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Duffeknol said:
Devin Townsend's Ocean Machine - Biomech

I can not stop listening to it until I've finished it. Every song is fantastic, and the trick he pulls on the last few seconds on the album makes it even better.
Amazing album, I discovered it in the holidays and it blew my mind. Here it is in full for anyone interested.


A small selection of other picks:

Queens of the Stoneage- Songs For The Deaf

Agalloch- The Mantle


Opeth- Ghost Reveries


Wishbone Ash- Argus

Mastodon- Crack The Skye
 

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DrunkOnEstus said:
I couldn't find an Elliott Smith album, but every single one of them would count if I could. He's my favorite musician in the history of human civilization.
Holy shit, I've never found anyone else who listened to Elliott Smith on here. Top notch stuff.
I like me some Elliott Smith too :)

Still going through his works though
 

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Every single band album I've ever listened to, no matter how brilliant as a whole, had at least one song I didn't like.
Then I discovered the wonderful world of soundtrack music, and with it Two Steps From Hell. The project's two public outputs, Invincible and Archangel, barely see a day of disuse in my music library and are pure, unbridled magnificence from start to finish. (I've yet to listen to the new album, Skyworld, but I have high hopes.)
 

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My top two are:

The Decemberists: The King is Dead

The Crash Test Dummies: God Shuffled his Feet

There are also a bunch of concept albums I love from start to finish (Discovery, The Hazards of Love) but they're specifically made to be listened to all the way through so I don't think they count.

EDIT: actually, now that I think about it, I can listen to almost every Decemberist album all the way through and enjoy almost every moment, but most have one song I don't like, disqualifying their entire diskogrophy aside from the two mentioned above.
 

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Zach Hemsy - The Way
Most of it is instrumental however when the vocals are introduced they add so much to the pieces. There is no song skipped when this album comes on.

Thomas Bergersen/Two Steps From Hell - Archangel, Illusions, and Skyworld

Pretty much 30-40% of the music used in trailers comes from these albums, and for good reason. This is the stuff that builds worlds.

Immediate - Trailerhead, Trailerhead: Saga, and Trailerhead: Triumph

Another 30% of all trailer music comes from these people. A lot more mainstream than TSFH in that a lot of people making fan videos will end up using Epicon or Lacrimosa and other songs from their library. But it is good stuff and makes anything you do while listening to it the most badass action ever. Oh and the last 30-40% comes from X-ray dog, Brand X music, Sencit, Epic Score, and other epic producers as well as the less awesome pop, rock, and stuff you normally hear on radio stations.

Globus - Epicon and Break From This World

Kind of a spin of Immediate. They take select songs from Immediate and remix them, add some actual lyrics, and generally make things 110% more awesome.

Darren Corb - Bastion

Guy made the music for Bastion, Nuff said.

Lostprophets - Start Something and Liberation Transmission

I like the Lostprophets, not much else to say here.
 

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The Binding of Isaac soundtrack.

Suitably epic in every sense of the word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikTwG27I1qc <------- My Innermost Apocolypse (the best song in the game/album)
 

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Sigh No More and Babel by Mumford and Sons
Live Volume. 3 by The Avett Brothers
Carry Me Back by Old Crow Medicine Show
Every Kingdom by Ben Howard
 

The Artificially Prolonged

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Just some of my favourite albums to listen right the way through;

Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
LA Woman - The Doors
Souvlaki - Slowdive
Beggar's Banquet - Rolling Stones
Black Acetate - John Cale
Munki - Jesus and Mary Chain
Rocket Fire - Ceremony

DrunkOnEstus said:
And this also.
 

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This really is a thread that demands concept albums. On that note:

And others that aren't concept albums but still pretty much flawless:

 

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I've got a few:
Steve Vai: Gravity Storm
Passion and Warfare
Alien Love Secrets.

Le Blorr: BimBom

Pink Floyd: Dark Side
Wish you were here

Tool: 10,000 days, although I prefer the "secret song" configuration.

Rammstein: Reise Reise
Liebe ist für alle da

Yes: 90125

Queen: The one with the evil robot, can't remember the name, shame on me...

Saga: In Transit

Lana del Rey: Born to die -Paradise Edition

Deep Purple: Machine Head

Foreigner: 4


I belive this is enough for now.
 

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For me, I'm anything but a music connoisseur, so I only know a few bands by name, fewer musicians by name, and I can barely put music to half the artists I hear about.

But of course, that makes it all the more significant that this band and this album stuck with me over all the others.

Nightwish: Dark Passion Play

Highlight of the album
 

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Easy: Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin. Two and a half hours of happiness, fear, awe, paranoia, melancholy, sadness, and bliss. And only one of them has a title, the rest are known by the related picture on the inside.

Warning: Heavily repetitive and experimental, especially [grey stripe].
 

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These are all albums that I enjoy from start to finish. In no particular order:

Arcade Fire - Funeral, Neon Bible, The Suburbs
The Auteurs - After Murder Park
The National - High Violet, Alligator
The Beatles - Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper, Rubber Soul, The Beatles
Morrissey - Vauxhall & I, Bona Drag
Sigur Ros - Takk
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, Good Morning Spider
Elliot Smith - Either/Or, XO, From a Basement Up on a Hill
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead, Strangeways, Here We Come
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Wilco - Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Pulp - His n Hers, Different Class, We Love Life
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Jarvis Cocker- Jarvis
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
David Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Station to Station, Heroes, Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows

I assume there's more that I can put on here but they escape me as of now.
 

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Pretty much every single Rhapsody of Fire album there is, including Luca Turilli's 'Kings of the Nordic Twilight.' They all tell a story and this makes it's even more enjoyable to listen to.
 

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Aesop Rock's Skelethon is my favorite album, hands down.

Runner ups would be Nas and Damian Marley's Distant Relatives, and Seth Sentry's The Waiter Minute EP.
 

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I am currently really into Rodrigo y Gabriella, especially their "Re-foc" album, any album by Voltaire, Handel's Messiah, and my perennial favourite, Is this it by the Strokes


A pretty eclectic mix, but variety is the spice of life, they say.
 

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"Loveless", by My Bloody Valentine, is my pick for the most cohesive album ever:

Also, "Low" by David Bowie, which I hold to be his best album in a VERY long career: