Best Non Metal Albums of All Time.

[username345]

That is a fucking great list. Except I don't rate DSOTM as anywhere near Floyd's best. Never heard Van der Graaf Generator, but considering our similarity of tastes, may well have to check this out.

Thanks! VdGG are great, if you like King Crimson you'll probably like VdGG too.

 

[llamaking]

Anyway, my list:

Dead Can Dance: Toward the Within
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
Thought Riot: Shattered Mirror Syndrome
The Clash: London Calling
Ulver: Perdition City
Augie March: Strange Bird
Tom Waits: Alice
Borknagar: Origin
Led Zeppelin: I, II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy
AFI: Black Sails in the Sunset, Sing the Sorrow
Dead Kennedys: Plastic Surgery Disasters
Katatonia: The Great Cold Distance
Esbjorn Svesson Trio: Viaticum
Wire: Pink Flag
VAST: Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Misfits: Walk Among Us
Rufus Wainwright: Want Two
Damian Marley: Welcome to Jamrock
Joanna Newsom: Ys
Anathema: A Fine Day to Exit, A Natural Disaster
Faith No More: Angel Dust
Porcupine Tree: Stupid Dream, Deadwing
Rise Against: Siren Song for the Counter Culture
Jeff Buckley: Grace
Sigur Ros: Takk, Aegitus Byrjun

That album is amazing cant believe I forgot it.

 

[Perdition's Light]

I really don't think the beatles deserve to be here...

For me, all Paradise Lost albums between (and including) Draconian Times and Paradise Lost are the best non-metal albums ever.

GTFO, The Beatles are were far superior, more original, and more influential than fucking Paradise Lost could ever be.

Just for that, here are some of the best non-metal albums of all time:

Revolver
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
White Album
Abbey Road
Let It Be

also, someone mentioned Joy Division - Substance. I was assuming we were referring strictly to studio albums here, which Substance isn't. I guess it doesn't really matter, but I definitely prefer Unknown Pleasures and Closer as great cohesive albums.

 

[Alasdhair]

GTFO, The Beatles are were far superior, more original, and more influential than fucking Paradise Lost could ever be.

Just for that, here are some of the best non-metal albums of all time:

Revolver
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
White Album
Abbey Road
Let It Be

also, someone mentioned Joy Division - Substance. I was assuming we were referring strictly to studio albums here, which Substance isn't. I guess it doesn't really matter, but I definitely prefer Unknown Pleasures and Closer as great cohesive albums.

I still think the Beatles suck.

But your definantly right about Joy Division.

 

[Brozeth]

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Kylesa - To Walk a Middle Course
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Nirvana - Bleach
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Queen - A Night at The Opera
Rage Against the Machine - s/t(at their peak)
Santana - Abraxas
Spiritual Beggars - On Fire
Stevie Ray Vaughn - In Step, Texas Flood
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
Buckethead - Poulation Override
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties

 

[Kudzu]

In no specific order...

Paradise Lost - One Second
Keane - Hopes & Fears
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Recoil - Liquid
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Steve Hackett - Wild Orchids
Arena - Contagion
Frost - Milliontown
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Anathema - Judgement
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World

fuck there's millions of them...

 

[Vimana]

The Mars Volta - Amputechture

 

[Perdition's Light]

these are some of mine (there's a lot more, these are albums i have on my computer):

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Beck - Odelay
Big Black - Atomizer, Songs about Fucking
Bjork - Homogenic, Vespertine
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
David Bowie - too many to name
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses, Violator
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle, Elliott Smith, Either/Or, XO
Eyeless in Gaza - Rust Red September
Gang of Four - Solid Gold, Entertainment!
Gary Numan - Replicas, The Pleasure Principle
Husker Du - New Day Rising, Zen Arcade, Flip Your Wig
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking, Ritual de lo Habitual
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures, Closer
Killing Joke - Killing Joke, What's THIS For!
Kitaro - Silk Road
Ladytron - 604, Light & Magic
Leonard Cohen - too many to mention
Low - Long Division, Things We Lost in the Fire
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

Got to go, I'll post more later.

 

[BloodSword]

How about; Allman Brothers band-"Eat a Peach." Dredg-"El Cielo." Arvo Part-"Tabula Rasa." Nick Cave-"Murder Ballads" or "A Part from You no More." I really need to give this more thought.

 

[Vimana]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

 

[sceloporus]

Any album by The Police.

 

[challenge_everything]

Any album by The Police.

uke:uke:uke:

 

[Chimera]

I'm glad to see that someone mentioned Dredg, they're great.
Some of my favorites:

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Mew - Frengers
Francesco Renga - Tracce (I guess he's unknown outside Italy)
The Cure - Disintegration
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

 

[The Ozzman]

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Van Halen I
Rush - 2112
Katatonia - TGCD

 

[funeralportrait91]

In no particular order...

Pretty much anything by Pink Floyd.
Borknagar - Origin
Circulus - Clocks Are Like People
Opeth - Damnation
Serart - Serart
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
System of a Down - System of a Down
Karl Sanders - Saurian Meditation

=)

 

[As-I-Lay-Dying]

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire - Watch Out!
Nirvana - In Utero
Jeff Buckley - Grace

 

[OldenDomain1975]

Jimmi Hendrix, Are you experienced,Led Zepplin 2.

 

[Christ Illusion666]

Antichrist Svperstar- flawless.

 

[Lady__Stardust]

Heroes - David Bowie
JuJu - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Life Thru a Lens - Robbie Williams
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Pornography - The Cure
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie

 

[Seasonreaper]

In my opinion ^^

The Cure - Disintegration
Opeth - Damnation
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4 OST's
Sonic Mayhem - Quake II OST
Fall Of The Leafe - Vantage
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Muse - Showbiz
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Basically any Ozric Tentacles album
Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare