Your 5 favorite albums

don't think about it too much, just go-

Song Cycle - Van Dyke Parks
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Insignificance - Jim O'Rourke
The White Album - The Beatles
Alien Observer - Grouper

Wow, slow day on ILM.

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain
XTC - Skylarking
Biosphere - Substrata

Angelic 2 the Core : Angelic Funkadelic / Angelic Rockadelic
1st Glimpse of Heaven
Former Child Actor
Still Searching for Soul
Love Left

blue nile: hats
scritti politti: cupid & psyche
debarge: in a special way
janet jackson: the velvet rope
dj sprinkles: midtown 120 blues

Prince and the Revolution - Parade
The Cure - Pornography
Orbital - In Sides
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good

A random five from here:

The Chills – Submarine Bells
Earth, Wind & Fire – Raise!
Human League - Dare
King Sunny Ade - Aura
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)

Scott walker - tilt
Meat puppets - up on the sun
Talk talk - laughingstock
Sibelius: Symphonies 4&7 and Tapiola - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Lorin Maazel
Jerry Goldsmith - Alien, complete film score (Intrada Records)

now! that's what i call music vol. 3
now! that's what i call music vol. 17
now! that's what i call music vol. 18
now! that's what i call music vol. 45
in the wee small hours

Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Can - Future Days
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Prince - Purple Rain

pavement - slanted and enchanted
daft punk - discovery
bark psychosis - hex
beach boys - pet sounds
sonic youth - sister

Tindersticks -Tindersticks
Brian Eno - On Land
Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud

Mylene Farmer - Ainsi Soit Je
Faye Wong - Fable
ABBA - Super Trouper
Monica Brodka - Granda
Hole - Live Through This

oh goodness idk something like this maybe in no particular order

miles davis - get up with it
joni mitchell - court and spark
manu chao - clandestino
smog - a river ain't too much to love
big youth - screaming target

@turrican - i want to dig through these and find new favorites :)

yo la tengo - i can the heart...
joanna newsom - have one on me
joni mitchell - blue
kendrick lamar - good kid, maad city
talking heads - remain in light

Broadcast & the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Royal Trux - Cats & Dogs
Basia - Time & Tide

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
Michael Mayer - Immer
R.E.M. - Murmur
Björk - Homogenic

The Dalrymple Sisters - May We Introduce Ourselves? (1955)
The Dalrymple Sisters - Sing Our Favorite Country Western Hits (1958)
The Dalrymple Sisters - Feelin' Groovy (1968)
Connie Dalrymple - On a Little Bamboo Bridge: The Last Solo Sessions - 1969-1970 (released 2004)
Carrie, Cathy, and Cindy Dalrymple - Full Circle (2005)

Radiohead - Kid A
Led Zeppelin - II
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Beatles - White Album
Nirvana - In Utero

talking heads - remain in light
laurie anderson - united states live
public enemy - fear of a black planet
bob dylan - highway 61 revisited
fall out boy - folie a deux

moodymann - dj-kicks
gigi masin - talk to the sea
kate bush - before the dawn (haven't heard this yet but one snippet and yeah)
baronness - purple
larry levan - live at the paradise garage

larry levan - live at the paradise garage

This is a new favourite of mine too. I've been playing it a ton lately.

nas- illmatic
my bloody valentine - loveless
big star - radio city
neutral milk hotel - aeroplane
the-dream - love/hate

Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fever Ray - Fever Ray

larry levan - live at the paradise garage

This is a new favourite of mine too. I've been playing it a ton lately.

― jmm, Friday, September 30, 2016 8:13 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

high five! someone on here recently mentioned the last track (on the disco thread maybe?), and it made me realize how ridiculous it was i had never heard it. so great.

Lilys - Eccsame the Photon Band
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises (cheating answer: "& Ghosts of the Great Highway")
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
Studio - Yearbook 1

Cardiacs - Sing to God
Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM
Echolyn - s/t (2012)
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Susumu Hirasawa - Technique of Relief

ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Associates - Sulk
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Bjork - Homogenic

larry levan - live at the paradise garage

This is a new favourite of mine too. I've been playing it a ton lately.

― jmm, Friday, September 30, 2016 8:13 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

high five! someone on here recently mentioned the last track (on the disco thread maybe?), and it made me realize how ridiculous it was i had never heard it. so great.

― savvinesslessness (map), Friday, September 30, 2016 3:19 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wow this is fabulous

another green world
astral weeks
wowee zowee
disintegration
totally crushed out

someone on here recently mentioned the last track (on the disco thread maybe?)

That was probably me on the poll thread for this album. I love that track, especially with Levan's overdubs.

Albums? What are albums?

Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night (Duophonic 2xLP)
Terry Snyder and the All-Stars - Persuasive Percussion, Volume 2 (Command LP)
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (Warner Brothers 2xLP)
Berio - Sinfonia : The Swingle Singers New York Philharmonic, cond. Berio / Bartok - Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta: New York Philharmonic, cond. Bernstein (CBS Masterworks Portrait LP)
Yes - Going For The One (Atlantic LP)

fun house?
exile on main street?
tago mago?
close to the edge?
revolver?

way to double up on the berio bartok!

i already hate my choices btw, i forgot prince and cluster...

someone on here recently mentioned the last track (on the disco thread maybe?)

That was probably me on the poll thread for this album. I love that track, especially with Levan's overdubs.

― jmm, Friday, September 30, 2016 8:43 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it was, thank you!

miles davis - in a silent way
stevie wonder - songs in the key of life
saint etienne - foxbase alpha
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92

only 4, sorry

haha damn you're killing me

Double Nickels on the Dime
New Age Loon
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
After the Gold Rush
The Modern Dance

shit, how did I forget New Age Loon

5. the incredible string band - the hangman's beautiful daughter

*phew*

Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts
(5 concerts)

https://seriouslynotboring.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/4harriet1.jpg

the band - the band
kendrick lamar - to pimp a butterfly
steely dan - aja
the clash - london calling
d'angelo - voodoo

"The White Album" - The Beatles
"Piper at the Gates of Dawn" - Pink Floyd
"Death of a Ladies Man" - Leonard Cohen
"Radioactivity" - Kraftwerk
"Axis Bold as Love" - Jimi Hendrix

I'll do one per decade

60s: Coltrane & Hartman - s/t
70s: Can - Ege Bamyasi
80s: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
90s: Stereolab - Dots & Loops
00s: Panda Bear - Person Pitch

Fleetwood Mac, "Tusk"
Sonny Sharrock, "Ask the Ages"
Talking Heads, "More Songs About Buildings and Food"
Brian Eno, "Here Come the Warm Jets"
Bruce Springsteen, "Darkness on the Edge of Town" (or really, a "Darkness"-era live album)

Would be different next month/week/tomorrow/later today.

5 is so cruel and darwinistic

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Burzum - Det som engang var
Burzum - Filosofem (yeah.. whatever.. fuck variety in a 5 point list)

@turrican - i want to dig through these and find new favorites :)

― flappy bird, Friday, September 30, 2016 6:18 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You can find 99.9% of the albums posted so far and much more besides here:

http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/all-time

absolutely - I always liked that album but somehow during one 45-minute drive the whole thing completely clicked for me and I've never heard it the same way since

definitely checking out the other albums on that list now

Aka/Darbari/Java is so good, nothing else quite like it

b-52s - bouncing off the satellites

This is an interesting opinion, one I don't think is widely shared.

Aka/Darbari/Java is so good, nothing else quite like it

― sleeve, Wednesday, October 19, 2016 1:41 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for sure, a hugely inspirational album to me, from a creative standpoint

xpost Yeah, generally Bouncing off the Satellites is really underrated but I could never put it ahead of The B-52's, Cosmic Thing or Wild Planet.

BOtS has an emotional resonance for me that i don't get with their other albums

Fine, okay I'll do another one:

The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol.1
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Jon Hopkins & King Creosote - Diamond Mine

Humble Pie - As Safe As Yesterday Is
Humble Pie - st
Dru Down - Can You Feel Me
Grouper - Violet Replacement
Barna Howard - st

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
Tori Amos - From the Choir Girl Hotel
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen

90s alt-rock edition:

The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Polvo - Celebrate the New Dark Age
Hazel - Toreador of Love
Helium - The Dirt of Luck
Codeine - The White Birch

Television - Marquee Moon
Owen Pallett - Heartland
dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
Source Direct - Exorcise the Demons
Elliott Smith - XO

American Music Club - Mercury
American Music Club - Everclear
American Music Club - United Kingdom
Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining

Just remembering how great they are.

Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook - Sleeps With Fishes

Pharaoh Sanders You Gotta Have Freedom
Them The Story Of
Burning Spear Marcus Garvey.
Poky Erickson Longbranch Saloon
Modern Lovers s/t

Marcus Garvey is a sick album. I haven't listened to it for years - will probably soulseek it later.

Trying to type things on a phone's buttons
Roky Erickson Longbranch Saloon
& Pharaoh Sanders You've Got To Have Freedom (especially disc 1)

& yeah Marcus Garvey really is something else. I always found it mixed well inot Can and electric Miles davis among other stuff.
Got a weird spaciousness.

The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 1
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 2
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 3
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 4
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 5

Honourable mention:
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 6

Cecil Taylor, Air Above Mountains
Cecil Taylor, The Cecil Taylor Unit
Cecil Taylor, 3 Phasis
Cecil Taylor, Live in the Black Forest
Cecil Taylor, One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye

are those really your favorites

Today they are.

:-)

Henry Threadgill 5. I'm not familiar with his Air stuff so probably glaring omissions, but he's a marvel imo.

Henry Threadgill Sextett - Rag, Bush and All
Henry Threadgill Sextett - You Know The Number
Henry Threadgill & Very Very Circus - Spirit of Nuff .... Nuff
Henry Threadgill - Too Much Sugar For a Dime
Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - Where's Your Cup

OK if we're all just taking the piss now here's the last 5 albums I recently enjoyed more than most:

The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Efterklang - Parades
...And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead - Tao of the Dead
A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
Ruins - Tzomborgha

I prefer Threadgill's non-Air stuff myself. All those albums are great.

He is so great, I only just got into him last year with his zooid In for a penny album, which I thought was pretty great. But much of his 90's/00's output is amazing.

black dice - beaches & canyons
hole - celebrity skin
cassie - s/t
ruff sqwad - guns & roses vol. 2
meat puppets - II

^^ top of my head. today.

Ruins - Tzomborgha

ooooh, yeah!

I mean, some days I swear Ruins is the greatest thing on the planet

Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Moose - Live A Little, Love A Lot
Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It

jefferson airplane - surrealistic pillow
jefferson airplane - after bathing at baxters
jefferson airplane - crown of creation
jefferson airplane - volunteers
jefferson airplane - bless its pointed little head

Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Moose - Live A Little, Love A Lot
Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It

― daavid, Friday, November 4, 2016 11:18 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell yeah

damn haven't thought about moose in a while

Television - Marquee Moon
Owen Pallett - Heartland
dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
Source Direct - Exorcise the Demons
Elliott Smith - XO
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, October 29, 2016 2:04 AM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

winner

Sleep - Dopesmoker
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
The Congos- Heart of the Congos
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

hah I see someone else just nommed Actually!

yeah, If I had to pick one album, it would probably be that one.

I went for Behaviour but it's hard to argue with Actually. Very was on a couple of lists at the beginning of the thread as well. Those are the three Pet Shop masterpieces for me.

^ Classic PSB trilogy

Bonkers
Bonkers 2: Now We're Totally Bonkers
Bonkers 3: A Journey into Madness
Bonkers 4: World Frenzy
Bonkers 5: Anarchy in the Universe

good call

Introspective is another great PSB record

Tinashe - Nightride
Angelo Badalamenti ‎- Fire Walk With Me
Sister Irene O'connor - Fire Of God's Love
Boogie - Thirst 48, Pt. II
Brandy Clark - Big Day in a Small Town

nice

Phafner - Overdrive
Highway - Highway
Goldenrod - Goldenrod
Grand Funk Railroad - Live 1971
Magnolia Electric Co. - Trials & Errors

The Joshua Tree
The Queen is Dead
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
69 Love Songs

No Lloyd Cole?

I think he'll have to be at #6 with his first solo LP.

It's a close-run thing for sure.

But "69 Love Songs" is a triple album. Doesn't that count as three?

But "69 Love Songs" is a triple album. Doesn't that count as three?

Nah, there have been plenty of double albums mentioned itt