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 [I]current[/I] favourites... meaning, the top 10 albums you're digging right now, this week or whatever.


This is mine, in no real order:

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

[SIZE=1](Honourable mentions:
Prince - [I]Purple Rain[/I]
The Smiths - [I]The Queen is Dead[/I]
Beastie Boys - [I]Paul's Boutique[/I])[/SIZE]

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

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Woo, a list to argue over.

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.

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

[QUOTE=Tomahawk]Afghan Whigs - [I]Gentlemen[/I]
Bill Hicks - [I]Rant in E-Minor[/I]
Kate Bush - [I]Hounds of Love[/I][/QUOTE]
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

Alphabetical:

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

Recent favorites:

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

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

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

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Woo, a list to argue over.[/QUOTE]

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

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

[QUOTE=Zappa]I didn't realize you liked the Morphine album so much. Must have changed your tune since I first sent it to you.[/QUOTE]
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.

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

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

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top 25 but whatever.

D[COLOR=White]am[/COLOR]n it, all my albums are the greatest ever...I can't single out the Top Ten.

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

[B]Currently:[/B]

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

[QUOTE=no peros calentes]D[COLOR=White]am[/COLOR]n it, all my albums are the greatest ever...I can't single out the Top Ten.[/QUOTE]
123.. Except My Bloody Valentine's loveless is my fav album, but past that I cant decide.

[b]Top 10 Currently[/b]

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

[B]Currently[/B]

1. Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
2. Arab Strap - The Red Thread
3. Fugazi - Red Medicine
4. The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
5. Beck - Sea Change
6. Yo La Tengo - Today Is the Day EP
7. Self - Gizmodgery
8. Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills
9. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
10.Jem - Finally Woken

eh..they're really in no order..ahh i forgot GYBE!

[b]Current Favourites:[/b]

01. Strike Anywhere - Change Is A Sound
02. Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
03. Choking Victim - No Gods, No Managers
04. Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
05. Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo
06. Thursday - Full Collapse
07. Indian Summer - Self-Titled
08. Between The Buried And Me - The Silent Circus
09. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
10. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart

I've been in a spazzy/punky mood lately...

[QUOTE=AfroMan]
7. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
[/QUOTE]
F[size=2]u[/size]ckin a, glad to see I'm not the only one.

I forgot so many albums on my list so I made a revised top...18.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Nasir Jones - Illmatic
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Phish - A Picture Of Nectar
Sublime - 40 oz To Freedom
Sublime - Sublime
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Saetia - A Retrospective
Slint - Spiderland
Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F#A#(Infinity)

My musical tastes have changed a lot recently so this is a kind of currently/all time mix.

1. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
3. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Raise Your Skinny Fists/ F#A#(Infinity)
4. Radiohead - The Bends
5. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
6. Sigur Ros - ()
7. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
8. The Clash - London Calling
9. Queens of the Stoneage - Songs For the Deaf
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
11. Leftfield - Leftism
12. Pearl Jam - Ten
13. Pixies - Doolittle
14. The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
15. Led Zeppelin - Remasters

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo]2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
[/QUOTE]
Wait wait wait, I thought Interpol sucked?

Nah dude, that was the Mars Volta.

Zing.

A mix between my current and all time:

1) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
2) Oasis - Definitely Maybe
3) Radiohead - The Bends
4) Godspeed You! Black Emperor- F# A# (infinity)
5) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
6) Tool - Lateralus
7) Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
8) Radiohead - OK Computer
9) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
10) Slint - Spiderland
11) Ruby Zoo - Disenchanted Monk
12) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
13) A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
14) Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
15) Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
16) Tool - Ænema
17) Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
18) Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
19) Dream Theater - Images and Words
20) A Silver Mount Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
21) Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
22) Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High
23) Weezer - Blue Album
24) Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
25) Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain

[QUOTE=Tangy zizzle]Nah dude, that was the Mars Volta.[/QUOTE]
My soul. It hurts.

Sh[size=2]i[/size]t Sh[size=2]i[/size]t Sh[size=2]i[/size]t. I forgot Siamese Dream.

umm... Currently:
1. Drive-By Truckers- The Dirty South
2. Murs- 3:16- The 9th Edition
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers- One Hot Minute
4. De La Soul- The Grind Date
5. Ryan Adams- Love is Hell 1&2
6. Ween- Quebec
7. Weakerthans- Reconstruction Site
8. Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
9. Supersuckers- Must've Been High
10. Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti

of All Time:
1. Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
2. Foo Fighters- The Colour and the Shape
3. Queens of the Stone Age- Songs for the Deaf
4. Blackalicious- Blazing Arrow
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd- Pronounced 'Leh-nerd Skin-nerd'
6. Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique
7. NOFX- Punk in Drublic
8. Guns n'Roses- Appetite for Destruction
9. Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland
10. The Roots- Phrenology

my list sucks :upset:

[QUOTE=Wanker]
25) Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain[/QUOTE]

sweet. fu[COLOR=White]c[/COLOR]k yeah to Billy Joel

except for "we didn't start the fire"

Man, I have really good taste in music.

[QUOTE=Zappa]Man, I really enjoy the taste of men on my lips.[/QUOTE]

Edited for truth.

That's probably the funniest post you've ever made. Not that that's saying much.

Zappa, do you have that United States of America album on your computer? I've been looking for that forever.

[QUOTE=I Am Electrocution]Zappa, do you have that United States of America album on your computer? I've been looking for that forever.[/QUOTE]

I do.

You may get an IM soon.

I'll bite.

Albums I can consistently go back to (no order):

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Velvet Underground - s/t
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Radiohead - Kid A
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Slint - Spiderland

Current favorites:

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Portishead - Dummy
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
The Dears - No Cities Left
Weezer - Pinkerton
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan...
Books - The Lemon of Pink

All Time (No Order) -

Primus - The Brown Album
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Ween - The Mollusk
Phish - A Picture Of Nectar
Flaming Lips - Transmission From the Satelite Heart
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Fishbone - Truth And Soul
Mike Watt - Secondman's Middle Stand
Presidents Of The United States Of America - Self Titled
Melvins - Stag

Current (No Order):
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The 36 Chambers
Hieroglyphics - Full Circle
Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People
Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
MC 900ft Jesus - One Step Ahead Of The Spider
Prick - Prick
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Ol Dirty Bastard - Osirus
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - let Love In
Bearsuit - Cat Spectacular

[QUOTE=crazyGUITARnDRUMgal]
7. Self - Gizmodgery[/QUOTE]

I love that album. Brilliant.

My all-time favorites (only somewhat in order):

-Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
-Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
-Isis - Oceanic
-The Mars Volta - De-Loused
-Calexico - The Black Light
-Radiohead - OK Computer
-Mr. Bungle - California
-Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
-Mastodon - Leviathan
-27 - Animal Life

Current/Recent favorites:

-Neutal Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane
-The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi
-Jeff Buckley - Grace
-Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break
-Elysian Fields - Dreams that Breathe Your Name
-Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
-Isis - Panopticon
-The Gathering - Souvenirs
-My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
-Pinback - This is a Pinback CD