#it says another album i rlly love and Know i played well over 60 times is in 8th place with 17 plays so its just Wrong HAHA

[akascow]

i know for a fact apple music replay is like super inaccurate but

i like how my top listened to albums are one that came out last september with like 500 plays

n then one that came out not even a month ago with 60 plays

[timefadesaway]

Hi! I love and 100% agree with your post about albums/Album Era. I even expressed the same sentiment in discussion with my gf a few weeks ago. I absolutely adore just laying back and playing an album from start to finish uninterrupted, really engaging with it and letting it wash over me.

Anyway! I wanted to ask if you could list your favorite albums (organized in any way you wish, by decade or by genre, whatever etc) and maybe if you have the interest/time maybe a blurb about why you love the album?

thank you so much ! Oh and I hope you a great day! :)

hi!! thank you so much!! i agree - it's so nice to just... actually take the time with music these days when it's so easy to let things pass you by or listen passively. i listen to music most of the time so i know sometimes it can just be background noise, but i do really love sitting down and engaging with it properly.

i'd love to!! i'll pop them under a read more because i'm pretty sure i'll start and won't stop lol. hope you have a great day too!!

okay so i’ve been doing the 1001 albums thing chronologically and i’m up to about 1970 right now so this’ll be very 60s-loaded i think but i’ll pull some of my favourites from after that as well!! i’ll do it by decade (even if the other ones i say by an artist might b outside that) :) i’ll write a little blurb for some just if i do for all i think it’ll get too long to post!

pre-1960

billie holiday - lady in satin. also really enjoy an evening with billie holiday!

miles davis - kind of blue. also bitches brew

1960s

bob dylan - the freewheelin’ bob dylan: i loveeee early 60s american folk music so i mean. yeah. i think it’s really well-rounded album in terms of the songs and i just really like all of them! also: highway 61 revisited and blood on the tracks

sam cooke - live at the harlem square club: this album knocked me out the first time i listened to it. the mood in that room is chilling they LOVE him and it’s brilliant. just so involving it’s one of the albums i’ll recommend to anyone i just think it’s phenomenal

otis redding - otis blue: so so so good!! im a big fan of his stones cover :)

the beatles - rubber soul: unfortunately i enjoy like all their albums but this might be the only one i’d pick as a favourite generally? i mean maybe not i do love a couple of others lotsss but my beatles album thoughts are for another time haha

beach boys - pet sounds. because it’s pet sounds <3 also surf’s up

vashti bunyan - just another diamond day

nina simone - wild is the wind: phenomenal album maybe her best in my opinion!! she’s so so brilliant every song she sings even if she didnt write it feels like her own. amazing :) also: here comes the sun

buffalo springfield again: i love buffalo soooo much this i just think is my favourite of their’s :) i just love their sound i love neil young and stephen stills and um. the other guys. all of their albums are brilliant and there r only three and i’d pick them all 🧡

norma tanega - walking my cat named dog

tim buckley - goodbye and hello: one of my go-tos vinyl wise... i just love it. i know he’s not obscure but i still feel like he’s underrated. i like feeling like im at the renaissance faire for half the album and feeling insane for the rest of it

love - forever changes

the moody blues - days of future passed

the velvet underground and nico (self-titled). also velvet underground (self-titled but minus nico lol)

leonard cohen - songs of leonard cohen: adoreeee leonard cohen his lyrics are so phenomenal and i think his melodies are wonderful and rlly understated. my favourite is either this, songs from a room or new skin for the old ceremony!

the kinks - the kinks are the village green preservation society: it’s great :) just such a fun album i really enjoy it. this and arthur by them!! that one i think is rlly well-rounded and i enjoy that it has a plot kinda

jimi hendrix - electric ladyland

simon & garfunkel - bookends. WONDERFUL album. like it feels like such a complete work of art to me. plus i cry at america always. also bridge over troubled water <3

the zombies - odessey and oracle

led zeppelin - led zeppelin i, led zeppelin iv

fairport convention - unhalfbricking: i’m english, like folk music and grew up in the countryside i kinda have to pick them. this is a great album i adoreee sandy denny

king crimson - in the court of the crimson king

frank zappa - hot rats

1970s

GEORGE HARRISON - ALL THINGS MUST PASS: i could write an essay on how much i love it. but i will not. i just think it’s a brilliant set of songs i love that he brought together a triple album and i think it’s such a showcase of his talent. awesome. plus i have the boxset so i love getting use out of it lol

crosby stills nash and young - deja vu: spectacular wonderful beautiful harmonies great set of songs love it to bits. also crosby stills and nash debut

nick drake - bryter layter, pink moon: he was so brilliant. both really beautiful in their own ways but i think pink moon is more cohesive. both phenomenal and i adore the instrumental moments in BL

paul mccartney - ram: aged great well done paul. the only solo album of his i really love sorry mccartneyheads. anyway such a fun album and yeah. indie pop

funkadelic - maggot brain

neil young - harvest, after the gold rush, everybody knows this is nowhere... and many more <3 i love his voice i love his writing

graham nash - songs for beginners

bruce springsteen - darkness on the edge of town. easily my favourite of his even if i dont think it’s his BEST but i do think it’s wonderful. i love to be emotional and listen to him i just sit there and absorb. also born to run and born in the usa and nebraska are probably my MAIN favourites of his

fleetwood mac - rumours

joni mitchell - blue, ladies of the canyon, song to a seagull. 

wings - band on the run

yusuf/cat stevens - tea for the tillerman

carole king - tapestry

steely dan - can’t buy a thrill: love to sit and chill with the sun out to this 👍 

david bowie - hunky dory. not the biggest bowie fan in the world but i do love this one!! i think it’s a really good album in my favourite time period of his. also the rise and fall of ziggy stardust

queen - queen ii. i think it’s a really interesting complete work for them and the songs are really good and not overplayed especially so i love it a lot!! i am partial to night at the opera, day at the races, sheer heart attack and news of the world though lol

marvin gaye - what’s going on. i think there’s a case to make that this is the best album of all time. not kidding

eagles - hotel california. makes me think of my dad so i like it <3

stevie wonder - songs in the key of life

joan armatrading self-titled - really brilliant such a lovely album. bought it on a whim knowing one song and it’s just such a beautiful album. and she’s such a great songwriter!!

1980s

traveling wilburys - traveling wilburys vol 1: just fun innit

the smiths - the queen is dead: first vinyl i ever bought! still really enjoy it. love all the songs and a good night-listen i think. also strangeways and hatful of hollow

talking heads - speaking in tongues. all these songs slap. great work thank you david byrne 👍 also remain in light

xtc - skylarking

new order - power corruption and lies. my new wave moment! really brilliant especially knowing the history of new order i think it’s phenomenal that they came out with this after ian curtis. 

kate bush - hounds of love

paul simon - graceland

tracy chapman - self-titled. definitely top 5 albums ever for me. so so wonderful and her voice and her writing... can’t describe how it makes me feel. love it to bits

1990s

modern life is rubbish - blur: LOVE THIS ONEEEE <3 im a britpop fan at heart and this one is so awesome. and such a showcase of the fact they were actually good (and better than oasis). such a great album lots of good songs and a really good overall feel to it i think. really obviously 60s influenced too i think which i like a lot! also parklife and self-titled

lauryn hill - the miseducation of lauryn hill. just phenomenal all round in terms of quality across the board

different class - pulp: best album of britpop no joke. i feel like it’s almost a concept album but not quite, so many good songs and such a brilliant immersive general feel to it. probably also top 5 for me...

mazzy star - so tonight i might see

daniel johnston - 1990

radiohead - ok computer. sorry for being cliche but it is so good. i forget how good it is. was my favourite album of all time up until a couple of years ago. i rank radiohead albums reallyyyy highly though i think they deliver nearly ever time in creating something fresh and interesting and cohesive. also the bends, in rainbows, kid a, moon-shaped pool. and all their others. 

dummy - portishead

pj harvey - rid of me

fiona apple - tidal. she’s so wonderful i think all of her albums are brilliant. her songwriting is amazing and i love to sit back and just take it all in. i really enjoy all her albums but i’d say my other favourites are when the pawn and the idler wheel. and boltcutters probably...

neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea

the magnetic fields - 69 love songs

2000s

godspeed you black emperor - lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven

life in cartoon motion - mika

whatever people say i am that’s what i’m not - arctic monkeys. also favourite worst nightmare. i am partial to suck it and see too but i wouldnt put it as a favourite maybe...

tallahassee - the mountain goats. sorry i love divorce and i think the lyrics are wonderful. really enjoy that tmg often have a theme across a whole album i think it’s awesome. i also love beat the champ i love the wrestling thing

outkast - stankonia

mcr - the black parade. lol

joanna newsom - ys. also have one on me

sufjan stevens - illinois. amazing. so many good songs and so brilliant as a whole album. i really enjoy the consistent theme and how purposefully the album feels like it was built :) also love carrie and lowell. 

the hoosiers - the trick to life. the first album i ever bought! such a great indie pop album all the songs are great and i do have a lot of nostalgia tied to it

lily allen - it’s not me it’s you. changed my life as a 10 year old honestly

amy winehouse - back to black

brian wilson - smile

2010s

fka twigs - magdalene: brilliant. i think fka is such a phenomenal artist and i think this whole album is so tied together and tight. it’s brilliant

mitski - bury me at makeout creek. also puberty 2 and be the cowboy

kendrick lamar - to pimp a butterfly. i think maybe the best album of the last ten years. i think how he incorporates all these different styles is amazing.

hozier self titled 

the last shadow puppets - everything you’ve come to expect. i just like it 👍 

lana del ray - born to die. sorry i suffer from been on tumblr since 2011 disease

courtney barnett - sometimes i sit and think and sometimes i just sit

yola - walk through fire

2020s

rina sawayama - sawayama

phoebe bridgers - punisher

okay kind of fell off towards the end there description wise but i have a lot of love in my heart and love a lot of music!! always changing but really i listen to a lot so i hope you don’t mind me listing so many... also it’s really obvious how much i dont listen to current things sorry </3 i’ll be working on it soon hopefully. i’m sure i’ve missed some too!! but these are just the ones that were immediately coming to mind. thank you so much for the question !!