Non-Prog Masterpieces

I suppose they aren't all "masterpieces", but they are all great:

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead  Tao of the Dead
Arcade Fire  Funeral
Arrested Development  3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days In The Life Of...
The Cure  Disintegration
Devo  Q: Are We Not Men?  A: We Are Devo!
Everything Absent or Distorted (A Love Story)  The Great Collapse
Faith No More  The Real Thing
Interpol  Turn on the Bright Lights
Chris Isaak  Forever Blue
Judas Priest  Sad Wings of Destiny
Killing Joke  Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions
k.d. lang  ingenue
Sarah McLachlan  Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
George Michael  Listen Without Prejudice - Vol. 1
Mission of Burma  The Sound The Speed The Light
My Bloody Valentine  Loveless
Nickel Creek  Why Should the Fire Die?
The Police  Synchronicity
Portishead  Dummy
Prince and The Revolution  Purple Rain
Sade  Diamond Life
System of a Down  Mezmerize

akamaisondufromage wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: geogkrt wrote: Elvis Costello - My Aim is True The Band - The Band AKA The Brown Album Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Tom Waits - Bone Machine   The best Huey Louis and the News album!  Good choice it is a masterpiece great songs from start to end.  Bands often frontload their albums these days but EC didn't need or try to with this as it finishes as strongly as it starts.   I think its his best album but probabaly not progressive in any way They were called 'Clover' then right?   Yes they were called Clover, but I have never heard them except on this.    Nice list of yours btw Exit a lot of my faves on it

I think Huey Lewis was in Clover, but it wasn't the same band that later became Huey Lewis and the News.  I could be wrong.

ExittheLemming wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: geogkrt wrote: Elvis Costello - My Aim is True The Band - The Band AKA The Brown Album Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Tom Waits - Bone Machine   The best Huey Louis and the News album!  Good choice it is a masterpiece great songs from start to end.  Bands often frontload their albums these days but EC didn't need or try to with this as it finishes as strongly as it starts.   I think its his best album but probabaly not progressive in any way They were called 'Clover' then right?

 

OK!

Some of you guys mentioned them but here goes..

Faith No More - The Real Thing

Big Sugar - Hemi Visions

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

Rage Against The Machine - Debut

Type O Negative - October Rust

Bob Dylan - Desire

I'll have to check out that Soft Cell album.  My wife might have it, actually.

^ very good singles band. Does it have Sex Dwarf on it?

BTW Marc Almond is an avowed Satanist

Fully prepared as I am for howls of derisive laughter, I actually think this is one of the best albums released in the 1980s & in my opinion, there's not a dud track on it:



OK...

Do your worst...

HolyMoly wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Lou Reed - Berlin This one I actually feel would fit in nicely around here. If we one day were able to include sole prog albums by artists that otherwise kept to their pop/hiphop/rock/countrywestern, then I'd definitely vote for this one! My fave from from good old Lou as well. In that same category: Serge Gainsbourge - Histoire de Melody Nelson (The prog quotient probably came from Vannier who orchestrated the music though) I've seen you posting Gainsbourge lately, and have been meaning to ask about him.  I'll check it out.

HolyMoly wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: I agree with a lot of those Steve There are however some that I have never heard of before, which definitely are going on my list. Dean highlighted one of those, but Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and Subhumans sound remarkably like something I should enjoy as well. Thanks for the info buddy Uhh another one I see as a masterpiece, although it's been ages since I gave it a listen, is Type O Negative's October Rust I was glad to see Steve Miller Band on your list too.  Those early SMB albums are really special -- and worlds away from the punchy radio rock he would put out in the mid 70s. Hope you like Ariel Pink.  I think you and I are similar in some ways, so it just might hit you like a train the way it did me. It really felt like he was channeling my subconscious.  Yeah I know, I'm weird.