Name some really fucking good albums.

You know, ones that you never get tired of hearing in their entirety.

Here are ten of mine:

B52s - The B52s

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English

Weezer's debut album

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

Beatles - Sgt. Pepper

The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy

The Jam - Setting Sons

Slayer - Reign in Blood

The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

Metallica - Ride the Lightnin'

Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around

Air - 10,000Hz Legend

Public Image Limited - "Album"

of Reinhold Messner, another Ben Folds Five album?

It's most famous song is "Army".

Great album

it wasn't until I saw Ben Folds on Austin City Limits a few weeks ago that I really appreciated songs like "Gracie".

I like "Time" alot too...

I never did warm up to Gracie, mostly because I don't have a daughter and can't really relate to it. Time is good, as is Trusted and Sentimental Guy.

I still haven't heard anything from the other Ben Folds discs besides those already listed, but I think he rules.

Or maybe it was October?

Anyway, if you haven't heard it, check it out.

Some really good songs on it.

Ben put out a solo album around 1997 called Fear of Pop. He does not rule since he doesn't use a guitar, at least according to noted music critic Robert Thomas Clontle.

"In Love" is a great tune. Bill Shatner's voice was perfect for it.

I still listen to that one on the Ipod every now and again.

"You're right, I can't commit...............TO YOU!!"

Who will make the first last mistake.....

One of the best lines in a pop song ever...

Also, wasn't Ben F. involved with Joe Jackson and Shatner for Common People....

Joan Jett - Fit to be tied
Bruce Springsteen Live 1975- 1985
Meatloaf Bat out of Hell
Elton John - Yellow Brick Road.
Stephan Smith - Slash and Burn.

Modest Mouse: Lonesome Crowded West

Machines of Loving Grace: Concentration

Nine Inch Nails: the downward spiral

Anything by Radiohead :D

...

shared? Thanks.

try the internets?

But you can find it used at www.gemm.com

Donald Fagen "The Nightfly"

Rickie Lee Jones "Pirates"

Brian Eno "Music For Airports"

Drive By Truckers "Southern Rock Opera"

The Clash "London Calling"

Steve Forbert "Alive on Arrival"

Everything by Warren Zevon

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Tool - Lateralus
A Perfect Circle - The Thirteenth Step
Tool - Salival
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Deftones - Around the Fur
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
The Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies
Radiohead - OK Computer
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Moby - Play
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
The Beastie Boys - The Sounds of Science
White Zombie - Super Sexy Swinging Sounds
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
The Crystal Method - Vegas
Garbage - Version 2

to name a few

we would :headbang:

:hi:

Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All

Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

Frank Zappa - You Cant Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4

Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere

Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation

Frank Zappa - Bongo Fury

Frank Zappa - Ahead Of Their Time

Frank Zappa - Freak Out!

Frank Zappa - Make A Jazz Noise Here

Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures

And now some non-Zappa albums:

Roger Waters - The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking

Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow

Tony Iommi / Glenn Hughes - Fused

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Isis - Oceanic

Neurosis - Souls At Zero

John Frusciante - Inside Of Emptiness

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Muse - Absolution

Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom

Radiohead - Hail To The Theif

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley

The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet

Pink Floyd - Animals

Got something against "Joe's Garage" and "Studio Tan"? (Let me take you to the beach, la la LA la la LA la la LAAAAAA...)

But I prefer Studio Tan when the tracks are lumped in together with the "Lather" album.

bobby brown
jewish princess
etc that album kills me

Zappa studio albums!

Live albums on the other hand, that's a completely different story!

Uhhh...well...that might be against the rules.

But,

"Stroking" I think it was called.

Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
Branford Marsalis - Buckshot LeFonque
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
Average White Band - Cut the Cake
Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles - Live
Nicola Conte apresenta Rosalia De Souza - Garota Moderna
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
Omar - This is Not A Love Song

So you're the one who bought that. I'd heard that someone, somewhere liked it. I always wondered who that was.

Gotta second Ride the Lightning and Sgt. Pepper.

Simply amazing. Rocks enough for us punk rockers and still real country. Best record I heard in years.

BTW: Sister is the best Sonic Youth record.

Ok.
Kraftwerks Radio-Aktivitat
Joy Divisions Unknown Pleasures
Downloads Sidewinder
Pale Fountains Pacific Street

Off the top o me head for now

PiLs Happy?
New Orders Movement
Haujobbs Vertical Theory
Propergol y Colargols Charly.roger (free download)

2,Machine Head , Deep Purple.
3,Very Eavy, Very Umble , Uriah Heep.
4,Yes Songs, Yes.
5,Salisbury, Uriah Heep.

Anything by Bassmaster Kahn.

I should give it another spin... I didn't care for it when it cam out...

This is one of my favorite Dolby albums ever. I also think "Close But No Cigar" from the followup album is one of the finest pop songs I've ever heard.

Genesis: Lamb Lies Down, Foxtrot, Wind and Wuthering;

Tangerine Dream: Logos Live

Brian Eno: Ambient IV: On Land

Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

Terry Riley: In C (the Bang On a Can version from a couple years ago)

Pink Floyd: Animals, Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, Umma Gumma, Pulse, Division Bell

Rush: 2112, Exit: Stage Left, Farewell to Kings

Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell

Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer Live

Peter Frampton Comes Alive

Mahler Symphony No. 2 with the LSO and Gilbert Kaplan conducting

not Frampton Comes Alive ( aieeeeee) I heard that so much in my first year in college, that I hurled it out a window when punk hit. It was a great moment. sorry Rabrrrrrr.


I like the eclecticism of your other choices, however. :)

that's not because of anything inherent in the album itself, but due only to overplay.

In my opinion, it still stands as an amazing album - technically, recording-quality-wise, musically... the whole gamut came together in that recording and gave us one of the most inspired and brilliant of live recordings ever done.

best concept album since tommy

Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
Twin Peaks FWWM - Original Soundtrack
Georges Bizet - Le Arlesienne, Suites 1 and 2
The Princess and the Warrior - Original Soundtrack
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Depeche Mode - Violator
Poe - Haunted
Green Day - Dookie

Enjoy the Silence was the song of my coming out period.

Then there's "Personal Jesus", which I enjoy despite being an atheist. Heck, I enjoy the entire album....

Check it out!

http://www.sonyclassical.com/music/51352/index.html

Yes! I'm listening to it right now! :D

radiohead - the Bends
albert collins - ice pickin
green day - american idiot
led zepplin II

Most underrated album and band of the 1990's. Every song on this album is a winner.

I saw them play in 1994. Great show.

that band was great - dripping with influence from the beach boys, supertramp & queen

These include (chronologically) Gypsy, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion, Saturday Night (about 45 years after it was written), and Bounce. Some of these aren't just good, they're downright great.

....Technical Ecstacy ~ Sabbath....Wish You Were Here ~ Floyd....also Ride The Lightning~ Metallica...just to name a few!! :headbang:

Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions
Eno - Another Green World; Before and After Science
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Yes - Relayer
Air - Moon Safari
Brian Wilson - Smile
King Crimson - Red; The Night Watch; The Great Deceiver
Can - Future Days; Soon Over Babaluma; Saw Delite
Fairport Convention - XXXV (and just about anything else)
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Kraftwerk - everything
Sugar - Double Rainbow
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Cinemage
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive

:thumbsup:

my husband loves David Sylvain's solo stuff.

The Blue Nile - "Hats"

Led Zeppelin - "Led Zeppelin I"

Moody Blues - "Days of Future Passed"

Yes - "Going for the One"

The Beatles - "Abbey Road"

Robbie Robertson - "Storyville"

Paul Simon - "Graceland"

Shawn Colvin - "Steady On"

Roxy Music - Avalon
Little Feat - Little Feat (1st Album)
Pretenders - Pretenders (1st Album)
English Beat - Special Beat Service
Alison Krauss - Every Time You Say Goodbye
Don Ellis - Tears of Joy
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)

Avalon is one of my never-gets-old favorites. I love The Beat (saw them in Berkeley in the early '80s). Pretenders is a classic (also saw them at the Greek Theater in Berkeley in '84). Some Girls is great. I was a big Beatles/Stones/CSN listener in my earlier days.

Giant Steps is a great jazz standard.

:thumbsup:

from back when Michael Jackson was human.

The Beach Boys -- "Pet Sounds"
Roxy Music -- "Avalon"
Cocteau Twins -- "Heaven Or Las Vegas"
My Bloody Valentine -- "Loveless"
Sonic Youth -- "Daydream Nation"
Gipsy Kings -- "Allegria"
Gang of Four -- "Songs of the Free"
Swervedriver -- "Ejector Seat Reservation"
Killing Joke -- "Pandemonium"
Public Image Ltd. -- "Second Edition" (aka "The Metal Box")
Siouxsie & The Banshees -- "JuJu"
New Order -- "Power, Corruption & Lies"
Roxy Music -- "Country Life"
The Stooges -- "Funhouse"
Slowdive -- "Souvlaki"
Pale Saints -- "In Ribbons"
Grant Lee Buffalo -- "Mighty Joe Moon"
Loop -- "A Guilded Eternity"
Yes -- "Fragile"
King Crimson -- "Red"
Genesis -- "Trespass"
Miles Davis -- "Kind of Blue"
John Coltrane -- "Live at Newport"

That'll do for now...

You bastard. :grr:














;)

All of them? :)

Slowdive or Pale Saints....but only because I'm unfamiliar.

I did own a Swervedriver t-shirt once though.

The Stooges and My Bloody Valentine. Sort-of shoegazer-y but with more of a hard-rock edge to them. Lots of songs about driving, cars, space travel, etc. From Oxford, UK.

Slowdive are a late-80s/early-90s shoegaze group who later became Mojave 3. Lots of swirling guitars, dreamy vocals mixed way down, etc. Pale Saints are similar, but more direct and poppy, with vocals by Ian Masters who later went on to work with His Name Is Alive.

:thumbsup:

...but any album with vocal tracks recored in the Great Pyramid of Chaeops(sp?) would be great.

bluesey, gritty, techno, gospelly, country, bouncy...

I saw A3 in 1998 at SXSW. They blew out the house, and completely overshadowed the headlining act, Spacehog. I had gone to the show specifically to see Spacehog, but I went home after their second song because A3 had been such a damn fine show.

Some are good for the physical act of love......

(in no particular order)
The Genius of Pandit Ravi Shankar
American Stonehenge - Robin Williamson
Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
The Beatles (White Album)- The Beatles
Revolver - The Beatles
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy - Who
Physical Graffiti - Led Zepplen
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Passion Play - Jethro Tull
Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan
Freewheelin Bob Dylan
Europe '72 - Grateful Dead
Skull and Roses - Grateful Dead
Portrait of a Legend - Sam Cooke


also, any John Eliot Gardner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique recording.......

To be played at maximum volume.

One of the 10 best albums of the entire 80's.
The Professor

My favorite Tubes album is Remote Control.

Other album favorites..

Peter Gabriel #3 (the melting face)
The Clash - London Calling
The Jam - The Gift
Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene, Stand in the Fire
David Lindley - El Rayo-X
Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller, Black Market
Return To Forever - No Mystery. Where Have I Known You Before?
Pizzicato Five - Made in the USA
XTC - Black Sea
Paul Simon - Graceland
Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure
Pink Martini - Sympathique
The Specials - More Specials

I want to note that there is no classical on here because I decided that most of my favorite classical pieces were written before the concept of "album" existed.

These are in no particular order, and just happen to strike my fancy today. If you asked me tomorrow, my list might be different.

1. Music For The Masses: Depeche Mode
2. Social Distortion: Social Distortion
3. Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man: Guadalcanal Diary
4. Earth, Sun, Moon: Love And Rockets
5. Joshua Tree: U2
6. The Head On The Door: The Cure
7. Play: Moby
8. Good Stuff: B-52's
9. Prolonging The Magic: Cake
10. Porcupine: Echo & The Bunnymen

the Pretty Things SF Sorrow

Pink Floyd Piper at the Gates of Dawn

the Misunderstood Before the Dream Faded

the Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street

Spacemen 3 Playing With Fire

My Bloody Valentine Loveless

Sonic Youth Sister

the Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love

I'm sure there are more....

Surrealistic Pillow- Jefferson Airplane
Still have dreams of Gracie Slick singing "White Rabbit". No one else in rock had a voice like hers.

Hand Made- Mason Williams
Much, much better version of "Clasiscal Gas", done solo on a 12 string acoustic guitar. Sounded almost like something from Andreas Segovia, master of the classical guitar

Eden- Sarah Brightman
Her version of "Il Mio Curoe Va" (My Heart Will Go On) in Italian was amazing, especially towards the end where she switches from her pop singer voice to her opera voice in two breaths.

Old Dan's Records- Gordon Lightfoot
Not well known, but had some of his best songs. The quiet "Mother of a Miner's Child" breaks my heart every time I hear it.

Live Songs- Harry Chapin
The last live album he did before his death. "Mr Tanner" and "W-O-L-D" were perhaps the best he ever did.

The Visit- Loreena McKennitt
An amazing voice and phrasing turned a stilted, wordy poem into a lyrical gem in "The Lady of Shallot".

Year of the Cat- Al Stewart
"Year of the Cat" may have been more popular, but "On the Border" is what made this album a keeper.

Live- Eric Burdon and the Animals
"We Got to Get out of this Place" was the girlfriend's (now wife of 30+ yrs) and my theme song for my tour in Vietnam.

Symphony #6 in D Minor-Beethoveen- Bruno Walter and the CBS Symphony Orchestra
Perhaps the best recording I'v heard of the 6th, and the first movement still is my fav for starting out a road trip.

Holst-The Planets- Sir Adrian Boult and the London Symphony
His last recording of his good friend's best known composition, and maybe the best done to date.

Midnight Express Soundtrack-Giorgio Moroder
Winner of the 1978 Oscar for best Soundtrack, still the definitive piece for synthesized music.

2. De je Vu
3. Rubber Soul
4. Jerusalem
5. The Essential Leonard Cohen

After that, anything I am currently listening to which right now is the Beatles Anthology 2.

Tower of Power

So, off the cuff:
Distillers: Coral Fang
Nirvana: Bleach
The Cure: Disintegration
PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love

a woman after my own heart.

My perennial favorite for these types of threads.

:hi:

fuck, yeah.

Their last one, Revolutions Per Minute kicks ass, too.

There are more that I don't have but I'm too lazy to think of them.

Aesop Rock - "Labor Days"
Air - "Moon Safari"
Alexisonfire - "Watch Out!"
Armor For Sleep - "What To Do When You Are Dead"
Atmosphere - "God Loves Ugly"
At The Drive-in - "Relationship of Command"
Bad Brains - "I Against I"
Bad Religion - "The Empire Strikes First"
Ben Folds - "Rockin' The Suburbs"
Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"
Buck 65 - "Talkin' Honkey Blues"
Coheed And Cambria - "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3"
Cursive - "The Ugly Organ"
Dangerdoom - "The Mouse and the Mask"
Deltron 3030 - "Deltron 3030"
DJ Shadow - "Endtroducing"
Dr. Octagon - "Dr. Octagonecologist"
Elliott Smith - "Figure 8"
El-P - "Fantastic Damage"
Gza/Genius - "Liquid Swords"
Head Automatica - Decadence"
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - "Streetcore"
John Frusciante - "Inside of Emptiness" or "Shadows Collide With People"
MF Doom as King Gheedora - "Take Me To Your Leader"
Murder By Death - "Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left Of Them?"
Muse - "Origin of Symmetry"
Non Prophets - "Hope"
New Order - "Get Ready"
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
Radiohead - "The Bends"
Refused - "The Shape of Punk to Come"
Rise Against - "Siren Songs of the Counter Culture"
Sage Francis - "A Healthy Distrust"
Silverchair - "Neon Ballroom"
Sparta - "Wiretap Scars"
Sweatshop Union - "Natural Progression"
Tegan and Sara - "This Business of Art"
The Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
The Clash - "London Calling"
The Lost Patrol - "Songs In The Key Of Resistance"
The Mars Volta - "De-loused In The Comatorium" AND "Frances The Mute"
The Streets - "A Grand Don't Come For Free"
Thursday - "War All The Time"
Tiger Army - "III: Ghost Tigers Rise"
Tool - "Lateralus"
Underoath - "They're Only Chasing Safety"
Warsawpack - "Stocks and Bombs"
Wintersleep - "Wintersleep" (2003, not 2005)

I love seeing Bad Brains, Air and Tegan and Sara on the same list.

:thumbsup:

I have to ponder a while before I make a list.

I had that in my cd player for almost a year. Seriously.

Trash Can Sinatras- Cake

The Smiths- The Queen is Dead

Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers

Rolling Stones-A Bigger Bang

Clutch-Robot Hive/Exodus

Slipknot-Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses

Fiona Apple-Extraordinary Machine

AC/DC-For Those About To Rock, We Salute You

Bruce Springsteen-Devils and Dust

H.I.M-Dark Light

Their absolute best work.

Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
Replacements: Tim
Marti Jones: Unsophisticated Time
the first two dB's albums
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
John Prine's debut
the Violent Femmes debut
The Big Lebowski Soundtrack
Liz Phair: Exile In Guyville
Let's Active: Cypress
Nuggets

My gauge: if I loaded the entire disque into my iPod. Though some others I loaded most, skipping a song or two (not included).

Patricia Kaas - Mademoiselle chante...
Scene de Vie

Paolo Conte - Best of ...
Reveries

Nina Hagen - Nina Hagen Band
Unbehagen

Spliff - 85555

Zucchereo - Oro, Incenso & Birra

Paul Young - No Parlez

Silly Wizard - Wild and Beautiful

Tom Jones - Reload

UB40 - Signing Off

Lucio Dalla - Best of...

NoFx--"The War on Errorism"

Evanescence--"Fallen"

They Might Be Giants--"Flood"

Pogues If I Should Fall From Grace With God

Kinks Village Green Preservation Society

Kinks Low Budget

Dio Holy Diver

Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell

Metallica Kill 'Em All

Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgury Disasters

Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist

Fear The Record

Too $hort Born to Mack

NWA Straight Outta Compton

Snoop Dogg Doggystyle

Deltron 3030

Dr. Octagon

Elton John

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

Can - Ege Bamyasi

Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back

Peter Tosh - Equal Rights

The Congoes - Heart of the Congoes

Black Uhuru - Guess Whos Coming to Dinner

:grr:

4+ Years and 18,000 posts and it took something this trivial for me to out myself. You're good!
The Professor

Only freeper trolls like BAD music (and I'm talking the Toby Keiths, the Keney Chesneys, Alan Jacksons, and so on...).

I think it's safe to say that we have better taste in music.

But Alan Jackson's actually quite talented, if you like the genre. Kenny is sometimes enjoyable.

In no particular order:

Pearl Jam - Ten
The Strokes - Is This It
The Vines - Highly Evolved
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around 8)
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Pearl Jam - Yield
Beck - Guero
Radiohead - OK, Computer

The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
Nico - The Marble Index
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Ryan Adams - Gold
Eels - Beautiful Freak

There's 10.

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Stevie Wonder - Innervisons
Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
808 State - Utd. State 90
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
New Order - Power Corruption & Lies
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Chic - C'est Chic
Radiohead - Kid A
Bob Marley - Kaya
The Cure - The Head on the Door
Brand New Heavies - Brand New Heavies
Lou Reed - Transformer
Aimee Mann - Bachelor #2
Eighteenth Street Lounge - Jet Society

blahblahblahblahblah

A masterpiece start to finish.

Gwen Stefani's new album Love Angel Music Baby, though popular, is really very good.

The Eminem Show by Eminem is a riot.

Patty Smith was mentioned above, her stuff's good.

From that same "new wave/punk" era, Iggy Pop's The Idiot, and Lust for Life albums are his best.

Scary Monsters by David Bowie is one of his lesser known gems.

Do you like Bjork? I just got Bjork Greatest Hits.

Speaking of Bjork, I also have Life's Too Good by the Sugar Cubes.

For something acoustic Leo Kottke Greenhouse, is his best.

Songs for Beginners, by Graham Nash is excellent.

Tonight's the Night by Neil Young should be in your collection.

If you can find it, Duck Stab/Buster and Glenn, by the Residents is worth having.

Of course I could listen to Leonard Cohen's early albums over and over again.

It's A Beautiful Day is another old favorite, though I usually just listen to the A side.

Another A side fave is Flush The Fasion by Alice Cooper. It's a hoot!

Do you have any of those?

I have that on vinyl. I made "Clones" a club hit in 2002 in the local scene.

I have some Bjork, and all the good Iggy and Bowie albums.

I had a bad experience with the Residents, and sold all my Residents albums... they gave me nightmares. But Duck Stab was pretty good (although it's not "Vileness Fats).

The Residents - Duck Stab
Steeleye Span - Below the Salt
Isaac Hayes - The Isaac Hayes Movement
Black Sabbath - Vol 4
High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

Or "You'd Prefer an Astronaut"

Either one will absolutely blow your fucking mind.

Doc at the Radar Station - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Shapeshifter - Gong

Larks Tongue In Aspic - King Crimson

Second Winter - Johnny Winter

Meddle - Pink Floyd

Hwy 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Black Market - Weather Report

Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

Hot Rats - Frank Zappa

Kinda Blue - Miles Davis

this stuff is Sacred

Somebody, somewhere, has got to be high.

Have a cup of tea.:smoke:

What fun!

I saw them live in London in the mid 70s. What a show!

The Stones, KC and Floyd are true classics. Gong's Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy is also highly recommended.

They are in no order, and there are albums just as good as these.

I'll second the B52s choice

Aimee Mann - Bacholor #2

Beatles - all the major studio albums but Yellow Submarine

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Simon And Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, Bookends, Sounds Of Silence

Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Loreena McKennitt - Book Of Secrets

Dixie Chicks - Fly, Home

Garth Brooks - No Fences

Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose

Michelle Branch - The Spirit Room

Hope 7 - self-titled

Letters To Cleo - Go

Kay Hanley - Cherry Marmalade

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run, Born In The USA

New Pornographers - Electric Version, Twin Cinema (still have to get Mass Romantic)

Bonnie McKee - Trouble

Green Day - American Idiot

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy, Ten, Yield

Nirvana - Nevermind

Hole - Live Through This, Celebrity Skin

Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville, whitechocolatespacegg, Somebody's Miracle

Joni Mitchell - Blue, Ladies Of The Canyon

The Corrs - Forgiven, Not Forgotten, Talk On Corners, In Blue

Garbage - all studio albums except first, which was great but a bit green

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Bangles - All Over The Place, Different Light (my gratest hits takes heavily from them)

U2 - The Joshua Tree, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (and more)

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Indogo Girls - Rites Of Passage, self-titled, Swamp Ophelia, All That We Let In

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Sheryl Crow - Globe Sessions, self-titled

Barenaked Ladies - all

Cindy Alexander - all

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On

Weezer - Pinkerton

and on...

A fuckin' classic...

Neutral milk hotel.

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

LZ - IV

QOTSA - Rated R

The Clash - Sandinista!

Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy

Radiohead - Kid A

The Beatles - Revolver

Tool - Aenima

Peter Gabriel - Melt

Shoot... this is hard!

I know - I'm late here. I guess I can start with Aerial and work back?

Radiohead's OK Computer is a fave of mine.

I love her, so I'd just get anything. :)

OK Computer would be my second choice... then The Bends. I'm really digging Street Spirit (Fade Out) at the moment.

PM me if you do.. I'll probably take a little while to get to Aerial. Right now I'm taking a CD buying break, and will get quite a few around Christmas.

Wow, I didn't even touch the surface with my list - I left out albums like R.E.M.'s Automatic For The People, Anna Nalick's Wreck Of The Day, Patty Loveless's When Fallen Angels Fly.. and some artists like Dylan have so many great albums, some of which I don't have, that I left those artists out entirely.

:D

The Clash - London Calling and Give Em Enough Rope
Bob Dylan - Basement Tapes and Blood on the Tracks
Patti Smith - Easter
Robyn Hitchcock - GLobe of Frogs, although I like all his albums
Elvis Costello - pretty much all of them
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
The Softboys - Underwater Moonlight
REM - Murmur, Document
Bangles - Different Light
NoFx - War on Errorism
Don Byron - Bug Music
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Los Lobos - Kiko and the Lavender Moon
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
Mojo Nixon - Otis
Velvet Underground and Nico
rocky Horror Punk Rock Show - various
Ramones - Road to Ruin and Rocket to Russia

that's a start, anyway.

But, for today, I'm going to go with: (and we're going to exclude Stravinsky and Mahler).

Thick as a Brick -- Jethro Tull

Over-Nite Sensation & Hot Rats -- Frank Zappa

Billy Breathes & Junta -- Phish

DMX - And Then There Was X

Massive Attack -- Mezzanine

Tool -- Aenima

Juice Newton's Greatest Hits

Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton's Greatest Hits

The Who -- Tommy

Bjork -- Telegram

Afro-Cuban All-Stars -- (Sorry, can't remember the album, but it was some kind of greatest hits).

Yea, I'm old

nt

Husker Du "Candy Apple Grey"

Metallica "Master of Puppets" and "Ride the Lightning"

Van Halen "Van Halen" (the very first album)

and, I'm drawing a blank on some of my other favorites.

But here's a few I can:

It's a Beautiful Day

The Yes Album

Laura Nyro and Labelle - Gonna Take a Miracle

Andy Pratt - Records Are Like Life

Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves

Chick Corea and RTF - Light As a Feather

James Taylor

Fleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me

Hot Tuna

Led Zeppelin

Joni Mitchell - Hejira

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue plus In A Silent Way

I prefer to think I have varied tastes, rather than multiple personalities. ;-)

Bill

green day dookie
sublime sublime

This is great. And further proof that DUers are really cool people.

So many great bands. At least a half century of music. Bravo!

Coltrane seems to be lacking here, so I'll pay tribute to him.


Oh hell, I can't help but add a couple more bands. I don't remember the albums tho.


teenage fanclub
the verve
cocteau twins
Art Blakey and the jazz messengers
Ladytron is pretty cool


Enough! :)

Someone up the list said "I still need to get Aerial"... don't feel too tardy, it just came out yesterday and it is a masterpiece. Her voice is better than ever and the writing and nuance is beautiful and brilliant. She does not tour and she does not promote... she just happens to be too insecure for all that... not a problem except for finding new fans. Word of mouth will take care of all that lost promotion on her part, it always has for her. (After all,Einstein never toured either.)

Go buy this album... it will make you whole again... in ways you could never imagine.

I'm just getting into them. I have Bandwagonesque and Grand Prix.

And nobody here knows The Verve except for "Bittersweet Symphony" - nobody knows that the whole Urban Hymns album is great and their previous two are fantastic!

But I'm getting a kick out of Anna Nalick's album, in all its manufactured pop goodness. Not an album for the ages, but good enough for driving.

Otherwise, I can listen to a Tom Petty album until the cows come home. Any album. Mellencamp too.

It's not really manufactured - it's just poppy, as you said. There's a real artist there coming out, and not a record company creation. Don't worry about the attacks - Anna's not hearsay. :-)

When the music pros inevitably attack us. I have your back. :)

I'll be listening to it in the car on my hour commute tomorrow.

:hi:

The posters here are pretty good, though, about that kind of thing. There's a lot of music snob talk, but you don't usually get put down. I've even mentioned teen pop I like without problems.

Okay, I'll give this a shot. Some favs:

My Favorite Things-Coltrane

The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle-Born To Run-Nebraska

The Boss


Wrecking Ball-Emmylou Harris


Rubber Soul-Beatles (screw that overproduced dung heap "Sgt Pepper")

Nashville Skyline-Dylan

The Essential Guy Clark

Love's Been Tough on Me-Etta James

Super Colossal Smash Hits of the 90's-The Mavericks (Raul Malo, the greatest singer ever)

any Billie Holliday and Patsy Cline collection

I welcome my long-time friend Mike to DU. :headbang:

(If I were smarter, I'd deny ever knowing the sumbitch. But I ain't smarter.)

1: Muddy Waters - electric mudd
2: Taj Mahall - essential Tahj
3: Little Walter Boss Blues Harmonica
4: Sonny Terry : Harmonica and vocal solos
5: Blind Boy Fuller : East Peidmont Style.

(and I know that I'll get some hell for some of my choices ;) ) :

Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Revolver - The Beatles
White Album - The Beatles
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Quadrophenia - The Who
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Honky Chateau - Elton John
The Stranger - Billy Joel
52nd Street - Billy Joel
The Long Run - The Eagles
Genesis - Genesis
The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
Nilsson Schmilsson - Nilsson
461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton
Sports - Huey Lewis & the News
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
Aftermath - The Rolling Stones
Paradise Theater - Styx
Deja Vu - CSN&Y
Daylight Again - CSN
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young

This is one of 3 albums of theirs that are almost equally great, but this one edges the other two. In terms of sheer emotional impact, It has no equal, IMHO.

Do yourself a favor and buy this album. It is amazing.

Also:

Pixies -- "Doolittle"

XTC -- "English Settlement"

Clash -- "London Calling"

Little Feat -- "Waiting for Columbus"

Roxy Music -- "Avalon"

The Beatles - Abbey Road, Revolver, The White Album, Sgt. Pepper, and Let it Be Naked, plus Past Masters Vol. II

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed, Aftermath

The Kinks - Something Else, Arthur & The Decline & Fall of the British Empire, Lola & Powerman v. the Money-go-round

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Zombies - Oracle & Odyssey (have to thank Dr. Fate for that one - he recommended it to me)

David Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars

U2 - War, The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)

The La's - The La's

And Britpop fanatic that I am...

Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife, Best of Blur

Oasis - Definitely Maybe, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, The Masterplan

Pulp - Different Class

Elastica - Elastica

The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps, Wake Up

Supergrass - I Should Coco, In it For the Money, plus their newest, Road to Rouen (bad pun, yes, but the music is fantastic)

The Verve - A Storm in Heaven, A Northern Soul, Urban Hymns

Radiohead - The Bends and OK Computer

also...

Weezer - Blue Album and Pinkerton

The Strokes - Is This It?

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

REM - Automatic For the People

The Replacements - Let It Be and Tim (somebody else mentioned them and I remembered - I'd forgetton them! Haven't listened to them in a few minutes, thanks for the reminder)

:hippie: :toast: :bounce: :silly: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :hi:

Or Devo's first two.

But you already knew that.