I love Röyksopp Profound Mysteries. There are several albums. The songs with Susanne Sundfør are amazing.

Oh, man, so many. There’s the obvious like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon or Rush’s 2112, but Rust in Peace by Megadeth is superb, In Step by Stevie Ray Vaughan as well. Muse, however, has a few albums that are incredible, especially when you’re in the headspace to pick out little details. Their Black Holes and Revelations album is a banger from front to back, Simulation Theory is Velvety and interesting, Drones is jarring in a very good way, and The Resistance is harmony-rich and beautiful.

Also, I’m not familiar with the whole album, but the song White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane has one of the best vocal performances ever.

The dwarf fortress soundtrack slaps so much harder than it has any right to

Oneohtrix Point Never’s R Plus Seven

Anything by the Avalanches or The Books

OK Computer

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Dark Side of the Moon

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Back in grade school we had a teacher who played us 'Stan Freidberg Presents The United States Of America!" It’s an old comedy alboum full of silly songs about the Founding Fathers. Certainly mindblowing, creative, and unique.

AMAROK by Mike Oldfield. Not just the music itself (it’s quite a trip), but the story of its development:

He was under contract for Virgin to produce another long form album, but he and Branson had a falling out. Regardless, Branson threatened legal trouble if Oldfield didn’t go through with it. He was hoping for a record with radio-friendly hits like “Shadow on the Wall” and “Moonlight Shadow” that could be peddled to radio stations.

So Oldfield composed AMAROK. It contains one single track, spanning the entire length of the 60+ minute album. That way, Branson couldn’t simply lift any tracks and use them as singles.

But wait, there’s more! Since Oldfield knew that if he did this, Branson would simply make a selection of excerpts from the album and use those as singles. This had been done before while they still got along or even before he signed with Virgin, so they knew it could work, cfr the “Incantations”, “Ommadawn”, “Hergest Ridge”, …

The “Amarok” track is… a special kind of composition. It’s by no means bad - it’s actually pretty great from a technical standpoint. But what you decidedly cannot do, is attribute it to any specific genre, nor easily mark the beginnings and endings of the different “tracks” comprising the record.

Thus, Oldfield won this battle and Amarok was pretty much impossible to use for radioplay. I still enjoy it to this day though.

Mr Bungle - California and Disco Volante are unique and quite a trip.

Not really a specific album but check out Lorn in general.

Burial - Untrue

Odesza - Summers Gone

Easy Star All Stars - Dub Side of the Moon

Culprate - Deliverance

Most of these fit into the inventive, otherworldly or both kind of vibe.

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Check out shpongle and tipper

I’m not sure about mind-blowingly inventive but check out Mcbaise.

heres my favorite song by them right now:
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Octavarium by Dream Theatre. Its a whole album themed around the number 8.

Public Service Broadcasting - Race To Space.

Go! (From the album)

The whole album is just them playing music to sound bytes from the space race era.

Deep Forest

Delton 3030 is a rap opera set in the dystopian future. Amazing album start to finish.

Interstellar 55555 is an animated story for daft punks Discovery album which is a banger on its own. Once you watch the movie you never hear the album differently.

Green Day’s American Idiot is a concept album that was good enough to turn into a real musical.

Have One On Me by Joanna Newsom

Sketch by Scattle

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King.

It's just exploding with creativity and craftsmanship throughout the album. The opening tune (21st Century Schizoid Man) was unlike anything anyone had ever heard at the time it was released, and there's honestly still not much like it out there. And the transition to Moonchild after it is equally mind-blowing just for the contrast alone. The title track remains one of the most incredible things I've heard.

Zappa also has a lot of good candidates for this list. I'm soft for Freak Out, where the madness started, but some might argue something like Joe's Garage is a better example.

Bitches Brew by Miles Davis.

I once got really stoned and fell asleep while listening to it on a loop. I had all these insane dreams where I was walking through a pitch black jungle. I could feel all this stuff, the different textures of plants, the ground under foot, animals brushing by in the night, but I couldn’t see anything: a totally non-visual dream. It wasn’t scary, just super weird. Never experienced anything like it before or since.

I haven’t used Lemmy to promote myself until now, but check me out: www.thassodar.com

All my songs have no words, vary from chill to drum and bass, and I’ve been making them for about 4 years. My most recent EP is primarily chill, and my SoundCloud has the latest 4 tracks I put out last month.

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

“Closer” popularly known as “The ‘I Wanna Fuck You Like an Animal’ Song”, is just the tip of the iceberg. Admittedly it’s a pretty big tip 😏

Veil of Imagination by Wilderun

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of the Moon

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - K.G.

Pendulum - Immersion

I’ve always had a soft spot for the album Medulla by Bjork. If I’m not mistaken it was made entirely with mouth sounds. Has a really unique feeling to it.

Swans - The Seer

KOAN Sound - Polychrome. Everything these guys do is amazing but I feel like this album in particular has an unmatched vibe.

Zappa - Apostrophe

Perfect while being stoned

The most recent one that comes to my mind is HEADACHE - The head hurts but the heart knows the truth

Savage sinusoid - Igorrr

Try Nick Cave & The Bad Seed’s Ghosteen.

Live at the Old Quarter, Townes Van Zandt. Townes at the height of power, and before the years took too much of a toll, a live album including just the perfect amount of chatter and ambience to give an impression of what the night was like, the goofy dad-humor blending into some of the best American songs ever written. I won’t argue that he was better than Dylan, but I prefer him, and with a slightly different lyrical style he was absolutely worthy to be mentioned in the same breath.

Music by Cavelight by Blockhead. My fav stoned album of all time, probably.

The consequences album by Godley and creme. I don’t think I’ve ever found another fan haha

DJ Krush: Code 4109

DJ Shadow: Endtroducing

Works of art

Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

Days of Future’s Past by the Moody Blues, the one with the London Symphony.

I haven’t done it in a long time, but I used to turn out all the lights and lay on the floor and listen to this album from start to finish, it’s so good.