Best albums ever - What are your favorites?

[Regit]

This conversation was going on in another forum and I enjoy hearing favorites of people on things like music.

So what, to you, are the greatest albums (compilations included) ever recorded?



I've thought of these so far, but I'll likely add some more later:



Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
The Beatles - The Beatles
Negotiations and Love Songs - Paul Simon
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
Queen - Greatest Hits

[Aslkahuna]

Got to have Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd on that list.

Steve

[conestogo_flood]

The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Love
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel

[j]

I second DSOM for #1 - hands down.

In keeping with theme albums, I'll put Yes - Close To The Edge as a close 2nd.

[Janie2006]

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

The Clash - London Calling

[gtalum]

Metallica - Metallica

[Miss Mary]

Ditto on albums mentioned. Here's one I about wore out. God, I loved this album!

Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything

http://www.amazon.com/Something-Anythin ... B0000032WL

My teenage daughters tell me that for their generation, music is often purchased individually, on iTunes for example, and the whole concept about favorite album isn't the same as it was for say my generation (baby boomers). We bought an album and carried it out of the store, clutched to our chests sometimes. A coveted purchase. Went home, straight to our bedroom and played it non-stop. You shut that door and you were at peace. With your favorite music.

Geez, now I sound sooooo old! Reminds me of that scene in Almost Famous, near the end with the young boy wearing headphones. Lost in the music. LOL

Mary

[Regit]

Ditto on albums mentioned. Here's one I about wore out. God, I loved this album!

Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything

http://www.amazon.com/Something-Anythin ... B0000032WL

My teenage daughters tell me that for their generation, music is often purchased individually, on iTunes for example, and the whole concept about favorite album isn't the same as it was for say my generation (baby boomers). We bought an album and carried it out of the store, clutched to our chests sometimes. A coveted purchase. Went home, straight to our bedroom and played it non-stop. You shut that door and you were at peace. With your favorite music.

Geez, now I sound sooooo old! Reminds me of that scene in Almost Famous, near the end with the young boy wearing headphones. Lost in the music. LOL

Mary

It's a shame that it's not like this anymore.

Though the way that songs are purchased now really isn't the doing of this generation, it's the doing of record companies that became incapable of putting out an album that you could actually listen to.

It's to the point that maybe once a year an album is good enough that you can listen to it all. During the late 90's, record stores were full of $20 singles and little else.

I can think of 100 great albums from the 60's. I can't think of 10 from the last decade.

[weathermom]

And the album cover art was part of the whole experience.

Now it is just going on the computer and putting stuff on the mp3 player.

I can't really say as to my favorite, it depends on the mood I am in when I am listening. Dark Side of the Moon is definitely one of the top.

[angelwing]

DOSM hands down.

Days of Future Passed-Moody Blues (love Nights in White Satin)

[Regit]

I agree DSOM is great. Wouldn't be my #1 though. I'd also put Sgt. Pepper's in there.

[Yankeegirl]

Bon Jovi- Slippery When Wet
The Killers- Sams Town (I think thats the name of the cd)
Heart-Heart
Depeche Mode- 101
The Cure- Standing on the Beach
and sooooo many more I just cant think of.....

[Meso]

Sex Pistols` Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
Depeche Mode's Black Celebration
Sex Gang Children Medea

[kevin]

Dark Side of the Moon
Robbin' the Hood - Sublime
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
Night Moves - Bob Seger

Uh those are some of my favorites.

[Opal storm]

Man I probably have over 100 favorite albums,I love music a lot.I will narrow it down to albums I've most listened to and mean the most to me.

Rush of Blood To The Head-Coldplay (my most favorite album and band of all time.They make a lot of songs I can relate to a lot,and the music is just amazing)

X&Y-Coldplay
No Name Face-Lifehouse
The Singles 92-98-The Verve
Hybrid Theory-Linkin Park
The Beautiful Letdown-Switchfoot
The Best of Jimi Hendrix-Jimi Hendrix
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb-U2
Cracked Rear View-Hootie & The Blowfish

[coriolis]

The Clash - Their first album
Green Day - American Idiot
Velvet Underground with Nico
Yessongs
Led Zeppelin I
Bevis Frond - Triptych
Thd Doors - LA Woman
The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
Niel Young - Decade
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Who's Next
DSOM
The Replacements - Let It Be
Frampton Comes Alive
Boston
What's Shakin (a very old compilation of Eric Clapton playing with some of the old old Blues legends.)

[harshrealm]

DM, New Order, Madonna, Christina Aguilera by Xtina, Thriller by MJ, Britney Spears - Oops I Did it Again, Not too late - Norah Jones. But who needs albums? We can get the good songs just one at a time or watch them whenever we want on Googtube! Makes life much easier... Awesome!

[Stephanie]

"Frampton Comes Alive" - Peter Frampton
"Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zeppelin
"Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd
"Abbey Road" - The Beatles
"Boston" - Boston
"Quadrophenia" - The Who
"Who's Next?" - The Who
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - The Beatles
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John

For all of you James Taylor lovers out there, may I suggest "James Taylor, Live in Concert". It's a double cd and it plays, IMHO, every one of his best songs. "Country Road" is outstanding.

[pojo]

Dark Side Of The Moon is by far my #1....
Days of the New (yellow) - Days of the New
Beautiful Letdown - Switchfoot
A1A - Jimmy Buffett
A Different Kind Of Pain - Cold
American Idiot - Green Day
Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed

[Aslkahuna]

Dark Side of the Moon is a concept album making it difficult to separate the songs though Money and Time have been singles.

Steve