What are your Favorite Albums ever?

[JTrainDavis]

...and the days went by with the Red Bandanna Blues....

yessir! he's actually coming up north this summer, catching a show on July 4th here.

 

[vol_in_ar]

Three that stay the closest to my cd player:
John Prine's anthology
Dire Straits -Brothers in Arms
Billy Joe Shaver- Live at Smiths Old Bar

i really like "Live Forever"

 

[vol_in_ar]

ac/dc back in black
bob marley- legend

 

[Volunteer_Kirby]

How 'bout some old school:

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Beatles - Sgt Peppers
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmos Factory
Big Star - #1 Record
Donny Hathaway - Live!
Os Mutantes - self titled
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Phil Ochs - Pleasures from the Harbor
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Specials - self titled

 

[MG1968]

ELO - Out of the Blue
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Howard Jones - Dream Into Action

 

[checkerboard_charly]

Linkin Park- Hybrid Theroy, Meteora, Reanimation
Anything Skynyrd is the best.
Shinedown- Leave a Whisper
Metallica-And Justice for All
Eminem- Marshall Mathers LP
Ludacris- Back for the First Time, Chicken and Beer
Dr Dre- Both Chronic albums.
Incubus- Morning View
Blow Soundtrack
Zeppelin- I-IV
Chevelle- All their albums are magnificent. Check them out.
Tupac- All Eyes. Makavelli.
3 6 Mafia- World Domination
Johnny Cash- Everything
The Game- The Documentary
Lil Wayne-Carter 1 2 3
Disturbed- The Sickness
50 Cent- Get Rich...
Too many more.....

 

[kiddiedoc]

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle
Coldplay - X&Y
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Daft Punk - Alive
DMB - Luther College and Under the Table and Dreaming
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
John Mayer - Room for Squares
Howie Day - Australia
Matchbox 20 - You or Someone Like You
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Paul Oakenfold - Perfecto Presents Another World
Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
Rage Against the Machine - first album (self-titled?)
The Fray - How to Save a Life
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Tool - Undertow
V-Roys - Just Add Ice
Van Halen - 5150
10 Years - The Autumn Effect
311 - Grassroots

Recent adds: Lucero - Tennessee, Drive By Truckers - Brighter than Creation's Dark, Tool - 10000 Days.

The only reason Ben Folds isn't there is that there isn't a single album that I love start to finish. But, many of his songs would rank amongst my favorites.

 

[rbroyles]

Beatles - Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, Sgt Peppers
Stones - 12x5, Aftermath
Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced
Johnny Cash - America, When the Man comes around
Simon & Garfunkle - Wed Morning 3 am, Parsley Sage Rosemary & Tyme, Bookends
Paul Simon - Graceland
James Taylor- You got a friend
Neal Diamond - Gold

 

[BigPapaVol]

So many good ones and so many already here.

Didn't see Bush - 6teen Stone.
Alanis Morrisette's debut.
Styx Paradise Theater.
Springsteen - Born in the USA
Van Halen 1984
Third Day - Blessings II.
REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity.
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz
Run DMC debut
LL Cool J - I'm Bad
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[vol_in_ar]

Billy
Who's on your list

 

[seaofORANGE22]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
Tom Petty - Highway Companion
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Guess Who - These Eyes
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, New Morning, Blood on the Tracks
Beatles - Revolver is my favorite, but i could list like 10 that are obvious
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
311 - Music
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Led Zeppelin II
Neil Young - Greendale Live at Vicar St.
Blind Melon - Soup and Blind Melon
Van Morrison - Moondance

 

[MG1968]

Duran Duran - Rio, Arena, Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration, Construction Time Again, Music for the Masses, Violator
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles
The Police - Ghost in the Machine, Zenyatta Mendatta
Genesis - Abacab, Genesis
Peter Gabriel - So, Shaking the Tree
Rush - Moving Pictures
Paul Simon - Graceland
Bobby McFerrin and Yo Yo Ma - Hush
Billy Joel - Glass Houses, Songs in the Attic, The Stranger, River of Dreams, An Innocent Man

 

[heartvols]

The Cure Greatest hits
The Deftones- Diamond Eyes
The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac
The Fray - How to Save a Life
Incubus- Monuments and Melodies
Journey's Greatest Hits
The Killers (all albums)
Nirvana's Greatest Hits
Up to Now- The Best Of Snow Patrol
The Very Best of Sting and the Police
U2's Greatest Hits

That's all I can think of for now

 

[MadcapLaughs]

Pauls Boutique.
London Calling
The Madcap Laughs
Dazzleships
New Order Substance 1987

Village Green Preservation Society
Lola vs Powerman and the Moneygoround
Arthur
the who sellout

 

[Daddy Gee]

Billy Joel - Glass Houses, Songs in the Attic, The Stranger, River of Dreams, An Innocent Man

those 2 are excellent, especially songs in the attic!

boston - boston, don't look back
van morrison - moondance
led zep - ii & iv, houses of the holy
bob seger - night moves
black crowes - shake your moneymaker

 

[ToineMac]

Some of my favorites are Kanye west the college dropout, System of a down Toxicity, Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Dr. Dre The Chronic, Project Pat Mister don't play everything's workin
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[GahLee]

Nas-illmatic
Pearl jam-vs
Alice in chains-facelift

Then you have the obvious classics that most everyone lists from various artists.
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[shortgameVol]

The Yes Album - Yes
Animals - Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Secret Story - Pat Metheny
Friday Night in San Francisco - Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia
Trilogy - Emerson Lake and Palmer
Tutu - Miles Davis
Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever
Red - King Crimson
War - U2
UFO Tofu - Bela Fleck and Flecktones
Who's Next - The Who
Fragile - Yes
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
2112 - Rush

 

[kidbourbon]

Outkast - ATLiens
Weezer - Blue Album
Sublime - Sublime
Bob Marley - Legend
Kanye - beautiful dark twisted fantasy
Passion Pit - Manners
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

 

[81Bubbavol]

Just reading these bring back some great memories. I guess this is where those of us who remember Discwashers go ! Spent a lot of time spinning records in Reese & Andy Holt. Here's some of my favorites. (Not exactly in chronological order, and a repeat or two that I really like)

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Hot August Night - Neil Diamond
Works - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
Harvest - Neil Young
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
Layla - Derek & The Dominoes
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
Souvenirs - Dan Fogleberg
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
Steal Your Face - Grateful Dead
Procol Harem - Procol Harem
The World as Best as I Remember It Vol 2- Rich Mullins
Offerings - Third Day

Man, there's been some great music in the last 40 years.

 

[VolBalla2014]

Led Zeppelin IV
The Beatles- Rubber Soul
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Radiohead- In Rainbows
Avett Brothers- Emotionalism
Kings of Leon- Aha Shake heartbreak
The Black Keys- Brothers
CAKE- Fashion Nugget
Sufjan Stevens- Come on feel the Illinoise
Vampire Weekend
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

 

[NashVol11]

Brothers - The Black Keys
Classics - Ratatat
The College Dropout - Kanye West
Is This It - The Strokes
Man on the Moon: The End of Day - Kid Cudi

Honorable Mention:
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
Hard to pick a favorite Muse album but I'll go with Absolution

 

[volinbham]

Iggy Pop - New Values
NRBQ - God Bless Us All
Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom (2nd disc of the set)
Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (good call by earlier poster)
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
Giant Sand - Chore of Enchantment
NRBQ - Tapdancin' Bats
AC/DC - High Voltage
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Tiffany Transcriptions (v. 7)
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Charles Mingus - Ah Um
Miles Davis - Milestones
CheapTrick - CheapTrick
Ted Hawkins - Songs from Venice Beach
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (good call by earlier poster)
Willie Nelson - Willie and Family Live
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Lampchop - Is A Woman
Los Lobos - Colossal Head
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

 

[milohimself]

^ minutemen.

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Rage Against The Machine - s/t
Bad Religion - No Control
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Tiesto - Elements of Life
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Souls of Mischief - 93 til Infinity
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Pennywise - s/t
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Black Star - s/t
Descendents - Milo Goes to College (look familiar? )
Various Black Flag, Bad Brains
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[JTrainDavis]

Pennywise - s/t

Never caught on for some reason, probably had some to do with Jason offing himself.

Epitaph/fat wreck chords had a bunch of good stuff in the mid/late 90's
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