What are your favourite albums of all time?

Mine are:

The Beatles - Revolver

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - The Sound of Glenn Miller

R.E.M. - Murmur

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys - Smile

David Bowie - Low

Grateful Dead - Live/Dead

Nirvana - Nevermind

Glenn Gould - Bach The Goldberg Variations

Blink 182 - Buddha

The Pixies - Doolittle

Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

  • Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust

    Dave Edmunds - DE 7th

    Vanilla Fudge: Vanilla Fudge (1967)

    Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run

    Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Crown and Treaty

    The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

    Captain Beefheart: Safe as Milk

    Frank Zappa: Absolutely Free

    Blondie: Blondie (1976)

    Nick Lowe: The Convincer

    and many others

  • Bringing it all Back Home - Bob Dylan

    Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

    Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa

    Curiche - Newen Afrobeat

    Graceland - Paul Simon

    Brandenburg Concertos - Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces

    Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

    Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

    Aman Iman - Tinariwen

    Play Traditional Cajun Music - The Balfa Brothers

    Blue Train - John Coltrane

    Concerti Grossi - George Handel

    Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

    The Velvet Underground  - The Velvet Underground

    The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers

    Sound Affects - The Jam

  • Some fantastic picks all around!

    Mine are:

    Approximately Infinite Universe - Yoko Ono
    Histoire De Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg
    The Beatles - The Beatles
    Innuendo - Queen
    Forever Changes - Love
    Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers
    Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
    London Calling - The Clash
    A Long Vacation - Eiichi Ohtaki
    Mishima - Philip Glass
    The Disintegration Loops Vol. 1 - William Basinski
    The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

  • Fantasic!  I was lucky enough to pick up an original "Mint" condition, promo copy of "A day at the races" on double LP.  One of my little gems in my collection

  • What a great topic!  Thanks for posting this.

    I'm a huge music lover and collector of music on many different formats.  Personally I find that "today's stuff" doesn't really do anything for me.  Maybe it's to do with my hearing sensiitivity and I can hear all the flaws in production, or to the other extreme of it being over produced because the band/artist rely on that in order to make them palletable for the average listener Joy

    Making a definitive "all time list" is difficult because I like so much from so many different genres, however I will list some of my "go to" albums (in no particular order) :

    Forget About It - Alison Kraus
    The Bridge - Billy Joel
    DJ Kicks - Kruder & Dorfmeister
    Sting - .....All This Time
    Joe Cocker - Cocker Happy
    Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    Brand New Heavies - Brother Sister
    West Side Story - Original Soundtrack (conducted by Leonard Bernstein)
    Goldie - Timeless
    Doug Macleod - Exactly Like This
    Liquid Spirit - Gregory Porter
    Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
    Talking Book - Stevie Wonder
    Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell
    Barber's Adagio For Strings - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Berstein
    Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
    Deep Forest - Deep Forest
    Riding With The King - Eric Clapton & B.B. King
    Bjork - Debut
    Promise Me - Beverley Craven
    The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
    Blackstreet - Another Level
    Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
    Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
    Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
    Phil Colins - ...But Seriously
    Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out!
    Pressure Drop - Toots And The Maytals
    Faithless - Sunday 8pm

    I have to physically stop myself there as I know I will go on and on and bore you all to tears Joy

    If there's anything in there you don't recognise, or you know the barnd/artist but not the alsbum, definately find somewhere to get access to it to give it a listen

  • I'm a fan of Queen. My favorite album is The Works. 

  • They played a Ruts song on 6 music this morning, the Tubes where good to.

  • I have good memories of 'White Blood Cells'. I'd heard 'Finding It Hard...' and decided to buy the CD. That sent me onto a route of listening to The Cramps, Kinks, New York Dolls and other raw, garage-y type of sounds.

  • De Stijl was Jack White at his creative best. White Blood Cells was the Noughties' Equivalent of 'Never Mind the B*****ks' in terms of revolution in musical direction. The rest of the albums were good, but not jaw-dropping.

    I should also add 'Desire' and 'Blood on the tracks' by Dylan. That was when he was going through his Divorce and really had to express himself.

    Also, maybe 'I should Coco' and 'In it for the Money' by Supergrass. They were a Progressive Pixies, in so many ways.

  • Magical Mystery tour and Sergeantv Peppers are the only two full Beatles lbumscI have

  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome (25th anniversary, DELUXE edition!)
    Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Liverpool

    808 State - NewBuild
    808 State - Utd. State 90
    808 State - Cubik/Olympic/Pacific

    The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

    The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs

    Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
    Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
    Stereolab - Peng!
    Stereolab - Space Age Batchelor Pad Music
    Stereolab - Aluminium Tunes
    Stereolab - Oscillions from the Anti-Sun (it includes a DVD of their music videos and TV appearances)
    Well, anything really, by Stereolab. You might have guessed, I do like them!

    Bassomatic - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Bass

    I did go through a bit of a Beatles period in the late 80's - "OOOh! it's 20 years since Sgt Pepper!"
    But I must admit that I prefer Magical Mystery Tour to Sgt Pepper.

    Dark Side of the 80s
    Something I found one Saturday afternoon, rooting around in Double 4 Records in Stockport. Can we include compilation albums?
    In that case, there's various housey, acidy, dancey tunes on various housey, acidy, dancey albums that I like. [ I still can not believe that Voodoo Ray is over 30 years old! ]

  • I've been playing a fair bit of Cocteau Twins and All About Eve through the recent wintery months.

    There's some really good, melodic choices on your list.

  • My tastes have waxed and waned over the years, but 

    Things that stand out:

    Abba's greatest hits (for my sins: at 17!)

    Crime of the Century Supertramp

    Beach Boys greatest hits

    Smile Brian Jones

    Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd

    Cocteau Twins Head over Heels, Garlands, Victoria Land

    March Violets 

    Kate Bush The Kick inside, Lionheart, Never for Ever, Hounds of Love, Arial. I have all her albums actually, but the others are spottier

    Japanese Whispers, Disntegration, The Cure

    Lacrimosa, Satura

    Engelsstaub Malleus Maleficium, Ignis Fatuus

    Ikon a moment in Time, Flowers for the Gathering

    All about Eve All about Eve, Touched by Jesus  Ultraviolet, Scarlet

    Theatre of Tragedy Assembly Musique

    Florence and the Machine, Ceremonials

  • A fairly recent favorite. Richard Thompson, 13 Rivers

    en.wikipedia.org/.../13_Rivers

    Just about everything by both RT and John Cale.

  • i have indicated a strong liking of a Joe Walsh album below, but I'd also like to also say that if there is a song I now thoroughly detest it is "Hotel California". It is constantly overplayed, where I live, by people who seem to think it is a celebration of the West Coast lifestyle. I detest it it even though it at least has the decency to highlight the numerous pitfalls of the muso world. Arghh! Nightlife and playboyism be damned!

  • The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get - Joe Walsh. It has haunted me for decades, and I imagine that it has also haunted Joe and the rest of the band. Also great cover artwork! It's just one of those "What the f*** is this all about?" type of albums. Not bad at all for a bunch of classic hotel room trashers! Which has about zilch in common with my own preferred conduct. 

    en.wikipedia.org/.../The_Smoker_You_Drink,_the_Player_You_Get

  • I didn't know about that but I did read a book by an Oxford professor a psychologist lent me years ago where he wrote that he was certain Glenn Gould was Autistic.

  • I liked a story of how Glenn Gould was called in to do concerts (or was it a single concert, maybe?) at the last minute, in substitute for another pianist that had taken ill, because Gould could reel off the music on minimal/zero practice. I'd like to find that story written down as I was told the details and they've been slowly dropping from my memory.

    If anyone can confirm any such details about the story, that'd be rather good.

  • Nice to 'De Stijl' in the list. I reckon I'm about due another listen to some Magazine and Jesus and Mary Chain too.