Favorite Whole Album

[Singularis]

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One of my all time faves! So good that I got it (in banana yellow vinyl!) for my wife. I think this one basically qualifies as a “concept album” by Cosmic’s standards.

 

[lika]

Grateful Dead - Live Dead
Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun
GD - Valentine's Day show 1967 soundboard.
David Grisman and Jerry Garcia - Garcia and Grisman.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I love an album that tells a story. Savatage's Streets or Dead Winter Dead would be a couple at the top of my list, followed perhaps by Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime. There are others, but those were the first I thought of.

 

[Dave760]

The majority of my favorite albums have been mentioned by others so I won't repeat those here. But here are two that sit near the top of my list that haven't been mentioned yet:

- Vangelis: Heaven and Hell
- Billy Thorpe: Children of the Sun (The original, not the reworked/remastered/ruined version)

 

[warren]

Sing About Jesus by Ed Bruce, a great Country writer and a great baritone.

 

[lika]

Let it Rock - Jerry Garcia Band.
17/18 -11-75.
Jerry, John Kahn -bass ,Elvis drummer Rob Tutt and the sublime Nicky Hopkins on piano .

 

[RAGallup]

A Salty Dog - Procol Harum
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Beggar Julia's Time Trip
- Ekseption (pompous but definitely a concept album)
Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround - The Kinks
Tommy - The Who
Working Man's Dead - The Grateful Dead

 

[RAGallup]

I should have also mentioned
: Arthur or the Decline and Fall of The British Empire - The Kinks

 

[lika]

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant - Raising Sand

 

[Elric]

I forgot to mention NIN Year Zero. Take a look at that album's marketing campaign (Wikipedia?) if you want to go down a real rabbit hole. Guerrilla marketing that started during the previous years tour - hidden messages on tour shirts, flash drives with strange fragmentary mp3s left in venues, obscure websites with surreal content. The entire backstory is cool as well

 

[SSGT.]

too to list them all but the top ones

White Boy Blues Clapton, Beck, and Page
The Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday
Aqua Lung Jethro Tull
Best of Robert Johnson Robet Johnson
Damn Right I Got the Blues Buddy Guy

 

[cosmicfolklore]

White Boy Blues Clapton, Beck, and Page

One of my favorites too, but I always assume no one has heard of this, so I don't mention it much.

Robert Johnson, I picked this up way back in high school, but... you know, for his time he was probably way ahead of the rest, but now, it's just really hard to listen to for me. Twangy, badly recorded, and... just not enjoyable. I put it in the same group as I do Zappa. Probably a genius, but if you play that around me, I will frisbee that summa bich against the wall. I'd rather chew aluminum foil. Ha ha.

 

[lika]

I'm not sure this counts , it's an album recorded at Stonehenge Free Festival 1978 . Here and Now on one side, ATV on t'other . I love the Here and Now side but can barely stand the ATV side.
It's a great album of a time of Albions past .
Punky pyschedelia from Here and Now

 

[quantumboy]

One of David Wilcox's earliest albums, How Did You Find Me Here, is one of the best solo finger picking guitar albums out there. His live East Asheville Hardware is also epic. He is a brilliant guitarist/lyricist.

 

[Duane Cartmill]

Even if ICE, or a similiar organization like the Gestapo, asked me that question, I would still tell them to ask my neighbour first.

 

[ashdigger]

Queen Live Killers. If you disagree you’re a I’ll informed human.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Queen Live Killers. If you disagree you’re a I’ll informed human.

I like everything from Metallica to Miles Davis and Hound Dog Taylor, with my favorites being heavy on the punk and metal.

Queen is probably my favorite band for talent, range, listenability, and being able to move my head or soul on a consistent basis.

 

[dino]

With respect to cosmic's original post, here are three of my favorite "concept" albums (of the more than a few thousand LPs in my collection) that are always played from opening track to closing track on my turntable:
Only The Lonely by Frank Sinatra
Waltz For Debby by the Bill Evans Trio
Tommy by The Who
There are, of course, many more, some already mentioned by others in above posts, but this is certainly a good start for me.

 

[BingBong]

Whole albums? A random sample:

Roxy Music - Avalon
Butthole Surfers - Piougd
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Shooting Rubber Bands At The Stars
Stackridge - Stackridge
Cassandra Wilson - Travellin' Miles
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot
Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies

Etc. too many, really. Then there are others where one song is great and you can happily forget the rest (looking at you, Jo Jo Gunne).

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Taj Mahal- Taj Mahal

Willie Nelson/ Asleep At The Wheel -Willie & The Wheel

The Black Keys- Attack and Release

Social Distortion- White light, White Heat, White Trash

Rancid- And Out Come The Wolves

Sturgill Simpson- The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita

Pantera- Great Southern Trendkill

Corrosion Of Conformity- Americas Volume Dealer