Ultimate Albums

I've got several of Floyd's works. I don't like Animals. It seems rather aimless to me. I prefer 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason'.

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Couldn't Stand the Weather

This album is easily in my top 5 of all time. Stevie was a cat who could transend musical bounderies. Couldn't Stand the Weather has a killer rock/blues groove that makes it a great listen.

Linkin Park? Yuck.

To me, it's cheesy, repetitive "n?-metal." I don't have much respect for them, to say the least.

Patrick.

Yma Sumac, Mambo! - a great CD - quirkey, sarcastic with a great horn line to back it up

Second Coming, by the Stone Roses.

The best album I own. Complex but accessible, tuneful but rocking, immediate yet complex. Great guitar, superb bass and drums, and Ian Brown's weedy vocals. But on some tracks, his whispered menace really works. An album which deserves and can sustain repeated listening, revealing more and more nuggets of pure gold in its many layers.

Real Roses fans hated it. The Stone Roses had produced a debut album that was pure pop - the Smiths meet the Byrds, meet the Beatles. Hugely successful over here and critically acclaimed, still regularly being voted the best album ever by music journos. Then nothing (or nothing sanctioned by the band) for five years. Until 'Second Coming'. In which they seemed to have turned into Led Zeppelin. (And Led Zeppelin at their best, not in the bloated rock dinosaur sense).

It was just as though the Beatles had quit after 'Please Please Me' and 'Love Me Do' and come back five years later transformed into a much harder, heavier band, producing (say) 'Exile on Main Street'.

There were some vague links between old and new Roses albums, and if you go back and listen to 'I Wanna Be Adored', 'She Bangs the Drums' and 'Waterfall' on the first album, there's a faint hint that John Squire might just develop into a much rockier, heavier guitarist, and into a technically adept guitar hero who can be spoken about in the same sentance as Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix. And there are tracks on 'Second Coming' which echo the sheer exhilerating and uplifting melodic groove of the first album.

Jack knows I also believe Second Coming to be The Roses' best album. With songs like "Breaking into Heaven", "Daybreak", & "Driving South", this is some rock & roll you can taste!

I would have to say... drumroll please... Clumsy by Our Lady Peace!:D

Although my favorite bands are more mainstream rock (U2, Doors, Zeppelin, Floyd, etc.), one of my favorite albums is The Head on the Door by The Cure. From start to finish, I get completely caught up in the music coming from Robert Smith and the band. Not saying it's my all-time favorite, but it's very enjoyable and you don't generally hear much about it.

superunknown by Soundgarden

IMO, their best album, and contains my personal favorite Soungarden song, "The Day I Tried To Live". Of course, having Black Hole Sun and Spoonman doesnt hurt either. I just friggin love this album, and consider it the soundtrack of my life. Oh, and a not-too-distant second is The White Album by the Beatles:D

Regarding Soundgarden, I'll take Badmotorfinger anyday! Although, I detract points from it's ultimate album potential due to intolerable drum tones/ production.

I concur Siamese Dream the best Smashing Pumpkins album ever.

U2: Joshua Tree

Don't get me wrong, Mellon Collie and the infinate sadness was amazing- it's far, FAR better than any other band, yet Siamese Dream is just a tad better- only just though.

The acoustic live version of Tonight, Tonight is literally amazing.

I need to get Vieuphoria.

there can be only one.

my ultimate album has not changed in a decade, and it's not what most people would choose. it is, however, one of the most awe-inspiring, god fearing albums in a good sound system. it has terrified neighbors, brought those on substances to their knees, terrified the average music listener, brought nightmares to those who don't get it...

it is lustmord's "the place where the black stars hang"

this album is not for everyone. may not be for anyone. it has, however, shot a bullet in the spine of everyone i know who ever thought music was supposed to be "music." it's not something to be taken lightly. of course, i've known people who just wondered if it was a "halloween special effects album."

this sh** is deep. i don't expect most people to get it. i do, however, suggest if you think you know music, listen to it. there's a f***in' reason this guy now does sound design for major hollywood films.

peace.

Dancepieces/In the upper room by Philip Glass - commissioned by Twila Tharp - this is minimalism at it's best

Different Trains - Steve Reich - also a classic, groundbreaking orchestration

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Originally posted by Ignodium
I thought that Veuphoria wsa only SD stuff, or are you not trying to imply that acoustic tonight tonight is on it?

No, Vieuphoria doesn't have Tonight, Tonight on it- I was merely saying that I have to get it- it had no connection to what was previously said. Hence the new paragraph.

Anyway, my opinion of the two albums may be a little shifted because MCIS was the first pumpkins album I bought,

I got Mellon Collie first too, I heard Tonight, Tonight on Kerrang (UK music channel- you guys have it over there in US?) and thought it was amazing. Then I got SD, and then Gish. I'm going to get Machina when I've funded my iPod purchase. ;)

Passion, by Peter Gabriel - (it's the soundtrack to the last temtation of christ) An awesome CD. He really outdid himself on this!

One of my very favorite albums is "Blasters" by the Blasters. It's early 80's Rockabilly and Phil Alvin's singing is just rockin' the ears. My favorite song by them is "Long white Cadillac" because it just has great guitar rifts all the way through the song.

Either album from Blue (All Rise or One Love), they're both great and my favorite albums... I dunno it's just tottaly my type of music, it's like it made for me..

GO BLUE!! :D

here's some of my favourites:

Nick Drake: Pink Moon
- superb songs, every last one. beautifully performed too

Lisa Germano : Happiness
- actually, anything by Lisa Germano is fine by me

- Tom Waits : Closing Time
his debut album - the one i prefer

- Stone Roses : Stone Roses
yep, i'm one of those people who thinks it's better than second coming :o . it's a jangly, melodic guitar-fest, instantly accessible and spawned a whole generation of copycats

- Pixies : Surfer Rosa:
doolittle may be better but it was already named. anyway they're both great: highly melodic but real noise-fests at the same time

- Leonard Cohen : New Skin for the Old Ceremony
great songwriter & because he's so funny :D "you were ky jelly and i was vaseline"

- neil young : after the goldrush
another great canadian song writer

Originally posted by Jackonicko
But it doesn't 'funk' like 'Turns Into Stone' and it doesn't rock like 'Second Coming'. For me though, it's not an either/or.....

Definitely, and with a 30Gb iPod, there's room for all three!

dar williams - beauty of the rain, mortal city
sarah harmer- you were here
josh joplin - the future that was
allison krauss and union station - new favorite