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[jimbunny]

Daisy May - Heart Song
Breathe Owl Breathe - Climb In
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Bjork - Vespertine

... and Ocean Machine - Biomech

[Durin]

Kid A- Radiohead
The Bends- Radiohead
The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place- Explosions in the Sky
Origin of Symmetry- Muse
Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
F♯A♯∞- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Alive 2007- Daft Punk

[De_El]

I'm a bit late on this, please pardon.

Akuma no Uta - Boris
Ambient 1: Music for Airports - Brian Eno
Lots of Tom Waits albums, but if I were to narrow it down to the ones I can always come back to and never get sick of, it'd be Small Change, or Frank's Wild Years
Fabulous Muscles - Xiu Xiu
Closer - Joy Division
the Idiot - Iggy Pop
Juju - Siouxsie & the Banshees
The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry
All Hail West Texas - The Mountain Goats
My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker
I Could Live in Hope - Low
Jettison - Naked Raygun
End on End - Rites of Spring
Cursive's Domestica
Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

[Shadows Collide]

#1 Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
#2 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
#3 Cynic - Focus
#4 A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
#5 Agalloch - Pale Folklore
#6 John Frusciante - The Will to Death

That's strictly at this very moment, but for me I don't think anything could ever top Laughing Stock. Favourite moment on the album at the moment - the perfectly simple last piano chords that end to the album on "Runeii".

Favourite song of all time (today): God is an Astronaut - "Remembrance Day"

[dalconnsuch]

heres mine

in the aeroplane over the sea - neutral milk hotel

soft bulletin - the flaming lips

revolver - the beatles

lateralus - tool

moving pictures - rush

welcome to the monkey house - the dandy warhols

12 songs - fugazi

not really my top cuz i don't keep track so i'm takin ga shot in the dark here

[gardenhead_]

I think you mean 13 Songs.

Mostly my favourite albums are always changing, but a few that I always come back to are Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports and Another Green World, anything by Xiu Xiu, and Collosal Youth, a collection of Young Marble Giants' stuff.

Lately I've been diggin' Women's self titled, Dirty Three's Horse Stories (this album is epic in every way possible) and Grey Daturas' new album Return to Disruption, which is like Mogwai's Young Team if you turned it up and covered it all in feedback and fuzz.

[Spluff]

*list*

That's a damn fine list, son.

[Patrick]

I forgot to mention a few, and I will probably get shit for the last three:

N.W.A. - efiL4zaggiN
Texas Tornados - s/t
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Rage Against The Machine - s/t, Battle of Los Angeles
Third Eye Blind - s/t (sue me, I adore this album)
Billy Talent - Billy Talent II
System Of A Down - Toxicity (again, sue me)

[gardenhead_]

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

I just got this yesterday, and it is well on its way to becoming one of my favourite jazz albums. The Shape Of Jazz To Come will always be my favourite, though.

[TheFuriousWombat]

Guys, the best jazz album is 'Skol'. Oscar Peterson on piano, Stephane Grappelli on violin, Joe Pass on guitar, Niels Henning Orsted-Pedersen on bass and Mickey Roker on drums, all live from Amsterdam. It's absolutely incredible. Listen to it!

[look out! Ninjas!]

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

All other albums are rubbish.

[Shadows Collide]

Favourite Jazz albums:
#1 Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
- Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
- Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
- John Coltrane - Ascension
- Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidanada
- Pharaoh Sanders - Karma

Favourite Hip Hop song of all time: Edan - Making Planets (ft. Mr Lif)
Favourite Tom Waits song at the moment: Train Song
Favourite Agalloch song: Odal

[Uber Ritter]

Currently some of my favorites; not saying they're the best ever or anything, just albums I really, really like right now:

My Bloody Valentine-Loveless---I just bought this, several years after first listening to it.  Listening to it all the way through is pretty freakin' cathartic.

Guns N Roses-Appetite for Destruction---What more do I need to say?  I've had this album since I was 13 (so for like 9 years or so) and I still love every second.

Queens of the Stone Age-Era Vulgaris---I don't know if it's their best album, but I like it better than Songs for the Deaf, and that was a really good album.

Godspeed You Black Emperor!-Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven---my favorite album of theirs, probably.

The Pop Group-Y---You know you've listened to enough noise and grindcore when this bands name seems appropriate rather than just incongruous.  Weird shit, but good.

Boris-Pink---Probably ranks alongside Era Vulgaris among candidates for a contemporary Appetite for Destruction

Ulver-Bergtatt---Probably the black metal dearest to my heart right now, though I don't even own the album, having a lot of other expenses right now, Youtube will have to do.  I love vocal harmonies (in this case Garm's vocals overlaid on each other).

The Seldom Scene-Live at the Cellar Door---Great live recording of a good chunk of the live material of this '70's Bluegrass band.  Did I mention that I love vocal harmonies?

The Beatles-The Beatles/The White Album---an amazing experience to listen to all the way through, so diverse, even two songs written by the same Beattle often seem like they were two different bands.  And George definitely comes into his own as a songwriter.

And there's lots more, but that's what's on my mind at the moment.

[Thrillho]

The Beatles-The Beatles/The White Album---an amazing experience to listen to all the way through, so diverse, even two songs written by the same Beattle often seem like they were two different bands.  And George definitely comes into his own as a songwriter.

The acclaim meted out to this album is something I can just about understand but never agree with, but then this is a favourites list after all.

[BlakeJustBlake]

Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Mogwai - Rock Action
Mogwai - Government Commissions
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
Mogwai - Young Team
Mogwai - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Mogwai - No Education=No Future
Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Mogwai - Kicking A Dead Pig
Mogwai - Ten Rapid
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it In People
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Explosions In The sky - How Strange, Innocence
The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again
Mum - Finally We Are No One
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
The Strokes - Is This It
The Clash - London Calling
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Miles Davis - Kind of  Blue
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Wolf Parade - Apologies To Queen Mary


Can anyone tell who my favorite band is?

[s42]

The Ascension - Glenn Branca
No New York (Compilation of Mars, James Chance and the Contortions, DNA, and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks)
Ok Computer - Radiohead
Blues for the Red Sun - Kyuss
From Mars to Sirius - Gojira
Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
Untrue - Burial
Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie (Comon, it's awesome, admit it)
Spiderland - Slint (obligatory)
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
In Sorte Diaboli - Dimmu Borgir
Raw Power - Iggy And The Stooges
Nevermind the Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols
Im the Supervisor - Infected Mushroom
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Nanotime - Kim Sa Rang (I will admit, I only like one song on it, but it's friggin' brilliant)
Anything by Laura
Nirvana - Nirvana (Yeah that's right, the singles comp. I like it.)
Damnation - Opeth
Blackwater Park - Opeth
Dummy - Portishead
Experimenta, Jet Set, Trash, and No Star - Sonic Youth
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
EDIT: Forgot
An Announcement to Answer - Quantic

Yeah that's pretty much it. Looking it over, those are all the albums I actually listen to on a daily basis, cept maybe the two Opeth albums which get switched for each other every now and then.
I really have to listen to In The Airplane Over The Sea, I hear so many damn good things about it.

[Big Happy Captain]

in alphabetical order:

Automating Volume One- Nurse With Wound
Finally We Are No One- Mům
Frengers- Mew
Here Come The Warm Jets- Brian Eno
Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy- Mům
Then And Now: Maximum Who- The Who (does that count?)
Travel In Constants Vol. 20- Eluvium
Under The Western Freeway- Grandaddy

[bucky_2300]

Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Wes Montgomery - Incredible Jazz Guitar
Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at the Half Note
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Van Halen - Van Halen
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy
The Who - Quadrophenia
Rush - Moving Pictures

[BlakeJustBlake]

Someone plays guitar.

[Durin]

*list*
Can anyone tell who my favorite band is?

Not Mogwai obviously.

[bucky_2300]

Someone plays guitar.

Damn skippy.

[Jackie Blue]

Favourite album lists are shite because inevitably most people throw in shit like Miles Davis or Public Enemy just to prove they're eclectic.  I love both those artists and lots of other "diverse shit" but I will always roll my eyes at the mindset that a list of favourite albums should somehow exhibit the variety of your taste rather than simply naming the albums you actually have listened to or enjoyed the most in your life.

[Durin]

Really? I think it is Mogwai. Look at all the albums by them he has put up there.

Psh you are obviously mistaken.

[BlakeJustBlake]

Favourite album lists are shite because inevitably most people throw in shit like Miles Davis or Public Enemy just to prove they're eclectic.  I love both those artists and lots of other "diverse shit" but I will always roll my eyes at the mindset that a list of favourite albums should somehow exhibit the variety of your taste rather than simply naming the albums you actually have listened to or enjoyed the most in your life.

Yeah, it's not like I'm a jazz musician who thinks Miles Davis made some good music or anything, nooo, not me, I don't actually like most of the music I listen to.

[BlakeJustBlake]

Because, being one of the people who listed Miles Davis' Kind of Blue as a favorite album, it appears he is targeting me to say I am just throwing it in there to prove I'm eclectic. And I, good sir, don't take kindly to attack!

[Jackie Blue]

I wasn't talking about you in specific, but you have to admit that the phenomenon of which I speak does actually happen.

[s42]

Guess this whole interaction just proves it's better to take people at face value eh? If zerodrone had just had faith in humanity none of this indignation need have taken place.
That's some bullshit, but regardless, I think when it's something as petty as an album list on the internet, we should just let a little trust stand here. I mean, who cares enough to subversively rig their favorite albums list on the INTERNET?

[BlakeJustBlake]

Hmm, I'd really like everyone to think that I'm a convoluted hipster, so I'm going to make up band names and put them on my favorite albums list....

[Jackie Blue]

If zerodrone had just had faith in humanity

Hahahahahahahaha.

Yeah I mean wait...

Hahahahahahahahaaha.  Oh, ha.  Haha.  OK, I'm done now.  No, wait.

Hahahahahahahahaha.

Anyway, you're naive if you don't think people front-load "favourite album lists" in order to look cool, especially on a g-damn music forum.

[BlakeJustBlake]

And you're ridiculous to care that they do it.

[Jackie Blue]

When did I ever say that I care?

Everyone here has a personality.  We take getting used to.  Me, probably moreso than most.  I understand that, being new, you don't get me.  So just like, you know, relax and lay low a bit until you get to know the people you're talking to.

SMOKE A BOWL DUDE

[s42]

*cough* There was a bit of sarcasm in that there post, I ain't gonna lie to ya.

[BlakeJustBlake]

When did I ever say that I care?

Everyone here has a personality.  We take getting used to.  Me, probably moreso than most.  I understand that, being new, you don't get me.  So just like, you know, relax and lay low a bit until you get to know the people you're talking to.

SMOKE A BOWL DUDE

I'm going to disagree with what you say, but refrain from argument, because I'd prefer not to spur up too much dust so young. Though I do, obviously, agree that everyone here (and everywhere else) has a personality. And the internet does a good job of heavily hiding those personalities due to our "mis-connotated" words. Several people could read the same sentence and think completely different things about it.

But I don't do drugs thanks, I'm already extremely laid back as it is, that's part of my personality. It takes getting used to. Mine, possibly more than others. I understand that, me being new, you don't get me.

But it's cool, that stuff always happens.

[BlakeJustBlake]

I'm going to take that as a compliment, even if it wasn't one, you're not getting it back now.

[deannamarie]

divurging from the current conversation....

favorite albums

yaphet kotto- syncopated synthetic lament for love
the one am radio- a name writ in water
ms john soda- no p. or d.
mewithoutyou- brother, sister
fugees- the score
dooey decibel- adult sleepover
do make say think; all of their albums
jeniferever-choose a bright morning
maps and atlases- tree, swallow, houses
all music made by kid sister

[imapiratearg]

I wouldn't put it in my favorite albums list just yet, but I've been listening to Mock Orange's Mind Is Not Brain quite a bit lately, and it's absolutely stellar.

I put it up in the Mediafire thread for anyone who's interested.

[BlakeJustBlake]

*list*

So, I'm going to go ahead and shamefully admit I haven't heard of most of that, except for mewithoutyou, which is actually pretty alright. So you've given me a bunch of stuff to sample real quick.

[gospel]

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
Cake - Comfort Eagle
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass  (Yes, I like him more than John.)
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We are in Space
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Ennio Morricone - A Fistful of Music (dunno is this qualifies.)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Beck - Sea Changes
BSS - You Forgot it in People
Bowie - Honky Dorky
Elvis Castello - My Aim is True
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Okkervil River - Down the River of Golden Dreams
The Pogue - If I Should Fall fromt he Grace with God
Sufjan Stevens - Come Feel the Illinoise!
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Wolf Parade - Apologizes to the Queen Mary
Wilco - YHF
The Walkmen - Everybody Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
Van Morrison - Moondance
A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky
The National - Alligator
The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Tool - Salival (Live)
Denki Groove - VOXX  (Literally like the only "techno" band I can listen to.)

I was just sorta lazy and used the albums I'll never take off my iPod.

[MrNovember]

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Nick Cave and Bad Seeds - Let Love In
The National - Boxer
The Replacements - Let it Be
Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Leonard Cohen - The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Love - Four Sail
Magnetic Fields - Get Lost
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Wrens - Secaucus
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

And I'm spent.

[Caspian]

... and Ocean Machine - Biomech

Yes! Love this album. That would probably be my 11th pick.

Surprised by the amount of people who've put Bergtatt here, too. Upon listening to their trilogie, though, I might have to say that Nattens is actually better.

[Patrick]

Favourite album lists are shite because inevitably most people throw in shit like Miles Davis or Public Enemy just to prove they're eclectic.  I love both those artists and lots of other "diverse shit" but I will always roll my eyes at the mindset that a list of favourite albums should somehow exhibit the variety of your taste rather than simply naming the albums you actually have listened to or enjoyed the most in your life.

I agree, and would like to make it clear that other than the Best Of collection I have for Glenn Miller (I refuse to include "best of" collections in my list because they are not real albums), that really is the only jazz I have that I enjoy (let alone would put on my favourites list), and I admit this quite freely.

That said, if I were to include Best Of collections in my lists, Jimmy Buffett's "Songs You Know By Heart" is in the top 3.

[Thrillho]

Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell (2004)
The Beatles - Help! (1965)
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl (2005, my album of the year)
blink-182 - Enema Of the State (1999)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (2004)
Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002)
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime (1995)
Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute (2002)
Hard-Fi - Stars Of CCTV (2005)
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots (2004)
Lostprophets - The Fake Sound Of Progress (2001)
NWA - Straight Outta Compton (1988)
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)
Notorious BIG - Life After Death (1997)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979)
Primal Scream - XTMNTR (2000)
Queen - The Works (1984)
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
SikTh - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild (2003)
The Verve - Urban Hymns (1997)
Weezer - Weezer (1994)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

Zero, considering the domination of Britpop (And the 1990s/2000s in general) on my list and inclusion of Eminem and blink-182, I'm reasonably confident that if I have 'frontloaded' my list for this forum, I've done it by accident and not very well.

[Ballard]

Ambulance LTD - LP
The Morning After Girls - Prelude: EPs 1 & 2
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81

[Thrillho]

P.S. Add to my list Powder Burns by Twilight Singers.
P.P.S. Baby 81???? That's my least favourite BRMC record. It's all about Howl...

[Daft pun]

P.P.S. Baby 81???? That's my least favourite BRMC record. It's all about Howl BRMC...

[Kai]

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
The Velvet Underground - Psychocandy

[BlakeJustBlake]

Velvet Underground is great and everything, but I absolutely hate Nico's voice.

[michaelicious]

The Velvet Underground - Psychocandy

 

[imapiratearg]

Velvet Underground is great and everything, but I absolutely hate Nico's voice.

For real.  It was the only thing about that album I didn't like.  I was like, "MOAR LOU"

[Thrillho]

Velvet Underground is great and everything, but I absolutely hate Nico's voice.

Jesus, FINALLY someone else agrees with me. Last time I said that here nobody agreed with me and I wondered if I was missing something.

I know Reed and Cale are no great shakes vocally, but there's something endearing about it. Nico sounds to me like she thinks she's too cool for melody.