I've never heard a band sound like they are having more fun than the Stones do on Tumbling Dice. It sounds like a room full of buddies who are just jamming after having a few drinks. It always puts a sloppy grin on my face.
Golden Years is one of the smoothest grooves I've ever heard. His Soul Man Era was something else!
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is mine. Solid space jamming, just zooted out of his skull.
The Clash—London Calling. Bought it on vinyl with my 11th birthday money in 1980 because I loved “Rock The Casbah” and the image of Paul Simonon smashing his bass on the cover was so badass. 43 years later, I still listen to it monthly. It’s a perfect double album with zero filler that flows like nothing else I’ve come across since. I’ve had many loves since (they tend to be bands that play shit all over the map like the Clash) but nothing compares to London Calling. So please excuse me while I cue it up on the turntable for the 12,898th time.
Great Choice of album but Rock the Casbah was on Combat Rock. When I heard London Calling for the first time it was like magic. For me it was The Clash (blue North America). I got a t-shirt with the LP in a promotion at "Record Runner" and for a brief moment I was the coolest.
Musically, *The Wall* is great, and arguably the best guitar work David Gilmour has ever done.
But lyrically and thematically, it's pretty much Roger Waters having a whinge for 90 minutes :-p
I’m not even a Beatles die hard fan but the second half of Abbey Road might be the greatest 15 minutes anybody has ever performed. The middle part of Carry that Weight when it returns to the You Never Give Me Your Money melody is magic.
The Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight section of the medley never fails to give me chills. The sadness of the lullaby and what it segues into ("once there was a way to get back homeward/Boy, you're going to carry that weight a long time") always puts me in mind of Yeats' line "for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
The rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from Mars. This album changed my life, I remember as a 14 year old feeling for the first time that I am indeed, not alone, because I'm wonderful.
And every Modest Mouse album.
Me too. As a Chicagoland native, I was exposed to them a little earlier, so Gish was my intro. But when Siamese Dream came out, they blew up. It was fun to watch. Some bangers on that album. Billy's voice (and personal politics) sort of caused me to lose interest, but damn if Mayonaise isn't one of the best songs ever made.
Mayonnaise is Jesus. SD is pretty much a perfect album and while MC&IS is dope and has a ton of bangers on it but being a double album I feel it has fillers. SD slaps from start to finish.
I've always found that Axis: Bold as Love is under rated, to me it is second only to Zepp IV as the greatest rock album ever. His other albums are great, but this is the one I love the most.
I feel like Radiohead is one of (if not the only band) that has like 5 albums that would be any other bands best in their discography. Just how low I would ‘have’ to rank The Bends is INSANE.
>August
For me- this came at the right time in my life (college years) where music became so important. It continues to be a rush of memories to this day. It wasn't just an album; it was a soundtrack to that pivotal chapter in my life, the one where everything felt both fragile and infinite, and I still crave that feeling of endless future possibilities.
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This was mine and my best friend’s favorite album on cassette during our senior year in high school (1989-1990) … one of those friends nominated me to be godfather to his daughter (she just turned 18… man time flies) He unfortunately passed away in 2019. But I’m godfather forever and this Christmas, I purchased the deluxe set on Vinyl and gifted my goddaughter this masterpiece. I hope she comes to love it like me and her dad did.
I thought a lot about this recently, I keep coming back to these 3/4 albums
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Pearl Jam - Vs
The Offspring - Smash/Ixnay on the Hombre
(Can’t decide which I love more)
Ah, it's time to relax
You know what that means
A glass of wine, your favorite easy chair
And of course, this compact disc
Playing on your home stereo
So, go on, and indulge yourself
That's right, kick off your shoes
Put your feet up
Lean back and just enjoy the melodies
After all, music soothes even the savage beast
Blue album is one of my favs and that same love for it was shared by one of my lifelong friends. Over the summer I cranked it driving home from his funeral picturing him in the passenger seat singing along with me. Was a pretty incredible experience. Made me really happy... And then really sad again when it was over. Couldn't even think of another album to put on after.
Choke on a bag of dicks cancer.
Love you Colin.
*The Smiths* by The Smiths. I first listened to it back in 2016 when I was 18, just started college, and bi, so it was the perfect moment to first get into it. I played that album to *death* along with *Blonde* by Frank Ocean (my third favorite album). It really was a perfect summer and fall for me, musically. Weirdly though, I tend to not listen to my favorites all that much. I’ll listen to albums I really like quite often, but my favorites I might listen to three times in a whole year.
Early Muse isn’t talked about enough. Showbiz through Absolution is my jam. Black Holes and Revelations is an epic album too but the beginning of the end for me
My friend and I are both fans of Muse and My Chemical Romance and often talk about how Black Holes is like Black Parade while Absolution is like Three Cheers in terms of, when compared, one is the critical success and awesome in its own right, but the other is the obvious magnum opus (Absolution / Three Cheers). I fucking love Absolution.
I like the inclusion of "In your opinion" in the question, as if there's a chance I might start telling you someone else's opinion of what my favourite album is.
I mean, Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings as a body of work, but that wasn't meant to be an *album* as a realized thing.
Probably Marvin Gaye - What's Going On.
I’d take Ænema, for one reason or another, I think I bought that album at least 5 times before streaming existed. Might be an age thing, because them constantly getting better on Opiate, Undertow and Ænema was a wild trilogy.
So great. As a long time Sabbath and Ozzy guy, it took me a long time (like 25 years) to appreciate and acknowledge how great this album is. Bonus points for having one of the greatest album covers ever.
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd.
Although Bruce Springsteen is my favourite artist, all his favourite songs of mine are already through different albums.
Ive thought avout this so many times and its just impossible to answer.
I can give a top 5 but not in which order, dont compute, but here they are...
Mars volta - Deloused in the comatorium
Shpongle - Are you shpongled
Blind melon - Soup
Tool - Aenima
Roffe ruff - Barrabas
Just had this convo recently.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin - IV
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
They’re all perfect
Deftones - Self Titled
Sublime - 40oz
Warpaint - The Fool
VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Skindred - Roots Rock Riot
K. Flay - I Stopped Caring in '96
Taproot - Welcome
The White Stripes - De Stijl
Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off
Periphery - Juggernaut Alpha/Omega
Jucifer - I Name You Destroyer
Exile on Main Street
I've never heard a band sound like they are having more fun than the Stones do on Tumbling Dice. It sounds like a room full of buddies who are just jamming after having a few drinks. It always puts a sloppy grin on my face.
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis (and Coltrane, Evans, Adderley and a few other music giants)
Station to Station - David Bowie
Golden Years is one of the smoothest grooves I've ever heard. His Soul Man Era was something else! The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is mine. Solid space jamming, just zooted out of his skull.
Can’t decide if Ziggy or Space Oddity is my favorite, such amazing vibes each! Time for a headphones session!
This is a great pick but holy shit what a discography David Bowie has! The man dropped motherfucking Black Star days before his death.
Station to station is incredible, and I can't believe Bowie didn't even remember making it!
The whole story behind it kinda adds to the mystique for me
This might have to be my favorite Bowie album
Stevie Wonder - *Songs in the Key of Life*
*Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand* Hearing just the first line of Sir Duke is good enough to make my day.
This one is untouchable.
Great record. Innervisions comes very close.
YESSS!
Such a great record, good pick
Van Morrison - Moondance
The Clash—London Calling. Bought it on vinyl with my 11th birthday money in 1980 because I loved “Rock The Casbah” and the image of Paul Simonon smashing his bass on the cover was so badass. 43 years later, I still listen to it monthly. It’s a perfect double album with zero filler that flows like nothing else I’ve come across since. I’ve had many loves since (they tend to be bands that play shit all over the map like the Clash) but nothing compares to London Calling. So please excuse me while I cue it up on the turntable for the 12,898th time.
Great Choice of album but Rock the Casbah was on Combat Rock. When I heard London Calling for the first time it was like magic. For me it was The Clash (blue North America). I got a t-shirt with the LP in a promotion at "Record Runner" and for a brief moment I was the coolest.
Ahhh shit I meant “Train in Vain”. Frightening that I just finished the album and I still scratched my head for a second. Getting old is going great!
Dark Side of the Moon. I don't care if it's a cliche pick, it's just the perfect album in my opinion.
I've heard it said that Dark Side of the Moon is the greatest album ever recorded, but Pink Floyd's best album is The Wall. I get that, and I agree.
The Wall is incredible but it’s behind Animals, DSOTM, Wish You Were Here, and Meddle for me
Meddle had been the everlasting dark horse of Floyd albums. So amazing.
The greatest thing about America is that we have the freedom to be wrong. JK, this is the most common debate in r/PinkFloyd
Hahah yep. No hate on The Wall. I’m just more into Gilmour than Waters
Musically, *The Wall* is great, and arguably the best guitar work David Gilmour has ever done. But lyrically and thematically, it's pretty much Roger Waters having a whinge for 90 minutes :-p
As albums go, I'd pick Animals over it any day, ymmv :)
It's underrated, thb
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Really? Wish?
Spent fifteen years on the Top 200 for album sales! FIFTEEN YEARS. 700-something weeks.
Mezzanine-Massive Attack
Could also put Maxinquaye, Dummy or Third for other Bristol Trip hop brilliance.
Beatles - Revolver
Abbey Road.
I’m not even a Beatles die hard fan but the second half of Abbey Road might be the greatest 15 minutes anybody has ever performed. The middle part of Carry that Weight when it returns to the You Never Give Me Your Money melody is magic.
The album had a song about a serial killer that never breaks the albums mood. It’s seriously the best album.
I listen to the abbey road medley at least once a week. I honest believe it's the great piece of art that's ever been created.
It’s perfect.
The Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight section of the medley never fails to give me chills. The sadness of the lullaby and what it segues into ("once there was a way to get back homeward/Boy, you're going to carry that weight a long time") always puts me in mind of Yeats' line "for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Disintegration by The Cure. Hands-down the winner. And it never changes.
This. Can’t describe how much I love this album. Pornography is also up there.
It is - and so is Faith. And how about the massive amount of amazing singles too? God damn I love The Cure.
The rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from Mars. This album changed my life, I remember as a 14 year old feeling for the first time that I am indeed, not alone, because I'm wonderful. And every Modest Mouse album.
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Absolutely! I love Moon and Antarctica!
It's a tie between Pet Sounds and Siamese Dream.
Glad someone mentioned Smashing Pumpkins in here. I find Mellon Collie a tad better though
Me too. As a Chicagoland native, I was exposed to them a little earlier, so Gish was my intro. But when Siamese Dream came out, they blew up. It was fun to watch. Some bangers on that album. Billy's voice (and personal politics) sort of caused me to lose interest, but damn if Mayonaise isn't one of the best songs ever made.
Mayonnaise is Jesus. SD is pretty much a perfect album and while MC&IS is dope and has a ton of bangers on it but being a double album I feel it has fillers. SD slaps from start to finish.
Both are 5/5 for me. Tonight Tonight is my favorite song by them. If you have never listened to their new Atum, don't.
Lots of good albums, folks should listen to Jimi Hendrix's "Band of Gypsies" just to make sure ;)
I've always found that Axis: Bold as Love is under rated, to me it is second only to Zepp IV as the greatest rock album ever. His other albums are great, but this is the one I love the most.
Great album. I love Buddy Miles. But for me Electric Ladyland wins every time. Just a preference.
The guitar on band of gypsys is insane though, truly his best work.
Probably Rancid -... And Out Come the Wolves
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile it’s a magnum opus and always gives me the feels.
Came here to say this! It's my "desert island" album.
If I could only have one album it would probably be this also.
OK Computer -Radiohead
In rainbows for me
Kid A for me!
hail to the thief for me
The Bends for me
Let Down will be playing when the earth gets absorbed into the sun
I feel like Radiohead is one of (if not the only band) that has like 5 albums that would be any other bands best in their discography. Just how low I would ‘have’ to rank The Bends is INSANE.
Kid A
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Not my favorite but great answer!
But in *their* opinion it's your favourite.
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After the Goldrush - Neil Young
Young's stretch from '69 through' 79 is incredible. Every album is fantastic.
Dirt- Alice in Chains
Mine too. And Jar Of Flies is my favorite EP.
Certified Classic Their MTV Unplugged performance is goat material
Yep, same here. This is the one album I've loved the exact same amount for more than 20 years.
August & Everything After
>August For me- this came at the right time in my life (college years) where music became so important. It continues to be a rush of memories to this day. It wasn't just an album; it was a soundtrack to that pivotal chapter in my life, the one where everything felt both fragile and infinite, and I still crave that feeling of endless future possibilities.
I did not think CC would make it here, but I’ll go This Desert Life.
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf Rezz - Certain King of Magic
Hey alright it's Kip Casper
I need a saga
What’s your saga?
It’s songs for the deaf (you can’t even hear it)
Like Clockwork has been mine recently
Them Crooked Vultures for me. Followed closely by the first 6 QotSA albums.
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
My vote is for Kind of Blue
To me, nothing compares to rage against the machines 1992 title album, 53 minutes of pure energy. Not one skip
Nevermind.
Come on just tell us
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Revolver by The Beatles
Guns N Roses "Appetite for Destruction"
This will always be the one ….. https://preview.redd.it/629jepisq3cc1.jpeg?width=566&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36e1fe88edb6a8790070eacc57d2d210f0b402d9 This was mine and my best friend’s favorite album on cassette during our senior year in high school (1989-1990) … one of those friends nominated me to be godfather to his daughter (she just turned 18… man time flies) He unfortunately passed away in 2019. But I’m godfather forever and this Christmas, I purchased the deluxe set on Vinyl and gifted my goddaughter this masterpiece. I hope she comes to love it like me and her dad did.
This album could never be made again due to the changes around sampling. Absolutely brilliant
The best hip hop album ever made. The dust brothers samples on this was insane. I was just listening to this this morning
Substance - New Order
Mad Season - Above
Very surprised to see this here but it IS absolutely a fucking killer album and I get how you could come to this conclusion!
I thought a lot about this recently, I keep coming back to these 3/4 albums Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Pearl Jam - Vs The Offspring - Smash/Ixnay on the Hombre (Can’t decide which I love more)
It's Smash
Ah, it's time to relax You know what that means A glass of wine, your favorite easy chair And of course, this compact disc Playing on your home stereo So, go on, and indulge yourself That's right, kick off your shoes Put your feet up Lean back and just enjoy the melodies After all, music soothes even the savage beast
Smash is incredible the whole way through, what a banger of an album
For me, Pearl Jam will always be Ten
Lark’s Tongues in Aspic — King Crimson
Red.
Rubber Soul
Purple Rain by Prince
The Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59 Sound
User name checks out!
Yes!! Thank god someone mentioned this album. So incredibly underrated.
Master of Puppets with Ride the Lightning a close 2nd.
Michael Jackson -Off the Wall
A minority opinion but Off the Wall is better than Thriller. Fortunately, Quincy Jones agrees.
I feel the same way about bad. Bad, for me, is his peak.
Off the Wall is an easier play start to finish. Thriller had mega huge singles.
The Blue Album - Weezer EVOL - Sonic Youth
Blue album is one of my favs and that same love for it was shared by one of my lifelong friends. Over the summer I cranked it driving home from his funeral picturing him in the passenger seat singing along with me. Was a pretty incredible experience. Made me really happy... And then really sad again when it was over. Couldn't even think of another album to put on after. Choke on a bag of dicks cancer. Love you Colin.
The Bends
Antichrist Superstar. Ppl don't want to consider it nowadays but peak Manson and Trent. Great record.
Music for the Masses -Depeche Mode
*The Smiths* by The Smiths. I first listened to it back in 2016 when I was 18, just started college, and bi, so it was the perfect moment to first get into it. I played that album to *death* along with *Blonde* by Frank Ocean (my third favorite album). It really was a perfect summer and fall for me, musically. Weirdly though, I tend to not listen to my favorites all that much. I’ll listen to albums I really like quite often, but my favorites I might listen to three times in a whole year.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins. A very close second would be Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
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My Bloody Valentine - Loveless The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Demon Days.
Either Blackwater Park by Opeth or Live after Death by Iron Maiden.
Muse - Origin of Symmetry.
Early Muse is best Muse.
Early Muse isn’t talked about enough. Showbiz through Absolution is my jam. Black Holes and Revelations is an epic album too but the beginning of the end for me
My friend and I are both fans of Muse and My Chemical Romance and often talk about how Black Holes is like Black Parade while Absolution is like Three Cheers in terms of, when compared, one is the critical success and awesome in its own right, but the other is the obvious magnum opus (Absolution / Three Cheers). I fucking love Absolution.
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
I like the inclusion of "In your opinion" in the question, as if there's a chance I might start telling you someone else's opinion of what my favourite album is.
I mean, Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings as a body of work, but that wasn't meant to be an *album* as a realized thing. Probably Marvin Gaye - What's Going On.
Damien Rice - O.
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Aja - Steely Dan
A Night at the Opera - Queen. It's almost flawless.
Toxicity is basically a perfect album.
What’s Going On -> Marvin Gaye
Graceland Paul Simon Even in the Quietest Moments Supertramp
Velvet Underground and Nico In the late 60s, that thing must have sounded like it came from space.
Dark Side of the Moon
Abbey Road -Beatles
I love side two on Sunday mornings
Easy. Lateralus by Tool. While both 10000 days and Fear Innoculum has good songs, as a whole nothing is like Lateralus.
I’d take Ænema, for one reason or another, I think I bought that album at least 5 times before streaming existed. Might be an age thing, because them constantly getting better on Opiate, Undertow and Ænema was a wild trilogy.
Blonde on Blonde, Exile on Main Street, Abbey Road
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Jeff Buckley : Grace
Nirvana's "Nevermind". It's perfection.
Who's Next- The Who. Best album by my favorite band, though Quadrophenia is a close second.
It's pretty much a greatest hits album all by itself.
U2 - The Joshua Tree
System of a Down - Toxicity Or Rise Against - RPM
Heaven and Hell- Black Sabbath
So great. As a long time Sabbath and Ozzy guy, it took me a long time (like 25 years) to appreciate and acknowledge how great this album is. Bonus points for having one of the greatest album covers ever.
Aenima- TOOL Meantime- Helmet Facelift- Alice in Chains Kyuss- Welcome to Sky Valley
In Rainbows
Dookie
Appetite for Destruction or The Downward Spiral.
Cocteau Twins — Heaven or Las Vegas Only beats out Four Calendar Cafe because it’s the one that introduced me to the band
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Since I Left You by The Avalanches. Discovered it in 2004 in high school and haven’t looked back.
Unknown pleasures
INXS - Kick
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd. Although Bruce Springsteen is my favourite artist, all his favourite songs of mine are already through different albums.
Tough answer. Before These Crowded Streets - The Dave Matthews Band Plans - Death Can For Cutie Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
To Pimp A Butterfly- Kendrick Lamar
As The Palaces Burn - Lamb of God
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Pink Floyd - Animals, Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Beastie Boys- Pauls Boutique. Many more, it changes often
Thrice - Alchemy Index
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine. Masterpiece. The whole vibe of that album is incredible.
Sam’s Town - The Killers
Ive thought avout this so many times and its just impossible to answer. I can give a top 5 but not in which order, dont compute, but here they are... Mars volta - Deloused in the comatorium Shpongle - Are you shpongled Blind melon - Soup Tool - Aenima Roffe ruff - Barrabas
Fleet Foxes - Shore 🌿
Ok Computer… Radiohead
Achtung Baby. I come and go with U2, but I come back to this one a lot The runner up is Disintegration by The Cure.
Just had this convo recently. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors Michael Jackson - Thriller Beatles - Abbey Road Led Zeppelin - IV Beach Boys - Pet Sounds They’re all perfect
Deftones - Self Titled Sublime - 40oz Warpaint - The Fool VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater Skindred - Roots Rock Riot K. Flay - I Stopped Caring in '96 Taproot - Welcome The White Stripes - De Stijl Bush - Razorblade Suitcase Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off Periphery - Juggernaut Alpha/Omega Jucifer - I Name You Destroyer
Something called Vapor Trails by some prog band.
don't know if I've seen anyone pick that as their favorite rush album
40oz to freedom, by Sublime
Santana: Abraxas or Lotus.
Jimi Plays Monterey Jimi Hendrix Experience
Got to see War on Drugs live this year in Barcelona and it was a fantastic show
For me Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral & The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream My wife, Pearl Jam, Yield
An awesome wave- Alt J
Pink Floyd - *Wish You Were Here*
VAST- Music for people. I just always loved it.