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From Under The Cork Tree – Fall Out Boy
Late Registration – Kanye West
A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out – Panic! At the Disco
While we’ve since come to know that it’s not actually okay to tell someone who’s broken your heart to “just drop dead”, most of this album makes most people at university feel fourteen and brooding with angst all over again. If you want to scream out some witty pop punk in between studying, a lot of Fall Out Boy’s most iconic jams (and longest song titles) come from this album.
This is the album that brought you the quintessential Kanye West anthem Gold Digger, and won Yeezy several GRAMMYs and international music awards. With hits like “Diamonds From Sierra Leone” and “Touch the Sky”, this album broke out onto the mainstream scene with such success it sky-rocketed Kanye’s career and expanded his fan base like crazy. Gold Digger is still the song most people think of when they think Yeezy, and listening back to this album will remind you why.
So Jealous – Tegan and Sara
X&Y – Coldplay
Illinios – Sufjan Stevens
Twins, lesbians, indie rock, and Canada. You get all that and more with this cultadored album. From the heartbreak anthem “Where Does the Good Go” to the dark hearted “Walking with a Ghost” which was later covered by The White Stripes, this album is clever, bold, and heartfelt. Carrying that oh so Canadian self-deprecation matched with very heavy, clever beats, So Jealous was the
Fix You is the song everyone remembers from this album, and rightly so, it’s a masterpiece. While not my favourite Coldplay album, this simple, beautiful
This album showed the world how ambitious Sufjan was, lyrically and musically. Much of the album is made up of references to people, places, and events that revolve around the state of, you guessed it, Illinois. But this is a gimmick-free masterpiece; it explores America, religion, and humanity in the most subtle ways through Stevens’ renowned lyrical
album that put this sister act on an international stage.
sound we most easily recognise as essentially Coldplay. This album is timeless in so many ways, and listening to it takes the listener back not into the past, but into oneself.
album. Critically, and in the eyes of most fans, this thirteen track punk-pop emo-gasm is the best thing Brendan Urie has ever pulled out of his sequined top hat. Ryan Ross, who wrote and composed the entire album, left partway through later projects and the band could never quite emulate the wit and groove of their debut in his absence.
ability. This is the kind of album you just lie on your back and listen to while crying. If you’ve felt that, you know what I mean.