Your #1 absolute favorite album of all time?

[Section_43]

You can only choose one.

My pick is based on the fact that everytime I play it I hear zero flaws, it overwhelms with joy each time I play it, and it sounds fresh with each spin.


My pick is: "Loveless" by My Bloody Valentine



What is your pick and the criteria?

[aquaman]

1. Can't pick one

Sorry:
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Fugazi: 13 songs
Love and Rockets: Earth sun and moon
Nick Drake: Pink moon
Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die
Sunny Day Real Estate: Diary
Shit, I don't know, that is what I listened to tonight. My list would change if you asked me tomorrow.

[tarkus]

2. That is incredibly difficult because it varies so much with my mood...

Heavy Horses?
Up?
The Final Cut?
Close to the Edge?
Lateralus?

My god. What a difficult question.

[Forkboy]

3. It's amazingly easy for me to pick one

Jello Biafra and NoMeansNo-The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy.

[Cloud]

4. Paranoid by Black Sabbath

It has two of my favorite rock songs of all time on it, Paranoid and Iron Man.

[crimson333]

15. Kiss Alive 1

greatest album

[AWD]

5. Rancid - "....And Out Come The Wolves"

Seriously, the first 10 songs on the disc stand alone. 14 or 15 great tunes on it overall.

[tjdee]

23. GREAT CD.

That CD seriously, seriously rocks. It's fun, and his voice (Tim's?) is adorable. I'm not the greatest fan of that type of music, but I bought it after hearing Time Bomb and Ruby Soho (still one of my favorite tunes) and really liked it.

[mitchum]

6. "Let It Bleed"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. "Are You Experienced?"

Almost an impossible task, as there have been so many.

"Are You Experienced?" was an album that changed my life and that changed rock and roll forever. "I don't live today" ("ahhhh, there ain't no life nowhere").

I also played Chick Corea's "Light As A Feather" over and over and over again for years.

[MinnFats]

10. I must second both 6&7. Jimi & the Stones....perfect.

I might on some nights when the moon is out and I'm at a party that reminds me of some of those from long ago where we'd just dance our asses off until it was getting light out, substitute "Exile on Main Street" or "Sticky Fingers." But remember, "Let it Bleed" came out at almost the same time as "Let it Be" and was considered an angry back-of-the-hand toward the Beatles. Never stopped loving the Beatles but there was so fucking much to be angry about at the time (kinda like now.) Not a weak song on the lot of them.
and "Electric Ladyland" might stand in for "Experienced." depending on the evening's brain chemistry.

[rosalux]

8. fave

Who's Next

[Section_43]

13. good call

eom

[LastDemInIdaho]

9. DSOTM

I've been mad for fucking years

[uberotto]

11. Jimmy Buffet

Songs You Know By Heart.

Some of the best times of my life have happened while listening to Jimmy Buffet music.

[Skittles]

12. Rainbow Rising

it just rocks. :D

[scucci]

14. Unforgettable Fire - U2

Yes, it has many flaws but it is still harbors the most beautiful lyrics and chords ever recorded. JMO of course.

[Duncan Grant]

16. talking heads - "speaking in tongues"

I know the words to every song (that's my test).

Got to put in an honorable mention for Joni Mitchell's "Hissing of Summer Lawns", "Blue", "Court and Spark"...

Depending on the day, it's got to be Talking Heads or Joni Mitchell for me.

[moof]

17. Bannanawind / Jimmy Buffett

Songs you know by heart is great but since it is a greatest
hits type CD it seems unfair in this context.

Bannawind has some of everything political statements, love songs
& island music.

[MaineDem]

45. Desdemona's building a rocket ship

SHe's got a passion for cookies, a room full of rookies...

I love this album, too! :) The last song, about his father, has some great harmonies with James Taylor.

[mr blur]

18. Marquee Moon

Marquee Moon by Television.
Not only one of the most influential guitar albums of all time (The Strokes? Pah! where do you think they got it from?) but one which wears no obvious influences. I just listened to it again and it sounds as if it was recorded yesterday and not in 1977.

[chiburb]

19. Second Contribution by Shawn Phillips...

.

[chefgirl]

20. Pink Floyd

~ Dark Side of the Moon ~ :smoke:

-chef-

[SPICYHOT]

33. i have one vote in here too

love that, but i really like all pin floyd's work

[mac56]

21. "A Hard Day's Night" (British Parlophone version) by the Beatles.

A flawless album.

[Lindsey]

22. It depends on my mood...

but, I took a little road trip last weekend and reaquainted myself with:
Joshua Tree - U2 -It just may be my all time fav.

[LosinIt]

24. One that never fails to please is Capt Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy

and I am a straight female. Just good tunage to sing along to.

[stlsaxman]

25. "Clear Spot" - Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band

from '73 it was producer Ted Templemanns (Van Halen) production and
it is flawless. And Beefhearts lyrics are his finest- and the band is at thier
pinnicle of performance... Beefheart called it "the woman album" cuz he
wanted to attract women to his audience by making it "sexy"... but in the
process he made music that was accessable to everyone yet held true to
the Beefheart sound. The album is pure joy.

being such a difficult task- honing down to one- aww, fuggit- here's a short
list of my others....

"Larks Tongues In Aspic" and "Red" King Crimson
"Hounds Of Love" Kate Bush
"Who's Next" Duh!
"Mister Heartbreak" Laurie Anderson
"Birds Of Fire" Mahavishnu Orchestra
"Before And After Science" Brian Eno ........

jeez- the list goes on ad nauseum!

[newyawker99]

29. Congrats stlsaxman!! 400 posts

:toast:

[G_j]

40. cool

As far as Beefheart, "Lick My decals Off Baby" also a fav..

[DrBB]

44. Certainly high on Best Album Title of All Time

...if nothing else. But again, much as I love the lesser known Van Vliet, objectively speaking it's obvious which is the unbelievable, unprecedented work of genius.

[DrBB]

41. Well, it would have to be Troutmask for me

...if I was going to pick a Beefheart, which I'm strongly inclined to do, as my sig line indicates. I liked a lot of Clear Spot, but Troutmask is the masterwork. I don't really like his attempts at being "accessible," though Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles is the best of that kind of thing.

[chenGOD]

26. Too hard to pick one.

If you held a gun to my head I would probably say

Beastie Boys-"Paul's Boutique"

but I dunno how you can choose just one.....

can I include the other 400 or so if I can say them all in one breath?

[Whitacre D_WI]

27. Surfer Rosa

by the Pixies. Hands down.

Filling out the top 10:
Gibson Bros. - Dedicated Fool
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Wire - Pink Flag
Love - Forever Changes
Prince - Purple Rain
Bassholes - Blue Roots
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea

[DrBB]

46. Glad to see someone put Pixies #1

I was sore tempted--my fave is also Surfer Rosa, though Doolittle is a close 2nd. But I had to be ruthlessly honest and go with the Kinks.

Nice to see Gil Scott-Heron on your list, too. For a while I was using a play on his great signature line as my own DU sig--though no one seemed particularly impresed:

The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!

[ronnykmarshall]

28. Rummors

Fleetwood Mac's classic.

[jenm]

30. Stan Ridgway Mosquitos

[bamademo]

31. I have 2--Layla and Allman's Live at Fillmore East

Never get tired of those two.

[RetroLounge]

32. The Beatles

aka The White Album...

[Dirk39]

34. "Unknown Pleasures" or "Closer" or "Unknown Pleasures" or....

by Joy Division.
Dirk

[Fight_n_back]

35. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

nt

[carpetbagger]

36. The Final Cut

Roger Waters took his medications and was able to spit out what he was trying to say when he wrote The Wall.

[Raenelle]

37. Abbey Road

n/t

[FDRrocks]

38. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - RHCP

Probably the best all around CD I have ever bought.

[jus_the_facts]

39. RUNES~Led Zeppelin.....

:loveya:

[MaineDem]

42. Tapestry

by Carole King. Probably my all-time favorite. Today.

[DrBB]

43. Kink Kronicles I

Hands down. Which is above, in no particular order

Troutmask Replica (Beefheart)
Surfer Rosa (Pixies)
Doolittle (Pixies)
Bossa Nova (Pixies--did I mention I love the Pixies?)
Hot Rats (Frank Zappa)
Cry of Love (Jimi Hendrix)
More Songs About Buildings and Food (T Heads)
Easter Everywhere (13th Floor Elevators)
Arthur (Kinks)
Percy (Kinks)
Lola Versus Powerman and the Money-Go-Round (Kinks)
Muswell Hillbillies (Kinks--did I mention I worship Ray Davies?)
Axis Bold As Love
Band of Gypsies

and and andandandandandandandandand......

[DrBB]

47. And now I dare to announce the #1 absolute best rock SONG of all time

Which of course is "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks. I know that others will disagree and propose other things, even some other songs by Ray Davies. Sadly, they are wrong. It's "Waterloo Sunset."