Hope this isnt cheating by posting a compilation but mine is:

The Best of the Best Air Guitar Albums in the World... Ever!

3 CDs of the best rock ever.

Failing that ill go for:

Fall out boy - Under the cork tree

Very nice, it's my favorite album too since 1989!
But I was 14 at that time

Santana - Abraxas, where the Samba Pa Ti is even better than Black magic Woman/Gypsy Queen, the Samba lets my gf melt down immediately I put it up
When I 1st played this album, this physical result was quite surprising.

Another ladykiller: Pink Floyds Wish you were here - Shine on you crazy diamond , in the 5.1 DTS-CD version!

Queen - Innuendo is pure pain, art, emotion, Queen at their final eclipse.

Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik , this little piece of music tells everything about music, from calm ballad to poprocky eruptions. If you have this with the overture of Cosi fan tutte, you don't need much else.

Technically best albums are Dire straits , of course, but also Jacques Loussier Trio plays Bach, who combines pure bass, piano & drums with the 1st hard rocker of history = Bach. hm, hard rock, best album Deep purple in Rock, I think.

hmhm, already more than 1 really best
You cannot compare apples with peaches

Yeah!! Iron Maiden "Piece Of Mind". My most favourite album ever!

Jethro Tull - Catfish Rising

Uhm... are many but having to choose one of them....

I choose Art Of Life of X-Japan

Best song that express all the feelings of the human heart/mind and the life too...

Maybe the only band that has tried to make a song of so emotional high-level. Thanks X-Japan 4ever. [sigh]

noone here likes Trance music

My favorite CD is "A Trip In Trance" - CD2 (mixed by DJ Esquille)
also Scooter - The Stadium Techno Experience (not all tracks though, the best track is "Soul Train").

Neneh Cherrie's Homebrew (1992), 'Move With Me' and 'Peace of Mind' are my favorite tracks from this album, produced like most of her music by Booga Bear (her husband). Her music grew on me a lot over the years, she's my favorite artist, it's a pity she didn't release a album since ten years.

Peter Gabriel - Passion

Yes! "Angel Dust." Definitely the first thing that came to my mind.

Thats`s easy:

Wishbone Ash - Argus

Well, not so easy:

Peter Green - In the skies

Hehe, today I actually updated my entry from 2003. Don't you just love these long-running threads

De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta

Genesis: The lamb lies down on broadway

orrrrr

Steely Dan: Aja

This has got to be one of the Hardest Questions In The Universe To Answer...

For me, it's a three-way tie between...

Physical Graffitti - Led Zeppelin
The Beatles (the white album) - The Beatles
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

...with honorable mention going to...

Yessongs - Yes

I base these choices on how many copies of each album I've owned over the years (based on that criteria, I expect that most releases by Primus will be moving up the list...Primus sucks!).

I love these threads to gather music suggestions...

In my modest collection, I will choose

Neil Young - "Decade"

Hybrid - "Wide Angle"


Cool style, very creative work on the drums and strings, includes my all-time favourite track and one of the best mixings/masterings I've ever heard. Awesome!

It's always switching between Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco and De-Loused in the Commatorium by The Mars Volta...

Right now it's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.


I've gotten really into 5.1 music lately and my favorite out of my limited collection (not my fault they don't release much music to my tastes in surround) has to be Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming lips. It's the most creative and involving use of 5.1 I've ever heard, bar none. A close second is DJ Play My Blues by Buddy Guy. The mix on that album is absolutely superb. He's probably my favorite guitarist too. I've never heard anyone who's played like him. Sure, there is no shortage of guitarists who can play faster than him, but they don't make their guitar sound like it's about to catch fire.

Well my tastes grew several notches above when I discovered Pink Floyd.

But anybody knows the "talent" pianist and compositor Bob James !?!?
And his partnership in the GREAT quartet called Fourplay? (smooth jazz)

"Joined at the hip" with Kirk Whalum is one of his greatest albums that I have listen

Great thread (nicely revived from the dead btw) and a lot of great music mentioned. However only one album I've ever heard stands above all the others. And it's hard choice because it's up against some other really great albums. And that album is:

Ayreon - The Human Equation

It's like taking every type of music I love and blending it together into one massive progressive rock/metal opera. I love it so much. Not to mention it introduced me to a lot of other bands because their singers participated in it.

I've had this album scince christmas of 2004. Great album indeed.

1) Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
2) Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
3) The Verve - A Northern Soul

Can't decide between:

Pink Floyd: Animals or The Wall

Led Zep: Physical Graffiti

Rush: Hemispheres

The best album ever for today is... "Standing in the Way of Control" by "The Gossip".
Call it garage soul or riot disco, but yes, sir, they can boogie indeed.

Almost any Dream Theater album. "Awake", "Images and Words", and "Scenes from a Memory" rank up as my top 3.

It's out of these 4 for me:

Eliminator - ZZ Top

U2 - War

The Eagles - Eagles

Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

Depeche mode, Violator (shoot me )

Waltari - "yeah yeah die die" (death metal symphony in deep C)
Crustation with Bronagh Slevin - "Bloom" - if Bronagh promised to sing me cradlesongs every night I would marry her tommorow, no matter it's not saturday

another vote here, faith no more is my favourite band.. and angel dust it's just great album.. though folks must have been too stoned while recording

John Coltrane's A Love Supreme gets my vote - maybe even beating my Pink Floyd albums as my all-time favorite CD. Late-period Coltrane (from ALS to his death in 1967) isn't for the faint of heart, though

Number 1 is "Spilt Milk" by Jellyfish

others:
Bellybutton - Jellyfish
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Lateralus - Tool
Animals - Pink Floyd
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
The Pod - Ween
Pornography - The Cure
Illionis - Sufjan Stevens
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
Revolver - The Beatles
Sign O The Times - Prince
Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

There are countless others as well.

for me it's: hum - downward is heavenward

Enigma - Le roi est mort, vive le roi!

Fat Boys - Crushin







Just kidding.....

The real best album in my opinion is Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking

I am torn between Iced Earth - The Dark Saga and Judas Priest - Painkiller.

A Perfect Circle - Mer de noms

Don't you get bored by listening the same albums over and over again? I do, that's why there isn't a best album ever, just a best album of the moment for me.

Holy crap. I thought no one would mention this one. This has to be, without a doubt, my favorite album as well. It's just so good. Ayreon and Dream Theater are my favorite bands.

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory by Dream Theater is probably my second favorite album.

I used to listen to all of my CD's in alphabetical order by artist name and then in chronological order by year if they were by the same artist. I didn't deviate from it. No exceptions. Nightwish - Oceanborn, however, is the only album that I broke the chain for when I first heard it and I listened to it about 7 times in a row before going on to the next album.

^ Dream Theater are pwnage.

... Now Playing: Dream Theater - Scene Four: Beyond This Life [Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory #06] (11:23)

For best album ever... hm. I can't say. Maybe... King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King.

From early 1959, "Belafonte at Carnegie Hall" I know most of you on this board aren't old enough to remember 1959, but I was a teenager and I remember. This was a landmark recording. The first I ever heard "on location" (outside of studio) recording that actually had good sound. Heck, it had GREAT sound! Okay, now I need to find a CD version and see if the magic is still there....

Woody

Kelis - Trick Me

Bad Religion - No Control

Had that album in my cd player for an entire summer without changing it. And i still listen to it now. A truly great album is one that you play and it reminds you of a time and place in your life when you first heard it.

Tool - Lateralus

As a lot of people previously said this is just a momentary choice. However I think this is pretty accurate.

Jazz: Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Rock: King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
R&B: Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Blues: hard one.. probably B.B. King - Live At The Regal or Robert Cray - Strong Persuader
Classical: Tchaikovsky - Symphony 6
Electronic: also hard.. probably The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust


I'm pleased to see people pick great albums, a lot of Pink Floyd! Happy to see even Maggot Brain among these albums. Too bad people don't listen much to jazz anymore.

If I had to choose 1 single album from all eras and all genres, I would go for

Dire Straits (their debut album)

Magnetic Fields -- 69 Love Songs

For me it's Dark Side Of The Moon by the Floyd

Depending on my mood, my favorite album is one of the following:
The Velvet Underground & Nico
the Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
Surfer Rosa
Loveless
The Soft Bulletin or
Murray Street

But, that's about as short as I think I could make the list.
It's one of those, depending.

Rubber Soul by The Beatles

My fav song is on this album Norwegian Wood, the first time I heard this song I knew it was going to be a great album.