In my completely unscientific and unreliable count:
It looks like Radiohead (represented by 9 different people) is the most popular, followed by Bob Dylan (6).
Radiohead’s OK Computer and KID A are both represented 5 times each.
For some reason those results are not surprising.
well i think The Who does the best albums (Tommy, Who’s Next, Live at Leeds), because, besides simply having awesome songs, have a great coherence. a recent obsession is Raw Power by The Stooges
sigur rós – agaetis byrjun (1999)
the smashing pumpkins – adore (1998)
the knife – silent shout (2006)
xiu xiu – la foret (2005)
damien saez – debbies (2004)
fever ray – fever ray (2009)
bat for lashes – two suns (2009)
bear in heaven – beast rest forth mouth (2009)
bon iver – for emma, forever ago (2008)
cocteau twins – treasure (1984)
jj – nº2 (2009)
kaki king – until we felt red (2006)
kino – gruppa krovi (1988) & chernij albom (1990)
múm – finally we are no one (2002)
paavoharju – laulu laakson kukista (2008)
radiohead – kid a (2000) & in rainbows (2007)
slowdive – souvlaki (1993)
wild beasts – two dancers (2009)
death cab for cutie – transatlanticism (2003)
erik enocksson – farväl falkenberg (2006)
antony and the johnsons – i am a bird now (2005)
cocorosie – noah’s ark (2005)
moby – play (1999)
muse – showbiz (1999)
the national – high violet (2010)
cat power – the greatest (2006)
the antlers – hospice (2009)
lykke li – youth novels (2008)
Joe Budden-Mood Muzik 2
Bob Dylan- Oh Mercy
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Belle & Sebastian- If your Feeling Sinister
Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
Hunky Dory- David Bowie
Joell Ortiz- The Bodega Chronicles
The Smiths- The Queen is Dead
Nas- Illmatic
The Kinks- Lola Vs Powerman and the Moneyground
Wiz Khalifa- Kush and Orange Juice
Pixies- Surfer Rosa
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Joe Budden- Mood Muizk 3
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Axis Bold as Love
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground
At the moment:
Tom Waits—Bone Machine, Alice, Small Change, et al
The Kinks—The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Tom Ze—Estudando o Samba
Richard and Linda Thompson—Shoot Out the Lights
Wire—Pink Flag
Various—Goodbye, Babylon
Townes Van Zandt—s/t
Fela Kuti—Zombie
Kate Bush—The Dreaming
Magnetic Fields—69 Love Songs
Talking Heads—Fear of Music
John Zorn—The Circle Maker
De La Soul—3 Feet High and Rising
Pere Ubu—Dub Housing
Love—Forever Changes
Marty Robbins—Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
I played classical piano growing up but don’t listen to classical music much anymore. Still, I’m a sucker for almost anything Chopin or Debussy, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is perhaps my favorite 15 minutes of music ever slapped together.
Hey, no Radiohead OR Bob Dylan!! Does this make me original? (No.)
ADDENDUM: Holy cow, I’m listening to Pentagle’s “Basket of Light” for the first time, and it’s more than noteworthy. And I am fond of Dylan, by the way. Just haven’t been listening much lately. If I had to pick an album, though, and the Biograph compilation didn’t count, it’d be either Blood on the Tracks or Time Out of Mind.
Antics – Interpol
My Fair Lady – Original Cast Recording
David Bowie’s “Low” from his time in Berlin is also an excellent piece of work :) Though often neglected in light of his other more famous albums
Here are just a few:
Blue – Joni Mitchell
Illmatic – Nas
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Pink Moon – Nick Drake
Ametora – UA
Just Another Diamond Day – Vashti Bunyan
The Infamous – Mobb Deep
Maxinquaye – Tricky
Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards – A Silver Mt. Zion
Roman Candle – Elliott Smith
Marvin The Album – Frente
Rubber Soul – The Beatles
Grace – Jeff Buckley
Safe + Sound – Dj Quik
The Main Ingredient – Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Return Of The Mac – Prodigy of Mobb Deep
Landmark – Salyu
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic – The Sundays
Ready To Die – The Notorious B.I.G.
Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By – Lovage
Rapper’s Best Friend – The Alchemist
Greatest Hits – Bjork
Around The Fur – Deftones
Amnesiac – Radiohead
O.S.T. – People Under The Stairs
Scenes – Michael Galasso
R U Still Down? – 2pac
Lee Hazlewood trouble is a lonesome town
.O.Rang Herd of Instinct
Pierre Henry L’Apocalypse de Jean
Colin Newman Commercial Suicide
Léo Ferré Il n’y a plus rien
Captain Beefheart & his magic band Trout Mask Replica
Yo La Tengo I can hear the heart beating as one
Can Tago Mago
David Bowie Low
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Fantômas Director’s cut
Naked City Torture Garden
Miles Davis In a silent way
Manuel de Falla Noches en los jardines de España
Boredoms Super AE
Bootsy Collins What’s Bootsy doin’?
The Stooges Fun House
Nirvana In Utero
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach
NIN The Downward Spiral
Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson
Mr. Bungle California
Todd Rundgren A wizard, a true Star
The Stranglers The Raven
Betty Davis Nasty Gal
John Cale Fear
Radiohead OK Computer
Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde (directed by Karl Böhm, Bayreuth,1966)
Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the sinner lady
Autechre Tri Repetae
John Coltrane Meditations
The Congos Heart of the Congos
Venetian Snares Rossz csillag alatt született
Alice Coltrane World Galaxy
Steve Reich Drumming
Jimi Hendrix Axis, Bold as Love
Isaac Hayes To be continued
Top 5
1. Radiohead Kid A
2. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
3. Nick Drake Pink Moon
4. Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks
5. The Beatles White Album
Bruce Springsteen—Darkness on the Edge of Town and Nebraska
Neil Young and Crazy Horse—Ragged Glory
Neil Young—Freedom
The Who—Who’s Next
The Rolling Stones—Exile on Mainstreet, Let It Bleed
Steve Earle—El Corazon
Todd Snider—East Nashville Skyline & The Devil You Know
Wilco—Yankee Hotel Foxtrot & A Ghost is Born
Rodney Crowell—Fate’s Right Hand
The Replacements—_Pleased to Meet Me and Let It Be
The Beatles—Rubber Soul & Revolver
the three original officially released Jimi Hendrix albums
Bob Dylan—Highway 61 Revisited_, Blonde on Blonde
Lou Reed—New York
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
Van Morrison—Astral Weeks
Johnny Cash—At Folsam Prison
Elliot Smith—Either/Or
Death Cab for Cutie—The Photo Album
Gang of Four—Entertainment!
AC/DC—Highway to Hell
Townes Van Zandt—Live at the Old Quarter
the Minutemen—Double Nickles on a Dime
Wire—Pink Flag
U2—The Joshua Tree
Chuck Berry—The Great Twenty-Eight
Big Star—Sister Lovers/Third Album
James Brown—Live at the Apollo
Sly and the Family Stone—There’s a Riot Going On
@Apocalypse Salem
Stick Men With Ray Guns – Some People Deserve To Suffer
Captain Beefheart – Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica (because one Captain is not enough)
Suicide – Suicide
Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks – Everything
Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures (best Jazz record of all time)
Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
Fred Astaire – The Fred Astaire Story (released as Steppin’ out: Astaire Sings on CD)
Metal Urbain – Anarchy in Paris
Dwarves – Horror Stories (creepy and out of this world, later stuff would never sound this good again)
Iggy Pop – Soldier (In my opinion his best solo record, almoust every song kicks ass)
Stooges – Fun House (what a canonical choice – I know, but it’s a masterpiece)
Threepenny Opera the New Kurt Weill edition (a brilliant recording that rivals the ones with Lotte Lenya… – Nina Hagen and Max Raabe are both perfect…)
Wall Street Traitors – Dirty Little Busy People (screw the Dead Kennedys, this is the best politically charged punk band, actually know how to play their instruments as well)
Nice list.
The five most important to me:
Abbey Road – The Beatles
Marquee Moon – Television
London Calling – The Clash
A Love Supreme – John Coltrane
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Songs in the Key of Life- Stevie Wonder
It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back-Public Enemy
A Kind of Blue- Miles Davies
White Album- The Beatles
Mind’s Eye-John Lucien
Breaking Atoms- Main Source
Once Upon A Time In America-OST
No Jacket Required-Phil Collins
Invisible Touch-Genesis
It seems that I tend to love many albums from the same artists rather than an album here and there from many different artists. Anyways, my absolute favourites (no special order, just by artist):
-“Sgt. Pepper” The Beatles
-“Revolver” The Beatles
- “Let it be” The Beatles
- “Magical mystery tour” The Beatles
- “David Bowie” (self-titled)
-“Space oddity” David Bowie
-“The man who sold the world” David Bowie
-“Hunky Dory” David Bowie
-“Ziggy Stardust” David Bowie
-“Aladdin Sane” David Bowie
-" Diamond dogs" David Bowie
- "The Marble index " Nico
- “Desertshore” Nico
- “The End” Nico
- “The Drama of Exile” Nico
- “Unknown Pleasures” Joy Divsion
- " Closer" Joy Division
- “Big hits vol.2” The Rolling Stones
Maybe I should put this in “Post a song your are currently listening to” because it is something that is playing right now, coincidentally, as I came across this thread. A couple weeks ago I set the iPod to run all songs on random, no skipping, to see if I could get through all of them. Some pretty crazy stuff, almost long forgotten has come up, some of them bringing up fond memories (isn’t it crazy, and wonderful, how music can do that?).
I don’t know if I would call it my favorite album any more, but once upon a time many, many, many moons ago it most certainly was. Does anyone out there remember Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds?
I loved that thing as a kid. I would play it over and over, damn near wearing the vinyl out, and would pour over the artwork in the booklet, even copying and imitating it. A few years ago I came across a CD version of it and just had to have it after nearly forgetting about it. Some of the songs can still send shivers down my spine.
1. Blonde on Blonde – Bob Dylan
2. The White Album – The Beatles
3. Sgt. Pepper – The Beatles
4. The Basement Tapes – Bob Dylan and The Band
5. Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
6. Revolver – The Beatles
7. Live 1966 – Bob Dylan
8. Time Out Of Mind – Bob Dylan
9. Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
10. Rubber Soul – The Beatles
Mission of Burma-The Obliterati
Tom Waits-The Heart of Saturday Night (1974)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- The Good Son (1990)
Leonard Cohen-Live in London (2009)
The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground and Nico
Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Pavement- Slanted and Enchanted
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Panda Bear- Person Pitch
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Pixies- Doolittle
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
The Beatles- The White Album
Galaxie 500- On Fire
Boredoms- Vision Creation Newsun
Tom Waits- Rain Dogs
Sonic Youth- Sister
The Microphones- The Glow, pt. 2
Serge Gainsbourg- Histoire De Melody Nelson
Guided By Voices- Bee Thousand
Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Animal Collective- Sung Tongs
John Zorn- Naked City
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Radiohead- Kid A
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
Animal Collective- Feels
Radiohead- OK Computer
Television- Marquee Moon
Joanna Newsom- Ys
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
Suicide- Suicide
Souvlaki- Slowdive
In Ear Park- Department of Eagles
Loveless- My Bloody Valentine
Lost- Ela Orleans
(debut)- The B-52’s
Logos- Atlas Sound
Switched On- Stereolab
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn- Pink Floyd
Feels- Animal Collective
Time of the Last Percecution- Bill Fay
Dummy- Portishead
(debut)- Crystal Castles
Horn of Plenty- Grizzly Bear
Electric Warrior- T. Rex
uhhhh god don’t get me started i’ll never stop
my favorite record of all time though is The White Room by the KLF, no question whatsoever.
others, uh, christ, as soon as the question is posed i never remember what i love
Pulp, This Is Hardcore
the first wave of wu-tang — Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers); Method Man, Tical; GZA, Liquid Swords; Ghostface Killah, Ironman; Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…
David Bowie, Station to Station and the berlin records
any velvet underground record, ever
Throbbing Gristle, 20 Jazz Funk Greats and D.o.A.: The Third and Final Report
Rowland S Howard, Teenage Snuff Film
Miles Davis, Dark Magus and On the Corner
Spacemen 3, Playing With Fire
jesus i don’t know
Gabor Szabo – Wind, Sky And Diamonds (w/The California Dreamers)
Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen, Black Love, 1965
At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field
Björk – Homogenic, Vespertine
Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a Darkness
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Solomon Burke – Don’t Give Up on Me
Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica, Clear Spot, Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller, Doc at the Radar Station
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – From Her to Eternity, The Boatman’s Call
The Cure – Disintegration
Dirty Three – Whatever You Love, You Are
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Bob Dylan – Desire, Blood on the Tracks
Explosions in the Sky – The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
John Frusciante – Shadows Collide with People
Vincent Gallo – When
PJ Harvey – Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love, Is This Desire?, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Kristin Hersh – Sunny Border Blue
Hole – Pretty on the Inside, Live Through This, Celebrity Skin
Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising
Knife & Fork – Miserycord
Kyuss – Blues for the Red Sun, Welcome to Sky Valley
Led Zeppelin – IV
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The Downward Spiral
Nirvana – In Utero
Stina Nordenstam – Dynamite
Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa
Pearl Jam – Vs.
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Pixies – Surfer Rosa, Doolittle
Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing
Portishead – Dummy
Prince – Purple Rain
Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R, Songs for the Deaf
Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers
Slint – Spiderland
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore
Patti Smith – Gone Again
Sonic Youth – EVOL, Sister, Daydream Nation, Washing Machine
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Nebraska, Born in the USA
The Stooges – Fun House
Tricky – Maxinquaye
The Twilight Singers – Blackberry Belle, Powder Burns
X – Los Angeles
Beach House / Teen Dream
Husky Rescue / Ship of Light
Yeasayer / All Hour Cymbols
Fever Ray / Fever Ray
too many.
I feel like I just did this on here a couple months ago…? In fact, I know I did.
The KLF – Chill Out
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Curtis Mayfield – Superfly soundtrack
Virgo – Virgo
Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson
James Brown – The Payback
Joy DIvision – Unknown Pleasures
Joy DIvision – Closer
New Order – 1981-1982
(…basically anything produced by Martin Hannet)
Kraftwerk – Computer World
The Geto Boys – The Geto Boys
Nas – Illmatic
Slowdive – Souvlaki
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Flipper – Generic
Boyd Rice and Friends – Music, Martinis and Misanthropy
Also, early Autechre, FUSE – Dimension Intrusion, Aphex Twin ambient stuff, My Bloody Valentine, The Cure-Pornography
No Bob, Bruce or Radiohead for me, thanks!
I’m not going to make a list (I don’t want to do that to myself) but this is something I listened to recently and absolutely love:
Guillemots – Through The Windowpane
RUSH – Moving Pictures
Scorpions – World Wide Live
The Doors – The Doors
Steely Dan – Aja
Vangelis – Blade Runner Soundtrack
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Radiohead – OK Computer
Pearl Jam – Ten
Deep Purple – Machine Head
Journey – Escape
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Aladdin Sane, Station to Station, Hunky Dory, Low and Heroes.
Will Smit
A few of mine:
Lou Reed – Blue Mask
Bob Dylan – Live 1966
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Various – Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968
The Greenhornes – Sewed Soles
The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Clash – The Clash (US version)
Nico – Chelsea Girl
The Pixies – Doolittle