My Essential Albums

Just thinking about some of the albums I can't live without and thought I would share. I'm kinda pressed for time at the moment, so I'll start small here and maybe come back and revise this list later.

All the links go to a youtube video of a song from that album.


Soundgarden: - Louder Than Love (Circa: 1990)
Amazing album.  17 years later and this album is still a staple of my collection. Sharp, heavy rythms, melodic tones and Chris Cornells superb range combine to create an unbelievable texture of sound.

Descendents: I Don't Want to Grow Up (Circa: 1985)
Catchy poppy riffs, high energy and great song-writting. a fun album to listen to, and probably the first pop-punk band.

Juliana Hatfield: Become What You Are (Circa: 1993)
What can I say, she's so versatile and talented. Music you can actually 'feel'. A must have, go get it.

Ion Todirel wrote:

this week?

    Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
    Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
    Clint Mansell - Requiem for A Dream

Yeah, I'm the same way, my listening habits fluctuate weekly.

The albums I mentioned are ones that have withstood my test of time.

Mike oldfield: songs of a distant earth
Frank black: black letter days
Pink floyd: the division bell
Pixies: tromp le monde
the shins: whincing the night away
andrew w k: the wolf

Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
The Cure - Bloodflowers / Disintegration
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral / Pretty Hate Machine
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here / A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

That's all for this week.  We'll see what next week brings.

3-somes:

- abbey road / sgt pepper / wht album
- dark side of moon / wish you were here / animals
- never mind the bollocks / london calling / black sea
- fats domino, elvis, johnny cash (greatest hits)
- devo new traditionalists / kraftwerk - man machine / talking heads - remain in light
- Klaatu EST / hope / sir army suit
- de la soul  / 3 ft high / is dead / ballon mind state

...i think i could get by one those...

oh wait:

- van halen ST / rush all the worlds a stage / kiss alive
- some girls / scarry monsters / KC - Discipline

CompGuy101 wrote:

Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Chiodos - All's Well That Ends Well
Chiodos - Bone Palace Balet
Moby - Play

My favorite albums right now.

so ... on a desert island - "essential" - those are your picks?

David Bowie / Station to Station
Neutral Milk Hotel / In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
Afghan Whigs / Gentlemen
Tom Waits / Heart of Saturday Night

There are more, of course. And the Bowie changes from time to time, though Bowie always remains. I can throw in a King Crimson or Jethro Tull, maybe put in the Hair OST and Revolver, but these are a good choice.

Eminem - Encore Collectors Edition/The Slim Shady LP
Linkin Park - Everything, really, apart from reanimation, I don't like it
KT Tunstall - Paper Aeroplane (okay, it's a single)
Aerosmith - Greatest Hits (or something similar, I know it's their hits)
Anything Dance

 

Tiny Tim - God Bless Tiny Tim.

* All slipknot albums
* All Linkin Park albums
* All Armin Van Buuren Album's and mix's
* All Tiesto albums and mix's
* All Paul Van Dyk album's and mix's.
* All good charlotte album's.

Chadk wrote:



* All slipknot albums
* All Linkin Park albums

I see you dropped your Good Musical Tastes card a few miles behind you....

As for myself, I've had it for at least a month, but I'm still ch00ning to the Foo Fighters' Echoes, Silence, Patience, Grace album (but they lose points for practically ripping Status Quo).

But I'm more into esoteric music nowadays, like MC Frontalot, MCPlus+, and Devin Townsend. But there's a bunch of timeless stuff from the 70s which never grows old, Jamie's already mentioned them, but I'll repeat them because they're just so good: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals.

Manic Street Preachers -The Holy Bible
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - OK Computer
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The Clash - London Calling

AndyC wrote:

Manic Street Preachers -The Holy Bible
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - OK Computer
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The Clash - London Calling

Buckley's "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk" gets added to my essential list as well

AndyC wrote:

Manic Street Preachers -The Holy Bible

Fantastic Album!

Well this week I'm having a real prog rock week. So then, my favourites album would be....

Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Van Der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts
Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink
Camel: Music Inspired by the Snowgoose
Marillion: Script for a Jesters Tear
Fields of the Nephilim: Elizium

Next week it could well be very different.