Your favourite albums?

[The Wolf]

I couldn't find any similiar topic by search so I made one. The title says everything. What are your favourite albums?

My top-20 looks pretty much like this:

01. Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd, 1973)
02. The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967)
03. Human/Individual Thought Patters (Death, 1991/1993)
04. Kill 'em All/Master of Puppets (Metallica, 1983/1986)
05. Electric Ladyland (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968)
06. Symbolic/The Sound of Perseverance (Death, 1995/1997)
07. In Utero (Nirvana, 1993)
08. Are You Experienced? (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967)
09. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (The Sex Pistols, 1977)
10. The Doors (The Doors, 1967)
11. Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd, 1970)
12. The Wall (Pink Floyd, 1979)
13. Reign in Blood (Slayer, 1986)
14. Strange Days (The Doors, 1967)
15. Leprosy (Death, 1988)
16. Ride the Lightning (Metallica, 1984)
17. Nevermind (Nirvana, 1991)
18. IV (Led Zeppelin, 1971)
19. Frank's Wild Years (Tom Waits, 1987)
20. Rust in Peace (Megadeth, 1990)


EDIT: I meant to put this on 'the people...' board. Maybe someone can move this there.

[BlackDog]

01. Arrival (ABBA, 1976)

Hey, is there anything better to listen to when I am drivin' around in my Volvo with a big prilla under lip? :P

[Zero]

Moved. As for my top 20... this could take a while :lol:

[Soft Morning, City!]

My favorite album is In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.

Some other favorites of mine in no particular order:

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Wowee Zowee by Pavement
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
Rain Dogs by Tom Waits
Bone Machine by Tom Waits
Nine-Thirty by Jandek
Six & Six by Jandek
Twelfth Apostle by Jandek
The Beginning by Jandek
Put My Dream On This Planet by Jandek
(okay, basically anything by Jandek)
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Lick My Decals Off, Baby by Beefheart
Songs About ****ing by Big Black
Nail by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
Hole by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
D.O.A.- The Third and Final Report by Throbbing Gristle
III by Sebadoh
On Avery Island by Neutral Milk Hotel
F#A#(Infinity) by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed
Yanqui U.X.O. by Godspeed
Days In The Wake by Palace
The 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields
Get Lost by The Magnetic Fields
Computer World by Kraftwerk
Autobahn by Kraftwerk
Spiderland by Slint
Tweez by Slint
Locust Abortion Technician by Butthole Surfers
Remain In Light by Talking Heads
White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground
Revolver by The Beatles
Richard D. James Album by Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin
Discreet Music by Brian Eno
Ambient 1: Music For Airports by Brian Eno
Roman Candle by Elliott Smith
Self-Titled by Elliott Smith
Figure 8 by Elliott Smith
Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine
Pink Moon by Nick Drake
Hi, How Are You by Daniel Johnston
Songs of Pain by Daniel Johnston
Closer by Joy Division

I'm sure there are many others, but I'm too lazy to list them all. That's enough.

[eli]

Eh, here's my 20 in no particular order, kind of mild in comparison I guess:
Let's see how far I get, in no real order:

Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead
Dead Letter Office - REM
Never Mind the Bullocks - Sex Pistols
Son of Sam I Am - Too Much Joy
Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Blue Album - Weezer
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Our Live Album is Better than Yours - Reel Big Fish
Madstock - Madness
License to Ill - Beastie Boys
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Joshua Tree - U2
Milo Goes to College - The Descendants
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Jazz - Queen
Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads
Synchronicity - The Police
Who Made Who - AC/DC
Sublime - Sublime

[Slydel]

I suppose I will have to post again for my top twenty, but I do have to say that Led Zeppelin II and Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti are right up there. I do think that eli's choice of the Police is on target. They have so many albums that I can listen all the way through, same with Led Zeppelin. The guitar work of Led Zeppelin is fantastic. (not to piss anyone off but..) how could anyone rate the rolling stones or the beatles above the Led Zeppelin is quite suprising. I do have to give the beatles the credit that they deserve for their time, they were the great innovators just not a band that I care listening to because their music seemed to be so simplistic. Sorry.

Anyone like The Who, or The Guess Who?

[eli]

I like The Who. Townsend was the shit.

[kinesthetic]

Not all are definitive all-time favorites but this is the ecclectic list I have been listenning to.

Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Jody Stecher - Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips
Ai Phoenix - Lean That Way Forever
Black Keys - Rubber Factory
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven

[kinesthetic]

The Who definately belong up there with the alltime greatest such as Zepplin.

eli I like your picks of Joshua Tree and Synchronicity, though for ac/dc I would pick High Voltage.

[eli]

Well High Voltage is a good album, and it was really hard for me to pick one, I just tried to pick an album where I like every single song. That's a tough thing for me to do, I tend to like songs as opposed to bands or albums, my iPod is am absolute jumble of single songs from a wide variety of artists. Of course my tastes seem to change on a daily basis as well. About the only thing I don't like is more recent (last 20 years or so) Country music... although I do break out the Johnny Cash and Hank Williams Sr. every now and then.

[Stargazer]

Led Zeppelin - physical graffiti and many more
Pink Floyd - dark side of the moon and many more
Jeff Beck - Wired
Black Sabbat - master of reality
Deep Purple - Fireball and many more
Danzig - Danzig II
Van Halen - Fare Warning
Robin - Trower Bridge of sighs
Yes - Close to the edge
ZZ top - Tres hombres
The Who - Who's next
Jeff Beck - blow by blow
Miles Davis - kind of blue
Terje Rypdal - If mountains could sing
Santan - Abraxas and III
Rory Gallagher - Irish tour
WE - dinosauric Futurobic and lightyears ahead

in no particualr order, I could probably write many more.

[lxskllr]

Wow, this will be tough. I may have to do a bit at a time until I get it figured out. I know I'll forget some I really want in the list :^/ I'm going to cheat with some of these, and include huge retrospective collections :^P

1 Sigur Ros- Takk

2 Glenn Miller- The Golden Years of Glenn Miller

3 Miles Davis- Bitches Brew

4 Bobby Darin- The Bobby Darin Collection

5 Frank Sinatra- The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings

6 Bob Dylan- Blood on The Tracks

7 Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde

8 Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited

9 Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour

10 Dexter Gordon- Ballads

11 Planxty- The Well Below the Valley

12 Benny Goodman- 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

13 Chico O'Farrill- Heart of a Legend

14 Duke Ellington- Swingin' With the Duke

15 Louis Armstrong- Louis Armstrong Sings Back Through the Years

16 Mazzy Star- So Tonight That I might See

17 Mazzy Star- Among My Swan

18 The Pogues- If I Should Fall From Grace With God

19 Rain Parade- Emergency Third Rail Power Trip Explosions in the Glass Palace

20 The Beach Boys- Sounds of Summer, The Very Best of the Beach Boys

Well there it is. There's a bunch I left out and will miss :^/ I guess that's my essential list though.

[Asquar]

From Sigur Ros to Bobby Darrin, that's pretty eclectic! And Planxty! Yay! :wink:

20 off the top of my head:

Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited

Miles Davis
In a Silent Way
Bitches Brew

Jefferson Airplane
After Bathing at Baxter's
Crown of Creation
Volunteers
Bless its Pointed Little Head

Frank Zappa
Freak Out

Neil Young
After the Gold Rush
Rust Never Sleeps

Phil Ochs
Pleasures of the Harbor

The Clash
London Calling

Jimi Hendrix
Axis: Bold as Love
Electric Ladyland
Band of Gypsies

Cream
Fresh Cream
Disraeli Gears

The Beatles
Abbey Road

Janice Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company
Live at Winterland '68

[Sacrilicious]

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Black Sabbath - Vol. IV
Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
Pixies - Doolittle
The Stooges - Fun House
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Motorhead - No Remorse
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Descendents - Two Things At Once
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
T. Rex - The Slider
The Who - Who's Next
Sebadoh - Bubble & Scrape
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

(That was hard and I could have put down a lot more, but it's pretty representative / albums I've loved for a while..)

[koops]

My favorite album is In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.

Some other favorites of mine in no particular order:

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Wowee Zowee by Pavement
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
Rain Dogs by Tom Waits
Bone Machine by Tom Waits
Nine-Thirty by Jandek
Six & Six by Jandek
Twelfth Apostle by Jandek
The Beginning by Jandek
Put My Dream On This Planet by Jandek
(okay, basically anything by Jandek)
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Lick My Decals Off, Baby by Beefheart
Songs About ****ing by Big Black
Nail by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
Hole by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
D.O.A.- The Third and Final Report by Throbbing Gristle
III by Sebadoh
On Avery Island by Neutral Milk Hotel
F#A#(Infinity) by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed
Yanqui U.X.O. by Godspeed
Days In The Wake by Palace
The 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields
Get Lost by The Magnetic Fields
Computer World by Kraftwerk
Autobahn by Kraftwerk
Spiderland by Slint
Tweez by Slint
Locust Abortion Technician by Butthole Surfers
Remain In Light by Talking Heads
White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground
Revolver by The Beatles
Richard D. James Album by Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin
Discreet Music by Brian Eno
Ambient 1: Music For Airports by Brian Eno
Roman Candle by Elliott Smith
Self-Titled by Elliott Smith
Figure 8 by Elliott Smith
Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine
Pink Moon by Nick Drake
Hi, How Are You by Daniel Johnston
Songs of Pain by Daniel Johnston
Closer by Joy Division

I'm sure there are many others, but I'm too lazy to list them all. That's enough.

man those god speed albums.
also joy divison - closer, i love it.
recently got into daniel johnston - have u seen the dvd the devil and daniel johnston?