Favourite Albums of All Time!!

[OnTheWayOut]

Deep Purple - Machine Head & Fireball & Who Do You Think We Are & In Rock
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin I & II
Beatles - White Album & Abbey Road
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards & Look at Yourself
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon & Animals
ZZTop - Tres Hombres & Eliminator
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The Who - Who's Next
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet & Sticky Fingers
Jethro Tull- Aqualung
Pearl Jam - Ten
REO Speedwagon - R.E.O./T.W.O. & You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish
Supertramp- Crime of the Century & Breakfast in America
T. Rex- Electric Warrior
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Mott The Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Steely Dan - Aja

Crap, this could take forever .....

 

[Parker@TDL]

Ooooo we've got 3 people listing T. Rex- Electric Warrior....clearly a winner of an album. I highly recommend this sexy beast!!!!

 

[OnTheWayOut]

Ooooo we've got 3 people listing T. Rex- Electric Warrior....clearly a winner of an album. I highly recommend this sexy beast!!!!

I was a student at a technical school when that album came out ..... they played it over the PA system all the time and it got into my system! Left YES off my list, another one played at vo-tech often.

Add Yes - The Yes Album & Fragile

This list will never end as my Alzheimer's clears momentarily and allows me to remember more ... lol

 

[thailover]

Born to run-Springsteen

 

[hungry]

Apologies for the length of this, but I've been around a long time!

The following are albums I've listened to repeatedly, and often bought in many formats as time went by:
John Mayall with Eric Clapton - Bluebreakers
John Mayall with Peter Green - A Hard Road
John Mayall with Mick Taylor - Crusade, The Diary Of A Band Pt. 1

One hell of a list, I notice you like John Mayall, if you have not heard of Jazz Blues Fusion, it is imho, his best.

 

[xmontrealer]

Apologies for the length of this, but I've been around a long time!

The following are albums I've listened to repeatedly, and often bought in many formats as time went by:
John Mayall with Eric Clapton - Bluebreakers
John Mayall with Peter Green - A Hard Road
John Mayall with Mick Taylor - Crusade, The Diary Of A Band Pt. 1

One hell of a list, I notice you like John Mayall, if you have not heard of Jazz Blues Fusion, it is imho, his best.

Thx I'll have to check it out!

 

[shack]

Fabulous Poodles-Think Pink
Flash and the Pan-Flash and the Pan

Very underrated.

10cc-How Dare You

My all time favourite song is Don't Hang Up.

 

[Zaibetter]

I think its still listed as one of the biggest albums of all times

 

[renuck]

Back when I had a good stereo put together (I design and build my own speakers) I listened to a lot of stuff I'm not proud of. It was more about the ear candy that showed off how good the speakers were vs. if I actually liked the music much. Basically I was more concerned about the recording quality, and a lot of older stuff is recorded way better than modern stuff. A musician friend of mine (a recorded artist) told me the bias now is the loudness wars (as in less dynamics) is the thing and it's recorded to sound balanced on iPhone ear buds so when you listen to modern stuff on a capable stereo it sounds like bloated ass. Generally speaking.

For albums for the ear candy I listened to:

Dire Straits - Sultans of swing
Dave Matthews - Any thing live <-- probably the best recording quality I've ever heard
Anything by Madonna
Sarah McLachlan
Enya
Fleetwood Mac
The Cars
Alice in Chains- Unplugged
Blue Rodeo - most of their stuff
Tragically hip - I have a few good sets of cans and a decent headphone amp but it doesn't do them justice at all. The guitar play on a capable stereo is incredible, which I completely can't hear on anything less.
Santana is awesome
U2 - various tracks across a few albums. "With or Without You" is a killer track to check smooth/balanced response for that bass guitar. I've spent many many hours playing with stuffing/port tuning/crossover values to get this right.

 

[hungry]

Thx I'll have to check it out!

Here is the complete album. It timeless, it is just as good as when it was released in 1971. If you love blues or jazz, check this out, every song is a classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeL9WMOWqgw&list=PL8a8cutYP7fo0VcJNz4Ibu6-OU_VBF53o

 

[Parker@TDL]

I was a student at a technical school when that album came out ..... they played it over the PA system all the time and it got into my system! Left YES off my list, another one played at vo-tech often.

Add Yes - The Yes Album & Fragile

This list will never end as my Alzheimer's clears momentarily and allows me to remember more ... lol

It was played over the PA system at your school??? That is wicked awesome!!!

 

[thirdcup]

I think its still listed as one of the biggest albums of all times

Many years ago I saw and interview with David Gilmour, and he said it made him a little sad because he was never able to listen to the album for the first time, or afterwards in the way it was meant to be heard. I guess that being the creator gives you a unique perspective, and you will never be part of the audience.

 

[Parker@TDL]

Many years ago I saw and interview with David Gilmour, and he said it made him a little sad because he was never able to listen to the album for the first time, or afterwards in the way it was meant to be heard. I guess that being the creator gives you a unique perspective, and you will never be part of the audience.

Interesting...i guess when you release your music into the world it can take on many other forms than the one understood by the small amount of people who created it. It kind of becomes a game of broken telephone as it's dissected and critiqued and covered etc.

 

[surferboy]

Tragically Hip - Road Apples
Eagles - The Long Run
U2 - The Joshua Tree
The Ramones - It's Alive
Joel Walsch - But Seriously Folks
Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life
David Wilcox - The Best Of David Wilcox
Michael Jackson - Thriller (Still have it in Vinyl in the original album cover)

 

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[K Douglas]

Crush - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (1985)

 

[K Douglas]

Probably the album I have listened to the most in my life.