Favourite albums

[MenZa]

I'm sure everyone here has a different taste of music, so I thought I'd post a topic like this to post some album recommendations.

So here goes.

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System of a Down - Mesmerize

01: Soldier Side (Intro)
02: B.Y.O.B.
03: Revenga
04: Cigaro
05: Radio/Video
06: This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song
07: Violent Pornography
08: Question!
09: Sad Statue
10: Old School Hollywood
11: Lost In Hollywood

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Poets of the Fall - Signs of Life

01: Lift
02: Overboard
03: Late Goodbye
04: Don't Mess With Me
05: 3 Am
06: Stay
07: Seek You Out
08: Shallow
09: Everything Fades
10: Someone Special
11: Illusion & Dream
12: Sleep

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The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You

01: Song With A Mission
02: Queen Of Apology
03: Tony The Beat
04: 24 Hours
05: Painted By Numbers
06: Night After Night
07: Ego
08: hurt You
09: Much Too Long
10: Running Out Of Turbo
11: Night After Night

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Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust

01: Fire
02: Sorry Go ´Round
03: Carnival Of Rust
04: Locking Up The Sun
05: Gravity
06: King Of Fools
07: Roses
08: Desire
09: All The Way / 4U
10: Delicious
11: Maybe Tomorrow Is a Better Day
12: Dawn

[ComplexNumber]

there are to many recommendations. just for variety....

velvet underground - banana album (aka velvet underground and nico)

joy division - closer

mazzy star - among my swan

nick drake - five leaves left

laura veirs - carbon glacier

carina round - first blood mystery

[Master Shake]

Here's my favorites (Yes, I'm a bit old school)...

Steely Dan -- Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story

Dire Straits -- Brothers in Arms

Yes -- 90125

Cheap Trick -- At Budokan

Hayseed Dixie -- A Hillbilly Tribute to AC / DC

scaterd-few -- Sin Disease

King's X -- Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

Galactic Cowboys -- Space in your Face

Galactic Cowboys -- Machine Fish

[vertigo]

Hayseed Dixie are excellent.

Hmmmm recomendations:

Pearl Jam - Ten
Anything at all by Queen, Pink Floyd
Dragon Force - Inhuman Rampage
Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - Blow in the Wind
Medieval Babes - Salvanos

There are loads more that I could list but wont bore you with them all.

[Brynster]

hmmm tricky one

Always ripped to my Ipod are the following

Red hot chili peppers, Californication
Jeff Waynes War of the World
Asain Dub Foundation, Enemy of my Enemy
Amy Winehouse, Frank
Madeliene Peyroux, Both albums but cannot rember there names sorry.

[ComplexNumber]

Anything at all by Queen, Pink Floyd best albums by them are (IMO) dark side of the moon, animals, the wall, atom heart mother. i never warmed to final cut, ummagumma, etc. nor could i warm to the way way way out syd barratt stuff. after roger waters left(ie was booted out), i stopped liking pink floyd. david gilmore is a good artist, but i just think that he is lacking something. to me, roger waters IS pink floyd. after hearing roger waters solo stuff, i find his solo stuff bland and boring.

[Gustav]

Here are some goodies (in no particular order):

Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico (Banana album)
the Stooges - the Stooges
Pixies - Doolittle
Refused - the Shape of Punk To Come
the Birthday Party - Junkyard
Jesus Lizard - Goat
the Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
the Doors - the Doors

[Gustav]

best albums by them are (IMO) dark side of the moon, animals, the wall, atom heart mother. i never warmed to final cut, ummagumma, etc. nor could i warm to the way way way out syd barratt stuff. after roger waters left(ie was booted out), i stopped liking pink floyd. david gilmore is a good artist, but i just think that he is lacking something. to me, roger waters IS pink floyd. after hearing roger waters solo stuff, i find his solo stuff bland and boring.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is clearly their best album in my opinion. :)

[ComplexNumber]

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is clearly their best album in my opinion. :) nooooooooooooooooooooooooo :D. i didn't like that album at all. i played it several times when i first got it (i think i got it as part of a special offer along with 2 other floyd albums), then filed it away.......and it is been growing cobwebs ever since. he may well have had some sort of artistic genius at some point in his career, but the acid certainly destroyed that. i couldn't hear any sign if it on any of his floyd albums. perhaps he's very much an acquired taste. he's now a virtual vegetable being looked after by his mum in cambridge due to his drug abuse.

[Gustav]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo :D. i didn't like that album at all. i played it several times when i first got it (i think i got it as part of a special offer along with 2 other floyd albums), then filed it away.......and it is been growing cobwebs ever since. he may well have had some sort of artistic genius at some point in his career, but the acid certainly destroyed that. i couldn't hear any sign if it on any of his floyd albums. perhaps he's very much an acquired taste. he's now a virtual vegetable being looked after by his mum in cambridge due to his drug abuse.
I didn't know he was still alive :o.

Listen to Interstellar Overdrive, pure genius.

(but then I also like Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band :))

[ComplexNumber]

I didn't know he was still alive well, if thats what you can call it, yes. he's alive in theory. he's not living much of a 'life', though.




Listen to Interstellar Overdrive, pure genius.

(but then I also like Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band i've listened to ISO loads over the years. it doesn't do anything for me, though.

captain beefheart is another that i never warmed to. btw i would have thought you would have recommended white light white heat instead of the banana album given your preference for captain beefheart and syd barratt :p. i love 'the gift' on that album where john cale recites that story.

[Stormy Eyes]

Here are my favorites. It's mostly rock.

Blue Oyster Cult: Imaginos
Bruce Dickinson: The Chemical Wedding
Ayreon: The Universal Migrator
The Sisters of Mercy: First and Last and Always
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime
Iron Maiden: Brave New World
Yes: Close to the Edge
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
Nobuo Uematsu: The Black Mages and The Black Mages II
Edguy: Hellfire Club

[Gustav]

btw i would have thought you would have recommended white light white heat instead of the banana album given your preference for captain beefheart and syd barratt :p. i love 'the gift' on that album where john cale recites that story.
White Light/White Heat is a great album, but I find the banana album better and I just wanted to mention one VU album ;) (It wasn't an easy choise to make)

"and caused little rhythmic arcs of red to pulsate gently in the morning sun."

[ComplexNumber]

White Light/White Heat is a great album, but I find the banana album better and I just wanted to mention one VU album ;) (It wasn't an easy choise to make)

"and caused little rhythmic arcs of red to pulsate gently in the morning sun." thats the last line :). he says the twist to the story in such a clinical way as if its ever so expected, and then the song ends. i kinda like the way its done, in a way. i also like the early(though not the earliest) use of occassional feedback througout thws song with the guitars. it was the only song where cale had the main part on the vocals.

[majikstreet]

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anyway, I like american idiot (Green day), august (eric clapton), plus tons more..
I don't really think in albums, I think in songs and artists - so most eric clapton, cream, green day, ozzy osbourne, alice in chains, metallica, queen, the doors, the beatles, plus tons more albums I probably like.

[Stormy Eyes]

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Those ladies look a bit emo, but I'd hit it.

[DigitalDuality]

Dimmu Borgir- Death Cult Armageddon
Opeth- Blackwater park
King Crimson- Power to believe
The Herd- Elefant never forgets
Marilyn Manson- Anti-Christ Superstar
Nirvana- Nevermind
NIN-Downward Spiral, Fragil
Eminem- Marshal Mathers LP
NWA- Straight outta Compton
Dr Dre- The Chronic
Nas- Illmatic
Tool- Aenima, Lateralus
Immortal Technique- Revolutionary Volume 2
System of a Down- Mesmerize/hypnotize
Meshuggah- I
Bjork- Dancer in the Dark soundtrack
Mindless Self Indulgence- Frankstein Girls will seem strangely sexy
Joy Division - Closer
Bad Religion- Recipe for Hate
Clash- London Calling
Grateful Dead- American Beauty
Pennywise- Unknown Road


and anything by Venetian Snares, Shpongle, Fantamos, and Mr Bungle.

[ComplexNumber]

Joy Division - Closer another person with good taste :p. my fave JD song of all time is Decades. its also one of my favourites of all time. i think the emotion in that song packs quite a punch. its also quite symbolic - that was the last song on the last album ever committed to record before he hung himself. its almost like a farewell song.

[halfvolle melk]

Fugazi - Repeater
Living Colour - Time's Up
Ommited: too many metal albums
Pixies - Trompe le Monde
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
and then some.

[MenZa]

Those ladies look a bit emo, but I'd hit it.

No doubt ;)


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[Rumor]

Ayreon: The Universal Migrator


I liked the second one of the two better. 'Dawn of a Million Souls' with Russell Allen singing is a really great song.



Yes: Close to the Edge
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery


Seconded



Edguy: Hellfire Club


I haven't heard this one. I've got Kingdom of Madness - Savage Poetry. Of those I prefer Vainglory Opera

My own favorites would include:

Rage - XIII
Rage - Soundchaser
Nightwish - Once
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Within Temptation - Mother Earth
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Blind Guardian - Night at the Opera
Lana Lane - Secrets of Astrology
Time Machine - Evil
Vanden Plas - Far Off Grace
Shadow Gallery - Room V

And far too many others to note :)

[Sheinar]

Possessed - Seven Churches
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Overkill - The Years of Decay
Nocturnus - The Key
Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Sadus - Illusions/Chemical Exposure
Winters Bane - Heart of a Killer
Running Wild - Pile of Skulls
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Er, guess all the albums that make it as my favourites are Metal.

[mips]

There is a very good US artist that most of his fellow countrymen don't even know about which is a shame. Locally he is a legend and I've listened to his music from a young age. Maybe give it a try...

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Simply brillaint!

[eriqk]

I posted this on KVRaudio where nearly the same question was asked (it was supposed to be a top 10):

There must be hundreds, so I'll just pick 10 formative ones before I run out:

Sonic Youth - Halloween
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Coil - Scatology
Nurse With Wound - Spiral Insana
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Hula - 1000 Hours
Various - Vhutemas Archetypi
The Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade
The Beatles - Revolver
Swans - Cop

Groet, Erik

[Clazzy]

Hmm, it's difficult to narrow down my favourite few, but here's a try:

Abbey Road - The Beatles
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Bends - Radiohead
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
Origin of Symmetry - Muse
OK Computer - Radiohead
Revolver - The Beatles
Showbiz - Muse

BIG fan of The Beatles myself, like Radiohead but hate everything after OK Computer, the rest are just (I think) timeless classics.

[ComplexNumber]

The Bends - Radiohead
OK Computer - Radiohead good choice :). in my opinion, i rate them in the following order:
-the bends (i also felt that this represented the real radiohead at their very best)
-ok computer (what it lacked in energy compared to the bends, it made up for in inventiveness and variety)
-kid A (hated it to begin with, but grew to like it a lot)
-hail to the thief
-amnesiac (apart from The Pyramid Song, most of them were mediocre)
-com lag
-pablo honey (this is where they were finding their feet)

[erikpiper]

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[Clazzy]

good choice :). in my opinion, i rate them in the following order:
-the bends
-ok computer
-kid A (hated it to begin with, but grew to like it a lot)
-hail to the thief
-amnesiac (apart from The Pyramid Song, most of them were mediocre)
-com lag
-pablo honey (this is where they were finding their feet)

OK Computer would be my favourite Radiohead album if Climbing Up Walls and Fitter Happier weren't on. I think they drag the album down a bit, while The Bends has great songs all the way through. You just can't beat the guitar playing on Just ;).

[ComplexNumber]

OK Computer would be my favourite Radiohead album if Climbing Up Walls and Fitter Happier weren't on they were just fillers IMO. paranoid andriod is my fave on that because of its complexity and the many different musical scenarios. i think it changes from one 'scenario' to another quite cleverly so that the song blends almost seemlessly.



You just can't beat the guitar playing on Just i agree with you about the guitars all the way though including just :). i like 'just' too, but its not my fave. i think my fave on the bends is fake plastic tress because i find it the most moving. i also love street spirit

[TheIdiotThatIsMe]

Shine: The Hits - Newsboys
Let's Do It For Johnny! - Bowling For Soup

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Dookie - Green Day
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The Spirit Room - Michelle Branch
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Andiamo - Authority Zero
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Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly
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Affirmation - Savage Garden
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The Tension And The Spark - Darren Hayes
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Sex, Love, And Rock 'n' Roll - Social Distortion
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Makem And Clancy Collection - Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy

[Orunitia]

Do As Infinity - Eh... pretty much everything by them. They're my favorite band, and I really can't pick a favorite album by them.

bôa - Twilight

bôa - Get There

David Nevue - Vigil (Very relaxing pianist.)

[darkoptix]

My List in no order...

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Radiohead - Ok Computer
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Radiohead - The Bends
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Tool - Aenima
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Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
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Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
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Matthew Good Band - Underdogs
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Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
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Matthew Good - Avalanche

I'm a really big fan of Matthew Good!

[darkoptix]

More...
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Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
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Our Lady Peace - Naveed
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Our Lady Peace - Happiness Is Not a Fish You Can Catch
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Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
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Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
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Death Cab for Cutie - You Can Play These Songs with Chords
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Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
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Audioslave - Audioslave