Favourite albums of all time

[bunsen burner]

I tossed a coin with Neil Diamond. I could have gone with Moods, or The Jazz Singer or the rather obscure Lovescape instead. I have all his albums pretty much.

I prefer YDBMF. Has a reputation of being a bit cheesy but I think it has some good tracks on it.

He's got one of the best voices I have ever heard but his sound (ie instruments) is a bit soft. Would have loved to hear sing to a band with a bit more balls.

 

[bunsen burner]

Fair enough and I agree that it has its low points but it's my favourite Stones album just on the strength of Angie. As you said, heard it a million times and it's still good.

Next time you play it, stop and soak up Winter. An amazing track.

 

[Bomber32]

Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Abbey Road - The Beatles
The White Album - The Beatles
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

 

[sherb]

I prefer YDBMF. Has a reputation of being a bit cheesy but I think it has some good tracks on it.

He's got one of the best voices I have ever heard but his sound (ie instruments) is a bit soft. Would have loved to hear sing to a band with a bit more balls.

Actually I didn't consider that one, I think because I can't stand the title track. I didn't mind it so much when he originally recorded it by himself (on his previous album I think), but I hated the duet.

But I checked the track listing on the album (I haven't played it for ages) and it is pretty good: Forever In Blue Jeans, Diamond Girls, The American Popular Song, Say Maybe, Remember Me, The Bumble Bee, etc.

He put out consistently good albums in the 70s/early 80s.

 

[Old Skool]

16. The Police - Synchronicity

Jesus Christ.

9. Back in Black - AC/DC

Of all the AC/DC albums, you pick this one?

The Real Thing - Faith No More

This is better.

 

[Old Skool]

I will kill myself if someone lists "Achtung Baby"

 

[Cruyff14]

No order except the first one:

OK Computer
Funeral
Revolver
Blood on the Tracks
Born to Run
The Boatman's Call
After the Gold Rush
The Soft Bulletin
Daydream Nation
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By

That's 11 but whatever.

It's got BToR, it's all that matters.

 

[raskolnikov]

Jesus Christ.

What's wrong with Synchronicity?

Great album.

 

[raskolnikov]

Might just edit my list to include Achtung Baby.

 

[bungalow_bill]

And isn't Hey Bulldog on Yellow Submarine? That's one of their under-rated songs (not that it makes it a great album of course).

Also two Harrison psychedelic classics It's All Too Much & Only A Northern Song.

I also rate Synchronicity although it has a couple of dogs there are a lot of great tracks.
Worth it just for Synchronicity II.

 

[Suspense]

favourite albums of all time is hard. here is 20 i really like and listen to heaps:

Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Autechre - Tri Repetae
Autechre - LP5
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Boris - Boris at Last -Feedbacker-
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Slint - Spiderland
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (yeh, yeh)
Tool - Aenima
Tool - Lateralus
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Sz*letett
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain


10 that missed:

Apparat - Duplex
Converge - Jane Doe
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory


or something like that.

 

[Roos4eva]

favourite albums of all time is hard. here is 20 i really like and listen to heaps:

Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Autechre - Tri Repetae
Autechre - LP5
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Boris - Boris at Last -Feedbacker-
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Slint - Spiderland
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (yeh, yeh)
Tool - Aenima
Tool - Lateralus
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Sz*letett
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain


10 that missed:

Apparat - Duplex
Converge - Jane Doe
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory


or something like that.

Great list.

With your guidelines in mind, here's mine (trying to keep it at one album per band):

Queens of the Stone Age - Self Titled
Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - Aenima
Radiohead - Ok Computer
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Air - Premier Symptomes
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Elliott Smith - XO
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled
Nirvana - In Utero
Sonic Youth - Goo
HEALTH - Get Color

 

[bunsen burner]

Of all the AC/DC albums, you pick this one? (Back in Black)

Tossing up between this and Dirty Deeds. IMO anything after Back in Black is rubbish. Brian Johnston = rubbish.

But, even after BiB's questionable chauvenistic lyric, it's a great rock album. All killer, no filler.

or maybe...

AC/DC - High Voltage.

 

[Roobs321]

1. Autechre - Untilted
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Autechre - Confield
4. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5. Bjork - Vespertine
6. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
7. Ride - Nowhere
8. Pink Floyd - Meddle
9. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
10. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
11. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
12. Autechre - Amber
13. Radiohead - In Rainbows
14. George Michael - Older
15. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
16. Radiohead - Kid A
17. Bjork - Debut
18. Warpaint - The Fool
19. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
20. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

10 that missed
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Mastodon - Leviathan
Lifehouse - Stanley Climbfall
U2 - Achtung Baby
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Madonna - Bedtime Stories
Pink Floyd - Animals
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See

 

[HyperAgressiveDonk]

1. Boxer - The National
2. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
3. You and Me - The Walkmen
4. Minor Birds - Downhills Home
5. Funeral - Arcade Fire
6. 11:11 - Regina Spektor
7. High Violet - The National
8. Strange Bird - Augie March
9. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
10. Hi Fi Way - You Am I
11. Return To Cookie Mountain - TV On The Radio
12. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
13. Ok Computer - Radiohead
14. Alligator - The National
15. Revolver - The Beatles
16. Is This It - The Strokes
17. Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
18. The Luxury of Hysteria - Tim Rogers
19. Moo You Bloody Choir - Augie March
20. Lisbon - The Walkmen
21. Suck It & See - Arctic Monkeys

There were about 20 other albums that I could easily have put in the last 5 or so spots

 

[Tex_21]

No particular order, except Appetite at #1.

Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Circus Animals - Cold Chisel
Dirty Deeds - AC/DC
Kick - INXS
Kill Em All - Metallica
Rust In Peace - Megadeth
Come What(Ever) May - Stone Sour (yeah, I know it doesn't deserve to be rated with some others here, but I love it)
Toxicity - System of a Down
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Kauf Mich - Die Toten Hosen
Rocks - Aerosmith

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Ween - Quebec
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Pixies - Doolittle
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Ween - The Mollusk
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Clash - London Calling
Ween - Pure Guava
Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen...
Ween - God Ween Satan
Underground Lovers - Dream It Down
Radiohead - Kid A
Ween - The Pod
The Mark Of Cain - Battlesick
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Jesus Lizard - Shot
Slug Guts - Down On The Meat
Stooges - Fun House
Beaches - Beaches
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours
****ed Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
Gerling - When Young Terrorists Chase The Sun
Ween - White Pepper
The Scientists - Blood Red River
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

Theres 25 and I haven't really got started as there is no Tom Waits only 1 Sonic Youth and so so much more if I could be bothered looking through my cd collection.

EDIT:
Midnight Oil - Place Without A Postcard
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
TISM - Great Trucking Songs
Tomahawk - Tomahawk

There will be more...

 

[Old Skool]

Tossing up between this and Dirty Deeds. IMO anything after Back in Black is rubbish. Brian Johnston = rubbish.

Agree. They have pretty much cashed in after BiB.

But, even after BiB's questionable chauvenistic lyric, it's a great rock album. All killer, no filler.

or maybe...

AC/DC - High Voltage.

IMO, the beginning of the second generation brought out the best in AC/DC. Powerage & Let There Be Rock (March 1977 - May 1978). If you condense the best songs from these two albums you would have the greatest hard rock album of all time.

However, for pure hard rock album depth, I think Rose Tattoos first self titled album eclipses any overall album that AC/DC ever did, or just about any other pure hard rock album, for that matter.

 

[mansize rooster]

Got my 10 Cemented classics in there that would never ever change.

But i have another 10 which are where i am at right now.. they could be completely different next year. But i have feeling them atm... if that makes sense.
There is no way i would attempt to order them

 

[mansize rooster]

 

[mansize rooster]

Beaches - Beaches

whats the deal with this album?
its much loved. i mean... i don't mind it but its never blown me away.
thought it was kinda diet sonic youth. maybe they were amazing live
maybe i should give it another whirl..

 

[smasha]

20 is too limiting for me lol.

1.The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway-Genesis.
2.Trespass-Genesis.
3.Animals-Pink Floyd.
4.Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd.
5.The Wall-Pink Floyd.
6.Moving Pictures-Rush.
7.Hemispheres-Rush.
8.King Crimson-Debut.
9.Red-King Crimson.
10.The Tubes-debut.
11.Sailin' Shoes-Little Feat.
12.The Inner Mounting Flame-Mahavishnu Orchestra.
13.Kind Of Blue-Miles Davis.
14.Led Zep II-Led Zeppelin.
15.Led Zep III-Led Zeppelin.
16.Physical Graffiti-Led Zeppelin.
17.Machine Head-Deep Purple.
18.Paranoid-Black Sabbath.
19.The Yes Album-Yes.
20.Ok Computer-Radiohead.

This is too hard.

Left out tons of metal,punk,jazz,alternative and prog and electronic which I love too.

THese albums would go alright though if I just had 20 to choose from.

Maybe sneak a Celibate Rifles album ,Oils Clash lol too bloody hard.

I forgot Priest,Blood Duster,Fear Factory,Jethro Tull heaps and heaps of stuff.

Cult Of Luna.

Odear.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

whats the deal with this album?
its much loved. i mean... i don't mind it but its never blown me away.
thought it was kinda diet sonic youth. maybe they were amazing live
maybe i should give it another whirl..

It's the perfect album in so many ways. I would have thought with your tastes you would have loved it but I can also understand why you don't. I don't quite get the Sonic Youth link either?

At the moment it's my Go To album when I'm on a plane (which happens more frequently than I'd like).

That's an idea for a thread "Your Go To Album" for different situations...

 

[JimDocker]

Like most people, this would change regularly and are not in any order....except the first one.

Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim - Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Neil Young - On the Beach
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
Portishead - Dummy
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Tom T Hall - In Search of a Song
Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg - Don't Try This at Home
Dave Rawlins Machine - A Friend of a Friend
Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Texas Flood
Bjork - Debut
Bjork - Post
Art Pepper - Art Pepper plus Eleven
The Band - Music from the Big Pink
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Fleet Foxes - Helplesness Blues
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
The Beatles - White Album
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
The Clash - London Calling
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Streetcore
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Cat Power - You Are Free
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
Doc and Merle Watson - Songs from Deep Gap
The Cure - Disintegration
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Gil Scott Heron - Pieces of a Man
Gram Parsons - GP
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Johnny Cash - American lV
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
Radiohead - OK Computer
Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor - Appalachian Journey
Wynton Marsalis - Baroque Music for Trumpets
Carole King - Tapestry
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones................

I would be here all night.

There are so many great albums in the world, I just cannot wittle them down !!!!

 

[bunsen burner]

Agree. They have pretty much cashed in after BiB.

IMO, the beginning of the second generation brought out the best in AC/DC. Powerage & Let There Be Rock (March 1977 - May 1978). If you condense the best songs from these two albums you would have the greatest hard rock album of all time.

However, for pure hard rock album depth, I think Rose Tattoos first self titled album eclipses any overall album that AC/DC ever did, or just about any other pure hard rock album, for that matter.

The High Voltage thing was a joke - easily the weakest of the Bon Scott albums. My ranking goes something like:

Dirty Deeds
Highway to Hell
Let There Be Rock
Powerage

Those 4 are almost interchangeable. Hard to split them.

Gap

TNT
High Voltage