You all are probably going to laugh at me, but the most recent album that blew me away, was Royal Blood's debut. I live in the U.S. In 2014, and it felt like guitar driven pop rock and alternative was dying (still is). Royal Blood comes along with Figure It Out, Out if the Black, Little Monster, Ten Tonne Skeleton, etc, and I was blown away. I pre-ordered the album after listening to Figure It Out non-stop for a week or so. At the time, it was an answer to what I needed in my heart.
I gotta go with Evanescence's debut album Fallen. Never really listened to alternative rock before and I fell in love with the band. Amy Lee's voice in particular.
Check out The Gathering. Their albums Mandylion and Nighttime Birds are literally Evanescence ten years before their time. Anneke Van Griersbergen is a genius.
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns. I love Linkin Park but I heard negative stuff about A Thousand Suns, people saying that they have gone too electric and lost their metal. However, I listened to the album, brought the CD and loved it. It is out there and clearly a one off experimental album
"Thats the Spirit" By Bring Me The Horizon for me, was never into them for the longest time until i sat down and listened to that album and throne and drown gripped me and dragged me in but Avalanche grabbed hold of me and made me a fan, and since then i have gone back and listened to everything and the parts of there music i could not stand before i love
If it's released by a major label, it's considered "Mainstream". If it gets regular radio play, it's also considered "mainstream". That said, the idiot who said "Vulfpeck was big in America", clearly has no fucking clue what, 1, "mainstream" means, and 2, what "big in America" means. Out of their 4 albums, they've only had 2 even make the top 200 when they debuted (10, 46) and in terms of overall sales they had one album come in as high as 76th. No other album even charted.
@@LW-tt1nl I know. It's just a band that most people have never heard of was named as mainstream. I consider mainstream music as music you'd hear on the radio or on streaming services (without having to search for it)
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork. I was 13 when it came out and the only music I had really listened to before that was the popular pop music out at the time. Now the music I listen to I couldn’t live without and it’s all because of that album that expanded my music taste.
Three biggest surprises that are very good, Big Wreck, "Albatross", didn't even know they got back together, Charlie Sexton, "Cruel and Gentle Things", an album to sit back and just enjoy the day. and Doyle Bramhall II, "Rich Man". Bluesy, Soul driven album with a little funk for added flavor.
The album that blew me away was BMTH's That's The Spirit, a few years back. I remember when Sempiternal came out, it was that big but I just couldn't get into them at that time, and anything before Sempiternal I hated so I just left them there. Fast forward to 2016, That's The Spirit was out and doing really well, the umbrella symbol kept popping up everywhere so eventually I was like "okay, let's see what the fuss is about" I remember wincing listening to it first thinking "when's the mindless screaming going to start", but before I knew I fell so hard for this album, nothing had ever quite gotten to me like that before, it was amazing. It was during the time my mom was diagnosed with cancer and I felt exhausted going home every day from the hospital, having to see her being slowly devoured by the cancer, that I'd pop That's The Spirit on and everything melted away and I felt amazing listening to it. Before long I was rocking out to Sempiternal and There Is A Hell and so on. This year I think Northlane's Alien and Crown The Empire's Sudden Sky took me by surprise, two great albums and Tool's new song/upcoming album.
Bring Me The Horizon - There is a Hell believe me I've seen it. There is a Heaven let's keep it a secret The Fall Of Troy - Doppelgänger Finch - Say hello to sunshine Julien Baker - Sprained ankle The Weeknd - House of balloons
There’s a few that have blown me away over the years. Biggest and most important was Midian by Cradle of Filth. No credit’s only album was great for me, reminded me of the great punk rock I grew up with but with a lot more aggression and I fell in love with it instantly. Billie Eilish’ first record really changed something in me too, I heard it thinking it’s not something I should like, but I really loved the change in pace.
From Mars to Sirius by Gojira is a really good album that introduced me to them but the album that truly blew me away was The Way of All Flesh because they took everything to a new level.
For me, it was Unto The Locust by Machine Head. Back when this album was released, I had no idea about Machine Head. I randomly red a praise about the album online and I bought it out of curiosity. And I fell in love with it as soon as I heard the first note of I Am Hell (Sonata in C#), first song of the album.
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime Dream Theater: Falling Into Infinity Black Stone Cherry: Black Stone Cherry Metallica: Master of Puppets Steely Dan: Aja Just a few of the albums that I never expected to hear (never heard of the bands before then), and which absolutely blew my mind.
Ash listens to Knocked Loose? Hell yeah! I'm surprised how much I liked Disposed by The Plot in You. I'd never listened to their earlier/heavier stuff but that album was so good. Reminds me of That's the Spirit by Bring me the Horizon a bit.
There are two albums in my collection that not only unexpectedly blew me away because I barely knew what was going to be on the album when I bought them but when I tell people I love these albums, they think I'm mental or making shit up. LEN - Can't Stop The Bumrush: ..As in the album with Steal My Sunshine on it! That might be a cheesy 90s one hit wonder to most but that song had me in such a good mood that I decided to get the albums. The artwork was pretty alluring too. That album is so eclectic and well put together that it's actually a crime Marc Constanzo doesn't get enough respect as a producer and song writer. There's so many interesting sample usage, a Biz Markie cameo and practically every track is a different genre but equally great. LEN in general are underrated as they even had more shoegaze-y/grungey albums before that and releases afterwards which continue the genre-blending and happy vibes. Vanilla Ice - Hard To Swallow: I bought this totally out of curiosity after reading in the back of Rock Sound that it was coming out and meant to be "Korn-inspired". I waited and waited...I think it came to the UK later than release but I eventually found it in a Virgin Megastores (I think.) Quite possibly the most expensive album I ever bought but...FUCK IT'S GOOD. It's produced by Ross Robinson, it's got the Amen drummer on it and even features Casey Chaos on a couple of tracks, and Jimmy Pop of Bloodhound Gang... Musically it's still an amazing and pretty creative nu-metal/rap metal album. It's annoying to know that it was Ross Robinson's idea and Vanilla Ice went along with it unaware of nu-metal prior to this, but that just goes to show how great a producer Robinson is because it sounds so unique. I still don't think I've ever heard something like Stompin' Through The Bayou. I don't give much credit to Vanilla Ice for the album anymore but...still it's still great.
Going all over the place: Danzig - Danzig. Knowing where he came from with The Misfits and Samhain, this was a great turn. Not a bad song on the whole album. Shooter Jennings & Hierophant - Black Ribbons. Take a country artist and have him make a "conspiracy theory" concept album. You have to listen to the album straight through, even though the songs themselves, which don't stick to one format, are all pretty solid. Babymetal - Babymetal. First time I heard it, I had to pause the songs 3-4 time to ask myself what the hell I was listening to, but I couldn't stop. It's so bizarre and really launched a massive wave of Japanese kawaii-metal and all female metal bands into the US. The Avett Brothers - True Sadness. Different approach to many of the songs, different production, pivot from some of their earlier approaches into a bit more mainstream, but still being "The Avett Brothers". Loved it
Growing up in the 90's and listening to Industrial Metal in the likes of 'Ministry' , 'Nine Inch Nails' , 'Fear Factory' , 'Pitch Shifter' and so on, I then stopped buying new music for a few years so wanted to find out what had happened to the scene in the 21st century. The album I was directed to was 'Combichrist' - 'What the F^^k is Wrong With You People?' and for the first time in years I felt future was here! Albeit a total dystopian nightmare, but man, what a ride!
Sea change by beck. Brooding, emotional, Minimalist and immaculate. -oh, and for the most part I don’t like emo but further seems forever’s albums how to start a fire and the moon is down are amazing!
I was listening to volbeat on Spotify while I was studying for my exams and because the album was finished, it went automatically to an other album (and an other band). That was my first listen to scars (expanded) by the band soil. I never heard of them but the album was great.
Glitterbug by The Wombats was an album that I didn't expect to love when I listened to it at the recommendation of SpectrumPulse, but its now one of my top 3 all time favorite albums. "Be Your Shadow" *Should* be an indie classic and i am annoyed every moment that it isn't ksadjjasf
I have to say... The album that unexpectedly blew me away was Joanne by Lady Gaga... I mean country Gaga... Really... But... Its such a solid and unique album.
Probably have to go with “Goodbye and Good riddance”. I wasn’t huge into “sad rap” at that point, and I figured someone with the name “Juice Wrld” wouldn’t be worth my time, but I listened to the album a week after it released and loved every song. I think it has to be one of my most played albums ever.
There have been several albums that completely blew me away. 1. Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack), I hate Disco, but I like that album. 2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning (Start of being a lifelong Metallica fan). 3. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill. (Did not expect this album to be my favorite for 2 years.) 4. Stone Sour - Come What(ever) may. (This record turned me into both a Slipknot and Stone Sour fan. Already liked the first Stone Sour & Slipknot Vol.3 Albums. But this completed my conversion.) 5. BabyMetal - BabyMetal (Although I prefer another J-ROCK band today, "Band Maid", this album caught me attention due to the music . Vocals are always great to understand; however, when do you get every lyric correct?)
A recent album that took me by surprise was Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae! I had never listened to any of her stuff previously so I didn't know that to expect. I don't think I disliked a single track! Almost a perfect modern pop album
The album that unexpectedly blew me away is The House That Dirt Built by The Heavy. Absolutely incredible, and some of the songs I never thought I'd listen to are now some of the songs I listen to the most. The whole album was incredible
I have two albums. Wisconsin Death Trip blew me away the first time I heard it. The second was Disintegration by The Cure. I was hung over from a night of drinking and stopped at a doughnut shop. I put on the album on Spotify and I was just like woah every track that came on. It became my second favorite album of all time
There's a few albums that could fit this for me, there's an awesome wave by alt j (which I listened to and recognised 3 or 4 songs and it was awesome), blackbird by alter bridge (it introduced me to the band and all of their music is amazing), evanescence's self titled album (as I thought evanescence had disappeared and would never come back and then they came back like no time passed at all), one by one by foo fighters (blew kid me's mind) silver side up by nickelback (this was before rockstar, this was during the time of how you remind me and while overplayed that was an incredible song, but the rest of the album is as good if not better), royal blood (was one of the best overall albums I've ever heard), superunknown by soundgarden (introduced me to chris cornell), the pick of destiny by tenacious d (raised my opinion of jack black incredibly) and all hope is gone by slipknot (showed me I could like slipknot).
I absolutely love Pure Heroine by Lorde. One of my all time favourite albums which was strange for me as I'm a huge fan of metal and hardcore but it was so different and was just fantastic.
"Scarlet Sins" by Scarlet sins. it is to date their only album but it is so good, every song on there is briliant. the band split up, but they recently got back together even added another member to the band and they are gonna make a second album. I'm looking forward to hearing it when it comes out.
The album that got me into metalcore, let the ocean take me by the amity affliction. Only really listened to more punky stuff like A day to remember and Silverstein but then my buddy showed me deaths hand and forest fire and I pretty much immediately went and bought the album
Very recent one, but black midi’s ‘Schlagenheim’ absolutely stunned me, Near DT MI gave me absolute chills down my spine and is easily one of the best rock songs of the decade by far
Good Kid, Bad City by Kendrik Lamar - prior to this album I was fairly anti- mainstream rap, and I talked a lot of crap about Kendrik. Once I listend to the album his music just clicked in my head.
@@jaxbittner8536 It just got me to give mainstream rap a chance. Before that I was listening to Jedi Mind Tricks, Blue Scholars, and other underground rap or 90 and early 200s rap.
For me it definitely Crybaby by Melanie Martinez. I had seen Martinez on The Voice and thought she had some talent but wasn't anything particularly special but on a whim I gave her debut album a try and I'm so glad I did. The entire album deals with deep subject matter but from a very childlike point of view. For instance the song Mrs. Potato Head is all about beauty culture and how it encourages young girls to these unreasonable expectations that often leads to unnecessary plastic surgeries. There is also Tag You're It which is about a creep that stalks, kidnaps and rapes the Crybaby character of the album. (Yeah, this album gets DARK when you analyze the lyrics)
For me it's Queens of the Stone Age, ...Like Clockwork album. It was the quality and great revision of a band that finally lived up to the potential that their first single promised.
Back in the day I was driving with a buddy and he put on an album called "It won't snow where she is going." by a band called Park. I had no idea who this band was and It was this really fresh and emotionally hectic all over the place kind of post-hardcore. After first listen I was hooked, but after a few repeat listens and checking out their back catalogue I was so surprised with how much I got into this band and that particular album.
I just want to give a shout out to Scott on this vid, he made Dance with the Dead sound very appealing to me. I looked them up on Spotify and been listening to them all day long. They're fantastic!! ❤️ from 🇨🇦
One person I came late to the party to was Lana Del Rey but she has something that girl. And singing on Cat Powers woman who is another total badass was just the icing on the cake. I love it! And the cover of some things last a long time by Daniel Johnstone. Amazing. R.I.P. Daniel lad. Get some peace at last...
I ended up realising that I'd slept on Comeback Kid - Die Knowing...actually most of their work...after not really giving them enough attention all these years. I saw them around the time of Turn It Around and have always had that but barely listened to it. I was then always aware of Wake Up the Dead and even randomly saw them a couple of times over the years...but only recently did I decide to properly delve into their discography and found myself going "why...why I have not been listening to them all this time?" Wasted Arrows in particular is just a TUNE!
A band called Scar the Martyr, which was a project Joey Jordison came out with shortly after being released from Slipknot, came out with a self-titled album in 2013 that was just stunning. Unfortunately, that was their one and only album before Jordison pulled the plug on it.
I gotta say, I was not expecting Hoobastank to be brought up in this video, or really any video at all for that matter. Oh well, it's good that people are talking about Hoobastank again who clearly have the best band name of all time.
Abandoned by Defeater. Listened to it as I was getting into Hardcore. And my god, that album blew me away like you wouldn’t believe. A concept album about a priest having a crisis of faith. Its filthy, its mean, its sad and it’s so fucking good
Radiohead Kid A. I found their first two records to be typical second wave "alt" snoozefests. Didn't bother with Ok Computet due to this. Kid A blew my mind...went back and kicked myself for not bothering with Ok Computer (even though I think Kid A was much better)
She tried to copyright that combination of numbers in that order. Therefore, if someone asked you what year the Berlin Wall came down she tried to earn royalties. Thankfully the money grabbing robot failed.
Well here's an irony. I was looking up that Blue By You song that Ash mentioned (not bad) and it leads me to a video of Norah Jones singing Blue Bayou with M. Ward. Boom, mice packs up the back just hearing how fantastic they did it.
Lightning at the Door by All Them Witches. The Open Door by Evanescence. Future's self titled album. Art Angels by Grimes. Lux Prima by Karen O & Danger Mouse. 11 by Johnny Rain. Nabuma Rubberband by Little Dragon. Lucifer III by LUCIFER. I Disagree by Poppy. And Now for the Whatchamacallit by Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. Rather You Than Me by Rick Ross. Les Is More by Ryan Leslie. 10,000 Days by TOOL. The 1st by Willow. Unexpected albums that blew me away! Check them out guys!
Beat the Champ by The Mount Goats. An album about wrestling. I'd never heard anything by them but thought "eh, this sounds like a laugh at least". Absolutely cracking album and a gateway into a fantastic band that'd somehow completely slipped my radar.
Volbeat: outlaw gentlemen and shady ladies. Volbeat is a danish hard rock and metal band. It has a western theme throughout the album and every fucking song was so damn catchy in all the right ways. Unique voice and great song writing with vocal performances from king diamond and Sarah Blackwood. So good.
Fight With Tools - Flobots Political music rarely gets to me; as I normally just... am completely uninterested in the topics. It's a big reason why Rise Against has turned me off. But this album made me fall in love with Flobots in largely the same way I still actually really like RA. Obviously I first heard them through Handlebars so I had to check out the album it came from. It completely blew me out of the water and led to me spending a solid two months listening to basically nothing but Flobots. The closing song Rise exemplifies everything I seek out of rap and hip hop. It's got a solid beat, two amazing MCs with insane chemistry with each other, and has a positive message. This album was just start to finish what I show people when I want to tell them about just how good rap can be and I was so not expecting it out of a semi-one hit wonder. They're definitely one of my favourite hip hop acts to this day tbh. and I mean, stand out tracks for me are Handlebars(duh), Rise, The Rhythm Method(Move!), and Stand Up.
Oh shit, I forgot: Mystery Skulls EP! I heard the song Money in a random ass TH-cam video which most of you have probably seen by now called Turntable Turnabout with Phoenix Wright stuff over the song. I loved the song and saw the bandcamp link in the description so I went and picked up the EP. I have bought every piece of music Mystery Skulls has put out since, so fucking good. His music (it's actually one dude) is best described as indie funk pop. It's amaze-balls.
Previous parkway drive? Can't understand the words? Come on Rach!!! 🎶I can feel the deadweight of my soul dragging me from this world!🎶 Dammit Rachel take it back this instant!! Lol
...stayed at a mates years ago and she had 'Permanent Shade Of Blue' by Roachford playing in the background...only knew 'Cuddly Toy' at that point...what a fantastic, mellow album...after 'One Week' came out I went and looked up everything that Barenaked Ladies had done...their first album 'Gordon' is fucking smashing...clever, witty lyrics...
Absolutely loving that you have finally made a music channel. Hope you don't mind me making a band suggestion to you guys and girls at whatculture. I think you should check out a band called Dance Gavin Dance. (What a ridiculous name you might say) But check them out. They are a post hardcore, math rock experimental rock band and meld all kind of genres of music very funky and melodic sometimes with huge breakdown of aggression. There are two vocalist one clean and one heavy vocalist. Will Swan the lead guitarist is just amazing using all kind of genres in to his music. Please please please check them out start with the happiness album. The song Carl barker was what hooked me. Then look at the instant gratification album, then mothership. So so so good Amazing band with Loads of fantastic songs.
Anthony Schock I agree with both except they are not critically acclaimed. When I think overrated, I think of the praise they get, not the AirPlay they get
Nonstop Feeling is just a little bit better than T&S, in my opinion. I got into Angel Du$t a bit late but really love them. Could almost say that all their albums unexpectedly "blew me away". Never quite found the same magic with TUI but maybe I need to give them another go. I am loving myself a bit of Slope at the moment - German band doing that similar sort of groovy Leeway-worship kind of stuff.
the album that unexpectedly blew me away was the debut album from the velvet underground 'the velvet underground and nico'....back in the sixties, with the beatles and the stones messin' about, here came this new york (where i was born) street sound that just changed everything about music...even got to meet lou reed a couple of times...not very talkative....
Lorde's The Love Club is a very profound song, oh, and yes, I agree, I think it's a shame that journalists that comment on Billie Eilish pay no homage to Lorde.
I know Jules is a busy bald queen but we need more of him on this channel
You all are probably going to laugh at me, but the most recent album that blew me away, was Royal Blood's debut.
I live in the U.S. In 2014, and it felt like guitar driven pop rock and alternative was dying (still is). Royal Blood comes along with Figure It Out, Out if the Black, Little Monster, Ten Tonne Skeleton, etc, and I was blown away. I pre-ordered the album after listening to Figure It Out non-stop for a week or so.
At the time, it was an answer to what I needed in my heart.
I gotta go with Evanescence's debut album Fallen. Never really listened to alternative rock before and I fell in love with the band. Amy Lee's voice in particular.
Check out The Gathering. Their albums Mandylion and Nighttime Birds are literally Evanescence ten years before their time. Anneke Van Griersbergen is a genius.
Every Open Eye by Chvrches for me.
Thought people had forgotten how to write energetic yet provocatively sombre pop.
Fuck yes, Chvrches is such a great band that I feel not enough people know about.
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns. I love Linkin Park but I heard negative stuff about A Thousand Suns, people saying that they have gone too electric and lost their metal. However, I listened to the album, brought the CD and loved it. It is out there and clearly a one off experimental album
So agreed... Deserves another listen
"Thats the Spirit" By Bring Me The Horizon for me, was never into them for the longest time until i sat down and listened to that album and throne and drown gripped me and dragged me in but Avalanche grabbed hold of me and made me a fan, and since then i have gone back and listened to everything and the parts of there music i could not stand before i love
I love the variety that there in your music tastes. Some like pop, some like metal, some prefer rap. I really respect that !
What some of you at WhatCulture music think is mainstream music is not mainstream
If it's released by a major label, it's considered "Mainstream". If it gets regular radio play, it's also considered "mainstream". That said, the idiot who said "Vulfpeck was big in America", clearly has no fucking clue what, 1, "mainstream" means, and 2, what "big in America" means. Out of their 4 albums, they've only had 2 even make the top 200 when they debuted (10, 46) and in terms of overall sales they had one album come in as high as 76th. No other album even charted.
@@gfear24 never heard of them
I didn't think this was about mainstream music just albums that surprised you on how good it was☕
@@LW-tt1nl I know. It's just a band that most people have never heard of was named as mainstream. I consider mainstream music as music you'd hear on the radio or on streaming services (without having to search for it)
@@franklingoodwin cool thanks ☕
I just looked up Vulfpeck, and from the first beat I was all in!! What great music. Thank you 🙏
Alex Townley ✌️
me too
For me it's the peppa pig my first album album
Roadhouse
Melon, is that you? 🤣
It's a classic Mr. Roadhouse
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork. I was 13 when it came out and the only music I had really listened to before that was the popular pop music out at the time. Now the music I listen to I couldn’t live without and it’s all because of that album that expanded my music taste.
Three biggest surprises that are very good, Big Wreck, "Albatross", didn't even know they got back together, Charlie Sexton, "Cruel and Gentle Things", an album to sit back and just enjoy the day. and Doyle Bramhall II, "Rich Man". Bluesy, Soul driven album with a little funk for added flavor.
The album that blew me away was BMTH's That's The Spirit, a few years back. I remember when Sempiternal came out, it was that big but I just couldn't get into them at that time, and anything before Sempiternal I hated so I just left them there. Fast forward to 2016, That's The Spirit was out and doing really well, the umbrella symbol kept popping up everywhere so eventually I was like "okay, let's see what the fuss is about" I remember wincing listening to it first thinking "when's the mindless screaming going to start", but before I knew I fell so hard for this album, nothing had ever quite gotten to me like that before, it was amazing. It was during the time my mom was diagnosed with cancer and I felt exhausted going home every day from the hospital, having to see her being slowly devoured by the cancer, that I'd pop That's The Spirit on and everything melted away and I felt amazing listening to it. Before long I was rocking out to Sempiternal and There Is A Hell and so on.
This year I think Northlane's Alien and Crown The Empire's Sudden Sky took me by surprise, two great albums and Tool's new song/upcoming album.
Glory and Gore was an amazing track off of Pure Heroine.
I loved Ribs very much
Bring Me The Horizon - There is a Hell believe me I've seen it. There is a Heaven let's keep it a secret
The Fall Of Troy - Doppelgänger
Finch - Say hello to sunshine
Julien Baker - Sprained ankle
The Weeknd - House of balloons
There’s a few that have blown me away over the years. Biggest and most important was Midian by Cradle of Filth.
No credit’s only album was great for me, reminded me of the great punk rock I grew up with but with a lot more aggression and I fell in love with it instantly.
Billie Eilish’ first record really changed something in me too, I heard it thinking it’s not something I should like, but I really loved the change in pace.
From Mars to Sirius by Gojira is a really good album that introduced me to them but the album that truly blew me away was The Way of All Flesh because they took everything to a new level.
For me, it was Unto The Locust by Machine Head. Back when this album was released, I had no idea about Machine Head. I randomly red a praise about the album online and I bought it out of curiosity. And I fell in love with it as soon as I heard the first note of I Am Hell (Sonata in C#), first song of the album.
I forgot to mention David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Motion Picture Album concert album ☕
Hell yes
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime
Dream Theater: Falling Into Infinity
Black Stone Cherry: Black Stone Cherry
Metallica: Master of Puppets
Steely Dan: Aja
Just a few of the albums that I never expected to hear (never heard of the bands before then), and which absolutely blew my mind.
Ash listens to Knocked Loose? Hell yeah!
I'm surprised how much I liked Disposed by The Plot in You. I'd never listened to their earlier/heavier stuff but that album was so good. Reminds me of That's the Spirit by Bring me the Horizon a bit.
Unfortunately, don’t have a Spotify account. It would have been awesome if you listed all the bands in the description.
The Great War - Sabaton. It’s new but most of the tracks are flawless
There are two albums in my collection that not only unexpectedly blew me away because I barely knew what was going to be on the album when I bought them but when I tell people I love these albums, they think I'm mental or making shit up.
LEN - Can't Stop The Bumrush:
..As in the album with Steal My Sunshine on it! That might be a cheesy 90s one hit wonder to most but that song had me in such a good mood that I decided to get the albums. The artwork was pretty alluring too. That album is so eclectic and well put together that it's actually a crime Marc Constanzo doesn't get enough respect as a producer and song writer. There's so many interesting sample usage, a Biz Markie cameo and practically every track is a different genre but equally great. LEN in general are underrated as they even had more shoegaze-y/grungey albums before that and releases afterwards which continue the genre-blending and happy vibes.
Vanilla Ice - Hard To Swallow:
I bought this totally out of curiosity after reading in the back of Rock Sound that it was coming out and meant to be "Korn-inspired". I waited and waited...I think it came to the UK later than release but I eventually found it in a Virgin Megastores (I think.) Quite possibly the most expensive album I ever bought but...FUCK IT'S GOOD. It's produced by Ross Robinson, it's got the Amen drummer on it and even features Casey Chaos on a couple of tracks, and Jimmy Pop of Bloodhound Gang... Musically it's still an amazing and pretty creative nu-metal/rap metal album. It's annoying to know that it was Ross Robinson's idea and Vanilla Ice went along with it unaware of nu-metal prior to this, but that just goes to show how great a producer Robinson is because it sounds so unique. I still don't think I've ever heard something like Stompin' Through The Bayou. I don't give much credit to Vanilla Ice for the album anymore but...still it's still great.
I 2nd Crack the Skye by Mastodon being one of the greatest albums of all time. Can't say the same for Emperor of Sand.
Going all over the place:
Danzig - Danzig. Knowing where he came from with The Misfits and Samhain, this was a great turn. Not a bad song on the whole album.
Shooter Jennings & Hierophant - Black Ribbons. Take a country artist and have him make a "conspiracy theory" concept album. You have to listen to the album straight through, even though the songs themselves, which don't stick to one format, are all pretty solid.
Babymetal - Babymetal. First time I heard it, I had to pause the songs 3-4 time to ask myself what the hell I was listening to, but I couldn't stop. It's so bizarre and really launched a massive wave of Japanese kawaii-metal and all female metal bands into the US.
The Avett Brothers - True Sadness. Different approach to many of the songs, different production, pivot from some of their earlier approaches into a bit more mainstream, but still being "The Avett Brothers". Loved it
Growing up in the 90's and listening to Industrial Metal in the likes of 'Ministry' , 'Nine Inch Nails' , 'Fear Factory' , 'Pitch Shifter' and so on, I then stopped buying new music for a few years so wanted to find out what had happened to the scene in the 21st century. The album I was directed to was 'Combichrist' - 'What the F^^k is Wrong With You People?' and for the first time in years I felt future was here! Albeit a total dystopian nightmare, but man, what a ride!
The first band i ever saw live! Was amazing standing between cybergoths and people on xtc dancing my ass off
For me an album that really surprised me this year was The Drowned God - "Ill always be the same" perfect for fans of melodic hardcore
Sea change by beck. Brooding, emotional, Minimalist and immaculate.
-oh, and for the most part I don’t like emo but further seems forever’s albums how to start a fire and the moon is down are amazing!
I was listening to volbeat on Spotify while I was studying for my exams and because the album was finished, it went automatically to an other album (and an other band). That was my first listen to scars (expanded) by the band soil. I never heard of them but the album was great.
Glitterbug by The Wombats was an album that I didn't expect to love when I listened to it at the recommendation of SpectrumPulse, but its now one of my top 3 all time favorite albums. "Be Your Shadow" *Should* be an indie classic and i am annoyed every moment that it isn't ksadjjasf
I have to say... The album that unexpectedly blew me away was Joanne by Lady Gaga... I mean country Gaga... Really... But... Its such a solid and unique album.
Probably have to go with “Goodbye and Good riddance”. I wasn’t huge into “sad rap” at that point, and I figured someone with the name “Juice Wrld” wouldn’t be worth my time, but I listened to the album a week after it released and loved every song. I think it has to be one of my most played albums ever.
There have been several albums that completely blew me away.
1. Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack), I hate Disco, but I like that album.
2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning (Start of being a lifelong Metallica fan).
3. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill. (Did not expect this album to be my favorite for 2 years.)
4. Stone Sour - Come What(ever) may. (This record turned me into both a Slipknot and Stone Sour fan. Already liked the first Stone Sour & Slipknot Vol.3 Albums. But this completed my conversion.)
5. BabyMetal - BabyMetal (Although I prefer another J-ROCK band today, "Band Maid", this album caught me attention due to the music . Vocals are always great to understand; however, when do you get every lyric correct?)
A recent album that took me by surprise was Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae! I had never listened to any of her stuff previously so I didn't know that to expect. I don't think I disliked a single track! Almost a perfect modern pop album
The album that unexpectedly blew me away is The House That Dirt Built by The Heavy. Absolutely incredible, and some of the songs I never thought I'd listen to are now some of the songs I listen to the most. The whole album was incredible
I have two albums. Wisconsin Death Trip blew me away the first time I heard it. The second was Disintegration by The Cure. I was hung over from a night of drinking and stopped at a doughnut shop. I put on the album on Spotify and I was just like woah every track that came on. It became my second favorite album of all time
There's a few albums that could fit this for me, there's an awesome wave by alt j (which I listened to and recognised 3 or 4 songs and it was awesome), blackbird by alter bridge (it introduced me to the band and all of their music is amazing), evanescence's self titled album (as I thought evanescence had disappeared and would never come back and then they came back like no time passed at all), one by one by foo fighters (blew kid me's mind) silver side up by nickelback (this was before rockstar, this was during the time of how you remind me and while overplayed that was an incredible song, but the rest of the album is as good if not better), royal blood (was one of the best overall albums I've ever heard), superunknown by soundgarden (introduced me to chris cornell), the pick of destiny by tenacious d (raised my opinion of jack black incredibly) and all hope is gone by slipknot (showed me I could like slipknot).
Definitely have to say An Awesome Wave is my answer to the video's theme
I absolutely love Pure Heroine by Lorde. One of my all time favourite albums which was strange for me as I'm a huge fan of metal and hardcore but it was so different and was just fantastic.
Crystal Fairy-Crystal Fairy.
I can't think of one when I was younger. Maybe Mutter by Rammstein, which led me to Die Krupps, Laibach and so on.
"Scarlet Sins" by Scarlet sins. it is to date their only album but it is so good, every song on there is briliant. the band split up, but they recently got back together even added another member to the band and they are gonna make a second album. I'm looking forward to hearing it when it comes out.
The album that got me into metalcore, let the ocean take me by the amity affliction. Only really listened to more punky stuff like A day to remember and Silverstein but then my buddy showed me deaths hand and forest fire and I pretty much immediately went and bought the album
Rehabs, southern discomfort. Wow!! Yngwie's first Rising Force, was a trend setter
After watching this video I looked up Vulfpeck and instantly fell in love. My life is now 85% funkier and Joe Dart is my husband. Thanks James!
Very recent one, but black midi’s ‘Schlagenheim’ absolutely stunned me, Near DT MI gave me absolute chills down my spine and is easily one of the best rock songs of the decade by far
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach’s duet album
Fucking brilliant! Although I have been a fan of both of them for ages. Just a magnificent album.
Good Kid, Bad City by Kendrik Lamar - prior to this album I was fairly anti- mainstream rap, and I talked a lot of crap about Kendrik. Once I listend to the album his music just clicked in my head.
Stuart Boelts literally same my guy, that album completely flipped my taste in music
@@jaxbittner8536 It just got me to give mainstream rap a chance. Before that I was listening to Jedi Mind Tricks, Blue Scholars, and other underground rap or 90 and early 200s rap.
For me it definitely Crybaby by Melanie Martinez. I had seen Martinez on The Voice and thought she had some talent but wasn't anything particularly special but on a whim I gave her debut album a try and I'm so glad I did. The entire album deals with deep subject matter but from a very childlike point of view. For instance the song Mrs. Potato Head is all about beauty culture and how it encourages young girls to these unreasonable expectations that often leads to unnecessary plastic surgeries. There is also Tag You're It which is about a creep that stalks, kidnaps and rapes the Crybaby character of the album. (Yeah, this album gets DARK when you analyze the lyrics)
For me it's Queens of the Stone Age, ...Like Clockwork album. It was the quality and great revision of a band that finally lived up to the potential that their first single promised.
Back in the day I was driving with a buddy and he put on an album called "It won't snow where she is going." by a band called Park. I had no idea who this band was and It was this really fresh and emotionally hectic all over the place kind of post-hardcore. After first listen I was hooked, but after a few repeat listens and checking out their back catalogue I was so surprised with how much I got into this band and that particular album.
Shout out to Parkway Drive 🤘
I just want to give a shout out to Scott on this vid, he made Dance with the Dead sound very appealing to me. I looked them up on Spotify and been listening to them all day long. They're fantastic!! ❤️ from 🇨🇦
One person I came late to the party to was Lana Del Rey but she has something that girl. And singing on Cat Powers woman who is another total badass was just the icing on the cake. I love it! And the cover of some things last a long time by Daniel Johnstone. Amazing. R.I.P. Daniel lad. Get some peace at last...
I ended up realising that I'd slept on Comeback Kid - Die Knowing...actually most of their work...after not really giving them enough attention all these years.
I saw them around the time of Turn It Around and have always had that but barely listened to it. I was then always aware of Wake Up the Dead and even randomly saw them a couple of times over the years...but only recently did I decide to properly delve into their discography and found myself going "why...why I have not been listening to them all this time?" Wasted Arrows in particular is just a TUNE!
Zephyr, 1969. PBS. Bought quick.
Black Sabbath, st ;) Heard in a mall, '70. again home fast as possible.
Run the jewels 3.Great beats and lyrics. So fresh and different
Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder, Meatloaf Bat Out of hell & Mettalica Ride The Lightning ☕
Old Rake by Ol Drake was unexpectedly amazing - nothing but instrumental tracks (bar a few soundbytes) but it shows off his skills beautifully
A band called Scar the Martyr, which was a project Joey Jordison came out with shortly after being released from Slipknot, came out with a self-titled album in 2013 that was just stunning. Unfortunately, that was their one and only album before Jordison pulled the plug on it.
Awesome to see Turnstile mentioned
Anamanaguchi endless fantasy made me fall madly in love with chiptune and somehow chasing that sound with all kinds of gear
3:59 IRE is an absolute BANGER!
I gotta say, I was not expecting Hoobastank to be brought up in this video, or really any video at all for that matter. Oh well, it's good that people are talking about Hoobastank again who clearly have the best band name of all time.
Tourist History by Two door Cinema club
Abandoned by Defeater.
Listened to it as I was getting into Hardcore. And my god, that album blew me away like you wouldn’t believe.
A concept album about a priest having a crisis of faith. Its filthy, its mean, its sad and it’s so fucking good
Radiohead Kid A. I found their first two records to be typical second wave "alt" snoozefests. Didn't bother with Ok Computet due to this. Kid A blew my mind...went back and kicked myself for not bothering with Ok Computer (even though I think Kid A was much better)
I preferred Our Kid Eh by the Shirehorses 🤣
I’m embarrassed to say this, but Taylor Swift’s 1989 I honestly can’t believe how much I loved that album. 😳
She tried to copyright that combination of numbers in that order. Therefore, if someone asked you what year the Berlin Wall came down she tried to earn royalties. Thankfully the money grabbing robot failed.
Dance with the dead is great. I love synth and metal too, there are dozens of us!
Well here's an irony. I was looking up that Blue By You song that Ash mentioned (not bad) and it leads me to a video of Norah Jones singing Blue Bayou with M. Ward. Boom, mice packs up the back just hearing how fantastic they did it.
I listened to Frank Ocean - Channel Orange about 7 years ago after a uni friend recommended him based on my R&B tastes. The rest is history 👍👍👍
Swimming by Mac Miller. It's the realest, most heartfelt album I've ever listened to.
Royal Blood's debut album caught me completely off guard and I haven't been shocked that much by any band since
Lightning at the Door by All Them Witches. The Open Door by Evanescence. Future's self titled album. Art Angels by Grimes. Lux Prima by Karen O & Danger Mouse. 11 by Johnny Rain. Nabuma Rubberband by Little Dragon. Lucifer III by LUCIFER. I Disagree by Poppy. And Now for the Whatchamacallit by Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. Rather You Than Me by Rick Ross. Les Is More by Ryan Leslie. 10,000 Days by TOOL. The 1st by Willow.
Unexpected albums that blew me away! Check them out guys!
Beat the Champ by The Mount Goats. An album about wrestling. I'd never heard anything by them but thought "eh, this sounds like a laugh at least". Absolutely cracking album and a gateway into a fantastic band that'd somehow completely slipped my radar.
"Pure Heroine"
1000000000% YES!! Such a perfect album!
Melodrama is such a good follow up too
Marillion - Brave. Was the album that got me into them and is one of the best concept albums ever
I love both incarnations of Marillion. My favorite album with Fish is Clutching at Straws, a concept album about addiction.
Population Declining by Hail The Villain. Floored me from beginning to end. Absolutely amazing.
Volbeat: outlaw gentlemen and shady ladies. Volbeat is a danish hard rock and metal band. It has a western theme throughout the album and every fucking song was so damn catchy in all the right ways. Unique voice and great song writing with vocal performances from king diamond and Sarah Blackwood. So good.
you forget mastodon once more around the sun :) its a great album
Fight With Tools - Flobots
Political music rarely gets to me; as I normally just... am completely uninterested in the topics. It's a big reason why Rise Against has turned me off. But this album made me fall in love with Flobots in largely the same way I still actually really like RA. Obviously I first heard them through Handlebars so I had to check out the album it came from. It completely blew me out of the water and led to me spending a solid two months listening to basically nothing but Flobots. The closing song Rise exemplifies everything I seek out of rap and hip hop. It's got a solid beat, two amazing MCs with insane chemistry with each other, and has a positive message. This album was just start to finish what I show people when I want to tell them about just how good rap can be and I was so not expecting it out of a semi-one hit wonder. They're definitely one of my favourite hip hop acts to this day tbh.
and I mean, stand out tracks for me are Handlebars(duh), Rise, The Rhythm Method(Move!), and Stand Up.
Oh shit, I forgot: Mystery Skulls EP! I heard the song Money in a random ass TH-cam video which most of you have probably seen by now called Turntable Turnabout with Phoenix Wright stuff over the song. I loved the song and saw the bandcamp link in the description so I went and picked up the EP. I have bought every piece of music Mystery Skulls has put out since, so fucking good. His music (it's actually one dude) is best described as indie funk pop. It's amaze-balls.
Previous parkway drive? Can't understand the words? Come on Rach!!!
🎶I can feel the deadweight of my soul dragging me from this world!🎶 Dammit Rachel take it back this instant!! Lol
Highly suspect, mister asylum . It’s brilliant and so different. Love that band
...stayed at a mates years ago and she had 'Permanent Shade Of Blue' by Roachford playing in the background...only knew 'Cuddly Toy' at that point...what a fantastic, mellow album...after 'One Week' came out I went and looked up everything that Barenaked Ladies had done...their first album 'Gordon' is fucking smashing...clever, witty lyrics...
Blood Mountain by Mastodon. That album surprised me well. Within time it became my favorite album.
Mine was Fire of Unknown Origin by Blue Oyster Cult
Absolutely loving that you have finally made a music channel. Hope you don't mind me making a band suggestion to you guys and girls at whatculture.
I think you should check out a band called Dance Gavin Dance. (What a ridiculous name you might say)
But check them out. They are a post hardcore, math rock experimental rock band and meld all kind of genres of music very funky and melodic sometimes with huge breakdown of aggression. There are two vocalist one clean and one heavy vocalist. Will Swan the lead guitarist is just amazing using all kind of genres in to his music.
Please please please check them out start with the happiness album. The song Carl barker was what hooked me. Then look at the instant gratification album, then mothership. So so so good Amazing band with Loads of fantastic songs.
Midnight Crusade makes me roll down the car window and belt out that chorus to the heavens hahaha
3:46 The "I don't want to be a pie" chicken from Chicken Run... Imagine her saying this
You guys should do a video about who you guys think are overrated artists that you don't think are as good as they are portrayed as
Billie eilish
@@bgl1335 see she's not bad IMO but drake would be one I would say
@@bgl1335 or beyonce
Anthony Schock I agree with both except they are not critically acclaimed. When I think overrated, I think of the praise they get, not the AirPlay they get
@@bgl1335 I think k of cult following of fans, that dog you for not liking that artist
Reverence by Parkway Drive.
I thought they were decent when IRE came out, but this made me like them far more
Nonstop Feeling is just a little bit better than T&S, in my opinion. I got into Angel Du$t a bit late but really love them. Could almost say that all their albums unexpectedly "blew me away". Never quite found the same magic with TUI but maybe I need to give them another go.
I am loving myself a bit of Slope at the moment - German band doing that similar sort of groovy Leeway-worship kind of stuff.
Not an album but I was just put on to Freddie dredd and have been non stop bopping it for a month now
Yes Ash!! Knocked loose... Yeah, I need to listen to turnstile right now! 😉
Radiohead's OK Computer blew my mind and changed my life.
the frist album i thought about was ire, too. never liked parkway drive but their newest 2 albums are some of my favorite music ever
the album that unexpectedly blew me away was the debut album from the velvet underground 'the velvet underground and nico'....back in the sixties, with the beatles and the stones messin' about, here came this new york (where i was born) street sound that just changed everything about music...even got to meet lou reed a couple of times...not very talkative....
These album choices were unexpected
What albums put you out of your comfort zone?
Lorde's The Love Club is a very profound song, oh, and yes, I agree, I think it's a shame that journalists that comment on Billie Eilish pay no homage to Lorde.
Yooo I am completely in sync with Josh in this one!