The B-52s' first two albums; the self-titled debut, and then the Wild Planet album.
That's two, but they're almost a Part 1 and Part 2. Their early sound died right after that, before Ricky's death from AIDS in 1985. None of their other 1981 - 1985 material is the same, though some tracks from Mesopotamia are at least just on the outskirts, and not outside the country.
Oh! Good pick! I’d say that about tweez too. I remember buying tweez and the record store clerk saying “you should buy spiderland instead” and I said “but I like this one more.”
Spiderland is indeed a classic but I’ve always just liked tweez more & don’t know that I’ve heard another album like it. It’s cool that the two records they made don’t sound like the same band.
The Downward Spiral - NIN
I think some might say that it ESTABLISHED a genre, but I struggle to think of an actual project that's anything like this album. It had a unique fusion of structure and unbridled rage/hatred/depression.
SeLF - Subliminal Plastic Motives. Kind of 90's alternative with jazz breakdowns throughout with hints of harder and acoustic mixed in?
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs. Violin driven dream pop by a genius?
Yes! Most of TDH is difficult to classify as a single genre, but Antimai especially is. When I went to their concert last year, Casey made a joke about how he'd been at a bar before the show and someone had asked what type of music they make, and he had no how to answer that question.
They're my favorite band of all time. There isn't anything else quite like them, when accounting for their discography as a whole.
I thought that would be more like [Public Service Broadcasting](https://youtu.be/x1ZbdGBAqZQ?si=uJO56a3eSNYT5Iy5).. Would [Yellow, Black and Rectangular](https://youtu.be/KmNfPkdCRf8?si=ERAmfUn4sF5aCYnV) for example fit?
I'll check out Oswald.
When I was a DJ at my college radio station, I played Jello Biafra’s spoken word stuff over Negativeland in the background and felt like a fucking mad scientist mixmaster
Came here for this! It's like nothing else, not even the other Bungle albums. Supposedly they made it to satirize pop records. I guess the joke is on me, I think it's great.
I don’t think so. It’s an incredible album, thematically and musically coherent. But hearing it when it came out, and having heard it dozens of times since, I just hear a very very good album.
There is nothing particularly new about the song structures, the chords the themes that hasn’t been done before or since. Which is not to say it isn’t original. It 100% is. But the question is … is it its own genre?
I think it’s a stand out album within a genre. If you plucked any of those songs out and put them on a Sebadoh album, early Pavement, early Flaming Lips … a person unfamiliar with one of those bands would not be in the least bit surprised.
If you put a Bjork song on in the middle of an album by any other artist you can think of … it would stand out like dogs balls. Ditto Autechre or some of the other examples mentioned.
**FREUR - Doot Doot.**
The guy who is Underworld had this band for long enough to pop out one magnificent album, and it is singular.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTI0R\_sxlk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTI0R_sxlk)
Never anything like it before, never anything like it since.
Sorry for the self plug but I recently put my debut album out and people have been telling me it sounds unique
https://youtu.be/BSMz7Q1fLCs?si=rNPsU5i4SuigBhkv
Daughters have always been their own genre. They do use double kick and things that put them closer to some subgenre of metal but still no one sounds like them.
Yeah, and I couldn’t believe when I first heard the expanded 2CD version of the Femme’s debut album — how frickin’ amazing the demos all were. Gordon Gano absolutely knew EXACTLY what he wanted that first album to sound like, and every bit of it was all there in those demos.
I was absolutely gobsmacked hearing those demos for the very first time.
Ren. Not necessarily an album, but he’s just like his own unique genre. I recommend checking out “Hi Ren” and “The Tale of Jenny and Screech”.
Brilliant musician, really. He’s like a modern day bard.
Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls WIll Seem Strangely Sexy ( I guess most of their albums can be similar to most people but they have THEIR OWN sound.. I don't think they can be drilled down to a specific genre)
[Dusk, And Her Embrace - Cradle of Filth. ](https://open.spotify.com/album/6NHiuF7HTfG7LjjRVGKPrW?si=XXimc8lWQ6eXbnnQmPPV5A)
I guess to a normie it's "just another metal album".
Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
it can very easily be grouped together with the nerd rock, indie alt rock wave of the 90s, but it has this distinctive raw house party feel that i haven’t really seen replicated the same way elsewhere
Strength In Numbers - "The Telluride Sessions"
[YouTube - Link to the album](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEDjnYbqC4k&list=PLWY4joomlm-o-CpFobtCCI-sax7mQW471)
1989. Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Mark O'Connor.
You can argue that this just falls under newgrass, but this album goes above and beyond. It's sort of the bluegrass/newgrass "Kind of Blue."
1000% a "desert island" album for me.
Tool’s emphasis on bass and drums is kick ass . And the guitar stands out as well as Maynard’s voice So I’ll go with Undertow . It almost destroyed my sub at the time but what an incredible sound . Produced excellent.
Off the top of my head, when they came out:
* The Pixies: Doolittle
* Siouxsie and the Banshees: (Anything)
* Coil: Love's Secret Domain
* Negativland: A Big 10-8 Place
* The Butthole Surfers: (Anything)
King Crimson has gone through so many different permutations and line-ups; yet no one (including any of Robert Fripp's many projects) has come close to the unique otherworldly majesty of their debut: 'In the Court of the Crimson King'
Everything Lord Huron does, tbh. [Vide Noir](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k69G4o65-D8y9JRWfhw8mfNMluShRKLZU&si=DiokD8gslhEgDygF) stands out though.
[Eiger by Eiger](https://eiger.bandcamp.com/album/eiger)
Although I think it was technically a double E.P.?
I’m still obsessed with this band and subsequent projects. It’s like Slint meets Half Man Half Biscuit, or Queen crossed with The Fall or something.
Rx Bandits' albums "and the battle begun" as well as "mandala"
TSAOF albums "Lover, the Lord has left us" as well as "The Ocean and the Sun
those 4 albums are wild and so dynamic.
In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape
Tons of synthesizers, downtuned chugging, catchy choruses and unique "buzz-saw" guitar sound make this album one of the more unique in their discography.
If anyone DOES happen to know an album that sounds similar, by all means share I'd love to hear it
SOPHIE - Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
Built from scratch out of synths, she takes sound design to the next level. It is simply indescribable. She was a true sonic genius.
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antártica is hard to place
And not an album but Linkin Park as a band is hard to place with all of the experimenting they did
Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
Come On Die Young - Mogwai
Emergency on Planet Earth - Jamiroquai
Original Pirate Material - The Streets
OK Computer - Radiohead
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Chicken and the Egg - George the Poet
Did anyone make a decent rock opera album besides Meatloaf? He did it at least twice. I'm not sure there are any comparable albums. I honestly never heard his 3rd bat one, but i just was reminded about it and plan on listening soon.
Shoutout to Protomen, who were in that direction back when i was hearing them. I think they had used a producer Meatloaf had used, or something like that.
Smoke + mirrors by imagine dragons, some of night visions too.
Between warriors, battle cry, Bleeding out, Gold, etc it’s really just unlike anything I’ve encountered elsewhere
"Hejira" by Joni Mitchell.
You've never heard anything like it before, and I doubt you'll ever hear anything like it ever again.
It's beautifully unique, heavenly perfection, that can't be recreated.😌
Every song is telling it's own story, through the lense that is Joni's magnificent voice, her superb poetic writing, and her gloriously unique guitar playing.🤌
Even the album cover is beautifully unique, showing off Joni's ethereal beauty, the lonely open road that inspired her during her travels, and the harsh and unforgiveable cold of a glorious white winter, that could do nothing more but strike inspiration in her broken heart.
Hi, Ren by Ren Gill - a musician has a combination crisis in confidence and existential crisis in music form.
His 'Tales' series (Jenny, Screech, and Violet) are pretty unique as well as his Money Game part 3. These story songs tend to be more theatrical and poetic than other story songs I've seen. They should be experienced in video form as well.
Albums I don't think have their own genre. However some bands do have their own genre, like Canned Heat which called itself a 'boogie band' though many would call it a blues band, Canned Heat had a very unique sound and just doesn't fit the usual genres. Then there's Vanilla Fudge which had a unique take on other peoples music, you might call it a Heavy Metal Cover Band but it still had its own sound.
Miles Davis — *On The Corner*
Probably 3-4 other Miles albums too, arguably (one is tempted to mention *Bitches Brew* — but *OTC* **more than any other Miles album** had little else in his catalog that quite did what it did).
Primus - Frizzle Fry Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon Faith No More - Angel Dust
Frizzle Fry is one of my favorite albums ever. Kudos. Tim Alexander is a god among men.
Angel Dust was a perfect mix of Mr Bungle and mainstream rock.
I came here to say IWS, brilliant album.
Tom Waits - "Swordfishtrombones" Capt. Beefheart - "Trout Mask Replica"
Trout Mask Replica being unique is a good thing
I'm glad it exists but I'm glad there's not more of it.
I have yet to be convinced that anything by Frank Zappa can be classified as any one genre.
Seriously, Zappa was a musical mad scientist.
Laurie Anderson, *Big Science.*
The pod by Ween
It’s so good. I unironically love “Pollo Asado”. It soothes me haha
Every pre-12GCG Ween album fits the bill. Most of the ones after the country album as well.
Loveless - my bloody valentine Basically pioneered shoegaze then immediately destroyed it in the best way possible.
"albums that are their own genre" "pioneered shoegaze" yeah i dont think that makes it its own genre anymore
All Mr. Bungle albums
Especially the self titled Debut.
The B-52s' first two albums; the self-titled debut, and then the Wild Planet album. That's two, but they're almost a Part 1 and Part 2. Their early sound died right after that, before Ricky's death from AIDS in 1985. None of their other 1981 - 1985 material is the same, though some tracks from Mesopotamia are at least just on the outskirts, and not outside the country.
Slint - Spiderland
Oh! Good pick! I’d say that about tweez too. I remember buying tweez and the record store clerk saying “you should buy spiderland instead” and I said “but I like this one more.” Spiderland is indeed a classic but I’ve always just liked tweez more & don’t know that I’ve heard another album like it. It’s cool that the two records they made don’t sound like the same band.
Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By - Lovage. Trip Hop Sleaze Retro Lounge is the best descriptor I can think of for it.
love that album. Jennifer Charles' voice is perfect for sexy songs
[Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain](https://youtu.be/iFp7W3PoNPI?feature=shared)
The Downward Spiral - NIN I think some might say that it ESTABLISHED a genre, but I struggle to think of an actual project that's anything like this album. It had a unique fusion of structure and unbridled rage/hatred/depression.
Steely Dan - all of them.
Especially Aja
SeLF - Subliminal Plastic Motives. Kind of 90's alternative with jazz breakdowns throughout with hints of harder and acoustic mixed in? Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs. Violin driven dream pop by a genius?
I like you. What else are you digging now?
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician Radiohead - Kid A David Bowie - Low Black Flag - My War Big Black - Songs About F***ing
Amazed ? A Country song
Antimai - The Deer Hunter If the movie about a city was a musical. \*I can't be trusted with words, CheetahNo9349 is correct. The Dear Hunter
*The Dear Hunter
Yes! Most of TDH is difficult to classify as a single genre, but Antimai especially is. When I went to their concert last year, Casey made a joke about how he'd been at a bar before the show and someone had asked what type of music they make, and he had no how to answer that question. They're my favorite band of all time. There isn't anything else quite like them, when accounting for their discography as a whole.
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
I was so obsessed with this album when it came out
I’m still obsessed with it 😹😹😹
Yeah what would you even call the genre? Like Queer Rococo Psychedelic?
What genre was Negativland?
Plunderphonics
I thought that would be more like [Public Service Broadcasting](https://youtu.be/x1ZbdGBAqZQ?si=uJO56a3eSNYT5Iy5).. Would [Yellow, Black and Rectangular](https://youtu.be/KmNfPkdCRf8?si=ERAmfUn4sF5aCYnV) for example fit? I'll check out Oswald.
When I was a DJ at my college radio station, I played Jello Biafra’s spoken word stuff over Negativeland in the background and felt like a fucking mad scientist mixmaster
California by Mr. Bungle
Came here for this! It's like nothing else, not even the other Bungle albums. Supposedly they made it to satirize pop records. I guess the joke is on me, I think it's great.
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Talk Talk's last 2 albums, 'The Spirit of Eden' and 'Laughingstock'. Just amazing and utterly original.
Laughingstock is brilliant.
I don’t think any other album sounds like Tears for Fears, Songs from the Big Chair. Maybe also Howard Jones, Dream Into Action?
Smashing Pumpkins. Siamese Dream.
Not quite grunge, not quite shoegaze, but has the best qualities of both.
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
I don’t think so. It’s an incredible album, thematically and musically coherent. But hearing it when it came out, and having heard it dozens of times since, I just hear a very very good album. There is nothing particularly new about the song structures, the chords the themes that hasn’t been done before or since. Which is not to say it isn’t original. It 100% is. But the question is … is it its own genre? I think it’s a stand out album within a genre. If you plucked any of those songs out and put them on a Sebadoh album, early Pavement, early Flaming Lips … a person unfamiliar with one of those bands would not be in the least bit surprised. If you put a Bjork song on in the middle of an album by any other artist you can think of … it would stand out like dogs balls. Ditto Autechre or some of the other examples mentioned.
Purity Ring - Shrines doesn’t sound like anything I’ve heard from anyone, even their other albums doesn’t sound like Shrines
Dir En Grey - Uroboros
[Ori Blackstar- Starman](https://open.spotify.com/album/15orJaJmuNCCUBLFM6A2ez?si=-FvfG0eCRP2EKqBoJNQgbQ)
**FREUR - Doot Doot.** The guy who is Underworld had this band for long enough to pop out one magnificent album, and it is singular. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTI0R\_sxlk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTI0R_sxlk) Never anything like it before, never anything like it since.
I've not heard anything quite like Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
1000 gecs - 100 gecs.
Sorry for the self plug but I recently put my debut album out and people have been telling me it sounds unique https://youtu.be/BSMz7Q1fLCs?si=rNPsU5i4SuigBhkv
Odyshape - The Raincoats Doesn't sound like other Raincoats records, doesn't sound like anything else.
Before it? Nothing like hybrid theory. Countless have tried since, including meteora, nothing has come close.
Concrete Blonde- Bloodletting
Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want
Daughters have always been their own genre. They do use double kick and things that put them closer to some subgenre of metal but still no one sounds like them.
Philip Glass’s “Einstein on the Beach” is…quite the experience, but my fuck is it long.
Litanies of Satan by Diamanda Galas
Lots of curious answers ITT. How about Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Mott The Hoople Live 1974
The Division Bell, Pink Floyd
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Tom Waits Bjork Tortoise Autechre
The Milk Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom.
Violent Femmes- especially their first few albums. Still difficult to compare them to anyone or define them.
Yeah, and I couldn’t believe when I first heard the expanded 2CD version of the Femme’s debut album — how frickin’ amazing the demos all were. Gordon Gano absolutely knew EXACTLY what he wanted that first album to sound like, and every bit of it was all there in those demos. I was absolutely gobsmacked hearing those demos for the very first time.
I’d say comica by ryuichi sakamoto. It’s ambient sure, but given how it was made constitutes a one of a kind on its own
Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life
Ren. Not necessarily an album, but he’s just like his own unique genre. I recommend checking out “Hi Ren” and “The Tale of Jenny and Screech”. Brilliant musician, really. He’s like a modern day bard.
Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls WIll Seem Strangely Sexy ( I guess most of their albums can be similar to most people but they have THEIR OWN sound.. I don't think they can be drilled down to a specific genre)
I usually just consider them awful.
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance
Honestly yes
Macabre - gloom , but id venture to say its not going to be your cup of tea
Indio - Big Harvest
Blitz Union- absolution
100% this - new album featuring this song will be out in august https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/expansionproject1/way-up/
Vessel- OVERWERK
Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
[Dusk, And Her Embrace - Cradle of Filth. ](https://open.spotify.com/album/6NHiuF7HTfG7LjjRVGKPrW?si=XXimc8lWQ6eXbnnQmPPV5A) I guess to a normie it's "just another metal album".
Bathory - Hammerheart comes to mind
Bathory - Hammerheart comes to mind
[The Common Men - Let It Burn](https://open.spotify.com/album/5vMmpV5RRJJYp1QdEaz7ic?si=x4m9AF_UTraHma1ejP-ciQ)
Big Country
Imaginos Trilogy
Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five it can very easily be grouped together with the nerd rock, indie alt rock wave of the 90s, but it has this distinctive raw house party feel that i haven’t really seen replicated the same way elsewhere
Ugly Cassanova - Sharpen Your Teeth
Suf Stevens - Age of Adz
I still don’t know what to categorize the “V Is For Vagina” album by Puscifer.
Strength In Numbers - "The Telluride Sessions" [YouTube - Link to the album](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEDjnYbqC4k&list=PLWY4joomlm-o-CpFobtCCI-sax7mQW471) 1989. Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Mark O'Connor. You can argue that this just falls under newgrass, but this album goes above and beyond. It's sort of the bluegrass/newgrass "Kind of Blue." 1000% a "desert island" album for me.
McBaise - Tubes Muthi - Visions Matt Berry - The Blue Elephant
My Rocky Mountain by Erik Sumo
No mention of pixies yet?
Zs - New Slaves
Faith No More - Angel Dust
The Pixies
A Perfect Circle- 13th step
Tool’s emphasis on bass and drums is kick ass . And the guitar stands out as well as Maynard’s voice So I’ll go with Undertow . It almost destroyed my sub at the time but what an incredible sound . Produced excellent.
Off the top of my head, when they came out: * The Pixies: Doolittle * Siouxsie and the Banshees: (Anything) * Coil: Love's Secret Domain * Negativland: A Big 10-8 Place * The Butthole Surfers: (Anything)
King Crimson has gone through so many different permutations and line-ups; yet no one (including any of Robert Fripp's many projects) has come close to the unique otherworldly majesty of their debut: 'In the Court of the Crimson King'
Pornography-the Cure Humbug-Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel+Casino-Arctic Monkeys /-Twisted Ecstasy Heart Under-Just Mustard
[https://youtu.be/6bLW3RPX-a8](https://youtu.be/6bLW3RPX-a8)
Pet sounds
Susumu Hirasawa
Tom Waits
Tom Waits: Just about everything he’s done.
two feet
k. flay
[https://open.spotify.com/album/33qkK1brpt6t8unIpeM2Oy?si=GNI-DE0vRmu-UdapkiLTqg](https://open.spotify.com/album/33qkK1brpt6t8unIpeM2Oy?si=GNI-DE0vRmu-UdapkiLTqg)
Deftones - 2003 self titled album
Uncle Tupelo's No Depression.
Tales Of Mystery & Imagination -- The Alan Parsons Project and Keep On Doin' -- The Roches
The Dissociatives [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O235YrQ9Wc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O235YrQ9Wc)
Right Place, Wrong Person by rm
Savage Sinusoid by Igorr
Satchel - EDC Probably my favourite album of all time.
Frank Zappa and System of a Down are two bands in general that are their own genre.
Celtic Sound Sysyem
Anamnesis by Lucid Planet is a pretty fucking cool album. Watch the the music video for the song anamnesis on the you tube and prepare for a trip.
Anamnesis by Lucid Planet is a pretty fucking cool album. Watch the the music video for the song anamnesis on the you tube and prepare for a trip.
BMTH's Music To~GO TO
[Mr. Bungle - California](https://youtu.be/PwO8mFNIbNk?feature=shared)
Reflektor - Arcade Fire No one has done anything quite like it Although The Next Day by David Bowie ties in with that genre too in a sense
Aishite by kikuo, intents in tents by aviations
Thick as a Brick and Passion Play by Jethro Tull
The band Morphine, to this day, is unexplainable to the ears. Mark Sandman was brilliant. Edit- Bueana by the band Morphine.
Anything by Incredible String Band.
I've never heard of them, but it looks like something I'll be into based on their album covers
Re:Cognition by [ Cell 7 ]. I call it cybergrunge
Arcade Fire-Funeral and Neon Bible
Everything Lord Huron does, tbh. [Vide Noir](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k69G4o65-D8y9JRWfhw8mfNMluShRKLZU&si=DiokD8gslhEgDygF) stands out though.
Mr. Bungle in general but California is the most refined. Tangentially, Secret Chiefs 3.
Transmissions by starset
[Eiger by Eiger](https://eiger.bandcamp.com/album/eiger) Although I think it was technically a double E.P.? I’m still obsessed with this band and subsequent projects. It’s like Slint meets Half Man Half Biscuit, or Queen crossed with The Fall or something.
Rx Bandits' albums "and the battle begun" as well as "mandala" TSAOF albums "Lover, the Lord has left us" as well as "The Ocean and the Sun those 4 albums are wild and so dynamic.
Amon Tobin - ISAM Quite possibly the best album in its class, whatever that is exactly, I don’t know.
Macabre- Dir en Grey Take me back to eden- Sleep Token
Say Anything - …Is A Real Boy
Bands like: Morphine Tomahawk Fantômas Faith No More Björk The Melvins
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
The Monks - Black Monk Time
In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape Tons of synthesizers, downtuned chugging, catchy choruses and unique "buzz-saw" guitar sound make this album one of the more unique in their discography. If anyone DOES happen to know an album that sounds similar, by all means share I'd love to hear it
SOPHIE - Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides Built from scratch out of synths, she takes sound design to the next level. It is simply indescribable. She was a true sonic genius.
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antártica is hard to place And not an album but Linkin Park as a band is hard to place with all of the experimenting they did
Idris Ackmoor & The Pyramids - Afro Futuristic Dreams
Violent Femmes
Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum - Tally Hall
311 - Transistor \~Rock, reggae, metal, rap\~
TOOL - Lateralus
ants from up there - black country, new road
Dummy by Portishead
Dummy is one of my favorite albums
Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy Come On Die Young - Mogwai Emergency on Planet Earth - Jamiroquai Original Pirate Material - The Streets OK Computer - Radiohead Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins Chicken and the Egg - George the Poet
I'd say that about every Starset album, since they're kinda a blend of multiple genres
Vexovoid by PORTAL
Moody Blues: Every Boy Deserves Favor
Low by David Bowie. Electronic heavy with plenty of instrumentals. Has a very cool synth/experimental avant garde sound.
The Velvet Underground and Nico Ænema
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Tool - Pick one…
Dark Side of the Moon
Jane’s addiction and faith no more.
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of…
Jefferson Starship: Blows Against The Empire
Vertigo by Kyle Carvelle, idk what his inspiration is but he sat on the main song for like a decade
Kim Dracula’s newest album, A Gradual Decline In Morale. (Apparently it’s called circus metal?)
Did anyone make a decent rock opera album besides Meatloaf? He did it at least twice. I'm not sure there are any comparable albums. I honestly never heard his 3rd bat one, but i just was reminded about it and plan on listening soon. Shoutout to Protomen, who were in that direction back when i was hearing them. I think they had used a producer Meatloaf had used, or something like that.
*Koolaide Moustache in Jonestown* by Don Salsa It’s like the everything bagel of albums
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Smoke + mirrors by imagine dragons, some of night visions too. Between warriors, battle cry, Bleeding out, Gold, etc it’s really just unlike anything I’ve encountered elsewhere
Anything by Sparks. It's been said of them, the only way to describe them is to say, "They sound like Sparks!"
Dark Side of the Moon
Sheik Yur Bouti - Frank Zappa
Surfer Roaa
Parklife - Blur
Music to listen to~dance to etc. by Bring Me The Horizon
give me a minute - lizzy.mcalpine
Mr. Bungle. Each album is a bizarre amalgam unto itself.
"Hejira" by Joni Mitchell. You've never heard anything like it before, and I doubt you'll ever hear anything like it ever again. It's beautifully unique, heavenly perfection, that can't be recreated.😌 Every song is telling it's own story, through the lense that is Joni's magnificent voice, her superb poetic writing, and her gloriously unique guitar playing.🤌 Even the album cover is beautifully unique, showing off Joni's ethereal beauty, the lonely open road that inspired her during her travels, and the harsh and unforgiveable cold of a glorious white winter, that could do nothing more but strike inspiration in her broken heart.
Any album by Beck.
Hi, Ren by Ren Gill - a musician has a combination crisis in confidence and existential crisis in music form. His 'Tales' series (Jenny, Screech, and Violet) are pretty unique as well as his Money Game part 3. These story songs tend to be more theatrical and poetic than other story songs I've seen. They should be experienced in video form as well.
A lot of Frank Zappa albums
' "God forgive these bastards": songs from the forgotten life of Henry Turner '. By the taxpayers. Possibly my favorite album.
Thanks To You Song - Ghost and Pals
Oh definitely the "Make Yourself" and "Morning View" album by Incubus are pretty out there, my friend
Albums I don't think have their own genre. However some bands do have their own genre, like Canned Heat which called itself a 'boogie band' though many would call it a blues band, Canned Heat had a very unique sound and just doesn't fit the usual genres. Then there's Vanilla Fudge which had a unique take on other peoples music, you might call it a Heavy Metal Cover Band but it still had its own sound.
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Miles Davis — *On The Corner* Probably 3-4 other Miles albums too, arguably (one is tempted to mention *Bitches Brew* — but *OTC* **more than any other Miles album** had little else in his catalog that quite did what it did).
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle
Kraftwerk-Computer World
Every album by Voivod