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Insomniac by Green Day

If I were to list off all the albums I like, we'd be here forever, lol. I'll give some artists I like listening to instead.

• Karu does good epic orchestral remixes
• "Weird Al" Yankovic is always fun to listen to.
• Joe Hisaishi for any orchestral/instrumental. He does a lot of music for Studio Ghibli as well.
• Pentatonix has done a lot of a cappella pop remixes. It's mainly Christmas music, last I checked.
• Peter Hollens also does a cappella, but in a wide variety.
• Nickel Creek does bluegrass. They also have an album named Nickel Creek that has a lot of good songs.

I listen to a bunch of different musical genres so these are gonna be a bit varied, but I'll only include ones that have at least 5 songs I think are cool:

• "As Daylight Dies" by Killswitch Engage ("The End of Heartache" was a pretty okay album too but I like this one more)
• "Nightmare" by Avenged Sevenfold (this was the last one with their former drummer The Rev before he died and it goes pretty hard)
• "Blue Album" by Weezer (I just think it's neat)
• "Sublime" by Sublime (Not every song in this one is great, but like half the album is extremely solid)
• "dying lately" and "Life in General" by Jake Hill (he usually does a lot of rap/metal, but I prefer these albums where he does softer pop/punk songs)
• The entire Yakuza 0 Original Soundtrack
• "Hybrid Theory", "Meteora" and "Minutes to Midnight" by Linkin Park (I enjoy Linkin Park. but not the new stuff they're doing now without Chester since he died.)
• "V" and "Songs About Jane" by Maroon 5 (alternatively, the "Maroon Go" soundtrack posted by Siivagunner on youtube is pretty peak)
• The entire Payday 2 original soundtrack
• "College Dropout", "Late Registration" and "Graduation" by Kanye West (I miss the old Kanye)
• "Man on the Moon 2" by Kid Cudi (Man on the Moon 1 was also okay)

I realize that I've listed quite a lot already so I'll just stop here but these are what came to mind.

I thought the Blue Album by Weezer was pretty neat when I listened to it the first time, and Only in Dreams was my favorite song for like a solid year and is still high up there for me. I would definitly reccomend giving that album a listen. It's not my favorite, but it's pretty cool, like Tim said. 

My favorite on the Blue Album is probably Undone, it used to be Say it Ain't So until I saw a video where someone isolated Matt Sharp's funny backing vocals and can no longer unhear it and take the song as seriously.

I am also a fan of the Green Album but not as much. The Teal Album with the cover songs was also pretty good renditions but I felt adding a cover album to the list instead of the original bands was a bit iffy.

I do enjoy that Weezer releases an album called "Weezer" with a different colored cover every few years.