Obviously inspired by @PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 's question
People’s Temple Choir - He’s Able
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVdAgfLxCus&list=PLF47145DB14320567
Gotta give the obvious answer for The Cure: Disintegration.
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Such a refined masterpiece that few can touch. Mob rules and Dehumanizer are close seconds, but miss the sheer presence that Heaven and Hell beholds.
To me at least, Heaven and Hell is immersive and profound to an extent, that their other albums cannot compare. It holds a very special place in my heart.
Dio - The last in line.
Not quite head and shoulders above his other albums, but lands the most hits for me. I love every track on this album, and none are a “miss”. I love (almost) every other Dio album, but each has at least one song that doesn’t resonate with me.
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Cliche choice, but extremely enjoyable to listen and relax to. If you listen more closely, it becomes very immersive as each song has a clear story and a moral. Though some tracks are slower paced and longer, I don’t find a single one boring, which I sometimes do on other Dire Straits albums.
“August and everything after” Counting crows
Time by the Electric Light Orchestra. that period in the late 70s and early 80s where synthesizer music was getting popular but hadn’t fully codified norms yet is chock full of incredible music, and Time was one of those albums while also being the culmination of a lot of the rock and pop that came before it. add an engaging and heartbreaking story and you have a winner
Have you heard the remastered version with additional tracks? Julie Don’t Live Here is especially poignant.
Also, the album Eldorado.
yeah, the 2001 CD remaster was actually the one i grew up with! Julie is also my favorite bonus track. i don’t understand how it’s possible to make something that upbeat and melancholy at the same time but it just works
I was definitely not expecting to see ELO as the very, very first result here but I’m pleasantly surprised.
Much like the other commenter, I’d also add that Eldorado is definitely a strong contender for their best album - arguably for the fact that I’ve never ever listened to an album that came anywhere close to it.
Finally, I’d throw in Discovery + ELO’s side of Xanadu, just for the mere fact that it’s their work featuring not a single weak track, all of them being single worthy and massive hits around the world.
My favourite band changes all the time, mostly depends on who released an album last lol.
My current favourite band is Seven Spires, they just released A Fortress Called Home recently, which I think is awesome. But I think my favourite album of theirs has got to be Gods of Debauchery.
A close second right now is Eternal Blue by Spiritbox. I’ve listened through that entire album so many times already, but I still love it.
I came here to mention Seven Spires! After listening it through about 40 times, it is by far my favourite album ever, topping Solveig (for which I’m in a minority I think).
I like and liked a lot of bands, but only Seven Spires made me completely obsessed for 2+ years
After listening through the entire album a few more times, I might have to revise my answer to A Fortress Called Home :D. Damn is this one good album, I fuckin love it.
Almosttown is definitely one of my favourites so far, and also this “live” performance is so damn good:
Yeah, Adrienne is amazing, as are all the band members. But there’s just something to her vocals… The only band I listened to religiously before Seven Spires was Sascha Paeth’s Masters of Ceremony, and guess who the vocalist is.
AFCH is sooo much darker and heavier that the previous albums. I regularly get goosebumps from listening to “Where Sorrows Bear my Name”
All my favorites frequently shift and change over time but I’m utterly obsessed with Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle, by the Olivia Tremor Control. Some of the best fucking psychedelic pop I’ve ever heard.
Dimension Hattross by Voivod.
Years ago I played on a MUD and met a dude who went by the name Hatross. He quit playing, and after a player wipe I started using the name in memory of my friend’s character. I had no idea where the name originated for years. I had since forgotten about the album until now.
Updoot for MUD
It was Sojourn/Toril MUD if you ever played there.
Both of those i have logged into, but didnt play them much. The mud i played was apparently very unique and was hard to find something similar.
I think sojourn is still running…if i get the itch to mud ill have to give it a serious try!
Sojourn became Toril, which is still running.
Ahhhh okay thanks friend!
Edit: interesting wiki on it!
Sojourn continued until 1996, when a difference in creative vision among the staff led to the project being forked into TorilMUD and Duris: Land of Bloodlust. Of the two, TorilMUD is regarded as the more direct inheritor of Sojourn’s legacy. Toril continued until 1998, when it became Sojourn 2, and underwent another rebirth in 2001 as Sojourn 3. Kris retired in 2003, and Sojourn 3 was reborn as TorilMUD, or as the old-time players refer to it, Toril 2. Throughout these rebirths, the areas and code continued to grow: there are currently 300 zones (with several more nearing completion), 16277 types of monsters/mobs, and 13753 different items.
Many TorilMUD staff members were staff on Sojourn 3, Sojourn 2, and some are even from Toril 1, providing a degree of continuity. All Toril staff started as players on the MUD, giving them a great deal of personal experience with the game.
I have been playing there off and on since the first pwipe that took it from Black Knight to Sojourn. Aradune (Brad McQuaid) of EverQuest played there too. There are a number of his guild mates in EQ (mostly Freeport guards) and a number of items from sojourn that made it into EQ.
Korgull is also often name/nick around, as a reference to the same band. Albums have strong story and atmosphere because of that.
Voivod kicks ass!
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A lot of people say White Pony, but Around The Fur is where it’s at.
White Pony is accessible and everyone knows it. Around the Fur has the best snare I’ve ever heard recorded.
That’s a total lie! St Anger had the best snare in history!
This album is dedicated to Lars’ new drum kit.
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
I have several favorite bands, so I refuse to choose between them. In no particular order:
Dream Theater - Images and Words, but Awake is only lagging behind by a nanometer.
Metallica - I have a hard time choosing between Puppets and Black
Destiny Potato - Lun
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Nice, I don’t think I’ve ever met another person who even knows who Destiny Potato are. They released another album as Sordid Pink, in case you weren’t aware. Not as good as Lun though, imo.
I first stumbled across them in early 2015 via spotify recommending Indifferent. That caused me to check out the entire album, and I instantly loved it.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nbcWJCfkdCVeUvGZMlo_gVDsLhFRPUm4o&si=c84nIM6a1JPv5xjY
Gravity and Grace by Respire
Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World
Clarity is peak for me, but Bleed American is an amazing accomplishment
Touch by Eurythmics
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Music For The Masses by Depeche Mode
