12 Albums

[bigross86]

THE 12 ALBUM CHALLENGE

List 12 albums that have stayed with you over the years. Don't over think it. Be impulsive and know that they'd change tomorrow if you did it again.

This has been going around the last several days on Facebook, and I've already discovered some lost treasures that I would have put on my list had I done this again. On a personal note, this was extremely hard, since I am not a real fan of albums, I prefer picking and choosing songs. Anyway, in no particular order:

1) Shmemel – Helium for the Masses (הליום להמונים, Israeli band)
2) Pink Floyd – The Wall
3) Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
4) LostProphets – Liberation Transmission
5) Gregorian – Masters of Chant
6) The Offspring – Americana
7) Green Day – Dookie
8) Weird Al Yankovic – The Food Album
9) The Blues Brothers OST
10) Boston – Boston
11) Boston – Third Stage
12) Any recording of Beethoven’s 9th

So now it's your turn. Let's see what your 12 albums are.

[Doktor]

1. Pink Floyd - Division Bell
2. Metallica - Ride the lightning
3. The Beatles - White Album
4. Mizar - Mizar (Album)
5. Arhangel - Arhangel I
6. Rolling Stones - Grrr
7. The Clash - London Calling
8. Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
9. AC/DC - The Razors Edge
10. INXS - Devil inside

I am on metrics system so 10 for now, my thoughts are wondering trough time and space.

[Albany Rifles]

Boston – Boston
Elton John – Elton John
The Who – Who’s Next
The Who – Quadraphenia
Traffic – Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Steve Goodman – Steve Goodman
Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
John Prine – Sweet Revenge
Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
The Beatles – Abby Road

[Andrey Egorov]

Prefer to listen the whole album, it puts a song to some kind of context. Now, in no particular order
1) Led Zeppelin - IV
2) Ayreon - 01011001
3) Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
4) Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes
5) Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
6) Slayer - Hell Awaits
7) Opeth - Blackwater Park
8) Metallica - Black Album
9) Meshuggah - I (EP of one song 21 minutes long, actually )
10) Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
11) Gorefest - Chapter 13
12) Accept - Objection Overruled

There are couple dozens more, about same value to me

[Stitch]

AR had some awesome choices, but here are mine; definitely a late '70's/early '80's list:

Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
Boston - Boston
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
Journey - Infinity
Journey - Evolution
Journey - In The Beginning
Led Zeppelin - IV (Zoso)
Rush - Permanent Waves
Styx - Pieces Of Eight
Van Halen - Van Halen

[tantalus]

Pearl Jam – Ten
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Black Sabbath – Sabbath bloody Sabbath
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
Paul Simon – Graceland
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
Neil Young – Harvest
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Deja Vu

[Parihaka]

The Bends - Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Garbage - Garbage
The La's - The La's
Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra - A Little Bit Wonderful
Nirvana - Nevermind
Chris Knox - Seizure
The Black Sorrows - Sonola
The The - Soul Mining
Transformer - Lou Reed
Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way Baby
Moby - Play

[Gun Grape]

Only 12. Thats hard.

Jethro Tull-Aqualung
The Who- Whos next
Tom Petty- Wildflowers
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Stevie Ray Vaughn- Couldn't Stand the Weather
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Green Day-American Idiot
AC/DC- Back in Black
Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run
Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
The Clash- Combat Rock
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

[DOR]

1) The Rolling Stones – Beggar’s Banquet . . . LP, 8-track, cassette, CD, iTunes
2) Big Brother and the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
3) Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
4) The Grateful Dead – Live/Dead
5) The Grateful Dead – American Beauty
6) The Rolling Stones – Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!
7) Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
8) Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense
9) The Who – Tommy
10) Little Charlie & the Nightcats – Straight Up!
11) Ry Cooder – Borderline
12) Janis Joplin -- Anthology

[Oracle]

It was tougher than taking a test for psychometric evaluation. In no chronological order:

1. Janis Joplin - Anthology
2. AC/DC - Back In Black
3. Bad Company - Here Comes Trouble
4. Alive In Chains - Jar of Flies
5. The Who - Live At Leeds
6. David Bowie - Space Oddity
7. Dream Theater - Images and Words
8. Eagles - One of These Nights
9. Extreme - Pornograffitti
10.Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
11. Led Zeppelin - LZ III
12. Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart

[S2]

This list would change tomorrow. I'm carrying a lot of baggage by this point and tough to discard any of it.

1. Peppers-Beatles
2. Hwy. 61-Dylan
3. Astral Weeks-Van Morrison
4. Eat A Peach-ABB
5. After Bathing At Baxter's-Jefferson Airplane
6. Happy Trails-Quicksilver Messenger Service
7. Bare Trees-Fleetwood Mac
8. The Band-The Band
9. Exile On Main Street-Rolling Stones
10. Live At Leeds-The Who
11. Banana Album-Velvet Underground
12. Tonight's The Night-Neil Young

Tantalus and, especially, DOR's list would happily and easily serve as a daily diet.

[bigross86]

That's the purpose of this list, knowing that if you were to post this list tomorrow, after seeing some of the other lists, that yours would also change. There is always one more album on someone else's list that will remind you of something you forgot. I've already thought of 3 or 4 more albums I would have put on my list instead of what's on there now.