Your favorite album?

[Idril]

If I come back in 2 years, will the Wall still be there? It seems like I listened to it, and listened to it, and then had to stop because I was afraid I would ruin it for myself.

I never list it as a favorite because I always feel if I list a Floyd album, it has to be something less well known but then when I listen to it, it's genius hits me anew.

[DaneNoodles]

Load/ReLoad - Metallica
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

amongst many others...

also can I contribute to the conversation above that the popularity of an album should never be a sway in either direction on the greatness spectrum.

[Melysnl]

I can't imagine ever wearing myself out on these albums. They're so many more but I'll stop with these.

Echoes - The Rapture
Aqeumeni - Outkast
Conversions - Kruder and Dorfmeister
The White Album - The Beatles
The Miseducation of Lauren Hill - Lauren Hill
Nevermind - Nirvana
Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Purple Rain - Prince

[MarkBastable]

(Edit: Bjork is solid too, but I get why she doesn't do it for many people)

She doesn't do it for me. She's so incredibly irritating. So mannered. So pleased with herself. So shallow. So self-regarding. So disingenuous. So thoughtless. So incredibly, jaw-droppingly irritating.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Hey, we agree on something pertained to music, Mark! Though, I must admit that I enjoy watching her, sort of like a car-wreck.

[OrphanPip]

She has some of the greatest music videos ever made though, working with directors like Michel Gondry and John Kricfalusi (of Ren and Stimpy fame).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urrbhgC8PB0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSoBJ8WirE

[MarkBastable]

Just because it's late and I feel like sticking something out there more subjective than the closely-argued logic I've been working on for the past ten hours...


Julie Is Her Name - Julie London
Abbey Road - The Beatles (if I must pick only one)
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Citizen - Steely Dan (bit of a cheat, as it's a sixty-three album set)
Costello Music - The Fratellis
That Arctic Monkeys album with 'Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secure' on it
Probably the first Tom Petty album
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
A compilation of Alice Cooper's original band, put together by me
Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout (renamed Two Wheels Good for the US market)
45s and Under - Squeeze
Ram - Paul McCartney

On another night, about half of those would be different.

But if I really, really had to go for just one...man...

I'd like to say Abbey Road, but I know every note of it. Pushed, I'd have to take a mid-period Steely Dan album, simply because there's a lot left in there to find.