Hell yeah rackensack! The Undertones and The Jam were bad ass!
Nevermind - Nirvana
Ten - Pearl Jam
Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
Dilate - Ani DiFranco
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
Achtung Baby - U2
Garbage - Garbage
Disintegration - The Cure
and my one concession to more “traditional” tastes:
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Some of my picks:
The Band - The Band
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
Paul Simon - Graceland
Peter Gabriel - So
The Beatles - White Album
The Who- Who’s Next
Bruce Springsteen- Greetings from Asbury Park
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
Neil Young- Harvest
Steely Dan- Pretzel Logic
Bonnie Raitt- Give it Up
Allman Bros.- Eat a Peach
Bob Marley- No Woman, No Cry
John Gorka- Temporary Road
But let’s consider other genres.
Country:
Will the Circle be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and many, many other fine artists)
The Outlaws (Waylon, Willie, & Jesse)
Bluegrass:
Flatt & Scruggs (live at Nashville)
Blues:
Robert Johnson (the original tapes)
House of Blues collection (vol. 1 & 2)
Also, I must disagree with the Led Zep nominations. 2,3 or Houses of the Holy are way better than anything later.
Another $.02 worth: The Eagles are shit.
I grew up around folks who worshipped them, so this opinion has caused me much static. I stand by my assertion: The Eagles suck and not in a good way.
While I wouldn’t quibble with the merits of the artists and recordings mentioned, the album as an oeuvre (as opposed to a collection of individual songs) is almost uniquely a jazz and rock phenomenon (and it means something very different in each of those genres). There have been a few country albums that hold together as a entire albums as well as the rock classics, but only a few.
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–Jazz and rock? Nahhh. The selling point of the first albums was you got to hear the entire symphony concert without having to get up and flip the record. Jazz and rock would follow later.
Some more:
The Hounds of Love (Kate Bush)
No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (Motorhead)
Rid of Me (P.J. Harvey)
Blue Lines (Massive Attack)
Giant Steps (John Coltrane)
Saturation (Urge Overkill)
Infected (The The)
Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads)
Blood and Chocolate (Elvis Costello and the Attractions)
Excitable Boy (Warren Zevon)
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Dang, this sucks. The Eagles? if I hear them whine about hotel california once more, I’ll go postal.
Okay, calm down Zero, this is about Favorite types. Fine.
Let me add a few from the “Guitar” side of things.
Joe Satriani – Surfing with the Alien: Classic!
Yngwie Malmsteen – Fire and Ice or any of his classical transcriptions. Dude does Paginini on a guitar. Wow. For the speed Freaks.
I don’t have a Steve Vai album, so someone else can nominate one.
I need to unpack my CD’s…
I’ll add a few more here…
Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Street Survivors”
The Band - “Music from Big Pink”
Warren Zevon - “Warren Zevon”
Warren Zevon - “Excitable Boy”
John Prine - “John Prine”
The Beatles - Almost every album they did belongs in the top 100.
Supertramp - “Breakfast in America”
Supertramp - “Crime of the Century”
Bob Dylan - Biograph (greatest hits boxed set)
Bob Dylan - “Highway 61 Revisited”
Paul Simon - “Graceland”
Simon and Garfunkel - “Bridge over Troubled Waters”
Stevie Ray Vaughan - “SRV and Double Trouble Live”
Van Halen - “1984”
Eric Clapton - “Unplugged”
The Who - “Who’s Next”
Frank Sinatra - Hard to pick one, but many were great
Rocks - Aerosmith
So - Peter Gabriel
I Robot - Alan Parson’s Project
Foghat Live - Foghat (Duh!)
Jeff Beck & the Jan Hammer Group
Alive - KISS (I’m seconding this one)
Van Halen’s debut
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Good Lord, I feel old.
Of those that haven’t been named:
Steeleye Span: Below the Salt
The Pretenders: Isle of View
The Beatles: Abbey Road
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album)
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Frank Zappa: Joe’s Garage
Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti
And all albums by CCR.
i disagree with you on the Stones … its not really an album but more like a greatest hits collection.
adding to the list:
Exile on Main St. - Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
Beggar’s Banquet - Rolling Stones
Uprising - Bob Marley
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N’ Roses
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin