrd Skynyrd? ;)

Sorry my mistake. The 3 big UK bands of the 70's. It's been documented by various sources not by my opinion alone. Think about the hard rock aspect here. Pink Floyd were on a different level. The Prog Rock side of things like Yes, Genesis, King Crimson and ELP for example.

Hard Rock: Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Uriah Heep. Understand now? ;)

[FVD]

Ummm just so you know you really don't listen to new music if you think its not good.

Look here mate. It's rubbish okay. They try to sound like the older material and yet they fail at that. Anyway hearing all this rubbish on the radio is enough to drive a grown man insane. :nono:

[JBond]

Sorry my mistake. The 3 big UK bands of the 70's. It's been documented by various sources not by my opinion alone. Think about the hard rock aspect here. Pink Floyd were on a different level. The Prog Rock side of things like Yes, Genesis, King Crimson and ELP for example.

Hard Rock: Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Uriah Heep. Understand now? ;)

Ok, fair enough.

[Frizzo the Clown]

I was gonna recommend some Moody Blues, but I can't narrow it down to just one album. Just go listen to them all, damnit. ;)

[sabin26]

No offense to all those people who aren't looking into the heavy metal/hard rock scene let me just state one thing.

So far every rap song I've heard has sampled some the greatest songs out there.

Lil Jon sampled Ozzy Osbourne and what really gets me is the fact that there are some closed minded people out there that think Lil Jon came up with that riff, Randy Rhoads has been rolling in his grave ever since.

[cg124]

No offense to all those people who aren't looking into the heavy metal/hard rock scene let me just state one thing.

So far every rap song I've heard has sampled some the greatest songs out there.

Lil Jon sampled Ozzy Osbourne and what really gets me is the fact that there are some closed minded people out there that think Lil Jon came up with that riff, Randy Rhoads has been rolling in his grave ever since.


bastards. I hate rap music so much

[sabin26]

I don't know what's worst.....the fact that there are people out there that actually believe Lil Jon had somebody come up with that riff or the fact that Ozzy is allowing people to believe it.

[DangerMouse]

Hopefully this isn't falling on deaf ears, but here goes:

The Clash-"London Calling"
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004BZ0N.01._PE8_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Possibily the greatest Punk album ever recorded. A "must-have" for "real" punks.

Parliament-"Mothship Connection"
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008RV1A.01._PE8_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Ice Cube made a career sampling cuts from this album. This group was a HEAVY influence on the Red Hot Chili Peppers as well.

Speaking of...............

Red Hot Chili Peppers-"Uplift MoFo Party Plan"
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000078DOJ.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Produced by George Clinton (of P-funk fame). This is the album where the Chili Peppers really reached their creative peak with the 4 original members.

The Replacements-"Let It Be"
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006FR75.01._PE18_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
There's only three things to do in Minneapolis during the winter. Drink, drink some more, and play kick a** Rock and Roll. This band was poised to be Nirvana 10 years before Nirvana. They chose to have fun instead. America's last great Rock and Roll band and the best band you've never heard of.

The Jam-"In the City"
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006TZ9.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Take some 60's American Soul, music by "The Kinks" and "The Who", mix them up in a bowl and play them at 100mph. The result is The Jam. Voted as one of the "Five Punk Bands that mattered".

Soundtrack-"The Harder They Come"
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005LZWR.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Great stepping off point for people that would like to expand their Reggae beyond Bob Marley. Features classic Reggae/Ska tunes from Jimmy Cliff, The Maytals, and Desmond Dekker.

Speaking of Ska.....

The (English) Beat-"Just Can't Stop It"
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000021XS8.01._PE8_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Hands down the best Ska album I've ever heard. This was Stings favorite band while he was playing with the Police. In fact you can see him wearing a "Beat" shirt in the video to "Don't Stand So Close to Me".


The Stone Roses-self titled
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000004V2.01._PE18_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Ever wondered how Rock suddenly fused with Hip-Hop? This album is the missing link. One of the first groups to fuse guitar pop with a hip hop beat. This album was the dawn of the "Manchester Sound" that helped spawn Blur. Psychedelic guitar with rap back-beat.

[sabin26]

Everybody should own London Calling

[DangerMouse]

Everybody should own London Calling

I've told friends of mine that if they bought London Calling and didn't like it, I'd give them what they paid for it.

To date, I've never had to "buy back" London Calling.
Yes folks, its THAT GOOD.

[cg124]

if I would have gone to the mall today I probally would have gotten "london calling". Damn I should have told my sister to drive there today

[Brock Landers]

London Calling is indeed awesome and a must own. Favorite tracks: "Rudie Can't Fail, Spanish Bombs, Koka Kola, Jimmy Jazz, Train in Vain".

[JBond]

I don't know what's worst.....the fact that there are people out there that actually believe Lil Jon had somebody come up with that riff or the fact that Ozzy is allowing people to believe it.

Ahh, I think I've heard that one, is that the song with the "Crazy Train" riff.

[Systm0fD0wn]

Ahh, I think I've heard that one, is that the song with the "Crazy Train" riff.
Yep. :(

[FVD]

No offense to all those people who aren't looking into the heavy metal/hard rock scene let me just state one thing.

So far every rap song I've heard has sampled some the greatest songs out there.

Lil Jon sampled Ozzy Osbourne and what really gets me is the fact that there are some closed minded people out there that think Lil Jon came up with that riff, Randy Rhoads has been rolling in his grave ever since.

The bloody sampling has gone too far nowadays. Where has all the originality gone? Oh I take that back. Ritchie Blackmore said it best. "We all tend to steal. I stole from Hendrix, Page stole from everybody. So yes we all tend to steal."

So there you go. Originality hasn't seen the light of day for quite some time. There's always gonna be some influence seeping into every form of music today.

[FVD]

I don't know what's worst.....the fact that there are people out there that actually believe Lil Jon had somebody come up with that riff or the fact that Ozzy is allowing people to believe it.

There's always gonna be people like that. The kinda sheep who never discover music thus having all the crap forcefed down their throats.

I turned from that path a long long time ago.....

[JBond]

What's funny is the people who think Limp Bizket wrote "Behind Blue Eyes". I want to blugdeon them to death.

[FVD]

Haha yeah I know what you mean. I tried to play the original Who version as much as I could back then. Nobody seemed to pay attention. Idiots.

[sabin26]

The bloody sampling has gone too far nowadays. Where has all the originality gone? Oh I take that back. Ritchie Blackmore said it best. "We all tend to steal. I stole from Hendrix, Page stole from everybody. So yes we all tend to steal."

So there you go. Originality hasn't seen the light of day for quite some time. There's always gonna be some influence seeping into every form of music today.


At least Blackmore and Page worked on making their own sound out of their sampling.