Love that album!!

[Lady Willow]

I've just dug out Blue Lines by Massive Attack - I really love that album, if I HAD to choose a favourite all timer, that would be it.

Which one album has a really special place in your ears??

[Big Al]

I couldn't pick just one as I have well over 1200 albums but I reckon if I could pick a top 5 it would be

Bat out of hell by Meatloaf
Welcome to the pleasure dome by Frankie what's his name
Reasons to be chearfull part 2
Tombstone boys and graveyard Girls by Tom ovens
Tiger Tom dixons blues by Rod Picott

Not in any particular order but all have memories for me. Actually I would find it hard to keep this 5 for more than a few days or even hours as there will be many more I could choose.
Thanks for the thread.

[Green Aura]

I'm having the same problem Al. I've got so many albums that have memories of life events, or fit different moods (who says I have mood swings).
My 5 that would always be milling around somewhere in my current top 20 are (and pardon me if some of them show my age - I did start young )

Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
The Band - The Band
Return of the grievous angel - Gram Parsons
Never mind the bollocks - Sex Pistols
Kitty Jay - Seth Lakeman

[JulieSherris]

Wow... to only pick one? Impossible!

So my current 5... subject to change, depending on mood...

Queen II - all Queen music stopped for me after Night at the Opera....
Darren Hayes - Spin
The Ultimate Collection of Jimmy Cliff
Enigma - Cross of Changes
The Very Best of Aaron Neville

But what about T Rex - The Slider, and The Lighthouse Family, Maxi Priest, my Wet Wet Wet collection, & Ladysmith Black Mambazo?? Oh, thank goodness for MP3's!!

In fact, Enigma is just what I shall pop on now, & shall go off to bed feeling very mellow & relaxed!
Julie..... who knows what she likes, but is very indecisive!

[Lady Willow]

some crackers there

Funny though, I would find it HARDER to choose 5 than to choose 1. I've just unpacked about 500 CDs after a two year parting - I'm having great fun playing them all. Happy days

[jim]

To my shame I have, over the years, supported the chemical industry with my accumulation of black vinyl, magnetic tape and whatever plastic makes CDs, so it is incredibly difficult to sort out just 5 .... How about ....

* Liege and Lief ..... Fairport Convention

* Headlights, White Lines and Black Tar rivers .... the Levellers (I know its a compilation, but what the hell!)

* Showbusiness as Usual ..... Chumbawamba

* Stormbringer ..... John and Beverley Martin

* Covers ...... Show of Hands

And that still leaves out Hawkwind, Hendrix, Blue Horses, Little Johnny England, the Pogues, Led Zep, Dylan, Oysterband, Baka Beyond, Tartan Amoebas, Roots Progress, Steel Pulse, Velvet Underground ...... Kate Bush ..... (There's nothing so boring as someone else going on about their trip, is there?) ..... Johnny Winter, Steeleye, and, since the Stokes Bay Festival this Summer, Bellowhead .....

Sorry but once I get started .....

Love and Peace
Jim

[Big Al]

I've just dug out Blue Lines by Massive Attack - I really love that album, if I HAD to choose a favourite all timer, that would be it.

Which one album has a really special place in your ears??

Lady Willow,

I really must offer 1000 humble appologies for hijacking this thread. You stated which ONE album and I seemed to have started a favourite 5 album thread.

I am sorry.

Big al.

[Graye]

I love all sorts of music but if I had to choose the best five albums they would have to be

Lie of the Land - Show of Hands (I suppose I'll always be a folkie at heart...)
Aja - Steely Dan
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Best of Earl Klugh - Earl Klugh (only because I love all of his stuff!)
Any Eagles album, I really couldn't decide which one to put.

Then we have the Band, Jackson Browne, Allan Taylor, etc. And that's before I start of the classical stuff and operea which I also love.

Actually I really prefer all the stuff my OH recorded in the days he was a professional guitarist but he's banned me from naming the band. Suffice it to say it was loosely based on Gypsy Jazz.

[snapdragon]

Being an oldie there are just too many - I think one of Bob Dylan's would still spark needs in todays world, but I never owned one.

I see names here that I've never heard of - I may need to research some of them
fave just now is Trespasser - Chris Wood

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Grief. Five?

Nirvana - "Nevermind"
Mickey 3d - "Tu ne va mourir de rire" (BEST French band and deserve more regcognition)
Mano Negra - "Putas Fever"
The KLF - "The White Room"
The Long Ryders - "State of our Union"

[StripyPixieSocks]

Anything by Bal-Sagoth
Anything by Enya
Anything by Clannad
Anything by Queensryche
Anything by Mediaeval Baebes
Anything by Corvus Corax

No way in the world could I pick one or even 5 as my musical tastes cross many a genre and it entirely depends on my mood as to what I want to listen to... could be Corvus Corax one minute and Annie Lennox the next

[Big Al]

Anything by Bal-Sagoth
Anything by Enya
Anything by Clannad
Anything by Queensryche
Anything by Mediaeval Baebes
Anything by Corvus Corax

No way in the world could I pick one or even 5 as my musical tastes cross many a genre and it entirely depends on my mood as to what I want to listen to... could be Corvus Corax one minute and Annie Lennox the next

that's six anyway SPS,lol.

I awore blind i wouldn't have an ipod but now i have one i have over 14000 tracks on it covering all genres including hip hop, rap all the way through to opera although it is the likes of andreas botochelli and lesley garrett etc but i have sugested that the next ad campaign for the I-pod should be something like for the music you forgot you had....

I link it into the amp and put it on random and seewhat happens. yes it can throw up eminem when you are talking to the vicar or some opera when you have your best mate round for a beer but it is a good way to listen to your music.....

[ not from ed... i don't talk to vicars and don't drink] lol.....


[not so ]Big al now the diets helping...

[pumpy]

The Penthouse Tapes ; Alex Harvey. If anyone could destroy a song, then here's your man!

[Rod in Japan]

Mano Negra - "Putas Fever"

I stumbled on Manu Chao through Claude Challe, and thence to Amadou & Mariam. Great music. When Amadou sings "Je suis un paysan" my heart sings back "Et moi aussi!"

[StripyPixieSocks]

that's six anyway SPS,lol.

I told you I couldn't pick just five lol

My excuse is I'm tired... didn't sleep a wink last night and then just as I nodded off the plumber rang the doorbell and our doorbell could wake the dead... so it was up and attem!