The best album

[Chris the Chees]

Just to bring up a good discussion, what is your favorate album and why do you think so?

I would have to say that my favorate album is the Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible.

Midway through the song 'Mausoleum', there's a sample from author JG Ballard where he explains the thinking behind his 1973 novel Crash, in which the main characters get themselves off by crashing cars into each other. "I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit", he says, "and force it to look in the mirror". And that's what ' 'The Holy Bible' did. If you only discovered the Manic Street Preachers when they briefly became our biggest band, this is the album they've never been forgiven for moving on from. It's also one of the best we've ever known.

http://www.nme.com/reviews/manic-street-preachers/7538

[Nono]

Well, no accounting for tastes and whatnot, but off the top of my head I'd say Gordon by Bare Naked Ladies. Though it's kinda hard to choose.

[Milton Bradley]

My opinion on this has not changed for many years.


My vote would have to go to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "One More From the Road". A double live album of two of my favorite guitar players ( Gary Rossington,and Allen Collins) feeding off each others skills, and Ronnie Van Zant's direction.


I have been listening to this album since it came out in 76, and I do not see myself getting sick of it anytime soon. Southern fried rock baby.

[bishop]

daft punk - homework

[fushigi]

Sufjan Stevens' Michigan, who would've thought a God-fearing banjo player could pull off such incredible orchestration, such genuinely stirring work? If you haven't listened to Sufjan yet, you really should. Put a marching band, phonograph playing a Gershwin album, Rand McNally U.S. atlas, and an evangelical hymnal choir in a blender and this is what you'd get.

[underbear1]

Too many I like to have one favorite.That said Aretha Franklin's Greatest Hits, Diamond Dogs by Bowie, Sting's Greatest Hits, Best of Otis Redding, and Best of Janis Joplin rank probably in my top 5

[Clarence]

Ziggy Stardust by Bowie. Slow Train Coming, Dylan. Some Girls, the Stones. Band of Gypsies at Fillmore, Hendrix. Physical Graffiti, Zepplin. Animals, Pink Floyd. Rust in Peace, Megadeth. Master of Puppets, Metallica. Fashion Nugget, Cake. Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty. Tuesday Night Music Club, Sheryl Crow. Yeah, It's one of these IMO. Oh yeah, Sap by Alice and Chains. Oh! and...

[pubmanager]

Simon & Garfunkel - concert in central park
Sting & the Police - greatest hits
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - in harmony
Jamiroquai - emergency on planet earth, space cowboy(... fuck it all of them)
Damien Rice - O

Could live forever without listening to anything else.

[Scribbler1]

Allman Brothers: At Fillmore East
Anything by the Greatful Dead, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Beatles and King Crimson
Humble Pie: Rockin the Fillmore
Strawbs: Hero and Heroine
Emerson Lake and Palmer: Tarkus
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman
The whole Spyro Gyra collection

There are more but this would be my collection to take to the desert island.

[PatrickHenry]

You buncha punks! The thread says FAVORITE ALBUM AND WHY.

This means, for those whose comprehension is challenged, that you must pick ONE. Then you share why it is THE FAVORITE. Anything more or else is OFF TOPIC.

Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited



Because it is the best poetry of the Twentieth Century

The songs:

• Like a Rolling Stone
• Tombstone Blues
• It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
• From a Buick 6
• Ballad of a Thin Man
• Queen Jane Approximately
• Highway 61 Revisited
• Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
• Desolation Row

[Jack]

We're close, Scribbler1. Mine would have to be Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Trilogy.
Classical and pop together in one well produced album.

(I also love Santana's Supernatural and ZZTop's Greatest Hits. But I won't mention them per PH's warning. :))

[Chris]

daft punk - homework

thats a shock. Really though Its hard to come up with "THE best album" cause there is so much I find it hard to limit it to just one. Also some are really really good, but they have that 1 track that just sucks or is mediocre.