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Prince - Sign O the Times
One of the few albums I listen to beginning to end.
Also, Pink Floyd. Pretty much any album, but specifically Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here.
I really like Pretty. Odd. by Panic! At the Disco - it sort of reminds me of the later Beatles albums but is still unique.
It's like they took they're sucess as a pop rock band and used it to make a proper art piece.
Love this album. It's the music that plays when the time finally arrives:
As I walk home from work on a dreary day, suddenly the clouds split apart, and in the warm light of a new day a clockwork dirigible bears down upon me. A beautiful androgyne, resplendent in a dashing suit of the color of burnished gold, leans down from the deck with a white gloved hand and grabs my eagerly lifted palm. I am borne away from this world of pain and sorrow on wings of song to take my place in the skies.
The two i listened to most when i was young were Sgt Pepper and Dark Side of the Moon. Happy for the vinyl revival so my kids can experience the two sides of an album.
The band[s] that jumps out at me when I think unique/original is anything that Les Claypool touches. It's never just him but he has a knack for finding people with unusual talent to make something different. Even when they are doing covers. For example the Frog Brigade doing Pink Floyd's Animals.
Tom Waits*
The Pixies*
Portishead*
Kruder & Dorfmeister the K&D Sessions
Massive Attack*
But maybe the most uniquely gifted musician on my list would be Richard David James.
I'm loving these comments, so many great albums! And a ton I've never hear of and will need to check out.
I have a few of these, but two that really jump out at me are
- The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of Niggy Tardust - Saul Williams
- Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By - Lovage
- Common People - William Shatner
These are albums that you've just gotta let play.
e: can't believe I forgot Shatner!
Love that Lovage baby. That album is a gem.
A Grand Don’t Come For Free by The Streets. I love this album start to finish and it’s got a great story right through it.
First time I heard it I’d gotten an email from Vice promoting it and I clicked the link thinking it would just be the first 20 seconds of each song but it was the whole album! Was just starting a movie but I never watched it, just listened to the album straight through. So good.
Future Shock by Herbie Hancock. Dude released like 25 jazz and funk albums over two decades, then in '83 just drops a hip hop bomb
Also, Dr. John - The Night Tripper. 60s psychedelic New Orleans perfection
Oh my God that's one of the things I love about Herbie so much! He was not afraid to push himself in new musical directions. He has so many albums in his vast discography that changed the musical landscape forever.
Hell, I just listened to Headhunters before I listened to Bitches Brew, before I posted! And on that album is the seminal Watermelon Man where he incorporates hindewhu (pygmy music).
I would encourage anyone to listen to any Herbie album, in full, from any era. His first 6 albums are dope as hell!!
Totally almost picked Headhunters because of Watermelon Man! There's nothing like it. Herbie occupies a different plane of existence
The Postal Service
There are many synth artists that try to target a similar feel, but the way they tug on your emotions with just the subtlest of sounds. Everything feels like it’s meant to fit. Never has a song made me feel more homesick than Recycled Air. And I don’t even want to go back home.
Honorable mention goes to Moon Safari by Air. First time I heard every song on that album felt like I’d heard it before in a memory.
2112 by Rush
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly
I'm the only person I know that's heard side 2
Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon...
Iron Butterfly has an excellent live album too. The sound quality is tinny at best, but it has a good rendition of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
Radiohead—Amnesiac (especially the B-sides) Mr. Bungle—California ミラクルミュージカル—Hawaii: Part II (strongly related to Tally Hall, which is famous for their hit debut Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum) Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE (my preferred recording of this legendary unfinished album for its complete orchestration, but I very much get the argument that it just doesn’t sound right without the Beach Boys’ voices, so I also recommend giving the Dae Lime mix a try for its combination of original and deepfaked vocals)
Fingathing and The Big Red Nebula Band by Fingathing. Kind of a big beat/instrumental hiphop thing, the band already has a fairly unique sound but it stands out even in their output.
Aleks and the Drummer — May a Lightning Bolt Caress You
It no longer seems to be easily streamable anywhere online, but it's an absolutely insane EP. You needs to listen to it either on good headphones or in surround sound, and that's a fraction of the live experience. When those thunderous drums roll in and the electric organ starts wailing... shivers.
Gustav holst - the planets
Makaveili - the don killuminati the 7 day theory
Madlib - beat konducta vol 5-6 in india
Scientist - rids the world of the evil curse of the vampires .
There are many more artists that come to mind with unique sounds but that have more than one album with that sound.
I'd say pretty much anything by Jarre counts.
Absolutely, I just really like the composition of the concert in China, he managed to take songs that are all part of a very specific story, as all the early electronic pioneers were classically trained and wrote albums in movements, and create a new one with them. I tend to not like lives much, but he's an absolute master as turning each one of them into their own distinct story.
If you've never seen the video for the concert in Houston it's absolutely worth the watch. RIP Ron McNair. Nearly two million people saw it. It blocked the entire highway, and the craziest shit is the vast majority of people there had not a freaking clue who he was. The concert ends and people get interviewed: "what did you think? - I have no idea what the hell I just saw but it was the best fucking thing I've ever seen 🤯"
The craziest part is despite holding the records for some of the biggest free concerts on heart, he's largely forgotten to history, only true connoisseurs and those who were true fans back then remember who he is.
I wanted to add some of my faves!
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Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
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William Onyeabor - Who is William Onyeabor? - An enigmatic and reclusive Nigerian funk jazz wildman who was prolific and fairly popular in Nigeria in the 1970s. Let's Fall in Love is so innovative!
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Miles Okazaki - The Sky Below - Just brilliantly innovative avante-garde jazz and guitar. I was struck when I first heard this album
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Smoke - Everything - A group of friends and musicians quietly got together in the heart of San Francisco to record this mysterious, challenging and psychedelic jazz trip. The whole album is a journey and should be heard at once, but if you just want a taste try this timestamp
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The Flying Luttenbachers - Destroy All Music - The song Fist Through Glass is the song that got me into jazz! I heard it on a late night radio show called Brave New Waves while coming down from mushrooms lol
KLF - the White Room . It is a quite unique combination of a early 90s dance album (with a few bangers that still sound good) and road movie soundtrack.
Also, excellent tread!
Extol's "Burial". Very smooth sounding record considering its bordering on Technical Death Metal.
Decapitated's "Nihility". I don't know if drums have ever sounded more violent, tonally.
Suffocation's "Pierced From Within". Unique in that IMO that level of brutality and density has still never been matched.
Ulver's "Nattens Madrigal". Bees in a tin can.
Literally anything by Ad Nauseum.
Man, I could go on and on about this. So many metal records have one of a kind production.
possibly Speak for Yourself by Imogen Heap but I'm not sure
Lightening Dust: Infinite Light
Lord Huron's Vide Noir is a significant departure from the rest of their work so far, and I really wish they'd do more in that style
I'll nominate Deep Forest's 1992 self-titled album.
Imaginary Audience by Mindchatter comes to mind.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell. I like JM well enough, but don't really listen to many other albums of hers. But HoSL just has this unique vibe that keeps bringing me back, especially on those slightly delirious hot days of summer.
Just a few old ones...
Art of Noise - The Best Of .. but all are good Yellow - Pocket Universe .. but also The Essential Moloko - ? Kosheen - Kokopelli (I think)
Ugly Casanova. Someone left modest mouse on the burner for too long and made a powdered concentrate.
Literally every album by The Mars Volta. Each one is unique and I'll never find anything like them again.
Yanni-live at the Acropolis. There's was a brief moment in 1994 when yanni actually achieved world peace. Also Tribute, another live album, that shows how unbelievably massive yanni was. He sold out a show at the fucking Taj Majal.
Anna ash and the family tree- hello friend, from bird above. An indie folk album that's a perfect cross between a prairie home companion and the hipster folk Renaissance of the early 2000s.
Pity sex-dark world. One of the best albums out there. Emo shoegaze garagy jams with killer guitar work.
Major organ and the adding machine
Yuma
Little Man by Little Dragon
Didn't see that accordion coming.
Last 8 coheed albums honestly.