albums? what's an album grandpa?

Its funny, I just had to explain this to my 6 year old. He doesn't know what a CD is, only files on an ipod, so he doesn't understand that artists release blocks of songs at one time.

On the one hand, that's frightening. On the other, I guess he is only six.

I mourn the death of the record shop, which the downloading of music is fast bringing about. I don't like downloading songs. I like to go into a shop and purchase a physical object that I can hold in my hand.

How long is it going to be before we all have a cybernetic implant, and just download music and films directly into our brains?

Master of Puppets by Metallica is a great piece of art. Definitely one of my favourites.

Funeral by Arcade Fire - maybe not my favourite of all time, but as far as a whole record goes, Funeral was solid.

My favourites:
Nevermind - Nirvana
Cure for Pain - Morphine
Funeral - Arcade Fire

wow.... I wrote this before I see your post kaptinkool...nice coincidence...same album almost at the same time... must mean it is really good :)

Haha, nice! And yes it was really good.

I hope you have had the chance to see them LIVE...
Even better then listening to the album... great show.

Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf.

U2: Joshua Tree
Boston: Boston and Third Stage (Don't Look Back is OK, but not as good as the other two)
Staind: Illusion of Progress, Chapter V and Break the Cycle
Rush: Moving Pictures
Yes: Fragile and 90125
Aerosmith: Pump, Permanent Vacation, and Aerosmith
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Caribou, and Captain Fantastic
Billy Joel: The Stranger and 52nd Street

A few off the top of my head:

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut
Big Head Todd and the Monsters: Stratagem, Midnight Radio
REM: Fables of the Reconstruction
The Replacements: Please to Meet Me
The Clash: London Calling
SRV: Texas Flood

"Pink Floyd: The Final Cut"

Wow. Whenever I look at lists of 'Favorite Floyd Albums', this is always dead last. But its my favorite too.

Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruits for Rotting Vegetables
Meat Puppets: Meat Puppets II
U2: Joshua Tree
Enya: Watermark

and anything released by Neil Diamond

@DJ - I like Animals, Meddle and Wish You Were Here a lot too, but Final Cut is way underrated. For anyone growing up in the 80's with real fear of nuclear war - it was very realistic - and musically it is solid too.

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell
RHCP - Californication
The Beatles - The White Album
SRV - Texas Flood
AC/DC - Back in Black
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
BOC - Fire of Unknown Origin
Bob Marley - Legend
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Led Zeppelin - IV
Queen - Queen I
Radiohead - OK Computer
REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
The Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes
Van Halen - Van Halen I

Sorry for the long list. I LOVE music.

David Gray-White Ladder
Guster-Ganging up on the Sun
Coldplay- All of their albums :)
Muse-Black holes and revelations
polydream-send me to the sun- (if you know this band I would be surprised)
Shiny toy guns- we are pilots
the who-who's next
Anberlin-cities
AVA- I-Empire
The bravery- the sun and moon(including the moon versions)


and so many more, as well as many that have been listed already

Def Leppard - Hysteria
AC/DC - Back in Black
Armoured Saint - Symbol of Salvation
Queensryche - Empire
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

old, old, old and OLD!!! Geeze doesn't anyone listen to new rock anymore? No wonder Rap and Pop dominate the radio today.

Flaming Lips-Embryonic
Radiohead-In Rainbows
= the best albums of 2009 and 2008.
Also check out The Kings of Leon and Arcade Fire.

i listen to new rock but i'm not the biggest fan of KOL. and pop dominates the radio cause of the insane number of 15 year old girls who listen to that. that group also includes such players as figles and draugnar ;)

Pocket Full of Kryptonite-Spin Doctors

ohhhh Someone call the BURN ward!

As for old albums....
Rock = ACDC- Dirty Deeds
Led Zepplin- 4 and House of the Holy

Metal = Slayer- Reign in Blood
Metallica- Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets

Other = Nirvana-Nevermind and (I can't remember the name)
Soundgarden- Superunknown
Stone Temple Pilots- Four

i had already contacted them before stating such words :)

Boston: Boston
AC/DC: Back in Black
Rush: Moving Pictures
Pearl Jam: Ten
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Weezer: Make Believe
Avenged Sevenfold: City of Evil
Rise Against: Appeal to Reason
The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
System of a Down: Mezmerize

If I had to pick a favorite it would probably be Pearl Jam.

"old, old, old and OLD!!! Geeze doesn't anyone listen to new rock anymore? No wonder Rap and Pop dominate the radio today."

The older stuff is the best. There is a lot of popular rock that people like for some reason, but in truth it sucks (ie Nickleback).

A recent album that I like is Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony".

+2 Hunter for both the Nickleback reference for sucking, and the new Breaking Benjamin album for being good.

ahahahahahaha nickleback :) sometimes i wonder about how they are so successful.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/nollpost/mrnspace/mullet2.jpg

oops. Disregard that.

Beatles - Sgt. Pepper (the way it was meant to be... with Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on it... they were going to be on it but were released as singles and thus, according to the habit at the time, delayed their LP release until Magical Mystery Tour)
Radiohead - OK Computer
U2 - Joshua Tree
Cure - Head on the Door
Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
Pink Floyd - Animals
Joy Division - Closer
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Santana - Abraxas
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

Yet more old stuff from me .....

Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
The Doors - The Doors
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Grateful Dead - Live Dead (I could include almost any of the live Dead albums!)
Yes - The Yes Album
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Paul Kantner - Blows Against the Empire

They are just some of my favourites - not politically significant - just given me much pleasure over the years and bring back good memories.

Ugh, national embarassment when Nickelback played at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Newer rock is good too. Don't get stuck in your classic rock and older prog rock. There's a whole new world out there, and I'm not talking about that crappy radio pop-rock or the travesty that is nu-grunge or whatever the hell its called. You know what I mean. But then, why limit yourself to rock? =P

Check out some of these:
Band of Horses
Blackfield
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Grandaddy
Grizzly Bear
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Hey Rosetta!
Porcupine Tree
Sunset Rubdown
The Wrens
Wilco

Granted, some of these may stretch the definition of rock, but whatever. I'm not even getting into post-rock. =)

There's too much good music around. Much more bad music, but still, way too much good music. I'll never live long enough.

You have fine taste music Chrispminis.

I'll name some of my favourite 90's albums:
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Rain
Yo La Tengo - I Can Heart Beating as One
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Air - Moon Safari
Daft Punk - Homework
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
Weezer - Pinkerton
Nirvana - Nevermind
Ween - The Mollusk
Wilco - Being There
Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
The La's - The La's

I think maybe the Shins might be close to my favourite band of the 2000s thus far. (It really is hard to say, I listen to so much music, but that's how I feel right now).

That should read:
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (I could have just as easily said Slanted and Enchanted or Wowee Zowee).

Also it should say
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One

I'll try to stick to one per band, and exclude Greatest Hits

Pulp - Different Class
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Blur - Parklife
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
Suede - Coming Up
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Primitives - Pure
The Wonder Stuff - 8 Legged Groove Machine
Garbage - Version 2.0
Foo Fighters - One By One
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Little Boots - Hands
Air - Moon Safari
The Proclaimers - This Is The Story
REM - Automatic For The People
Radiohead - The Bends
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Guns'n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Terrorvision - How To Win Freinds And Influence People
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
KT Tunstall - Eye To The telescope
Lady Gaga - The Fame
Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
Jesus Jones - Liquidiser
The Fratellis - Costello Music
Florence & The Machine - Lungs
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Felgate
Green Day - Dookie

i like classic rock, but i never understood why so many people liked pink floyd.

as far as older music-
let there be rock - AC/DC
dr feelgood - motley crue
appetite for destruction - guns n roses

newer stuff
all killer no filler - sum 41
enema of the state - blink 182
from here to infirmary - alkaline trio
ixnay on the hombre - the offspring
energy - operation ivy

ill probably get criticized a lot for that last list, along with my disapproval of pink floyd, but oh well.

Ride the Lightning - Metallica
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
System of a Down - System of a Down
Origin of Symmetry - Muse
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
High Voltage - AC/DC
Led Zeppelin I - Led Zeppelin
A Night at the Opera - Queen

There are so many others that are great, but to many to list hahaha

@iMurk789, I actually didn't get Pink Floyd at all until later... I think it was their pace... very slow... as well as their habit of developing ideas over sometimes 20 minutes or more that caused me to not pay them attention... that and the fact that their biggest hits were (and continue to be) for me the songs that were poppy and of the least interest (Money and Another Brick in the Wall, for example)... so I discounted them without listening to their albums from start to finish. However, that said, given your posted tastes I'm not sure you would get into one of their albums (they might simply be too soft and slow). You might get something out of their earliest stuff - Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Relics would be interesting to try (only if you can stomach '60s psychedelia, though... as some of their earliest stuff is a bit dated that way... but at least it is quirky and faster paced which might appeal to you).

Oh - and I forgot to include these on my list:
Genesis - Duke
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
The Cars - Heartbreak City
Depeche Mode - Violator

I appreciate the new music lists, by the way... some of the groups I know and already like (The Shins, for example) but it is a constant learning curve... so much good music to discover. I'm actually going to plug in a number of these into YouTube or Amazon and see what they sound like. Strangely enough I'm often willing to buy unknown groups based on 30 second clips of songs...

In no order whatsoever

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Rush - Moving Pictures
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 1
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Pink Floyd - Animals
Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Metallica - Ride The Lighting
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Forgot a couple that haven't been mentioned:
Son Volt - Trace
Gov't Mule - Banks of the Deep End (vol.1 and 2)
Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
Indigenous - Waiting for the Sun