Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, released in 1988, had been a big venture for the music industry. This was the year of a new Bon Jovi record, a chart smashing My Bloody Valentine and also the Pixies new works.

The rather vast double album from The Cure uses extreme moodscaping and great inventive work for themselves, gifting us some of the most popular tracks of all times.

The self titled debut album of the band Foo Fighters was released in 1995. It had former Nirvana member, Dave Grohl, performing a majority of the musical work.

Imagine a heavenly tropos of mixed instrumental classical music fusing with new age electronica and there you have the fresh, ethereal sound from Mum.

The songs are edgy and high techno as well as high on the percussion in some cases.

The studio album by the new-wave, post-punk band She Wants Revenge, released in 2006 also covers some of the added-on features of a Darkwave, Synthpop group.

Garbage redefined themselves with this one.

Quadrophenia is a concept album based around the rock opera genre. The album is actually based on the film Quadrophenia, the musical journey to which was performed by The Who.

The first album of one of the greatest bands in the history of rock music sees Jimmy Page coming out in gear to welcome the world in his own way.

Perhaps Thom can understand the serious impact that he is creating in waves across the world and hence he felt the need to be more serious and weighed.