The Smiths - Queen is Dead
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Godspeed You Black Emperor - F# A# inf
Peter Gabriel - So
Fjord Rowboat - Saved the Compliments for Morning
The Wombats - Fix Yourself, Not the World
UNKLE - Where Did The Night Fall
Wintersun - Wintersun
Groove Armada - Black Album
ISIS - Oceanic
REM - Automatic for the People
Red Sparowes - Anything
in this order.
Fuiam Catha by Oi Polloi from 1999.
Despite the Gaelic name, only one song is in Gaelic. The rest is in English.
Pro-environmentalism, anti-fascist, Scottish anarcho-punk.
Fuiam Catha means Sound of Battle.
Hozier’s Unreal Unearth
There are two (in terms of “every song on them is my favourite”):
- Linkin Park - Reanimation
- Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R and Like Clockwork… (top 2 for me right now)
Also:
AWOLNATION - Megalithic Symphony
Foster the People - Torches
Them Crooked Vultures - Self titled
Against Me - Reinventing Axl Rose
Bouncing Souls - Anchors Aweigh
Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
Touché Amore - Stage Four
Bomb The Music Industry - Vacation
The Cure - Paris
Paris is so good.
Pornography is also amazing.
One of my favorite has to be: Delain - April Rain (the album, not just the song)
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Morphine - Good
Nujabes - Modal Soul
Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Big KRIT - 4eva is a Mighty Long Time
No particular order but that’s probably my current top 5
Octopath Traveler II OST by Yasunori Nishiki.
I’m not sure if you were looking only for bands or music with lyrics, but this is probably my favorite video game soundtrack of all time.
Samples:
Thanks for the samples! Those are good. That game also looks really interesting. I’ve only heard of octodad.
Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta La Raíz
Guster - Ganging up on the Sun
Amiina - Kurr
Mono - You Are There
John Allison Weiss - New Love
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
The Helio Sequence - Love and Distance
Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You
Lettuce - Crush
Wild Ones - Keep it Safe
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Great taste
Formatting goblins. Apologies. FiXED
Without knowing your music taste I’ll say some with more broad appeal:
Third Eye Blind - self-titled
Deftones - White Pony
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Radiohead - Kid A
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
“Deadache” by Lordi ! I wouldn’t say it has their best songs, but it doesn’t have any definite “B-sides”, unlike most of their previous work.
( eg : is Hellbender Turbulence anyone’s favorite ? Dynamite Tonite ? I doubt that. Get Heavy is a much rockier listening experience. Some may even say it’s heavily front loaded.
Deadache has a bit of a slump in the middle but it’s picked right back up by the final third, especially the titular song and Raise Hell in Heaven )
A few off the top of my head:
Destiny Potato - Lun
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Theatre of Tragedy - Aegis
