In Your Opinion - Best Track/Album Ever Made?

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There are a heap of posts on the 'listening to know' thread but not many say if it's there all time fav album or song.

So this is the place for it. Throw down what you think is the greatest track/album ever made and who it was made by.

A good way to look at it is - if you could only own one disc / track what would it be? A few notes won't go astray either ie. Good because of... Producer, Live Recording, Drummer etc

 

[Anonymous]

I think the best track ever is 'ViÐrar Vel Til Loft r sa' by Sigur Ros. It is simply the most emotive piece of music I've ever heard. It brought a tear to my eye and a lump in my throat. Beautiful.

It is from the album 'µg‘tis byrjun ' which is also my favourite album of all time.

From start to finish it just sucks you in. At times joyous,melancholic and triumphant it takes you on an emotional rollercoaster.

The musicianship is superb, the arrangements perfect and the production sublime.

If you don't own this album you should buy it now. No excuses!

 

[Frank Harvey]

Impossible to narrow down to one.....

 

[Anonymous]

You can have as many as you like David =)

 

[Si Conaugt]

For me there isn't an album in existence that I don't tire of, at least
temporarily but some of the ones with the greatest replayability include
almost anything by Radiohead, Tom Waits 'Rain Dogs' and
'Swordfishtrombone', Super Furry Animals from 'Rings Around the World'
to 'Hey Venus', Gorkys Zygotic Mynci 'Barafundle', and Handel's
'Messiah'. My two current favourite spins are probably Elbow 'The Seldom
Seen Kid' and I am Kloot 'Sky at Night'. What makes music great for me
are clever/humorous/poetic/spiritual lyrics, layered music with unique
instruments or instruments used in unique ways which either reflect my
mood or help to put me in a diferent mood. Bit of a dull explanation
there and I'm sure that others will come up with more eloquent
descriptions but thats my tuppence.

 

[Anonymous]

Too difficult, depends on mood, whatever I've recently listened to etc, but if a selection is allowable then how about...

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

To Be Young, Gifted and Black - Nina Simone

Llorando - Rebekah del Rio

The Story in Your Eyes - Moody Blues

Child in Time - Deep Purple

Love Like Blood - Killing Joke

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Kashmir - Led Zep

Castles in Spain - The Armoury Show

Fernando - Abba

Sympathy For The Devil - Stones

The Way We Were - Streisand

Penny Lane - Beatles

Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus

In The Ghetto - Elvis

Sweet Child O Mine - GNR

Annie's Song - John Denver

Stargazer - Rainbow

Cavatina - John Williams

Waterloo Sunset - Kinks

A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum

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[Anonymous]

Did any of you actually read the thread title? I think he was looking for one track/album. It wasn't a chance for you all to tell us about your music collection.

I know this is a hard question to answer. But if your going to answer it do it properly.

Try and imagine you are going to be stuck with ONE album for the rest of your life. Otherwise the thread is a load of rubbish!

 

[Anonymous]

such is the nature of musics diversity, i guess to list one track or album is hard, as was mentioned by david of frank harvey hi fi. top notch tracks/albums in the previous posts though!

well put by bobby - "Try and imagine you are going to be stuck with ONE album for the rest of your life"

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

 

[Anonymous]

good call. Run DMC and beastie boys never gets old

 

[Anonymous]

bobbyg81:
Did any of you actually read the thread title? I think he was looking for one track/album. It wasn't a chance for you all to tell us about your music collection.

I know this is a hard question to answer. But if your going to answer it do it properly.

Try and imagine you are going to be stuck with ONE album for the rest of your life. Otherwise the thread is a load of rubbish!

I think you'll find at 1159, Peter Foate opened up the thread to multiple tracks, or I wouldn't have posted a reply to the original proposition which was, in my opinion, so restrictive as to be meaningless. If I was restricted to one album, I'd flog the hifi and buy a better camera. Anyway, try not to lecture - we're supposedly here for fun.

 

[Anonymous]

athenry:bobbyg81:
Did any of you actually read the thread title? I think he was looking for one track/album. It wasn't a chance for you all to tell us about your music collection.

I know this is a hard question to answer. But if your going to answer it do it properly.

Try and imagine you are going to be stuck with ONE album for the rest of your life. Otherwise the thread is a load of rubbish!

I think you'll find at 1159, Peter Foate opened up the thread to multiple tracks, or I wouldn't have posted a reply to the original proposition which was, in my opinion, so restrictive as to be meaningless. If I was restricted to one album, I'd flog the hifi and buy a better camera. Anyway, try not to lecture - we're supposedly here for fun.

Apologies for being so abrupt but I think that it is a good thread. I know you would never have just one album but it is interesting to see what people would pick if they had no choice. It really makes you think about your collection.

There is alot of albums I couldve picked but I if I was really picky there is some filler on some of them. I picked the Sigur ros album as IMO there is no filler at all.

 

[Anonymous]

No problem Bobby.

OK, one album; Free - Fire and Water. No tracks that make it onto my fave track list, but the album just hangs together beautifully. It's effortless, and perfectly representative of everything that's good about that period and genre.

One track; Initial reaction is Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb from the Live in Gdansk disc. Everything about that track is perfect. But when it comes down to it the song that I stick on 'repeat' most often is John Denver - Annie's Song, and it makes me feel good every time I hear it, so that's my choice (tonight) and it surprises even me.

 

[mcjwalters]

Track would be: The Who - Who are you
Album would be: Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene

 

[Anonymous]

athenry:
OK, one album; Free - Fire and Water. No tracks that make it onto my fave track list, but the album just hangs together beautifully. It's effortless, and perfectly representative of everything that's good about that period and genre.

theres nothing more satisfying then throwing on an album in the background which as you say "hangs together". quite often i'll be punching keys on the imac, scouring the forums and by the time I realise what i'm doing i'm tapping the beat out on the table, bouncing up and down in my chair.

my favourite album for this would have to be the first every fabric live mix.

im not as heavily into dance as i used to be (my decks aren't even hooked up - i haven't used them in so long) but this mix is a heap of fun. not over the top energetic but not to technical or boring either.

My favourite track for a long while has been The Race - Yello

 

[Big Chris]

Mmmm....... Albums has to be..

Devin Townsend - Terria & Ziltoid The Omniscient

Opeth - Blackwater Park & Deliverance

Cynic - Focus

Fear Factory - Obsolete

Tool - Lateralus

Queen - 1, 2 & Sheer Heart Attack

Lamb Of God - Sacrament.

Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

Individual songs-wise...

Dream Theater - Disappear, Count Of Tuscany, Octavarium,

Opeth - Blackwater Park, Deliverance, Porcelain Heart

Devin Townsend - The Fluke

Cynic - How Could I?, King Of Those Who Know.

Queen - Lap Of The Gods.... Revisited, The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke

Porcupine Tree - Sentimental, Time Flies, Glass Arm Shattering, Sleep Together

The Faceless - Prison Born (Insanely awesome drumming, incredibly technical metal)

A selection off the top of my head.

 

[Anonymous]

Big Chris:Mmmm....... Albums has to be..Devin Townsend - Terria

Never heard of it before but just Amazon'd it now on the back of your recommendation. Thanks Chris.

 

[v1c]

Best album would be ........

I'm not the Nirvana generation and came to it later but it is my favourite and can say without hesitation that if I could have only one album it would be this. Raw, powerful and emotional would sum it up for me.

just pushing out........

My first introduction into cool music in the sixth form common room.

best song instrumental easy.........

The Good The Bad The ugly/ Ecstacy of Gold

Just a masterpiece of music.

Best Single Track very difficult to split 3 because they all have sentimental emotional reasons......

Position in brackets if really pushed.

Animals- House of the Rising Son (3)

Eagles-Hotel California (1)

Simple Minds-Don't You Forget About Me (2)

1 and 3 apart from the fact i genuinely love the tracks they evoke memories of my dad.

2 because when it was released I thought it was the worst song they had done then within 48 hours I couldn't stop singing it over and over and over and over and over until I realised I loved it.

 

[AlmaataKZ]

one example

 

[Anonymous]

Best Track: Shore Leave - Tom Waits

Best Album: Anything with Shore Leave on it

 

[JamesOK]

Pet Sounds anybody?

 

[Anonymous]

One? ONE??? Crazy.

Well, here's a thing. Classical music takes up a relatively small percentage of my listening, but if I had to go away with ONE piece of music for all time, it would be Beethoven's String Quartet 15 in A minor, op.132.

For me, it comes the closest of any single piece of music I've ever heard to saying absolutely everything.The 18-minute, slow third movement is the most moving, stately, sweetly melancholic-yet-ultimately triumphant thing ever. (Even more than that Sigur Ros album, bobbyg81. And I love that Sigur Ros album...)

It doesn't matter if you're a classical fan or not: I seriously recommend this. Stick it on the best hi-fi system you can get your hands on, crank up the volume, and...... well, you'll see. I have the 1984 recording by the Vemeer Quartet, but I'll leave it to the real classical nuts to let me know if there's better out there. All I know is, it's wonderful.

 

[Anonymous]

i've got this piece on a recent cd produced by the abc orchestra. unfortunately my hi fi is stuck in a small room with nothing but reflective surfaces so i don't want to waste my first listen through my new amp.

 

[the record spot]

A desert island song? Hmmm, it would either be Pachelbel's Canon (not an album, or a song I grant you) as it's just a lovely piece of music. Yes, there's more obscure, possibly better pieces, but this is one of those pieces that's just beautiful from start to finish.

And if that wasn't lying around, it'd be Nick Lowe's "Cold Grey Light of Dawn".

 

[Anonymous]

best track ever ? impossible , so relevant to your mood at any given time , but right now , in my current mood

, its gotta be bob marleys "funky reggae party" .. loving it ...

in december its usually the pogues "fairytale in new york"