I'm compiling a chart of the most quintessential California albums. It can be either because the artists are explicitly from the state, or simply because they evoke the state's spirit in their music. The albums I have already added should give some reference as to what I'm looking for.
California-core
James Kelly
Other urls found in this thread:
Caleb Wood
Jayden Sanders
Nathan Sanchez
Levi Howard
Duh
Dominic Mitchell
joni mitchell
Grayson Roberts
some odd future album, brockhampton, all eyez on me, 2001, the chronic, doggystyle, straight outta compton. you're racist for not including them in your op
Lincoln Garcia
based
Jackson Murphy
X - Los Angeles
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Hunter Sanders
Beach Boys - any album between Surfer Girl and Summer Days (and Summer Nights)
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Mr. Bungle - California
Dick Dale - Greatest Hits
Kanye West - MBDTF
Love - Forever Changes
These are all no brainers, as well as anything by the Grateful Dead (like them or not, I’m afraid they are Cali to the core)
Juan Peterson
Sublime
Carter Ward
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
The Doors - s/t
James Collins
The Eagles fucking suck but probably qualify
Cooper Lewis
California Indie pop
Josiah Nguyen
Keep them coming. I've also added one other album that I think is particularly fitting.
Good pick. Joni is an example of just evoking the state's spirit since she was born and raised in Alberta.
I did think of The Chronic and Straight Outta Compton but wanted to see what the thread thought. Anyway, I'm not going to add all of those because I want to give other anons a fair chance of adding albums.
Same goes for this. Very solid picks, but I'll see how the rest of the thread pans out before I decide to add the rest.
Juan Moore
grateful dead
Jacob King
Norman Fucking Rockwell
Charles Hill
Noah Sullivan
Fu Manchu the action is go
Nathaniel Garcia
Obligatory
Colton Adams
Need some hair metal and thrash
Andrew Powell
Glam is for faggots and Megadeth rules
Colton Murphy
Jonathan Morgan
Michael Bennett
Dave wishes he could play this well
Caleb Bennett
Andrew Garcia
Heiroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision
Chase Walker
Cali bands with Cali sound:
Allah Las
Poolside
Mrs. Magician
Youth Lagoon
Bleached
Take your pick
Juan Miller
Connor Taylor
Michael Ross
At the home stretch, now. I've added two more albums that I felt were too good to exclude.
I'm not going to lie when I say that I think this is garbage, but it also still fits my criteria, so I'll include it.
I can't believe I didn't even think of Primus. Good call.
Camden Hernandez
Faith No More?
Alexander Nguyen
Green Day - Dookie
Metallica - Kill em All