Your Favorite Albums.

[Disco Wolf]

I know we do these quite often but since we have this new subforum - perhaps we can sticky this, everyone can have their own space to post their list (however long it may be), and update accordingly. I'll make one for songs, too.

Favorite, best - there's no difference.

I'll rattle off a quick top 15 without thinking all too hard about it. Alphabetical. One per artist (for now):

Gold: Greatest Hits / ABBA
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band / The Beatles
Vespertine / Bjork
Blackout / Britney Spears
She's So Unusual / Cyndi Lauper
Heroes / David Bowie
Bad Girls / Donna Summer
2001 / Dr. Dre
Welcome to the Pleasuredome / Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Blue (or Court and Spark?!) / Joni Mitchell
Hounds of Love / Kate Bush
IV / Led Zeppelin
Erotica / Madonna
To Bring You My Love / PJ Harvey
Purple Rain / Prince

I guess using Gold for my ABBA pick is "cheating," so if I went for a studio LP it would definitely be The Visitors.

This is already feeling so incomplete. I'm gonna try to do a definitive top 100 within the next few months...or something.

[Aldo]

ba'oui:

[Disco Wolf]

Yeah, that's a silly omission on my part.

[affy18]

I need to re-listen to A LOT of albums to make a proper list.

[Salladeel]

Really spontaneously made a list of 30 (one per artist duh)... I couldn't possibly rank them and narrowing it down to these was exceedingly difficult. This list would surely change every day.

Aaliyah -- Aaliyah
The Avalanches -- Since I Left You
Bjork -- Homogenic
Black Flag -- Damaged
Buzzcocks -- Singles Going Steady

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band -- Safe as Milk
Chet Baker -- Chet Baker Sings
Dead Can Dance -- Toward the Within
The Everybodyfields -- Nothing is Okay
The Hold Steady -- Stay Positive

Jandek -- Chair Beside a Window
Janet Jackson -- Rhythm Nation 1814
Jeff Buckley -- Grace
Kate Bush -- The Dreaming
Liz Phair -- Exile in Guyville

Lucinda Williams -- Lucinda Williams
Madonna -- Bedtime Stories
Morrissey -- Vauxhall and I
My Bloody Valentine -- Loveless
Nas -- Illmatic

Neil Young -- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Nina Simone -- Wild is the Wind
Nirvana -- In Utero
PJ Harvey -- Is This Desire?
Prince -- Sign 'O' The Times

Public Enemy -- It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Sam Cooke -- Live at the Harlem Square Club
Sonic Youth -- A Thousand Leaves
Swans -- Children of God
Tom Waits -- Rain Dogs

[Largo]

Just going off the top of my head, and with one per artist -

1. Demon Days, Gorillaz
2. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
3. 52nd Street, Billy Joel
4. Be Not Nobody, Vanessa Carlton
5. London Calling, The Clash
6. Smashing Live, The Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra
(^Since this one isn't very well known, I thought I'd explain what it is - the music of Super Smash Brothers Melee performed live. It's unbelievably good. I got the CD when I used to subscribe to Nintendo Power, but most of it is on YouTube.)
7. Too-Rye-Ay, Dexys Midnight Runners
8. Breakfast in America, Supertramp
9. The Eminem Show, Eminem
10. The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga
11. Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy
12. The Book of Mormon, The Book of Mormon Original Cast
13. There Will Be Blood, Johnny Greenwood
14. Hourglass, James Taylor

I'm sure I'll think of more when I'm actually awake.

[dlong5665]

In no order...

Treats-Sleigh Bells
The Woods-Sleater-Kinney
Live Through This-Hole
Revolver-The Beatles
Kala-M.I.A.
Exile In Guyville-Liz Phair
The White Album-The Beatles
Van Halen-Van Halen
Animals-Pink Floyd
It's Blitz-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Beggars Banquet-The Rolling Stones
Abbey Road-The Beatles
Doolittle-The Pixies
London Calling-The Clash
Pinkerton-Weezer
Rumors-Fleetwood Mac
Swoon-The Silversun Pickups
Tragic Kingdom-No Doubt

[Ceilidh-ann]

Muse - Absolution
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Daft Punk - Alive 2007.

Yeah, I don't buy many albums.

[desirelines]

this is silly. i can't remember them all. but. exile in guyville.

[Disco Wolf]

this is silly. i can't remember them all. but. exile in guyville.

I wasn't holding a gun to anyones head.

[affy18]

Always.



But also (in no specific order):

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Ys - Joanna Newsom
Murmur - R.E.M.
OK Computer - Radiohead
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Homogenic - Björk
Otis Blue - Otis Redding
Music Has The Right to Children - Boards of Canada
To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey
On Fire - Galaxie 500
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
Wild is the Wind - Nina Simone
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
Purple Rain - Prince
Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Live at the Apollo - James Brown
Endtroducing.... - DJ Shadow
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Low - David Bowie
Bach Cello Suites - Pablo Casals
Greatest Hits - Al Green

[Donezo]

Probably....

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Prince - Purple Rain
Björk - Vespertine
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Robyn - Robyn
M.I.A. - Kala
Madonna - Ray of Light
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Joni Mitchell - Blue
New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies

[android]

Off the top of my head (trying not to do a top 100 of it; I'm so going to regret this still LOL ):



the majority of her discography, specially The Dreaming + Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Low + Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Victorialand + Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
Filigree & Shadow - This Mortal Coil
Ray of Light + Like a Prayer - Madonna
Architecture and Morality + Dazzle Ships - OMD
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession + New York Tendaberry - Laura Nyro
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Automatic for the People + Murmurs - R.E.M.
Moon Safari + 10000 Hz Legend - Air
Violator - Depeche Mode
Silent Shout - The Knife
Rage In Eden - Ultravox
Dare! - The Human League
Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk
Two Suns - Bat For Lashes
Felt Mountain - Goldfrapp
Homogenic - Bjork
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
So Tough - Saint Etienne
When the Pawn... - Fiona Apple
Is This Desire? (if I had to pick just one) - PJ Harvey
Wrong Way Up - Eno & Cale
Tori Amos - 90s output - my pick today is To Venus and Back.
Suede - Suede
Roxy Music + For Your Pleasure -Roxy Music
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
Pretenders - Pretenders
The Cars - The Cars
Peepshow - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Disintegration - The Cure
Strange Times - The Chameleons
Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants
Sign 'O' the Times - Prince
Raw Like Sushi - Neneh Cherry
New Gold Dream - Simple Minds
Rumours + Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Horses - Patti Smith
Parallel Lines - Blondie

[chrysalids]

Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
The Who - Tommy
The Clash - London Calling
Rolling Stones - Beggars' Banquet
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Nirvana - In Utero
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Brian Jonestown Massacre - And This Is Our Music
Leonard Cohen - Songs
Black Lips - Let It Bloom
Radiohead - The Bends
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
The Kinks - Something Else

[Habsburg]

Aja, Steely Dan
Debut, Bjork
Deju Vu, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
Hounds of Love, Kate Busch
Lady in Satin, Billie Holiday
Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
Private Dancer, Tina Turner
The Unforgettable Fire, U2
War, U2
Wild Planet, The B52s

[jrmoviedude]

Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
The Clash, The Clash
College, Teenage Color
Duffy, Rockferry
Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better
Jamie Cullum, Twentysomething
Mic Christopher, Heyday
The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace with God
The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs

[Melllvar]

There are a lot of albums I sincerely love from the bottom of my heart. But as of this moment, there are four albums I've listened to that I would consider absolutely perfect and that I not only would listen to over and over again, but had a profound impact on what kind of music I would listen to as well as what I thought music could be. They are, and always will be (in descending order):






Other albums that I adore include:
The Wall by Pink Floyd
All Days Are Nights by Rufus Wainwright
Freaked Out and Small by The Presidents of the United States of America
Once: Motion Picture Soundtrack by Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, and others
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
Ok Computer by Radiohead

[citizen_darko]

1. Daft Punk "Discovery"
2. Led Zeppelin "IV"
3. Rush "Moving Pictures"
4. AC/DC "Back in Black"
5. Rush "2112"
6. Radiohead "OK Computer"
7. Metallica "And Justce for All"
8. Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique"
9. Jethro Tull "Thick as a Brick"
10. NIN "The Downward Spiral"

[Habsburg]

Aja, Steely Dan
Debut, Bjork
Deju Vu, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
Hounds of Love, Kate Busch
Lady in Satin, Billie Holiday
Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
Private Dancer, Tina Turner
The Unforgettable Fire, U2
War, U2
Wild Planet, The B52s

I forgot:

The Queen is Dead, The Smiths!

[camille]

Joni Mitchell, Blue, the Hissing of Summer Lawns
Kate Bush, Hounds of Love
PJ Harvey, Stories of the City - Stories of the Sea
Bjork, Debut, Post, Homogenic
Rickie Lee Jones, Pirates
Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
The Blue Nile, Hats
Stevie Wonder, Talking Book, Songs in the Key of Life
Van Morrison, Moondance, Astral Weeks
Chet Baker, Chet Baker Sings
Miles Davis, A Kind of Blue

will do for now,