Not for "November Rain"? :yikes: That's a great song.

November Rain is great, but Coma is absolutely amazing.

Use Your Illusion I & II have some excellent songs but two and a half hours of Guns 'N Roses is just too much, I'm glad they made them separate albums instead of a double because listening to the whole thing in one go is just exhausting.

You take the best tracks from both and put them on a single LP you'd have a better album than Appetite.

Album 916

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Alcest - Écailles de lune
Year: 2010

Even before this thread was made, Souvenirs d'un autre monde was on my list. I re listen to it quite often, but when doing my due diligence on including it I noticed that there was more Alcest (not paying much attention clearly) to be heard. While Kodama and Spiritual Instincts are great albums this one absolutely blew me away. A perfect blend of Black Metal and Shoegaze (horrifically dubbed blackgaze), everything Souvenirs promised us could be possible 3 years earlier. Stunningly beautiful.

3 Choice Tracks: Écailles de lune – Part 1, Écailles de lune – Part 2, Sur l'océan couleur de fer

:beer:

I heard blackgaze though Ghost Bath and Harakiri for the Sky: is this similar? If so, I'll add it to my small list of blackgaze albums.

I've not heard these but Alcest (Neige) literally invented Blackgaze. Écailles de lune and Souvenirs d'un autre monde needs to be in your list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_acBA7FMbGM&t=1s

Here would be a really great challenge: Picking just ONE album somebody should listen to before they die.

Close to the Edge.

^Would be my pick too.

Philosophy of the World.

Anything from Bull of Heaven. Then they'd live theoretically forever.

Metal Machine Music :D

Throw your blackgaze list in the bin and replace it with Alcest...

Very persuasive... but......... no.
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Album 915

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Wintersun - Time I
Year: 2012

Wintersun came out and blew us all away with their debut in 2004, and then promised us they would blow it out of the water with their next album two years later. Of course Time I didn't release in 2006, but was stuck in production for what seemed like forever. Hype came and went, promises were made and broken and the years passed and the album was split into two, with the first part being Time I, and Time II scheduled to be released in 2013. Spoiler alert: that never happened and I'm not sure if we'll ever get Time II. In the context of thousands of disappointed metal fans this album could never have lived up to the hype. In the context of me not having paid attention and listening to it now this is every bit the masterpiece we were promised, all is forgiven Jari (even if we'll never get Time II).

3 Choice Tracks: There's five, it all slaps

What a list! some of these i have heard some i havnt. so i am going to add them all to a playlist and listen to them. thank for sharing.

Thank you! That's basically the point of this list, to get people to explore the kind of music that I enjoy. Of course it means it is and will be dominated by Jazz(mostly Hard Bop and Fusion), Prog Rock, Hard Rock and Extreme metal with maybe some folk and other stuff I find interesting here and there. With the limitations also ensuring that it's not just dominated by the same bands over and over (I think I'd have at least 17 Zappa Albums, although I'm fairly sure I can sneak in one more with the mothers) and it at the same time challenges me to explore (or re-explore) a huge variety of music.

Album 914

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Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
Year: 2003

Sometimes you get in the mood for that familiar embrace of turn of the millennium pop punk. I was never really one for Blink-182, or MCR or the heavier emo bands, there's still time I suppose. But what I am familiar with is AK's fourth studio album, like almost everything of this genre (and pop in general I suppose) familiarity improves the listening experience but this had enough to hook me on the first listen all those years back. Make no mistake, this is not mindblowingly amazing music, but let's not pretend that everything has to be all the time. Take it for what it is, a fun ride that definitely deserves a spin.

3 Choice Tracks: This Could Be Love, All On Black, Donner Party (All Night)

Not gonna lie, I was definitely an emo kid in high school. Still have a lot of love for that genre and era. Great pick.

Album 913

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Twenty Sixty Six And Then - Reflections on the Future
Year: 1972

This is a good heavy prog album that you haven't heard, and you absolutely should. The album is way less psychedelic than the cover would lead you to believe, but there are certainly elements of that. An interesting combination of ideas that's quite hard to place.

3 Choice Tracks: At My Home, Butterking, Reflections on the Future

It's been my - perhaps incorrect - belief or at least experience that in order to properly appreciate psychedelic albums one has to be under the influence of Sweet Lady M or some such pharamaceutical concoction, something I never have been and have no intention ever of being, so I think that might be a good reason why a lot of the psych albums I hear - even Hawkwind, on occasion - just don't click with me or make much sense. I feel it's unlikely I'll ever get psych. That one certainly looks like a trippy cover all right.

Album 912

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Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender
Year: 1973

This stunning tribute to Coltrane has Santana and McLaughlin at their absolute best, trading blows bar by bar in a display of what can be achieved in a less structured fashion with Jazz Fusion. Like most great fusion this album holds up so insanely well and is an absolute must listen for those that love to hear what guitar can truly do in this genre.

3 Choice Tracks: A Love Supreme, The Life Divine, Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord

The following album is such a mid take, and I concede that but holy **** why was it not on the original 1001, what is wrong with the author and editor?

Album 911

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Dolly Parton - Jolene
Year: 1974

Title track aside, this short and focused album is everything you want and expect from Dolly. Sure there's new Harvest and other albums filled with banger after banger, but that's all her albums are. That this was not included in the original is an utter travesty, were they trying to be edgy and interesting? **** you, yall need to listen to this album in it's entirety, it's the length of a good prog rock song for ****s sake.

3 Choice Tracks: Jolene, I Will Always Love You, It Must Be You