Edre's Great Album Series

[Edre Depeche Head]

INTRODUCTION (PART 1 - 8)

Hello everybody! I just thought of a cool idea for this forum. On my YouTube channel, every few weeks I upload a video with an unranked list of ten albums I personally deem to be great. I don't care about how old it is and it is honestly more so how the album affects me as a listener. I also try to refrain from talking about artists I talk about often even if I love them (Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Green Day, etc). For those wondering, these are my basic criteria for how I call an album great...

1. It needs to be at least an 8/10 in my opinion
2. I need to genuinely just enjoy the thing
3. It needs to have some importance to the artist

SO WHY AM I MAKING THIS THREAD?

I think it is clear that I am very casual because I think that is the way music should be. But I want to post my unranked list of albums every few weeks and I just want to have a discussion about it. I think it would be cool if some users that listen to my personal favorite great albums would rank them from their favorite to least favorite. I would love to see participation on this thread even though it just casual and not like a professional poll or anything because I just am curious what you think of my picks because all of them are just my opinion and many are controversial and I have a strong blend of popular albums and not so popular albums.

With all of that being said, I already have 8 installments already on my YouTube channel. So for this week, I am going to post my 8 lists of ten albums and we can have a discussion about anything listed below. I figure I would do this to get it out of the way.

I hope this forum likes this fun little casual thread of some of my favorite albums. Thank you!!!

PART 1

- Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (1968)
- Santana - Abraxas (1970)
- Pink Floyd - Animals (1977)
- YMO - Solid State Survivor (1979)
- Bauhaus - In The Flat Field (1980)
- The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
- Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age (1987)
- Bad Religion - Generator (1992)
- Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (1996)
- Keane - Under The Iron Sea (2006)

PART 2

- Santo & Johnny - Santo & Johnny (1959)
- Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1971)
- Judas Priest - British Steel (1980)
- Killing Joke - Killing Joke (1980)
- The Police - Ghost In The Machine (1981)
- New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies (1983)
- No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (1995)
- Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
- Phantom Planet - The Guest (2002)
- C418 - Dief (2018)

PART 3

- Neu - Neu (1972)
- Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (1980)
- Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
- Godflesh - Streetcleaner (1989)
- Ministry - Psalm 69 (1992)
- Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy (1998)
- Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
- Rammstein - Mutter (2001)
- Death Grips - The Money Store (2012)
- Kanye West - Yeezus (2013)

PART 4

- Tripping Daisy - Bill (1992)
- Melvins - Houdini (1993)
- Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood (1996)
- The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
- Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
- The Rapture - Echoes (2003)
- The Killers - Hot Fuss (2004)
- CSS - Cansei de ser Sexy (2005)
- Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
- Travis Scott - Astroworld (2018)

PART 5

- Can - Tago Mago (1971)
- Rush - Moving Pictures (1981)
- Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1994)
- Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves (1995)
- Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
- Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (2006)
- Perfume Genius - Too Bright (2014)
- Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 (2014)
- Young Thug - Jeffery (2016)
- Chase Atlantic - Phases (2019)

PART 6

- Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis (1969)
- The Who - Quadrophenia (1973)
- The Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now (1982)
- Green Day - 39/Smooth (1990)
- Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
- James Blake - James Blake (2011)
- Royal Blood - Royal Blood (2014)
- Juice WRLD - Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018)
- Twenty One Pilots - Trench (2018)
- The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (2018)

PART 7

- Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
- Descendents - Milo Goes To Collge (1982)
- The Gits - Frenching The Bully (1992)
- The Offspring - Ignition (1992)
- Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
- Rufus Wainwright - Want One (2003)
- Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (2005)
- Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak (2008)
- Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End of The Day (2009)
- Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018)

PART 8

- Robert Plant - The Principle of Moments (1983)
- Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance (1984)
- Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox (1985)
- Daniel Johnston - 1990 (1990)
- Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
- The Drums - The Drums (2010)
- Grimes - Visions (2012)
- Frank Ocean - Blonde (2016)
- Pusha T - Daytona (2018)
- Tyler, The Creator - Igor (2019)

THE LINK TO THESE VIDEOS - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... ZqyEWFbHGR

[Edre Depeche Head]

sorry if this first round is too much to handle because i tried to condense all the previous rounds in one

[mileswide]

8/10's a low mark for an album you'd consider classic! And I'd expect all of your 8s to be something you'd genuinely enjoy. Still, there's loads to like in your lists- is there a common theme within each group or are the selections grouped at random? And is each album your favourite by that artist?

[Edre Depeche Head]

8/10's a low mark for an album you'd consider classic! And I'd expect all of your 8s to be something you'd genuinely enjoy. Still, there's loads to like in your lists- is there a common theme within each group or are the selections grouped at random? And is each album your favourite by that artist?

I am pretty lenient and I said that tese are classic in my opinion not necessarily in general. There isn't a theme for each round, just what i have been listening to

[Arsalan]

As the biggest Twenty One Pilots fan in this forum, I am really glad that somebody mentioned them. Nobody talks about TOP in AMF.

Trench is the best album of the last 4 years in my opinion.

[Edre Depeche Head]

After much consideration, I have changed the name of this serie on here and on my YouTube channel to the "Great Album Series" instead of "Great Classic Albums" I still think all of these are 8/10 or higher but I understand how calling them calssic could be a stretch

[mileswide]

I understand how calling them calssic could be a stretch

Not at all a stretch, what constitutes a classic is all a matter of taste, call it what you like! I'd say Part 3 is the most loaded with classics, Fresh Fruit, The Money Store & Yeezus being my picks.

[Edre Depeche Head]

I understand how calling them calssic could be a stretch

Not at all a stretch, what constitutes a classic is all a matter of taste, call it what you like! I'd say Part 3 is the most loaded with classics, Fresh Fruit, The Money Store & Yeezus being my picks.

Yeah but I personally reconsidered and thought it over.

[Edre Depeche Head]

(PART 9)

Yup, it is here the first installment since my introduction! Let's discuss!

EDRE'S GREAT ALBUMS - PART 9

- The Police - Outlados D'Amour (1978)
- Operation Ivy - Energy (1989)
- Pegboy - Strong Reaction (1991)
- A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
- Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted (1992)
- Nirvana - In Utero (1993)
- Weezer - Blue (1994)
- Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
- Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)
- Bright Eyes - Lifted (2002)

LINK TO THE YT VIDEO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6nXmji3NGA

[mileswide]

My views:
- Lifted doesn't measure up to Oberst's finest work with the exception of Let's Not Shit Ourselves and Lover I Don't Have to Love.
- Whatever my feelings about Radiohead, The Bends (or Just at least) shows that they could've convinced as a conventional yet moody and passionate alt-rock band if they'd wanted to follow that path.
- For all the stick Sting gets about his Jafakean patois, I like The Police's choppy reggae/new wave mixture on their first two albums than anything they or he recorded since (though I will excuse him for writing I Hung My Head on account of Johnny Cash's version).
- It was a blast hearing Bleed American's title track again during last year's MAA but the album in general also had more hook-laden sugar rushes than I'd bargained for, above all the interweaving vocals of A Praise Chorus' middle-8.

If this were a competition then, I'd vote Bleed American.

[Edre Depeche Head]

My views:
- Lifted doesn't measure up to Oberst's finest work with the exception of Let's Not Shit Ourselves and Lover I Don't Have to Love.
- Whatever my feelings about Radiohead, The Bends (or Just at least) shows that they could've convinced as a conventional yet moody and passionate alt-rock band if they'd wanted to follow that path.
- For all the stick Sting gets about his Jafakean patois, I like The Police's choppy reggae/new wave mixture on their first two albums than anything they or he recorded since (though I will excuse him for writing I Hung My Head on account of Johnny Cash's version).
- It was a blast hearing Bleed American's title track again during last year's MAA but the album in general also had more hook-laden sugar rushes than I'd bargained for, above all the interweaving vocals of A Praise Chorus' middle-8.

If this were a competition then, I'd vote Bleed American.

Interesting takes! I have always thought that Jimmy Eat World really stood out amongst the crowd of pop-punk bands of their time. Bleed American is definitely one of my favorites from that era.

And with Bright Eyes, they have many great albums and I am not sure I would even call Lifted my favorite but lately I have been enjoying it a ton. My personal favorites are Digital Ash and Peoples Key.

Also, because I was simultaneously putting together a list for part 9 and part 10, part 10 will be released on Sunday!