Your top 10 albums.

Tomahawk · 02-06-2005, 08:24 AM

Not a very original thread, I know. And it's been done before, but not for a while, and things change. Just post your top 10 all-time favourite albums.

And then, if you want, post your top 10 current favourites... meaning, the top 10 albums you're digging right now, this week or whatever.

This is mine, in no real order:

All time:
Pixies - Doolittle
Mr Bungle - California
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Radiohead - OK Computer
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
The Cure - Disintegration
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Faith No More - Angel Dust

(Honourable mentions:
Prince - Purple Rain
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique)

Right now:
The Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Bill Hicks - Rant in E-Minor
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Regurgitator - Unit
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
Brian Wilson - Smile

Iai · 02-06-2005, 08:29 AM

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_17095

Woo, a list to argue over.

Tapeworm · 02-06-2005, 08:39 AM

1. Jeff Buckley - Grace
2. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
3. The Cure - The Head on the Door
4. The Beatles - Abbey Road
5. Lamb - Lamb
6. Jeff Buckley - Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk
7. The Faint - Danse Macabre
8. Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
9. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
10. The Streets - Original Pirate Material

Somewhere between "of all time" and current.

slowriotforzerokanada · 02-06-2005, 08:42 AM

All Time:

Miles Davis- Bitches Brew
Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime
Jaga Jazzist- A Livingroom Hush
Husker Du- Zen Arcade
cLOUDDEAD- s/t
Godspeed! You Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists etc.
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Bob Dylan- The Times they Are A Changin'
Cinematic Orchestra- Man With the Movie Camera
Wire- Pink Flag

Current:

Cinematic Orchestra- Man With the Movie Camera
Themselves- No Music
Presage- The Outer Perimiter
Amon Tobin- Supermodified
Tortoise- It's All Around You
Kraftwerk- The Man Machine
Stereolab- Sound-Dust
Saul Williams- Ameyst Rock Star
Why?- Oaklandazulasylum
Aesop Rock- Daylight EP

Iai · 02-06-2005, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tomahawk

Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Bill Hicks - Rant in E-Minor
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

In true Alt/Indie tradition, I decree this 'awesome'.

My Top 20.

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. X Japan - Art Of Life
3. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
4. Jeff Buckley - Live At Sin-E (Legacy Edition)
5. Love - Forever Changes
6. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
7. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
8. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
9. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
10. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
11. The Clash - London Calling
12. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
13. The Beatles - Revolver
14. Jeff Buckley - Grace
15. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
16. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
17. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
18. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
19. Opeth - Still Life
20. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love

***Zappa*** · 02-06-2005, 09:14 AM

Alphabetical:

Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
Dolphy, Eric - Out To Lunch
Herrmann, Bernard - Taxi Driver
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
Stravinsky, Igor - Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Yes - Close to the Edge
Zappa, Frank - Freak Out!

***Zappa*** · 02-06-2005, 09:21 AM

Recent favorites:

Cooder, Ry - Paradise and Lunch
Cynic - Focus
King Crimson - Red
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
The United States of America - The United States of America
Zappa, Frank - Absolutely Free
The Zombies - Odessey & the Oracle

RIPJoeStrummer · 02-06-2005, 09:22 AM

I don't think I can do it but I'll do the first things that come to my head.

Pixies - Doolittle
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeropane Over The Sea
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim
Green Day - Insomniac (but Dookie, Nimrod and Kerplunk are very close)
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Clash - London Calling
The Beatles - Revolver

theredwonder · 02-06-2005, 09:23 AM

Right now, i'm going for -

Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up A Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose
Daft Punk - Discovery
My Vitriol - Finelines
Seafood - As The Cry Flows
Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP
Badly Drawn Boy - Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power
Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy

***Zappa*** · 02-06-2005, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iai

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_17095

Woo, a list to argue over.

I didn't realize you liked the Morphine album so much. Must have changed your tune since I first sent it to you.

pinkyeti · 02-06-2005, 09:31 AM

I do not like to make all time favourite lists, so here are my most recent favourites:

Black Mountain - ST
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Gang of four - Solid gold
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls & Marches
M.I.A. - Arular
LCD Soundsystem - ST
Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar
Drive like Jehu - Yank crime
Brian Eno - Before and after science
Les savy fav - Inches

Iai · 02-06-2005, 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zappa

I didn't realize you liked the Morphine album so much. Must have changed your tune since I first sent it to you.

You mean when I said it was style over substance? Yeah, I said that after just hearing it the once. There's been a few albums like that I've heard where I've thought they were amazing on first listen, then got bored of them very quickly, once the initial impact wore off.

Yes isn't one of them.

wheelz · 02-06-2005, 11:11 AM

best of all time lists are too hard. best currently lists are too easy.

i haven't done a best of 2004 list yet so here it is (yeah i know it's february, shut up).

1. madvillain - madvillainy
2. the arcade fire - funeral
3. les savy fav - inches
4. death from above 1979 - you're a woman, i'm a machine
5. the go! team - thunder, lightning, strike
6. interpol - antics
7. the organ - grab that gun
8. air - talkie walkie
9. modest mouse - good news for people who like bad news
10. ghostface - the pretty toney album

voila

vallely2004 · 02-06-2005, 12:02 PM

Well it lookd like I have the most mainstream/newest music in my top 10:

In no particular order:

QOTSA - SFTD
QOTSA - Rated R
Desert Sessions 9 & 10
Reuben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Glassjaw - Everything You Wanted To Know About Silence
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Big D and the Kids Table - Gipsy Hill
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
(and two brand new CDs that I definitely love):
Voodoo Glow Skulls new CD
Head Automatica - Decadence

Master Arkam Kannon · 02-06-2005, 12:06 PM

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_16918

top 25 but whatever.

The NPC · 02-06-2005, 12:06 PM

Damn it, all my albums are the greatest ever...I can't single out the Top Ten.

libertine2020 · 02-06-2005, 12:46 PM

Top 10 of all time (in no particular order)
Original Pirate Material - The Streets
Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In
(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis
OK Computer - Radiohead
Pinkerton - Weezer
London Calling - The Clash
Exile On Main St. - Rolling Stones
Doolittle - Pixies
Marquee Moon - Television
Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Current Top 10 (again, in no particular order)
Where You Want To Be - Taking Back Sunday
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
Source Tags And Codes - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Reconstruction Site - The Weakerthans
Digital Ash In A Digital Urn - Bright Eyes
Tell All Your Friends - Taking Back Sunday
Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
Headhunters - Herbie Hancock
American Idiot - Green Day
Diary - Sunny Day Real Estate

BillCosby · 02-06-2005, 12:53 PM

Currently:

Johnny Cash - "At Folsom Prison"
The Pixies - "Doolittle"
The Shins - "Oh, Inverted World"
Modest Mouse - "The Moon & Antartica"
Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisited"
John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme"
Built to Spill - "Keep it Like a Secret"
Tom Waits - "Rain Dogs"
Jeff Buckley - "Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk"
Cursive - "The Ugly Organ"

NineBitFable · 02-06-2005, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by no peros calentes

Damn it, all my albums are the greatest ever...I can't single out the Top Ten.

123.. Except My Bloody Valentine's loveless is my fav album, but past that I cant decide.

pixiesfanyo · 02-06-2005, 01:37 PM

Top 10 Currently

1. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
3. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
4. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
5. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
6. The Mars Volta - Live 5/12
7. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
8. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
9. Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey
10. Pixies - Bossanova

02-06-2005, 08:24 AM	#1
Tomahawk making plans for nigel Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: land of confusion Posts: 3,279	Your top 10 albums. Not a very original thread, I know. And it's been done before, but not for a while, and things change. Just post your top 10 all-time favourite albums. And then, if you want, post your top 10 current favourites... meaning, the top 10 albums you're digging right now, this week or whatever. This is mine, in no real order: All time: Pixies - Doolittle Mr Bungle - California Jeff Buckley - Grace Talking Heads - Remain in Light Radiohead - OK Computer Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 The Cure - Disintegration Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual Faith No More - Angel Dust (Honourable mentions: Prince - Purple Rain The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique) Right now: The Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen Bill Hicks - Rant in E-Minor Kate Bush - Hounds of Love Cocteau Twins - Treasure Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Regurgitator - Unit Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie Brian Wilson - Smile

02-06-2005, 08:29 AM	#2
Iai Chairman Meow Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Northampton, UK Posts: 16,126	http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_17095 Woo, a list to argue over.
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02-06-2005, 09:14 AM	#6
*Zappa* Tatiana Ali! Supermod Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Alongside Posts: 9,992	Alphabetical: Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue Dolphy, Eric - Out To Lunch Herrmann, Bernard - Taxi Driver Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible Stravinsky, Igor - Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky Talking Heads - Remain In Light Yes - Close to the Edge Zappa, Frank - Freak Out! __________________ "The present-day composer refuses to die"— Edgar Varèse "I don't want to sell my music. I'd like give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it"—Captain Beefheart Golden rule for music: "if it sounds good to you, it's bitchen. If it sounds bad to you, it's sh[i][/i]itty."—Frank Zappa Last edited by Zappa; 02-14-2005 at 10:08 PM.

02-06-2005, 09:21 AM	#7
*Zappa* Tatiana Ali! Supermod Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Alongside Posts: 9,992	Recent favorites: Cooder, Ry - Paradise and Lunch Cynic - Focus King Crimson - Red Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let Love In Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One Pixies - Surfer Rosa Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy The United States of America - The United States of America Zappa, Frank - Absolutely Free The Zombies - Odessey & the Oracle __________________ "The present-day composer refuses to die"— Edgar Varèse "I don't want to sell my music. I'd like give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it"—Captain Beefheart Golden rule for music: "if it sounds good to you, it's bitchen. If it sounds bad to you, it's sh[i][/i]itty."—Frank Zappa

02-06-2005, 12:46 PM	#17
libertine2020 another morning stoner Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: man Posts: 443	Top 10 of all time (in no particular order) Original Pirate Material - The Streets Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In (What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis OK Computer - Radiohead Pinkerton - Weezer London Calling - The Clash Exile On Main St. - Rolling Stones Doolittle - Pixies Marquee Moon - Television Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie Current Top 10 (again, in no particular order) Where You Want To Be - Taking Back Sunday I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes Source Tags And Codes - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead Reconstruction Site - The Weakerthans Digital Ash In A Digital Urn - Bright Eyes Tell All Your Friends - Taking Back Sunday Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse Headhunters - Herbie Hancock American Idiot - Green Day Diary - Sunny Day Real Estate Last edited by libertine2020; 02-06-2005 at 12:48 PM.

02-06-2005, 08:39 AM	#3
Tapeworm Exclamation Park Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: a dead end street Posts: 2,905	1. Jeff Buckley - Grace 2. Elliott Smith - Either/Or 3. The Cure - The Head on the Door 4. The Beatles - Abbey Road 5. Lamb - Lamb 6. Jeff Buckley - Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk 7. The Faint - Danse Macabre 8. Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo 9. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde 10. The Streets - Original Pirate Material Somewhere between "of all time" and current.

02-06-2005, 08:42 AM	#4
slowriotforzerokanada Howl Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Dayton, Ohio Posts: 253	All Time: Miles Davis- Bitches Brew Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime Jaga Jazzist- A Livingroom Hush Husker Du- Zen Arcade cLOUDDEAD- s/t Godspeed! You Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists etc. Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation Bob Dylan- The Times they Are A Changin' Cinematic Orchestra- Man With the Movie Camera Wire- Pink Flag Current: Cinematic Orchestra- Man With the Movie Camera Themselves- No Music Presage- The Outer Perimiter Amon Tobin- Supermodified Tortoise- It's All Around You Kraftwerk- The Man Machine Stereolab- Sound-Dust Saul Williams- Ameyst Rock Star Why?- Oaklandazulasylum Aesop Rock- Daylight EP

02-06-2005, 09:22 AM	#8
RIPJoeStrummer Money City Maniacs Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Halifax, NS Posts: 3,398	I don't think I can do it but I'll do the first things that come to my head. Pixies - Doolittle Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeropane Over The Sea The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim Green Day - Insomniac (but Dookie, Nimrod and Kerplunk are very close) The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving Husker Du - Zen Arcade Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited The Clash - London Calling The Beatles - Revolver

02-06-2005, 09:23 AM	#9
theredwonder RAWR! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In a little place called Home Posts: 3,436	Right now, i'm going for - Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up A Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose Daft Punk - Discovery My Vitriol - Finelines Seafood - As The Cry Flows Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP Badly Drawn Boy - Hour Of The Bewilderbeast British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy

02-06-2005, 09:31 AM	#11
pinkyeti YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Berlin. Posts: 1,447	I do not like to make all time favourite lists, so here are my most recent favourites: Black Mountain - ST The Arcade Fire - Funeral Gang of four - Solid gold Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls & Marches M.I.A. - Arular LCD Soundsystem - ST Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar Drive like Jehu - Yank crime Brian Eno - Before and after science Les savy fav - Inches

02-06-2005, 11:11 AM	#13
wheelz live in stere-ere-o Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 976	best of all time lists are too hard. best currently lists are too easy. i haven't done a best of 2004 list yet so here it is (yeah i know it's february, shut up). 1. madvillain - madvillainy 2. the arcade fire - funeral 3. les savy fav - inches 4. death from above 1979 - you're a woman, i'm a machine 5. the go! team - thunder, lightning, strike 6. interpol - antics 7. the organ - grab that gun 8. air - talkie walkie 9. modest mouse - good news for people who like bad news 10. ghostface - the pretty toney album voila

02-06-2005, 12:02 PM	#14
vallely2004 www.mexicolauk.cjb.net Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The mean streets Posts: 2,754	Well it lookd like I have the most mainstream/newest music in my top 10: In no particular order: QOTSA - SFTD QOTSA - Rated R Desert Sessions 9 & 10 Reuben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land Glassjaw - Everything You Wanted To Know About Silence Muse - Origin of Symmetry Big D and the Kids Table - Gipsy Hill PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (and two brand new CDs that I definitely love): Voodoo Glow Skulls new CD Head Automatica - Decadence

02-06-2005, 12:06 PM	#15
Master Arkam Kannon Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 3,659	http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_16918 top 25 but whatever.

02-06-2005, 12:06 PM	#16
The NPC Custom User Title Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 17,929	Damn it, all my albums are the greatest ever...I can't single out the Top Ten.

02-06-2005, 12:53 PM	#18
BillCosby oh yeah Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: san francisco Posts: 6,997	Currently: Johnny Cash - "At Folsom Prison" The Pixies - "Doolittle" The Shins - "Oh, Inverted World" Modest Mouse - "The Moon & Antartica" Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisited" John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme" Built to Spill - "Keep it Like a Secret" Tom Waits - "Rain Dogs" Jeff Buckley - "Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk" Cursive - "The Ugly Organ"

02-06-2005, 01:37 PM	#20
pixiesfanyo huffing & puffing Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: idyllwild, ca Posts: 17,785	Top 10 Currently 1. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute 2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights 3. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire 4. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left 5. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders 6. The Mars Volta - Live 5/12 7. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 8. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles 9. Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey 10. Pixies - Bossanova Last edited by pixiesfanyo; 02-06-2005 at 02:27 PM.
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