Hunky Dory

After playing Hunky Dory once more for the umpteen millionth time, I was genuinely 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.

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!

• 10cc – How Dare You
• 10,000 Maniacs – MTV Unplpugged
• ABC – Lexicon of Love
• a-ha – Scoundrel Days
• Air – Moon Safari
• The Alan Parsons Project – The Turn of a Friendly Card
• Alex Is On Fire – Watch Out
• Alternative TV – The Image Has Cracked
• Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
• Aztec Camera – High Land, Hard Rain
• Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
• Bastille – All This Bad Blood
• Bauhaus – Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape
• The Beatles – Abbey Road
• The Beatles – Help!
• The Beatles – Love
• Beck – Mutations
• Ben Fold Five – Whatever & Ever, Amen
• Bjork – Biophilia
• Black Uhuru – Iron Storm
• The Blue Nile – Hats
• The Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops
• David Bowie – Hunky Dory
• David Bowie – Low
• David Bowie – Young Americans
• Bring Me the Horizon – Sempiternal
• Jackson Browne – Late for the Sky
• Kate Bush – Arial
• Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
• Kate Bush – The Kick Inside
• Cafe Tacvba – Re
• Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
• Carbon Based Lifeforms – World of Sleepers
• Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica
• Carmel – The Drum is Everything
• Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part
• Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman
• Eric Clapton – Unplugged
• Guy Clark – Old Net
• Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & Englishmen
• Coil – Horse Rotorvator
• Coil – Music to Play in the Dark 2
• Alison Cotton – All is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre
• Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
• Randy Crawford – Secret Combination
• Credence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle
• The Cure – Disintegration
• The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
• Miles Davis – Birches Brew
• Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
• Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
• Sandy Denny – The North Star Grassman and the Flowers
• Deus – The Ideal Crash
• Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
• Dire Straits – Making Movies
• Dizraeli and the Small Gods – Engurland
• The Doors – LA Woman
• Rob Dougan – Furious Angels
• The Dukes of Stratosphear – Chips From the Chocolate Fireball
• Ian Dury – New Boots and Panties
• Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
• Echo and the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
• ELO – Out of the Blue
• ELO – Time
• Brian Eno – Another Green World
• Brian Eno – Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks
• Evanescence – Fallen
• Everything Everything – Man Alive
• Faithless – Sunday 8pm
• Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
• Vilde Frange – britten korngolo
• Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
• Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
• Peter Gabriel – New Blood
• Peter Gabriel – So
• Abel Ganz – The Life of the Honey Bee and Other Moments of Clarity
• Genesis – Foxtrot
• Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up The Girl
• Matthew Good – Vancouver
• Gyasi – Pronounced Jah-See
• Hall & Oates – Abandoned Luncheonette
• Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebel – The Psycomodo
• Roy Harper – Stormcock
• Richard Hawley – Coles Corner
• HIM – Vebus Doom
• Hole – Live Through This
• Holst: The Planets – Stokowski
• Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert
• I Am Kloot – Natural History
• I, Bificus – Bif Naked
• Enrique Iglesias – Escape
• Ijahman – Haile I Hymn
• Jackson C. Frank – Jackson C. Frank
• James – Millionaires
• Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
• The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
• Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick 1+2
• Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection
• Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings – I Learned the Hard Way
• Nik Kershaw – 15 Minutes
• Killing Joke – Malicious Damage (live)
• Carole King – Tapestry
• King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
• Lambchop – Nixona
• Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
• Linkin Park – Meteora
• Lord Huron – Lonesome Dreams
• Low – I Could Live In Hope
• LP – Lost On You
• McGarrigle Sisters – Dancing With Bruised Knees
• Kirsty MacColl – Kite
• Madredeus – o espirito de paz
• Magnetic Fields – 69
• Magnolia Electric Co – Ohia
• Man – Maximum Darkness
• Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
• Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark
• Michael Marra – On Stolen Stationery
• Hugh Masekela – The Best of Hugh Masekela
• Cerys Matthews – Cockahoop
• Anna Meredith – Fibs
• Joni Mitchell – Blue
• Joni Mitchell – Hejira
• Joni Mitchell – The Hissing of Summer Lawns
• Mohair – Small Talk
• MoJu – Native Tongue
• Moody Blues – In Search of a Lost Chord
• Alanis Morisette – Jagged Little Pill
• Mozart 4 Horn Concerto – Alan Civil
• Alexi Murdoch – Towards the Sun
• My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
• Marissa Nadler – Avalanche
• New Order – Technique
• O’Hooley & Tidow – Shadows
• Pale Saints – The Comfort of Madness
• Graham Parker – Heat Treatment
• Graham Parker and The Rumour – Parkerilla
• Dolly Parton – Run Rose Run
• Art Pepper – Winter Moon
• Lee Scratch Perry – Arkology
• Peter and the Wolf – Nicolai Malko
• Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
• Placebo – Meds
• Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
• The Pretenders – Pretenders
• Prince – Purple Rain
• Pulp – Different Class
• PXNDX – Para Ti Con Desprecio
• Queen – Queen II
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• Radiohead – OK Computer
• Rammstein – Mutter
• Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe – Monteaux London Symphony Orchestra
• Chris Rea – On the Beach
• Red House Painters – Red House Painters I
• Lou Reed – Transformer
• REM – Automatic for the People
• Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
• Ride – Going Blank Again
• The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St
• Rush – 2112
• Rush – Grace Under Fire
• Rush – In Your Voice
• Sad Cafe – Facades
• Saw Doctors – If This Is Rock’N’Roll I Want My Old Job Back
• Scheherazade – Berliner Philharmoniker
• Schubert, Winterrise – Fischer-Diesku
• Gill Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man
• Shriekback – Oil & Gold
• Simple Minds – New Gold Dream
• Paul Simon – Gracelands
• Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood – Nancy & Lee
• Skepta – Konnichiwa
• The Slits – Cut
• Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
• The Smiths – Meat is Murder
• Soundtrack of the 1997 Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde Musical
• Soundtrack of the Animated Transformers the Movie 1986
• Soundtrack to Quadrophenia
• Elliott Smith – Either/Or
• Sparks – Angels in my Pants
• Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis
• Bruce Springstein – Born to Run
• Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill
• Yusuf / Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman
• The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses
• The Stooges – Funhouse
• Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
• Talking Heads – Remain in Light
• James Taylor – October Road
• Television – Marquee Moon
• Tenor Giants Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins
• The The – Soul Mining
• Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder – Talking Timbuktu
• Traffic – Traffic
• Trashcan Sinatras – I’ve Seen Everything
• Turin Brakes – The Optimist
• TV on the Radio – Seeds
• Unbelievable Truth – Almost Here
• Gaetano Veloso – La Fina Estampa
• Rondo Veneziano – Venice in Peril
• Vivaldi: The 4 Seasons – Christopher Hogwood
• Von Hertzen Brothers – War is Over
• Tom Waits – Closing Time
• Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle – One From the Heart
• Tom Waits – Raindogs
• Scott Walker – Scott 4
• The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
• The Who – Live at LeedsWorld Party Goodbye Jumbo
• XTC – Oranges & Lemons
• Townes van Zandt – Absolutely Nothing Next 22 Miles