Your top 10 favourite albums

Sorry if this has been done before....

It's all about the music, man!

1: The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
2: Psycho Candy - Jesus & Mary Chain
3: Songs To Learn & Sing - Echo & The Bunnymen
4: London Calling - The Clash
5: Autoamerican/Parallel Lines - Blondie (total toss up between the two)
6: Remain In Light - Talking Heads
7: The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
8: Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
9: Red Sails In The Sunset - Midnight Oil
10:The Game - Queen

Of course, any given day (with the exception of the first two) the order could switch or some albums could fall off the top 10.

I purposely left off my top 10 'folkies'.I might do that list some other time, who knows though eh?

Well anyway...there you go.

I'm not weird or anything, just a little bored at work

then get the hell out of the Lounge :rofl:


j/k ;-)

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REM - Murmur
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Def Leppard - Hysteria
John Mellencamp - Scarecrow
The Mavericks - What A Crying Shame
The Cars - Candy-O
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
AC/DC - Back In Black
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA


Narrowly missing the list is Live's Throwing Copper. I left off greatest hits/compilation albums, because of course I'd never be able to narrow those down to ten.

1. Love Forever Changes
2. Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane over the Sea
3. The Gun Club Fire of Love
4. Pixies Surfer Rosa
5. The Stooges Fun House
6. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
7. Eno Here Come the Warm Jets
8. Wire Pink Flag
9. John Coltrane A Love Supreme
10. Sly and the Family Stone There's a Riot Goin' On

switch out Gun Club for Exile on Main Street, and i feel ya.

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i should slow down & read.

1. Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton
2. B.B. King - L.A. Midnight
3. David Bromberg - Wanted Dead or Alive
4. Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
5. Leon Russell & Asylum Choir II
6. Marc Benno - Marc Benno
7. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
8. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
9. John Hartford - Aereo-Plain
10. Santana - Abraxas

way back when i lived in chicago i used to see him play all the time at places like biddy mulligan's and orphan's. what a kick ass guitar player!

We saw him in a small (2-300 people) concert in Iowa City. Best concert I have ever been to.

:P :P

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Miles: Sketches of Spain, Live at the Fillmore East (and West), Miles Smiles, On the Corner, Dark Magus, Agharta, Pangaea, and the two "at the Blackhawk" discs (you can tell I prefer Miles live).

Trane: A Love Supreme, Crescent, Stellar Regions, Live in Japan, Live in Seattle, Giant Steps, My Favorite Things, Live at the Village Vanguard (I suggest the boxed set), Live at Birdland, The Olatunji Concert, A Love Supreme Live in Concert.

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But without KOB...who knows where jazz would have gone.

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al is not correct on this one!

and jazz has not just gone over to Kenny

note Don Byron and Gerri Allen are only two of many who continue to make jazz very very interesting.

--that Miles and Trane surpassed "Kind of Blue". I would myself--Miles, as a trumpet player, never played better than in the "Filles de Kilimanjaro" album. Trane of course had "A Love Supreme" in his future..but "Kind of Blue" had *both* of them, working off each other. It had tunes like "So What" and "All Blues", that have gone into our collective unconscious, here in their first appearance, as fresh as the first morning of the world. And there is the feeling, as someone said, whose name I've forgotten, that "Kind of Blue" sounds like it was made in heaven. Yes, its popularity can be used against it by some people, and maybe they did do better work in a sense later on...but for one day, in one recording studio, a group of men led by a great genius came as close to perfection as we mortal worms can come...

He obviously has all the right in the world to say that it was made in heaven. Unfortunately, he's also the only remaining musician from the sessions. :( :(

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...I heard *every* guy who made "Kind of Blue" in person, even Trane when I was 11, at Newport...bless them all...

(oh, and in no order)

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Pixies - Doolittle
Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (a newish one, yes, but I think
it'll have staying power)
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
The Clash - London Calling
Neil Young - On the Beach
UHU Stic - Non Toxic

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1. Born to Run -Bruce Springsteen
2. Houses of The Holy- Led Zeppelin
3. Pearl- Jainis Joplin
4. Abbey Road- The Beatles
5. All Things Must Pass- George Harrison
6. Joshua Tree- U2
7. Ten- Pearl Jam
8. Electric Ladyland- Jimi Hendrix
9. Let it Bleed- Rolling Stones
10. Led Zeppelin I- Led Zeppelin

1. Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime II
2. No-Man - Flowermouth (2005 reissue)
3. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
4. Frank Zappa / Mothers Of Invention - Roxy & Elsewhere
5. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
6. Tool - 10,000 Days
7. Pink Floyd - Animals
8. Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome
9. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
10. Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston / In The Dark

no order. i hate order.

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Blur - 13
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Clash - Sandinista
Bowie - Hunky Dory
Velvet Underground - Loaded
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps (Studio)
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
Robert Johnson - Complete Recordings

lots of double discs on there!

also: biggest BETRAYAL album of all time:

Genesis - Duke

Tender off of that album? Fantastic!

But for now -

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks
3. Aerosmith - Toys In the Attic
4. Van Halen - first album
5. Led Zeppelin II
6. Jethro Tull - Songs From the Wood
7. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
8. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
9. Deep Purple - Machine Head
10. Allman Brothers - Brothers and Sisters

some favorites from 2005:

Ruiner - A Wilhelm Scream
Witness - Modern Life Is War
Hazardous Mutation - Municipal Waste
With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails
The Fuse - Pennywise
Above The City - Smoke or Fire
Dead Rhythm Machine - The Letters Organize
Wake The Dead - Comeback Kid
Louder Than Hell - Various Artists

EDIT: since many of the releases I'm most looking forward to this year aren't out yet

Dizzy, Bird, Bud, Mingus, Roach--The Massey Hall Concert
Miles--Kind of Blue
Miles--Filles de Kilimanjaro
Duke--Jazz Party
Bill Evans--Conversations With Myself
Clifford Brown--The Beginning and the End
Bernstein's version of Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F
Beatles--Sergeant Pepper
Dizzy--Something Old, Something New
John Williams--soundtrack to "Jane Eyre"


Would pick diffeent ones at different times...

Right now ...

1 -- Neutral Milk Hotel; In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2 -- Beatles; White Album
3 -- Radiohead; The Bends
4 -- Flaming Lips; Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
5 -- Built to Spill; There's Nothing Wrong with Love
6 -- REM; New Adventures in HiFi
7 -- Smashing Pumpkins; Adore
8 -- Natalie Merchant; Ophelia
9 -- Johnny Cash; The Man Comes Around
10 -- Paul Simon; Graceland

Ask me tomorrow, will be totally different.

Welcome to DU! :bounce:

And in no particular order...

1. Master of Puppets-Metallica
2. Ride the Lightning-Metallica
3. River Runs Red-Life of Agony
4. Ugly-Life of Agony
5. The Wall-Pink Floyd
6. The Division Bell-Pink Floyd
7. Revolutions-ILL Nino
8. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
9. The Ozzman Cometh-Ozzy Osbourne
10. So Far So Good-Bryan Adams...

Weird list, i know, but there you go...:)

but I do remember thinking "Man, my life's fucked up but I'm glad I'm not that guy"

of LOA in that way...to me, Keith Caputo's voice got me, and the songs, I believe were lyrically very strong...99% of the lyrics were by Alan Roberts. Funny thing is, i saw them live with Type O Negative, and i thought LOA sucked...but i bought the River Runs Red album at a pawn shop for a buck, and i was blown away...their live act, sucks...their stuidio tracks, are a WHOLE lot better...and since then, i have been hooked. Their latest cd, was pretty weak, but the usual wail, and emotion from Caputo wasn't there, its like he is trying to change his voice...i prefer the whiny yells and what not...:)

since I thought they broke up in the late 90s lol

they did break up for a while...they went from...hmm, about 97 until about 2004, when they started working on their latest album, which came out last july....

1. B-52's: Time Capsule
2. Social Distortion: Social Distortion
3. Madonna: Ray Of Light/Music (tie)
4. OMD: Best Of
5. U2: Joshua Tree
6. Depeche Mode: Music For The Masses
7. The Clash: The Clash
8. The Cramps: Stay Sick!
9. Eurythmics: Greatest Hits
10. Guadalcanal Diary: Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man

And if I could sneak in another: Earth, Sun, Moon by Love & Rockets.

1. Pieces of the Sky--Emmylou Harris
2. Blood on the Tracks--Bob Dylan
3. Poetic Champions Compose--Van Morrison
4. Brecon Beacon--Feast or Famine (yeah, nobody's heard of it)
5. Blue--Joni Mitchell
6. Home--Dixie Chicks
7. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road--Lucinda Williams
8. Kind of Blue--Miles Davis
9. American Beauty--Grateful Dead
10. Revolver--Beatles

(Boy, are my gray roots showing!)

o Joni Mitchell, FOR THE ROSES
o Jackson Browne, LATE FOR THE SKY
o Duke Ellington, The Paris Concerts
o Emmylou Harris, PIECE OF THE SKY
o Paul Simon, HEARTS AND BONES
o Murray Perahia, Chopin's B-Minor Sonata
o Miles Davis, SKETCHES OF SPAIN
o Dire Straits, BROTHERS IN ARMS
o Petula Clark, WHO AM I
o Bob Dylan, EMPIRE BURLESQUE

1) The Replacements: Let It Be
2) The dB’s: Stands For / Repercussion.
3) Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
4) Violent Femmes: eponymous debut.
5) Roger Manning: Life Sucks But So What
6) The Sun Box
7) Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
8) Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
9) Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street
10) Drive-By Truckers: Southern Rock Opera

joni - blue
beatles - revolver
kate bush - hounds of love
led zeppelin - physical graffiti (?)
elton john - goodbye yellow brick road or captain fantastic
u2 - october or war
nanci griffith - flyer
xtc - skylarking
everything but the girl - amplified heart
blue nile - hats
the who - whos next
sarah mclachlan - fumbling
cat stevens - trouble ?
fleetwood mac - rumors
marvin gaye - whats going on
alanis morissette - under rug swept
jeff buckley - grace
george winston - autumn
chicago transit authority
the connells - fun & games
csn & y - self titled
poi dog pondering - ... mountains.... sea

this just comes to my immediate album mind though there are a lot of artists not incl since its an album question
i couldnt begin to name everything i love theres just too much over too long a period of time

and now that i look over my list it sure looks like easy listening hell


egads
am i now going to be infiltrated with ads for 1970s boxed sets?

(and in no particular order)
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Joshua Tree - U2
August and Everything After - The Counting Crows
Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
Nevermind - Nirvana
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Luck of the Draw -Bonnie Rait (also love -Nick of Time)
Harvest - Neil Young (also love -After the Gold Rush)

nice list off the top of your head

I really miss those early recordings -- TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN, and TEASER AND THE FIRECAT.

The man had talent.

soundtrack though i cant recall the name of it
i should go get it in the other room but perhaps later

beautiful beautiful spirit

and in no particular order:

The The "Soul Mining"

Aztec Camera "High Land Hard Rain"

Judybats "Native Son"

REM "Murmur"

REM "Green"

Yes "Close To The Edge"

Orbital "Middle Of Nowhere"

Meat Beat Manifesto "Actuall Sounds and Voices"

Duran Duran "Rio"

Foo Fighters "One By One"

1) Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
2) A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
3) Live At Fillmore East - Allman Brothers Band
4) London Calling - The Clash
5) Exile On Main St. - The Rolling Stones
6) Revolver - The Beatles
7) Songs In The Key Of Life, Vol. 1 - Stevie Wonder
8) Root Down - Jimmy Smith
9) Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
10) In Utero - Nirvana

At the Drive-In - "Relationship of Command"
Refused - "The Shape of Punk to Come"
The Mars Volta - "De-loused in the Comatorium"
Psychedelic Furs - "Talk Talk Talk"
Hüsker Dü - "Zen Arcade"
The Lost Patrol - "Songs in the Key of Resistance"
Idiot Pilot - "Strange We Should Meet Here"
Propagandhi - "Potemkin City Limits"
Pretty Girls Make Graves - "The New Romance"
Mission of Burma - "Signals, Calls and Marches"

o the soundtrack to THE REIVERS
o the soundtrack to ME, NATALIE
o Judy Collins' COLORS OF THE DAY
o Rolling Stones' GOAT'S HEAD SOUP
o Dallas Symphony: Aaron Copland's RODEO
o Nina Simone: various compilation disks
o Allman Brothers Band: BROTHERS AND SISTERS
o Nick Drake's TIME OF NO REPLY
o Mary Travers' MARY
o Neil Young's AFTER THE GOLDRUSH

I'm a fan of Pink Moon, but Time of No Reply is amazing. I prefer the sparse, less instrumental Nick Drake.

if he plays only his guitar for accompaniment or if he's backed up by 40,000 marimba players.

Well... it would SURPRISE me if he ever recorded with marimba players.

But no matter what, he was a mysterious and talented man, almost an apparition. I discovered his music in the mid-80s and haven't let go of it since.

"Joey Will Come to Say Hello" is one of the simplest melodies but with one of the most complex contexts for folk music I've ever heard.

Back in Black-AC/DC
The River- Bruce Springsteen
The Way It Is-Bruce Hornsby and the Range
The White Album-The Beatles
Aja-Steely Dan
This Year's Model-Elvis Costello
The Joshua Tree-U2
Appetite for Destruction-Guns & Roses
Beauty and the Beat- The Go-Go's
Scarecrow-John Mellencamp

that I do have an AARP card!

In no particular order:

20 greatest Hits - Hank Williams (Sr)
Greatest Stories Live - Harry Chapin
12 Greatest Hits - Patsy Cline
Dreamboat Annie - Heart
Free - Concrete Blonde
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Willie & Family Live - Willie Nelson
Chronicle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Greatest Hits - Bob Seger

I wanted to include a Richard Thompson album but although he usually has 1 to 3 terrific songs on an album, no one album could crack my top 10 list.

the Byrds


Earl Hines


Benny Godman, Gene Krupa, L. Hampton, Teddy Wison



Led Zep (skip Stairway to haven)


Joni Mitchell


The Beatles


Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Wolfie Mozo!


:loveya: Dixie Chicks


Nice use of the triangle


Pete Seager


The Boss does Rosalita


Hall and Oats


The Way You Look Tonight


"What's the point of calling shots, this cue ain't straight in line ...."


Like moonlight in the pines.


In my Room!


Electric Ladyland


Jonathan Edwards The song "Sometimes" kills me

Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Loggins & Messina Best of Friends
Steely Dan Citizen Steely Dan Boxed Set
Carole King Tapestry
Boz Skaggs Silk Degrees
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue and whatever else is on it
Gilbert & Sullivan The Mikado
Doobie Brothers Best of
Allman Brothers Eat a Peach
Earl Scruggs Revue I Saw the Light With a Little Help From My Friends
Mozart Practically anything
Rachmaninof Concertos w/Rhapsody on Theme of Paganini
Christopher Cross Sailing
CSNY Four Way Street

1. The Harder They Come soundtrack - Various artists
2. Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
3. The Wrens - Secaucus
4. Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
5. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
6. Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills
7. Eric Dolphy - Out to lunch
8. DIY: UK Power Pop, vol. 1 - Various Artists (on Rhino)
9. 76% Uncertain - Hunka Hunka Burnin' Log
10. 1/2 Japanese: 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts

Note: this will all change by tomorrow...

Here's a site which lists all the #1 albums in British chart history: http://www.theofficialcharts.com/

You can also select your top 50 and suggest 10 which didn't make it (to what purpose isn't clear as I don't see those tallies). Among the most egregious omissions to me were "London Calling" by The Clash and "Plastic Ono Band" (Lennon's first solo).

I was also struck by the number of compilation and greatest hits albums which were #1, but it is cool to see an artist such as Buddy Holly still being so popular.

Those are my top ten artists for the week.

Here are my top ten albums (at this moment):

#1. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
#2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
#3. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
#4. Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Artifact
#5. Various - Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music
#6. John Martyn - Solid Air
#7. Interpol - Antics
#8. MC Paul Barman - Paullelujah!
#9. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
#10. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts

Too soon to say if they will make it into the precious space of my Top Ten.....

Beatles - Rubber Soul...
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen....
Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits....
Claude Debussy at Dawn....
Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits....
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken...
The Who - Who's Next...
Nanci Griffith - Greatest Hits...
Beethoven's Ninth.....

Since I have been so disappointed in most albums I have purchased in the last ten or so years, most are at best a mess of mediocrity surrounding one or two good songs, I decided on choosing the albums that I would be able to listen to over and over again...

Because they are from all periods of my life, I have been listening to music for over 40 years, I have included music that was important to me at various stages of my musical taste...

What I would have picked ten or twenty years ago would be different....

No Ben Folds... No Leonard Cohen... No Nanci Griffith... No Debussy.. No Nitty Gritty Dirt Band...

I have always thought that Rubber Soul was perhaps the best pop album of all time and Born to Run literally revitalized mainstream rock and roll...

As for the Who, I love Quadraphenia but felt that Who's Next is the seminal Punk album...

The rest, well they speak for themselves....

Anyway, that's the musings of someone who still enjoys "new" music but is not wedded to any particular genre...

I had to pick Tommy though for my Who album, although Who's next is really close.

I wanted to tell you, Slaid Cleaves is coming in August. I think I'll make this show this time.

Laurie says hey.....

but I only listen to it on headphones when at home, or really loud on the big speakers when I'm sailing.

Elvis Presley - The Memphis Record
Love Spit Love - Trysome Eatone
The Beatles - The Beatles
The Band - The Last Waltz
The Who - Tommy
Material Issue - Freak City Soundtrack
Sounds of the South - Alan Lomax (OK, it's a box set compilation, but still... I can't live w/out my roots music)
Mike Nesmith - And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'/Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash (Double disc)
Badfinger - Straight Up
Steve Jones - Mercy

Jesse Collin Young, Santana, The Band and CSN&Y......

What a freakin' show that was.......

1 Abbey road "the beatles"
2 sublime "sublime"
3 in the wee small hours "frank sinatra"
4 tapestry "carol king:
5 Frampton comes Alive "peter frampton"
6 Dookie "greenday"
7 legend "bob Marley"
8 Live through this "hole"
9 Isle of view "the pretenders"
10 version 2.0 "garbage"

although it is not in order, just ten I REALLY like
"Teaser"- Tommy Bolin
"Pronounced"- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Untitled but generally known as "Three"- Led Zeppelin
"Strange Universe"- Mahogany Rush
"Tres Hombres"- ZZ Top
"Masters of Reality"- Black Sabbath. These guys re-invented metal
"Texas Flood"- Stevie Ray Vaughan May he rest in peace. Still
"Idlewild South"- Allman Brothers Band
"Hard Again"- McKinley Morganfield aka Muddy Waters
"Hill Country Revue"- North Mississpppi All Stars Live at Bonnarroo in '04. World Boogie
Just a few that I listen to regularly.

Welcome to DU! :hi: