The One Album That Best Defines Your Musical Taste

[mudshark]

It could, Carlsson, if the participants were to follow your silly lead to name the best album per genre. Because then everybody interested would name their favorite Prog, Metal, Jazz, Punk, Bossa Nova, Emocore etc. album, and nobody would agree with what anybody's sayiing. I think the question is quite interesting: The Talking Heads Live double I picked is not my favorite album ever, but it's probably the one with the most ingredients that define my taste in music: first of all, it's Live. I prefer Live albums (maybe another reason I'm not so much into Prog: most live albums in that genre I've heard are absolute crap). Furthermore, I like some angst in my music. Other factors: I like the NYC music of the late 70s/early 80s, I like African rhythms, I like music that swings like a leaky tit, I like Byrne's musical ideas mixed with those of Fripp, Eno and Bowie.

If I'd be mentioning alternatives, I'd be missing the point.

[C]

On an extremely serious point - can one be defined in one genre alone…?

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If it’s the one that ‘best’ defines your music taste then it can be.
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I just can’t see that my esteemed friend - unless one’s genres are similar

Yes, if one’s chosen genre are just blues, rock and prog I can see perhaps Jethro Tull’s Aqualung might be a good call

But what if one’s favourite couple of genre are reggae and heavy metal I can’t see a single album defining one’s taste

I don’t buy it

No impossible

As you were



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[robertff]

On an extremely serious point - can one be defined in one genre alone…?

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If it’s the one that ‘best’ defines your music taste then it can be.
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I just can’t see that my esteemed friend - unless one’s genres are similar

Yes, if one’s chosen genre are just blues, rock and prog I can see perhaps Jethro Tull’s Aqualung might be a good call

But what if one’s favourite couple of genre are reggae and heavy metal I can’t see a single album defining one’s taste

I don’t buy it

No impossible

As you were

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If it doesn’t work for you then don’t bother.




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[C]

If it doesn’t work for you then don’t bother.



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A good point well made

Yes, a good point well made




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[Darkness_Fish]

I just can’t see that my esteemed friend - unless one’s genres are similar

Yes, if one’s chosen genre are just blues, rock and prog I can see perhaps Jethro Tull’s Aqualung might be a good call

But what if one’s favourite couple of genre are reggae and heavy metal I can’t see a single album defining one’s taste

I don’t buy it

No impossible

As you were



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Canada's finest black metal/ska/crust punk crossover?

[pcqgod]

I would have to say 'Revolver,' which might explain why it's my favorite album. It features most of the things that excite and interest me about music and music albums -- strong, bright melodies, drony psychedelia, driving power pop with crunchy guitars and pounding drums, exotic instrumentation, and baroque ballads. And like many of my favorite albums, each song is a new experience musically.

[C]

I would have to say 'Revolver,' which might explain why it's my favorite album.

But don't you like all that Norwegian Death Metal* stuff - so how does that fit...?





* Perhaps I've got you confused with the Masked Man who went AWOL years ago...




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[pcqgod]

I would have to say 'Revolver,' which might explain why it's my favorite album.

But don't you like all that Norwegian Death Metal* stuff - so how does that fit...?





* Perhaps I've got you confused with the Masked Man who went AWOL years ago...




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Yeah, well I like Cajun, funk, goth and mambo also. The question was which album "best" defines your taste. I guarantee there's no album out there that covers everything I like. If there were it probably would be my favorite album instead of Revolver. But to get back to metal (my tastes range more to black metal, power metal and thrash) one of the things I like in music is aggression/speed/intensity, so I get the same kind of thrill from thrash metal, instrumental surf rock, bluegrass, hard bop, punk, funk, rockabilly, heavy prog and heavy psychedelic rock like "And Your Bird Can Sing" or "She Said, She Said."

[Walk In My Shadow]

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding

Unexpected return to acoustic but with band this time.

On hindsight this album probably drove me to my later love of Americana.

[frimley_greener]

Soft Machine Volume 2.

[mudshark]

Very encouraging to read that there's still a positive reaction to a bit of a challenging question.
The benevolent helmsman of the goonsquad is losing out on this one.

The Beneluxfunkmeisterlurvegod's pick is interesting to me. I don't know that album well at all but have been a big Americana fan since 1978 (courtesy of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark), so I definitely want to check this out.