All Time Favourite Albums

I love music and just thought it would be interesting to read what people's favourite albums are and why. I'll go first, I guess.

I love Bob Dylan and not long back I bought Blood on the Tracks - all of his albums are great in my opinion, but that just mixes wonderful melody and poetry. There's a song on there called "You're a big girl now" which is sublime.

Also, one of the few female artists around at the moment that I love, Lana Del Rey's Born to Die - a brilliantly different album that stands out in the seemingly endless monotony we so often hear these days - it truly is a brilliant album.

Feel free to agree/disagree and share your own favourites below.
All the very best,
Ben

This is difficult,

there are so many right up there,

The beatles abbey road
David bowies the man who sold the earth
Sia 1000 forms of fear
Radiohead the Bends
The seahorses do it yourself

but if I had to plump for one........

Radiohead Ok computer

The Beatles <3 Love them.

I listen to mainly country and slow songs. I have too many favorites to pinpoint just one. But you give me a sad love song, or an upbeat country song to shake my booty to, and I'm a happy, happy woman!

Darren - ok computer is one of my favourite albums - genius doesn't begin to describe it. I also have Do it Yourself by the Seahorses - I think their guitarist was in the Stone roses who I love too!
Brit - I have all the Beatle's albums. And I like a bit of country too. Bob Dylan did a country track with Johnny Cash called "Girl From The North Country" which is brilliant - I think it features in the film Silver Linings too..........if you like that kind of thing, of course....ahem.

I've never seen that movie, lol. I'll youtube the song though!

Gaaa, Ben!

How could you even start? At first pass I had ninety. I winnowed that down to 43. How the hell I got down to 11 I don't know, but I refuse to go lower (And this is rock only, not even counting classical, jazz or country).

Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home (best song ever: It's All Right Ma, but even without it: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Tambourine Man, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Love Minus Zero, Gates of Eden)

Beatles , Rubber Soul (could have been any of 4, but this is the first time I actually liked them - the radio played a new release, Nowhere Man, & I flipped out; plus Michelle, Norwegian Wood, the Word)

Jackson Brownne, Late for the Sky (No song is more poignant than To A Dancer or more profound than Fountain of Sorrow)

Counting Crows, Films About Ghosts (Adam Duritz is the absolute best songwriter of his generation: "If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts", Mrs Potter, Rain King, Mr Jones and some great covers plus the only album with Einstein on the Beach)

McCartney & Wings, Band on the Run (my wife & I were browsing The Mushroom, a record shop next to Tulane in New Orleans, the title song came on & we looked at each other "Wow" - she went to see who it was. I refused to believe her until she brought the Album.)

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (You could not live in the English speaking world in the mid-seventies without hearing at least one song from this album every day)

George Harrison, All Things Must Pass (mystical and tuneful - a great album to loosen your mind and think profound thoughts; Apple Jam was great, too).

Yes, Close to the Edge (Ethereal, uplifting, metaphysical, impossible to turn off)

Joni Mitchell, For the Roses (The best album put out by a woman EVER)

The Band, The Band (My son & used to do karaoke to The Weight and Up On Cripple Creek; follow up to Music From Big Pink, which they made with Dylan while he was recovering from his motorcycle crash)

Santana, Abraxis (Singing Winds, Crying Beasts, Oye Como Va, Black magic Woman, you cannot sit still with this album)

Although my friends and I used to play Beatles songs in
small clubs back in Hungary I never got into them..
As of now I like all kinds of music! When Im driving my
daughter to school we listen to The weekend "Cant feel my face" and so on lol Then I might tune into Jezz ..
I guess music, for me, always reflects my mood. If I find
myself alone, thinking of the One that I missed the most my speakers will fill the universe with Trent's voice, with
Valdi Sebev, Koan!!!!!

LOL Larry! I must admit, I knew anyone truly passionate about music would have trouble with a top 1!
For the Roses is a truly brilliant album - my wife's parents got me into her ( I refuse to call them my parents in law.....) George Harrison seemed to be sprinkled in fairy dust, didn't he? When I think of "melody" I think of that man first!
I have the best of Fleetwood Mac - my Mum had Rumours so I know those tracks - a brilliantly diverse band. Albatross was a stroke of brilliance.
Counting Crows: I have "Hard Candy" and "August And Everything After" - both brilliant.
They did a track called "colo(u)r Blind" which is one of my all time favourite tracks!
"Bringing it all back home " is one of the few Dylan albums I'm ashamed to admit I don't yet own!
I am, right at this instant, listening to Lana Del Rey;s new album "Honeymoon" which is superb.
All the best.

Peter Green is genius!
My favorite Green-Mac cuts are "Oh Well" then "Albatross" then "The Green Manalishi"

Go
Get
Bringing It All Back Home
Now!

I used to say my all time favorite album was Into The Wild by Eddie Vedder. The soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oQdkU3wtEI&list=PL4751B5EA5A55206C

-Jane

Also, Crossroads by Tracy Chapman. Her self titled album is my second favorite, but Crossroads was the first one I feel in love with <3

Larry
Peter Green is indeed a genius, I agree - a much overused word in the arts, but not in his case.
I will certainly get that Dylan album, rest assured!

Jane - I grew up listening to Tracy Chapmen and I too love her. She did a track called Sub City which is brilliant.

I am a HUGE Fleetwood Mac fan....VERY happy to read you gentlemen talk about Peter Green!!!

John Mayall Blues Band.... ( I hope I spelled that right)

Mic Fleetwood and John Mcvie were a part of before the Mac days.... powerful music!!

and the BeeGees for me as well... every album... "I started a Joke" <------- all time favorite song.... that and Landslide by Fleetwood Mac...

Def Leopard: Lady strange- gets me out of a funk every single time!!

On Tracy Chapman: First time I heard Talkin' About a Revolution I had to go get the CD. Astounding voice.

It was difficult leaving Pearl Jam out of my top albums. (Ten & 2000-11-06: Seattle, WA cover about all). Eddie Vedder acoustic is awesome. He sang You've Got to Hide Your Love Away on I Am Sam & nailed it.

Here's a treat Jane & Ben will both like (and Michael): Eddie Vedder singing Dylan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsWRESX2Va8

Andrea, did you know Peter Green named the band after them: Mick FLEETWOOD John MCvie. On of the best Pre-Bucking Nicks art work to me was the "Cadillac-Fleetwod-Mack-Truck."

Love it Larry!!!!!!!

Eric Clapton.... all of it.... Cream.. His acoustic is just... out of this world... When Eric sings Tulsa Time... you gotta dance!!

Yes, in all his incarnations he was great:
Yardbirds, Cream, Derrick, Blind Faith & Solo. My favorite album is 461 Ocean Boulevard, especially Motherless Children & Wilie and the Hand Jive, and of course I Shot the Sheriff

Larry, about a year ago I bought the best of Pearl Jam - that man really does have a wonderful rock voice. I used to love Creed, but on listening to Pearl Jam have since lost some respect for them.....almost like a cover band!

In my early teens I couldn't look past Jethro Tull & Uriah Heap among others of the same genre. In the middle I got right into Neil Young and that sort of sound...lately I seem to like a more mellow sort of music so..Mario Winans and Ed Sheran are rocking my boat for now. I shouldn't need to mention that the Beatles were a huge part of my life...goes without saying for most of us...right?

I'd like to mention the "Up in Smoke Tour" CD which my son really loved when he was around 14 and insisted that we play when I was dropping him off at his after school job at pizza hut...I learned to love that album as I'm sure a lot of rap/hip-hop lovers still do...

One for Hellon now, being in Australia. I discovered Silverchair a few years back, and have all their albums. They were superb.

Hellon, you're one of the few who remember Uriah Heep. I think their best was The Magician's Birthday, with Sweet Lorain & Sunrise

Did you also get into Savoy Brown, maybe Looking In?

Ben...Silverchair were a great band without a doubt but...if you want to talk AUSTRALIAN bands then you should also mention Crowded House and INXS...I love both of them...sadly, just like Silverchair they are no more :)

Also...take a look at Little Birdy if you want to find a band that probably never made it outside Australian...not really sure if they did??? I plug this band every opportunity that I get lol!!!

The Magician's Birthday was brilliant, of course but...I think I preferred Look at Yourself....

Hellon: my mum used to love INXS - so I remember them vividly and still love there stuff now - "Kick" was a great album.
As for Crowded House......I have all there stuff!
I used to play their track "Fall at your feet" over and over again and "world where you live"
All the best,
Ben

^ "my mum used to love INXS"

Well, that puts it into perspective for a lot of us!

;8-)

Well, Larry, you could look at it like that, lol or (optimistically ) you could think of generations passing on good music.......on the other hand, I won't be passing Nicki Minaj on to my children! :(

Alright, everyone get ready for some feather-ruffling... I think the Beatles are overrated. A handful of their songs are memorable (ok, they're great), but I can do without 90% of Beatles music.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes to all Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder.

I don't know how to explain my past obsession with INXS and Michael Hutchence while retaining any ounce of dignity. I bought every biography written about him, all INXS albums and Hutchence's solo work, and an original copy of Dogs in Space (terrible movie). I covered my walls in original INXS posters and bought magazines off ebay that had Michael Hutchence or INXS on the cover (or even just articles within). I bought original copies of tickets to INXS shows, an INXS watch, INXS tank top, and INXS t-shirt. The list goes on.
Yes, I still love INXS, but I'm proud to say that I'm no longer a freak about it. This was age 19-21. Now I'm waiting for some new die hard fan to buy all my paraphernalia for a million dollars.
Also, it was a suicide, not erotic asphyxiation...

Crowded House, also amazing. I got into them before living in Australia for 6 months. A family friend let me stay in his Melbourne pent house while he was out of town and it overlooked a huge stadium. First thing I do when I get there is crack a beer & turn on Crowded House. I open the door to the deck, walk out, and hear... the same song I'm playing is also playing in the stadium down below. CROWDED HOUSE WAS THERE PLAYING LIVE WHILE I WAS THERE! Bahaha.
The song playing: Something So Strong.

EDIT: When can we throw a PnQ party? I think we've got a playlist to last all night.

If you throw it we will come.

Haha Wayne's world!

Since crowded house was broken up, I wonder who was playing in the stadium? Cover band?

I think they still get together from time to time but...not the original line up so, maybe it was really them. Also, the Finn brothers still tour around and they still play some of the old tunes from their Crowded House days.

The Finn Brothers have released a couple of excellent albums themselves. There's a track on their album 'Everyone is here' called 'A life between us' which is superb; anyone who likes Crowded House will love that.

For me I am more into Songs then actual albums or bands. My all time favorite album is Deja Entendu By brand new. There is not a bad song on there at all.