‡‡Top 11 favorite albums of all time ‡‡

[ZokesPro]

Tool is the best!!!!

[KeiFront]

(in no particular order)

The Cure - Disintegration
dEUS - Ideal Crash
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Pixies - Doolitle
The Smiths - Queen Is Dead
Leonard Cohen - Songs from a room
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Talk Talk - It's my life
Front242 - Tyranny for you
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
....

[The Rock]

I couldn't come up with a top 10, but I had to post a commendation to the folks who chose The Cures Disintegration. That would be in my top 3 for sure, maybe #1. Good taste people.

Bart

[HedsSpaz]

In no particular order (artists and some of my favorite peices rather than albums).

1. Handel - Messiah
2. Aaron Copland - Rodeo, Fanfare, Appalacian Spring
3. Mendelssohn - All of his choral peices
4. Mozart - All of it, but especially his Requiem
5. Faure - Requiem
6. JS Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, and his multitude of choral works.
7. Rachmaninov - every last bit of it

8. Davinci's Notebook - Brontosaurus (that actually is an album)
9. Harry Chapin - Gold Medal Album

10. Clandestine - To Anybody At All
11. Alasdair Frasier - everything

12. LotR soundtrack
13. Phantom of the Opera
14. Les Miserables
15. Starwars Soundtracks


Now, I bet you're thinking 'he doesn't actually list to all of that, he must be posting it all just to be different'. Well, you're wrong, I do listen to that type of music, and very frequently. Not that I don't listen to a wide spectrum of other types of music, but it always irritates me that people never seem to listen to more varied types of music. They get stuck in one genre and refuse to acknowledge anything else as worth listening to. So, the second part is right, I am being different and ornery.

Ian

[Indiana]

Oh I listen to many VERY different types of music from pure electronic music like Kraftwerk over more guitar oriented things like the Cure over some good ole Rock'n'Roll up to more hardrock like groups (e.g. Guns'n'Roses, Scorpions, even some real trashy tracks). And I don't care if I put those on one tape and somene tries to tell me those wouldn't fit together.

But I only listen only to titles I like (and I'm quite picky there...) - and in general I dislike most kinds of classic music. Mozart mostly is too "poppy" for me (O.K., the requiem is not), and other classic titles just lack "the beat" (Beethoven is one the few that actually have some kind of beat in their music.)

[HedsSpaz]

Wow, I never thought I'd meet someone who actually dislikes classical. To each his own and all that Indiana, but honestly, I think thats really damn weird.

I'm not quite exactly sure what you mean by 'poppy', or what you're getting at talking about a 'beat'. It's classical, it doesn't have a beat the same way rock and other modern musical forms do.

I think a large part of my enjoyment of classical music comes from singing in a choir for going on 4 years now (which is also why I listed several choral works). Anyway, I'm not going to ramble at the moment, cause I'm not sure what to ramble about.

Ian

[Alice]

I don´t like to mention my favorite albums, coz I often don´t all like all the songs, except for Pink Floyd and the Cure, so here goes some song´s that still make me shiver quite a bit...

1. Pink Floyd - Us and Them
2. The Cure - In between days
3. Depeche Mode - Enjoy de Silence
4. Stina Nordenstam - Now that your leaving
5. Massive Attack - mezzanine
6. Pixies - Gigantic
7. U2- Still haven´t find what im looking for (Ya!)
8. Tindersticks - Lets pretend
9. The Sundays - Here´s where the story goes
10. Aimee Mann - Wise up
11. Mazzy Star - Fade into you

I feel like I left just too many out, from bossanova to some classic, but this are the ones that first popped in my mind now...

[Agent31]

Originally posted by Alice
5. Massive Attack - mezzanine
10. Aimee Mann - Wise up

what is it about mezzanine?? several people have listed it now... I don't get it, oh well.

you like Aimee Mann Alice, if you weren't spoken for...

[The Rock]

11. Mazzy Star - Fade into you

Ahhhh yes; one of my all-time favorite songs. That one is timeless. It has one of the nicest opening lines I've heard in any song: "I want to hold the hand inside you".

Bart

[mdhome]

in no particular order

ELO- On the third day/Eldorado
Beatles- Abbey Rd/Revolver
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here
Queen- Queen II/Day at the Races
Carol King-Tapestry
David Gray- White Ladder
U2-Joshua tree
The Smiths- Queen is dead
Yes-Tales from Topographic oceans/Close to the edge
Genesis-Foxtrot

..plus many others

[GNEP]

Let's see... I will probably come back and edit this later, but here's a start (in no order):

The The - Dusk
Pink Floyd - Meddle or Echoes (the recent "best-of" but also my fave track)
One of the Queen albums (not sure which)
Some Beethoven piano sonatas
Some Bach cello suites
Something by Tangerine Dream
And probably other stuff as well

gnep

[Dogbert]

I'd love to be able to make such a list but that'd be impossible for me.

The problem is that there are very few albums I like as a whole. I like songs.
If I had to choose albums I'd propably cheat and go for "the best of...".

Anyway, from what I've seen before, quite a few manes made me stop and admire so here's my cheat list:

1. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here (I grew up on this one. It's the first music I remember)
2. Pink Floyd (Dark side of the moon, Atom heart mother, The wall)
3. Electronic music I grew up on: Jean Michelle Jarre, Vangelis, Tangerine dream
5. Don't know how you call this kind of music: Radiohead (the bends), Grant Lee Buffalo, Mazzy Star, Kristin Hersh, Susan Vega...
6. The Cure (dunno albums, just know songs. Alice gave me a much more serious introduction to them)
7. Led Zeppelin (I think it's the second album with "Dazed and confused", "You shook me" etc.)
8. Massive attack (selected songs - Protection, Unfinished Sympathy, Tear drop)
9. Madredeus
10. Pearl Jam - Ten
11. King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king

I left out quite a lot, including some local (Israeli) music but that'll do.

[Taz]

What I listen largely depends on the mood I'm in but I guess these ones get played the most frequently

1. Pink Floyd - Wish you where here
2. Genesis - Selling England by the pound
3. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
4. Yanni - Keys to imagination
5. Nirvana - Nevermind
6. Gomez - Bring it on
7. Michael Hedges - Live on the double planet
8. Morcheeba - Big Calm
9. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas flood
10. Traffic - Smiling phases (Compilation)
11. Santana - Abraxas

[Lizzard[MPE]]

After the last few days of listening to Massive Attack..i'd like to change my Blue Lines to Mezzanine.




Gomez - Bring it on - great album, i'm suprised you listed this. I don't come across very many Gomez fans. Their in my top 5 favorite bands. Big Calm is a great album too...sing with me

Fearrrrrrrr can stop you loving....
Loveeeeeee can stop your fearrrrrr...

ok sorry bout that.. anyway moving on..

i would love to list a Faithless cd in mine as well.. but i cant squeeze it in. i should have made this top 15.. not 11.

[Taz]

Originally posted by Lizzard[MPE]
I don't come across very many Gomez fans.

There're quite a few of us in the UK