What's your favourite album?

[poolio]

:notes:notes:notes

Hi :bowl!

I was flicking through my CDs today, and found my favourite album of all time, and listened to it for the first time in years. And it got me wondering whether any other :fishys have a favourite album, and what makes it so special for them?

My own is: Radiohead - The Bends

There are so many reasons it's hard to begin, but here are a few -

:bullet The music itself is just amazing, a wonderful collection of songwriting
:bullet All of the songs express feelings which, at the time when I first heard it, I was feeling very powerfully but couldn't express
:bullet It reminds me of falling in love for the first time :love:touched
:bullet It instantly takes me back to a whole time in my life, which was both very happy and very sad at the same time
:bullet With some of the songs, just the first few chords can stir up incredibly strong emotions, like no other music can.

Any other takers? :grin

[Isabel_Knight]

:notes The Immaculate Collection :notes

(Madonna)

Isabel :pinkfishy

[pageling]

Well, at the moment my fave is

:notes Brainwashed by George Harrison. Very cool, positive album. Totally worth a listen.

Since I can't narrow anything down to just one :ugh, a couple of other failthful, always great listens for me are

:notes Bob Dylan - Greatest hits vol. one
:notes Liz Phair - whitechocolatespaceegg

:love,
paige

[soma-UK]

:singing poolio :notes

I :love Radiohead-The Bends too :yay!

My other favourites (i.e. listen over-and-over again albums) would have to be:

Phil Collins- Face Value.
Supertramp-Live in Paris.
The Best of Cat Stevens.
Peter Gabriel-So.
Kate Bush-Hounds of Love.

Ok :ohboy I admit, I´m stuck in the eighties :ummm

[Demonika]

Ive been listening to
System Of a Down -Steal This Album
and I have to say, its sooo good, I just love it!

[ruthieeee]

heya poolio!!!

cool post...and i love radiohead too :)

my fave albums wud have to be:

aegatis bryjun by sigúr ros
all the our lady peace albums lol
the jimmy cake - brains and dublin gone, everybody dead

looooove music so much :)

take care
love
ruthie

[Louisa]

eeek, well it's a hard choice to make because I'm totally in love with Tori Amos, so I'd say any of her albums, but agggh if I had to make the sacrifice of choosing just one, I guess I'd say from the choir girl hotel:grin

[bri]

i would have to say all of my ani difranco albums i :love her and her words
right now i am obsessed with a new album i just got by alix olson, her words are great.
but there are so many more that i love, but i guess these are at the top of my list

:love
bri

[pooh bear fan]

*Princess Diana Tribute Album* they're some cool songs on that album.

[fairy]

My therapist used to be a singer in the 'sixties, 'seventies and 'eighties and just today I received a CD compilation of her songs from a guy I found on the internet. All her songs are limited to LP so he burnt them all on for me - for free too :yay. I'm listening to it right now and even though a lot of the songs are pretty dated I love them :supergrin. They're sort of mo-town like but her voice sounds a lot like Karen Carpenter's. I am so excited to finally hear her what she sounds like and I think it's gonna be one of my favourite albums for a while :cheesy.

Aside from her album, I also love my Miss Dynamite album (british hiphop album) and the new Tori Amos album, 'Scarlet's Walk'.

[Scrabble]

My favourite albums are:

REM - Automatic for the People
:notes
Dido - No Angel

I could listen to them both and not tire of them.

[frodosgirl]

:notes The RENT soundtrack.

Runners-up: Weezer's Pinkerton, Ben Folds Five's self-titled album, and Dashboard Confessional's Swiss Army Romance (Chris Carraba...if you're reading this...marry me.)

[rowgirl]

:notes I really like The Eminem Show right now :notes

[kathy_jellybean]

The Grease Soundtrack wihtout a doubt....but at the moment i also like the Sister Act two Soundtrack

[urbanfaerie]

Ugh, I'm gonna have to pick four. Dammit, they're my cd's and I can! :winky

:notes Dave Matthews Band "Under the Table and Dreaming"
This album gets me out of my funk and has a majorly inspirational song for me, "Ants Marching" on it. It can put me in a good mood any day.
:notes Cowboy Mouth "Are You With Me?"
A little screaming along to "Jenny Says" and I'm a happy woman again. I have a special friend who loves this band too, and it makes me think of concerts with her and concerts with my sister.
:notes Tori Amos "Little Earthquakes"
When I need to brood and think these songs really speak to me, especially "Crucify" and "Precious Things"...in a LONG LONG time...my sister has been instructed that I want "Happy Phantom" played at my funeral/cocktail party. That and some of the songs are angry and when I am pissed at the patriarchy, I like to play and sing them full blast in the car.
:notes Alanis "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie"
The girl read my diary, I swear! I feel such communion with Alanis. She's almost my age and her thoughts echo mine so many times. This album is about her looking inside herself in therapy and recovery and has helped me so much in mine.

I could not LIVE without these cd's. They are in my car FULL time on heavy rotation.

[allonit]

:happy I :love music. I could not live without my music. :singing! :cheesy Ok, I have some that are all my favorite ...for many diffferent reasons. Don't worry I won't get into the meanings behind them all :muhaha I :love the NEW Tim McGraw CD, Christina's NEW CD, RASCAL FLATTS, Elvis~You were always on my mind:shy, DIXIE CHICKS, GREASE SOUNDTRACK :muhaha! I :singing :singing in my car! I :love music so much! GREAT POST!

[llamaface]

I have three. One that I love because it brings me back to a time when I was really happy, one that I love musically, and one that I love for sentimental reasons.

My favourite album right now would have to be a bootleg my friend Ian made of the last Matthew Good Band show I went to(they're not a band anymore). I like that one so much because I went with him and like five other people and you can hear us talking and stuff. It was just so much fun and listening to it brings me back there.

As for stuff you could actually go out and buy...probably silverchair's 'Neon Ballroom'. It's such an emotional and personal album. It's helped me through a lot, as well as just being musically amazing.

The last one would be a burned copy of silverchair's 'diorama' that my friend Steph made me. It came out in Australia like three or four months before North America and both of us are absolutely obsessed with silverchair so we were like little kids at Christmas with this thing. I was doing IP treatment at the time so I wasn't going to be able to hear it until I got out a month later. Her and Ian showed up on the day after it came out to visit and she gave me the first copy she made of it. I have bought two copies of the actual album since, but the burned one is still my favourite. Well....that was nausiatingly sappy :sarcasm

-Raven

[kiara]

I :love pop music, so my fave album would be Britney Spears's "Britney" album. Although, i :love all her albums, and the Back Street Boys are also my fave boy group, and i :love their "Black and Blue" album the best.

[Sasha]

hey Pooh-Bear - i love my Diana Tribute album too. Theres a song by the passengers that always raises the hackles on my neck and gives me goosebumps not to mention Michael Bolton singing Ave Maria (he can sing after all!)

My fave album is Dido - No Angel but fast creeping up is Avril Levigne's "Let Go"

I'm also an avid BeeGees Fan and i guess "One Night Only" and "This is Where I Came In" would be the faves

[manifold]

Avril Lavigne - Let go

Alanis Morissette - Under rug swept


Why?

cos there as angry as me right now :reallymad

:love mani

[The Rescuer]

:stars Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
:stars Whiskeytown Strangers Almanac
:starsjayhawks
:stars Ben Folds
:stars Modest Mouse "moon and antartica"

[Anonymous_Member004]

The Rose,,,Bette Midler,,,soundtrack from The Rose, my favorite movie
okay so i LOVE Bette Midler:grin

[geekygirl]

You want me to jsut pick one?!?!?! You want a short list?!?!?

:bullet Well, I for one :love Radiohead too! But I'm gonna have to go with Pablo Honey. I freaking love that CD!

:bullet I used to be in :lvoe with Bush. I was soooo obsessed. I went to a concert, and I couldn't talk for like three days. I loved all their music. My favorite Bush song? Probably either Little Things or Alien (suchs a pretty song).

:bullet Any DC Talk cd is a good one. I love their early stuff, it's so funny, but cool at the same time, if that makes any sense.

:bullet Silverchair is great too. I love Neon Ballroom

:bullet Swing (as a general category) is the best!
Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie. My altime favorite swing say in Sing Sing Sing. Or It Dont Mean a Thing.

Honorable Mentions: Beastie Boys are always classy. John Reuben is a white Christian rapper. He's cool. Backstreet Boys. Foo Fighters. Ian Van Dahl. Fatnboy Slim.

I"m all over with who I like. It's kinda weird.

[rubygrrl]

Christina Acquillera - Stripped

I love this album, because in my opinion I could relate it to what recovery from an ed is like. It seems that each song relates to a different stage of recovery (not in order though), even though she was speaking from her lifes experiences (non-ed related). Previously, I would have shied away from her stuff, but felt compelled to buy this one for some reason. I am so glad that I did. :yay Christina Acquillera

[ParadoxalPixie]

I have to say I'm a huge radiohead fan too! I love all their albums, but my favorite is probably OK Computer.

I also love
:stars Whatever Mortal by Papa M
:stars All Godspeed You Black Emperor especially f#a# (infinity symbol) and Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
:stars And Portishead's album "Portishead"


Morgan

[westman]

I could never chose just one......but right now I love


-charles mingus - blues & roots = all time fave
- ryan adams - gold
- jamiroquai - syknronized
- magnetic fields - ******** love songs
and any stevie ray vaughn

[lilsweetie]

sarah mclachlan - fumbling towards ecstacy
and "surfacing"

[JolieAnn]

Favorite C.D.'s

Home Alive (music and spoken word) (various artists)

:bro Tribe Eight
:bro Team Dresch
:bro Kaia
:bro Seven Year Bitch
:bro Ani DiFranco (all)
:bro Phranc
:bro Pansy Division :muhaha

More and More all the time, but I don't go anywhere without these..

[lilsweetie]

THe Women and Songs CDS are good too

[Anais]

Ooh, I love Radiohead. And Tori Amos. And "Ants Marching." :grin

My favorite albums... hmm.

:robot Michael W. Smith - Freedom - a beautiful instrumental album.
:robot Moby - Play
:robot Enya - Paint the Sky With Stars
:robot Indigo Girls - Swamp Ophelia - "The Wood Song" is one of my favorite songs.

[L@UK]

:stars Boys For Pele -Tori Amos

...that has to be my ultimate favourite...

or perhaps

:stars Little Earthquakes

But then again... i love...

:stars To Venus and Back...

... i love every Tori album there is... im obsessed! Ive had nothing else in my CD player for about two years now...

But one non-Tori album ive been listening to, very recently, is

:stars When the Pawn- Fiona Apple.

That album is absolutely fab...

[Manic]

To chose just one, i'd have to go for
:singingJagged Little Pill - Alanis Morisette

[Feak]

Oh my God guys, I love Radiohead, REM, Alanis Morissette and the Indigo Girls too :happy

I could never narrow it down to just one, although I must say the The Bands is definatly on my shortlist :supergrin As are REM maybe Lifes Rich Pageant or Fables of the Reconstruction.

At the moment my favourite is Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage, their cover of Romeo and Juliette is just so passionate it makes me cry! Every track is wonderful. My favourite song is Let It Be Me, I just love the line "if the world is night, shine your life like a light". Oh Anias now I gotta go listen to The Wood Song! :winky

[barnabus]

HMM let me think...

Probably Dave and Tim:live at luther college

Also: bob dylan, blood on the tracks; Guster, goldfly; pink floyd, the wall

barnabus

[chloda]

Right now my favorite is Norah Jones' come away with me . I :love every song on it.

[jellyfish]

I'm sure I'm completely dating myself here, but my favorite album would have to be "Let It Be" by the Beatles, followed by Van Morrison's "Moondance".

(Don't laugh at me because I'm old! :cute)

[LifeUncommon]

At the mo i like The Holy Bible by the Manic Street Preachers but have had to stop listening to it!!
Also like Sarah McLachlan's Mirrorball cd..

Skye

[soccercutie]

Center Stage soundtrack...i highly reccomend it!
Mariah Carey number ones
Christina Agularia Stripped- got me through a lot of tears
Pink- Missunderstood
Savage Garden-Affirmation
Grease Soundtrack...love it love it love it
Whitney Housten Greatest Hits

[emotionsick]

Oh my goodness there are just too many favorites!!! Well I shall list a few.....

:notes Radiohead => "The Bends"
:notes Silverchair => "NeonBallroom"
:notes Fiona Apple => both albums
:notes Coldplay => "Parachutes"
:notes "Girls Night Out ****"
:notes a Cd that my best friend made - with some cool songs
:notes "Chicago" movie soundtrack
:notes "A Walk to Remember" movie soundtrack
:notes "Cruel Intentions" movie soundtrack

:notes I love to work out to a little Justin Timberlake and a little Britney Spears here and there.....
:notes Avril Lavigne "Let Go"

um alright I think I will leave it there - I have like a hundred more......but I really I will not go on and on...

Take Care
~emotionsick~ :canada

[Cristela]

Hole - Live Through This
Bjork - Homogenic
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele


those are my top five albums, but overall my favorite artist is Madonna :supergrin


tomorrow Americna Life is released, yay! :)

[namelessme]

:butterfly Sarah Mclachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy :butterfly
:notes Adia I do believe I failed you
Adia I know I let you down
don't you know I tried so hard
to love you in my way
it's easy let it go...
Adia I'm empty since you left me
trying to find a way to carry on
I search myself and everyone
to see where we went wrong
'Cause there's no one left to finger
there's no one here to blame
there's no one left to talk to, honey
and there ain't no one to buy our innocence
'cause we are born innocent
believe me Adia, we are still innocent
it's easy, we all falter
does it matter?
Adia I thought that we could make it
but I know I can't change the way you feel
I leave you with your misery
a friend who won't betray
I pull you from your tower
I take away your pain
and show you all the beauty you possess
if you'd only let yourself believe that
we are born innocent
believe me Adia, we are still innocent
it's easy, we all falter, does it matter?
believe me Adia, we are still innocent
'cause we are born innocent
Adia we are still innocent
it's easy, we all falter ... but does it matter? :notes (would be my favorite song/lyrics, from "Adia" written by sarah mclachlan, but not on the fumbling album)

(pardon the length there...i realize no one asked me what my favorite song was but i think sarah is brilliant, and i felt the need to share :)