What is your all-time favorite album?

Hejira and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter by Joni Mitchell are (more-or-less) tied for my most-played albums. I'm a Joni and Joni Pastorius aficionado and those albums never pall.

Deacon Blue - When The World Knows Your Name

Unknow in the US. Saw them live in 1989 at the Roxy in LA. One of the greatest pop/rock bands on the planet.

The Cure

Elton John's "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy".

Madonna's Like a Prayer doesn't have stinker on it.

Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Sessions when I'm depressed.

Patti!

Probably still Born to Run.

Kate Bush's Hounds of Love.

The Divine Miss M

OP you shit on me for loving Fleetwood Mac but now Tusk is suddenly your favorite album?

A toss between these 3 albums,

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Neil Young - Harvest

Van Morrison - Astral Week

X, Under the Big Black Sun

Psychocandy, Jesus and Mary Chain

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen

Nancy & Lee. My parents had this in their album collection when I was about five, and I practically wore it out. Fifty years later and it is still one of my all time favorites!

I love Steve McQueen, r14!

I'd have to say Rotsa Ruck.

The Sign, Ace of Base

NIrvana's In Utero

Elliott Smith's Either/Or

Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville

Radiohead's OK Computer

Hasten down the Wind, by Linda Ronstadt. The Great Love of My Life dumped me two days before I bought it. And it's the perfect album for that. It's also the album I put on whenever I buy a new piece of audio equipment.

In the non-somebody done me wrong category, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Smile are tied for favorite album.

Half the songs on Born to Run are among the greatest songs of my lifetime, but the other half aren't.

Warren Zevon's first Asylum LP is perfect. I loved LA as he saw it and sang about it.

And then there's Mahler.

Supertramp-Breakfast in America

Probably 'Blood On The Tracks'. I mean, if I had to pick a solid front to back album that I could listen to over and over again without getting sick of it.

Violent Femmes - their first/self titled. Jane's Addiction- Nothing's Shocking. Pink Floyd - The Wall. Devotchka - How It Ends.

And this which I haven't listened to in years, but own on vinyl. I used to get up every Saturday morning, eat breakfast, then clean my home with this playing in the background. I need to get back into that vibe.

Bounce Your Boobies, by Rusty Warren!

Guitar Passion by the one and only Charo!

Parallel Lines by Blondie

Germ Free Adolescents- X Ray Spex. Poly Styrene was a remarkable talent.

Violator - Depeche Mode

Tapestry by Carole King, followed closely by Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Those were the days.

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman. Loooooooove that album.

Same OP.

Tusk is a masterpiece, and one that I always go to for bedroom comfort.

Prince "1999"

OBCR- Company OBCR- A Little Night Music OBCR- Follies OBCR- Pacific Overtures OBCR- Sweeney Todd OBCR- Merrily We Roll Along

Who could ask for anything more?

I also have to go with Fleetwood Mac -- "Tango in the Night." I was 15 when it came out, and had been listening non-stop to my parents' copy of "Rumours" over the previous year or so. So it became a teenage obsession and it's one that I still go back to for comfort/nostalgia, while continuing to be impressed by their craft.

Other all-time favorites: Joni Mitchell's "Hejira," Neil Young's "Live Rust," Talking Heads' "Remain in Light," REM's "Automatic for the People," Sonic Youth's "EVOL," Brian Eno's "Another Green World," Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain," Sleater Kinney's "The Woods."

Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde, most definitely, but above and beyond anything else Patti Smith’s Radio Ethiopia.

Wilco, “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”. It was my 9/11 coping album.

The soundtracks for Gattaca and The Piano.

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees

The Cure - The Head on the Door

Everything But the Girl-Walking Wounded

The Magnolia Soundtrack

The Smiths -Louder Than Bombs

The Beatles (white album)

Bette's Songs for a New Depression

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.

R43 I’m listening to that right now!

Re r42: Shiver me Timbers

London Calling

Grease 2 Soundtrack

Toad the Wet Sprocket: Dulcinea (reminds me of my early 20’s, opening the windows in springtime in my sunny apartment and just vegging with a drink, enjoying my existence.)

Tool: 10,000 Days (it’s a solid, hard album with great songs that flow into one another. It covers the dying and the death of the lead singer’s mom a little, which hit close to home when it happened to me. Plus, like all Tool albums, I hear something new, something different with every listen. Also, the song “Sober” by Tool sucks and I really hate that most people think that’s the range of the band.)

I’m a big fan of all kinds of music-just not the entire albums of most bands.

Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin

Another vote for..

Louder than bombs by The Smiths

Hounds of Love and The Dreaming by Kate Bush

Violent femmes first album

White Album

London Calling by The Clash

Absolute favorite = Green Day's American Idiot

Second place is between Blondie's Parallel Lines & Eat to the Beat, and Morrissey's Viva Hate.

Closely followed by BORN TO RUN and THE RIVER.

I am a pop, disco, and show tune junkie/typical homo, but Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds remains my favorite album. Beauty from start to finish. Nary a duff track.

"Made in America" and "Voice of the Heart"- Carpenters. I also love the collaboration album Richard did with the London Royal Philharmonic. Those old songs have such a revived spark to them, especially "We've Only Just Begun".

Any album put out by Swing Out Sister from 1987 to 2009.

Turn Back the Clock- Johnny Hates Jazz. I like their more recent recordings, but I keep coming back to the original.

Whenever You Need Somebody, Rick Astley

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

REM - Automatic for the People

Simon&Garfunkel - The Concert in Central Park

Lionel Richie - Back to Front

Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Supertramp - The Very Best of

The Killers - Sam's Town

Flame all you want. The minute Cruel Summer kicks in I'm 16 years old again.

Waiting for Columbus (Little Feat)

Fucking Smilers - Aimee Mann

Horizon - The Carpenters

Love Without Fear - Dan Wilson

The Young Girls of Rochefort - Soundtrack

Jordan: The Comeback- Prefab Sprout

Cult of Ray - Frank Black

Aja - Steely Dan

Liz Phair’s “Exile In Guyville”!

I’ve been listening to this album since I was a teenager and the older I get, the more I relate to it.

Hole’s “Live Through This” is super close though. I love that album.

English Settlement - XTC More Than a New Discovery - Laura Nyro Get Happy! - Elvis Costello and The Attractions Damned Damned Damned - The Damned

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

The Mamas and Papas, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears

Mm, let's try that again, properly (why I love them):

English Settlement - XTC: A favorite from the 80s, full of tremendous and varied songwriting.

More Than a New Discovery - Laura Nyro: Utterly soulful, glorious songs and vocals. My sister turned me onto her an eternity ago.

Get Happy! - Elvis Costello and The Attractions: Catchy-as-hell album by one of the best lyricists ever, also very soulful in its way.

Damned Damned Damned - The Damned: Insanely high energy, meant to be listened to at top volume, great driving music!

Hard to decide between Born to Run, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, or Rumours

Sandinista! the triple LP masterpiece by my favorite band, The Clash.

Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by English punk rock band the Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. It crosses various genres including funk, reggae, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, folk, dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, disco, and rap. For the first time, the band's traditional songwriting credits of Strummer and Jones were replaced by a generic credit to the Clash. The band agreed to a decrease in album royalties in order to release the 3-LP at a low price.

The title refers to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and its catalogue number, 'FSLN1', refers to the abbreviation of the party's Spanish name, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.

This is also the only Clash album on which all four members have a lead vocal. Drummer Topper Headon made a unique lead vocal contribution on the song "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe", and Simonon sings lead on "The Crooked Beat"

according to Joe Strummer, the decision to release a triple-LP was their way of mocking CBS for resisting their desire to release London Calling as a double album, then releasing Bruce Springsteen's double album The River less than a year later. Strummer took pleasure in the abundance, saying "It was doubly outrageous. Actually, it was triply outrageous." Mick Jones said, "I always saw it as a record for people who were, like, on oil rigs. Or Arctic stations. People that weren't able to get to the record shops regularly."

The band's wish to release the album at a low price was also met with resistance, and they had to forgo any royalties on the first 200,000 copies sold in the UK and a 50% cut in royalties elsewhere.

David Bowie - Low

Can there be any doubt?

It's a tie.

Elton John's The One album, and Linda Ronstadt's Cry Like a Rainstorm are my go-to albums.

In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs

True Blue, Madonna

Control - Janet Jackson

Pearl - Janis Joplin

Cheap Thrills - Big Brother & The Holding Company

Educated Horses - Rob Zombie

Born This Way - Lady Gaga

Rockferry - Duffy

My Name is Barbra Two

I forgot about Pearl. One of my favorites.

I’ve been listening to Taylor Swift’s Folklore a lot recently. I’d never bought of listening to her before. I’ve also been going through Dylan’s catalog. I think he’s a genius.

Although most Elton fans will cite his best from the Seventies (Yellow Brick Road, Captain Fantastic, Honky Chateau), he had some great ones in the Eighties, especially Sleeping With The Past.

Ultimate Muzak/Associated Transcriptions Collection / 24 hours / -pre 1960s

Looking forward to seeing Elton one last time on this tour.

Simple Things - Zero 7

Quincy Jones - The Dude

Heart of Stone, Cher (1989)

Narrowed to two, both from my college days in the mid-80s:

Kate Bush, Hounds of Love

Prefab Sprout, Steve McQieen (originally issued as Two Wheels Good in the US)

Kick, INXS

"120 Music Masterpieces" was my all-time favorite.

Kidding. But damn, this commercial aired for FOURTEEN YEARS. Someone bought this crap.

I loved, loved, loved ABD's "the Lexicon of Love" I wore out two vinyl versions and am really lucky to own it on CD (it was available for a short time if memory serves.

Of all the music I've owned over the years, I think it has the best opening of any pop/rock/punk/new wave I own.

R87, I have that ABC Lexicon of Love album & refuse to part with it. Such a classic. I think it is underrated as a “concept” album.

R74, I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE DUFFY, ROCKFERRY get some love. I adore that album.

I can't pick one. Eat to the Beat, Vital Idol, Tunnel of Love, Blue, Heart Like a Wheel, Sticky Fingers, Abby Road and Rumours.

I forgot to mention Blind Faith but I hated the pervy original album cover.

Led Zeppelin (first album)

Crosby, Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Blind Faith

Nirvana - Nevermind & Unplugged

Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills

Rubber Soul

My Name is Barbra Two (thanks for reminding me whoever posted this. Great album)

Yellow Brick Road- that album is pure magic. So many great songs.

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, Sinead O'Connor

Belinda Carlisle's Heaven On Earth album.

It's the ultimate pop album with a variety of unique musical sounds & timeless songs.

This upload's sound is slightly off which is why it's been allowed to remain up for half a decade =

I am R87 and apologize for the typo in my post... of course it is ABC, and not ABD. I hate when I miss a typo when posting here. I have "oh dear-ed" myself.

His self titled album. Fab.

World Party - Goodbye Jumbo

Peter Gabriel’s SO.

But I have others. This is a difficult question, as there are other albums out there that I LOVE, and not all are British or American artists.

Actually, Pet Shop Boys (1987)

Roxy Music - Avalon

The B52’s are a favorite band. Their music is perfect for summer.

But Seriously, Phil Collins (1989)

R74, funny you included Born This Way by Gaga.

I had no connection to that album when it came out. Did nothing for me. Nor did Gaga. She was just another pop star to me. However, Artpop made me a fan of hers, but I never went back and listened to her first three albums.

But I recently did just that.

And I am totally in love with Born This Way. It's not the singles that I like (I do, but I know those songs). It's the deeper cuts. It's really an astoundingly daring pop album. Especially considering she was the biggest thing in the world at that time.

Check out Joanne too. That's my favorite of hers, R104.

Tusk is amazing. You are correct.

Played “Patience” by George Michael a great deal when it came out.

Presciently, he stated it would be his last physical album. (Said that he would put up his songs on the internet for free download from there on out as he said life had been “good to him” and granted him $$$$ to do so.)

We all know what happened next on that Christmas Day, sadly.

The tracks on the album I play frequently now and there is a sort of wistfulness about them that goes beyond the general wistfulness GM used to generally exude.

I hope he’s happy wherever he is.

Belinda Carlisle, Runaway Horses

Agree with you R95 that Heaven On Earth is great and it’s more eclectic in sound to its follow up, but I’d say Runaway Horses is her/the perfect pop album. Even the non-singles (like this one) are great.

Linda Rondstaadt looks goth there, R71!

I thought that was Siouxsie Sioux for a second.

JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL

Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion (Live Version)

Documentary on making it.

this one

R,91, great list and was so lucky to know Cass, even for a year.

Purple Rain- Prince and the Revolution

Dare - The Human League

But also very close;

Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17

The Lexicon Of Love - ABC

A Secret Wish - Propaganda

Visage - Visage

For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

Billy Joel - The stranger

Protection by Massive Attack

Mezzanine by Massive Attack

Dummy by Portishead

What the hell are you talking about, R87? I can go all over the internet right now and get a cd copy of "Lexicon" for $4.

"Houses of the Holy" Led Zeppelin

Souxsie Sue’s album “Superstition” is terrific. “Little Sister” and “Killing Jar” are standouts but it’s great. It’s a Geffen record, too! How mainstream for Souz!

Quadrophenia - The Who

Songs from the Big Chair, Tears for Fears

so many old fuckers in this thread

I only discovered this group/album in 90s

"Perceptive of the Obvious," by r123.

Laurie Anderson -- Strange Angels

R118, yes, the CD is available now - in 2022 - but it was available for a short time when first released and then it wasn't. Why, I don't know. But I had a CD and friends were not able to get one back in the 20th century...

Aja - Steely Dan

Close To You - Carpenters

Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell

After Hours- The Weekend

All That Jazz, Breathe (British group, 1988 album, every track is awesome)

This one, only because I can listen over and over to each track. Don’t beat me up saying "she’s overrated”

Probably... Avalon. It was the soundtrack for a good, fun, interesting time; the tour was tremendous; and 29 years later I got to chat with B. Ferry about the show.

Mickey Mouse Disco

George Benson [italic] Breezin'

to the grouch who said there’s a lot of old fuckers on here…

yeah, possibly…

OR

maybe it’s young fuckers with good taste in music.

The Muppet Movie soundtrack ❤

Confessions on the Dance Floor- Madonna

And what's wrong with old fuckers anyway?

Faith- George Michael

George Michael - Older

The Raw and the Cooked, Fine Young Cannibals

Too-Rye-Ay, Dexy's Midnight Runners (1982)

The Immaculate Collection- Madonna

Astrud Gilberto, The Shadow of Your Smile. I have to listen to it at least once a week.

Maybe not my favorite but Back to Black by Amy Winehouse is definitely on my list.

that's it, i didn't realize just how old you queens are. And your taste in favorite albums is ATROCIOUS! this queens list REALLY made me alugh Dare - The Human League

But also very close;

Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17

The Lexicon Of Love - ABC

A Secret Wish - Propaganda

Visage - Visage

For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

Purple Rain

R146 needs to suck it. What a twat.

Once Upon A Time - Donna Summer

the queeny answers here are making my night. DONNA SUMMER? LMFAO

^ Lives in its mother's basement.

Thanks for re-acquainting me with Deacon Blue. I only had Raintown, nice to listen to their other albums.

Heart Like A Wheel...Linda Ronstadt...perfection from start to finish...and the deep tracks are the best.

Out of the Blue, Debbie Gibson (1987)

Smile - the Beach Boys. Here's a live concert version by its composer, Brian Wilson, and his touring band, the Wondermints, in 2006. I saw it in DC in 2005, and it is the concert of my life. "Heroes and Villains," from which most of the rest of it springs, has been a favorite song since 1967, and the album a favorite since I discovered a coherent version of it on their 1993 box set, Good Vibrations.

Yes, I even like it more than my Linda Ronstadt albums.

Oops. Here's the link to Brian Wilson and the Wondermints' Smile concert.

Fear Fun- Father John Misty

Blue- Joni

Scarlets Walk- Tori Amos

Boys For Pele -Tori Amos

Anything by Oasis

Who's Next

If you can pick greatest hits albums I have three. The greatest hits of Heart Olivia Newton John Steve Miller Band

,,, Some commas for r159

The Summer of 1980 .... I Just turned 21 .... Diana owned the dance floor !!

A choice between Animals by Pink Floyd or Young Americans by David Bowie

Sorry, R162 here and I'm adding Blood on the tracks by Bob Dylan for a 3 way tie with the others.

BOTT is the best of the three, r163.

OP, is your link your favorite song on the album? For me, it is Over and Over with Storms second.

R164 Depends what I'm in the mood for, really.

Linda- Heart Like a Wheeel

Goodby Yellow Brick Road

Judy at Carnegie Hall

Cowboy Junkies

Trinity Sessions

The Beatles (White Album)

Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine: The Doors

Sand In The Vaseline: Talking Heads

Don Giovanni: Mozart

The Muppet Movie soundtrack. Loved it as a kid, love it as an old man.

So many great albums on this thread that I’d almost completely forgotten about, but that I’d listen to obsessively in my youth!

Today’s favourite throw-back: Throbbing Gristle’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats.

Appetite for Destruction

Sgt. Peppers

Please Please Me

The Stone Roses

The Bends

R165- those are my two favorites off Tusk as well!

World Clique by Deee-Lite. Soundtrack to the best times of my youth.

The video below was lifted off of the LP but Belinda Carlisle's

1987 Heaven On Earth album is the best that I've ever listened to =

There are many, some mentioned above.

By shear volume of listens, for me it would have to be Natalie Merchant’s Ophelia.

SHITTA

52nd Street Billy Joel

Every song is great especially Until the Night.

R176: love it too but Runaway Horses just pips it for me (I always hated I Feel Free on Heaven On Earth, whereas RH is 100% good songs)

Carole King--Tapestry, Rhymes And Reasons Linda Ronstadt--Hasten Down The Wind, Heart Like A Wheel Carpenters-singles/greatest hits compilations Joni Mitchell: Court And Spark

{r168} are you gay? LOL!!! judy garland? Do people actually like that? lol

Kate Bush - The Dreaming

Such a journey from end to end. Takes me back to a younger self, and is still so innovative. You are loved Kate.

Another vote for Steely Dan's Aja. Also Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life.

OP, me too!!! I LOVE LOVE Tusk!!!!

All of the songs are amazing.

I'm going to put it on my record player now.

But my favourite album?? TANGO IN THE NIGHT

I can't choose between Depeche Mode's Black Celebration or Violator.

Tusk is incredible...not suing you.

[quote]{[R168]} are you gay? LOL!!! judy garland? Do people actually like that? lol

Yes, I'm gayer than laughter, and yes, a lot of people DO like it. As a matter of fact it has NEVER been out of print in the sixty-three years since it was initially released (that means "dropped")!

"Vivo" by Luis Miguel. Any album by Luis Miguel actually