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Your Favorite Record Of All Time

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fart

Savant
here's mine:
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The Microphones - The Glow Pt 2 (2001)

this album saved my life. In so many words...

"there are so many GREAT things about rock and roll - but what about my?"
-Courtney Love on the Hives

post yours! limit 1!
 

Substance

Member
1. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
2. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
3. Love - Forever Changes
4. Paul Simon - Graceland
5. Beck - Odelay
6. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
7. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
8. Weezer - Blue Album
9. Radiohead - The Bends
10. Doolittle, Blood on the Tracks, Led Zeppelin IV, Odyssey and Oracle, Kink Kronikles etc etc. You get the point.

Haha, yeah, the new AMG format is overloaded:/
 

Triumph

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If I could only have one album to listen to for the rest of eternity, I can honestly say that I would never get tired of this one:

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SD-Ness

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Raoul Duke said:
If I could only have one album to listen to for the rest of eternity, I can honestly say that I would never get tired of this one:

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Words of widsom. Miles Davis, pure genius.
 

fart

Savant
Gribbix said:
Funny. I was intending on picking up the Glow pt. 2 tomorrow.
i'd like to say that i'm phil's biggest fan, but sadly there are others far more fanatical than i am. i even missed him a couple months ago.

i'll never forgive myself :(
 

Substance

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Damn you all, I feel humiliated now for posting ten albums and not just my most essential record:(
Anyway, the Substance pick is 'Rubber Soul'. It inspired Wilson for 'Pet Sounds' and captures the Beatles at their peak pop euphoria before they delved into the druggy, but just as rewarding, sounds of their final four albums. You will not find a more graceful pop album.
 
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Zaireeka by the Flaming Lips. It's one album split up onto 4 cds that you have to get some friends together with 4 cd players to play all at the same time. It's different everytime you listen to it. And it's all surround sound, and delicious.
 

fart

Savant
Litigation Manuel said:
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Zaireeka by the Flaming Lips. It's one album split up onto 4 cds that you have to get some friends together with 4 cd players to play all at the same time. It's different everytime you listen to it. And it's all surround sound, and delicious.
damn, i kind of want a physical copy of this. i've only heard the mixdown version.
 

Dead

well not really...yet
spangler said:
Probably Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Super good stuff.
I knew this was coming, heh

Edit: not from you, but the album
 
Blur - Parklife.

Well you and IIIIIIIIIIIIII. Collapsed in looooo-oove, and it loooooooks liiiiike we might've made it. Yes, the eeeend. Looks like we've made it to the eeeeeeend.
 
It seems like I'm one of the only people who enjoyed the album -- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea -- the first few listens, and then became bored with it after a couple of weeks.
 
ballhog said:
You really like the Use Your Illusions better than say.... anything else by G&R?

Anything else by GNR? The only other options are:

Appetite for Destruction
Lies
The Spaghetti Incident

As great as those are, Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 are my favorite. The 2 albums combined span 30 songs of what I think are the greatest rock songs and ballads I've ever heard -- what more could I ask for?
 

spangler

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I can understand why one would get bored with Neutral Milk Hotel. I haven't, though. Can't really get into Mangum's Bulgarian folk music obsession, unfortunately. On a somewhat related note, the reissue of those Olivia Tremor Control albums a few months back was an awfully nice surprise. The Circulatory System album is pretty good as well. Hell, I'd recommend the majority of the Elephant Six releases to anyone. Oddly, though, I can also see where one might hate all of these albums.


Or can I...?
 

ballhog

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ItalianStallion said:
Anything else by GNR? The only other options are:

Appetite for Destruction
Lies
The Spaghetti Incident

As great as those are, Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 are my favorite. The 2 albums combined span 30 songs of what I think are the greatest rock songs and ballads I've ever heard -- what more could I ask for?

Maybe I'm just lumping those albums in with "November Rain", which for whatever reason, has recently reappeared on the local radio stations regular rotation. I hate that song, just so endlessly boring. Also "Civil War", aside from humans, I can't think of anyone with grocery stores. What the hell is Axl talking about??
 
spangler said:
I can understand why one would get bored with Neutral Milk Hotel. I haven't, though. Can't really get into Mangum's Bulgarian folk music obsession, unfortunately. On a somewhat related note, the reissue of those Olivia Tremor Control albums a few months back was an awfully nice surprise. The Circulatory System album is pretty good as well. Hell, I'd recommend the majority of the Elephant Six releases to anyone. Oddly, though, I can also see where one might hate all of these albums.


Or can I...?
And I fell in love with Neutral Milk Hotel not because of what I heard on On the Aeroplane Over the Sea, but because of "Gardenhead, Leave me Alone" off of On Avery Island.
 
ballhog said:
Maybe I'm just lumping those albums in with "November Rain", which for whatever reason, has recently reappeared on the local radio stations regular rotation. I hate that song, just so endlessly boring. Also "Civil War", aside from humans, I can't think of anyone with grocery stores. What the hell is Axl talking about??

I'm not a fan of November Rain either, the song doesn't do much for me. Not one of the high points for Use Your Illusion 1

As for Civil War, I think he's talking about how the government goes ahead and drafts people, as though they're going to the grocery store and picking out who they need. Then again that may not be what he's trying to get across, but that's how I interpret it.

"I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store"

NOW AINT THAT FRESH!?
 
Making a top 10 list would be easy, choosing just one is hard. But if I had to, I'd go with Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. I don't care if it's a too-obvious answer, I really, truly love the album that much.
 

nitewulf

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all time favorite record is very hard to pick for me. when i was younger, ie, when i seriously started to delve into music around the age of 12...i only listened to classic rock, and mostly albums. but now i just dont have the time to check out albums, i have become a "singles" collection guy...and my taste also changed drastically.
i mean, by the time i was 17 i sorta got burnt out on classic rock. i havent heard one back to back floyd album in ages...the same guy who used to lie on his bed each day after junior high school and listened to dark side of the moon from start to finish. even so, my favorites were zeppelin and doors, could never really pick between the two, and if i had to pick an all time favorite...

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basically got me through junior high and a large part of high school. wasnt much of a socialite, so music was my escape. and morrison's lyrics described my cynical view of humanity perfectly.
 

ballhog

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ItalianStallion said:
I'm not a fan of November Rain either, the song doesn't do much for me. Not one of the high points for Use Your Illusion 1

As for Civil War, I think he's talking about how the government goes ahead and drafts people, as though they're going to the grocery store and picking out who they need. Then again that may not be what he's trying to get across, but that's how I interpret it.

"I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store"

NOW AINT THAT FRESH!?

I know, it's just a terrible metaphor.
 
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