Another off Topic/Your Favorite Albums

Your favorite albums. Not for me;but because it interests me.

N/O
Machine Head
Exile On Main St.
Pet Sounds
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
El Nervio Del Volcan
Rocket to Russia
Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
Wish You Were Here
Electric Ladyland
Blonde on Blonde

Abbey Road
Kind of Blue
Blood on the Tracks
Dark Side of the Moon
In the Wee Small Hours…
Nixon
The Forgotten Arm
Court ‘n’ Spark
On the Beach
Astral Weeks

The Art of Amalia- Amalia Rodrigues
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy- Elton John
Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
2nd Symphony- Sibelius
My Way: The Best of- Frank Sinatra
Le Pas du Chat Noir- Anouar Brahem
Verdi and Tchaikovsky Arias- Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Aman Iman- Tinariwen
Com Que Voz- Amalia Rodrigues
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road- Elton John
Elephant- White Stripes

Hunky Dory
Heartattack and Vine
Boatman’s Call
Marvin Gaye Live at the London Palladium
Ready to Die
Beneath the Surface
Fire

Laughing Stock
Bringing it All Back Home/ Blonde on Blonde / Highway 61 Revisited
In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Loveless
Pet Sounds
Low
Velvet Underground & Nico/White Light & White Heat/Velvet Underground
Endtroducing…
The Ascension
On the Corner
Daydream Nation / Murray St.
36 Chambers
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Spiderland
Histoire De Melody Nelson
Kid A
Fear of a Black Planet
Person Pitch

Alphabetical order (one per band):

Ah Um – Charles Mingus
American Don – Don Caballero
…And the Battle Begun – RX Bandits
Bad Brains – Bad Brains
Bitches Brew – Miles Davis
Bone Machine – Tom Waits
Cryptooology – Yowie
Cure for Pain – Morphine
The Desert Sessions – Technology
Dirty Reggae – The Aggrolites
Discipline – King Crimson
Drugs to the Dear Youth – Tera Melos
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) – Wu-Tang Clan
Everything Goes Numb – Streetlight Manifesto
Freaky Styley – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Free Jazz – Ornette Coleman
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables – Dead Kennedys
Frizzle Fry – Primus
Fugazi – Fugazi
Galapagos Momentum – Upsilon Acrux
Giant Steps – John Coltrane
The Great Dinosaur Mystery – Japandi
The Harder They Come – Various
Head Hunters – Head Hunters
Hold Your Horse Is – Hella
Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt
Ideas of Reference – PsOpus
The Idot King – Attention Deficit
In a Dub Explosion – King Tubby
…in a Letter to the Sandbox – By the End of Tonight
Ink Complete – Spatic Ink
Intestinal Fortitude – Nuclear Rabbit
Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius
Lava Land – Piglet
Legalize It – Peter Tosh
Live at Stubbs – Matisyahu
The Lonesome Crowded West – Modest Mouse
Marquee Moon – Television
The Martial Arts – Cinemechanica
Medications (ep) – Medications
The Meters – The Meters
More Skin with Milk-Mouth – Giraffes? Giraffes!
No Depression – Uncle Tupelo
No Interference – Dysrhythmia
Obscura – Gorguts
Orthrelm/Touchdown Split – Orthrelm/Touchdown
OXES – OXES
The Painters Palette – Ephel Duath
Pallaschtom – Ruins
Paranoid Time – Minutemen
People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm – A Tribe Called Quest
re-Foc – Rodrigo y Gabriela
Redlight – Slackers
Regatta de Blanc – The Police
Riddles are Abound Tonight – Sausage
Rift – Phish
Rumah Sakit – Rumah Sakit
School Days – Stanley Clarke
Sinsemilla – Black Uhuru
Skullgrid – Behold… the Arctopus
Sleeping People – Sleeping People
Talking Heads: 77 – Talking Heads
They Might Be Giants – They Might Be Giants
Third Reich n’ Roll – The Residents
’Til Shiloh – Buju Banton
Truth and Soul – Fishbone
The View From This Tower – Faraquet
Wake Up Swimming – Other Men
Yo! Bum Rush the Show – Public Enemy
Zevious – Zevious
2Pacalypse Now – Tupac

At least for now that’s it.

Favorite Film Related CDs:

So many.

I’m a Lou Reed freak, a Marianne Faithfull freak, a Billie Holiday freak, lol. I also really love Tricky, PJ Harvey, Nico, Kraftwerk, The Fall, Elliott Smith, Cristina, Barbara Manning, Morrissey, Roxy Music, Black Box Recorder, Joy Division, Twilight Singers, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Sharp Things, The Fiery Furnaces. Also- Beatles, Stones, Bowie, Dylan, Sonic Youth.

Bitches Brew – Miles Davis

Planet of the Wolves – Guitar Wolf

Fun House – The Stooges

Freedom – Neil Young

Beggars Banquete – The Rolling Stones

Mingus Ah Um – Charles Mingus

Felling Good, The Best of Nina Simone – Nina Simone

Piano Rags – Scott Joplin

Best of BB – Brigitte Bardot

Easter – Patti Smith

Endtroducing…. – DJ Shadow
Dopethrone – Electric Wizard
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 – Aphex Twin
Zen Arcade – Hüsker Dü
Rain Dogs – Tom Waits

Page One – Joe Henderson (which is my favorite jazz album of all time)
Kind of Blue – Miles Davis along with John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Jimmy Cobb, Cannonball Adderly, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers (Mr. PC) (That’s a ridiculous group)
Blue Haze – Miles Davis
Mingus Ah Um – Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk Quarter with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall – Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane
Four Sider – Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66
Some Girls – Rolling Stones
Hot Rocks 1964-1971 – Rolling Stones
Appetite for Destruction – Guns n Roses
Room on Fire – The Strokes
Is This It – The Strokes
Legend – Bob Marley and the Wailers
The Black Album – Jay-Z
The Blueprint – Jay-Z
Reflection Eternal (Train of Throught) – Talib Kweli
Illmatic – Nas
Enter the Wu Tang: 36 Chambers – Wu Tang Clan
Liquid Swords – GZA
Plain Pat & Emile Presents a Kid named Cudi – Kid Cudi
Madvillainy – Madvillain (MF Doom)
The Low End Theory – A Tribe Called Quest

There’s probably more that I’m forgetting..

-Let It Bleed
-Remain in Light
-Exile on Main St.
-The Velvet Underground & Nico
-Rubber Soul
-Born To Run
-Dark Side of the Moon
-Odelay
-Revolver
-Electric Ladyland
-The Bends

I’m kind of unoriginal

and I left out a lot.

Gogol Bordello is an experience live.
I’m wasn’t a big fan of Animal Collective, but I’m coming around.

It seems that Wu Tang’s 36 Chambers is, by our definition, the greatest “rap” album ever. At least so far…

Oh, and add Stanley Turentine’s Sugar to my list

Not in any particular order:

Love of Life – Swans
2 a.m. Wake up Call – Tweaker
Tabula Rasa – Einsturzende Neubauten
Naked City – John Zorn
Ghost In the Machine – The Police
El Nino – John Adams
Wing on Wing – Esa-Pekka Salonen
Symphony of Psalms/ Oedipus Rex – Stravinsky
Agaetis Byrjun – Sigur Ros
Memento Mori – Buck-Tick
Love of Life – Swans
The Unacceptable Face of Freedom – Test Dept.
Want One/Poses – Rufus Wainwright
Dark Continent – Wall of Voodoo
First In Last Out – Stroke
In the City – The Jam
Chavez Ravine – Ry Cooder
Armchair Apocrypha – Andrew Bird
Planet Oz – Inga Humpe
Everything Is Possible – Os Mutantes
Listen Up – Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Tabula Rasa/Fratres – Arvo Part
Seventh Tree – Goldfrapp
Push the Button – The Chemical Brothers
Incubate – Soft Ballet
Mr. Bungle – Mr. Bungle
Insiding – Bruce Gilbert
Homogenic – Bjork
Lady Day – The Master Takes – Billie Holiday
Delirium Corda – Fantomas
Ocean Rain – Echo and the Bunnymen
Easy Come, Easy Go – Marianne Faithfull
Silent Shout – The Knife
Funeral – Arcade Fire
Make – La Ppisch

R.E.M. – Out of Time
Neko Csse – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Neil Young – Live Rust
Over The Rhine – Good Dog Bad Dog
The Zombies – Odyssey and Oracle
Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun
Red House Painters – Songs for a Blue Guitar
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger

and as an added bonus: Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career

The Beatles – Abbey Road
The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album)
Big Brother & the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
The Clash – London Calling
Elvis Costello & the Attractions – This Year’s Model
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
Danny Elfman – Music For A Darkened Theater, Vol. 1
Fantômas – The Director’s Cut
Robyn Hitchcok & the Egyptians – Luminous Groove
Robyn Hitchcock – Storefront Hitchcock
The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part 1
The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
Ennio Morricone – Once Upon a Time in the West
Mr. Bungle – California
Harry Nilsson – The Point
Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party
Pink Floyd – Animals
Pink Floyd – The Wall
The Pretty Thins – S.F. Sorrow
Queen – A Night at the Opera
Ramones – Rocket To Russia
The Real Tuesday Weld – I, Lucifer
The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
The Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight
Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense
They Might Be Giants – Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants
Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
Traveling Wilburys – Volume 1
The White Stripes – Elephant
The Who – The Who Sell Out
The Who – Who’s Next
Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage Acts I, II & III
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – We’re Only In It for the Money
Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy

♥ Warren Zevon’s Excitable Boy & The Zombies’ Odessey and Oracle as well.

elliott smith – s/t
elliott smith – roman candle
elliott smith – xo
the paper chase – hide the kitchen knives
failure – fantastic planet
dystopia – human = garbage
swarrrm – black bong
carissa’s wierd – songs about leaving
nick cave & the bad seeds – murder ballads
i hate myself – 10 songs
bright eyes – fevers and mirrors
give up the ghost/american nightmare – we’re down til we’re underground/background music
japanther – skuffed up huffy
modest mouse – this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about
modest mouse – building nothing out of something
cursive – the ugly organ
munly & the lee lewis harlots – s/t
two gallants – what the toll tells
misfits – static age
dead kennedys – plastic surgery disasters
s – puking and crying
sheer terror – love songs for the unloved
teenage cool kids – queer salutations
tragedy – s/t
2pac – me against the world
andre nickatina – conversation with the devil
carnivore – retaliation

some of my favorite albums (sorry if this post is gigantic):

(the last one is akron/family – self-titled)

1. R.e.m. – Reckoning
2. Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
3. Peter Brotzmann – Machine Gun
4. This Heat – Deceit
5. David Bowie – Low
6. Suicide – Suicide
7. Glenn Branca – The Ascension
8. Neutral Milk Hotel – In an Aeroplane over the Sea
9. R.e.m. – Murmur
10. Electric Light Orchestra – El Dorado
11. Beat Happening – Jamboree
12. Catherine Riberio and Les Alpes – Paix
13. X – More Fun in the New World
14. Daniel Johnston – Yip Jump Music
15. Masonna – Beauty and the Beast
16. Comus – First Utterance
17. Bow Wow Wow – See Jungle
18. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
19. Suckdog – Drugs are Nice
20. Current 93 – Dogs Blood Rising

21. Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
22. Nihilist Spasm Band – No Record
23. Birchville Cat Motel – Chi Vampires
24. After Dinner – After Dinner
25. Antony and the Johnsons – Blue Angel (aka the self titled record)
26. Aphrodite’s Child – 666
27. R. Stevie Moore – Phonography
28. Smithereens – Especially for You
29. Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
30. Cowboy Junkies – Trinity Session
31. Vanica Doble – Vanica Doble
32. Sun Ra – Intersteller Low Ways
33. Hanatarash – 1
34. Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greatest Hits
35. Beat Happening – Beat Happening
36. The Lounge Lizards – the Lounge Lizards
37. Husker Du – Flip Your Wig
38. Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come
39. Rachels – Music for Egon Schiele
40. Code III – Planet of Man

I left out these (not that anyone probably cares, but I do):

Heartbeeps – The Mae Shi
Drukqs – Aphex Twin
The Sky’s Gone Out – Bauhaus
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground (& Nico)
Green/Automatic for the People – REM
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! – Devo
If I Should Fall From Grace With God – The Pogues
In A Model Room/Another Game – P-model
Punches – World Leader Pretend

41. The Primitives – Lovely
42. Pulp – Different Class
43. Radiohead – OK Computer
44. Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
45. Built to Spill – Perfect from Now On
46. Can – Tago Mago
47. James Chance and the Cortortions – Buy the Contortions
48. Mission of Burma – Signals, Calls, and Marches
49. Daniel Johnston – Hi How Are You?
50. Magik Markers – I Trust my Guitar ETC
51. Godspeed you Black Emperor – Lift Yr Skinny Fists
52. No New York Comp
53. Velocity Girl – Simpatico
54. Wire – Chairs Missing
55. Sleeper – The It Girl
56. Wolf Eyes – Burned Mind
57. R.e.m. – Monster
58. Public Image Limited – Metal Box
59. Nurse with Wound – Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
60. T. Rex – Electric Warrior

Fuck! I forgot about Velvet Underground for whatever reason. Put White Light / White Heat at like #5.

Damn, so much diversity on here! But I’m very much diggin’ the overall taste. Nice to see Godspeed represented.

Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
Opeth: Ghost Reveries, Still Life, Deliverance
Metallica: Master of Puppets, …And Justice For All
Jonny Greenwood: T.W.B.B. Soundtrack
Rodrigo y Gabriela: (self-titled)
Boston: (self-titled)
Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power, The Great Southern Trendkill
Rush: 2112, A Farewell to Kings
Tool: Lateralus
Iron Maiden: Powerslave, The Number of the Beast
The Mars Volta: De-Loused in the Comatorium
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin I, Presence
Iced Earth: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Porcupine Tree: Fear of a Blank Planet
Dr. Dre: 2001
Nevermore: Dead Heart, in a Dead World
Portishead: (self-titled)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Megadeth: Rust In Peace, Killing is my Business…and Business is Good!
Alice in Chains: Dirt
2pac: Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Radiohead: OK Computer
Meshuggah: Catch Thirtythree
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left
King Crimson: The Court of the Crimson King
Lamb of God: Ashes of the Wake
UneXpect: In a Flesh Aquarium
Arch Enemy: Anthems of Rebellion
Evile: Enter the Grave

more to come…

1. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
2. Agaetis Byrjun – Sigur Ros
3. Lateralus – Tool
4. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
5. OK Computer – Radiohead
6. Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
7. Phaedra – Tangerine Dream
8. Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
9. Amused to Death – Roger Waters
10. Everything Starts Where it Ends – Lovedrug

Another dreaded list!

Various Artists – The Northern Soul of New Orleans, Volume 1
Swell Maps – In Jane From Occupied Europe + A Trip to Marineville
Seefeel – Quique + damn near everything else
The Great Unwashed – Collection
Experimental Audio Research – The Koner Experiment
El Michels Affair – Sounding Out the City
Bottomless Pit – Congress
The Feelies – The Good Earth + Crazy Rhythms
Cath Carroll – True Crime Hotel
CAN – Ege Bamyasi + Future Days
Arthur Russell – World of Echo + Love is Overtaking Me
Bert Jansch – s/t + Birthday Blues + damn near everything else
Lungfish – Sound In Time + Indivisible
Pierre Bastien – Meccanoid
Pere Ubu – Dub Housing + The Modern Dance + “Heaven”
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Guided By Voices – Alien Lanes
Jacques Dutronc – Complètement Dutronc
V/A – Ethiopiques, Vol. 8: Swinging Addis
Spare Snare – Live at Home
Buzzcocks – Spiral Scratch + Operator’s Manual
Gas – Pop + Königsforst
Josef K – Entomology
ESG – Come Away With
The Monks – Black Monk Time
Luigi Nono – La Fabbrica Illuminata…
Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
The Clean – Anthology + Vehicle
Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy
Joy Division – Closer
Leonard Cohen – first three albums
Modern English – After the Snow
The Homosexuals – Astral Glamour
Prurient – Church of Ammunition
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Forces of Victory
Gang of Four – Peel Sessions
Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
Autechre – LP 5
The Haters – Mind the Gap
Bedhead – Transaction de Novo
Brian Eno – Another Green World + Discreet Music
Lee Hazlewood – Requiem For An Almost Lady
Frederic Chopin – Nocturnes
Vashti Bunyan – Just Another Diamond Day
The Smiths – The World Won’t Listen
Lennie Hibbert – Creation
Mindflayer – Take Your Skin Off
Shellac – At Action Park
Cabaret Voltaire – first four albums
Dmitri Shostakovich – string quartets, any of them!
Wire – first three albums + Document & Eyewitness
Francoise Hardy – The Vogue Years + La Question
Subjex – Supersonic Mezze
Bad Brains – Black Dots
Erik Satie – Piano Works
Broadcast – Work And Non-Work
The Bats – Daddy’s Highway
Delta 5 – Singles & Sessions 1979-81
Jorge Ben – Africa Brazil
Disciples of Annihilation – New York City Speedcore
Burning Star Core – Challenger
The Raincoats – Odyshape

That’s the best I could do at this ungodly hour while going over my iTunes.

Have a lot single tracks (especially funk and soul) culled from different albums and compilations, but listing those would take forever and this list is already long enough.

Not canonical, but represents some stuff i’m diggin’ on now that has slipped the rest of y’alls filters:

The Roots — Rising Down (Best hip hop album of the decade if you ask me)
The Decemberists — The Hazards of Love (The first performance of the album in its conceptual entirety is available on npr)
Arcade Fire — Neon Bible
Frank Zappa — Läther (8-sided LP that the record company split into 4 albums, release posthumously, covering perhaps the widest musical gamut of any of Zappa’s albums, and that’s saying something)
The Crystal Method — Vegas (quintessential snowboarding music, best served with cliffs and ample powder)

Woah – this is hard to pick. I bet as soon as I post this I’ll think of like 10-20 other albums.

Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
Thirst For Romance – Cherry Ghost
The Crane Wife – The Decemberists
Narrow Stairs – Death Cab For Cutie
Plans – Death Cab For Cutie
In Rainbows – Radiohead
The Bends – Radiohead
The Sound of The Smiths – The Smiths (I know it’s a best of, but all of their stuff is brilliant!!!)…same with Morrissey’s Best Of
Way To Normal – Ben Folds
A Weekend in the City – Bloc Party
Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
The Alternative to Love – Brendan Benson
Hysteria – Def Leppard

Wow, that’s a really random selection…