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Guest NatashaJade

There are a lot of threads about songs for this and that (i.e. your favorite song to week to while eating a pint of Ben and Jerry's, etc.). But we rarely address whole albums anymore. I remember back before Ipods, I would put a CD in my stereo, put my headphones on and listen to an album all the way through. Find those little gem songs that the artists put in, but never get any radio play. Sometimes the album is conceptual and each song adds to a greater work of art. The fact is, that with randomizers, play lists and buying songs one song at a time, we miss the whole work, which is often greater than the sum of its parts.

So I thought I'd bring up my favorite albums, decade by decade since just before I was born (missed the 60's by a few months) and maybe those whole album lovin' folks who still remember buying a vinyl LP and flipping it halfway through will join in...

These are albums I listen to all the way through when I listen to them and I keep coming back to them time and again.

60's: Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles

70's: Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

80's: Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello

90's: The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips

00's: Kid A - Radiohead

10's: I'm still trying to find that one record this year that wants to be heard over and again...

luv

Gin

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Anything by Lady Gaga, my voice range is close to hers and i can sing along, it is helping make my voice sound more feminine.

Other than that just about any music by any artist.

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When I'm in the mood, I tend to listen to 'The Very Best of Meatloaf' mostly because I really like Jim Steinman's songs. I also have Glenn Miller 'Pure Gold' from the 40's, which I also like a lot.

The music industry really shot itself in the foot with how they ran albums into the ground. I bought my daughter one of the first mp3 players back in the 90's because she is really into music and would complain about how most albums had maybe one or two good songs and the rest were junk. She loved being able to put together 32 of her favorite songs in that early attempt.

I look at my vinyls and sigh because I'll probably convert them into mp3, lift the songs I care to hear again and again and just digitally store the rest and see if any of the albums have any value. I'm not really a record-o-phile that I think the hisses and scratches are things of beauty.

Tho, I will give credit to the Beach Boys and the Beatles for helping drive the idea of concept albums, the one redeeming factor.

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Chloë

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No single favorite, but a few. . .

Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd.

Aenima, Tool

The Human Equation, Aeryon

Supremacy, Hatebreed

Fear Of A Blank Planet, Porcupine Tree

Crash Of '47, Atomship

Survival Story, Flobots

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Gosh, so hard to choose. I'm going to date myself here, but my early years will always be my favorite.

White Album - Beatles

Don Quixote - Gordon Lightfoot

On the Threshold of a Dream - Moody Blues

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel

Hot August Night - Neil Diamond

Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Judy Collins

The Stranger - Billy Joel

Carolyn Marie

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Guest Elizabeth K

Usually on my 5 disk player or in the car:

Enya - all of them (sorry guys) - Also Celtic Women (the PBS show)

Smielson in the Night - and his songs in Sleepless in Seattle

Paul Simon - Graceland or any early Simon and Garfunkle

Sade - Soldier of Love, Greatest Hits

Beatles - Sgt Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, White Albumn, and Abby Road - or Paul McCarney, RAM

Others?

Taylor Swift (I know I know)

Willie Nelson - Redheaded Stranger

Queen!

Peter Paul and Mommy albumn

Fragile - YES

Blood Sweat and Tears - or Chicago - about all of these albumns

CCR

Bee Gees - Live (double album)

Patsy Cline - Luann Rhimes (so similar in style)

Trio (Linda Rhonstat, Emily Lou Harris, Dolly Parton)

Muppets Broadway Hits

Find Your Female Voice

NOT FOUND

Lou Rawls

Barry White

MacArther Park by Richard Harris

I Did it My Way! That 40's guy...

Sonny and Cher (ugh)

Fifth Dimension (overplayed0

Rolling Stones

Greatest Hits of (whatever) - dumb idea

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Guest chngnwnd

Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa (actually saw him perform this as my first concert experience ever - WHEN I WAS 12!!!!! lol)

Metal Circus - Husker Du

Beezlebubba - Dead Milkmen

Group Sex - Circle Jerks

The Decline of Western Civilization - various artists

I Against I - Bad Brains

7th Son of a 7th Son - Iron Maiden

Uprising - Bob Marley

It is hard to choose just one!

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Bobbi

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Guest NatalieM
7th Son of a 7th Son - Iron Maiden

Highly underrated album.

Heaven and Hell: Black Sabbath

Holy Diver: Dio

All Disturbed albums except Believe (not sure on Asylum yet, haven't heard any of it)

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Iron Butterfly

Powerslave, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son: Iron Maiden

Painkiller: Judas Priest

Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, Metallica: Metallica

Mutter, Reise Reise, Sehnsucht: Rammstein

2112: Rush

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Well.. im proud to say im one of the few "mtv generation" or whatever they call my generation anymore lol, that still buy albums. I gotta agree with ya Gin, i feel like if you dont buy the album, you're missin the good stuff that may never see the light of radio play and you're just not gettin the full effect of the music if ya download one song at a time. shoot, the album might have 5 songs that never get radio play, that are wayyyy better than the singles that are released off of it. I got a few cd's i like i keep in my CD player

Justin Moore- "Justin Moore" (self-titled)

Lynyrd Skynyrd- "All Time Greatest Hits"

Garth Brooks- "In Pieces"

Garth Brooks- "Ropin' The Wind"

George Strait- "50 Number Ones" (George is my all time favorite)

Rascal Flatts- "Feels Like Today"

Luke Bryan- "Doin' My Thing"

....and most of Brooks & Dunn. lol.

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In my dark younger years it was Metallica's black album. Now I listen to Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts. I also listen to a couple on Enya's CD's all the way through.

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Guest NatashaJade

2112: Rush

Being from up north, this seems a natural for your list. Amazing album. My favorite part of seeing Rush live was Neil Peart's drum solo during 2112. Geddy and Alex walked off stage to get some lemonade :D

luv

Gin

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Guest Melisiris

Sopor Aeternus- Songs from the inverted womb, Dead lover's Sarabande I & II

Joy Division- Closer

Christian Death- Catastrophe Ballet

Tool - Aenima

Depeche Mode- Violator

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Oh man, I can't pick. I've got such a huge list...

Right now it's a tossup between "The Final Cut" and "The Divison Bell" by Pink Floyd.

I can't stop listening to "Wearing The Inside Out" lately.

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I recently did a list on another site, it was something like this;

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

2. OK Computer - Radiohead

3. Mezzanine - Massive Attack

4. Vespertine - Bjork

5. Listen without Prejudice - George Michael

6. The Moon & Antarctica - Modest Mouse

7. Confield - Autechre

8. The Queen is Dead - The Smiths

9. Debut - Bjork

10. Meddle - Pink Floyd

HM: Leviathan - Mastodon, Abbey Road - The Beatles, Aenima - Tool, Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd, Achtung Baby - U2, Blue Lines - Massive Attack, Loveless - My Bloody Valentine, Nowhere - Ride, Amnesiac - Radiohead, Older - George MichaelFrom this year, my favourite album's thus far have been Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma, Nas & Damian Marley's Distant Relatives and Massive Attack's Heligoland.

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Oh man, I can't pick. I've got such a huge list...

Right now it's a tossup between "The Final Cut" and "The Divison Bell" by Pink Floyd.

I can't stop listening to "Wearing The Inside Out" lately.

Funny thing...The Final Cut is a Roger Waters album performed by Pink Floyd and Division Bell is Pink Floyd in name only...both excellent albums though.

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A very close call between "You are There" by Mono or "Palmless Prayer, Mass Murder Refrain" by Mono / World's End Girlfriend.

Basically, I'm a sucker for everyhing Mono have done.

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well I have alot of albums that I like.

Dear Agony - Breaking Benjamin

Faceless - Godsmack

Unplugged in New York - Nirvana

Hybrid Theory/Reanimated - Linkin Park

Indestructible - Disturbed

Follow the Leader/Life is Peachy/Issues - KoRn

October Rust - Type O Negative (RIP Peter Steele)

All Hope is Gone - Slipknot (RIP Paul Grey)

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