# 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:** 6
**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 13, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/101 "2011-08-13T22:21:39Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > In no particular order: > > “Fully Completely” and “Day for Night,” The Tragically Hip > … > “Gordon,” Barenaked Ladies What, no April Wine? 😉 (Or at least Rush. Or Neil Young. Or Alanis Morissette. Heck, Glenn Gould doing the _Well-Tempered Clavier_…) ---
**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 13, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/102 "2011-08-13T22:27:55Z")
ETA: Or you could take half a **Buffalo Springfield** album side, and half a **The Band** album side. (Actually, if you chose carefully, that would be an awesome album. Let **Leonard Cohen** have the B-side of the single.) ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/103 "2011-08-14T02:31:46Z")
I’ll try– These are ones I would go back to over and over. It’s been so long since I listened to _an album_ though…☹ U2-Joshua Tree Kansas-Leftoverture Chicago Transit Authority Yes-Fragile U2-All That You Can’t Leave Behind Eric Clapton-Journeyman Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon Norah Jones-Come Away With Me Bruce Springsteen-Born to Run Eh…only 9, but I’m afraid I’m more of a “Greatest Hits” kind of guy… ---
**Author:** ![Violet\_Femme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/2bfe46/32.png) [@Violet\_Femme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet_Femme)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/104 "2011-08-14T04:41:35Z")
Off the top of my head and in no particular order: Neil Young- On the Beach Beatles- White Album Johnny Cash- At Folsom Prison Grateful Dead- What a long strange trip its been Modest Mouse- This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska Patty Griffin- 1000 Kisses The Band- The Band The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/105 "2011-08-14T05:20:44Z")
> [@Violet\_Femme](#): > > Neil Young- On the Beach “See the Sky About to Rain” is one of my fav song. ---
**Author:** ![Melysnl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Melysnl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melysnl)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/106 "2011-08-14T11:31:13Z")
The Beatles- The White Album Lauren Hill- The Miseducation of Lauren Hill Michael Jackson- Thriller Prince- Purple Rain Madonna- Bedtime Stories Nirvana- In Utero Outkast- Aquemini A Tribe Called Quest-The Low End Theory Whitney Houston- Whitney Houston The Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic ---
**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 15, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/107 "2011-08-15T02:00:23Z")
I wish I could slip _Jamboree_ by Beat Happening into my list as well. “The This Many Boyfriends Club” has to be one of my top 10 songs of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/108 "2011-08-15T02:16:44Z")
Hey, you asked for _albums_. You want a list of top tracks, or top artists, that’s an entirely different proposition. ---
**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 15, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/109 "2011-08-15T02:17:57Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Hey, you asked for _albums_. You want a list of top tracks, or top artists, that’s an entirely different proposition. Er, well yes, but I was saying that that album may also belong on my list… ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/110 "2011-08-15T03:17:56Z")
1. Dire straits _Dire straits_ 9.Dead Kennedys _Plastic surgery Disasters_ 8.Katchafire- _Revival_ (NZ Reggae) 2. Black sabbath- _Paranoid_ 3. P-Money- _Big things_ (NZ Hip-hop) 4. War - _Why can’t we be friends_ 4.Pink Floyd- _Dark side of the moon_ 5. Incubus- _Make yourself_ 6. Parliment- _Mothership connection_ 7. The Hives - _Veni vidi vicious_ Making this list has made me realize how many great artists I know from singles only! ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/111 "2011-08-22T14:50:58Z")
Rough time picking. If I spent more time on it, I’d probably come up with something different. Anyway: \*Are You Experienced \*– The Jimi Hendrix Experience _Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live, 1975-1985_ _1958 Miles_ – Miles Davis \*Mingus Ah Um \*– Charles Mingus \*Sticky Fingers \*– The Rolling Stones \*Beggars Banquet \*– The Rolling Stones \*Little Earthquakes \*– Tori Amos \*The Complete Recordings \*– Robert Johnson \*The Chess Box \*– Muddy Waters \*Rum Sodomy & the Lash \*– The Pogues ---
**Author:** ![Dante\_1111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@Dante\_1111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_1111)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/112 "2011-08-22T19:57:45Z")
I’m leaving out Pink Floyd (because they’re my favorite band and would have filled the list), The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and “classic” rock, and film scores and focusing on the '80s “alternative” I grew up with and that comprises most of what I’m still listening to. \*(Yeah I know - ending sentence with preposition yadda yadda - so sue me!) \* 😃 _(in no particular order)_ Starfish - The Church Faith - The Cure Love Hysteria - Peter Murphy Oil And Gold - Shriekback Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Treasure - Cocteau Twins Porcupine - Echo And The Bunnymen Strawberries - The Damned Superunknown - Soundgarden ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/113 "2011-08-22T21:04:54Z")
> [@Dante\_1111](#): > > I’m leaving out Pink Floyd (because they’re my favorite band and would have filled the list), The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and “classic” rock, and film scores and focusing on the '80s “alternative” I grew up with and that comprises most of what I’m still listening to. > > \*(Yeah I know - ending sentence with preposition yadda yadda - so sue me!) \* 😃 > _(in no particular order)_ > > Starfish - The Church > > Faith - The Cure > > Love Hysteria - Peter Murphy > > Oil And Gold - Shriekback > > Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde > > The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses > > Treasure - Cocteau Twins > > Porcupine - Echo And The Bunnymen > > Strawberries - The Damned > > Superunknown - Soundgarden Are you my ex-wife? ---
**Author:** ![Dante\_1111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@Dante\_1111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_1111)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/114 "2011-08-22T21:14:16Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > Are you my ex-wife? Not unless you’re gay (but I’m not so you would miss out anyway). I’d love to meet your ex-wife though! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/115 "2011-08-24T02:11:28Z")
No order. Just ten albums I wouldn’t want to be without and would be pissed if I lost. Some of them I don’t care about every track (Grant Green’s “Idle Moments” is pretty much just for the title track and Joe Henderson’s solo, for exampl\e). 1. Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters “Thrust” 2. Grant Green “Idle Moments” 3. George Jones “Wine Colored Roses” 4. Ray Charles “The Genius of Ray Charles” 5. Aretha Franklin “Lady Soul” (at least two other people had this one too! good choice!) 6. The Rolling Stones “Exile on Main Street” 7. Dr. John “Gumbo” 8. Jimmy Smith “At Small’s Paradise” 9. ZZ Top “ZZ Top’s First Album” 10. Miles Davis “Four and More” ---
**Author:** ![keeganst94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@keeganst94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeganst94)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/116 "2011-08-24T03:35:48Z")
In no particular order: 1. The Wall- Pink Floyd 2. Rain Dogs- Tom Waits 3. In the Court of the Crimson King- King Crimson 4. Games, Dames, and Guitar Thangs- Eddie Hazel 5. Brain Salad Surgery- Emerson Lake and Palmer 6. Hardcore Jones- Funkadelic 7. American IV- Johnny Cash 8. Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow- Rainbow 9. Don’t Talk to Strangers- Dio 10. Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/117 "2011-08-24T08:27:59Z")
In no particular order: U2 - The Joshua Tree Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Radiohead - OK Computer Portishead - Dummy Beck - Odelay The Beatles - The Blue Album (Kind of a cheat, I know) Pink Floyd - The Wall Tricky - Maxinquaye Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/118 "2011-08-24T08:46:53Z")
Solid Air - John Martyn Pink Moon - Nick Drake Lost Horizons - LemonJelly Secret Treaties - Blue Oyster Cult Song to a Seagull - Joni Mitchell Bryter Later - Nick Drake Contra - Vampire Weekend Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins Boys and Girls in America - The Hold Steady ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174/119 "2011-08-24T10:35:24Z")
Pink Floyd - The Wall Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever The Police - Synchronicity Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Prince & the Revolution - Around the World in a Day Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night Roxy Music - Avalon Men at Work - Business as Usual Elton John - Too Low for Zero Peter Gabriel - So These would be my “desert island discs”–I think there are many better albums that I like, but I never tire of these. ---
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Albums that appeal to me in one or more idiosyncratic ways. Spin any one of these, and I won’t skip a song… No order, just as they come to mind: 1. **Nirvana** - Nevermind 2. **Guns N Roses** - Appetite For Destruction 3. **Foo Fighters** - Eponymous (but, all of them really) 4. **NIN** - Year Zero 5. **Queens of the Stone Age** - Songs for the Deaf 6. **Metallica** - Black Album 7. **Incubus** - Morning View 8. **Toad the Wet Sprocket** - Dulcinea (all of them really) 9. **Funeral for a Friend** - Memory and Humanity 10. **Third Eye Blind** - Blue [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-this-what-are-your-ten-favorite-albums/592174.md?page=7)