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

[Madrayken]

The Great Annihilator - Swans
Homogenic - Bjork
Finally we are no one - Mum
Within the Realm of a Dying Sun - Dead Can Dance

[simesf]

It'll end in Tears - This Mortal Coil

[kritikon]

Greatest Hits - The Wombles

[Aloysius]

Greatest Hits - The Wombles

They were great! 'Remember you're a womble . . .

[robogone]

Pfft! That was girls' music, along with the Bay City Rollers. Boys only listened to the Sweet, Slade, Gary Glitter...er...um...well how about them Wombles then?

[simesf]

Pfft! That was girls' music, along with the Bay City Rollers. Boys only listened to the Sweet, Slade, Gary Glitter...er...um...well how about them Wombles then?

Argent? Chicory Tip? You forgetting them?


...was Alvin Stardust cool for boys to like? (says he hiding away the first single he ever bought.)

[emdot_ambient]

[emdot_ambient]

Actually that's a great album, aside from the cover.

But the ones that really made me look at music/life differently are...

Jethro Tull: Living in the Past
Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans
Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge, Tubular Bells
Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother, Ummagumma
Tangerine Dream: Sorcerer
Edgar Froese: Aqua
Klaus Schulze: Mirage, Timewind
Kraftwerk: Trans Europe Express
Vangelis: Heaven and Hell
Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygene
Sensations Fix: Finest Finger, Portable Madness
Camel: Moonmadness
David Sancious: Transformation (The Speed Of Love)
Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow
Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food
The Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus
The Residents: Duck Stab/Buster and Glen
Philip Glass: Music in 12 Parts, Einstein on the Beach
Terry Riley: Shri Camel
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Morton Subotnick: The Wild Bull
Cocteau Twins: Victorialand

[osiris]

Two that never make anyone's list By The Electric Light Orchestra:
Out Of The Blue & Eldorado.
I STILL listen to them & love them so much

[osiris]

I do want to add Rosanne Cash' 'King's Record Shop' to that list

[emdot_ambient]

Oops...and Fats Waller and his Rhythm: The Last Years (1940 - 1943)

That opened my eyes to swing...which opened my eyes to Bob:

Miles Davis: Dig
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

[The Chase]

The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Sasha - Airdrawndagger
The Postal Service - Give Up
Breakbeat Era - Ultra Obscene (LE)
Aphex Twin - Druqks, SAW II
Bjork - Homogenic/Vespertine
Radiohead - In Rainbows/Kid A
Portishead - Dummy
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Philip Glass - Metamorphosis, The Hours, Mishima

That's not to say that a lot of these contain my favorite singles...a good album to me is one just as much based on killer-to-filler ratio than having a few songs I like. Some (most?) of my favorite songs come from albums I really don't like the rest of.

[emdot_ambient]

...a good album to me is one just as much based on killer-to-filler ratio than having a few songs I like. Some (most?) of my favorite songs come from albums I really don't like the rest of.

A great song will never make an album good...but a great album will always make the sub-standard songs on it better.

[speccyteccy]

Off the top of my head (I feel guilty for not mentioning the ones I can't remember!)

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Led Zeppelin - 1
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Blur - Parklife
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Velvet Underground - And Nico
Kylie - Fever
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Stiff Little Fingers - All the Best
The Clash - London Calling
Blondie - Paralell Lines
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Love - Forever Changes
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

[Gridlocked]

Immolate Yourself - Telefon Tel Aviv
Soft Connection - L'altra