Albums you think are perfect?

[Snapolit1]

My oddball pick . . . .

A Christmas Gift for You

The late Phil Spector

[Seven]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

My oddball pick . . . .

A Christmas Gift for You

The late Phil Spector

Absolute Psychopath but produced incredible Albums. We have him to thank for the "Wall of Sound" technique. There's a reason why "Be My Baby" is so catchy

[bnorth]

Everything Beastie Boys and AC/DC.

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Everything Beastie Boys

Their early hardcore stuff too? I saw them a few times before they hit big in rap. Egg Raid on Mojo.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Everything Beastie Boys and AC/DC.

Just saw Beastie Boys new documentary on Apple TV. Highly recommended.

[jiw98]

Neil Young, "Harvest"
Led Zeppelin, "Led Zeppelin IV"
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon"
Just a few that came to mind right away.

[rats60]

My top 5
Born to Run
Abbey Road
Dark Side of the Moon
Who's Next
Led Zeppelin IV

and a few that haven't been picked
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Highway 61 Revisited
Are You Experienced?
Revolver

[2dueces]

Originally Posted by jiw98

Neil Young, "Harvest"
Led Zeppelin, "Led Zeppelin IV"
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon"
Just a few that came to mind right away.

Can't believe it took two pages to mention the Greatest Album of All Time.

How many albums stayed on the top of the charts for 15 years, 736 weeks?
DSOTM Pink Floyd.

[Seven]

One, that I'm sure not many would agree with, but that I have listened to over and over again, fully through, is Running on Empty by Jackson Browne.

I think he's also criminally underrated. His rendition of take it easy, is superior to the Eagles rendition in my opinion. For the longest time I didn't even know that Frey and Browne wrote the song together.

[carlsonjok]

A lot of mine have been mentioned, but a few others:

Southeastern by Jason Isbell
Sound & Fury and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music by Sturgill Simpson
Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Reckoning by R.E.M. - still remember where I was when I first heard it. It was at the old Record Archive location on Mt. Hope Blvd in Rochester. It was playing over the store sound system and it completely blew me away and I bought it immediately. More than that, it opened up a whole new world of music to me and opened me up to artists that I would have never been exposed to otherwise. It was literally the inflection point in my musical journey.

[ClementeFanOh]

Great call on Reckoning by REM! I'm a big Life's Rich Pageant guy too. Trent King

[MooseDog]

Originally Posted by 2dueces

Can't believe it took two pages to mention the Greatest Album of All Time.

How many albums stayed on the top of the charts for 15 years, 736 weeks?
DSOTM Pink Floyd.

To be honest, in my book DSOTM is in a class of one...anything else is "just an album".

[Chris Counts]

My favorite albums, in no particular order:

Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
REM, Murmur
Beatles, Rubber Soul
Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Clash, London Calling
Bob Dylan, Freewheelin'
Cars debut record
Pretenders debut record
Joni Mitchell, Blue
The Wailers, Burnin'
Buffalo Springfield Again
Otis Redding Sings Soul

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by 2dueces

Can't believe it took two pages to mention the Greatest Album of All Time.

How many albums stayed on the top of the charts for 15 years, 736 weeks?
DSOTM Pink Floyd.

JMO but most popular doesn't mean greatest, I like DSOTM but Animals and Wish You Were Here are better.

[Shoeless Moe]

New Jersey - Bon Jovi

[John1941]

Revolver-The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour-The Beatles
Friends- The Beach Boys
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington- Thelonious Monk
#1 Record- Big Star
Radio City-Big Star
Kind of Blue- Miles Davis
Avalon Blues-1928 Recordings- Mississippi John Hurt
Astral Weeks-Van Morrison
London Calling- The Clash
Ziggy Stardust-David Bowie

This should show you how much I like Big Star-the only 2 bands I put on this list twice are Big Star and The Beatles.

[toppcat]

Here's ten of mine, mostly punk or punk-adjacent:

Bad Religion - Suffer
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Leatherface - Mush
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Avail - Over The James
ALL - Mass Nerder
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Justin Sullivan - Navigating By The Stars
Stuyvesant - Fret Sounds
Textbook - All Messed Up

[sbfinley]

The Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - Zoso
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sigur Ros - Takk...
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head <-- I literally can't stand what this band has become, but this album (before they became shitty radio pop) is perfect from beginning to end.

[Dewey]

Fellow Descendents/ALL fan. Saw both last about 10 years ago at Punk Rock Bowling in Vegas.

Originally Posted by toppcat

Here's ten of mine, mostly punk or punk-adjacent:

Bad Religion - Suffer
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Leatherface - Mush
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Avail - Over The James
ALL - Mass Nerder
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Justin Sullivan - Navigating By The Stars
Stuyvesant - Fret Sounds
Textbook - All Messed Up

[sthoemke]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
AC/DC - Back in Black
Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill

[Exhibitman]

Boston's 1st album
Led Zeppelin 1-2-4
The Cars debut album
The Pretenders debut album
Revolution Radio by Green Day
Quadrophenia by The Who
In The City and All Mod Cons by The Jam
Singles Going Steady by The Buzzcocks
Shut Up And Play The Hits by LCD Soundsystem
Live at Budokan by Cheap Trick
Live Bullet by Bob Seger

[Dewey]

U2, The Joshua Tree
Gregory Alan Isakov, The Weatherman
Rage Against the Machine, Self-Titled