Your Top 3 albums

RocknRollDave

Deadman  

The Jam - Sound Affects

Yes! Great album! Man in the Corner Shop was always a favourite of mine, but it is in fine company on the album.

Springywheel

Rocker said:

Top three albums!  What nonsense. I regularly listen to any of at least thirty albums, depending on what interests me at any given day. Variety is the spice of life, don’t limit yourself to only three. 

For f*** sake man, just go along with it. It's more a means of suggesting decent music for others to check out

west

Kebabkid said:

Live & Dangerous- Thin Lizzy 
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
Spilt Milk - Jellyfish

wiz 4 the nightfly .... hello baton rouge ....

Deadman

RocknRollDave said:

Deadman  

The Jam - Sound Affects

Yes! Great album! Man in the Corner Shop was always a favourite of mine, but it is in fine company on the album.

Love it Dave. I even love Music for the last couple and Scrape away (not your typical Jam fan’s faves). Set the house ablaze and Dreamtime are the standouts for me. Then there’s Monday, however...

Funkfingers

Tonight, Matthew, I am going to suggest three eponymous albums:

The Band
Jaco Pastorius
Boz Scaggs 

RocknRollDave

Deadman said:

RocknRollDave said:

Deadman  

The Jam - Sound Affects

Yes! Great album! Man in the Corner Shop was always a favourite of mine, but it is in fine company on the album.

Love it Dave. I even love Music for the last couple and Scrape away (not your typical Jam fan’s faves). Set the house ablaze and Dreamtime are the standouts for me. Then there’s Monday, however...

I got into The Jam at a time when pocket money and the (non)availability of certain records in my local WH Smiths (plus the not-invented-yet-ness if the internet) meant that Sound Affects was the last album of theirs I got to hear, in fact by a considerably long time after I first fell for the band. I do often wonder if that is why it holds such a high place for me in their catalogue -less overplayed by me, kind of thing - but then I listen to it again and think “No, it’s because it’s a blumming great album.”  

Tele-scopic

At this precise moment in time:

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Cowboy Junkies - The Caution Horses
Brian Eno - Apollo

gordiji

Thick as a brick, Jethro Tull

Rainbow on Stage

There is Nothing, Ozric Tenticles

I see already mentioned Grace & Danger by J.Martyn, One More Fom the Rd by Skynryd & Nitefly by D.Fagan all of which could have been there.

Springywheel

Tele-scopic said:

At this precise moment in time:

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Thanks for reminding me of this album...a masterpiece. 

mikeyrob73

this morning choices are 
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine 
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum 
Leftfield- Leftism 

Tele-scopic

Springywheel said:

Tele-scopic said:

At this precise moment in time:

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Thanks for reminding me of this album...a masterpiece. 

No probs!  As soon as Only Shallow comes on I reach for the volume control!

At today's precise moment in time the choices are:

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Gang of Four - Entertainment

KevS

Caravan - The Land of Grey and Pink..

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars..

Magazine - Secondhand Daylight..

That was near impossible..

It probably isn't even those..

distressed

White Album

random NoMeansNo album

I don't know

prowla

Close To The Edge
Moving Pictures 
Temple Of Low Men

BillDL

There are very few albums that I could play and enjoy every song.  My choice is based on nostalgia from various stages of my life mixed with the fact that I like every song on the albums, even though I haven't actually listened to any of them in many years.  I think I'll dig them out when I get home.

Status Quo - On The Level
Boston - Boston (their 1st album)
Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbors OR Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gold And Platinum

munckee

The three non best of albums I have listened to the most over the years are probably. 

The Stone Roses
The Bends Radiohead
Doolittle The Pixies. 

In the nearly in the top three 

out of time REM
Life Inspiral Carpets
Nevermind, Nirvana. 

The La’s

Bands I’ve most listened to rather than specifically albums dire straits, the byrds, Sigur ros, Pink Floyd, RHCP, the Jam

Blaendulais

Physical Graffiti Led Zep
Nevermind Nirvana
Queen first album

ICBM

Three different ones today, coincidentally (or not) all from roughly the same era.

Blondie - Eat To The Beat
Boomtown Rats - Tonic For The Troops
Kate Bush - Never For Ever

Not a single duff track on any of them.

JezWynd

Freewheelin Bob Dylan
Streetlegal Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan
(having a Bob day)

I’ve struggled to understand late period Bob but then I saw this and fell in love all over again…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmTGEV4XZE

Matt_McG

I struggle to think of 3, but, at the moment, I think:

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Tom Waits - Raindogs  (but it could equally well have been Bone Machine, @Tele-scopic )
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

The Miles Davis is almost a cliché but it is one of the albums I come back to the most. His Bitches Brew might have seen it out, but I don't really like the 1st disc (it's a double) of that as much as the second.

@Tele-scopic also nominated Entertainment! which is right up there, too, for me.

The big problem I have, is that a listen to a ton of classic soul music and RnB, and I feel like that's a singles genre. If we were allowing compilations, for example, I'd easily add:

David Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Taken From the Vaults (vol. 3).

I'd take that for the Betty LaVette and Curtis Mayfield tracks alone.