What albums do yall listen to from beginning to end? There are plenty of artists and bands that I like with great songs but sometimes the album has filler in between the main tracks. Which albums do you feel like have little to no filler? I’d put up Chief Keef’s Finally Rich (debut album) Licensed To Ill by the Beastie Boys, maybe Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by Beatles, Curtis (1970) by Curtis Mayfield and Cuba Libre by Carlos Puebla. What are your favorites?
Probably Detrimentalist by Venetian Snares. It’s just so good
Listening to full albums is my preferred format, so I pretty much listen to anything to the end, other than a new album that I find myself disliking. But these are a few that I’ve listened to many times and that I also feel like tremendously benefit from the full album experience:
Down Colorful Hill by Red House Painters
This is a Long Drive by Modest Mouse
Hissing Fauna by Of MontrealModest Mouse is pretty good, I’ve seen them suggested throughout the post, I hear a few songs of theirs at work or on the radio, but now I feel like I need to listen to a full album from them with all of these recommendations lol, is This Is A Long Drive their best album in your opinion or would I be better suited listening to a more popular album by them? Keep in mind that I probably only know 2-4 songs of theirs
Their first two albums are very angry. Their first album, Long Drive, is my favorite, but most people think their second album, Lonesome Crowded West, is the better of the two. Long Drive alternates between sombre and aggressive where LCW is aggressive in parts but mostly mopey. LCW has some country aesthetic that’s missing on Long Drive. Long Drive has many tracks that end with a minute or more of pure instrumental jams if that’s your thing.
Their third album, Moon & Antarctic is a big departure from the first two in mood, the bitterness is gone. But this is still a fantastic album and very consistent, if the rough edges of the first two put you off this is where I’d start.
Personally I would skip Good News, it has some good songs but feels like it lacks a narrative. We Were Dead however feels like it has a cohesive vibe at the very least, and has some of their best pop forward tracks. The side project Ugly Casanova also has an album Sharpen Your Teeth that’s quite good and different enough from everything else.
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Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Slowdive self-titled is perfect. Isaiah Rashad’s Cilvia Demo. OM’s Conference of the Birds.
I can sing every word of Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company. If you think you’re not into country, give that album a listen.
TOUGH! Mostly rap
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- Revenge - XXXTENTACION
- The Sun’s Tirade - Isaiah Rashad
- DAMN - Kendrick Lamar
- A GHETTO CHRISTMAS CAROL -XXXTENTACION
- Calamari Tuesday - Feed Me
- Because the Internet - Childish Gambino
- Awful Swim - Father
- ? - XXXTENTACION
- To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
- I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside - Earl Sweatshirt
- JESUS IS KING - Kanye West
- Summertime '06 - Vince Staples
- 3.15.20 - Childish Gambino
- KOD - J. Cole
- System of a Down - System of a Down
Honorable Mentions: 17 (XXX), The Moon & Antartica (Modest Mouse), Toxicity (SOAD), Cilvia Demo (Rashad), Back to the Woods (Angel Haze), Feet of Clay (Earl), ye (Kanye), iridescence (BROCKHAMPTON), S16 (Woodkid), Age of Empire 2 OST, Is This Beauty? (Fukkit), Big Fish Theory (Vince), untitled unmastered (Kendrick), 2022 VOL 1 & 2 (WILLIE G), Iron (Woodkid)
My ranking can be fickle sometimes, but my top 15 roughly stays the same
I slept hard on JESUS IS KING for, perhaps, some obvious reasons, but I heard it at work and its actually so good, some wince parts nonwithstanding but that’s life.
LMAO NOOOO
Great list btw, Kendrick is a legend. I was a huge Kanye fan when I was younger and sorta listened to him less and less after his Trump turn, I completely skipped Jesus Is King bc it seemed like he was focusing too much on religion, I miss his old stuff, like anything from Life of Pablo all the way back to when he performed in ‘03 on Chappelle’s Show, but Donda had some amazing tracks here and there
Agreed mostly, I will say if you can tolerate the more opaque Christianity and some mildly uncomfortable moments (which is bog standard Kanye IMO) Jesus is King is actually a really good album too, I slept on it but someone played some at work and was like oh what’s this from??
TYSM!!
Kendrick is indeed obvious GOAT material 👑✅️ I plan to relisten to Mr. Morale soon.
Shoutout to XXXtentacion, his ? Album was legendary and Skins nearly made me cry a few times. Absolutely spectacular album that really made you feel the loss of his presence. And before anyone tries to catch me slipping, yes he was an awful person in his personal life, but the music he made resonated with a lot of people. I guess it gets into an Art vs Artist argument which I fully admit I am not principled or consistent on. I love some movies and albums and near nothing can make me dislike those songs. I’ve heard that Ace of Base is slightly Fascist leaning (idk if that’s true) but I love “The Sign”
I think it’s just yet another case of “hurt people hurt people”, the key takeaway to me is that he was young, traumatized, clearly was tortured by his actions, and made substantial steps to taking responsibility and radically changing his behavior and his life by the time ? came out. And THAT is why he is my favorite artist.
I don’t discount his older stuff either, when he was in the middle committing such widespread violence and regularly gloating about it, because the pain is still quite clear. I think he always had a big heart and I know how pain makes us double down and do awful things, both I and many many people in my personal life have been warped by their pain and “passed the buck” so to speak. The difference is, is someone like him actually changed, no small feat, quite rare, dare I say inspiring.
That said though I understand pre-empting, people just assume you love women beaters for liking X (completely discounting all the men he beat and stabbed but okay). I also have some music etc. that I like that is made but much more unambiguously awful people who have NOT changed and WILL NOT change. I try to just love people and not judge them for their ugliest–I would kill a fascist in battle and know it is necessary and even just, but I could not look them in the eyes without seeing the hurt child inside them. I love my dad even though he is greatly warped, I try to be friends with my coworkers and stand against their Andrew Tate brainpoison as a friend and not as an enemy, etc.
And as selfish as it sounds to say, XXXtentacion’s violent music went so fucking hard. Like that shit makes Chief Keef’s Earned It sound like Easy Listening music for the elderly.
I’ve been listening to 2000s electronic lately, mostly Boards of Canada’s “Geogaddi” and “Campfire Headphase” and sometimes The Unicorns’ “Who Will Cut Our Hair”
Edit: I don’t know how I forgot this, but “The Fire This Time” is an audio documentary about the us intervention in the Middle East that fans of IDM should definitely listen to.
Love Geogaddi.
Tame Impala Currents
Nirvana MTV Unplugged
B52s (self titled)
Whole bunch of others I’ve seen in this thread
The Battle of Los Angeles, Rage against the Machine. In a similar vein I’m pretty sure Zack De la Rocha is the only private citizen to successfully escape capitalism and become a comrade.
Not in any specific order, they all have their moments for me.
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- Noah (peterpan) - Seperti Seharusnya
- AJR - Neotheatre
- Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
- Powerwolf - Lupus Dei
- Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
- Dayglow - Fuzzybrain
- Wallows - Nothing Happens
few of my favorites are
- KMFDM - Hau Ruck
- MONO - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
- SUIR - Studio Session
- David Gilmour Album
- Toundra - III
- Би-2 - Горизонт событий
- Кино - Чёрный альбом
- Наутилус Помпилиус - Крылья
- Grails - Burning Off Impurities
- Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
- Greta Van Fleet - From the Fires
- The Hu - The Gereg
- The Tea Party - Transmission
- Yonderboi - Shallow and Profound
No Gods / No Managers by Choking Victim is all bangers. The songs Money, Fuck America, and Praise the Sinners all sample Parenti speeches lol should definitely give it a listen all their stuff is great. Another ska-punk album I love is the self-titled Operation Ivy.
Warlord by Yung Lean and Eversince by Bladee are my favorite albums though.
Bladee is big vibes 🤩🤩😶🌫️😶🌫️🌊🌊🌊
Choking Victim
fascist band comrade
https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/comments/i6feya/stza_leftover_crack_choking_victim_star_fucking/
you should read up about Stza.
Its a shame, it is a great album but also you should know.
I don’t think it’s correct to call them a fascist band.
They disbanded in 98 and the allegations against Stza are from the 2010s, the fact that a single member became a POS over a decade later doesn’t determine what the band is a whole.
Idk, I fell that saying that is like saying that “I Want To Hold Your Hand” is leftist only because John Lennon became one years latter.
Its pretty ironic that John Lennon had a line in the song”Revolution” that goes “But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow” and later on John Lennon became a supporter of Mao. He said that Mao was doing a lot of spectacular work in China and making it more equal and that he regretted the line in the song. Kinda sucks tho bc there are a lot of old people that uphold that line like its a bible verse
Achievement by PilotRedSun
His music channel though is PilotRedSky so it’s interesting that he put Achievement on his animation channel. He’s more active musically nowadays.
Hell yes! All EPs as well
Yup, he’s got the good stuff.
Dopethrone
Dopesmoker
Mirror Reaper
Sect S/T
GLOSS demo
dopethrone is such an awesome album
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but they have used a lot of fascist symbolism in their work, which is getting more and more blatant
shit i wasn’t aware, thanks for letting me know.
Lately I’ve been really into PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation and Fishing for Fishies by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I have listened both like more than 30 times already.
I am going to see them live tomorrow!!
