well, everyone, list your favorite albums, old, new, obscure, played-out. I will end up doing a poll similar to what Ron Burgendy and Rurry have been doing once I get so many albums down. So be generous in what you want down

I'll start with me, no Greatest Hits albums

"0304" Jewel
"1984" Van Halen
"1999" Prince
"American Life" Madonna
"An Innocent Man" Billy Joel
"Bad Girls" Donna Summer
"Bedtime Stories" Madonna
"Believe" Cher
"Blueprint For A Sunrise" Yoko Ono
"Body Language" Kylie Minogue
"Break Out" The Pointer Sisters
"Cher (1987)" Cher
"Colour By Numbers" Culture Club
"Control" Janet Jackson
"Crimes Of Passion" Pat Benatar
"Dare" Human League
"Diana" Diana Ross
"Dirty Mind" Prince And The Revolution
"Double Fantasy" John Lennon/Yoko Ono
"Dummy" Portishead
"Fever" Kylie Minogue
"Flashdance" Soundtrack
"Get Nervous" Pat Benatar
"Glass Houses" Billy Joel
"Heavier Things" John Mayer
"Hot Fuss" The Killers
"Jagged Little Pill" Alanis Morissette
"Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814" Janet Jackson
"LAMB" Gwen Stefani
"Like A Prayer" Madonna
"Living Proof" Cher
"Lodger" David Bowie
"Madonna" Madonna
"Moving Pictures" Rush
"Music" Madonna
"Nevermind" Nirvana
"Parade" Prince And The Revolution
"Physical" Olivia Newton-John
"Precious Time" Pat Benatar
"Private Dancer" Tina Turner
"Promise" Safe
"Purple Rain" Prince And The Revolution
"Pump" Aerosmith
"Reality" David Bowie
"Rumours" Fleetwood Mac
"Saturday Night Fever" Bee Gees/Soundtrack
"Scary Monsters" David Bowie
"Second First Impression" Daniel Bedingfield
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" The Beatles
"She's So Unusual" Cyndi Lauper
"Sheryl Crow" Sheryl Crow
"Sign O' The Times" Prince
"Songs About Jane" Maroon 5
"Station To Station" David Bowie
"Super Trouper" Abba
"Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" Alanis Morissette
"The Album" Abba
"The Lexicon Of Love" ABC
"The Sign" Ace Of Base
"The Velvet Rope" Janet Jackson
"The Visitors" Abba
"Touch" Eurythmics
"True Blue" Madonna
"Tuesday Night Music Club" Sheryl Crow
"Use Your Illusion I" Guns N' Roses
"Use Your Illusion II" Guns N' Roses
"Weezer (1994)" Weezer
"Xanadu" Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra

I'll start with me, no Greatest Hits albums
"1984" Van Halen
"1999" Prince

"Double Fantasy" John Lennon/Yoko Ono

"Fever" Kylie Minogue
"Flashdance" Soundtrack

"Like A Prayer" Madonna

"Madonna" Madonna
"Moving Pictures" Rush

"Nevermind" Nirvana


"Private Dancer" Tina Turner

"Purple Rain" Prince And The Revolution
"Pump" Aerosmith

"Rumours" Fleetwood Mac
"Saturday Night Fever" Bee Gees/Soundtrack

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" The Beatles
"She's So Unusual" Cyndi Lauper

"True Blue" Madonna

"Use Your Illusion I" Guns N' Roses
"Use Your Illusion II" Guns N' Roses


All good albums, John!

I think that coming up with a favorite albums list is almost as hard as coming up with a favorite songs list, but I shall try to rise to the occasion. I'll also leave off any "Hits" collections or "Best Ofs". I've also decided to leave off soundtrack albums.

AC/DC-Let There Be Rock
AC/DC-Highway to Hell
AC/DC-Back in Black
AC/DC-For Those About To Rock We Salute You
AC/DC-Fly on the Wall
Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic
Aerosmith-Rocks
Aerosmith-Pump
Alice In Chains-Dirt
The Beatles-Rubber Soul
The Beatles-Revolver
The Beatles-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles-Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles-The White Album
The Beatles-Abbey Road
The Beatles-Let It Be
The Bee Gees-Main Course
The Bee Gees-Children of the World
The Bee Gees-Spirits Having Flown
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Blondie-Parallel Lines
Blondie-AutoAmerican
Bon Jovi-Slippery When Wet
Chicago-The Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago-Chicago II
Chicago-Chicago III
Chicago-Chicago V
Chicago-Chicago X
Chicago-Chicago 17
Eric Clapton-401 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton-Slowhand
Phil Collins-Face Value
Cream-Disraeli Gears
Def Leppard-Pyromania
Def Leppard-Hysteria
The Doors-The Doors
The Doors-Strange Days
The Doors-L.A. Woman
Devo-Freedom of Choice
Eagles-Hotel California
Fleetwood Mac-Rumors
Peter Gabriel-SO
Peter Gabriel-US
Genesis-Selling England By The Pound
Genesis-Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis-Trick Of the Tail
Genesis-Duke
Genesis-Genesis
Genesis-We Can't Dance
Guns N' Roses-Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses-GNR Lies
Guns N' Roses-Use Your Illusion II
George Harrison-All Good Things Must Pass
Billy Joel-Piano Man
Billy Joel-The Stranger
Billy Joel-The Nylon Curtain
Billy Joel-Storm Front
Elton John-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John-Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Norah Jones-Come Away With Me
Cyndi Lauper-She's So Unusual
Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin-How The West Was Won (live)
John Lennon-Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon-Imagine
Madonna-Like A Virgin
Paul McCartney and Wings-Band on the Run
Kylie Minogue-Kylie
Kylie Minogue-Fever
Motley Crue-Shout at the Devil
Motley Crue-Dr. Feelgood
Nirvana-Nevermind
Ozzy Osbourne-Blizzard of Ozz
Ozzy Osbourne-Diary of a Madman
Prince-1999
Prince-Purple Rain
Prince-Dimaonds And Pearls
Rush-2112
Rush-Moving Pictures
Rush-Signals
Rush-Grace Under Pressure
Rush-Power Windows
Rush-Roll The Bones
Rush-Test For Echo
The Rolling Stones-Aftermath
The Rolling Stones-Begger's Banquit
The Rolling Stones-Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers
The Rolling stones-Exile on Main Street
The Rolling Stones-Some Girls
The Rolling Stones-Undercover
Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen-Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen-The River
Bruce Springsteen-Nabraska
Bruce Springsteen-Born In The USA
Bruce Springsteen-Tunnel of Love
Van Halen-Van Halen
Van Halen-Fair Warning
Van Halen-1984
Van Halen-5150
Van Halen-For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
The Who-Who's Next

I only got a few

This Is My Time - Raven-Symone
Autobiography - Ashlee Simpson
That's So Raven soundtrack ( do soundtracks count?)

My top ten, one from each artist:

The Beatles, Revolver
The Who, Who's Next
Chuck Berry, The Great Twenty-Eight
The Rolling Stones, Beggar's Banquet
Fairport Convention, Unhalfbricking
Marvin Gaye, What's Going On
Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic
Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding
The Band, the Brown Album (second LP)
Family, Fearless

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is my all time favorite album. I will never get tired of it.

Clay Aiken - Measure Of A Man
Britney Spears - My Prerogative
Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
Elvis - 1
Christina Aguilera - Stripped
Chicago - Chicago movie soundtrack

My top ten, one from each artist:

The Beatles, Revolver
The Who, Who's Next
The Rolling Stones, Beggar's Banquet


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this is a cool thread...its so hard for me to pick favorites but I'll do my best.

I can say that over the last year theres been this one particular album that I have almost worn holes in by now. Everytime I listen to it I fall more in love with the extradordinary talents of this gal and that is why I will say that my ALL TIME favorite album is ::drumroll:: The Diary of Alicia Keys by Alicia Keys (drrrrrr). This is an album that I can see myself listening to next year, 5 years from now, 20 years from now, the retirement home, etc. I'm tellin yall Alicia is gonna be a legend she's our generations Aretha.
^^^^I just wanted to make a big deal outta that lol :lol:


Okay for my other favorites (after Usher, theres no particualr order):
Usher - My Way
Usher - 8701
Usher - Confessions
TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool
TLC - Fanmail
Boyz II Men - II
Aretha Franklin - EVERYTHING BY HER
Various Artists - Motown #1's
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
Salt N Pepa -Very Necessary
Missy Elliott -Under Construction
Mind, Body, and Soul - Joss Stone

The Beatles;
Please Please Me
Beatles For Sale
Revolver
Sgt Pepper
Magical Mystery Tour
Rubber Soul
Abbey Road


The Doors;
Strange Days
Morrison Hotel
L. A. Woman
Soft Parade

Dwight Yoakam- This Time

CCR- Chronicle

Three Dog Night -Greatest Hits

Doobie Brothers- Greatest Hits

Guess Who- Greatest Hits

Ok, I am a sucker for Greatest Hits albums! :crazy:

ABC - Up
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Regina Belle - Stay With Me
Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
Culture Club - Colour By Numbers
Terence Trent D'arby - Symphony or Damn
Terence Trent D'arby - Introducing The Hardline
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Donnie - The Colored Section
Earth Wind & Fire - That's The Way of The World
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Grease Motion Picture Soundtrack
Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
India.Arie - Acoustic Soul
Janet Jackson - Control
Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Grace Jones - Inside Story
Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Claudine Motion Picture Soundtrack
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna - Ray of Light
George Michael - Faith
Musiq Soulchild - Aijuswanaseing
Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Plantation Lullabies
Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion
Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay
Prince - 1999
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - Sign O The Times
Prince - The Gold Experience
Prince - The Black Album
Rachid - Prototype
Ready For The World - Ready For The World
R.E.M. - Out of Time
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
Saturday Night Fever Motion Picture Soundtrack
Seal - Seal (1994)
Seal - Human Being
Seal - Seal IV
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Sting - Dream of The Blue Turtles
Sting - Nothing Like The Sun
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
West Side Story Motion Picture Soundtrack
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book

Audioslave - Audioslave
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
Christopher Cross - Christopher Cross
Freaks and Geeks Original Soundtrack and Score
John Frusciante - Shadows Collide With People
John Frusciante - DC EP
John Frusciante - To Record Only Water For Ten Days
John Frusciante - The Will To Death
Guns N' Roses-Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses-GNR Lies
Heart - Little Queen
Heart - Dog & Butterfly
Heart - Magazine
Heart - Jupiter's Darling
Heart - Heart
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson - janet.
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Maxwell - Urban Hang Suite
New Edition - Heart Break
Pearl Jam - Ten
Prince - Controversy
Prince - Sign O' The Times
Prince - 1999
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - One Nite Alone...Live!
Prince - The Gold Experience
Prince - Musicology
Prince - N.E.W.S.
Prince - Dirty Mind
Prince - Come
Prince - Around The World In A Day
Red Hot Chili Peppers -Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Sade - Love Deluxe
Sade - Promise
Sade - Diamond Life
Sade - Stronger Than Pride
Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool
Nancy Wilson - Live At McCabes' Guitar Shop

Honorable mentions:

Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
Family, A Song For Me
The Beatles, the White Album
Crosby, Stills and Nash, self-titled debut
Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield Again
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Green River
Stevie Wonder, Innervisions
Nick Drake, Bryter Layter
Joe Cocker, Joe Cocker!
Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland
Jethro Tull, Stand Up
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon

Resuscitating an abandoned thread.

The Beatles, Revolver
The Beatles, Abbey Road
The Beatles, The White Album
Beck, Guero
Blink-182, Blink-182
Brandy, Never Say Never
The Cardigans, Gran Turismo
Christina Aguilera, Stripped
The Clash, London Calling
Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Cure, Boys Don't Cry
Depeche Mode, Exciter
The Doors, The Doors
Dr. Dre, The Chronic
Dr. Dre, 2001
Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP
Finch, What It Is to Burn
Foo Fighters, One by One
Garbage, Version 2.0
Green Day, Dookie
Green Day, nimrod.
Green Day, American Idiot
Gwen Stefani, Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
Jay-Z, Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
Jay-Z, The Black Album
Jimmy Eat World, Futures
Justin Timberlake, Justified
The Killers, Hot Fuss
Led Zeppelin,Led Zeppelin IV
Lisa Marie Presley, To Whom It May Concern
Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose
Madonna, Like a Virgin
Madonna, Bedtime Stories
Mariah Carey, Daydream
Mariah Carey, The Emancipation of Mimi
Michael Jackson, Off the Wall
Michael Jackson, Thriller
Morrissey, You Are the Quarry
Nirvana, Nevermind
Nirvana, In Utero
No Doubt, Tragic Kingdom
No Doubt, Rock Steady
The Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die
The Notorious B.I.G., Life After Death
NWA, Straight Outta Compton
Outkast, Stankonia
Peaches, Teaches of Peaches
Peter Gabriel, So
Pink, Missundaztood
Radiohead, OK, Computer
Radiohead, The Bends
Rage Against the Machine, The Battle of Los Angeles
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sex Sugar Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication
Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers
Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
The Smiths, Hatful of Hollow
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
Snoop Dogg, Doggystyle
Sublime, Sublime
Sum 41, Chuck
TLC, CrazySexyCool
TLC, FanMail
The Used, The Used
Usher, My Way
Velvet Revolver, Contraband
Weezer, Weezer [The Blue Album]
Weezer, Pinkerton
William Shatner, Has Been
White Stripes, Elephant

Cher-The Very Best of Cher
Whitney Houston-The Greatest Hits
Diana Ross-Life and Love Greatest Hits
Dusty Springfield-Greatest Hits
Tom Jones-Greatest Hits
Natalie Imbruglia-White Lillies Island and Left of the Middle
Christina Aguilera-Stripped
Britney Spears-Britney
Abba-Thankyou for the Music
Mariah Carey-Rainbow
Maroon 5-Songs About Jane
Madonna-The Immaculate Collection

Old thread, but I liked this one! Haha, the Beatles are gonna be hard for me, but I'll try and narrow it down.

(* denotes my very favorites)

Here's my list:

Abba

- Abba (1975)
- Arrival (1977) *

The Beatles

- Please Please Me (1963)
- Help! (1965)
- Rubber Soul (1965)
- Revolver (1966) *
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967) *
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
- The White Album (1968) *

Billy Joel

- Piano Man (1973) *
- The Stranger (1977)
- Glass Houses (1980)
- Songs in the Attic (1981) *
- The Nylon Curtain (1982)
- Storm Front (1989)

Cyndi Lauper

- She's So Unusual (1984)

Death Cab For Cutie

- You Can Play These Songs With Chords (2002)
- Plans (2005)

Donovan

- Donovan's Greatest Hits (1969)

The Doors

- The Doors (1967)
- Strange Days (1967) *
- Waiting for the Sun (1968)
- Morrison Hotel (1970)

Electric Light Orchestra

- Electric Light Orchestra's Greatest Hits (1979)


Elton John

- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
- Captain Fantasic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) *

George Harrison

- All Things Must Pass (1970)
- Brainwashed (2002)

Heart

- Dreamboat Annie (1976)

Interpol

- Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
- Antics (2004) *

John Lennon

- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
- Imagine (1971) *
- Walls and Bridges (1974) *
- Lennon Legend (1998)

Led Zeppelin

- Led Zeppelin (1969) *
- Led Zeppelin II (1969)
- Led Zeppelin III (1970)
- Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
- Houses of the Holy (1973) *
- Physical Graffiti (1975)

Madonna

- Madonna (1983)
- Like A Virgin (1984) *

Michael Jackson

- Thriller (1982)
- Bad (1987)

Nirvana

- Bleach (1989)
- Nevermind (1991) *
- Incesticide (1992)
- In Utero (1993) *
- MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)

Paul McCartney

- McCartney (1970)
- Ram (1971) *
- Flaming Pie (1997)

Pearl Jam

- Ten (1991)


Pink Floyd

- Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
- A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
- Relics (1971) *
- The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
- The Wall (1979) *

The Red Hot Chili Peppers

- Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)

Simon and Garfunkel

- Sounds of Silence (1966)
- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966)
- Bookends (1968)
- The Essential Simon and Garfunkel (2003) *

The Smashing Pumpkins

- Siamese Dream (1993)
- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)


Wow, that's not even counting soundtrack or pop, rap, etc type groups :eek:

That's a great list you have there, Kristel. :)

I don't even remember posting in this thread it was so long ago. :lol:

Thank you! I feel like I missed a few things too :lol:

That's a great list you have there, Kristel. :)

Yikes...some long lists here.....Ill just go with a top 10

1- Let's Knife- Shonen Knife
2- The Collection- Buddy Holly
3- Brand New Knife- Shonen Knife
4- Rock Animals- Shonen Knife
5- Heavy songs- Shonen Knife
6- For the first time anywhere- Buddy Holly
7- Abbey Road- Beatles
8- Sgt Pepper- Beatles
9- SI,SI,SI- Andrews Sisters
10- Film Favorites- Bing Crosby