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

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