Your top 10 albums of all time.

[DocG]

These ten for me:

- Billy Bragg: Life's a Riot with Spy versus Spy

- Radiohead: The Bends

- The Beatles: White Album

- Ryan Adams: Cold Roses

- Pixies: Death to the Pixies

- Nick Cave: The Boatman's Call

- Crowded House: Woodface

- Portishead: Roseland NYC Live

- Rodrigo y Gabriella: Rodrigo y Gabriella

- Tom Waits: Raindogs

Blasphemy! I forgot Mr. Thompson! Where is my mind? :help:

So... In:

- The Smiths: The Queen is Dead

- Richard Thompson: Rumour and Sigh

And out:

- Ryan Adams

- Rodrigo y Gabriella

OK, looks better!

 

[uksteve]

SMOKIN JOE KUBEK,BNOIS KING-ROAD DOGS LIFE

AC/DC-POWERAGE

MICHAEL KATON-PROUD TO BE LOUD

VAN HALEN-VANHALEN

STEVE HUNTER-THE DEACON

FLEETWOOD MAC-RUMORS

MICHAEL JACKSON-THRILLER

GARY MOORE-WE WANT MOORE

STEELY DAN-AJA

FOREIGNER-4

TO MANY TO MENTION BUT THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN LISTENING TO LATELY..SO MY FAV TOP TEN IN THE LAST MONTH

 

[steve_1979]

Jamiroquai - Travelling without moving

I love that album. No matter how many times I hear it I never tire of it.

 

[jimdonnelly]

Air - Moon Safari

The The - Infected

Talk Talk - The colour of spring

Calexico - Garden Ruin

New Radicals - Maybe you've been brainwashed too

INXS - Kick

Sophie B Hawkins - Greatest Hits

Robbie Robertson - Storyville

The Blue Nile - Walk across the rooftops

Jeff Buckley - Grace

and any Crowded House/Finn Brothers

 

[mr malarky]

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[altruistic.lemon]

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i preferred their follow up, ..

 

[mikeparker59]

Tricky picking just 10 but here goes~:

Camel - A Live Record (mainly for the Snow Goose Live)

Genesis -Three Sides Live

Peter Gabriel 4

Roxy Music - Avalon

Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

Dave Grushin - Mountain Dance

Bryan Ferry - The Bride Stripped Bare

Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 VPO Kleiber on DG

Sibelius Symphony 1 & 7 SNO Alexander gibson on Chandos

Milos Karadaglic - The Guitar

Could of course give many more lists of 10 depending on my mood. Tomorrow could be different....Can't believe I didn't put DSOTM in the list!

 

[mr malarky]

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i preferred their follow up, ..

for some reason every time I try and post a list it's triggering the spam filter. Guess it doesn't like my list!?

 

[ESLee]

In no order,

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Fleetwood Mac - Romours

Lorren Mazzacane Connors - Airs

Prodigy - Music for the Gilted Generation

Leftfield - Leftism

Aphex Twin - Drukgs

Moby - Play

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Led Zeppelin - 4

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

 

[Freddy58]

Some great selections already posted

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

Roy Harper - Flat Barouque And Berserk

The Who - Tommy

Frost - Milliontown

Deep Purple - In Rock

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

Colosseum - Live

Camel - A Nod And A Wink (could just as easily have been 'Snowgoose')

Cinderella - Long Cold Winter

A pity it wasn't a top 100, would have been a whole lot easier....

Edit : No Led Zep ?? :doh:

 

[shep1968]

Tricky picking just 10 but here goes~:

Camel - A Live Record (mainly for the Snow Goose Live)

Genesis -Three Sides Live

Peter Gabriel 4

Roxy Music - Avalon

Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

Dave Grushin - Mountain Dance

Bryan Ferry - The Bride Stripped Bare

Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 VPO Kleiber on DG

Sibelius Symphony 1 & 7 SNO Alexander gibson on Chandos

Milos Karadaglic - The Guitar

Could of course give many more lists of 10 depending on my mood. Tomorrow could be different....Can't believe I didn't put DSOTM in the list!

Jeez how could i have left out an album with telegraph road on? Can i have alchemy with both telegraph road and the seven minute guitar solo on sultans of swing on it??

 

[Johnno2]

These ten for me:

- Billy Bragg: Life's a Riot with Spy versus Spy

- Radiohead: The Bends

- The Beatles: White Album

- Ryan Adams: Cold Roses

- Pixies: Death to the Pixies

- Nick Cave: The Boatman's Call

- Crowded House: Woodface

- Portishead: Roseland NYC Live

- Rodrigo y Gabriella: Rodrigo y Gabriella

- Tom Waits: Raindogs

Recenty been listening to that woodface album on spotify, for some reason CH were never on my radar during the eighties and ninties , apart from hearing the then overplayed 'weather with you', and 'dont dream its over' upmteen times on the radio , but its hearing the less popular stuff is were neil finns talent lies, some good well recorded tunes on there , just been going through other CH albums, 'together alone' and 'afterglow'

 

[Gusboll]

In no particular order:

Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson

Jethro Tull - Benefit

Loftus - Loftus

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud

Led Zeppelin - IV

Julian Cope - Jehohvakill

Yes - Yessongs

Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming

Pink Floyd - Meddle

I'll change my mind tomorrow.

 

[richardw42]

That was tough !
I've limited each band to just one pick. Also, strangely one of my favourites, RAMMSTEIN didn't make the cut.

MORTIIS - SMELL OF RAIN (maybe not my absolute favourite, but has huge significance for me)

BLONDIE - PARALLEL LINES (1st lp with my own money in 78)

DEPECHE MODE - MUSIC FOR THE MASSES (v v v hard to pick just one)

IRON MAIDEN - BRAVE NEW WORLD (as above)

MUSE - BLACK HOLES AND REVELATIONS

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - MURDER BALLADS

NINE INCH NAILS - AND ALL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN (live)

PJ HARVEY - RID OF ME

SNEAKER PIMPS - BECOMING X

STONE SOUR - HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES Pt 2 (their latest, but they keep getting better)

 

[John Duncan]

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i preferred their follow up, ..

for some reason every time I try and post a list it's triggering the spam filter. Guess it doesn't like my list!?

Too many Katie Melua albums?

Try now, should be fixed.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

An impossible task, but here's a few that would definitely be in my top 30

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Cat Power - Moon Pix

Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle

Pixies - Doolittle

Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

Bob Marley - Exodus

Congos - Heart Of The Congos

Jackie Mittoo - The Keyboard King At Studio One

Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain

Big Black - Songs About F*cking

Neil Young - Harvest

Ruts - The Crack

Stone Roses - Stone Roses

Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic

Psychedelic Furs - Pscychedelic Furs

Babybird - There's Something Going On

Birthday Party - Junkyard

Love - Forever Changes

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Lamb - Lamb

Red Snapper - Prince Blimey

Come - Eleven:eleven

 

[marou]

This Here - Bobby Timmons

Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis

Hejira - Joni Mitchell

Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart

Something Else - Cannonball Adderley

The Chirping Crickets

Aja - Steely Dan

One Man Dog - James Taylor

One Of These Nights - Eagles

Revolver - Beatles

 

[geordie777]

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks

Deep Purple - Machine Head

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs For Drella

The Doors - LA Woman

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

The Fall - Dragnet

Paul Weller - Stanley Road

Thats this weeks all time faves anyway

 

[Tear Drop]

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II

Gas - Königsforst

Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Fricsay/Berliner Philharmoniker

Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - The Great Summit

JS Bach Brandenburg Concertos, Leppard/English Chamber Orchestra

Mozart Die Zauberflöte, Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus

Wagner Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Solti/Wiener Philharmoniker

DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo - Ki-Oku

Jochem Paap - Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598 I & II

 

[DocG]

These ten for me:

- Billy Bragg: Life's a Riot with Spy versus Spy

- Radiohead: The Bends

- The Beatles: White Album

- Ryan Adams: Cold Roses

- Pixies: Death to the Pixies

- Nick Cave: The Boatman's Call

- Crowded House: Woodface

- Portishead: Roseland NYC Live

- Rodrigo y Gabriella: Rodrigo y Gabriella

- Tom Waits: Raindogs

Recenty been listening to that woodface album on spotify, for some reason CH were never on my radar during the eighties and ninties , apart from hearing the then overplayed 'weather with you', and 'dont dream its over' upmteen times on the radio , but its hearing the less popular stuff is were neil finns talent lies, some good well recorded tunes on there , just been going through other CH albums, 'together alone' and 'afterglow'

Hi John,

My fav Crowded House track is no doubt 'Sister Madly', from 'Temple of Low Men', but as an album it's Woodface all the way!

:cheers:

 

[fr0g]

My answers are always different. But heck, here goes...

In no order...

Nirvana - Nevermind

Faith no More - The Real Thing

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion

Pearl Jam - 10

Biosphere - Patashnik

My Exit Music - Someday Zero

Explosions in the sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever

The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

Paul Weller - Wild Wood

I think I would like to add a lot more. Maybe we need a top 10 by genre...

 

[Daz B]

The Specials - The Specials

The Cult - Electric

Nirvana - Nevermind

The Damned - The Damned

Suede - Suede

Adam and The Ants - Dirk Wears white Sox

The Doors - Waiting For The Sun

Manic Street Prechers - Holy Bible

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Depeche Mode - Violator

 

[mr malarky]

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i preferred their follow up, ..

for some reason every time I try and post a list it's triggering the spam filter. Guess it doesn't like my list!?

Too many Katie Melua albums? Try now, should be fixed.

Thanks John

In no particular order:

Suede - Dog Man Star

U2 - Achtung Baby (Zooropa a close second)

The Cure - Disintigration

Massive Attack - Mezannine

David Bowie - Outside

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Damien Rice - O

Prince - Sign of the Times

Tori Amos - To Venus & Back (Live disc)

REM - Up

Really tough question - If I asked my self the same question next week I'd probably give a different answer!

 

[manicm]

Nirvana's Nevermind was pop rubbish. In Utero was the real deal.

 

[manicm]

These ten for me:

- Billy Bragg: Life's a Riot with Spy versus Spy

- Radiohead: The Bends

- The Beatles: White Album

- Ryan Adams: Cold Roses

- Pixies: Death to the Pixies

- Nick Cave: The Boatman's Call

- Crowded House: Woodface

- Portishead: Roseland NYC Live

- Rodrigo y Gabriella: Rodrigo y Gabriella

- Tom Waits: Raindogs

Recenty been listening to that woodface album on spotify, for some reason CH were never on my radar during the eighties and ninties , apart from hearing the then overplayed 'weather with you', and 'dont dream its over' upmteen times on the radio , but its hearing the less popular stuff is were neil finns talent lies, some good well recorded tunes on there , just been going through other CH albums, 'together alone' and 'afterglow'

Hi John,

My fav Crowded House track is no doubt 'Sister Madly', from 'Temple of Low Men', but as an album it's Woodface all the way!

:cheers:

I'm assuming you've never heard Together Alone? That was Crowded House's swansong and their real masterpiece. Nearly every song was brilliant.