EWB's All-Time Favorite Album: 2012 Edition

[fr34k]

Last year on EWB's favorite album:

Since I was bored; I started putting together my favorite album list once again, and decided to to this thing again.Same thing as last year basically, please vote for your Top 20 favorite albums of all-time. Everything goes. Please stick to this format or a variation thereof (album title first please!);

1. Album Name - Artist

2. Album Name - Artist

3. Album Name - Artist

4. Album Name - Artist

5. Album Name - Artist

....

It makes it easier for me, because there are obviously some bands that took their names from an album and vice versa.

For counting up the votes, first place receives 20 points, second place 19 and so on. I'm only going to count the votes after voting is closed, so feel free to edit your list as many times as you wish.

Also, please keep the bitching about other people's list to a minimum. The place for this will be the final list.

I'm also going to ask a selected few of you to write a few words about Albums of the Top 10/ Top 5 (depending on activity) that you voted for.

1. The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

2. Raw Power - The Stooges

3. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground

4. Halber Mensch - Einstürzende Neubauten

5. In Utero - Nirvana

6. OK Computer - Radiohead

7. Young, Loud and Snotty - Dead Boys

8. Illmatic - Nas

9. (GI) - The Germs

10. Origin of Symmetry - Muse

11. Closer - Joy Division

12. The Queen is Dead - The Smiths

13. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

14. City - Strapping Young Lad

15. Neon Golden - The Notwist

16. Blauer Samt - Torch

17. Revolver - The Beatles

18. Love is Hell - Ryan Adams

19. Music For Real Airports - The Black Dog / Black Dog Productions

20 .Mezzanine - Massive Attack

EDIT: Forgot Massive Attack.

Edited December 13, 2012 by fr34k

[Sousa]

Twenty of these? Okay. I'm going to just do one per artist, unless I fuck up.

1. The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies

2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

3. Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five

4. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - Yo La Tengo

5. Songs of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen

6. Where You Been - Dinosaur Jr.

7. Armed Forces - Elvis Costello

8. The Execution of All Things - Rilo Kiley

9. Loaded - The Velvet Underground

10. Lincoln - They Might Be Giants

11. Pinkerton - Weezer

12. Return of the Rentals - The Rentals

13. This Desert Life - Counting Crows

14. The Wild Hunt - The Tallest Man on Earth

15. Living with Ghosts - Patty Griffin

16. In 3D - Weird Al Yankovic

17. This is Spinal Tap - Spinal Tap

18. Transmissions from the Satellite Heart - The Flaming Lips

19. Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices

20. There's Nothing Wrong with Love - Built to Spill

[Rafael]

1. Ride The Lightning - Metallica

2. Master Of Puppets - Metallica

3. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

4. Nevermind - Nirvana

5. Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

6. Mesmerize - System Of A Down

7. Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog

8. El Camino - The Black Keys

9. Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden

10. Facelift - Alice In Chains

11. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

12. Reise, Reise - Rammstein

13. Vulgar Display Of Power - Pantera

14. Ten - Pearl Jam

15. Dookie - Green Day

16. Lavô Tá Novo - Raimundos

17. Americana - Offspring

18. Evil Empire - Rage Against The Machine

19. The Doors - The Doors

20. Música Popular Caiçara - Charlie Brown Jr.

Edited December 13, 2012 by RafaelFms

[GoGo Yubari]

1. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis

2. Abbey Road by The Beatles

3. Weezer (The Blue Album) by Weezer

4. The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground

5. Demon Days by Gorillaz

6. Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys

7. First Band on the Moon by The Cardigans

8. The Execution of All Things by Rilo Kiley

9. Thank you, my twilight by the pillows

10. Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) by Digable Planets

11. Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five

12. Retreat From the Sun by that dog.

13. You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This by Mirah

14. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West

15. Parklife by Blur

16. Thriller by Michael Jackson

17. At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash

18. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan

19. It's a Bit Complicated by Art Brut

20. Giant Steps by John Coltrane

EDIT: Forgot Wu-Tang.

[gunnar hendershow]

20 of these solves a lot of problems with me figuring out who to put in a top 10, but it makes me then have to figure out 3-4 extra albums to put on the list.

1: Music Has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada

2: Metaphorical Music - Nujabes

3: Liquid Swords - GZA/Genius

4: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground

5: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan

6: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin

7: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon

8: Entertainment! - Gang of Four

9: Geogaddi - Boards of Canada

10: The Campfire Headphase - Boards of Canada

11: Closer - Joy Division

12: Kid A - Radiohead

13: Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

14: OK Computer - Radiohead

15: Lemurian - Lone

16: Rubber Soul - The Beatles

17: Modal Soul - Nujabes

18: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

19: Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z

20: Mickey Mouse Operation - Little People

[VerbalPuke]

1. Raw Power - The Stooges

2. Fire of Love - The Gun Club

3. Ace of Spades - Motorhead

4. Young, Loud, and Snotty - Dead Boys

5. L.A.M.F - Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers

6. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

7. The Ramones - The Ramones

8. Frankenchrist - Dead Kennedys

9. Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

10. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

11. Nevermind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols

12. I'm Stranded - The Saints

13. GI - The Germs

14. Adolescents - Adolescents

15. Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer

16. London Calling - The Clash

17. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Arthur Brown

18. Here Are The Sonics - The Sonics

19. Walk Don't Run - The Ventures

20. Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper

[SRN]

Man, besides the top five, this list was really tough to put together. Not that any of these will even go on the actual list.

1. Synchestra - Devin Townsend/The Devin Townsend Band

2. The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett

3. Elvenefris - Lykathea Aflame

4. Kvelertak - Kvelertak

5. Tilt - Scott Walker

6. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull

7. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

8. Voimasta ja Kunniasta - Moonsorrow

9. Space is the Place - Sun Ra

10. Blackjazz - Shining

11. Köld - Sólstafir

12. Einstein on the Beach - Philip Glass

13. Sneglzilla - Malk De Koijn

14. At the Heart of Winter - Immortal

15. Altar - Sunn O))) & Boris

16. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

17. Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

18. Bad - Michael Jackson

19. On Avery Island - Neutral Milk Hotel

20. Stormking Twilight - Coma Void

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Ocean Machine: Biomech - Devin Townsend, Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad, Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus, BBNG - BADBADNOTGOOD, Black Rock - James Blood Ulmer, F#A#∞ - Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 55 Cadillac - Andrew W.K and Fire - Electric Six.

[KONGO]

1. The Orchard - Fire on Fire

2. Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol

3. Here Come the Waterworks - Big Business

4. To the Death - M.O.P.

5. Welcome to Sky Valley - Kyuss

6. In and Out of Youth and Lightness - Young Widows

7. Love Remains - How to Dress Well

8. The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull - Earth

9. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu Tang Clan

10. Kvelertak - Kvelertak

11. Deep Politics - Grails

12. Vaudeville Villain - Viktor Vaughn

13. Head for the Shallow - Big Business

14. Master of Brutality - Church of Misery

15. Meanderthal - Torche

16. Jalamanta - Brant Bjork

17. Dopethrone - Electric Wizard

18. The Head and the Heart - Deadbird

19. 1 & 2 - Holy Modal Rounders

20. Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen

Tried not to do any compilations, or else Creedence would have made it on here. Broke it once for Holy Modal Rounders, though. This is really a shitty task because coming up with a top 20 doesn't account for mood or anything, but it's the best I can do! This list is based on my obsessions almost entirely, all of them completely overtook me for brief periods. Right now that band is Bass Drum of Death, but only for "Get Found," the rest of the album isn't quite as strong.

[RPS]

I move that we make it a higher number of albums.

[SRN]

I move that we make it a higher number of albums.

Either that or people start doing strategic voting.

[RPS]

I'd prefer a list that takes longer to count out where people are able to chose more albums personally. I'll obviously still submit a list regardless, but as SRN, would probably be more likely to strategically vote if I am limited to 20.

[SRN]

Well, I didn't strategic vote but at this pace, and with EWB having such diverse musical interests, something needs to be done otherwise the album that will win will have like, three votes and the rest will be tied.

[KONGO]

Music is impossible to list like this unless you restrict it to a specific genre, and even then, pretty wide-open. Strategic voting is boring, I'd rather read about what albums people actually like than focus on the compiled list at the end.

[SRN]

I could write an essay about Devin Townsend if you want to.

[KONGO]

No! Please! I'll listen to an album, anything but that!

[Jedinak]

1. Odelay by Beck

2. CAMP by Childish Gambino

3. At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash

4. Of the Blue Colour of the Sky - OK GO

5. Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin

6. Me Against the World by 2Pac

7. Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles

8. American Idiot by Green Day

9. Distant Relatives by Nas and Damien Marley

10. Cheer Up by Reel Big Fish

11. Everything Goes Numb by Streetlight Manifesto

12. Life After Death by Notorious BIG

13. Babel by Mumford and Sons

14. Channel Orange by Frank Ocean

15. Entertainment! by Gang of Four

16. Transcendental Youth - The Mountain Goats

17. What We Saw From the Cheap Seats - Regina Spektor

18. Toxicity by System of a Down

19. In Utero by Nirvana

20. Bitches Brew by Miles Davis

I usually have a hard time with albums because I generally pick and choose songs I like but I got lucky with these all being full albums I've enjoyed. Any more than this and I probably wouldn't have been able to fill the list.

[R.W.]

Lets not pretend I won't sabotage this, and just make one of my favourite albums #1

[Hobo]

1. The Sunset Tree - the Mountain Goats

2. More Love Songs - Loudon Wainwright III

3. Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle

4. American III: Solitary Man - Johnny Cash

5. Old #1 - Guy Clark

6. Fragments of a Rainy Season - John Cale

7. I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen

8. The Life of the World To Come - the Mountain Goats

9. New Skin for the Old Ceremony - Leonard Cohen

10. Strange Weirdos: Music From and Inspired by The Film Knocked Up - Loudon Wainwright III

11. Bad Love - Randy Newman

12. Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan

13. I See A Darkness - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

14. People That Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People in The World - Andrew Jackson Jihad

15. Spoils - Alasdair Roberts

16. Bone Machine - Tom Waits

17. Transcendental Youth - the Mountain Goats

18. Undercard - The Extra Lens.

19. Across The Boarderline - Willie Nelson.

20. Graceland - Paul Simon

[Sousa]

Fuck strategic voting. YOU WILL ALL ACKNOWLEDGE THE GREATNESS THAT IS BUILT TO SPILL.

[TroutMaskReplica]

1. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
2. The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
3. Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
4. Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
5. The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground
6. Unit Structures by Cecil Taylor
7. Lorca by Tim Buckley
8. In A Silent Way by Miles Davis
9. Twin Infinitives by Royal Trux
10. The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu
11. White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground
12. Ascension by John Coltrane
13. Starsailor by Tim Buckley
14. Escalator Over The Hill by Carla Bley
15. Pink Moon by Nick Drake
16. Karma by Pharoah Sanders
17. Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
18. Third by Soft Machine
19. Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
20. Spiderland by Slint