Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[misterqueue]

4. Outside - David Bowie

It's nice to finally meet the OTHER person who owns this album.  Good day to you sir.

[robot_god]

1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
3. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
4. Parliament Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies
5. King Crimson - Three Of A Perfect Pair

Eight years ago, this list would have been

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2. Green Day - Dookie
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
4. Metallica - Master of Puppets
5. some other randomly selected Metallica album

[Roger]

Dammit.  I tried so hard to stay away from the top 25 thread because this is the hardest thing for me. But you keep on pushing, so here we go:

The Who - Sell Out
The Stooges - Funhouse
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City (I know, those are two different albums, but I have both on a single CD so they've always been a single enttity for me)
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs

[AugustWest]

This is really hard, but off the top of my head, and in no order:

Zappa and the Mothers: Hot Rats
The Band: The Band
Grateful Dead: Europe '72
Pink Floyd: Piper or Meddle or Wish You Were Here
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisted

[smick]

I feel like I should like The Pink Album more than I do, because of course "their old stuff is better" but I just can't get into that one as much. The only song I really get into is 32 Footsteps.

Well, I first heard a lot of it in 5th grade (When it came out) but then finally got a dubbed copy in 9th grade.   It shaped a lot of my growing musical tastes.

[Emmoh]

Okay...deep breath. I'm not going to stand by any of these in the morning....

In Hi Fidelity biographical order...

(edit, upon further review, I should probably push the bottom two out and put:
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger and
Rocket From the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream on top and push out the bottom two...or...)
The Clash - London Calling
The Who - Who's Next
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Fugazi - The Argument
Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
(...put
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium at the bottom, and push out, God knows what...shit, is this hard)

[AlohaDawg]

This is really hard, but off the top of my head, and in no order:

Zappa and the Mothers: Hot Rats
The Band: The Band
Grateful Dead: Europe '72
Pink Floyd: Piper or Meddle or Wish You Were Here
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisted

What about the Inkspots? Tommy Dorsey? 

Just fuckin' with you, this is a rare music list on this board on which I have listened to and like everyone on it.

Rock on, Old Man.

[V-Adore]

Oh, mother fuck, this is hard. But I'll try.

Four I'm sure of, and two that tie for fifth:

Moxy Fruvous, You Will Go To The Moon
TMBG, John Henry
R.E.M., Life's Rich Pageant
Semisonic, Feeling Strangely Fine
Cake, Comfort Eagle / Ben Folds Five, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

The TMBG and R.E.M. choices are especially hard, since there are about three or four albums by each of them that could make this list.

[AugustWest]

What about the Inkspots? Tommy Dorsey? 

Just fuckin' with you, this is a rare music list on this board on which I have listened to and like everyone on it.

Rock on, Old Man.

1) Go ahead and laugh Mr. Notaspringchickeneither.

2) I could have included some Charlie Parker or Theolonius Monk.  Or Bach. 

3) Check back in 20 years and I betcha these young pukes' lists will be just as dated as mine.

[AlohaDawg]

1) Go ahead and laugh Mr. Notaspringchickeneither.

That was the only reason I figured I'd get away with it.

Hey, I found this onion over here. Did it fall off your belt?

[AugustWest]

That was the only reason I figured I'd get away with it.

Hey, I found this onion over here. Did it fall off your belt?

Let me tell you a rambling and pointless story about that...

[theinevitable]

really? that big star thing? I cannot get into it beyond a few songs. I will try harder.

also: the pink album? what band are you talking about?

[smick]

also: the pink album? what band are you talking about?

They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants

Came out in 1985

[jough]

Oh, holy shit.  This is an impossible task.

I will just list the first five albums that I can think of that I know I have listened to over 100 times in my lifetime (and by "over 100" I mean several hundred or thousand times for some of them).

1) The Velvet Underground "Loaded"
2) R.E.M. "Automatic For The People"
3) The Sex Pistols "Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols"
4) David Bowie "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars"
5) Ben Folds Five "Whatever And Ever Amen"
6) The Mothers "Fillmore East, June 1971"
7) The Magnetic Fields "69 Love Songs - Disc 1"
The Pixies "Trompe Le Monde"
9) The Smiths "The Queen Is Dead"
10) Radiohead "OK Computer"
11) Air "Moon Safari"
12) Weezer "Blue Album"
13) Beach Boys "Pet Sounds"
14) The Beatles "The White Album"
15) Morrissey "Vauxhall And I"
16) Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral"
17) Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus"
18) Nirvana "Nevermind"
19) The Beastie Boys "License To Ill"
20) Morphine "Cure For Pain"
21) Soul Coughing ""
22) Ministry "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste"
23) Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"
24) Metallica "Master Of Puppets"
25) Lenny Kravitz "Mama Said"
26) Led Zeppelin "Houses Of The Holy"
27) The Doors "Greatest Hits" (the 2-disc one)
28) Joe Satriani "Surfing With The Alien"
29) Jane's Addiction "Ritual De Lo Habitual"
30) Green Day "Dookie"
31) They Might Be Giants "John Henry"
32) The Dead Kennedys "Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death"
33) Frank Sinatra "Sinatra At The Sands"
34) Faith No More "Angel Dust"
35) Eric Johnson "Ah Via Musicom"
36) Elastica "Elastica"
37) Counting Crows "August And Everything After"
38) Black Crowes "Shake Your Money Maker"
39) George Harrison "Cloud Nine"
40) Bruce Springsteen "Born In The U.S.A."
41) Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited"
42) Blur "Parklife"
43) Billy Joel "The Stranger"
44) Belle & Sebastian "If You're Feeling Sinister"
45) Beck "Midnite Vultures" (I keep editing this to "Mutations" too - back and forth)
46) Van Halen "Van Halen"
47) Violent Femmes "Why Do Birds Sing?"
48) U2 "Achtung Baby"
49) Tom Waits "Rain Dogs"
50) Tom Petty "Full Moon Fever"

EDIT: Every time I save, I think "Holy Shit, I forgot ________!  I listened to that album way more than these other ones!"

I stopped at 20 30 40 a lot, and as I was adding them I couldn't believe that I put Radiohead that far down on the list.  That one is probably my most listened to ever.   Also, I only listed one album for any one artist, but of course for The Smiths, R.E.M., Radiohead, heck, pretty much any of the bands listed here I could almost have gone with another album in that slot on any given day.  I was just trying to come to terms with the ones I just played (and still play) over and over and over and over again.

I may come back and add more later. 

[Roger]

really? that big star thing? I cannot get into it beyond a few songs. I will try harder.

Oh you must at least give it one more try. Maybe you'll like Radio City better, since they recorded it after the departure of Chris Bell (the poppier, sweeter half of the original songwriting duo), leaving more room for the rawest of the two, Alex Chilton.

And then if you're brave enough you'll move on to Third AKA Sister Lovers, in which that rawness becomes desperation and mental disintegration. A song titled Holocaust might give you a hint that it's not an album to be listened to in your most vulnerable moments.