I reckon that FFS album is probably the best collaboration ever (as well as the most cleverly titled). I like that you can clearly hear who both the bands are and yet it hangs together as a whole. It's funny and clever and great musically. Who said, collaborations don't work?
I reckon that FFS album is probably the best collaboration ever (as well as the most cleverly titled). I like that you can clearly hear who both the bands are and yet it hangs together as a whole. It's funny and clever and great musically. Who said, collaborations don't work?
Im a Sparks fan and came across it by mistake , i couldnt stop raving about it too my mates , it really is a good album , as you say collaborations dont usually work but i reckon they nailed it .
Nas - Illmatic (Pretty much considered all round the greateest hip hop album of all time) Mac Miller - Swimming Jill Scott - Words and Sounds vol.1 Little Brother - The Minstrel Show Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio Solange Knowles - A Seat At The Table Common - Be Ledisi - Let Love Rule Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor vol.1
I remember thinking the first Lloyd Cole & the Commotions album had no weak tracks. But haven’t heard it for years.
"Rattlesnakes" which, in addition to the title track, had the likes of "Perfect Skin", "Forest Fire" and "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?" Excellent album but then I am a big fan of Lloyd Cole including post the Commotions
Quite a few mentioned that I agree with so I'll add some I love (yes all the tracks) that I don't think have come up yet:
Hip-hop/Rap:
Little Simz - Grey Area Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert Noname - Telefone A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service Run The Jewels - RTJ2 Run The Jewels - RTJ3 Run The Jewels - RTJ4 Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly Brockhampton - Saturation III Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Pop/Synth/'experimental' pop:
Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Shoegaze/Dream pop/wall of sound:
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Slowdive - Souvlaki Primal Scream - XTRMNTR Cocteau Twins - Treasure Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
House/sampling/mostly instrumental:
Against All Logic - 2012-2017 Jamie xx - In Colour
Different varieties of 'rock' - indieeee/art/punk/psychedelic:
Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance Everything Everything - Get to Heaven Tame Impala - Lonerism Angel Olsen - My Woman Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
I think the OP was talking about those very rare albums where you just go ‘wow’ to every track. This is become a bit of a list of ‘albums I really like’, which isn’t quite the same.
Carole King’s Tapestry has already been mentioned, but it’s definitely up there.
It was her second studio album, and went 14x platinum selling over 30 million copies worldwide.
It sounds like a greatest hits album, but it actually wasn’t.
At the time it came out I found a bit MOR, but appreciated it later in life.
Great album. Mentioned at the time seeing her on Jools Holland - she's soon to be 81 but was 67 at the time and the voice was as good as ever. As for "greatest hits", there wouldn't be an album big enough to hold all the hits she's written, many jointly with Gerry Goffin, including ones that don't even sound like Carole King compositions such as "The Loco Motion" (Little Eva et al), "I'm Into Something Good" (Herman's Hermits), "Don't Bring Me Down" (the song made famous by The Animals as opposed to the ELO song written by Jeff Lynne) and "The Porpoise Song" (The Monkees). Her legacy will live on forever.
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Nas - Illmatic (Pretty much considered all round the greateest hip hop album of all time)
Mac Miller - Swimming
Jill Scott - Words and Sounds vol.1
Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio
Solange Knowles - A Seat At The Table
Common - Be
Ledisi - Let Love Rule
Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor vol.1
Not the greatest album in the world, but if you like unique atmospheric songs...dance, metal
Then you will like it
Madvilliany - MF Doom/Madlib
Which probably explains why I have two Dilla tattoos and a Madlib tattoo.
Ziggy
Big Country - the crossing
Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
All very subjective of course!
"Rattlesnakes" which, in addition to the title track, had the likes of "Perfect Skin", "Forest Fire" and "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?" Excellent album but then I am a big fan of Lloyd Cole including post the Commotions
Hip-hop/Rap:
Little Simz - Grey Area
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Noname - Telefone
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service
Run The Jewels - RTJ2
Run The Jewels - RTJ3
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Brockhampton - Saturation III
Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Pop/Synth/'experimental' pop:
Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Shoegaze/Dream pop/wall of sound:
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
House/sampling/mostly instrumental:
Against All Logic - 2012-2017
Jamie xx - In Colour
Multi-genre:
Gorillaz - Demon Dayz
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
David Bowie - Blackstar
Different varieties of 'rock' - indieeee/art/punk/psychedelic:
Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
Everything Everything - Get to Heaven
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Angel Olsen - My Woman
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There