The Smiths - Queen is Dead
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Godspeed You Black Emperor - F# A# inf
Peter Gabriel - So
Fjord Rowboat - Saved the Compliments for Morning
The Wombats - Fix Yourself, Not the World
UNKLE - Where Did The Night Fall
Wintersun - Wintersun
Groove Armada - Black Album
ISIS - Oceanic
REM - Automatic for the People
Red Sparowes - Anything
in this order.
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R and Like Clockwork… (top 2 for me right now)
Also:
AWOLNATION - Megalithic Symphony
Foster the People - Torches
Them Crooked Vultures - Self titled
Not particularly ordered:
- Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky
- Daft Punk - Alive 2007
- Evanescence - Fallen
- Pink Floyd - The Wall
- Alphaville - Forever Young
- Journey - Escape
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd)
- Dire Straits - basically all albums
Octopath Traveler II OST by Yasunori Nishiki.
I’m not sure if you were looking only for bands or music with lyrics, but this is probably my favorite video game soundtrack of all time.
Samples:
Thanks for the samples! Those are good. That game also looks really interesting. I’ve only heard of octodad.
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Fuiam Catha by Oi Polloi from 1999.
Despite the Gaelic name, only one song is in Gaelic. The rest is in English.
Pro-environmentalism, anti-fascist, Scottish anarcho-punk.
Fuiam Catha means Sound of Battle.
There are two (in terms of “every song on them is my favourite”):
- Linkin Park - Reanimation
- Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Hozier’s Unreal Unearth
Hybrid Theory is the strongest Linkin Park album, with Meteora in close second
The Hands That Thieve is great whether you listen to Streetlight Manifesto ska version or the Toh Kay acoustic version
My Head Is An Animal remains my favorite Of Monsters And Men album
Christian rock as a genre is generally bad, but rock that is Christian can be pretty good: ? by Neal Morse remains one of my favorite albums
Hybrid Theory is the strongest Linkin Park album, with Meteora in close second
I’m surprised that I enjoyed these. Only know them from transformers and never listened again. Thanks for sharing!
The Hands That Thieve is great whether you listen to Streetlight Manifesto ska version or the Toh Kay acoustic version
Love the ska version! totally not my test but it’s fun
Christian rock as a genre is generally bad, but rock that is Christian can be pretty good: ? by Neal Morse remains one of my favorite albums
I saw a youtube comment: Discovering Neal when I was into Christianity, and after I left that belief his music is one of the few things that still remain from those years, and this album, by far, is one of my favorites. Long live the art of music
That is surprisingly good!
Jack off Jill - Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers
Abney Park - Lost Horizons
Polkadot Cadaver - Purgatory Dance Party
Morcheeba - Parts of the Process
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Haken - The Mountain
King Crimson - Discipline
Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail
One of my favorite has to be: Delain - April Rain (the album, not just the song)
Anything from Nighy Club… own them alll listen to all on repeat many times.
A few off the top of my head:
Destiny Potato - Lun
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Theatre of Tragedy - AegisMorphine - Good
Nujabes - Modal Soul
Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Big KRIT - 4eva is a Mighty Long Time
No particular order but that’s probably my current top 5
