all time favorite album

[BrewCrewForever]

A lot of great albums mentioned, I love reading what other people like to listen to. Here are mine, can't pick just one.

 

Led Zeppelin - IV

Pearl Jam - Vs.

Radiohead - The Bends

Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight

Rush - Moving Pictures

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

 

I could probably add at least 4 or 5 more, but these are the 6 I listen to straight through more then any other albums.

[thebruce44]

Deltron 3030

[brewers19]

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Regina Spektor - Far

A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea

Keane - Hopes And Fears

William Fitzsimmons - Until When We Are Ghosts

[Schlitz001]

Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground

 

There are albums that I first listened to in high school that I can still put into the CD player and enjoy. VU:VU is my favorite of those. Then there are albums that I've enjoyed much more than that album more recently, but I don't necessarily think I will worship them as much in the future. Get back to me when I'm on my death bed and I will have a definitive answer.

[JimH5]

Music has seldom meant as much to me as it did when I was young. So I'm choosing The Cars (first album) as my favorite of all time. It came out just as I turned 16, it was a refreshing alternative to disco, and represents a lot of the vibe of suburbia in the late 70s.

[MHgb]

Third Eye Blind: Third Eye Blind

[danzig6767]

It's very hard for me to pick only one, but if i could only own one cd and no other music could exist

 

Pink Floyd- Animals

[JoeHova]

If I have to name one, it's probably:

 

GZA- Liquid Swords

 

Also in the mix are:

 

Modern Lovers- Modern Lovers

Public Enemy- It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Nas- Illmatic

Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground & Nico

Jimmy Cliff/Various- The Harder They Come

Mississippi John Hurt- Folk Songs & Blues

Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Robert Johnson- The Complete Recordings

Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy

[colbyjack]

Love the Pink Floyd/Animals vote, and you can't go wrong with almost any Led Zeppelin and The Beatles album. But this album changed everything about music for me at a key age in life: Primus, Frizzle Fry.

[jjkoestler]

If I had to pick one it would be Nirvana - In Utero.

 

By genre:

Hip hop: Wu Tang - 36 Chambers

Indie: Elliott Smith - Figure 8 or Bright Eyes - Lifted

Punk: Op Ivy or The Clash - London Calling

Metal: Deftones - White Pony

Classic: Beatles - Abbey Road

Jam: Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Other: Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

[Teatoe993]

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

 

This is the one that changed everything for me.

[BrewCrewForever]

GZA- Liquid Swords

 

Good one, my favorite of all the Wu-Tang solo albums.

Hip hop: Wu Tang - 36 Chambers

 

My #1 hip-hop album of all time as well. I wore that thing out during middle school and high school. Could not get enough of it.

[RobertR]

If I have to name one, it's London Calling by The Clash.

 

But, I'd put Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan, After the Gold Rush by Neil Young, and Live at Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash in close proximity.

 

Robert

[Principessa21]

Not counting any live or greatest hits albums, I would have to go with Amy Winhouse's Back to Black.

[Patrick425]

Steely Dan - Aja

 

Others:

Paul Simon - Graceland

Nirvana - Nevermind

Squeeze - Singles

 

Similar to what JimH5 stated. Music was a much bigger part of my life when I was younger and these albums got worn out on my record player in my teenage years:

 

Van Halen - Van Halen

AC/DC - Back in Black

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Queen - Night at the Opera and Day at the Races

[jrodbrewcrew]

Less Than Jake - Losing Streak

[Bikeage77]

good call jrod, that album smokes

 

No order, top 5.

1. Ramones - Leave Home

2. Descendents - Milo Goes to College (duh)

3. Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs of the Americas

4. Replacements - Tim

5. Black Flag - Damaged

[nsimps]

Anything by Michael Bolton...I celebrate the man's entire catalog.

[GAME05]

JoeHova, good call on Black Sheep Boy. that album ended up making a great gift.

 

not sure why, but some of my favourite albums are from genres that i don't even listen to that often, but they have that constant-replay value that few albums really have, or at least they have a tone that fits any mood, which is why Tool wouldn't make a list of mine, despite their awesomeness.

 

Usual Suspects:

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (said in earlier post)

Clapton Unplugged

Hendrix Experience

 

More Recent Favourites:

Eddie Vedder--Into the Wild Soundtrack

Mumford&Sons--Sigh No More

Avett Brothers--I and Love and You

Alexi Murdoch--Time Without Consequence

Ingrid Michaelson--Girls and Boys

 

Guilty Pleasure: John Mayer, Room For Squares

[Gobias Industries]

Guilty Pleasure: John Mayer, Room For Squares

That would probably be mine too. I just listened to Great Indoors today. Good tune.

 

Since everyone is listing their honorable mentions:

 

-The Beatles: Help! - I have spent whole days listening to the '65 - '66 era, and this one takes the cake for me.

-The Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons - I liked it before seeing the Royal Tenanbaums. I swear. Completely different from other Stones albums.

-The Smiths: Singles - Huge Johnny Marr fan. Morrissey writes some great (not to mention hilarious) lyrics.

-The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses - Just got into them a couple of years back.

-The Strokes: Is This It - Listened to this non stop my freshman year of high school. I was devastated when I couldn't make their show at Lollapolozza a few weeks ago.

[thebruce44]

-The Strokes: Is This It - Listened to this non stop my freshman year of high school. I was devastated when I couldn't make their show at Lollapolozza a few weeks ago.

 

Not to rub it in, but they were awesome. Didn't mess around and played hits all the way through.

[Gobias Industries]

-The Strokes: Is This It - Listened to this non stop my freshman year of high school. I was devastated when I couldn't make their show at Lollapolozza a few weeks ago.

 

Not to rub it in, but they were awesome. Didn't mess around and played hits all the way through.

Yeah, that's what I heard. I actually did have friends rubbing it in from the show.

[Bikeage77]

Gobias, I dunno, I saw them years ago and they looked so bored. They played all the hits THEN too. That was the same reviews across from my friends scattered across the country at the time. I'll never have any interest in seeing them again. Especially since the ticket then was 30 or so, can't imagine it being any cheaper now.

 

(I prolly have even more miserable opinions of Lollapalooza that I prolly shouldn't get into).

[thebruce44]

Gobias, I dunno, I saw them years ago and they looked so bored. They played all the hits THEN too. That was the same reviews across from my friends scattered across the country at the time. I'll never have any interest in seeing them again. Especially since the ticket then was 30 or so, can't imagine it being any cheaper now.

 

(I prolly have even more miserable opinions of Lollapalooza that I prolly shouldn't get into).

Well, thats kinda their style though, or at least Casablancas. Everyone rocks out behind him, theres lights and stuff everywhere. And he stands in the middle calm and cool like a rock star and does his thing. Thats pretty much how most of their songs work too, and he totally pulls it off...shades, leather, and everything.

 

Anyway, I'm obviously a fan but the independent reviews of the show were very good, especially compared to Lady Gaga on the other end who had the majority of the crowd (meaning it was easy to get a good spot on the north end of the park).

 

 

Pitchfork:

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Julian Casablancas still wears his sunglasses at night. And while everyone at Lollapalooza Friday wondered all day about what the other headliner would be wearing, Casablancas proved to be tough sartorial competition with a leather, metal-studded jacket. It was almost as if everyone had forgotten about the Strokes, gone for only three years but seemingly already several chapters back in the serial novel of pop music. While pyrotechnics popped on the other end of the festival ("Fireworks. #%$*." Casablancas dryly observed), The Strokes were positioned between three sets of gigantic parentheses, as if to satirize their status as afterthoughts.

 

But from the opening "New York City Cops", the Strokes made the most of their underdog status. They helped their cause by largely pretending First Impressions of Earth never existed, filling the setlist out with the all killer/no filler of their first two records. It's sillier than ever to think back to when the Strokes were dubbed the saviors of rock'n'roll, especially while the corporate blandness of Lollapalooza make a convincing argument for letting the genre expire in peace. But for one mosquito-bitten night in Grant Park, it wasn't hard to explain why that unforgiving label was ever applied to the Strokes in the first place. --Rob Mitchum

P.S. Check out the pics if you have time: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lollapaloozafest/sets/72157624536557429/

[pogokat]

i wonder how this would compare to the times we did this in the past...

 

hmm..

 

i'd say most of us were pretty spot on with the same things we've said before...http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

i'll throw in one more album that changed everything musically for me:

 

Devo - Freedom of Choice