Unfortunately/fortunately, I think the same way too. Even the stuff I loved before metal is just so underwhelming now, then again it was probably shit to begin with.

Still if crust/hardcore punk counts Tragedy, The Banner, Wolfbrigade, Anti-Nowhere League, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat are up there.

I'd be tempted to give the Esperanza Spalding album from this year (D+Evolution) full marks... It's really quite excellent.

For a hard rock record/song I pretty much agree. I could listen to Night Train all week long and it would not faze me in the least. I like that song a lot.

The entire record is great though that song is the greatest.

How about Dire Straits' Making movies? That's such an album
Or Live in Japan, by The Runaways

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night soundtrack.

The soundtrack is majestic.

Well, on that note, Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. soundtrack.

There was a 33 1/3 book written about it and it made a case for considering it an album, therefore, it counts. =P

As for Guns n Roses, there's nothing I'd consider giving 100%, there's always some stuff I consider filler. Now, if you could mix and match some things from different albums, I think a near perfect album could be made, though.

Ditto.

I have a great affection to 80s Gothic Rock and Post-Punk. I guess "Pornography" by The Cure comes close to a perfect rating, as well as The Sound's "From the Lion's Mouth".

I've got a few.

First would be The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis, the instrumentation and sheer energy in that album still makes me shudder.

I'd say Quadrophenia as well, but since that's literally in the first post on this thread I'll skip expanding upon it.

Alice Cooper's Love it to Death, the music in that is just really insanely fun to listen to in my opinion.

The Queen is Dead by The Smiths, probably, although not entirely sure on that one.

And, finally, a bunch of cast albums from different shows.

Alright, lemme see.

The Entire City - Gazelle Twin
Red Mecca - Cabaret Voltaire
Too Dark Park - Skinny Puppy
Nihil - KMFDM
Democracy - Killing Joke

Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Trespass by Genesis
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Yessongs by Yes
I, II, III, IV by Led Zeppelin
Wish I Could Remember My Name by David Crosby
Ten by Pearl Jam

That's a tough one, but I suppose "Vicious Circle" by punk band Zero Boys. Certainly not every one's cup of tea, but I think it is rather fantastic, especially considering it's time. It was released in 1982 (their debut album) and they were quite young at the time. It is a shame that the album is not better known. I like some of their stuff that they did after this album, but nothing comes close to "Vicious Circle" and admittedly he band just kept getting worse. I have all of their albums but I not listen to them all... mostly just "Vicious Circle" and select tracks from the next couple of albums.

This sounds a little wonky on youtube, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOPICqMWH_0

I don't want to be labeled a poser, but my favourite album of all time (has been for at least a couple of years) is Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick. It's not thouroughly perfect, some transitions are a bit wonky, sure, but the entire song flows so naturally, so organically. I'm also a big fan of the themes that return with slight variations throughout the album. It's pretty difficult to listen at first because it's only one 45 minute song, but in my opinion it's the finest progressive rock album to have ever been put out and I love it deeply.

Jethro Tull is fantastic, they always have such an eccentric but effective flow. I always preferred Aqualung to Thick as a Brick, though.

On the topic of prog rock, I'd definitely give Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth 100%.

Yeah there seems to be debate wether Aqualung or Thick as a Brick are better, but for me it has always been kind of obvious to be honest. Aqualung is a great album, no doubt about it (much like a lot of their work) but Thick as a Brick has moments that I will never ever forget, that are so indescribably good that I can't even really put it into words, it's weird. Especially the second half of the album is god like!

I should check out that Rick Wakeman album sometime, I've been heavily getting into Yes some time ago and I really liked the bit Wakeman did on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, so I'm sure I'll enjoy it!

Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory by 2Pac

Hip Hop has been hit or miss for me but this album is the one that will always stay with me as a personal favorite.

Also The Cure- Disintegration

I wouldn't give it 100%, but it's definitely my favorite thing 2pac ever did. I have several of his CDs and only like a couple songs on most, this is the only one I actually keep on m mp3 player and come back now and then.

Heretic Pride by The Mountain Goats. Holy shit this rules.

There's a handful, as I'm quite a fan of folk and electronic music as well as some classic rock and punk. Here's some of the non-metal albums that I think are close to perfect. (I'm not counting hard rock, as then there would be too many.)

The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Rusted Root - Cruel Sun
Rusted Root - When I Woke
Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe
Deadmau5 - Get Scraped
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
The Offspring - Self-titled (The original album cover is pretty metal)
The Suicide Machines - War Profiteering is Killing Us All

This stuff is really good. The name stuck out to me and since you like The White Stripes as much as me, I figured I'd check this out... very cool, folksy stuff. I needed something like it.

Awesome, Rusted Root is one of those bands I always turn to when I'm feeling down. They're only really known for "Send Me on My Way" (Which is a good song), but that nowhere near represents how varied their music and tone can be. Their other albums all have some great material, "Faith I do Believe" from Remember is one of my favorites, but those two are the ones I find to be near-perfect and without filler.

Ramleh - Be Careful What You Wish For and Hole in the Heart
Both are 10s for me and both are fairly distinct. The former is a laid back noise, psychedelic style with sounds akin to krautrock and other stuff like that, whereas Hole in the Heart focuses more on direct and abrasive rock filtered through massive walls of noise, textural overkill. Both are just huge too.

Stereolab's four consecutive and most recognized albums
Yeah, honestly each of them is a 10. Stereolab is just so great at crafting very hypnotic and mesmerizing music littered with nuance, and all of these albums are equal in my opinion. They are unparalleled.

Slint - Spiderland
This album is like if life was music. The feelings evoked are all 100% true to their nature. I connect with it in a strange and cryptic way, the lyrics aren't outright saying anything blatantly, but I still feel the connection. It's like a wrapping up of angst in a blanket. This is when we start the downward tread. It's very mundane. Let all the anger out little by little until it's gone, and it's quiet. A perfect display of dynamics, visceral and noisy rock counterbalanced with soft jams

Sonic Youth - Murray Street
It's pretty hard to choose a favorite Sonic Youth album, but I wouldn't hesitate to choose this one. I think it is the most realized go at their noisy, feedback 4ever distortion riddled post-rock style. It's also an easy and relatively short listen in their discog at 45 minutes. There's never a dull moment, in my opinion, and it is recommended for people getting into them. I might also add that I find this to be one of the best showcases of their musicianship, specifically guitar, there is some shredding all over this album to make anyone jealous of these chops. And, it's just all around pleasant.

Planning For Burial - Leaving
This is a dreary and gloomy album, musically and emotionally. It is very personal with it's sparse delivery of depressive lyrics and harsh guitar squealing. It takes from shoegaze, post-rock, some kinda extreme metal, drone and ambient, indie stuff. This album is smeared front to back with a plethora of feedback drenched guitar tracks, all played by it's sole member. It has some of the most amazing moments in this world of music, I think, specifically the two best tracks "Being a Teenager and the Awkwardness of Backseat Sex" and "Verse/Chorus/Verse". A simple and somber guitar motif is repeated through to the end, along with some dismal piano. When that track is over, the piano subsides softly as the title track takes you away. It is the end now. It is a peaceful ending. It is your funeral. And you are happy.

Lowercase - Kill the Lights
This is a masterpiece of indie rock, a true 10/10 in my eyes. It features a strong loud-soft dynamic, subtle musical shifts awash in repetition, and the most important part, building catharsis. The last track here "You're a King" (played with sludge metal band Toadliquor) builds into some of the most utterly heart jerkingly powerful vocals I've ever heard regardless of genre. Listening to the whole album gives this finale more meaning, more emotion, more appreciation for the delivery. This album is one I'd call perfect. Also a shoutout to the second track "Slightly Dazed", which is amazingly mesmerizing and has an undeniable black metal influence. That simple drum pattern is basically the epitome of depressive black metal.

Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
First screamo album I listened to and it remains number one. It was no doubt that I would fall in love after the 15 second blast 1:30 into "Interview at the Ruins". to this day that is one of the absolute best and most epic segments of music I've ever heard. They pack so so many ideas into these songs, it's almost unrealistic how someone can craft this music. They also succeed in showing that chaos in music can be as beautiful as anything else.

Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
I think this could be a great album to listen to to start getting into electronic music, it's just a super smooth glass of fine jams and sensuality. It's tongue in cheek but still as sexy and steamy as music can get, featuring downtempo hip hop virtuosity and radical turntablism from Dan the Automator, and some amazing vocals/narratives from two of the best and most diverse singers out there (Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles). This album is rampant with double entendres and amazingly magical melodies.

Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later
I have such a strong admiration for this album, I've learned a lot from it, sarcastic or otherwise. Musically it is top tier industrial/noise rock, with dual bass clanging and mechanical drum clanks. It dips into experimental stuff on occasion as well. Tod A is one of my all time heroes and voices, and a simply amazing songwriter. He does satire and that stuff at pretty much the highest level, but also can prove to be poignant. The lyrics are always beautiful either way. I feel like calling his songwriting "life changing" might be a bold statement, but if any lyrics ever were, these would at least be among them

Aphex Twin - Drukqs
This is pretty big album packing some pretty big music. Amazingly glitchy and original, super technical and inventive stuff. IDM is a pretty interesting style when you consider this and all the other main stuff like Autechre and Squarepusher. It's very very complicated, intricate, and I'd wager total spastic nonsense for some people hearing it for the first time. I never exactly knew what to make of the tag "intelligent dance music", but whatever. Calling this dance music is kind of a stretch IMO, the dancers must have some interesting moves. Some of it, like this here, is often a barrage of angular electronic and atonal melodies, highly complex drum patterns that are probably incredibly tedious to produce, and a variety of outside/experimental elements, classical music seems to be prevalent. The arrangements on this album come straight from the deepest and most inaccessible caverns of human imagination. No ideas are ever repeated, just total bleepy jackhammering, combined with classical like string/piano/whatever arrangements. Very interesting music, but it always had me wanting more, wanting to hear everything you can possibly do with it. With these impossible blasts of eccentricity, pretty much never sounding like the last, the possibilities do stretch far

Solid Space - Space Museum
Couldn't imagine life without this album, probably wouldn't even wanna try. It makes me feel great in so many ways. A relative obscurity in the world of music, this is a perfect little expression of various waves if the 80s. You know, synthwave, cold wave, minimal wave, new wave. It carries a cold and oddly isolated feeling, probably from the whole space theme. It's quite a unique record honestly, there's odd folk elements here and there, and overall it's just very esoteric and meaningful. Every song is a classic in my mind and I couldn't rightfully name any standouts. It's short and oh so sweet, I wish I could thank Solid Space personally for their sole album, because I know it's had a big impact on my life.

Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Though not a love at first listen, I can say with truth that it is now one of my most beloved albums, and easily one of the best of its time. It is a difficult album in a bunch of different ways. Difficult to categorize, being a shoegaze/post punk blueprint dripping with noise/drone, post rock, and even black metal guitar. Difficult to digest, being a majorly long double album. Difficult to digest... again, but musically this time, a very demanding work. And emotionally, it's a heart wrencher. But once I felt it all, this album definitely showed itself as an awe inspiring work. You can hear just how much soul was poured into this. The piano motif right before that extreme dynamic blast some halfway or whatever into "Earthmover" is hands down one of music's crowning achievements

SPK - Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers
I love SPK for their abrasive industrial noise terror and I love them for their more dancey electro-industrial, but more than both of those, I love SPK fir this album. It's a softer album, but so graceful and magic and esoteric and all kinds of adjective salad. A blend of neoclassical ambient style orchestrations and ritual-ish darkwave coolness from some of industrial music's most important players.

Biosphere - Shenzhou
This one is very minimal and very sparse ambient music, with just a slight neoclassical infusion. There's not much going on dynamically, instead very distant and sometimes haunting string melodies and yhe like are passed over to your brain. It's a super quiet album, but it's real deep, like ultra contemplative

The United States of America - The United States of America
I think that's my favorite psych rock album. It's a gem of the 60s to behold from a band that could possibly be underrated, I dunno. But with this full length they brought in avant-garde electronic stylings. The sound and quality are really amazing and do a justice for these tracks and ideas. It is one I'll forever love, I could say I've listened to it more than any other album of that ilk. Been a fan for a long time and just gave me the willies with their abstract texture

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction. I must have played this album everyday for a few years straight. The album has a rawness about it and a lot of attitude. Although they have grown on me, Use Your Illusion I and II really disappointed me when they came out. They sounded really polished and had a plasticy vibe to me.

SPK - Leichenschrei
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
I literally have listened to this album over 60 or 70 times all the way through, a lot of those times were with my eyes closed, laying completely still. If there is anything that I could call a spiritual experience as an atheist, it would be this album.
The Cherry Icees - The Cherry Icees 2!!!
This is the cutest music I have ever heard in my life. I also feel a special sympathy with the singer, because she's trans and she has a very cute voice, I myself have often questioned the sphere of gender in society and concluded that I myself would prefer to exist somewhere outside of the normal stereotypes that our society puts on us, through involuntarily instilled cultural values. Gender norms are nothing more than authoritarian dogma made by idiots who think that being christian somehow makes you a more moral person, along with the fact that they're just fucking ignorant in general.

But no I mostly just like this band because their music is adorable and makes me happy.
Duster - Stratosphere
Escape the Day - Ghostless
If there's anything I could say about this album, it's that every single song sticks. There's something so unique about this album, I haven't been able to find any other artist who does stuff like it. The simplicity of the arrangements of the music contain a very elegant complexity, which you'd find is hard to match were you to try to imitate it. I can sing along with this album to every single word of it, because the vocal melody sticks. It's an extremely somber album, and I find that in my most depressed of moods, I can turn on this album and it will comfort me. It's a part of me.
Low - I could live in hope
Somewhat the same case as the last album, but more simplistic. It gives me that feeling of comfort no matter how depressed I may become.
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
I got chills just typing out the name of this album. It's absolutely everything that I could hope of an album. It has rozz's flamboyant ass vocals which make me feel sexy as hell. It's fucking filthy, the guitar tone is absolutely raucous. The riffs are all memorable, every single song is as amazing as the last, they literally all stand out as highlights on the album. This is the album that I hold every single goth and post punk album up to, nothing touches it. This album makes every other dark and vicious rock album sound uninspired. Not to mention it's anti Christian as fuck. Good.
Bela Bartok - The Complete String Quartets (Tacaks quartet).
I've listened to a few recordings of this album and this one stands out to me. This recording makes a lot of the moments of the album sound a lot more profound and impactful than any other recording of I've listened to. This music is, as my old boss would put it "cosmic music".

Most of the following genres I'm just starting to get into. I'll probably update this list as I progress, but for now:

Ambient:
Astralia - Atlas
Black Mountain Transmitter - Black Goat of the Woods
Burzum - FIlosofem (half black metal, but most of it is ambient)
Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP

Avant-Garde:
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

Classic Rock:
Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock
Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun

Classical:
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
Gustav Holst's The Planets

Dark Rock:
Counting Hours - Demo
Katatonia - Discouraged Ones
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Katatonia - Saw You Drown

Drone:
Earth - II: Special Low Frequency Version

Humor:
George Carlin - Parental Advisory
Tenacious D - s/t

Post-Rock:
Sleep Dealer - The Way Home

Prog Rock:
Rush - 2112
Yes - Tales From The Topographic Oceans

Power Electronics:
Ramleh - Hole In My Heart

Punk:
Rocket From The Tombs - The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs

Neofolk:
Agalloch - Tomorrow Will Never Come
Agalloch - The White

Shoegaze:
Astronoid - November
Ride - Nowhere

A 100% to Tales From Topographic Oceans? That's a curious choice. May I ask why?

hey there are lots of great albums here! spiderland is one of my all time favorites as well, and i love hole in the heart. just started getting into stereolab recently, "dots and loops" is great but i heard the previous albums before it are even better. i'm assuming you've listened to skullflower if you've listened to ramleh.

also cop shoot cop are fantastic. ask questions later was my first so i hold it dearly to my heart, but i think consumer revolt is my favorite.

anyway, here's a list of full length albums which pretty much get a 100% from me

beastie boys, paul's boutique
black flag, damaged
brainbombs, burning hell
leonard cohen, songs of love & hate
coil, horse rotorvator & musick to play in the dark volume 1
crass, feeding the 5000
crime, san francisco's still doomed (this is a comp but they never had a full length so, fuck it)
the damned, machine gun etiquette
devo, q: are we not men? a: we are devo!
discharge, hear nothing see nothing say nothing
einsturzende neubauten, zeichnungen des patienten OT
brian eno, here come the warm jets
flipper, album: generic flipper
fugazi, red medicine
the gun club, fire of love
husker du, zen arcade
joy division, unknown pleasures
king crimson, red
MC5, kick out the jams
negativland, escape from noise
public image ltd., metal box
pink floyd, animals
pixies, trompe le monde
queens of the stone age, rated r
radio birdman, radios appear
radiohead, kid a
shellac, at action park
siouxsie & the banshees, juju
slint, spiderland
sonic youth, evol
stooges, funhouse
swans, cop & soundtracks for the blind
throbbing gristle, second annual report
a tribe called quest, low end theory
wire, 154
X, los angeles
neil young, tonight's the night

I'm sure I'll miss some, but I'll give this a crack. Apologies in advance for the long rambling post. In no particular order:

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Rated R is almost as good - a smorgasbord of different sounds that somehow fit cohesively into one killer record. With Songs for the Deaf they basically did the opposite. Not to say all the songs sound the same, but this has a cohesive vibe running throughout it. This is basically the pinnacle of modern rock for me. Heavy as fuck, although not at all metal, interesting guitar work with lots of great riffs and let's not forget Dave Grohl. I don't care about the Foo Fighters, but holy shit is he a great drummer and I actually think his performance here is better than it ever was with Nirvana. Having three lead vocalists here was a big risk and it paid off big.

Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Absolutely essential post-punk. While they went on to do some really cool stuff in lots of different styles, they got it the best the first time around. The rhythms are infectious, the basslines booming, the keyboards atmospheric yet still very active and the songwriting concise. This is wildly influential, just as important in the development of industrial rock as it was in giving Amebix a backbone to springboard off of.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Pretty damn obvious but absolutely essential. With The Idiot, Iggy Pop and David Bowie laid the foundations for post-punk and here we see it codified into a fully-formed style. The basslines are simple but so damn effective, the guitar adds so much atmosphere and Ian's vocals are one of a kind.

The Stooges - The Stooges
Punk's equivalent to Black Sabbath's debut. It is so fucking batshit insane that this was released in 1969. "Now I Wanna be Your Dog" especially lays the groundwork for punk rock. Structurally this is quite simple but it's easy to forget just how groundbreaking this was. I love the subtle psychedelic blues guitar that creeps in at times. "We Will Fall" was a major risk, being ten minutes and largely acapella, but ends up one of the pieces on the album.

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Very hard call between this and The Idiot, but ultimately I think this is his magnum opus as a solo musician. One foot in the present and one foot in the past - while still doing lots of things and carrying the punk torch, a lot of this has nods to 50s rock n' roll. You can't really get any better than David Bowie and Iggy pop collaborating. It's an interesting contrast with some of the songs being so upbeat while being about heroin and all.

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Fairly obvious pick, but it really is that good. There's a lot going on with this album, but it's still catchy as fuck and has unified feel. I like how "Soul Love" is basically the best song T-Rex never wrote. The instrumentation is great, but ultimately it is Bowie's amazing songwriting and enigmatic vocals that make this so worthwhile.

Swans - White Light from the Mouth of Infinity
The Glowing Man is steadily growing to be one of my favourite albums of all time, but I don't think White Light will ever be dethroned. Still experimental and dark, leaning heavy on post-punk but some of their catchiest and melodic of all time. Micheal's gruff, sardonic vocals are such a great to Jarboe's beautiful, sultry ones.

Pink Floyd - Animals
Sprawling, epic songs with lots of psychedelic and ambient touches. It's a hard album to write about and words can't really give it justice, but they essentially turn rock on its head and make something so original and unique it could never be repeated.

The Clash - London Calling
The golden standard for double albums. They were only kind still a punk rock band at this point but it doesn't really matter. Every song is fucking amazing. It's such a diverse and expansive album but everything works so well together.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# Infinity
Call me hipster swine all you like but this is fucking fantastic. One of the definitive statements of post-rock, yet sounds nothing like the vast, vast majority of post-rock bands. Ridiculously post-apocalyptic, massive and scope and their use of samples is some of the best this way of Neurosis.

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Everything there is to say about this album has already been said, but obviously some of the best songwriting ever. "Desolation Row" will always be one of my top ten songs.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
This was hard for me to choose - he has a ridiculously immense discography full of great shit. Everything he's done from the mid 8os through the 90s is essentially perfect to me and I love his recent albums as well. The only one I don't love is Nocturama and I'll admit that No More Shall we Part had some weaker songs and the debut is occasionally too weird for me. It was especially hard to pick between this and Let Love In, but this is darker and has a good portion of his best songs.

Tom Waits- Rain Dogs
Feel the same way about his discography as I do with Nick Cave, but didn't even have to think about which one is his best. This just might be my favourite album of all time. Such a great tribute to NYC - it's so diverse but everything is so fucking awesome. It all fits together perfectly, too. Love the nods to jazz and the exotic percussion. A bro once said to me that this is like Bukowski in music form, and I'm inclined to agree.

Death in June - But What Ends When the Symbols Shatter
His first handful of albums (minus Burial which isn't a real album) are also essential, but this is the pinnacle of neofolk. Simple but effective songwriting, lush ethereal production and excellent subtle additional instrumentation and esoteric lyrics.

The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Very much a classic punk rock album, but also very expansive. Excellent lead guitar, stellar songwriting and great vocals/lyrics. Takes quite a few risks and they pay off big.

Gun Club - Miami
Stumbled across this through Youtube's annoying autoplay feature and it ended up being one of my favourite albums ever. Asked my dad if he heard it and he was like "well yeah, they're one of the biggest influences on my band". This essentially sprung from early punk rock but ends up being something new. Lots of country (seriously, in the best way possible) and old rock influences. Pierce has such a unique (if technically flawed) voice and it works perfect.

Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain
Hands down my favourite singer/songwriter album of all time. Doesn't get any better than this for songwriting or lyrics. If you think all country is garbage I urge you to give this a spin.

Nas - Illmatic
Best hip hop album ever. Killer lyricism, top notch old school jazzy beats with a fresh organic feel and amazing flow.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
He has lots of great albums and In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew are some of my all time favourites, but this is just pure perfection. It's the best selling jazz album of all time and often considered the best, and gun to my head I'd say it's the best, too. I love the modal approach and the sidemen playing on this are fucking god-tier. Just take a look at the first 30 seconds of opener "So What" - absolutely iconic piano chord intro, the jagged piano line to follow is so impossibly memorable and is followed by essentially the best bassline of all time.

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Fucking hell, this is good. Hands down the album that got me into jazz. Mingus Ah Um, Blues and Roots and Let My Children Hear Music are all stone cold classics, but this right here is just something else. It's experimental, has some pretty crazy instrumentation (that flamenco guitar, tho) but is also impossibly catchy and memorable. Charles Mingus is easily one of my favourite musicians of all time in any genre.

Donald Byrd - Ethiopian Knights
As great as Bitches Brew and Headhunters are, this is probably my fusion GOAT. There's a massive amount of funk in this and it's so fucking infectious. The two main tracks here are so fucking massive and monolithic and the interlude has one of the most heartfelt melodies I've ever heard. Wish more people knew about this one.

Art Blakey - Moanin'
Personal favourite for the hard bop style of jazz. Catchy as a motherfucker, but still very adventurous. Art's drumming is some of the best ever. Classic.

Non-metal albums on the archives I'd give 100: Discharge - "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing", Giant Squid - "The Ichthyologist"

Honorable mentions: Gang of Four - "Entertainment", Dead Kennedies "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables", Grails - "Deep Politics", Sol Invictus - "The Blade", Black Flag - "My War", Sturgill Simpson - "Sailor's Guide to Earth", Led Zepellin - IV, The Myrrors - st, Leonard Cohen - "Songs of Love and Hate", Lee Scratch Perry - "Super Ape", Horace Silver - "A Song for my Father", Jimmy Smith - "Back at the Chicken Shack", Eddie Gale - "Ghetto Music", Tribe Called Quest - "Low End Theory" ect

Pearl Jam - Ten

Start to finish I think this album can easily get 100 percent from me. I know bands need to progress, but I really wish they would of continued the Les Paul vs. Stratocaster, trading off solos sound.

Grendel - Timewave Zero

This one took a while to grow on me. I initially only liked a couple of tracks and thought half the album was too mellow or upbeat or euoropoppy and not harsh enough. After enough listens and not wanting to skip all the "bad" songs every time, it eventually started to feel like one beautiful, cohesive, unique album. It falls together perfectly. Now I only wish it were longer because it all ends too quickly.

I'd have to say Dark Side of The Moon

I too loved the Appetite for Destruction. I did own an original cover art vinyl copy but it got lost during a house move some years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appetite_for_Destruction#Artwork

It was mentioned, but I feel the same way about OK Computer by Radiohead. I would give that album 100 percent, start to finish. I'm not a Radiohead fan, with the exception of that album. Start to finish that album is truly amazing.

surprised that you love that album but aren't a Radiohead fan. They topped that with Kid A.

Seems to be a divisive album. I think In Rainbows and King of Limbs are great records of experimental pop with a sort of nocturnal feeling, but I can't put on Ok Computer for two fucking minutes without cringing viciously.

Huh! Interesting. I do prefer the stuff they did after a lot more and I've been listening to OKC for, sheesh, probably close to 20 years on and off now so it's drilled into my head. I guess having it be a divisive album is surprising to me because I associate that more with the Bends. King of Limbs was a let down for me NO PUN INTENDED. It just felt sort of incomplete, I guess? "Little by Little" and "Codex" are so good, though.

OK Computer is amazing, but its tied to a bad memories for me now. A hurricane had come though and we lost power. At the same time my ex-wife was very sick and couldn't sleep. With the power left on my phone I played her No Surprises to help her relax and sleep. Now I can't listen to it, because I am haunted those memories.

I would say Genesis' "Selling England By The Pound" and "Foxtrot".
And "Red" by King Crimson.

OK Computer is the only Radiohead album I own and I think it's great. Not something I can play all the time, but masterful songwriting, not a second wasted. Super inventive and weird and creative stuff that I've never heard anything quite like. Great lyrics, too.