"Desert Island Discs" - favorite rock albums

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Here’s one for the old people and record geeks who still listen by full album. I can do “favorite albums” much easier than “favorite songs”.

My all-time favorite since I was a teen:
Utopia - Oops! Wrong Planet
(fun Catholic-oriented fact: Back in high school my friends and I used to wonder whether the “Brother John” referred to in “Trapped” could be John Wycliffe or Jan Hus)

Some runners up in no particular order:
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Todd Rundgren - Hermit of Mink Hollow
Todd Rundgren - Runt, the Ballad of Todd Rundgren
Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love
Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard - Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department
The Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show

I feel rather bad that there is no metal on this list. I love a lot of metal but it’s hard for me to sustain attention through a whole album, as I have the attention span of a sand flea. Also, in the last 20 years the fact that everybody gets their music streaming has kind of destroyed the concept of “albums” as albums.
 
I have a record player, and one of my most favorite records to play is “Heart” by Heart. It came out when I was 3, but I remember all of those songs word for word. I have a soft spot for the 80s.
 
Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Runner ups:

Boston
Crosby Stills & Nash & Young
Alman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
The very best of Johann Sebastian Bach
Steely Dan
Elton John greatest hits 2
Beatles - Abby Road, Sgt. Peppers, Yellow Submarine, Let it Be
3 Dog Night
Carly Simon - No Secrets
Natalie & Nat King Cole - Unforgettable(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
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Why only rock albums,?

With that being said pet sounds and Phil Spectors Christmas album
 
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I dunno, the other thread was rock songs.
Did you want to post your favorite jazz, classical or Gregorian chant albums?
If we’re talking soundtracks, I’m big on Henry Mancini and Mike Post.
 
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They sound great on a record player @fredystairs
 
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WAR -U2
Joshua Tree - U2
Disintegration - The Cure

And everything from Queen
 
Joshua Tree is about the only latter-day U2 album I can stand (I loved the first three albums and hated everything later). But I always take “The Head on the Door” over “Disintegration”. I get a lot of flak for that from other Cure fans, most of whom are younger than me. I was a big fan of the real early Cure when it was still fairly new.
 
Yes - Close to the Edge
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon.
The Who - Tommy

Must be vinyl!
 
Aimee Mann – Lost in Space
Bob Seger – Live Bullet
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
Little Feat – Waiting for Columbus
Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell
Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Paul Simon – Graceland
Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive
Queen – Night at the Opera
Supertramp – Breakfast in America
U2 – Joshua Tree
Van Morrison - Magic Time
 
Kiss - Alive!/Alive II
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon/The Wall
Ozzy - Diary of a Madman
AC/DC - Back in Black
 
I don’t know if there is a limit for how many albums you can bring. 😜 Here are some of mine:

Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
Royal Hunt - Paradox
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Kamelot - Karma (or maybe Silverthorn)
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
Vanishing Point - Distant is the Sun
Van Canto - Tribe of Force
Leah - Kings and Queens
Theocracy - Mirror of Souls
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
Scandinavian Metal Praise - self-titled
Epica - The Holographic Principle
 
Dio - Holy Diver

Runners up:

Dio - The Last in Line
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin
Journey - Infinity
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
 
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