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+1 on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Disintegration
YoshimI Battles the Pink Robots
Paul Simon - Graceland
Boston - First album
MJ - Off the Wall
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
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On a limb here, but the only other albums I liked all the way through that I still listen to often are
Enya - First Album
Moodswings - MoodFood (Most have never heard of it, kind of a new age sound), and
Vangelis - Direct, and Vangelis, Oceanic.
The Plan '15 → /// "Run Hard, Live Easy." ∞
Yeah, I guess +1 for Appetite for Destruction. I've gone back and forth all day about it but if I were stranded on an island I would want it.
Big +1 for Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms. Also like the picks for Boston, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & Cars. Lots of great suggestions. A few more off the top of my head -
Eagles - Hotel California
Pink Floyd - Animals
Rush - Permanent Waves
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic or Get your Wings
Yeah, I'm old
Warm&fuzzy
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Jamey Johnson - That Lonesome song
+1 to Car Wheels and Disintegration
Runner with a riding problem.
Don't dig Animals.
Love Aerosmith's first three albums. Pretty much a perfect trio.
They were also my first concert back in the '75.
I'd like to add:
The Yes Album, Fragile, and Closer to The Edge as another perfect trio (Yes ---2nd concert!)
Cool Jump Suit
Van Halen I
Van Halen 5150
Both were great. Even though there were two different leads.
So bittersweet,This tragedyWon't ask for absolution;This melody,Inside of me,Still searches for solution.A twist of faith,A change of heart Cures my infatuation.A broken heart, Provides the sparkFor my determination.
an amazing likeness
Oh yes indeed, all good tracks, a comprehensive, enclosed album. So my list has now grown to:
Darkness on the Edge of Town -- Springsteen
Born to Run - Springsteen
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
Blessed - Lucinda Williams
London Calling - Clash
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
Meet the Beatles - Beatles
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
And by the way when I threw Yankee Hotel Foxtrot out there I knew it would probably be the most contemporary album in this thread...but a friend of mine pointed out earlier this week that it was released TWELVE years ago. Man did that make me feel old. Seems like just yesterday I saw them tour with this album!
Seems Yoshimi was the same year? Not an album I would have picked, but respect. I have to be in a special mood for that one though.
High?
And by the way when I threw Yankee Hotel Foxtrot out there I knew it would probably be the most contemporary album in this thread...but a friend of mine pointed out earlier this week that it was released TWELVE years ago. Man did that make me feel old. Seems like just yesterday I saw them tour with this album! Seems Yoshimi was the same year? Not an album I would have picked, but respect. I have to be in a special mood for that one though.
Best Wilco album, IMO, is Summer Teeth. But YHT is just so GOOD from beginning to end.
Agreed, I prefer Summer Teeth...but, as you say, doesn't fit the criteria.
And, perhaps, is the answer to your other question.
My 4 perfect albums are:
Alice Cooper Love it to Death
Uriah Heep The Magician's Birthday
Moody Blues In Search of the Lost Chord
Meatloaf Bat out of Hell
"dancing on the path and singing, now you got away,
you can reach the goals you set from now on, every day"
Sonata Arctica
Tiefsa
Here's some more for you...
Beastie Boys - Paul's Botique
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Nirvana - Nevermind
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Bjork - Post
Distinctively Juvenile
Break on through
Steely Dan - Aja
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Yes - Close To The Edge
King Crimson - Discipline
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
Neil Young - Zuma
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Cream - Fresh Cream
Led Zeppelin - IV
"Not to touch the Earth, not to see the Sun, nothing left to do but run, run, run..."