Favorite Album?

[goosefish]

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--- sorry guys, had to put him in.

[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 -

Saw Clapton and Cream there a month later -

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

[RickBomba]

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!!!

[Mike P]

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 -

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.

[rexhamer]

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!

[Backbeach Jake]

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

[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.

[BigFish]

Slingah told me the other day that his favorite album all-time is "The Wiggles-Live at Leeds"!

[The Dad Fisherman]

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

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

[CAL]

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!

[Slingah]

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

[BigFish]

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

[The Dad Fisherman]

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

[JohnR]

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...

[The Dad Fisherman]

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.

[Bass Nut]

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