I saw Michael post a list of his favorite artists, songs, and albums. I figured I would do the same here. It takes something really special for me to enjoy music, and for me to keep it in my CD player or playlist for a long time… and even come back to it after a while. These are the artists and albums that I feel are truly special and worth listening to at all costs:
311 – Self-Titled (Blue Album) and From Chaos
Alice in Chains – All of their stuff is good, but most notably Dirt and Jar of Flies
At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
Atari Teenage Riot – Burn Berlin Burn
Audioslave – Self-Titled and Out of Exile
Authority Zero – A Passage in Time and Andiamo
Bad Religion – Most is good, but most notably for me All Ages and Against the Grain
Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
Billy Talent – Self-Titled
Breaking Benjamin – Saturate and We’re Not Alone Here
Bush – Sixteen Stone
Candlebox – Self-Titled
ColdplayParachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head
Collective Soul – Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid and Self-Titled
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
The Cranberries – No Need to Argue
Days of the New – “Yellow” and “Green”
Del the Funkee Homosapien – Both Sides of the Brain
Delerium – Chimera and Poem
Deltron 3030 – Self-Titled
Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dropkick Murphys – Sing Loud, Sing Proud
Finger Eleven – Tip, Greyest of Blue Skies, and Self-Titled
Flaming Lips – Transmissions from the Satellite Heart and Clouds Taste Metallic
Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies, Swagger, and Within a Mile of Home
Foo Fighters – Self-Titled
Green Day – Dookie, Insomniac, and Nimrod
Handsome Boy Modeling School – So… How’s Your Girl?
Hieroglyphics – 3rd Eye Vision and Full Circle
Infected Mushroom – Anything and everything!
Jerry Cantrell – Boggy Depot
Juno Reactor – Beyond the Infinite and Shango
Jurassic 5 – Quality Control and Power in Numbers
Korn – Self-Titled, Life is Peachy, and Follow the Leader
Kosheen – Resist
Limp Bizkit – Three Dollar Bill Y’all$
Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory, Meteora, and Reanimation
Live – Throwing Copper
Lo-Fidelity Allstars – How to Operate With a Blown Mind
The Mars Volta – De-loused in the Comatorium
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Are a Drag, Blow in the Wind, and Have a Ball
Meat Puppets – Too High to Die
Metallica – “Black” album
Mother Love Bone – Stardog Champion
Nirvana – Nevermind, Incesticide, In Utero, and Unplugged in New York
Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
Offspring – Self-titled, Ignition, Smash, Ixnay on the Hombre, Americana
Operation Ivy – Self-titled (Energy)
Pearl Jam – Ten, Vs, Vitalogy, No Code, Yield
Pennywise – Full Circle
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall
Pop Will Eat Itself – Dos Dedos Mi Amigos
The Prodigy – Experience and Fat of the Land
Radiohead – OK Computer, KID A, and Amnesiac
Rammstein – Sehnsucht
Reel Big Fish – Turn the Radio Off
Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
Silverchair – Frogstomp
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, and Down on the Upside
Sparta – Wiretap Scars and Porcelain
Sponge РRotting Pi̱ata and Wax Ecstatic
Stone Temple Pilots – Core and Purple
Temple of the Dog – Self-Titled
UNKLE – Psyence Fiction
Uberzone – Faith in the Future
VAST – Visual Audio Sensory Theater, Music for People, Nude
Violent Femmes – Add It Up (1981-1993)
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Band Geek Mafia
Weezer “Blue” album
Something tells me I’ve missed something, so I’ll probably add more to this later… and even some reviews. We’ll see how that goes. Until then….