The Best Album Ever.

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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

thought you were sent off!

what part of 5 didnt you understand!

(and BTW - I preferred Faith to pornography - I was a huge Cure fan as a teen - but WTF happened to them after disintegration????)

[DJ VAKIS]

Depeche Mode-Violator
Depeche Mode-Black Celebration
Bronski Beat-Age of
Soul ii Soul-Vol 1
Soul ii Soul-Vol 2
Soul ii Soul-Vol3
Guru JazzMatazz-StreetSoul
Simple Minds-Street Fighting Years
Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers

[DeadlyKungFu]

(and BTW - I preferred Faith to pornography - I was a huge Cure fan as a teen - but WTF happened to them after disintegration????)

+1
I heard 'Friday I'm in love' and it only made me more angstful. Fat Bob and the boys made some great albums up until then. I had Faith and Pornography copied onto the same tape, that was my morning tape for the bus ride into school.

"Dude, Disintegration is the best album EVER!"
Kyle - South Park

[kennerb]

hmm...

Ever?

That's a tough one. Here's a few of mine.

Stop Making Sense- Talking Heads

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Spearhead - Home

Bob Marley - Legend

Bad Brains - I against I

Smithsonian collection of American Jazz

De La Soul - Three Ft high and Rising

Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

NWA - Straight Outta Compton,

Prince - Purple Rain/1999 toss up for different reasons

Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome


there are a few hundred more but that's what fell out for now.

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(and BTW - I preferred Faith to pornography - I was a huge Cure fan as a teen - but WTF happened to them after disintegration????)

+1
I heard 'Friday I'm in love' and it only made me more angstful. Fat Bob and the boys made some great albums up until then. I had Faith and Pornography copied onto the same tape, that was my morning tape for the bus ride into school.

"Dude, Disintegration is the best album EVER!"
Kyle - South Park

ha ha - you really spin me out DKF - we keep having these synchronicity things!

for me it was after I got home from school and it was faith on one side and "curiosity" the live album on the other

I used to lie there like a miserable angst ridden teen thinking if I was to commit suicide it would be to "all cats are grey" with that slow mournful lead out bit at the end with that kind of slow but dramatic piano that just rings out..... "single note rings on and on and on....."

maybe what happened to him is the things causing all those dark emotions stopped when he got loads of money!

[glitchrock-buddha]

Just wanted to say that I'm addicted to BoC Campfire Headphase right now. Especially the song Peacock Tail. I can't stop playing that song. Too damn catchy.

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Just wanted to say that I'm addicted to BoC Campfire Headphase right now. Especially the song Peacock Tail. I can't stop playing that song. Too damn catchy.

I have been listening to that album every morning for months.

The Clash - London Calling

Hendrix Electric Ladyland

Radiohead - KID A

FUGAZI - 13 Songs

....changes all the time though...

[glitchrock-buddha]

Just wanted to say that I'm addicted to BoC Campfire Headphase right now. Especially the song Peacock Tail. I can't stop playing that song. Too damn catchy.

I have been listening to that album every morning for months.

The Clash - London Calling

Hendrix Electric Ladyland

Radiohead - KID A

FUGAZI - 13 Songs

....changes all the time though...

I can't say I have ever met or spoken with anyone who I could have even imagined telling me they had been listening to a Boards of Canada album for months, and then gone on to say that 13 songs was one of their favorite albums.

well done sir. Long live fugazi.

[DeadlyKungFu]

I used to lie there like a miserable angst ridden teen thinking if I was to commit suicide it would be to "all cats are grey" with that slow mournful lead out bit at the end with that kind of slow but dramatic piano that just rings out..... "single note rings on and on and on.....

For my friend and I back in 7th grade it was getting hit by a grey sports car while listening to music, either the cure or new order, some fast car, just had to be grey. Fat Bob was so fond of the number 100 back then in his song writing, 100 days, 100 hours, but only 6 Different Ways, but I digress.

My top 5 from back in the day (1987), I was 15.

The Cure - Kiss Me^3
New Order - Brotherhood
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses

Thompson Twins, ABC, Modern English, Ce Tu Javu, Camoflauge, Bollock Brothers, Joy Division, Bauhaus (etc.), PIL, Siouxise, A-Ha, The Fall, That Petrol Emotion, and so on, am I just an old fuck or was music that much better back in the day? 120 minutes every Sunday night at midnite on MTV with <what's his name, short black hair, British accent...?>

Lots of repeats on these lists, 80% of them I wholly agree with, the last 20% I haven't heard, yet. Crazy how music transcends space and time, the better side of humanity.

[queglay]

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
amon tobin - out from outwhere
massive attack - mezzanine
James holden - balance 005 (disc one especially)

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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.

one slight downer I have to add

I was most disappointed to realise "round the bend" is not actually a nick drake cover - because it sounds so much like it it has gone from being a really nice haunting cover versio to now being a bit of a rip off - still an great track, but it just sounds so much like - probably in particular "river man" and "when things are done" that it's hard to not see it as directly borrowed almost plagioristic

it' still a great album, just felt I should share that though

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt ... 9&s=143444

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now I think I'm going mad

I had "way to blue" by Nick drake and I just mentioned a track called "when things are done" and it's not on there! I was sure there was one and the track was part of what's most like this Beck song -

all I can think is there was a special Australian edition - I cant find it to check, unless it was called something else and just had that lyric in it

weird

[glu]

Does Mozart's requiem count?

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Does Mozart's requiem count?

Lacrimosa used to be the one for me!

yeah I used to consider that one of my all timers - I guess it's partly because it's set out like a modern album - 10 tracks of fairly radio friendly length

and the vibe could be radiohead!

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now I think I'm going mad

I had "way to blue" by Nick drake and I just mentioned a track called "when things are done" and it's not on there! I was sure there was one and the track was part of what's most like this Beck song -

all I can think is there was a special Australian edition - I cant find it to check, unless it was called something else and just had that lyric in it

weird

I've manageed to find the cover and now I am officially freaked - apparently I made up an imaginary track on that album that Beck tune has half ripped off - and I think I'm off to ring the men in white coats

it does sound alot like "river man" though too

and while I'm at it I have to put in a vote for that Nick drake compilation - that is definitely amongst the best of ever