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Tari

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List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« on: July 26, 2012, 06:08:41 PM »
I've been going crazy the last couple weeks as I haven't been able to listen to music, so I thought I'd put a list together of some favorite albums off the top of my head.  This first list is from 1960-Present day, focusing on Rock and Folk.  It's totally personal preference (which is why you won't see any dylan or heavy metal on it.)  I'm always trying to find new music (or old hidden gems) so thought we could have a list-off, if you will.  I'll try to put some together with some Classical and Jazz (my predominant genres) when I get the chance.

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100   
   
Robyn Hitchcock

I Often Dream of Trains (1984)



99   
   
Linda Perhacs

Parallelograms (1970)
 


98   
   
Weezer

Weezer [Blue Album] (1994)
 


97   
   
Exuma

Exuma (1970)
 


96   
   
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Déjà vu (1970)



95   
   
Sigur Rós

Ágætis byrjun (1999)
 


94   
   
The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses (1989)


 
93   
   
Soft Machine

Third (1970)
 


92   
   
Magazine

Real Life (1978)
 


91   
   
The Pretty Things

Parachute (1970)



90   
   
Gentle Giant

Octopus (1972)


 
89   
   
Rush

Moving Pictures (1981)
 


88   
   
Wings

Band on the Run (1973)
 


87   
   
Tim Buckley

Happy Sad (1969)
 


86   
   
Frank Zappa

Hot Rats (1969)
 


85   
   
John Martyn

Solid Air (1973)



84   
   
Paul McCartney

Ram (1971)
 


83   
   
Caravan

In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971)



82   
   
Grizzly Bear

Veckatimest (2009)



81   
   
My Bloody Valentine

Loveless (1991)
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80   
   
Yo La Tengo

I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)
 


79   
   
Talk Talk

Spirit of Eden (1988)
 


78   
   
Big Star

3rd (1978)
 


77   
   
Pixies

Doolittle (1989)



76   
   
Kate Bush

Hounds of Love (1985)
 


75   
   
Sparks

Kimono My House (1974)
 


74   
   
Neutral Milk Hotel

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
 


73   
   
Wilco

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
 


72   
   
Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin II (1969)
 


71   
   
Animal Collective

Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)



70   
   
Panda Bear

Person Pitch (2007)
 


69   
   
Steely Dan

Pretzel Logic (1974)
 


68   
   
Jethro Tull

Thick as a Brick (1972)
 


67   
   
Yes

Fragile (1971)
 


66   
   
Neil Young

After the Gold Rush (1970)
 


65   
   
Duncan Browne

Give Me Take You (1968)
 


64   
   
Donovan

A Gift From a Flower to a Garden (1967)
 


63   
   
Nirvana

Nevermind (1991)
 


62   
   
Fairport Convention

Unhalfbricking (1969)
 


61   
   
Simon & Garfunkel

Bookends (1998)
 


60   
   
The Beach Boys

Friends (1968)
 


59   
   
Belle and Sebastian

If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
 


58   
   
Camel

Mirage (1974)
 


57   
   
Elliott Smith

Figure 8 (2000)
 


56   
   
The Mamas & the Papas

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966)
 


55   
   
XTC

Skylarking (1986)
 


54   
   
The Who

Tommy (1969)
 


53   
   
Brian Wilson

Smile (2004)
 


52   
   
The Olivia Tremor Control

Music From the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle (1996)
 


51   
   
The Sunshine Fix

Age of the Sun (2002)
 


50   
   
The Free Design

Kites Are Fun (1967)
 


49   
   
The Left Banke

Walk Away Renée / Pretty Ballerina (1967)
 


48   
   
Vashti Bunyan

Just Another Diamond Day (1970)


 
47   
   
Elbow

The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
 


46   
   
Van Morrison

Astral Weeks (1968)
 


45   
   
Joni Mitchell

Clouds (1969)
 


44   
   
Joanna Newsom

The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)


 
43   
   
Andrew Bird

The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
 


42   
   
Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Kate & Anna McGarrigle (1975)
 


41   
   
Sufjan Stevens

Illinois (2005)
 


40   
   
Grizzly Bear

Yellow House (2006)
 


39   
   
Big Star

Radio City (1974)
 


38   
   
Scott Walker

Scott 4 (1969)
 


37   
   
Comus

First Utterance (1971)
 


36   
   
Queen

A Night at the Opera (1975)
 


35   
   
Simon & Garfunkel

Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
 


34   
   
The Kinks

Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire (1969)
 


33   
   
The Flaming Lips

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
 


32   
Radiohead

In Rainbows (2007)
 


31   
   
The Beatles

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
 


30   
   
The Flaming Lips

The Soft Bulletin (1999)
 


29   
   
Björk

Homogenic (1997)
 


28   
   
Jellyfish

Spilt Milk (1993)
 


27   
   
Pink Floyd

Meddle (1971)
 


26   
   
The Olivia Tremor Control

Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1 (1999)
 


25   
   
Radiohead

The Bends (1995)
 


24   
   
Pixies

Surfer Rosa (1988)
 


23   
   
Led Zeppelin

Houses of the Holy (1973)



22   
   
The Beatles

Abbey Road (1969)
 


21   
   
Jackson C. Frank

Jackson C. Frank (1965)
 


20   
   
Big Star

#1 Record (1972)
 


19   
   
Elbow

Leaders of the Free World (2005)
 


18   
   
Elliott Smith

Either/Or (1997)



17   
   
The Beatles

Rubber Soul (1965)
 


16   
   
Love

Forever Changes (1967)
 


15   
   
Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here (1975)
 


14   
   
Joni Mitchell

Blue (1971)
 


13   
   
Duncan Browne

Duncan Browne (1973)
 


12   
   
King Crimson

In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
 


11   
   
The Beatles

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
 


10   
   
Nick Drake

Pink Moon (1972)
 


9   
   
Pink Floyd

Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
 


8   
   
Jeff Buckley

Grace (1994)
 


7   
   
The Beach Boys

Pet Sounds (1966)
 


6   
   
Elliott Smith

XO (1998)
 


5   
   
The Kinks

The Village Green Preservation Society (1968) [EP]
 


4   
   
Nick Drake

Five Leaves Left (1969)
 


3   
   
Radiohead

OK Computer (1997)
 


2   
   
The Beatles

Revolver (1966)
 


1   
   
The Zombies

Odessey and Oracle (1968)




update - image album [size=78%]http://imgur.com/a/u8wsg#0[/size]
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Re: List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2012, 06:29:41 PM »
I love threads like this! It gives me albums to check out as well.

Tons of stuff on this list would make my list as well. I'll try to post something in the next couple of days.

(Sorry all your links are broken. Doesn't look like album art exchange doesn't allow direct linking.)
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Re: List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2012, 06:42:34 PM »
Think I fixed all the broken links - I think I "copied link address" instead of the image url for a few of them - I only spent 15-20 minutes on my lunch break on this so it might not be perfect.

Edit - that's really weird.  This all shows up on my work computer (windows 7/chrome) but won't show on any browser on my mac.  Guess I'll find non-album art exchange artwork.
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Re: List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2012, 07:28:33 PM »
Excellent list! With enough entries I like to go through and find the threads connecting all the albums, guess which came first.

It'll be fun compiling a list like this, though I'll probably go for a less rigorous goal of something like 50 albums.
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Re: List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2012, 04:00:39 AM »
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magick
RATM - self titled

Those are in my opinion some of the best albums of all time.

The Spawn soundtrack too!

But I listen to Jazz mainly now.
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Re: List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2012, 08:03:31 AM »
I know many might disagree with me, but I think Opeth's "Heritage" (2011) is my favorite album. I'm a huge fan of their older work, but "Heritage" blew me away. The shift in sound/genre from their previous work is on par with when Radiohead switched to "Kid A". And arguably just as amazing.

For anyone interested in progressive rock/metal (no growling/screaming in this album) with a mix of jazz fusion and 60s-70s progressive rock/metal (think King Crimson), I would highly recommend it. Mikael Akerfeldt is an excellent musician, and Opeth does go far beyond "metal". Though, if you don't mind heavier metal, their older albums are excellent. I've even seen people who hate metal enjoy them.

I'm also really enjoying Porcupine Tree so far ("In Absentia" through their latest, "The Incident").

Speaking of Radiohead, "In Rainbows" is another favorite of mine, though I really like everything they've done since (and including) "Kid A".
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Re: List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2012, 08:21:44 PM »
I like a thread like this, especially given the nature of this site. I hope everyone would post something. That way we would know their premises better and what kind of music people use to evaluate gear. Still interested to know what Purrin or RD pull out to hear the ringing right away :)

Think I'm going to post stuff in steps...

Favorites in no particular order:

Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka, Grand Wazoo, Roxy & Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, Apostrophe and Overnite Sensation. Hot Rats is awesome as well, but not worthy of the list, heh.

Pekka Pohjola - Harakka/Bialoipokku, Pahkasilmä Kaarnakorva, Keesojen Lehto, UMO plays Pohjola: Beauty and the Beast

Jaco Pastorius - Invitation, Birthday Concert, Self titled

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

Verneri Pohjola - Aurora

Oddarrang - Music Illustrated

Steely Dan - Aja

Nucleus - Elastic Rock, Solar Plexus, Under the Sun, We'll talk about it later

Kraan - Live

Area - Arbeit Macht Frei, Crac

Atomic Rooster - ST

Jukka Tolonen - Tolonen!

Mörglbl Trio - Grotesk

Five Corners Quintet - Chasin the Jazz gone by

Alphataurus - ST

Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth

George Duke - "three originals"

Stan Getz- Getz/Gilberto, Captain Marvel

Herbie Hancock - Thrust, Maiden Voyage, Live in Japan 75

Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Utopia (live)

DJ Food - Kaleidoscope

Soil & Pimp sessions - Pimpoint

Cymande - The Message collection

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Live Evil, Porgy & Bess, Bitches Brew & live

Camel - Mirage

Brand X - Moroccan Roll, Unorthodox Behavior

Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart

Espoo Big Band ft. Trilok Gurtu - Neanderthal Grooves

Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay

Jimmy Smith - Root down

Gong - Gazeuse, You

War - ST

Mouse on Mars - Instrumentals
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Re: List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2012, 08:43:26 PM »
Ok here are my favorite albums many are very commercial bands but hey I'm easily bought :)

Wilco - the whole love

Dave Matthews band. - Big whiskey & groogrux king

Bloc party - a weekend in the city

Coldplay - a rush of blood to the head

Adrian boult - holst: the planets and elgar: enigma variations

Eagle eye cherry - desireless

Ehren starks - lines build walls

Explosions in the sky - those who tell the truth shall die

Foo fighters - echoes, silence, patience & grace

Kings of Leon - because of the times ( this is hard I love all kol albums)

Kooks - inside in/inside out

Metallica - Metallica

Metronomy - the English riviera

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

These are the Albums I can put on at anytime with any mood and lose myself. There are many others I love but normally only when I am in a mood for that genre.


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Re: List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2012, 01:37:21 AM »
Cool, nothing wrong with liking popular music.  I totally forgot about this thread-  I'm going to update it with some images and try to find more lists to cull through some more albums I'm enjoying.  Too many terabytes though - maybe I'll do a week-by-week of some albums that I'm enjoying.
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Re: List-off - list some of your favorite albums
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2012, 02:58:18 AM »
A few favorites in no particular order (well maybe a bit):

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King |1969 (Have 3 versions of this)
Supertramp - Breakfast in America |1979
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon|1970
Led Zeppelin IV|1971
Radiohead - OK Computer|1997
America - America|1971
Coldplay's Parachutes|2000
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis|1970 (Move On Up is amazing)
Radiohead - Pablo Honey|1993
Radiohead - Kid A|2000
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band|1970
ANYTHING Radiohead (Shame on the mastering for their recent releases  :( )

Too lazy to put up pictures, keep 'em coming  :)p15
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