What's the best Album you have ever listend to ?

One album only !
Let me the first : Iron Mainden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son in 1989 when I was 10 !!!
thanks to my Daddy !

Kate Bush - Lionheart.

Except I disliked it the first five times I heard it - then I quickly grew to like it.

7th Son of a 7th Son is however a very good album, although I like No Prayer for the Dying from Iron Maiden better.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Shine On boxed set edition.

Close, but my personal choice is "The Dark Side Of The Moon".

<--------- Me too....what a coincidence

Just one
The Who - The Kids Are Alright

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

I'm a big Perry Farrell fan. Most, if not all, of his music is pretty simple and straight forward, but that doesn't mean it can't be beautiful too, which I think it is. That first major-label album is my favourite though, I can listen to that from start to finish pretty much any time. I like his Porno For Pyros stuff too, and his solo album from 2002, but that one's the one. So far anyways. (May or may not have something to do with the fact that the day this came out and I bought it was also the day I dropped acid for the first time and listened to that album over and over all night as I was chauffered around with a bunch of friends. I think I was 17, I think it was 1988, was a great night, from my perspective anyways, haha)

Pink Floyd - Animals

Bob Dylan, "Highway 61 Revisited". No question about it.

From the opening Al Kooper organ riff on "Like a Rolling Stone", right through to "Desolation Row", consistently brilliant lyrics and terrific instrumentals, especially Mike Bloomfield's guitar.

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez, when it's Easter time too --
And your gravity fails, and negativity don't pull ya through --
Don't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue;
They got some hungry women there, and they'll really make a mess out of you....

At this moment.....

I can honestly say 'You Had It Coming' by Jeff Beck.

Next week, however, might reveal something much better. But that's a chance I'll have to take.....

"New Gold Dream", Simple Minds

Emperor "Prometheus - The Discipline Of Fire & Demise" (2001)

That's a tough one!!

Rush - 2112

(Tied for second... Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason & The Division Bell)

and another coincidence; this is also my favourite!

This Mortal Coil - It Will End In Tears

'The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper' came close, but I have to go with 'The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'.

I listened (and still listen) to 'Mellon Collie' much more, and it carries emotional imprints from the point in my life when I was listening to it most. Each song carries a different set of memories, depending on what I was thinking and feeling when I listened to that particular song. In a way, the things you were thinking/feeling/experiencing when you were listening to an album affect your opinion of it more than the album itself.

The songs on 'Mellon Collie' also traversed (and provoked) a variety of moods and emotions from beginning to end. 'X.Y.U', for example, would raise my adrenaline to the point that I felt I could (and wanted to) destroy a city with my bare hands. 'We Only Come Out At Night' (the song immediately following 'X.Y.U') would have an opposite, calming effect. I think that the ability to easily and drastically influence the listener's emotions is the mark of a great album. 'Sgt. Pepper' did the same, but not as effectively as 'Mellon Collie'.

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO

I can´t remember any other album that can compete with this one. You know, even the cover was an Andy Warhol masterpiece. Peel slowly and see...

Toss up between

The Beatles- Revolver or
The Who- Quadrophenia (The Who at their very best)

Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys

Metallica - "Live Shit: Binge & Purge" - Mexico City , 1993. (3CDs)

All Pink Floyd albums!

Bad Religion - Suffer

Eric Clapton - Unplugged

the perfect album when you're "down & out".....

If I must pick just one, Pink Floyd - The Wall. But, any Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Simple Minds plus many others.

Since there seems to be such a liking for Pink Floyd and other stuff of similar age, is everyone as old as I am, or is it just an appreciation of good music?

Since we have more than 35 years separating our births, I would believe it's just that "People Know What's Good™"

It's too difficult to answer this, cause the music I hear strongly depends on moods. That's what makes me switch between cradle of filth, marilyn manson or weird al yankovic. Maybe in ten years, wehn I can look back at 15years of music experience I'll be able to choose my own favorite album. Hélas, not now...

Tool - Ænima.

Very Loud.

beautiful album Pio2001
but Ummagumma - Pink Floyd is successful to change my way to listen to music

Incredible String Band - 5000 Spirits (Layers of the Onion)

An absolute revelation in a time of 'Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weeny, Yellow Polka-Dot Bikinis'

Surprised not to see any Dylan in here, but pleased at the amount of Pink Floyd.

UJ

Right exactly now?

Enya - Watermark.

Ask me again tomorrow and I'll give you a different answer.

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Nirvana: Nevermind - Everything changed in music and my life when this came out.

I don't know.
But I'll tell you the name of the album that changed my life:
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for destruction

It opened my eyes to better music (what I listened to before is embarrasing...)

Hard to choose.
I'd say my favourite album is "System Of A Down - Steal This Album!"

yey! i've got the shine on box too!
best album: coldplay - a rush of blood to the head

Like I said in another thread (What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time? )

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

I can only congratulate you.


Wee! Floyd is winning by a large margin.

I have no idea. I love too much genres and albums to pick one. Even 5 albums would be hard.

Nevertheless, some of my favourites:

Nargaroth - Herbstleyd
Darkthrone - The united trilogy of A blaze in the northern sky/Under a funeral moon/Transylvanian hunger
Moonblood - Split LP with Deathspell Omega
Burzum - The first 4 albums are all equally good
Tool - Aenima
Pink Floyd - The dark side of the moon
Led Zeppelin - IV
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonie Nr. 9 (Karajan/Berliner Philharmoniker)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal (Knappertsbusch/Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, 1951)

If somebody asks me about my favourite bands, Dire Straits and Pink Floyd are always the first two I mention. I think our tastes of music match very well. (Assuming you like Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, Toto, Enya ... also )

I'm not sure what to pick as my absolute favourite. Probably still Dire Straits - On Every Street.




Hey, thanks for the reminder. That'll be my bedtime music tonight.

Top album: Handel's Messiah (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields)
Next four would all be sacred music also:
Mozart - Great Mass (in C minor)
Vivaldi - Glorias - Dixit Dominus;Magnfifcat; Beatus Vir
Bach - St. Matthew's Passion
Aretha Franklin- One Faith, One Lord, One Baptism

Double Decca release? I have that too and it is simply fantastic.

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells III

Best soundtrack ever - Gladiator by Hans Zimmer.
Best Album - Yes "Homeworld" 1999.

Hmmm... interesting how many fans Pink Floyds have... I've been listening to music from 1967 (I was 12 then ) but never liked the ones like Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Status Quo and a pair of others... till today I don't why. It just happened so.
But always and from the very start I liked Beatles, King Crimson, Yes, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Budgie, Atomic Rooster, ELP, Santana, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Genesis, AC/DC, Uriah Heep, ZZ Top, Rush and many, many others...
I have more than 8000 albums and really don't know, what could be the best. Depends a lot on the mood...

Some of my prefered ones:

Depeche Mode - "Violator"
Pink Floyd - it's difficult to select one... maybe "Pulse" for the great "songs combo" and the live recording...
Metallica - difficult to pick one again... maybe "Black album", the transition...
Placebo - "Without you I'm nothing"
David Bowie - "White tie, black noise"
Autechre - "Garbage EP" (The electronic-abstrabtion-state-of-the-art)
Radiohead - "Kid A"
The Prodigy - "The Fat of the land"
Los Ilegales - "Regreso al sexo quimicamente puro". "Los ilegales" are an spanish rock band, with great great lyrics, the translation of the title of the album is something like "Return to chemical-pure sex"...

There are more... but I think are my prefered ones.
Regards.
b:.

Iron Maiden-"Brave New World"

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

That is really an awesome album, and very sad.

I'll have to throw in a soundtrack as well:
David Arnold -- Stargate

It might be a dull movie but the soundtrack is one of the most powerful and dynamic pieces of classical music I've ever heard.

No Tangerine Dream fans here?

My favorite album of all time is Tangerine Dream - The Dream Mixes

Close second is Delerium - Karma.

Tool - AEnima