Your top 5 albums of all time?

Some of these may change someday, but I'm quite satisfied with my current list:

1. Rush - Signals (though Power Windows could take this spot someday...)
2. Yes - 90125
3. Genesis - Genesis (Shapes, Mama, s/t, etc.)
4. Wally Badarou - Echoes
5. The Police - Ghost in the Machine

 

1. Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
2. Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run
3. Frank Sinatra- Only The Lonely
4. Simon & Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. Patricia Barber- Modern Cool

 

It's too difficult to compare single and multi-disc releases.

Single Albums:

The Dark Side Of The Moon
Abbey Road
Let It Bleed
Who's Next
Led Zeppelin IV

Multi-disc Albums:

The Beatles
Physical Graffiti
Exile On Main Street
All Things Must Pass
The Wall

 

I can't figure out the who's next votes. These songs are so over played on the radio, I can't hear them ever again. Revolver is another head scratcher. It's too inconsistent. You got yellow submarine which is almost intolerable, an Indian raga, and some psych vamp at the end (yes the rest of the tunes are really good).

 

Counting Crows - August And Everything After

I always enjoyed the singles, specifically "Mr. Jones", but it wasn't until my cousin passed away and I heard "Rain King" at the funeral that I really became attached to the album as a whole. It's one of my go-to albums when I want to reminisce, wax nostalgic, or just get exactly what I need to hear at that moment.

Tom Petty - Wildflowers

First heard the single "You Don't Know How It Feels" when I was in sixth grade at my friend Mitch Quist's house. We would play it on loop just to hear the lyric "so let's get to the point, let's roll another joint." To be so easily amused again. It still ranks as my favorite Petty album, solo or otherwise, with She's The One a close second.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

This was a tough choice, in that I enjoy all of their output and the evolution they've experienced as a band. Some time in the early '90s, probably fourth or fifth grade, a gentleman came to my school and gave a presentation involving a synthesizer. One classmate, Jerome, was asked what his favorite band was, to which he responded with RHCP. The guy proceeded to add multiple effects to Jerome's vocal, and thus my love for synths and RHCP was born. Californication was their welcome back party for me, and especially with Frusciante back in the fold.

The Doors - Morrison Hotel

My dad introduced me to The Doors, and the first song I ever remember loving by them was "Peace Frog." My dad being from Chicago, I was intrigued by the lyric "blood in the streets in the town of Chicago." He owned all the Morrison-led albums, and I ended up with them when he passed, making the connection that much stronger. Probably my favorite band from 60s-70s to this day.

Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell

I'm counting this one as a single album, and if I'm taking these to a desert island for my last days I'll be grabbing the recent MoFi reissue with the Japanese bonus tracks. As for the choice itself, the "Wonderwall" cover is still the standout to me, with "The Shadowlands" a close second. The guitar solo in the latter really does it for me.

 

[QUOTE="Jerryb, post: [/QUOTE] Good job making all the covers line up. Not that easy to do.

 

I love Only The Lonely, glad to see it, a masterwork, will be on my list

 

The Who Quadrophenia
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
Supertramp Crime of the Century

Just outside the top 5
Meatloaf Bat Out Of Hell
Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Who Who's Next
Bruce Springsteen The Wild The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

 

Top 5 Rock

All Things Must Pass
Abbey Road
Avalon
Foxtrot
Are You Experienced

Runner Up

Sgt. Pepper
Ziggy Stardust
Aja
Crime of the Century
Peter Gabriel 3

I may have to post again for other genres

 

I think that Who's Next gets plenty of votes, simply because it's one of the greatest rock albums of all time. I would love it to be overplayed on the radio down here...even just played would be a achievement!

 

1. Sons of Soul by Tony Toni Tone
2. Sign O' the Times by Prince
3. Fresh by Sly Stone
4. Led Zeppelin III by Zeppelin
5. The Hissing of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell

 

1. Stand Up by Jethro Tull
2. The Kick Inside by Kate Bush
3. Selling England by the Pound, Genesis
4. Station to Station by David Bowie
5. Abbey Road by The Beatles

Runner Up

Animals, Pink Floyd
The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths
Close To The Edge by Yes
SF Sorrow by The Pretty Things
Duran Duran (debut) [yep]

 

The Ronettes Featuring Veronica
What's Going On ?
VU & Nico
Raw Power
Never Mind The Bollocks

 

Food Sex & Paranoia - Furniture
Hex - Bark Psychosis
LC - Durutti Column
Hatful Of Hollow - The Smiths
Metal Box - PiL

 

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - Revolver
Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Love - Forever Changes

 

the beatles - a hard days night
rolling stones - tattoo you
david bowie - heroes
bob dylan - desire
iggy pop - new values

 

* Paul Simon - "Rhythm of the Saints"
* Paul Simon - "Hearts and Bones"
* Janis Ian - "Stars"
* Janis Ian - "Between the Lines"
* ABBA - "Voulez-Vous"

This is soo unfair! I´d like to include at least ten more choices. My choices are generally the same most days, but about fifty albums alternate in being favourites. You know, some days you feel like a bit of ABBA, other days you want to go a bit deeper with a Leonard Cohen or Janis Ian album, or perhaps Bruce Cockburn, Carly Simon, Bee Gees, Elton John, Queen, ELO, Tarney Spencer Band... This is too hard!

 

Hard to narrow down from my list (that I first put together 15 or so years ago and update every few months -- currently listing 64 albums) but I can cut it down to seven (only one album per artist for this thread):


#1 BEATLES: “The White Album”

in alphabetical order:

THE DOORS: “Strange Days”

GRATEFUL DEAD: “American Beauty”

JETHRO TULL: “Benefit”

THE KINKS: “Something Else”

THE WHO: “Who’s Next”

NEIL YOUNG: “On the Beach”

.

 

In no order:
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Styx - Pieces of Eight
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

 

Station to Station - David Bowie
Odyssey an Oracle- the Zombies
Abbey Road- the Beatles
Sinatra at the Sands- Frank Sinatra
Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones

 

Tom Petty - Mojo
Melody Gardot - Worrisome Heart
Lynyrd Skynyrd _ Skynyrd's Innyrds
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century

Only five permitted then ?

 

it changes every minute

 

5 Favourites, historically seen by me:
Velvet Underground & Nico -'Velvet Underground & Nico'
Serge Gainsbourg - 'L'Histoire de Melody Nelson'
Sex Pistols - 'Never Mind the Bollocks'
Kraftwerk: 'Man-Machine'
Brian Eno/David Byrne - 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'
(James Brown should be in, but can't find the right album, he's a real singles artist)

5 Favourites, most close at my heart:
The Specials - 'The Specials'
Joy Division - 'Closer'
Lee 'Scratch' Perry - 'Super Ape'
Echo & the Bunnymen - 'Ocean Rain'
The Tindersticks - 'Curtains'
(Frank Sinatra's 'Watertown' should be in, but the list is too small)

5 Favourites, right now!:
Sugar Minott - 'Showcase'
James - 'Laid'
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - 'Push the Sky Away'
Aswad - 'Aswad'
Television - 'Marquee Moon'

 

Beatles - Revolver
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Clash - London Calling
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

 

1. Who's Next - Pete made the right choice in abandoning Lifehouse. Who's Next is perfect!
2. Born To Run - Get outta my way if I'm playing this one in the car.
3. St. Dominic's Preview - Try to not sing along with the title track. Go ahead. I dare you.
4. Let It Bleed - The Stones never sounded better.
5. Rubber Soul (American Version) - Beatles 101 - Start earning that degree now.