Favourite albums of all time

[Dan Moody]

AC/DC - High Voltage














Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology

 

[The_Big_Ship]

some good lists.

talk talk - laughing stock
radiohead - ok computer
bjork - homogenic
philip glass - glassworks
jot division - closer
new order - power corruption and lies
talking heads - fear of music
the cure - faith
portishead - third
yo la tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside-out
sigur ros - agaetis byrjun
beatles - abbey road
leonard cohen - songs of love and hate
the chameleons - script of the bridge
boards of canada - music has the right to children
massive attack - 100th window
david bowie - low
kate bush - hounds of love
mercury rev - yerself is steam
blond redhead - 23

 

[bungalow_bill]

A couple more essential albums to add to my list

 

[La Dispute]

I'm just going to list a bunch I like.

Antlers - Hospice
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Battles - Mirrored
Between The Buried & Me - Colors
Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Converge - Jane Doe
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Flaimg Lips - Soft Bulletin
Foals - Antidotes
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Isis - Oceanic
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Om - Pilgrimage
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
P.O.S. - Never Better
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
Radiohead - Kid A
Scale The Summit - Scale The Summit
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Smiths - The Smiths
Tool - Aenima
Weezer - Pinkerton
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me is my favourite though.

 

[mansize rooster]

It's the perfect album in so many ways. I would have thought with your tastes you would have loved it but I can also understand why you don't. I don't quite get the Sonic Youth link either?

At the moment it's my Go To album when I'm on a plane (which happens more frequently than I'd like).

That's an idea for a thread "Your Go To Album" for different situations...

i just thought the guitar textures were SY like..more mellow though
willing to give it another try though

 

[TheBigT]

Top 20 in no particular order (except alphabetically by artist)

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Boris – Dronevil Final
Boris – Flood
Boris – Pink
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin 2
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin 4
Mastodon – Leviathan
The Middle East- I Want That You Are Always Happy
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Opeth – Blackwater Park
Pink Floyd – Wish You were here
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
Samsara Blues Experiment – Long Distance Trip
Sigur Ros – Agætus Byrjun
Sigur Ros - ( )
Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
Television – Marquee Moon
Witch - Witch

 

[aussierulesrules]

They're not necessarily ones I'd listen to right now, but have been the ones I've probably spent the most time listening to in my life and liked the most for the longest time (in no particular order, after the first one):

Appetite For Destruction- Guns 'N Roses

Use Your Illusion 1- Guns 'N Roses
Use Your Illusion 2- Guns 'N Roses
Version 2.0- Garbage
Superunknown- Soundgarden
The Colour And the Shape- Foo Fighters
Led Zeppelin IV- Led Zeppelin
The Black Album- Metallica
Ride The Lightning- Metallica
Nevermind- Nirvana
Unplugged In New York- Nirvana
Blood Sugar Sex Magic- Red Hot Chili Peppers
One Hot Minute- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Californication- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tragic Kingdom- No Doubt
Come On Over- Shania Twain
Vs- Pearl Jam
Ten- Pearl Jam
Get A Grip- Aerosmith
Whispering Jack- John Farnham (my fav album when it came out, when I was about 7)

 

[Cursed Cat]

great thread and some excellent choices.

a truly great album is a rare bird imo; I have plenty of albums that I really like, but there are often a few tracks that I am compelled to skip; my rule of thumb is : for it to be considered a great album (to me) then there can be no more than two tracks that you would skip, regardless of the quality of the other albums.
I'm sure I'll break my own rule with this list though


in no particular order :

Ali ****a Toure & Toumani Diabate - in the heart of the moon
English Settlement - XTC
Rise Above - Dirty Projectors
Bryter Layter/Pink Moon - Nick Drake
My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
Rain Dogs/Nighthawks at the Diner - Tom Waits
Chairs Missing - Wire
the Catherine Wheel - David Byrne
Marquee Moon - Television
In it for the Money - Supergrass
Synchro System - King Sunny Ade
Remain in Light/Fear of Music/'77/More Songs About Buildings and Food/The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads/Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
The Perfect Prescription - Spacemen 3
Rubber Soul/Revolver - the Beatles
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Man Ah Warrior - Tapper Zukie
Tings an' Times - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Vanishing Point - Primal Scream

 

[Tex_21]

How did I forget to add Machine Head's "Burn my Eyes" to my list??!!! Horrible omission.

 

[driver 8]

1. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
2. I'm Wide Awake it's Morning - Bright Eyes
3. Automatic for the People - R.E.M.
4. Abbey Road - The Beatles
5. In Rainbows - Radiohead
6. Alligator - The National
7. Sigur Ros - ()
8. Funeral - Arcade Fire
9. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
10. Rubber Factory - The Black Keys

 

[Wallaby]

1. Bat out of Hell
2. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (I had the yellow vinyl)
3. If You want Blood - AC/DC
4. The Barking Spiders Live - Cold Chisel
5. Back In Black - AC/DC
6. Tapestry - Carole king
7. Lets stick together - Brian Ferry
8. Can the Can - Suzi Quatro
9. Hysteria - Def Leppard
10 Sultans of swing - Dire Straits


That'll do..........

 

[CURVE]

Last year I turned 40. My wife asked me to pick my favourite album from each year since I was born. These are the albums I chose.

1971 PENDULUM - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
1972 ROXY MUSIC - ROXY MUSIC
1973 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON -PINK FLOYD
1974 COUNTRY LIFE -ROXY MUSIC
1975 SIREN -ROXY MUSIC
1976 BLONDIE - BLONDIE
1977 PLASTIC LETTERS - BLONDIE
1978 PARALLEL LINES - BLONDIE
1979 EAT TO THE BEAT - BLONDIE
1980 AUTOAMERICAN - BLONDIE
1981 HUNTERS & COLLECTORS - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS
1982 A KISS IN THE DREAMHOUSE - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
1983 DESPERATE - THE DIVINYLS
1984 WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
1985 ABSOLUTELY - THE EUROGLIDERS
1986 CONCRETE BLONDE - CONCRETE BLONDE
1987 FREE - CONCRETE BLONDE
1988 PEEPSHOW - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
1989 BLUE SKY MINING - MIDNIGHT OIL
1990 WISH LIST - THE FALLING JOYS
1991 PENNY CENTURY - THE CLOUDS
1992 DOPPELGANGER - CURVE
1993 THUNDERHEAD - THE CLOUDS
1994 WEIGHT - ROLLINS BAND
1995 ONLY EVERYTHING - JULIANNA HATFIELD
1996 REPUBLICA - REPUBLICA
1997 COME CLEAN - CURVE
1998 VERSION 2.0 - GARBAGE
1999 MR. BIG CAR - STELLA ONE ELEVEN
2000 AFTERGLOW - DOT ALLISON
2001 MOTHER EARTH - WITHIN TEMPTATION
2002 WE ARE SCIENCE - DOT ALLISON
2003 ELEPHANT - THE WHITE STRIPES
2004 THE SILENT FORCE - WITHIN TEMPTATION
2005 FISHERMAN'S WOMAN - EMILANA TORRINI
2006 HOWLING BELLS - HOWLING BELLS
2007 ERA VULGARIS - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
2008 VELOCIFERO - LADYTRON
2009 RADIO WARS - HOWLING BELLS
2010 AS DAY FOLLOWS NIGHT - SARAH BLASKO
2011 ANNA CALVI - ANNA CALVI

 

[The_Big_Ship]

cool, that's a decent thread idea. Nice to see Curve in there.

 

[Tiger Fury #3]

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Beatles - Revolver
Radiohead - OK Computer
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Animals
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Airplane Over The Sea
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Jefferson Airpane - Surrealistic Pillow
Radiohead - Kid A
The Doors - S/T
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Radiohead - The Bends
Nas - Illmatic
Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Whoa, that was hard. Very, very rough list.

 

[xXJawsaXx]

Okay, I will try to list 20

1- Dream Theater - Awake
2- Protest The Hero - Kezia
3- Dream Theater - Images And Words
4- Nirvana - In Utero
5- August Burns Red - Constellations
6- Protest The Hero - Fortress
7- Megadeth - Rust In Peace
8- Alice In Chains - Dirt
9- Metallica - ...And Justice For All
10- Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
11- Pearl Jam - 10
12- Yes - Fragile
13- The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
14- The Faceless - Planetary Duality
15- Alice In Chains - Facelift
16- Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
17- Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing
18- Nirvana - Nevermind
19- Metallica - Master Of Puppets
20- Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

 

[____]

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Beatles - Revolver
Radiohead - OK Computer
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Animals
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Airplane Over The Sea
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Jefferson Airpane - Surrealistic Pillow
Radiohead - Kid A
The Doors - S/T
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Radiohead - The Bends
Nas - Illmatic
Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Whoa, that was hard. Very, very rough list.

Good list agree with all the albums (out of the ones I've listened to, some I'll get to later) apart from Kid A but that probably will grow on me eventually.

 

[eldorado]

Hmmm...

I just realised that in this digital age, I have rarely listened to a whole album, from start to finish for over a decade.

Now it's all shuffle on the iPod, or Shuffle on the computer...or learning songs to jam with others, or learn on acoustic.. So much music to listen to, so many downloads to try, kids, not enough time for a whole album...

So I guess the vast majority of mine, with a few exceptions, go back to my school, uni, or younger career days, when you'd get a new disc and go end to end with it 10 times in a weekend. Like a good friend. From start to finish (with a short gap while you flipped the vinyl) Oh heady days

I guess what I've just described might be the case for a few of us older ones...

In no order, 20 or so...

Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
Neil Young - On The Beach
Michael Franti - Stay Human
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
Ben Folds - Rockin The Suburbs
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Blur - 13
Wilco - Summerteeth
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Jethro Tull - Benefit
Beck - Mutations
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
David Bowie - The man Who Sold The World
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Marillion - Clutching at Straws
Crowded House - Woodface
Paul Kelly - Under The Sun
Robert Plant/Allison Krauss - Raising Sand
Talking Heads - True Stories
Radiohead - The Bends
Whiskeytown - Pnemonia
Big Star - Radio City
REM - Automatic For The People
REM - New Adventure in Hi Fi
Pink Floyd - Animals

 

[Silent Alarm]

Silent Alarm - Bloc Party

I heard "Helicopter" on FIFA 06 and fell in love. I used Limewire (oh, nostalgia) to get some other tracks on my dial up (we lived on the side of the street that could only get dial up, or $60-a-week 2GB wireless...) and proceeded to fall in love. The album kickstarted my love in music. And from that, enabled me to gain some cultural perspective and to indulge in the culture I am now a part of. Stylistically, sonically, and lyrically, it's an amazing record. No other LP will mean as much.

Kid A by Radiohead

It just sounds so oddly perfect. There are moments in which seem no less than absolutely flawless, and almost too great for five humans to make.

OK Computer by Radiohead

Is a more guitar orientated feeling of Kid A.

Turn on the Bright Lights by Interpol

So awesome in its atmosphere. There is such a density and level of maturity pouring from each track. Styles differ and swerve, from the brooding "The New" or beautiful "NYC" to the fast pace of "Roland". But there's an enviable cohesion despite sonic difference. It's an enviable, luscious, dark, and beautiful album.

These are my main ones, but I'm certain there are others.

 

[fitzmantle]

I'm just going to list a bunch I like.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Om - Pilgrimage
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
P.O.S. - Never Better
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
Radiohead - Kid A
Scale The Summit - Scale The Summit
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Smiths - The Smiths

The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me is my favourite though.

Love Slowdive, terribly underrated. All their albums were good and different.

Just off the top of my head.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
My Bloody Valentine - Isnt Anything
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Pixies - Doolittle
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Straitjacket Fits - Hail
Church - Starfish
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Rollerskate Skinny - Hoesedrawn wishes
Wilco - Summerteeth

 

[Silent Alarm]

Oh man, I totally forgot The Blue Album and Pavement. No idea what Pavement album, though. Probably Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.

 

[Black Flag]

1. Black Flag - Jealous Again
2. MDC - Millions of Dead Cops
3. DK - Plastic Surgery Disasters
4. Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
5. SSD - Kids Will Have Their Say
6. Adolescents - Adolescents
7. Misfits - Static Age
8. The Clash - The Clash
9. Magazine - Real Life
10. PIL - Flowers of Romance

 

[thurmanmunson]

1. Black Flag - Jealous Again
2. MDC - Millions of Dead Cops
3. DK - Plastic Surgery Disasters
4. Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
5. SSD - Kids Will Have Their Say
6. Adolescents - Adolescents
7. Misfits - Static Age
8. The Clash - The Clash
9. Magazine - Real Life
10. PIL - Flowers of Romance

Jealous Again was a 12" single released before Damaged, it wasn't an actual LP

 

[____]

Kid A is starting to grow on me, but oddly enough I prefer Amnesiac.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Kid A is starting to grow on me, but oddly enough I prefer Amnesiac.

Kid A is more cohesive but Amnesiac contains 'The Pyramid Song'

 

[ftmch]

Last year I turned 40. My wife asked me to pick my favourite album from each year since I was born. These are the albums I chose.

1971 PENDULUM - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
1972 ROXY MUSIC - ROXY MUSIC
1973 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON -PINK FLOYD
1974 COUNTRY LIFE -ROXY MUSIC
1975 SIREN -ROXY MUSIC
1976 BLONDIE - BLONDIE
1977 PLASTIC LETTERS - BLONDIE
1978 PARALLEL LINES - BLONDIE
1979 EAT TO THE BEAT - BLONDIE
1980 AUTOAMERICAN - BLONDIE
1981 HUNTERS & COLLECTORS - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS
1982 A KISS IN THE DREAMHOUSE - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
1983 DESPERATE - THE DIVINYLS
1984 WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
1985 ABSOLUTELY - THE EUROGLIDERS
1986 CONCRETE BLONDE - CONCRETE BLONDE
1987 FREE - CONCRETE BLONDE
1988 PEEPSHOW - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
1989 BLUE SKY MINING - MIDNIGHT OIL
1990 WISH LIST - THE FALLING JOYS
1991 PENNY CENTURY - THE CLOUDS
1992 DOPPELGANGER - CURVE
1993 THUNDERHEAD - THE CLOUDS
1994 WEIGHT - ROLLINS BAND
1995 ONLY EVERYTHING - JULIANNA HATFIELD
1996 REPUBLICA - REPUBLICA
1997 COME CLEAN - CURVE
1998 VERSION 2.0 - GARBAGE
1999 MR. BIG CAR - STELLA ONE ELEVEN
2000 AFTERGLOW - DOT ALLISON
2001 MOTHER EARTH - WITHIN TEMPTATION
2002 WE ARE SCIENCE - DOT ALLISON
2003 ELEPHANT - THE WHITE STRIPES
2004 THE SILENT FORCE - WITHIN TEMPTATION
2005 FISHERMAN'S WOMAN - EMILANA TORRINI
2006 HOWLING BELLS - HOWLING BELLS
2007 ERA VULGARIS - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
2008 VELOCIFERO - LADYTRON
2009 RADIO WARS - HOWLING BELLS
2010 AS DAY FOLLOWS NIGHT - SARAH BLASKO
2011 ANNA CALVI - ANNA CALVI

Good work! Falling Joys were a very underrated Australian band. Lock It in particular was an ace song.