all time favorite album

[pogokat]

It's been a year or two since I've done this...I love hearing new music, and I use these lists to aim myself towards albums I should own, but don't

 

mine's still:

 

The Clash: London Calling

 

add yours:

[And That]

Wilco: "Being There"

[theavrock]

Jimmy Eat World: Clarity

[patrickgpe]

although i haven't listened to it in a while counting crows "august and everthing after"

[LouisEly]

To me the test of a great album is that I can listen to every track all the way through. There's only four albums that I can do that:

 

Beastie Boys - License to Ill

REM - Document & Reckoning

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

 

I know that compilation albums don't count, but I give special recognition to Bo Dean's live album "Joe Dirt Car".

[InsomniacInkRoss]

Local H: Pack Up the Cats

 

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[DKM4Boston]

Good call. The Clash - London Calling is far and away my #1. I don't think it will ever be overtaken.

 

Rest of my top 5:

The Replacements - Let It Be

Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

The Velvet Underground & Nico

 

[jerichoholicninja]

The Who Sell Out.

 

Many wouldn't even consider that their best but I can listen to it over and over again.

[Gobias Industries]

Oasis: Definitely Maybe

[lukevan]

Green Day "Dookie"

 

honorable mention:

 

System of a Down "Toxicity" and self-titled

Tool "10,000 days"

Boston "More than a Feeling"

Killswitch Engage "Alive or Just Breathing"

[Hammer]

I agree with Louis Ely...License to Ill is always in my Ipod Touch playlist.

Others:

Metallica - Metallica

Naughty by Nature - 19 Naughty III

Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster

Dr. Dre - The Chronic

[RockCoCougars]

Beatles - Revolver

[pitchleague]

Contractual Obligation Album -- Monty Python

[Ando Calrissian]

Ben Harper - Fight for your Mind

[Invader3K]

In no particular order:

 

U2 - Achtung Baby

The Libertines - (self-titled)

The Replacements - Tim

The Clash - (self-titled...US version)

Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves

[chuckiehacks]

Pearl Jam - Ten

Beatles - Revolver

[bigredrobbo]

I always find it really hard to pick one favorite - it seems like having to choose between your children! My 5 that I can listen to all the way through, every time are:

 

Blondie - Parallel Lines

The Prodigy - Fat of the Land

Prince - Sign O' The Times

Band of Horses - Cease To Begin

Radiohead - OK Computer (okay, I'll admit, I skip Fitter Happier!)

[Menotti80]

All time favorite = Jack's Mannequin, everything in transit

 

Other favorites throughout the years:

Bush sixteen stone

Counting crows August and everything after

Goo goo dolls dizzy up the girl

Guster keep it together

Jack's mannequin the glass passenger

Jimi Hendrix, Clapton, Bob Dylan & tom petty greatest hits

[zurch1818]

Elliott Smith - (self titled)

Carolina Liar - Coming To Terms

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

[Point Beer Is Best]

Nirvana - Nevermind (honorable mention to all other Nirvana albums)

Pearl Jam - Ten

 

And a guilty pleasure:

Presidents of the United States of America - (Self-Titled)

I can listen to that album on loop for an entire 8 hour workday and not get sick of it. I can't explain it. "Little dune buggy, in the sand..."

[Godspeed]

Tool - Lateralus

Air - Moon Safari

Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

Radiohead - OK Computer

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

[NeedMoreFans]

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon

The Beatles- Abbey Road

[logan82]

Tool - Undertow

[nate82]

The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre.

[Baldkin]

Tupac - All Eyes On Me

Live - Throwing Copper

Grateful Dead - American Beauty

 

and my guilty pleasure...

Blessid Union of Souls - Walkin' off the Buzz