Either Monster or Automatic For The People, by R.E.M.
Their last one was pretty good, too.
It's gonna have to be a toss up between my three favorites... Back in Black - AC/DC, Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf, or Breakfast in America - Supertramp. Sorry, just can't decide on just one!
A Violent Impression...........by This Picture
Hard to pick just one album as a favorite. I have narrowed it to three though.
Dusty Springfield -- Dusty in Memphis
Talking Heads -- Remain in Light
Miles Davis -- Bitches Brew
Off the top of my head, here are a few of my favourites:
The Optimist LP, by Turin Brakes. It's been with me through so much and I never tire of hearing it.
Paranoid Android, by Radiohead. Every time I listen to it, the clever little audio 'tricks' that they use always get me!
Harvest, by Neil Young.
Superunkown, by Soundgarden.
Broken Bells [LP], by Broken Bells. I bought this last year, on the strength of a couple of tracks I'd heard on the radio. It's been such a grower. I really, really love it.
The Final Cut, by Pink Floyd (although I pretty much love everything by them)
Back and Blue, by The Rolling Stones. (Mum and Dad played this all the time when I was a kid. It delighted them that I knew all the words and could sing along with it. As a parent myself, I totally get that now)
Attack of the Grey Lantern, by Mansun. (Just the most wonderful album...)
Blind Melon, by Blind Melon. Another one I never tire of...
There are so many, I could never pick a favorite. It depends on my mood.
I have literally thousands of albums. They fill a set of shelves ten feet long, by eight feet high. That is just the 331/3 RPM recordings. Then there are the 78's, the 45's and a couple of recordings made at the NAvy School of Musoic and of Peabody Conservatory of Music Recitals on 16 1/4 RPM (Virgil Fox's senior recital on organ, for example). I have roughly three hundred reel to reel tapes, and at least that many cassettes. Then there are about two hundred cd's.
Asking me to select one is akin to asking a writer to select his favorite sentence.
But if I were told I could keep only one of each type, these are my choices:
78 RPM - Mezz Mezzrow/Tommy Ladnier Quintet - Royal Garden Blues/Really the Blues
45 RPM - LaVerne Baker - Jim Dandy/ FaLaLa (the first recording I ever bought on my own with my own money)
331/3 RPM - Emerson Lake and Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition
161/4 RPM - US Navy School of Music Staff Lab Band Spring Concert 1961
Reel to reel tape - Chet Baker - Baby Breeze
8 Track tape - Yes - Close to The Edge
Cassette tape - Asleep At The Wheel - Standard Time
CD - UB 40 - Best of
but if you ask me the same question tomorrow, the answer might change. LOL
"There's only three tempos: slow, medium and fast. When you get between in the cracks, ain't nuthin' happenin'." Ben Webster
Wow.... where do I start? This morning, it would be Crosby Stills and Nash since thats what I'm listening to.