@christina I just discovered Tomorrow Never Knows thanks to a Med Men ep that paid a fortune to use the track. Then I realized one of my fav OH ANOTHER ALL TIME FAV ALBUM CHEMICAL BROTHERS DIG YOUR OWN HOLE!!!! They sampled TNK on Setting Sun with Noel Gallagher. The drum line just makes me melt into my chair and start dreaming
U know what's sad? I think most of us know music back to at least the 1970's up to now and most of our answers are going to be pre 2000 bc full length quality albums are getting rarer thanks to iTunes. I'm curious what the best pop album is bc that genre is definitely single based (and I do love it)
No way I can pick just one. I can barely do a top 5... The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers & Let It Bleed Miles Davis - Kind of Blue & Bitches Brew Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers Beastie Boys - Ill Communication Jeff Buckley - Grace Fiona Apple - When the Pawn Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones & Alice Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman Morphine - Good, Like Swimming & The Night
Katsm0711 I love pop music too and if I were to name one song as my favorite, I couldn't because, like movies, they change. But if you say name a full length album that's good beginning to end, that's easier to narrow down because there aren't many albums that don't have songs you'd rather skip.
It's beautiful. I remember listening to that in my dad's car when I was little. That album covers every emotion and truly is the soundtrack of my life. I even got married walking down the beach to Here, There, and Everywhere.
Albums that I can listen to beginning to end and treat like a solitary entity? No way I can pick one.
- "Rio" and "Astronaut" by Duran Duran - "Kick" by INXS - "Almacantar" by Eight Seconds - "The Dance" by Fleetwood Mac - "Flood" and "Apollo 18" by They Might Be Giants - "Watermark" by Enya - "Presto", "Roll the Bones" and "Hold Your Fire" by Rush
Don't laugh but my fav is probably Genesis A Trick of the Tail followed by Beatles Rubber Soul (or Revolver, I love them both) or Foos The Colour & the Shape
My favorite album, the album that is good from start to finish, that people still ask about and want when I play it is...The Stone Roses' debut. If you've never listened to it, do it NOW. From the gritty opening to the final chord, perfect. Ages well. I was so upset that by the time I found them, they had already imploded.
good thread! i generally don't have favorites of anything 'cause i like different criteria blah, blah, blah...however, fleetwood mac rumors is an awesome album and i don't take the needle off the vinyl when listening and flip it when one side is played. other favorites that i don't pick and choose, just let it play: ray charles, otis redding, dusty springfield, pearl jam, hammerbox, j roddy walston and the business, david bowie, pixies, the offspring, adele, pistol annies and dixie chicks i'm a gemini, so i have focus issues
Honorable mention: Beauty and the Beat - The Go-Go's The Ramones - The Ramones Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones Nevermind - Nirvana After the Gold Rucs - Neil Young Room Noises - Eisley
Some bands I wish I could include in the best one album list but you need their greatest hits collections to have a really great album. Acts like that:
Can't limit myself to just one, but below are a few of my beloved collection:
Led Zeppelin, 'Led Zeppelin IV' Depeche Mode, 'Violator' The Doors, 'The Doors' Bob Marley & the Wailers, 'Legend' John Coltrane, 'A Love Supreme' Radiohead, 'Kid A' Lou Reed, 'Transformer' Pixies, 'Doolittle' Rodriguez, 'Cold Fact' P.J. Harvey, 'Let England Shake' Ali Farka Toure, 'Savane'
Too many to list, but these come to mind right away. Long time reader, most times what I want to say has already been said but I felt compelled to add my two cents to this one. :)
Primal Scream, Screamadelica. David Bowie, Aladdin Sane. The Verve, Urban Hymns. Can't decide between those three, but those are the ones that immediately spring to mind.
I never get tired of Back to Black. Every song is amazing. I think there are other albums that are more culturally significant (Thriller for one), but this is my personal favorite.
I agree with Cory about Hotel California by the Eagles, but more contemporary cds that I listen to the whole thing over and over and never skip a tract : Adele both 19 and 21, Fall Out Boy's Folie a Deux, Panic at the Disco (any and all of albums), Mumford and Sons Sigh No More, Dixie Chicks, (any and all albums)
@Lauren - much respect on the 40 oz. choice. It's in my top 5, for sure. What you said about it - that you've been able to listen to it at every stage of your life without tiring of it - same here. LOVE Bradley's voice, and his spirit. I can't even attempt to listen to the new stuff because the thought of someone else singing his songs, trying to sound like him, just hurts my heart. I still have my copy of Rolling Stone that featured his memorial, and a big long article about him. And now I'm tearing up.....
okay, i'm going to plug j roddy walston and the business(self titled album) because they are a small band and i'm sure they are not known to many. they are a fun bluesy/rockin'/bar kinda band, so if you are into that please sample on whatever you generally use to sample. full grown man makes me feel like sexy times with mr. eggs.
also, i forgot zz top, fandango from 'also favorites'
License to Ill by the Beastie Boys. Billy Joel's greatest hits.
College: Probably Alanis Morisette, Jagged Little Pill or Hootie & the Blowfish Cracked Rear View or Fairweather Johnson. Cowboy Mouth or Better than Ezra since I went to college in New Orleans.
Since I've gotten into country: Zac Brown Band (all the albums), Bomshel, Band Perry, Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker, Sugarland...I'm sure there are more.
Obviously like so many of you I can't pick just one..this is what I have on my ipod
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street The Band - The Last Waltz Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run Bruce Springsteen - The Rising Joni Mitchell - Blue Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson The Tragically Hip - yer Favorites Sarah McLaughlin - Mirrorball The Big Chill - Soundtrack Forrest Gump - Soundtrack The Clash - London Calling Gordon Lightfoot - greatest hits Melissa Ethridge - Yes, I am Jann Arden - Living under June The Staple Singers - Greatest hits
Two more that are in my head demanding to be added - The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card, Feargal Sharkey - Songs From The Mardi Gras.
Any Sublime album (RIP Bradley) Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour Floyd- Animals Ani DiFranco- Living in Clip Bob Dylan- Blood on the tracks (or the album with idiot wind, I don't remember!)
Seconding Songs in the Key of Life. I am completely indecisive about my favorites whenever I'm asked to choose ("my favorite character? NO LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY TOP TWENTY FAVES OKAY?") but I am 100 percent sure about that one.
Really, there are genuinely fantastic pieces of music. But nothing before, and nothing since, works so well as a whole than "Songs...". I'm so grateful to have been a fan of soul music (even if it was as a young teenager) when Stevie hit his creative peak.
Any collection of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven tracks from the late twenties. Of course they weren't originally recorded as an album, but to me if Louis Armstrong hadn't been born we would have had to invent him that's how important he was. Any time I hear tracks like "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" or "West End Blues" the world instantly becomes a better place.
TOM PETTY!!!!! I loved pretty much everything up through Highway Companion. Their Playback boxset is amazing. Echo is fantastic.
Best albums?
Brandi Carlile - The Story (LOVE her!!!) Adele - 21 Sarah MacLachlan - Surfacing and Fumbling Towards Ecstacy Hole - Live Through This and Celebrity Skin Stevie Nicks - Timespace The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs John Mellencamp - The Best That I Could Do Songcatcher - Official Soundtrack O Brother Where Art Thou - Official Soundtrack
Other favourites: All other 90's Tori stuff, Dummy by Portishead, Hounds of Love by Kate Bush, Garbage by Garbage.
Past decade I've mostly given up listening to music. I work in retail and am forced to hear the same crap day in day out. When I get home the last thing I wanna hear is any kind of music!
The Clash - London Calling (a two record set -- remember records??? and EVERY SONG, EVERY MOTHERLICKING SONG is EXCELLENT)
My "If I was stranded on a deserted island with a CD player, unlimited batteries and could have 10 albums with me list...":
The Smiths - The Smiths The Pretenders - The Pretenders Talking Heads - Fear of Music The Beatles - Abbey Road Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and other Assorted Love Songs The Moody Blues - This is the Moody Blues (a cheat because this is a best-of) Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Ihave a ton of favorites but my number 1 has to be Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails. Other favorites: U2 Wide Awake In America, Achtung Baby, and INXS Kick. I still miss Michael Hutchence!
Wow some great lists here. Springsteen , just about any but Born to Run is so classic, Darkness, THe WIld, the Innocent..and Greetings.THe RIsing Rocks. Dont make me pick one!
Also Love Brandi Carlile- self named album, she is awesome. Carol King - Tapestry Chris Isaak- Wicked Game, SF Days, Forever Blue
John Cougar (mellancamp) Lonesome Jubilee and Scarecrow
Keith Urban Golden Road Trisha Yearwood- Inside Out and Jaspar County
U2's The Joshua Tree. I ran the equivalent of about 40 marathons to that album. Gave me a lot of optimistic hope while growing up in the late 80s.
Lots of other picks on here which I like - Beatles, G.Love, Radiohead, Soundgarden etc., etc. Whoever put Savane on their list is awesome. Ali Farka's stuff is wicked tricky - check out Niafunke, if/when you've a chance.
Radiohead ok computer and kid a fiona apple when the pawn and tidal toad the wet sprocket dulcinea and fear beasties ill communication and paul's boutique the killers hot fuss twenty billion more.......
ok I know I picked Kid A, and if I could only have one that would definitely be it, but looking at the other picks if I had to pick alternates...
*@Amber awesome call Enter the 36 Chambers - the Wu *Paul's Boutique- BB- Car Thief is the best! *random pick I'm loving now is Oracular Spectacular by MGMT *Fiona Apple- Tidal *shout out to my hometown so will pick as final album Fables of the Reconstruction OR Murmur by REM
(I know I am all over the place on music but I think that's a good thing)
My all-time favorite, that I've owned & loved for well over 30 years, would have to be Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark; it's one of those albums you can love as a teenager, and then enjoy on deeper & deeper levels as you get older. If you've ever been in love, or thought you were, or knew people who were, or...really, if you've been involved in any kind of human relationships over the years, this one's a keeper.
#2: Bob Mould's Workbook; saying it's a near-perfect rendering of picking up the pieces after one's life and career have both imploded doesn't really do it justice, but it's one way to describe it.
#3: I'm not sure if EPs/mini-albums count, but assuming they do, it's NIN's Broken; the one good thing former TVT Records head Steve Gottlieb ever did in his life was piss Trent Reznor off enough that the latter made this album. (Don't forget to keep the CD running after "Gave Up" ends, or you'll miss "Physical" (an old Adam Ant cover) and "Suck"; listen carefully to the former's intro and you'll hear Trent hissing "Eat your heart out, Steve..." ;-) (It also has the advantage of being short enough that there's no filler on it; as a hardcore NINnie, it pains me to say this, but there's at least 1 song on every other NIN album that I could REALLY do without. Sorry, Trent...)
Prince..Sign o the times Peter Frampton..Alive Linda Rondstadt...Living in the USA (while most of these songs she did were remakes, she did them very well) Fleetwood Mac-Rumours Saturday night fever soundtrack Prince...Purple Rain Adele...21
Beatles, Revolver
ReplyDelete@christina I just discovered Tomorrow Never Knows thanks to a Med Men ep that paid a fortune to use the track. Then I realized one of my fav OH ANOTHER ALL TIME FAV ALBUM CHEMICAL BROTHERS DIG YOUR OWN HOLE!!!! They sampled TNK on Setting Sun with Noel Gallagher. The drum line just makes me melt into my chair and start dreaming
DeletePaul's Boutique
ReplyDeleteI'm a diehard lifelong Led Zeppelin fan BUT my all time fav album is the Trainspotting soundtrack.
ReplyDelete(This is going to be an awesome thread and I'm looking forward to album suggestions to download!)
ReplyDeleteLateralus by Tool
ReplyDeleteJeff Buckley's Grace
ReplyDeleteRolling Stones, pretty much all of them but specially Forty Licks
ReplyDeleteWeezer, Blue Album
ReplyDeleteDazed and Confused soundtrack
ReplyDeleteGrace-Jeff Buckley
ReplyDeleteRun dmc raising hell
ReplyDeleteFleetwood Mac's Rumours.
ReplyDeleteRun dmc raising hell
ReplyDeleteRun dmc raising hell
ReplyDeletePaul Simon's Graceland
ReplyDeleteFleetwood Mac Rumours
For me, there aren't many albums where every song is good but these two are (IMHO :))
Beatles Abbey Road
ReplyDelete^ this
DeleteRadiohead - OK Computer
ReplyDeleteThat's such a hard question. It's between Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy, Foo Fighter's The Colour and The Shape and Weezer's Pinkerton.
ReplyDeleteGahhhhhh.
@iDo u should pick Zeppelin bc they influenced the others :)
DeleteSublime's 40oz to Freedom.
ReplyDeleteI love a lot, but that one has been with me through every stage of life, and I can still listen to it from beginning to end.
Jamiroquai, Return of the Space Cowboy
ReplyDeleteGroovie & Elizabeth called it
ReplyDeleteFleetwood Mac Rumours
Police Synchronicity
These two are like the soundtrack to my life!
Has to be a Queen album. If I have to pick just one, The Game.
ReplyDeleteBeatles White Album
ReplyDeleteU know what's sad? I think most of us know music back to at least the 1970's up to now and most of our answers are going to be pre 2000 bc full length quality albums are getting rarer thanks to iTunes. I'm curious what the best pop album is bc that genre is definitely single based (and I do love it)
ReplyDeleteThe Stand Ins by Okkervil River
ReplyDeleteExile on Main Street.
ReplyDeleteNo way I can pick just one. I can barely do a top 5...
ReplyDeleteThe Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers & Let It Bleed
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue & Bitches Brew
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones & Alice
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Morphine - Good, Like Swimming & The Night
K I'll stop now.
I have to agree with all your choices
DeleteKatsm0711 I love pop music too and if I were to name one song as my favorite, I couldn't because, like movies, they change. But if you say name a full length album that's good beginning to end, that's easier to narrow down because there aren't many albums that don't have songs you'd rather skip.
ReplyDeleteI have SEVERAL, and these won't cover them all but here we go
ReplyDeleteThe Cure -Disintegration
-Bloodflowers
Sasha- Global Underground 13 Ibiza
George Michael- Listen without prejudice Vol 1.
Snow Patrol- Fallen Empires
-Final Straw
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head
Sarah McLachlan- Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
Prince- 1999
Prince - Sign O'the Times!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful. I remember listening to that in my dad's car when I was little. That album covers every emotion and truly is the soundtrack of my life. I even got married walking down the beach to Here, There, and Everywhere.
ReplyDeleteThe Cure -Disintegration
ReplyDeletePaul Simon- graceland
led zeppelin- houses of the holy
Beatles- abbey road
sorry, enty. can't come up w/ one....and that's just off the top of my head.
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - Pink Floyd. From beginning to end, it's the perfect album.
ReplyDeleteBTW - favorite song? Born to Run - the Boss.
; )
@firebugDVM - YES! The Dazed & Confused soundtracks are the BEST. I bought volumes one and two when I was 16, and have nearly worn them out.
ReplyDeleteMy all-time greatest albums:
Miles Davis - Milestones
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1
Born to Run
ReplyDeleteAlbums that I can listen to beginning to end and treat like a solitary entity? No way I can pick one.
ReplyDelete- "Rio" and "Astronaut" by Duran Duran
- "Kick" by INXS
- "Almacantar" by Eight Seconds
- "The Dance" by Fleetwood Mac
- "Flood" and "Apollo 18" by They Might Be Giants
- "Watermark" by Enya
- "Presto", "Roll the Bones" and "Hold Your Fire" by Rush
I'm sure I'm forgetting something! ;-)
Beatles - Rubber Soul
ReplyDeleteA few from my top 10:
ReplyDeleteHole - Live Through This
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Stealing Beauty Soundtrack
Prince - The Very Best of Prince
Live Through This makes me sad about Courtney Love's entire life since then. Such an incredible album, such a wasted talent.
DeleteI also LOVE Van Morrison...at least his old material. I could listen to Astral Weeks, Tupelo Honey and Moondance endlessly.
ReplyDeleteSecond favorite: Soundtrack from "La Cage aux Folles". Seriously. "I hear La la-la-la la-la-la and I'm young and in love..."
ReplyDeleteTori Amos-Little Earthquakes and Boys for Pele
ReplyDeleteRancid's ...And Out Come The Wolves
ReplyDeleteRhythm Nation
ReplyDeleteI am with FSP: Paul's Boutique. Shake Your Rump is my favorite driving song ever.
ReplyDelete"Revolver" - The Beatles
ReplyDelete"Nilsson Schmilsson" - Harry Nilsson
Born to Run album but Badlands is my favorite song.
ReplyDeleteLove the BEATLES...so anything from them ..
ReplyDeleteDon't laugh but my fav is probably Genesis A Trick of the Tail followed by Beatles Rubber Soul (or Revolver, I love them both) or Foos The Colour & the Shape
ReplyDeleteyeah, I'm a dork
Genesis? No wonder you're cranky
DeleteLol I HAD to!
Built to Spill "There's Nothing Wrong with Love"
ReplyDelete@cornbread
ReplyDeletei just need to cut and paste your Van Morrison comments as my answer :)
Also...
The Killers Hot Fuss (which I am listening to right now)
Sublime 40 oz to Freedom (right on, Lauren)
U2 Joshua Tree
Great thread!
Idotherobot, you stole mine! Weezer Pinkerton, the Foos, the Beasties Ill Communication and Coldplay Parachutes. You guys all have great taste!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite album, the album that is good from start to finish, that people still ask about and want when I play it is...The Stone Roses' debut. If you've never listened to it, do it NOW. From the gritty opening to the final chord, perfect. Ages well. I was so upset that by the time I found them, they had already imploded.
ReplyDeletegood thread! i generally don't have favorites of anything 'cause i like different criteria blah, blah, blah...however, fleetwood mac rumors is an awesome album and i don't take the needle off the vinyl when listening and flip it when one side is played. other favorites that i don't pick and choose, just let it play:
ReplyDeleteray charles, otis redding, dusty springfield, pearl jam, hammerbox, j roddy walston and the business, david bowie, pixies, the offspring, adele, pistol annies and dixie chicks
i'm a gemini, so i have focus issues
Thirteen Tales of Urban Bohemia - Dandy Warhols/The White Album - The Beatles.
ReplyDeleteGuns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
ReplyDeleteYes Lucas, me too! Rocket Queen would also write that (she may not get a chance since she became a mum).
DeleteBorn to Run
ReplyDeleteGood question. Personal favorite of all time:
ReplyDeleteDisintegration - The Cure
Honorable mention:
Beauty and the Beat - The Go-Go's
The Ramones - The Ramones
Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
Nevermind - Nirvana
After the Gold Rucs - Neil Young
Room Noises - Eisley
Some bands I wish I could include in the best one album list but you need their greatest hits collections to have a really great album. Acts like that:
David Bowie
New Order
Can't limit myself to just one, but below are a few of my beloved collection:
ReplyDeleteLed Zeppelin, 'Led Zeppelin IV'
Depeche Mode, 'Violator'
The Doors, 'The Doors'
Bob Marley & the Wailers, 'Legend'
John Coltrane, 'A Love Supreme'
Radiohead, 'Kid A'
Lou Reed, 'Transformer'
Pixies, 'Doolittle'
Rodriguez, 'Cold Fact'
P.J. Harvey, 'Let England Shake'
Ali Farka Toure, 'Savane'
Music from Big Pink by The Band.
ReplyDeleteAnd my special enjoyment: Cowboyography by Ian Tyson.
NICKELBACK - EVERY ALBUM THEY EVER MADE
ReplyDeleteDepeche Mode- Violator
ReplyDeleteAmy Winehouse- Back to Black
The Black Keys- Brothers
Spoon- Gimme Fiction
Too many to list, but these come to mind right away. Long time reader, most times what I want to say has already been said but I felt compelled to add my two cents to this one. :)
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
ReplyDeleteGreat pick!
DeleteOh! On my mega-list I totally forgot "Music for the Masses" by Depeche Mode. :)
ReplyDeletePrimal Scream, Screamadelica. David Bowie, Aladdin Sane. The Verve, Urban Hymns. Can't decide between those three, but those are the ones that immediately spring to mind.
ReplyDelete@Stacy - The Stone Roses! they are heaven!
ReplyDeleteYou guys have picked some great ones but I have to throw in the Eagles, Hotel California.
ReplyDeletelol NO REALLY - sorry I couldn't resist the Nickelback comment - my true favorites are
ReplyDeleteFleetwood Mac -Rumours and Counting Crows - August & Everything After.
No way can I pick one.
ReplyDeleteAll FOUR of Fiona Apple's albums
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Led Zeppelin II
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Elvis Costello- Armed Forces
just to name a few.
Natalie Cole, Unforgettable - amazing soundtracks
ReplyDeleteAlanis Morrisette Jagged Little Pill
ReplyDeleteStacey, just saw your Counting Crows post. I adore that CD. it is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! :)
ReplyDeleteLed Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Radiohead The Bends
U2 Joshua Tree
Neil Young Harvest Moon
Ditto on the Fleetwood Mac, Stone Roses and Bruce Springsteen.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to add; Suede - Dog Man Star, The Smiths - Strangeways here we Come, The Band - The Band and Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites.
No way can I limit my choice to just 1 album. I have to be in a particular mood to listen to some music.
I always love when someone says "name 1", and people say they can't. Of course you can, you just choose not to.
ReplyDeleteStevie Wonder's "Songs In The Key Of Life".
I never get tired of Back to Black. Every song is amazing. I think there are other albums that are more culturally significant (Thriller for one), but this is my personal favorite.
ReplyDeleteParissucks...Isn't it! I am on my 3rd copy. "Anna Begins" is one of my absolute favorites and "Long December" too.
ReplyDeleteTOO HARD!!!!
ReplyDeleteGuns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
I can't help it.
*Showing my age*
ReplyDeleteGoodbye Yellow Brick ROad Elton John
NunSexMonkRock Siouxsie and the Banshees
Disintegration The Cure
London Calling The Clash
Tapestry Carole King
Graceland Paul Simon
Abbey Road The Beatles
Come On Now Social The Indigo Girls
Love the Indigo Girls!! And love you too!
DeleteMoose, no really, I can't. It's totally situation-dependent.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Cory about Hotel California by the Eagles, but more contemporary cds that I listen to the whole thing over and over and never skip a tract :
ReplyDeleteAdele both 19 and 21,
Fall Out Boy's Folie a Deux,
Panic at the Disco (any and all of albums),
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More,
Dixie Chicks, (any and all albums)
I have a hard time choosing, too, but I just tell myself: you're dying, you can only listen to one more album before the end. What is it?
ReplyDeleteRadiohead - In Rainbows
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion. Hands down THE BEST. Mmmmmm......
ReplyDeleteU2, The Joshua tree--got me through a hard time in college.
ReplyDeleteAlso Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Simon and Garfunkel, I listened to that alot as a young 'un.
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion. Hands down THE BEST. Mmmmmm......
ReplyDelete@Lauren - much respect on the 40 oz. choice. It's in my top 5, for sure. What you said about it - that you've been able to listen to it at every stage of your life without tiring of it - same here. LOVE Bradley's voice, and his spirit. I can't even attempt to listen to the new stuff because the thought of someone else singing his songs, trying to sound like him, just hurts my heart. I still have my copy of Rolling Stone that featured his memorial, and a big long article about him. And now I'm tearing up.....
ReplyDeleteokay, i'm going to plug j roddy walston and the business(self titled album) because they are a small band and i'm sure they are not known to many. they are a fun bluesy/rockin'/bar kinda band, so if you are into that please sample on whatever you generally use to sample. full grown man makes me feel like sexy times with mr. eggs.
ReplyDeletealso, i forgot zz top, fandango from 'also favorites'
Oh dear. I can't pick just one, it constantly changes. A few faves:
ReplyDeleteMarillion: Season's End, Afraid of Sunlight and Brave
Michael Jackson: Dangerous and Invincible
Icehouse: Man of Colours
Herbert Groenemeyer: Live
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City (and especially 'Crush').
Golden Earring: all of them
Radiohead: the bends and pablo honey
and that's just a few...
Growing up: Bryan Adams, Reckless.
ReplyDeleteLicense to Ill by the Beastie Boys. Billy Joel's greatest hits.
College: Probably Alanis Morisette, Jagged Little Pill or Hootie & the Blowfish Cracked Rear View or Fairweather Johnson. Cowboy Mouth or Better than Ezra since I went to college in New Orleans.
Since I've gotten into country: Zac Brown Band (all the albums), Bomshel, Band Perry, Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker, Sugarland...I'm sure there are more.
Radiohead-Ok Computer
ReplyDeleteI got 3
ReplyDelete1. Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
2. AC-DC - Back in Black
3. Prince - Purple Rain
@katsm0711 - post Gabriel Genesis at that ;/
ReplyDeleteyeah, I have bizarre taste in music that confuses the hell out of anyone who scrolls through my ipod
Obviously like so many of you I can't pick just one..this is what I have on my ipod
ReplyDeleteLed Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
The Band - The Last Waltz
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson
The Tragically Hip - yer Favorites
Sarah McLaughlin - Mirrorball
The Big Chill - Soundtrack
Forrest Gump - Soundtrack
The Clash - London Calling
Gordon Lightfoot - greatest hits
Melissa Ethridge - Yes, I am
Jann Arden - Living under June
The Staple Singers - Greatest hits
I forgot The Wall - Pink Floyd -
ReplyDeleteOh, I need to add one. Tom Rush - Wrong End of the Rainbow
ReplyDeleteLove seeing everyone's favs!
@ Stacey - as soon as I read your Nickelback one it made me laugh haha
Beatles - Abbey Road
ReplyDeleteIf I have to pick just one, that's the one.
Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones.
ReplyDeletegram parsons - grievous angel. i've loved it for almost 40 years.
ReplyDeleteIf I ONLY get one...damn. Can't do it. Either BORN TO RUN or RUMOURS. No, wait...the White Album. Or RUBBER SOUL. No...MOONDANCE. No...BLUE by Joni.
ReplyDeleteShit, I can't do it.
Wow! This is a tough one. I think my all time fav is Pink Floyd - The Wall.
ReplyDeleteChicago IX
ReplyDeleteI think a soundtrack shouldn't count. Picking just one is hard, so probably The Dark Side of the Moon or 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to say just one but I like all of the songs on those two.
Three-way tie:
ReplyDeleteJourney - "Escape"
Def Leppard - "Pyromania"
Def Leppard - "Hysteria"
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
ReplyDeleteThe Tea Party (a Canadian band that broke up some years ago) "Triptych." OMG I cried when they disbanded.
ReplyDeleteTwo more that are in my head demanding to be added - The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card, Feargal Sharkey - Songs From The Mardi Gras.
ReplyDeleteRadiohead- Kid A
ReplyDeleteNeeded to add a few more:
ReplyDeleteAny Sublime album (RIP Bradley)
Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour
Floyd- Animals
Ani DiFranco- Living in Clip
Bob Dylan- Blood on the tracks (or the album with idiot wind, I don't remember!)
Seconding Songs in the Key of Life. I am completely indecisive about my favorites whenever I'm asked to choose ("my favorite character? NO LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY TOP TWENTY FAVES OKAY?") but I am 100 percent sure about that one.
ReplyDeleteReally, there are genuinely fantastic pieces of music. But nothing before, and nothing since, works so well as a whole than "Songs...". I'm so grateful to have been a fan of soul music (even if it was as a young teenager) when Stevie hit his creative peak.
DeleteAny collection of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven tracks from the late twenties. Of course they weren't originally recorded as an album, but to me if Louis Armstrong hadn't been born we would have had to invent him that's how important he was. Any time I hear tracks like "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" or "West End Blues" the world instantly becomes a better place.
ReplyDeletePops is tops.
TOM PETTY!!!!! I loved pretty much everything up through Highway Companion. Their Playback boxset is amazing. Echo is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteBest albums?
Brandi Carlile - The Story (LOVE her!!!)
Adele - 21
Sarah MacLachlan - Surfacing and Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
Hole - Live Through This and Celebrity Skin
Stevie Nicks - Timespace
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
John Mellencamp - The Best That I Could Do
Songcatcher - Official Soundtrack
O Brother Where Art Thou - Official Soundtrack
Warren Zevon - everything
Queen - everything
10,000 Maniacs - everything with Natalie Merchant
I know I am forgetting stuff!!!
Either CCR, Chronicle, Vol. 1 or Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers
ReplyDeleteLove these! @Parissucks-- yay for Elvis! My favorite is Blood and Chocolate by him, though.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with Sublime and weezer.
This is helping me (yet again) create the music list for my wedding! Thanks everyone!
Radiohead: OK Computer
ReplyDeleteOr the Amadeus Soundtrack.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to plug into Spotify and listen to some faves that people on here mentioned :D
Any G Love and Special Sauce fans? Philadelphonic is pretty dope :)
ReplyDeleteI forgot Is This It-- The Strokes
ReplyDeleteThe Album that defines me:
ReplyDeleteTori Amos: Boys For Pele
Other favourites: All other 90's Tori stuff, Dummy by Portishead, Hounds of Love by Kate Bush, Garbage by Garbage.
Past decade I've mostly given up listening to music. I work in retail and am forced to hear the same crap day in day out. When I get home the last thing I wanna hear is any kind of music!
@Sunny-YES to G. Love! *high five* I got to see them a long time ago in Louisville, such a great show!
ReplyDelete"my baby got sauce, your baby ain't sweet like mine...."
Led Zeppelin IV
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GnR Appetite for Destruction
So hard to choose.
Depeche Mode- Black Celebration ....
ReplyDeletethe beginning of a golden era
The Clash - London Calling (a two record set -- remember records??? and EVERY SONG, EVERY MOTHERLICKING SONG is EXCELLENT)
ReplyDeleteMy "If I was stranded on a deserted island with a CD player, unlimited batteries and could have 10 albums with me list...":
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and other Assorted Love Songs
The Moody Blues - This is the Moody Blues (a cheat because this is a best-of)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Ihave a ton of favorites but my number 1 has to be Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails. Other favorites: U2 Wide Awake In America, Achtung Baby, and INXS Kick. I still miss Michael Hutchence!
ReplyDeletePaul Simon Graceland
ReplyDeleteRock Follies-Soundtrack
Suzi Quatro - If you knew Suzi
Oh, one more
ReplyDeleteBilly Joel The Stranger
Wow some great lists here.
ReplyDeleteSpringsteen , just about any but Born to Run is so classic, Darkness, THe WIld, the Innocent..and Greetings.THe RIsing Rocks. Dont make me pick one!
Also Love Brandi Carlile- self named album, she is awesome.
Carol King - Tapestry
Chris Isaak- Wicked Game, SF Days, Forever Blue
John Cougar (mellancamp) Lonesome Jubilee and Scarecrow
Keith Urban Golden Road
Trisha Yearwood- Inside Out and Jaspar County
Ok that is more than one.
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde.
ReplyDeleteU2's The Joshua Tree. I ran the equivalent of about 40 marathons to that album. Gave me a lot of optimistic hope while growing up in the late 80s.
ReplyDeleteLots of other picks on here which I like - Beatles, G.Love, Radiohead, Soundgarden etc., etc. Whoever put Savane on their list is awesome. Ali Farka's stuff is wicked tricky - check out Niafunke, if/when you've a chance.
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ReplyDeleteGraceland, by Paul Simon
ReplyDeleteRadiohead ok computer and kid a
ReplyDeletefiona apple when the pawn and tidal
toad the wet sprocket dulcinea and fear
beasties ill communication and paul's boutique
the killers hot fuss
twenty billion more.......
Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run"
ReplyDeleteThriller
ReplyDeleteTool - Aenima and Lateralus
ReplyDeleteI don't think I saw any of the following so I'll list:
ReplyDeleteBreaking Benjamin-seriously all their albums are amazing especially the last Dear Agony
Shinedown- again all of them
And other great modern rock bands
Seether, Chevelle, 311, Mudvayne, Sevendust, Taproot...
I'm gonna stop now
ok I know I picked Kid A, and if I could only have one that would definitely be it, but looking at the other picks if I had to pick alternates...
ReplyDelete*@Amber awesome call Enter the 36 Chambers - the Wu
*Paul's Boutique- BB- Car Thief is the best!
*random pick I'm loving now is Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
*Fiona Apple- Tidal
*shout out to my hometown so will pick as final album Fables of the Reconstruction OR Murmur by REM
(I know I am all over the place on music but I think that's a good thing)
Oh and V is for Vagina - Puscifer and Dubnobasswithmyhead- Underworld
ReplyDeleteThe Beach Boys "Pet Sounds"
ReplyDeletePink Floyd "The Wall"
Prince "Purple Rain"
The Beatles "The Beatles"
Michael Jackson "Thriller"
The Clash "London Calling
Oh, the happy music I could list all night.
IT'S A TIE!!!
ReplyDeleteDark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
Abbey Road- The Beatles
Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees (8 track)
ReplyDeleteJourney's Greatest Hits (Cassette)
Bobby Caldwell, The Anthology, Part 1 (CD)
Pink Floyd--Dark Side of the Moon
ReplyDeleteSting --Soul Cages
U2-Joshua Tree
G&R- Appetite for Destruction
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
ReplyDeleteMy all-time favorite, that I've owned & loved for well over 30 years, would have to be Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark; it's one of those albums you can love as a teenager, and then enjoy on deeper & deeper levels as you get older. If you've ever been in love, or thought you were, or knew people who were, or...really, if you've been involved in any kind of human relationships over the years, this one's a keeper.
ReplyDelete#2: Bob Mould's Workbook; saying it's a near-perfect rendering of picking up the pieces after one's life and career have both imploded doesn't really do it justice, but it's one way to describe it.
#3: I'm not sure if EPs/mini-albums count, but assuming they do, it's NIN's Broken; the one good thing former TVT Records head Steve Gottlieb ever did in his life was piss Trent Reznor off enough that the latter made this album. (Don't forget to keep the CD running after "Gave Up" ends, or you'll miss "Physical" (an old Adam Ant cover) and "Suck"; listen carefully to the former's intro and you'll hear Trent hissing "Eat your heart out, Steve..." ;-) (It also has the advantage of being short enough that there's no filler on it; as a hardcore NINnie, it pains me to say this, but there's at least 1 song on every other NIN album that I could REALLY do without. Sorry, Trent...)
For rock: Pink Floyd, 'The Dark Side of the Moon'
ReplyDeleteFor metal: Testament, "The Gathering"
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
ReplyDeleteIt's like they were reading my mind for almost every song. Actually anything by Linkin Park.
Soul Coughing - El Oso
ReplyDeleteforever - wu tang clan
ReplyDeletebut I am torn and truly have a top five, w/ the remainder being
grace - jeff buckley
talking blues - bob marley
californication -rhcp
the empyrean - john frusciante
Tea for the Tillerman- Cat Stevens
ReplyDeleteGraceland- Paul Simon
So glad to see some of my absolute favorites appear on this list! :)
ReplyDeleteIf I had to pick just one, it would have to be 'Lateralus' by Tool (a masterpiece on every level). But here's a few more for posterity:
The Cure, 'Disintegration'
Kruder & Dorfmeister, 'The K&D Sessions'
NIN, 'The Fragile'
Massive Attack, 'Mezzanine'
REM, 'Automatic for the People'
Tubeway Army, 'Replicas'
Ritchie Hawtin, 'DE9: Transitions'
Prairie Oyster (Canadian Band) - Everybody Knows
ReplyDeleteThese are the ones I never get tired of:
ReplyDeletePrince..Sign o the times
Peter Frampton..Alive
Linda Rondstadt...Living in the USA (while most of these songs she did were remakes, she did them very well)
Fleetwood Mac-Rumours
Saturday night fever soundtrack
Prince...Purple Rain
Adele...21
bobbi_1025 ITA about Breaking Benjamin. Amazing stuff.
ReplyDeleteGeez, I forgot about The Police and Sting and
Lyle Lovett Pontiac is absolutely amazing
1.) Alice in Chains - Dirt or their EP Jar of Flies (best selling EP of all time)
ReplyDelete2.) Fleetwood Mac Rumours
3.) Nirvana - Nevermind
Another vote for Beatles White Album. It doesn't get any better than that.
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