Absolute favourite albums of all time

snoopish

Everyone has different tastes but often our favourite albums don't coincide with what we nomally listen to...apparently.

Anyways my two absolutes are Romeo and Juliet soundtrack the 2nd cd and Nirvana, unplugged in New York!

cartman

damien rice - o
jeff buckley - grace
mic christopher - sky larkin'

DerekD Goldfish

Whipping Boy - Heartworm

Stark

Mull historical society - both albums
albums by the dandy warhols
r.e.m. - automatic for the people/document

Tusky

Led Zeppelin - 3
Pixies - all of em
Frank Black- Teenager of the year / Dog in the sand
The Strokes - Is this it
Soulwax( 2 many DJS)- As heard on radio soulwax part 2


Theres many more but they would be the top ones I guess.

martarg

Matchbox 20, Mad Season

Stark

Yeah I think that's a great album too, as were their other albums

MrJoeSoap

Muse - Origin of Symmetry / Showbiz / Absolution
Jeff Buckley - Grace / My Sweetheart The Drunk
Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

radiospan

Hmm, this is hard. Some albums that I like a lot are (in no order):

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (definately my favourite right now)
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
2 Many DJ's - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Part 2
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
Sigur Rós - ( )

and, some "honourable mentions":
The Strokes - Room On Fire
Cornelius - Fantasma
Daft Punk - Homework
Ladytron - 604
Prodigy - Experience
Pixies - Doolittle

Creamy Goodness

Weezer - Pinkerton
Idlewild - The Remote Part

Basq

Without a shadow of a doubt, my favourite album has to be, the only album i listen to practially once a week religiously:

Counting Crows - August And Everything After

Easily the best album i've ever heard!

If you haven't heard it, find yourself a copy!

Pacifico

Originally posted by basquille
Without a shadow of a doubt, my favourite album has to be, the only album i listen to practially once a week religiously:

Counting Crows - August And Everything After

Easily the best album i've ever heard!

If you haven't heard it, find yourself a copy!

Agreed. Its a great Album.

My favourite has to be The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream .

Creature

Radiohead - Kid A, OK Computer, The Bends,
Pearl Jam - All of them
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Alice In Chains - Dirt
AC/DC - Back in black, Highway to Hell
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral

davelerave

the ub40 file
searching for the young soul rebels-dexy's midnight runners
strangeways here we come -smiths

Nala

Some of my current favourites........

Dido-No Angel
Nirvana- Nevermind
No Doubt-Greatest Hits
Cyndi Lauper-Time After Time (The Best Of)
Nirvana-Nirvana
Avril Lavigne-Under My Skin
Compilation CD my friend burned for me
Dido-Life For Rent
White Stripes-Elephant

When I was a small bit younger...

Britney Spears-...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears-Oops!...I Did It Again
Eminem-The Marshall Mathers LP

snoopish

Ya, Nirvana-Nevermind, is also a great one!

grumpytrousers

Stones - Exile on Main St, just pipping Let it Bleed

Lightning Seeds - Jollification - how rare an album that always cheers you up

Beatles - Hard Days Night - Not as complicated as the other stuff, rather a masterclass in how to write 2 minute solid gold popsongs

Daft Punk - Discovery - French people - ****e at fighting wars, feckin' grate at dance music

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy - Werewolves, rapists, headless CIA operatives....They're all there.

rubberduckey

These three albums, I could listen to all day long.

Elliot Smith - XO
Low- Trust
David Kitt - The Big Romance

Mr E

Albums I never get tired of....

The 4 of Us / Songs for the Tempted & Man Alive
Foutains of Wayne / Welcome Interstate Managers
The Frames / (All albums)
Rubyhorse / Rise
Porcupine Tree / In Absentia
Whipping Boy / Heartworm
Radiohead / The Bends
Ryan Adams / Gold
Killing Heidi / Present
Powderfinger / Odyssey #5
The Devlins / Waiting
Oasis / Definitely Maybe

IgnatiusJRiley

Westlife - Greatest Hits

Marq

jaysus, is there anyone over 16 here? jk;)

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Lift To Experince - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed


Watch as I get flamed: and the prize for the worst album of all time: Counting Crows - August and Everything After.
I don't think buckley's grace is that good, I think nearly all of his father's albums are better than his. Happy/Sad is great.

grumpytrousers

Now - watch me get flamed...

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

It's one album I just don't get. Ziggy - Great. Alladin Sane - Brilliant. Diamond Dogs - it's...er...The Dogs Danglies...

But Hunky Dorey...Bar Changes, Life on Mars and Quicksand, I just can't get into it. I think that '..Pretty Things' has to have the most tuneless verse with the most self indulgent piano on it and the rest of it just doesn't come up to scratch. And yet every other feckin' bowie fan on the planet says it's the biz.

Is there some sort of frame of mind a chap should be in or summat - I've listened to it loads of times, drunk, sober, doing the dishes, and I want to like it, but just can't...

Daniel_109

its got to be between Counting Crows:August and Everything After or The Frames:Setlist

orangerooster

The Frames-Dance the Devil.
Snow Patrol-The Final Straw.
Radiohead-Ok Computer.

PcP

Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy
Silicon Soul - Its a soul thang
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
and probably some Orbital..

Jim

Al Stewart - Past, Present And Future
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Snow Patrol - When Its All Over We Still Have To Clear Up
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Joni Mitchell - Blue

Duffman

Jeff Buckley - Grace/Sketches/Sin é
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Damien Rice - O

Wow...

smackbunnybaby

Originally posted by Duffman
Jeff Buckley - Grace/Sketches/Sin é
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Damien Rice - O

Wow...

i almost agree with you but substitute damo for the manics holy bible and you have my top 3!

wiped

AC/DC - Powerage
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Cast - Magic Hour
Inspiral Carpets - The Beast Inside
The Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
The Verve - Northern Soul
The Who - Who's Next
The Hives - Veni Vedi Vicious


........ as a matter of fact , if you were limited to only owning 10 CD's , these would be my choices ... a Desert Island Disc choice ... if you will ..........

Kazu

Rammstein mutter
Marilyn Manson Holywood
Evanescene
Guns N Roses - Greatest Hits
Guns N Roses Ape for Destruction

Kalina

Radiohead- The Bends, OK COmputer
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head, Parachutes
REM- Automatic for the People, Out of Time
Stereophonics- You've Gotta Go There to Come Back
Starsailor- Love is Here

2+2=5

MUSE - absolution

JEFF BUCKLEY - grace

PEARL JAM - ten

RADIOHEAD - ok computer

treefingers

modest mouse - the moon and antarctica

radiohead - kid a, amnesiac, ok computer

pink floyd - animals

interpol - turn on the bright lights

wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot

joy division - unknown pleasures

mogwai - happy sopngs for happy people

british sea power - the decline of british sea power

beck - odelay (fav at the mo!)

bjork - post

sigur ros - agaetis b....(you know the one - cant for the life of remember how to spell it, so not even going to try!:D )

REM - automatic for the people

kittex

Originally posted by DerekD Goldfish
Whipping Boy - Heartworm

Indeed. (Y)

As well as Heartworm Led Zepp 4, Astral Weeks, Appetite for Destruction and Disintergration come out tops for me.

huge

nirvana-nevermind best ever

Marq

Originally posted by grumpytrousers
Now - watch me get flamed

Well I certainly amn't going to flame you. Music's subjective, you're entitled to your opinion. Question though, why bother posting about your dislike for one of someone else's favourites? Oh wait, I'm just as guilty. Never mind, Carry on...

btw, everyone should go out and buy every single album on treefingers' list, starting with Unknown Pleasures and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and open their minds beyond Lilac fuqing Wine from here on in. Treat yourselves, listen to treefingers' advice.

treefingers

Originally posted by Marq

btw, everyone should go out and buy every single album on treefingers' list, starting with Unknown Pleasures and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and open their minds beyond Lilac fuqing Wine from here on in. Treat yourselves, listen to treefingers' advice.

rabbitinlights

Dance

Leftfield - Leftism

Rock

Weezer - Blue and Pinkerton

Metal

Tool - ÆNIMA

Relaxing

Elliott Smith - XO & either/or
+
Air - Moon Safari

SeeYouJimmy

2 many DJ's - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt 3 (yes pt 3)

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain

Orbital - Snivinilsation

Creamy Goodness

Originally posted by rabbitinlights
Rock

Weezer - Blue and Pinkerton

whooo i'm not alone

monument

Originally posted by SeeYouJimmy
2 many DJ's - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt 3 (yes pt 3)

Unless they forgot to update their website.... NO, not Pt 3... piece of crap with the name 'pt3', .

-For the record: There’s only one official 2 Many DJ’s album.

Shrewd moneymakers have released a ridiculous amount of other volumes, and are selling them in shops and on the internet. These are not official 2 Many DJ’s albums! Most of these bootlegs contain one hour mixes made for a radioshow called ‘Hang The DJ’, which was broadcast on the Belgian radio station Studio Brussel. They were never intended for release, nor were they cleared with any of the artists. Some of these mixes are quite old (up to 4 years), and there are even copies out there which aren’t mixed by 2 Many DJ’s at all, so beware of imitations. Please don’t spend your money on these cheeky CD’s. There are places on the internet where you can download them for free, so we hear...

As for an official follow up: Never say never

SeeYouJimmy

yes it is unofficial....yes it is a copy of the hang the djs radio show..

i aquired it in when i was working in ghent 2 years ago... along with pts 1 and 4, i also have the "official part 2" but i can truely say, the mixing on this "album" is far better than pt 2.

and as far as i know, its only Pt 9 that isnt the brothers dewale mixing it up...

rainbow kirby

Metallica - Metallica (Black Album)
SOAD - Toxicity
Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
Damien Rice - O

RE*AC*TOR

Favourite Album of all time:-
Neil Young - On The Beach - its just perfect, every note - nothing else comes close to being this good.

(other NY albums of note - All of them really, but especially Harvest, Tonight's The Night, Time Fades Away, Reactor , Trans)

Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Volume 4, The Royal Albert Hall Concert

Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon

Gomez - Bring It On - i loved this album intensly for about a year.

The Frames - Dance The Devil - (definetly their best)

Stephen Stiills - Manassas - a huge sprawling album that loops through different stlyes and themes - nailing everyone of them perfectly.

The jock

my favourite album of all time

Jeff Buckley- Grace

radiospan

Originally posted by SeeYouJimmy
2 many DJ's - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt 3 (yes pt 3)

Unofficial alright, Part 9 is the latest one, but the newest ones are terrible.

Part 3 is one of the best, especially the first 11 or 12 tracks on it!

monument

Originally posted by plazzTT
Unofficial alright, Part 9 is the latest one, but the newest ones are terrible.

Part 3 is one of the best, especially the first 11 or 12 tracks on it!

Oh, right, maybe it's the one taken from a broadcast on Belgian radio?

Drag00n79

My favourite 3 albums:
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Radiohead - OK Computer
Leonard Cohen - The Future

40crush41

letsee here, this is gonna be a hard one.. in some kinda order i suppose

music I love and obsess over
dave matthews band- before these crowded streets
dmb live- live at red rocks
béla fleck and the flecktones- left of cool
flecktones live- live at the quick art

music I greatly respect
rush- test for echo (yay Baggio!)
u2- joshua tree
zeppelin- greatest hits album IV
pink floyd- the wall

music I sleep to
bach- weekend classics
gershwin- weekend classics
lord of the rings- return of the king
edgar meyer, béla fleck, mike marshall- uncommon ritual

music I dance around to
talking heads- stop making sense
afrocelt soundsystem- seed
moby- play
mighty mighty bosstones- let's face it

better quit while im ahead...
sláinte~beth

LoneGunM@n

The only 2 albums I have that I listen to on a regular basis would be:

Sting & The Police - The Best Of
Cruel Intentions OST

RE*AC*TOR

Originally posted by Marq
btw, everyone should go out and buy every single album on treefingers' list, starting with Unknown Pleasures and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and open their minds beyond Lilac fuqing Wine from here on in. Treat yourselves, listen to treefingers' advice.

No! no! stop right there! Wilco are the blandest abomination!
Go listen to Gram Parsons instead!
Or try the flying Burrito Brothers. Even Whiskeytown have more to offer.