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I have a small collection of albums (21 records and 3 45’s). Four are brand new and the rest are from the record shop and the thrift store.
My top albums:
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Patina - Peter Gregson, 2021 I recently discovered Peter Gregson about two years ago with his album, “Bach: The Cello Suites - Recomposed by Peter Gregson” I love his style of music. Cello with synths, pads, piano, orchestra. Very nice to chill out to and reflect.
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Poetzsch: The Soul of Things - Clemens Christian Poetzsch, 2021 I just discovered Poetzsch about a month ago. His music is light and flowing but can get emotional. His style is more like classical crossover.
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Double Fantasy - John Lennon & Yoko Ono, 1980 When I saw this album in the newly arrived bin in the used section at the record store, I gasped and grabbed it! Wonderful album! One of my favorite songs from this album is “Give Me Something” by Yoko Ono. I love her avant-guard style! Another favorite is “Woman” by John Lennon.
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Wonderland - Erasure, 1986 Erasure’s first album and it still sounds fresh today. I have a work friend and we send songs to each other. The songs he sends me is music from the 80’s and I really enjoy them! Cory Hart, Eurythmics, Berlin, Grace Jones, Duran Duran. Those are just a few artists we send back and forth to each other. He would tell me what songs that certain producers would produce, and the different artists of the same producer, and I’d catch on to the certain style of that producer in that particular song. It’s pretty neat to catch the similarities!
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Very Dionne - Dionne Warwick, 1970 Classic Dionne with her light vocals!
The Stooges - The Stooges, literally my favorite album of all time.
2.The Germs - GI, favorite punk band and favorite punk album.
3. Lou Reed - Transformer, one of my favorite albums ever perfect day might be my favorite song ever.
All first pressings.
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
Deftones - White pony
Alice in chains - Jar of flies
Mastodon - Once more 'round the Sun
Pink Floyd - The wall
Phenomenal list. Jar of Flies is easily on my top 5 as well!
Right now? My top five albums constantly change!
Christopher Tin - The Lost Birds
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach
Wendy Carlos ❤️
Someone recently posted her classics, full albums on YT - Switched-on and Clockwork Orange. I don't know if they're still on, given her stance on this.
Richard Hawley is such a gem. Truly a perfect album.
Yeah! Just a shame that it's so expensive. 50$ on setantabooks + shipping and taxes 💸💸😬
Love Over Gold is a great album
The Cure - Disintegration
The The - Soul Mining
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Sound - From the Lions Mouth
Radiohead - The Bends
From the lions mouth is unreal, I have it on Cd and Lp… however the cd has an additional song like 20 minutes after the last song ends
The Chameleons - Manchester's most underrated band!
Tool - Fear Inoculum (5 vinyl box set)
Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies/SAP
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Neil Young - Harvest
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Tragically Hip - Day for Night
The Crow soundtrack
Tom Waits - Raindogs
New Kingdom - Paradise Don’t come Cheap
Willie Nelson - Stardust
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Teskey Brothers - Run Home Slow
Mandolin Orange - Blindfaller
Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose
Iron Maiden- Somewhere in time
Phil Collins- Face Value
Metallica- ...And Justice For All
Arthur Blythe -Lenox Avenue Breakdown
From my vinyl collection?
Electric Light Orchestra - Time
Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge
Babymetal - Metal Galaxy
The Knack - Get The Knack
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Quality Control is super good.
Time is phenomenal
Duran Duran - Rio
Depeche Mode - Violator
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
The Cure - Disintegration
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog -
Monophonics - Sound of Sinning
Father John Misty - I love you, Honeybear
Led Zeppelin - IV
Nathaniel Ratliff and The Night Sweats - Tearing at the seams
Father John misty, hell ya. Fear Fun is near the top for me but I haven’t been able to find it at a reasonable price.
I think I got my copy of his website
Upvoting for Tearing At The Seams & Temple Of The Dog
Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor
Tame Impala - Lonerism
The Cure - Disintegration
Badbadnotgood - Talk Memory
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Oh dang it was real hard to decide after the first two, but i think this is my real top 5. From bottom to the top amazing albums!
The Cure! I should find some on my next outing!
Alice in Chains/ Unplugged 2.Canned Heat/ live at the Tupenga Coral 3.Rolling Stones / get yer Ya Yas out
Seven Mary Three/ Rock Crown
Dire Straits/ Dire Straits (1st LP)
Nirvana: unplugged
Meatmen: You still suck
Jane’s Addiction: first album
Descendents: Livage
Portishead: live at Roseland
Lenny Kravitz: unplugged
Paul Weller - S/T
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Getz/Gilberto
Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk
Pernice Brothers - Overcome by Happiness
Camel - The Snow Goose
James Brown - The Payback
Michael Brook - Affliction soundtrack
The Headhunters - Survival of the Fittest
Peter Gabriel - Us
Talking Heads - stop making sense
Green Day - dookie
Grateful Dead- American beauty
Goose- relix sessions
The sword - apocryphon
Led Zeppelin- houses of the holy
Nirvana- mtv unplugged
Dire straits- making movies
Going to cheat and choose multiple favorites for some artists:
Kate Bush - The Dreaming/50 Words For Snow
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon/Norman F’in Rockwell/Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Portishead - Dummy
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
You can never choose just one Lana 🔥
FINALLY some love for A Moon Shaped Pool
Awesome choices all the way! I haven't heard much of Lana's music though
The Butterfly Effect - Imago
Sticky Fingers - Land of Pleasure
The Mark of Cain - Ill At Ease
Nirvana - Unplugged
Placebo - A Place For Us To Dream
My top five changes constantly. But the current line-up includes
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
The Clash - Black Market Clash
Ultravox - Vienna / Steven Wilson remix
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
OMD - Bauhaus Staircase
This will all change in a week or so.
The Killers - Sam's Town, The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics, Yumi Arai - Misslim, Foreigner - Double Vision, Halsey - Manic.
Abba Gold
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
Damn-Kendrick Lamar
Rage Against the machine
Ready to Die-Notorious BIG
I don't actually have the vinyl releases of any of these, because with the exception of #3, the vinyls are either over $100 or nonexistent.
TOOL - 10,000 Days
Flawless. Every song is absolutely perfect. Rosetta Stoned and the Wings for Marie suite are my two favorite songs ever.
2. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Devy may not be quite as good as TOOL when it comes to raw music, but he's an absolute master when it comes to ambience. While most prefer his later works (and Earth Day from Terria is certainly his best song), Ocean Machine is the most consistent of his albums, only dropping slightly in quality during 3AM and Voices in the Fan. I could listen to Night and Bastard on repeat for hours on end.
3. TOOL - Fear Inoculum
By the time I started listening to "real music" and not just video game OSTs, the thirteen-year-long hiatus between Days and Fear was already over, and I was able to judge the album on its own merits rather than putting it against the expectations of a decade's wait. And I don't know how, but it sounds shiny and premium, like the music itself is made of solid gold. It's beautiful. I'm particularly fond of Descending.
4. Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
Switching course from sheen to sludge, Alice in Chains's self-titled album is rough, gritty, and grimy and I love it. While Dirt is more popular thanks to being released before the death of Kurt Cobain, being a concept album and generally being more approachable, I prefer Tripod because of its raw sound and seething hatred towards the music industry. (Except for Heaven Beside You, that's a skip track.) My favorite song on the album changes every time I listen to it, and right now that honor goes to So Close.
Speaking of killing the fucking music industry...
5. Cold - Year of the Spider
Yeah, I've got no clue why such a generic, almost Nickelback-esque album managed to surpass Broken and Tormented (#6 and #7, respectfully), but here we are. Not much to say about it. Favorite song...The Day Seattle Died.
American psycho?😆
Radiohead-In Rainbows Special Edition
Alice In Chains- Jar of Flies/Sap
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Simon and Garfunkel-Bridge Over Troubled Water
Frightened Rabbit-Pedestrian Verse 10th Anniversary(The second record is gold to me)
Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
Big Star - #1 Record
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Arthur Verocai - Arthur Verocai
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Wire - Pink Flag
In no particular order:
Still Life - Opeth
Damnation - Opeth
The Mantle - Agalloch
Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing - The Wonder Years
The Black Parade - MCR
In no order
Linkin Park - Meteora
Audioslave - Audioslave
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
CAKE - Fashion Nugget
Top 5 that I have on vinyl at least!
I'm curious, does 36 Chambers have all the skits the standard CD version has? I wanted to get it myself
Darkest hour - undoing ruin
Darkest hour - deliver us
Afi - sing the sorrow
Katy perry - teenage dream
That’s quite the lineup
They are practically the only albums i can listen to without skipping a single song. Masterpieces imho.
Runner ups
Qosta - like clockwork
Marilyn manson - the golden age of grotesque
Darkest hour - darkest hour
I’m an AFI fan myself but I’d put the Art of Drowning #1
Im a fan of their punk era but for me their “hayday” was def december underground and sing the sorrow.
If you like Erasure, check out Yaz, Vince Clarke's project between leaving Depeche Mode and starting Erasure.
I like it! These are the type of songs my work friend and I share. It still sounds very fresh! I'll have to share some of these with him.
I was a freshman in college when Situation came out. As soon as it came on, the dance floor in any club near my school was packed.
Situation sounded familiar. Great song!
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours, Michael Kiwanuka - Michael Kiwanuka, Arctic Monkeys - The Car, Billy Joel - The Stranger, Neil Young - Harvest
Paranoid - Black Sabbath: parents got me a first press Vertigo for my bday and I’ve been spinning it at least twice a week since.
Vol 4 - Black Sabbath: same as Paranoid, at least twice a week.
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
Groovin’ at Smalls - Jimmy Smith
Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell
All first pressings
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
St. Vincent - Daddy’s Home
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
i managed to get a vinyl of each of them except have one on me. someday…
Bob Marley, Natty Dread
Paul Simon, Rhymin’ Simon
RHCP, Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of The Moon
Black Crowes, Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
The good rats tasty, Bob Dylan blood on the tracks, crazy horses, second album, Boston’s first LP, and the Bee Gees first album & Miles Davis bitches brew
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidinanda Lyman Woodard - Saturday Night Special Billy Parker - Freedom of Speech Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Contemporary Jazz Quintet - Location
Albert King With Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session
Ana Popovic - Trilogy
George Strait - Troubadour
Linda Ronstadt - Different Drum
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Sleep- dopesmoker (purp RSD variant) Gwar- America must be destroyed Kiss- destroyer (original pressing) Cannibal corpse- butchered at birth (flesh colored repress) Judas Priest- British steel (2LP pic disc)
This month 1 - hunky dory-David Bowie 2- August and everything after-counting crow 3- Heaven up here - echo and the bunnymen 4- grace - Jeff Buckley 5- on the beach- Neil young. Hunky dory will always make my list
The Beatles - s/t (The White Album): Somehow I've decided that this is my favourite Beatles album. Some people don't like it that much for being too long, and having an unfinished feel to it... but I love it!! all the songs are so great, that you don't even mind that they might seem unfinished. It's like it has that indie, lo-fi quality to it. I own some German reissue from the 70s or 80s.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours: "Dreams" is the best sounding song I've ever heard. Buckingham is a genius, Stevie Nicks's voice is angelic, John McVie's bass sounds perfectly... and that's not even the best song on the album! (that would be Christine McVie's You Make Loving Fun). A very fun album, with an interesting story to it, and it's quite unique in its softness, I still haven't found anything like that.
Madvillain - Madvillainy: The only hip-hop album I own so far, it's great, you can't really go wrong with Madlib and MF DOOM. Actually not my favourite Madlib album, but still one of the best examples of his style. Really fun to put on.
Dave Brubeck - Time Out/Time Further Out: I wanted to get Time Out on vinyl for some time, then I found out about various strange low-quality jazz labels like DOL, and I was wary... Then I found this CBS pressing in my local record store, and it also came with the lesser known sequel album, Time Further Out! Grabbed it immediately, it wasn't even that much more expensive than the DOL pressings I saw online. I adore the cover art.
Lady Gaga - Chromatica: Quite an underrated record, but I'm mainly putting it on this list because it's the only clear vinyl in my collection lol. I picked it up on sale in my local record store, for some reason they had a bunch of them half priced.
Oddział Zamknięty - s/t: This Polish rock band's debut is quite a great album. 6th entry, because I wanted to include something Polish, and I own a first pressing. I was lucky to find it online, the cover was in a pretty bad state, but the record itself was in excellent condition.
Shout-out to: Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen, Frank Zappa's Hot Rats, Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Blondie's Parallel Lines, Kate Bush's The Kick Inside
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Depeche Mode - Violator
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Japan- Quiet Life
Men at Work- Business as Usual
The beatles- Abbey Road
Not an album but Rolling stones- Hot Rocks
Asia- self titled
I am always stunned at just how varied peoples’ musical taste is.
I think that’s the reason why I created this post. I love seeing the different music tastes between one person to the other. I have to say, it’s been pretty interesting to see. And the one thing I love about it too is the love of music from your favorite artists and bands. And hopefully this post will help others discover new artists and bands!
ZZ Top - Deguello
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Sade - Diamond Life
Freddie Hubbard - Hub Cap
Sly & the Family Stone - There’s a Riot Goin’ On
As of this past month, these have been in pretty heavy rotation
JJ Cale - Naturally
Taj Mahal - Happy to be Just like I Am
Joe McPhee - Nation Time
Todd Rundgren - Runt
& Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
The Doobie Brothers - Takin it to the streets
AC/DC - Back in Black
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
This is so hard... mine changes so often! Here are my current faves vs. all-time faves:
Current faves:
The Last Dinner Party- Prelude to Ecstasy
Chappell Roan- The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Melanie Martinez- K-12
Marina & The Diamonds- The Family Jewels
Jon Bellion- The Human Condition
All-time faves:
P!ATD- A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
21 Pilots- Blurryface
Billie Eilish- When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go
Daft Punk- Discovery
Fall Out Boy- Infinity On High
Fugazi -13 songs The cure - disintegration The doors- the doors
If you love The Doors first release check out the Rhino Mono release. The original Mono Masters were used for the pressing. It has a much more Blues Rock vibe and worth the $$.
recovering the satellites - counting crows
z - my morning jacket
the positions - gang of youths
binaural - pearl jam
summerteeth - wilco
Dvorak - String Quartets (Complete) Vol 1. / Vox: with my KLM Series 5s it sounds mind-blowing. I got really stoned with this woman and we just laid on the floor blasting it at 3 am laying on the floor, 5 stars
Can - Tago Mago: Absolute classic, love this record
Young Thug - Barter VI: I feel guilty every time I play it as it's gotten so valuable, but I just love this album
The Congos - Heart of the Congos: Lee Perry's masterpiece
Alice Coltrane - Reflection on Creation and Space (A Five Year View): As close to a greatest hits album that you can get for a free jazz artist, but it comes together beautifully
Eric Church - Mr Misunderstood. There's something really cathartic about this album, especially listening to Record Year in this format.
John Mayer - Where The Light Is Live In Los Angeles. I'm a big fan of his and almost have all of his albums but this one is truly a sit down and have a full blown listening experience. I'd recommend it to anyone who is a big fan of people who play the guitar.
Miranda Lambert - Wildcard. This album really set a new tone for her and her music, I probably put this one on the most of all her albums.
Maren Morris - GIRL. I listen to this one less than I did but I had it on cd before vinyl and it was a nightly listen for at least 2 years. I have one copy that unfortunately is pretty scratched on display. The album is just full of really powerful songs about friendship and womanhood and idk showing up as yourself and it'll always crack my top albums.
The Cure - Disintegration
Blur - 13
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - Kid A
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
Had to sneak in 2 Radiohead records, because they're just awesome. Also, I've ordered Duster's Stratosphere, so when it comes, it'll definitely be in the top 5!
Upvote for Interpol :)
I'm planning to buy the sky blue repress of Our Love To Admire!
I haven’t heard that one. I have the first pressing and the tenth anniversary repress. Make sure you take a listen first if the sky blue version is released through Matador.
Yes, it is released through Matador
'Interpol's 2007 classic, "Our Love To Admire" is available on sky blue vinyl for the first time, alongside a standard CD edition' - official Matador website
I got over 200 but these are the ones I listen to often.
Delilah bon self titled release. I absolutely love Delilah so much. When I'm feeling beaten down I put it on and sing along.
A. Incredibad lonely island- LIKE A BOSS! And yesterday I was definitely rapping along with Natalie Portman on the fourth. Natalie is a bad ass bitch
@. Flcl soundtrack FOOLY COOLY! also the pillows rock.
🥇Powerman 5000 tonight the stars revolt! I love the whole album and reminds me of my childhood
🩷 Barbie the album - my favorite album to dance around my apartment with my cat on my shoulder, she insists, and yells at me if I dance without her
Aw! My kitty likes shoulder rides when I come home from work. I think she'll freak out if I try to dance with her on my shoulder!
Chuck Berry doesn't approve of everything in your selection!
RAMONES - "MANIA" RANCID- "LIFE WONT WAIT" BONE THUGS - "E99 eternal" Anthrax "spreading the disease" Sublime - 's/t"
Pleasure - special things
Ramsey Lewis - sun goddess
Kitty and the haywoods - love shock
Giant - shifting time
Hiromasa Suzuki - high flying
Get funky.
Roger Waters: Amused to Death
Al Stewart: Year of the Cat
Marillion: Clutching at Straws
Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds
RHCP: Stadium Arcadium
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