Best Album Ever!

Anto McC

What do you think is the best album ever?

Personally,i think David Grays first album "A Century Ends" is,with BellX1's first album "Neither am i" running it very close!

colm_mcm

I've got lots of albums I reckon are the best ever, none of my friends agree. I know I'm right, yet I'm not as understanding when someone else labels an album I don't particularly like or couldn't get into as the best ever (like you just did there!)

Basq

colm_mcm wrote:

Personally,i think..

Well.. asking the best album ever and personal favourite differ greatly!

Best album ever? Need to hear EVER album ever before i can make that decision.

Personal favourite of mine? Have loads but can't go a few weeks without listening to either Elliott Smith "XO" and Counting Crow's "August And Everything After" but my favourite albums change with moods and such.

kc66

Thats easy: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks.

DerekD Goldfish

Whipping Boy-Heartworm

RE*AC*TOR

Neil Young - On The Beach

Anto McC

basquille wrote:

Well.. asking the best album ever and personal favourite differ greatly!

I asked what you Thought was the best album ever and i said i thought David Gray's "A Century Ends" was!

Boo-yah

Weezer's Blue album and Pinkerton for me. Either one can claim top spot depending on my mood.

jazoo

I have hundreds of best albums but cant go anywhere without / band on the run wings / the Joshua tree u2 / neil youngs harvest / my latest one is bruces seeger sessions but we could be here all night…………….

Creamy Goodness

Boo-yah wrote:

Weezer's Blue album and Pinkerton for me. Either one can claim top spot depending on my mood.

these two albums are the only two albums i can safely say i listen to every month since about 2000 when i really got into weezer (i did actually buy the albums closer to their release dates).

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

if I had to pick two... no, three... four albums I'd say deus - in a bar under the sea, leonard cohen - songs of leonard cohen, Tool - aenima and blind guardian - nightfall in middle earth

Tar.Aldarion

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

Chad ghostal

Bob Dylan - time out of mind

motormatic

marianne faithfull - broken english
lydia lunch and rowland s. howard - shotgun wedding

Anto McC

Chad ghostal wrote:

Bob Dylan - time out of mind

Really?

Im huge Dylan fan and i dont think it's near his best album at all,your the first person i've ever heard say thats their favorite Dylan album let alone that its their favorite album of all time!!

I think Dylans best is Highway 61

gustavo

Oasis - Whats the Story (Morning Glory)

iFight

gustavo wrote:

Oasis - Whats the Story (Morning Glory)

Easy

Irish Wolf

iFight wrote:

Easy

Can anyone narrow it down to one? Different moods, different challenges... here's mine at the moment....

5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine - Malcolm Middleton
Into the Woods - Malcolm Middleton
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
() - Sigur Ros
Shot of Love - Bob Dylan

As you may have guessed - the mood is down at the moment!

Mossy Monk

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

exiot

Radiohead - OK Computer
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinois!
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magick

My favourite albums at present

Diamondmaker

By favourite I guess I have to list my most consistently listened to over a period. In no order other than roughly as they came out / I got them/ or as they come to me as I list...;)

Nirvana Nevermind
Pink Floyd Dark side...
Samshing Pumpkins Siamese dream
Stone Roses Second Coming
Air Moon Safari
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Groove Armad Vertigo
LCD Sound System
Beatles Revolver

I know its a lot but they all seem to be on a constant cycle of listening over the last 10 years.

byte

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pink Floyd - The Wall

kinaldo

Impossible question as I usually listen to music based on mood but I'm sure I could narrow it down to a shortlist of say, 100. In fact since I've got nothing better to do right now I may just do that.

peustace

U2 Achtung Baby - changed it completly

stevejazzx

a few of my favorites

stevie - songs in the key of life
jeff buckley - grace
prince - parade
stevie wonder - full fillingnesses first finale
mclaughlin, delucia, di meola - friday night in san francisco
wes montgomery - willow weep for me
beatles - abbey road
bob dylan - blonde on blonde

noh showband

There are thirteen original Beatles albums, so my top ten usually starts at number 14. Numbers 14 and 15 on my faves list (this week) would be Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother (bought in most media as the new technology demanded) and Wish You Were Here (thought I was satisfied with the cassette for years until last week when I realised I really wanted to hear it again. The cassette mangled so I bought the CD).

Perversely enough, Eminem's "Curtain Call" knocked me out when I first heard it (moving and dramatic) and got "most played" medal for that week (I know it was a 'best of' and shouldn't really be counted, but I don't have any of his others).

Two albums that made my top ten at one time or another share the distinction of me liking them by hearing them before I knew who they were. The first was Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Pleasure dome. The second, even more embarrassingly in a way, Robbie's Escapology.

This is the confession zone, isn't it?

kincsem

Blow Mr Hornsman - Various (Trojan)

Bodhidharma

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
3. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
4. The Strokes - Room on Fire
5. REM - Monster

kinaldo

kinaldo wrote:

Impossible question as I usually listen to music based on mood but I'm sure I could narrow it down to a shortlist of say, 100. In fact since I've got nothing better to do right now I may just do that.

Ok I give up. It's way too difficult and far too much effort required.

pbsuxok1znja4r

For raw, angry intelligent music I'd say Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence by Glassjaw. For nostalgic and/or sentimental moods I'm partial to a bit of Smashing Pumpkins, probably Siamese Dream.

Two great all-rounders are The Artist In The Ambulance by Thrice, and Alexisonfire by Alexisonfire.

Probably What's The Story (Morning Glory) aswell.

Cooee

Beatles: White Album
Led Zep: IV
Stone Roses: Stone Roses

RE*AC*TOR

of all the "Best Album" Threads of all time this is the worst.

"The Strokes - Room on Fire" FFS!

"Stone Roses Second Coming" :eek:

the mind boggles.

garred

Ritchie Sambora - Stranger In This Town

Strokesfan

Boo-yah wrote:

Weezer's Blue album and Pinkerton for me. Either one can claim top spot depending on my mood.

As albums they are totally the only complete albums where I love everything and not just preferential playing of a few choice songs. There's no such things as fillers on a weezer album

Great choice!

Strokesfan

Diamondmaker wrote:

By favourite I guess I have to list my most consistently listened to over a period. In no order other than roughly as they came out / I got them/ or as they come to me as I list...;)

Nirvana Nevermind
Pink Floyd Dark side...
Samshing Pumpkins Siamese dream
Stone Roses Second Coming
Air Moon Safari
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Groove Armad Vertigo
LCD Sound System
Beatles Revolver

I know its a lot but they all seem to be on a constant cycle of listening over the last 10 years.

I couldn't beat that list

Lust4Life

My alltime fav is
Paul McCartney and Wings Venus and Mars. Every song is so far ahead of its time!

Also Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. Every song on that one is awesome as well.

I must agree with some of you others, too though.

August and Everything After is in regular rotation on my player. As is Achtung Baby.

It's the albums that touch your soul every time you hear them - the ones you replace if you kill them. Those are the top ones.

L4L

CLADA

Dark side of the moon-rubber soul-ziggy stardust-blood on the tracks. Music to listen to for life.

hiscan

metallica--- black album

mr biazzi

well you've started something there, this could get violent,
i'm a digital child but for the fact i thought it was a greatest hits and it took 8 months to mic up da drum kit perfectly... fleetwood mac- rumours, call me what ya want but do ya hear the stuff ye are coming out with above me!!!!! whats the story????? what da f***

kinaldo

mr biazzi wrote:

well you've started something there, this could get violent,
i'm a digital child but for the fact i thought it was a greatest hits and it took 8 months to mic up da drum kit perfectly... fleetwood mac- rumours, call me what ya want but do ya hear the stuff ye are coming out with above me!!!!! whats the story????? what da f***

Did someone say Rumours? Now that's a great fcking album!

Cardinal

The Beatles ... hard to choose one album. Revolver, White Album, Abbey Road..
Radiohead - Kid A

Anto McC

kinaldo wrote:

Did someone say Rumours? Now that's a great fcking album!

Wayyyyyyyy over rated!!

Fleetwood Mac went downhill after Peter Green!

kinaldo

Anto McC wrote:

Wayyyyyyyy over rated!!

You may be right there... Tusk is even better!

Doomspell

I still can't believe that it took 20 posts for Nirvana Nevermind to come out:eek: well that and any Beatles album and the ray soundtrack....I loves me jazz

JC 2K3

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

bman

Three albums I always come back to are RHCP - Californication, The Pixies - Doolittle and Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples ( i know its a compilation album but that doesn't stop it been good ) . I've been listening to Arcade Fire - Funeral a lot lately but i'm not sure if it has longevity yet.

Nalz

Beatles - Revolver
U2 - 1980 1990
Police - Every Breath You Take
Radiohead - Ok Computer

and i know i'm gonna get slaughtered for this ...

republic of loose - Aaagh!

LundiMardi

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - The Bends
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin - II & IV

Ah, i could list 00's

Dermington

Evil Empire - Rage
BadMotorFinger - Soundgarden
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam

Evil_Bilbo

Sheesh - lotta beatles fans out there eh - bunch of pussies - no mention of the stones or bowie yet!??:eek:

rolling stones - sticky fingers/exile on main st
bowie - ziggy stardust/alladin sane (has about 7 amazing albums - favourite is constantly changing)
fleetwood mac - rumours
nick cave - hard to pick one - let love in maybe?
manu chao - radio bemba soundsystem

dance music - a few "flawless" albums - homework/leftism/darkdancer/kittenz and the glitz/jilted generation/middle of nowhere/dubnobass

deedee lepoopoo

Evil_Bilbo wrote:

rolling stones - sticky fingers/exile on main st
bowie - ziggy stardust/alladin sane (has about 7 amazing albums - favourite is constantly changing)
fleetwood mac - rumours

Love those 2 Stones albums aswell....... Imagine back in the day seeing The Stones AND Stevie Wonder on the one stage!!!!

I know what you mean about Bowie....my favourite changes all the time, while zZggy is up there at the moment it's Hunky Dorey.

The Clash -London Calling - deadly album.