Am I strange for not really liking Albums? I alwas like 1-2 songs from an Album but it's rare that I ever like every single song on one album.
Stone Temple Pilots: Core (reminds me of HS) Eels: Blinking Lights and Other Revelations Ice Cube: Lethal Injection The National: The National Bad Religion: All Ages Fugazi: 13 Songs
I don't want to sound like a hipster, but this is going to come out very hipster. I think many music purists listen to entire albums - I don't think the average music fan does. Even to this day, I don't use shuffle on my phone or PC - I download and listen to entire albums. I do setup playlists of my favorite tracks, but the vast majority of the time I'm listening to entire albums. If I like a song from an artist, I download their entire album and give it a listen so I can hear how they intended it to be. If I like the album, I keep it - if I don't, I delete it. I have Xbox Music pass so I can download any album at any time for just $8.25 a month... God I wish I had it 20 years ago, because I bought a lot of albums I only listened to once and never again. All new must-have albums I buy on Vinyl as well. This just may be the most pretentious post I'll ever write.
did you seriously make this list and leave off Megadeth's Rust In Peace? Boo. And what about Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime (although I might argue Rage for Order is their best album)? I absolutely agree on the greatness that is Piece of Mind. The opening of Where Eagles Dare is so much win.
I'll just stick to the newer stuff (post 2000) Albert Hammond Jr: Yours to Keep Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Cake: Pressure Chief Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand Metric: Live it Out Miike Snow: Miike Snow Passion Pit: Gossamer Phoenix: Alphabetical RCHP: Stadium Arcadium Star****er: Star****er The Strokes: Is This It Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend The White Stripes: Elephant Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones
Nice choices, missing Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden and Overkill by Motorhead! My opinion of course haha
Thanks. :grin: I have em both and agree they're top album list worthy. I also realized I left off Aenima and In the Court of the Crimson King.
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Haven't listened to much Megadeth, I tried listening to Killing is my Business and Business is good and Peace Sells, but couldn't really get into them. I'll give them and Rust a better go in the future, there's lots of albums that are on my hit list like Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers/Exile, the Yes album and a couple others. And I totally forgot about a couple of albums that I have sort of hidden on my iPod: Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman (I put them under Black Sabbath because it's ****ing Ozzy) and Rainbows's Rising which I put under Dio.
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Caravan - For Girls who go Plump in the Night Khan - Space Shanty Rush - Permanent Waves King Crimson - Red & Starless and Bible Black Utopia - Another Live Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Alice in Chains - Facelift Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff XTC - Drums and Wires Genesis - Foxtrot
Nah, not pretentious. You're just doing what I did for most of my life, going back to the early 1960's. By 1966, I was buying 2 or 3 records every week and went to clubs and concerts every weekend. It was cheap. It was cheap back then even when the dollar was worth a heck of a lot more. LPs were $3.99 and $4.99. Getting into a club to listen to live music? $1.50 to $3.00. Getting into the Music Hall or that awful place, the Coliseum? $2.50 to $5.00. I remember when the top ticket price went up to $6 bucks. There were demonstrations in front of the Music Hall. I went to one with a chick when Spirit was playing there, and realized that if we were lucky, and one of the glass doors were unlocked, the staff was so distracted by the crowd of sign waving, chanting protesters (and we were two of them) that we might be able to sneak in. I grabbed the girl's arm (she's saying, "What the hell are you doing??"), tried a likely looking door, and we waltzed right in. We walked up to the center aisle, and a female usher asked us for our tickets. When I told her we'd forgotten them, she grinned and escorted us to two empty seats, third row center. What a great night! I've told that story before, and I still laugh when I think about it.
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power Metallica - Master of Puppets Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Down - NOLA Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Black Sabbath - Paranoid Metallica - And Justice For All Dr Dre - The Chronic Street Military - Dont Give A Damn Hank lll - Straight To Hell Hanks Williams - The Very Best Of Hank Williams
I'm not nearly old enough to remember the Coliseum whenever the biggest bands still played there, what made it so awful though?
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We've done this a million times, and I could list a 100-way-tie for my all time favorite album like everyone else, but it's so much more fun and interesting to list just ONE. So, here you go. Probably no surprise to those who know me here...... Spoiler
Listing albums that I prefer to listen to in their entirety. Only choosing one album from each band when I could list multiples. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Atoms for Peace - Amok The Avalanches - Since I Left You Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Black Keys - El Camino Cake - Fashion Nugget Daft Punk - Discovery DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... Dr. Dre - 2001 Dredg - Leitmotif Eminem - Slim Shady LP Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City Led Zeppelin - IV Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium Metallica - ...And Justice For All Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News Nas - Illmatic Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is an Animal Outkast - Stankonia Poison the Well - The Opposite of December... A Season of Separation Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork Radiohead - OK Computer Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Scarface - The Diary Sublime - Sublime Tool - Lateralus Tupac - All Eyez on Me UGK - Underground Kingz Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty but that covers a lot of it.
