This is one of the few records that I consider perfect. Also, I don't know if these count, since I'm pretty sure they didn't get any airplay on MTV, but they were released in the past 28 years and are awesome:
Shonen Knife - Let's Knife
Why? - Elephant Eyelash
Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
On those annoying Facebook "Pick your top 5!" I chose Muse- Absolution, GNR- Appetite for Destruction, Pearl Jam- 10, Muse- Black Holes and Revelations, and Amy Winehouse- Back to Black. I stick to this list, even though Muse appears twice. I am unapologetic in my love for Muse.
And there will always be a spot in my heart for trip-hop (Postishead Dummy, Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension , Massive Attack Blue Lines , and Lamb Lamb are probably my favorites from this genre.
@Your Screenplay Sucks: Actually, two of those came out before 1980 - nevermind that, buy them anyway so these people don't have to eat dog food in their golden years.
@Your Screenplay Sucks: Yes! The last three are on permanent rotation in my apartment when I have shouty angrysad stompyangst times. They make me want to run away, develop a habit and be freeeee/a punk.
I still think Arrested Development's "3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..." is a completely amazing album and wish that they were still around.
I also second "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"...wish that she was still around too.
@Santos L Halper: Not around my house he's not! Underappreciated, that is. ;-)
I'm happy that he seems to have gotten off the self-destruction train that early on seemed headed inexorably in only one direction, and quickly. The music world has lost enough troubled geniuses too early as it is.
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Air - Moon Safari
Jeff Buckley - Grace
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This is one of the few records that I consider perfect. Also, I don't know if these count, since I'm pretty sure they didn't get any airplay on MTV, but they were released in the past 28 years and are awesome:
Shonen Knife - Let's Knife
Why? - Elephant Eyelash
Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Gossip - That's Not What I Heard
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No Bowie, no Police, no Bjork, no PJ Harvey, no Madonna, no Stevie Ray Vaughn, no Rush - but 2(!) Oasis albums, ugh... WTF is the matter with people?
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Pulp - This Is Hardcore
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
I think they are all albums which work best as albums, and are fantasic.
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(thank you Henry Rollins)
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I also second "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"...wish that she was still around too.
"Lauryn Hill say her heart was in Zion
I wish her heart still was in rhymin'"
-Kanye West
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Elastica. Elastic.
Muse. Black Holes and Revelations.
AFI. Answer That And Stay Fashionable.
Oasis. Be Here Now.
Sneaker Pimps. Becoming X.
Garbage. Garbage.
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I saw Garbage in concert in 2005 and pretty much cried my eyes out from happiness.
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But then I remember if they were, I'd probably be mad about it.
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One of my favorite bands, but because teenagers like them, everyone seems to think they suck.
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I'm happy that he seems to have gotten off the self-destruction train that early on seemed headed inexorably in only one direction, and quickly. The music world has lost enough troubled geniuses too early as it is.