The best albums, and please say WHY?

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  1. thinking

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    Dark Side of the Moon ( Pink Floyd ) , Spoons ( Arias and Symphonies ) , FM ( Black Noise) , Jeff Beck ( Wired ) , Doobie Brothers ( The Captian and me ) , Jethro Tull ( Songs of the Wood ) , Focus ( Hamburg Conerto ) , Frank Marino , ( Whats Next !! ) , stranglers ( Aural Sculpture )

    and to add people , so many more !!
     
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    Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Appetite for Destruction (Guns N Roses), Thriller (Michael Jackson), Purple Rain (Prince), Nevermind (Nirvana), The Wall (Pink Floyd), Hotel California (Eagles), Born in the USA (Bruce Springstein)
     
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    Bridge of sighs (Robin Trower) Abbey Road and Sgt Peppers (beatles) Are you experienced and Electric ladyland (Hendrix) Moving Pictures and Permanent Waves (Rush)
    Blue (joni Mitchell) The Doors (Doors) Filmore East (Allman Bros) Song remains the same and IV (Led Zep) Sold our soul for R&R (Sabbath) Aqualung (Tull) Barboleta and Caravanserai (Santana) Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery (ELP) The Yes Album (Yes)

    Already taken but agree: Dark Side and the Wall from Floyd and Wired from Jeff Beck.

    There are so many more I just can't keep going.
     
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    Back in Black (AC-DC)
     
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    oh yes...
     
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    soft machine -- first
    this heat -- deceit
    henry cow -- in praise of learning
    faust -- so far
    nico -- desertshore
    robert wyatt -- rock bottom
    popol vuh -- brueder des schattens
    alice coltrane -- universal consciousness
    throbbing gristle -- 20 jazz funk greats
    the fall -- perverted by language


    for old stuff, at least...
     
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    So far (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)
    Days of future past (moody blues)
    Toys in the attic (aerosmith)
    Machine Head (Deep Purple)
    Aja (Steely Dan)

    lesser known

    Octoroon, ShumTicky and Fourteen Days (Laura Love) she is great
     
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    we seem to be getting great music here people , keep it coming

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    Yeah, I'm a rock and roller and even play in a band, but my list of faves goes outside the genre. My two favorite "classical" pieces (even though they're both by composers who lived well into the 20th century):
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Lark Ascending"
    • Richard Strauss: "Metamorphosen"
    Both around 15 minutes, they're as different--almost literally--as night and day. The first is piece for virtuoso violinist and a small orchestra, a joyous ode to a songbird with lines that represent her capricious flight and others that evoke her song. The second is a sombre piece for thirteen solo stringed instruments, written after the end of WWII by a German who had watched his beloved country sink into madness and pure evil, basically a eulogy declaring "Germany is dead and, despite its centuries of greatness, may not be fondly remembered." It ends in a slow diminuendo into the silence of the tomb. I saw it performed once and when it was over the audience sat stunned into the same silence; it was a couple of minutes before anyone thought to start applauding.

    I'd rank both of those in the same handful of favorites with my top rock albums, which change from week to week, but today I'll name "Technical Ecstasy" by Black Sabbath (for an oldie) and "Something to Be" by Rob Thomas (for a newie).

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    Thirty-six years later "Dark Side of the Moon," at least the last time I saw the figures, continues to sell enough units to rank on the Billboard Top 200. Billboard had to make a special rule to be able to stop listing it. It's the same trick the New York Times uses to get around including the Bible and the Boy Scout Handbook on the best-selling book list every week.

    On the one hand I think this is lame, because it makes it look like frelling Coldplay, this week's #190 and a cheap English ripoff of The Church, is bigger than Pink Floyd. ("Under the Milky Way Tonight," the song in the new Lincoln ads, is by The Church although that's not them singing it.)

    On the other hand, it's kind of cool that Pink Floyd is now, by at least one widely accepted standard, in the same league as the Bible.

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    Tool, Ænima

    [Moderator's note: Your link is expired and doesn't display. But I love that CD too.

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    exile on main street - rolling stones

    the stranger - billy joel
     
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    queensryche "operation mindcrime"
    afi "sing the sorrow"
    beck "o delay"
    live "throwing copper"
    jane's addiction "jane's addiction" and "nothing's shocking"
    nin "the fragile" and "with teeth"
    him "greatest love songs vol 666"
    my chemical romance "black parade"
     
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    fair warning - van halen (one of my personal favorites)
     
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    elo "the electric light orchestra"
     
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    kiss "destroyer"
     
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    stone temple pilots "tiny music; songs from the vatican gift shop"
     
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    incubus "make yourself" and "morning view"
     
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