.What's your favorite album?

 

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I recently joined an online challenge that asked participants to list 100 Albums People Should hear Before They Die.  I completed my list without too much toruble, but they did ask for contributors to rank the top 10.  So I did, and my top 10 albums under THEIR stipulations are likely the same albums I'd list ehre, with maybe a variant or two:

 

1. Marvin Gaye – What’s Goin’ On (1971)

2. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (1964)

3. Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced (1967)

4. Prince – Purple Rain (1984)

5. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973)

6. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Burnin’ (1973)

7. Michael Jackson – Off the Wall (1979)

8. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (1959)

9. Sade – Promise (1985)

10. Kraftwerk – Computer World (1981)

 

You can see my entire 100 album list here:

http://community.livejournal.com/albumchallenge/1498.html

 

- Scott Woods, Parsons

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I have several: Black Sabbath's Paranoid, Blue Oyster Cult's Tyranny and Mutation, The Misfits' Static Age, Orange Goblin's Frequencies from Planet Ten, Hawkwind's Hall of the Mountain Grill, David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World, and a few others that I'm sure less than 5% of you have ever listened to. (HP)       

 

Album!  What's an album?  Do you mean CD? Otherwise my favorite album is my vacation photo album.

Music - it's more likely to be an artist Peter, Paul and Mary, The Judds (yes I know they are no longer performing or producing), Liza Minnelli and any old Girl Scout camp song! Bits&Pieces

 

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks... PJ Harvey's Dry....Bjork's Medulla...All of Leonard Cohen's albums pre-1990...and Tom Waits's Swordfishtrombones, Rain dogs, Frank's Wild Years trilogy...-Iloveoldthings

 

Doolittle - Pixies

 

I have several, especially Black Holes and Revelations and Absolution by Muse.  I also really like Pink Floyd's The Wall.  -Bethany

 

This is even more difficult than picking a favorite book, but I'm going to go with First Daze Here by Pentagram and anything ever released by Black Sabbath.  -Katie C.

 

Definitely First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection), I've been pretty much spinning that album exclusively for the past 8 weeks or so. Some of the re-recorded versions of the old songs sound really cheesy, it's vintage all the way!!!        -T.J.

 

here are some of my favorites:

yankee hotel foxtrot- wilco

plans- death cab for cutie

harvest- neil young

rubber factory- the black keys

on my way- ben kweller

aha shake heartbreak- kings of leon

funeral- arcade fire

lonesome crowded west- modest mouse

desperate youth, blood thirsty babes- tv on the radio

fever to tell- yeah yeah yeahs.

--molly

 

Wild Gift (X) 

-Jim Corva

 

One More Pair of Shoes Fav Album:

The Bends---Radiohead

 

Definitely too many to choose, but some that I consider near-perfect and that I could listen to over and over again:

Ok Computer- Radiohead

The Basement Tapes- Bob Dylan & the Band

Abbey Road- the Beatles

Velvet Underground & Nico

Funeral- Arcade Fire

Innervisions- Stevie Wonder

Rain Dogs- Tom Waits

Dusty in Memphis- Dusty Springfield

-Laura

 

Top Five Albums (as  of now/today):::

AEnima (Tool)

In Raindows (Radiohead)

Alice (Tom Waits)

Einstiein on the Beach (Philip Glass)

Pinned Together, Falling Apart (The Dears)

--David

davidwatts.net/cml/

 

 

 

A Flock of Seagulls --gerald2.0

 

All old stuff:  Stones--Let It Bleed, Pink Floyd--Wish You Were Here and Animals, Kate Bush--Hounds of Love, Royal Crescent Mob--Spin the World..hey they were the local band...bring back memories of many good times with no cares other than passing tests.

 

Tim--AirstreamModerne

The Cars-The Cars-  How many bands cut theire greatest hits album on their debut.  It sounds "new" and like nothing else even 30 years on.

Chris Isaak--Silvertone

 

 

Mr. Dave's Fave Albums:

First of all, I just want to say that I really like Scott's list up there.  Nice choices, man!  Actually, I'm digging all the choices here: Muse, RC Mob, Miles Davis, Sabbath, so much that i have in my own collection!

Okay, so this is just a sample of some of the greatest albums ever!

 

The Cure - Disintegration (THE Cure album!  well, that, and "Wish"...and "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"...okay, so there's a ton of great Cure albums)

Muse - Absolution (My new favorite group, even though they've been out for a while.)

The Beatles - Revolver/Abby Road/Sgt. Pepper's...(okay, too many to list.  It all begins and ends with The Beatles, as far as I'm concerned.)

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (I'm not the hugest Boss fan but this is an acoustic masterpiece and some of the most brilliant haunting music around.)

Pat Metheney - Offramp (the album that dropped me headfirst into the jazz pool...)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue/Workin'/Relaxin'/Steamin'/Cookin' - (the albums that then kept me there and beyond...)

Kiss - Alive (i'm not sure if this is actually still one of the best live albums but I do know that I wouldn't part with it between the ages of 11-oh, I'll admit it, probably 30)

AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You Got It ("Blood" IS the best live album - still!)

Radiohead - OK Computer (blows me away even now).

...and I just have to stop there.  There are just TOO MANY!!! :-)  Great fun though!