Your Top 5 Favorite Albums

[jlb1705]

After six years my list needed an update:

1.) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco.

2.) Boxer by The National

3.) Revolver by the Beatles.

4.) Summerteeth by Wilco

5.) Alligator by The National

 

[TexasBuck]

I love the National's "Alligator" and "The Boxer" but I like "High Violet" even better. "Revolver" is fantastic but I'd take "Abbey Road" over it. I've never been able to get into Wilco. Maybe someday.

 

[MaxBuck]

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[BIATCHabutuka]

very difficult question.

probably missing a few, but here we go

doing this, i don't want to repeat. one artist, their best album, no repeat artists.

1. jimi hendrix band of gypsys - live at the fillmore 1969 - 1970

best vocal solo i have ever heard in the song Who Knows.
best guitar solos in Machine Gun and Hear My Train (bonus track not on this link but on my CD)
great bass, great drums, hendrix, the drummer sings on this too, great singer.

by far the best piece of work hendrix ever put out (coming from the biggest fan of axis bold as love as possible)

probably no better live album ever.

i defy anyone to listen to the first song and not be enjoying this.

2. megadeth - rust in peace

best metal album.

3. metallica - toss up between master of puppets and ride the lightning. historically i would answer master here, but lately ride the lighting has been sounding best.


4. for me it has to be soundgarden here. they gotta be on my list somewhere, this seems about right. loud love, badmotorfinger, and superunknown are all classics.

on loud love the fuck you song was me, the crazy bearded guy and the irish patent attorney's good luck defense song. anytime the bucks needed a stop, jam out the fuck you defense and we got our stop. why did we ever stop doing this i ask myself. i was really drunk at the time but i imagine it revolved around john cooper and michigan sadly. not their best album though.

for me badmotorfinger vs superunknown is about as difficult as master / ride the lightning.

just listened to bits of both again and i gotta go with superunknown.



5. pink floyd - animals



at the out-r-inn they used to have an upstairs jukebox that had this in it and was something like 3 songs for a buck. would jam out the middle three of these up there often.

 

[Muck]

The Gits - Enter: The Conquering Chicken

Jeff Beck - Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul)

Big Star - #1 Record

The Beat Farmers - Loud and Plowed and... Live!!

Lone Justice - Lone Justice

 

[Taosman]

In no order.
1. "Dark Side of The Moon" Pink Floyd
2. "Hotel California" The Eagles (arguably The Greatest Album of All Time)
3."The Future" Leonard Cohen
4. "Stealing Fire" Bruce Cockburn( one of the greatest song writers and guitarist best albums)
5. "Wholly Earth" Abbey Lincoln (one of the great jazz singers best albums....a must own for jazz lovers)

So. What's on my current play list now that I'm using a computer for a source? A mix of medieval classical music and jazz.
" THE SPLENDOUR OF AL-ANDALUS" Calamus medieval music from Spain
"Birds Requiem " Dhafer Youssef jazz
"Just A Little Lovin' " Shelby Lynne (Shelby covers all the great Dusty Springfield songs.)
"Sinne Eeg" Sinne Eeg Euro jazz singer