1000 albums in a year - I want your suggestions!

[1000Albums]

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?

Chris Stapleton - From a Room volumes 1 and 2

The Blessed Unrest- Sara Bareilles
Days are Gone- Haim
A Fine Mess- Kate Voegele
Léon- Léon
Melodrama- Lorde
Mountain Music- Nina Nesbitt
Passion Leaves a Trace- Black Lab
Shake the Spirit- Elle King
Stand Still, Look Pretty- The Wreckers
Torches- Foster the People
Wreck of the Day- Anna Nalick
Growing Pains- Maria Mena (this one is a must imo)

Sam Cooke The Man and His Music
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape
Gary Clark Junior The Story of Sonny Boy Sim

Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She

Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden (actually just listen to all their of their albums, all incredible from start to finish)

Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia

Powerage AC/DC

The Cure - Disintergration

Dead Club City - Nothing but Thieves.

Oh and Preacher's Daughter by Ethel Cain

Go on then, I'll add it to the list 😆

Black Stone Cherry - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

Into the wild life by Halestorm. There's some amazing songs on there and Lzzy Hale is one hell of a musician.

Moby - Hotel
Little Sparrow - Wishing Tree
Small Change - Tom Waits
Revelations - Killing Joke

the first is my go to for making me feel more zen after being frazzled by life / kids / etc

the second was an artist we heard locally at a tiny acoustic gig and DH rushed out to buy the album which is unheard of behaviour for him 😂

Tricky - Maxinequay
The B52s - Good Stuff
Pulp - His n Hers
The Black Keys - El Camino

Great thread. This year I have tried - mostly successfully - to listen to a full album a day. Some of my favourites:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Radiohead - The Bends
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Nick Cave - Wild God
PJ Harvey - Dry
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Metallica - Black
Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We?
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Pulp - His 'n' Hers
Vaselines - Sex with an X
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pixies - Doolittle

You've got some crackers on there @AutoP1lot. Might nick that Mark Lanegan one. Feel free to crib from the suggestions here too 😂

I will give Little Sparrow a listen then!

The civil wars - Barton Hollow
You+Me - Rose Avenue
Beautiful Trauma - P!nk

Father John Misty. Any album but I love you honeybear is my favourite.

Pink Moon - Nick Drake
No More Water: the gospel of James Baldwin- Meshell Ndegeocello.

Hey What by Low
Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Prioritise Pleasure by Self Esteem

Metronomy and also supergrass - I should coco

10cc - The original soundtrack
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
U2 - Boy

This is the Kit - Vitamins
Del Amitri - Twisted
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks
Portishead - Dummy
Left field- Leftism
Massive Attack - Protection

The K's - I wonder if the world knows.
It's epic!

UB40 Present Arms

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Architecture and Morality

Yazoo Upstairs at Erics

Paul Simon Graceland