Your Favourite Albums of All Time (1 Viewer)

[jonah]

Elastica!!

 

[SomethingManic]

SomethingManic (I keep reading your name as Somethingmagic), lists are good, keep it up! But, I think they are stronger if kept to a max of 5 entries. That's hopefully not as condescending as it sounds!

I love lists, but sometimes less is more I guess. Noted Jim!

 

[Goodbye]

gotta stop or I'll be here all day

 

[rettucs]

um not sure. Some of my favourite albums aren't even real albums. But sure anyway.

Pink Floyd - Animals (I don't know why Animals. I just thought I had to pick a PF album first cos they're the only band I've ever really been fully into)
Stone Roses - Stone Roses (its of its time)
Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands
Charlatans - Tellin Stories
Pet Shop Boys - Disco (this is a remix album but I listen to it more than anything else I own)
Pulp - Different Class
Micheal Knight - Youth is Wasted on the Young (probably my favourite Irish album ever)
Supertramp - Crime of the Century (from back in my youth)
Talking Heads - Buildings and Food
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Airplane
Midlake - Van Occupanther
Beatles - Revolver

What I would say about that list is that its 12 albums I really like. They could be my favourites but who knows.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

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[nlgbbbblth]

Here's 20.

 

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[bogmanfan]

Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Art Of Noise - The Seduction of Claude Debussy
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Bran Van 3000 - Glee
BT - Ima
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Cinematic Orchestra - Motion
Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
DJ 光光光 - Planetary Natural Love Gas Webbin' 1999999
Gas - Pop
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Mercury Rev - See You On The Other Side
Plush - More You Becomes You
Rachel's - Music For Egon Schiele
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Wheat - Hope And Adams

 

[platters]

what the hey. in no particular order and liable to change within the next 5 mins, here’s 10 of my favs…

The Other People Place - Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café
J Dilla - Donuts
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
Autechre - Incunabula
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Super_Collider - Head On
Isolée - Rest
Sonic Youth - Evol
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On

 

[Anthony]

Marillion - Script For A Jesters Tear
Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight
Sebadoh - Bakesale
King's X - Dogman
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Weezer - Pinkerton
Weezer - red
Ween - White Pepper
The Pursuit Of Happiness - One Sided Story

+ others

 

[Diumraid]

I've tried to limit myself to favourites that still give up the goods after all the years

Celtic Frost: Into the pandemonium
Plastikman: Consumed
Steve Reich: Six pianos (etc.)
Black Sabbath: Vol 4
Captain Beefheart: Trout mask replica
Nico: The marble index
The Velvet Underground & Nico: S/T
Van Dyke Parks: Song cycle
Beach Boys: Smile (an imaginary composite of all the best bits and versions I've heard)
Kate Bush: The dreaming (can't actually choose one album)
Ornette Coleman: The complete Science fiction sessions
John Coltrane: Meditations
Camarata Contemporary Chamber Group: The velvet gentleman
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Natural black inventions (root strata)

 

[Lili Marlene]

Right, limiting myself to albums that i've been listening to for a minimum of ten years and still listen to now at least semi-regularly:

1) Bluetip - Polymer -> any of their albums really

2) Fiona Apple - Whenthepawn...

Spoiler

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cause you'll know that you're right

-> Fuck you. Perfect in every way.

3) The Wildhearts - Earth Vs. -> Fuck you again.

4) The Clash - um... Sandinista! -> just to be difficult.

5)

(a) Angelica - The End of a Beautiful Career -> this is only a mini-album so

(b) Straw - Shoplifting -> The only Britpop survivor that still gets regular spins. Well, that and that second Supergrass album...... and the first two Mansun albums.....er....



I feel bad for the stuff that I've been listening to for 9 years.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

a-ha - Scoundrel Days (1986)
This is probably the one I've been listening to for longest, got it when it came out and have been a fan ever since

AMM - Newfoundland (1993)
This one has had about 10 years of listening. I went through a phase of listening to lots of improvy stuff but this is a cut above everything else. It takes about 20 minutes to get going and then you are rewarded with 50 minutes of bliss.

Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men (1989)
I got this when it came out and have listened regularly ever since. Last time I listened though (a few months ago) I had doubts. In The Lowlands left me unmoved in a way that hitherto it never did. Maybe it's not all that good an album but there is a strong sentimental attachment so its going on the list.

Roy Harper - HQ (1975)
This is just killer from start to finish. The opening riff means business and then the drums kick in and thats it - no turning back. Hallucinating Light is probably the best song ever written. I bought it in the Virgin Megastore the day I left home.

Jandek - On The Way (1988)
Side one is entertaining, skronky blues rock. Side two gets it on to this list, it has three very intense acoustic songs that are fairly perfect. The vocals are really up front and breathy. I'm Ready is a contender for best song ever - climaxes with the line "If you wonder why I'm a man it's because I don't wanna be a woman I just wanna have one".

Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977)
Hejira might have a few songs that are better than anything here but over all this is a stronger album IMO.

Nico - The Marble Index (1969)
I saw this on another list above. Doesn't really sound like anything else and is amazing. A friend described it as "Skulking Music" which seems apt. I tend to picture Nico skulking under the stairs when I hear it now. I also love Desertshore.

Pink Floyd - Animals (1977)
I started dipping into PF after seeing their 1989 concert from Venice live on the TV. I thought all that Gilmour era stuff was great and I didn't really know what to make of Animals when I put it on when I was that age - 12 or 13. The colours of the cover and the bleak photos inside the gatefold (and the music itself of course) revealed to me the first hints of the hatred bitterness that being an adult might involve. fucking magic.

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs (1959)
A friend introduced me to this when I went to visit her in the mental. She said it cheered her up and I know exactly what she meant. You can actually buy happiness.

Sonic Youth - Washing Machine (1995)
I like SY generally but this is the best one in my opinion. There are strong songs without any bubblegummy nonsense, the noise never overwhelms the songs and the songs allow for plenty of guitar wigging out, theres no smart arse bullshit, the overall sound is terrific - very spacious and comfortable.

Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life (1976)
I've only been listening to these lads since 2005 but still. This is very ambitious music. It attempts to penetrate the core of existence and succeeds.

 

[washingcattle]

This just in - the core of existence has been penetrated.

That is all.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

That was my news!

 

[washingcattle]

You = Reuters

Me = Naked News.

 

[Unicron]

All time fave. I still get a new favourite song off of it every few months.

 

[SomethingManic]

2) Fiona Apple - Whenthepawn...

Spoiler

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cause you'll know that you're right

-> Fuck you. Perfect in every way.

Nice lyrics.