[AldoKelevra]

I came across this question when I was drinking a beer from Deschutes Brewery one day.

On the beer, it had a label near the top asking, "If you could listen to only one album for the rest of your life, what would it be?" Something along those lines.

Immediately for me, without hesitation, it was "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd.

I have listened to this album literally hundreds, if not thousands of times. For me, it will never get old. For me, it is near perfection, if perfection. Close seconds are other Floyd albums. This album has brought me pure peace and bliss in times of chaos. No other album can compare for me.

I believe this is a strong question and one worth pondering.

If you could listen to only one album for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?

[Mage]

Music is like pussy.

Any one song or album can get boring and then annoying and drive you crazy if you listen to it too much and only to it.

[Geomann180]

Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers

It's got two different CDs with two different feels. It's like being married to two different women.

G

[UroboricForms]

I have literally way too many of these to boil down a single, conclusive choice. One that immediately comes to mind is "Passion - Music for The Last Temptation of Christ" by Peter Gabriel, but that's just today.

[MarcusAbbertini]

(02-06-2015 07:11 AM)Mage Wrote:  

Music is like pussy.

Any one song or album can get boring and then annoying and drive you crazy if you listen to it too much and only to it.

I love this analogy.

[amity]

(02-06-2015 07:34 AM)UroboricForms Wrote:  

I have literally way too many of these to boil down a single, conclusive choice. One that immediately comes to mind is "Passion - Music for The Last Temptation of Christ" by Peter Gabriel, but that's just today.

Well that was unexpected!
I was a hardcore Peter Gabriel (and early Genesis) fan for many years.
I think I was too young to appreciate 'Passion' when it first came out, but listening back to it again, now that I've more patience and maturity to listen to it's layers and depth, it really is an astounding piece of work.

[Comte De St. Germain]

50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin". The best album of the 2000s in my opinion or Black Sabbath's "Paranoid".

[Krusyos]

Rain Upon the Impure by The Ruins of Beverast

[UroboricForms]

(02-06-2015 07:47 AM)amity Wrote:  

(02-06-2015 07:34 AM)UroboricForms Wrote:  

I have literally way too many of these to boil down a single, conclusive choice. One that immediately comes to mind is "Passion - Music for The Last Temptation of Christ" by Peter Gabriel, but that's just today.

Well that was unexpected!
I was a hardcore Peter Gabriel (and early Genesis) fan for many years.
I think I was too young to appreciate 'Passion' when it first came out, but listening back to it again, now that I've more patience and maturity to listen to it's layers and depth, it really is an astounding piece of work.

I've been a huge fan for as long as I can remember! Proud to say I was raised on that kind of stuff. Everything the guy put out between 1980 and 1992 is absolute gold in my opinion. "So" and "Security" are also among my favourite albums ever made.

A handful more albums that would easily make the cut:
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
Joy Division - Closer
New Order - Substance
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Burzum - Filosofem

[RexImperator]

DSOTM is also the first one that came to mind, even though there are others more personally significant to me. As a complete album I don't think it's been surpassed.

[Ronald Reagan]

I'd make my own album that would consist of ray charles, johnny cash, rise against, eminem and ugk. Theres always a few songs that I really like and can listen to endlessly from every artist. I've yet to find an album that I can play without skipping once.

[Old Fritz]

Not an album but I listen to this song almost every day

[DChambers]

Either "The Wild the Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle" by Bruce Springsteen, or "Handwritten," by The Gaslight Anthem.

[eljeffster]

Metallica- Black Album. Every single song on there is good.

[DJ-Matt]

A box set of the greatest hits of the 60s

[Roustabout]

"Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" by Derek and the Dominoes.

[Dantes]

Dark side of the moon by Floyd

Second would be Wish YOU WERE HERE

[Hardy Daytona]

Oh man, that's a tough call.
For a man with eclectic tastes it's difficult to pin down a single genre, let alone one artist and therein one album.

Because it's what I'm listening to at the moment, I'm saying 'No Control' by Bad religion.

[Twi]

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

[rocksteady]

Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

[SiverFox]

Tool - Lateralus

[Bobco]

The Allman brothers live at the filmore east

[SouthernCasanova]

Jay-Z: Watch the Throne or Bob Marley: Legend Remixed.

[Slim Shady]

Toss up between the following two.

"The Doors"[1967] by The Doors. Perhaps the best debut album of all time [Nas' Illmatic is in second place]. If there was one song to rule them all, it would probably be "The End".

"Exile on Main St" [1972] by The Rolling Stones. The first grunge album? Isn't grunge really just the Blues? Tell me Chris Cornell and Eddie Vetter were'nt inspired by the "unfinished" product that is this album. Perhaps the greatest album of all time. "Rocks Off", "Ventilator Blues", and "Stop Breaking Down" are classics among classics.

[Drazen]

Daft Punk Musique Vol 1