# Let's do this: What are your ten favorite albums? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174 "2011-08-10T05:52:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/41 "2011-08-10T22:02:52Z")
Yet another one in no particular order. 🙂 Restricting it to one appearance per artist. Electric Light Orchestra - Face the Music The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Traveling Wilburys - Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 Yes - The Yes Album U2 - The Joshua Tree Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl Queen - A Night at the Opera Toto - Toto Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge ---
**Author:** ![punch\_line\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@punch\_line\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punch_line_loser)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/42 "2011-08-11T01:45:07Z")
I gotta say, of all the bands I expected to see on this list, the Negro Problem was nowhere near my radar. Props to the dude who put Belly on their list as well (Boston!) I was also adhering to the one-album-per-band rule (otherwise Loveless probably would have been on there too), and furthermore I realized that I made some glaring omissions that, rather than revise the whole list, I’ll just drop into the honorable mentions category: Blur - The Great Escape The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan Brian McBride - How the Detail Lost Its Freedom Men & Volts - Tramps in Bloom (anyone who remembers this band is entitled to a lifetime of my love and affection) Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle bis - This Is Teen-C Power! or Return to Central (I can never decide) ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/43 "2011-08-11T02:37:23Z")
Not in any particular order: SLANG–Def Leppard SURREAL–Man/Raze MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON-Pink Floyd PRETTY HATE MACHINE-Nine Inch Nails LOAD-Metallica HEY STOOPID-Alice Cooper TEST FOR ECHO–Rush PSYCHOTIC SUPPER-Tesla OUT OF THE BLUE-Electric Light Orchestra TATTOOS AND ALIBIS-Ricky Warwick ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/44 "2011-08-11T02:44:14Z")
Wilco - “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” Richard Thompson - “Mock Tudor” Camel - “The Snow Goose” U2 - “The Joshua Tree” Genesis - “Seconds Out” Rush - “Moving Pictures” The Who - “Who’s Next” Wishbone Ash - “Argus” Old 97’s - “Too Far To Care” Zappa - “Zoot Allures” Hard to pick just 10. And I didn’t put any Beatles or Zeppelin on the list because I honestly don’t know which one I would pick. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/45 "2011-08-11T02:57:07Z")
Mock Tudor- Richard Thompson Decoration Day- The Drive-By Truckers What I Deserve- Kelly Willis The Hardest Part- Allison Moorer In The Aeroplane Over The Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel Metallica(The Black Album)- Metallica Ten- Pearl Jam Appetite For Destruction- Guns’N’Roses The Beatles(The White Album)- The Beatles Thriller- Michael Jackson ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/46 "2011-08-11T03:04:04Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > OUT OF THE BLUE-Electric Light Orchestra Aha! Another ELO fan! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/47 "2011-08-11T03:06:06Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Aha! Another ELO fan! 😃 You betcha 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/48 "2011-08-11T03:14:19Z")
Everything the Doors ever did (hence my username)- I know, I cheated already
 Pantera- _Vulgar Display of Power_ Living Colour- _Time’s Up_ REM- _New Adventures In Hi-Fi_ Smashing Pumpkins- _Siamese Dream_ Nirvana- _Nevermind_ Alice In Chains- _Dirt_ Soundgarden- _Badmotorfinger_ Nine Inch Nails- _The Downward Spiral_ The Beatles- _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_ Other than The Beatles and Doors, which are timeless, it isn’t hard to guess when I grew up, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/49 "2011-08-11T03:18:41Z")
Today? In no particular order: Beatles - Abbey Road U2 - Joshua Tree Moby - Play The Who - Who’s Next The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us Peter Gabriel - Passion (Last Temptation of Christ) Portishead - Dummy Queen - Night at the Opera Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Tomorrow, it will probably be a different list. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/50 "2011-08-11T03:23:14Z")
Really hard to come up with an “all time” list. A lot of albums that I loved 10 years ago I hardly listen to these days. I guess these are the ones that hold up the best: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon Camera Obscura - Let’s Get Out of This Country Björk - Homogenic Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell Tool - Lateralus Norah Jones - Come Away With Me L7 - Bricks Are Heavy Tegan and Sara - The Con Ladytron - Witching Hour ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/51 "2011-08-11T03:53:04Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > Other than The Beatles and Doors, which are timeless, it isn’t hard to guess when I grew up, is it? Where’s your Red Hot Chili Peppers’ _Blood Sugar Sex Magik_? 🙂 (Seriously, that’s an album that almost made my list.) And thanks to the OP for noticing my inclusion of the Negro Problem. Stew can be brilliant – almost Cole Porter-esque at times. I caught his show on Broadway, and I thought it was terrific. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/52 "2011-08-11T04:10:58Z")
The list this month of albums in heavy rotation at the gazpacho family seat. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Every time I listen to this I think just how damn good it is) Rossini - The Barber of Seville (probably not in the spirit of the thread but too bad. Like the previous entry every time I listen to it I think it is the best piece of music every written) The Clash - London Calling U2 - Actung Baby Led Zeppelin - 4 Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (This is currently more favored than American Idiot) The Fratellis - Costello Music (The goto album for workouts) Flogging Molly - Float Jimmy Cliff - The harder They Come ( Movie sound track with other bands beside Jimmy Cliff, The movie is not very good) The Doors - The Doors. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/53 "2011-08-11T05:16:59Z")
In no order: Rubber Soul - The Beatles Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane Ladies of the Canyon - Joni Mitchell Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter - The Incredible String Band Living With Ghosts - Patty Griffin Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan Benefit - Jethro Tull Essential Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen Wee Tam/Big Huge - The Incredible String Band It’s a Beautiful Day - It’s a Beautiful Day ---
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> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Aha! Another ELO fan! 😃 > [@BaneSidhe](#): > > You betcha 😃 :smack: I want to add ELO - “A New World Record” to my list now. Great album! ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/55 "2011-08-11T16:01:07Z")
The minute I post this I’m going to think, “Wait! I forgot about
” These aren’t in order of preference, BUT
 Leon Russell----Asylum Choir II (ALL of his albums, but this one has “Ballad to a Soldier” which jump-starts my heart everyday Todd Rundgren----Something/Anything Melissa Manchester-----Home to Myself Bette Midler-----The Divine Miss M Simon & Garfunkel----Bookends Art Garfunkel------Breakaway Bobby Gentry-----Ode to Billie Joe Cosby, Stills & Nash (& Young) The Beatles-----Meet the Beatles O Brother Where Art Thou—Down From the Mountain But my favorite song of all time (so far) is Eric Clapton’s “If I Could Change the World” ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/56 "2011-08-11T16:05:03Z")
Of course, all the Beatles albums. But Meet the Beatles is when I met the Beatles and my heart went boom
lol ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/57 "2011-08-11T16:24:13Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Also invoking 1 album per band rule: > > Pink Floyd - The Wall (more would be on there) > Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 > My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade > The Promise Ring - 30° Everywhere > Odds - Nest > Led Zeppelin IV (close amongst their others) > Heart - Dreamboat Annie > Sloan - Navy Blues > Townes van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter > The TV Sound - The TV Sound. > > I also debated including Source Tags and Codes since it is so epically great but I thought that since I just discovered it after losing it for a year that might cloud my thinking. Townes van Zandt
Yeah! ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/58 "2011-08-11T16:26:54Z")
In order: 1. _The Way Up_, Pat Metheny Group 2. _The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway_, Genesis 3. _Operation: Mindcrime_, Queensryche 4. _Quadrophenia_, The Who 5. _The Pat Metheny Group_, Pat Metheny Group 6. _
And Justice For All_, Metallica 7. _Born To Run_, Bruce Springsteen 8. _Chicago II_, Chicago 9. _Foxtrot_, Genesis 10. _Travels_, Pat Metheny Group No Peter Gabriel (other than the 2 Genesis albums) but he would be all over choices 11-20. ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/59 "2011-08-11T18:10:56Z")
1. Burzum – Filosofem 2. Burzum – Filosofem 3. Burzum – Filosofem 4. Burzum – Filosofem 5. Burzum – Filosofem 6. Burzum – Filosofem 7. Burzum – Filosofem 8. Burzum – Filosofem 9. Burzum – Filosofem 10. Burzum – Filosofem 
 In no particular order. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/60 "2011-08-11T18:25:29Z")
To get this down to 10 I had to impose an additional rule - I only included the ten albums I would be most likely to listen to from start to finish. No skipping tracks allowed. So, in no particular order: X-Los Angeles Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Talking Heads-Fear of Music Bob Dylan-Modern Times Replacements-Hootenanny REM-Life’s Rich Pagent Pretenders-Pretenders Mission of Burma-Vs Gang of Four-Entertainment David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust BTW, this list is only valid for today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174.md?page=4)