OT: Lazy Sunday - Favorite Album of all Time
Yet another "favorite (insert whatever)" discussion I thought could be interesting and maybe enlightening to the music fans we have around here. What is your favorite album of all time? I have to say "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd. I can't say that any individual song is among my top 10 or 20 but the album as a whole is a masterpiece. The organization of the album is perfect. It flows so well it sounds like one 50 minute song. Fantastic. "The White Album" by The Beatles is another great one. What does everyone think?
Good choice.
I just took a listen to this for the first time. Great stuff....thanks for mentioning them!
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Can't beleive it wasn't the first Rap album mentioned.
by Soundgarden is my all time favorite. Nirvana, Guns and Roses, and Pearl Jam are the most talked about bands from that period and they were all great but Superunknown by Soundgarden was just so good.
Notorius B.I.G.- Ready To Die. No question.
I think I like Life After Death even better.
What's an album? I steal all my music from the inter webs.
an album is a group of 10-20 songs that you steal all at once
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
Is This Is - The Strokes
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
Other than the o/p, no love for them. I'll bite and go with Revolver.
Live? Springsteen 75-85. Can't be beat.
Overall? Master of Puppets.
I'll go with Darkness On the Edge of Town.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there isn't a straight-up bad track on that album. Excellent choice.
that was one of their weaker albums. I am a fan of the earlier stuff.
Brand New- Deja Entendu
The way that album flows from song to song is simply beautiful. Definitely their best, and one of the best of the last decade.
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I'd argue that "A Saturday Tradition" blows that out of the water. Too bad it's not on iTunes--bastards.
Touchdown USA does feature the greatest band and greatest song in the universe on it, but it has tOSU's fight song on it too.
It's like Metallica's version of "Turn the Page". You don't know whether to sit back and enjoy, or hurtle yourself off the nearest cliff.
A Michigan blog and no love for RUSH? Canada's finest export?
Stompin' Tom Connors and Neil Young would argue with you. Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps is one of my favs
You are correct, Neil Young/ Steve Yzerman are Canada's finest exports.
I like Tonight's the Night.
Outkast - Stankonia
Tribe Called Quest-The Low End Theory
Went up in smoke one night in Wrigley Field...
Third Eye Blind's self titled album. Every song on it is great, but Semi Charmed Life and Motorcycle Drive By are my favorite ones.
Lots of good times my last year of school while listening to that CD. Of course, 'Graduate' was pretty timely :)
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
Van Halen - Van Halen
Infinity - Journey
Or maybe I'm like way older than I think...
Let's go with top 10, pretty much tied for number 1:
1. John Hartford: Steam Powered Aereoplane (not to be confused w/ Aeroplane over the Sea, which is in my top 20 or so)
2. Blind Melon: self titled
3. Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy
4. Bob Dylan (w/ The Band): Planet Waves
5. Pink Floyd: The Final Cut
6. Drive By Truckers: Pizza Deliverance (though everything else is top 50 if not 20)
7. Radiohead: The Bends
8. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Whiskeytown: All tied...can't pick one
10. Weakerthans: Reconstruction Site
Reconstruction Site changed my life for the better. I also really like Reunion Tour but Reconstruction Site......Holy crap every song on that album was amaizing. Easily my favorite album of all time.
Yeah, good to see your enthusiasm reflected by your avatar.
I was actually slightly let down by Reunion Tour, but it's really because I thought all their previous albums were pure gold. Will have to come back to it and see whether it's grown on me. I recently got the new live album and dvd...absolutely stellar.
I've noticed that as I've grown older, I've kind of grown away from Fallow and Left and Leaving. Not saying that they're not great albums because they most definetly are. My Favorite Chords is still one of my all time favorite songs. Reunion Tour kind of called out to the grown up version of me.
Respect for the Okkervil River/DBT mention.
Asbury Park is pretty close ot a top 10 album for me.
Don't know if you're into this type of thing, but I've been obsessed w/ the new Titus Andronicus. They sound like Bruce with a punk style and attitude. Kinda similar to Ted Leo, who does sort of a similar thing and is also awesome, imhe.
I give you five because as the mood changes... My top five, an eclectic mix... Manu Chao Clandestino, Terry Allen Lubbock on Everything, the Beastie Boys Hello Nasty, Metallica Black Album and Live Throwing Copper.
A Few of my Favorites:
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Live at the Roxy - Bob Marley
Nevermind - Nirvana
Sublime - Sublime
Illmatic - Nas
Pink Floyd - Animals
Sheep might be my single favorite track of any kind of all time.
Your avatar says differently.
Meddle is probably #2.
Hey TOB, (or any other Floyd fans) Are you going to see Waters play The Wall Live this fall? Should be an amazing show. Already have my tickets for the palace, but it seems like there are quite a few Floyd fans on the board and was interested if others are going as well.
and the "Flaming Lips" are also playing dark side of the moon from beginning to end. Then we get to check out Stevie Wonder, Les Claypool, Jay-Z, Michael Franti, Medeski Martin & Wood, and many other bad-ass bands...
There are albums that I dig, like Definately Maybe by Oasis or Is This It? by The Strokes or Absolution by Muse, but when it comes to the question of "Favorite Album" I think of an album I can listen to back to front and would recommend others to do the same. That album, for me, is Our Lady Peace's "Spiritual Machines". If you dig old Our Lady Peace (pre-Gravity), then this one is highly recommended. Hell, I think you could probably find all the songs on youtube these days. Pure songwriting genius.
was like a hint at something big that was about to happen, except it didn't. That guitarist left to go play with Pete Yorn, and then they kinda sold out. But yeah, lose all the author reading his work excerpts throughout the album and just take it all in for what it is, and it's a pretty great album.
Strokes, of course, were probably my single biggest interest in music in the last decade.