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Link1110 · Jan 13, 2014

Ive recently been listening to Michi's Eyes Wide Open and I must say, this is the single best JPop album I've ever heard. I've had some really good ones (Yuna Ito's Wish and Hitomi Yaida's Singles Collection) but this one blows them out of the water, there's not a single song I don't like!

It got me thinking, what other albums are at the absolute untouchable pinnacles of their genres? For me, Pop Punk doesn't get any better than Ixnay on the Hombre and for progressive rock you have Genesis's Selling England by the Pound (Trick of the Tail is pratticvally tied for better album, but as prog, SEBTP is better.)

What are your picks for best of a genre?

remist · Jan 13, 2014

mikeGFG · Jan 13, 2014

and were done here.

Servbot24 · Jan 13, 2014

best "indie rock" album:

blame space · Jan 13, 2014

Servbot24 said:
best "indie rock" album:

what the fuck

Servbot24 · Jan 13, 2014

obviously i'm saying "indie rock" in a specific sense. just like you can say "pop" in a very specific sense.

Wag · Jan 13, 2014

Ultima_5 · Jan 13, 2014

Hardcore

Ska punk. (Though it was a few years after third wave skas popularity)

Indie rock

Soma · Jan 13, 2014

Post-hardcore:

blame space · Jan 13, 2014

mickcenary · Jan 13, 2014

This guy right here (Melodic Death Metal)

Data West · Jan 13, 2014

Best soul

Folk Rock(deal w it, dylan fans)

Best Country(or folk country or whatever you want to call) and best live album

Best punk, and I'm not even a huge Clash fan.

Psychoward · Jan 13, 2014

DonasaurusRex · Jan 13, 2014

i hear this and i like it, but the trippy part is i see the cast from Home Movies the whole time lol...

brianjones · Jan 13, 2014

Servbot24 said:
best "indie rock" album:

are you a teenage girl

Das Ace · Jan 13, 2014

blame space said:

fuck yea

Psychoward · Jan 13, 2014

Ultima_5 said:
Indie rock

In my opinion this is one of their weaker albums....

ghst · Jan 13, 2014

the fact NOFX wrote a 18 minute punk song and somehow made it work means that the decline EP is probably humanity's greatest achievement.

or it might just be that it's the song i'm listening to right now and i have issues with perspective.

Servbot24 · Jan 13, 2014

brianjones said:
are you a teenage girl

what bearing does that have on anything at all

here is an easy one since it is also the best music of any genre

post-grunge

blame space · Jan 13, 2014

no the decline is a pretty great answer

Data West · Jan 13, 2014

NeoSoma said:
Post-hardcore:

AzureSkies · Jan 13, 2014

And a special mention for the best joke albums of all time:

Akerstache's

Opeth's Heritage (of Love)

Featuring such great tracks as Slither (My Snake All Over Your Body) with worryingly good instrumentation.
And the follow-up album, Steven Wilton and Michael Akerstache's Storm Corrosion (of Love and Emotion)

The amazing 10 minute title track

For real responses that aren't amazing hair metal parodies:

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Steven WIlson's The Raven That Refused to Sing

ghst · Jan 13, 2014

the fact that judas priest wrote a song called "hard as iron" on a record called "ram it down", which appears on closer listen to be about fucking a harley davidson, makes that record humanity's greatest achievement.

or it might just be that it's the song i'm listening to right now and i have issues with perspective.

Das Ace · Jan 13, 2014

Poimandres · Jan 13, 2014

Best Alternative Rock: Radiohead OK Computer

Best... whatever the fuck genre you want to call it: Tool Ænima

Best Trip Hop: Massive Attack Mezzanine

ghst · Jan 13, 2014

blame space said:
no the decline is a pretty great answer

five minutes ago i'd have agreed with you, now all i can think is where are all the tremolo divebombs, rhinestones and leather chaps?

i'm going to have to think on this for a while.

Ultima_5 · Jan 13, 2014

blame space said:
no the decline is a pretty great answer

It's also the best song to play at a bars jukebox. I always get my money's worth

Servbot24 · Jan 13, 2014

best noise

San Sheng Shi

AzureSkies · Jan 13, 2014

ghst said:
five minutes ago i'd have agreed with you, now all i can think is where are all the tremolo divebombs, rhinestones and leather chaps?

i'm going to have to think on this for a while.

thousands of cars and a million cigars.

SCREAMING WITH POWER IN THE AIR.

album of the forever.

blood red skies will forever remain a favorite.

Ultima_5 · Jan 13, 2014

It's either this or suffer for punk IMHO

Das Ace · Jan 13, 2014

Prog Rock: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Jazzy Network · Jan 13, 2014

Nevermind

Sobriquet · Jan 13, 2014

Servbot24 said:
post-grunge

what the fuck

Das Ace · Jan 13, 2014

Instrumental Hip Hop:

J Dilla - Donuts

and

Flying Lotus - Cosmograma

Sobriquet · Jan 13, 2014

Instrumental Hip Hop.

Endtroducing.....DJ Shadow.

Icedburden · Jan 13, 2014

Progressive Metal:

Heavy Metal:

Death Metal:

Power Metal:

Hard Rock:

Symphonic Metal:

Thrash Metal:

Alternative Metal:

Wag · Jan 13, 2014

Dragoon En Regalia · Jan 13, 2014

The tightest zeuhl I've yet heard.

Das Ace · Jan 13, 2014

Wag said:

Also,

Pretty much everything by Davis

PigSpeakers · Jan 13, 2014

brianjones said:
are you a teenage girl

Whoa. Bro. Transatlanticism may not be the pinnacle of indie rock, but it was certainly a fantastic album and typically considered DCFC's best (I like Photo album better though).

Odrion · Jan 13, 2014

For Indie Folk/Rock:

For 70s Glam rock:

Das Ace · Jan 13, 2014

Odrion said:
For Indie Folk/Rock:

Haha, i was just about to post this. As cliche as it is to say, it is amazing.

Odrion · Jan 13, 2014

Das Ace said:
Haha, i was just about to post this. As cliche as it is to say, it is amazing.

Yeah, as much as it has become a weird meme. It is a powerful, touching album.

...

...The "Goldaline" part in Oh Comely still makes me weep.

WyndhamPrice · Jan 13, 2014

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EatChildren · Jan 13, 2014

honk honk Tool wanker coming through

I firmly believe Lateralus is one of the most compositionally stimulating, unique, and beautifully produced alt. rock (with a dash of progressive) albums ever.

Vampire On Titus · Jan 13, 2014

---

You could consider most of these the same genre, but only because genre distinctions are bullshit.

Poimandres · Jan 13, 2014

EatChildren said:
honk honk Tool wanker coming through

I firmly believe Lateralus is one of the most compositionally stimulating, unique, and beautifully produced alt. rock (with a dash of progressive) albums ever.

Man, that isn't even the best Tool album!

Odrion · Jan 13, 2014

Now that I am older and less of a pretentious music douchebag I'll say that Tool fucking rules, they have always ruled.

Anyways, the best album from the 90/00s Psyche Pop Revival Genre:

The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foilage: Animation Music Volume 1

Honestly this album sounds like it's straight from the Sgt. Pepper and Smile era and gives those albums a run for their money. Never has an album sounded so out there while also sounding completely fun and in love with pop music.

Here, just listen to the first song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqtAuaVppW4. And then proceed to listen to the whole album on Spotify. Normally you want to post the very best song to prove your point, but right out of the gate the album explodes with fun and color and slight insanity.

Dicer · Jan 13, 2014

Wag · Jan 13, 2014

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This is an awesome album. Great blues by 3 great blues performers.

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