Favorite Albums

[ReadyMade]

Hey guys, like most of you, I am a HUGE music buff and love a variety of genres and artists. My favorite album of all time would have to be Urban Hymns by The Verve. I would really like to know what some of my fellow opiophiles favorite albums are! My sincere appologies if there is already a thread on this topic.

[smoothupnu69]

iron maiden. the one with "trooper","where eagles dare" etc.

[jdub]

Dr. Dre- The Chronic

[HowLongIsTooLong]

This minute (well, year), its AS THE PALACES BURN by LAMB OF GOD

raawwwk

it's so good it make your sex better. Really now.

D

[Somanax]

THE RAMONE'S

Rocket to Russia

rate's up there

for me

[SpecialGuy69]

Weathermen- the conspiracy
Aesop Rock- none shall pass
Sage Francis- A healthy distrust
Cage- Movies for the blind, leak bros, purple rain album, nighthawks(w/camu tao)
Hatebreed- the rise of brutality
Lamb of God- ashes of the wake
Violent Femmes- the good cd i forget what its called, the writing wore off
Dead Milkmen- big lizard in my backyard

[chopstix]

Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Anything by Soul Coughing
The Birthday Party - From Her to Eternity, Hits
P I G F A C E/Skinny Puppy/Jourgensen/Reznor et al.


Since p2p, it's hard to think of albums.. I like songs.. And I like concerts, in small venues..

[Junkindatrunk]

Tool - Aenima (Or should I say opiate)
Velvet Underground - the one with the banana on the cover
Spoon - Ga ga ga ga

[Hiram]

Hands down all time favorite album: Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

[Junkindatrunk]

Hands down all time favorite album: Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

Good fucking album. Stole it from my Mom.

[ZodiacKiller]

I dunno 'bout you guys, but I can't even BEGIN to answer this question. There's just too many. I've got like, 2000+ something real-world CDs, and over 6000 something songs in iTunes, and I like or love 'em all....



ZK

[Uncle Wiggly]

^^ I've tried to narrow it down but I'm like you ZK. I'd have to pick out my favorite 200 or something. Plus I get into moods where I listen to one style of music for a while then change to another after a while. I just got off a Zappa run and now I'm on early 90s alt rock kick. :cool:

[Tea Time]

Dr. Dre- The Chronic

Nice! That one is up there on my list as well!

God it's so hard to name one single favorite album. Mine can change drastically from day to day.

I guess if I had to pick the one album that had the biggest impact on me and influenced me the greatest, I would say hearing the self-titled Rage Against the Machine album in 1992. I was still pretty young at the time and it just blew me away! I had never heard anything like it.

But I guess I have had numerous "musical epiphanies" over the years. I'm sure you guys know what I'm talking about when I say "musical epiphanies."

Playing guitar, I had several of these: Hearing Hendrix for the first time, hearing Dimebag play for the first time, Hearing Stevie Ray, Tom Morello, Slash, etc.

But I guess I've got a lot of 'em. I'm like you wiggly and ZK, I guess here's like the top 25-30?!?!

Nirvana - Nevermind and In Utero
The Clash - London Calling
Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bullocks
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Rage Against the Macine - Rage Against the Machine
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell & Far Beyond Driven
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom and Johnny Cash Live in Austin - 2005
Sublime - Sublime and 40oz. to Freedom
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back & Fear Of A Black Planet
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication and Paul's Boutique
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife and Phrenology
Korn - Korn
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Cream - Disarelli Gears
Guns And Roses - Apetite For Destruction
The Beatles - White Album
John Lennon - The Plastic Ono Band

I could go on, but I won't! :cool:

[Hiram]

Good fucking album. Stole it from my Mom.

It's also the best freakin concert type movie in existence IMO. Directed by John Demme.

Just about any of Ween's albums work for me too:

The Mollusk
God Ween Satan
Chocolate and Cheese
Live in Chicago
The Pod
Quebec

[youwonhundred]

^^With about three exceptions, Tea Time, the list you just named off would do me quite nicely.

[jdub]

Appetite for Destruction made a huge impact on me as well.

Just the art in the fold of the tape blew my 9yr old ass (or whatever) away...

[ZodiacKiller]

Just about any of Ween's albums work for me too:

The Mollusk
God Ween Satan
Chocolate and Cheese
Live in Chicago
The Pod
Quebec

Same here. Like Uncle Wiggly said, I'll go on binges for certain artists; Zappa's one, and Ween's another. Sometimes I'll just listen to all their albums, or a zillion tracks all mixed up, but I gotta have the Ween fix sometimes. See, I'm not all-metal, all-the-time, I've got musical diversity, man......

But I do love me sum metal. :hangloose



ZK

[Hiram]

Appetite for Destruction made a huge impact on me as well.

Just the art in the fold of the tape blew my 9yr old ass (or whatever) away...

And then Lies came out and it was like wtf is this!!! I still break out both of those albums from time to time.

[jdub]

And then Lies came out and it was like wtf is this!!! I still break out both of those albums from time to time.

Patience, used to love her, and one in a million are classix too though...

[Hiram]

Patience, used to love her, and one in a million are classix too though...


I love that album from beginning to end. I prefer it to Appetite. Can't go wrong with either that's for damn sure.

[Seedy]

Patience, used to love her, and one in a million are classix too though...

Yeeeaah, I gotta say (and I was a huuge G&R fan back in the day) that I think Lies is a better album these days... well I prefer listening to it anyway. But my faves these days in no particular order:

Faith No More: Angeldust
Beastie Boys: Pauls Boutique & Check Your Head
Digable Planets: The Blowout Comb
Daft Punk: Homework
Jay Z: The Black Album
Cypress Hill: Temples Of Boom
Fat Freddies Drop: BOATS
Massive Attack: Protection...

...Hmm, can't tink but there's more to come...

[Tea Time]

^^With about three exceptions, Tea Time, the list you just named off would do me quite nicely.

Let me see - I don't know you that well, but I am going to go with The Roots, Dr. Dre, and Public Enemy? :rolleyes:


Appetite for Destruction made a huge impact on me as well.

Ditto! A lot of people give Nirvana credit for killing "Hair" metal/80's ass metal, but I give credit to G 'n R! Apetite was the death knell for "hair" metal. It was so different than anything coming out of LA at that time.


And then Lies came out and it was like wtf is this!!!

EXACTLY!!! :D A couple good songs but I haven't listened to it in YEARS. Use your Illusion I and II and Apetite are the only ones that get a listen.

Also, I just have to mention it: The Johnny Cash CD "Live In Austin 2005" is an amazing record. You should definitely check it out if you get the chance. I know that a lot of people heard his cover of NIN's "Hurt" and really loved how raw and powerful it was. That record LIve In Austin is just as good. It also has him doing a cover of the John Prine song "Sam Stone" which is the song in my signature right now. It is the song that is famous for the line "There's A Hole In Daddy's Arm Where All The Money Goes." Amazing song and he really does it justice! That song alone was worth the price of the CD!

[southernbelle]

The first one that popped into my head was Rush's 2112. And then Appetite for Destruction.

[Raz]

Anyone remember "Daddy was a crackhead" by the smurfs?.....

Just messin wiv ya folks....Marvin gaye 1964 -1984, its some compiled cd, but its all good...And the cover notes give ya a nice insight as to what kinda guy Marvin was...

[upstate_007]

Wow. Questions like this make my noggin hurt. I'm with ZK and the others that I really truly can't pick just one. What I love love love one day, sounds like nails on a chalk board the next.

I can name my current favorites or something like that. I guess what is getting the most air time in the ride.

Leatherface - "Minx" fucking awesome punk with a heart kind of album
Spacemen 3 - "Recurring" drugged out sorta psychedelic stoner 'rock' from 1980's UK
Jawbreaker - "24 Hour Revenge Therapy" I still can't seem to put this one away
Eagles of Death Metal - "Death by Sexy" because it makes me want to fuck
Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music - Split CD. I had not listened to this in a long long time, but now it's in there a lot.

[sunburny]

Hiram, what about "Pure Guava?"

Here's music I can always listen to and enjoy without pushing fast forward... I have a lot of other favorites, too!:

David Bowie, "Hunky Dory"
The Residents "Meet The Residents"
Fred Lane "From the One Who Cut You"
Soundtrack "URGH! A Music War"
Soundtrack "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
The Langley Schools Music Project "Innocence and Despair"
Pharoah Sanders "Karma"
John Lennon "Plastic Ono Band"
The Crown "Crowned In Terror"
Biggie "Ready To Die"
Cramps "Bad Music For Bad People"
Ween "Quebec"
Phillip Glass "Glassworks"
John Cage "Suite for Toy Piano"
Erik Satie "Ouvres Por Piano"
Queens of the Stone Age "Era Vulgaris" and everything
Perez Prado, "Greatest Hits"
Frankenchrist

[aj11]

I agree with ZK trying to narrow down just one album is like trying to save dope for a week, just pointless and futile

[jdub]

Another one

Too Short- Get in Where You Fit In

This is a bay area rap classic. I can literally recite every line in the fucking album. Greatness, for real.

[Saint]

Hands down all time favorite album: Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

couldn't agree more

Also:

Talking Heads - Remain in the Light
Screaming Jay Hawkins (can't remember name of album right now)
Iggy Pop - the Lust for Life album
Stranglers - the one with Golden Brown on it..
Bowie - Heroes
Lou Reed - Transformer
Guess I'm an old bag.. :-)

Also like Daftpunk, Jaques Brel, Manu Chao, the Smiths, Baobab.. too diverse to name specific albums

[upstate_007]

Hiram, what about "Pure Guava?"



The first time I heard that album I was high as hell. I got up, ate some more Doritos for energy and drove to the music store to buy it. I still can't put it away.

[sunburny]

Saint, the screaming jay hawkins album is "Frenzy!"

I have only heard 24 seconds of a jacques brel song, "matilde" it was awesome...where can i find some (like online?)

I have to say i really never stopped liking leonard cohen.

[Saint]

Saint, the screaming jay hawkins album is "Frenzy!"

I have only heard 24 seconds of a jacques brel song, "matilde" it was awesome...where can i find some (like online?)

I have to say i really never stopped liking leonard cohen.

Frenzy? Is that the one with 'I put a spell on you?'. Love that song.
Where to find Jaques Brel online? Google, you can probably download for free somewhere.. he's all over youtube. I like 'voir un ami pleurer' (see a friend cry) when I'm a little drunk and melancholic. (http://nl.youtube.com/watch?)
But I'm a sentimental old fool since I quit H,
Quartier Latin from Leo Ferré is nice as well.
Something different from the Clash or Iggy for a change

[Avon Barksdale]

Ok best album ever:

Down - NOLA

honorable mentions:

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Gun Club - Fire of Love
Clutch - Clutch
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Bad Brains - I against I
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
the Stooges - Funhouse
Bauhaus - in the flat field
Meat Puppets II
Johnny Thunders - So Alone
Patti Smith - Horses
Velvet Underground & Nico
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box

[Saint]

Ok best album ever:

Down - NOLA

honorable mentions:

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Gun Club - Fire of Love
Clutch - Clutch
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Bad Brains - I against I
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
the Stooges - Funhouse
Bauhaus - in the flat field
Meat Puppets II
Johnny Thunders - So Alone
Patti Smith - Horses
Velvet Underground & Nico
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box

Ah, Bauhaus! Forgot about that one. Going to download it right now -)
Thanks for reminding me

[Thanat0s]

Ok best album ever:

Down - NOLA

honorable mentions:

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Gun Club - Fire of Love
Clutch - Clutch
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Bad Brains - I against I
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
the Stooges - Funhouse
Bauhaus - in the flat field
Meat Puppets II
Johnny Thunders - So Alone
Patti Smith - Horses
Velvet Underground & Nico
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box

FUCK YEAH PERE UBU!
seems NOONE knows any thing of those albums... some of my favorites... 'New Picnic Time' is unreal.

[SurfRat]

I am having trouble remembering when I used to listen to albums over and over...

Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

Bowie - Ziggy Stardust...

Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Iggy Pop - The Idiot

Nirvana - Nevermind

[Tea Time]

I made a huge oversight: Radiohead - Pablo Honey and Ok Computer! Not really sure how I missed adding that one the first time around...

[HowLongIsTooLong]

I made a huge oversight: Radiohead - Pablo Honey and Ok Computer! Not really sure how I missed adding that one the first time around...

Um, what about the Bends?!

And Portishead at Roseland is just... unreal.

D

[Armegeddon73]

Guns & Roses; Appetite for Destruction
Tribe Called Quest: Low End Theory
Beastie Boys: Liscensed to I'll
ARM

[Avon Barksdale]

eyehategod - dopesick http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-3583.jpg

[Porcupine]

This is a really tough question. I'll try and narrow it down to the 5 most defining albums to me and why.
Deftones-"Adrenaline"
This was the album that really got me into music. Before this album I was a casual listener, but this album really got me through high school. If you asked me now I really couldn't listen to more than a few songs.
Neurosis-"Eye Of Every Storm"
This album showed me how music can take many different forms.
Dave Matthews Band-"Before These Crowded Streets"
I think after listening to this album I realized I didn't have to prove how tough I was by what music I listened to.
Tool-"Lateralus''
Showed me how truly deep, and beautiful music could get.
36 crazyfists-"Bitterness The Star"
Just an amazing album. Listened to it non-stop for years.

Only a couple of these albums find themselves in my cd player anymore, but all of them have been pretty meaningful to me at some point. I guess if you're asking more along the lines of the "Best" albums of all times(going by talent and musicianship) it would be a different list.

[smoothupnu69]

huey lewis and the fukin news also hootie and the blowfish! dunt dunghhhhh i only wanna be with yaaaaoooo

[Armegeddon73]

Beastie Boys;Liscens to ill.
Grateful Dead's Cornel, 1977 live
Sublime; all albums
Robert Nesta MarleRMy; Kaya
ARM

[Indy]

Right now i can't stop listening to Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution (BOTAR)'s "A Call To Arms". Really short but it's awesome.

[WarmCyanide]

Nick Cave's "Murder Ballads"

[nick]

Trout mask replica.

[God_Albino]

meat puppets II (re-issue)
smiths - hatful of hollow
arvo part - te deum
coil - love's secret domain
pogues - if i should fall from grace with god

[Diluted]

Yourself or someone life you -- Matchbox 20

[Raisin]

Rembrandt Pussyhorse

[nick]

Exile on main street.

[HydroApe]

Clash - London Calling
Beatles - White Album
Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Stones - Beggars Banquet

[Hiram]

Lennon - Plastic Ono Band


One of my fav's too. I Found Out, Well Well Well, and God have always been personal favorites that I have never gotten burned out on.

Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming, FreeWheelin, Before the Flood, The Basement Tapes

Los Lobos - The Neighborhood, Just Another Band From East L.A.

FZ - Apostrophe, Over-nite Sensation, Thing-Fish, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life

The Band - The Last Waltz

[irish]

Absolutely agree on "murder ballads" "where the wild roses grow" is amazing. I always come back to Nirvana though, everything they released and everything they didn't. There's a sublime thread of genius running through all of it.

[candyshop]

blonde on blonde ( for the youngins,no, this was not a dvd released by the "girls gone wild" folks)

[Hiram]

^^^^Visions of Johanna is amazing.

[candyshop]

^^^^Visions of Johanna is amazing.

fucken A it is

some of the finest poetry of the 20th century

[Tea Time]

One of my fav's too. I Found Out, Well Well Well, and God have always been personal favorites that I have never gotten burned out on.

Definitely!!! I've got it on vinyl!!!


I always come back to Nirvana though, everything they released and everything they didn't. There's a sublime thread of genius running through all of it.

Yup. Me too!!!


blonde on blonde.

Amazing stuff!


(for the youngins,no, this was not a dvd released by the "girls gone wild" folks)

:D:D:D

[upstate_007]

Rembrandt Pussyhorse

Very very good. Some days just call for that album.

[tasteuvheaven]

Sublime
Red Hot Chili Peppers
J Holiday
Stone Temple Pilots
Michelle Branch

Sounds funny? lol, I like all kinnds of music, depends on what mood I'm in and how things are going at the time.

[soulman]

Tea-Time's list is damn near perfect, throw in a couple Ryan Adams albums, some Dave Matthews Band and some Grateful Dead and you're all set!!!:D:D:D oh wait, Pearl Jam "Ten" has gotta be up there too, along with Alice In Chains "Dirt"

[starglazer33]

So many bands on the needle of my brain.

Right now I'm lovin' The Murder City Devils All of em'

Also the Dandy Warhol's n Brian Jonestown Massacre

Anyone interested Jawbreaker still exist they changes their name to Jets To Brazil. Orange rhyming Dictionary, old but grreat album.


DeadCanDance All of em'

I agree with ZK and Bone Daddy, just too much out there.

[StaffWriter]

My two cents:

Oasis: Defintely Maybe, Be Here Now, Don't Believe the Truth
Blur: Parklife
R.E.M.: Eponymous, Fables of the Reconstruction, Life's Rich Pageant
Slipknot: Iowa
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter, Tha Carter II
Young Jeezy: Thug Motivation, The Inspiration
Gucci Mane: Back to the Traphouse

[REVEREND]

In A Priest Driving Ambulance - The Flaming Lips
Fire Of Love - The Gun Club
Phychic Powerless - Butthole Surfers
Loveless - My bloody Valentine
Legacy Of Brutality - Misfits
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

[Mallinckrodt]

Zeppelin's 3rd album.