Artist Album Track(s)
Hip-Hop/Rap/R&B
Aesop Rock- None Shall Pass: every track is awesome, you pretty much can't go wrong.
P.O.S.- Audition: same situation as None Shall Pass
Brother Ali- Undisputed Truth: same as Audition and None Shall Pass
Gnarls Barkley- The Odd Couple: Run
Rock/Folk/Post Rock/Ska
The Black Keys- Thickfreakness:Thickfreakness
Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha: Fiery Crash, Imitosis, Simple X
Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago: Skinny Love
Bob Dylan- Multiple different albums: Lay Lady Lay, Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, Like a Rolling Stone, Tangled up and blue, simple twist of fate
Iron & Wine- The Shepard's Dog: Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car, Boy with a Coin
Streetlight Manifesto- Somewhere in the Between: We Will Fall Together, Watch it Crash, The Receiving End of It All
Explosion in the Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone: Catastrophe and the Cure, The Birth and Death of a Day
Jazz
The Bad Plus- PROG:Physical cities, Iron man (Black Sabbath), Smell like Teen Spirit (Nirvana), Tom Sawyer (Rush).
Everything I mentioned is worthy of more of a look than just listening to the songs I suggested.
Edited by sam, 24 March 2008 - 08:08 PM.