Off the top of my head:

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
The Verve - A Storm in Heaven
Soundgarden - Superunkown
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Joni Mitchell - Hejira (not a band, but whatever)

As far as I'm concerned, if you want britpop, you go to Pulp. Then Blur, then Supergrass, then Oasis and then....

Well Verve are just unlucky that they didn't get the kind of coverage that the aforementioned got. And for the record Pulp are hardly britpop.

the cro mags-the age of quarrel

possibly the best nyc hardcore record ever. then they decided to make more records.

Ugh. This thread is making me sick to my stomach. 90% of these are albums by bands that suck entirely and the other 10% are albums by bands who have several stellar albums.

"albums by bands that suck completley" is the whole fucking point.

The first Phantom Tollbotth LP is still pretty great. Everything else they did was hot splattery poop.

I agree about Dillinger Escape Plan.

Ire Works was laughable.

The first Sloan album 'Smeared' is actually pretty cool. Much more influenced by shoe-gaze and sonic youth while their later output is just a lame attempt to ape the Beatles.

Regarding dillinger:

Calculating Infinity IS a masterpiece but my favorite release by them is under the running board.

Miss Machine is one of the worst albums i've ever heard.. ever.

Everything But The Girl - Eden

Shit band but good album.

Nirvana - Incesticide
The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

i agree with cure, but i like all the smiths records ( with the exception of 4 or so tracks on meat is murder) and all the nirvana records, though i do not need to hear nevermind or in utero for the rest of my life.

Early prodigy singles for sho'.
I always had a soft spot for prodigy, them being huge when I was a kid and all that, but after they started pretending to be a rockband they were doomed to lameness.
Some months ago I bought a couple of their early singles and they are brilliant.

i like prodigy's "music for the jilted generation"

it reminds me of the summer heading into my senior year of college, aka, my ecstasy days. i used to go to shitty night clubs in providence with my friends and wed all get mashed on e, and always on the rides home i demand we listen to that. not to mention rolling parties and such.

:confused:

Honestly, my favorite Nirvana release is FROM THE MUDDY BANKS OF THE WISHKAH, because even the shitty songs sound good live. Well, Heart-Shaped box will never sound good... I think Bleach has a couple really good songs, as does In Utero ("SCENTLESS APPRENTICE"!!!!) which is about 1/3rd of a really great album. But incesticide rules. I think the Cure are just awful aside from some singles, but I like that album, because it's like the Cure trying to be Wire or something. And the Smiths are a band I loved in middle school but looking back, they have some major MAJOR spotty things in their material -- every album has a couple really great songs but every album also has some awful shit. Louder than Bombs, though, is awesome.

Anyway, I'd like to nominate MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE - Tight to this thread. It actually sounded original and interesting, like a very minimal electro punk band with some awesome songs like "Molly". Completely unlike anything that had came before it. They were awful after that though.

nah, frankenstein girls... is pretty awesome too, it's hilarious and offensive.

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i remembered another two:

chimaira - pass out of existance
this is like machine head's burn my eyes mixed with meshuggah without the weird polyrhythm and the best dj in a band context to bring oppresive, brutal and sterile metal better than fear factory tried during their whole career. listening to it is like a thousand mechanical lions roaring at the same time; then, the financial geniuses decided to sell out and become a metalcore band...i actually can't think of another band who wallow so much in their selling out, they brag about how their second album is so much better than the first because it sounds like lamb of god.

the locust - plague soundscapes:
i remember thinking it sounded like napalm death, dillinger escape plan and devo all tossed into a blender, the most epic album at 20-something minutes. while still having their moments before and after, this remains their true unique statement.

Frankenstein Girls had a couple cool songs, and I saw them live during that time and they were honestly amazing live. but I still felt like they had used all their best ideas on TIGHT. And, in fact, all my favorite songs from Frankenstein Girls were written during the Tight-era...

And, to add even more hilarity, I downloaded their new album "if", which is just AWFUL, but there are like 2 okay songs -- and I just found out they were both written around the TIGHT era as well.

Another aside, I owned an actual copy of TIGHT.. I don't know if I ever posted that on here.

yeah you did post about it, i saw a copy once for retail price and didn't buy it.

i agree frankenstein girls is very long and after "i hate jimmy page" the album looses it's course but i still think it's hilarious.

i was going to see them here but they cancelled.

By all means, you should still them live when they come around.. I'm sure they're still good.. their hardcore fans are complete MORONS, I mean scum of the worth, worse than juggalos, Mansonites, and maggots combined. It's hilarious.