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Your favourite Top 10 Albums
Posted by dai on 8 June 2010 - 5:21pm.
Just for fun. List them in the thread, if enough people bother and if I get time I may try to collate them for some sort of Word Massive consensus after a week or two.
See my fairly predictable choices in the comments.
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Here's mine
1. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
2. Forever Changes - Love
3. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
4. Exile on Main St - Rolling Stones
5. A Hard Day's Night - Beatles
6. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
7. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
8. The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
9. No Other - Gene Clark
10. The Band - The Band
Here's Mine
In no particular order...
The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
Nada Surf - Lucky
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
David Bowie - Young Americans
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Jeff Buckley - Grace
I'll need at least two days to do this justice...
... however off the top of my head, I humbly offer, in no real particular order
1) Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
2) The Band - The Band
3) Planxty - Planxty
4) Stand! - Sly And The Family Stone
5) Music Has The Right To Children - Boards Of Canada
6) Fred Neil - Fred Neil
7) Tres Chic - Chic
8) Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield
9) Movin' Up Country - James Yorkston and the Athletes
10) Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized
I now leap away before I start changing it all...
The Band
I bought their self-titled album the other day, and compared to 'Music From The Big Pink' it had far more of an instant appeal. It's taken me a few years to appreciate the aforementioned album for what it is.
Not sure we havent had something
similar before in which case if you refer back mine might be different now than it was then and certainly different again next week but what the heck:-
Paul Simon - Still crazy after all these years
Elvis Costello - King of America
Ron Sexsmith - Debut
Richard and Linda Thompson - Want to see the bright lights tonight
Neil Young - Harvest
Steely Dan - Can't buy a thrill
Bobby Charles - Last train to Memphis
John Martyn - Grace and Danger
Prince - Sign of the times
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
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I'm sure it goes against the values of 'Word' but, hey, we all love (and loath) these lists.....maybe they should do a Top 200 LPs list!
1. 'Between The Buttons' - The Rolling Stones
2. 'Going To A Go-Go' (first three tracks: 'The Tracks Of My Tears',
'Going To A Go-Go' and 'Ooo, Baby, Baby') - The Miracles
3. 'The Chirping Crickets' - The Crickets
4. 'Johnny Burnette & His Rock 'n' Roll Trio'
5. 'Please Please Me' - The Beatles
6. 'The Fairport Convention' debut with Judy Dyble
7. 'Unicorn' Tyrannosaurus Rex
8. 'Sallies Forth' - The Rainbow Ffolly
9. 'The Who Sell Out'
10. 'Roots' The Everly Brothers
Whole Lotta Love kicks in..
1. Manic Street Preachers- The Holy Bible
2. Belle and Sebastian- If You're Feeling Sinister
3. Arcade Fire- Funeral
4. Radiohead- Ok Computer
5. The Decemberists- The Hazards of Love
6. Camera Obscura- Let's Get Out Of The Country
7. Pink Floyd- The Dark Side Of The Moon
8. Hefner- The Fidelity Wars
9. The Beatles- Abbey Road
10.The Housemartins- The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death.
No Order. But Ten I Couldn't Do Without
Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Decemberists - Hazards Of Love
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Slint - Spiderland
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
The For Carnation - The For Carnation
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Boards of Canada
I bought 'Geogaddi' last year in a double-pack with 'Music Has The Right To Children', when WARP(?) reissued a load of their albums; I've still not listened to them yet though. Therefore, opinion is pending.
Ease yourself in gently with MHTRTC
And I think you'll get the most out of Geogaddi. A unique listening experience. With added Leslie Nielsen.
Mine changes every day, too, but here's today's
1. Low – David Bowie
2. Revolver – The Beatles
3. Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
4. Five Leaves Left – Nick Drake
5. Mezzanine – Massive Attack
6. Untrue – Burial
7. I Am Shelby Lynne – Shelby Lynne
8. Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
9. Agaetis Byrjun – Sigur Ros
10. De Stijl – The White Stripes
The List Today.
Would no doubt be very different tomorrow...in no particular order.
1)The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell.
2)Are You Experienced - Hendrix.
3)OK Computer - Radiohead.
4)Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake.
5)Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan.
6)Dusty in Memphis - Dusty Springfield.
7)Led Zeppelin 1 to 4.(O.K. that's a cheat I know).
8)Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear.
9)Funeral - Arcade Fire.
10)The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - Bowie.
From the man with no shame
more of a desert island list but these would do me just fine.
1. Monkees - Headquarters
2. Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
3. Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties
4. The Jam - All Mod Cons
5. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
6. Haircut 100 - Pelican West
7. Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
8. Del Amitri - Waking Hours
9. Justin Currie - What Is Love For
10. Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks
Headquarters is a fantastic record.
That is all.
Ten Albums just for today
Franz Ferdinand-Franz Ferdinand
Twelve Stops Then Home -The Feeling
Out Of The Blue-ELO
Apple Venus Vol 1-XTC
Liberty Belle And the Black Diamond Express -The Go Betweens
Imperial Bedroom -Elvis Costello
The White Album -The Beatles
Blood On The Tracks-Bob Dylan
Calling Distance Stations -The Nines
Abba The Album- Abba
In no particular order
Lloyd Cole - Antidepressant
LC and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Felt - Me and a Monkey on the Moon
The House of Love - The House of Love
Tindersticks - 1st album
Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Kinks - Village Green
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
Today at least...
Hmm....
In no particular order:
1. The Meters - The Meters
2. Arvo Pärt - Alina
3. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
4. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
5. Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
6. Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall
7. Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
8. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
9. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
10. Mose Allison - Sings and Plays
Today's X marking the spot
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Radiohead - The Bends
Elvis Costello - King of America
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
The Cure - The Head On The Door
Steeleye Span - Below The Salt
David Bowie - Low
Hang on!
Where's the Sylvian, matey?
Some days
I have to let the happiness in.
10 aint enough
here's my dirty dozen, still not nearly enough
and as above constantly changing:
pinafore days-stackridge
astral weeks-van the man
bryter layter-nick
white album-the fabs
solid air-john martyn
strangeways-the smiths
natty dread-natty bob
marquee moon-tv
the clash-the clash
safe as milk-captain beefy
do it yourself-ian dury
the band-by the band
screw it 10 more
blood on the tracks
surfs up
with the beatles
let it bleed
arthur
kind of blue
kate and anna mcgarrigle
graceland
jesus of cool
imperial bedroom
oh right
Apple Venus
Top 10
Who - Quadrophenia
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Henry Priestman - Chronicles Of Modern Life
Jam - Setting Sons
Beatles - White Album (recently taken over from Abbey Road)
Big Country - The Crossing
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Madness - The Rise & Fall
Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
(Yes I know its 12, but couldn't decide what to exclude)
I could easily just cut and paste someone else's really but..
1. Rumours Fleetwood Mac
2. Abba Gold (If that's cheating then Arrival)
3. A HArd Day's Night - The Beatles
4. Third/SIster Lovers Big Star
5. Highway 61 Revisited Dylan
6 Long Gone Before Daylight - Cardigans
7. I'm your Man - Leonard Cohen
8. If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby
9. Fire Byrd - Gene Clark
10. The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
...and many more.
I could easily just cut and paste someone else's really but..
1. Rumours Fleetwood Mac
2. Abba Gold (If that's cheating then Arrival)
3. A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
4. Third/SIster Lovers Big Star
5. Highway 61 Revisited Dylan
6 Long Gone Before Daylight - Cardigans
7. I'm your Man - Leonard Cohen
8. If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby
9. Fire Byrd - Gene Clark
10. The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
...and many more.
or just cut and paste
your own Mr F!
(wink/smile etc)
That's Twenty !!
I'm Having ten more.
11)Rock of Ages - The Band.
12)The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies.
13)The Nightfly - Donald Fagin.
14)Beautiful Freak - The Eels.
15)The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow.
16)Kite - Kirsty MacColl.
17)Deeper Roots - Mighty Diamonds.
18)Dummy - Portishead.
19)Astral Weeks - Van Morrison.
20)Goodbye Jumbo - World Party.
This weeks top ten, in no order:
Beatles: Abbey Road
Joni M: Miles Of Aisles
Pete Brown Piblokto!: Art School Dance
Family: Entertainment
Beach Boys: Surfs Up (Mmm)
Wilco: Hotel Yankee Foxtrot
Band Of Horses: Everything, All The Time
Nick Drake: Bryter Later
John Martyn: Bless The Weather
Various Artists: The Number One Soul Album
Jethro Tull: This Was
Sorry, thats eleven!
Can never resist that Q
All of the following are non-negotiable:
1. Superunknown - Soundgarden
2. Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
3. OK Computer - Radiohead
4. The Downward Spiral - NIN
5. Mezzanine - Massive Attack
6. The Bends - Radiohead
7. A Night at the Opera - Queen
8. Kid A - Radiohead
9. The Curtain Hits the Cast - Low
10. The Heat - Dan Reed Network
You're a-kidding, aren't you?
The Bends and OK Computer are "non-negotiable", as you say. But Kid A?! This is where I fell out of love with Radiohead.
Have an up
for mentioning the Dan Reed Network. One of my all time favourite live acts but I think that's the first time I've seen them mentioned on here. Personally I think the first album edges it, but there's not much in it.
My 10
1. "The Stone Roses" - The Stone Roses
2. "Going Blank Again" - Ride
3. "Black Love" - The Afghan Whigs
4. "XTRMNTR" - Primal Scream
5. "Back In Black" - AC/DC
6. "OK Computer" - Radiohead
7. "Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere" - Neil Young & Crazyhorse
8. "Endtroducing" - DJ Shadow
9. "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back" - Public Enemy
10. "Forever Now" - The Psychedelic Furs
Forever Now
Well done that man.
My 10
1. "The Stone Roses" - The Stone Roses
2. "Going Blank Again" - Ride
3. "Black Love" - The Afghan Whigs
4. "XTRMNTR" - Primal Scream
5. "Back In Black" - AC/DC
6. "OK Computer" - Radiohead
7. "Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere" - Neil Young & Crazyhorse
8. "Endtroducing" - DJ Shadow
9. "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back" - Public Enemy
10. "Forever Now" - The Psychedelic Furs
My go
Solid Air
after the goldrush
blue lines
the stone roses
central reservation
I want to see the bright lights
strangeways
is a woman
Nebraska
sea change
As of today
Broadcasting from Home - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
UF Orb - The Orb
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Who's Next - The Who
Vol 4 - Led Zep
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
Leftism - Leftfield
Mirror Conspiracy - Thievery Corporation
Take Off Landing - Yoshinori Sunahara
We did this before : here is a different list, probably
Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones
Handful Of Earth - Dick Gaughan
Kate and Anna McGarrigle 1st elpee
This Nation's Saving Grave - The Fall
Djam Leeli - Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck
Roses In The Snow - Emmylou Harris
The Bairns - Rachel Unthank & The Winterset
Clandestino - Manu Chao
Call Me - Al Green
2 Many DJs : As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
Another list tomorrow, maybe.
One of these days we should do Top Ten Compilations. These are usually disqualified from these lists, pompously in my view, as if all rock is like Schubert song cycles, when some artists are all about singles and are less about albums, especially during the 50s and early 60s. Though somehow they allow Elvis Presley's Sun Collection and a few other select platters. But this is for another day.
Well if we are having several goes at it...
The Undertones
Horses - Patti Smith
Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
Rum, Sodomy and The Lash - The Pogues (current version with the extra tracks please)
Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan
The Clash
The Rite Of Spring - Stravinsky
Acadian Memories - The Balfa Brothers
Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens (the one on JSP...I know, a compilation...cheating)
If You Want Blood, You Go It - AC/DC
Still, seems a bit light. Tomorrow may have to shoehorn in some Ray Charles, Ann Peebles, Planxty, Mingus, Van, Joni...
Burning Spear,Irie.
Hot Fives & Hot Sevens...sublime.
The sound of summer
when we lived in Surrey.
The problem with this
As per my boring the North West Massive with this last week, I have been car-buying and have taken possession of said beast tonight. Now, the previous jalopy of extremely long standing had a radio/cassette and not a radio/CD, so you would think I would be champing at the bit to fill it with loads of these (er...) 20 platters I've mentioned.
Instead, actually, three - Marcus Garvey, Djam Leeli and The Bairns. It would be four but my copy of Clandestino is duff. It would be five only I left my copy of Exile in the feckin' hire car.
Instead : compilations (soul, reggae, Ray Charles), a few new ones (still hadn't listened to that Doom thing I picked up ), Toumani Diabate's Symmetrical Orchestra, Tinariwen, a bit of classical (Beethoven, Messiaen). Not much rock there just now. probably because I had a pretty rockin' winter and the changes are being rung. On the other hand I am about to rummage for stuff following the Massive pressing some buttons: it is ages since I listened to The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, The Nightfly, Entroducing, The Scream (no-one chose it, just mentioned Siouxsie), some Little Feat, which is half the point of the whole List thing, the other half being to point you at stuff you don't know, obviously.
Actually, what bugger nicked my copy of Hissing Of Summer Lawns ?!?!? (OK, Hejira then...)
How often do you actually listen to your Top Ten, or is this for another day ?
Interesting question
Of mine, *points down* I listen regularly to the Miles Davis, Alice Coltrane, & Brian Charles, I've been listening to Exile a lot recently : the others are the kind of treasured old favourites that I have listened to many many times. So I don't play them so often but when I do, I nearly always ask myself "Why don't I play this more often?". ("because I'm listening to lots of new stuff too" is usually the answer.)
On leaving CDs in hire cars - I always duplicate CDs for cars after several unfortunate incidents of car CD players eating them and also of me being forgetful. I had to buy "Axis: Bold As Love" again, which I did on the day that it emerged from the car CD player with a deep gouge, but it took ages to find a replacement copy of several others that were eaten by or left in different cars.
I've found that
Using an ipod in the old jalopy with a Griffin itrip does away with the problem of damaged or lost C.D.s plus less bulk to lug around and way more listening options.
iTrip Blues
My first iPod had an iTrip, as it turns out, courtesy of someone who left it in a hire car in France.
This iPod died, and and I had to buy a new iTrip, which was nowhere near as good. It had two modes : International , which cuts out at random, and US, where has fewer frequencies to play with and is much more hissy. Plus, the new iPod is slimmer and the nnew iTrip is correspondingly thin, but not as robust, and I reckoned it was damaging the connector, so I had gone back to ye olde cassette adapters.
I did start off trying to go through the process of returning it, but Griffin doin't seem to be represented in this country, and the US arm wanted me to produce physical evidence that I had destroyed it. That might have been fun , if I had the technology, but ended up more trouble than it was worth.
I am sure that Other Adapters Are Available. If anyone can recommend one I may have a look at it.
as of 19:36 today...the list below as of 19:40 who knows?
High land hard rain > Aztec camera
History > Loudon Wainwright
Autogeddon > Julian Cope
With the Beatles > The Beatles
The Velvet underground > The Velvet Underground
Mingus Ah Um > Charlie Mingus
Allegri – Miserere > The Sixteen
Rockin The Suburbs > Ben Folds
Back To Black > Amy Winhouse
Gorgeous George > Edwyn Collins
Ditto; today is.. Tomorrow who knows!
1. Trout Mask Replica Capt. Beefheart
2. Hats The Blue Nile
3. We're Only In It for The Money The Mothers of Invention
4. A Kind Of Blue Miles Davis
5. Boxer The National
6. Sordfishtrombones Tom Waits
7. Beautiful Freak The Eels
8. Lexicon of Love ABC
9. Fully Qualified Survivor Michael Chapman
10. Ogdens Nut Gone Flake Small Faces
this might change.....
ask me again in 10 minutes but these are ones I never get bored of listening to. In no particular order:
1. Liege and Lief....Fairport Convention
2. For Girls who grow plump in the night.....Caravan
3. Astral Weeks...Van Morrison
4. Revolver....The Beatle
5. If I could only remember my name....David Crosby
6. Sunburst Finish.... Be Bop Deluxe
7. Stupidity....Dr Feelgood
8. Aerial.....Kate Bush
9. Doremi Fasol Latido...Hawkwind
10. ().....Sigur Ros
The Last 10 CDs I'd sell.
1. Abbey Road- The Beatles. Mainly for Side Two.
2. Yes- Yes. Their first. Hey…I just like it okay?
3. Odessey and Oracle- The Zombies. Yes, that is how they spell it actually.
4. If I Could Do It Again I’d Do It All Over You- Caravan.
5. Friendliness- Stackridge.
6. Mott the Hoople Live- Mott the Hoople.
7. Wasp Star- XTC.
8. The Smiths- The Smiths.
9. New York Tendaberry- Laura Nyro
10. Desire- Bob.
Oh, and everything Bowie did up to and including 'Heroes'. Yes, even the bloody 'Gnome'.
Here are mine
1) Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
2) Songs for Swinging Lovers - Frank Sinatra (& Nelson Riddle)
3) In Spite of Ourselves - John Prine
4) Together Alone - Crowded House
5) Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
6) At My Age - Nick Lowe
7) Warmth & Beauty - Thad Cockrell
8) Almost Blue - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
9) Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
10)Luxury Liner - Emmylou Harris
Ah Bisto
you got me spending money again. I remember playing Below the salt to death when I had it on vinyl along with Parcel of Rogues.Think I need to investigate the Span for the digital age!!
And here's ten more golden goodies (no particular order)
"Imperial Bedroom" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
"Penguin Eggs" - Nic Jones
"Heart of the Congos" - The Congos
"American Gothic" - David Ackles
"Djaam Leelii" - Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck
"A Love Supreme" - John Coltrane
"Arthur, or the Decline & Fall of the British Empire" - The Kinks
"The Rainbow Sessions" - Ketil Bjørnstad
"The Great Concert of ..." - Charles Mingus
"Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas" - Townes van Zandt
well...
Lexicon Of Love ABC
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davies
The Last Of My Kind - Paul Burch
Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
Marquee Moon - Television
Goodbye - The Czars
Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
Odelay - Beck
Horses - Patti Smith
Lexicon of Love
... is criminally underrated. It is wonderful.
For me
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Born To Run - Springsteen
Darkness On the Edge Of Town - Springsteen
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Station to Station - David Bowie
London Calling - The Clash
All Mod Cons - The Jam
DSOTM - Pink Floyd
Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk
This week it will have to be
1. Hats – Blue Nile
2. If you’re feeling sinister (the live version) – Belle and Sebastian
3. Heroes – Bowie
4. Mule Variations – Tom Waits
5. The name of this band is – Talking Heads
6. Night Song – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
7. Highland, Hardrain – Aztec Camera
8. Sound of silver - LCD Soundsystem
9. Phantoms and Archetypes – Paul Quinn
10. Have one on me – Joanna Newsom
In no particular order
Ocean rain- Echo & the Bunnymen
Meat is murder- The Smiths
Doolittle - Pixies
Turn on the bright lights- Interpol
Emperor tomato ketchup - Stereolab
Xtrmntr - Primal Scream
This nations saving grace- The Fall
The Smell of Female - The Cramps
Fever to tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Funhouse - The Stooges
10 here
todays choice (in no particular order) .... will be different in half an hour....
Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Who's Next - Who
OK Computer - Radiohead
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Courage Of Others - Midlake
Hazards Of Love - Decemberists
Skylarking - XTC
Welcome Home - 'Til Tuesday
Kite - Kirsty MacColl
here's my ten
1. Back in Black - AC/DC
2. Led Zeppelin I
3. Who's Next - The Who
4. Fool Moon Fever - Tom Petty
5. The Joshua Tree - U2
6. Bringing it all back home - Bob Dylan
7. Rainbow Rising - Rainbow
8. Heaven and Hell - B Sabbath
9. Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
10.The Wall - Pink Floyd
and while I'm here, another 10
11. Powerage - AC/DC
12. Exile on main St - Stones
13. Live at San Quentin - J Cash
14. Never mind the bollocks - Sex Pistols
15. Ace of Spades - Motorhead
16. Bursting Out live - Jethro Tull
17. Funhouse - Iggy and the stooges
18. Master of Puppets - Metallica
19. No of the Beast - Iron Maiden
20. Ziggy Live 1973 - Bowie
Starter for...
Colosseum - Morituri Te Salutant
Alex Cuba Band - Humo de Tabaco
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
John Fogerty - Blue Moon Swamp
John Hiatt - Perfectly Good Guitar
Albert Lee - Heartbreak Hotel
Stephen Stills - Manassas (double)
The Section - The Section
John Hammond - Wicked Grin
Yes - The Yes Album
Stevie Ray Vaughn - In Step
Pah!
Huno De Tabaco
is a fine, fine album. A great 'lost' album, it should be huge. I played it just the other night, sat outside by the chiminea just chilling under the stars. Perfect.
Mine...
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
3. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. Arcade Fire - Funeral
6. Kristen Hersh - Sunny Border Blue
7. Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
9. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
10. The National - Boxer
Tough - but today it's
Doolittle - Pixies
Black Love - Afghan Whigs
Valhalla Avenue - Fatima Mansions
Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse
The Clock Comes Down the Stairs - Microdisney
The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists
London Calling - The Clash
Setting Sons - The Jam
Reckoning - REM
After Murder Park - The Auteurs
No Nick Cave, Dexy's, PJH, Amanda Palmer, Kate Bush, Buzzcocks, Magazine - maybe tomorrow.
Why not?
No order:
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Let's Stay Friends - Les Savy Fav
Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young
Surfer Rosa - Pixies
Nixon -Lambchop
Gang of Losers - The Dears
Great Destroyer - Low
The Decline of British Sea Power - BSP
High Violet - The National(I know it's been out only a few weeks but I love the band and this seems to be their best so far)
It would, of course, be a different list tomorrow
Here's 10
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Alice Coltrane - A Monastic Trio
The Stooges - Fun House
The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St
Jimmy Reed - I'm Jimmy Reed
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
MC5 - High Time
Brian Charles - Sadderdaydreaming
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
Toppermost of the Poppermost
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Rufus Wainwright - All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu
Blur - Park Life
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
2 Many DJ's - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Depeche Mode - Violator
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Kristin Hersh - Hips And Makers
Well, for now anyway...
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
..
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Wilco - Being There
The Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
Josh Rouse - Nashville
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Electronic - Electronic
Dexy's - Don't Stand Me Down
wasn't really paying attention...
...and so just thought how samey all of us around here really are..these lists all seem very repetitive!
apologies
pc gone silly - hence repeat posts
Scandal
I think you're just trying to rig the votes, are you not? (wink, etc)
Nasty stutter you've got there...
Right now
and chosen with my heart and not my head...in random order of course:
*The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
*Talking Heads - Remain In Light
*Taj Mahal - Happy Just To Be Like I Am
*Ariel Ramirez & Jaime Torres - ( old LP from the 60´s, no real title anywhere to be seen unless the exclamation "Nueva Dimension En Folklore" in a little circle is the title...but it's the best album I own and if you can find it anywhere you HAVE to buy it! )
*Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
*Orange Juice - Texas Fever
*Kate Bush - The Dreaming
*Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
*XTC - Black Sea ( not their best but; heart, not head )
*Julian Cope - Saint Julian
That's ten, and that's...impossible! Since so many have cheated;
*Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
*George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
*Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
*Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
*Prince - Purple Rain
*The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
*Radiohead - The Bends ( or Hail To The Thief, that nobody but me seems to love - or do you ? )
*QOTSA - R ( or Era Vulgaris )
*The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
*Sinéad O'Connor - Universal Mother
( I've got at least ten more in me, but I won't try your patience any longer... )
right then
John Martyn - Solid Air
Muse - Absolution
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Led Zeppelin 4
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard A True Star
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
AC / DC - Powerage
Like everyone else this could change in 2 hours time
The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu
Red - King Crimson
Ray Guns are not just the future - The Bird and The Bee
L'Histoire De Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg
The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk
Triage - David Baerwald
Everclear - American Music Club
Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno
A Secret Wish - Propaganda
Hats - The Blue Nile
Compilations
Everything and Nothing - David Sylvian
Discriminate - Death in June
Retrospectacle - Thomas Dolby
Exorcising Ghosts - Japan
As Time Goes By - Little Feat
The Cream of The Second Coming - Whitehouse
Motor City Madness - Funkadelic
The Works - Everything But The Girl
Laugh? I nearly Bought One - Killing Joke
All Of This and Nothing - The Psychedelic Furs
Definitely, maybe...
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions... (could have been any of five)
Miles Davies - Kind of Blue
Paul Brady - Hard Station
The Clash - London Calling (could have been any of four)
Springsteen - Nebraska (could have been any of five or six)
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Lloyd Cole - Love Story (could have been them all, bar one (Bad Vibes)
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Curtis Mayfield - Best of Curtis and the Impressions
The La's - The La's
Del Amitri - Waking Hours
... and this is 11
Tomorrow will be different
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Steely Dan - Can't But a Thrill
The Beatles - Revolver
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all Back Home
OK Computer - Radiohead
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
'ere we go, then...
Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life
National Health - eponymous first album
Led Zeppelin - Three
Gong - Angel's Egg
John Martyn - One World
Man - Maximum Darkness
Yes - Close to the Edge
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
King Crimson - Starless & Bible Black
Henry Cow - Unrest
An unfashionable 10
Bands or albums I still love which have fallen out of critical favour, or were given a complete shoeing from the outset
The Joshua Tree - U2
Mother Nature's Kitchen - Kevin McDermott Orchestra
The New Radicals - The New Radicals
Paul Simon - Graceland
Snow Patrol - Songs for Polar Bears
Moby - Play
David Gray - White Ladder
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Tone Loc - Loc-ed after Dark
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
For the moment..
Figure 8 - Elliott Smith
Graceland - Paul Simon
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
Bellybutton - Jellyfish
The Trials Of Van Occupanther - Midlake
Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub
Spectres - Blue Öyster Cult
Countdown To Ecstasy - Steely Dan
White Eagle - Tangerine Dream
I'm going before I start changing my mind. They'll do.
Figure 8
I love that record - I'm off to dig it out again. Cheers
Of course...
...this changes on an hour-by-hour basis. Still, in no particular order:
1) Pixies - Bossanova
2) R.E.M. - Reckoning
3) The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
4) The Band - The Band
5) The National - High Violet
6) Radiohead - In Rainbows
7) Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
8) The Stooges - Raw Power
9) Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel
10) Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Mine.
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan - Aja
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
The Beach Boys - Holland
Phoebe Snow - Never Letting Go
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on A Gravel Road
Lhasa - The Living Road
The Blue Nile - Hats
Sorry - had to make it 11
and 12
XTC - Skylarking
I tried to stop myself, I really did!
Oh bugger it...,..No.s 11-20
11. "Chill Out" - KLF
12. "The Joshua Tree" - U2
13. "Deserters Songs" - Mercury Rev
14. "Spirit Of Eden" - Talk Talk
15. "Disintegration" - The Cure
16. "The Three EPs" - The Beta Band
17. "Neither Washington Nor Moscow" - The Redskins
18. "Rated R" - Queens Of The Stoneage
19. "Tindersticks 1" - Tindersticks
20. "Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd
Don't we all just love lists?
Dai, looking forward to seeing if you can collate any of this to come up with some interesting consensus points!
Mine are:
1 - Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
2 - Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells
3 - Beatles: White Album
4 - David Bowie: Low
5 - DJ Shadow: Endtroducing
6 - Beck: Odelay
7 - Radiohead: OK Computer
8 - Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
9 - Pink Floyd: Echoes
10- Paul Simon: There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Argh
Forgot "Close To The Edge", "Led Zeppelin 4", "Hats" and "Graceland"! No matter: I will let my original list stand.
The Chart
Yeah, best of luck with that list,...no pressure though.
These are the first albums I would buy if I lost everything...
So by extension they are my top 10.
1. Astral Weeks - Van
2. Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout
3. Hats - The Blue Nile
4. Hunky Dory - Bowie
5. The Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
6. The Trials of Van Occupanther - Midlake
7. 1972 - Josh Rouse
8. Gentlemen Take Polaroids - Japan
9. Hejira - Joni
10. 16 Lovers Lane - The Go-betweens
10. Takk - Sigur Ros
10. Deserters Songs - Mercury Rev
10. The Great War of Words - Brian Kennedy
these go all the way to 11
Remain in Light - T.Heads
Station to Station - D. Bowie
The Hissing of Summer Lawns - J. Mitchell
Talking Book - S.Wonder
Exile on Main Street - R.Stones
Greatest Hits Vol. 2 - B.Bland
There's a Riot Goin On - S.Stone
Royal Scam - S.Dan
Dusty in Memphis - D.Springfield
Two Sevens Clash - Culture
Jordan the Comeback - P. Sprout
for what it's worth
1. Natty Cultural Dread - Big Youth
2. Selling England by the pound - Genesis
3. Ziggy Stardust
4 New York Dolls
6. Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout
7. 'Meet'Danny Wilson
7. Aja - Steely Dan
8. The Clash 1st
9. 2 sevens clash - culture
10.metallic k.o. - stooges
not very surprising, but they'll do me
oh bollocks the NY Dolls first I'll put that over Weather Report. That's 10 innit? Knickers; chaos + morphine has reminded me that i'll have to put 'steve mcqueen' over no.5. My favourite album ever, apart from danny wilson 'meet' damn you people! but a good damn. there. xxx that's it i hope for now
I'm not counting HJH as all my Top 10 would be by them,so
Sailin’ Shoes – Little Feat
Let It Be – The Replacements
Sign o' the Times – Prince
Car Wheels on a Gravel Rd – Lucinda Williams
I’m with Stupid – Aimee Mann
Exile on Main St – Rolling Stones
Something Else – The Kinks
Get Happy – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Rum, Sodomy & the Lash – The Pogues
Natty dread – Bob Marley & The Wailers
I assumed Greatest Hits/compilations don’t count. Some of my favourites would be (James Brown, Sly Stone, etc) & so much I regretted leaving out.
10 more albums after being reminded by The Massive
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Mercury Rev - Deserter Songs
Julian Cope - St. Julian
The KLF - Chill Out
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Beatles - The Beatles
Beck - Sea Change
2 Many DJs - As Heard On...Vol.2
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
My 10
Abbey Road - Beatles
Help - Beatles
White Album - Beatles (Can't choose between these 3)
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Soul Mining - The The
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Fox Confessor - Neko Case
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Ram - Paul McCartney
Purple Rain - Prince
F**k it!
I'll have another go, or I won't be able to sleep tonight!
So here is another ten to make it into my top 30!
*Aimee Mann - Lost in space
*AC/DC - Powerage
*The Pretenders - Learning to crawl
*Pete Fountain - Pete's place ( childhood memories )
*Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
*Martha Wainwright - I know you're married but I've got feelings too
*Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
*Neko Case - Fox confessor & the flood
*The Police - Outlandos d'amour
*Siouxsie & the Banshees - Once upon a time: the singles
oh god, I've forgotten David Bowie...and the Clash...and *#!*^¤#§??*¤@~*#( sound of persons mind snapping and madness setting in )
Ok, desert island discs scenario
...so I'll have a spread of faves...
In no particular order:
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
John Henry - They Might Be Giants
Sgt Pepper - Beatles
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
Sci Fi Lullabies - Suede (The First disc)
Get Happy!! - EC&tA
Together Alone - Crowded House
Lola versus... - Kinks
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
Pinkerton - Weezer
Have I won anything?
This evenings ten
London Calling - The Clash
Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
Tunnel Of Love - Springsteen
Alligator (although High Violet might tip it in time) - National
King of America - Costello
Trancendental Blues - Steve Earle
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Rumor and Sigh - Richard Thompson
Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
easy to spot when my musical formative years were
Lambchop - Damaged (2006)
Joni Mitchell - Blue (1974)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (1999)
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (1998)
Gomez - Bring It On (1998)
Delirious - Glo (2000)
Delgados - The Great Eastern (2000)
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (2000)
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life (2001)
and one for luck:
The National - Boxer (2007)
.
Rumor and Sigh - Richard Thompson
Quadrophenia - The Who
Animals - Pink Floyd
The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
Heathen - David Bowie
OK Computer - Radiohead
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
Clutching at Straws - Marillion
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Henry the Human Fly - Richard Thompson
Heathen
Good to see that in there.
Subject to change, yada yada...
... and in alphabetical order:
DAVID BOWIE - Hunky Dory
DAVID BOWIE - Station To Station
DAVID SYLVIAN - Secrets Of The Beehive
LOVE - Forever Changes
NEW ORDER - Technique
SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead
SUEDE - Dog Man Star
THE THE - Soul Mining
TODD RUNDGREN – A Wizard, A True Star
XTC - Skylarking
“Bubbling under” – Beatles, Stones, Prince, Steely Dan, Scott Walker, Marc Almond, Stone Roses, Talk Talk, Depeche Mode, Talking Heads, The La’s, Prefab Sprout, Matthew Sweet, Pet Shop Boys…
Let's have a quick look at the scoreboard . . .
This is how things stand at present:
1) Nigel Lived (Murray Head), 117 pts.
2) Say It Ain't So (Murray Head), 98 pts.
3) The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie), 86 pts.
4) Rumours (Fleetwood Mac), 85 pts.
5) Between Us (Murray Head), 84 pts.
6) Year Of The Cat (Al Stewart), 82 pts.
7) Human Menagerie (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel), 76 pts.
8) Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young), 73 pts.
9) The Bends (Radiohead), 69 pts.
10) What's The Story Morning Glory? (Oasis), 65 pts.
No albums from the 80s. I wonder why?
Over to you, Belgium . . .
Mr Head
Is your first name actually Murray?
No
That would be terribly big-headed of me :)
Here Goes
After The Goldrush; Neil young
The Band; The Band
The Difficult Bird; Nick Lowe
Bring The Family; John Hiatt
The Pretender; Jackson Browne
Warren Zevon; Warren Zevon
Songs For The Daily Planet; Todd Snider
The Houston Kid; Rodney Crowell
Blood On The tracks; Bob Dylan
Countdown To Ecstasy; Steely Dan
So Far
Blood On The Tracks & Abbey Road seem to be winning followed by Ziggy. The Band & Astal Weeks.
Todays would be.....
1. Born To Run - Springsteen
2. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
3. The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
4. Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
5. Hunky Dory - David Bowie
6. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
7. Blur - Blur
8. Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
9. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
10. The Clash - The Clash
...
Abbey Road - the Beatles
Let It Bleed - the Stones
New Gold Dream - Simple Minds
Tunnel of Love - Bruce
Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian
The Bends - Radiohead
Kind of Blue - Miles
Hats - Blue Nile
Whatever - Aimee Mann
16 Lovers Lane - Go-Betweens
This minute's top 10
Really no order...
1. Abbey Road, the Beatles
2. The clock comes down the stairs - Microdisney
3. Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express - The go-betweens
4. Going Blank again - Ride
5. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
6. Revolver - The Beatles
7. Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
8. Takk - Sigur Ros
9. Fragments of a Rainy Season - John Cale
10. Velvet Underground and Nico
on another day I might be persuaded to swap Bob Dylan's greatest hits vol 2 or the Royal Scam for one of the above (assuming compilations are allowed).
albums or bands
I someone is mad enough to add up the votes, then it might we worthwhile also doing it the artist and not just the album. Some of us agree on, say, Radiohead but differ on the best album. whereas there is no dispute on Microdisney, apparently.
Off the top of my head...
The first 10 to barge their way into my mind this morning, in no particular order are -
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
Hejira - Joni
Blonde on Blonde - Dylan
On the Beach - Neil
Attack & Release - Black Keys
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Feats Don't Fail me Now - Little Feat
Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni (again)
One World - John Martyn
Off the top of my head in no particular order todays ten are...
A Hard Day's Night/HJH
Exile On Main St/Rolling Stones
Blonde On Blonde/Bob Dylan
After The Goldrush/Neil Young
Marquee Moon/Television
Surf's Up/The Beach Boys
It's Too Late To Stop Now/Van Morrison
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight/Richard & Linda Thompson
Station To Station/David Bowie
Good Old Boys/Randy Newman
My 10
different tomorrow, off the top of my head, no particular order, blah, blah, blah
Exile On Main St. - The Rolling Stones
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Quadrophenia - The Who
Scott 4 - Scott Walker
Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Masters, Volume 2 - 1952-1958 - Muddy Waters
Survival - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
London Calling _ The Clash
One World - John Martyn
Aja - Steely Dan
that's 11
Of course if all bets are off and we're including compilations/box sets (already got the Muddy one above which everyone should have) then the following would be in there
The Chess Box - Howlin' Wolf
Down Every Road - Merle Haggard
The Essential George Jones: The Spirit Of Country
Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection - Ray Charles
Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings - Aretha Franklin
Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding
Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music
The Stax Boxes
The Chess Story
King Of The Blues - B.B. King
I could go on all day of course, just like the rest of you, I could probably manage a definitive top 500 list but even that would never be finished. A fun exercise but pointless in the end.
Looking this over even once
where's Bowie, Thin Lizzy, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Womack, Roxy Music, Led Zep, Curtis Mayfield, The Faces, Kate Bush, Dylan, Creedence, either Elvis, The Crowes, Peter Tosh, Robert Johnson, Dwight Yoakam, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Freddie King, Little Walter, Toots & The Maytals, Chic, Hendix, Hooker, Little Feat, Lucinda Williams, Mott, Nick Drake, Paul Weller, Gregory Isaacs, Hank Williams, Gram Parsons,Ike & Tina, James Brown, Jimmy Cliff Rod Stewart, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Toms Petty and Waits and a millions others? There is no right answer.
Invisible Bowie
"where's Bowie?"
Good point, Pat. As I write, I have only been able to find his name 24 times in this thread :)
Thank You Colin
I was alluding to my own list, not the thread as a whole
Sorry, Pat!
I'll get my coat :)
Well it goes… something…. Like….
Joni Mitchell – The Hissing of Summer Lawns
The Beatles – Sgt Pepper
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
Kate Bush – The Hounds Of Love
OMD – Architecture and Morality
The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
New Order – Technique
Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
Radiohead – OK Computer
Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
I’ve only allowed one album per artist just to avoid it being a list of Beatle albums and major apologies to ABC and Blur who I replaced with Nick Drake and Talk Talk at the last minute....
Couldn't order them...
...and it changes frequently, but today and off the top of my head it would go something like:
Dinosaur Jr: You're Living All Over Me
The National: Alligator
Fugazi: Red Medicine
Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden
Magazine: The Correct Use of Soap
Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
The Delgados- The Great Eastern
Half Man Half Biscuit: The Cammell Laird Social Club
M Ward: Post-War
Popol Vuh: Hosianna Mantra
Today's top ten....
...in no particular order
Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
For Emma, Long Ago - Bon Iver
Hymns Of The 49th Parallel - k.d.lang
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Lodger - David Bowie
Joshua Judges Ruth - Lyle Lovett
Transformer - Lou Reed
Lexicon of Love - ABC
Really difficult to stop fiddling about with the lsit so I'll post quickly before I'm tempted to change it again!
Another 10
1. Gregory Isaacs - Extra Classic
2. Public Image Ltd - Metal Box
3. Yabby You - Jesus Dread
4. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
5. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
6. Rhythm & Sound - With The Artists
7. Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
8. The Beat - Special Beat Service
9. Lee Perry - Super Ape
10. Joe Higgs - Life Of Contradiction
This seconds top ten in no part' order
1. David Live - David Bowie
2. Red - Black Uhuru
3. At my age - Nick Lowe
4. Forever now - Psychedelic Furs
5. Cry tough - Nils Lofgren
6. Remain in light - Talking heads
7. Dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd
8. Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison & The Chieftains
9. One World - John Martyn
10 Beyond the pale - The Passion Puppets!
have an Up Arrow
For Cry Tough - absolutely beautiful. Nils is so underrated.
Nils is great as a solo artist
although I prefer his first album with "Back it Up", "Keith Don't Go" and "One More Saturday Night" and a sublime version of "Goin' Back".
Some of Josh Rouse's stuff reminds me of that vibe
Blood On The Tracks.
Wish I'd included Zimmerman in my list.
My 10
Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass*
Pure Prairie League - 'Bustin' Out'
Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Celtus - Moonchild
Robben Ford - Talk To Your Daughter
Jackson Browne - For Everyman
Dan Hick and His Hot Licks - Striking It Rich
'Til Tuesday - Welcome Home
Richard and Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver
How do I leave out Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Fairports - Liege and Lief (amongst others)?
Yes!
Recognition for Til Tuesday's - and Aimee Mann's - finest forty minutes. Perfect album.
And I managed to omit
Robert Palmer - Sneaking Sally or Pressure Drop.............
and The Dan ............
After I posted and saw some other lists
here are some more
Ian Dury - New Boots & Panties
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions
Stevie Wonder - Songs In the Key of Life
Prince - SIgn O The Times
Earth Wind & Fire - I Am
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Radiohead - The Bends
Steely Dan - Aja
James Brown - Live At The Apollo
Very tough...
New Order. Technique
Depeche Mode. Violator
Pet Shop Boys. Behaviour
The Smiths. The Queen Is Dead
Morrissey. Vauxhall & I
Electronic. Electronic
Arctic Monkeys. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Suede. Coming Up
The Cure. Disintegration
Editors. The Back Room
Nice top 3...
... and all came out within a 12-month period around 1989-90 I think - a high watermark for electronic British pop, I'd say.
Beyond that, your taste seems so close to mine that I'm going to give The Editors another chance...
Editors
Their last album, 'In this light and on this evening' is very electronic and heavily inspired by Depeche Mode in the late 80s/early 90s, so I reckon you might enjoy that album.
Have to add another Top Ten
The Band - The Band
Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
Mono - Grandpaboy (Paul Westerberg's alter ego)
Toy Love - Toy Love (1st & only Kiwi band I've included as a local)
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
Rejuvenation - The Meters
Earthling - Radar
Rumour & Sigh - Richard Thompson
Kiko - Los Lobos
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
... My beloved NRBQ can't even make my Top Twenty!!!
I'm going to find out
how many of my top ten are listed elsewhere. I'm guessing 5 tops, too much time on my hands.
Jesus - today they are...
(Probably not in any particular order - or maybe they are)
New Skin For The old Ceremony - Leonard Cohen
King of America - Elvis Costello
Let the Hard Times Roll - David Ford
Exile on Coldharbour Lane - Alabama 3
Sunny Border Blue - Kristin Hersh
Workers Playtime - Billy Bragg
Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub
I Didn't Get Where I Am - Chris Difford
Woodface - Crowded House
I don't proclaim these to be the best 10 albumsever made but I like them and I've played them all many many times. Tomorrow I could probably post a completely different list.
top ten doubles...
beatles - white album
van morrison - it's too late to stop now
led zeppelin - physical graffiti
fleetwood mac - tusk
stevie wonder - songs in the key of life
genesis - seconds out
eric clapton - layla and other assorted love songs
dire straits - alchemy
kinks - everybody's in showbiz
elton john - goodbye yellow brick road
Here goes nuthin'...
Zappa - One size fits all
Zorn - Elecric Masada 50/4
Dylan - Time out of mind
Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Coltrane,A. - Journey in Satchidananda
Hendrix - Elecric ladyland
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Isaksson/Törnquist - Fire in the hole
Van der Graaf Generator - Least we can do
Stravinski - Rite of spring
Bubbling under: Creedence, Magazine, Steely Dan, Joni, Miles, Traffic, King Crimson, Zep, Bach, Drake, Abba
Mr Declan, sir...
A big thumbs-up for your inclusion of the Isaksson/Törnquist album in your top ten.
Tis a thing of wonder.
Duco, old chap..
Quite agree, just magnificent.
What a fantastic thread.
If ever you wanted to demonstrate the concept of like-minded individuality, this thread does it. All of us different, all very individualistic, but all united by a desire to look beyond the mundane whilst not discarding it entirely.
Look down all the selections. If you can find one, apart from your own, where you say "Yeah, heard all of 'em" then you can hold your head up as a true anorak.
10 is a meaningless number
It's like the Desert Island Discs thing. Most of us can do top 20 or 30 - and (as per another thread) they would be the albums that would be 'All Killer, No Filler'
But you look at other choices and you think (random ones here)
'How did I miss that one?'
'How Can I leave out the Beatles/Stones/Dylan/Joni etc.?'
'What Do My Choices (or omissions) say about me?'
I love R n' B/Soul/jazz/funk - but that's not reflected in the albums I have chosen.
Anyone else second-guessing themselves after looking at the other choices here?
All Killer No Filler ?
I go along with some of that, but not all.
Some of my faves have flaws : Exile has Sweet Black Angel and Shine A Light, while Astral Weeks has Beside You, which I have been skipping forever.
I forgive flawed and lesser tracks if the rest carries it, just as, I would rather go see messy old Hamlet than some minor but perfectly formed miniature.
And yes, the figure of 10 is arbitrary, just as Desert Island Discs is, but it does concentrate the mind a little. In my case, loads of folk, classical and jazz fell off.
Second guessing ? Trout Mask Replica. Sometimes it is the only thing that will do. But do I really want to pick it ? Astral Weeks was left out because I hadn't heard it in yonks, but then I was prompted to put it on this morning...
OK - Stats
With caveats. If we ever do this again, I want a consistent separation character between artists and albums, and an agreed naming convention <inserts smiley>. I've wrestled this into a hashtable and had it count the number of times an artist or album is mentioned, with the following caveats - only comments where artist and album were both listed and separated with a "-". Different spellings and abbreviations would count twice, ie Led Zep /= Led Zeppelin (though I did eyeball this abridged list quickly).
The cut off point was Badlands | 9 June 2010 - 7:20pm
So here's everyone who scored more than 2 (out of over 1500 names/titles)
The Beatles 19
Radiohead 18
David Bowie 17
The Smiths 12
Steely Dan 11
Bob Dylan 9
Ok Computer 9
Pink Floyd 9
Electronic 8
The Stone Roses 8
the clash 8
Rolling Stones 8
Meat Is Murder 7
Bruce Springsteen 7
The Band 7
John Martyn 7
Talk Talk 7
Wilco 7
Abbey Road 6
The Cardigans 6
Tunnel Of Love 6
Funeral 6
AC/DC 6
Long Gone Before Daylight 6
Kate Bush 6
The Who 6
Elvis Costello 6
Arcade Fire 5
DJ Shadow 5
Born to Run 5
XTC 5
Springsteen 5
Astral Weeks 5
Kind Of Blue 5
Spirit of Eden 5
Josh Rouse 5
Primal Scream 5
Blood On The Tracks 5
Pixies 5
Joni Mitchell 5
The Decemberists 5
Nashville 4
Dont Stand Me Down4
Hejira 4
Dexys 4
U2 4
Fishermans Blues 4
Mezzanine 4
The Holy Bible 4
One World 4
Autumn Fallin 4
Hats 4
Hunky Dory 4
Remain In Light 4
Jaymay 4
Mercury Rev 4
In Rainbows 4
The National 4
Jethro Tull 4
The Waterboys 4
Massive Attack 4
Manic Street Preachers 4
A Hard Days Night 4
The Bends 4
London Calling 4
Being There 4
Richard Thompson 3
Talking Heads 3
Aja 3
Genesis 3
Deserters Songs 3
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 3
Black Love 3
Neil Young 3
Low 3
Pet Sounds 3
XTRMNTR 3
The Hissing of Summer Lawns 3
Dusty In Memphis 3
Whos Next 3
Powerage 3
The Joshua Tree 3
King of America 3
Blur 3
Van Morrison 3
The Queen is Dead 3
Midlake 3
Gene Clark 3
The Beach Boys 3
Little Feat 3
Yes 3
Skylarking 3
Public Enemy 3
The Blue Nile 3
David Sylvian 3
Marcus Garvey 3
Kinks 3
Teenage Fanclub 3
Forever Now 3
The Royal Scam 3
The Stooges 3
Elton John 3
Julian Cope 3
Station to Station3
Leonard Cohen 3
The Jam 3
The Psychedelic Furs 3
Paul Simon 3
Back In Black 3
Exile on Main St 3
Miles Davis 3
Ride 3
Endtroducing3
betweens 3
Going Blank Again 3
Prince 3
Quadrophenia3
The Fall 3
Im your Man 3
Richard and Linda Thompson 3
Thanks
For doing my work for me ! I know I should have specified a format (and everybody limit themselves to 10 !) I will still endeavour to come up with a top 30 or 50 albums in a few days.
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Just a quick comment -
U2 and REM aren't exactly pulling up trees are they?
And no Syd or 'Piper' as far as I can see.
As this is like eating wine gums or peanuts where you have to have just one more,......Billy Fury - 'The Sound Of Fury'.
Not mentioning that in my Top 10 has been bugging me more than the World Cup coverage on SKY!
doh!
…a shame, as just after the cut off point, New Order’s Technique racked up its second and third inclusions….
And I have Hissing of Summer Lawns at 5 even before the deadline was applied….
Yes it wasn't a very scientific count
...or indeed a deadline, I just couldn't see anyone doing a by-hand frequency chart, so had the computer do the crunch work. Unfortunately, computers don't make assumptions unless they are programmed to, so "Hissing of Summer Lawns" isn't the same as "The Hissing of Summer Lawns"
Joy Division- Unknown
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
Radiohead- In Rainbows
Beatles- Revolver
Led Zeppelin- IV
The La's- The La's
The Smiths- Hateful of Hollow
Oasis- Definitely Maybe
Stone Roses- Stone Roses
Bon Iver- For Emma
Iggy and The Stooges- Raw Power
Just For This Moment
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
The Lilac Time - Astronauts
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra & Jobim
Pat Metheny Group - Travels
Scott Walker - III
Steely Dan - Aja
Miles Davis - A Kind Of Blue
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
David Bowie - Station To Station
Roxy Music - Avalon
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Marvin Gaye - I Want You
Bill Evans - Complete Live At The Village Vanguard
Ooooopps. Can't count !
My top 10
I have tried to obliterate all the above suggestions from my memory banks and start a fresh.
There has to be a starting point and mine as always is:
1. Exiles on main street.
now where to go from there -
2. Jimi Hendrix - Last Rays of the Rising Sun. - currently on the car system.
3. John Martyn - Grace and Danger - despite trying to flush my memory cache it is listed above - great album - great guy.
4. Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball - a crucial album - turned me on to many of the artists whose songs she covered on that album.
5. Traffic - Traffic (2nd album). - just a brilliant album full of brilliant songs and saw Stevie with Eric in recent weeks.
6. Cream - Disraeli Gears - (see 5 above) and saw it on Classic Albums recently.
7. Rosanne Carter - The List - borrowed from local library - sympathetic covers of classic country songs which her father liked.
8. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of Life. - missed it completely when it was first released and was introduced to it by a much younger work collegue.
9. Walter Becker - Circus Money - one of the albums I played the most in the last year.
10. HJH - The White Album - because Exiles (See 1. above) without the White Album is like (Oh I don't know - Stan without Laurel - Salt without pepper - Stones without Beatles - if you know what I mean).
OK that's 10.
If I started again there would be 9 different or maybe not.
"Time for bed" said Zebedee.
Circus Money
Love it. Walt's delivery is so laid-back he makes JJ Cale sound like Adam Ant. "Paging Audrey" is now up there with my all time Dan or Fagen favourites
Top 10
Jayhawks:-Sound of Lies
Nick Drake-Bryter Layter
REM-Lifes Rich Pageant (sic)
Jethro Tull-Songs from the Wood
Talk Talk-Spirit of Eden
The Beatles-Abbey Road
Calexico-Garden Ruin
Whiskeytown-Pneumonia
Ian McNabb-Merseybeast
Buffalo Springfield-Again
Not necessarily the best albums ever made but,
here are 10 albums I have loved for years and played repeatedly from start to finish without skipping any tracks:
Sgt Pepper - The Beatles
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Aja - Steely Dan
The Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips
All Is Dream - Mercury Rev
The Secret Migration - Mercury Rev
So - Peter Gabriel
Lost Souls - Doves
Attack of the Grey Lantern - Mansun
Temple of Low Men - Crowded House
My Top 10 Tonight After several bottles of ale
Van Morrison - Moondance
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
The Band - The Band
Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
Howlin Wolf - Howlin Wolf ( aka The Rocking Chair Album)I know it's a compilation, but...
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Gene Clark - Gene Clark and the Godsin Brothers
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
The Doors - LA Woman
10
here's ten i could listen to ad infinitum
Kate Bush The Kick Inside
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds
The Clash Sandinista!
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
Can Cannibalism
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Kraftwerk Autobahn
Dexys Midnight Runners Too Rye Aye
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
.....and..
Jali Musa Jawara - Yasimika
Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder Talking Timbuktu
The Jam Setting Sons
Soft Cell non stop erotic cabaret
Eno Her come the warm jets
U2 The unforgettable fire
Talking Heads speaking in tongues
The Congos heart of the congos
Pale Saints the comforts of madness
The Fall Extricate
sorry...had to do it
Have an arrow...
...for Jali Musa Jawara. Album also released as Direct From West Africa, and artiste known as Djeli Moussa Diawara, pop-pickers...
top 10
Pink Flag - wire
Lloyd Cole - Lloyd Cole
Post to wire - Richmond Fontaine
Blue - Joni M
Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall
Beggars Banquet - Stones
Odelay - Beck
Freewheeling - Bob Dylan
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Smiths - Louder than bombs (does this count?)
oh my, that's 10 already, just getting oing
Shout for Louder Than Bombs….
I think this and Strangeways were the first Smiths albums I ever heard and they’re still the two that I enjoy the most… the inclusion of some of the later B-Sides (Rubber Ring, You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby) gives the album a brighter feel than Hatful. I suppose those that were into the Smiths while they were still active may have viewed both Strangeways and Louder as flawed by the fact that they were treading the same paths already walked by Queen is Dead and Hatful. However, as someone who came to The Smiths after the event (about 1989 to be precise) I tend to view these albums for what they are and for me these are the real gems in the Smiths back catalogue…
The inside ticking of remorse
Purists will scoff, but track-for-track, pound-for-pound, there's an excellent case for LTB as The Smiths' best album... without the slow-ish build up that we had in the UK, if these 24 tracks were your first exposure to the band (as they were compiled to be for the US market), I can easily imagine thinking you've found the greatest band of all time.
See also: Bona Drag - Morrissey's best album? Discuss.
Ten-ish
1 Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side
2 Belle and Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
3 Velvet Underground - Quine Tapes
4 I am Kloot - Natural History
5 Michelle Shocked - Captain Swing
6 Pooka - Pooka
7 John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle and Bop
8 Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
9 The Animals - Animal Tracks
10= Whitesnake - Ready and Willing
Saturday Night Fish Fry - New Orleans Funk and Soul
starter of ten...
REM Life's Rich Pageant
Tubeway Army Replicas
Kraftwerk Man Machine
Califone Roots and Crowns
Luna Rendezvous
Lloyd Cole Rattlesnakes
Radiohead The Bends
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Teenage Fanclub Grand Prix
David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive
for Friday afternoon, post-pub.....
1. Derek & The Domino’s – Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
2. Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
3. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
4. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
5. The Beatles – Abbey Road
6. The Pixies – Doolittle
7. Stephen Stills – Manassas
8. Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
9. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
10. Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
That Crowes album
is a great piece of work
s they come to mind
ed kuepper -honey steel's gold
miles davis -sketches of spain
dylan blood on the tracks
stones - exile
willie nelson- red headed stranger
bill evans paris sessions
fela kuti black president
thomas mapfumo - ndangariro
charlie haden steal away
buddy guy and junior wells- hoodoo man blues
since it is world cup time
on subs bench - paul simon - graceland
Todays's definitive list is
1. Paul Simon - One Trick Pony
2. HJH - The White Album
3. Joni Mitchell - Hejiera
4. Th Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. The Rolling Stones - Goat's Head Soup
6. Bob Dylan - Street Legal
7. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
8. Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision
9. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
10. David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Typing, I realised that most of these are the first album I bought by the artist
Top 10
As a 54 year man, compiling this list is something I have done, in my head on a virtual daily basis.
Todays list is as follows
Abbey Road
Sgt Pepper
Ziggy Stardust (The soundtrack to my teenage years !! )
Wish you were here
London Calling
Physical Graffiti
All Mod cons
The Specials (Debut album)
Liberty of norton Folgate
Leftfield
These lists are often defined by what is left out, & like so many on this site, I could knock out 5 different list no bother.
Springsteen, Kate Bush, Slade in Flame, Parrallel lines, Odelay, First Dexies album. Sheer heart attack, Plastic beach, Johnny Cash, so much music, so little time............
Here's Mine
1. Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in Space - Spiritualized
2. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
2. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
3. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
4. Mr Beast - Mogwai
5. Music has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada
6. Who's Next - The Who
7. Relayer - Yes
8. In Sides - Orbital
9. Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab
10. Tres Hombres ZZ Top
My list
In no particular order:
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
On the Beach - Neil Young
Mirror Blue - Richard Thompson
Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
Low- David Bowie
Faith- The Cure
The Clash - The Clash
The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses
And in the end.....
The White Album - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Revolver - The Beatles
Sgt Pepper - The Beatles
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Help! - The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
With The Beatles - The Beatles
Beatles For Sale - The Beatles
Please Please Me - The Beatles
Top Ten Albums to Listen to in the Dead of Night
1.Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
2.The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
3.Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
4.The Times They are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan
5.Tranformer - Lou Reed
6.Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
7.The White Album - The Beatles
8.SMiLE - Brian Wilson
9.The Wall - Pink Floyd
10.Bringing it all Back Home - Bob Dylan