Favourite albums of all time

[Hue_Jars]

Exile on Main St

 

[bombermick]

A short list:
Tool - Aenima
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Alter Bridge - AB 3
Radiohead - OK Computer
Angels and Airwaves - Love Part 1
Live - Throwing Copper

 

[Eddie Dingle]

That is the worst troll comment I have ever seen...

How is it trolling if it is what he honestly believes? Have a read through a few threads, the lad is a stooges nut, he's a stooges fool, he's stooges crazy.

It is a fantastic album that is almost universally ignored when they compile these lists because they fill them with radio friendly s**t.

FWIW I would have it in my top 10 but not top 3.

 

[____]

How is it trolling if it is what he honestly believes? Have a read through a few threads, the lad is a stooges nut, he's a stooges fool, he's stooges crazy.

It is a fantastic album that is almost universally ignored when they compile these lists because they fill them with radio friendly s**t.

FWIW I would have it in my top 10 but not top 3.

I thought he was talking about the P!nk album... my bad!

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I thought he was talking about the P!nk album... my bad!

Ahhhh confusion....

 

[thurmanmunson]

I thought he was talking about the P!nk album... my bad!

 

[PieBeast]

favorite songs from that?

I'll go - no way & word attack.

Kids Of The Black Hole is a standout for me but Creatures isn't too far behind.

I thought he was talking about the P!nk album... my bad!

This is ****en hilarious

 

[bombermick]

I thought he was a Pink fan too!

 

[Dr2Sheds]

2011 ANNA CALVI - ANNA CALVI

Best album i listened to last year - caught her at Laneway, she's even better live.

Here's some of my favs in no particular order:

Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Cinema Prague - Meldatype
Custard - Wahooti Fandango
Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males - Tabloid Blues
The Drones - Here Come The Lies/Wait Long by the River...
Gersey - No Satellites
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Extra Width/Orange
Kim Salmon and the Surrealists - Sin Factory
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
MBV - Loveless
The Panics - House on a Street in a Town I'm From
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde/Doolittle
Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
Pulp - Different Class
Ride - Nowhere
Rocket Science - Welcome Aboard the 3C10
Scientists - Blood Red River
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sounds Like Sunset - Invisible
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
Swervedriver - Raise/Mezcal Head
Throwing Muses - Limbo
Yo La Tengo - I can Hear the Heart Beating as One/I Am Not Afraid of You and Will Kick Your Ass

 

[Hue_Jars]

Anna Calvi - holy toast shes good....

A freaking amazing guitar player too. Live its ridiculous.

 

[boat13]

Awake - Dream Theater
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Core - Stone Temple Pilots
T.N.T./High Voltage - ACDC
OK Computer - Radiohead
Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts - M83

not an album but a compilation, an absolute corker if you ask me
The Essential - The Clash

 

[DrVanNostrand]

My favourite album ever is probably Main Offender, Keith Richards' second and final solo album. By no means is it the best, but a huge personal favourite. Others:

Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St, Tattoo You, Bridges to Babylon - The Rolling Stones
The Rising, Magic, Born to Run, Wild/Innocent/E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen
Eliminator, Rhythmeen - ZZ Top
Hunky Dory, "Heroes" - David Bowie
The Dream of the Blue Turles - Sting
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Quadrophenia - The Who
Crowded House - Crowed House
Hard Promises, Mojo - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
A Nod is as Good as a Wink - Faces
Fleetwood Mac (1975) - Fleetwood Mac

 

[Hue_Jars]

My favourite album ever is probably Main Offender, Keith Richards' second and final solo album. By no means is it the best, but a huge personal favourite. Others:

Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St, Tattoo You, Bridges to Babylon - The Rolling Stones
The Rising, Magic, Born to Run, Wild/Innocent/E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen
Eliminator, Rhythmeen - ZZ Top
Hunky Dory, "Heroes" - David Bowie
The Dream of the Blue Turles - Sting
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Quadrophenia - The Who
Crowded House - Crowed House
Hard Promises, Mojo - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
A Nod is as Good as a Wink - Faces
Fleetwood Mac (1975) - Fleetwood Mac

Keef's solo stuff is awesome - how good is Take it so hard? Amazing backing band the x-pensive winos.

 

[Marlowe]

Anna Calvi - holy toast shes good....

A freaking amazing guitar player too. Live its ridiculous.

One of my favourite female artists - love her album.

Right now, my top ten albums:
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Leviathan - Mastodon
Physical Grafitti - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
At Fillmore East - Allman Brothers
Death is this Communion - High on Fire
Ænima - Tool
Ashes of the Wake - Lamb of God
Animals - Pink Floyd
Call Me - Al Green

There are so many great albums, I could go on all day, but those are at the top of my list at the moment.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Keef's solo stuff is awesome - how good is Take it so hard? Amazing backing band the x-pensive winos.

Couldn't agree more. Steve Jordan, Bobby Keys, Waddy Watchtell, incredible band. The live album as well as all the stuff on Youtube show the perfect chemistry they had as a group. The best ever verions on Gimmer Shelter were played on their '92 tour, IMO.

Talk Is Cheap is a fantastic album as well. 'You Don't Move Me' stacks up against anything the Stones have done.

 

[Hue_Jars]

Some of my favourites that come to mind:

Oasis: Heathen Chemistry and Whats the Story Morning Glory
The Verve: Urban Hymns
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St and Sticky Fingers
Black Keys: Rubber Factory, Brothers, El Camino - are all awesome.
Jimi Hendrix: Live at The Fillmore East
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Self titled.
Ben Harper: Will to Live and Live at Mars
Ash Grunwald: Fish Outta Water
Richard Ashcroft: Alone with Everybody
Coldplay: Parachutes (downhill since then, but Parachutes was amazing)
The Beatles: Revolver
Kasabian: West Paupa Lunatic Asylum
John Mayer Trio: self titled. (His pop stuff NOT keen).

 

[Hue_Jars]

Couldn't agree more. Steve Jordan, Bobby Keys, Waddy Watchtell, incredible band. The live album as well as all the stuff on Youtube show the perfect chemistry they had as a group. The best ever verions on Gimmer Shelter were played on their '92 tour, IMO.

Talk Is Cheap is a fantastic album as well. 'You Don't Move Me' stacks up against anything the Stones have done.

Talk is cheap is wayyyy under rated.

Steve Jordan - one of my favourite muso's. Amazing session drummer, but played bass with the Winos I think....

 

[bunsen burner]

I'm a massive Stones fan and a massive Keef fan but I think his solo stuff is ordinary. Better than Jagger's but still ordinary.

You Got the Silver from Let it Bleed is very good.

 

[FlyingBurittoBro]

I'm a massive Stones fan and a massive Keef fan but I think his solo stuff is ordinary. Better than Jagger's but still ordinary.

You Got the Silver from Let it Bleed is very good.

the x-pensive winos are pretty great

 

[____]

On An Island by David Gilmour (2006) is very underrated.

 

[Roobs321]

10. Mezzanine - Massive Attack (1998)
9. On the Beach - Neil Young (1974)
8. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco (2002)
7. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (1973)
6. Confield - Autechre (2001)
5. Honey - Robyn (2018)
4. Here, My Dear - Marvin Gaye (1978)
3. Untilted - Autechre (2005)
2. Vespertine - Bjork (2001)
1. OK Computer - Radiohead (1997)

Welcome Robyn, and the 2010s. First real shake-up for me in about 6 years.

 

[mianfei]

My own Top 100 chart on besteveralbums.com. As I note, the chart – at least the later albums thereon – is subject to change as:

• I recognise even the most devout record listener cannot have heard every album ever
• re-listening or even listening to other records can change my assessment of an album
• I want to and will in my own time add notes to those records which do not have them

 

[La Dispute]

Kid A is starting to grow on me, but oddly enough I prefer Amnesiac.

I know this post is almost a decade old, but I’ve almost gone in the other direction on Kid A. It’s cohesive and sharp, but heavily back-ended and there are actually few moments you really pay attention to. I think the last 3 songs are all very solid, and it kind of saves a pretty mediocre middle-section.

I would put it, at this point in time, on the same level as A Moon Shaped Pool, which has grown on me exponentially since I first listened to it. I might even prefer it.

IMO OK Computer will always be their magnum opus, and it’s probably just my taste, but The Bends is comfortably their second. Then In Rainbows/AMSP/Kid A.

I’m not entirely sure if I’d consider any of their albums classic in the purest sense. They’re all unique and creative, but outside of OKC and The Bends they are deficient in some way or another. I’m a big fan of Thom’s lyrics on OKC and The Bends and that was what attracted to me to the band in the first place, but as they’ve evolved they’ve preferenced texture and atmosphere. Kid A is a primary example of that.

Still - such a solid back catalogue, and even albums like Hail to the Thief and Amnesiac hold up remarkably well.

 

[La Dispute]

My favourite albums of all time:

At the Drive - Relationship of Command
Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
Between The Buried & Me - Colors
Radiohead - OK Computer
Four Tet - Rounds
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
La Dispute - Somewhere At The Bottom of the River (naturally)
The Strokes - Is This It?
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Weezer - The Blue Album
Weezer - Pinkerton (deluxe edition)
As Cities Burn - Hell or High Water
Isis - Panopticon
Battles - Mirrored
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Joyce Manor - S/T
Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors
The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About

 

[Roobs321]

Next tier (10-28):
On the Beach
Is This Desire?
The Moon & Antarctica
Nowhere
Listen Without Prejudice
In Rainbows
Blood on the Tracks
Older
Meddle
Bitches Brew
Bedtime Stories
Kid A
In Utero
Midnight Marauders
Erotica
Abbey Road
Amber
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Before Hollywood