Favourite albums?

[greennui]

Just noticed that we didn't have a thread like that so here it is now.

What are some albums that have meant a lot to you? Do you have a vinyl collection or something similar?

[Pretentious Hipster]

Impossible to rank these days, but I know of two tiers I can do.

Albums that will always stick with me:

Autechre - AE_Live_Brussels_031014 (2015)
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4 (2018)
Bladee - Eversince (2016)
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982)
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time (2019)
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark (1999)
Coil - Black Antlers (2004)
Coil - The Ape of Naples (2005)
Dälek - Absence (2005)
Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011)
Death Grips - Jenny Death: The Powers That B Disc 2 (2015)
Christoph de Babalon - If You're Into It, I'm Out of It (1997)
DJ Screw - Bigtyme Vol II: All Screwed Up (1995)
Einstürzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa (1993)
Eno - Another Green World (1975)
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)
Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You: The Unfinished Album (1983)
Low - Double Negative (2018)
Murmuüre - Murmuüre (2010)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
Washington Phillips - The Key to the Kingdom (2005)
ROME - Flowers From Exile (2009)
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (2012)
Sutcliffe Jügend - Relentless (2019)
Swans - Holy Money (1986)
This Heat - Deceit (1981)
Tom Waits - Bone Machine (1992)
Культура курения [Kultura Kurenija] - Некрофилия (2013)
平沢進 [Susumu Hirasawa] - 救済の技法 (Kyuusai no gihou) (1998)
Various Artists - Welcome to Paradise, Vol. III: Italian Dream House 90-94 (2018)
Ian William Craig - Centres (2016)

Albums that I'm obsessed with short-term that might reach above:

The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge (1983)
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want (2018)
Deftones - White Pony (2000)
Baxter Dury - The Night Chancers (2020)
James Ferraro - NYC, Hell 3:00AM (2013)
Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant (1992)
GFOTY - GFOTYBUCKS (2017)
HEALTH - Death Magic (2015)
HEALTH - Vol. 4 :: Slaves of Fear (2019)
Ifernach - Wastow (2019)
Munly & The Lupercalians - Petr & The Wulf (2010)
Nadia Oh - Colours (2011)
Optimo - Sleepwalk: A Selection by Optimo (Espacio) (2008)
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor (2013)
The Residents - Animal Lover (2005)
Sienna Sleep - ö÷ÿýúóúóúäûäóëüü÷²ÿûêæóâ÷ (2019)
Slikback - RA.729 (2020)
Steely Dan - Gaucho (1980)
Tzusing - RA.741 (2020)

[Silga]

I would love to have a record player and a vinyl collection. Maybe I'll get on with it when I move to a new place (some time later this year, I hope). My uncle has a massive vinyl and CD collection and is avid fan of rock music. Always love going to his place as he always has some great record playing or live concert on blu-ray.

Throughout the years he gave me some great CDs of legendary rock bands, including great editions of Led Zeppelin albums with special edition covers and booklets. He also gave me Metallica's Black Album when I was still a relatively young kid and it was something new and unexpected. I cherish that album to this day.

Some of my favourite albums that I'd love to own:

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979) & Pulse (1995)
2. Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
3. Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978) & Love over Gold (1982) & Brothers in Arms (1985)
4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
5. U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)
6. Duran Duran - The Wedding Album (1993)
7. Peter Gabriel - So (1986)
8. Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra (1987) & I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990)
9. Sade - Diamond Life (1984) & Promise (1985)
10. Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
11. Nino Ferrer - Nino And Radiah (1974)
12. Sébastien Tellier - Sexuality (2008) & My God Is Blue (2012)
13. Air - Moon Safari (1998) & Pocket Symphony (2007)
14. Madonna - The Immaculate Collection (1990), Erotica (1992)

[Abe]

I have a small vinyl collection but gave up my record player as it’s not really feasible in my current home. When I move I’ll be looking at getting a new set up.

Some of my favourite albums are…
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Neil Young - Harvest
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Portishead - Dummy
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Joni Mitchell - Blue
The Doors - L.A. Woman

[grabmymask]

Here are some of my favorite albums (unranked):

Aporea - Na Rekakh Vavilonskikh (1988)
Robbie Basho - Visions Of The Country (1978)
Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Novo (1963)
Blackout - Dreamworld (1995)
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1971)
Ray Charles - Ray Charles Live (1987)
John Coltrane - Ascension (1966)
The Cure - Disintegration (1989)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
DJ Screw - Bigtyme Recordz Volume II: All Screwed Up (1995)
Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare and Unreleased) 1961-1991 (1991)
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk (1997)
Diamanda Galás - Plague Mass (1991)
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971)
Gorguts - Obscura (1998)
Graveyard Productions - The Havoc (1995)
Al Green - Call Me (1973)
Grouper - Ruins (2014)
Merle Haggard - Same Train, A Different Time (1969)
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (2011)
Immolation - Close to a World Below (2000)
Jacula - Tardo Pede in Magiam Versus (1972)
Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings (1990)
Little Richard - Here's Little Richard (1957)
Megadeth - Rust In Peace (1990)
Migos - Culture (2017)
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968)
Naked City - Torture Garden (1990)
Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marching Anymore (1965)
Pharoah Sanders - Karma (1969)
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet (1995)
Slint - Spiderland (1991)
Sophie - Product (2015)
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975)
Taylor Swift - 1989 (2014)
David Tagg - Fundamentals of Orchid Biology (2008)
The Upsetters - Super Ape (1976)
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt (1969)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Scott Walker - Scott 3 (1969)
Kanye West - Yeezus (2013)

[wba]

I have a thread for this purpose in the members section, so I'll just copy and paste my list from there:

1952
Black Coffee - Peggy Lee

1958
Sweet and Savage - Los Indios Tabajaras
Vertigo [score] - Bernard Herrmann

1960
Think! - James Brown and The Famous Flames

1961
At Last! - Etta James

1964
Inside Betty Carter - Betty Carter

1965
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank

1968
Bohm-bi "Spring Rain" - Jung-hwa Lee

1969
늦기 전에 "Before It's Too Late" - Choo-ja Kim [Shin Jung Hyun Composition Collection/Kim Choo Ja]
Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

1970
?? [maybe her first album] - Aster Aweke (70s)
Sagan om ringen "Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings" - Bo Hansson
Soundtracks - Can

1971
Jing wu men "Fist Of Fury" [score] - Joseph Koo, Ku Chia Hui

1972
Pink Moon - Nick Drake

1973
Dueling Banjos From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Deliverance And Additional Music – Eric Weissberg, Steve Mandell

1975
A Night at the Opera - Queen
Zorro [score] – Guido & Maurizio De Angelis

1981
The Ascension - Glenn Branca

1982
Blade Runner [score] - Vangelis
Conan the Barbarian [score] - Basil Poledouris

1983
Through the Looking Glass - Midori Takada
Utakata no Hibi - Mariah

1984
Purple Rain [soundtrack] - Prince and The Revolution
Scenes - Michael Galasso

1985
銀河鉄道の夜 Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru "Night on the Galactic Rail Road" [score] - Haruomi Hosono

1986
Poltergeist II - Jerry Goldsmith

1987
Akai Megane "The Red Spectacles" [score] - Kenji Kawai
Flora – Hiroshi Yoshimura

1988
Symphonic Suite AKIRA – Geinoh Yamashirogumi

1989
Batman [score] - Danny Elfman

1990
Edward Scissorhands [score] – Danny Elfman
The Legend Of The Dragon - Hong-jun Lyu

1991
Michael Nyman String Quartets 1-3 - Balanescu Quartet
StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops [score] – Kenji Kawai

1992
1492: Conquest of Paradise [score] – Vangelis

1993
Endless Tide – Tomoyuki Asakawa
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? - The Cranberries
Flesh and Bone [score] – Thomas Newman
Sommersby [score] - Danny Elfman
The Piano [score] - Michael Nyman

1994
No Need To Argue - The Cranberries

1995
Dookie - Green Day
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
Kokaku kidotai "Ghost in the Shell" [score] - Kenji Kawai
Mizu no Naka no Hachigatsu "August in the Water" [score] - Hiroyuki Onogawa, Kenjirou Matsuo, Tenzan Utagaki
Relish - Joan Osborne
To vlemma tou Odyssea "Ulysses' Gaze" [score] - Eleni Karaindrou

1996
Tidal - Fiona Apple

1997
Homogenic - Björk
Nine Lives - Aerosmith

1998
ABM plays Claude Debussy [Préludes, Livre 2; Franz Liszt Eglougue from Années de Pèlegrinage; Live Recording Stuttgart 1982] - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Hana-bi [score] - Joe Hisaishi
No One is Really Beautiful - Jude

1999
Bachelor No. 2 - Aimee Mann
Jazz. Soundtrack zum Roman von Hans Janowitz – Various [compiled by Viktor Rotthaler]
When the Pawn... - Fiona Apple

2000
The Claim [score] - Michael Nyman

2001
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes

2002
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Lost in Space - Aimee Mann
MTV Unplugged 2.0 - Lauryn Hill
The Hours [score] - Philip Glass

2003
Master & Commander [score] - Iva Davies, Christopher Gordon, Richard Tognetti

2008
The Sky Crawlers [score] – Kenji Kawai

2009
The Empyrean - John Frusciante

[Holymanm]

I've never made a top albums list, but I have made a top 20 rap albums list. Strangely enough, not a single one of these rappers even makes my top 5 list, which consists of Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, and Dylan...

Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded (1987)
The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better (1989)
Digital Underground - Sex Packets (1990)
Black Sheep - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (1991)
De la Soul - De la Soul Is Dead (1991)
Slick Rick - The Ruler's Back (1991)
Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop (1992)
Black Moon - Enta da Stage (1993)
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle (1993)
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (1993)
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep (1994)
Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era (1994)
2pac - Me Against the World (1995)
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)
Del - Future Development (1997)
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday (1999)
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (2000)
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Ugly Duckling - Taste the Secret (2003)
Mac Dre - Genie of the Lamp (2004)

Would any of these make my top-20-any-albums-list? Stay tuned!

[FLABREZU]

TOP 10 RAP ALBUMS (max 1 album per artist/group):

10) Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
9) Ugly Duckling - Taste the Secret
8) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
7) Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
6) Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
5) Sage Francis - Personal Journals
4) Blue Sky Black Death & Holocaust - The Holocaust
3) Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
2) Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
1) Canibus - Rip the Jacker

[flip]

we actually did this on the last forum, lots of great suggestions there: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_aut ... -t138.html

this was the list i posted there:

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
Un peu de neige salié - Bernhard Günter
Viva Last Blues - Palace Music
High, Low and In Between - Townes van Zandt
String Quartets no 1-13 - Dimitri Shostakovich/Borodin Quartet (original recordings)
Systemisch - Oval
Full Service No Waiting - Peter Case
Waltz for Debby - Bill Evans
The White Birch - Codeine
Aus den Sieben Tagen - Karlheinz Stockhausen (original recordings)
Bewitched - Luna
String Quartet nos 13 and 16 - Beethoven/Janacek String Quartet
Today's Active Lifestyles - Polvo
Overcome by Happiness - Pernice Brothers
Unheimlich Schön - Luc Ferrari
The Charm of the Highway Strip - Magnetic Fields

if I was redoing this today, I'd add a few things, the majority of them just things i forgot to include last time:

The Last Prophet - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Chapter 1: Had We Known Better - Industries of the Blind
Tell Me How You Really Feel - Courtney Barnett
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Field Recordings - The Echelon Effect
something by Lucinda Williams

i don't really listen to albums often any more, just to individual tracks, so if this list grows at all, it will be slowly

[Curtis, baby]

the fashion focus (starflyer 59, 1998)
king push - darkest before the dawn: the prelude (pusha t, 2015)
gold (starflyer 59, 1995)
slow burning lights (blue sky black death/yes alexander, 2008)
daytona (pusha t, 2018)
vancouver (matthew good, 2009)
american football (american football, 1998)
sing along with the acid house kings (acid house kings, 2005)
a certain smile, a certain sadness (rocketship, 1996)
mi media naranja (labradford, 1997)

lifestylez ov da poor & dangerous (big l, 1995)
the evil jeanius (blue sky black death/jean grae, 2008)
sospiri (the winston jazz routine, 2007)
unknown pleasures (joy division, 1979)
history (molly nilsson, 2011)
rip the jacker (canibus, 2003)
bon voyage (bon voyage, 1998)
enter the wu-tang (wu-tang clan, 1993)
pity the fool (mr. len, 2001)
shallow bed (dry the river, 2012)

cars (now, now every children, 2008)
follow the light (molly nilsson, 2010)
either/or (elliott smith, 1997)
the bitter air (lorelei, 1992)
down colorful hill (red house painters, 1992)
pony (orville peck, 2019)
tarkus (emerson, lake & palmer, 1971)
new wave (the auteurs, 1993)
a lot of sorrow (the national, 2015)
deltron 3030 (deltron 3030, 2000)

it's a wonderful life (sparklehorse, 2001)
blank face lp (scHoolboy q, 2016)
the nature of maps (matt pond pa, 2002)
the holocaust (blue sky black death/holocaust, 2006)
everybody makes mistakes (starflyer 59, 1999)
souvlaki (slowdive, 1993)
suburban lawns (suburban lawns, 1981)
jedi mind tricks - animal rap (2002)
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea (1998)
sixteen stone (bush, 1994)

first utterance (comus, 1971)
tell all your friends (taking back sunday, 2002)
chelsea girl (nico, 1967)
souvlaki (slowdive, 1993)
high violet (the national, 2010)
slow riot for new zero kanada (godspeed you! black emperor, 1998)
doolittle (pixies, 1989)
holiday (holiday, 1995)
gyrate (pylon, 1980)
the slim shady lp (eminem, 1999)

1: 1967
3: 1971 (x2), 1979
3: 1980, 1981, 1989
20: 1992 (x2), 1993 (x4), 1994, 1995 (x3), 1996, 1997 (x2), 1998 (x5), 1999 (x2)
14: 2000 (x2), 2001 (x2), 2002 (x3), 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 (x3), 2009
9: 2010 (x2), 2011, 2012, 2015 (x2), 2016, 2018, 2019

some all-time favourite songs that unfortunately appear on relatively weak albums:

Sissy Spacek - I Like Sad Satellites
Pusha T - Numbers on the Boards
Red House Painters - Katy Song
Molly Nilsson - I'm Still Wearing His Jacket
The Replacements - Androgynous
Fly Union - Kill Em
Now, Now - School Friends
Mac Dre - Feelin' Myself
Sean Price - Monkey Barz
Mac Miller - 2009
A$AP Ferg ft. ScHoolboy Q - Let It Bang
Molly Nilsson - 1995
Pulp - Babies
Pusha T - Lunch Money
Pusha T ft. Kash Doll - Sociopath
John Frusciante - The Slaughter