Not really albums in the modern sense of the
term but collections of the artists songs....but ya can't go past....ESSENTIAL

The Sun Sessions - Elvis Presely
King Of The Delta Blues Singers - Robert Johnson.......



ROCKMAN

JuanTCB Wrote:
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> Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols


Oh yeah, Mr. Juan.

That or "The Stooges" or Hank's 40 Greatest.

man, almost impossible to pick one since my tastes range so wide
for now i'm going to say

Duran Duran - Rio

other times i'd say

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

then again i love

Iron Madien - Live After Death

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars by David Bowie. A timepiece that flows from beginning to end. Pure genius.

Crowded House - Woodface, probably the best collection of pop music ever written.

NickB

You can't always get what you want.....

www.myspace.com/thesonkings

My few favorites in no particular order:

Humble Pie - "Rockin The Fillmore"
Peter Frampton - "Frampton Comes Alive"
The Doors - "LA Woman"
Jimi Hendrix - "Live At Woodstock"
Yes - "Yessongs"

A couple of my favorites;

-The Who By Numbers
-Give The People What They Want (The Kinks)

The Sicilian Wrote:
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> My few favorites in no particular order:
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> Humble Pie - "Rockin The Fillmore"
> Peter Frampton - "Frampton Comes Alive"
> The Doors - "LA Woman"
> Jimi Hendrix - "Live At Woodstock"
> Yes - "Yessongs"


Not bad choices, any of 'em Sicilian.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

a few...

ELVIS country
ELVIS "One Night In Vegas"
ELVIS "if you talk in your sleep\Paradise road"
George Benson "the best of"
John Holt "1000 volts of holt"
Simply Red "the very best of"

and last but not least....

Take That "Beautifull world"

im logging off now to avoid the hecklers..lol
Dog

dylan- love and theft
allman brothers-live at the fillmore
derek and the dominos-live at the fillmore
grateful dead-working man's dead

'Another Side Of Bob Dylan'

Shake Your Money Maker - Black Crowes
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Family Jewels - AC/DC

Tough question - can't think of an absolute.

Contenders would be:

Bowie: Diamond Dogs
Beatles: Abbey Road
Oasis: Morning Glory

Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde

my favourite album even with the rolling stones included^^

BluzDude Wrote:
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> I could listen to Tangled Up in Blue and L,R,& the
> Jack of Hearts over and over again

I do

Some good albums in there ,but I think the multiple choice was covered on the thread Essential albums a couple of weeks back,I was more interested in finding out if people had am album that they played more than any other, usually without even realizing .
I must admit it was a tough choice to leave out some albums like
Ryan Adams Gold
Black Crows Shake Your Moneymaker
Faces A Nods As Good As A Wink

But Blonde on Blonde is by far the album that gets most played and never dissapoints
I love Blood on the Tracks , Highway 61 ,Desire and Modern times a lot too.
I was once stuck in traffic for 3 hours ,and while everybody was getting irritable I had Blonde on Blonbe in my car and I just let it play over and over while we waited,bliss.
Unfortunately the car I have now has an energy saving program so it switches off the cd player after 20 minutes ,so I have to turn the engine back on for a few more minutes .
Now that would be a real test of an album if I ever got stuck again

It's nice to see a lot of classic albums mentioned in this thread. Most people are mentioning albums that have been around awhile, and they're all gems. It was a pleasure to see someone mention Elvis Costello --now there's an artist whose body of work knocks me out.

I don't think anyone has mentioned Stevie Wonder yet. His stretch of albums from Music of My Mind ('71, I think) to Songs in the Key of Life ('76) blows me away. And the fresh tracks he tacked on to the Original Musiquarium compilation make for a convenient package to enjoy some of Stevie's best.

Not many people are mentioning younger bands. There are a lot of great musicians out there cranking out albums and delivering killer performances.

To that list, I would mention Wilco, Arcade Fire, White Stripes (although I still have not seen White Stripes live). A little further off the beaten path, you find bands like the Dears and Of Montreal. One band that had a lot of potential but then imploded was Beta Band (their Three EPs collection is brilliant).

And I don't know if anyone on this board has ever mentioned one of my current favorite bands: Belle and Sebastian. Their most recent album, The Life Pursuit, blew me away.

There's so much great music out there.



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Jason & the Scorchers - Lost and Found

Rickie Lee Jones (self-titled)
Blood On the Track - Bob Dylan
Durango - Bob Dylan
Sleepless - Peter Wolf
Kind of Blue -Miles Davis
The Harder They Come Soundtrack
Rant - Ian Hunter
Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
Muddy Waters Live

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

The Beatles - White Album

The Who - Who's Next

From Elvis in Memphis.

The Sicilian Wrote:
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> Yes - "Yessongs"

i know alot (ok, most) people can't get around anderson's high voice, but to me this is some of the most stunningly original music ever recorded and most of it puts the studio versions to shame. siberian khatru, close to the edge, heart of the sunrise, etc. Howe is on fire; classical guitar, lap steel, acoustic, 12-string, electric semi-hollowbody, slide, coral sitar guitar....all while singing harmonies and playing odd-meter stuff that's all over the map. though there's none of the crunchy RAWK guitar i love (zep, stones, who, ac/dc, cooper...), this has to be regarded as one of the pinnacles of live guitar playing ever recorded. i recently got the remastered version on 2 cds, well worth the $ if you've never heard it or want to re-acquaint with it.

"40 blue fingers freshly packed and ready to serve"

Dylan - Blood on the tracks
Springsteen - Born to Run
Kink - One for the road
Who - Who's next

Blood On The Tracks



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Nashvile skyline

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Highway 61 Revisited....I like Johnny Winter's version, In fact I saw him do it a couple weeks ago

i've been thinkin about this for a while, here are a few in no particular order, but i'm sure i'm forgetting something ...

Kinks - Everybody's in Showbiz
Cracker - Kerosene Hat
Cracker - Cracker
Who - Who's Next


I've never heard a whole album by Wilco yet, but I heard "Handshake Drugs" recently and I tend to play it over and over in an endless loop



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Blood on the tracks
Street Legal
Heaven tonight by Cheap Trick
Never mind the Bollocks
Damned Machine Gun Etiqeutte