1980-2000 album recommendations (a rediscovering thread)

strumjoughlamps

having so much music some ultimately gets forgotten about so I am starting to dig out and listen to albums forgotton..

Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain.... FK me how had I forgotten about this, start to finish a perfect album, nothing skippable and a perfect run order.

Moss

Not that obscure at the time:
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Ride - Nowhere
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation + Goo
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Joy Division - Les Bain Douches
The Avalanches - Since I Left You (my definition of a perfect album)
Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain
White Stripes - S/T
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

Obscure at the time:
William Onyeabor - Anything You Sow
Joe King Kologbo - Sugar Daddy
James Chance and the Contortions - Buy (technically 79, but I needed to post this thing)


And obviously Radiohead, Nirvana, The Smiths, New Order, MBV etc. as well as a tonne of other stuff I will have forgotten about

StageStruck

Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Blues Companion

guitarfishbay

Elliott Smith - XO
Elliott Smith - Figure 8

JezWynd

Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP

Winny_Pooh

King Crimson - Discipline

DiscoStu

dEUS - The Ideal Crash

nocasternoproblem

Pixies - Doolittle

fandango

Frank Zappa:
any of the 'You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore' double live albums (six in all)
You Are What You Is
Them or Us
Does Humor Belong in Music? - great starter compilation
Guitar - a double album of Frank's solos

Talking Heads Stop Making Sense

SRVTexas Flood

David Gilmour About Face

Plenty more from those 20 years ... including some albums from some Jazz Fusion orientated guitarists not often mentioned on these threads such as John Scofield, Stanley Jordan, Pat Metheny, Lee Ritenour, Al di Meola. Maybe there's a little corner of Fretboard that holds these guys in high regard and can recommend a specific album ...

Winny_Pooh

^ Pat Metheny - still life (talking)

starwarsnosebleed

Black flag-My war
Melvins-Lysol
The Fall-heads roll
Ween-The pod
Pixies-Doolittle
Butthole surfers-Locust abortion technician
Iron Monkey-s/t
Spacemen 3-Recurring
Bongwater-Power of pussy
Trans Am-red line
Deerhoof-Reveille
Sunno)))-white1
Throbbing gristle-heathen earth

...and about a zillion others i cant think of right now, but the above i think are all great from start to finish.

mudslide73

XTC - Black Sea
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
The Orb - UfORB
The Wonderstuff - Eight legged groove machine
Neil Finn - Try Whistling This.
Lloyd Cole - Lloyd Cole.
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (got this on at the moment in the car).

+1 for DJ Shadow's Endtroducing.

BloodEagle

Paris - Sleeping with the Enemy
Big Black - Atomizer
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Ween - The Mollusk
TAD - 8 Way Santa
Ministry - The mind is terrible thing to taste

TTBZ

Don't know if theyre really forgotten but these get my vote

Crowbar self titled and Odd Fellows Rest.
Down - NOLA.
RATM - Evil Empire. Definitely not forgotten but everyone always talks about the self titled whereas I think this had a much rawer heavier sound. The covers album had some massive riffs on it too, Maggies Farm for instance. 
Drive Like Jehu 

digitalkettle

I've rediscovered Lloyd Cole & the Commotions...Neil Clark: underrated guitarist!

MagicPigDetective

I love the 90's. There are so many good albums to trawl back through, I could go on and on with list.

Agree 100% with Pavement Crooked Rain, a perfect album from start to finish.

Sugar - Copper Blue

Mad Season - Above

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion &

Adorable - Against Perfection

Helmet - Betty

Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity

Corrosion of Conformity  - Deliverance

Janes Addition - Ritual

Orbital - II

Lush  - Spooky

Manics - holy bible

Melvins - Stoner Witch

NIN - Downward Sprial

Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

Verve - A Storm in Heaven

Rollins Band - Weight

Soundgarden - Louder than Love

Swervedriver - Mezcal Head

Type O Negative - October Rust

Goldie - Timeless

Tortoise TNT

Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

Paw - Dragline

Suede - first two albums

Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever

Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies

Reverend

Mind over 4 - The Goddess
Kinghorse - S/T
Celtic Frost - Emperor's Return 
Poison Idea - Feel The Darkness
Trouble - Psalm 9
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness 
Manilla Road  - Crystal Logic
Bathory - Hammerheart
Judge - Bringing It Down
Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today
Cirith Ungol - first 3
Saint Vitus - Hallow's Victim
Cro Mags - Age of Quarrel
Holy Terror - both 
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Sabbat - History Of A Time To Come
Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

CHRISB50

Alice in Chains - SAP EP / Facelift / Dirt

Avalanches - Since I Left You

Bent - Programmed To Love

The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly

Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing / Camel Bobsled Race

Goldie - Timeless

Jurassic 5 - S/T

L7 - Bricks are Heavy

Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray

Luscious Jackson - Natural Ingredients

Mad Season - Above

Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against the Soul / Holy Bible

Massive Attack - Blue Lines / Mezzanine

Mobb Deep - The Infamous

Nas - Illmatic

Nirvana - Nevermind / Incesticide / In Utero

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals

Pearl Jam - Ten / Vs

Pixies - Bossanova

Prodigy - Experience

Radiohead - The Bends / OK Computer / Kid A

Ride - Going Blank Again

S*M*A*S*H - S/T

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion

Smashing Pumpkins - GISH / Siamese Dream

Sonic Youth - Dirty

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Stone Temple Pilots - Core

Temple of the Dog - S/T

DarnWeight

Stuff from that period I still listen to regularly that doesn't get enough retrospective kudos...

Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
Hugo Largo - Drum
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Band Of Susans - Love Agenda
Tar - Jackson
Moonshake - Eva Luna
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Archers Of Loaf - Vee Vee
Rodan - Rusty
Poster Children - Tool Of The Man
Girls Against Boys - Cruise Yourself
Swell - 41

Reverend

A few more, less metal/hc than my last list. 

16 Horsepower- Sackcloth and Ashes
Dead Can Dance - Within The Realms Of A Dying Sun
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full
Schooly D - s/t

pintspiller

Pixies B Sides particularly Dolittle singles
Buffalo Tom Birdbrain