What is your favourite album?

I have searched the forums for a thread like this, but so far nothing.

What is your favourite album of all time? I'm just curious to see the prefernces of the people here. I would like to hear your favourite, and the reasons why.

My favourite is Sticky Fingers, By The Rolling Stones.

It was the first Stones record I ever heard, listening to it on vinyl with my dad. I just love the songs, the musicianship, the lyrics, and it contains so many classics, like Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, and Can't You Hear Me Knocking, alongside relatively unknown Stones greats, such as Dead Flowers (My fave), *****, and Sway. I'm actually listening to it right now (on vinyl no less).

So, do tell!

Ooh, good thread!

I think my favorite album would either be Adore by the Smashing Pumpkins or This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About by Modest Mouse.


Adore was really how I got into the music I am into today. My father got it when it first came out, I believe I was in 2nd or 3rd grade at the time, and I loved it. The songs are so beautiful, the melodies....a truly great effort. I haven't listened to it in ages but it's still great.


Long Drive, because I think it's the best MM release. I love the numerous parts of the album where it's just guitars playing away. It's so peaceful and it's great music to chill to, to fall alseep to, even to move to. It has Dramamine, which is one of my favourite tracks.

If I had to choose I'd choose Drive.

It's always the parents who influence you. Like my dad and his Stones records...

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys.
Either that or Master of Puppets by Metallica.

Toss-up between (What's the Story) Morning Glory, Abbey Road, and Highway to Hell.

Here are my top ten favourite albums. I put them in spoilers since I included pics of the albums.

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1) Revolver by the Beatles


2) The White Album by the Beatles


3) Led Zeppelin (I) by Led Zeppelin


4) Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd


5)Disraeli Gears by Cream


6) Animals by Pink Floyd


7) In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson


8) Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles


9) Axis: Bold as Love by the Jimi Hendrix Experience


10) Queen II by Queen

Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus

Here are my top ten favourite albums. I put them in spoilers since I included pics of the albums.

In the Court only 7th? I'm disappointed.

In rough order:

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1. King Crimson -- In the Court of the Crimson King

2. King Crimson (again) -- Red

3. Dream Theater -- Images & Words

4. Queensryche -- Operation: Mindcrime

5. Bad Religion -- No Control

6. Psychotic Waltz -- Into the Everflow

7. Van der Graaf Generator -- The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other

8. Pink Floyd -- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

9. Agent Orange -- Living in Darkness

10. Opeth -- Still Life


Others I want to mention: Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon, Iron Maiden -- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Bad Religion -- Against the Grain, Porcupine Tree -- Lightbulb Sun, Misfits -- Static Age, Joy Division -- Substance, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists -- Shake the Sheets, Mission of Burma -- Vs, Agalloch -- The Mantle... I'll stop now.

Radio Kaos by Roger Waters or Peace of Mind by Iron Maiden

As I properly read the OP I shall vote only a single as that is what Album means and not Plural. I Vote 4 Sticks (Led Zep IIII)!!! It is a difficult choice but that album always puts a smile on my face!

Bloody hell, I can't pick one.

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1) Procol Harum - Procol Harum



2) Home - Procol Harum



3)Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) - The Kinks



4) The Doors - The Doors



5) Disraeli Gears - Cream



6) Blind Faith - Blind Faith



7) Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos



8) Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience



9) Wheels Of Fire - Cream



10) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

If anyone can wrap SPOILER tags (I don't know how) around this, I would be very grateful.

Yes i will say this one.

octavian, just do [spoiler] around it (but in the format of regular tags....you know, with the / in the second one

Top 5:

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

If Jeff Magnum sounded a bit more like Carl Wilson, I'd have not doubt that its the greatest album of all time.

The Gay Parade - Of Montreal

Some of the catchiest, melodolic and hookiest stuff ever put on a CD. Period

Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles

I think this album has some of the greatest production and arrangements of all time. What would Strawberry Feilds or I Am the Walrus be without those wonderful arrangements?

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

The most gorgeous album in the unviverse. The only song that comes close to matching the beauty of "God Only Knows" is Do You Realize.

Armchair Apocryhpa - Andrew Bird

Some of the most intelligent and well written music I've ever heard, and defintly the number one contender for best album of the year thus far.

@ Hissing Fauna--

Since you like Of Montreal judging by your name and choice, I'm gonna have to check out that Andrew Bird album and the Neutral Milk Hotel. People keep telling me they're good...

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis



Erik

Mommy's Little Monster

27 min, 14 sec.
9 songs.
An unsung starting point for California Punk.

Simple Answer: Siamese Dream, by the Smashing Pumpkins. It's utterly flawless. I reviewed it waaaay back here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showp...10&postcount=9

I really should get reviewing albums again...

blur - Modern Life is Rubbish



auditory perfection

The Cure - Pornography.



Tied with:

A Silver Mt Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms.

Originally Posted by Hissing Fauna

Top 5:

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

Awesome choice.

Still...