Best/Favourite Album ever

[arenaman]

I know this is very subjective but here's a few of mine in no particular order

INXS - Kick

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Foo Fighters - The colour and the shape

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Killers - Hot Fuss

Nirvana - Nevermind

Probably lots more I'll think of shortly, let's hear your favourites too

 

[Timmy C]

It's very difficult to say as there's so many different things that I may have taken into account when I say something is one of my favourites but all things considered, if I had to pick one and one only it would have to be Slayer - Reign in Blood.

 

[MarkyPancake]

As much as there's lots of music and its different genres I like, one album always springs to mind for this topic:

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

 

[Steve356]

Free - Fire & Water. I like lots of other albums, but this one has always been the best for me since it was first released. I hate to imagine how many different versions of it I have had through the years.

A close second would be Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (the one with the white cover). Buckingham & Nicks brought so much to the band on that first album to feature them.

 

[systemsdead]

Always hard to pick out favourites but would hate to be without these
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (most played)
Lou Reed - Berlin
Talking Heads - 77
Pixies - Doolittle
The Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Patti Smith - Horses

 

[brian s]

I'm usually not that good at best lists but 3 albums always come to mind. You may notice a pattern.

Miles Davis and Gil Evans - Porgy And Bess
The Gil Evans Orchestra - Out Of The Cool
The Gil Evans Orchestra - There Comes A Time

After that there are a few others I could add such as

Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth
The Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
Rip Rig + Panic - Attitude
XTC - Black Sea

Can I add the film Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense?

There will be others that will come to mind later on.

Bri

 

[systemsdead]

Can I add the film Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense?

Bri

Sure can it was released on album

 

[brian s]

Sure can it was released on album

True but I did mean the film itself. The DVD always went on after a Friday night out. We don't do that anymore as we now have the blu.


Bri

 

[gibbsy]

Perhaps I should go in chronological order, it stretches a fair way back.

Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Jethro Tull, Songs from the Wood
Carole King, Tapestry
James Taylor, Sweet Baby James
Moody Blues, Question
Paul Simon, Graceland
Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman
Pink Floyd, Wish you were here
Bob Dylan, Desire
Joni Mitchell, Blue
Laura Marling, Once I was an eagle
Pualo Nutine, Caustic Love

Struggling to think of many 21st century albums to be honest.

Edit:
Listening to this right now. Forgot how good it is:
Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues. My missus hates it so it must be outstanding.

 

[crashcris]

Pink Floyd - Meddle.

 

[Sonic67]

AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds
The Cure - Disintegration
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Clash - London Calling
Rush - Moving Pictures

 

[Over by there]

If I had to choose just one, Out of the Blue. It is just about perfect.

Got floyd and zep etc. But that one album from ELO gets the most spins from me.

Darned good live as well.

 

[lucasisking]

I couldn't live without these (inpo):

Faith No More - The Real Thing/ Angel Dust/ King for a Day
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
The Cult - Sonic Temple
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Eric Clapton - Cream
Pearl Jam - Ten
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Shamen - Axis Mutatis
808 State - Gorgeous
Kosheen - Resist
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against the Soul
Cliff Martinez - The Neon Demon
Jerry Goldsmith - Total Recall


Gun-to-head, I might have to go with 'frapp's Felt Mountain as my number 1. Heavenly.

 

[crashcris]

If I had to choose just one, Out of the Blue. It is just about perfect.

Got floyd and zep etc. But that one album from ELO gets the most spins from me.

Darned good live as well.

That was the first concert I ever saw. The Out Of The Blue tour 1978 at Wembley arena. First Lasers I'd ever seen and a full sized flying saucer stage set. Brilliant! If I remember correctly the ticket only cost £3.25. LOL

 

[Over by there]

That was the first concert I ever saw. The Out Of The Blue tour 1978 at Wembley arena. First Lasers I'd ever seen and a full sized flying saucer stage set. Brilliant! If I remember correctly the ticket only cost £3.25. LOL

I missed those tickets by a fraction. Very annoyed but got around to them Last year at Wembley. Wasn't sure what to expect but certainly a good show and the whole place was rocking.

But whatever album I flick through, Tull, Floyd AC/DC etc. etc. this one album is arranged brilliantly and put together so well from track 1 through end of side 4, I don't think I have anything that keeps up. Most albums seem to suffer from the one that slipped in by mistake or why the hell did he put those vocals in (led zep, looking at you), not this one.

Of course that is my view.

 

[John Simon]

Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shouls
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

 

[BrynTeg]

Depeche Mode - Violator
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory?
QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf

Those are 5 albums i could not live without , favourites

 

[pxr5]

The The - Infected
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm

 

[wokeye]

AC/DC - Powerage
AC/DC - Back In Black
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Tool - Lateralus
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Isis - Panapticon
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Massive Attack -Mezzanine
Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
Deep Dish - Yoshiesque
Pixies - Doolittle
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were here
Scorpions - Blackout
Rush - Moving Pictures

 

[hififlame4ever]

Too many to enlist but always reaching out to play these

Vanessa Williams - Greatest Hits: The First Ten Years
Leata Galloway - The Naked Truth
Daryl Hall - Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine
Montserrat Caballe - Friends For Life
David Bowie - The Singles Collection
Madonna - Something to Remember
Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down
Anne Murray - The Best…So Far
Whitney: The Greatest Hits