Your Favorite Albums

[isukendall]

A discussion in another thread spawned a discussion of favorite albums. Here are my top 52 (in no particular order). Feel free to comment, snob out, and post your own. Keep in mind these are meant to be YOUR personal favorite albums, not just a list of what the rest of the world thinks is good.

1. Led Zeppelin – II
2. Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St
3. Arcade Fire – Funeral
4. Beatles – Sgt. Pepper
5. Beatles – Abbey Road
6. Neil Young – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
7. The Band – Music From Big Pink
8. Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
9. White Stripes – Elephant (go back in forth with White Blood Cells)
10. Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind
11. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
12. Guns N Roses – Use Your Illusion I
13. The Verve – A Storm in Heaven
14. Radiohead – In Rainbows
15. Wilco – The Whole Love
16. Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
17. Black Keys – Thickfreakness
18. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
19. Fiona Apple – When the Pawn…
20. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
21. Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold as Love
22. The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
23. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
24. Zwan – Mary Star of the Sea
25. Beck – Odelay
26. Blind Melon – Soup
27. Counting Crows – Recovering the Satellites
28. David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
29. Dave Matthews – Lillywhite Sessions
30. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
31. James Brown – In the Jungle Groove
32. My Morning Jacket – Z
33. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
34. Avett Bros – I and Love and You
35. Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
36. Refreshments – Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
37. Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around
38. Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life
39. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
40. Parliament – Mothership Connection
41. AC/DC – Back in Black
42. Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Colorblind
43. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
44. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
45. New Pornographers – Challengers
46. Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise – What About That
47. Ben Harper – Diamonds on the Inside
48. Moby – Play
49. Ryan Adams – Jacksonville City Nights
50. Grace Potter & the Nocturnals – Nothing But the Water
51. Hole – Celebrity Skin
52. Pearl Jam – Vs.

 

[isukendall]

Pasting list posted in other thread from Al_4_State:

http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/off-topic/159103-new-benjamin-gibbard-album-3.html

1. "Sticky Fingers" The Rolling Stones
2. "Full Moon Fever" Tom Petty
3. "Born to Run" Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
4. "Decoration Day" Drive-By Truckers
5. "Vitalogy" Pearl Jam
6. "Blood Sugar Sex Magick" Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. "Boys & Girls in America" The Hold Steady
8. "Appetite For Destruction" Guns N' Roses
9. "Let It Bleed" The Rolling Stones
10. "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" Wilco
11. "The Colour & The Shape" Foo Fighters
12. "Ooh La La" The Faces
13. "Trace" Son Volt
14. "The Devil You Know" Todd Snider
15. "Let It Be" The Replacements
16. "The Dirty South" Drive-By Truckers
17. "Zuma" Neil Young & Crazy Horse
18. "Exile On Main Street" The Rolling Stones
19. "Stranger's Almanac" Whiskeytown
20. "August & Everything After" The Counting Crows
21. "Shake Your Money Maker" The Black Crowes
22. "Led Zeppelin II" Led Zeppelin
23. "Darkness On The Edge of Town" Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
24. "Nobody's Darlings" Lucero
25. "Live at Leeds" The Who

 

[Rabbuk]

American beauty.

 

[isukendall]

American beauty.

Well that didn't take long before someone threw in a glaring omission. It's pretty hard to make a list like that without going back and editing constantly.

BTW, is American Beauty your entire list?

 

[Rabbuk]

Well that didn't take long before someone threw in a glaring omission. It's pretty hard to make a list like that without going back and editing constantly.

BTW, is American Beauty your entire list?

I'm on my iPod so that's my list for now haha.

 

[CLONECONES]

I'll post some more recent once since I'm a lil younger

Jack's Mannequin - "Everything In Transit"
Avett Brothers – "I and Love and You"
Augstana - "Can't Love, Can't Hurt"
Blink 182 - "Take Off Your Pants And Jacket"
Grace Potter and The Nocturnals - "This Is Somewhere"
Five Times August - "Fry Street"
HelloGoodbye - "Would It Kill You?"
The Killers - "Hot Fuss"
Love Arcade - "Love Arcade"
Panic At The Disco - "Pretty. Odd."
The Rocket Summer - "Calendar Days"
Sara Bareilles - "Kaleidoscope Heart"
Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"

 

[DistrictCyclone]

American beauty.

Europe '72

 

[mfelske]

That's a lot of albums. I'll go top 10

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Beatles - Abbey Road
3. Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days
5. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
6. Nirvana - Nevermind
7. Pink Floyd - The Wall
8. The Killers - Hot Fuss
9. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
10. Beastie Boys - License to Ill

I likely forgot one or two, but that's what I got off the top of my head.

 

[DistrictCyclone]

In no particular order:

The Gilded Palace of Sin -- The Flying Burrito Brothers
White Pony -- Deftones
Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop -- Stone Temple Pilots
Roxy Music -- Roxy Music
Computer World -- Kraftwerk
Furnace Room Lullaby -- Neko Case and Her Boyfriends
Countdown to Ecstacy -- Steely Dan
Homework -- Daft Punk
Confessions on a Dance Floor -- Madonna (suck it, it's awesome)
Low -- David Bowie
Heroes -- David Bowie
Station to Station -- David Bowie
Quadrophenia -- The Who
Tommy -- The Who
Moanin' at Midnight -- Howlin' Wolf
Bad News is Coming -- Luther Allison
Hooker 'n Heat -- John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat
Paranoid -- Black Sabbath
Remy Shand -- Remy Shand
Every Day -- The Cinematic Orchestra
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere -- Neil Young
After the Gold Rush -- Neil Young
Wiretap Scars -- Sparta
De-loused in the Comatorium -- The Mars Volta
Amputechture -- The Mars Volta
Cross -- Justice
The Wall -- Pink Floyd
Meddle -- Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon -- Pink Floyd
Animals -- Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here -- Pink Floyd
Tejas -- ZZ Top
Deguello -- ZZ Top

Plus every single album by the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

 

[isukendall]

Europe '72

The music snob in me argues that live albums should meet an immediate disqualification. View attachment 15978

 

[DistrictCyclone]

The music snob in me argues that live albums should meet an immediate disqualification. View attachment 15978

An exception should surely be made in the case of the Dead, whose notoriety is primarily derived from the quality of their live shows.

 

[azepp]

There's only one that I've listened to with any regularity (once a month, give or take) over a long period of time. I have a bunch that I'm really into right now, but ask me in a few years whether they've stood the test of time.

The Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle

 

[DistrictCyclone]

I forgot to add every Police album.

 

[CLONECONES]

can we throw in some Miranda Lambert "Revolution"????

 

[DistrictCyclone]

I forgot to add every Police album.

How could I have forgotten Dylan? Blood on the Tracks especially. Desire is one of the most underrated albums ever, too.

Add Electric Ladyland by Hendrix to the mix as well. And the Band's self-titled album.

 

[Angie]

I really can't disagree with many of these. I might exchange "Sea Change" for "Odelay," "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" for "Gimme Fiction," "Revolver" for "Abbey Road" (although that's a tough call)... Add some Rilo Kiley, Rage's "Battle of Los Angeles," and would definitely go with "White Blood Cells"... That's pretty well good.

 

[CLONECONES]

most recent one for me?

Sea Wolf - "Old World Romance"

(and btw: he's doing a free show at the maintenance shop in november)

 

[TheBentStick]

I don't have time now to make a list (work seems to get in the way sometimes) but regardless of ones age, shouldn't Bob Marley Legend be on every list?

 

[CLONECONES]

Miles Davis - ******* Brew

since it's the 30th anniversary for the dogfish head beer released for it

 

[Angie]

Other additions:
Billie Holiday - "God Bless the Child"
The National - "Boxer"
Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On"