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What a delightfully impossible question.
I hate it when someone names a totally obscure album that no one’s ever heard of just to be cool, but I looked through my whole collection and no other single album felt right as my Favorite Album Of All Time, which I have to underscore is different than what I think is the best album of all time.
So anyway, my personal favorite album of all time which I can listen to any time and which transports me to a different place and time in my life:
Model Engine - The Lean Years Tradition
I’ve been saying that for 15 years or so and it remains true, but I don’t expect folks will listen to it and be blown away. That said, it’s an amazing album that came along at just the right time to get baked into my personality forever.
My favorite album that’s more well known, and which I would argue is genre defining: Sunny Day Real Estate - The Pink Album
My favorite album of the last 5 years is Rosalia - Motomami
Music is so fucking great isn’t it? I think it is one of the better things to come out of humanity.
Jagged Little Pill
That’s an “80-percenter”! My personal benchmark for a great album is 80%+ of perfect songs.
Probably a generic answer but lateralus or ænima.
I Mother Earth - Scenery & Fish
90’s Canadian rock, with “Shortcut to Moncton” as my favourite track, and “One More Astronaut” as the album’s biggest single. I listened to this one end to end so many times, and there’s not a bad song on it, my fave just in terms of number of listens. It’s aged okay. I don’t replay it obsessively like I did in my late teens
what an absolutely brutal question! yet my answer never changes:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Cool & Steady & Easy - is high on my list at the moment.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
I got this for dissolved girl (knock knock, neo) and the rest of it sounds different. It’s a good different. I was disappointed at first, but - unlike another hit/album mismatch finger eleven - I grew to really like the rest of it as a completely separate entity from the catalyst track that made me get it.
Dream Theater - Live Scenes from New York.
If it has to be a studio album, same artist, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Hybrid Theory (Linkin Park) is objectively the greatest album of all time in my subjective opinion
My Head is an Animal (Of Monsters And Men) is probably my personal favorite though
Oof that’s a hard one. One of the below:
Jimmy Eat World ‘Clarity’ Mineral ‘The Power Of Failing’ Neutral Milk Hotel ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’ The Decemberists ‘Picaresque’
Clarity is incredible. Jimmy Eat World was at their absolute creative peak right before they made it big with their next album.
In 1999 or thereabouts my girlfriend left me for another guy at a music festival. I will never forget grabbing my discman and headphones and heading out to be alone and feel sorry for myself.
I sat in a muddy cow pasture listening to Clarity for hours that night. That’s what emo is to me.
I definitely like seeing Picaresque up here, fantastic album.
Hey if you like that, well I can’t really explain why this album is similar, but try “England Keep my Bones” by Frank Turner.
Sol - Seeming
Rhyme Asylum - Solitary Confinement
Sketches of Brunswick East by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and Mild High Club
Of course this changes over time but right now it’s probably a toss up between Marquee Moon by Television and 154 by Wire.
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
