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Hi, I'm buying people music for Christmas.

Albums, to be precise.

This year instead of buying all of my friends and family gifts that will rip holes in my wallet, I'm giving each person one album based on their taste. So far I've gone through albums by Circa Survive, The Sheepdogs, Phoenix, Frank Sinatra, The Sound of Animals Fighting, and so on.

So what's your favorite album - the one where there are no tracks you dislike?

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Foo Fighters - Wasting Light & Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Nirvana - Nevermind & MTV Unplugged
Green Day - American Idiot & 21st Century Breakdown
The Beatles - Abbey Road

OMG NO, NO! WAIT. I would like to add Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit/The Glass Passenger. Okay now the world can resume functioning.

WELL I dunno if people will like all this lol, especially for presents at xmas, BUT to answer the question: Emarosa (Self titled); Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself; Jonny Craig - A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer; Isles & Glaciers - Hearts of Lonely People; Beyoncé - 4; Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots; Panic at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out/Pretty.Odd./Vices & Virtues; Backstreet Boys - Millennium [lol], Depeche Mode - Violator. I'm sure there are more, but that's what I got for right now!

radiohead - kid a
tracy chapman - New Beginning
rem - In Time-The Best Of REM 1988-2

Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
Led Zeppelin - IV
Florence + the Machine - Lungs
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes and Helplessness Blues
DeVotchKa - How it Ends
Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge

the tennessee fire by my morning jacket

that circa survive album that you posted up there is pretty good. most every cd i own...i like every song on it. usually if i like an artist or a band enough to buy a cd, i'm going to love the whole thing. i just re-purchased Incubus' Make Yourself....I can't believe I didn't do it sooner. That whole album is nothing but energy and power. haha

The Wailin' Jennys - Firecracker
Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew or her new album Passenger...it took a minute to grow on me but I like it.
Martin Sexton - Live Wide Open (anything else he does for that matter)
Old Crow Medicine Show - OCMS
Incubus - Make Yourself
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine, Ire Works

list goes on and on

Monsters of Folk are incapable of writing a bad song.

And everything on the Cassadaga album, The People's Key, I'm Wade Awake It's Morning, and Digital Ash In A Digital Urn is nothing but perfection.

Interpol - Our Love To Admire and Antics
The Killers - Hot Fuss
System of a Down - Mezmerize
The Dodos - Black Night

(The above are my favorite but the below are really great too)

The Strokes - Room on Fire and Is This It
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It

I'm thinking most people have personal tastes in music, so if I were to give an album to my grandparents, it would most likely not be the same or even close to the album I would choose for my little brother.

So it really depends on a lot of things.

However, I think one "album" that seems to be very much appreciated by anyone I've shared it with is by

"Playing For Change" -- title : Songs Around the World -- http://playingforchange.com/

Here's 3 of my favourite songs that they did :

Stand by me : http://youtu.be/Us-TVg40ExM

Imagine : http://youtu.be/bvFLKyAGzzI

Redemption song : http://youtu.be/94MAEkPE2QM

which you can buy there : http://store.playingforchange.com/vShop.aspx?ID=1

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Crimes, The Blood Brothers.

White blood cells- The white stripes.
Nevermind-Nirvana
Is this it-The strokes
Funeral- Arcade Fire

"In Rainbows" (Radiohead)

"21" Adele

"Abbey Road" The Beatles

"Aja" Steely Dan

"Led Zeppelin" Led Zeppelin

"Make Yourself" Incubus

"Canned Wheat" The Guess Who

"Tumbleweed Connection" Elton John 1970 (a different sound)

That should hold you for a few mins! ;-)

Nashy

Hi, I'm buying people music for Christmas.

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Foo Fighters - Wasting Light & Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Nirvana - Nevermind & MTV Unplugged
Green Day - American Idiot & 21st Century Breakdown
The Beatles - Abbey Road

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OMG NO, NO! WAIT. I would like to add Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit/The Glass Passenger. Okay now the world can resume functioning.

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radiohead - kid a
tracy chapman - New Beginning
rem - In Time-The Best Of REM 1988-2

ConstantlyRiskingAbsurdity

Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
Led Zeppelin - IV
Florence + the Machine - Lungs
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes and Helplessness Blues
DeVotchKa - How it Ends
Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge