Name Your Top 10 Favorite Albums

[seioussuction69]

Considering how everyone has their own tastes, this ought to be interesting. For me its:
1: The Beatles - Revolver (this was tough for me since I love all their albums).
2: The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed. Kissed my first boyfriend while "Nights In White Satin" played loudly as we lay on his bed.
3: The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers.
4: Love - Forever Changes.
5: Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (or any Hendrix album).
6: Crosby Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young!) - debut album.
7: Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (Caroline, No is my favorite song by anyone).
8: Doors - debut album (lost my virginity via 69 during Light My Fire).
9: David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name.
10: Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti.

All of these are best enjoyed while laying in the sun on a hot day, after smoking a little pot.

 

[eastofeden]

Too many for me to make an accurate list....in no order...any of them could change places except #1 and #2

#1 Joni Mitchell...Court and Spark
#2 Stevie Wonder....Songs in the Key of Life
#3 Tracy Chapman...Self Titled Debut Album
#4 Boz Scaggs...Silk Degrees
#5 Sly & the Family Stone....Stand!
#6 Minnie Riperton....Adventures in Paradise
#7 Earth Wind and Fire....I Am
#8 The Who....Who's Next
#9 Red, Hot & Blue..Tribute To Cole Porter...Various Artists - AIDS Benefit
#10 Rufus w/Chaka Khan....Rags to Rufus

 

[aaggii]

I´ve honestly put around 30 albums here and tried to cut it down, but I´m stuck at these 15 left and I´ve spent more than 10 minutes stuck at which one to delete next. Can´t do it, so... alphabetical order:

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Dum Dum Girls - Too True
Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned
Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit
Hole - Nobody´s Daughter
Kungs - Layers
Leon Bridges - Coming Home
London Grammar - If You Wait
Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators - Keep Reachin Up
Oceana - Love Supply
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Yakoto - Moodyblues
Yakoto - Babyblues
Vanessa Paradis - Divinidylle

And I really have to say:

Martha and the Vandellas - absolutely every album
Sam Cooke - absolutely every album
Sade - absolutely every album

 

[smokeshadow]

Moody Blues - Days of Future Past
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
ELO - Out of the Blue
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Center of the Earth and it's sequel Return to the Center of the Earth
Chicago - 5
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Styx - Paradise Theatre
The Who - Tommy
Yes - Fragile
John Williams - Star Wars

 

[frankfrank]

This is not quite a Top Ten, but surely some Desert Island selections for me. Not in any particular order, either.

THE BEATLES The Beatles (a/k/a "The White Album")
PINK FLOYD Meddle; Saucerfull of Secrets
TANGERINE DREAM Phaedra
[BRIAN] ENO Here Come the Warm Jets
SPARKS Propaganda
VELVET UNDERGROUND White Light, Light Heat
MOODY BLUES Days of Future Passed
DEAD CAN DANCE Aion (especially cut "As the bell rings, the maypole spins")
JOHNNY BURNETTE and the Rock And Roll TRIO (self-titled)
FRIPP & ENO no pussyfooting

EastOfEden, you actually managed to RANK your favorites? Wow. I can't do that.

 

[Charon]

In No Particular Order:

Sinister Slaughter - Macabre
Millions of Dead Cops - MDC
Bathory - Bathory
Speak English or Die - S.O.D
Damaged - Black Flag
(GI) - The Germs
Welcome to Hell - Venom
Scream Bloody Gore - Death
Megatron Man - Patrick Cowley
Deicide - Deicide

 

[rareboy]

Cannot do it.

My head would explode.

Maybe by genre, but every time I want to put one on my list...all the other favourites rise up and attack me.

 

[eastofeden]

This is not quite a Top Ten, but surely some Desert Island selections for me. Not in any particular order, either.

THE BEATLES The Beatles (a/k/a "The White Album")
PINK FLOYD Meddle; Saucerfull of Secrets
TANGERINE DREAM Phaedra
[BRIAN] ENO Here Come the Warm Jets
SPARKS Propaganda
VELVET UNDERGROUND White Light, Light Heat
MOODY BLUES Days of Future Passed
DEAD CAN DANCE Aion (especially cut "As the bell rings, the maypole spins")
JOHNNY BURNETTE and the Rock And Roll TRIO (self-titled)
FRIPP & ENO no pussyfooting

EastOfEden, you actually managed to RANK your favorites? Wow. I can't do that.

Nah..only sorta. Joni has my favorite album all time..and Stevie is #2 but he could be tied for #1 with Mitchell....

Everything else is interchangable. It helps to type of the numbers so I don't list 50....I get an ending point that way...

 

[Natello4]

This...

Cannot do it.

My head would explode.

Maybe by genre, but every time I want to put one on my list...all the other favourites rise up and attack me.

I tend to listen to music that matches my mood or thoughts at the particular moment. There barely is an album that I would enjoy listening from track one to the last one. Usually, there are a few good songs and the rest is filler material. However, in some cases filler songs or even B-side tracks sound more interesting than the overplayed hits.

 

[Ellybelly909]

Boston debut
Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees
Queen day at the Races
U2 Auchtung Baby
Pearl Jam. Vs.
Stevie wonder Innervisions
Paul McCartney Wings Over America
Elton John Goodbye yellow brick road
Prince Diamonds & Pearls
Snow Patrol Best of

This is so hard to do.... I could've easily picked 10 for each decade. Plus I could make the same list tomorrow and have 10 different albums on here I left out Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and the stones. But lists like this a good way to rediscover music you've kind of forgotten about or just albums you haven't listened to in a while. Music stirs the soul!

 

[HoodedRat]

This is an impossible task really as I discover new albums that I love almost every day.

But here are 10 of my favourite albums that I am not bored with after 40 years of continued listening:

'Phallus Dei' 1969 by Amon Duul II
'Camembert Electrique' 1971 by Gong
'Space Ritual' 1973 by Hawkwind
'Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh' 1973 by Magma
'Kimono My House' 1974 by Sparks
'Bridge of Sighs' 1974 by Robin Trower
'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' 1974 by Genesis
'Rubycon' 1975 by Tangerine Dream
'Sabotage' 1975 by Black Sabbath
'Vital' 1977 by Van Der Graaf (minus the Generator)

This list could easily be 100+ long without leaving the 70s.

I am a massive Black Metal fan ...along with many other Metal genres ... but BM wasn't around when I was kid so I've only been into it for the past 15 years or so.

I am sure that some of the more recent stuff that I love would be on a future favourites lists in another 30 or 40 years.

I also listen to a hell of a lot of 'Classical' music too, but I am far more interested in the compositions rather than the performance, so I rarely have favourite recordings of particular works.

 

[JohnnyAnger]

Some interesting lists here of music I really enjoy (as always Hoody gets the biggest nod of approval when it comes to good taste in music!). But I just find these lists impossible. Somewhere deep in the bowls of facebook I went over every decade since the 1950s listing ten albums for each - I will try and drag that out even though my opinions will almost have certainly changed.

 

[MrMojoRisin]

1. In The Zone - Britney Spears
2. Dangerous - Michael Jackson
3. Confessions on a Dance Floor - Madonna
4. janet. - Janet Jackson
5. Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey
6. The Immaculate Collection - Madonna
7. Undressed - Pansy Division
8. The Velvet Rope - Janet Jackson
9. By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers

As others have said, coming up with that list was an incredibly difficult task. I love so many different albums for so many different reasons. To narrow it down to 10 seemed impossible.

 

[rareboy]

This is an impossible task really as I discover new albums that I love almost every day.

But here are 10 of my favourite albums that I am not bored with after 40 years of continued listening:

'Phallus Dei' 1969 by Amon Duul II
'Camembert Electrique' 1971 by Gong
'Space Ritual' 1973 by Hawkwind
'Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh' 1973 by Magma
'Kimono My House' 1974 by Sparks
'Bridge of Sighs' 1974 by Robin Trower
'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' 1974 by Genesis
'Rubycon' 1975 by Tangerine Dream
'Sabotage' 1975 by Black Sabbath
'Vital' 1977 by Van Der Graaf (minus the Generator)

This list could easily be 100+ long without leaving the 70s.

I am a massive Black Metal fan ...along with many other Metal genres ... but BM wasn't around when I was kid so I've only been into it for the past 15 years or so.

I am sure that some of the more recent stuff that I love would be on a future favourites lists in another 30 or 40 years.

I also listen to a hell of a lot of 'Classical' music too, but I am far more interested in the compositions rather than the performance, so I rarely have favourite recordings of particular works.

Loved Kimono My House. Played the shit right out of it. Subsequently got it on CD.

 

[HoodedRat]

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I saw sparks on tour in UK when Kimono had just been released; I was 13. Then a year later i saw them on the Propaganda tour. I love Sparks; those two albums in particular. The lyrics are brilliantly witty, Russell's voice is fantastic, and the music is excellent. Kimono contains some of my favourite guitar riffs of all time; Ron sure knew how to write for guitar.

 

[Vannie]

I will not post any of my favorite albums.You will all laugh at me.

 

[HoodedRat]

^

Got any albums by Yodelling Russian Cabbage Pie Makers?

 

[Vannie]

I googled that to see if that^ was real

 

[rareboy]

I would put Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals on one of my best 10 lists.

 

[Marco Sensual]

Choosing only 10 albums is very hard,since theres so many good albums.But,these albums are a part of my favorites.My cd collection is very diverse.

1 of the best dance album ever.Im not kidding.Its that good.All the songs are great.

1998

I cant believe this album was a flop.This is her best album.Her voice sounds very good on this album.Paula Abdul can sing.She have a nice voice.All the songs are great.I always listen this cd without skipping songs.The whole album is great.Very underrated.

1995

The first time i heard this album,i was amazed by it.Such a beautiful album.Its clearly her best album.Amazing album.The producers knew what they were doing.The quality of this album is pure and rare.Spellbinding.

1999

This is her best album.Samantha Fox can actually sing.She does have a nice voice.Great songs.Great album.

1988

Her first album is definitely her best.This album have so many catchy songs.

1988

This is their best album in my opinion.Its not their most known album.But,its a very solid album.Great songs and the very beautiful voice of Tracey Thorn.

1991

Scorpions rocks! This is their best album in my opinion.Their best ballad is on this album.Which is a very beautiful song.For those of you who have this album,you know which song im talking about.Once again,very beautiful song.Great album.

1980

What an album! This is what funky music is about.This 1 of the best funky album ever made.Her voice is absolutly amazing.Awesome album.

1982

When it comes to male singers,Tony Hadley have 1 the most beautiful voice.His voice gives me chills.He clearly can sing.He is 1 of the best singer ever in my opinion.George Michael is very close to him vocaly.I thinks they are the best male singers with the best voice.People mostly remember their (True) album.Which is a great album.Through The Barricades is a very underrated album.I also thinks that Tony Hadley voice sounds his best on this album.

1986

Im usualy not into cover albums.But,this album is amazing.Gloria Estefan covers songs from the past.Her voice sounds the best on this album.She really have a nice voice.This album is very well produced.This is 1 of her best album.

1994