Share some of your favorite albums

[Wikipedia delenda est]

I will give my top twenty (studio albums only), with asterisks by those that are in my collection (records and CDs). Also, limiting myself to one per artist, otherwise there would be a lot of complete discographies and I think it's more interesting to have more artists.

1. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead* (1986)
2. The Clash - London Calling* (1979)
3. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982)
4. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - This Year's Model* (1978; also my current fave, but list is all-time)
5. The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 (1986)
6. The Wedding Present - Seamonsters* (1991)
7. Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour* (1990)
8. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses* (1989)
9. Blueboy - Unisex (1994)
10. Morrissey - Your Arsenal* (1992)
11. R.E.M. - Murmur* (1983)
12. The Jam - Setting Sons* (1979)
13. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks* (1977)
14. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures* (1979)
15. New Order - Brotherhood* (1986)
16. Everything But the Girl - Amplified Heart* (1994)
17. The Lotus Eaters - No Sense of Sin (1984)
18. Electronic - Electronic* (1991)
19. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister* (1996; a new discovery for me bought on a whim as it's past my "usual era")
20. ABC - The Lexicon of Love* (1982)

A list, I think, which aptly reflects my depression, anger, neuroticism, Anglophilia, and alienation.

[Progressive Pessimist]

You have good taste.

[dead0man]

The Who Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd Animals
LZ II
Boston Don't Look Back
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Aerosmith Rocks
NOFX Punk in Drublic
ACDC Back in Black
Gwar Scumdogs of the Universe



a list that I think reflects my desire to drive a train

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I will also do 20 albums (some of my favourites) and try to be more, erm, varied than the OP (long time no see!).

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Chico Buarque - Chico Buarque
Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Đorđe Balašević - Marim ja...
Edoardo Bennato - Sono solo canzonette
Fabrizio De André - Volume 3
Francesco De Gregori - Rimmel
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Lucio Dalla - Dalla
Metallica - S&M2
Neil Young - Harvest
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Radiohead - OK Computer
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
The Beatles - Revolver
Víctor Jara - El derecho de vivir en paz

[Benjamin Frank 2.0]

In addition to what's been mentioned already
Simon and Garfunkel - The Concert in Central Park
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
Kelly Willis - Fading Fast (EP)
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Elvis Costello - King of America
Paul Simon - Graceland
The Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Sam Cooke - Greatest Hits
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Van Morrison - Moondance
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Los Lobos - By the Light of the Moon
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Nirvana - Nevermind
'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold
John Prine - The Missing Years
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline...
The Velvet Underground - VU
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson
Blue Rodeo - Five Days in May
Liz Phair - Whip Smart
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

[Lambsbread]

Fortunately, I keep a list of my favorite albums of all time. I haven't updated the order/added new albums in a few months so this might be slightly outdated, but here's my top 20:

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)
The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above and Branches Below (2009)
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004)
Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour (2012)
Silent Planet - Iridescent (2021)
Silent Planet - When The End Began (2018)
Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (2005)
Foxy Shazam - Foxy Shazam (2010)
The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne (2011)
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002)
Silent Planet - The Night God Slept (2014)
Foxy Shazam - Introducing (2008)
Converge - Jane Doe (2001)
Silent Planet - Everything Was Sound (2016)
Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011)
La Dispute - Somewhere At The Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (2008)
The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues (2007)
Saosin - Saosin (2006)
Foxy Shazam - The Church of Rock and Roll (2012)

[Crumpets]

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
U2 - Rattle and Hum
She & Him - Volume One
Talulah Gosh - Was It Just a Dream?
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
First Aid Kit - Ruins
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is an Animal

And some classics:
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Boston - Boston
Coldplay - Viva La Vida

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Sorry if it's too basic but I seem to listen to the entirety of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea over and over again some weeks. That is easily #1. Southeastern by Jason Isbell is the most influential on my life.

My most listened to country vinyls are probably Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), Modern Sounds of Country & Western Music (Ray Charles), Kristofferson, and John Prine.

Feels wrong to omit Bruce but it's hard to choose a favorite.

Battista wrote the best Sufjan Stevens, Bob Dylan and Beatles albums (why did I accidentally have him on ignore! That should never have happened! I've been missing so much content) I should go back to Seven Swans more.

[Lambsbread]

Battista wrote the best Sufjan Stevens, Bob Dylan and Beatles albums (why did I accidentally have him on ignore! That should never have happened! I've been missing so much content)

Italians belong on ignore until proven innocent.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Battista wrote the best Sufjan Stevens, Bob Dylan and Beatles albums (why did I accidentally have him on ignore! That should never have happened! I've been missing so much content)

Italians belong on ignore until proven innocent.

Prendi il tuo razzismo e portalo da un'altra parte, grazie.

[Lambsbread]

Battista wrote the best Sufjan Stevens, Bob Dylan and Beatles albums (why did I accidentally have him on ignore! That should never have happened! I've been missing so much content)

Italians belong on ignore until proven innocent.

Prendi il tuo razzismo e portalo da un'altra parte, grazie.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Top 20?

Mineral - The Power of Failing
Mineral - EndSerenading
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
The Ghost Inside - self-titled
Rainer Maria - Long Knives Drawn
The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones
Rites of Spring - End on End
mewithoutYou - Catch For Us The Foxes
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Indian Summer - Giving Birth To Thunder
Counterparts - Tragedy Will Find Us
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace is There
Being As An Ocean - How We Both Wonderously Perish
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
blink-182 - Enema of the State
Stretch Arm Strong - Compassion Fills The Void
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
La Dispute - Wildlife

Yeah that's actually 21 but I tried to limit it to one per band but I couldn't choose a Mineral album. Although I suppose the Indian Summer one technically isn't an "album". (Neither is Analphabetapolothology, but it does include a full length album within it.)

[GeneralMacArthur]

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Portishead - Dummy
James Taylor - Never Die Young
Boston - Boston
Pat Metheny Group - Letter From Home
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Real Estate - Days
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Sonic Youth - Goo

[Left Wing]

Decided to use the parameters you gave (top twenty, no artist repeats) to give this some structure. I try my best to vary my tastes, but I almost always come back to 2000s indie rock.

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
2. Vampire Weekend - self-titled (2008)
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
4. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (2005)
5. The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003)
7. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
8. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2003)
9. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
10. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
11. The National - High Violet (2010)
12. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People (2002)
13. LCD Soundsystem - Sounds of Silver (2007)
14. Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980)
15. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
16. Pixies - Doolittle (1987)
17. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
18. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
19. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
20. David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Decided to use the parameters you gave (top twenty, no artist repeats) to give this some structure. I try my best to vary my tastes, but I almost always come back to 2000s indie rock.

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
2. Vampire Weekend - self-titled (2008)
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
4. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (2005)
5. The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003)
7. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
8. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2003)
9. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
10. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
11. The National - High Violet (2010)
12. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People (2002)
13. LCD Soundsystem - Sounds of Silver (2007)
14. Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1981)
15. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
16. Pixies - Doolittle (1987)
17. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
18. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
19. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
20. David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)

Always love it to meet someone else who considers that their best album!

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Without repeating artists and in no particular order:

1. Paramore - All We Know Is Falling
2. Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
3. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
4. New Found Glory - Sticks And Stones
5. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
6. Deftones - White Pony
7. Maximum The Hormone - Bu-ikikaesu
8. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
9. Evanescence - Fallen
10. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
11. Green Day - American Idiot
12. my bloody valentine - Loveless
13. Slowdive - Souvlak
14. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
15. Björk - Post
16. blink182 - Enema of the State
17. Michelle Branch - The Spirit Room
18. A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You
19. The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
20. Nirvana - Nevermind

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Without repeating artists and in no particular order:

1. Paramore - All We Know Is Falling
2. Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
3. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
4. New Found Glory - Sticks And Stones
5. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
6. Deftones - White Pony
7. Maximum The Hormone - Bu-ikikaesu
8. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
9. Evanescence - Fallen
10. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
11. Green Day - American Idiot
12. my bloody valentine - Loveless
13. Slowdive - Souvlak
14. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
15. Björk - Post
16. blink182 - Enema of the State
17. Michelle Branch - The Spirit Room
18. A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You
19. The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
20. Nirvana - Nevermind

You should listen to The Darling Fire's "Distortions". The Darling Fire is one of those "middle-aged people who were in a bunch of well regarded emo and hardcore bands over 20 years ago" supergroups, but the album has been described as "If Evanescence was a post-hardcore band"...and that's accurate. I saw them at Furnace Fest 2022 and was so impressed I got it on vinyl.

Also you'd probably like Charlotte Sands, who I actually just saw on Monday (I also saw her at Riot Fest 2022), I checked her out initially because...well honestly because she's really hot, but her music is actually pretty good especially since it's largely targeted at Gen Zers who heard it on TikTok, kind of like an updated version of Paramore's early stuff, (it helps that she did a song with Underoath.) Actually one of her openers was a band called Senses which is kind of the same.

[HisGrace]

You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr
Guitar Romantic by Exploding Hearts
The Bends and Ok Computer by Radiohead
The Smile Sessions by The Beach Boys
Giant Steps, My Favorite Things, and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
Sea Change by Beck
A Night at the Opera by Queen
Takk by Sigur Ros
Arhtur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) by The Kinks
Revolver and The White Album by The Beatles
Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones
Blur by Blur
Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello
The Suburbs and Reflektor by Arcade Fire
Masseduction by St. Vincent

[Meclazine for Israel]

Sorry if it's too basic but I seem to listen to the entirety of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea over and over again some weeks.

Have downloaded and will take a listen.

Anything released by these guys:

I Feel Fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrAV5EVI4tU

Anything Bach or Mozart is always special, especially their choral music.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Mass in B Minor - Kyrie Eleison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI3_-SpgR-s

When you listen to their music, it's actually hard to comprehend how two people could have produced that volume of world class music.

[Sol]

I don't really listen to music in the form of albums, so my list is a bit shorter than most people.

-Illinois - Sufjan Stevens (favorite song)
-Rubber Soul - The Beatles (favorite song)
-Black Terry Cat - Xenia Rubinos (favorite song)
-Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan (favorite song)
-Late Registration - Kanye West (favorite song)
-The Suburbs - Arcade Fire (favorite song)
-69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields (favorite song)
-Next Thing - Frankie Cosmos (favorite song)

[Sol]

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans

Love to see this!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

-Late Registration - Kanye West (favorite song)

How the f[inks] can you listen to that Nazi loving disgusting piece of vile human garbage?

Like the bands on my list are ALL LIBERAL ALL THE TIME.

[Sol]

-Late Registration - Kanye West (favorite song)

How the f[inks] can you listen to that Nazi loving disgusting piece of vile human garbage?

Like the bands on my list are ALL LIBERAL ALL THE TIME.

I loathe his current political opinions and actions, and I'm not going to pretend it doesn't influence how I feel about his work; I don't really listen to it much anymore since I feel fairly uncomfortable sending money to a guy who desperately needs mental healthcare, not fame and a platform to spread awful views.

However, that album is very good and influenced me a lot well before Kanye's recent decline into antisemitism and interpersonal violence and harassment. If I attempted to erect a purity test for moral behaviors there would be a lot of people off of this list.

(Not that I really care about the politics unless they're really loathsome, but this is the Kanye West from his "George Bush doesn't care about Black people" era, which is much more simpatico with your views).

[LabourJersey]

Top 20, In no particular order:

David Bowie - Heroes
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Tame Impala - Currents
Oasis - What's the Story, Morning Glory
Bruce Springsteen - The River
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
The Fugees - The Score
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
The Clash - London Calling
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Green Day - American Idiot
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
The Beatles - Abbey Road

[Benjamin Frank 2.0]

Top 20, In no particular order:

David Bowie - Heroes
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Tame Impala - Currents
Oasis - What's the Story, Morning Glory
Bruce Springsteen - The River
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
The Fugees - The Score
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
The Clash - London Calling
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Green Day - American Idiot
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
The Beatles - Abbey Road

That's only 14.