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[quote name='Linus27' timestamp='1406331157' post='2510788']
I think for me, my number one album I totally adore, musically, tonally and production is Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring. I think Supertramp - Breakfast in America would also be included. Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years is also a great album.
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Interesting. The Colour of Spring is a great album but doesn't come up much on lists like these. I've got it, but I haven't played it for ages. I'll have to give it another spin! :-)

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Some of my all-time-favs:

David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Amy Winehouse - Back to black
Chick Corea Acoustic Band
Nils Petter Molvaer - Khmer
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
J.S. Bach - Goldbergvariations played by Gould
Brahms - Violin Concerto, Bernstein and Gidon Kremer
Beethoven - 6th Symphony, Claudio Abbado
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm with you

... :-)

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Could probably live out the rest of my life with just these.


Deja vu CSNY
Tambu Toto
Hemispheres Rush
You know that feeling Brian Bromberg
Ah via musicom Eric Johnson
Rippingtons live in LA
Fish out of water Chris Squire
Tapestry Carole King
Maximum security Tony McAlpine
James Taylor Greatest hits (if that is allowed)

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I could say Bjork's back catalogue, as I still listen to all her albums from Debut to Biophelia, but if I were to choose one, it would possibly be Homogenic (though that would be in tight contention with Post & Verspertine).

Other's are...

Daft Punk - Homework
Kurt Elling - Nightmoves
Pearl Jam - Ten
Roni Size - New Forms
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Gungor - A Creation Liturgy

There's probably others that I'll think of later. :)

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Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of life (or indeed any of the others!)
Bruce Springteen - Born to run
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Better Days
Marvin Gaye - What's going on
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

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My rule: one album per artist, but cheating is good, m'kay?

AMM: AMMMusic
Colin Blunstone: Ennismore
André Boucourechliev: Archipel 3
John Coltrane: Ascension
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
Egg: The Civil Surface
Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
Hatfield and the North: The Rotters' Club
Karin Krog: some old (titleless?) album with John Surman
Motorpsycho: Angels and Daemons at Play
National Health: Complete
Krzysztof Penderecki: Threnos
Propaganda: A Secret Wish
Scritti Politti: Cupid & Psyche '85
John Surman: The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon (not really but it's a way cooler title than those boring reflections and withholding patterns)
David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive
Iannis Xenakis: Persephassa
Yes: Close to the Edge
Zappa: The Mothers of Prevention

I could go on for years...

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Yardbirds/Roger The Engineer - bought this because of the Stranglers covering Over Under Sideways Down but it's really grown on me. The Yardbirds have risen in my estimation from PsychBeat also rans to sixties rock must-haves. The rocked up blues are great but I also have a soft spot for Keith Relf's whimsical ditties.

60s pop psych perfection.

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Curved Air - Air Cut, its on every device I have, still listen to it regularly, since 1973. But also
Focus - Focus III, another cracking album!
Jethro Tull - Bursting Out
Genesis - Seconds Out
Yes - Relayer, Going for the One, Tales from Topographic Oceans

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Isaac Hayes Black Moses
Bootsy Collins Ahh The Name is Bootsy Baby, Stretchin Out In (A Rubber Band) or Live in Louisville 1978 (sorry can't decide)
Beasties Boys Ill Communication
James Brown Funk Power 1970 A Brand New Thang
A Tribe Called Quest Low End Theory
Brand New Heavies Brother Sister
George Clinton Computer Games
Parliament Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome, or Mothership Connection
Funkadelic One Nation Under A Groove
Deee-lite World Clique
Massive Attack Heligoland
Stevie Wonder Innervisions
Lucy Pearl Lucy Pearl
Maxwell Urban Hang Suite
Tony! Toni! Tone! Son's of Soul
Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It
D'Angelo Voodoo
De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead
Dodge Mutronic Injection Deluxe
Rick James Street Songs
Roy Ayers Destination Motherland

And many many more.....!!!

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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1406386796' post='2511101']
Music is just the BEST thing ;)
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There's a slight possibility I'm somewhat slanted in my view, seeing as that I'm a musician, but:
- I LOVE the theatre. In competition with music, it stands no chance.
- I LOVE novels. In competition with music, they stand no chance.
- I LOVE poetry. In competition with music, it stands no chance.
- I LOVE paintings. In competition with music, they stand no chance.
- I LOVE sculptures. In competition with music, they stand no chance.
- I LOVE film art. In competition with music, it stands no chance.

Music is just the BEST thing. :)

BTW; I could write a long winded serious post about this, but you wouldn't wanna read it and I don't wanna write it. The gist stays the same: music is un-effing-believably effective in its strength as to moving people... and then to think how abstract it normally is... (or exactly because of that).
I'd say music is just the BEST thing. :o :blink:

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Steely Dan . AJA

Incognito. Tribes Vibes Tribes and Scribes

Led Zepplin. Physical Graffiti

Anita Baker. Rapture

Prince. Everything

The Brand New Heavies. Trunk Funk

Rage Against The Machine. ---

Maxwell. The Urban Hang Suite

think I've covered most of my wants here. :)

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Henry The Human fly, Richard Thompson.

Way To Blue, Nick Drake.

The Good Will Out, Embrace.

In The Court Of The Crimson King, King Crimson.

A Live One, Loudon Wainwright.

Nighthawks At The Diner, Tom Waits.

Liege And Lief, Fairport Convention.

The Way we Move, Langhorne Slim & The Law.

Apollo, Brian Eno.

The Felice Brothers, The Felice Brothers.

The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths.

Gish, Smashing Pumpkins.

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Inflammable Material, SLF
London Calling,The Clash
Rocket To Russia, The Ramones
Script of the Bridge, The Chameleons
Love, The Cult
No Parlez, Paul Young
Replicas, Gary Numan


to name but a few...wow in this age of the MP3 sometimes you forget the craft that goes into making a great album

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Would be easier to list the ones I'll never listen to again!!
These are my favs;
Blackwater park- opeth.
In absentia- porcupine tree.
Murder the mountains- red fang.
Frizzle fry- primus.
Grace under pressure- rush.
Piece of mind- maiden.
Lateralus- tool.
The lamb- genesis.

I could go on, and on!!!!
:-D

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A few off the top...

Sailin' Shoes - Little Feat
Clear Spot - Cap'n Beefheart
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce
Blood on the tracks - Bob Dylan
On your feet or on your knees - Blue Oyster Cult
Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
Full House - J Geils

I guess because I played them to death when they came out and they still get the treatment now :)

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