WaspStar

No surprises here, but hey, they're my favorites; one per artist (otherwise it would be a list of NMTB and my nine favorite Bob Dylan albums):


The Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks

Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisted/Blood On The Tracks/Street Legal/Empire Burlesque (I really can't pick one)

Traveling Wilburys: Vol. 1

The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses

XTC: Apple Venus Vol. 1

The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead

Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run

Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Rain

Townes Van Zandt: Rear View Mirror

Chuck Berry: The Definitive Collection


...with all the standard disclaimers (this list will probably change tomorrow, it's arbitrarily ranked, etc).

Edit: ...and I left off Springsteen in my original list. That'll teach me to jot down lists off the top of my head.

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Alfred

I couldn't get into Ocean Rain the way I did with Crocodiles. The only standout tracks for me are the singles.

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WaspStar

Ocean Rain took a while to grow on me, but once I started to skip Thorn Of Crowns, I found it plays a lot better. It also helped that I heard it during one of the rainiest springs I've ever experienced. It's a real mood album. I probably wouldn't want to listen to it right now, with it being 30 degrees our and snow on the ground

And to be honest, I've never understood the big deal about The Killing Moon. It's good, but I actually think it's one of the weakest tracks on the album. Of course, "weakest" is a relative term, but still.

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mannny

Glenn Gould - Bach's Goldberg Variations
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - White Album
Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness
Artur Rubinstein - The Chopin Colletction
Claudio Arrau plays Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
Duke Ellington - Piano Reflections
Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
John Lennon - Acoustic
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
M. Ward - Post-War
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Philip Glass - Einstein On the Beach
Pink Floyd - Animals
Portishead - Roseland, NYC Live
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead- OK Computer
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground & Nico
Weezer - Blue Album
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Wilco - Kicking Television

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Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1
Pink Floyd - (Tough to pick just one but...) Animals
Radiohead - Kid A, In Rainbows
Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico

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Astronomer

Solid list. I absolutely love 9 out of these 11.

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jackhammer

Some of mine are in this splendid thread here:

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ms-thread.html

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Sunny

Just a few here

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
The Veils - Vicious Traditions
La Rocca - The Truth
Vast - Nude
Coldplay - X&Y
The Honorary Title - Anything Else But The Truth
Low Vs Diamond - Life After Love
Angels And Airwaves - I-Empire
Angels And Airwaves - We Don't Need To Whisper
Placebo - Meds

WithAnR

A sample of my faves:
Angelspit - Krankhaus
Apoptygma Berzerk - You & Me Against The World
Ayria - Debris
Rebekka Bakken - Is That You?
Bat for Lashes - Fur & Gold
Beautiful Creatures - S/T
Belly - King
Marit Bergman - I Think It´s A Rainbow
The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers
Brazilian Girls - S/T
Brandi Carlile - S/T
Cat Power - The Greatest
Kasey Chambers - Carnival
Chromeo - She's In Control
Chungking - The Hungry Years
Clor - S/T
Color Filter - Silent Way
Covenant - Northern Light
Cradle Of Filth - Dusk & Her Embrace
Crystal Castles - S/T
De/Vision - 6 Feet Underground
Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
Eisley - Room Noises
Evenfall - Cumbersome
The Faint - Danse Macabre
Faithful Dawn - Temperance
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Fischerspooner - Odyssey
Frou Frou - Details
The Gathering - Home
Thea Gilmore - Rules For Jokers
Gravity Kills - S/T
Halo - Lunatic Ride
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
Hole - Live Through This
Hooverphonic - No More Sweet Music
Howling Bells - S/T
Hungry Lucy - Glo
Husky Rescue - Ghost Is Not Real
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Le Tigre - This Island
Lifehouse - No Name Face
Little Birdy - Hollywood
The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
Charlotte Martin - Stromata
Metric - Live It Out
Miss Kittin - Batbox
NUN - Sunlight
NY Loose - Year Of The Rat
Old Man's Child - Ill-natured Spiritual Invasion
The Organ - Grab That Gun
The Postal Service - Give Up
Robots in Disguise - We're In The Music Biz
Ruby - Short-Staffed At The Gene Pool
Sahara Hotnights - What If Leaving Is a Loving Thing
Seabound - Beyond Flatline
Senser - Asylum
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
Sepiamusic - Prototype
Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots
Emilie Simon - The Flower Book
Sons & Daughters - This Gift
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
Tapping The Vein - The Damage
The Tea Party - Tangents
Tegan & Sara - The Con
Temposhark - The Invisible Line
Tilly & The Wall - Wild Like Children
Vacabou - S/T
Venus Hum - Big Beautiful Day
The Vincent Black Shadow - Fear's In The Water
VNV Nation - Futureperfect
White Zombie - Astro-Creep:2000

Mojo

I'm including albums that WERE my favourite albums at some point in my life too, unless i REALLY hate them now so I expect a lot of criticism but here goes:

Hope of The States - The Lost Riots
Black Sabbath - Vol.4
The Smiths - S/T (but I can barely choose one to standout)
The Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
The Stooges - Fun House
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Metallica - Kill Em All
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Rage Against The Machine - S/T
The Who - Tommy
At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
Altar - Sunn O)))/Boris split/colab
QOTSA - S/T
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Evoken - Shades of Night Descending
The Stone Roses - S/T
Opeth - Damnation
The Music - S/T
The Raveonettes - Whip It On
Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
Stereophonics - Word Gets Around (when i was about 16, included for nostalgic reasons)
Helmet - Meantime
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through and Leave
Coldplay - Rush Of Blood To The Head
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
The Strokes - Is This It? (same as The Phonics really, included more for nostalgic reasons. Sounds lazier every time I listen to it but I still like it.)
Pentagram - Relentless
Possessed - Seven Churches
Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
Loop - Wolf Flow (if this can really count)