Music recommendations

Would people please recommend to me one album that you think is absolutely the "hundes kugeln". Something that you can highly recommend as pure excellence. I don't care what genre as I want to try some different stuff.

So, bring it on. Once I've had a listen to some new stuff I'll buy a pint for the person who recommends the one I like the most.

Thanks in advance.

Just one album per person please.

well it's not the latest one, but it's one that i love and could listen to relentlessly:

Coldplay: Parachutes

Hello my good man.

I would recommend you, and everyone else, get a copy of Elliott Smith's either/or. The most breathtaking album of sublime beauty ever.

Failing that, try and download the tracks 'between the bars' and 'angeles' from it.

He was the best songwriter in the world, ever. Promise.

I'll be quiet now.

Old, but fantastic for late night listening - Portishead "Dummy", or perhaps Dirty Vegas (not title - it's their first album). OK, that's two albums so take Dummy as my choice but buy Dirty Vegas anyway.

One? You can't ask a question about music and expect only one suggestion!

Mainstream classics EVERYONE should own:

Bob Dylan "Blood on the Tracks" All Dylan albums really
The Beatles "Rubber Soul" same as above
The Doors "Morrison Hotel"
Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"
Led Zeppelin "Led Zeppelin IV"
Talking Heads "Remain in Light"
Beach Boys "Pet Sounds"

Neo-Classics (recognized or soon to be):

Outkast "Aquemini"
Elliot Smith "Either/Or"
Nirvana "Nevermind"
Weezer "Pinkerton"
Massive Attack "Blue Lines"
Pavement "Slanted and Enchanted"
Jack Johnson "On and On"

More obscure stuff that will be hard to find but WELL worth owning:

moe. "Dither"
Guster "Parachute" and "Long and Gone Forever"
String Cheese Incident "Round The Wheel"
Phish "A picture of Nectar" and "Rift"

If I had to pic one to recommend as your next purchase I'd say Phish's "Rift." Very weird, very trippy, very catchy, and very different.

Stereophonics - Word Gets Around

Real hard to put a finger on just one album, so I will try and select some of my favorites that differ from each other the most.

From the familiar stuff category I would reccomend Stevie Wonders "Songs in the Key of Life" and "Hotter than July" albums, but you probably know all the songs already.

From the phattest dnb album I have heard in ages category I would suggest " Uprising" by Concord Dawn.

Some really mellow but musically clever stuff can be found on Funki Porcinis Fast Asleep album. Wicked smoking album, comes with trippy dvd.

NWAs Efil4zaggin remains my favorite rap album of all time, but if its too immature then my second favorite, Ice Cubes Lethal Injection is a bit more intelligent (while remaining firmly in the gangsta category).

And lastly my favorite album of the past year, a reggae album with a good mix of poppy and not-so-poppy tracks on it. Katchafires Revival is a must. It comes with a free dub remix bonus cd.

get a bit of Sigur Rós in your collection too.

'Agaetis Bryjun' or () whichever one you see first.

"This is amniotic, alt-folk, post-chamber music backed up by a winter wonderland of elemental Icelandic landscape metaphors to aid critics who get stuck for reference points: glaciers, geysers, waterfalls, jagged peaks, lapping waves, volcanic vistas, you get the picture." NME bollix talk for dead good.

but get elliott smith first.

and Pinkerton rules.

sorry.

Lushious Jackson - Electric Honey
Smashing Pumpkins - Melon choly (sp??) and the infinite sadness
Pixies - Doolittle
Dead Kennedys - fresh fruit for rotten vegetables

Ooh as an afterthought also...
Wicked Beat Sound System - Inna Styles.. I LOVE THIS ONE!!

I ask Chris the 4th I think he has ace taste in music... oh he already posted... so go with what he said!

Oh just one albulm. Well, I guess my favourite would have to be... you can´t say just one.. they´re all good for different moods! But my favourite in regards to how it makes me respond emotionally is prob the Smashing Pumpkins one.

best ever album is OK Computer by Radiohead

it's a bit dark though so don't play it just before a hot date...

Hi
off the top of my head, these ones.
New: "Fly or Die" by N.E.R.D.

Old: "Songs from Northern Britain" Teenage Fanclub

Compilation: St. Germain des Prés Café Volumes 1-4

Katrina

Sticking with the orignal request of one album: Leonard Cohen, The Future.

And you can borrow it from me if you like.

Masters at work 10th aniversary Volume 2 Box Set
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WEYP
30 tracks from the masters great mix of stuff

Ian Pooley: Since then
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TL0B

And the best til last:
Jazzanova The Remixes 1997-2000
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YTVD
I'll buy YOU a pint if you buy this CD. Best ever.

Contemporary piano music -

Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call - I think Dave Fanning said this was the best album ever made - and some of the tracks are poor! Listen in awe as a man turns his soul inside out accompanied by faint plonkings on a piano.

The Stone Roses - "The Stone Roses" and "Turns into Stone" - there are reasons why "I am the resurrection" is still the most played track amongst most music hacks. Produced by John Leckie of Radiohead fame - this is the zenith of guitar driven beauty.

Primal Scream - "Give out but don't give up" - how anyone can say "Scremadelica" is better than this is beyond me. This is the Rolling Stones at their best with a turbocharger and a jet engine stuck on.

Lenoard Cohen - "Death of a ladies man" - tough album to get into because the humour is so black - but once you do - there is more wisdom and emotion in this album than just about any other that i kno - the fact that Phil Spector did the production on this and the two were at their creative peaks at this time says quite a lot.

Any recordings of Beethoven symphonies with conduction by Carlos Kleiber are peerless.
Bruch/Tchaikovsky violin concertos with Kyung Wha Chung on lead make Nigel Kennedy and co. look like the over-marketed laughing stock they are.
Anything with Mitslav Rostropovich on cello is unsurpassed.

Loads more but that's a solid couple of months of bliss right there.

@DrivinWest
i thought "Pinkerton" was an incredible dissappointment after "weezer".

@chris
but yeh Sigur Ros are unreal.

If you really wanna hear something to knock your shit off the wall get Jeffrey Lewis's "chelsea hotel oral sex song"

If I was u keydeck , I'd start from the top down on that list. All of these albums take time to get into tho.

Just one is really hard. My trapped on a desert island top 10 list gets occasional substitutions. One that has stuck through the years though: Pearl Jam - Ten.