Your Favorite Albums of All Time (1 album per band/artist)

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  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Favorite albums of all time… only one each artist! Sorry so long but but I have devoured every one of the albums over the years! Here’s what I came up with:

    Beach Boys, “Shut Down Vol. 2”. Not their best but it was the first rock and roll album I ever owned and I really dug it when it came out and still do so it goes first!

    Albert Ayler, “Bells”
    The Beatles, "20 Greatest Hits" (they all are)
    Jeff Beck, "Truth"
    Big Brother and the Holding Company, “Cheap Thrills”
    Blair 1523, “Beautiful Debris”
    Blue Cheer, “Vincebus Eruptum”
    Bongos, “Time and the River.”
    Boston, "Don't Look Back"
    Sandy Bull, “E Pluribus Unum”
    Butterfield Blues Band, "East <--> West"
    David Bowie, “Heroes”
    Carlton Melton, “Out to Sea”
    Ornette Coleman, “This is Our Music”
    John Coltrane, “A Love Supreme”
    Larry Coryell, Self Titled
    Cream, “Fresh Cream”
    Miles Davis, "Jack Johnson"
    Dinosaur Jr, (Original Band) “”Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not”
    Dinosaur Jr, (other configurations) “Where You Been?”
    The Doors, “Morrison Hotel”
    Dream Syndicate: “Medicine Show”
    Dump Truck, “For the Country”
    Bob Dylan, “Highway 61 Revisited”
    Earthless Meets Heavy Blanket, "In a Dutch Haze"
    Brian Eno, “Another Green World”
    Bill Evans, "The Village Vanguard Session"
    Fairport Convention, “Unhalfbricking”
    Fifty Foot Hose, “Cauldron”
    Fleetwood Mac, “Then Play On”
    Peter Green, “The End of the Game”
    Vince Guaraldi, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind”
    Buddy Guy, “A Man and the Blues”
    Merle Haggard and the Strangers, “I’m a Lonesome Fugative”
    The Jimi Hendrix Experience, “Axis: Bold as Love”
    Japan, “Tin Drum”
    Waylon Jennings, “Singer of Sad Songs”
    Jethro Tull, “Benefit”
    Harvey Mandel, “Games Guitars Play”
    J Mascis, "Tied to a Star"
    John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, “Bluesbreaker’s Crusade”
    Steve Miller Band, “Children of the Future”
    Minutemen, “What Makes a Man Start Fires?”
    Mission of Burma, “Vs”
    Van Morrison, “Astral Weeks”
    Taj Mahal, “The Natch’l Blues
    Charlie Musselwhite’s South Side Band, “Stand Back”
    Willie Nelson, “The Redheaded Stranger”
    New York Dolls, Self Titles
    Charlie Parker, "The Genius of Charlie Parker"
    Pearl Jam, “Yield”
    Psychedelic Furs, 1st Self Titled
    Rain Parade, “Explosions in the Glass Place”
    Ramones, “Ramones Leave Home”
    Lou Reed, “The Blue Mask”
    REM, “Murmur”
    The Replacements, “Let it Be”
    The Rolling Stones, “Through the Past Darkly (Big Hits Volume 2)”
    Pharaoh Sanders, "Tauhid"
    Sex Pistons, “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here Come the Sex Pistols”
    Suicide, 1st Self Titled
    Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra, “Pictures of Infinity”
    Cecil Taylor, “The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra”
    Television, “Marquee Moon”
    Ernest Tubb, “Ernest Tubb Record Store”
    U2, “Boy”
    Junior Wells, "It's My Life Baby"
    Paul Westerberg, Suicane Gratifaction”
    Wire, “Pink Flad”
    The Who, “Live at Leeds”
    Link Wray, Self Titled recorded at Wray’s Shack 8 Tracks
    Neil Young, “Tonight’s the Night”
    Neil Young and Crazy Horse, “Rust Never Sleeps”

    I probably left out a few.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Pearl Jam - Yield
    Rush - A Farewell to Kings
    Tool - Ænima
    Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
    Orbital - In Sides
    U2 - Pop
    The Police - Synchronicity
    Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
    Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
    Radiohead - The Bends
    Live - Secret Samadhi
    Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
    Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
    Tegan & Sara - The Con
    Jesus Jones - Perverse
    Silverchair - Freak Show
    Alice In Chains - Unplugged
    Sting - Ten Summoners Tales
    Guster - Lost & Gone Forever
    Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder
    Helmet - Aftertaste
    311 - Transistor
    Better Than Ezra - Closer
    Dave Matthews Band - Crash
    Collective Soul - Collective Soul (95)
    John Mellencamp - Uh-huh
  • Posts: 969
    I'll try to limit it

    Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
    QOTSA - Songs for the deaf
    Soundgarden - Down on the upside
    Kashmir - Zitilites
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Down - Nola
    Mad Season - Above
    Temple of The Dog -st
    The National - Alligator
    Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
    Band of horses - Everything all the time
    Suede - Dog man star
    Mark lanegan - wiskey for the Holy ghost
    Mew - Frengers
    DIsneyland after Dark - No fuel left for the pilgrims
    Nick Cave and the bad seeds - No more Shall we part
    Smashing pumpkins - melon collie and the infinite sadness
    Alice in chains - dirt
    Run away my son. See it all. Oh see the world.
  • Denbighshire, North Wales , UK Posts: 456
    AC/DC -Powerage
    The black crowes - Three snakes & one charm
    Bhundu boys - The Shed Sessions
    Screaming trees - Dust
    Tinariwen - Imidiwan
    The Upsetters - Super Ape
    Richard Thompson - mock Tudor
    Soundgarden - superunknown
    Wilco - sky blue sky
    Underworld - second toughest in the infants
    Orb - oblivion
    Senser - stacked up
    Rage against the machine - RATM
    Ramones - pleasant dreams
    London calling - The Clash
    Kate Rusby - The girl who couldn't fly
    Beth Orton - Trailer park
    marvin Gaye - what's going on
    Peter Tosh - equal rights
    Bob Marley & the wailers -.Survival
    Bunny walker - Blackheart man
    Neil Young - Le noise
    No code - Pearl Jam
    That's enough could go on! Sorry there not in alphabetical order!:)
  • pjpjpaul said:
    Part 2 (N-Z) NOMO- Ghost Rock Nada Surf- Let Go Natalie Merchant- Tigerlilly Natsumen- NEVER WEAR OUT yOUR SUMMER xxx!!! Neil Young- Live Rust Neu!- Neu! Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over the Sea New Order- International New Radicals- Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- The Boatman’s Call Nick Drake- Pink Moon Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral Nirvana- Nevermind No Doubt- Tragic Kingdom Norah Jones- Come Away With Me Oasis- (What's the Story) Morning Glory Offspring- Smash Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy Orange Juice- Rip It Up Os Mutantes- OS Mutantes Otis Redding- Otis Blue/Ottis Redding Sings Soul Our Lady Peace- Spiritual Machines PJ Harvey- Stories From The City, Stories Form the Sea Parliament- Mothership Connection Patti Smith- Horses Paul McCartney- Wingspan Hits and History Paul Simon- Graceland Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Pearl Jam- Yield Pere Ubu- The Modern Dance Pete Yorn- Musicforthemorningafter Peter Gabriel- So Phil Collins- Hits Phish- Billy Breathes Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here Pixies- Doolittle Placebo- Without You, I’m Nothing Porcupine Tree- Fear of A Blank Planet Portishead- Dummy Prefab Sprout- Steve McQuen Primal Scream- Screamadelica Primus- Pork Soda Prince- Purple Rain Public Image Ltd.- Metal Box Pulp- Different Class Queen- A Night At The Opera Queens of the Stone Age- Rated R Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime R.E.M.- New Adventures In Hi-Fi Ra Ra Riot- The Rhumb Line Radiohead- OK Computer Rage Against The Machine- The Battle of Los Angeles Ramones- Ramones Rancid- And Out Come the Wolves Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red House Painters- I (Rollercoaster) Refreshments- Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy Refused- The Shape of Punk To Come Ride- Nowhere Robert Johnson- King of the Delta Blues Singers Robert Plant and Alison Kraus- Raising Sand Robert Wyatt- Rock Bottom Roby Hitchcock and the Egyptians- Fegmania! Rod Stewart- Every Picture Tells A Story Rodriguez- Cold Fact Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure Rush- Moving Pictures Ryan Adams and the Cardinals- Cold Roses STYX- Greatst Hits Santana- Abraxas Scorpions- Blackout Screaming Trees- Dust Sebadoh- Bakesale Secret Machines- Now Here Is Nowhere Semisonic- Feeling Strangely Fine Sex Pistols- Nevermind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Shuggie Otis- Inspiration Information Silverchair- Frogstomp Simon and Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water Singles- Soundtrack Sleater Kinney- The Woods Slint- Spiderland Slowdive- Souvlaki Sly and the Family Stone- Best of Small Faces- Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake Snow Patrol- Final Straw Social Distortion- Social Distortion Soft Machine- Third Son Volt- Trace Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation Soul Coughing- Ruby Vroom Soundgarden- Superunknown Spacehog- Resident Alien Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In space Sponge- Rotting Piñata Spoon- Kill The Moonlight St. Vincent- St. Vincent Stars- Set Yourself On Fire Steely Dan- Aja Stereolab- Emperor Tomato Ketchup Steve Miller Band- Fly Like An Eagle Stevie Ray Vaughan- Texas Flood Stevie Wonder- Innervisions Sting- …Nothing Like The sun Stone Temple Pilots- Tiny Music….Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop Sublime- Sublime Sufjan Stevens- Illinois Sugar- Copper Blue Sun Kil Moon- Ghosts of the Great Highway Super Furry Animals- Radiator Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary Super Furry Animals- Radiator Supergrass- In It For The Money Superchunk- On The Mouth Supertramp- Crime of the Century Swervedriver- Mescal Head Syd Barrett- The Madcap Laughs System of a Down- Toxicity T Rex- Electric Warrior TV on the Radio- Dear Science Talk Talk- Spirit of Eden Talking Heads- Remain In Light Tame Impala- Lonerism Tears For Fears- Songs From The Big Chair Teenage Fanclub- Bandwagonesque Television- Marquee Moon Temple of the Dog- Temple of the Dog The Animals- The Best of The Animals The Antlers- Hospice The Band- The Band The Bats- Daddy’s Highway The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds The Beastie Boys- Paul’s Boutique The Beatles- Abbey Road The Bees- Free The Bees The Beta Band- The Three EPs The Black Crowes- The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion The Black Keys- Brothers The Breeders- Last Splash The Byrds- The Notorious Byrd Brothers The Cars- The Cars The Church- Starfish The Clash- London Calling The Cranberries- No Need To Argue The Cult- Love The Cure- Disintegration The Decemberists- The Crane Wife The Doobie Brothers- Minute By Minute The Doors- The Doors The Fall- The Nation’s Saving Grace The Feelies- Crazy Rhythms The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin The Flying Burrito Brothers- The Gilded Palace of Sin The Frames- Set List The Gaslight Anthem- The ’59 sound The Go-Betweens- 16 Lovers Lane The Grateful Dead- American Beauty The Hives- Veni Vidi Viscious The Horors- Primary Colours The Jam- The Sound of The Jam The Jayhawks- Tomorrow The Green Grass The Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy The Killers- Hot Fuss The Kills- Midnight Boom The Kinks- Village Green Preservation Society The Knack- Get the Knack The La’s- The La’s The Lemonheads- It’s A Shame About Ray The Libertines- Up The Bracket The Mars Volta- Deloused in the Comatorium The Microphones- The Glow pt. 2 The Minks- Black Monk Time The Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime The Modern Lovers- The Modern Lovers The Mothers of Invention- Freak Out! The National- Boxer The Olivia Tremor Control- ….Dusk at Cubist Castle The Police- Snychronisity The Postal Service- Give Up The Presidents of the United States of America- The Presidents of the United States of America The Pretty Things- SF Sorrow The Promise Ring- Nothing Feels Good The Replacements- Tim The Rolling Stones- Exile On Main Street The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow The Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead The Smoke- The Smoke The Specials- Specials The Stills- Logic Will Break Your Heart The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses The Stooges- Funhouse The Strokes- Is this It? The The- Soul Mining The Traveling Wilburys- The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 The United States of America- The United States of America The Velvet Underground- Loaded The Verve- Urban Hymns The Vines- Highly Evolved The Walkmen- Bows+Arrows The Wallflowers- Bringing Down The Horse The War on Drugs- Lost in the Dream The Weakerthanks- Reconstruction Site The Wedding Present- Seamonsters The White Stripes- Elephant The Who- Live At Leeds The Wipers- Youth of America The Wrens- The Meadowlands The Zombies- Oddest and Oracle Them Crooked Vultures- Them Crooked Vultures Thin Lizzy- Jailbreak They Might Be Giants- Dial A Song Throwing Muses- The Real Ramona Third Eye Blind- Third Eye Blind Toad The Wet Sprocket- Dulcinea Toadies- Rubberneck Todd Rundgren- Something/Anything Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Greatest Hits Tom Waits- Rain Dogs Tool- AEnima Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes Tortoise- TNT Travis- The Man Who U2- Achtung Baby Uncle Tupelo- Anodyne Unwound- Leaves Turn Inside You Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend Van Halen- Best of Both Worlds Van Morrison- Astral Weeks Various Artists- Singles Various Artists- The Harder They Come Violent Femmes- Permanent Record- The Best of The Violent Femmes War- The World Is A Ghetto Warren Zevon- Excitable Boy Ween- The Mollusk Weezer- Weezer (Blue Album) Whiskeytown- Stranger’s Almanac Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wire- Pink Flag Wolf Parade- Apologies to the Queen Mary X- Los Angeles XTC- Skylarking Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever To Tell Yes- Close To The Edge Yo La Tengo- I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One Young Marble Giants- Collosal Youth ZZ Top- Eliminator
    Unwound! Not talked about often and I’m pretty late to the party, but they are fuggin amazing. 
  • Unwound! Not talked about often and I’m pretty late to the party, but they are fuggin amazing. 
    Yup
  • Eastchester, NY - Proud South Canadian. Posts: 801
    My personal Mount Rushmore:

    PJ - No Code
    The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie + The Infinite Sadness
    The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
    Metallica - Ride The Lightning

    Some others:

    Soundgarden - Superunknown
    St. Vincent - Masseduction
    Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
    Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
    Green Day - American Idiot
    The White Stripes - Elephant
    Weezer - The Green Album
    System Of A Down - Mezmerize
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    edited February 2024
    My list was WAY too long.  So here's my favorite album by 10 favorite artists/bands, alpha by artist:

    Albert Ayler:  Bells
    Larry Coryell:  Coryell
    Dinosaur Jr/ J Mascis/ Lou Barlow:  Farm
    The Dream Syndicate? Steve Wynne:  How Did I Find Myself Here?
    Juliana Hatfield/ Blake Babies:  Innocence and Experience
    The Jimi Hendrix Experience:  Are You Experienced
    Lou Reed:  New York
    Lee Renaldo:  Last Night on Earth
    The Replacements/ Paul Westerberg:  Let it Be
    Neil Young/ Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory

    All selection above, both artist and LP, subject to change at a moment's notice because lists like these are impossible.  I was just listening to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.  That band needs to be on this list.  And R.E.M., The Rolling Stones, Dylan, Miles, The Who, Sun Ra, Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Nils Lofgren, Rain Parade, The Bongos, Ramones, Bowie, Cream, Eno, Sandy Bull, John Mayall, Harvey Mandel, Japan, Jethro Tull..  oh and what's their name... Pearl something... etc...yeah!


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Cologne, Germany Posts: 140
    Had a bout of Ten fandom in the late 90s when I was about 14, but then somehow lost track of PJ completely until 2022. What I listened to in the meantime:

    Joanna Newsom – Ys
    Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
    Big Star – Third/Sister Lovers
    Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings And Food
    Scott Walker – Scott 4
    Television – Marquee Moon
    Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Armed Forces 
    Grizzly Bear – Veckatimist
    D‘Angelo – Black Messiah
    Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
    Judee Sill – Heart Food
    Portishead – Third
    Orange Juice – You Can‘t Hide Your Love Forever
    R.E.M. – Lifes Rich Pageant
    X – Los Angeles
    Tindersticks - s/t
    Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love
    Gil Scott-Heron / Brian Jackson – Winter In America
    Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of
    Can – Future Days
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Tender Prey
    Destroyer – Streethawk: A Seduction
    St. Vincent – s/t
    Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
    Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man – Out Of Season
    David Bowie – Blackstar
    The Slits – Cut
    Laura Nyro – Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
    The Verve – Urban Hymns
    The Dream Syndicate – The Days Of Wine And Roses
    Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
    Rufus Wainwright – Want Two
    The Gun Club – Fire Of Love
    A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
    Tame Impala – Currents
    Moloko – I Am Not A Doctor
    Karen Dalton – In My Own Time
    M. Ward – Transistor Radio
    The Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin
    Pulp – We Love Life
    Madvillain – Madvillainy
    Arthur Russell – World Of Echo
    Van Dyke Parks – Song Cycle
    Grimes – Art Angles 
    The Strokes – Is This It
    Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
    Sparks – Kimono My House

  • Cologne, Germany Posts: 140
    Erm, no idea what happened with the formatting :-)

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