Another off Topic/Your Favorite Albums
Band on the Run-Wings
Skylarking- XTC
Imaginos- BOC
Revenge – TSOL
EXpress – Love and Rockets
See How we are – X
oooops
Queen is the Dead- Smiths
Blue Mask- Lou Reed
Farewell Andromeda- John Denver
FRom Genesis to REvelation – Genesis
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew, Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, Live-Evil
Thelonious Monk-Monk’s Dream, Underground, Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1&2, At Carnegie Hall
Tool-Aenima, Lateralus, Undertow
Soundgarden-Superunknown
Mogwai-Ten Rapid, Young Team
Weezer- Blue Album, Pinkerton
Primus-Pork Soda, Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Tom Waits-Rain Dogs, Bone Machine, Frank’s Wild Years, Alice, Blood Money, Orphans
GZA-Liquid Swords
Kev Brown-I Do What I Do
Getz/Gilberto
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins-Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie
The Lounge Lizards
Guitar Paradise of East Africa
Toe-The Book About My Idle Plot on A Vague Anxiety
John Zorn-Spillane, The Circle Maker, Film Works III, Masada: live in Sevilla
Charles Mingus-Blues and Roots, The Clown, New Tijuana Moods, The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady
Fugazi-13 Songs, The Argument
At The Drive-In -Relationship of Command
Explosions in the Sky-The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Lester Young With the Oscar Petersen Trio
Scientifik-Criminal
Artifacts-Between a Rock and Hard Place
Large Professor-The LP
Pete Rock and CL Smooth-Mecca and the Soul Brother
A Tribe Called Quest-Midnight Marauders
Showbiz & AG-Runaway Slave, Good Fellas
Big L-Lifestylez ov da Poor an Dangerous
Yano
P.O.T.
Eraserheads-Circus, Cutterpillow
Ed O.G-Roxbury 02119
Eric Dolphy-Out To Lunch
Ornette Coleman-The Shape of Jazz To Come
Slint-Spiderland
Orion Rigel Domisse-What I Want From You is Sweet
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party-Devotional and Love Songs
My Bloody Valentine-Loveless
Rage Against The Machine-rage against the machine, Evil Empire
Brian Eno-Music for Airports
Del Tha Funky Homosapien-No Need for Alarm
Nine Inch Nails-The Fragile
Minutemen-Double Nickels on the Dime
Tortoise-Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Blood on the Tracks OR Desire – Bob Dylan
Elvis Presley – The Complete Sun Sessions
Bruce Springsteen – The River
Nuggets – Various Artists
The Sonics – Here are the Sonics
The Clash – London Calling
The Kinks – Lola Vs. Powerman
The Police – Outlandos D’Amour
pretty much every david bowie album
pet sounds -the beach boys
sunflower -the beach boys
Initials B.B.-Serge Gainsbourg
Historie de Melody Nelson-Serge Gainsbourg
Forever Changes-Love
Prayers on Fire-The Birthday Party
Court and Spark-Joni Mitchell
Mona Bone Jakon-Cat Stevens
Songs of Love and Hate-Leonard Cohen
Rid of Me-PJ Harvey
Some Girls-The Rolling Stones
Oddessey and Oracle-The Zombies
Let it Bleed-The Rolling stones
The Madcap Laughs-Syd Barret
Tommy-The Who
A Quick One-The Who
quadrophenia-the who
Who’s Next-The Who
Acid Tounge-Jenny Lewis
all the Cowboy Bebop OST
The Zombies are excellent.
I think The Zombies took Bunny Lake.
The Velvet Underground & Nico
I just found out that Jay Bennett died. Wilco was so much better with him. One of my favorite albums is Mermaid Avenue Volume 1. Jay played a big part in that. RIP, Jay.
Arise-Sepultura
1. The Zombies- Odessey and Oracle
2. Joszy and His Orchestra- Gypsy Passion
3. Alexander Spence- Oar
4. The Brown Bunny Soundtrack
5. Charles Mingus- Mingus Plays Piano
6. The Beatles- The White Album
7. This Heat- This Heat
8. Bobby Beausoleil- Lucifer Rising
9. Vincent Gallo- When
10. YES- Tales from Topographic Oceans
11. Jandek- Chair Beside a Window
12. The Velvet Underground- White Light/ White Heat
13. Syd Barett- The Madcap Laughs
14. Anita O’ Day- All the Sad Young Men
15. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
16. Charles Manson- LIE
17. Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley
18. Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
19. Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
20. George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
@ Grey Daisies: We park our cars in the same garage. With a couple of tweaks, that could easily be my list. I was just driving around today (I seem to enjoy music the most in my car—anyone else?) thinking about how much I love love love The Talking Heads.
My favorite Doors album is still their first. I’ve had Experience with that one.
Some great taste being exhibited here… I’ll chime in with 3 favourites from the canon..
Revolver
Exile On Main Street
Blood On The Tracks
and some I haven’t seen (unless I missed them?)
Sins Of The Father – Andy Prieboy
Apple Venus Vol 1 – XTC
Zuma – Neil Young
Time (The Revelator) – Gillian Welsh
Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon
Paul Simon – Paul Simon
The Band – The Band
I hate you Jay Bennett haters. The guy way HUGELY responsible for the playing and arrangements on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, not to mention Being There and Summerteeth. Sure, he was annoying, but he was an incredible musician and arranger.
As the guy with by far the coolest taste here, I’m shocked, shocked that noone has picked
Kazakh kyl-kobyz
Bitches Brew – Miles Davis
Fun House – The Stooges
Beggar Banquet – Rolling Stones
Freedom – Neil Young
Ultraglide in Black – The Dirtbombs
The Best of Nina Simone – Nina Simone
BB – Brigitte Bardot
The Sun Sessions – Elvis Presley
I Know You Fine, but How You Doin’ – The Gories
Greatest Hits – Artie Shaw
Drama of Exile – Nico
Midnight Blue – Kenny Burrell
Mali’s where it’s at.
Let It Bleed is my favorite album. It is just so damn consistent. Every song rocks, and about half of them are masterpieces.
Here’s the great great Amalia Rodrigues:
a classic from Brazil:
Al final de este viaje / Días y flores (SILVIO RODRÍGUEZ)
Led Zeppelin IV
Meddle / Animals / The Wall (PINK FLOYD)
Unknown Pleasures (JOY DIVISION)
Tales of Mystery & Imagination (THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT)
Canciones del solar de los aburridos (RUBÉN BLADES & WILLIE COLÓN)
Bocanada (GUSTAVO CERATI)
El amor después del amor (FITO PÁEZ)
Key Lime Pie / Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweethearts (CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN)
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Goo / Sister / A Thousand Leaves (SONIC YOUTH)
Ritual de lo habitual / Nothing’s Shocking (JANE’S ADDICTION)
Un Homme et une Femme / The English Patient / The Lord of the Rings / Rebecca (Soundtracks)
19 días y 500 noches / Física y química / Esta boca es mía (JOAQUÍN SABINA)
Bug (DINOSAUR JR.)
Ride the Lightning (METALLICA)
Piece of Mind / Powerslave (IRON MAIDEN)
The Album / Voulez-Vous / The Visitors (ABBA)
Permanent Waves / Moving Pictures (RUSH)
Autoamerican (BLONDIE)
Machine Head (DEEP PURPLE)
Abbey Road / The White Album (THE BEATLES)
Amnesiac / In Rainbows (RADIOHEAD)
The Good, the Bad and the Queen (THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE QUEEN)
Debut (BJÖRK)
The Nutcracker / The Swan Lake / Romeo & Juliet (TCHAIKOVSKY)
Carnival of the Animals (SAINT-SAENS)
Capriccio espagnol (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV)
La Mer (DEBUSSY)
O espiritu do mar – MADREDEUS
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless, Isn’t Anything, Ep’s
Jawbreaker – All Albums
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation, Evol, Sister, Sonic Death
Husker Du – Zen Arcade, Metal Circus, New Day Rising
Black Flag – Damaged, First Four Years
Bailter Space – Robot World
Versus – Hurrah
Fucked Up – Hidden Worlds, Chemistry of Common Life
Vivian Girls – S/T
Jay Reatard – Blood Visions
Replacements – Sorry Ma, Tim
Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me, S/T, Bug
Velvet Underground and Nico – S/T
Swirlies – All Albums/Eps
Astrobrite – Super Crush
Electro Group – Good Technology
Psychedelic Furs – S/T
MF Doom – All Albums
Tribe Called Quest – Anthology
Dj Shadow- Entroducing…
Wu Tang – 36 Chambers
Digable Planets – Blowout Comb
Elliott Smith – All Albums
Philip Glass – Glass Works, North Star
Gyorgy Ligeti – All Albums
Sun Ra – Atlantis
Corrupted – All Albums/Ep’s
Amebix – Beginning of the End/No Sanctuary
Entombed – Left Hand Path
Sunn O))) – Black One
Earth – Hex
The Kinks – Lola, Something Else by the Kinks
Neil Young – Zuma, S/T, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Blah, blah, blah…
“The White Room” by the KLF.
And then some others, but that’s the key one.
Thrice – vheissu
Interpol – Turn on the bright lights
Incubus – Morning View
Sigur Ros – Takk…
Radiohead – Kid A
Mogwai – Mr Beast
Thrice – The Alchemy Index: volumes 1 -4
Tool – Lateralus
Opeth – Black Water Park
The Cure – Pornography
I am really impressed by practically everyones lists. We all have very fine taste. =)
Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings – Louis Armstrong
It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest – The Fugs
L’Intégrale – Edith Piaf
Get The Picture – The Pretty Things
Lady Day : The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia
We’re Only In It For The Money – Mothers/Zappa
Aftermath – The Rolling Stones
The Best Of Mississippi John Hurt (Vanguard)
The Complete Decca Masters – Judy Garland
Are You Experienced? – Jimi Hendrix Experience
Rubber Soul – The Beatles
Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Elvis Presley (1956) – Elvis Presley
Yardbirds (UK, 1966) – The Yardbirds
The Essential Amalia Rodrigues
Fresh Cream – Cream
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison
Pour Down Like Silver – Richard And Linda Thompson
Alphabetical, with one album per artist limit
The Animal Years by Josh Ritter
Atlantis: Hymns 4 the Disco by K-os
Avalanche by Matthew Good
Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
Dear Science by TV on the Radio
The Eraser by Thom Yorke
Funeral by Arcade Fire
I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning by Bright Eyes
In Rainbows by Radiohead
The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse
White Album by The Beatles
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by WIlco
Wait, what is that i spied, The Essential Amalia Rodrigues, chosen by Akira! Oh someone else here has seen the light, this is a surprise.
Grey Daisies
Faith · Pornography
– by The Cure
Closer · Unknown Pleasures
– by Joy Division
Warsaw
- by Warsaw
Script of the Bridge · Strange Times
– by The Chameleons
Algorythmes · Restructuration
– by Charles de Goal
Burning From The Inside · In The Flat Field
– by Bauhaus
The Scream
– by Siouxsie and The Banshees
Garlands
- by Cocteau Twins
Dead Can Dance
- by Dead Can Dance
Entertainment!
– by Gang Of Four
Children Of God · Soundtracks For The Blind
– by Swans
Low · Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
– by David Bowie
The Stooges
- by Iggy & The Stooges
D.o.A: The Third and Final Report
- by Throbbing Gristle
Here Come the Warm Jets
- by Brian Eno
Radio-Activity · Kraftwerk 1 & 2
– by Kraftwerk
Black Celebration · Some Great Reward
– by Depeche Mode
Movement · Substance
– by New Order
KOLLAPS · Halber Mensch
– by Einstürzende Neubauten
Liaisons Dangereuses
- by Liaisons Dangereuses
Generation Terrorists · The Holy Bible
– by Manic Street Preachers
Siamese Dream · Mellon Collie & The Infinite
– by The Smashing Pumpkins
Pretty Hate Machine · The Downward Spiral
– by Nine Inch Nails
Mutiny/The Bad Seed
– by The Birthday Party
From Her To Eternity · Murder Ballads
– by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Horses
- by Patti Smith
Lounge Lizards
– by The Lounge Lizards
“Everything”
- by Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
Confusion Is Sex
- by Sonic Youth
Talking Heads: 77
- by Talking Heads
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
- by Devo
Suicide
- by Suicide
Mesh and Lace
- by Modern English
Desire
- by Tuxedomoon
The Queen Is Dead · Louder Than Bombs
– by The Smiths
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
– by The Beatles
The Doors · Strange Days
– by The Doors
The Velvet Underground & Nico · White Light/White Heat
– by The Velvet Underground
The Marble Index · Desertshore
- by Nico
Placebo · Without You I’m Nothing
– by Placebo
Gus Van Sant · 18 Songs About Golf
– by Gus Van Sant
When
- by Vincent Gallo
Fabulous Muscles
- by Xiu Xiu
John & Jehn
- by John & Jehn