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| bands w/ 2 or more classics
after combing the fall of troy threads and realizing people literally bitch about any and everything: a band needs to be able to immediately recreate their classic-era material without sacrificing sound, but if it's *too* similar it's not good, but also don't reinvent ur sound *too* much. so, i got to thinking about bands that, in my eyes, had 2 or more classic albums. some of these albums i have at a 4.5, but the argument could be made that they are 5s. | 1 | | The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy
while schizo skramz with prog roots wasn't a wildly new concept at the time with bands like at the drive in and glassjaw existing prior, or even ones with a grindier sound like converge or the blood brothers, oooooor even skramzier ones like orchid, i'd like to think tfot's s/t paved the way for "swancore" to thrive in the late 2000s.
also recording this when they were 17 years old is immaculate in its own right | 2 | | The Fall of Troy Doppelganger
a polished gemstone. an amalgamation of all their influences chaotically presented to listeners in a ~45min package | 3 | | Fishmans Long Season
while it could be argued the middle movement drags a pinch, put together this is a very hypnotic and groundbreaking album. | 4 | | Fishmans Uchuu Nippon Setagaya
uchuu epitomizes my idea of the "sound of the 90s": it's trippy, it's funky, it's got a reggae heart, and it legitimately makes me wanna shake my ass. 1 year following the classic long season, this slab of choice cut solidified fishmans as, quite honestly, a band that was capable of anything | 5 | | Fishmans 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare
can't mention fishmans w/o one of the greatest live albums ever created. frontman/guitarist shinji sato would die 3 months later following this monumental performance. | 6 | | Deftones White Pony
heh | 7 | | Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
the beginning of prolly the most tense periods for the band, and following arguably their "heaviest" album, it goes without saying that, whether this is ur fave or not, SNW has some of the best songs in their catalog | 8 | | Fall of Efrafa Owsla | 9 | | Fall of Efrafa Elil | 10 | | Fall of Efrafa Inle
if u know me at all, u know that FoE producing the greatest 3 albums back-to-back-to-back, with one of the greatest and most captivating stories revolving around it, thee heaviest breakdowns and climactic crescendos, is a hill i will die on for the rest of my life. | 11 | | The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
Benn's biggest sound, incorporating a ton of new instrumentation that was seen 3 years prior on kirlian selections, but not primarily leaning on IDM | 12 | | The Flashbulb Piety of Ashes
nearly 10 years after soundtrack... poa is sort of a continuation of that same sound, but with 10 added years of honing his ability. dude's a maestro, there's no question about it | 13 | | MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday
correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think this sound had been created at the time or has ever been recreated. | 14 | | Madvillain Madvillainy
DOOMs hoarse and muddy stream-of-conscious lyricism paired with madlib on the beats.... nuff said | 15 | | Bluetile Lounge Lowercase
it's a shame this album doesn't have more presence on sput. lowercase is a warm and fuzzy, melancholic daydream shrouded with longing and contentment. idk how else to explain it, but ambered still brings tears to my eyes | 16 | | Bluetile Lounge Half-Cut
whereas lowercase is all those descriptive feeling words, half-cut is just depression. added now are more heavy-hitting crescendos and more emphasis on the slint-like spoken word, but the haze is gone and has been replaced with unadulterated numbness. only listen if ur depressed or want to be.
fr tho the closer here is just.......... dangerous | 17 | | Ceremony (USA-CA) Ruined
peak powerviolence on gosh. ross' vocal delivery and lyricism is some of the best of the -core genre as a whole | 18 | | Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park
punk revival with pv attitude that eclipses its forefathers. sorry boomers | 19 | | Malfet The Snaking Path
only a handful of albums can transport me to a (literal) different world. as the cover suggests, the snaking path has me questing thru an arboreal planet w/ no direction | 20 | | Malfet The Way to Avalon
finally, a signpost pointing towards avalon emerges and i make my way towards the echoes of strings and pulsating percussion.
RP aside, these are THEE best dungeon synth u could ever get ur hands on | 21 | | Burial Untrue
beats on beats on beats | 22 | | Burial Kindred
writing blurbs for every album kinda sux so i'm gonna stop now. enjoy | 23 | | Jesu Jesu | 24 | | Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came
the hate for this album is just mind-boggling to me. | 25 | | Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte | 26 | | Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 27 | | Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 28 | | Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror | 29 | | Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 30 | | Grouper Ruins | 31 | | Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 32 | | Joy Division Closer | 33 | | Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 34 | | Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire
yes lads, even i can prog | 35 | | Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen | 36 | | Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate | 37 | | Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 38 | | Mount Eerie Now Only | 39 | | Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 40 | | Nujabes Modal Soul | 41 | | Sade Diamond Life | 42 | | Sade Promise | 43 | | Sade Love Deluxe | 44 | | Underoath Define the Great Line | 45 | | Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 46 | | Slowdive Souvlaki | 47 | | Slowdive Pygmalion | 48 | | The Cure Faith | 49 | | The Cure Disintegration | 50 | | Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | 51 | | Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 52 | | Whirr Sway | 53 | | Whirr Feels Like You | 54 | | Defeater Travels | 55 | | Defeater Lost Ground | 56 | | AFI Black Sails in the Sunset | 57 | | AFI Sing the Sorrow | 58 | | Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 59 | | Boris Pink | 60 | | can Tago Mago | 61 | | can Ege Bamyasi | 62 | | Summoning Minas Morgul | 63 | | Summoning Dol Guldur | 64 | | Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 65 | | Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 66 | | Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 67 | | Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 68 | | Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain | 69 | | World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland | 70 | | OutKast ATLiens | 71 | | OutKast Aquemini | 72 | | Mineral The Power of Failing | 73 | | Mineral EndSerenading | 74 | | Alcest Écailles De Lune | 75 | | Alcest Kodama | 76 | | Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 77 | | Orchid Orchid
i wanted to get to 100, but i don't wanna stretch what i think are classics too thin. also i'm aware that there are a ton of bands missing/that i'm not thinking about yes uh huuh pink floyd mmhm | 78 | | Converge Jane Doe | 79 | | Converge You Fail Me | 80 | | Pete Rock Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics | 81 | | Pete Rock and CL Smooth Mecca and the Soul Brother | 82 | | Gang Starr Step in the Arena | 83 | | Gang Starr Moment of Truth | 84 | | Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) | 85 | | Digable Planets Blowout Comb | |
kevbogz
03.20.22 | inb4 fugazi | JKing92
03.20.22 | Agree with Outkast (though I personally think Stankonia is their best, with Aquemini as runner-up): for me, the Beastie Boys really managed to recapture the freewheeling spirit and musicality of their 1989 masterpiece Paul's Boutique on 1998's underrated Hello Nasty (maybe even moreso, though done without as much of an emphasis on sampling and increased use of instruments like vocoders and Latin percussion).
I'd also say that Slayer proved with their work from 1986 to 1990 that they didn't need to change their sound terribly much (outside of a few songs that utilized tempo changes on South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss) to come through with one of the finest three-album runs in all of metal music, and while it's hard to deny that this same devotion to a single sound resulted in the band hitting a creative cul-de-sac with 1994's Divine Intervention, their work in the late '80s and very early '90s proved that even one-trick ponies can impress you if they're good enough at their one trick. | Bedex
03.20.22 | some excellent picks here | ArsMoriendi
03.20.22 | Zappa has a lot... | JesperL
03.20.22 | unsurprisingly gr8 list
emma ruth rundle is def a 'more than 2 classics' kind of artist for me | JoyfulPlatypus
03.20.22 | Talking Heads is another good example - Fear of Music, Remain in Light, and even Speaking in Tongues are all albums I'd consider classic. | Avagantamos
03.20.22 | autechre three 6 mafia gorguts isis boards of canada | Avagantamos
03.20.22 | i have human at 5 and symbolic at 4.5, but those are both classix 2 | kevbogz
03.20.22 | @JKing i agree Stankonia is great. however, i think once u remove so fresh, so clean, ms. jackson, and BOB, the minimalist/avant garde nature of some of the beats gets a lil suffocating. just IMO tho, i should recheck.
interesting choice with hello nasty, i never checked it out so i'll get to it.
as for slayer, thrash is kinda out of my element, but i can respect the band for what they did in the late 80s/1990 and i think ur explanation of reign in blood to seasons . . . hits it right on the head
@bede funny how our pies are polar opposites but our 5s and 4.5s are p identical. s/o to belong
@ars i honestly wouldn't even know where to start since his catalog is massive. i do fucking love me some jazz fusion tho
@jespy her vocals w/ thou is choice, but man did that spooky goth folk voice get older than the nu-deftones wave that's happening rn | kevbogz
03.20.22 | fuck i didn't even think of isis, boe, or death..... also i need some more hip-hop/rap here | budgie
03.20.22 | reported | kevbogz
03.20.22 | report dn | JesperL
03.20.22 | have you jammed on dark horses kev? it's a lot heavier/dronier than her other stuff (which i also luv gimme more of that voice forever but horses is my fav alb) | Dedes
03.20.22 | Those Defeater digs hell yeah brother
Lost Ground is a masterpiece man | ReturnToRock
03.20.22 | Mine are pretty standard.
AC/DC
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Nirvana
The Clash
Anthrax
Metallica
Sepultura
Green Day
The Ramones
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
Pantera
The New York Dolls
The Beatles
Judas Priest | kevbogz
03.20.22 | @jespy honestly no and thinking about it is making my blood boil cuz i can just hear that hag style vocals, but i will check it for u i promise
@dede shame they peaked early on, but man were their shows electric | Senetrix666
03.20.22 | go ahead and put the whole cult of luna discog on here | DominionMM1
03.20.22 | neurosis
pink floyd
wu tang (if you consider liquid swords a wu tang album) | kevbogz
03.20.22 | aint nothing wrong with the standards RTR, i'd be interested to see what albums specifically u consider classics. for instance, sabbath's first 3 albums are goated front to back, but some people prefer their 72-75 era, some pref the dio era.
i think solo wu is a lil obv because just about every member's first solo album are incredibly good | Dwap
03.21.22 | Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun and Welcome to Sky Valley | JohnnyoftheWell
03.21.22 | swap them Flashbulb albs for Kirlian and Arboreal and you've got a deal
agreed with a lot of these, although tfot's debut was a hard peak they never came close to again imo. would switch them round for ling tosite sigure, think they nailed that brand of proto-swancore a whole lot better with a load of gazey rainshower fx as an added bonus | kevbogz
03.21.22 | kirlian and arboreal are still so fucking solid in my book, i guess it depends on how much idm u want in ur idm.
will peep LTS | ReturnToRock
03.21.22 | @kevbogz
AC/DC - High Voltage, Highway to Hell, Back In Black (not a classic for me, but can't really deny it)
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind
Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Master of Reality
Nirvana - Bleach, Nevermind
The Clash - S/T, London Calling
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease, Among the Living
Metallica - First three and Black Album
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains, Arise (not for me, but many like it), Chaos AD
Green Day - Kerplunk, Dookie, American Idiot
The Ramones - S/T, Rocket to Russia
Deep Purple - Machine Head, In Rock, Burn
Led Zeppelin - S/T, II (don't actually like IV as much as many people)
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell, Vulgar Display of Power, Great Southern Trendkill
The New York Dolls - First two albums
The Beatles - Beatles for Sale, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road - but pretty much all of them would have a shout here. These are just 'my' Beatles albums.
Judas Priest - British Steel, Screaming for Vengeance, Painkiller | Wildcardbitchesss
03.21.22 | Agree with a lot you have here, just adding some I havent seen yet
Hendrix
Godflesh
Dillinger
GY!BE
Deathspell Omega
Alice in Chains
Queensryche
Chelsea Wolfe
Death
Portishead
Brand New
Kendrick
NIN
Janis Joplin
Pig Destroyer
Today is the Day
QOTSA
Tool
and ya Stankonia is my favorite outkast too tbh
| IsisScript80
03.21.22 | Looking at bands with at least two albums I’ve 4.5 and 5’d, whilst trying to dodge those already mentioned (anxiety inducing):
The Smiths
Radiohead
King Crimson
Rainbow
Mastodon
My Dying Bride
Depeche Mode
Skinny Puppy | Demon of the Fall
03.21.22 | Fall of Efrafa, yes!
Slowdive, yes! (I’m a Pygmalion super-fan and I’ll allow Souvlaki even though I currently have it 4/5? 🤔)
Fishmans. I can see that one.
Converge obvs.
Probably some others.
Good list. | Sevengill
03.21.22 | Isis, Agalloch, and Death come to mind. Opeth, Moonsorrow, Cynic, Immolation Bathory, Emperor, Incantation, Pig Destroyer are some of my favorites that have obvious "these two albums helped define the genre" duos. Gamma Ray and Helloween over in the power metal niche.
Fall of Efrafa is a 100/100 take | Demon of the Fall
03.21.22 | I didn’t realise people were doing their own.
Opeth, Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Converge, Ulcerate, Death, Portishead, The Knife, Boards of Canada, Bjork, King Crimson, Moonsorrow, Sigur Ros, 65daysofstatic, Radiohead, Unwound, ATD-I, Acid Bath, Agalloch, Extol, Dillinger Escape Plan, The National, Oxbow. | Sevengill
03.21.22 | has Ulcerate been around long enough to be classic? EiF probably is by now. the race is on for Destroyers, Shrines, or Stare to be its partner. | Demon of the Fall
03.21.22 | I based it on my ratings (4.5s included), so yes.
In fact Stare Into Death is my fave these days.
| Sevengill
03.21.22 | that and Destroyers are my top 2 Ulc. "Inversion" and "Next Void" have such memorable melodic parts on top of the trademark precise chaos. | kevbogz
03.23.22 | i saw TWO fall of efrafa back patches at the yob show last night and u ofc know i went up and chatted with both of em.
| FR33L0RD
03.23.22 | Super nice to see “Mahavishnu Orchestra” in your classic bands list. | kevbogz
03.23.22 | ty brethren don't tell anyone i secretly fuck with prog tho pls | samwise2000
03.23.22 | Dir en Grey --> Uroboros, Dum Spiro Spero, Arche | JohnnyoftheWell
03.23.22 | :O :O kev i am REPORTING u to the hxc police, now prog me the f up with more feet pics plz | kevbogz
03.23.22 | PrOgGeRs 😤😤😤 | budgie
03.23.22 | greeat job johnny just ruined a perfectly good thread w ur shenanies | ConcubinaryCode
03.23.22 | Hey, always cool to see someone like Faith as the cures best albums. You could slap on pornography, head on the door, and maybe wish too as classics.
To switch it up a bit there's a ton of classic video game soundtracks by certain people. Dark Souls, silent hill 1-4, most Nintendo stuff, final fantasies, the supergiant games, kingdom hearts, every doom game has a great soundtrack. | constantchange
05.13.22 | coo | kevbogz
05.13.22 | thanks :] |
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