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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:52 am    Post subject:

Many of these albums are probably not the most influential/important in music history, but one thing is for certain…they are some of my personal favorites that I listen to fairly often. I know that I’m going to leave a whole bunch out, but hey, what can you do eh? These are the ones I could think of off the top of my head right now. I have a whole bunch more favorites that I might go into later. I’m limiting myself to one album per band because I could have every single Beatles, Radiohead or Beck album on this list but that would be no fun. These albums are in no particular order but if someone were to put a gun to my head and told me to tell them my favorite album of all time then I would probably say OK Computer. Anyway, here we go…

1. Radiohead – OK Computer
2. Talking Heads – Remain In Light
3. Pixies – Doolittle
4. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
5. The Beatles – White Album
6. Fugazi – End Hits
7. The Clash – London Calling
8. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
9. Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese
10. Soundgarden – Superunknown
11. Pearl Jam – No Code
12. Nirvana – Nevermind
13. The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
14. Bjork – Homogenic
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic
16. Café Tacuba – Cuatros Caminos
17. The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
18. The Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
19. Television – Marquee Moon
20. Jeff Buckley – Grace
21. The Zombies – Odyssey and Oracle
22. Tool - Aenima
23. Beck – Odelay
24. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
25. John Coltrane – Giant Steps
26. Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love
27. Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
28. Elliott Smith – Figure 8
29. Gang of Four – Entertainment!
30. Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark
31. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
32. Led Zeppelin – III
33. Michael Jackson – Thriller
34. Mr. Bungle – California
35. Nick Drake – Pink Moon
36. Outkast – Stankonia
37. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
38. Latryx – Lateef and Lyrics Born
39. Prince – Purple Rain
40. Portishead – Portishead
41. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
42. The Roots – Things Fall Apart
43. Sade – Promise
44. Stereolab – Dots and Loops
45. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
46. Weezer – Blue Album
47. Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
48. At the Drive In – Relationship of Command
49. Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
50. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:22 am    Post subject:

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My Personal Top Five:
1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Am I the only person who thinks Wish You Were Here was the best PF album?

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2. Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. Hotel California - The Eagles
4. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
5. The Chronic - Dr. Dre

A few honorable mentions:
The Joshua Tree - U2

It'd be a tough call, but I've always been more of a fan of The Unforgettable Fire -- although JT does have one of my absolute favorites from them -- no, not any of the big three....Running to Stand Still.
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More of a fan of self-titled albums 3 & 4. I always thought the first one was hit-and-miss. It has two brilliant songs in Here Comes the Flood and Solsbury Hill, but the rest is uneven. Down The Dolce Vita is fine, but it's got nothing on Kiss of Life from 4.

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After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan
It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

'bout time.


I think that Dark Side of the Moon is a masterpiece that will live on for centuries, the way old classical does; that said, Shine On You Crazy Diamond is the song I would like to be listening to as I lie in bed quietly passing from this Earth someday...

You can make a good argument for the 4th Peter Gabriel album; I always kinda liked the unevenness of the first one though...the tentative steps of a new solo artist finding his way. I find that one like Kobe's 2nd season...glimpses of genius to come amidst growing pains...
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:33 am    Post subject:

You can tell by some of the responses here that many of the older members came up with KLOS (and KMET for the really old-school)...
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:03 am    Post subject:

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You can tell by some of the responses here that many of the older members came up with KLOS (and KMET for the really old-school)...


The Mighty MET!

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:09 pm    Post subject:

Miles Davis - kind of blue
Aceyalone - All Balls Dont Bounce
Nas - Illmatic
Led Zepplin - Physical Graffiti
De la soul - De la soul is dead
Tribe called quest - Midnight Marauders
Black Star

and the list goes on and on.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:11 pm    Post subject:

Personal Fave's

1) Queensryche - Empire
2) Nat King Cole - Ramblin' Rose
3) Sublime - Sublime
4) Sting - Living Sea soundtrack
5) Beatles - Abbey Road

6) Def Leppard - Hysteria
7) Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business
8) Chili Peppers - Californication
9) Police - Synchronicity
10) Sting - Ten Summoners Tails
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:30 pm    Post subject:

24 wrote:
ocho wrote:
there is no way i could ever rank them. but off the top of my head:

Beatles: White Album, Sgt Peppers, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road
Radiohead: Kid A, OK Computer

Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
David Bowie: Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust
Led Zeppelin: 1-4, Houses of the Holy
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks, Blonde on Blonde
Elvis Costello: This Year's Model
Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends, Sounds of Silence
Michael Jackson: Thriller, Bad
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals
The Pixies: Surfer Rosa, Doolittle
Prince: Purple Rain
Sigur Ros: Takk, ()
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Moondance
Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground & Nico, Loaded
Otis Redding: Greatest Hits

i'm leaving out a ton but thats the first wave that my brain produced.


Good list.

For relevance in their time period and influence on others, here are a few more Artists:

Neil Young
Eric Clapton
Rolling Stones
U2
Nirvana



Add: Patty Smith, Horses
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:31 pm    Post subject:

angrypuppy wrote:
24 wrote:
ocho wrote:
there is no way i could ever rank them. but off the top of my head:

Beatles: White Album, Sgt Peppers, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road
Radiohead: Kid A, OK Computer

Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
David Bowie: Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust
Led Zeppelin: 1-4, Houses of the Holy
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks, Blonde on Blonde
Elvis Costello: This Year's Model
Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends, Sounds of Silence
Michael Jackson: Thriller, Bad
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals
The Pixies: Surfer Rosa, Doolittle
Prince: Purple Rain
Sigur Ros: Takk, ()
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Moondance
Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground & Nico, Loaded
Otis Redding: Greatest Hits

i'm leaving out a ton but thats the first wave that my brain produced.


Good list.

For relevance in their time period and influence on others, here are a few more Artists:

Neil Young
Eric Clapton
Rolling Stones
U2
Nirvana



Add: Patty Smith, Horses


ah yes most definitely.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:49 pm    Post subject:

Dorray wrote:
Many of these albums are probably not the most influential/important in music history, but one thing is for certain…they are some of my personal favorites that I listen to fairly often. I know that I’m going to leave a whole bunch out, but hey, what can you do eh? These are the ones I could think of off the top of my head right now. I have a whole bunch more favorites that I might go into later. I’m limiting myself to one album per band because I could have every single Beatles, Radiohead or Beck album on this list but that would be no fun. These albums are in no particular order but if someone were to put a gun to my head and told me to tell them my favorite album of all time then I would probably say OK Computer. Anyway, here we go…

1. Radiohead – OK Computer
2. Talking Heads – Remain In Light
3. Pixies – Doolittle
4. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
5. The Beatles – White Album
6. Fugazi – End Hits
7. The Clash – London Calling
8. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
9. Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese
10. Soundgarden – Superunknown
11. Pearl Jam – No Code
12. Nirvana – Nevermind
13. The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
14. Bjork – Homogenic
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic
16. Café Tacuba – Cuatros Caminos
17. The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
18. The Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
19. Television – Marquee Moon
20. Jeff Buckley – Grace
21. The Zombies – Odyssey and Oracle
22. Tool - Aenima
23. Beck – Odelay
24. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
25. John Coltrane – Giant Steps
26. Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love
27. Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
28. Elliott Smith – Figure 8
29. Gang of Four – Entertainment!
30. Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark
31. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
32. Led Zeppelin – III
33. Michael Jackson – Thriller
34. Mr. Bungle – California
35. Nick Drake – Pink Moon
36. Outkast – Stankonia
37. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
38. Latryx – Lateef and Lyrics Born
39. Prince – Purple Rain
40. Portishead – Portishead
41. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
42. The Roots – Things Fall Apart
43. Sade – Promise
44. Stereolab – Dots and Loops
45. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
46. Weezer – Blue Album
47. Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
48. At the Drive In – Relationship of Command
49. Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
50. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions


I love Jazz and Rock as well.

Consider adding Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company, if you append to 51. As a group, Big Brother was barely above a garage band in terms of performance quality... but on that album, the lead vocalist (Janis Joplin) prove that she was the greatest blues singer since Bessie Smith.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:54 pm    Post subject:

angrypuppy wrote:
Dorray wrote:
Many of these albums are probably not the most influential/important in music history, but one thing is for certain…they are some of my personal favorites that I listen to fairly often. I know that I’m going to leave a whole bunch out, but hey, what can you do eh? These are the ones I could think of off the top of my head right now. I have a whole bunch more favorites that I might go into later. I’m limiting myself to one album per band because I could have every single Beatles, Radiohead or Beck album on this list but that would be no fun. These albums are in no particular order but if someone were to put a gun to my head and told me to tell them my favorite album of all time then I would probably say OK Computer. Anyway, here we go…

1. Radiohead – OK Computer
2. Talking Heads – Remain In Light
3. Pixies – Doolittle
4. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
5. The Beatles – White Album
6. Fugazi – End Hits
7. The Clash – London Calling
8. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
9. Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese
10. Soundgarden – Superunknown
11. Pearl Jam – No Code
12. Nirvana – Nevermind
13. The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
14. Bjork – Homogenic
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic
16. Café Tacuba – Cuatros Caminos
17. The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
18. The Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
19. Television – Marquee Moon
20. Jeff Buckley – Grace
21. The Zombies – Odyssey and Oracle
22. Tool - Aenima
23. Beck – Odelay
24. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
25. John Coltrane – Giant Steps
26. Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love
27. Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
28. Elliott Smith – Figure 8
29. Gang of Four – Entertainment!
30. Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark
31. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
32. Led Zeppelin – III
33. Michael Jackson – Thriller
34. Mr. Bungle – California
35. Nick Drake – Pink Moon
36. Outkast – Stankonia
37. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
38. Latryx – Lateef and Lyrics Born
39. Prince – Purple Rain
40. Portishead – Portishead
41. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
42. The Roots – Things Fall Apart
43. Sade – Promise
44. Stereolab – Dots and Loops
45. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
46. Weezer – Blue Album
47. Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
48. At the Drive In – Relationship of Command
49. Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
50. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions


I love Jazz and Rock as well.

Consider adding Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company, if you append to 51. As a group, Big Brother was barely above a garage band in terms of performance quality... but on that album, the lead vocalist (Janis Joplin) prove that she was the greatest blues singer since Bessie Smith.


If you're a Joplin fan, check out Susan Tedeschi:

"Susan Tedeschi's voice has been described as a blend of Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin, though she explains this is due to sharing the same influences as the two. Her guitar playing is influenced by Buddy Guy, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Freddie King and Doyle Bramhall II." -from Wikipedia
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:19 pm    Post subject:

ocho wrote:
there is no way i could ever rank them. but off the top of my head:

Beatles: White Album, Sgt Peppers, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road
Radiohead: Kid A, OK Computer

Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
David Bowie: Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust
Led Zeppelin: 1-4, Houses of the Holy
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks, Blonde on Blonde
Elvis Costello: This Year's Model
Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends, Sounds of Silence
Michael Jackson: Thriller, Bad
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals
The Pixies: Surfer Rosa, Doolittle
Prince: Purple Rain
Sigur Ros: Takk, ()
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Moondance
Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground & Nico, Loaded
Otis Redding: Greatest Hits

i'm leaving out a ton but thats the first wave that my brain produced.


every album listed here (with the exception of surfer rosa and bad, i think off the wall is better) is in my top 100 albums all time. great list.

if i may add:

elliott smith- either/or, elliott smith
nas- illmatic
miles davis- (bleep) brew
duke ellington - take you're pick...
john coltrane- take you're pick...
bob dylan- highway 61 revisited, blonde on blonde, blood on the tracks
justice- cross
brian wilson- smile
daft punk- homework, discovery
sufjan stevens- illinois, a sun came
wu tang- enter the 36 chambers
outkast- stanktonia, aquemini
public enemy- it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
lou reed- transformer
the white stripes- elephant
bright eyes- i'm wide awake, it's morning, LIFTED
battles- mirrored
james brown- live at the apollo
my bloody valentine- loveless
kanye west- college dropout
death from above 1979- heads up-ep (biased pick but whatever)
n.w.a.- straight outta compton
dr. dre- the chronic 2001
arcade fire- funeral, neon bible (<- to a lesser degree)
rolling stones- exhile on main street
the who- who's next
aesop rock- labor days
the decemberists- the crane wife
eminem- the marshall mathers lp, the slim shady lp
iron and wine- our endless numbered days
weezer- the blue album
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:13 pm    Post subject:

^^ B_Rabbit1212, nice list. I enjoy all that stuff too. As for my list of 50, they aren't in any particular order (cept for the first one). They are just 50 of my favorites.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:07 pm    Post subject:

In no particular order:

What's Goin on - Marvin Gaye
Here, My Dear - Marvin Gaye
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
Destiny - The Jacksons
Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Candy Girl - New Edition
Control - Janet Jackson
By All Means Necessary - Boogie Down Productions
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - Ice Cube
Death Certificate - Ice Cube
Doggystyle - Snoop Doggy Dog
Tony Toni Tone - Sons of Soul
2pacalypse Now - Tupac Shakur
Me Against the World - Tupac Shakur
All Eyez On Me - Tupac Shakur
My Life - Mary J. Blige
Urban Hang Suite - Maxwell
Floacism - Floetry
First Born Second - Bilal

The albums in bold are albums that completely knocked me over, changed my life.

The pickings are kinda slim these days, but some newer folks I'm really digging are Amy Whinehouse, Corrine Bailey Rae, and Dwele.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:22 am    Post subject:

Wow, great lists guys. Definitely Laker Fans have good taste for music!

However, i see no mentions of Elton John, one of the Greats.

I like James Blunt too, and Back to Bedlam is a great album, with Wisemen being my favorite song in it.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:31 am    Post subject:

saidodeh wrote:
Wow, great lists guys. Definitely Laker Fans have good taste for music!

However, i see no mentions of Elton John, one of the Greats.

I like James Blunt too, and Back to Bedlam is a great album, with Wisemen being my favorite song in it.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:26 pm    Post subject:

Man, these are some GREAT lists!!

Miles Davis, Coletrane, The Beatles, U2, The Police, Marvin, Prince, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Marley, Black Star, Stevie, Lauryn Hill, The Roots, Radiohead, Bjork... Daaaaaaaaamn!!!!



Some others I don't think anyone has mentioned yet...

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Counting Crows - August and Everything After/Recovering Satellites
Erykah Badu - Baduizm/Live
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill/Unplugged
Wyclef Jean - The Carnival
Ours - Distorted Lullabies
Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Smashing Pumpkins - Melancholy/Siamese Dream
Maxwell - Urban Hang Suite
J5 - Quality Control
Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
The Fugees - The Score
Rawkus Records - Soundbombing II
Pearl Jam - Ten
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Kean - Under the Iron Sea
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:05 am    Post subject:

Sad to see the music industry be transformed into the age of the downloaded single. Whether legally or illegally.

The VH1 show, Classic Albums, is a great show to watch as they bring the producers, engineers and artists together to relive how a great album was put together and how songs were written.

In 20 years, I am not sure you can have too many episodes of that show.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:25 am    Post subject:

kevin wrote:
Sad to see the music industry be transformed into the age of the downloaded single. Whether legally or illegally.

The VH1 show, Classic Albums, is a great show to watch as they bring the producers, engineers and artists together to relive how a great album was put together and how songs were written.

In 20 years, I am not sure you can have too many episodes of that show.




True, but it is an inevitability. I tried getting venture backed funding back around 1991-2 for a burn-your-own CD jukebox. This of course was well before Internet penetration, but the gist was similar. You would have been able to download your own selections from various artists and albums at a record store, and paid on a per song basis (plus a flat fee for the CD).
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:49 am    Post subject:

kevin wrote:
Sad to see the music industry be transformed into the age of the downloaded single. Whether legally or illegally.

The VH1 show, Classic Albums, is a great show to watch as they bring the producers, engineers and artists together to relive how a great album was put together and how songs were written.

In 20 years, I am not sure you can have too many episodes of that show.


Thriller sold over a 100 million copies. I think it's safe to say that is the one record that will never be broken, EVER. I don't think any other album has even sold half as many as that. To understand the magnitude of this you have to realize that there are less than 300 million people in the United States.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:29 am    Post subject:

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kevin wrote:
Sad to see the music industry be transformed into the age of the downloaded single. Whether legally or illegally.

The VH1 show, Classic Albums, is a great show to watch as they bring the producers, engineers and artists together to relive how a great album was put together and how songs were written.

In 20 years, I am not sure you can have too many episodes of that show.


Thriller sold over a 100 million copies. I think it's safe to say that is the one record that will never be broken, EVER. I don't think any other album has even sold half as many as that. To understand the magnitude of this you have to realize that there are less than 300 million people in the United States.


That's the worldwide total; I think the US total is about 27-28 million, which is still astounding, and probably is tougher than Wilt's 100 to break...
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:33 am    Post subject:

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LarryCoon wrote:
Tony Montana wrote:
My Personal Top Five:
1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Am I the only person who thinks Wish You Were Here was the best PF album?

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2. Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. Hotel California - The Eagles
4. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
5. The Chronic - Dr. Dre

A few honorable mentions:
The Joshua Tree - U2

It'd be a tough call, but I've always been more of a fan of The Unforgettable Fire -- although JT does have one of my absolute favorites from them -- no, not any of the big three....Running to Stand Still.
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More of a fan of self-titled albums 3 & 4. I always thought the first one was hit-and-miss. It has two brilliant songs in Here Comes the Flood and Solsbury Hill, but the rest is uneven. Down The Dolce Vita is fine, but it's got nothing on Kiss of Life from 4.

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After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan
It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

'bout time.


I think that Dark Side of the Moon is a masterpiece that will live on for centuries, the way old classical does; that said, Shine On You Crazy Diamond is the song I would like to be listening to as I lie in bed quietly passing from this Earth someday...

You can make a good argument for the 4th Peter Gabriel album; I always kinda liked the unevenness of the first one though...the tentative steps of a new solo artist finding his way. I find that one like Kobe's 2nd season...glimpses of genius to come amidst growing pains...


I'm a huge Floyd fan but Echoes to me is the (bleep) I can listen to that song on repeat for hours..
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:09 am    Post subject:

Agreed with much of what's on here to various extents.

Dorray - excellent call on Relationship of Command. One of my all-time favorites and it's a damn shame the politics ruined that group just as they really managed to pull it all together in such an incredible way.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:01 pm    Post subject:

Socks wrote:
Agreed with much of what's on here to various extents.

Dorray - excellent call on Relationship of Command. One of my all-time favorites and it's a damn shame the politics ruined that group just as they really managed to pull it all together in such an incredible way.


I enjoy their previous albums too like in/casino/out and the vaya ep. I think RoC is the best though. I wish they could have made one more album. I really like Mars Volta (might like them better than ATDI) and I'm glad they are making albums at a fast rate. Sparta just doesn't do it for me.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:53 pm    Post subject:

Dorray wrote:
Socks wrote:
Agreed with much of what's on here to various extents.

Dorray - excellent call on Relationship of Command. One of my all-time favorites and it's a damn shame the politics ruined that group just as they really managed to pull it all together in such an incredible way.


I enjoy their previous albums too like in/casino/out and the vaya ep. I think RoC is the best though. I wish they could have made one more album. I really like Mars Volta (might like them better than ATDI) and I'm glad they are making albums at a fast rate. Sparta just doesn't do it for me.


I enjoy all their albums too, but RoC was clearly the king as far as the entire album just being outstanding from the first song to the last. I've tried hard, but I just can't get into Mars Volta or Sparta. It's really clear to me they needed each other to balance things out.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:24 pm    Post subject:

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Sad to see the music industry be transformed into the age of the downloaded single. Whether legally or illegally.

The VH1 show, Classic Albums, is a great show to watch as they bring the producers, engineers and artists together to relive how a great album was put together and how songs were written.

In 20 years, I am not sure you can have too many episodes of that show.


Thriller sold over a 100 million copies. I think it's safe to say that is the one record that will never be broken, EVER. I don't think any other album has even sold half as many as that. To understand the magnitude of this you have to realize that there are less than 300 million people in the United States.


That's the worldwide total; I think the US total is about 27-28 million, which is still astounding, and probably is tougher than Wilt's 100 to break...


I know. I used that as an example to show how many people own that album. And now that albums don't sell half as many as they used to, that record will never be broken.
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