dawg's first annual "Top Album of All Times Award"

[dawg]

This year it goes to:



Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick


The award is determined by the number of times I have listened to the album all the way through on my iPod since the beginning of time. (I determine that by the play count of the least played song, excluding bonus tracks)

Since I only started listening to albums on my iPod in 2011, it may not be all that fair for this album to be the winner. It was new to me last year, so naturally I listened to it more than I did my old favorites. But the rules are the rules!



So, what is your top album of all times?

[HopeHoops]

1. Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"

[HappyMe]

2. Damn, just one album?!

My top 3 are
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Nirvana - self titled

[dawg]

5. Only one because I'm going by the play count.

If I were making an objective choice without reference to the count, it'd be between:

Yes - The Yes Album
Beatles - Abbey Road
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound

[HappyMe]

6. Okay.

Dark Side of The Moon.

[dawg]

19. The first girl I ever got to second base with loved that album.

She was a gloomy little thing, but very cute.

Personally, I prefer Animals. It's another album I got for the first time in 2011, and it was my second most played album of 2011.

[pintobean]

3. So!

Come on ye childhood heroes!
Won't you rise up from the pages of your comic-books
your super crooks
and show us all the way.
Well! Make your will and testament.
Won't you? Join your local government.
We'll have Superman for president
let Robin save the day.


One of the best albums ever recorded.

[unionworks]

4. Bzzzzt!

"Exile on main Street", The Stones. Easily. And I thought Tulls "Benefit" was his masterpiece.

[pintobean]

8. Jethro Tull is the name of the group.

Their masterpiece.

[unionworks]

12. You are correct

But I can explain - in my mind, Ian Anderson and Tull are synonymous. Doesn't matter, they were great!

[LynneSin]

7. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

BTW here are the buildings today:

[dana_b]

9. Ten or Quadrophenia

I can't choose.

[TBF]

10. My personal favorite

is Joshua Tree by U2

other favorites - Metallica, Ten, Nevermind, the Wall, Hotel California, Come Dancing (the Kinks)

Lots of favorite songs as well, but those would be favorite albums

[unionworks]

13. Glad to see

Someone mention the Kinks! Once upon a time, I went very, very far out, "boldly going where no man had gone before". Or so I thought. When I got there, it turned out the Kinks had been there long ago. They are the psychedelic version of "Kilroy was here".

[SCantiGOP]

11. Allman Brothers "Live at Fillmore East"

Although Thick as a Brick, Abbey Road and Exile on Main Street would all make my top 10. Got the remastered Some Girls CD for Christmas; it contains 10 songs that were left off the original album. Stones sound downright country on most of them. My wife commented on how all the British Invasion was actually a bunch of lower class British kids refining the music of old black Delta bluesmen and hillbillies.

[Amaril]

14. Queen - Night at the Opera

The only album that I have had on vinyl, 8-track (yes, dammit, I'm OLD!), cassett, CD and my iPod.

[TBF]

16. Bohemian Rhapsody is on that album isn't it -

one of the finest songs written imo.

[Amaril]

22. Yep!

Bohemian Rhapsody is one of my top two favorite songs of all time (the other being American Pie). Several of their other better known songs -- "You're my best friend", "Somebody to love", "I'm in love with my car" & "Love of my life" -- are on that album as well.

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. I used to prefer "Stand-Up" to your choice, but partly due to its "pop-up book" construction...

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No doubt about it -- far ahead of the pack -- "Dark Side of the Moon". Don't
know how many vinyl copies I went through, but it was my lullaby for many,
many years -- played almost every night to help me get to sleep.
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Funny, the only song out-of-place that keeps it from being an absolutely
seamless, flawless album was its "hit" song, "Money". Never have liked it.
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[TBF]

17. I never liked Money or Have a Cigar -

but I could listen to Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here over and over and over ...

[dawg]

20. I've never much liked "Money" either.

Or "Time". And now that I'm middle-aged, apparently single(ish) again, with no good prospects - "Time" is just a freakin' depressing tune.

My favorite parts of Dark Side are Brain Damage/Eclipse and Us & Them.

In college, I would sometimes listen to Peter Gabriel's "Security" as I drifted off to sleep. Something about the sound of that album was comforting to me.

[Burma Jones]

18. By your methodology......Early Venetian Lute Music, Shirley Rumsey and Christopher Wilson..........

I like my calming music in the morning.................

[greendog]

21. Yazoo Records #2059