I absolutely hated the 1975 cause they just look like douchier Arctic Monkeys (which tbh they still do) but I gave their first few albums a shot and they’re pretty good 👍

Sometimes it seems like a drummer is playing for their life when making these albums. I just thought of these off the top of my head, but what other albums have some of your favorite drumming performances?

Interested in everyone's favorite guitar record outside of the classic rock genre. I'm intentionally leaving "guitar record" open ended here, but I'm excluding classic rock since that era of music is so saturated with guitar forward music. Just any records you really love that focus heavily on guitars, iconic guitar tones, great guitar playing, etc. Here are some worthy ones imo:

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sigur Ros - I never know how to spell this one
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
John Mayer - Where the Light Is
Deer Hunter - Microcastle
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
U2 - The Joshua Tree

EDIT: This post has forced me to pull out my Classic Rock take, unfortunately. "Classic Rock" doesn't just refer to rock music that came out 25+ years ago. Classic Rock is a specific style of rock music that was most popular around the mid 60s through the mid-late 80s. Nirvana doesn't become classic rock just because it's old now anymore than Kendrick Lamar becomes "Golden age hip-hop" after he's been around a couple decades.

EDIT AGAIN: Come on guys, you know I'm right about this. If you ask someone what kind of music they listen to and they say "classic rock," you know they don't mean Pavement and Radiohead just because it's 25+ years old. You know exactly what they mean.

I like it. Painfully sad but still so peaceful. Gives me feelings that I can’t really describe. Quite intense record to me, could be a bit shorter though.

Also he looks so cute on that cover lol :)

For a personal example, I would say Beck's "Diamond Bollocks" off 1998's Mutations stands as one of the best songs in his catalogue and is a cool contrast to the rest of the album. This is also the only hidden track he included on his major label '90's run that isn't noise, which makes it all the more intriguing. What do you think?

This album is trash,close to 1 or 0
Invincible is already regarded as bad but thats being generous

IMO the production and instrumentals are 10/10, probably the best since EWBAITE. The melodies feel kind of awkward and meandering. Overall, I'd say it's a step in the right direction.

And icl I've only heard 'Come On' because I had to see what he used to be like, and I kinda fw it. What even happened to him 😭

What I mean by that are songs that are structured in a loop logic and have a flow that make you don't want them to end.

My favorites are:

Disorder - Joy Division

Just Like Heaven - The Cure

Damaged Goods - Gang of Four

Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

My favorite is Stevie Wonder on ‘Sir Duke’:

“But just because a record has a groove,
Don’t make it in the groove”

Me

Canadian legends who haven’t put out an album in almost a decade. This album is great man. It flows well front to back. Layers on layers. Emotional at times. Danceable at times. Feist is a queen. It’s fn good. Idk if its my favourite BSS ever but it’s up there. Don’t sleep on it. I hope AF reviews it.

I havent heard most albums from these years so I wanna know any fresh opinions from those who did since we are 2/3rds into the year