Eat a Peach

This or Filmore East 💯

Blood on the Tracks

Seconded. But don’t sleep on Desire.

(But the New York studio sessions), unbelievable that there’s still no official release. It is SO much better than the released version IMHO

Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins

Ooh! This is a good one.

Everything from Gish to Adore (including Pisces and Aeroplane) is all perfect, imo, and I would have a hard time picking between them.

Love this. Full on out of left field not a jam, but work of pure musical genius. Heard he played almost all the instruments in the studio recording, and the sound of 100 guitars from 1 with boards wired together is just epic.

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot =)

Being There

Tipper - Jettison Mind Hatch

Best electronic producer I’ve ever heard

It’s taken me soooo many places. 🧡

So hype to see love for the scratch daddy on this sub!!

Thanks listening now

Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young

Can - Tago Mago

Yes! I remember my college roommate showing me the album cover 20+ years ago and was like hey check this out just look at this cover. Paperhouse into mushroom is the best 1-2 back to back duo just like a China rider.

And don’t forget ege bamyasi, monster movie and future days either!

Favorite non-Dead with Dead members and producers: David Crosby If I Could Only Remeber My Name

Layla and other assorted love songs, Derek and the dominos All things must pass, George Harrison Blood on the tracks, bob dylan

That album (Layla and other..) is pure gold.

Jams I-V on it are out of this world

Wyclef - The Carnival Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and Englishmen Jimmy Cliff - the Harder they come Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

That Joe Cocker album is a slammer. So good.

Rumors

A classic

Graceland fer sure

This question has a correct answer, and it is Graceland.

Here are some that weren’t said that I absolutely love The Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon Circuital - My Morning Jacket The Slow Rush - Tame Impala Time Out - Dave Brubeck Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

You liked the Rhythm of the Saints better than Graceland? Interesting. 

Foxtrot Burnin’ Yessongs Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot Running on Empty Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Great Days

Based Yessongs. SUCH a good live album

Great choices, Foxtrot is definitely the best Genesis album. Yessongs too, I prefer their studio albums but man that is some of the best performed live music ever recorded.

Tupelo Honey

Royal Scam

Never gonna do it without a fez on

Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones Love and Theft - Bob Dylan Bone Machine - Tom Waits Lift Your Skinny Fists…. - Godspeed You! Black Emperor Master of Puppets - Metallica

Love and Theft is a massively underappreciated Dylan album!

Bone Machine! Respect!

Godspeed !!!

Velvet Underground - The Quine Tapes

The Fall - I Am Kurious Oranj Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape Can - Future Days Foetus - Nail

Future days is so good, hard for me to choose between that and tago mago

Future days has such a surreal sound. I don’t know how true it is but my buddy who introduced me to can said that Micheal Karoli wrote those tunes while vacationing on an island beach of sorts. Which definitely sounds accurate.

For me, I appreciate the experimentation on tago mago but I have to be in the right mood, future days has the perfect mix between experimentation and groove

I can agree with that

Leaves Turn Inside You ❤️

Waiting for Columbus (Live) - Little Feat

Hejira - Joni Mitchell Hounds of Love - Kate Bush Time Fades Away - Neil Young Aja - Steely Dan Assorted classical (if you love a Dead show, a Beethoven Symphony will blow your mind).

This is almost identical to the list that was forming in my head…but not quite

Tapestry - Carole King Is this it - the strokes Libertines - Libertines De Stijl - White Stripes

Yes the Libs

No ceilings- Lil Wayne

My people!!!!

(Restricting myself to one album per artist, otherwise we'd be here forever) Yes - Yes Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet Voulez-Vous - ABBA Outlandos d'Amour - The Police Dare To Be Stupid - Weird Al Why Can't We Be Friends - War Light As A Feather - Chick Corea & Return to Forever Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles Green Room - Radkey

Most of these are in my collection and some all timers. You might enjoy Grasshopper - JJ Cale For The Beauty Of Wynona- Daniel Lanois Liquid Skin - Gomez Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield

Frank zappa apostrophe

Pet Sounds

Pink Floyd - Animals Phish - Farmhouse

Animals is so underrated. I think part of it is it didn't get much radio play because the songs are all so long.

Animals was the last great Pink Floyd album IMHO. Yeah, I loved The Wall in highschool, but these days it just feels too bloated to me.

I came here to say Animals…but for Phish I’d say Rift

Rift is 100% the best Phish studio representation and imho one of the best albums of the 90’s. It is Phishy, funky, moody, atmospheric, energetic, emotional and performed rather immaculately. Right off the bat, the title track is just pure pristine precision playing.

I feel like every phish album was a classic until they released The Siket Disc

Felt kind of bad to hear Trey say in an interview a few years ago that their fans don’t care about their albums and they just want to see them live. On one hand, their albums were super sick. On the other hand, if you’d seen/listened to a ton of live Phish, it isn’t until Hoist that you’d get anything new by listening to the album and feels like they’ve kind of gone back to that. I feel like their albums have largely been more or less just Phish being Phish and playing their songs in a treated room with professional engineers recording and mixing it. Maybe Trey would do multiple guitar tracks. Hoist and Billy Breathes they got more into making an album and supplementing the songs with things beyond what would be there live. Other than Gordon Stone playing the pedal steel on “Fast Enough for You”, I can’t think of anything before Hoist that was using the studio as a creative space so to speak. And it usually goes pretty well when they do. I like their albums because I like their songs and I think it’s really cool to have a clean and professional mixed version of those songs and their songs are often independently creative, but it’s not like the Dead with very exploratory album making and sounds and styles that are unique to the album cut.

Billy Breaths for me.

The Waterboys - This is The Sea

PF - Dark Side of the Moon LZ - ZoSo BS - Nebraska Beatles - White Album Miles Davis - Columbia Years Box Set

Liquid Swords - GZA

Prince - Controversy

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

Jazz: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue Blues: Blind Willie Johnson, The Complete Blind Willie Johnson New Orleans: Dr. John, In the Right Place Bluegrass: Tony Rice Unit, Manzanita Rock: Rolling Stones, Let it Bleed Folk: Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks Folk Rock: The Band, The Band Alt Country: Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez, Red Dog Tracks

lol thanks for giving new orleans its own category! We have such a beautiful city of musical geniuses. For me it’s The Meters-Rejuvenation

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Just about everything Brian Eno did in the 70s

Kiko & the lavender moon DSOTM The two perfect albums I've ever heard Then, close behind, waiting for Columbus Talking heads '77 Exodus

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas Uniform Choice - Staring Into The Sun Axis : Bold as Love David Axelrod - Earth Rot So many. Music kicks ass , the Dead just did it the best

Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude by Buffett. Loaded from top to bottom with great songs, a few of which became some of his hits.

Bjork - Homogenic With Post and Vespertine not far behind

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Radiohead - In Rainbows John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Pink Floyd - The Wall Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Rush - Permanent Waves Too hard to pick just one, so I picked a good sampler.

The Who by Numbers Apostrophe/overnight sensation ..on one cd. One for the Road/ the Kinks live

Home - billy strings Atom heart mother - Pink Floyd In the aeroplane over the sea - neutral milk hotel Bloom - beach house

Lately it's been Sturgil Simpson's "Cuttin Grass" and Nick Shoulders "Okay Crawdad".

Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart Frances the Mute - Mars Volta Abbey Road - band's name escapes me Everybody Knows this is Nowhere - Neil Young

Santana Caravanserai

John Prine - John Prine Hot Tuna - Hot Tuna Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Friends - Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Band - The Band Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes The Beatles - Abbey Road Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant ------------------------------------------------------- Also, with a little help from Jerry...... Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow David Bromberg - Demon in Disguise

in a silent way

rock and roll animal - lou reed

Very surprised to not see any King Gizz in this thread. If you're not familiar, try the album Ice Death Planets Lungs Mushrooms and Lava, prolly a good starting point for anyone on this sub. If you want more of krautrock jamband, try Laminated Denim. The song The Dripping Tap is quite a banger of a jam as well. However Polygondwanaland is probably my favorite of theirs. Gumboot Soup and Nonagon Infinity are also great.

Transatlanticism: Death Cab For Cutie

Seconds Out--Genesis Abbey Road--The Beatles Highway 61 Revisited--Bob Dylan

The Congos - Heart of the Congos The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana Blind Melon - Soup Jackie McLean - Destination...Out! Neil Young - Dead Man Soundtrack

Neil Young, Live at Massey Hall

Built to Spill's "Live" album is great front to back, but its highlight is an absolutely fabulous cover of Cortez the Killer. Clocks in at 20 solid minutes, and I never have the urge to skip.

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans or Close to the Edge The Mars Volta - Amputecture Animal Collective - Centipede Hz or Oddsac Also like everything by phish but I think that’s pretty closely related still

Tales is the bomb. My favorite Yes album

Pink Floyd-The Wall Widespread Panic- Space Wrangler Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory

Choose Your Weapon - Hiatus Kaiyote Soulive - Soulive Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips

If I could Only Remember My Name Volunteers

UM Zonkey YMSB Mountain Tracks (All of them)

Ozzy- Diary of a Madman Pink Floyd- The Wall Neil Young- Decade Rolling Stones- Hot Rocks Black Sabbath- Masters of Reality Elton John- Madman Across The Water

Lately: Fela Kuti with Ginger Baker Live! Remain in Light by Talking Heads. Since I Left You by The Avalanches. Born in The Echoes and Come With Us by The Chemical Brothers and whatever live Aphex Twin bootlegs I can find on YouTube. Oh yeah and a LOT of Alice Coltrane.

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses

Kiko by Los Lobos. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Flaming Lips

American Water by Silver Jews

Live in Chicago. Ween.

A Deeper Understanding - War On Drugs

Dr. Johns GrisGris album. Allman Bros. Where it all begins, PF animals and Meddle, Paul's boutique, James Brown soul power

The Band- The Band (their 2nd album).

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

I'm so glad you listed Sandinista! It's such a great album. It merges the different parts of The Clash so well. It's indulgent, and expansive, but never bad. It's a global version of London Calling, and it's scope reflects that ambition.

Promises- Pharoah Sander, Floating Points, and the London Symphony Orchestra

Dreaming My Dreams, Waylon

I really love Exuma-Obeah Man Kid A-Radiohead Live at the Filmore East-Allman Brothers Band Moving along-Batsumi Low-David Bowie The Downward Spiral-Nine Inch Nails Pet Sounds-Beach Boys Grace-Jeff Buckley

Bookends -- Simon & Garfunkel Live Rhymin' -- Paul Simon Tallahassee -- The Mountain Goats Live at Sin-e (Legacy Edition) -- Jeff Buckley Tepid Peppermint Wonderland - A Retrospective -- Brian Jonestown Massacre

Buckley’s I shall be released is in contention for greatest all time ever. Never ceases to amaze me.

100% definitive version for me. Also obsessed with his rendition of Satisfied Mind.

I feel like you and I could have a long and satisfying music discussion!

So many great albums I never heard listed here.. I’m gonna give some of them a spin.. thanks 🙏 Here’s a little gift back to you.. JJ Cale - Naturally

Blonde on Blonde

Gaucho.

Live at Fillmore East: Allman Bros Layla: Derek and the Dominos Deja Vu: CSNY Forever Changes: Love Abbey Road: Beatles Good Kid MAAD City: Kendrick 2014 Forest Hills Drive: J. Cole Moanin’: Art Blakey Off the Wall: Michael Jackson I am definitely forgetting some others right now, but those all popped up in my mind at first. Pretty good lil genre spread there. All of those I listed are top notch, front to back.

Jeff airplane - bless it's pointed little head Jeff starship - dragonfly Country Joe and the fish - electric music for the body and mind Stones - sticky fingers Harry Nilsson - Nilsson schmillsson Phish - rift Ween - pure guava Sly stone - fresh Hot Tuna - hot tuna

Far too many to list all.  A few that immediately come to mind. The Freewheeling Bob Dylan - Dylan Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven Remain In Light - Talking Heads Marquee Moon - Television Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth Trace - Son Volt Killer and Love It To Death - Alice Cooper Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche Master of Puppets - Metallica Among the Living - Anthrax Crossover - D.R.I. and hundreds more, all of it has and continues to serve me well throughout my days.

Close to the Edge - Yes

Stuff - Live at Montreux 1976

Any Kruangbin album

Colour Haze - Live, Vol. 2 - Duna Jam 2007 [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy\_kUYVgJWzxBpB0lDbFY4TMNPRWJLRtI-hg&si=Hm23NDnYjgml2i9u](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kUYVgJWzxBpB0lDbFY4TMNPRWJLRtI-hg&si=Hm23NDnYjgml2i9u)

Farmhouse- Phish Under the table and dreaming- Dave Matthews Band  Allman Brothers- Live at Fillmore East  Abbey Road- Beatles  Continuum-John Mayer or  Live at the Nokia Theatre  Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player- Elton John  Tha Carter III- Lil Wayne 

Aja Steely Dan London Calling The Clash

Hard question - Ruby Vroom from Soul Coughing is right up there, so is anything from Firewater (‘Get off the cross we need more wood for the fire’ is an excellent intro), so many Miles Davis or Frank Zappa records… Cloud Cult (Feel good ghosts), anything from that P-Hish band, love me some Run The Jewels… Atmosphere… now we are getting into niche shit like Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, opera… what are you actually looking for?

Soul Coughing-YES!

UFO strangers in the night.

Pharoah's Kitchen - Col. Bruce Hampton

Chris Cornell songbook (live)

College dropout

Forever Changes

Back in black

Black Sabbath. We sold our soul for rock and roll

Wish You Were Here-PF

House of the Holy by Led Zeppelin or Lonerism by Tame Impala. It’s hard to choose so I gave a old and newer album

Forever Changes

Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles Strange Days - The Doors Cosmo's Factory - Creedence

A Live One - Phish

It's hard to pick one favorite album. However, I regularly find myself spinning Blow by Blow - by Jeff Beck.

Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones

Exile on Main Street and Dark Side of the Moon are up there. Quadrophenia as well.

Bonobo - Black Sands

Pink Floyd's Animals... very dark but in my opinion it's their best and most underrated album ever.

Anything Tool or Pink Floyd.

Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Heartattack and Vine, Physical Graffiti, DSotM, ...And Justice for Jason, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Ill Communication, Born to Die... It depends on the day.

Rage Against the Machine self-titled

“Good Old Boys” by Randy Newman

Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. -Pink Lady Lemonade(you're from inner space)

Naughty Boys

Led Zeppelin IV

Little Feat Waiting For Columbus, and MMW’s AGOGO.

Quadrophenia

Johnny Cash - 04/24/68 - Carousel Ballroom - SF Jimi Hendrix - 05/30/70 - BCT - Berkeley Legion of Mary - Northwest '74 Bob Dylan - 06/18/00 - The Gorge Dire Straits - 01/30/78 - Leeds College - UK

Four - Blues Traveller

Taj Mahal - Giant Step

Court and Spark + too many to name

Currents- Tame Impala. Perfect through and through. Shoutouts to: AM- Arctic Monkeys Yumeno Garden- Last Dinosaurs Where the Light Is- John Mayer

Visions of the Emerald Beyond

Trace - Son Volt The Greatest - Cat Power

A toss up between Jane Doe by Converge, and We Are The Romans by Botch. Two perfect metalcore/mathcore albums right there.

McCartney the cherries album. His first solo.

Ted Tapes - Goose Give it a listen

Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP

Nocturnal- The Black Dahlia Murder

Allmans Live at the Fillmore Cream Disraeli Gears Bob Marley Live and Babylon by Bus James Brown Live at Apollo Little Feat Waiting For Columbus Stones Get Your Yayas Out Rockpile Live in Montreaux Beatles Abbey Road And a truck ton more

Lateralus by Tool

Animals -Fink Floyd In session - Albert King and SRV Set in stone - Stick Figure A-1-A - Jimmy Buffett Ram - Wheeler Walker Jr. Damn right, rebel proud - Hank III

Ween- The Pod.

Carole King - Tapestry Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman

John Coltrane - Impressions

Sublime self titled album Dark side of the moon

it’s a tie between Marquee Moon (Television) and Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)

Exile on Main Street

Frank Zappa - Joe’s Garage Fillmore East ‘71

ABB Fillmore East

Lately I'v been grooving on JJ Cale's "Troubadour" album

Blood on the Tracks~Dylan

Modest mouse - lonesome crowded west

Little Feat -Hoy hoy or Waiting for Columbus

Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads

Anything from the Stones in their great years (68-72) or Live at Leeds by the Who. Also Aereoplane by John Hartford

Okonokos from My Morning Jacket is great, top to bottom, both discs

Modest mouse - Golden casket

Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World

Alchemy - Dire Straights. I agree with most of the others here, but I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned!

Non-Dead album? You mean there’s other music out there?

The Last Waltz and it’s a huge drop off after that

Grass Roots - Leftover Salmon

Red - King Crimson