What's your favorite album of all time?

Alanstrainor

Having read the "who are your heroes" thread, i figured i should start a thread about your favorite albums of all time, the kind of album that never gets old no matter how many times you've listened to it.

For me it has to be somewhere between Christy Moore live at the point 2006 and Stevie Ray Vaughan's In Step album.

Killaqueen!!!

Impossible to choose but probably Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen. I know I know, there are arguably better albums from the Boss but (even though it was 'before my time') I grew up on this record and I didn't get the rest of his albums until later on.

It's my favourite album of all time because I never get sick of it. Every time I listen to it the lyrics just get me. I love the way he tells a story..it makes it so much more personal. When I listen to Born to Run certain memories come to me, but if someone different listened to Born to Run it would have a totally different impact on them. Surprisingly, I find that the Killers (to a lesser extent of course) make me feel...weird..when I listen to their music. You'll think I'm crazy but it's a good feeling and it only really comes from those two artists - and mostly from Springsteen.

Either that album or Queen's A Night At The Opera/Queen 2/Made In Heaven

Zaph

Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads

Serpentine

The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers

rowlandbrowner

the las vegas story by the gun club. with about another 50 albums jostling for second position.

Dudess

I don't have just one favourite album but if I had to give an answer, I would say The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come. Or Bjork - Homogenic. Sorry, I just can't limit it to one!

MoominPapa

Loaded - Velvet Underground

guinnessdrinker

Dudess wrote: »

I don't have just one favourite album but if I had to give an answer, I would say The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come. Or Bjork - Homogenic. Sorry, I just can't limit it to one!

Class, I think that's my fav Smiths album too but for my choice of all time favourite album I'm going to be slightly unimaginative and pick The Joshua Tree, I never tire of it.

JimiTime

I'd have a top tier of Greatest albums, not just one in particular, a pool of albums I never tire of. These would include:

The Band - the Last Waltz
Beatles - Let it Be
Beatles - Revolver
Beatles - White album
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (Quincy Jones at his best!)
Led Zeppelin - 2
Led Zeppelin - 4
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Theres a few more, but depending on my mood, any of these could be my favourite at any particular time.

lordgoat

My favourite 5 albums normally include these ones. There are others but i think these 5 are the ones that i keep going back to.


REM - Monster
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
The Wrens - The Meadowlands

Alanstrainor

JimiTime wrote: »

I'd have a top tier of Greatest albums, not just one in particular, a pool of albums I never tire of. These would include:

The Band - the Last Waltz
Beatles - Let it Be
Beatles - Revolver
Beatles - White album
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (Quincy Jones at his best!)
Led Zeppelin - 2
Led Zeppelin - 4
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Theres a few more, but depending on my mood, any of these could be my favourite at any particular time.

Nice collection right there, well most of them anyway;)

Latchy

So hard ,so very hard ,so many wonderful albums out there but i am going with Pet Sounds -the beach boys ...correction Brian Wilsons masterpiece from 1966 ,so ahead of it's time .

Could also have picked any of the Beatles albums .So many gems on each and every one .

antod

my fav is astral weeks from van morrison i never get tired of
listening to it.

Rigsby

While I have lots of favourites, one that immediatly springs to mind is : "Court and Spark" - Joni Mitchell. Another would be "Tapestry" by Carol King.

KrazeeEyezKilla

Right now it's probably between the Pixies' Doolittle or Weezers debut although it changes a lot.

JimiTime

Rigsby wrote: »

While I have lots of favourites, one that immediatly springs to mind is : "Court and Spark" - Joni Mitchell. Another would be "Tapestry" by Carol King.

Forgot about 'tapestry'. Absolute classic that goes relatively un-noticed.

spurious

JimiTime wrote: »

Forgot about 'tapestry'. Absolute classic that goes relatively un-noticed.

Great album. Amazing to think how old it is and just how young she was when she penned some of the songs.

Jelly 292

Of all time- Wish you were here- Masterfull

Right now:

Crosby Stills Nash and Young - Déjà Vu. Why did I not listen to this before?

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe. Go Na Nook.


Alanstrainor, you are in my book of Dudes. SRV, In Step, say no more.

Nightwish

Hard to say but if I had to choose one it would be Nightwish "Century Child".

Alanstrainor

Nightwish wrote: »

Hard to say but if I had to choose one it would be Nightwish "Century Child".

Well it'd have to be a Nightwish album anyway

Nightwish

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Well it'd have to be a Nightwish album anyway

Yeah but which one!

keefg

Very difficult question to answer, I think it really depends on what mood you're in at the time.

So when I am..........

Happy - Any cheesy 80's compilation

Sad - Dirt by Alice in Chains (helps me wallow in my misery)

Angry - Vulger Display of Power or Far Beyond Driven by Pantera

Getting cuddly with the Mrs. - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? or No Need to Argue by The Cranberries

Reminiscing about school days an old friends - Absolutely & 7 by Madness (or any other Ska / 2tone stuff)

Basq

If I had to choose just ONE:

Declan A Walsh

If I use the criteria of never get tired of listening to an album, including any of its tracks, as my yardstick, my greatest albums would be as follows:(more than ten years old - too soon to say, otherwise, I believe):

Electronic - Electronic

Violator - Depeche Mode

Songs of Faith and Devotion - Depeche Mode

Infected - The The

Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd

A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile... actually that might just be #1 for me.


Pleas note: Using this criteria, I am leaving out loads of albums I love, but that I am not always in the mood to listen to, or have some tracks that I don't actually like, so the above ones mentioned does not encompass everything I listen to by a long shot. It just shows how difficult a task this really is for those of us who like a lot of music.

IanCurtis

Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies

Dudess

Declan A Walsh:
Ooh nice! You seem like me!

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Electronic - Electronic

Adored it at the time. Now I think some of the stuff on it is a bit dated, but there are some utterly superb numbers - e.g. Idiot Country, Get The Message (what a song - I read Johnny Marr saying it was the piece of work he was most proud of, and that's saying something) and Soviet.

Violator - Depeche Mode

Sublime.

Songs of Faith and Devotion - Depeche Mode

Yep, some great songs.

Infected - The The

Oh yeah! I like you a lot!

Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd

A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile... actually that might just be #1 for me.

Have to admit I only have a best-of by Floyd - some songs I think are amazing, some a bit pretentious. And I've nothing at all by the Blue Nile. But anything I've heard by them is incredible.

Ruu_Old

Mike Oldfield-Tubular Bells II
David Bowie-Scary Monsters (if only for Crystal Japan )

Jelly 292

Mike Oldfield-Tubular Bells II

rolf, I thought I was the only person in the world who thought that was cool;)

Ruu_Old

I have the cassette. *rewinds tape with pencil*

Mr. Presentable

Born to Run
or
The Las - The Las

Jelly 292

I have the cassette

You nearly stopped me feeling old (er):cool:

Declan A Walsh

Dudess wrote: »

Declan A Walsh:
Ooh nice! You seem like me!

Adored it at the time. Now I think some of the stuff on it is a bit dated, but there are some utterly superb numbers - e.g. Idiot Country, Get The Message (what a song - I read Johnny Marr saying it was the piece of work he was most proud of, and that's saying something) and Soviet.

Sublime.

Yep, some great songs.

Oh yeah! I like you a lot!

Have to admit I only have a best-of by Floyd - some songs I think are amazing, some a bit pretentious. And I've nothing at all by the Blue Nile. But anything I've heard by them is incredible.

If you do have similar music tastes to me and you believe Violator is sublime, I am confident that you will be very taken with "A Walk Across The Rooftops" by The Blue Nile. It passes what I would call "The Shiver up The Spine" test!

Have a listen to snippets on YouTube:
"Tinseltown in The Rain" -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhiQ-a8CkPY

"Stay" -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bev4H57si2E

"Easter Parade" - (amatuerish live recording, but still....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c9bfpPAZIE

Dudess

Cheers. Yeah I know Tinseltown In the Rain. It's just beautiful.

Pighead

IanCurtis wrote: »

Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies

Good choice son. Suede were ridiculously good for a few years back in the 90's. To throw out a double album of B-Sides which bettered most bands proper albums showed just how good they were.

Belly- Star
Spiritualized: LAGWAFIS
James: Laid
Muse: Absolution
The Pale: Heres one we made earlier (Although I haven't heard this album in about 12 years at this stage, lost my copy and have found it impossible to find since)
Damien Rice: O

IanCurtis

Pighead wrote: »

Good choice son. . . . .James: Laid

Touché

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfJW5vkzLFY

Bubs101

1 Wilco-Hotel Yankee Foxtrot
2 Ryan Adams-Heartbreaker
3 Wilco-Being There
4 Kiss-Al!ve 1
5 Bright Eyes -Fevers and Mirrors

MooseJam

anything by westlife

Jay P

Dirt from Alice in Chains or Ten froom Pearl Jam. Depends on if i'm happy or sad.

If I'm in between it's dark side of the moon.

Dudess

MooseJam wrote: »

anything by westlife

+1

Jelly 292

i am,im happy beeacuse Pink Floyd (besides all the crap) rok

Xavi6

Such a tough decision. Can't possibly choose just one.

Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
King Adora - Vibrate You
Stereophonics - Performance & Cocktails
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Bon Jovi - Crossroads
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth
Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Arcade Fire - Funeral
AFI - Sing The Sorrow
Green Day - Nimrod
Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre

Sh*t that's a long list! I just can't pick only one.

Edit: Balls, I forgot Interpol - 'Turn On The Bright Lights'

Jelly 292

Xavi6 wrote: »

Such a tough decision. Can't possibly choose just one.

Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
King Adora - Vibrate You
Stereophonics - Performance & Cocktails
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Bon Jovi - Crossroads
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth
Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Arcade Fire - Funeral
AFI - Sing The Sorrow
Green Day - Nimrod
Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre

Sh*t that's a long list! I just can't pick only one.

longer,faster bigger more, that way I is man

bricktop27

the one album that no matter what form im in no matter who is around me and the one album im always sayin hey listen to this part has to be dark side of the moon by the mighty floyd such a album each song can mean so much to you and class guitar playing

kaki

If I could only pick one album, it'd be Jeff Buckley's Grace. Never get's old.

Although Kaki King's stuff is absolutely, mindblowingly amazing...but then I'd need to choose another 2/3 albums.

Yeah. Grace.

Kold

Radiohead - Amnesiac


Aurgasms all the way (except for Morning Bell/Amnesiac maybe)

RastaRed

Cant just pick one album

1. Bob Marley&The Wailers-Exodus
2. The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses
3. Kings Of Leon- Because Of The Times
4. Oasis- Definately Maybe
5. The Verve- Urban Hymns
6. Primal Scream- Screamadelica
7. U2- The Joshua Tree
8. The Killers-Hot Fuss
9. Badly Drawn Boy-The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
10. Happy Mondays- Pills, Thrills N Bellyaches

dream brother

What! No best of [insert artist here]!!!

love - forever changes would be top of the list, after that though....
radiohead - ok computer.....although I have a feeling In Rainbows will be up there over time
CSN&Y - Deja vu
bob dylan - highway 51
Peal jam - ten & VS
Led Zepplin - I
Lou Reed - Transformer
Jeff Buckley -Grace
The band - the last waltz
stevie wonder - hotter than july
Neil Young - harvest, just for the neddle and the damage done
man there too many!!

Dudess

Screamadelica, gotta include that too.

JJ

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Dudess

And Unknown Pleasures. Gah, I just can't limit myself!

Hermy

If I had to pick just one album it would have to be David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive - dark, haunting, beautiful. I was hooked from the start.

Then the mad scramble for second place would include:
Tom Waits - Swordfish Trombone
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
The Stunning - Paradise in the Picture House
Nirvana - Nevermind
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Air - Moon Safari
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Ahex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II