Favourite albums of all time

[HARKER]

What I liked about music was when I found something so different to anything I'd heard before that it simply had me in awe.
That doesn't necessarily make these albums favourites but just that at the time, I couldn't stop listening to them and I couldn't conceive where the idea of such music was born from.
A few of these albums are here because I may not have heard anything prior from the artist beforehand.

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King.
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time.
Chrome - Red Exposure.
Biosphere - Substrata.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Radiohead - OK Computer
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

 

[Demonic Ascent]

In no particular order (I was gonna limit to one album per band but just too hard when it comes to Sabbath, Floyd, Hendrix etc I've asterisked my favourite album for each band where there are multiple)

These are personal favourites, some obviously wouldn't make an "all-time" list but these are albums that at various stages of my life I've played repeatedly start to finish

Tool - Undertow, Aenima*, Lateralus, 10,000 Days (EP Opiate)
Metallica - Kill em All, Ride the Lightning*, Master of Puppets, And Justice For All, Black Album
Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard, Come My Fanatics, Dopethrone*, Let Us Prey, We Live (EPs Supercoven & Chrononaut)
Dr John - Gris Gris
Hawkwind - In Search of Space
Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues*, Frequencies From Planet 10
Melvins - Houdini*, Stoner Witch, Hostile Ambient Takeover
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Necro - I Need Drugs
Ill Bill/DJ Muggs - Kill Devil Hills
Kendrick Lamar - good kid mAAd city
Ice Cube - The Predator
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Smoov-E - Confessions
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother, Meddle*, DSOTM, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty & the Beast*, Midian
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral*, Pretty Hate Machine, Fragile (EPs Broken, No The Actual Events)
Led Zeppelin - I, II, III, IV*, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti
Tupac - 2Pacalypse Now, Makaveli- Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Boris - Flood & Feedbacker*
Yellow Swans - Bring the Neon War Home
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage*
Non-Phixion - The Future Is Now
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family*, Antichrist Superstar
Lard - Pure Chewing Satisfaction
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion 1 & 2*
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
Tom Waits - Alice
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Nirvana - In Utero
The Doors - The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel & LA Woman*
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced, Axis Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland*, Band of Gypsies
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine, Evil Empire, Battle of LA*
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, Frankenchrist*
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell*, Vulgar Display of Power, Far Beyond Driven, Great Southern Trendkill
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill, Black Sunday*, IV
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
Spearhead - Stay Human
Dr Dre - The Chronic, 2001*
Jay-Z - Black Album, Blueprint 3*
Jay-Z & Kanye - Watch The Throne
Kanye - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Danzig - Danzig
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Martin Martini & The Bone Palace Orchestra - Live at the Rainbow Hotel
Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal
Snorkel - Maisy n Me
Eminem - Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP*
Beatles - Sgt Peppers, White Album
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Offspring - Offspring, Ignition, Smash*
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Machine Gun Fellatio - Bring It On
Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Takes From Urban Bohemia
Audioslave - Audioslave
Radiohead - OK Computer*, Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief
Regurgitator - Tu-Plang
Powderfinger - Double Allergic
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
Pearl Jam - Ten
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Do soundtracks count?
Lost Highway, Natural Born Killers, O Brother Where Art Thou, Easy Rider, Fear& Loathing in Las Vegas

Mix-Tapes
Ill Bill - Ill Bill Is The Future*, Vol 2: I'm a Goon
Psycho+Logical Street Villains - Vol 1* & 2

Non-Music Album
Bill Hicks - Dangerous, Relentless, Arizona Bay, Rant In E-Minor*

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

There are lots, but I do listen to a lot of music. These are the ones I go back to.

Adele – 21
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Amy Winehouse-Back To Black
Ariel - A Strange Fantastic Dream
Bachelor Girl - Waiting for the Day
Bad Company - Straight Shooter
Country Joe McDonald - Paradise With an Ocean View
Daryl Hall - Laughing Down Crying
Deep Purple - In Rock
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Don Alder - Not a Planet
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Donald Fagen-Morph The Cat
Donald Fagen-The Nightfly
Donny Hathaway – Live
Earl Klugh - Finger Paintings
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
Etta James - At Last!
Eva Cassidy – American Tune
Eva Cassidy – Imagine
Eva Cassidy – Live at Blues Alley
Eva Cassidy – Somewhere
Eva Cassidy – Songbird
Eva Cassidy - Wonderful World
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Fourplay - An Evening of Fourplay
Fourplay - Between the Sheets
Frampton Comes Alive
Free - All Right Now
George Benson - Weekend in L.A
Hans Theessink & Terry Evans - Delta Time
Icehouse-Great Southern Land
Imelda May - Life Love Flesh Blood
Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Jeff Beck - Emotion And Commotion
Jim Conway - Jim Conway
John Farnham - Whispering Jack
John Lee Hooker -The Healer
John Mayer – Continuum
John Mayer - Heavier Things
Joni Mitchel - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Joni Mitchel - Hejira
Joni Mitchell - Dreamland
Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
KD Lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel
Keb' Mo'-Keb' Mo'
Keb' Mo'-The Door
King Crimson – In The Court of the Crimson King
Larry Carlton-Sleepwalk
Lee Ritenour - Captain Fingers
Little Steven - Soulfire
Lizz Wright - Dreaming Wide Awake
Lizz Wright – Salt
Lynrd Skynrd - Street Survivors
Maria Muldaur – Maria Muldaur
Mark Sholtez - Real Street
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Nathan East - Nathan East
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love
Paul Hardcastle - Jazzmasters III
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Ray Charles - Genius The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones - The Magazine
Rita Coolidge - Out of the Blues
Robert Plant - Band of Joy
Robert Plant - Sixty Six to Timbuktu
Robert Randolph – Colorblind
Robert Randolph And The Family Band - Walk This Road
Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters - Hope Radio
Russell Morris - Sharkmouth
Russell Morris - Van Diemen's Land
Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch
Sal Kimber And & The Rollin' Wheel
Seal - Seal
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Sophie B. Hawkins - Tongues And Tails
Spectrum - Milesago
Spectrum - Terminal Buzz
Spectrum- Part 1
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Steppenwolf - Monster
Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Tal Wilkenfeld - Love Remains
Tears For Fears - The Seeds of Love
The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers And Sisters
The Carpenters - Now And Then
The Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
The Doors - L.A.Woman
The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out At Night
Thelma Houston and the Pressure Cooker
Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
Van Morrison - Hymns To The Silence
Van Morrison - A Night In San Francisco(Live)
Van Morrison - The Healing Game
Weather Report - Black Market
Weather Report - Heavy Weather

 

[Mootsy]

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow! (2003)
note: this album perfectly captures the breezy and nostalgic years of 2003/04

 

[Fossie 32]

There are lots, but I do listen to a lot of music. These are the ones I go back to.

Adele – 21
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Amy Winehouse-Back To Black
Ariel - A Strange Fantastic Dream
Bachelor Girl - Waiting for the Day
Bad Company - Straight Shooter
Country Joe McDonald - Paradise With an Ocean View
Daryl Hall - Laughing Down Crying
Deep Purple - In Rock
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Don Alder - Not a Planet
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Donald Fagen-Morph The Cat
Donald Fagen-The Nightfly
Donny Hathaway – Live
Earl Klugh - Finger Paintings
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
Etta James - At Last!
Eva Cassidy – American Tune
Eva Cassidy – Imagine
Eva Cassidy – Live at Blues Alley
Eva Cassidy – Somewhere
Eva Cassidy – Songbird
Eva Cassidy - Wonderful World
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Fourplay - An Evening of Fourplay
Fourplay - Between the Sheets
Frampton Comes Alive
Free - All Right Now
George Benson - Weekend in L.A
Hans Theessink & Terry Evans - Delta Time
Icehouse-Great Southern Land
Imelda May - Life Love Flesh Blood
Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Jeff Beck - Emotion And Commotion
Jim Conway - Jim Conway
John Farnham - Whispering Jack
John Lee Hooker -The Healer
John Mayer – Continuum
John Mayer - Heavier Things
Joni Mitchel - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Joni Mitchel - Hejira
Joni Mitchell - Dreamland
Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
KD Lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel
Keb' Mo'-Keb' Mo'
Keb' Mo'-The Door
King Crimson – In The Court of the Crimson King
Larry Carlton-Sleepwalk
Lee Ritenour - Captain Fingers
Little Steven - Soulfire
Lizz Wright - Dreaming Wide Awake
Lizz Wright – Salt
Lynrd Skynrd - Street Survivors
Maria Muldaur – Maria Muldaur
Mark Sholtez - Real Street
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Nathan East - Nathan East
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love
Paul Hardcastle - Jazzmasters III
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Ray Charles - Genius The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones - The Magazine
Rita Coolidge - Out of the Blues
Robert Plant - Band of Joy
Robert Plant - Sixty Six to Timbuktu
Robert Randolph – Colorblind
Robert Randolph And The Family Band - Walk This Road
Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters - Hope Radio
Russell Morris - Sharkmouth
Russell Morris - Van Diemen's Land
Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch
Sal Kimber And & The Rollin' Wheel
Seal - Seal
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Sophie B. Hawkins - Tongues And Tails
Spectrum - Milesago
Spectrum - Terminal Buzz
Spectrum- Part 1
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Steppenwolf - Monster
Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Tal Wilkenfeld - Love Remains
Tears For Fears - The Seeds of Love
The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers And Sisters
The Carpenters - Now And Then
The Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
The Doors - L.A.Woman
The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out At Night
Thelma Houston and the Pressure Cooker
Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
Van Morrison - Hymns To The Silence
Van Morrison - A Night In San Francisco(Live)
Van Morrison - The Healing Game
Weather Report - Black Market
Weather Report - Heavy Weather

Love Spectrum's 'Hand Jive'

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Love Spectrum's 'Hand Jive'

My favourite band. I saw them at Dallas Brooks when they recorded Terminal Buzz. Still the greatest live Australian Album.

 

[2006_Eagles]

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow! (2003)
note: this album perfectly captures the breezy and nostalgic years of 2003/04

Hells yes

Peak JJJ era

 

[t_94]

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow! (2003)
note: this album perfectly captures the breezy and nostalgic years of 2003/04

Have you heard the shins? They'll change your life.

I do prefer the debut but this is a cracker too.

 

[class78]

you forgot it in people

 

[Woodside Hawk]

Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal
Snorkel - Maisy n Me
Eminem - Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP*

Was very surprised, but stoked, to see this one get a guernsey - I played on that one! That album was also finally added to streaming services last weekend:

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Was very surprised, but stoked, to see this one get a guernsey - I played on that one! That album was also finally added to streaming services last weekend:

That's awesome it's a great funky album that I still chuck on from time to time, came out when I was in high school. First 5 tracks in particular are great, but still solid to the end I think.

What did you play, I remember going to watch you guys play at the little cd shop in Eltham when I was a teenager (if you were with them then)

 

[Woodside Hawk]

That's awesome it's a great funky album that I still chuck on from time to time, came out when I was in high school. First 5 tracks in particular are great, but still solid to the end I think.

What did you play, I remember going to watch you guys play at the little cd shop in Eltham when I was a teenager (if you were with them then)

I was the drummer. We played the Eltham Festival a couple of times, but I don’t remember playing at a CD shop...possible that was after I left the band.


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[BEaston]

My favourite albums of all time:

At the Drive - Relationship of Command
Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
Between The Buried & Me - Colors
Radiohead - OK Computer
Four Tet - Rounds
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
La Dispute - Somewhere At The Bottom of the River (naturally)
The Strokes - Is This It?
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Weezer - The Blue Album
Weezer - Pinkerton (deluxe edition)
As Cities Burn - Hell or High Water
Isis - Panopticon
Battles - Mirrored
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Joyce Manor - S/T
Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors
The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About

Finally a list I can relate to lol

In alphabetical order, some of my favourite albums:
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Bury Tomorrow - The Union of Crowns
Closure in Moscow - First Temple
Cloudkicker - Beacons
Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain
Eidola - Degeneraterra
Emarosa - Relativity
The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
Green Day - Dookie
If These Trees Could Talk - Breath of Life
Joelistics - Blue Volume
Karnivool - Sound Awake
The Living End - The Living End
Motor Ace - Five Star Laundry
Perfect Stranger - Free Cloud
Saosin - Translating the Name
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Something for Kate - Elsewhere for 8 Minutes
Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places
Thursday - Full Collapse
Tool - Aenima
Vibrasphere - Archipelago

 

[Mootsy]

Dinosaur Jr - Without a Sound!

 

[RohanConnolly]

Hi BigFooty folk,

Obviously not much AFL to talk about, and I'm at a bit of a loose end, so I've decided to do a Top 20 albums video series, mainly on Twitter, but am also posting on Facebook and You Tube. It's a very personal selection, and to be honest reasonably narrow (hard rock tends to be my bread and butter) but just thought it might be a bit of fun, so see what you think. I've posted the first installment here, and am aiming to do about two per day over next couple of weeks. On the footy side of things, Finey and I are going to continue doing our Footyology Podcast every Monday morning, in which, among other stuff, we pick a year and talk about our favourite music, movies and TV from it, so check it out if you have time. Anyway, here's No.20 in the countdown, see if you agree.

Cheers,
Rohan

 

[Cruyff14]

Hi BigFooty folk,

Obviously not much AFL to talk about, and I'm at a bit of a loose end, so I've decided to do a Top 20 albums video series, mainly on Twitter, but am also posting on Facebook and You Tube. It's a very personal selection, and to be honest reasonably narrow (hard rock tends to be my bread and butter) but just thought it might be a bit of fun, so see what you think. I've posted the first installment here, and am aiming to do about two per day over next couple of weeks. On the footy side of things, Finey and I are going to continue doing our Footyology Podcast every Monday morning, in which, among other stuff, we pick a year and talk about our favourite music, movies and TV from it, so check it out if you have time. Anyway, here's No.20 in the countdown, see if you agree.

Cheers,
Rohan

Hope to see some Springsteen in there

 

[Shifty1]

Not necessarily all-time favourites but excluding greatest hits or compliation albums, these are the only albums (off the top of my head) I've listened to without skippping any songs.

Bruce Springsteen - The River
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Craig David - Born To Do It
Nelly - Country Grammar
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
Kayne West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

 

[Cruyff14]

Not necessarily all-time favourites but excluding greatest hits or compliation albums, these are the only albums (off the top of my head) I've listened to without skippping any songs.

Bruce Springsteen - The River
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Craig David - Born To Do It
Nelly - Country Grammar
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
Kayne West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Favourite Track on The River & The Promise?

 

[Shifty1]

Favourite Track on The River & The Promise?

Hungry Heart is great but the title track is epic with the melancholic harmonica.

The Promise is a toss up between the title track and Someday. Used to listen to it on repeat on the plane when I was working out of Thailand.

 

[Cruyff14]

Hungry Heart is great but the title track is epic with the melancholic harmonica.

The Promise is a toss up between the title track and Someday. Used to listen to it on repeat on the plane when I was working out of Thailand.

Ties That Bind for me.

Title track and Save My Love from The Promise.

Are you a big Springsteen fan?

 

[revo333]

I'm currently working on my top 50 list while I have some time during the lockdown.

I really enjoy David Bowie but he doesn't have an album that I really connected with and played heaps to make the list.