The Smiley Smile Message Board

I really enjoy:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
The Times They Are a-Changin' - Bob Dylan
Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - Simon and Garfunkel
Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel
Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies
Every Good Old War album
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Revolver - The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles

More that I'll think of as soon as I post this
Blah blah blah

What about you?

Boston - Boston
The Doors - The Doors
The Eminem Show - Eminem
Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
Arrival - ABBA
Going Places - Herb Alpert
Oddessy and Oracle - The Zombies
Zooropa - U2
A Beautiful Mind (soundtrack) - James Horner
The Toast - Polly Tones

Just a few of the albums I spin most regularly ^_^

Weezer - Pinkerton
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Beatles - Revolver
Say Anything - ...is a real boy
Radiohead - OK Computer
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
AFI - The Art of Drowning
Thrice - Vheissu
Kanye West - My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy

Been thinking of some of the lesser known bands I grew up with, and who had some albums that I absolutely loved (and in most cases still do):

The Connells - Fun&Games, One Simple Word and Ring
Guadalcanal Diary - Walking In The Shadow of the Big Man, Jamboree, 2x4 and Flip Flop
Dada - Puzzle, American Highway Flower
Paul Kelly (sometimes with The Messengers) - take your pick, any album will do - this guy is great.
The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis (this is the only WS album I've ever heard, but I love it - anyone know this band well?  are their other albums also good?)   
anyway, there's a few others but that'll do for the time being.

Dude.  ;D

I love ...is a real boy! Great record!

According to last.fm for last month I've been diggin':

The Magnetic Fields: The Wayward Bus; The Charm Of The Highway Strip; Distant Plastic Trees
The 6ths: Wasps' Nest
Beat Happening: Beat Happening

...for the last three months I've been into these heavily:

The School: Loveless Unbeliever; Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything
The Cat's Miaow: A Kiss And A Cuddle 1992-93
The Magnetic Fields: The Wayward Bus
The Field Mice: Snowball + Singles

I don't even know if I have "favourite albums," full stop?

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Yes - Close To The Edge
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Ween - The Mollusk
The Doors - Strange Days
Capt Beefheart & The Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Os Mutantes - S/T
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
The Who - Quadrophenia
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Can - Future Days
Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
David Bowie - Low
King Crimson - Red
Daniel Johnston - Retired Boxer
David Bowie - Lodger
Miles Davis - Live Evil
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Kinks - Arthur
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Pink Floyd - Animals
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Os Mutantes - Mutantes
The Doors - The Soft Parade
The Soft Machine - Third
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde

Waiting for Coumbus by Little Feat
Quadrophenia by The Who
What Going On by Marvin Gaye
Discover America and Jump by Van Dyke Parks
Music for Native Americans by Robbie Robertson
La Pistola y El Corazon by Los Lobos
Hard Again by Muddy Waters
Drag City by Jan and Dean
Chicken Skin Music by Ry Cooder
Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
London Sessions by Jerry Lee Lewis

Dozens more....

The Doors - L.A. Woman
Sparks - Kimono My House
The New York Dolls -  The New York Dolls
Lou Reed - Transformer
The Band - The Last Waltz
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run
Jackie Brown Soundtrack
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy

Oh jeez... top of the head...

What's Going On
Talking Book
Innervisions
Magic Garden
The Thorns
Crosby Stills & Nash
If I Could Only Remember My Name
Olias Of Sunhillow
Close To The Edge
Foxtrot
Odessey & Oracle
Ommadawn
Hergest Ridge
Bat Out Of Hell
Bad For Good
Original Sin
American Idiot
Revolver
Dark Side Of The Moon
Whos Next
LA Woman
Bookends
Widescreen
Rocky Mountain High
Love & Dancing
Ziggy Stardust...
Madman Across The Water

Igor Stravinsky -  Rite of Spring
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Mr Bob Dylan at his best - bringin it all back home
Songs of Leonard Cohen
CCR - Green River
King Crimson - in the Court of Crimson King
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over trouble water (that Boxer is a killer)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick road
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Forgot the Grateful Dead  1977 Terrapin Station!

.

In no order at all

Arthur - The Kinks
Roxy & Elsewhere - Zappa
Freedom of Choice - Devo
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Ummagumma - Pink Floyd
The Raven - The Stranglers
Duck Stab - The Residents
LIE - Charles Manson
Queen II - Queen
Head on the Door - The Cure
Complete Works Vol 1 - Edgar Varese
Troutmask Replica - Captain Beefheart
Sheik Yerbouti - Zappa
Pisces Aquarius Capricorn & Jones Ltd. - The Monkees


And I'm mildly surprised to see that AGD is a Green Day fan.

I wasn't mocking your taste - far from it, that's a really cool list! Sorry about that.

Barenaked Ladies-Gordon, Maybe You Should Drive, Born on a Pirate Ship, Maroon
Weezer-Blue and Pinkerton
The Association-Greatest Hits
Fountains of Wayne-Welcome Interstate Managers
Camera Obscura-My Maudlin Career
Beatles-Please Please Me
Stones-Satanic Majesties' Request
Love-Forever Changes
Flaming Lips-Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi
The Who Sell Out
Petra Haden Sings the Who Sell Out
Dave Clark Five-Glad All Over
The Animals-Animalization
Blink 182-Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, self titled
Monkees-Head Soundtrack, Pisces Aquarius Capricorn Jones
Jefferson Airplane-Surrealistic Pillow

Glass Harp - Glass Harp
ELP- Tarkus
Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
David Bowie- Diamond Dogs
Caravan- In the Land of Grey and Pink
McCartney - Ram
Lennon- Walls and Bridge
Dick Hymen- The Minotaur

Tapestry - Carole King
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille
Ticket to Ride - Carpenters
Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
Cloud Nine - George Harrison
Ram - Paul McCartney
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
The Fabulous Style of The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers
Double Fantasy - John Lennon
Sherry & 11 Others - The Four Seasons
Wilson Phillips - Wilson Phillips
Heart Shaped World - Jessica Andrews
LeAnn Rimes - LeAnn Rimes
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - The Mamas & The Papas
Goodbye Lullaby - Avril Lavigne
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers
Presenting the Fabulous Veronica - The Ronettes
Twist Uptown - The Crystals

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Jeff Wayne - The War Of The Worlds
The Imagined Village - The Imagined Village
The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money
The Who - Quadrophenia
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
The Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
The Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake
Neil Young - On The Beach

Sadly I forgot about this one. Incredible album.

I totally forgot:
Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree
Number One Fan - Compromises
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Tigers Jaw - Tigers Jaw
La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair

Weezer - Weezer (Blue)
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Green Day - Dookie
Monkees - More Of The Monkees
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Bad Religion - No Control
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
The Who - A Quick One
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For A New Zero Kanada
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow  
Regina Spektor - Sovet Kitsch

plus more which I can't think of at the moment

In no particular order ...

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow, Takes Off and Volunteers to a lesser extent
Beatles - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Help, Hard Day's Night and MMT. White album and Abbey Road to a lesser extent
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours and Fleetwood Mac (album)
All 5 Simon and Garfunkel albums
All 5 Police albums
Led Zeppelin IV, some other Led Zep
CSN (1st album) and CSNY Deja Vu
Carole King - Tapestry
Tribalistas (Brazilian supergroup, did just 1 album)
Monkees first album
Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel, Prisoner in Disguise, Hasten Down the Wind and Simple Dreams
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Harvest
John Denver - Windsong, Rocky Mountain High (well, about half of it), Back Home Again
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything

Tons of classical music, plus various Sinatra and other Swing/Big Band stuff.

Probably forgetting some.

.

.

.

.

Just made a Top 25 All-Time Albums with 1 record per artist. Not that anybody would care...

1. The Who - Quadrophenia
2. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
3. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
4. The Beatles - Abbey Road
5. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

6. The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
7. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
8. The Velvet Underground - VU & Nico
9. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
10. Pixies - Surfer Rosa

11. Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
12. King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
13. Lou Reed - Berlin
14. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
15. Love - Forever Changes

16. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
17. Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
18. The Clash - London Calling
19. Aerosmith - Rocks
20. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

21. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
22. Paul McCartney - Ram
23. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
24. Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
25. Ramones - Road To Ruin

Mostly obvious choices, I know.

Is this favourite album from your favourite artists or just your favourite non BB's album?

Ariel Pink - Haunted Graffiti
The Band - The Band
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
The Beatles - 1964-1969
Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight
Big Star - pretty much everything
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
The Clash - London Calling
CSN&Y - Deja Vu
The Dentists - Some People Are on the Pitch...
Nick Drake - pretty much everything
Bob Dylan - 1963-1975
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Kinks - Something Else, Village Preservation Society
Maston - Shadows
Paul McCartney- McCartney, Ram
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Harry Nilsson - pretty much everything
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Pink Floyd - Piper, Saucerful
Lou Reed- Transformer
Rolling Stones- Now!, Sticky Fingers
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
The Stooges - Fun House
Talking Heads - 1977-1980
Television - Marquee Moon
The Three O'Clock - Sixteen Tambourines
The Velvet Underground - pretty much everything (not Squeeze)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs, Bad as Me
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Neil Young - 1969-1975
Frank Zappa - Freak Out!, Absolutely Free
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

That's probably good enough for now  :P

Scott 2

(http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/scott-walker/album-scott-2.jpg)

OF MONTREAL - SKELETAL LAMPING is by far my favorite album of all time. It is a masterpiece on so many levels. Think an erotic, funky, electronic Smile with lyrics worthy of Dylan.

1.  Genesis- Second's Out
2.  RUSH- Exit Stage Left
3.  Gary Numan- The Touring Principle 1979-1980
4.  MSG- Assault Attack
5.  RUSH- A Farewell To Kings
6.  Genesis- A Trick of the Tail
7.  Genesis- And Then There Were Three...
8.  Genesis- Selling England By The Pound
9.  Steve Hackett- Bay of Kings
10. Steve Hackett- Momentum
11. Steve Hackett- Please Don't Touch
12. Steve Hackett- Voyage of the Acolyte
13. Steve Hackett- Spectral Mornings
14. King Diamond- Them
15. King Diamond- Conspiracy
16. King Diamond- Abigail
17. Judas Priest- Unleashed in the East
18. Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast
19. Gary Numan- The Pleasure Principle
20. YES- Drama
21. Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babys
22. Alice Cooper- Killers
23. Ted Nugent- Free For All
24. Ted Nugent- Double Live Gonzo
25. Jesus Christ Superstar (Original Soundtrack 1970)
26. RENT- The Musical
27. Roxy Music- Viva Roxy Music
28. Roxy Music- Siren
29. Roxy Music- Stranded
30. Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure
31. Queen- Queen II
32. Queen- A Day at the Races
33. Queen- A Night at the Opera
34. Motorhead- No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
35. RUSH- Permanent Waves
36. RUSH- Moving Pictures
37. RUSH- All The World's A Stage
38. The Cars- Candy-O
39. Gary Numan- Telekon
40. Led Zep- Soundtrack to Song Remains the Same

I know there's more..............

Uncle Meat (Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention)

Hi Marianne,  Good Stones pick.  Nice to see Tom on a list.   Early or late period?  I like both.

Ooooh, off the top of my head (and excluding compilations, live stuff and jazz)...

Katy Lied
Aja
The Nightfly
Blood on the Tracks
Bringing It All Back Home
Still Crazy After All These Years
Paul Simon
Bookends
Bridge Over Troubled Water
What's Goin' On
Pretzel Logic
The Royal Scam
Into the Music
Innervisions
Steve McQueen
Born to Run
High
Full Moon Fever
Last Man on Earth
Talking Book
More Love Songs
Therapy
Court and Spark
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Hejira
Wild Things Run Fast
The River
New York (RIP, Lou)
Whatever
Rickie Lee Jones
Pontiac
I Trawl the Megahertz
Beautiful Vision
One Trick Pony
Protest Songs
Crossing Muddy Waters
Bring the Family
Unchained
XO
Life'll Kill ya
The Pretender
Little Criminals
Good Ol' Boys
Sail Away

For now...

Hmmm... I love some of these albums more than others, but in no particular order:

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1: Fourth World War
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star, Something/Anything, and Todd
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower
Big Star - #1 Record and Radio City
Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet, Harry, and Nilsson Sings Newman
Randy Newman - Good Old Boys and Sail Away
Raspberries - Fresh
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
The Beatles - Abbey Road
XTC - Skylarking

Now that my old list is 1 year and 4 months old, the choices seem strange to me. Here's closer to where I am now:

The Good Son by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Skylarking by XTC
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
Singles Going Steady by the Buzzcocks
Psonic Psunspot by the Dukes of Stratosphear
Nilsson Sings Newman by Harry Nilsson
The Idiot by Iggy Pop
Purple Rain by Prince
The Velvet Underground by the Velvet Underground
The Dreaming by Kate Bush

Just a few...  :P

The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Band - The Band
The Beatles - Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, Abbey Road
Big Star - #1 Record, Radio City
Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos
The Clash - London Calling
CSNY - Deja Vu
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead, American Beauty
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
King Crimson - In The Court of The Crimson King
Lou Reed - Berlin
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible, All Things Must Go
Nirvana - Nevermind, In Utero
Of Montreal - Gay Parade, Lousy With Sylvianbriar
Olivia Tremor Contol - Dusk At Cubist Castle
Paul McCartney - Ram
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gate of Dawn
Pixies - Surfer Rosa, Doolittle
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
The Replacements - Let It Be, Tim
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Television - Marquee Moon
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
The Velvet Underground - VU and Nico, VU, Loaded
Weezer - Blue Album, Pinkerton
The Who - Who's Next?
Wilco - Summerteeth
Wire - Pink Flag
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle

Damn... So many to choose from, I don't know where to begin... plus my pick for favourite album constantly changes...

Hello, Will. Late response, haven't checked this thread in awhile. To answer, I tend to like his late stuff. My favorite album is "Bone Machine". It's eclectic, odd-loaded, noise-centric, non-commercial & yet, it won awards & was quoted in RS. All tracks are very stylish, the music doesn't sound 90s, it's very modern. Sometimes I get the image he's jamming in my room. Crazy stuff is my thing, mostly. It's a win-win.
  "Bad As Me" I've not heard, but I did "Chicago" - great song! It's abrasive & quick as quicksilver; anything with marches is good in my book.

ABBA Arrival
The Nolans, Don't Make Waves
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Lou Reed - New Sensations
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Madonna - Like a Virgin
Australian Crawl - The Boys Light Up, Sirocco
AC/DC - Every single one of the Bon Scott Albums and Back in Black
Carol King - Tapestry
Bread
America - History
Rodriguez - Cold Fact
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun, Strange Days, LA Woman
ELO - A New World Record
Fleet Foxes
Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
The Beatles - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Let it Be..
The Angels - Face to Face
Lez Zeppelin - II, IV
Cold Chisel - East
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees

Good golly, I have a lot of favorite non-BB albums. Some are:

Uncle Meat/We're Only In It For The Money (Mothers Of Invention)
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Syd Floyd)
The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Byrds)
Magical Mystery Tour/White Album (Beatles)
First three Ramones albums
First five Damned albums
Killer/School's Out (Alice Cooper)
A Gift From A Flower To A Garden (Donovan)
Vincebus Eruptum/Outsideinside (Blue Cheer)
First Black Sabbath Album
Jerry Lee Lewis (first LP from Sun Records)
Wheels Of Fire (Cream)
Babylon (Dr. John)
Loaded (Velvet Underground)
Back In The USA (MC5)
Another Perfect Day/Overkill (Motorhead)
Bitches Brew (Miles Davis)
In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson)
Quill (Quill)
Stand Up (Jethro Tull)
Dark Continent (Wall Of Voodoo)
New Traditionalists (Devo)
The Clown Died In Marvin Gardens (Beacon Street Union)
Lick My Decals Off Baby (Captain Beefheart)

Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
James Brown - Live at the Apollo '62
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club '63
Bob Dylan - Live at the "Royal Albert Hall" '66
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico

Love - Forever Changes
Beatles - Abbey Road
Band - The Band
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

Stooges - Fun House
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Lou Reed - Berlin
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Who - Quadrophenia

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Aerosmith - Rocks
Ramones - Road to Ruin
Clash - London Calling

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Portishead - Dummy
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

City To City - Gerry Rafferty

Barcelona - Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Cabelle

Inside Out - Graham Brazier

Feline - The Stranglers

My Soul - Coolio

Oof! An impossible task, so I'll limit myself to debut albums by Santana, The Beatles, Family, The Velvet Underground (and Nico), Love, The Stone Roses, Enigma, Pink Floyd, The Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, The Band and others that don't come to mind right now...

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/671/MI0003671695.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Blue--Joni Mitchell
Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Revolver--Beatles
Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Water--Simon & Garfunkel
Poses, Want One, Songs For Lulu--Rufus Wainwright
New Adventures in Hi-Fi--REM
Under the Pink--Tori Amos
Extraordinary Machine--Fiona Apple
Crosby, Stills, and Nash -- Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Sea Change--Beck
Blue Boy--Ron Sexsmith
XO--Elliott Smith
Reinhold Messner-- Ben Folds Five
Back to Black--Amy Winehouse
What's Going On--Marvin Gaye
Pink Moon--Nick Drake
Classic Queen--Queen
OK Computer--Radiohead

The online reviews I've seen were all good, but now I know for sure. Thanks. Gonna go get them now.

List addition to my 2012 post:

The Beau Hunks play the Original Laurel & Hardy Music
Chris Rainbow - White Trails
David Bowie - Hunky Dory ("Life on Mars" may be one of the core songs I heard ever)
Andwella - World's End
The Aerovons - Resurrection (thanks to Judd :3d)

 :-D

Jan&Dean: drag city, lil old lady, ride the wild surf...Ramones: rocket to russia, end of the century, pleasant dreams & too tough to die...Surf Punks: s/t (my beach), & locals only...the Queers: love songs for the retarded & dont back down...the Barracudas Drop out, Descendents Milo goes to college, Black Flag Damaged, Minutemen double nickels on the dime, Dickies Stukas over disneyland, Gears- rockin ground zero, Fear- the record & more beer, Randy Newman-sail away...Barnes&Barnes: spazchow, ......

Yeah, Pleasant Dreams is a very underrated album. One of my favorites.

Top 5

The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Three Dog Night - Greatest Hits
The Guess Who - Greatest Hits
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority

Hope that you enjoy the albums. By the way think about actually buying them first rather downloading. The Rafferty and Mercury estates would appreciate it.

I feel like I'm not as well music-versed as many of you on here. But here goes...

Wincing the Night Away - The Shins
Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend's self-titled
Countdown to Esctasy - Steely Dan
The Stranger - Billy Joel
Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay (I have a lot of good memories associated with this)
Forget and Not Slow Down - Relient k
Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club
The Head and the Heart (self-titled)
An Awesome Wave - alt-J

I'm a sentimental person, and most of these albums are associated with periods in my life, etc... I could list others, especially influential albums by the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel and The Rolling Stones, etc., but they haven't found a special place in my heart......... yet.

Queen II

The Who - Quadrophenia

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Black Sabbath - Vol 4

Rainbow - Rising

Deep Purple - In Rock

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Van Halen - Self Titled

The Doors - Self Titled

Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell

Judas Priest - Stained Class

Ghost - Infessisunam

Billy Joel - The Stranger

Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force

Black Label Society - Shot to Hell

Roger Waters - Amused to Death

David Gilmour - On an Island

Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes

The Darkness - Permission to Land

Kiss - Destroyer

Rush - 2112

Led Zeppelin - III

Montrose - Self Titled

off the top of my head:
DUCK, YOU SUCKER - Ennio Morricone
WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY - Mothers of Invention
S/T - The Fourth Way
SCOTT JOPLIN: PIANO RAGS - Joshua Rifkin
SONGS - Jackie DeShannon
S/T - El Perro del Mar
NEFERTITI - Miles Davis
ANGELUS - Milton Nascimento

Revolver - The Beatles
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Moondance - Van Morrison
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Field Day - Marshall Crenshaw

At the record shop today they were spinning Billy Joel's Glass Houses. I forgot how good that album is.

And thanks to this old thread (and this board), I've been listening to that Say Anything album during the past week. The apotheosis of punk rock. Fantastic.

The Residents - Duck Stab
Scott Walker - Scott 3
Queen - Queen II
Steely Dan - Aja
Frank Zappa - Burnt Weenie Sandwich
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
The Cure - Faith
Judee Sill - Judee Sill
The Doobie Brothers - Takin' It to The Streets
Frank Zappa - We're Only in it for the Money
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Charles Manson - LIE

Did I never post in this thread? That doesn't seem like me at all. I'll try to keep it relatively brief.

Beatles: Pepper, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abbey Road.
Belle & Sebastian: Step Into My...
Big Star: first three.
Captain Beefheart: Safe as Milk, troutmaskreplica
Chad Mitchell Trio: At The Bitter End
Bill Cosby: To Russell
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love & Hate
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True, The Delivery Man
Cotton Mather, Kontiki
Herman Dune: Giant
Bob Dylan: Bringing It All..., Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, Love & Theft
Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved...
Michael Jackson: Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad
Jimi Hendrix Experience: all three.
Iron & Wine: the Shepherd's Dog
Led Zeppelin: III, IV, Houses of the Holy, In Through The...
Mountain Goats: Tallahassee
Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer...
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane...
Randy Newman: w/t, Sail Away
Joanna Newsom, Ys
Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Sings Newman
of Montreal: Satanic Panic..., Hissing Fauna..., Lousy With Sylvianbriar
Prince: Purple Rain
Puerto Muerto: See You in Hell
Queen: II through The Game
Radiohead: OK Computer, Kid A
Smothers Brothers: Live at the Purple Onion
Squeeze: East Side Story
VU: four original studio albums
Tom Waits: swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Bone Machine, Black Rider, Alice
Stevie Wonder: Up-Tight..., Talking Book
Zappa/Mothers: Freak Out, Absolutely Free, We're Only In It..., Uncle Meat, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Grand Wazoo

I failed in keeping it brief and will stop now. I'm sure I missed something I love more than most of the above, but oh well.

Surprised by this...I know it got rather positive reviews but I don't think I've seen anybody including it in an all-time favourites list.

Well keep in mind my closing caveat there ... once I got writing, I might have gotten out of hand. There's also the admitted reality that newer music hasn't had as much time to fall out of favor as older music, so there may well be the still-new heat of infatuation. But I do love it. I think it's a great album. Twenty years from now, will I still leave it on a list? Maybe not ... but then, 20 years ago, my list would have included a lot that isn't on my current list, too. Lists are less about the albums than the listeners. Babbling done, I do highly recommend it to anyone with a taste for country-pop songs.

Also kudos for the Michael Jackson inclusions - controversy and commercial hype aside they are really great pop albums. I think the first side of Off the Wall is my favorite thing he's ever done, even more than Thriller. How can you beat Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough?

Those three albums are, I think, as good as anything there is. I spent too many years being an elitist about music: it's a waste of time, and you end up just making yourself miss great stuff. (Asshole that I am, I honestly said this a lot: "popular music is almost by definition terrible, because it's popular; because most people are idiots, their taste is to be questioned.") OK, I still believe most people are idiots, but that isn't to say the music is inherently bad all the time...  ;D There's room for both Thriller and troutmaskreplica in the "T" section, you know?

As for the "controversy" aspect of MJ, I guess I just don't care. The vibrations coming out of a speaker into my ear has nothing to do with what the creator of those vibrations did to someone else in another time and place. Listening is not an act of moral approval; sometimes it's just shaking your ass. (Just don't shake it if you're a tween and MJ is in the area with some "Jesus Juice.")

Chris Hanson missed out on a "to catch a predator" for sure! :lol

btw, Ovi calling out the MJ inclusions made me go back and do some listening this morning. And while it's nowhere near my top albums, I will say that Ben has some great moments, including a spectacular lead vocal on the title track. Schmaltzy and (if really about a mouse or rat or whatever) weird, but what a voice... The cover of "My Girl" on there is really good, too. But now I'm back to Off the Wall, which is an energetic start to a Sunday.

I've only heard those 3 that you included in the list from him.

They're far and away the best, but there are good tracks to be found elsewhere.

Some long-standing favourites  

Jacques Brel – Ces gens-là
Bjork – Vespertine
Boo Radleys – C'mon Kids
Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
Divine Comedy – Promenade
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars – S/T
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
Hefner – The Fidelity Wars
Jeffrey Lewis – Its the Ones Who've Cracked that the Light Shines Through
Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
The Make Up – Destination Love
Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers –  Jonathan Sings
Tindersticks – second album
Velvet Underground and Nico – S/T

(N.B. edited to make shorter)

In no particular order:

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
John Lennon - Imagine
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Against the Wind
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold and Brothers in Arms (I grew up with Brothers, but LOG is too beautiful not to mention)
Wilco - Summerteeth
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Frank Sinatra - Sings for Only the Lonely
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Big Star - #1 Record and Radio City (both on one CD)
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Neil Finn - Try Whistling This
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Led Zeppelin - III and IV (equally great albums, can't ever decide)
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

k, I'm gonna add

Beacon - Two Door Cinema Club
Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel
Carrie and Lowell - Sufjan Stevens (also getting into The Age of Adz but not quite an all-time-favorite yet)
Currents - Tame Impala
Guitar Man - Bread
Never Let Her Go - David Gates
Port of Morrow - The Shins
Torches - Foster the People
Voyeur - Saint Motel

and all of the Vampire Weekend albums...

I had a lot of trouble editing this down. Sorry it's still so long. I've always made compilations, so it was hard to choose entire albums.
Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Amy Winehouse  - Back to Black
Aretha Franklin  - I Never Loved a Man the Way That I Love You
BDP - Criminal Minded
Beatles - US Rubber Soul, UK Revolver
Blondie  - Parallel Lines
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Fetchin’ Bones - Galaxy 500
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers
Hole - Live Through This
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp, I’m the Man
Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel
Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes, Mainstream
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
Madonna - Ray of Light
Paul Simon - Graceland
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction, Life’s Rich Pageant
Roxy Music - Avalon
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Squeeze - Argybargy or Cool for Cats
Throwing Muses - House Tornado, Eponymous
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

Diverse and decade-spanning list. I really like it.

Punk and Poetry - The King Blues
College Dropout - Kanye West
Night at the Opera - Queen

In no particular order:

Beatles - Hard Day's Night; Revolver
B-Tribe - Spiritual, Spiritual
Beausoleil - Cajun Conga
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life; Innervisions
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live Art
Strength in Numbers - The Telluride Sessions
Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme
Los Lobos - Kiko; The Neighborhood

Some "vocal" records. Love choral music. As Brian would probably agree, "Those who sing pray twice!"
Anuna - Essential
Benjamin Britten - A Celebration of Carols/Rejoice in the Lamb
The Boswell Sisters - The Complete Collection
The Rustavi Choir - Georgian Voices
The Pennywhistlers
Bulgarian State Television Female Choir - Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares
Sacred Harp Music, such as : United Sacred Harp Convention, In Sweetest Union Join

Oh my gosh----those voices! Especially this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DykETqpFAM

OH YES, OH YES! That one is my favorite, one of the most beautiful songs ever!

Was half asleep when I made my list - will name a couple more then that's it:

Dave Brubeck Quartet - At Carnegie Hall
Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)

Yeah, I'm kind of all over the place.   :ahh
Edited to add: you and I have a lot of overlap. A number of your albums were cut out of my list for the sake of brevity.

Nice. I'm not experienced with much choral music. Though now I have a few starting suggestions!
I had trouble leaving off Simon and Garfunkel and Los Lobos. With both I had difficulty because I tend to really like 3 or so songs per album across all albums. So their whole body of work leaves me loving them but not able to identify a single album that I think is really special.

In honor of Halloween

Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare

Like the other thread I updated earlier today, it was interesting to look at the differences.

This is me now:
Wilco's Summerteeth
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' The Boatman's Call
Harry Nilsson's Nilsson Sings Newman
Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde
Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Nick Drake's Pink Moon
Swans' The Seer
Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation
Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque

Inspiring...

For now...

Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
Art Garfunkel - Watermark
Dylan - Highway 61
Springsteen - Born to Run
Miles Davis - A KInd of Blue
Davis et al - Birth of the Cool
Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass A Salle Pleyel
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Elliott Smith - XO
Randy Newman - Sail Away
Ron Sexsmith - Other Songs
Loudon Wainwright - Last Man on Earth
Duke Ellington - Live at Newport
Johnny Cash - Unchained
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
The Blue Nile - Peace at Last
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Paddy Macaloon - I Trawl the Megahertz
Craig Armstrong - it's Nearly Tomorrow
Ry Cooder - Bop 'til You Drop
Harry Nilsson - Sings Newman
Tony Bennett - Sings Ellington Hot and Cool
Grant Green - Green Street
Rickie Lee Jones - Magazine
Bill Evans - Undercurrent

I've decided that Modern Vampires of the City is one of my favorite albums ever, tied for first place with others like Pet Sounds.

Anyway. I wanted to add some things to my previous lists.
I realized that I like Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme more than Bookends, I think.
And also Lonerism, Oh, Inverted World, Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues...

I somehow left this off my original list, but their names in the news made me think of it:

AC/DC - Back in Black

Also worth mentioning

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Hammerfall - Crimson Thunder

Bloodrock 2

Grand Funk Railroad - On Time

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Desire - Bob Dylan
Street Legal - Bob Dylan
Slow Train Coming - Bob Dylan
Shot of Love - Bob Dylan
Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan
Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan
Traveling Wilburys Volume 1

Salad Days- Mac Demarco
2 - Mac Demarco
Light Up Gold - Parquet Courts
Fleet Foxes (self-titled)

I haven't added any older bands' albums to my list recently. Disappointed in myself...

Pink Floyd - Animals

Bad Company (s/t)

Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil

Scorpions - Taken by Force

Queen (s/t)

Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution

As it isn't Top 10, 5 list, just random favorites, I'll add some:

Mark Eric "A midsummer's day dream" (thanks to Judd)
5th Dimension "The magic garden" (one of the lead vocalists Marilyn McCoo interviewed Carl in the 80s. Check youtube)
"Christmas with the Chipmunks: vol. 1" (big season favorite but it's good in summer too)
"Now is the time for Hearts & Flowers" (great band with great sound. Too bad not well known)
Tbc.

I had Christmas with the Chipmunks on vinyl when I was a kid. 

T-Rex -- Electric Warrior
The Cars -- The Cars
The Knack -- Get The Knack
Pat Benatar -- Crimes of Passion; In The Heat of the Night
Electric Light Orchestra -- Out of the Blue
Joan Jett -- Everything
The Kinks -- Give The People What They Want
The Romantics -- In Heat
REO Speedwagon -- Hi Infidelity
Steve Hackett -- Spectral Mornings
Heart -- Greatest Hits
Stray Cats -- Stray Cats

Over-rated:
Bruce Springsteen
Pink Floyd
U2