What's everyone's all time favorite album?
Mine has to be one I've been listening to since it came out in '73, and I never get tired of it.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Close seconds are Neil Young - Decade, Nirvana's Nevermind
and Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick.

Oh gosh thats hard


Pearl Jam - Ten Definitly one.
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon.
Metallica -Live (i forget the rest)

Newer ones

Nickleback - The long road
Chevelle - Wonder whats next

I think thats it for now. :D

that's too hard CAL
Animals for P Floyd:D

For jazz it'd have to be the Bill Evans Trio, Live at the Village Vanguard.
For Rock, tough call ............Floyd animals, or the Stones Let it Bleed.

Charles Mingus---The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady:D great great album.

just one FAVORITE album is hard! here are some that i just never get sick of listening to...

"40 oz to Freedom" - Sublime
"Korn" - Korn
"blood, sugar, sex, magik" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Aenima" - Tool
"ride the lightning" - Metallica
"ready to die" - Notorious B.I.G. (one of the BEST rap albums of all time!)

i know i'll think of more.

A Charlie Moore Christmas

Rock:

1- Jimi Hendryx - Electric Ladyland or Axis

2. SRV - Any of 'em

Jazz? Tough one, Billy Cobham - 'Picture This' , or maybe Milt Jackson...let me think on that one.

How could I forget. I am not being pretentious on this one---Beethovens middle period and late period string quartets. Laugh all you want, point you finger and make fun of me, I don't care. These are some of the great works of music in the Western World. Great Snelling and reel cleaning music----or just finest kind music for the mind.. :)

I have a lot of favorites, here are some that I always seem to go back to


The Who - Quadrophenia (listening to it right now)
Boston - Boston
Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare
Pink Floyd - The Wall (Dark Side of the Moon a close 2nd)
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings (their best album IMO)
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker
Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out at Night
Humble Pie - Smokin

Hey, gf, you cultured individual you. I had no idea. :p

Yeah, I like a little of that long-haired stuff too, I just don't have very much of it other than 'greatist hits' Vivaldi, Chopin, and the B and B's - (Ludwig von and JS). Come to think of it I've got Water Music, too. Other than Flight of the Valkyries I can't think of any Wagner that does much for me - although I don't tell my wife that (who is German-American).

I got so many CD's now I sometimes forget what I've got stuffed away in the racks.

funny thing slingha, stopped by a local tavern and animals was on the jukebox and playing.

HOW CAN ANYONE PICK JUST ONE????

i'm kinda in the same group as dad fisherman cept i might add

lynard skynard- one more from the road
led zepplin- physical graffitti

this one is kinda out there, guess you had to be there
genisis -invisable touch

Can't pick just one.

Led Zep... I-V, Phys Graph.,How the West WW. on and on........
Pink Floyd.. Animals, Welcome to the machine, dark side, meddle
Beatles... White Album

Some lesser knowns
Dishwalla-Pet your friends
Tonic- Lemon Parade
Stereo MC's-Connected

Eat A Peach

the white album
Sgt Pepper
dark side of the moon
Todd Rundgren Todd
metallica black album
Jesus Christ super star

and the beat goes on and on and on ........................

Pink Floyd - Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, the Wall, Meddle, David Gilmour's 1st solo album...

Post Syd Barrett...


Great Stuff!

Allman Brothers--"Live at the Fillmore East". Especially the newly released "bonus" version that has all of the live cuts from Eat a Peach on it :D

Dark side of the Moon - far and away for me but I also like Pulse as it includes that and a lot of the other goodies plus RW's solo stuff and all Floyd post Waters as well. There was too much talent there to rest in one piece.

Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits

Most older Springsteen

Led Zep 4

Most of the above... plus..
The Who "Live at Leeds" (new version)

I'm glad to see "Fillmore" show up on this list-mine as well. An incredible band having one of their best nights ever and the truck was there to get it. There are tons of live recordings out there, but none come close to that one.
Picking 3 or 4 albums is easy-come on, pick ONE. Gets a little harder, eh?

Pink Floyd- Wish you were here Nirvana- Nevermind, Elvis Costello- Pump it up all time favorite THE CLASH-LONDON CALLING

Originally posted by Crafty Angler


Yeah, I like a little of that long-haired stuff too, I just don't have very much of it other than 'greatist hits' Vivaldi, Chopin, and the B and B's - (Ludwig von and JS).

See all the good stuff is long haired music . im game for some 5th and 7th symphony maybe a little Jean Luc Ponty or jeff lorber for some jazz .

hmmmmmmm...... lots of Floyd fans..... gave them up when i gave up :smokin:

The Stones " Get your Ya-Yas out."
Mountin
Humble Pie
Deep Purple
Ted Nugent
Bob Marley
Peter Tosh

Darkside of the moon
Zepplin box set.
Joe Cocker live
Rattle n hum

Thats a crazy question, shoulda put an S on the end;)

But then again I like the group "18 Foot Lund."

Forgot all about the Motor City Madman

Double Live Gonzo - Awesome album

Plus I could probably think of a hundred more....But if i could only have one it would probably be The Who - Quadrophenia....that album just out and out Rocks

Originally posted by t.lapinski
hmmmmmmm...... lots of Floyd fans..... gave them up when i gave up :smokin:

I see you stopped smoking and lost your taste for music too ! LOL

I dont like rap , disco , country , western or irish music ( the last 3 are the same )

Back home from work, adding to the list.
For living composers I think much of John Adams work is first rate; he's American, which is rare in this field. Harmonium, a choral work by him, is well worth having.

Debussy orchestral music is a must have.

Mahlers Ninth, a massive two CD piece, that'll blow the soul apart is highly recommended. I'd get the one conducted by Karajan, which Grammophone has on CD.

J.S. Bach---Cantatas 170, 82, 159. Get the one with Janet Baker singing. Her voice is hauntingly beautiful, even though I understand zero German.

Here are three for Lapinski. I don't want him to think I'm a weirdo. Both Chemical Brothers albums 'Dig Your Own Hole' and 'Surrender,' are great for a heavy electronica sound. And Roni Size 'Reprazent,' which is, in my opinion, the greatest drum-and- bass album ever recorded.

I have pretty diverse taste in music...here are my favorite album(s):

Led Zeppelin: Houses of The Holy
AC/DC: Back In Black
Ozzy Osbourne: Speak of The Devil
Black Sabbath: Heaven & Hell
Jimi Hendrix: Smash Hits

Dead Kennedies: Fresh Fruits For Rotting Vegetables

New Order: Substance

Billy Joel: Greatest Hits 1973-1997

George Winston: December

Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #3. Soloist Vladimir Ashkenazy with Kirill Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. March 1963 recording. NOT fireworks, just pure artistry. I have three copies of this work, one set on unopened vinyl.

Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Sonata #2 (Op. 36). Vladimir Horowitz, recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 1980. Un-friggin believable fireworks.

A few others, but that should do it...

I could start a whole new thread on my favorite SINGLES of all-time...

-WW

FWW---New Order, I'm still a sucker for that '80s stuff. Got to love the Smiths "Hateful of Hollow" Morrissey has got a voice. Plenty of dark lyrics to boot.

1- Beach Boys Pet sounds
2- Eagles Hotel California
3- Eagles Hell Freezes Over
4 -Billy Joel Any album
5- Allman Brothers Any album
6- Beatles Abbey Road
7- Pink floyd Dark side of the moon
8- Aja Steely Dan
9- James Taylor Greatest hits
10- Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash
Kenny Rogers - 20 Greatest Hits
Matchbox 20 - Mad Season
and just about anything by Frank Sinatra

i forgot to add Primus to my list. i have "Pork Soda" on the cd player right now at work. :)

Originally posted by goosefish
FWW---New Order, I'm still a sucker for that '80s stuff. Got to love the Smiths "Hateful of Hollow" Morrissey has got a voice. Plenty of dark lyrics to boot.

John,

To be honest, I only started liking the late 80's early 90's English stuff when I was spinning these singles at a nighclub (did my own mix show). Stuff with 120 bpm (beats per minute) that could be beat mixed - like New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, etc.

Never really go into the darker side of the then "alternative" stuff (too collegey). I never liked Morrisey - not b/c his music is so "gay" so to speak but very repetitive. I never heard so many major thirds in so many songs in the same key! :yak:

Sounds like we were doing the same thing during those years Ben!...

Club Jockeying was nuts!... especially during those days!

Many women in them days! = many problems!...

N`uff said...

Don, women weren't on the radar screen at the time. :laughs:

I was addicted to 12 inch vinyl singles. Had a subscription to the DJ Times and the now-defunct Dance Music Report. That was like Penthouse to me. Record pools up the ying-yang. Had to get a larger van just to accommodate all my mobile equipment when I wasn't doing club gigs. I spent most of my time mixing up tracks in my bedroom. My clothes reeked of fog machine juice. My club lighting doubled for my study lamp. :hihi: :sick: :bc:

Originally posted by fishweewee
Don, women weren't on the radar screen at the time. :laughs:

I was addicted to 12 inch vinyl singles. Had a subscription to the DJ Times and the now-defunct Dance Music Report. That was like Penthouse to me.

Music mags were your Penthouse...You must have been the originator of "Sticky" Notes then :D

thats what i forgot!

The Eagles - Hotel California
The Eagles- Greatest Hits
Staind- 14 Shades of gray
Eric Clapton- unplugged ( :laughs: )

Bob Marley Box Set Songs of Freedom is incredibly.
Just about every Grateful Dead album too hard to say my favorite, a lot of ones I have are live concerts.
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Bob Dylan Greatest Hits 1&2

Katie....I agree with the eagles and staind. also anything bob seger metallicas earlier stuff especially ride the lightning and there is something irresistable about garage days that gets me pumped. Alice in chains, Zepplin, bad co.,, ok I better stop...I could go on for days!

Many of mine are from late 80's to early 90's,
Beastie's "Paul's Boutique"
Gang Green "Older Budweiser"
Wesley willis Experience "Get on the Bus"
Urge Overkill "positive Bleeding"
Buffalo Tom "Let Me Come Over"
Jerky Boys "The Mustacha Tapes"
Ween "God, Ween, Satan"
Replacements "Pleased to Meet Me"
Husker Du "Warehouse: Songs and Stories"
In writing this list, I have also ascertained that I have many more favorite albums, so I'll stop now.
Later,
Rick

No way I can narrow this one down. Here's a list off the top of my head though:

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of life
Beastie Boys - Check your Head
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Beck - Midnight Vultures
Grant Green - Alive
Miles Davis - Bitch's Brew
Paul Simon - Graceland
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Garcia/Grisman - Old and in the way
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live Art
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

Many, many more live shows from my collection, but they don't really count.

Chefboy RB, if you had one album in your list I had ever even heard my kids speak of of before I might think we had something in common, but now I feel like I don't even know you. It's tough to admit, but man, I must really be getting old. I hope we can find some musical compatability while under the influence.
FWW - reeked of fog machine juice? Where was I in the 80's?

A couple of my favorites that haven't already been mentioned...

Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Neil Young and Willie Nelson- Old Ways
Springsteen- Born to Run
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Stones - Love You Live
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Robert Cray - Strong Persuader

Hey Dad Fisherman, now I have to go out and get Quadrophenia on cd. I haven't listened to that in years, I forgot how good it is:cool:

Just one? "Blonde On Blonde".....no, wait.. "Disraeli Gears"....or maybe "Abraxas"... I meant "Are You Experienced?"...This is harder than I thought it would be..

:confused:

Originally posted by HighTide
Hey Dad Fisherman, now I have to go out and get Quadrophenia on cd. I haven't listened to that in years, I forgot how good it is:cool:

Right back at ya...I forgot all about Bowie. Ziggy Stardust rocks as well as Diamond Dogs. Saw him play out in Oakland in 83 backed up by The Tubes. Unbelievable show

and we musn't forget Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll

oh comeon rick you dont really listen to that freakin music do you ?

maybe the replacements !

I bet you like spinal tap and millie vanillie too ! LOL

huskar du LMAO come on thats like the band flock of seagulls

Originally posted by The Dad Fisherman
Right back at ya...I forgot all about Bowie. Ziggy Stardust rocks as well as Diamond Dogs. Saw him play out in Oakland in 83 backed up by The Tubes. Unbelievable show

and we musn't forget Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll

Was that the Mondo Bondage Tubes or the She's a Beauty Tubes??

I want to say it was the Trash tour. They did Mondo Bondage complete w/ leather and lingerie, White Punks on Dope w/ the Full Capt. Quay outfit, Iwas punk before you were a punk. They only played about an hour, if they did a whole show they would have Blown Bowie off the stage.

i forgot "appetite for destruction" by GNR. :smash: gotta have some motley crue and cinderella in there. probably some poison and def leopard while i'm doing 80's bands.

Stones - Exile on Main St.

Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus

Rush - 2112
J Giels - Blow Your Face Out or Full House

Oooooooooo! Rush!!

How about Moving Pictures?

little feat : time loves a hero waiting for columbus (old version)
Zappa : zoot alures , sheik yerbouti , Joes garage
doobie bros : taking it to the streets , toulouse st
steely dan : cant buy a thrill , pretzel logic , katie lied , the royal scam
santana : santana , abraxas
cream Disraeli Gears is a great album form my younger days
so is the stones Decembers children
iron butterfly :In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
jean luc ponty : live in california 78
jeff lorber : fusion
george clinton and the funkadelics
Bob marley
peter tosh
earth wind and fire
the 5 satins ( I know fred parris's son )
the drifters
the coasters
GNR
ram jam ( black betty )
lynyrd skynard
charlie daniels
YES all albums
we can add these to my prior list . there really is so much I like Ill have to add more later

I'm adding early VH and Van Hagar :laughs:

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening

I've got a Million of 'em

early blue oyster cult only first 8 albums

I think Cheap Trick Live at Budokan should make the list, too.

Bruce-the wild & the innocent
Zep- Presence
Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Rush- A farewell to Kings
the who-Tommy
Tull- Songs from the wood
Zappa- Roxy & Elsewhere
U2 - BOY
YES- Close to the Edge
Floyd- Animals
NEW STUFF:
Steve Earle- el corzon
Wilco- ALL
Uncle Tupelo- Anodyne

Yo La Tango---great band.
The Gram Parsons anthology

Wilco--good stuff

Pavement---wowee zowee
Everything but the girl---walking wounded
Leonard Cohen--songs of love and hate
Prince--sign of the times, purple rain---:smash: :smash: sorry guys, had to put him in.

Still Hendrix -

I saw him live with the Experience at the old RI Auditorium in 1968 - the place caught on fire while he was playing and there was a stampede for the doors - I ran up to the emptied out front row (Jimi kept playing) and stood on a chair 15 feet away from him watching him play "Purple Haze" while firemen were running for the burning chairs in the back - :eek5:

Saw Clapton and Cream there a month later -

Yeah, I was at Woodstock, too - the first one.

I was waitng for VH, Pavement, and Cheap Trick to be mentioned...
Jimbo, that make you feel better.
Business in the back, BTW the onlt time I ever got to see the Replacements was in your home state at that wonderful fun park...Lake Compounce.
Three more days, hope you guys are getting ready!!!:buds:

Originally posted by Crafty Angler
Still Hendrix -

I saw him live with the Experience at the old RI Auditorium in 1968 - the place caught on fire while he was playing and there was a stampede for the doors - I ran up to the emptied out front row (Jimi kept playing) and stood on a chair 15 feet away from him watching him play "Purple Haze" while firemen were running for the burning chairs in the back - :eek5:

Saw Clapton and Cream there a month later -

Yeah, I was at Woodstock, too - the first one.

Ah, the old barn at 1111 North Main St. Everytime I went to a Reds game, I thought the place was on fire too. By the third period you couldn't see the ice from the cheap seats due to all the smoke.

What a great idea for a thread. I had a ball going through my collection and reminiscing. As others have said, impossible to pick one. In fact, I had a hard time narrowing it down to ten - so I added an honorable mention section. Here they are, in rough chronological order, and a little on why:

1. Phil Ochs - "Pleasures of the Harbor". Probably many have not even heard of him. He was a protest singer in the 60's ( a la Dylan), but switched gears for this album. The title cut is one of the most beatiful ballads ever recorded.
2. Neil Young - "Harvest". Stellar from first to last cut. The culmination of three tremendous albums in a row. "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" and "After the Gold Rush" could easily have made this list as well.
3. Steely Dan - "Can't Buy A Thrill". The first album that I ever bought. Steely Dan was huge for me in college.
4. Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon" What more could I add that hasn't already been said. Close the door, switch on the black light, turn on the stereo and light up. Aahh - UMass in the 70's.
5. YES - "Yessongs" A live album that doubles as a greatest hits. This is sort of cheating because it is a three disc set. Another great album for the dorm room - are you detecting a pattern here?
6. Joni Mitchell - "Court and Spark" Required reading for any music collection.
7. Springsteen - "Born to Run". You were considered hip if you were into Springsteen before this album. Afterwards he belonged to everybody. This LP put him on the cover of Time & Newsweek. And the rest is history.
8. Little Feat - "Waiting for Columbus". Another live album that serves as a greatest hits at the time. The band at its peak before the death of Lowell George. Never the same since.
9. The Smiths - "The Smiths". Hard to pick one out of so many great albums. This is their debut. Let the mopeing begin!
10. U2 - "Joshua Tree" Already had a number of good albums under their belt, this one brought them to a new level.

Honorable Mention:
Beatles - almost any album, espercially the early ones.
Doors - "Morrison Hotel". "I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer".
Led Zepplin - "Led Zepplin II"
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Jethro Tull - "Thick as a Brick".
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Brain Salad Surgery"
R.E.M. - "Murmur".
Allman Brothers - "Eat A Peach".
Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak"
Traffic - "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life"
Waterboys - "Fisherman's Blues".
Woodstock - Original Soundtrack (from the 60's, not the recent stuff)

And just so you don't think I am an old fart:
Pete Yorn - "Musicforthemorningafter"
Bush - "Sixteen Stone"
Cavedogs - "Joyrides for Shut-Ins"
The Strokes - "Is This It?"

Please don't ask me to come up with a favorite single. I think my head would explode!

CSN&Y Deja Vu . Perfect album, not one mistake or note out of place. Amazing!

Impossible question to answer.

The first 3 I bought (w paper-route $$) would have to be ones

Led Zeppelin IV
Aerosmith's debut
Neil Young - Harvest

Still have the scratched vinyl in the basement.

Slingah told me the other day that his favorite album all-time is "The Wiggles-Live at Leeds"!:happy: :bl: :hihi: :laugha: :jump1:

Originally posted by chris L
early blue oyster cult only first 8 albums

Pretty much didn't like anything after Fire of Unknown Origin.

Wow! Lots of picks for Floyd's Animals. Thought most people didn't even know that one. One of my favorites.

Lots of great choices!

Some more Top Picks
Jeff Buckley - Grace
PJ Harvey- Rid of Me
Roxy Music - Stranded
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Ave. I & II
O Brother, Where art thou - soundtrack
Hendrix & the Experience - Axis Bold As Love
The Wiggles - Live at the BBC
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Yeah....I forgot The Wiggles-Live at the BBC!!!! Great album!:bl: :bounce:

A couple of more that popped into my head

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz
The Commitments - Soundtrack
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Originally posted by hooked
Impossible question to answer.

The first 3 I bought (w paper-route $$) would have to be ones

Led Zeppelin IV
Aerosmith's debut
Neil Young - Harvest

Still have the scratched vinyl in the basement.


Funny you mentioned that, my first three ever, also with paper route money was

Bob Seger - Against the Wind
Foreigner - Four
AC/DC - Back in Black

Love Animals but Dark Side is my favorite. I'm also very fond of Roger Water's The Wall Live in Berlin

4. Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon" What more could I add that hasn't already been said. Close the door, switch on the black light, turn on the stereo and light up. Aahh - UMass in the 70's. If you really want to have some fun, find your best surround sound system, turn off the lights and play the digitally remastered version of Dark Side of the Moon - awesome! You will hear stuff that you can't here in the regular version...

I have a (Ahem) not so legal copy of the Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon Dubbed over it. Does't Sync up as well as i had heard it would.

ok here Goes....

The Smiths - Meat is Murder
U2 - October
The Waterboys - This is the Sea
Phish - Junta
Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order

Anything from George Clinton and the Parliment Funkadelic



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