Favorite Album

[Funkiest Monkey]

My favourite is Time Is Running Out from Absolution. Good album.

For me its got to be Butterflies and Hurricanes. That's on absolution, right?

Yes it is.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

 

[subject_87]

Alive 2007.

Your argument is invalid.

 

[FinalHeart95]

You know, I've said Colors for pretty much every other thread involving this, to the point where people probably think I have an unhealthy obsession of it. So here's something completely different (well, not completely, but not BTBAM).

Crack the Skye - Mastodon

Very, very, very, very good. The title track and Oblivion are probably my two favorite songs. Other than this album there's Blackwater Park, but that album kind of wore off on me after a while.

 

[Riccan]

In no particular order:

Light This City-Facing the Thousand
Death-Symbolic
Man Must Die-The Human Condition
Edge of Sanity-Crimson

 

[Red Right Hand]

Murmur- REM
This my fave, I'm a massive REM fan

Funeral- Arcade Fire
Just really very good, a 21st century classic

Let it Be- The Replacements
The best punk album of the 80s and one of the first that wasn't afraid to have something approaching melodies.

Abbey Road- The Beatles
Its the fab four! While others may go for Sgt Peppers, I feel that this is the stronger set of songs.

Paul's Boutique- Beastie Boys
The album that made sampling an art form and showed the Beastie Boys were more than snotty rap-punks.

Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
The prettiest album I've ever heard. Like aural honey.

Grievous Angel- Gram Parsons
Country+Rock=Country Rock, Gram Parsons was the master of it and dies before the release of this seminal album.

Nothing's Shocking- Jane's Addiction
Awesome licks, awesome everything else too. One of the finest alternative rock albums of all time.

Mellon Collie...- Smashing Pumpkins
Gorgeous in some places, ugly in others, always over indulgent and one of the best albums of the 90s.

Grace- Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley could sing like a ************, and he could write and play like one too. This album was his only one, but what an album.

Through the Windowpane- The Guillemots
Joyous, mischievous and a little OTT. Listening to it is never dull and often exhilarating.

Electric ladyland- Jimi Hendrix
Equally as good as Are yo Experienced until the last two tracks. Those last two tracks happen to be All along the Watchtower and Voodoo Chile, so yeah...

Forever Changes- Love
The album that foresaw the end of hippydom, piercing the dark heart of the fallacy of the whole movement. of course I didn't notice because it sounds so good.

Loveless- My Bloody Valentine
Simultaneously ugly and pretty, like nothing you've heard before or will hear again.

Pink Moon- Nick Drake
The recorded sound of Nick drake dying: beautiful and really, really bleak.

What's the Story morning Glory- Oasis
Its just awesome!

Doolittle- Pixies
A whole mess of unpleasant noises fashioned into a series of variously kickass and unsettling songs. Some are about pollution(?), some about crazy hispanics and some are about a Luis Bunuel film.

Rum, Sodomy and The lash- the Pogues
Everything that's awesome about the irish(drink, folk music, fighting, pubs) and punk all mixed together into one awesome album

The Bends- radiohead
You know its good, I don't need to explain it (Fake Plastic trees is enough to break your heart)
Let it Bleed- the stones
it has Honkey Tonk Women, Let it Bleed and You Can't Always get what you Want in one album. Its just a classic.

Tim- the Replacements
More bitchin' punk awesomeness from one of my favourite bands

The Queen is dead- the Smiths
more tender than the other Smiths albums and with a wider spectrum of instrumentation and greater ambition in all aspects.

Marquee Moon- Television
Like number two or three of my ranked list, the ten minute title track is enough to warrant it a place on any list. As it is, though, there isn't a bum not on the whole thing, every song is a lean, rocking show of utter virtuosity. Buy it now!

Superunknown- Soundgarden
The best Led Zeppelin imitation bands best album, and boy is it a good fucking album. the riffs are heavy, the singing soars and it actually works for them. it didn't last long.

Illinoise- Sufjan Stevens
An impossibly ambitious set from the indie munchkin full with weird and lush arrangements and even the odd piece of truly anthemic indie pop (Chicago). music this rare and brilliant needs to be cherished.

The Joshua tree- U2
It speaks for itself, its one of those albums where everything is practically perfect.

Loaded- the velvet Underground
Its the Velvet undeground without the weirdness and with better riffs, so its basically perfect.

XX- The XX
The most intimate album ever made, you can actually feel them singing in your ears like they're only inches away.

Odessey and Oracle- The Zombies
I've run out of steam now, but this album's just really good and has Time of the season on it, although my favourite song is Hung Up on a Dream

That's not in any particular order aside from roughly alphabetical (i went through my itunes library and picked all my favourite albums)

My friend, do you listen to much Modest Mouse, by chance? Because if you don't then I think you'll love them.

 

[Samwise137]

"Theatre of Pain" by Mötley Crüe. I found a near-mint condition vinyl copy at a secondhand store recently.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Tough one, tough one. I'll pick a few

Anthrax-Greater Of Two Evils. Technicall it's a greatest hits album, but it's all re-recordings and it's all awesome.

Streetlight Manifesto/Catch 22- Keasbey Nights. The best ska album ever made.

Black Stone Cherry- Black Stone Cherry. Like a modern Lynyrd Skynyrd, but not so overtly, annoyingly southern.

Iron Maiden- Iron Maiden. The first, rawest 'Maiden album. Sure I love newer Maiden, but this album is just awesome.

 

[k-ossuburb]

Not a single bad track on the entire thing and it's all so seamlessly mixed that I can always put it on and listen to it the whole way through without feeling the need to skip even a single track.

 

[Tib088]

This is a tricky one. I can't decide between any of these:

Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy
The Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
By the Way - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The E.N.D - Black Eyed Peas
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Brand New Eyes - Paramoure
American Idiot - Green Day
The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
Viva La Vida or Death and all his Friends - Coldplay
Why Try Harder - Fatboy Slim

There are so many more. I listen to alot of music so I can't really make my mind up :/