What are the best albums of all time?(requested)

[aMUSEd]

For starters a personally adapted version of Ariston's great list:

- Genesis: Lamb lies down on Broadway, Trick of the tail, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot
- Jethro Tull: Aqualung
- David Bowie: Heroes
- Talking Heads: Remain in Light
- Pearl Jam: No Code
- Radiohead: The Bends
- Bob Dylan: Desire
- Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the innocent and the E Street Shuffle
- Peter Gabriel: 1 and 2
- Kate Bush: The Dreaming, The Sensual world, A kick inside, Hounds of love
- Pixies: Doolittle
- Placebo: Without you I'm nothing
- Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones, Blue Valentine
- Tool: Aenima and Lateralus

to which I would add:

Pretty much anything by Joni Mitchell up to and including Mingus
Laura Nyro: New York Tendaberry, Eli and the 13th Confession, Beads of Sweat
Annette Peacock: I'm the One
Joy Division: Unknown pleasures and Closer
Pink Floyd: Dark side of the moon, Wish you were here, Atom heart Mother
Labelle: Nightbirds
Stevie Wonder: Songs in the key of life
King Crimson: larks tongues in aspic, In the court of...
Peter Hammill: Closer, Black Box
Kevin Ayers: Joy of a toy
Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia, Horses
Hawkwind: Hawkwind
Gong: Flying teapot trilogy
Henry Cow: Unrest
This Heat: This Heat
Eryka Badu: Baduism
India Arie: Acoustic Soul
Dresden Dolls: Yes Virginia, Dresden Dolls
Marc Almond/Soft Cell: This last night in sodom, Jacques, Mother fist, Stories of Jonny, Marc and the Mambas Untitled
Massive Attack: Blue Lines, Mezzanine, Protection
Cocteau Twins: Garlands, Treasure
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Everything but the girl: Eden
Heart: Dreamboat annie
Greenslade: Time and Tide, Bedside manners are extra
Magazine: Real Life
Pentangle: Basket of Light, Sweet Child
My Chemical Romance: Three cheers for sweet revenge
Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn
Sigur Ros: The first one
Archie Shepp: Attica Blues, Blase, Yasmina a black woman
Supertramp: Crime of the century
Stina Nordenstam: And she closed her eyes
Bjork: Vespertine, Debut, Homogenic
The Cinematic orchestra: Ma fleur
Tori Amos: various
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
Curved air: 3 albums
Portishead: Dummy
Miles Davis: too many to mention
PJ Harvey: White Chalk, Stories from the city and sea, To bring you my love
Jam: All mod cons, Setting sons
Tindersticks: The Bloomsbury Theatre 12.3.95
Gillian Welch: Time the revelator
Tricky: Pre millennium tension
Deftones: Around the fur, White pony
Camel: Moonmadness, The snow goose
Carole King: Tapestry
Beth Orton: Trailer park
Richard Thompson: Rumour and Sigh
John Martyn: Solid Air, Inside out, One world
Jill Scott: Who is Jill scott?
The Roches: The Roches
Joan Armatrading: Back to the night, Whatever's for us, Show some emotion, Joan armatrading
Lou Reed: Berlin, Songs for Drella, Transformer
Krust: Coded language
Electribe 101: Electribal memories
Waterboys: This is the sea

plus loads more

[yellowfever]

Human League - Dare
Depeche Mode - Violator

[aallvor]

Some of my favorites...

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Studio - Yearbook 1
REM - Automatic For The People
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Song
Motorpsycho - Timothy's Monster
Metro Area - Metro Area
The Beatles - Abby Road
Nightmares On Wax - Car Boot Soul
Orbital - In Sides

[Voidoid Surrealist]

Limiting myself to 25 albums, a single album per artist. Subject to change at any time, my "best albums of all time" off the top of my head at this particular moment, with no concessions to how influential or significant they actually may be to others:

Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Amebix - Monolith
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
The Stooges - Funhouse
Motörhead - Overkill
Muzsikás - The Prisoner's Song
Whitehouse - Las Grabaciones Mas Violentas (bootleg)
High Tide - High Tide
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Naked City - Naked City
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrius
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Holy Terror - Terror and Submission
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
Kitka - Nectar
The 150 Murderous Passions - The 150 Murderous Passions
Ensemble Aznach - Zoura
Jerusalem -Jerusalem
The Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun
Headhunters - Industrial Warfare
Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
Loop - Fade Out

Classical artists excluded, due to it (for the most part) not really being an album-based genre. Compilations excluded, as well.

[stephenpaulharper]

Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring

Debussey - La Mer

Thinking of any particular performance, or just the pieces themselves?

I've had several performances over the years. The one's I settled on are Ozawa and Boston for ROS and Tilson Thomas and the London Philharmonia for La Mer.

Steve

[duncanparsons]

Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory, Three Friends, In a Glass House and Playing The Fool;
Sad Cafe: Fanx Ta Ra, Facades;
Bruford: One of a Kind;
Weather Report: 8:30;
Yes: Close to the Edge;
Soft Machine: Bundles;
Joe Walsh: You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind;
Joe Vitale: Rollercoaster Weekend;
Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink;
Anthony Phillips: ..well, just about anything, but Wise After the Event, Private Parts and Pieces I,II,III and VIII, & 1984 are worth the price of entry;
..
memory fading.. I'll put the kettle on..

[HanafiH]

The ones you haven't listened to yet.

[shanecgriffo]

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

+1.. yep thats a pretty impressive feat that album.. very nice

[mellotronaut]

I love these threads!!!!

- Will Oldham: I see a darkness
...

I love all those albums you mentioned - I've never heard of this guy before tho. FIND!!! eh, he's not on itunes

file under: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness

one of my favs too

[ariston]

I love these threads!!!!

- Will Oldham: I see a darkness
...

I love all those albums you mentioned - I've never heard of this guy before tho. FIND!!! eh, he's not on itunes

file under: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness

one of my favs too

Yeah... you're right, I'd forgotten about that. I HATE the moniker "Bonnie 'Prince' Billy" much as I love the man's music!

[Mans]

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for descruction

[duncanparsons]

The ones you haven't listened to yet.

When people ask me my favourite band or album, frequently my response is along the lines of 'nothing you've heard..'

Q: How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb.
A: Just one... but he's really obscure - you won't've heard of him...

[Zombie Queen]

Ah, what the hell, greatest albums of all times according to me (as it appears today):

Uz Jsme Doma - Usi
Orthotonics - Luminous Bipeds
Adult Rodeo - Texxxas
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Family Fodder - Savoir Faire
Four One and Only's - The End is Searching
Fred Frith - Cheap at Half the Price
Oblong Boys - Pizzarama Universe
Plastics - Welcome Plastics
PTOSE - Ignobles Limace
Renaldo & the Loaf - The Elbow is Taboo
Moldy Peaches - Moldy Peaches
The Remote Viewers - Persuasive with Aliens
The Residents - Duck Stab

[shanecgriffo]

Ah, what the hell, greatest albums of all times according to me (as it appears today):

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

still one of my treasured items on vinyl.. and more recently cd
(tho' i havent played it in a few years!)
i bet it never gets a full 'remastered release' -it wouldn't make it sound much better

[shanecgriffo]

I love these threads!!!!

- Will Oldham: I see a darkness
...

I love all those albums you mentioned - I've never heard of this guy before tho. FIND!!! eh, he's not on itunes

file under: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness

one of my favs too

a bit of a fav with the ladies round here!
nice on a cold winters night