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?
my favorites would be either American Beauty by the Grateful Dead, or Supertramp: paris
American Beauty is a good one. I wish I was old enough to have seen The Grateful Dead live.
That makes two of us... I like American Beauty, but the harmonies on Workingman's Dead are incredible. That said, my favorite Dead album (also my favorite album ever) would have to be Shakedown Street.
"OK Computer" by Radiohead.
Love that album, probably my number 1 as well. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel and Radiohead's Kid A also have been known to occupy that space before.
In the Aeroplane is a fantastic album.
Beastie Boys, "Paul's Boutique."
I automatically owe Magnus another contribution on the road to 25,000.
Genesis- Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
If Jahvid Best videos are what do it for you, what's the girl in the avatar for?
Close to the Edge (I like the Lamb alot too). I saw Genesis do it in Chicago in 1975 I think. Gabriel was waxed out of his skull.
Motorhead- Ace of Spades.
Between your picks for favorite albums and your Zombi avatar, I find that I want to be your friend.
Who could ever forget a movie that features a fight between a zombie and a shark!
Finally saw it two years ago. I couldn't believe that zombie actually fought a real shark. That shark was pissed.
"GODDAMN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN" by Formerly Anonymous.
Other than that, I'd say "Thriller" by pre-nutcase Michael Jackson, "Nevermind" by pre-suicide Nirvana, and "Master of Puppets" by pre-sellout Metallica.
Death Magnetic is incredible.
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
maybe the kinks, village green preservation society or lola versus powerman. the kinks have always been way underrated
Sublime
Appetite for Destruction.
Agreed it's "Appetite For Destruction" !!
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
It's the picture in my avatar.
I'm not the kind of guy who plays favorites, but this has easily been my all-time favorite record for close to ten years now. Nothing else comes remotely close.
Who the hell negs for GY!BE ?!
"I Get Wet," Andrew W.K.
I think i could just look at the cover for a week straight and laugh myself silly
any rap lovers here? "The Chronic" - Dr. Dre
2pac- All Eyes on Me
The Chronic revolutionized hip hop as we know it,. For that, it's hard to beat - especially compared to GangStarr.
NWA and all its offspring (The Chronic obiously) and Wu-Tang took gangsta rap mainstream. Hard to argue against better rap albums unless it's coming from Tupac, Biggie, Nas, or Jay-Z.
Lil Wayne is probably the best rapper right now, because his mix tapes are so unbelievable. That being said, anyone who tells me The Carter (I, II, or III) is the best rap album ever made gets no credibility.
Gangstarr are the fathers of hip hop as we know it.
I would have to agree with All Eyez On Me. That's an amazing album.
I was thinking either "The Chronic" or Tupac's "All Eyez on Me"
The best 40 minutes in the history of hip hop.
"you couldn't catch me in the the streets without a ton of reefer; that's like malcolm x catchin the jungle fever"
"the smooth criminal on beat breaks; never put me in yo box if yo shit eats tapes"
"i used ta watch CHIPS now I load gloc clips"
I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child-Manchester Orchestra
Are You Experienced-Jimi
Vampire Weekend-Vampire Weekend
The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory-Tupac
I know that's four, but its so hard to pick just one. I still listen to these at least once a month or so.
Avi Buffalo. One of my "new" favorites
Thanks. The studio version of this song is sweet. Very interesting to see it performed like this. I kinda like the ucla shirt too for some reason. Nada surf vs. Avi Buffalo? Everybody wins.
Is This It - The Strokes
I can remember all the hype for The Strokes when they were touring the U.K and Europe. Sounds like a genius recipe for US success: tour Europe for a year, come out with an album and finally release it to the states. One of the few American bands that I totally look forward to when I hear of a new album coming out. Hell, their guitarist's dad wrote "it never rains in Southern California"!
...would be The Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East. The renditions of Whipping Post, Statesboro Blues and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed remain all time classics. Duane Allman is an all star member of that sad club of musicians who died young. Allman died in 1971 and to this day Eric Clapton calls him the greatest guitar player he ever heard.
I'd take Zeppelin's "How the West was Won". I'm a big blues fan, and they play a lot of classic blues in that concert, John Lee Hooker songs, etc. as well as a great rendition of my favorite song "Over the Hills and Far Away"
But yeah, allman brothers are great too, favorite allman song is "one way out"
That rendition of "Down at the Whipping Post" is by far one of the best live versions of a song on an album ever. The only one I think that I can say is better would be Bob Seger "Traveling Man/Beautiful Loser"
Colors by Between the Buried and Me.
Favorite album is the first Better Than Ezra album, Deluxe. Play it on a warm and sunny mid-to-late spring Friday after work or your last class of the day,
Second favorite: War by U2. Along with a few songs off of October, that album feels like the soundtrack to a romanticized version of World War III if it had broken out in the '80s. Weird, but that's how I picture it.
its a toss up between So Long and Thanks For All the Shoes by NoFx, Milo Goes to College by the Descendents and Duh by Lagwagon
NoFX is my favorite band, and So Long... is my favorite album of theirs.
I quit drinking for a few months after my first MIP (of two), and the song "Quart in Session" got me through some tough/lame times.