Top non-metal albums ever

[Seanindarkness]

You know I've decided that after hearing Troubadour Music today I'm going to hurl all of my Agalloch and Gy!BE albums out the window and ONLY listen to the music of the troubadours.
Pantaloons ftw!

 

[challenge_everything]

Not really, since everyone else's view of music seems to be "everything made after the 1950s" when in fact music has existed for thousands of years.

... in a fairly stagnant and insular form.

1. You're a big fan of Nest, right?

2. Exactly when did Mozart record ALBUMS?

 

[Lord Kur]

3. Bob Dylan - s/t

that's odd that you picked that dylan album since it's mostly cover songs. i'm a dylan fanboy.

1. bringin' it all back home
2. john wesley harding
3. new morning
4. freewheelin' bob dylan
5. blood on the tracks
6. blonde on blonde
7. highway 61 revisited
8. another side of bob dylan
9. the times they are a changin'
10. street legal/planet waves/bob dylan/desire/nashville skyline

honorable mention goes to "the bootleg series vol. 1-3" which has some of dylan's best material but isn't a proper album. pretty much after those albums would come a wide array of everything else i like which didn't quite beat out those essential dylan albums.

 

[SouthernTrendkill]

Just because it's covers doesn't mean it's lower quality. BIABH would be my 2nd favorite, it's the best of both his folk and rock material. But s/t is easily one of the best 3 albums I've ever heard in my life. It's unique is what it is. It's the most ferocious and passionate solo-acoustic album of all-time, even more intense than Jeff Buckley's solo-electric Live at Sin-e'. The singing is amazing and Bob's lyrics on the 2 originals are amazing. And the guitar work is fucking sick, I love acoustic folk-blues guitar. Bob's other albusm are astounding too but they sound more normal.

 

[Lord Kur]

don't get me wrong, i like it a lot. i just like these other ones better. "your no good" is just fantastic.

you got the ways of the devil, sleepin' in the lion's den
i come home last night you wouldn't even let me in

 

[The Ozzman]

The only Dylan album I have is Blonde on Blonde and it is pretty good

 

[Vegard Pompey]

OK, here's my list.

Devil Doll - The Girl Who Was Death
Love - Forever Changes
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Rush - 2112
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Nirvana - Unplugged
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun

I feel like I forgot something important though.

 

[SouthernTrendkill]

I can actually play You're No Good. That's the only Dylan song I can play other than Oh Sister and One More Cup of Coffee.

 

[Lord Kur]

that's a fun song. he really belts it out

 

[Phrozenspite]

King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
Lustmord - The Place Where The Black Stars Hang
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Elend - any of their albums really...
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Black Earth
In Slaughter Natives - Enter Now The World
Karl Sanders - Saurian Meditation
Kayo Dot - Choirs of The Eye
Jesu - Conquerer
Melek Tha - Gloriam Demondi
Annie Gosfield - Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Archon Satani - In Shelter
Raison D'etre - Enthralled By The Winds of Loneliness
Pulsefear - Perichoresis

in addition to many Classical, Jazz and Fusion works

 

[voodoo]

David Gray - A Century Ends
Derek and the Domino's - Layla (and other assorted love songs)
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Black Crowes - By Your Side
Depeche Mode - Violator
Eve's Plum - Cherry Alive
Prince - Purple Rain
Peter Gabriel - So

Damn, I forgot the Beach Boys - Pet Sounds.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

ok here's a few:
the cure-disintigration
guns n' roses- appetite for destruction
u2- the joshua tree
dead can dance- within the realm of a dying sun
alice in chains- dirt
depeche mode- violater
the police- synchronicity
dave matthews band- before these crowded streets
nusrat fateh ali khan- shahen shah
jeff buckley- grace
grateful dead- american beauty
beatles- revolver
b. springsteen- nebraska
NIN- downward spiral
led zeppelin- III
neil diamond- hot august night
radiohead- kid a
rush- a farewell to kings
prince- dirty mind

 

[Belligerent]

^some good picks there. I'm sure alot of people on here won't admit to liking the Cure or Depeche Mode for that matter.

I'll add:
Depeche Mode - Violator

 

[John Silver the Second]

I'd sooner die than call classical the best non-metal music. Worst is more like it. Just because it's fancy and high class, people don't have the nerve to call it shit. It's just another music style like all the others, it should get no more or less respect. Classical is interesting from an intstrumental standpoint but it's the most faceless and mindless of music styles.

I agree almost completely. I might listen to that one Shubert piece once every 5 years but I can't tolerate that poppy, airy fairy pomposity. And I guess jazz advanced music alot more than classical.

Van Halen - Women and Children First
Van Halen - Van Halen II
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Duran Duran - Rio
Duran Duran - Big Thing
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
King Crimson - Discipline
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Roxy Music - Country Life
A-HA - East of the Sun, West of the Moon

 

[Thoth-Amon]

^some good picks there. I'm sure alot of people on here won't admit to liking the Cure or Depeche Mode for that matter.

I'll add:
Depeche Mode - Violator

forgot about that one... added

 

[The Ozzman]

YES!

Violator is a kickass album

 

[Belligerent]

Throw on Violator if you want to seduce a chick

 

[Ratchet]

The Pirate Ship Quintet EP
Hello Nasty by the Beastie Boys
Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys
Destruction of Small Ideas by 65 Days of Static
Alien Love Secrets by Steve Vai

I don't have too much non-metal = /

 

[dcowboys311]

Most of the music I listen to is metal, but most of my all-time favorite albums are non-metal.

311 - Transistor (all-time favorite)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes

 

[The Ozzman]

I'm going to redo my list here:

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
CCR - Green River
SRV & Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand the Weather
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Doors - S/T
Rush - 2112
Van Halen - 1984
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
King's X - Dogman
Faith No More - Angel Dust

New list:
STP - Core
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
SRV/Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand the Weather
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Van Halen - 1984
The Doors - S/T
Depeche Mode - Violator
Grateful Dead - Dead Set (pretty much the only GD album you need)
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
David Gilmour - About Face

It changes constantly, but that's what it is now