Pretty simple topic.....whats your favorite album?
Mine is "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica. Everything about it just seems perfect to me. Badass songs like "Ride the Lightning", "Trapped Under Ice", "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "Creeping Death".......a kickass instrumental in "The Call of Ktulu"......and "Fade to Black" is intercourse ing beautiful sounding. The only low points are "Escape" and "Fight Fire With Fire".....but even those are pretty good imo.
That's a tougher question than I thought...
I love Confessions on a Dance Floor by Madonna and Blackout by Britney Spears, just because I love every song on the albums and they are really good workout songs. Lady GaGa's The Fame is pretty good too, just because it's so different.
Probably Confessions on a Dance Floor, because "Future Lovers" and "Hung Up" are just so gosh darn awesome.
Hm...
I don't usually buy albums because I pick and choose my favorite songs.
However, Ill Communication is pretty bad ass.
That and Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi.
Amazing Album.
Either "A Rush of Blood to the Head" by Coldplay or "Discovery" by Daft Punk. That is, if we're not counting soundtracks or cast recordings... if so, then I may have to rethink this a little bit.
Easy for me.
TNT by AC/DC
Spectacular tracks on it. I'm also talking the Aussie release. And not the remastered.
Quote from: HTA on June 06, 2009, 07:17:04 PM
Hm...
I don't usually buy albums because I pick and choose my favorite songs.
That's what I usually do too, it's kinda rare for me to like EVERY track on an album.
Morningrise by Opeth
Nothing bad about this album, at all.
It was a close tie between five different albums but one came out on top... I shall list the five.
1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" ~ The Beatles (No explanation needed, and if you feel there needs to be, you haven't heard the album)
2. "Help!" ~ The Beatles (Great tracks, there wasn't a single track I didn't like)
3. "Beatles For Sale" ~ The Beatles (Great tracks as well, but some lack compared to most)
4. "A Hard Day's Night" ~ The Beatles ( ^_^ )
5. "Revolver" ~ The Beatles (<3)
Surprisingly, my favorite album is NOT electronic. Yeah.
"Frances the Mute" by The Mars Volta.
This album is exactly what an album should be: a continuous trip for almost 80 minutes with clearly different songs but a flow that should feel like the whole thing is a larger song. FtM does that: it tells a story, using near-ambience for between-tracks and is not afraid to step outside the normal boundaries of what an album should be. Five tracks, 76 minutes. And if you include the actual song "Frances the Mute", it's six tracks and 95 minutes. Pretty much a movie by itself. That's what FtM is: an audio equivalent to a really, really, really awesome movie. it just transports you into this convoluted world of Frances and L'Via and Cygnus and Miranda...the rise and fall of each...etc...overall, definitely the best TMV album by far and the best album I've heard, which is the point of this thread.
Dangerous - Michael Jackson
Forever the best album ever. "Who Is It" is the best song ever written. "Dangerous" is a kick ass song and the spoken word parts are brilliant. "She Drives Me Wild"...How can you not lone a song whose instrumentation is all sounds from a car? Every song rocks for some reason. Michael and Teddy did a badass job on this. There's a reason it sold faster than Thriller in the beginning.
Other badass albums:
HIStory - Michael Jackson
Invincible - Michael Jackson
Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson
Discipline - Janet Jackson
I'm rather loving Just Go from Lionel Richie lately...
Chuck - Sum 41
Albums speaks to me.
It's hard to pick just one favorite album. So it's kinda a tie between these:
OK Computer - Radiohead
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
Absolution - Muse
De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Everything Goes Numb by Streetlight Manifesto, or Keasbey Nights by Catch 22. Essentially the same bands but the former is the more evolved version.
Pretty much any fan agrees they're completely filler-less and generally kickass. These albums were and still are my life, and have been for several years.
Runners-Up include Rise or Die Trying by Four Year Strong, and any of Fall Out Boy's first 4 albums for essentially the same reasons as above.
In Silico by Pendulum
or
21st Century Breakdown by Green Day (I know, I know.)
Quote from: Tsumaru on June 15, 2009, 10:31:51 PM
In Silico by Pendulum
Agh, I still have to listen to that, thanks for reminding me >_<
Quote from: George Carlin on June 08, 2009, 11:43:21 AM
It was a close tie between five different albums but one came out on top... I shall list the five.
1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" ~ The Beatles (No explanation needed, and if you feel there needs to be, you haven't heard the album)
2. "Help!" ~ The Beatles (Great tracks, there wasn't a single track I didn't like)
3. "Beatles For Sale" ~ The Beatles (Great tracks as well, but some lack compared to most)
4. "A Hard Day's Night" ~ The Beatles ( ^_^ )
5. "Revolver" ~ The Beatles (<3)
Revolver is the beezkneez
Quote from: Zovistograt on June 09, 2009, 01:24:00 PM
Surprisingly, my favorite album is NOT electronic. Yeah.
"Frances the Mute" by The Mars Volta.
This album is exactly what an album should be: a continuous trip for almost 80 minutes with clearly different songs but a flow that should feel like the whole thing is a larger song. FtM does that: it tells a story, using near-ambience for between-tracks and is not afraid to step outside the normal boundaries of what an album should be. Five tracks, 76 minutes. And if you include the actual song "Frances the Mute", it's six tracks and 95 minutes. Pretty much a movie by itself. That's what FtM is: an audio equivalent to a really, really, really awesome movie. it just transports you into this convoluted world of Frances and L'Via and Cygnus and Miranda...the rise and fall of each...etc...overall, definitely the best TMV album by far and the best album I've heard, which is the point of this thread.
Great album, and I haven't really listened to much electric music, but you should try
Organic Waveforms by Probspot. Basically the first Trance album I ever listened to. And the only, listened to it a few days ago :D Still awesome.
Quote from: Silly_Penguin on June 15, 2009, 01:12:01 PM
It's hard to pick just one favorite album. So it's kinda a tie between these:
OK Computer - Radiohead
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
Absolution - Muse
De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
My favorite Muse album as of now is H.A.A.R.P. (lol live album) OK Computer is freaking brain magic though.
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As for me, I don't think I could pick a favorite album, so I'll list a few I like a lot.
In The Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Revolver - The Beatles
OK Computer - Radiohead
The Alchemy Index - Thrice (didn't care much for water, but still decent)
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
A Piece of Strange - CunninLynguists
(random Red Hot Chili Pepper album) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
H.A.A.R.P. - Muse
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
And probably a few others.
Quote from: Tsumaru on June 15, 2009, 10:31:51 PM
21st Century Breakdown by Green Day (I know, I know.)
I don't blame you...It's a really amazing album. Probably the best I've heard this year.
Quote from: Ron on June 17, 2009, 08:48:46 PM
I don't blame you...It's a really amazing album. Probably the best I've heard this year.
... <_< Well, I guess you could call it more back to "their roots" rather than a punk-styling like
American Idiot.
I can't pick honestly...
It's either Demon Days, Fear of a Blank Planet, or Wish You Were Here. D:
Quote from: Sync on June 18, 2009, 01:10:13 AM
I can't pick honestly...
It's either Demon Days, Fear of a Blank Planet, or Wish You Were Here. D:
Never listened to the third one, but you have great tastes in music.
Quote from: Indigo on June 18, 2009, 06:47:40 PM
Never listened to the third one, but you have great tastes in music.
you've never heard of "Wish You Were Here"????
Pink Floyd!!
Quote from: Echo on June 18, 2009, 09:10:30 PM
you've never heard of "Wish You Were Here"????
Pink Floyd!!
Thought I've heard of it before :P But I've only listened to Dark Side of the Moon <.<
Quote from: Indigo on June 18, 2009, 10:29:21 PM
Thought I've heard of it before :P But I've only listened to Dark Side of the Moon <.<
Dark Side of the Moon is great, but it comes nowhere near Animals and Wish You Were Here.
I recommend you give both a listen.
Probably White Album - Beatles.
Or 2112 - Rush
Or Moving Pictures - Rush
Or Yessongs - Yes
The Black Mages. Crazy arrangements on that album. Not really a band in the traditional sense, but meh.
Quote from: Indigo on June 17, 2009, 11:16:45 PM
... <_< Well, I guess you could call it more back to "their roots" rather than a punk-styling like American Idiot.
How could you think it's back to their roots?
I saw it as more as a sequel to American Idiot. In fact that's what almost every review i've read on it has said.