Okay, I don't want the best like we're doing an AFI list of the greatest albums, just ones that you wore out the tape or the CD playing. Soundtrack of your life type albums. Here's my list to get us started: Jewel: Pieces of You Green Day: Dookie Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill Wallflowers: Bringing Down the Horse Garth Brooks: Fresh Horses Garth Brooks: Sevens Boyz II Men: II Aerosmith: Get a Grip Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Alicia Keys: Songs in A Minor Christina Aguilera: Stripped Leann Rimes: Family Sugarland: Love on the Inside
Abbey Road - The Beatles Tusk - Fleetwood Mac The Joshua Tree - U2 Past, Present and Future - Al Stewart
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Revolver-The Beatles Who's Next-The Who Born To Run-Bruce Springsteen Rubber Soul-The Beatles The Joshua Tree-U2
Rubber Soul - The Beatles Revolver - The Beatles Tales of Mystery and Imagination - The Alan Parsons Project The Turn of a Friendly Card - The Alan Parsons Project Glass Houses - Billy Joel Business as Usual - Men at Work Lost Together - Blue Rodeo
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy - Sarah Mclachlan Dream of the Blue Turtle - Sting Soundtrack for The Fountain - Clint Mansell Bonk - Big Pig Woodface - Crowded House Soundtrack for Last of the Mohicans - Joel McNeely/Randy Edelman
Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema Owen Pallett - Heartland Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary Favorite Album of 2013: Girls Names - The New Life
1. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced 2. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush 3. Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues 4. Radiohead - OK Computer 5. The Doors - The Doors 6. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs 7. Tim Buckley - Starsailor 8. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde 9. The White Stripes - Elephant 10. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 11. Michael Jackson - Thriller 12. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 13. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead 14. PJ Harvey - Dry 15. Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch 16. Pixies - Surfer Rosa 17. Scritti Politti - Cupid & Pysch 85 18. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland 19. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St 20. Nirvana - Nevermind 21. The Stooges - Raw Power 22. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing 23. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 24. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers 25. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Favorite of 2013: Foxygen - We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Heavy Metal - The soundtrack Synchronicity - The Police Rumors - Fleetwood Mac Pyromania - Def Lepard The Mummer's Dance - Lorenna McKennit Business as Usual - Men at Work Planet P Project - Planet P I listen more to mixes of songs than I do albums. The "mix tape" is a lost art.
In no particular order: Escape - Journey Departure - Journey Hysteria - Def Leppard Rubber Soul - The Beatles Come Away with Me - Nora Jones The Joshua Tree - U2 The Wall - Pink Floyd Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon Moondance - Van Morrison No Control - Eddie Money Nothing Like The Sun - Sting Bona Drag - Morrisey The Nylon Curtain -Billy Joel American Idiot - Green Day Mumford & Sons -Sigh No More Yourself or Someone Like You - Matchbox Twenty The soundtrack to The Commitments
I limited it to my favorite album per artist, from my favorite go-to shelf, in no particular order: Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd I Robot - The Alan Parsons Project Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin Star Wars: A New Hope - John Williams "Melt" - Peter Gabriel Slave to the Rhythm - Grace Jones Cosmic Thing - B-52's Changesonebowie - David Bowie Switched-On Bach - Wendy Carlos I agree that the "mix tape" is where it's at. I have a ton of singles that are favorites, too.
News of the World - Queen Tiny Music Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop - Stone Temple Pilots Chavez Ravine - Ry Cooder Yield - Pearl Jam Laughing on Judgement Day - Thunder The Second Coming - Stone Roses 1965 - Afghan Whigs Special mention to The Archandroid by Janelle Monae. Not old enough to be a soundtrack to my life, but I feel it will be at that status another 2 decades. I have already listened to it more than any other album in the last couple of years. I hate mix tapes. An album is an art. A good one should not be split up.
Waaaayyyy too many to name. Love music. The bands: Deep Purple (especially 'Made in Japan' and 'Perfect Strangers') Queen The Police Hawkwind Pink Floyd (specifically 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Animals') Rush (especially 'Hold Your Fire') Black Country Communion Led Zeppelin (specifically 4) Gillan Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (especially 'Down To Earth') Box of Frogs SplitEnz (up to 'Dizrhythmia', not after) and some individual ones: Sertab Erener - No Boundaries Peter Sarstedt - Best Of Jon Lord - Pictured Within Miriam Stockley - Miriam Emerson Lake & Powell - Emerson Lake & Powell Nightwish - Dark Passion Play Heart - Heart Pete Townshend - White City Skyhooks - Living In The 70s Yeah, love music.
^ Based on our prior convos, you should check out the Thunder album in my list Australis, I reckon it would be right up your street. Make sure it's that one though, it's their best by far. I think they actually did a tour supporting BCC. Got Afterglow a few days back btw. Quality stuff.
I have a really hard time making short lists, but here's what comes to mind immedately: Studio albums: Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed, Exile On Main Street Steely Dan: The Royal Scam, Aja X: Los Angeles Talking Heads: Remain In Light The Clash: London Calling The Replacements: Tim Something Else By The Kinks, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society The Who: Who's Next The Band: Music From Big Pink The English Beat: I Just Can't Stop It Richard and Linda Thompson: Shoot Out the Lights Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt: Trio Sly & the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On Ramones Pretenders The Blasters Warren Zevon R.E.M.: Murmur Carole King: Tapestry Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life Tom T. Hall: In Search of a Song Compilations: Hank Williams CCR Chuck Berry Dionne Warwick James Brown Earth Wind and Fire Booker T. & the MGs Otis Redding Merle Haggard Johnny Cash The Repo Man soundtrack Live albums: The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Yas Out The Who: Live in Leeds Talking Heads: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads Bob Dylan and the Band: Before the Flood
Yourself or Someone Like You - Matchbox 20 The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem The Chronic - Dr. Dre Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette Nimrod - Green Day Collective Soul - Collective Soul Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
My personal top 25: Moving Pictures - Rush Permanent Waves - Rush Power Windows - Rush Deadwing - Porcupine Tree In Absentia - Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream - Porcupine Tree Making Movies - Dire Straits Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet Disintegration - The Cure The Cars - The Cars Candy-O - The Cars Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Strength - The Alarm Change - The Alarm The Unforgettable Fire - U2 The Joshua Tree - U2 Achtung Baby - U2 Green - REM Document - REM Electric - The Cult Sonic Temple - The Cult The Wall - Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd I'm sure there are lots of good ones that I missed, but these have gotten the most regular rotation over the years.
Going by my iTunes play counts (which are accurate for the last 10 years or so of my music listening), my top albums are Viva la Vida (Coldplay), X&Y (Coldplay), Fearless (Taylor Swift), Fantasies (Metric) - around 65-ish listens each. After that it gets rather muddled.
Adam and the Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox David Bowie - Diamond Dogs Kate Bush - Hounds of Love David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel The Cure - Disintegration Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down The Fall - Perverted by Language Funkadelic - Maggot Brain The Jam - Setting Sons Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood Van Morrison - Common One Pink Floyd - The Final Cut Public Image Limited - Metal Box Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Talking Heads - Remain in Light U2 - Achtung Baby The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues The Who - Quadrophenia Wings - Band on the Run
I hardly listened to music in my teens, hardly bought any records (yes, records!). But I did like Styx and Side A of Rush's 2112. I guy who knew about music thought that combination was odd, that those were the only albums I had at all. Not sure why, since I wasn't into music enough to know.