If you have even half of these albums in your iPod, my respect for you as a person will be tripled at least. These Albums are some of my favorites, although they are not just my favorite albums (some of them I know nobody would like) but albums that exceeded their expectations and are the precious jewels of an artist’s legacy as musicians. These are the albums that I listen to from start to finish without even thinking about skipping a song. So here they are, the albums that are essential to your collection (part 2 comes tomorrow):
The Octopus Project with Black Moth Super Rainbow – The House Of Apples & Eyeballs
Black Moth Super Rainbow, and Tobacco (the solo project of the master mind Tom Fec, who made the music for BMSR) are musically nowhere near anyone else. This is my favorite album which was collaberated with The Octopus Project. I find that it’s near impossible to try and classify his music into a genre, or even 3 genres for that matter. If you enjoy this album, I highly reccomend the 4 Black Moth Super Rainbow albums and Tobacco’s 2, there’s not one of those albums that isn’t amazing.
Gorillaz – Gorillaz
Gorillaz is one of the freshest and original bands ever. I’ve found that most people have at least heard of the Gorillaz songs Feel Good Inc. and Clint Eastwood, but don’t know anything else about this band’s work. Well, every album this band has come out with has been amazing (including their D and G side CDs). I didn’t want to put up two albums for any of these artists for this post, but if I did, you can be sure that Demon Days (Produced by Danger Mouse) would be right up here with this one. This album (and Demon Days) are a couple of my favorite albums that any artist has ever made.
Jurassic 5 – Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5 was around for a while, until their break up in 2007, and they always had the dopest grooves and had 5 vocalists that fit together perfectly to make one of the freshest and most original alternative hip-hop groups ever. This album was realeased in 2002 and I still listen to it on a regular basis, fantastic album.
Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask
Another one of the best hip-hop albums to ever come out is the only album from the masked villain Doom and one of the best producers around today, Danger Mouse (who also produced the Gorillaz album Demon Days which I mentioned earlier). This album not only features some Adult Swim characters (Shake, Meatwad, Carl, Space Ghost, Brak, Zorak…) but also has some of the most original and insanely awesome tracks from Danger Mouse.
Yann Tiersen – Goodbye Lenin
Yann Tiersen makes some of the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard in my entire life. This album was created as a sountrack for a movie I’ve never seen, and probably isn’t even in English, but this instrumental music is insanely beautiful. If I was to choose someone to produce music for the soundtrack of my life, I’d go with this guy.
Part II comes tomorrow with another 5 albums!
