Favorite Albums

[Rob_Merritt]

My Mctopic for today is favorite albums. Here are my top 20. They aren't in order but they seem to be in the place they need to be.

Time – Electric Light Orchestra
Nine Objects Of Desire - Suzanne Vega
AstroLounge – Smashmouth
Flood – They Might Be Giants
Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy - The Refreshments
Abby Road – Beatles
Hot Fuss – The Killers
News of the World – Queen
Barometer Soup – Jimmy Buffet
New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms
Passion Crimes – Darling Cruel
Bat out of Hell II – Meat Loaf
Tubular Bells II - Mike Oldfield
Fortress - Sister Hazel
Ok Computer – Radio Head
The Gray Race Album - Bad Religion
The Stranger – Billy Joel
Bad Hair Day – Weird Al
Volcano – Size 14
Hold Your Fire – Rush

[lildrgn]

As a Huge Rush Fan, I scratch my head at your inclusion of HYF. Even the guys in Rush can't seem to stand it (according to their "official", recently released bio). However, to each his own, right?

I'm very fond of the following albums:

Muse - Absolution
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
Juliana Hatfield - In Exile Deo
Rush - Signals, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, A Farewell to Kings, Grace Under Pressure, among others
The Donnas - Spend the Night
Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun

And I'm having a hard time coming up with more off the top of my head. Goodbye.

Edit to add: Weezer - Blue Album (thanks Sepiche!)

[Sepiche]

So many, SO MANY!

Weezer - Blue Album
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles
Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Flogging Molly - (Can't remember the name... the one before Drunken Lullabies)
Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
Dropkick Murpheys - The Gangs All Here
Mary Prankster - Blue Skies Forever
Green Day - American Idiot

I know there's a ton more.  I'll update as I think of them.

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[Grievous Angel]

In no particular order, and likely to change daily depending on my mood.

The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Gaelic Storm - Tree
Kevin Welch & the Overtones - Western Beat
Kevin Welch - Life Down Here on Earth
Robert Earl Keen - Gringo Honeymoon
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Bap Kennedy - Domestic Blues
Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
C.C. Adcock - C.C. Adcock
Hal Ketchum - Awaiting Redemption
Kieran Kane - Dead Rekoning
Kevin Gordon - Cadillac Jack's #1 Son
The Woods Band - Music from the Four Corners of Hell
The Clumsy Lovers - After the Flood
Grant-Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Chris Knight - Chris Knight
The O'Kanes - The O'Kanes
The O'Kanes - Tired of the Runnin'

[Sepiche]

The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts

I assume that this album is pretty good then?  I have Her Majesty the Decemberists and like it quite a bit, although some tracks are better than others.

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[Grievous Angel]

The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts

I assume that this album is pretty good then?  I have Her Majesty the Decemberists and like it quite a bit, although some tracks are better than others.

s

I have both, and I prefer C&C. It seems a little more even than Her Maesty... "Leslie Anne Levine" is one of the more haunting tunes I've ever come across.

[Gratch]

The top 5 are concrete, the rest change with my mood:

1.  Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
2.  David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
3.  Yasounori Mitsuda & Millenial Fair - Xenogears Cried
4.  Tool - Aenima
5.  Alice In Chains - Dirt
6.  Bad Religion - Suffer
7.  Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
8.  Joy Division - Substance (yes, I know it's a greatest hits.  Sue me.)
9.  Front Line Assembly - Implode
10.  Primus - Frizzle Fry
11.  Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
12.  Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
13.  Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
14.  Assemblage 23 - Failure
15.  Ian Anderson - Secret Language of Birds
16.  Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion II
17.  They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
18.  Ministry - Psalm 69
19.  Oingo Boingo - Farewell Live
20.  The Jesus Lizard - Down

[Sepiche]

Oingo Boingo - Farewell Live

I was at that show.  Not only a great album, that was one of the best live shows I've ever seen.

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[bluefugue]

In something like order of preference but not really.

1. Thomas Dolby - the Golden Age of Wireless
2. Beatles - Abbey Road
3. Radiohead - The Bends
4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
5. The Bible - Eureka
6.

Ugh.  Drawing a blank here.  Oh well, maybe I'm not an album kinda guy.

Oh here's another.

6. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust

[Gratch]

Oingo Boingo - Farewell Live

I was at that show.  Not only a great album, that was one of the best live shows I've ever seen.

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I hate you.



OK, not really.  But I am awfully jealous.  Never got into Boingo until after they broke up.  Now I wish I could have seen them live.  

[Juntei]

Wow so many albums

Pink Floyd - The Wall / Wish You Were Here / A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Led Zeppelin - All of 'em
The Who - Tommy
Rush - 2112
Tool- All of 'em
A Perfect Circle - All of 'em

[jonnytx]

1. Patty Griffin - Living With Ghosts
2. Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky
3. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
4. Over the Rhine - Good Dog Bad Dog
5. Hem - Rabbit Songs
6. Patty Griffin - Silver Bell
7. Soundgarden - Superunknown
8. The Reivers - End of the Day
9. Nirvana - Unplugged
10. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
11. REM - Life's Rich Pageant
12. Bob Marley - Exodus
13. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
14. Sam Phillips - The Indescribable Wow
15. Pink Floyd - Animals
16. Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
17. Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
18. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
19. Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
20. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Spinning Around the Sun

Very tough to do this but there's a crack at it.

[Raven]

cure - disintergration

[Captain Caveman]

Bap Kennedy - Domestic Blues

Great pick! I have a funny story about getting stage fright trying to pee next to him in a public restroom.

[Ypmur]

What about any of the GBS albums, Grevious?

[Big Jake]

Thanks, Raven, I thought I'd be the first to past that.

In no particular order:

Cure - Disintegration
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Radiohead - Amnesiac (Most Liked Album)
Radiohead - Ok Computer (Next best)
Radiohead - Kid A (You get the)
Radiohead, The Bends (idea)
Black Sabbath - paranoid (my weakest selection of this list, IMO)
Rem - Murmur (Dear God, other than Price's 1999, look at the music 20+ years ago when this was released.  Absolutely F$^&% Amazing)
Bob Dylan - Blood on The Tracks
Neil Young - Harvest
Beck - Sea Change
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
Ben Folds Five - Unauthorized biography of Reinhold Messner

At least three of my picks I consider contenders for the "Greatest album of all time" title.

[gameoverman]

It's tough to remember this stuff when you want to:

Tropical Brainstorm  -Kirsty MacColl
Dusty In Memphis    -Dusty Springfield
It Takes  A Nation   -Public Enemy
Avalon                  -Roxy Music
Life's Too Good       -Sugarcubes
Badmotorfinger       -Soundgarden
Undertow              - Tool

just a few off the top of my head

[Grievous Angel]

What about any of the GBS albums, Grevious?

DYSLEXIC RUMPY!!!!

Man, I was wondering where I was going to get my Celtic recommendations from. Am I ever glad to see you around.

But to answer your question, Rant and Roar would be a gimmie, but I'm not including it because it's actually a compilation of two other albums (I left off greatest hits albums for the same reason). The two full albums that I have, Something Beautiful and Sea of No Cares, are really good but are just under the Top 20 this week. Ask me for my Top 20 in a week and Something Beautiful may very well pop in there.

I really need to wrangle a trip to Canada and pick up the rest of their CDs. Imports are way too pricy for me. I am going to try to pester the wife into letting me get their new live CD/DVD. Does that have the Ypmur Seal of Approval?

[Sepiche]

I dig the celtic music, but I can't think of what GBS would be?

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[depward]

Here are mine (pretty genre intrusive):

VNV Nation - Futureperfect
VNV Nation - Empires
Neuroticfish - Les Chansons Neurotique
In Strict Confidence - Holy
Dismantled - Dismantled
Assemblage 23 - Failure (and possibly Storm now)
Apoptygma Berzerk - Harmonizer
Hanzel und Gretyl - Uber Alles (AND their new Sheissmessiah)
Hybrid - Wide Angle
Rushmore Soundtrack
Amelie Soundtrack
FFVI Soundtrack

There's more, but I can't think of them right now.

*edit* rushed this post while attending class.  Here's more:
U2 - Joshua Tree
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion (better than Violator in my mind)
The Best of Andrew Lloyd Weber

[Sepiche]

Rushmore Soundtrack

That's a good one.  One of the best movie soundtracks evar IMHO.

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[Ypmur]

lol I was wondering when someone would figure it out.  I figured I would go with the fairy tale since that's what my original username was based on, except make it backwards just like the fairytale

Glad to be appreciated around here lol

Hmmm, well, I don't have a DVD player, so I can't really tell you directly what I think about the hybrid, but it's basically the same thing as the Great Big DVD released a few years ago, except that this time it incluces an audio CD of the same thing.  If you've watched PBS, you may have caught Great Big Sea Live. That's what this is, in DVD form with a few things that weren't on the original concert special. Although, I might be mistaken, but I think the hybrid is also the American release of the Great Big DVD since it hadn't been available in the states previously except by import. It's also kind of similar to the Road Rage album, except this concert is more recent, including some stuff from Sea of No Cares, while Road Rage was released before Sea of No Cares. Note that if you buy it across the border, you wouldn't be getting the hybrid, only the DVD itself.

Sepiche, GBS is Great Big Sea, a Celtic Folk Rock Band from Newfoundland. Check them out: www.greatbigsea.com

[malichai11]

Good topic.

Abbey Road - Beatles
White Album - Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles
Sgt Pepper's - Beatles
Revolver - Beatles
Let it Be - Beatles
Rubber Soul - Beatles
Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues
Dream of the Blue Turtle - Sting
Mercury Falling - Sting
Soul Cages - Sting
Nothing Like The Sun - Sting
Ten Summoner's Tales - Sting
Joshua Tree - U2
Achtung Baby - U2
Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan

I can listen to any of the above over and over w/o growing bored.

[Crusis]

Cool topic.

In no particular order ...
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules & Sabotage
Anacrusis - Screams and Whispers
Vision Divine - Stream of Consiousness
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 1
Opeth - Damnation/Deliverance (hard to decide ...)
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind & Live after Death
Buckethead - Bucketheadland
Flowerkings - Star Dust We Are & Flower Power
Transatlantic - 1st one
Anathema - Alternative 4
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Pink floyd - The wall
Tool - Undertow
Slayer - Decade of Aggresion
Nightwish - Once

-Crusis

[Rob_Merritt]

As a Huge Rush Fan, I scratch my head at your inclusion of HYF. Even the guys in Rush can't seem to stand it (according to their "official", recently released bio). However, to each his own, right?

Maybe I like it because its so unliked? Its about the only album of rush I like to listen too as a whole. Any other time I just befer to listen to their greatest hits

[Sam Hell]

Tool- Undertow

Tool- Aenima

Metallica- Master of Puppets

Slayer- Reign in Blood

Megadeth- Rust in Peace

Anthrax- Among the Living

[coopasonic]

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