Favourite Albums Of All Time 2023

It’s like noticing the missing p from peppers but remembering the p appetite :yum:

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If Words Were Flowers - Curtis Harding
American Love Call - Durand Jones and the Indications
Double Vanity - Broncho
Dummy - Portishead
The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
A Flock of Seagulls - A Flock of Seagulls
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Surfer Rosa - Pixies
Modern Sounds in Country and Western - Ray Charles
Wowee Zowie / Crooked Rain - Pavement
Keep It Like A Secret - Built to Spill
Cody - Mogwai
F#A# Infinity - Godspeed You Black Emperor
Magnolia Electric Company - Songs Ohia

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No order here, but I’m just gonna chuck in a bunch of albums I really like and that may not have been mentioned in this thread so far and hope someone who reads it finds a new love…

XTC - Skylarking
Depeche Mode - Violator
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Portishead - Dummy
Portishead - Third
Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Beck - Sea Change
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Pearl
CAN - Ege Bamyasi
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Everything But the Girl - Idlewild
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
John Prine - John Prine
The KLF - Chill Out
Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivitat
Kyuss - Sky Valley
Roxy Music - Avalon
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas (OST)
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
This Mortal Coil - It’ll End in Tears
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

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Damn Touched, there’s some good ones there… a fellow XTC-head I see… And yes, New Gold Dream should’ve been on my list…

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Mezzanine massive attack
Jebediah Slightly odway
REM automatic for the people
Nirvana from the muddy banks of wishkah
Tool Aenema
Veruca Salt 8 Arms to Hold U
Powderfinger internationalist
Oasis Definitely Maybe
Enigma MCMXC a.D.
The Dandy Warhols Welcome to the Monkey House

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Metallica - Black Album
Nirvana - Nevermind
Dave Matthews Band - The Central Park Concert (it’s a live a;bum, but this band’s studio work is nothing compared to their live albums)
For Fighters - The Colour and Shape
Bullet for my Valentine - The Poison
The Offspring - Smash
Muse - Absolution
Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
The Living End - The Living End
Five Finger Death Punch -The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell

I limited it to 1 album per band. Other albums by these band have better songs, but these albums I can listen from start to finish without a problem.
I think I bent the rules a bit with the DMB live album, but I couldn’t leave it off the list. I listen to a lot of their live albums, but the one I chose stands out.

These are the most common albums I’ve listened to over the last 20 years, so I’d say the majority would still have been my favourite the last time I posted a list.

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Wondered how you guys were just busting out albums, but kind of easy when you have a moment.

Not in order, other than than number 1.

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Hunky Dory
Doolittle
The Kick Inside
Live at Folsom Prison
Thriller
AM
Tapestry
Woodface
Bridge Over Trouble Water
What’s the Story

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Instinctive top 10.

1). Disintegration - The Cure

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The Edges of Twilight -Tea Party
Dirt - Alice in Chains
Damn Right I’ve got the Blues - Buddy Guy
Appetite for Destruction - GnR
Ten - Pearl Jam
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Down on the Upside - Soundgarden
Melancholy and the infinite sadness - Smashing p’s
Love - The Cult

Number 1 wouldn’t change. It’s just epically brilliant.

The others I’d likely switch every time you asked

Best of / compilations -

The Butterfly Net - Ed Kuepper . I just love this album. It’s important to me.

Alice in Chains Unplugged.

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Dirt is the album of 90s Grunge imho. Perfection.

Love it.

For best albums they gotta be all killer no filler. Thats a gem.

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Too many genres
And too much good music.

Simply can’t do it.

Beatles white album

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Metallica - the black one
Megadeth Rust In Peace. Thrash perfected

Neil Young - Harvest

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Umm… :wink:

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The entire beatles catalog is great. Even their ‘b sides’

For favourite albums they can be anything you like at all with no rules whatsoever.

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Oh don’t get me wrong. I love The Beatles and I love (much of) The White Album, but it’s not a case of “all killer no filler”…

Heart of the Congos - respect

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