The Best Album Ever.

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:36 am

Can't say I have "singular" all time favourite.
That said some of the best CD's/ Albums I've bought have been.....

David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive & Dead Bees on a Cake
Mouse On Mars - Ideology
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Future Sound of London - LifeForms
Orbital - Snivilisation
Radiohead - OK Computer
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
PetShopBoys - Introspective & Behaviour
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love & The Dreaming
This Mortal Coil - Filligree & Shadow
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or LasVegas
Murcof - Remembranza
AphexTwin - Selected Ambient Works Vol I & II
Depeche Mode - Violator
Dead Can Dance - The Serpeants Egg
Arovane - Lillies
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Human League - Reproduction
SoftCell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Marc Almond - Mother Fist and her 5 Daughters
Marc Almond - The Tenement Symphony
The Grid - Electric Head
Sigour Ros - ( )
Monolake - Polygon Cities
Bronski Beat - Age of Consent
The Orb - Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Nine Horses - SnowBorneSorrow
Flanger - Spirituals
Massive Attack - Blue Lines & Protection
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Portishead - Dummy
Goldie - Timeless
Roberta Flack - First Take
Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol I
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
Joy Division - Closer
Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
LFO - Frequencies
William Orbit - Strange Cargo III (Hinterland)
The Young Disciples - Road too Freedom
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
New Order - Substance
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
M people - Northern Soul (don't laugh it was a great CD everything else after it was shit though)
XTC - English Settlement
The The - Infected
10CC - Bloody Tourists
Roxy Music - Country Life
Eno - Music for Airports
JM Jarre - Oxygene
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
The Jam - In The City
Elvis Costello - Almost Blue

etc etc .....

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:24 am

FaX-01 wrote:Can't say I have "singular" all time favourite.
That said some of the best CD's/ Albums I've bought have been.....

David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive & Dead Bees on a Cake
Mouse On Mars - Ideology
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Future Sound of London - LifeForms
Orbital - Snivilisation
Radiohead - OK Computer
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
PetShopBoys - Introspective & Behaviour
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love & The Dreaming
This Mortal Coil - Filligree & Shadow
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or LasVegas
Murcof - Remembranza
AphexTwin - Selected Ambient Works Vol I & II
Depeche Mode - Violator
Dead Can Dance - The Serpeants Egg
Arovane - Lillies
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Human League - Reproduction
SoftCell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Marc Almond - Mother Fist and her 5 Daughters
Marc Almond - The Tenement Symphony
The Grid - Electric Head
Sigour Ros - ( )
Monolake - Polygon Cities
Bronski Beat - Age of Consent
The Orb - Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Nine Horses - SnowBorneSorrow
Flanger - Spirituals
Massive Attack - Blue Lines & Protection
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Portishead - Dummy
Goldie - Timeless
Roberta Flack - First Take
Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol I
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
Joy Division - Closer
Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
LFO - Frequencies
William Orbit - Strange Cargo III (Hinterland)
The Young Disciples - Road too Freedom
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
New Order - Substance
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
M people - Northern Soul (don't laugh it was a great CD everything else after it was shit though)
XTC - English Settlement
The The - Infected
10CC - Bloody Tourists
Roxy Music - Country Life
Eno - Music for Airports
JM Jarre - Oxygene
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
The Jam - In The City
Elvis Costello - Almost Blue

etc etc .....

You'll have to be WAAAAAAY disqualified for that!

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:29 am

ourapollo · Post by **ourapollo** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:19 am

nirvana - nevermind
the doors - la woman
beatles - abbey road

Pandamonium · Post by **Pandamonium** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:03 pm

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Who - Whos Next
Portishead - Dummy
Massive Attack - Mezanine
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Led Zepplin - First 4 albums
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Robert Johnson - Complete Box Set
Autechre - Incunabula
The Doors LA Woman
Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Sex Sugar Blood Magic
Soundgarden - Super Unknown
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Bjork - Post
Skyhooks - Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart - Bongo Fury
The Residents - Commercial Album
Rose Tattoo - Self Titled
Radio Birdmen - Radios Appear
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegtables
INXS - Kick
Derek and Clive - Come Again
Brian Eno, David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Jean Micheal Jarre - Oxygene
Delia Derbyshire - various BBC Radiophonic Workshop compilations
Howlin Wolf - The London Sessions

Couldnt condense it to less than these essentials - I would need to go to at least 100 to put all my faves in.

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:37 pm

Spikee wrote:This week I made a realization -- as I was driving in my car running some errands for my business, I'm listening to this album and each song that comes up is a new feeling, joy, sadness, awe... and I'm thinking about how great this album is and how it's got to be one of the greatest ever (IMHO) and it dawned on me -- in my own personal taste, this is the greatest album ever. And it knocked my long time favorite album off of its pedestal.

That album? Sea Change, by Beck. And I'm not even a Beck fan really... but that album is the quintessential work of art to me, it is perfect in every way. You can really feel the emotion in the songs, and you can appreciate the craftsmanship that went into the composition and the production.

So, what are your favorite albums of all time? Here's the rules -- up to 5 so the list doesn't get too dense, no "OHMIGOD that album sux!" or junk like that, let's just see what the Ableton community would want in their backpack if they were marooned on an island.

My other four:

Quique -- Seefeel
Second Toughest In The Infants -- Underworld
Dark Side Of The Moon -- Pink Floyd
Lost Souls -- Doves

tell you what Spikee

I'm infintely grateful to you for posting this

I'm pretty close to agreeing with you about Sea change

this is the best album i've heard in years

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:45 pm

I meant to add:
it's almost like he's taken all the things people have learned about music production since computers have come along - he used the samplers and stuff before and now he's turned around and done it with traditional instruments - including analog synths - this album is so organic, but very cleverly produced that it's a 21st century album, but it's also completely timeless

overdub · Post by **overdub** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:05 pm

Right now the list would look something like this - tomorrow it'd be different!

Yabby U: Jesus Dread
Pole: 2
Mark Hollis: Mark Hollis
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Black Uhuru: Black sounds of freedom

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:46 am

steely dan - aja
breeders - last splash
acetone - cindy

Spikee · Post by **Spikee** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:17 am

forge wrote:
Spikee wrote:This week I made a realization -- as I was driving in my car running some errands for my business, I'm listening to this album and each song that comes up is a new feeling, joy, sadness, awe... and I'm thinking about how great this album is and how it's got to be one of the greatest ever (IMHO) and it dawned on me -- in my own personal taste, this is the greatest album ever. And it knocked my long time favorite album off of its pedestal.

That album? Sea Change, by Beck. And I'm not even a Beck fan really... but that album is the quintessential work of art to me, it is perfect in every way. You can really feel the emotion in the songs, and you can appreciate the craftsmanship that went into the composition and the production.

So, what are your favorite albums of all time? Here's the rules -- up to 5 so the list doesn't get too dense, no "OHMIGOD that album sux!" or junk like that, let's just see what the Ableton community would want in their backpack if they were marooned on an island.

My other four:

Quique -- Seefeel
Second Toughest In The Infants -- Underworld
Dark Side Of The Moon -- Pink Floyd
Lost Souls -- Doves
tell you what Spikee

I'm infintely grateful to you for posting this

I'm pretty close to agreeing with you about Sea change

this is the best album i've heard in years

Dude that's completely awesome! I'm really glad I said something, as there's so much music out there that it's really easy to miss something. I don't know what it is about this album, it doesn't really break any new boundaries or anything but in simplistic terms its just perfectly written, perfectly produced and every song has a way of conjuring a strong emotion.

Better yet is now I have a laundry list of music to listen to, thanks to the offerings in this thread. Good times are ahead.

dm_hawk · Post by **dm_hawk** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:42 am

pop:
massive attack - mezzanine
depeche mode - violator
cocteau twins - four calendar cafe
bel canto - shimmering warm and bright
bjork - homogenic

classical:
mahler - des knaben wunderhorn w/ thomas hampson
strauss - elektra w/ hildegard behrens
tallis - spem in alium
pärt - litany
gavin bryars - incipit vita nova

these are not "desert island" albums... they are the ones i got the most enjoyment out of at the time i discovered them, or have overwhelming emotional associations with.

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:19 am

Spikee wrote:
forge wrote:
Spikee wrote:This week I made a realization -- as I was driving in my car running some errands for my business, I'm listening to this album and each song that comes up is a new feeling, joy, sadness, awe... and I'm thinking about how great this album is and how it's got to be one of the greatest ever (IMHO) and it dawned on me -- in my own personal taste, this is the greatest album ever. And it knocked my long time favorite album off of its pedestal.

That album? Sea Change, by Beck. And I'm not even a Beck fan really... but that album is the quintessential work of art to me, it is perfect in every way. You can really feel the emotion in the songs, and you can appreciate the craftsmanship that went into the composition and the production.

So, what are your favorite albums of all time? Here's the rules -- up to 5 so the list doesn't get too dense, no "OHMIGOD that album sux!" or junk like that, let's just see what the Ableton community would want in their backpack if they were marooned on an island.

My other four:

Quique -- Seefeel
Second Toughest In The Infants -- Underworld
Dark Side Of The Moon -- Pink Floyd
Lost Souls -- Doves
tell you what Spikee

I'm infintely grateful to you for posting this

I'm pretty close to agreeing with you about Sea change

this is the best album i've heard in years
Dude that's completely awesome! I'm really glad I said something, as there's so much music out there that it's really easy to miss something. I don't know what it is about this album, it doesn't really break any new boundaries or anything but in simplistic terms its just perfectly written, perfectly produced and every song has a way of conjuring a strong emotion.

Better yet is now I have a laundry list of music to listen to, thanks to the offerings in this thread. Good times are ahead.

yeah - well like I started saying above to add - it felt like as I was listening to it as if he had taken onboard all the extra technical knowledge using electronic music gear had given him over the years and applied it to songwriting - if you listen in headphones it does feel like everything is just perfectly placed, but with alot of electronic music the sounds might be perfectly placed, but that's all it has - but it's like beck in that album now has the maturity to just turn that knowledge to writing good songs - if that makes any sense

I'm finding after so many years of using this technology - it's almost like the club oriented stuff is the practice room - where you learn how to produce mix sounds together for maximum impact, but ultimately it will never have the same impact as a good song because there is that real element of the writers personality in there when they sing and write lyrics

it seems to happen to alot of the great electronic musos too - where they eventually come round to doing songs and less of the technicality for it's own sake

Maybe the music scene in 2006+ is about the musicians maturing and taking all the best things from the past and having the means and know how to make it really extra ordinary and transcendental - and this is why in many ways dance music is running out of steam - or maybe it just is for me

autoy · Post by **autoy** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:04 am

Some 5 random favorites in no particular order:

Oval: Ovalprocess
La Buena Vida: Soidemersol
Autechre: LP5
Basic Channel: Compiled
Ride: Going blank again

And because we're at the Abe's forum let me recommend some Monolake stuff which is also definitely among my favorites of all time: Gravity, Interstate and Hong Kong.

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:14 am

overdub wrote:Right now the list would look something like this - tomorrow it'd be different!

Mark Hollis: Mark Hollis

Add to that ....

The The - Infected

Talk Talk - Eden

Bowie/Eno - Low

The Cure - Pornography

Loyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

and you'd have a few more of my favourite albums

wewillturnoff · Post by **wewillturnoff** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:49 am

radiohead - kid a
aphex twin- drukqs
boards of canada - music has the rights to our children
mum- finally we are no-one
mogwai - young team

and any godspeed you black emperor album

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