Favourite Albums

[nick the stripper]

A thread like this has probably already been made, but I thought it’d be interesting anyways if everyone listed all of the albums that are their favourites, and or listened to a lot over time, and or liked as a whole.

The following is my list. Bands who I love loads of singular tracks from but no particular album shall not be mentioned on the list (examples include “Strawberry Switchblade�, James Ray, “Throbbing Gristle�, and Jackson Browne). The list shall be in alphabetical order:

• Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
• All of This and Nothing - The Psychedelic Furs
• Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
• Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
• Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Nick Cave
• Blur - Blur
• Bringing it All Back Home - Bob Dylan
• Clear - Cybotron
• Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
• Deep - Peter Murphy
• Definitely Maybe - Oasis
• Disintegration - The Cure
• Dog Man Star - Suede
• Faith - The Cure
• First and Last and Always - The Sisters of Mercy
• Floodland - The Sisters of Mercy
• Forty Licks - The Rolling Stones
• Funhouse - The Stooges
• GNR Lies - Guns N Roses
• Grace - Jeff Buckley
• Hurt Me - Johnny Thunders
• Innovator - Derrick May
• Insecticide - Nirvana
• In Utero - Nirvana
• Joshua Tree, The - U2
• Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry
• LA Woman - The Doors
• Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets
• Oil & Gold - Shriekback
• Paranoid - Black Sabbath
• Prayers on Fire - The Birthday Party
• Raw Power - The Stooges
• Rock n Roll Animal - Lou Reed
• Sky’s Gone Out - Bauhaus
• So Alone - Johnny Thunders
• Some Girls Wander by Mistake - The Sisters of Mercy
• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants - Oasis
• Station to Station - David Bowie
• Stay Together EP - Suede
• Strange Days - The Doors
• Suede - Suede
• Suicide - Suicide
• Tench - Shriekback
• The Doors - The Doors
• The Idiot - Iggy Pop
• The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry
• The Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
• Transformer - Lou Reed
• Twitch - Ministry
• Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
• Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground
• Vision Thing - The Sisters of Mercy
• What’s the Story (Morning Glory) - Oasis

[scotty]

D-Generation - LOUD
The Nephilim - Fields of the Nephilim
Futile Combat - Skeletal Family
Gathering Dust - Ghost Dance
First and Last and Always - The Sisters of Mercy
Thunder and Consolation - New Model Army
Heaven Up Here - Echo & the Bunnymen
Closer - Joy Division
Paint Your Wagon - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Good Deeds and Dirty Rags - Goodbye Mr MacKenzie
Machine gun Etiquette - The Damned
Love - The Cult
Te Real Thing - Faith No More
Through The Veil - Claytown Troupe
Diamonds are Forever - Salvation
Rum Sodomy and the Lash - The Pogues
All Mod Cons - The Jam
What Does Anything Mean, Basically? - The Chameleons
Gotham - Bauhaus
Trouble Gum - Therapy?
Ladies Night - Atomic Kitten!

[ryan]

The first things that come to mind as really being 'favourite albums'. everything else is just second best

The psychedelic furs - everything (apart from midnight to midnight)
The sisters of mercy - everything
The jesus and mary chain - psychocandy, darklands, honeys dead
Bob dylan - highway 51, bringing it all back home, john wesley harding
patti smith - horses

[Ozpat]

The Sisters Of Mercy - All the albums + all next ones...
Editors - The Back Room
Joy Division - Les Bains Douches
The Cure - Disintegration
Therapy? - Troublegum
Fields Of The Nephilim - The Nephilim
Ghost Dance - Stop The World
New Order - Best of...
Placebo - Once More Without Feelings
Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five
New Model Army - Raw Melody Men
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire

etc....

[mh]

Difficult to list off the top of me head, but here's a sample:

Byrds - Fifth Dimension
Christian Death - Catastrophe Ballet
Cranes - Wings of Joy
Crazyhead - Desert Orchid
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Einsturzende Neubauten - Haus der Luge
Front 242 - Official Version
Hair & Skin Tading Co. - Over Valence
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
House of Love - 1st
Killing Joke - Brighter than 1000 Suns
Levitation - Coterie
Loop - Fade Out
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Metallica - Master of Puppets
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
New Order - Technique
Nine Inch Nails - Quake Soundtrack
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather
Sisters - FALAA
Skinny Puppy - Cleanse, Fold & Manipulate
Spacemen 3 - Forged Prescriptions
Spectrum - Highs, Lows & Heavenly Blows
Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts
Theatre of Hate - Westworld
UK Decay - For Madmen Only
VDGG - Pawn Hearts

[kendall]

Hmmn too many to mention. Lets see what comes off the top of my head. 1....2....3.....go!

Sisters - Floodland
The The - Soul Mining/Naked Self
FOTN - Elysium/Mourning Sun
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Joy Division - Substance
Reef - Replenish
Metallica - and Justice for All
The Cult - Love
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Screaming Trees - Dust
The Cure - Disintegration
Janes Addiction - Nothings Shocking
Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison

[limur]

A Different Kind Of Tension - Buzzcocks
A Pagan Place - The Waterboys
A Slight Case Of Overbombing - The Sisters Of Mercy
A Weapon Called The Word - The Levellers
Automatic - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Barbed Wire Kisses - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Bi - Polar - Arial - X
Darklands - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Don't Be Happy... Just Worry - The Wildhearts
Doolittle - Pixies
Earth vs. - The Wildhearts
First And Last And Always - The Sisters Of Mercy
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Fishing For Luckies - The Wildhearts
Floodland - The Sisters Of Mercy
God's Own Medicine - The m*****n
Green Blade Rising - The Levellers
Hate Rock 'n' Roll - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Hello Pig - The Levellers
Honey's Dead - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Industrial Sound And Magic - Rev Hammer
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure
Levellers - The Levellers
Levelling The Land - The Levellers
Love - The Cult
Lowlife - New Order
Mouth To Mouth - The Levellers
Munki - The Jesus And Mary Chain
No Rest For The Wicked - New Model Army
Psychocandy - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Riff After Riff After Motherfucking Riff - The Wildhearts
Some Girls Wander By Mistake - The Sisters Of Mercy
Special Brew - The Levellers
Spitting Feathers - Rev Hammer
Stoned And Dethroned - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Substance - New Order
The Bishop Of Buffalo - Rev Hammer
The Ghost Of Cain - New Model Army
The Head On The Door - The Cure
The House Of Love - The House Of Love
The Nephilim - Fields Of The Nephilim
The Waterboys - The Waterboys
This Is The Sea - The Waterboys
Thunder And Consolation - New Model Army
Truth And Lies - The Levellers
Vision Thing - The Sisters Of Mercy
Winter Enclosure - Octavia (Sperati)

There are more, but not off the top of my head

[mh]

The House Of Love - The House Of Love

Ah, but which one?

[DerekR]

Top 3. Can't do any more than 3 cos they change so often, but these 3 NEVER do.

[limur]

The House Of Love - The House Of Love

Ah, but which one?

The Butterfly album;

[Planet Dave]

I agree with Derek, never far from the top5 are

Sisters - Vision Thing
REM - Monster
Stone Roses - Second Coming
Moby - Hotel
Metallica - Master Of Puppets

and bubbling just underneath would be

Green Day - American Idiot
Rammstein - Rosenrot / Mutter
System Of A Down - Toxicity
VNV Nation - Matter & Form
The Cult - Beyond Good & Evil / The Cult

then all the rest I've got.

[streamline]

in no particular order (based on times played and/or copies worn out )

Sisters - Floodland (and FALAA side 2)
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (and Fugazi)
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation
FOTN - The Nephilim

Phew! Just "bubbling underneath" (what a phrase, Dave! Such imagery!) would be The Levellers and I just couldn't take the flack!

And a late edited honorary mention must go to The The - Soul Mining

[limur]

...would be The Levellers and I just couldn't take the flack!

I have received no flak, but I'm looking forward to it...

[streamline]

...would be The Levellers and I just couldn't take the flack!

I have received no flak, but I'm looking forward to it...

It'll be here soon

[Purple Light]

No particular order & off the top of my head too...

Sisters - Everything
Bowie - Everything apart from the Tin Machine years
Nick Cave - Just about everything
Sepultura - Chaos AD/Roots
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell/Vulgar Display Of Power
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar/Mechanical Animals
The Gathering - If Then Else
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Rammstein - Mutter
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Electric Six - Fire
System Of A Down - Toxicity
Mortiis - The Smell Of Rain
Metallica - Black Album/Master Of Puppets
Beach Boys - Best Of
The Pogues - Best Of
Cradle Of Filth - Dusk & Her Embrace
Leeds United - Greatest Hits

Plus squillions more that I can't think of right now that I'll wonder how the hell I missed in about 30 seconds!

[James Blast]

just one







just one, for now

[Obviousman]

Lists without end, wahey

NEU! - NEU! and NEU! 2
DAF - Alles ist gut
Mauro Pawlowski & The Grooms - Black Europa
Nacht und Nebel - Live
Shriekback - Tench, Care, Jam Science, Oil and Gold, ...
Sonic Youth - Confusion is sex/Kill yr idols
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Lambchop - Is a woman
The Mars Volta - Frances the mute
TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP and Desperate youth, bloodthirsty babes
Eddie Gale - Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music
Can - Ege Bamyasi
James Ray - most of his work
Sisters - most of their work
Faust - Faust IV
Suicide - First Album
Nick Cave - From her to eternity
Genesis - All of the Peter Gabriel years, I think
Van der Graaf - Godbluff, Pawn Hearts, H to He who am the only one
Hawkwind - Liked all the albums I received up to now
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Bauhaus - In the flat field
Fad Gadget - Under the flag
Madrugada - Industrial silence
Sleep - Jerusalem
The Kills - Keep on your mean side
King Crimson - Larks' tongues in aspic
Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
Père Ubu - Modern Dance
Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa til du dør
Millionaire - Outside the Simian Flock
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra, Rubicon, Ricochet...
Black Uhuru - Red
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Chameleons - Script of the bridge
The Sexual life of the savages (Brazil post-punk compilation, the other - Não Wave - is very nice as well!)
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
PJ Harvey - To bring you my love
José Gonzalez - Veneer
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui UXO

Must be able to think of more though

[wild bill buttock]

[Nic]

New and old in no particular order:

The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Paint Your Wagon
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
The Cure - Disintegration
Joy Division - Closer
New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation
Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Stiff Little Fingers - Go for It
The Clash - London Calling
The Lords of the New Church - The Lords of the New Church
Gun Club - Mother Juno
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Front 242 - Official Version
Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Editors - The Back Room
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Woven Hand - Woven Hand
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Therapy? - Trouble Gum
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Killing Joke - Fire Dances

And much much more...

[Mr. Wah]

Sisters - Everything. Well, apart from those travesties mentioned in the Worst Songs thread.
Front 242 - Official Version, Tyranny For You, Up Evil, Off.
FLA - TNI, Hard Wired.
Skinny Puppy - 12" Anthology.
Covenant - Sequencer, United States Of Mind.
Ministry - Land Of Rape And Honey.
NIN - The Downward Spiral.
AC/DC - Highway To Hell, Who Made Who.
Deep Purple - Anything with Ritchie Blackmore on guitar.
Faye Wong - Fable, Di-Dar, Random Thinking.
Laibach - Anything that makes me laugh.
Rammstein - Mutter, Rosenrot.
KMFDM - Angst, Nihil.
Joy Division - Closer, Les Bains Douches.
Steril - Egoism (very funny, for all the wrong reasons, and worth it alone for the Phantom / Floorshow rip-off.)
Portishead - Dummy.
VNV Nation - Praise The Fallen.

There's a lot more, but I didn't sleep last night, and I may have drunk too much...

[markfiend]

A random 23 (fnord) picked out of what's on my iPod (hence alphabetic order)

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Bowie; David - Ziggy Stardust
Bush; Kate - Hounds Of Love
Cave; Nick; and the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
Depeche Mode - Black Celebratio
Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus Der Lüge
Fields Of The Nephilim - The Nephilim
Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Hicks; Bill - Rant In E Minor
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division - Closer
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Sisterhood; The - Gift
Sisters Of Mercy; The - Floodland
Smiths; The - The Smiths
Stooges; Iggy and the - Raw Power
Swans - The Great Annihilator
Tool - Lateralus
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

[Norman Hunter]

Top Five;

· First And Last And Always.
· The Joshua Tree.
· Violator.
· Ray Of Light.
· Children.

…also-rans on the Decks Of Death at Hunter Towers are;

· Floodland.
· The Unforgettable Fire.
· The Stone Roses.
· God’s Own Medicine.
· Led Zeppelin IV.

…non-runners;

· Anything by Oasis.
· Anything by Travis.
· Anything by Meatloaf.
· Anything by The Band Of The Month on Radio One.
· Anything by Avril – cheer up, for f*ck’s sake.

[Norman Hunter]

Top Five;

· First And Last And Always.
· The Joshua Tree.
· Violator.
· Ray Of Light.
· Children.

…also-rans on the Decks Of Death at Hunter Towers are;

· Floodland.
· The Unforgettable Fire.
· The Stone Roses.
· God’s Own Medicine.
· Led Zeppelin IV.

…non-runners;

· Anything by Oasis.
· Anything by Travis.
· Anything by Meatloaf.
· Anything by The Band Of The Month on Radio One.
· Anything by Avril – cheer up, for f*ck’s sake.

[Norman Hunter]

...Just in case you didn't get it the first time

[sarah_orange]

ooo. I'm not going to do to many but here are some in no particular order:

ju ju/a kiss in the dreamhouse - siouxsie and the banshees
kiss me kiss me kiss me - the cure
rio - duran duran (this is in fact my favorite album of all time and as such I should be endlessly mocked and ostracised from this place)
violator - depeche mode - it would have been songs of faith and devotion hands down but the piece of gospel s**t, condemnation, ruins the album for me (although it does contain my favorite song ever - in your room)
Yanqui U.X.O - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
lateralus - tool
black sabbath - black sabbath

oo that list is leaning a bit brummiewards - perhaps I should have put some UB40 on there