Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
Impressioni di Settembre - Premiata Forneria Marconi
Some of my favourites progressive.
Other songs I love:
Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Öyster Cult
Little playlist, lol.
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Tabs I have open:
http://murmuure.bandcamp.com/album/murmu-re
http://caynug.bandcamp.com/album/chemical
http://carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/album/ep-i
http://luxinterna.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-light-in-the-body-there-is-blood-in-the-sun
http://katabatik.bandcamp.com/album/kollektion-5
ok, that's enough for now.
Edit: the only radio station I've ever listened to more than once is classical weta, to and from
work every day.
Edit2: ok, I'm still mildly upset so I'm going to go through some of the albums I have on CD:
Agalloch (Ashes Against the Grain, Pale Folklore, The Mantle)
Aphex Twin (Richard D. James Album)
BT (These Hopeful Machines)
Buckethead (many, especially Colma)
yeah, that seems long enough for now.
jk, Radiohead (Kid A, OK Computer, In Rainbows, The King of Limbs, and more that I don't have)
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If you don't mind my asking, why are/were you upset?
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Almost any band that Mike Patton has been involved with (Faith No More, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mr. Bungle and many more). Even the most mainstream accessible band like Faith No More had a habit of traversing through multiple genres within a single album regularly. Mike Patton was a big influence in expanding the musical tastes of a lot of metalheads back in the 90s.
Faith No More - Angel Dust - I still listen to this album regularly 20 years later.
I'd also throw in Tom Waits. There are few that can even hope to approach Tom Waits level of lyric writing ability. And there are probably even less that do it while fitting the bill of unconventional like he does.
Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine - Probably his most mainstream accessible album, but I grew up on it.
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Once upon a time, record labels were quite willing to put out unconventional (and sometimes, downright controversial) albums. This was the time of anthems, ballads, and poetic odes. Many of the songs and/or the albums themselves were so far from "conventional" that they were beyond the purview of mainstream music and never became popular on the radio. Others had a good enough sound that they captured the attention of a wider audience, even if that audience couldn't appreciate the depth of most of the songs. This was the era where musicians weren't just performers, they were artists.
This is just a small sampling of some of the music you never hear anymore. I expect that others will add to this list by contributing to the thread. There are, after all, many more examples of "unconventional albums that would probably never get made, today." (There are even a few of these from recent years.) Don't worry if the lyrics don't seem to make sense. You'd have to be well-versed in poetic styles and the culture of the time to get what's being said, but don't let that put you off. Listening to these albums will expand your understanding of what music can be and what it can accomplish. You can enjoy the tunes, now, and explore the depth of meaning in the lyrics once you have the knowledge and experience.
Here, then, is a start to the list.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
[Edit: I'd like to thank all of you who have contributed. So many good albums listed in this thread, quite a few of which I'd never heard, before.]
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