1000 albums in a year - I want your suggestions!

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I'm challenging myself to listen to 1000 new-to-me albums in 2025. I will listen to anything, of any genre (if it's available on Spotify or Apple Music) with the exception of death metal or Bradley Walsh's latest Christmas album😆

I love music but have got stuck in a bit of a rut over the last few years so would like to expand my horizons. What album would you like to recommend to a total stranger?

Got to have some folk in there
Eliza Carthy – Rough Music
And some world
Dimanche à Bamako - Amadou & Mariam

Great idea OP!
The Daisy Age (jazzy hip hop) is fun.

That’s nearly 3 albums A DAY! 19/20 a week. Where will you find the time and will you listen to all of them if you don’t like them?

Well, i wfh a lot and listen to quite a bit of music during the day, and when I go into the office my commute, door-to-door, is long enough for an average-length album each way. Also plenty of time to catch up in the evenings or at weekends, whilst driving etc.

It's a commitment but not an unmanageable one, I reckon!

Ohhhh, we have VERY similar taste, this is a favourite of mine (although I slightly prefer Exile in Guyville).

The Boatman’s Call, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Cut to Black, Barry Adamson
Real Life, Magazine
No1 in Heaven, Sparks
Heaven & Hell, The Mekons
Just Dropped In, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Introvert, Little Simz
Parallel Lines, Blondie
A Hero’s Death, Fontaine’s DC
Arrivals, Declan O’Rourke

Anything by skunk anansie start earlier albums and work forward
iron maiden. Brave new world
Offspring. Americana or (next fave after) conspiracy of one particularly the song the kids aren’t alright
Rammstein, lots to be honest but il pick either Sehnsucht or muttar particularly songs du hast and sonne
do doubt tragic kingdom or return of Saturn
avril lavigne early albums
prodigy anything from song firrestarter but I particularly like song omen
Evanescence fallen
korn Follow the leader

i could go on and on and on!

I haven’t even mentioned
motorhead
mettalica
baby metal
linkin park
cradle of filth
guns n roses
heart

im sorry i will stop now or this will be the never ending reply 😳

Ooh you're in for a treat! If you already know Scary Monsters can I suggest Hatful of Hollows by The Smiths or These Foolish Things by Bryan Ferry - both glorious in very different ways 😄

I don’t think any one has mentioned Amy Winehouse -Back to Black. Recently purchased this on vinyl and it is stunning.

Nameless - by Dominique Fils-Aime (her first three albums, of which this is the first in the trilogy, lead into the next. They are wonderfully recorded and she has an incredible voice. Her version of Nina Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’ is amazing

Amy Winehouse at the BBC is also a great album

Paul Carrack - A Different Hat
Duran Duran - Duran Duran
Faeland - All my Swim
The Housemartins and the Beautiful South - Soup
Alan Parsons Project - Gaudi
Carole King - Tapestry
ELO - All over the world
Sting - Nothing Like the Sun

Sign of the times. Prince
Play, moby
Off the wall, Michael Jackson
The miseducation of Lauren Hill

Far From Saints by Far From Saints.

My favourite track is Let the Light Shine Over You.

A mix of reggae and rnb albums if you are able to try something different ..
Fuguees- the score
Miss dynamite -dig a little deeper
Best of Beres Hammond
Chronixx -chronology
Exodus- Bob Marley
Joss stone- mind body and soul
Leon bridges - coming home

I intend to listen to each all the way through, but since the idea is to find new music I enjoy, if I really, really can't stand something I may bail! Hence my caveat that I won't bother with very heavy 'death' metal because I know there's no way I want to listen to that. But everything else is up for grabs because it's about expanding my musical horizons.

OP, from your replies I think we have similar taste.

Kindly Now - Keaton Henson
Heartland - Owen Pallett
Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom
Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens

The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking- Roger Waters
Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
An Innocent Man - Billy Joel

enjoy :)

Hunky Dory- David Bowie.

@BoltonSK thanks, have added Keaton Henson as I know all the others well.

@Awaywiththefairies078 thank you- reggae isn't a genre I have previously got on with but I'll definitely give Chronixx a go as it's a name that's new to me!

Linkin Park - One More Light
Theory of a Deadman - Savages
Green Day - American Idiot
Robert Grace - Happy Sad Songs
Guided by Voices - La La Land
Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
Feist -The Reminder
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Daft Punk - Discovery
Muse - Origin of Symmetry

Laid by James, it's one of my favourites that I'll never tire of listening to

Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee

James - Laid,
Levellers - Levelling the land,
Pearl Jam - No Code,
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi battles the pink robots,
Feeder - Echo Park,
Lottery Winners - Anxiety Replacement Therapy,
Manic Street Preachers - Everything must go

Don't know if you would give thrash metal a chance but Pantera's Vulgar Display Of Power is excellent 😁