Top Five Albums

[bobk]

Here's another "getting to know you" question. What are your top five favorite albums of all time? The ones you still enjoy even after playing them 100 times. Feel free to list more if you can't narrow it down. My list (for now anyway):

Beatles - Abbey Road
The Band - The Band
Aimee Mann - Bachelor #2
Blood, Sweat and Tears - Child is Father to the Man
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale

[GrayMatterWife]

What are your top five favorite albums of all time?

For everyone born after 1985: an "album" is a flat, plastic, grooved disc that your parents used to put on the record player to listen to recorded music; a shortening of the term "record album," now used as shorthand to refer to a collection of songs released on iTunes by an artist.

[GrayMatterWife]

The Beatles -- Abbey Road
The Police -- Greatest Hits
Billy Joel -- Greatest Hits Volumes I and II
ZZ Top -- Greatest Hits
Garth Brooks -- anything by him

I am not saying these are the greatest albums ever--these are just my favs, the ones I listen to over and over.

[SoonerTexan]

Oh, I thought they were just decorative items

[MsSassyBaskets]

The only one I can even come up with is Joni Mitchell - Blue. I love a lot of music, but that's the only one that I've listened to consistently for many years.

[Thirteen]

Michael Jackson - Thriller
Garth Brooks - Double Live
Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
CCR - Bayou Country (although, Chronicle has everything on it...)
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection

[mommax3]

Mark Cohn-Mark Cohn
Sting-Sacred Love
Bonnie Raitt-Luck of the Draw
James Taylor-Never Die Young
Billy Joel-The Bridge (or anything by him, really)

I also loooove Eva Cassidy and Brad Paisley.

[HouseofWool]

I'm not sure I could come up with 5

But my all time favorite album is Legiao Urbana's As Quatro Estacoes. They are a Brazilian punk band from the 80's that did the really gentle folksy album and I love it. I wore out the cassette tape that I purchased in 91 and it only recently became available on iTunes. I just about cried with joy that day.

[bobk]

Mark Cohn-Mark Cohn
Sting-Sacred Love
Bonnie Raitt-Luck of the Draw
James Taylor-Never Die Young
Billy Joel-The Bridge (or anything by him, really)

I also loooove Eva Cassidy and Brad Paisley.

Haha - we could probably do a separate thread on Billy Joel albums! I really like him, however even his best albums are flawed in some way. I guess The Stranger comes closest to being perfect. The problem is the hits from there have been so overplayed I don't want to hear them anymore. I probably play Streetlife Serenade and Turnstiles more than any others.

[HouseofWool]

For everyone born after 1985: an "album" is a flat, plastic, grooved disc that your parents used to put on the record player to listen to recorded music; a shortening of the term "record album," now used as shorthand to refer to a collection of songs released on iTunes by an artist.

Do people even buy CD's anymore?

[diggitydot]

Do people even buy CD's anymore?

I do, but usually only small indie bands that aren't on iTunes.

[ides]

Ok, I haven't listened to many of these is a while, but they are deeply rooted in my being.
In no particular order:
Orbital -2
Beastie Boys- Pauls Boutique
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars
New Order - Substance
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

[diggitydot]

My fab five:

The Blues Brothers Soundtrack

Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker"

Johnny Cash "Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar"

Rush "Moving Pictures"

The Glenn Miller Orchestra "The Best of Glenn Miller"

[Meenah]

Bob Dylan "Blood on the Tracks"
Joni Mitchell "Blue"
Neal Young "Harvest"
Pink Floyd "The Wall"
Harry Chapin "On the Road to Kingdom Come"

OMG Icould go on and on!!!! Hoping to see Neal Young and Crazy Horse in a few weeks!

[MsSassyBaskets]

I guess my second would have to be the Yo-Yo Ma recording of Bach's Cello Suites. We'll see if I can come up with any more...