12 non-metal albums you would recommend?

Keeping it to one per artist, these were the first 12 I thought of:

Yes - Fragile
Molly Hatchet - s/t
Frank Marino - Juggernaut
Blackfoot - Strikes
Nektar - Recycled
Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
The Who - Who's Next?
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Phil Keaggy - The Master & the Musician
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Thin Lizzy - s/t
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
Pink Floyd - Animals
Phil Collins - Face Value

Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear
Oingo Boingo - Good for your soul
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Stanley Clarke - Journey to Love
Argyle Park - Misguided
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Steely Dan - Aja
Adam Again - Dig
Daniel Amos - Shotgun Angel
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies

Queen - A Night at the Opera
Alice Cooper - School's Out

ult, how coudl you leave Lynyrd Skynyrd off your list?


Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here
At The Drive In - Relationship of Command
Collective Soul - s/t
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
the Doors - s/t
Jack Johnson - On and On
Nickel Creek - This Side
Nickelback - All The Right Reasons
Our Lady Peace - Gravity
Phil Keaggy - 220

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Blues Before Sunrise
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Beatles - Let It Be
Johnny Cash - Best of the Sun Years
Gary Moore - Blues for Greeny
Social Distortion - s/t
Reverend Horton Heat - Liquor in the Front
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music
Lit - A Place in the Sun

I only listen to metal. There is enough variety in the different genere's of metal to keep me interested. I do not need to look anywhere else.

I'll try to keep it very non-metal:

1. The Coral - The Coral
2. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Toward Ecstasy
3. Heather Nova - Oyster
4. Sprung Monkey - Swirl
5. Ani Difranco - Living In Clip
6. The John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea
7. 311 - Grassroots
8. Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser
9. Tad - Inhaler
10. Rusted Root - Cruel Sun
11. Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather
12. Pushmonkey - Maize
13. Tara Maclean - Silence
14. Mutha's Day Out - My Soul Is Wet
15. Therapy? - Troublegum

Sorry. I needed 15 (I could name 1000). Haha.

In keeping with 12 and one per band in no order:

Boston - S/T

4 Non Blondes - Bigger, Better, Faster, More (Linda Perry!!)

The Cranberries - No Need To Argue (Delores!!!)

Clandiah - The Train Journey North

Minor Threat - S/T

Crux - Failure To Yield

Magdalan - Big Bang

Pearl Jam - 10

Temple Of The Dog

Third Day - S/T

Prince - Purple Rain

White Heart - Freedom

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, try any album they are all great.
Steely Dan, same as above.
Anything Primus.
Hank 3 Straight to Hell.
Shooter Jennings.
Johnny Cash, all of his albums are great.
Stanley Clarke.
The Police.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS- "Decoration Day"
THE CURE- "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"
STEVE EARLE- "Copperhead Road"
TOM WAITS- "Mule Variations"
16 HORSEPOWER- "Low Estate"
TONIO K.- "Life On The Food Chain"
MUSE- "Showbiz"
JOHNNY CASH (anything really)
RICHARD BUCKNER- "Devotion & Doubt"
PSYCHEDELIC FURS- "All Of This And Nothing"
JEFF BUCKLEY- "Grace"
LEONARD COHEN- "The Best Of Leonard Cohen"
ROLLING STONES- "Sticky Fingers"

I didn't realize anbody else remembered Mutha's Day Out. Cool album. but anyway...

Art- Supernatural Fairy Tales
T.2.- It'll All Work Out In Boomland
Steel Mill- Green Eyed God
Neil Merryweather- Kryptonite
Baker-Gurvitz Army- Elysian Encounter
Paris(Bob Welch) s/t (nothing like French Kiss or Mac, much heavier)
Be-Bop Deluxe-Live In the Air Age
Slade on Stage- (nice 4 album Alive digi-pack out there now, but "On Stage" is the highlight of the package)
Chameleons- Script of the Bridge
Bloodrock-Tryptych
Nightingale (Swano)-"I"
I would list Nektar, man on the Moon, but I decided not to list any "pomprock" here, and it's pretty pompy.

I see that MUTHA'S DAY OUT cd n the cheapo bin alot...what is it like?

The Cure - Wish
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Live - Throwing Copper
Bush - 16 Stone
Offspring - Smash
Mastedon - It's A Jungle Out There!
U2 - Actung Baby (Saw U2 on this tour - great memories)
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Rage Against The Machine - S/T
Collective Soul - S/T
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
STP - Purple

I can't think of 12 off the top of my head, but here's seven to start with:

The Ramones - TOO TOUGH TO DIE
Weird Al Yankovic - DARE TO BE STUPID
The Simpsons - SONGS IN THE KEY OF SPRINGFIELD
Big & Rich - COMIN' TO YOUR CITY
(Yea I know, it's country. But my wife loves it and dammit, this one grew on me like a fungus. Sue me.)
Anti-Nowhere League - THE BEST OF
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - CHRISTMAS EVE AND OTHER STORIES
Pat Benatar - GET NERVOUS

my 12:

1. Essential ELO
2. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
3. Alice Cooper - Schools Out
4. Boston - boston
5. Traveling Wilburys - volume 1
6. Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
7. Keith Richards - Talk is Cheap
8. Thunderdrums
9. Enya - Watermark
10. Genesis - Invisible touch
11. Phil Collins - no Jacket Required
12. The Cars - Heartbeat City

I like some ELO. I have Out of the Blue, I think it is.

ack

only 12..... decisions... decisions.... Here we go

George Winston - Autumn
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Huey Lewis & the News - Greatest Hits (2006)
John Williams - Greatest Hits (1969-1999)
Michael W. Smith - The Big Picture
Enya - A day without Rain
Michael Card - The Life
Yanni - Out of The Silence
Paul Overstreet - Time
Gladiator - soundtrack (brilliant)
Phil Keaggy - True Believers
Whiteheart - PowerHouse

I guess that's 12. I know greatest hits are like cop-outs...oh well....

The Misfits - Earth A.D.
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Led Zepplin - IV
The Gathering - Souveniers
The Gathering - Home
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Black Flag - Everything Went Black
The Circle Jerks - Wild In The Streets
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Cro-Mags - The Age Of Quarrel
Juice Newton - Juice
Christian Death - Only Theatre Of Pain

Mutha's Day Out was a Grunge band. I wonder what happened to those kids?

Two bands I forgot, both Pink Floyd influenced but in opposite ways...

Decoryah-Wisdom Floats(mournful, introspective)
Eloy-Colors (grandiose, bombastic)

Quote :

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

I love this, but have always thought of it as metal. What is it, if not metal??

Shiney wrote:

I see that MUTHA'S DAY OUT cd n the cheapo bin alot...what is it like?

Well, the band members were roughly ages 15 to 20, I think, when they were signed. Very young either way. Their music was alt-rock for the most part, with a little rap thrown in, I guess. But not rap-rock. The CD is awesome, though! The funny thing is how these dudes turned out. The singer left and went super-Christian. The rest of the band went the other way, in a far less Christian, sludgier direction. Haha.

This is Mutha's Day out:

http://www.myspace.com/muthasdayout

These are just a few of the bands MDO members went on to:

RWAKE - THE STONER TREE
DEADBIRD - RORSARCH SKY
COPSODOMY - SOUL UNWHOLE

Haha. I actually love Copsodomy. They released only demos, but I got a few while living in Arkansas, and they were great. I also like Deadbird. Not a fan of Rwake, though. Anyway, quite a change, huh? Haha.

And for a laugh, the singer's post-MDO band:

GAZER (emphasis on the first syllable)

scottmitchell74 wrote:

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Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

I love this, but have always thought of it as metal. What is it, if not metal??

well, i always considered it metal too. but i have been told most consider it either alternative or grunge. i guess it treads that fine line, similar to AIC's Dirt. nevertheless, it's a fine album.

Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse of Reason
Men At Work - Business As Usual
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Ozric Tentacles - Arbhorescence
Ozric Tentacles - Pungent Effelgent
Janes Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Larry the Cable Guy - Lord I Apologize

Trying to keep it 1 title per band:

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Bruce Springsteen - Live 1975-1985
Bryan Adams - Reckless
Eva Cassidy - Songbird
Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa Til Du Dør
U2 - Achtung Baby
Paul Stanley - Live To Win
Simon & Garfunkel - The Very Best Of
Bob Marley - Anything you can get a hold on!
Johny Cash - see Bob Marley
Bon Jovi - Keep The Faith
Aunt Mary - Very Best Of