Your all time favourite album.

[MadeleineG]

I've noticed a lot of people on this forum have a taste for old school music. Is there a reason for that? Am I not cool because I like modern music? D:

Liking new music does not make you uncool! I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the "album" focus is what's prompting the nostalgia trip. IMHO, what these albums have in common that many contemporary "music collections" don't is a thoroughgoing sense of flow and a length conducive to listening end-to-end. I've always felt that the extended length of the CD undermined the album as a integrated whole. Personally, more than 50 minutes and I find end-to-end uninterrupted focus difficult (ADHD).

Maddy

[MadeleineG]

Maddy's Prog-heavy Top Ten List

Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Yes - Fragile
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déja Vu
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Clash - London Calling
The Who - Who's Next

[MadeleineG]

Maddy's Post 1990 List

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Kronos Quartet - Requiem for a Dream Score
Blue Highway - From the Window of a Train
Fred Eaglesmith - Lipstick, Lies, & Gasoline
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Wilco - Yankoo Hotel Foxtrot
The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power
The Tragically Hip - In Violet Light
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Portishead - Dummy

[bethany]

I've noticed a lot of people on this forum have a taste for old school music. Is there a reason for that? Am I not cool because I like modern music? D:

Dreams your not uncool at all, everyone has different taste in music. I am showing my age with the music I like. I grew up in the 70's and early 80's and this is what I still listen to for the most part. I do have some newer groups that I just love. It's just that I don't know how well their albums will stand the test of time, While the ones I listed have had heavy play time for many years. And I still enjoy them.

Here is the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds  full album give it a listen if you wish to

[Devlyn]

LOL, I think it was right the first time.  Shame on you Devlyn.

I'm probably in the minority here but my all-time favorite is "December" by George Winston.  Yep, I know it's "New Age".

Back to the little red schoolhouse with you!

[bethany]

This is an amazing post.  I'm not sure about the beach boys, but the rest are all very strong albums even though this wouldn't make up my top ten.  However, I'd rather have Tarkus for ELP and Houses of the Holy for Zeppelin.

Thats what makes music so awesome we all have different taste in it, There are so many styles of music and none are any less important then the others. Its a universal language.

[JillSter]

Thats what makes music so awesome we all have different taste in it, There are so many styles of music and none are any less important then the others. Its a universal language.

It really is the language of the soul. I love all kinds of music, but my soul does have a first language.

These are my three favorite bands and (after lots of thought) my favorite album by each band:

Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi


Opeth - Still Life


Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road

[CalmRage]

My favorite albums:

The Song Remains The Same (original mix with the extended No Quarter and Moby Dick) - Led Zeppelin
Solar Fire - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
With the Beatles - The Beatles
In Rock - Deep Purple (not a dull moment)

much less well known but better than Made in Japan:
Live in Montreux 1969
Live in Aachen 1970

both by Deep Purple

Sorry, i really couldn't narrow it down

[JLT1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SSR6ZzjDZ94

Boston - Boston.  It got me though two semesters of calculus and one of differential equations.  I'd listen to it over and over, the entire time I was studying.  I managed to wear out two tapes. Did have a hard time taking tests without the music though.   Every song is good.

Another would be Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

For something more recent although not in my top 10 or so, I like Kelly Clarkson - Greatest Hits Chapter One.  Nice mix of tempos and good to dance too.  Plus, It's got "Stronger" on it.

[Ltl89]

It really is the language of the soul. I love all kinds of music, but my soul does have a first language.

These are my three favorite bands and (after lots of thought) my favorite album by each band:

Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi


Opeth - Still Life


Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road

"Still Life" is my favorite Opeth album as well.  Unfortunately, it's one of those albums that gets overlooked in favor of the more popular material (i.e. Blackwater Park).

[Marcia]

My favorite is the Beastie Boys- Licensed to Ill. Lately though a couple of other albums are starting to get to me.

[CalmRage]

How could i leave "Mann Alive" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band out? It's the best live album ever and a very dynamic recording too.

[michelle666]

It will probably come as no surprise that my favorite album is;



But, my favorite song ever is not on that album.

[Tanya W]

I'm drawn to this thread because of one word - 'album'! How I love and miss the album, that two-sided 35-45 minute journey through whatever landscape awaits. I still have several hundred of them at home and if I am feeling really down, one of my favourite fixes is to put on an album and feel the music. Ohhhhh....

As for my favourite album, Bruce Springsteen's 'Born to Run'. I never get tired of this. I cannot play the first notes of 'Thunder Road' without making it to the closing sounds of 'Jungleland'. There is always something new to discover.

I recently taught a high school workshop on writing personal narrative and our template for narrative structure was this last song. Over and over we listened to it, picking it apart, looking at what Springsteen was up to. At the end of the session, some kid walked up to me and said, 'You know, that was a pretty good song.'

Sometimes life is sweet!

[Jill F]

Pink Floyd- "The Wall"

First album I ever bought.  And that was back in 1980...  I have bought a couple of thousand albums since then, but it's still the best.

Nothing but awesome front to back.  Then I finally saw Roger Waters do it live.  Best concert ever as well.

[LordKAT]

Come n' Gone

Mason Proffit

[Jamie D]

I don't even have to say the name



Iconic

[androgynouspainter26]

I really miss albums; when music really told a story.

The ArchAndroid, 2010.  The most brilliant work of art I've ever listened too.

[CalmRage]

"Hot Rats" by Frank Zappa or "Made In Japan" by Deep Purple (or is Fireball better?)

Sorry, can't decide.

[JenSquid]

I have a hard narrowing it down to just one album, so instead I'll just list a few of my favorites

The Beatles — Magical Mystery Tour
Foo Fighters — The Colour and the Shape
Led Zeppelin — Houses of the Holy
UFO — Lights Out
Ozzy — Bark at the Moon
Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here
Iron Maiden — Brave New World
Helloween — Gambling with the Devil
Boston — Boston