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Favorite Album Through The Decades

#2
60s The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
70s Queen - A Night At The Opera
80s The Police - Synchronicity
90s Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
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Sting - Ten Summoner Tales
00s Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
 
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faulknersj said:
I'm just gonna list my favorite album of all time.

U2- 'The Unforgettable Fire'

Mad props to Brian Eno and the band on this one.

Decades later...I still hear something new everytime I listen to this masterpiece.
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:hyper:

One of my all-time faves too. A mention of this album is especially appropriate today, as I'm from India and tomorrow is this year's summer solstice ('Indian Summer Sky') :D

Edit: I wonder if that song's actually about India :p
 
#7
60's: Led Zeppelin I- Any Hendrix- My Generation- Sgt. Peppers/Magical Mystery Tour- Bayou Country-The Doors

70's: Master Of Reality- A Night At The Opera- Sad Wings Of Destiny- Machine Head- Toys In The Attic- Jailbreak

80's: Iron Maiden- Kill Em' All- Show No Mercy- Earth A.D./Wolfsblood- The Legacy- Melissa- Wow, could go on for days and days and days and days...

90's: Individual Thought Patterns- Once Upon The Cross- The Bleeding- Storm Of The Lights Bane- The Fragile Art Of Existence- Painkiller- Yeah, days and days...

00's: Reinkaos- Process Of A New Decline- Enemy Of God- Hatebreeder- Kill/Evisceration Plague- Epitaph- Cosmogenesis- seriously, weeks/months/years

I suck at narrowing down my favorites... :D
 
#12
Rockmusician said:
Unfortunately, there hasn't been an album that has come out since the 80's that I have found even remotely interesting.
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It's tempted to agree...though I think that says more about how music fits into my life now (and has since the 1980s) versus the way it did in the 60s and 70s. I would say that once we reach a certain age it's impossible to be as "innocent" or as "impressionable" as we once were, and so it becomes very difficult to experience music as this overwhelmingly WONDERFUL thing like we once could. After your mind's been blown once or twice or a dozen times it gets progressively harder and harder to blow it again; so that even if someone did make an album in the 1990s that was as good as (say) Sgt Pepper, it would actually have to be better than Sgt. Pepper in order to have the same impact.
 
#15
Favorites is impossible, there are too many. But it was interesting to think about which ones are in heaviest rotation in my cd satchel in my car:

60's: Santana (self-titled), The Byrds 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo'
70's: Neil Young & Crazy Horse 'Live Rust,' Joni Mitchell 'Hejira,' Genesis 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'
80's: Kate Bush 'Hounds of Love,' Public Image Ltd. 'Album,' David Bowie 'Lodger'
90's: Crowded House 'Woodface,' Heidi Berry 'Love,' Dead Can Dance 'Into The Labyrinth,' Peter Gabriel 'Us'
00's: Can't do it! There's too much... Steve Earle, Cat Power, Alison Krauss, Wilco, Drive By Truckers, My Morning Jacket, Gillian Welsh & Dave Rawlings, Hayes Carll (gotta stop now)....
 
#17
'60s - White Album - The Beatles
'70s - The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
'80s - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
'90s - Use Your Illusions I and II - Guns N' Roses / Urban Hymns - The Verve (Tied for this place)
'00s - Only By the Night - Kings of Leon

Such a random mix
 

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