I couldn’t choose from all the songs on Ghosteen, so I’ll just list the opener

Spinning Song - Nick Cave

You can hear the love in his voice, 🎶oooohhhhh Moooootherrrrr!🎶

Has she heard that one Danzig song? She might like it!

Vincent is an asshole, of that I’m certain. I did a 2 minute deep dive on Conan Gray. Less certain, but I think he may be an asshole as well.

May want to consider other ‘friends’.

I don’t think Pablo Honey is all that bad in a vacuum. I think it’s like a lot of ‘pretty good’ albums, full of hits and misses.

However…we can agree to disagree on that. I do think Blow Out would have been even better and a standout on The Bends if it had been saved and recorded (possibly minor rework) during that session. Just a hypothetical.

Thanks for the medal, but I would prefer a commitment that you perform the Gangnam Style dance at least once today!

What’s so ‘great’ about Creep is that it’s easily accessible by a large cross-section of society. I don’t think discerning listeners think it’s all that great. The song itself, pretty good and catchy. Several notches down from most of their work. It’s not at the bottom, but probably lowest quarter.

Go listen to Blow Out, it’s definitely better than Creep, and while it still has a bit of ‘old Radiohead’ sound, the song itself is top half of The Bends good

Thou hast desecrated the holy name of Psy with his inclusion on this list. A plague upon your house!!!

Despite the desperation in the lyrics and vocals, this may capture the essence of the work even more…

https://youtu.be/1ACmCuuIaMQ

Define ‘current artists’. There are some acts still making music that will definitely be known as legends, so are we talking about acts that began in the last 10, 20, 30 years?

The Beatles and Elvis are very different, but their cultural impact will likely never be met or exceeded by another act in our lifetime. So if that is the criteria, probably not.

You are going to see a lot of comments on the internet that are made by those that make you question the right to free speech.

This one is so clearly disproven by even a cursory look at modern music, that I won’t even waste my time with it.

There can be only one…

I think my list is pretty solid, but I pulled it from another post I made with a different purpose. Also, it’s my list so it’s biased towards my preferences. For a more global resource, try the ranked list below. This is the best list of top albums I’ve seen, and it spans a lot of genres.

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/all-time/

The Cure - Disintegration

Thom Yorke - Anima

Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Can - Future Days

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works

Low - Hey What

OutKast - The Love Below

Neil Young - Harvest (or Decade for a good comp)

Andrew Bird - Break it Yourself

St Vincent - Strange Mercy

Tune-Yards - WHO KILL

Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun

Nick Cave - Ghosteen

Sturgill Simpson - SOUND AND FURY (more rock) and/or A Sailors Guide to Earth (more country-ish)

John Prine - John Prine

——Metal/Hard Rock you may still like——-

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Tool - Lateralus

Rage Against the Machine - s/t

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

I didn’t look at your list too closely at first, but I just came back to this and would offer a couple of suggestions if that’s okay.

Regarding Pink Floyd: If you are going to listen to three Pink Floyd albums, choose Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you Were Here, and Animals. Probably in that order. If you don’t like Dark Side…I guess don’t bother with the others. But that album is probably the single greatest of all time when considering both quality AND accessibility. So you will probably like it.

Don’t ask me, I can’t stand them. But…Hybrid Theory is the one people talk about the most.

Radiohead, The Beatles and Pink Floyd are arguably the 3 best acts ever (I said arguably, clearly there are many others in the conversation).

So I might save those albums until the latter half of your listening.

Maybe start with The Eagles and 2Pac albums.

Some people like Linkin Park, but if you don’t like the first album you listen to, I wouldn’t even bother with the next, it will sound pretty much the same.

There is an intrinsic beauty to Doomslaying, a delicate dance interwoven with pedals of bass.

Neil Young - Natural Beauty

https://youtu.be/fmCCpzW7AFU

Nick Cave - Bright Horses

https://youtu.be/cfKYImFP_Pw

Some people listen to Rage Against the Machine to power up, apparently some people listen Enya. Whatever works!

I won’t argue with how others feel regarding flow, but it’s pretty essential for me to remove it

…shut up Ike

I don’t think I’m the only one that holds this opinion, but far from universal. I personally think it’s the worst musically, and I find it grating to my ears. However, I also think that album is one of the pinnacles of modern music.

And furthermore, Maynardies