What Do You Think Are The BEST ALBUMS EVER?

[sevin]

I'm looking for more music to listen to.

I already made my own list of favorite albums. When you choose an album, make sure you choose one where EVERY SONG is a classic (at least to you, anyway). There are too many bands that have 3 or 4 good songs on an album where the rest of the songs suck.

So what are your favorite albums ever? Here are mine.

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II, IV, Houses of the Holy
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
Radiohead - OK Computer
Rush - Moving Pictures
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Soundgarden - Bad Motorfinger
Weezer - The Blue Album

 

[jj-]

The Best of All Times

 

[pcosmar]

Workingman's Dead
Old & In The Way

 

[specsaregood]

I vote for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_It_All_Back_Home
The wifey disagrees and says this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_on_Blonde

edit: if you want something more indie, this one is great:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunset_Tree

 

[wrestlingwes_8]

Best EVER

and then..

Paranoid - Black Sabbath
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Fight With Tools - Flobots
American Fool - John Cougar
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Demon Days - Gorillaz
American Idiot - Green Day
Dark Light - H.I.M.
Hot Fuss - The Killers
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Mezmerize - System of a Down
Hypnotize - System of a Down
Devils - The 69 Eyes
The Clarence Greenwood Recordings - Citizen Cope
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club - The Beatles
Help! - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
Willy and the Poor Boys - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
40 Oz. To Freedom - Sublime
Sublime - Sublime
Everything You Need - Slightly Stoopid
The Black Album - Metallica
Palomino - Trampled By Turtles
Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Machine Head - Deep Purple


There's so many more I'm not thinking of at the moment...

 

[Indy Vidual]

The whole song is great, the 2nd half is amazing!



Entire album = Moonflower

 

[Kotin]

I'll add "Deloused in The Comatorium" by The Mars Volta

 

[ryanmkeisling]

I'll add "Deloused in The Comatorium" by The Mars Volta

That is a piece of art. +rep

 

[malkusm]

Can't believe no one has mentioned Pearl Jam - Ten

I think the best 5 albums from the late 90's / early 2000's were (in no particular order)

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Daft Punk - Discovery
Beck - Sea Change
The Strokes - Is This It
Radiohead - Kid A

Edit: I probably don't look at albums the same way as the OP. Rarely do I judge an album as the "sum of its parts" after listening to the individual songs - I tend to gravitate towards albums that are cohesive as a whole. I think the Beck and Wilco albums are the best example of that.

 

[Origanalist]

Quadrophenia

 

[Origanalist]

#2

Johnny Winter And Live

 

[jj-]

I have hope for this thread. Hopefully I'll listen to most of your favorite albums.

 

[showpan]

you forgot:

Pink Floyd, Meddle
Aerosmith, Get Your Wings
Lou Reed, Rock and Roll Animal
Deep Purple Live in Japan
Black Sabbath, We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll

 

[specsaregood]

I have hope for this thread. Hopefully I'll listen to most of your favorite albums.

yeah, a lot of good ones here so far.

Since nobody has mentioned any modest mouse, I'll throw out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_&_Antarctica

 

[Anti Federalist]

Steely Dan - Aja

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Van Halen I and II

Pink Floyd - Animals

Cheap Trick at Budokan

Anything by Muse.

 

[wrestlingwes_8]

yeah, a lot of good ones here so far.

Since nobody has mentioned any modest mouse, I'll throw out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_&_Antarctica

Good News for People Who Love Bad News was on my list

Nobody else like 'em, they are great!

 

[specsaregood]

Good News for People Who Love Bad News was on my list
Nobody else like 'em, they are great!

Yeah, I almost put that album up there too.

I'd say they are a great studio band, not so great in person, it would be about impossible to duplicate what they do in studio, live.

 

[specsaregood]

gotta have some jefferson airplane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealistic_Pillow

 

[oyarde]

I dunno ... it is all so subjective , but I see The Beatles were mentioned , I would go with The White Album, Revolver , Rubber Soul . Zeppelin , probably Physical Graffiti , The Stones , Sticky Fingers , Goatshead Soup , Floyd , Animals , Umma Gumma , The Who , cannot go wrong there . The Guess Who , Jefferson Airplane ,Deep Purple , Black Sabbath , Blue Oyster , The Band , Lou Reed , Muddy Waters, B B King , Clapton , John Fogerty , Blue Moon Swamp , Delbert Mclinton ..................

 

[Cleaner44]

Classic has been well covered so I am going 90s rock... Alice in Chains tripod albuum 1995.