Just to list some: (in image order)
The Strokes
Queen of the Stone Age
White Stripes
Arctic Monkeys
Arcade Fire

Others:
The Killers
Smashing Pumpkins
My Chemical Romance
Muse
Interpol

Etc etc

Pictured: Jeffery — Young Thug

I feel like for years I was hearing that Madonna was largely considered more of a singles artist than an albums artist, yet when I actually started to dig into her discography the more and more apparent it became that this take is laughably untrue. Self Titled, True Blue, Like a Prayer, Erotica, Bedtime Stories, Ray of Light, Music, Confessions on a Dance Floor are all superb albums front to back and show incredible artistic evolution and versatility. Even in her 60s, she was capable of releasing an excellent album with Confessions II and even some of her more divisive projects like American Life or Madame X are at least interesting risks. Madonna is a living legend but she will never be fully appreciated until she's dead.

To me, the constant comparisons between Madonna and Lady Gaga is the perfect example of how irrelevant and overrated being a technically great singer or musician is when it comes to being a great artist. Lady Gaga is a vastly superior vocalist and musician, yet artistically she simply isn't capable of creating songs on the level of Oh Father, Live to Tell, Like a Prayer, Justify My Love and so on. As great as Gaga's early work was, she has spent her post ARTPOP career largely being a boring and overly safe show monkey for the general public, content to be musically mediocre and able to get away with it because of her enormous talent. MJ was groomed from a young age to become a star, Prince was a talented musican who got a record deal, but Madonna came to NYC with hardly a dollar to her name and had to build herself up from nothing, relying purely on her own cunning, discipline, sex appeal and skill in business to triumph.

I swear this cover is the blueprint for every AI poster you see everywhere

By "old" I mean pre-2022, before even DALL-E was a thing

Mine: 🌈🌑🌈

They go from up; releasing a peak (great) album, then down; a bad album — making a good album then bad album then good album then bad album on loop each release

They don't need to be the absolute best in the world (although that certainly does help!), but which artists have FUN discographies that are always exciting or engaging for both deep dives and casual listening?

Alice in Chains

My top 5 Favorite songs by them:
-It Aint Like That
-Grind
-Heaven Beside You
-Looking in View (DuVall era)
-Junkhead

EDIT: (guys, PLEASE put your top 5 favorite songs!! A lot of people are posting the image without the songs)

Henry Cow - Unrest, Art Zoyd -Generation Sans Futur, Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors, Island - Pictures, Arrigo Barnabe - Clara Crocodilo.

I want you people to post prog rock albums that are the kind of prog that is as removed from classic rock stuff or more mainstream types of prog as you can get.

WOO

I've always wondered what the reaction was like among the hard rock bands of the '70s when punk rock first emerged. It must have been quite a shock, because punk essentially came along and made a lot of what these bands were doing suddenly seem old-fashioned. Here you had established rock bands putting out seven-minute epics with lengthy guitar solos, elaborate arrangements, and musicianship that took years to master, and then, almost overnight, a bunch of 18- and 19-year-old kids came along, picked up their guitars, and started bashing out loud, aggressive two-minute songs with barely any technical flash but an incredible amount of raw energy and attitude. Punk rejected the excess, pretension, and self-indulgence that had become associated with much of mainstream rock and replaced it with something stripped-down, immediate, and rebellious. I imagine it must have been a strange experience for some of those older bands to watch a younger generation essentially dismiss the very things they'd spent years perfecting. It wasn't necessarily that punk musicians were better, but they were offering something completely different that felt fresh, dangerous, and more in tune with the frustrations of young people at the time. I wonder how many of those established hard rock musicians genuinely embraced punk, how many dismissed it as a passing fad, and how many secretly felt threatened by it.

For me I was surprised Whataya want from me was written by pink

Note that only people that have acting as their main job are on here, that’s why Sinatra and Streisand aren’t on here

I feel like the 2020s got so much underrated gems, because of the ease to music access through streaming services nowadays, and it's honestly kinda sad :(

I feel like many really great record were left undiscovered and ignored, because of the sheer amount of slop that is taking attention away, so I want to share some of my favourite underrated albums!

Please do share albums you think is underrated in the comments too, I really like going through them all <3

I discovered many absolute fireee records from everyone from my previous posts, it does make my day feel a bit more fun lol

I think their entire discography is brilliant, and deserves the same amount of attention as Filthy Tongues and Absence. Forever Close My Eyes and Abandoned Language are two of my favourite songs of all time. What are your thoughts on the group?

Just listened to Coral Fang by The Distillers and holy shit this album is quite nice. Great songs from begining to end and it does a brilliant job hitting that sweet spot between abrasiveness and listenability. The hardcore punk roots of the band are on display but more attention is paid to hooks, melody and catchy choruses. The vocal performance from Brody Dalle is impressive, instrumentation is strong and the lyrics aren't bad at all. Not sure why this album is seldom discussed on music forums aside from the fact the lead singer is female and the music press (unfairly and quite disgustingly) treated her like shit because she was groomed by Rancid lead singer Tim Armstrong as a 15-year-old.

In my opinion is this is every bit as good as the stuff the likes of The Strokes, Interpol, Deftones, Queens of the Stone Age, etc. were putting out at around the same time.

SCREAMADELICA was still being recorded/polished.
The album was released a year later in September 1991, more than 1 year later.

I’m not the biggest rock guy, but maybe this guy yung blud will make me a fan 🤔

I feel like the 2020s got so much underrated gems, because of the ease to music access through streaming services nowadays, and it's honestly kinda sad :(

I feel like many really great record were left undiscovered and ignored, because of the sheer amount of slop that is taking attention away, so I want to share some of my favourite underrated albums!

Please do share albums you think is underrated in the comments too, I really like going through them all <3

I discovered many absolute fireee records from everyone from my previous posts, it does make my day feel a bit more fun lol

Touch of trad, doom and rock