Trying to expand my pallet. Anything from the past 30-40 years. Trying to get into more rock/alternative/indy/electronic stuff…any genre really besides the aforementioned.

Give me the essentials, ITT. They could be the most obvious choices to you but they won’t be to me. Go!

This so non-specific. Why don't you just say what you already like and we can branch out

Never really listened to the other genres like that hence the point of this thread. I’m just looking for the essentials…

This is late 2000s & 2010s stuff of various s***:

Beach house - Bloom & 7
James Blake - Self Titled & Colour in Anything
Fleet Foxes - Self Titled & Helplessness Blues
Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
Mount Kimbe - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
XXYYXX - Self Titled
Nicolass Jaar - Space is Only Noise
Washed Out - Life of Leisure
Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
Bon Iver - Self Titled
Swans - Leaving Meaning & The Seer
Arca - Self Titled
Ta-Ku - Songs to Break Up too
Tokimonsta - Creature Dreams EP
Tame Impala - Lonerism & Currents
MGMT - Little Dark Age
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Woodkid - The Golden Age
Cults - Self Titled
Now Now - Threads

Thanks fam…

aphex twin discography

No problem

My list ranges to easy listening & more contemporary stuff to more "harsher", experimental n "avant garde" type s***, so if u dont like one dont worry u might like the next

I personally do genuinely love all these projects tho

Hope you find something you like

the beatles - abbey road
bob dylan - highway 61 revisited
david bowie - ziggy stardust
black sabbath - paranoid
charles mingus - the saint and the sinner lady
the velvet underground - velvet underground and nico
johnny cash - at folsom prison
demon fuzz - afreaka!
neal young - after the gold rush
funkadelic - maggot brain
led zeppelin - led zeppelin iv
marvin gaye - whats going on
paul mccartney - ram
t rex - the slider
roxy music - for your pleasure
pink floyd - wish you were here
fleetwood mac - rumours
television - marquee moon
joy division - unknown pleasures
talking heads - remain in light
new order - power corruption and lies
prince - purple rain
kate bush - hounds of love
tom waits - rain dogs
peter gabriel - so
the smiths - the queen is dead
the cure - disintegration
pixies - doolittle
morrissey - bona drag
nirvana - nevermind
slint - spiderland
pavement - slanted and enchanted
rem - automatic for the people
jeff buckley - grace
portishead - dummy
slowdive - souvlaki
smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness
modest mouse -This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
weezer - pinkerton
elliott smith - either/or
radiohead - ok computer
massive attack - mezzanine
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
silver jews - american water
the strokes - is this it
flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots
interpol - turn on the bright lights
the notwist - neon golden
spoon - kill the moonlight
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
xiu xiu - knife play
cursive - the ugly organ
the knife - deepcuts
the rapture - echos
the unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone
arcade fire - funeral
joanna newsome - the milk eyed mender
the walkmen - bows and arrows
bloc party - silent alarm
bright eyes - im wide awake its morning
death from above 1979 - youre a woman im a machine
john frusciante - curtains
arctic monkeys - whatever people say I am thats what im not
the black keys - magic potion
brand new - the devil and god are raging inside me
the national lights - the dead will walk dear
radical face - ghost
bjork - homogenic
have a nice life - deathconsciousness
lykke li - youth novels
the rural alberta advantage - hometowns
tv on the radio - dear science
the antlers - hospice
dead mans bones - dead mans bones
the xx - xx
mgmt - congratulations
beach house - teen dream
lcd soundsystem - this is happening
the tallest man on earth - the wild hunt
bon iver - bon iver
smith westerns - dye it blonde
wild beasts - smother
the walkmen - heaven
cloud nothings - attack on memory
twin shadow - confess
perfume genius - put your back n 2 it
grimes - visions
jesse ware - devotion
vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city
fidlar - fidlar
natalie prass - natalie prass
father john misty - i love you honeybear
sufjan stevens - carrie and lowell
tame impala - currents
mitski - puberty 2
pinegrove - cardinal
rina sawayama - rina
carseat headrest - twin fantasy
soccer mommy - clean
foxygen - seeing other people
fka twigs - magdalene
weyes blood - titanic rising
phoebe bridgers - punisher
lana del rey - chemtrails over the country club

the cure - disintegration

Thanks fam! You really went in…

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If you want to hear where Dr Dre got his sound from listen to the first few Funkadelic and Parliament albums. Snoops whole dog imagery is from them too

I recommend you dig through your favourite samples used in beats and find out music that way

Currents - Tame Impala works for every nigga who’s trying to jump off the porch

MY MAN

Word for word, bar for bar!!

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible

album by Enter Shikari. they are a genre bending rock band that I don't think get enough recognition. This album is similar to The Life of Pablo where it combines all the sounds of their previous work into a great overall album.

Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold I think is the best rock album of the 2010s

Blackstar by David Bowie is a popular choice, haven't read the other comments yet but I'm sure somebody suggested it already

Oh that's the good s***

All Sade albums

metallica - master of puppets

Talking Heads - Fear of Music
U2 - Boy
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!

Ride the lightning better

yes but for some reason i think master of puppets slightly more likeable to a beginner

OP here are some "essential" ones:

All great classics