Film TV Music · 19th September 2024

Twitter’s Favourite Albums

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

David Bowie – Hunky Dory

After playing Hunky Dory once more for the umpteen millionth time, I was genuinly interested in what other people’s favourite album of all time was.

That one album you could play and have played forever, or would choose if given no other choice.

So of course I asked Twitter

I was pleasantly surprised by how popular a post it became, but very perturbed as the goal was to listen to every album that was suggested, more on this later.

What was also really nice is that everyone was really positive with no making fun of or belittling others choices and taste, which was very broad indeed and is going to make for some interesting listening for me.

Some of the albums suggested are very close to being that *one* album for me as well, The The – Soul Mining, Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen, Joni Mitchell – Blue, which shows what great taste people have.

So I am going to listen to every album on the thread and post my thoughts on it across on my Ko-Fi crossposting to Twitter, this may take me a while as you will see from the list below.

These are the albums that were suggested by the lovely people of Twitter but only the ones where the poster played by the Highlander rules and mentioned only one! 13 others also thought Hunky Dory was the best album ever, and of course they are correct!

  1. 10cc – How Dare You
  2. 10,000 Maniacs – MTV Unplpugged
  3. ABC – Lexicon of Love
  4. a-ha – Scoundrel Days
  5. Air – Moon Safari
  6. The Alan Parsons Project – The Turn of a Friendly Card
  7. Alex Is On Fire – Watch Out
  8. Alternative TV – The Image Has Cracked
  9. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
  10. Aztec Camera – High Land, Hard Rain
  11. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
  12. Bastille – All This Bad Blood
  13. Bauhaus – Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape
  14. The Beatles – Abbey Road
  15. The Beatles – Help!
  16. The Beatles – Love
  17. Beck – Mutations
  18. Ben Fold Five – Whatever & Ever, Amen
  19. Bjork – Biophilia
  20. Black Uhuru – Iron Storm
  21. The Blue Nile – Hats
  22. The Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops
  23. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
  24. David Bowie – Low
  25. David Bowie – Young Americans
  26. Bring Me the Horizon – Sempiternal
  27. Jackson Browne – Late for the Sky
  28. Kate Bush – Arial
  29. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
  30. Kate Bush – The Kick Inside
  31. Cafe Tacvba – Re
  32. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
  33. Carbon Based Lifeforms – World of Sleepers
  34. Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica
  35. Carmel – The Drum is Everything
  36. Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig
  37. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part
  38. Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman
  39. Eric Clapton – Unplugged
  40. Guy Clark – Old Net
  41. Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & Englishmen
  42. Coil – Horse Rotorvator
  43. Coil – Music to Play in the Dark 2
  44. Alison Cotton – All is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre
  45. Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
  46. Randy Crawford – Secret Combination
  47. Credence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle
  48. The Cure – Disintegration
  49. The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
  50. Miles Davis – Birches Brew
  51. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
  52. Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
  53. Sandy Denny – The North Star Grassman and the Flowers
  54. Deus – The Ideal Crash
  55. Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
  56. Dire Straits – Making Movies
  57. Dizraeli and the Small Gods – Engurland
  58. The Doors – LA Woman
  59. Rob Dougan – Furious Angels
  60. The Dukes of Stratosphear – Chips From the Chocolate Fireball
  61. Ian Dury – New Boots and Panties
  62. Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
  63. Echo and the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
  64. ELO – Out of the Blue
  65. ELO – Time
  66. Brian Eno – Another Green World
  67. Brian Eno – Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks
  68. Evanescence – Fallen
  69. Everything Everything – Man Alive
  70. Faithless – Sunday 8pm
  71. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
  72. Vilde Frange – britten korngolo
  73. Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
  74. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
  75. Peter Gabriel – New Blood
  76. Peter Gabriel – So
  77. Abel Ganz – The Life of the Honey Bee and Other Moments of Clarity
  78. Genesis – Foxtrot
  79. Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up The Girl
  80. Matthew Good – Vancouver
  81. Gyasi – Pronounced Jah-See
  82. Hall & Oates – Abandoned Luncheonette
  83. Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebel – The Psycomodo
  84. Roy Harper – Stormcock
  85. Richard Hawley – Coles Corner
  86. HIM – Vebus Doom
  87. Hole – Live Through This
  88. Holst: The Planets – Stokowski
  89. Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert
  90. I Am Kloot – Natural History
  91. I, Bificus – Bif Naked
  92. Enrique Iglesias – Escape
  93. Ijahman – Haile I Hymn
  94. Jackson C. Frank – Jackson C. Frank
  95. James – Millionaires
  96. Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
  97. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
  98. Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick 1+2
  99. Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection
  100. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings – I Learned the Hard Way
  101. Nik Kershaw – 15 Minutes
  102. Killing Joke – Malicious Damage (live)
  103. Carole King – Tapestry
  104. King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
  105. Lambchop – Nixona
  106. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
  107. Linkin Park – Meteora
  108. Lord Huron – Lonesome Dreams
  109. Low – I Could Live In Hope
  110. LP – Lost On You
  111. McGarrigle Sisters – Dancing With Bruised Knees
  112. Kirsty MacColl – Kite
  113. Madredeus – o espirito de paz
  114. Magnetic Fields – 69
  115. Magnolia Electric Co – Ohia
  116. Man – Maximum Darkness
  117. Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
  118. Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark
  119. Michael Marra – On Stolen Stationery
  120. Hugh Masekela – The Best of Hugh Masekela
  121. Cerys Matthews – Cockahoop
  122. Anna Meredith – Fibs
  123. Joni Mitchell – Blue
  124. Joni Mitchell – Hejira
  125. Joni Mitchell – The Hissing of Summer Lawns
  126. Mohair – Small Talk
  127. MoJu – Native Tongue
  128. Moody Blues – In Search of a Lost Chord
  129. Alanis Morisette – Jagged Little Pill
  130. Mozart 4 Horn Concerto – Alan Civil
  131. Alexi Murdoch – Towards the Sun
  132. My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
  133. Marissa Nadler – Avalanche
  134. New Order – Technique
  135. O’Hooley & Tidow – Shadows
  136. Pale Saints – The Comfort of Madness
  137. Graham Parker – Heat Treatment
  138. Graham Parker and The Rumour – Parkerilla
  139. Dolly Parton – Run Rose Run
  140. Art Pepper – Winter Moon
  141. Lee Scratch Perry – Arkology
  142. Peter and the Wolf – Nicolai Malko
  143. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
  144. Placebo – Meds
  145. Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
  146. The Pretenders – Pretenders
  147. Prince – Purple Rain
  148. Pulp Different Class
  149. PXNDX – Para Ti Con Desprecio
  150. Queen – Queen II
  151. Radiohead – In Rainbows
  152. Radiohead – OK Computer
  153. Rammstein – Mutter
  154. Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe – Monteaux London Symphony Orchestra
  155. Chris Rea – On the Beach
  156. Red House Painters – Red House Painters I
  157. Lou Reed – Transformer
  158. REM – Automatic for the People
  159. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
  160. Ride – Going Blank Again
  161. The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St
  162. Rush – 2112
  163. Rush – Grace Under Fire
  164. Rush – In Your Voice
  165. Sad Cafe – Facades
  166. Saw Doctors – If This Is Rock’N’Roll I Want My Old Job Back
  167. Scheherazade – Berliner Philharmoniker
  168. Schubert, Winterrise – Fischer-Diesku
  169. Gill Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man
  170. Shriekback – Oil & Gold
  171. Simple Minds – New Gold Dream
  172. Paul Simon – Gracelands
  173. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood – Nancy & Lee
  174. Skepta – Konnichiwa
  175. The Slits – Cut
  176. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
  177. The Smiths – Meat is Murder
  178. Soundtrack of the 1997 Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde Musical
  179. Soundtrack of the Animated Transformers the Movie 1986
  180. Soundtrack to Quadrophenia
  181. Elliott Smith – Either/Or
  182. Sparks – Angels in my Pants
  183. Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis
  184. Bruce Springstein – Born to Run
  185. Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill
  186. Yusuf / Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman
  187. The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses
  188. The Stooges – Funhouse
  189. Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
  190. Talking Heads – Remain in Light
  191. James Taylor – October Road
  192. Television – Marquee Moon
  193. Tenor Giants Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins
  194. The The – Soul Mining
  195. Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder – Talking Timbuktu
  196. Traffic – Traffic
  197. Trashcan Sinatras – I’ve Seen Everything
  198. Turin Brakes – The Optimist
  199. TV on the Radio – Seeds
  200. Unbelievable Truth – Almost Here
  201. Gaetano Veloso – La Fina Estampa
  202. Rondo Veneziano – Venice in Peril
  203. Vivaldi: The 4 Seasons – Christopher Hogwood
  204. Von Hertzen Brothers – War is Over
  205. Tom Waits – Closing Time
  206. Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle – One From the Heart
  207. Tom Waits – Raindogs
  208. Scott Walker – Scott 4
  209. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
  210. The Who – Live at Leeds
  211. World Party Goodbye Jumbo
  212. XTC – Oranges & Lemons
  213. Townes van Zandt – Absolutely Nothing Next 22 Miles

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