The best album from an artist thread.

ok,
if you could only own one album by a given artist which one would it be.
for starters here's a few from me to get things started.
Grid - Evolver
Infected Mushroom - The Gathering
Yes - The Yes Album
Iron Maiden - Killers
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
KLF - Chill Out
Massive Attack - Mezanine.
N.I.N - Broken.
Orbital - Orbital 2
Underworld - Everything Everything
Prodigy - The Prodigy Experience
Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?

you get the idea.
No compilations or best of's it has to be a full album as origionally released although live albums are ok at a pinch.
cheers


julian

 

God this is hard:

Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Morrissey - You are the Quary
New Order - Technique
Joy Division - Unkown Pleasures
REM - Automatic for the People
Simon and Garfunkel - (So damn hard!!! ARGGHHGGHGGG!!!) Wednesday Morning 3:AM but I would miss Bridge Over Troubled Water so much
Bee Gee's - Still Waters
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Updated:

Pual Simon - Graceland
Kirsty McColl - Kite
Eurythimics - Be Yourself Tonight
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
Oasis - Defanatly Maybe
Blondie - Parrerel Lines

 

The Band - Music From Big Pink
Joni Mitchell - For The Roses
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Tom Waits - The Heart Of Saturday Night
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Eric Bibb - Spirit & The Blues
Yes - Closer To The Edge
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Clash - London Calling
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Love - Love
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

 

BT : ESCM
Tom Waits : Blue Valentine (for the early years) Swordfishtrombones (for the later years)
D'Angelo : Voodoo
u2 : Achtung Baby
Simple Minds : New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)
Paul Weller : Wild Wood
Radiohead : The Bends
N.I.N. : Pretty Hate Machine
The Cure : Seventeen Seconds
Portishead : Portishead
Prince : Sign o' the times
Crowded house : Together Alone
John Martyn : Solid Air
Depeche Mode : Ultra
The Dorrs : The Doors
Tupac : All eyez on me
Elvis Costello : Armed Forces
The Lemonheads : It's a shame about Ray
Nick Drake : Five Leaves Left
Rage against the machine : Rage against the machine
The Rolling Stones : Let it bleed
Soundgarden : Superunknown
Stevie Wonder : Songs in the key of Life
Sting : Ten Summoner's Tales
Suede : Head Music
Wilco : Being There

 

REM - Automatic for the People
Semisonic - Feelin' Strangely Fine
Placebo - Placebo
Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
Alice in Chains - Unplugged
Eels - Beautiful Freak (a very close call with Daisies and Souljacker)
Nirvana - Unplugged
Massive Attack - 100th Window (without copy protection please!)
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back Home
Dido - Life for Rent
The Eagles - Hotel California
Lene Marlin - Playing my Game
Avril Lavigne - Let go
Alanis Morissette - Under Rug Swept
Santana - Shaman
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
Train - Train

 

Beatles - Abbey Road
Stones - Exile on Main Streel
Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted
Queen - A Day at the Races
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Yes - The Yes Album
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Nick Drake - All of them
Love - Forever Changes (of course)
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Blur - Parklife
Oasis - Definately Maybe
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Neu - Neu75
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

 

Mr Green,

I'm suprised to see we agree on something.............

Rush - A Farewell to Kings

In addition,

Nick Cave - Boatman's Call
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all Back Home
Peter Gabriel - 4
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
Crosby, Stills, Nash - CSN
ACDC - Highway to Hell
Philip Glass - Solo Piano
Ben Harper - Burn to Shine
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Bob Marley - Uprising
Pearl Jam - Vs
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Rage Against the Machine - RatM
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - One Hot Minute
Robbie Robertson - Contact from the Underworld of RedBoy
Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight

 

my all time top 10

Dire Straits Love over Gold

Local Hero Mark knopfler

Fleetwood Mac Rumours

Tori Amos Under the Pink

Phillipe Saisse Next Voyage

Acoustic Alchemy Blue Chip

Norah Jones Come away with Me

Supertramp Even in the Quietest Moments

Enya Watermark

Alison Krauss Forget all About It

 

Mmm difficult - there aren't any classic albums about at the moment IMO but since you ask

Prince - Sign Of the Times

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Peter Gabriel - So

Underworld - Second toughest In The Infants

Leftfield - Leftism

Bob Marley - Kaya

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Nitin Sawney - Prophesy

Joni Mitchell - Blue

and just for Ian... John Coltrane - Blue Train

 

The following are pretty much my top 10 albums. The next 10 would be very difficult to choose.

Allan Holdsworth - Then!
Bjork - Debut
Genesis - Foxtrot
Jean Luc Ponty - Upon the Wings of Love
John McLaughlin - Trio Live at The Royal Festival Hall
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Soft Machine - Bundles
Weather Report - Black Market
Yes - The Yes Album

YB, nice to see Phillipe Saisse name checked.

 

Frank Zappa - Joes Garage
Nitin Sawney - Beyond Skin
Genesis - Duke
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Afro Celt Sound System - Vol 2 Release
The Art Of Noise - In Visible Silence
David Bowie - Huny Dory
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Dire Staits - Dire Straits
The duritti Column - Vin Reilly
Eat Static - Abduction
Enigma - MCMXC A.D.
Fila Brazillia - Another Late Night
FSOL - Lifeforms
Shpongle - Are You
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Led Zep - iv
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

 

Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zep - toss-up between II and IV.... hmmmmmm, prolly go with IV
REM - New Adventures in Hifi
Radiohead - goddamn tricky one... might actually be Hail To The Thief
Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Nirvana - nother goddamn tricky one... prolly In Utero, but Nevermind and Unplugged are sooooo close
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Massive Attack - Mezzanine (followed closely by Protection)
Bjork - Vespertine
Garbage - Garbage
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Counting Crows - Autumn and Everything After
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Dave Matthews Band - Before these Crowded Streets
Tori Amos - Under the Pink

 

Mr Stick, I'm glad you appreciate this album also, Though clearly your opinions on, Led Zeppelin, Dylan and RHCP are somewhat skewed.


Houses of the Holy !!? P..lease!

 

Jurassic 5- Jurassic 5 LP
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Portishead - Dummy
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Del Tha Funky Homosapien - Deltron 3030
Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
DJ QBert - Wavetwisters
Massive Attack - Mezzanine

 

With the obvious caveat - (out of their albums that I have heard !!). Some very difficult decisions though.

U2 - Joshua Tree (All)
Bjork- Debut (several)
Led Zep - Physical Graffitti (all)
Floyd - probably Dark Side....(vast majority)
Zappa - (f***ing loads)
Budgie - Bandolier (but Impeccable is right up there) (all)
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun (all)
Massive Attack - Blue Lines (all but last)
Red Snapper - Our Aim is to Please
Lucinda Williams - Lucnda Williams
Radiohead - The Bends
Leonard Cohen - Various Positions

 

Yeah - ditto here... "Releeeeeaase meeeeeee!" - love that track!

Dark Soho - Sun spot
Astral projection - Another world
Nirvana - Bleach (just got a UK first press on vinyl and the CD's now laughable!)
Kiss - Love gun
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
Chic - C'est chic
Cinderella - Long cold winter
David Bowie - Hunky dory
Tricky - Maxinquaye
ABC - The lexicon of love
NOW 11 (sorry - couldn't resist a compilation so nerrr!)
Joy Division - unknown pleasures
Eels - Beautiful freak (the others are OK, barring Soul Jacker (as I've not heard it!)
Suzanne Vega - Solitude standing
Incantation - Cacha Paya (spelling???)
Panterra - Cowboys from hell (before they got all serious)
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
Elastica - Elastica
Pulp - His 'n hers (which I don't own unfortunately)
Beatles - Revolver (does all SPLHCB does, better, and earlier)
Portishead - Dummy (wish they'd release the Mercury Music prize TV programme version of "Over" too, but can only dream )
Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn (bored stiff of DSOTM)
Massive attack - Blue lines (including the last!)
Kate Bush - The dreaming (flakey, kooky weirdness at its best - even better than Never for ever
Tori Amos - Little earthquakes
Dire straits - Communique (their first is good, but this has some better tracks IMHO)

Martika - Martika (ha ha ha ha ha! Actually, it's not THAT bad )

 

glad to see del the funky homosapian getting a mention, though is that the album with mr. dobolina? if not, then i agree on the artist, but not the album... also noone has mentioned blue lines by massive attack, which is SO vastly superior to mezzane and and protection. never heard the hundredth window, but is that REALLY massive attack with only del naja?

ok thankfully people have mentioned blue lines....

 

Ahhhh, saw them live at Bristol doing Underwater Sunlight

 

Saw them at Bradford St. Georges hall in '86 (and a few times before and since). Went back-stage and got my program signed by messrs Franke, Froese and Haslinger, but all I could think of to ask them was what they thought of the English weather.

Starstruck muppet.

 

Pah. You rate "Blonde on Blonde", what more proof do I need.