The Most Diverse Albums

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As a man who loves diversity in albums, I found it proper to make a thread about other albums people find diverse. What albums do you think have many different styles rolled into one album while keeping the main genre of the band or album? Example: Led Zeppelin IV is clearly a rock album, but there's plenty of blues, myth, soft rock, and other influences. I would like to say "Exile On Main St." starts out very diverse, IMO. It gets less diverse as it goes on, (listening right now).

Be sure to describe the different genres and influences in the albums!


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punk rock influenced band star fucking hipsters incorporate clever blends of mixed genres (hip-hop, metal, is what first comes to mind though there are others) into their albums "Until We're Dead" and "From the Dumpster to the Grave"
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Wowee Zowee and Mellon Collie are pretty diverse.
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JMan wrote:
I would like to say "Exile On Main St." is also very diverse.


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Here Come the Warm Jets has so many different styles, as well as emotions. its clear that Eno was just bursting at the seems with ideas. def check it out if you havent, jman. or anyone.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Title track: Kind of rockin' for the Beatles
A Little Help: Softer, but still a rock song.
Lucy in the Sky: A very pretty song.
Within You Without You: So psychedelic it sounds tribal.
When I'm Sixty-Four: Very low-pitched-horn heavy.
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lethalnezzle wrote:


Really man? I agree, I came here just to post about that and "Mellon Collie".
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Could probably just list a bunch of shitty prog albums if quality isn't a factor. Also I guess we're talking about diversity in regards to genre rather than sonic texture or whatever? Mr Bungle - California comes to mind.


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SquishypuffDave wrote:
Mr Bungle - California comes to mind.


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You chose the LEAST varied Mr. Bungle album (as well as my favorite). Granted, the others aren't accessible and thus some could think of them as "shitty" due to how unhinged they are (compared to the pop sheen and tight structure of California) but still, of all Bungle albums.

Top-quality accessible diverse albums
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Chocolate and Cheese - Ween (as well as most Ween albums besides 12GCG and to a lesser extent Mollusk/Pepper, I just realized this doesn't fit topic description since Ween has no single style)
Mellow Gold - Beck (again, most Beck albums are diverse, but this one comes from his early days of lo-fi folk while tossing in hip-hop, punk, metal, psychedelia, experimental and blues)
Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac - Butthole Surfers (noisy psychedelic punk rock with dashes of country, surf, blues and metal)
Zen Arcade - Husker Du (free jazz, folk, psychedelic rock and piano tracks add breaks to colliding hardcore punk and poppy alternatepunk songs)
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields (this is when Merritt started to stray away from synthpop, with around half the tracks going towards folk-pop, Beatles pop, country-pop, punk-pop (that's terrible), jazz-pop, basically any genre of pop that exists)
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The Clash's "Sandinista". Man, that album is all over the fucking map from punk to rock to reggae to dub to pure pop to weird experimental stuff to stuff with cool strings also contains varied vocals even some outside the band's usual Joe, Mick and Paul trade off (like on "Hitsville U.K.). Anyway, that's over the top.
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