Thread: Hogan's fave albums (all genres) A-G

Proof positive that I'm bored, here's a listing of my personal favorite albums. Keep in mind this is no best of all time list or anything like that, these are just releases by artists of all genres that have stuck to me either by the greatness of the release itself or my association of it to a moment in time that was important to me. It's not a ranking of any kind, it's listed in alphabetical order only because it was easier for me to do so.

Hope you find it to be of some interest.

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - If You Want Blood...You Got It!
AC/DC - Bonfire box set
Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Afghan Whigs - 1965
Anti-Nowhere League - We Are....The League
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Bachman Turner Overdrive II
Beatles - Help!
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles - The White Album
Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding A Mosaic
Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino/Twang Bar King
Bettie Serveert - Dust Bunnies
Big Brother And The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Keys - Magic Potion
Black Randy And The Metro Squad - Pass The Dust, I think I'm Bowie
Black Sabbath - Volume 4
Bobby "Blue" Bland - The Best Of Bobby "Blue" Bland
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyrrany And Mutation
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin
Blur - Leisure
Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art Of Surfacing
Boston - Boston
David Bowie - Station To Station
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
David Bowie - Changesbowie
B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Box Set
Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know By Heart/ Jimmy Buffett’s Greatest Hit(s)
R.L. Burnside - Bad Luck City
R.L. Burnside - Ass Pocket Of Whiskey
R.L. Burnside - Mr. Wizard
R.L. Burnside - Mississippi Blues
Butthole Surfers - Another Man's Sac
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn
Cars - The Cars
Cars - Candy-O
James Chance - Buy Contortions
Ray Charles - The Birth Of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings, 1952-1959 Box Set
Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Cheap Trick - Sex, America, Cheap Trick Box Set
Chesterfield Kings - Stop!
Chicago - Chocago Transit Authority
Chicago - Chicago II
Chocolate Watchband - The Best Of The Chocolate Watchband
Church - Of Skins And Heart
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Clash - London Calling
Clash - Sandinista!
Paul Collins Beat - The Kids Are The Same
Alice Cooper - Killer
Alice Cooper - Greatest Hits
Bill Cosby - Revenge
Elvis Costello - 2 1/2 Years box set
Elvis Costello - Trust
Cramps - Sons The Lord Taught Us
Dick Dale - Unknown Territory
Damned - Play It At Your Sister Box Set
Damned - Machine Gun Ettiquette
Damned - The Black Album
Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?, A: We Are Devo!
Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
D.O.A. - Bloodied But Unbowed
Dr. John - Gris Gris
Doors - The Doors
Doors - Strange Days
Doors - L.A. Woman
Doors - In Concert
Doors - The Doors Box Set
Doors - Live At The Aquarius Theatre: The Second Performance
Doors - Live In Detroit
Dreams So Real - Father's House
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits Volume II
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Eleventh Dream Day - El Moodio
English Beat - What Is Beat?
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Before And After Science
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby
Fear - The Record
Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf.....Hand Me The Pliers
Flipper - Album
Four Tops - Anthology
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Genesis - Abacab
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk (Red Album)
Al Green - Greatest Hits
Vince Guaraldi - Greatest Hits
Gun Club - Fire Of Love
Buddy Guy - This Is Buddy Guy

I ran out of time, so I'll post the rest at a later date.

I was wondering when you would get around to talking music in here.

Wow, I'm impressed. A solid variety of music on that list, some of which I own as well.

Looks good to me.

Originally Posted by Hogan11

Proof positive that I'm bored, here's a listing of my personal favorite albums. Keep in mind this is no best of all time list or anything like that, these are just releases by artists of all genres that have stuck to me either by the greatness of the release itself or my association of it to a moment in time that was important to me. It's not a ranking of any kind, it's listed in alphabetical order only because it was easier for me to do so.

Hope you find it to be of some interest.

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - If You Want Blood...You Got It!
AC/DC - Bonfire box set
Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Afghan Whigs - 1965
Anti-Nowhere League - We Are....The League
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Bachman Turner Overdrive II
Beatles - Help!
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles - The White Album
Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding A Mosaic
Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino/Twang Bar King
Bettie Serveert - Dust Bunnies
Big Brother And The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Keys - Magic Potion
Black Randy And The Metro Squad - Pass The Dust, I think I'm Bowie
Black Sabbath - Volume 4
Bobby "Blue" Bland - The Best Of Bobby "Blue" Bland
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyrrany And Mutation
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin
Blur - Leisure
Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art Of Surfacing
Boston - Boston
David Bowie - Station To Station
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
David Bowie - Changesbowie
B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Box Set
Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know By Heart/ Jimmy Buffett’s Greatest Hit(s)
R.L. Burnside - Bad Luck City
R.L. Burnside - Ass Pocket Of Whiskey
R.L. Burnside - Mr. Wizard
R.L. Burnside - Mississippi Blues
Butthole Surfers - Another Man's Sac
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn
Cars - The Cars
Cars - Candy-O
James Chance - Buy Contortions
Ray Charles - The Birth Of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings, 1952-1959 Box Set
Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Cheap Trick - Sex, America, Cheap Trick Box Set
Chesterfield Kings - Stop!
Chicago - Chocago Transit Authority
Chicago - Chicago II
Chocolate Watchband - The Best Of The Chocolate Watchband
Church - Of Skins And Heart
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Clash - London Calling
Clash - Sandinista!
Paul Collins Beat - The Kids Are The Same
Alice Cooper - Killer
Alice Cooper - Greatest Hits
Bill Cosby - Revenge
Elvis Costello - 2 1/2 Years box set
Elvis Costello - Trust
Cramps - Sons The Lord Taught Us
Dick Dale - Unknown Territory
Damned - Play It At Your Sister Box Set
Damned - Machine Gun Ettiquette
Damned - The Black Album
Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?, A: We Are Devo!
Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
D.O.A. - Bloodied But Unbowed
Dr. John - Gris Gris
Doors - The Doors
Doors - Strange Days
Doors - L.A. Woman
Doors - In Concert
Doors - The Doors Box Set
Doors - Live At The Aquarius Theatre: The Second Performance
Doors - Live In Detroit
Dreams So Real - Father's House
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits Volume II
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Eleventh Dream Day - El Moodio
English Beat - What Is Beat?
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Before And After Science
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby
Fear - The Record
Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf.....Hand Me The Pliers
Flipper - Album
Four Tops - Anthology
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Genesis - Abacab
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk (Red Album)
Al Green - Greatest Hits
Vince Guaraldi - Greatest Hits
Gun Club - Fire Of Love
Buddy Guy - This Is Buddy Guy

I ran out of time, so I'll post the rest at a later date.

So when are you burning CD's for me?

i hate AC/DC

Originally Posted by shawshank24

i hate AC/DC

Actually, from everything after "Back In Black" on I tend to agree with you.

The band lost something when it lost Bon Scott IMHO.

Originally Posted by Sassy

So when are you burning CD's for me?

I'm only scratching the surface....wait till I post H thru Z

Originally Posted by Hogan11

I'm only scratching the surface....wait till I post H thru Z

Alrighty H...can't wait!

There is a lot of Doors...not enough Dr John.

Mos Scocious.

i've gotta give some props to anyone who's got miles, brian eno and the surfers all on their list. . .

Originally Posted by Hogan11

Actually, from everything after "Back In Black" on I tend to agree with you.

The band lost something when it lost Bon Scott IMHO.

Although i do enjoy a lot of Scott's work with the band i always dug Johnson more.

Originally Posted by 3090

There is a lot of Doors...not enough Dr John.

Mos Scocious.

..Which I have, along with "The Ultimate Dr. John" and "Gumbo"...."Gris Gris" has long been one of my fave albums however and my fave out of the Dr. John catalog. Easily one of the weirdest albums ever released, the whole psychedelic voodoo thing was never as successfully done as it was on this one.

I love The Doors and I collect all the live shows I can find from the Morrison era, so the whole Bright Midnight Archives thing has been a godsend to me. The Doors self titled first album is quite possibly my favorite album of all time, One that I've always been totally obsessed with. Steeped in an echoy production, the release has a dark, hypnotic menace to it from start to finish that I have always found to be thrilling since hearing the record for the first time as a young child. I remember reading somewhere a discription of the record as "music that had an ugly momentum to it....as if it were trying to catch up with the people who made it" I totally agree with that sentiment. Ever see the original "Break On Through" video? That clip kinda sums up the whole feeling of the album as a whole, check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tah0OnS3nBU

The only other release I can think of off the cuff that has the same dark, echoy, hurdling toward the abyss type of production, momentum and sound is Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures"....an album that will certainly show up when I get around to listing titles H thru Z.

Originally Posted by Anubis

Although i do enjoy a lot of Scott's work with the band i always dug Johnson more.

I dunno, I always thought Johnson was trying too hard. He also lacked the obnoxious persona that Scott had that put over and made the early stuff so enjoyable to me (I could never visualize Johnson doing a gig done up in Dutchgirl drag, for example). Scott also had a hand in the writing of "Back In Black", which kinda explains the dropoff in songwriting quality from that to "For Those About To Rock" and on down the line. I think his loss hurt the band much more than people realized.

Originally Posted by Hogan11

I dunno, I always thought Johnson was trying too hard. He also lacked the obnoxious persona that Scott had that put over and made the early stuff so enjoyable to me (I could never visualize Johnson doing a gig done up in Dutchgirl drag, for example). Scott also had a hand in the writing of "Back In Black", which kinda explains the dropoff in songwriting quality from that to "For Those About To Rock" and on down the line. I think his loss hurt the band much more than people realized.

True.