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What's you favorite album of all time?

Mine is "Tonight's the Night" by Neil Young. Every time one of the songs from that album comes up on random I have to start it from the beginning and listen to the whole thing.

Favorite Album? For you, I've got 25! I did this last year in September or so. And it actually might have changed a bit since then. But I think it's mostly the same as this here:

1 Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
2 Vampire Weekend - vampire weekend
3 the thermals - the body the blood the machine
4 Edgar Winter Group - They only come out at night
5 Office - Q&A
6 Boston - Boston
7 The Cars - The Cars
8 Michael Jackson - Thriller
9 The Postal Service - Give Up
10 Metallica - Master of Puppets
11 Nas - Illmatic
12 Rush - Moving Pictures
13 T.I. - Paper Trail
14 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
15 Panic at the disco - Pretty Odd
16 Pearl Jam - Ten
17 Phoenix - It's never been like that
18 The Who - Who's Next
19 Blues Brothers - Soundtrack
20 Lou Reed - Transformer
21 Lady Gaga - The Fame
22 Hold Steady - Stay Positive
23 Kanye West - Graduation
24 Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health
25 Franz Ferdinand - You could have it so much better

2112 by Rush. Not just for the epic 2112 (Discovery, Presentation and Oracle are my favorite movements) but for the other side as well, Lessons, Twilight Zone, A Passage to Bangkok, Tears and Something for Nothing. Yes, Moving Pictures is the one that most would answer with, but 2112 is by far my favorite album by anyone, ever. From quiet acoustic to roaring rock, this album has it all, and some great lyrics to boot with all the songs.

This is one that hasn't changed for me since I first heard it.

Hunky Dory- David Bowie

Probably Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.

Sparhawk said:

Yes, Moving Pictures is the one that most would answer with, but 2112 is by far my favorite album by anyone, ever.

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Rush is my favorite band, but none of their albums rank as my favorite. Even if one did, 2112 ranks far higher than Moving Pictures for me, although I think Vapor Trails beats it out too.


My favorite album, however, would probably by unknown by anyone outside Canada, and likely even most Canadians. It's one of the following:

Whore, by Dalbello
The Wonderful World of... by the Pursuit of Happiness

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Not only does it lack a single bad song, but unlike most of the other contenders I had for this, it is best listened to from start to finish.

Runners up:
Live at Leeds
Who's Next
1985
Abbey Road

For my all-time favorite, I'm going to have to go with Mothership Connection by Parliament. Clinton and co really hit their stride with this one. Conceptually, I don't know if it's as quite awesome as the heights they would go on to reach with Funkentelechy, but it was here that they introduced Star Child and other concepts, besides of which musically it's amongst the strongest and funkiest stuff they did. Bootsy's expert bass-popping is all over it, and Maceo and Fred Wesley's horn section keep it tight and funky throughout. Vocal-wise, Clinton is in fine form spitting out his intergalactic spoken raps and punchlines, and Glen Goins, arguably the best singer in the vast P-Funk army, shines on the titular track as well as others including the often-overlooked but nonetheless excellent Unfunky UFO. The guitars are funky, the drums are funky, Bernie Worrell keeps it real on tracks like Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication, and Clinton's brings his best wacky chants on Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples.

Tough question!

1. Doolittle, Pixies.
2. You're A Woman, I'm a Machine, Death From Above 1979
3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel
4. The Blue Album, Weezer
5. Yikes, I don't know...Sufer Rosa? Nevermind? Hail to the Thief? Tough, tough choices...

Hmmm, this is tough.

I'll list a few in no particular order.

The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse

The Division Bell by Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin 4 (aka Zoso, Symbols, etc.)

Alive 2007 by Daft Punk

Morning View by Incubus

How the hell do I pick? Yeesh.
I don't think I can say favorites but I can say the ones that are most important to me I think (in no real order of importance):

1) U2 - Achtung Baby
2) Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
3) NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
4) Ministry - Psalm 69
5) The Cure - Disintigration
6) The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
7) Radiohead - Kid A
8) Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
9) NIN - The Fragile
10) Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic

Honestly I don't think I could narrow it down beyond that very much.

Either What's Going On - Marvin Gaye or Stand! - Sly & Family Stone.
Both took their respective genres to unimaginable places. In fact, I'm pretty sure Sly invented a few with that one, actually.

Radiohead - OK Computer,

Though it's very very hard to pick just one, and Kid A is a close contender. One thing I love about Radiohead is that they're one of the few bands left that make real ALBUMS anymore. By that I mean ones that demand to be listened from start to finish in their proper order, with songs that culminate into a cohesive whole, and not just being a collection of tracks. So when for whatever reason the subject of best album or best albums come up, Radiohead always instantly comes to mind for me. Also just when I feared they might start slipping with Hail to the Thief (There were some good tracks but just didn't seem to be up to the quality of their last few cds) They hit it out of the park with In Rainbows.

Also, Juski's picks are very close to what I would put as some of my top albums. Especially Neutral Milk Hotel.

Kid A literally changed my mind about music. I was so tired of music, of the monotony of the late 90's and then BAM! This album came along and it changed how I thought about music.

Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation

This is too hard.

But one of them is Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits

another is Mingus' Ah Um

I'm not one for music, to be honest, but I do have a few faves:

-Bryan Adams - Waking up the Neighbors, Unplugged or So Far So Good
-Flogging Molly - I've honestly got all four of their albums on shuffle on my mp3, so I don't know which is which.
-Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog
-Avenue Q
-Buffy: Once More With Feeling
-Rolling Stones - Some kind of 2-disc compilation album; can't remember its name
-Bordello of Blood sountrack (surprising number of damn good rock songs on there)

Fortune's Favour - Great Big Sea
Viva La Vida & Prospekt's March - Coldplay
2112 -Rush
Strange Animal - Gowan

Most of what I listen to(75%) is Classic Rock, but I don't have any albums that really have a ton of music I love other than those listed above.

Zumbo Prime said:

Strange Animal - Gowan

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Side B of that album is pretty much perfect, and Side A is nearly so. Should also add that I love the bass on Cosmetics and Desperate.

Really tough call.

I've got it down to a few, though:

The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly
Whatever and Ever, Amen - Ben Folds Five
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Espy said:

Kid A literally changed my mind about music. I was so tired of music, of the monotony of the late 90's and then BAM! This album came along and it changed how I thought about music.

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Really the same with me. There was a period in high school where I discovered Radiohead, The Pixies and a a great indie band from the late 90s / early 00s called The Dismemberment Plan around the same time. Those three bands in conjunction literally changed my taste is music overnight. And then shortly after I discovered Modest Mouse .

OK Computer was the CD that got me way into Radiohead, and one of those cornerstone moments. It was Doolittle (see: the dead arm that is my subsection of the forum) that really kicked my rock n' roll sensibilities back in high school. Since then there's been a few, the last major one being DFA 1979's You're a Woman, I'm a Machine and possibly The Japandroid's Post Nothing. God those are stellar albums. I think I'll go listen to the latter right now!

I guess if it's "which album have you listened to end to end more than any other" that might be Sister Sweetly by Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Radio KAOS - Roger Waters
Dream Academy - Dream Academy
A Different Kind of Weather - Dream Academy
The Wall - Pink Floyd
MCMXC a.D. - Enigma
Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! - EnigmaTurn of a Friendly Card - Alan Parson's Project