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UK folks, if you could only listen to one album forever which album would it be? (lemmy.world)

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I'm off on holiday tomorrow and will have basically no internet for over a week. So naturally I'm downloading all the media I can think of, just in case of downtime.

Thought it might be fun to solicit some musical suggestions from you lot to help expand my mind. So here we are. What's your ultimate all-time #1 album?

My tastes are pretty eclectic* so feel free to suggest basically anything, and maybe I'll update after holiday and judge what I thought of them all. Or maybe not, you know, that sounds like potentially quite a lot of effort.

Cheers in advance!

* mostly on the alternative / rock side of things but also love various kinds of dance sub-genre on occasion and of course the genre-that-isn't-a-genre-at-all, Eurovision

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One?!

You mean one from (almost) every year right? With the average scores from Rate Your Music for comparison? I never leave the house without mine.

/ Bob Dylan - The Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) RYM 3.95 / Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965) RYM 4.16 / Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966) RYM 4.15 / The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) RYM 4.22 / Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison (1968) RYM 4.13 / Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) RYM 4.04 / Neil Young - After the gold rush (1970) RYM 4.08 / Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971) RYM 4.10 / David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars (1972) RYM 4.26 / Neil Young - On the beach (1974) RYM 4.08 / Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (1975) RYM 3.94 / Tom Waits - Small Change (1976) RYM 3.77 / Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979) RYM 4.11 / Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980) RYM 4.26 / The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (1984) RYM 4.08 / Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) RYM 4.16 / Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985) RYM 4.04 / The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986) RYM 4.12 / The Smiths - Louder than Bombs (1987) RYM 4.14 / Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988) RYM 4.04 / Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989) RYM 3.93 / Sonic Youth - Goo (1990) RYM 3.80 / My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) RYM 4.25 / Tom Waits - Bone Machine (1992) RYM 3.97 / Sonic Youth - Dirty (1992) RYM 3.70 / Portishead - Dummy (1994) RYM 4.16 / Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (1994) RYM 3.82 / The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) RYM 3.88 / DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (1996) RYM 4.13 / Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞ (1997) RYM 4.15 / Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (1997) RYM 4.08 / Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada (1998) RYM 4.16 / Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999) RYM 3.86 / Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (2000) RYM 4.21 / Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000) RYM 4.05 / Radiohead - Kid A (2000) RYM 4.25 / Deftones - White Pony (2000) RYM 3.96 / Daft Punk - Discovery (2001) RYM 4.05 / Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction (2001) RYM 3.72 / Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002) RYM 3.86 / Boris - Feedbacker (2003) RYM 3.99 / MF DOOM - Madvillainy (2004) RYM 4.33 / Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005) RYM 3.64 / Boris - Pink (2005) RYM 3.87 / J Dilla - Donuts (2006) RYM 4.11 / Tom Waits - Orphans (2006) RYM 3.88 / Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (2006) RYM 3.73 / Burial - Untrue (2007) RYM 3.98 / Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (2007) RYM 3.81 / Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007) RYM 4.28 / Portishead - Third (2008) RYM 3.94 / Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009) RYM 3.74 / Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010) RYM 3.82 / Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011) RYM 4.12 / Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread (2011) RYM 3.33 / Death Grips - The Money Store (2012) RYM 4.08 / Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012) RYM 3.73 / Deafheaven - Sunbather (2013) RYM 3.72 / Iceage - You're Nothing (2013) RYM 3.42 / Swans - To Be Kind (2014) 4.03 / Death Grips - Jenny Death (2015) RYM 4.01 / Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (2016) RYM 4.13 / Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool (2016) RYM 3.94 / Death Grips - Bottomless Pit (2016) RYM 3.91 / Li gua Ignota - Caligula (2019) RYM 3.77 / Sunn O))) - Life Metal (2019) RYM 3.38 / The Strokes - The New Abnormal (2020) RYM 3.73 / Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready (2021) RYM 3.81 / Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (2022) RYM 3.93

....sorry for the wall of text.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Haha, I see this question unleashed something in you. Bit disappointed that it's not in the form of a spreadsheet though, tbh!

Actually some really great picks in here, seems like we have similar tastes so this will keep me occupied for a while 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Some great picks from the 70s in here. I see some brilliant Neil Young's but not Rust Never Sleeps which is, depending on the day of the week, one of my favs.

I went through a bit of a revaluation of some classic albums recently that I never invested the time in before, in part because of the Apple TV music doc about 1971. Of those I am especially addicted to

Bill Withers - Just As I Am Aretha Live at Filmore West Janis Joplin - Pearl Led Zeppelin IV

And not from that year but absolute classics and still hold up

Elvis Costello - This Years Model Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

An also on that list Talking Heads - Remain in the Light is still incredible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

you got a great taste in music man