It seems that there are some albums I never get tired of. In today's world of changes it is nice that some things last. Every time that cd or record goes on the special magic is always there. After a while these little musical gems become whole little escape worlds all to themselves. What would be your top 20 albums and why?
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
joy division - unknown pleasures
joy division - closer
radiohead - Kid A
radiohead - OK Computer
arcade fire - funeral
the stone roses - the stone roses
jesus and mary chain - psychocandy
zombies - odessey & oracles
beach boys - pet sounds
nas - illmatic
beatles - white album
boards of canada - music has the right to children
sufjan stevens - illinois
my bloody valentine - loveless
animal collective - strawberry jam
pavement - crooked rain crooked rain
pink floyd - the wall
magnetic fields - 69 love songs
she & him - vol1 (i love zooey deschanel )
Pink Floyd - DSOTM
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Knife - Deep Cuts
The Knife - Silent Shout
Royksopp - The Understanding
Shpongle - Tales of Inexpressible
Crystal Castles - I & II
Blur - Parklife
Bjork (too many to list!)
Metallica - Black Album
QOTSA - Rated R
Radiohead - OK Computer
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
Gorillaz - Plastic Tree
NAS - Illmatic
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
FleetwoodMac - Rumours
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
The Verve - Urban Hymes
Mistical - Eleventh Hour
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Radiohead - The Bends
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective - Feels
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Tool - Aenima
Interpol - Turn On Your Bright Lights
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Nirvana - In Utero
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Fun thread. All of those have that "special magic" for me. But 20 is such an evil number for a favorite albums thread.
What makes this even more interesting is if you can try to recollect 20 of your favorites albums off the top of your head.
I have a feeling I may have forgotten a few important ones....................actually.......................add:
DeVotchKa - How It Ends
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.....my first album.
Agalloch: Pale Folklore
Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
My Morning Jacket: Okonokos
Immortal: At the heart of winter
Mars Volta: Deloused at the Comatorium
Phish: Rift
Novembre: The Blue
Opeth: Orchid
Chuck Berry: Berry is on Top/St. Louis to Liverpool
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality
Porcupine Tree: Stupid Dream
Flaming Lips: Yoshimi
Phish: Lawnboy
Pat Metheny Group: Question and Answer
Pavement: Wowee Zowee
Pink Floyd: DSOTM
Rush: A show of hands
Ween: Chocolate and Cheese
The Who: Who's next
Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
John Coltrane: Giant Steps
Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue
I'm pretty sure that's a little more than 20 but I cannot imagine life without being able to listen to those albums!
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Roxy Music - Siren
Santana - Santana
U2 - Achtung Baby
Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Opeth - Morningrise
The Stooges - Fun House
Therion - Theli
Big Walter Horton - With Carey Bell
Etta James - The Essential Etta James
Otis Rush - Right Place Wrong Time
John Coltrane - Lush Life
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Wagner - Orchestra Works (Otto Klemperer)
Most of these albums stir up loads of memories of days past.
Whorey clap! This a great idea for a thead. Much harder than saying, like, name top 3 or 5 of all time. In no particular order:
Led Zeppelin- IV*
Metallica-Master of Puppets*
Neil Young- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
The Beattles- Abbey Road
Cat Stevens- Best Of... (I know, I know it's a "best of", but I like it, so there!)
The Doors- self titled
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here*
Eric Clapton-The Cream of Clapton
Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik*
Ben Harper- Diamonds on the Inside
Damien Rice-O
Pat Metheny Group-On The Way Up*
John Coltrane-A Love Supreme
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
Diana Krall-The Girl in the Other Room
Mastodon-Crack the Skye
Tool-Undertow or Lateralus*
Rush-2112
Nirvana-Mtv Unplugged
Alice in Chains-Mtv Unplugged
* denotes an album that I feel will never change from the list. Everything else could change.
Yikes! That was tough! I know it wasn't specified but I tried to not have more than one album per artist, hence some of the "best of's". I just think if I were to have to really choose...there wouldn't be room for any overlap. By no means are some of these albums the best release by the artist, just the same, though, something on the albums here I just can't live without, or at least I wouldn't want to. For instance, I can't live without the drumming of John Bonham, Neil Peart, Danny Carey, Antonio Sanchez and Brann Dailer. And then some albums have just been really influential on me. Anyway, there it is. It could be different tomorrow. Redcarmoose, where is your list?!?! You started this! Haha
1 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
2 Tool - Laturalus
3 Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
4 Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
5 Nirvana - Nevermind
11 Kid Dakota - So Pretty
12 Moving Mountains - Pneuma
13 Russian Circles - Enter
14 Do Make Say Think - Other Truths
15 Pelican - What We All Come To Need
16 Tool Ænima
17 Pink Floyd - Animals
18 Boston - Boston
19 Led Zeppelin IV
20 Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between
Wow that is hard. There is so much more post rock I love that I left out but I cannot take it all I suppose.
Like others, I'm sure I missed something. These kind of lists are more like snapshots. Really, only about five albums I would have total confidence in. The rest is mood and constitution.
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere: if only for Slip Inside This House, which is one of my all time fave songs.
16 Volt - Wisdom: a lot of nostalgia in this pick. One of those albums with a lot of memories.
Angra - Holy Land: always loved the flow of this work.
Autechre - Confield: my fave experimental techno album.
Curve - Doppelganger: nostalgia pick, plus damn good tunes.
Donald Byrd - Fancy Free: not a lot of jazz, but this fusion piece always struck a note with me.
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures: my fave Division. The sound that influenced many of my favorite bands.
F*ck Buttons - Tarot Sport: it's hard to mine the prior decade, since time has a way of revealing the albums you truly loved. This one made it.
Kraftwerk - Autobahn: if only for Autobahn.
Love - Forever Changes - more often than not, my all time fave album. I have always related to Arthur Lee here.
Miles Davis - Live Evil: there was something so dangerous and sexy to this set, that I have adored and revisited many times.
Neil Young - Harvest Moon: if only for War of Man.
NIN - The Downward Spiral: if there is a great play ticker in the sky, this is probably my most played album ever.
Pan Sonic - Kesto (238.48:4): an experimental techno opus.
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love: PJ with Flood, both at the top of their game.
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance: recent prior decade addition.
Queen - A Night at the Opera: glamor, sizzle, bravado, Queen rocked.
Therion - Theli: Therion's widely recognized best album. That's saying something.
Villalobos - Alcachofa: minimal techno has never been better.
Within Temptation - Mother Earth: if only for Deceiver of Fools.
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