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What Are Your Favorite Albums?

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nutso42

Jul 6, 2009
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#1
I searched for this, but didn't see anything. So then...!

What are your favorite albums? The ones you enjoy listening to most, the ones that inspire your bass playing most, anything!

For me, my five favorite albums of all time would be:
1. London Calling - The Clash
2. Animals - Pink Floyd
3. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
4. A Creature I Don't Know - Laura Marling
5. Stop Making Sense! - Talking Heads


However, the ones that most inspire my bass playing:
1. Snakes and Arrows - Rush
2. London Calling - The Clash
3. Fragile - Yes
4. The Wall - Pink Floyd


Any other opinions/recommendations?
 
#2
Hemispheres
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Moving Pictures
2112
The Yes Album
Fly By Night
Caress Of Steel
Fragile

Oh, and Rust In Peace - Megadeth

And on the urban side:
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco's The Cool - Lupe Fiasco
Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Part I - Lupe Fiasco

...ya, I like Rush, Yes, and Lupe
 
#3
Most enjoyable for me to listen
Stadium Arcadium, Uplift Mofo Party Plan, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, By The Way, and Californication -Red Hot Chili Peppers
Evil Empire- Rage Against the Machine
Animal- Animosity
A Show of Hands- Victor Wooten
Curtains and Shadow Collides with People- John Frusciante
Decimate the Weak and Great Stone War- Winds of Plague

Most influential albums on my playing
Stadium Arcadium- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blue Train- John Coltrane
Rage Against the Machine- Rage Against the Machine
Jaco Pastorius- Jaco Pastorius
Let's Stay Together- Al Green
What's Going On- Marvin Gaye
 
#10
Primus: Miscellaneous Debris
Led Zeppelin-4 (or ZOSO)
Jimi Hendrix- Band of Gypsys
Cymande-Cymande
The Doors-The Best of the Doors
Incubus-Make Yourself
Pearl Jam- Yield & Ten
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Puscifer- Conditions of My Parole
Soulive- Break Out
Soundgarden-Superunknown(Badmotorfinger as well)
Stevie Wonder-Original Musiquarium
Clutch-Pure Rock Fury (the rest of their albums are second...i think)
Stone Temple Pilots- Purple and No. 4
Tool- 10,000 Days
Type O Negative- Bloody Kisses and October Rust
311- Grassroots


Not in any order, just what I saw in my Itunes
 
#11
Ill bring some young life (and probably hate) to this and say
1. 30 seconds to mars-this is war
2. All staind albums
3. Count bassie-the complete atomic bassie (on record)
4. Bach-the bradenburg concertos (if they count as an album)
5. August burns red-constellations
6. Parkway drive-deep blue
 
#12
sharp8874 said:
Ill bring some young life (and probably hate) to this and say
1. 30 seconds to mars-this is war
2. All staind albums
3. Count bassie-the complete atomic bassie (on record)
4. Bach-the bradenburg concertos (if they count as an album)
5. August burns red-constellations
6. Parkway drive-deep blue
Click to expand...

I think Staind is great, and so is August Burns Red. Safe Place and Waste are some of my favorite songs by Staind, and Mariana's Trench is my favorite August Burns Red song.
 
#14
After the Gold Rush
Harvest
The Beatles (White Album)
Abbey Road
Electric Ladyland
In the West (also Jimi Hendrix)
A Farewell to Kings
Caress of Steel
Let it Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Who's Next
Teaser and the Firecat
Sweet Baby James
Tapestry
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin II
London Calling
Dark Side of the Moon
The Wall
Wish You Were Here
The Fine Art of Surfacing (Boomtown Rats)
Road to Ruin (Ramones)
Amadeus Soundtrack
Any Symphony Playing Beethoven's Fifth or Ninth Symphonies
Any Symphony Playing Stravinsky's The Firebird or Rite of Spring
Never Mind the Bollocks
Toys in the Attic
Rocks
Get Your Wings
Hair of the Dog
Abraxas
Moonflower
Elegant Gypsy
School Days
Heavy Weather
Kind of Blue
The Genius of Ray Charles
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Layla and Other Love Songs
Days of Future Passed
Killer (Alice Cooper)
Welcome to my Nightmare
Love it to Death
Aqualung
Thick as a Brick
Highway 61 Revisited
They Only Come Out at Night
Live at the Fillmore East
The Doors
LA Woman
The Soft Parade
The Roaring Silence (Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
In the Court of the Crimson King
The Yes Album
Close to the Edge
Leftoverture
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Brain Salad Surgery
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races
News of the World
A New World Record
Out of the Blue
Paranoid
Master of Reality
Agents of Fortune
Déjà Vu
Woodstock Soundtrack
Diamonds and Rust
Pearl
Cheap Thrills
Blue (Joni Mitchell)
Court and Spark
 
#17
Born to Run - Springsteen
Live Bullet -Seger
Bitches Brew - Davis
Mothership Connection - Parliament
Stray Cats - Stray Cats
Axis: Bold as Love - Hendrix
Couldn't Stand the Weather - SRV
Saints and Sinners - Winter
 
#18
King Crimson - Red
Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (Live)
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Dead
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
Electric President - Self/Titled
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Beck - Sea Change
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
David Bowie - Heroes
 
#19
Aja - Steely Dan
Fragile - YES
TIE* Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation - Frank Zappa
Selling England By The Pound - Genesis
School Days - Stanley Clarke
Taste For Passion - Jean Luc Ponty
Songs From The Wood - Jethro Tull


Yea I am an old guy...
 
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