Needles & Grooves

In the Aeroplane Over The Sea, or The Mullusk.

Andy Bell's 2022 double-LP masterpiece Flicker

Violent Femmes - s/t, Astral Weeks and Moondance, Pet Sounds, Homogenic, Disintegration, The Soft Buletin, John Cale - Paris 1919, Unknown Pleasures and Closer, Nothing - Guilty of Everything, Ride - Nowhere, Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell, Youth Lagoon - Year of Hibernation

I LOVE thinking and talking about this topic

Fugazi - Repeater

Prince - Dirty Mind. 30 minutes of pure unadulterated F-U-N-K

Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
INXS - Kick
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth

@tvham great pick with Big Chair, I loved that album at 16 straight through when it came out, and it still captivates me.

@dansomeone I was 15, and same!

@dansomeone @tvham I still consider that to be one of the best albums ever made. It’s one of the few albums I never get tired of.

Amy Winehouse Back to Black and the xx self titled

A few that haven't been mentioned:

Duran Duran - Rio
Big Star - #1 Record
Bob Marley - Exodus
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
Depeche Mode - Violator
Portishead - Dummy
T Rex - Electric Warrior
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Television - Marquee Moon

Speaking of the xx, We're New Here is one I can listen to on repeat.

The first two Los Campesinos!
Zwan
Damien Rice - O

A few others:
Wire - Pink Flag
Waterboys - Fisherman’s Blues
Peter Murphy - Deep
Pixies - Doolittle
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
Elastica - Elastica
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory

Weezer's The Blue Album!

Illmatic

Jon Tabakin - S/T

Soundgarden's Bad Motor finger.

Alvvays - Antisocialites

Speaking of Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses, Madonna- Like a Virgin, Erykah Badu - Baduizm, Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, P!nk - Misunderstood, and I am really really close to adding Amber Mark’s Three Dimensions Deep