Favourite album and 5 favourite songs by your 5 favourite bands

[Portmanteau]

Arcade Fire
Funeral

Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
Afterlife
Rebellion (Lies)
Wake Up
No Cars Go

Arctic Monkeys
Suck It And See

RU Mine?
Do I Wanna Know?
The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
A Certain Romance
Still Take You Home

Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Dark Fantasy
Never Let Me Down
Power
Good Life
Touch The Sky

The Hold Steady
Boys and Girls In America

Chips Ahoy!
Chillout Tent
Constructive Summer
Massive Nights
Stevie Nix

Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend

Giving Up The Gun
Walcott
Cousins
Unbelievers
M79

 

[John Dawh]

Rolling Stones
Exile on Main St
1. Midnight Rambler
2. Gimme Shelter
3. Winter
4. All Down the Line
5. Hey Negrita

Led Zeppelin
II
1. What is and what should never be
2. When the levee breaks
3. Ramble On
4. Houses of the Holy
5. Battle of Evermore

Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
1. Shine on you Crazy Diamond (I-IX)
2. Time
3. Run Like Hell
4. Money
5. Young Lust

RATM
Battle of Los Angeles
1. No Shelter
2. Guerilla Radio
3. Maggie's Farm
4. Killing in the Name
5. Vietnow

Too many bands/artist tie for 5th so left it out.

 

[Goldenblue]

The Beatles
Album: Rubber Soul
Drive My Car
Don't Let Me Down
Something
Norwegian Wood
Ticket To Ride

Pink Floyd
Album: Dark Side Of The Moon
Breathe
Young Lust
Mother
Us and Them
Time

Cold Chisel
Album: Swingshift
Forever Now
Khe Sahn
My Turn To Cry
My Baby
Shipping Steel

Criminal Society
Album: No Justice
Crossroads
Angel Of The Night
Love Of Hate
You Know
Welcome

Fleetwood Mac
Album: Rumours
You Make Loving Fun
Go Your Own Way
Say You Love Me
Warm Ways
The Chain

 

[Ninty]

I can't just pick 5 songs. I only listen to albums in its entirety.

Foo Fighters
The Colour and the Shape

Karnivool
Sound Awake

The Butterfly Effect
Imago

Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile

Jimmy Eat World
Clarity

 

[rodney hoo]

Favourite album, Sticky Fingers, exile on main street.
Tracks, gimme shelter, wild horses, you can't all get what you want, tumbling dice, sistermorphine,dead flowers,
sweet black angel, let it loose, all down the line, happy.
Two best albums & tracks imo

 

[kangaspurs]

The Smith Street Band
No One Get's Lost Anymore

- The Belly of Your Bedroom
- When I Was A Boy, I Thought I Was A Fish
- What's Changed?
- The Arrogance of the Drunk Pedestrian
- Young Drunk

Brand New
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

- You Won't Know
- Millstone
- The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
- Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades
- Seventy Times Seven

The Wonder Years
Suburbia, I've Given You All, And Now I'm Nothing

- I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral
- Woke Up Older
- Coffee Eyes
- Logan Circle
- Local Man Ruins Everything

Basement
I Wish I Could Stay Here

- Crickets Throw Their Voice
- Fading
- Spoiled
- Pine
- Plan To Be Surprised

La Dispute
Wildlife

- King Park
- All Our Bruised Bodies and The Whole Heart Shrinks
- Stay Happy There
- A Poem
- Future Wars

 

[WALDENPOND]

The Smith Street Band
No One Get's Lost Anymore

- The Belly of Your Bedroom
- When I Was A Boy, I Thought I Was A Fish
- What's Changed?
- The Arrogance of the Drunk Pedestrian
- Young Drunk

Brand New
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

- You Won't Know
- Millstone
- The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
- Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades
- Seventy Times Seven

The Wonder Years
Suburbia, I've Given You All, And Now I'm Nothing

- I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral
- Woke Up Older
- Coffee Eyes
- Logan Circle
- Local Man Ruins Everything

Basement
I Wish I Could Stay Here

- Crickets Throw Their Voice
- Fading
- Spoiled
- Pine
- Plan To Be Surprised

La Dispute
Wildlife

- King Park
- All Our Bruised Bodies and The Whole Heart Shrinks
- Stay Happy There
- A Poem
- Future Wars

I can relate a lot to this. I could probably quote the Brand New, The Wonder Years, and La Dispute songs you mentioned lyrics by memory off the albums you mentioned I like them so much.

As for The Smith Street Band, I wish Wil Wagner was a novelist and not a singer because I don't care for his voice. Yet I'm amazed how popular they have become. I remember seeing him open for Wingnut Dishwashers Union Solo in early 2008 and thinking how amazing his lyrics were and honest approach. Then with Wil Wagner and Friends it got a bit more folky but still raw. But then ,just personally, I found The Smith Street Band a bit generic. I'm going on too much... I'd really like to see Wagner write books. It would be quite Bukowski esque.

 

[Gibbsy]

Arctic Monkeys
Favourite Worst Nightmare

1. The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
2. Do Me a Favour
3. 505
4. From the Ritz to the Rubble
5. Crying Lightning


The Strokes
Is This It

1. You Only Live Once
2. Ize of the World
3. Hard to Explain
4. New York City Cops
5. Meet Me In the Bathroom


Bloc Party
Silent Alarm

1. Like Eating Glass
2. Two More Years
3. Skeleton
4. Banquet
5. This Modern Love


Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

1. Devil In a New Dress
2. Flashing Lights
3. Lost In the World
4. Runaway
5. Crack Music


The Killers
Sam's Town

1. Read My Mind
2. For Reasons Unknown
3. On Top
4. Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll
5. When You Were Young

 

[footy75]

ACDC
Back In Black

Pearl Jam
Ten

U2
Joshua Tree

Guns N Roses
Appetite for Destruction

NIRVANA
Nevermind

 

[Uncle_Leo]

Pearl Jam
Black
Alive
Rearviewmirror
State of Love and Trust
Betterman

Oasis
Don't Look Back In Anger
(Whats The Story?) Morning Glory
Slide Away
Rock and Roll Star
Columbia

Metallica
One
Whiskey In The Jar
Master of Puppets
Fade to Black
For Whom The Bell Tolls

The Killers
All These Things That I Have Done
Mr Brightside
Sams Town
Read My Mind
Human

Soundgarden
Black Hole Sun
Fell on Black Days
Rusty Cage
Spoonman
Burden in My Hand

 

[Oscarman]

Nirvana - Nevermind

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
Lounge Act

AC/DC - Highway To Hell

Touch Too Much
Let There Be Rock
Gone Shootin'
Night Prowler
Whole Lotta Rosie

Muse - Absolution

Time Is Running Out
Sober
Bliss
Hysteria
Stockholm Syndrome

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

No One Knows
God Is In The Radio
The Vampyre Of Time And Memory
Regular John
Tangled Up In Plaid

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against The Machine

Killing In The Name
Know Your Enemy
Calm Like A Bomb
Freedom
Bulls On Parade

Couldn't fit in the Arctic Monkeys, Rolling Stones, Pollyanna, Powderfinger, Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil or Australian Crawl.

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

Great idea for a thread:

Cocteau Twins
Album: Heaven or Las Vegas
1. Pearly Dew-drops' Drops
1. Cherry-coloured funk
3. Sugar Hiccup
4. Aikea-Guinea
5. Athol Brose
I love them so much, those top two are always my equal favourites, but I could list about 20 that are my next favourites. I always thought they peaked with Heaven or Las Vegas, and never listened much to the last two albums when they came out. But I just recenty revisited them and bugger me if they aren't actually really great too!

The Triffids
Album: Born Sandy Devotional
1. The Seabirds
2. Bury Me Deep in Love
3. Chicken Killer
4. Trick of the Light
5. Madeline
So good, David McComb was a great poet. "Wide Open Road" is a really good track, but it's been overplayed which takes a bit of the sheen off. Could have slipped it in at number 5 perhaps.

The Go-betweens
Album: 16 Lovers Lane
1. Bye-Bye Pride
2. Cattle and Cane
3. Love is a Sign
4. Was there anything I could do?
5. Bachelor Kisses
Nothing off the last 3 albums which came after the decade long hiatus, but they are really great nonetheless. Plenty of good tracks missed out here, the singles "Spring Rain" and "Streets of your town" would be battling it out for number 5.

The Drones
Album: I Sea Seaweed
1. Why write a letter that you'll never send?
2. Jezebel
3. Nail it down
4. I See Seaweed
5. Nine Eyes
I Sea Seeweed was my favourite album of last year. What can you say, every album seems to be better than the last. Gareth Liddard's solo effort was fantastic too.

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Album: I Learned the Hard Way
1. Money
2. Stranded in Your Love
3. You're Gonna Get It
4. Better things
5. Pick it up, Lay it in the Cut
Just great soul music, old school tunes, Sharon's voice, incredibly tight band. Nothing off the latest album, nevertheless it's my favourite album of 2014.

 

[WALDENPOND]

Great idea for a thread:

Cocteau Twins
Album: Heaven or Las Vegas
1. Pearly Dew-drops' Drops
1. Cherry-coloured funk
3. Sugar Hiccup
4. Aikea-Guinea
5. Athol Brose
I love them so much, those top two are always my equal favourites, but I could list about 20 that are my next favourites. I always thought they peaked with Heaven or Las Vegas, and never listened much to the last two albums when they came out. But I just recenty revisited them and bugger me if they aren't actually really great too!

The Triffids
Album: Born Sandy Devotional
1. The Seabirds
2. Bury Me Deep in Love
3. Chicken Killer
4. Trick of the Light
5. Madeline
So good, David McComb was a great poet. "Wide Open Road" is a really good track, but it's been overplayed which takes a bit of the sheen off. Could have slipped it in at number 5 perhaps.

The Go-betweens
Album: 16 Lovers Lane
1. Bye-Bye Pride
2. Cattle and Cane
3. Love is a Sign
4. Was there anything I could do?
5. Bachelor Kisses
Nothing off the last 3 albums which came after the decade long hiatus, but they are really great nonetheless. Plenty of good tracks missed out here, the singles "Spring Rain" and "Streets of your town" would be battling it out for number 5.

The Drones
Album: I Sea Seaweed
1. Why write a letter that you'll never send?
2. Jezebel
3. Nail it down
4. I See Seaweed
5. Nine Eyes
I Sea Seeweed was my favourite album of last year. What can you say, every album seems to be better than the last. Gareth Liddard's solo effort was fantastic too.

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Album: I Learned the Hard Way
1. Money
2. Stranded in Your Love
3. You're Gonna Get It
4. Better things
5. Pick it up, Lay it in the Cut
Just great soul music, old school tunes, Sharon's voice, incredibly tight band. Nothing off the latest album, nevertheless it's my favourite album of 2014.

Agree about I See Seaweed, but The Grey Leader would be my favourite track from the album.

 

[Gibbsy]

Great idea for a thread:

Cocteau Twins
Album: Heaven or Las Vegas
1. Pearly Dew-drops' Drops
1. Cherry-coloured funk
3. Sugar Hiccup
4. Aikea-Guinea
5. Athol Brose
I love them so much, those top two are always my equal favourites, but I could list about 20 that are my next favourites. I always thought they peaked with Heaven or Las Vegas, and never listened much to the last two albums when they came out. But I just recenty revisited them and bugger me if they aren't actually really great too!

The Triffids
Album: Born Sandy Devotional
1. The Seabirds
2. Bury Me Deep in Love
3. Chicken Killer
4. Trick of the Light
5. Madeline
So good, David McComb was a great poet. "Wide Open Road" is a really good track, but it's been overplayed which takes a bit of the sheen off. Could have slipped it in at number 5 perhaps.

The Go-betweens
Album: 16 Lovers Lane
1. Bye-Bye Pride
2. Cattle and Cane
3. Love is a Sign
4. Was there anything I could do?
5. Bachelor Kisses
Nothing off the last 3 albums which came after the decade long hiatus, but they are really great nonetheless. Plenty of good tracks missed out here, the singles "Spring Rain" and "Streets of your town" would be battling it out for number 5.

The Drones
Album: I Sea Seaweed
1. Why write a letter that you'll never send?
2. Jezebel
3. Nail it down
4. I See Seaweed
5. Nine Eyes
I Sea Seeweed was my favourite album of last year. What can you say, every album seems to be better than the last. Gareth Liddard's solo effort was fantastic too.

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Album: I Learned the Hard Way
1. Money
2. Stranded in Your Love
3. You're Gonna Get It
4. Better things
5. Pick it up, Lay it in the Cut
Just great soul music, old school tunes, Sharon's voice, incredibly tight band. Nothing off the latest album, nevertheless it's my favourite album of 2014.

Where's TISM

 

[Westerberg]

The Replacements - Let it Be
1. Unsatisfied
2. Androgynous
3. Skyway
4. Bastards of Young
5. Alex Chilton

Big Star - Radio City
1. September Gurls
2. The Ballad of El Goodo
3. Daisy Glaze
4. Thank You Friends
5. Nightime

Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
1. Filmore Jive
2. Gold Soundz
3. Father to a Sister of Thought
4. Summer Babe
5. Grounded

Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
1. Entertain
2. One More Hour.
3. Combat Rock.
4. Jumpers
5. Dig Me Out

The Clash - London Calling
1. Clampdown
2. Spanish Bombs
3. Stay Free
4 Somebody Got Murdered
5. Lost in the Supermarket

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

Where's TISM

Ha ha, I love them but they're probably not even in my top 10. However, the Ken Done junkie koala is probably my favourite EP cover. My TISM list (influenced as much by titles as the tracks themselves):

Album/EP: Australia the lucky campaigner
1. He'll never be an ol' man river
2. And the Ass said to the Angel: "Wanna play kick-to-kick?"
3. They Shoot Heroin, Don't They?
4. Mista Eliot - He w***er
5. What nationality is Les Murray?

 

[Schulzenfest]

Arctic Monkeys
AM

1. R U Mine?
2. I Want It All
3. Mardy Bum
4. 505
5. Do I Wanna Know?

Ball Park Music
Museum

1. Fence Sitter
2. Literally Baby
3. Error Playin'
4. Shithaus
5. Pot of Gold

The Delta Riggs
Hex.Lover.Killer

1. Better
2. Something Creeping
3. Street Signs & Brake Lights
4. Naked
5. Ornate Delicate Creatures

The Fratellis
Costello Music

1. Whistle For The Choir
2. Chelsea Dagger
3. Doginabag
4. Acid Jazz Singer
5. This Old Ghost Town

Queens of the Stone Age
...Like Clockwork

1. No One Knows
2. Smooth Sailing
3. Make It Wit Chu
4. Kalopsia
5. You Got A Killer Scene There, Man

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

Agree about I See Seaweed, but The Grey Leader would be my favourite track from the album.

Yeah, not a single duff track on that album, it's close to perfect from start to end.

 

[Gibbsy]

Arctic Monkeys
AM

1. R U Mine?
2. I Want It All
3. Mardy Bum
4. 505
5. Do I Wanna Know?

Ball Park Music
Museum

1. Fence Sitter
2. Literally Baby
3. Error Playin'
4. Shithaus
5. Pot of Gold

The Delta Riggs
Hex.Lover.Killer

1. Better
2. Something Creeping
3. Street Signs & Brake Lights
4. Naked
5. Ornate Delicate Creatures

The Fratellis
Costello Music

1. Whistle For The Choir
2. Chelsea Dagger
3. Doginabag
4. Acid Jazz Singer
5. This Old Ghost Town

Queens of the Stone Age
...Like Clockwork

1. No One Knows
2. Smooth Sailing
3. Make It Wit Chu
4. Kalopsia
5. You Got A Killer Scene There, Man

Aye, great taste. I've been a Ball Park fan since iFly in 2010, I really should have put them in my top 5, only did the Killers for longevity purposes.

I would say

Ball Park Music
Museum

1. Fence Sitter
2. All I Want Is You
3. Coming Down
4. Alligator
5. Teenager Pie

 

[Running Dog]

Steely Dan, Aja

The Band, Music From Big Pink

Groove Armada, Northern Star

Frank Zappa, Sheik Yerbouti

Stevie Wonder, Innervisions

Great idea for a thread... for people who don't listen to enough music to agonise about what they can't include. Not including some old favourites is like choosing which of your children has to go into foster care. On another day I might have made a different selection. I can't nominate 5 songs, there are way too many to choose from.

 

[JP Sauce]

This is tough, but here we go:

Radiohead - OK Computer
Let Down
Reckoner
Pyramid Song
There There
No Surprises

The National - High Violet
England
Graceless
Mr November
Terrible Love
Murder Me Rachael

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It from the Man
Anenome
Whoever You Are
Wisdom
That Girl Suicide
Straight Up & Down (either version)

The Drones - Wait Long by the River...
Shark Fin Blues
The Miller's Daughter
Jezebel
I See Seaweed
Oh My

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Ball & Biscuit
Seven Nation Army
Fell in Love With a Girl
The Denial Twist

 

[wally funk]

The Band, Music From Big Pink

A bloody underrated album! Love it

 

[Big Fresh]

Animal Collective
Feels
Loch Raven
Banshee Beat
Brother Sport
Spirit They've Vanished
Fireworks

Ariel Pink
Pom Pom
Let's Build a Campfire There
Alisa
Round and Round
Only in My Dreams
Lipstick

Beach Boys
Pet Sounds
Surf's Up
All I Wanna Do
Wouldn't It Be Nice
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Good Vibrations

John Maus
Love is Real
Street Light
Love Letters from Hell
Fish with Broken Dreams
My Whole World's Coming Apart
The Law

Sufjan Stevens
The Age of Adz
Impossible Soul
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us
John Wayne Gacy, Jr
Vesuvius
The Upper Peninsula

 

[willba_victory]

Tame Impala
Innerspeaker
It Is Not Meant To Be
Sundown Syndrome
Runways, Houses, City, Clouds
Solitude Is Bliss
Apocalypse Dreams

Brian Jonestown Massacre
Take It From The Man!
Wisdom
Open Heart Surgery
Straight Up And Down
Cabin Fever
Who?

Foals
Total Life Forever
Olympic Airways
Blue Blood
Big Big Love
Miami
Spanish Sahara

Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
From The Ritz To The Rubble
Fluorescent Adolescent
Do I Wanna Know?
Still Take You Home
No Buses

A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory
1nce Again
Electric Relaxation
Can I Kick It?
Oh My God
Scenario

 

[Bailey01]

Green Day
Dookie
1. Basket Case
2. Wake Me Up When September Ends
3. American Idiot
4. When I Come Around
5. 21 Guns
Honourable mentions to Redundant, Holiday, Longview and Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Foo Fighters
Wasting Light
1. The Pretender
2. Everlong
3. Learn to Fly
4. Rope
5. Times Like These
Honourable mentions to Best of You, All my Life, Walk and Monkey Wrench

Coldplay
X&Y
1. Fix You
2. Paradise
3. Speed of Sound
4. Talk
5. Viva La Vida

The Killers
Hot Fuss
1. Mr Brightside
2. Smile Like You Mean It
3. When You Were Young
4. All These Things That I've Done
5. Spaceman
Honourable mentions to Somebody Told Me, Bones, Human and On Top

The Script
The Script
1. Hall of Fame
2. Breakeven
3. The Man Who Can't Be Moved
4. Before the Worst
5. If You Could See Me Now