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Eliot Johnson

05-09-2007, 11:34 PM

...and i will rate your taste in music.

begin.

Chiasm

05-10-2007, 01:47 AM

Ilash

05-10-2007, 06:58 AM

My current top 10, in no particular order and limited to to one artist per album so that the list doesn't consist purely of three bands:

1) The Beatles - Abbey Road
2) The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
3) The Who - Quadrophenia
4) Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
5) George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
6) The Kinks - Arthur
7) Jethro Tull - Stand Up
8) Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
9) The Clash - London Calling
10) Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

Please note, that aside for those first three albums, I change my mind constantly about the rest.

leonaozaki

05-10-2007, 07:09 AM

scratchie

05-10-2007, 07:29 AM

As someone else said, ask me tomorrow and get a whole other list. Some of these I listen to almost daily, some of them I haven't listened to in years, but off the top of my head (these aren't in order):

Elvis Costello: Armed Forces
The Who: Quadrophenia
The Clash: Sandinista!
Bob Marley & The Wailers: African Herbsman
The Upsetters: Super Ape
Buzzcocks: A Different Kind of Tension
David Bowie: Um, today I feel like Station to Station
Beatles: Abbey Road
XTC: Black Sea
King Crimson: Red

Honorable Mention:
Brian Eno: Another Green World
Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure
The English Beat: I Just Can't Stop It
The Skatalites: Ska-Boo-Da-Bah
Jackie Mittoo: Evening Time
Repo Man Soundtrack
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies

Jonathan Bogart

05-10-2007, 08:08 AM

Your Imaginary Pal

05-10-2007, 08:21 AM

Rob Imes

05-10-2007, 10:39 AM

To limit mine to one artist each, I'll say:

1.) The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
(actually Revolver and The White Album are my two favorite Beatles albums, but I've been listening to MMT a lot lately)

2.) Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
This has 3 of my all-time favorite Dylan songs on it -- "Like a Rolling Stone," "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Desolation Row" -- but all of Dylan's albums including this one are a little uneven to me. (But then the same could be said of any album, including Revolver and the White album.) But this has the highest percentage of great songs on it IMO. Also in the running for me would be The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, and Blood on the Tracks. If I can include later releases of old material, I'd put Bootleg Series Volume One (rare early 1960s recordings) and Volume Six (1964 Halloween concert). In fact, I've loaned out Volume Six to someone -- the whole thing -- because I think the whole 2-CD set is good, worth hearing in its entirety.

3.) Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
This is like their own "Abbey Road," the culmination of all the great production methods learned from the 1960s, maturely channeled into serving the songs. My second choice would be the wonderful "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Tyhme" from 1966 -- I would say it was S&G's "Revolver." Third choice would be "Bookends," another great album.

4.) Pink Floyd, The Wall (1979)
I don't care what anyone says, this is a masterful album -- sort of like the rock album as a movie or novel. (And forget the movie of The Wall, I'm not talking about that.)

5.) The Monkees, Pisces Aquarius Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
Again, I don't care what people think of me for being a Monkees fan. These are great pop songs that are well done, much better than a lot of the more respected artistes have managed to do. The only drawback is that sometimes the instrumentation seems a little too weak, which is to be expected considering its a combination of the Monkees themselves (whose abilities vary) and studio musicians (who may be professional but lack the fire within). I never thought I'd love "Cuddly Toy" -- I hated it when I was younger -- but I love it now.

6.) Todd Rundgren, A Wizard / A True Star (1973)
I haven't listened to this in years, but I remember it being great. I only have it on vinyl LP, not a CD, and my turntable hasn't been hooked up in years. One of these days I'll have to get it on CD and see if it still is as good as I remember. (I think it will be. Any album that segues "You Need Your Head" into "Rock and Roll Pussy" into "Dogfight Giggle" in the space of 5 minutes can't go wrong.)

7.) The Dukes of Stratosphear, Psonic Psunspot (1988)
This is another one that I only have on vinyl. The CD Version combines their earlier EP with this album, under the new title of Chips from a Chocolate Fireball (or something like that). I don't have the CD, though. The Dukes are really XTC, and this entire album is an homage to 1960s pop-rock, culminating in the Brian Wilson-inspired "Pale and Precious."

8.) Queen, Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
While this album doesn't have my all-time favorite Queen songs (those would be on a greatest hits compilation, and I decided not to choose any Greatest Hits albums for this list), I think it's the most cohesive and fully listenable of Queen's albums from beginning to end. (Okay, I kind of lose interest a bit after "Bring Back Leroy Brown," but then how could you top something like that?) My second Queen choice would be A Night At The Opera, the album which came out the following year, and which contained "Bohemian Rhapsody."

9.) The Rutles, The Rutles (1978)
This is a bit of a cheat, since they are a Beatles parody band, but I love the Beatles and love the Rutles sound as well, not surprisingly. But I think it's even better than mere parody. If, like me, you wish their were more "new Beatles music" to listen to, this is as about as close as you can get. Neil Innes, the Rutles songwriter and main singer (he does the "John" voices), is underappreciated, talented in his own right.

10.) Kiss, Destroyer (1976)
OK, so I ran out of room and wasn't able to include all the other great albums I love. But this is the album I've owned the longest of any on this list, buying it as an LP in the late 1970s (along with most of the other available Kiss albums of the time -- they were my favorite band when I was 8 years old, and Queen was 2nd favorite). I recently listened to the CD in its entirety and found myself enjoying every minute of it. Sure it's a bit embarrassing to admit it, sure the lyrics can be adolescent, but it's ambitious, melodic, Beatlesque, and fun, with lots of variety. Not all the songs sound the same. And when I listened to it recently, I noticed (which I hadn't before) how much the choir-backed "Great Expectations" (a somewhat embarrassingly vulgar song about how being a famous rock star makes women lust after you) reminded me of The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

Honorable mentions:
Johnny Cash, Ride This Train (1960)
The Beach Boys, Beach Boys Party (1965)
The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesty's Request (1967)
Syd Barrett, Madcap Laughs (1970)
John Lennon, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band (1970)
E.L.O, Time (1981)
Roger Waters, The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking (1984)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy (1985)
Scritti Politti, Cupid & Psyche '85 (1985)
dc Talk, Jesus Freak (1995)
Miss Angie, 100 Million Eyeballs (1997)
Outrageous Cherry, Supernatural Equinox (2002)

(Incidentally, I find Outrageous Cherry's current album, Stay Happy, which came out October 2006, to be more thoroughly listenable from beginning to end, without skipping any tracks, than the above choice, but the individual songs, while very good, don't equal the greatness of some of those on the 2002 release. So, the 2002 album is more uneven, only two-thirds listenable, but the good songs on it are some of my all-time favorites by them.)

And I'm leaving out a whole bunch of artist I love like Buddy Holly, The Lovin' Spoonful, Jan & Dean, The Doors, Lou Reed, T. Rex, The Who, etc. because I can't settle on just one album.

Rusty Cage

05-10-2007, 11:38 AM

Ed Cunard

05-10-2007, 12:10 PM

Reptisaurus!

05-10-2007, 01:36 PM

I'll probably get killled, but what the hey...
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4. Motorhead - 1916
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Nah. You're fine dude. Ain't nobody 'live can argue the awesomeness of Motorhead. Your list could be Motorhead and Barney's Funtime Sing-Along Volumes 1-9 and it would still be kind of awesome.

E. Spears

05-10-2007, 02:17 PM

Kara Zor El

05-10-2007, 02:23 PM

Valmore

05-10-2007, 02:59 PM

...and i will rate your taste in music.

begin.

Why should I deign to allow one such as you to question my taste in music?

That job is clearly reserved for howyadoin. Says so in my contract.

jessecuster3

05-10-2007, 02:59 PM

Slam_Bradley

05-10-2007, 03:08 PM

Spitballing

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Joe Henderson - So Near So Far

Johnny Cash - Live From Folsom Prison

Oh Brother Were Art Thou - Soundtrack

Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight

Muddy Waters - Real Folk Blues

Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin

Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers

Trini Lopez - Live at PJ's

Merle Haggard - Same Train, Different Time

scratchie

05-10-2007, 03:09 PM

2. John Hartford - Aereo-PlainOoh, good call. I haven't listened to this one in a long time, but it's definitely one of the best albums of the 70s.

elheffe

05-10-2007, 05:11 PM

Chiasm

05-10-2007, 06:36 PM

I'll probably get killled, but what the hey...

(not necessarily in this order)

1. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
2. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
4. Motorhead - 1916
5. Slayer - Reign in Blood
6. Radiohead - Kid A
7. Alice in Chains - Dirt
8. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
9. Beck - Odelay
10. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

I won't kill you, yours is the first list besides mine that wouldn't drive me to the brink of suicide. I've actually got several of these CD's and listen to a few of them regularly (Alice and Queens) and I listen to a Zeppelin compilation all the time. Radiohead is one of my top 3 bands although Kid A is probably my least favorite of their albums.

DDM

05-10-2007, 07:01 PM

The Beatles, White Album
Velvet Underground, Velvet Underground & Nico
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Blondie, Parallel Lines
The Human League, Dare!
Siouxsie & the Banshees, Peepshow
The Creatures, Boomerang
Depeche Mode, Violator
The Pet Shop Boys, Very

Buried Alien

05-10-2007, 07:57 PM

OK. Well, my tastes will come off as hopelessly conventional and pedestrian, but here goes:

1. MEET THE BEATLES (The Beatles): I like my rock 'n roll simple, fresh, energetic, and upbeat, and probably no other album in rock history conveyed those four values better than MEET THE BEATLES, the Beatles' first U.S. album (or as the Capitol Records' official hype of the time said, "The First Album by England's Phenomenal Pop Combo!"). This one was better for me than the corresponding British LP WITH THE BEATLES, which didn't have the "I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There" single or "This Boy," which were released differently in the UK.

2. PLEASE PLEASE ME (The Beatles): More of the same on their British debut LP (which was their first album PERIOD). This one has "Please Please Me" and "Twist and Shout," which MEET THE BEATLES didn't have.

3. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (The Beatles): The Beatles refined their early pop/rock 'n roll sound to perfection here, and taken in the context of everything else being done in pop/rock in 1964, this was far ahead of the field. Who else was doing songs like "Things We Said Today" and "I'll Be Back" in 1964?

4. THE GREAT TWENTY-EIGHT (Chuck Berry): Twenty-eight of the best songs from the man who arguably invented simple, fresh, energetic, and upbeat guitar-based rock 'n roll. I could listen to this endlessly.

5. ELVIS: THE TOP TEN HITS (Elvis Presley): He might or might not have been the "King of Rock 'n Roll," but he was one of the greatest musical performers ever...at least in his heyday.

6. SOUNDS OF SUMMER (The Beach Boys): Best one-disc collection of my favorite local band. Sure, PET SOUNDS was a better coherent work, but this collection spans all of their career...not just what they did in 1966.

7. DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (Pink Floyd): You must wonder - how is this that "simple, fresh, energetic, and upbeat" rock 'n roll that characterizes my first six choices? Well, it definitely isn't, but my tastes aren't that one-dimensional. When I need a counterpoint to all that, this Mother of All Prog Rock Albums hits the spot like nothing else. Besides, the sound effects are neat.

8. LED ZEPPELIN IV (Led Zeppelin): I think "Stairway To Heaven" is just pretty good rather than great, but I could listen to "Black Dog" and "Rock 'n Roll" all day.

9. FORTY LICKS (The Rolling Stones): You're probably getting the impression that my list is "greatest hits" collections heavy. I'm mostly a *songs* guy. It's rare that I find an album by anybody that I like from start to finish, and most of those are by the Beatles. Anyway, the Stones had plenty of great songs...just widely dispersed over their many albums. This collection got most of them together.

10. GREATEST HITS (Buddy Holly): I'm not even sure that's the name of the collection, but it's whatever compilation (minus boxed sets, which I'm not into because they're too expensive and usually offer more than I really want) features the most songs by this great pioneer of early rock 'n roll. Again: my personal four key values of rock 'n roll are well-represented by this artist's work.

My list is pretty pedestrian. The only thing of note is my age. I was born in 1972. The ten albums I listed here generally mean more to listeners one generation before my age group.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Slam_Bradley

05-10-2007, 08:19 PM

You're probably getting the impression that my list is "greatest hits" collections heavy. I'm mostly a *songs* guy. It's rare that I find an album by anybody that I like from start to finish, and most of those are by the Beatles.

One thing to keep in mind is that with older music (pre-early 60s) it was very rare to produce L.P.' outside of jazz and classical music. Even when an L.P. by someone like Berry or Holly would come out, it was built around their hit singles, with filler added.

I listen to a ton of old jump blues. Many of those artists never recorded an L.P. There entire catalog of CD's are compilations.

Buried Alien

05-10-2007, 08:22 PM

One thing to keep in mind is that with older music (pre-early 60s) it was very rare to produce L.P.' outside of jazz and classical music. Even when an L.P. by someone like Berry or Holly would come out, it was built around their hit singles, with filler added.

This is true, but even with more recent artists, I find that I will like one or two individual songs (which often are, but are not necessarily their hit singles) rather than the content of their albums.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

scratchie

05-10-2007, 08:47 PM

OK. Well, my tastes will come off as hopelessly conventional and pedestrian, but here goes:Geez, you couldn't find anything better than the Beatles, the Stones, the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly?? Sheesh. Kids today.

Seriously, if that were truly "conventional", listening to "Classique Roque[tm]" radio would be a hell of a lot more enjoyable. (And yes, I'm aware that "Klassik Rawk[tm]" stations occasionally play the Beatles or the Stones, but it's always the same three or four songs, and they don't play them nearly as often as Bad Company, The Eagles and their ilk).

Buried Alien

05-10-2007, 08:53 PM

Geez, you couldn't find anything better than the Beatles, the Stones, the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly?? Sheesh. Kids today.

Seriously, if that were truly "conventional", listening to "Classique Roque[tm]" radio would be a hell of a lot more enjoyable. (And yes, I'm aware that "Klassik Rawk[tm]" stations occasionally play the Beatles or the Stones, but it's always the same three or four songs, and they don't play them nearly as often as Bad Company, The Eagles and their ilk).

Heh. Yeah. The radio stations seem to think that the Beatles and Stones only had about a dozen or so hits. I *love* "She Loves You" and "Hey Jude," but I'd really be more excited to hear "I Need You" or "It Won't Be Long" on the radio because these really great songs don't get the exposure they deserve. If you were to go by radio airplay, you'd think the Beatles didn't have that many more hits than, say, Blondie.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

mattx110

05-10-2007, 09:05 PM

in no specific order
1) richard thompson 1000 years of popular music. gems from history including banks of the nile, shenendoah and oops i did it again.

2) jeff beck live from bbking blues bootleg style recording. i was at one of the shows they made the CD from too:D so was les paul and some other folks. doesn't have "cause we've ended as lovers" which is the only thing keeping it from being perfect.

3) the beatles abbey road just for the last half of the album being nonstop. most memorable drum solo ever. gonna finish all my live solo shows beating that thing on my guitar and playing each of the solos.
this is the only beatles album i'm including to keep it fair cause that sped up version of sgt. pepper is terrific too, and the white album has some george stuff that kicks ass.

4) lenny breau and brad terry the complete living room tapes some terrific cuts of solo jazz guitar, along with some country stuff, and even some comedy stuff including lenny's impression of a changing radio, and another of him impersonating johnny cash singing "i've got you under my skin".

5) roy buchanon american axe-live in 1974 live from ebbet's field. terrific setlist. "the messiah will come again" is one of the scariest goosebump raising songs, though i like the studio version where he played an organ part on guitar with little volume swells. "Sweet dreams" is one of the best songs ever ever and nobody played it better.

6) John Hiatt Hiatt comes alive at the budokan great album name. nothing to do with frampton and features recordings all from domestic US shows. one of the funnest most heart-wrenching singers to listen to. also has michael ward's finest hour, showing you don't have to suck to be punk. the closest thing i'm gonna include to a best of.

best of albums i don't see as fair. cause some are these career overview collections with over 100 songs and b-sides and all this stuff, and how can that lose to a 13song album? this is a personal rule just to make it easier to pick 10. everyone can make their own rules.

7) Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble In Step sober clean stevie is the best kind. the live version of "life without you" is one of the most uplifting and painful things for me to listen to. i'm counting remastereds with added tracks.. sue me. to be fair, i almost decided to put the Vaughan brothers album on the list, and this acts as a place-holder for that too. but it seems like dirty pool to let have someone take 2 of 10 spots.

8) Tommy Emmanuel live one one of the best concert recordings ever. one of the best guitarist ever. you should all go buy this.

9) Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 edges out volume three cause roy orbison earned his spot, and "handle with care" is just a terrific song. for all you jeff lynne hating people, listen to this. the tom petty, bob dylan and healthy dose of george harrison should take of some of the sting.

10)chet atkins w/ les paul, jerry reed, lenny breau or tommy emmanuel just to be fair, all 5 or 6 albums get to tie for this place. and i didn't put these in order of which i liked best so #10 is on equal footing with #1. chet atkins deserves to be on the list, and it's not fair to give lenny and tommy each 2 spots, but i mean, i have to pick 10 albums... that's very restrictive.

if i was smart, i woulda just gone with little village, wilburys, and live shows that included multiple people (those polygram jazzvisions featuring live concerts from multiple jazz and blues and rock artists would just eat up the list, etta james, albert collins and joe walsh on one album!?)

special mention to danny gatton and joey defrancesco, george harrison solo (albeit with guests like eric clapton, ringo and others, tommy is the only real "solo" album i included, though thompson plays solo quite a bit.), david byrne, bill evans and everyone else i like. blood sweat and tears, bob dylan deserves a spot but he already got a partial, and harrison got two partials, which counts as a solo.

well, so far i like at least one thing from everyone's list. nice to see the beach boys and zep tearing up the joint.

now where's johnathon bogart to tell me my list sucks and that top ten lists suck cause they're just another form of reccomendations?

edit: couldn't think of frampton's name for a couple minutes

Adam C

05-10-2007, 09:16 PM

5) roy buchanon american axe-live in 1974 live from ebbet's field. terrific setlist. "the messiah will come again" is one of the scariest goosebump raising songs, though i like the studio version where he played an organ part on guitar with little volume swells. "Sweet dreams" is one of the best songs ever ever and nobody played it better.

Good to see I'm not the only Roy Buchanan fan on these boards. And as for John telling you that your list sucks...well apparently that's Eliot's job, but he hasn't done so yet. I might have to step up to the plate.

Buried Alien

05-10-2007, 09:20 PM

Good to see I'm not the only Roy Buchanan fan on these boards. And as for John telling you that your list sucks...well apparently that's Eliot's job, but he hasn't done so yet. I might have to step up to the plate.

Eliot or Jon probably won't tell me so much that my tastes suck as they're too safe and conservative. Being a fan of the Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, etc., generally won't get you into too much trouble with rock fans (although Jon might slag me for having no jazz or ragtime records in my collection), but that's just it: my list is unadventurous. I imagine that's what both Eliot and Jon would say about it.

But I'll let them say it themselves. :)

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

mattx110

05-10-2007, 09:31 PM

Eliot or Jon probably won't tell me so much that my tastes suck as they're too safe and conservative. Being a fan of the Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, etc., generally won't get you into too much trouble with rock fans (although Jon might slag me for having no jazz or ragtime records in my collection), but that's just it: my list is unadventurous. I imagine that's what both Eliot and Jon would say about it.

But I'll let them say it themselves. :)

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

i can't tell if my list is adventurous... i don't have enough piano players, or really anything from before the late 60s... richard thompson does have a song from 1000 AD in there though.
i think i have a nice mix of the regular "beatles" and the more obscure jazz/blues/gospel guitarists.
if i had to make an ultimate ultimate list it'd probably draw a bit more fire if you don't like django, Louis or judy garland, that list would probably not have any beatles, and more beethoven and chopin too. i did cheat on my number 10 too.
eh, i have amazing taste anyway. i can't include everyone that deserves a spot. sorry weather report and bobby darin...

edit: i just realized i coulda been the trendblazer who put george carlins 7 words routine album on my list and owned the world and redefined everything. then someone would go with "That record of how to pronounce vowells from the film version of "my fair lady" and the universe would have exploded. honorable mention to both.

david r

05-10-2007, 09:46 PM

1) Beatles-White Album
2) Prince-Sign 'O' The Times
3) Cure-Disintegration
4) Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers
5) Beach Boys-Pet Sounds
6) Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
7) Beatles-A Hard Day's Night
8) Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde
9) The Police-Synchronicity
10) Blues Brothers-Briefcase Full of Blues :p

Buried Alien

05-10-2007, 10:37 PM

mattx110

05-10-2007, 10:40 PM

You know what's kind of funny that I just noticed: Eliot asked us to list our top ten "records." He never specifically said "albums." "Records" could encompass albums, singles, and EPs, among other formats. Yet we're so conditioned to think of records as albums that we ALL went for albums! :)

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

a single inherently sucks compared to a full album.

1 song vs. a whole bunch.
without cost as a factor, i don't see any single beating an album that contains that song and more. it's an unfair handicap.

Jonathan Bogart

05-10-2007, 10:44 PM

a single inherently sucks compared to a full album.
Wrong. "Be My Baby" b/w "So Young" kicks the living shit out of Blonde on Blonde, and you can tell Bob Dylan I said so.

Jessica Drew

05-10-2007, 10:49 PM

Okay, since the thread title asked for records, then I'm going with singles (or their electronic heir--the mp3), and--like everyone else--this is a "for the moment"-type list. In no particular order:

1. "Oh, Yeah" by The Cliks

2. "Teenage Kicks" by the Undertones

3. "Pledging My Love" by Johnny Ace

4. "Bombs Over Baghdad" by OutKast

5. "One More Hour" by Sleater-Kinney

6. "Stay With Me" by Lorraine Ellison

7. "Another Girl, Another Planet" by the Only Ones

8. "Tumbling Dice" by the Rolling Stones

9. "Run to Me" by Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs

10. "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke

Ottmeister X

05-10-2007, 10:55 PM

In no particular order:

The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
You're Gonna Get It! - Tom Petty
Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Mechanical Resonance - Tesla
Led Zep III - Led Zep
Pyromania - Def Lep
Abbey Road - The Beatles
1984 - Van Halen
Live At The Regal - BB King

leonaozaki

05-10-2007, 11:04 PM

Okay, I have to tweak mine somewhat:

1) Picking a favorite Bob Dylan record is hard. Today, the one I've been singing in my head is Bringing it all back home, which has some of the funniest Bob songs ever committed to wax ("Bob Dylan's 115th Dream," "On the Road Again") plus his greatest song, "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)." So today I'm going with this one.

2) Pixies, Doolittle. I'm stunned and amazed that I left this off of my first list. Ever since I heard "Wave of Mutilation" I've been a fan(atic). To my mind Doolittle is one of the greatest records of the pop/rock era.

3) The Clash, The Clash (US version): Sure, London Calling gets all the press, and it is a great record, but nothing beats the aggression and melodicism of this record.

4) Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here. Of course I love The Wall and Dark Side but there's something special about this record. Maybe it's the title track. Maybe it's that stunning Gilmour riff in the first half of "Crazy Diamond."

5) The White Stripes, Elephant. Sure, it's fun to slag on them now, but my Lord, anyone who has hasn't listened to "Black Math."

6) Joy Division, Closer. I know, I know! But I can never decide which one I like more. For all that Unknown Pleasures is great, there's nothing on it that quite moves me like the bit in "A Means To An End" (didn't they have great song titles?) where it picks up speed.

7) Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Get Happy!! Yes, it has duff tracks. I don't care! All I care about is the bassline in "Secondary Modern" and about a jillion other hot-shit musical moments on this record.

8) New Pornographers, Twin Cinema. Based on the amount of times I've played this, this might be my favorite CD of all time. (A little hyperbole, but so what?) I defy anyone to listen to the last two minutes of "The Bleeding Heart Show" and not be moved.

9) Lisa Germano, Happiness (remixed 4AD version). Before Kim Deal and Neko Case, Lisa Germano was my goddess, and I suppose she still is.

10) Warren Zevon, Sentimental Hygiene. I didn't pick this because it wasn't the obvious choice, but because it has some of the greatest Zevon songs on it (which for me is saying something). Plus R.E.M. backing the man up! How can you beat that?

Honorable mentions:

The Replacements, Let it Be
Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings
Metallica, Master of Puppets
Bjork, Post
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
Too Much Joy, Son of Sam I Am
Suzanne Vega, 99.9
Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man
Talking Heads, Remain in Light
The Band, The Band
The Decemberists, Picaresque

rick

05-10-2007, 11:24 PM

Tell you what Eliot, I’ll list my 10 favorite albums and let you judge my musical taste, but in return you need to post your 10 favorite albums and we get to judge yours.

In no real order, and very likely to change at any time…..

1. The The – Infected:

2. War – Live:

3. Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bullocks Here’s the Sex Pistols:

4. Throbbing Grsitle – The Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle:

5. Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food:

6. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew:

7. Repo Man (various artists, soundtrack):

8. The Clash – London Calling:

9. Laurie Anderson – Mister Heartbreak:

10. Curtis Mayfield – Superfly:

No reason to explain why I like any of these albums of course since they are all simply brilliant.

rick

05-10-2007, 11:27 PM

a single inherently sucks compared to a full album.

1 song vs. a whole bunch.
without cost as a factor, i don't see any single beating an album that contains that song and more. it's an unfair handicap.

I don't know about that.

For example I would certainly be much happier buying the classic Liunk Wray sinlge, Switchblade over any number of albums by people who appeared on American Idol.

Music is certainly the classic example of quality over quantity.

Rob Imes

05-11-2007, 01:01 AM

In defense of the 45 RPM single...

One of the things I liked best about the Beatles is how they often (esp. in Britain, where they had more control over this kinda thing) kept the single distinct from the albums. Some examples:

1963:
"From Me To You" b/w "Thank You Girl"
"She Loves You" b/w "I'll Get You"
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" b/w/ "This Boy"
(None of these appeared on the Beatles two LP releases of that year:
Please Please Me and With the Beatles.)

1964:
"I Feel Fine" b/w "She's a Woman"
(Single released at the same time as the Beatles for Sale LP, but does not appear on it.)

1965:
"Day Tripper" b/w "We Can Work It Out"
(Single released at the same time as the Rubber Soul LP, but does not appear on it.)

1966:
"Paperback Writer" b/w "Rain"
(Single released shortly before the Revolver LP, but neither song appears on it.)

1967:
"Strawberry Fields Forever" b/w "Penny Lane"
"All You Need is Love" b/w "Baby You're a Rich Man"
(Singles released in the spring and summer respectively, but do not appear on an album until December.)

1968:
"Lady Madonna" b/w "The Inner Light"
"Hey Jude" b/w "Revolution"
(None of these 4 songs available on LP until Feb. 1970.)

1969:
"Get Back" b/w "Don't Let Me Down"
"The Ballad of John & Yoko" b/w "Old Brown Shoe"
(None of these 4 songs available on LP until Feb. 1970.)

So obviously the Beatles were looking at the single as an "artform" (or whatever you want to call it) in its own right, just like the album.

Hombre

05-11-2007, 01:35 AM

1. Bruce Springsteen – Human Touch
2. Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
3. Stevie Nicks - Trouble in Shangri-La
4. Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona
5. Kristin Hersh – Hips and Makers
6. Pixies – Doolittle
7. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
8. Natalie Merchant – Tigerlily
9. Mazzy Star – Among my Swan
10. Sophie B. Hawkins – Tongues and Tails

"If you smile at me I will understand..."

mgs

05-11-2007, 01:48 AM

My picks, no order & current. I do listen to most anything classical to rap, but I have been listening to most of these since they came out. Not all the songs are the best, but I am constantly able to listen to the whole album, 1st to last song through without feeling the need to stop.

Pearl Jam - Vs.
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Allman Brothers - A Decade of Hits 1969-1979
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Cure - Disintegration
Iron Maiden - Live After Death

special love for Richard Cheese - Lounge Against the Machine (or any other album by him) sorry, he's hysterical! ;)

GoGo Yubari

05-11-2007, 02:35 AM

... ah. Why not. As I think of them, not in order of preference.

1. "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis
2. "Skylarking" by XTC
3. "Abbey Road" by The Beatles (... which is a really common choice, it seems)
4. "Paul's Boutique" by the Beastie Boys
5. "The Velvet Underground & Nico" by The Velvet Underground
6. "De Stjil" by The White Stripes
7. "Gorillaz" by Gorillaz
8. "The Great Escape" by Blur
9. "You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This" by Mirah
10. "Power in Numbers" by Jurassic 5

Fish Sauce

05-11-2007, 02:48 AM

Right now I'd go with (In no real order):

1. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
2. The Cat Empire - The Cat Empire
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
5. Cold Chisel - Chisel (Greatest Hits)
6. The Beatles - Let It Be... Naked
7. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
8. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (Just seem to return to this more than any of their other albums as a whole)
9. The Who - Who's Next
10. The Arcade Fire - Funeral

Kara Zor El

05-11-2007, 11:32 AM

3. Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bullocks Here’s the Sex Pistols:

Was that the unreleased Cattle heavy sequel to Never Mind The Bollocks?

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:06 PM

In no particular order:

The Bends - Radiohead
Ok Computer - Radiohead
Aenima - Tool
Lateralus - Tool
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
Disorder - Chiasm (of course I like Chiasm seeing as I copied her name)
Relapse - Chiasm
Version 2.0 - Garbage
Silent Force - Within Temptation
In Your Honor - Foo Fighters

2 records each from 3 bands?

the record store where i work: decaturcd.com

stop by some time. we have these things called cds that you can listen to music with. you apparently haven't tried them.

1.4 (would be 2.4 but you've got Tool on yr list)

mattx110

05-11-2007, 12:08 PM

let me clarify
Wrong. "Be My Baby" b/w "So Young" kicks the living shit out of Blonde on Blonde, and you can tell Bob Dylan I said so.

a single inherently sucks compared to a full album.

1 song vs. a whole bunch.
without cost as a factor, i don't see any single beating an album that contains that song and more. it's an unfair handicap.

you can read my whole post instead of quoting out of context just for the sake of trying to make an argument where there isn't any.

unless you reeeeeeeaaaaally love that B-side, and it's not on the album, there's almost no way 2 songs from a band you like, is going to beat an album of 10-15 songs. among those songs of course is that very same single, and usually the b-side too, it depends on the specific example in that case.

the fact is, an album vs. a single, isn't a question of quantity vs. quality.
so any time you like the single better than the album which has that single, you're just being the exception that proves the rule. there is no such thing as rule that works 100% of the time. even gravity has blind spots.

i wasn't saying that every album is better than every single ever. read more carefully. and rick, you quoted the whole post and didn't read it in it's entirety. i'm very dissapointed in you.
at least bogart had the balls to attempt to ignore reality so he could go "wrong".

so yea, this was a misunderstanding, so i won't be too upset. but c'mon people, you're getting lazy.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:09 PM

1) The Beatles - Abbey Road
2) The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
3) The Who - Quadrophenia
4) Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
5) George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
6) The Kinks - Arthur
7) Jethro Tull - Stand Up
8) Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
9) The Clash - London Calling
10) Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

6.8. choices 1-3 absolutely kick ass and you've got ATMP, the kinks, and Neil young on your list, which is good even if you have the wrong kinks record and there are about 5 better neil records.

the clash are punk for beginners and jethro tull is laughable. stewart eh whatever, not top ten material, but acceptable. ween have great ideas but retarded six year olds could execute them better.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:15 PM

1) Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
2) Bob Dylan, "Love and Theft"
3) Warren Zevon, My Ride's Here
4) Lisa Germano, Slide
5) The New Pornographers, Twin Cinema
6) Neil Young, Tonight's the Night
7) Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Armed Forces
8) Bjork, Homogenic
9) The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10) David Bowie, Lodger

Ask me again in 10 minutes and the whole list will probably change.

rob

6.0 you've got fucking Lisa Germano on your list which makes me want to kiss you, but have you not heard Geek the Girl? i mean, slide, wtf? good record but she's released 4 better ones. amazing artist.

Tonight's the night is in my top ten too. good job.

but the rest of your list mostly suck. Yoshimi? way to put an average band's worst, most cliched record on yr list. costello and bjork are acceptable, so is bowie but not that record. Weird dylan choice, but i can dig it. joy division as a #1? eh you could do a lot worse/better. mostly better though, considering you obviously have a brain unlike some ppl.

mattx110

05-11-2007, 12:16 PM

oh good, how could i forget ronnie lane and the faces? or the small faces..
either way, an album with rod stewart might deserve a spot on the top 10.
and the clash are barely punk. they're too good for that label.
i won't fight back unless you do my list anymore, but jethro tull is pretty good too.

and how many peple voted abbey road over sgt. pepper or the white album just cause the last half of the album runs from song to song and that would make an incredible encore.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:18 PM

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:22 PM

As of right this second:

Gal Costa, Gal Costa [Não Identificado]
The Beach Boys, Smile [my own sequencing]
Sly & The Family Stone, Greatest Hits [1970]
The Buzzcocks, Singles Going Steady
The Kinks, Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
The Pipettes, We Are The Pipettes
My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Blacknuss
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Neruda Songs
Susan Cadogan, Hurt So Good

what the hell is with you guys and Arthur?

8.8. can't crack a 9 for two reasons: loveless is boring (isn't anything is better), and the pipettes. great, great choice with the gal costa, good job not being fooled by cinema olympia (Gal version. and kirk! i love you.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:26 PM

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elswhere
Public Enemy - It Take A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Caron Wheeler - UK Black
Mos Def - The New Danger
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Nas - Illmatic
Outkast - Aquemini

maybe not top ten but ten albums I will always listen to beginning to end.

you've got spunk and four worthy albums including getting the right stevie wonder album. wrong outkast/de la soul album, and mos def really isn't very good unless you like guys who think they are intelligent but actually aren't. ALS is an incredible choice i give you a 6.8 despite the gnarls barkely blemish.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:31 PM

To limit mine to one artist each, I'll say:

1.) The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
(actually Revolver and The White Album are my two favorite Beatles albums, but I've been listening to MMT a lot lately)

2.) Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
This has 3 of my all-time favorite Dylan songs on it -- "Like a Rolling Stone," "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Desolation Row" -- but all of Dylan's albums including this one are a little uneven to me. (But then the same could be said of any album, including Revolver and the White album.) But this has the highest percentage of great songs on it IMO. Also in the running for me would be The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, and Blood on the Tracks. If I can include later releases of old material, I'd put Bootleg Series Volume One (rare early 1960s recordings) and Volume Six (1964 Halloween concert). In fact, I've loaned out Volume Six to someone -- the whole thing -- because I think the whole 2-CD set is good, worth hearing in its entirety.

3.) Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
This is like their own "Abbey Road," the culmination of all the great production methods learned from the 1960s, maturely channeled into serving the songs. My second choice would be the wonderful "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Tyhme" from 1966 -- I would say it was S&G's "Revolver." Third choice would be "Bookends," another great album.

4.) Pink Floyd, The Wall (1979)
I don't care what anyone says, this is a masterful album -- sort of like the rock album as a movie or novel. (And forget the movie of The Wall, I'm not talking about that.)

5.) The Monkees, Pisces Aquarius Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
Again, I don't care what people think of me for being a Monkees fan. These are great pop songs that are well done, much better than a lot of the more respected artistes have managed to do. The only drawback is that sometimes the instrumentation seems a little too weak, which is to be expected considering its a combination of the Monkees themselves (whose abilities vary) and studio musicians (who may be professional but lack the fire within). I never thought I'd love "Cuddly Toy" -- I hated it when I was younger -- but I love it now.

6.) Todd Rundgren, A Wizard / A True Star (1973)
I haven't listened to this in years, but I remember it being great. I only have it on vinyl LP, not a CD, and my turntable hasn't been hooked up in years. One of these days I'll have to get it on CD and see if it still is as good as I remember. (I think it will be. Any album that segues "You Need Your Head" into "Rock and Roll Pussy" into "Dogfight Giggle" in the space of 5 minutes can't go wrong.)

7.) The Dukes of Stratosphear, Psonic Psunspot (1988)
This is another one that I only have on vinyl. The CD Version combines their earlier EP with this album, under the new title of Chips from a Chocolate Fireball (or something like that). I don't have the CD, though. The Dukes are really XTC, and this entire album is an homage to 1960s pop-rock, culminating in the Brian Wilson-inspired "Pale and Precious."

8.) Queen, Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
While this album doesn't have my all-time favorite Queen songs (those would be on a greatest hits compilation, and I decided not to choose any Greatest Hits albums for this list), I think it's the most cohesive and fully listenable of Queen's albums from beginning to end. (Okay, I kind of lose interest a bit after "Bring Back Leroy Brown," but then how could you top something like that?) My second Queen choice would be A Night At The Opera, the album which came out the following year, and which contained "Bohemian Rhapsody."

9.) The Rutles, The Rutles (1978)
This is a bit of a cheat, since they are a Beatles parody band, but I love the Beatles and love the Rutles sound as well, not surprisingly. But I think it's even better than mere parody. If, like me, you wish their were more "new Beatles music" to listen to, this is as about as close as you can get. Neil Innes, the Rutles songwriter and main singer (he does the "John" voices), is underappreciated, talented in his own right.

10.) Kiss, Destroyer (1976)
OK, so I ran out of room and wasn't able to include all the other great albums I love. But this is the album I've owned the longest of any on this list, buying it as an LP in the late 1970s (along with most of the other available Kiss albums of the time -- they were my favorite band when I was 8 years old, and Queen was 2nd favorite). I recently listened to the CD in its entirety and found myself enjoying every minute of it. Sure it's a bit embarrassing to admit it, sure the lyrics can be adolescent, but it's ambitious, melodic, Beatlesque, and fun, with lots of variety. Not all the songs sound the same. And when I listened to it recently, I noticed (which I hadn't before) how much the choir-backed "Great Expectations" (a somewhat embarrassingly vulgar song about how being a famous rock star makes women lust after you) reminded me of The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

you obviously like some incredible stuff but you also like some absolutey god awful tripe. you coulda gotten as high as like a 7.5, but The Wall is unforgivably bad. it insults my intelligence and rapes my ears.

4.2 and it's only that high 'cause of one of the choices in yr hon. mention list and 'cause you gave explanations, which is admirable. liked yr monkees explanation.

scratchie

05-11-2007, 12:34 PM

however it's very standard heavy I thought the point was to list the albums we like, not the obscure albums we cite to impress pretentious music geeks. I mean, I could have listed

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Magnetic Flip
Skeleton Crew, Learn to Talk
Henry Cow
Hepcat, Out of Nowhere
801 Live
Holger Czukay, On the Way to the Peak of Normal
Stubborn All-Stars, Open Season

or a half-dozen other obscure albums that have gotten heavy play in my house over the years, but the truth is, I don't listen to any of those as much as I listen to the ones I listed. Most standards are standards for a reason.

no jazz records yet. board sucks. We had a whole thread about jazz records a couple of weeks ago. Where were you?

scratchie

05-11-2007, 12:35 PM

the clash are punk for beginners If liking well-written songs with creative arrangements and actual melodies makes me a "beginner", then I'm proud to be a beginner. I guess it's when you become an expert that you just want to listen to some loser shouting incomprehensible lyrics over the same guitar-sludge backing on every track.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:36 PM

1. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
2. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
4. Motorhead - 1916
5. Slayer - Reign in Blood
6. Radiohead - Kid A
7. Alice in Chains - Dirt
8. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
9. Beck - Odelay
10. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

1-2 are just plan bad music. 3 is great. 4 i haven't heard but i'm guessing it sucks. 5 what have you not heard better metal? 6 is a good record. 7 isn't. 8 is worse. 9 is passable 'cause of his energy. 10 standard whatever.

4.4

Buried Alien

05-11-2007, 12:37 PM

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:41 PM

I thought the point was to list the albums we like, not the obscure albums we cite to impress pretentious music geeks. I mean, I could have listed

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Magnetic Flip
Skeleton Crew, Learn to Talk
Henry Cow
Hepcat, Out of Nowhere
801 Live
Holger Czukay, On the Way to the Peak of Normal
Stubborn All-Stars, Open Season

or a half-dozen other obscure albums that have gotten heavy play in my house over the years, but the truth is, I don't listen to any of those as much as I listen to the ones I listed. Most standards are standards for a reason.

We had a whole thread about jazz records a couple of weeks ago. Where were you?

so you were going to impress me with Henry Cow. i'm a HUGE canterbury fan and the only emotion henry cow incites in me is laughter.

oh and i'm glad you guys had one jazz thread. that's impressive amongst the sea of "crap rock" threads.

and i posted in that thread anyway you idiot.

Buried Alien

05-11-2007, 12:43 PM

and i posted in that thread anyway you idiot.

Let's not get personal now, Eliot. I'm happy to let you do this thread, but there's a line we don't cross, understand?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:43 PM

I am more than a little in love with your top ten.

yeah i prob shoulda rated him higher but i just kind of see Aquemini as the point where outkast started to go downhill so that offended me.

mattx110

05-11-2007, 12:45 PM

I think Eliot should give us 0.5 points just for participating. I mean: he's asking us to bare our musical souls for him, after all! That ought to be worth 0.5 courage points, at least. :)

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

dude, he gave a 4.4 instead of a 4.5...

i think he's doing this more to have fun pretending he's simon cowell than caring about the musical integrity.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:46 PM

Let's not get personal now, Eliot. I'm happy to let you do this thread, but there's a line we don't cross, understand?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

gotcha, Buried. I'll remove all personal insults, although i hope everyone gets the difference between the internet and real life.

and believe me i'm being generous. .5 courage points are being awarded to anyone that would otherwise be below a 6.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:50 PM

dude, he gave a 4.4 instead of a 4.5...

i think he's doing this more to have fun pretending he's simon cowell than caring about the musical integrity.

you think it's fun for me to look through these lists of terrible, terrible rock standards?

i'm a man on a mission to save this forum, 'cause it has potential. :cool:

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:54 PM

It's hard for me to pick my top ten records of all time because I keep finding records I really really dig, but here's ten records I'm enjoy a whole lot at the moment.

In no particular order...

Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Between The Buried And Me - Alaska
The Red Chord - Clients
Job For A Cowboy - Doom
Converge - No Heroes
Fear Before The March Of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
The Chariot - Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, Nothing Is Bleeding
Cold War - From Russia With Love
Every Time I Die - Burial Plot Bidding War
The Good Life - Album Of The Year

Indeed.

to be honest i haven't listened to enough of the stuff on this list to accurately tell you how bad it is. you do know there's music besides hard rock? maybe there's some not hard rock here but i don't care to look up the oens i don't know. converge was fun live, though and actually most of this list looks acceptable. the fans at the converge concert smelled really bad.

scratchie

05-11-2007, 12:54 PM

so you were going to impress me with Henry Cow. i'm a HUGE canterbury fan and the only emotion henry cow incites in me is laughter.I'm not surprised that Henry Cow isn't cool enough for you to like, but I was listing them because they're a band I enjoy listening to, not because I need the approval of some random person on the internet.

scratchie

05-11-2007, 12:57 PM

i'm a man on a mission to save this forum,How's that working out for you? I'm sure if you insult us all a few more times we'll start to like cooler bands.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 12:58 PM

Its so hard to do this but desert island takeaways would be -

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds

Beatles - Abbey Road

Beatles - Revolver

Beatles - Rubber Soul

Beatles - No 1s

Denis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blues

Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here

David Bowie - Hunky Dory (Ryko Extra tracks)

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (Ryko Extra Tracks)

Paul McCartney - Ram

Beach Boys - Sunflower

the beatles are probably the best pop band ever, but you cannot put 4 recrds from them on yr list and expect higher than a 5.2. and wish you were here is terrible.

oh wait you put the bowie records from ryko with extra trakcs?!?!?!?

that changes everything. and by that i mean you lose a point for anal retentiveness. :)

4.2

no blues records yet guys come on.

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 01:00 PM

How's that working out for you? I'm sure if you insult us all a few more times we'll start to like cooler bands.

how's taking the internet too seriously working for you?

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 01:04 PM

Ok mine is also no duplicate artists and aside from the first 5 can change at any moment.

1. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2. John Hartford - Aereo-Plain
3. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
4. Blur - Parklife
5. The Black Crowes - Amorica
6. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
7. Radiohead - The Bends
8. Blind Melon - Nico
9. Ben Folds Five - s/t
10. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

good
haven't heard
lololololololol
why does this board like this band?
ooooook
good but not good enough to be on a top ten
records with "high and dry" on them don't belong in top tens
not very good
very not good
good.

some ok stuff, no great stuff. some bad stuff. 4.2

Eliot Johnson

05-11-2007, 01:06 PM

Rusty Cage

05-11-2007, 01:23 PM

1-2 are just plan bad music. 3 is great. 4 i haven't heard but i'm guessing it sucks. 5 what have you not heard better metal? 6 is a good record. 7 isn't. 8 is worse. 9 is passable 'cause of his energy. 10 standard whatever.

4.4

YES!(not the band, of course, because I'm sure you hate them;)) That's about 3.4 more points than I expected. With that moral victory, tonight I'll be partying like it's 1999!

Slam_Bradley

05-11-2007, 01:32 PM

top three lists so far easy. 8.1

Now I want to know where my extra 1.9 points went.

scratchie

05-11-2007, 01:39 PM

how's taking the internet too seriously working for you?Not so good. I was thinking of anointing myself God-King of Music so I could lord my unbeliveably superior musical taste over all the pathetic losers who actually like different music than I do. But then I remembered that I'm not 15 anymore.

Reptisaurus!

05-11-2007, 02:12 PM

Not so good. I was thinking of anointing myself God-King of Music so I could lord my unbeliveably superior musical taste over all the pathetic losers who actually like different music than I do. But then I remembered that I'm not 15 anymore.

I think the purpose of the thread was pretty clear from post 1. You didn't have to play. (Note that I didn't. :))

I did a thread a few years back where people listed bands and I declared them "cool" or "uncool." It was at least fun for me, which was the point.

Although cool and uncool are way different from musical taste. I mean, I like They Might Be Giants, but they're obviously way un-cool.

rick

05-11-2007, 02:12 PM

the beatles are probably the best pop band ever, but you cannot put 4 recrds from them on yr list and expect higher than a 5.2. and wish you were here is terrible.

oh wait you put the bowie records from ryko with extra trakcs?!?!?!?

that changes everything. and by that i mean you lose a point for anal retentiveness. :)

4.2

no blues records yet guys come on.

No, you have that wrong.

The Bowie Ryko collections, and especially Hunky Dory have some truly superior extras on them that make them far more interesting then the original releases.

By the way, are you ever going to get brave enough to post your top 10, or are we just going to have to mock you about your bad manners alone?

Reptisaurus!

05-11-2007, 02:21 PM

Oh yeah Rick. Good point.

... ALso I remember this kid when all he listened to was Bubba Sparxx. :D And I think the music board was at least a LITTLE bit responsible for his transformation into full-on music nerd. So I feel a little bit proud.

jessecuster3

05-11-2007, 02:43 PM

good
haven't heard
lololololololol
why does this board like this band?
ooooook
good but not good enough to be on a top ten
records with "high and dry" on them don't belong in top tens
not very good
very not good
good.

some ok stuff, no great stuff. some bad stuff. 4.2

Ok I'll take it, I was actually torn between The Bends and Ok Computer but Just, Fake Plastic Trees, and Street Spirit won that battle.

I am almost curious what you would think if I had put The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and RX Bandits on my list instead of Blind Melon and Ben Folds.

leonaozaki

05-11-2007, 03:27 PM

6.0 you've got fucking Lisa Germano on your list which makes me want to kiss you, but have you not heard Geek the Girl? i mean, slide, wtf? good record but she's released 4 better ones. amazing artist.

I know. I've been buying her records since 1993. I have Geek, and I love it, but I love Slide more. I guess if I had to rate 'em I would put them like this:

1) Slide
2) Happiness (4AD remix)
3) Geek the Girl
4) Excerpts from a Love Circus
5) Happiness (Capitol release)
6) In The Maybe World
7) On the Way Down from the Moon Palace

I can't put Lullabye for Liquid Pig on the list because I can't find it anywhere.

rob

mattx110

05-11-2007, 03:59 PM

see.. now i threw in jazz rock folk blues and classical. often on the same album.
and i'm probably gonna get a 2.
and eliot probably never listened to any of the albums on my list aside from the beatles.

and i'm still gonna cry when he hands me my 2.

cause i'm very insecure.

nobody has sam cooke on their list. or lenny bernstein. or alexander graham bell's recordings he made while testing the original records he invented (and that's ignoring edison's cylinders).
there was no speech or comedy albums mentioned. no audiobooks of the bible.
that's a good 4 or 5 spots automatic before we factor in personal taste. then there's the alan lomax field recorings... or joe olliver's first recordings, which is another autospot. jelly roll morton's first album is another auto-include.
that's about 7 albums that i feel deserve to be on anyone's list no matter their personal taste.

so don't feel bad people. just put albums you like, and try to get obscure. make eliot work for our respect. cause if he gives me a "i haven't listened to any of these albums" answer, i'll expect him to go to amazon.com and fix his flaws in musical taste!
i don't want no "i'm not qualified because i don't listen to any of this" i want a "i'll get back to you when i'm not so ignorant"

plus his name is eliot wth one l. who can take that seriously?

The Mirrorball Man

05-11-2007, 04:15 PM

Here's my top 10, in random order.

Gorillaz - Demon Days
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Ash - Free All Angels
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Blur - 13
Radiohead - Kid A
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
The Divine Comedy - Regeneration
Prince - Emancipation

I give myself a perfect ten.

Jonathan Bogart

05-11-2007, 04:32 PM

great, great choice with the gal costa, good job not being fooled by cinema olympia (Gal version.
Huh? There are people who would prefer the Cinema Olympia album? But it doesn't have "Baby," "Sebastiana," and "Saudosismo" on it, which makes it obviously worse.

And I only like MBV when the girls sing.

Jonathan Bogart

05-11-2007, 04:37 PM

unless you reeeeeeeaaaaally love that B-side, and it's not on the album, there's almost no way 2 songs from a band you like, is going to beat an album of 10-15 songs. among those songs of course is that very same single, and usually the b-side too, it depends on the specific example in that case.
Still wrong. I generally prefer the elegance of a perfect a/b single (and there are thousands of them) to an album of uneven quality (which is almost all of them).

Weapon Ick

05-11-2007, 05:39 PM

I'll be the first to admit my list is corny and rolling stone.

1. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
2. Banana Album(Peel Slowly & See) - The Velvet Underground
3. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
4. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
5. Le Tigre - Le Tigre
6. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
7. El Oso - Soul Coughing
8. Revolver - The Beatles
9. Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia - The Dandy Warhols
10. America Beauty - The Grateful Dead

redlantern2051

05-11-2007, 06:37 PM

OK guys, I have pretty cheesy tastes in music, but I don't really mind what anybody says! :-) These are not in order and I have limited it to just one album per band or artist. (altho if an artist goes solo their solo album can be included in addition to one with their band!) and no Ghits for me! :D

1) Audioslave-"Out of Exile"
2) Bon Jovi-"New Jersey"
3) Beatles-"The White Album"
4) Frank Sinatra-"In the Wee Small Hours"
5) Bob Dylan-"Blood on the Tracks"
6) Jackson Browne-"Late for the Sky"
7) Suzanne Vega-"99.9F"
8) Soundgarden-"Superunknown"
9) Jon Bon Jovi-"Destination Anywhere"
10) Chris Isaak-"Forever Blue"

Jonathan Bogart

05-11-2007, 06:55 PM

3) Beatles-"The White Album"
4) Frank Sinatra-"In the Wee Small Hours"
5) Bob Dylan-"Blood on the Tracks"
6) Jackson Browne-"Late for the Sky"
10) Chris Isaak-"Forever Blue"
Dunno about Eliot's rating, but these are all fantastic albums.

redlantern2051

05-11-2007, 07:23 PM

Dunno about Eliot's rating, but these are all fantastic albums.

Thanks man! I like them! :-) How good is "Late for the Sky"-when I hear that album, I think it is just about PERFECT. He says it all on that album. Best thing ever was seeing Jackson Browne on a music video show once almost 15 years ago, (he did "Running on Empty") and I basically just tracked his stuff down!

leonaozaki

05-11-2007, 08:30 PM

3. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (The Beatles): The Beatles refined their early pop/rock 'n roll sound to perfection here, and taken in the context of everything else being done in pop/rock in 1964, this was far ahead of the field. Who else was doing songs like "Things We Said Today" and "I'll Be Back" in 1964?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

I hear what you're saying but for my money Help! -- and to a lesser extent Rubber Soul-- are really where the Beatles perfected the power-pop formula. A Hard Day's Night still kind of bores me, but I could listen to Help! all day long.

rob

leonaozaki

05-11-2007, 08:32 PM

leonaozaki

05-11-2007, 08:32 PM

bfrank

05-11-2007, 08:56 PM

In no particular order:

Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full
Joi - The Pendulum Vibe
Outkast - ATLiens
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Boogie Down Productions - By Any Means Necessary
Cameo - The Best Of
Kelis - Kaleidoscope
Jay Z - reasonable Doubt
Stevie Wonder - Songs In the Key of Life
Chaka Khan - Best Of Chaka Khan

Patriot07

05-11-2007, 09:16 PM

1. Derek and the Dominos- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
2. Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
3. Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
4. The Beatles- Revolver
5. Frank Sinatra Sings For Only the Lonely
6. Oasis- (What's the Story) Morning Glory
7. Rush- Fly By Night
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan- Texas Flood
9. Eric Clapton- Me and Mr. Johnson
10. Boston- Boston

Rob Imes

05-11-2007, 09:56 PM

Two great things about A Hard Day's Night (the British LP version anyway):

1. It was the first Beatles album to consist entirely of Lennon-McCartney compositions. Since then, it's become common for new albums to consist entirely of original songs written by a band, but back in 1964 it was rarely done. (In fact, out of curiosity, does anyone know of any prior to 1964? The only one I can think of are Bob Dylan's albums.)

2. The album was released at the height of their fame, a rare moment when hype and popularity coincided with actual quality music. This must have been a very crazy time for the Beatles and yet they managed to produce all-time classics like "And I Love Her," "Can't Buy Me Love," "If I Fell," "Any Time at All," etc. If I had to name one song that defines for me the Beatles sound of 1964, I'd probably choose "I Should Have Known Better," a song of pop perfection that flows effortlessly, as if it's always existed.

Buried Alien

05-11-2007, 10:34 PM

I hear what you're saying but for my money Help! -- and to a lesser extent Rubber Soul-- are really where the Beatles perfected the power-pop formula. A Hard Day's Night still kind of bores me, but I could listen to Help! all day long.

rob

I felt the Beatles were losing a bit of their earlier rock 'n roll edge on HELP! Overall, HELP! sounded...I don't know, *softer* than A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. HELP! was more sophisticated than its predecessor, but I felt the energy level from A HARD DAY'S NIGHT was greatly diminished on HELP! I suppose it was a kind of trade off: raw energy was exchanged for increased sophistication.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

leonaozaki

05-11-2007, 10:52 PM

redlantern2051

05-12-2007, 12:29 AM

What Jon said, plus 99.9 F is a great album as well. I really like Nine Objects of Desire and Days of Open Hand too.

rob

Thanks man! I'm a BIG Suzanne Vega fan. I own all her albums, and love them all-I just the love the way she does a song, songwriting, delivery, everything.

Actually, I find "Nine Objects of Desire" perhaps the one I listen to least, (altho I love plenty of the tracks!) but "Days of Open Hand" is solid gold! It is gorgeous. She really helped me get thru some tough times when I was quite lonely, back when I was at Uni.

Her new album "Beauty and Crime", comes out in July in the US, June everywhere else in the world, including Europe and Oz.

Jonathan Bogart

05-12-2007, 12:48 AM

1. It was the first Beatles album to consist entirely of Lennon-McCartney compositions. Since then, it's become common for new albums to consist entirely of original songs written by a band, but back in 1964 it was rarely done. (In fact, out of curiosity, does anyone know of any prior to 1964? The only one I can think of are Bob Dylan's albums.)
A huge number of jazz artists, most blues artists, and a handful of country artists all released albums of material they'd written (or co-written) themselves before the dawn of the 60s.

rick

05-12-2007, 01:27 AM

7) Suzanne Vega-"99.9F"

A truly excellent and pretty much ignored album.

Motormouse

05-12-2007, 05:48 AM

At this moment in time.

Ever Planet we Reach Is Dead ~ Gorillaz

Born Slippy ~ Barefoot

All Along The Watch Tower ~ Jimi Hendrix

Won't Get Fooled Again ~ The Who

Back In Black ~ AC/DC

Thinking About Tomorrow ~ Beth Orton

A Change gone Come ~ Sam Cooke

The Rhyme Of The Ancient Groover ~ Izit

Can't Turn Me Away ~ Sylvia Striplin

Do I Love You ~ Frank Wilson

It's criminal that it must be limited to ten you know dude!:rolleyes:

leonaozaki

05-12-2007, 07:26 AM

A huge number of jazz artists, most blues artists, and a handful of country artists all released albums of material they'd written (or co-written) themselves before the dawn of the 60s.

I mean, hello: Hank Williams?

rob

redlantern2051

05-12-2007, 07:53 AM

A truly excellent and pretty much ignored album.

I agree. It got a lot of play back when i was a teenager, on the youth radio station. It intrigued me enough to buy the album, and I went on to discover the rest of her music.

scratchie

05-12-2007, 08:48 AM

I think the purpose of the thread was pretty clear from post 1. You didn't have to play. (Note that I didn't. :))I guess I was hoping for a modicum of wit or humor, although Eliot's contributions to the "Your opinion on these bands" threads should have been enough to let me know that none would be forthcoming.

DDM

05-12-2007, 09:40 AM

Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Thorn EP is an obscure jewel since they have a string section reworked with older material ("Overground," "Voices," "Placebo Effect" & "Red Over White" are completely different songs in this new setting). I believe The Thorn is going to be released on CD soon, although it is available as part of the B-sides collection, Downside Up.

Ilash

05-12-2007, 11:53 AM

6.8. choices 1-3 absolutely kick ass and you've got ATMP, the kinks, and Neil young on your list, which is good even if you have the wrong kinks record and there are about 5 better neil records.

the clash are punk for beginners and jethro tull is laughable. stewart eh whatever, not top ten material, but acceptable. ween have great ideas but retarded six year olds could execute them better.

Pfft. Ween have great ideas and better execution. Their musical sense is astonishing regardless of what you think of their juvenile humour. Tull are great and hey, you want to pick on a band that released London Calling that's your problem, man. Which Kinks album would you rather I include? I was considering Muswell Hillbillies but I prefer Arthur this week. As for Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps is just my latest purchase of his so it's the one in my head right now. When the dust settles I would probably replace it with On the Beach but as it stands, that's my pick.

And hey, including someone as laughably awful as Stewart has been for the last few decades on the merits of his first few years should earn me some cool points surely. :p

Ilash

05-12-2007, 11:54 AM

leonaozaki

05-12-2007, 01:22 PM

Yup, but how many British rock and rolls bands did?

Probably not many, but that wasn't the claim.

rob

mattx110

05-12-2007, 01:41 PM

Still wrong. I generally prefer the elegance of a perfect a/b single (and there are thousands of them) to an album of uneven quality (which is almost all of them).

this is why you're an exception.

go to the random persons CD library. count the number of albums and number of singles.

and to say "most albums are of uneven quality" is to ignore the taste of the audience. the average person isn't buying most albums. and they generally enjoy what they buy and would much rather have a dozen tracks by a musician than 2 unless you factor in price or odd fanatacism where they have to own that magic b-side.
don't project your own indignant critical leanings.

i didn't say there weren't exceptions, but most people into mucis have more albums than singles in their collections.

now with itunes, they might just buy 1 song, and it isn't even always the single...

rick

05-12-2007, 06:26 PM

this is why you're an exception.

go to the random persons CD library. count the number of albums and number of singles.

and to say "most albums are of uneven quality" is to ignore the taste of the audience. the average person isn't buying most albums. and they generally enjoy what they buy and would much rather have a dozen tracks by a musician than 2 unless you factor in price or odd fanatacism where they have to own that magic b-side.
don't project your own indignant critical leanings.

i didn't say there weren't exceptions, but most people into mucis have more albums than singles in their collections.

now with itunes, they might just buy 1 song, and it isn't even always the single...

You really are jumping to some conclusions there that you are only backing up with your own tastes.

I freely admit that I do have more albums then singles, but that doesn’t change that I still have some 2000 45’s that I still pull out and play on a regular basis.

It’s a simple reality of the LP era, there are all sorts of bands that have one or two songs that are good, but whose majority of albums are nothing more then filler.

Finally even today, most albums are of uneven quality and as you yourself pointed out, I-Tunes specializes in selling singles over albums and in fact have sold how many million?

You are jumping all over Jon for not agreeing with you, and yet you seem to be completely missing the flaws in your own argument.

Eliot Johnson

05-12-2007, 08:04 PM

As of right now-
1. Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere
2. Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
3. The Fratellis - Costello Music
4. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
5. Feist - The Reminder
6. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
7. Young Galaxy - Young Galaxy
8. El Perro Del Mar - El Perro Del Mar
9. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
10. Human Televison - Look Who You're Talking To

i forgot to tell you guys that this thread was actually "post mediocre or terrible records from teh past 5 years" and, thus, elheffe gets a 10.0

[2.1], though i'm assuming you are just posting a 'current favs' type thing.

Eliot Johnson

05-12-2007, 08:06 PM

i'll get to the rest tomorrow

i've got things to do tonight. i'll grace you with my impeccable top ten tomorrow too.

mattx110

05-12-2007, 10:31 PM

You really are jumping to some conclusions there that you are only backing up with your own tastes.

I freely admit that I do have more albums then singles, but that doesn’t change that I still have some 2000 45’s that I still pull out and play on a regular basis.

It’s a simple reality of the LP era, there are all sorts of bands that have one or two songs that are good, but whose majority of albums are nothing more then filler.

Finally even today, most albums are of uneven quality and as you yourself pointed out, I-Tunes specializes in selling singles over albums and in fact have sold how many million?

You are jumping all over Jon for not agreeing with you, and yet you seem to be completely missing the flaws in your own argument.

ten songs is better than one.
especially when the one song is included in the ten.
why this applies to a top ten record list, is because if you are picking the top ten records of all time. a record with 1 or 2 songs on it, is just a waste of a slot.

the exception being era-defining "singles". maybe something from stax or a dave bartholemew/allen tousaint new orleans sound kinda thing.

but people aren't picking those. they're picking their favorites. so it doesn't make sense to pick their favorite single, because an album already has that single.

without getting into the quality or cost. 10 songs is more than 1.

and nothing on a best records of all time list is going to be from a band with only one good song in the ears of the person making the list. that's a moot point with no regard on this situation.

look, there are exceptions, and ways to change the rules. i'm not saying you or jon are wrong. but given the circumstance, picking a single is a waste of a slot. especially when the album has that song on it.

and i really wanna go through and listen to your record collection. it sounds awesome.:D

edit: itunes doesn't specialize in singles. but they let people turn any track on album into what is effectively a single. it still is more costeffective to get an album for 10 bucks than buy each song individually, but itunes likes to make money.

and albums of uneven quality aren't making top ten lists. it's not a problem.

Patient Boy

05-12-2007, 10:50 PM

I have to say that like in the Punk thread, not only do I not get your logic, I don't even understand exactly what the point of contention is.

scratchie

05-13-2007, 07:02 AM

go to the random persons CD library. count the number of albums and number of singles.Now that I have an Ipod, I find that more and more, I'm just focusing on the one, two or three songs I really like off of an album, and ditching the rest. I think the popularity of albums in the past has had as much to do with convenience as with musical quality.

And it appear that I'm far from alone in this:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070513/ENT04/705130522/1011/BUSINESS

Although most music consumers still buy CD albums, they are buying fewer of them, while digital tracks are exploding: According to Nielsen SoundScan, sales of physical CDs this year have declined 20% from the same point in 2006, from 112 million to 89 million. Digital tracks are up to 288 million from 242 million at the same period last year. And that's not counting the millions of singles that are illegally downloaded.

Reptisaurus!

05-13-2007, 07:07 AM

I thought it was Playa Fly?

rob

That was later. :D

Total transition, though. I don't think I ever heard Bubbs Sparxx mentioned again.

(By anyone, actually.)

mattx110

05-13-2007, 06:29 PM

Now that I have an Ipod, I find that more and more, I'm just focusing on the one, two or three songs I really like off of an album, and ditching the rest. I think the popularity of albums in the past has had as much to do with convenience as with musical quality.

And it appear that I'm far from alone in this:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070513/ENT04/705130522/1011/BUSINESS

and you quote "Although most music consumers still buy CD albums"
this supports my claim. i'm not telling you that people want to buy more albums than singles. i'm telling you they are.
it doesn't seem like we're on opposing sides here.
but i'm looking at the present and you're anticipating the future trend.
we're also in the middle of avery weird change. but still an all-time list probably won't cover what you bought recently unless it really has that much effect on you.

i only do that "hunt and peck" itunes purchasing when i want to try to get the most out of that remaining 5 bucks after spending 10 on an album from a gift certificate thing.
it's realllly painful for me. how can i just get one song?
hopefully you're picking your top ten because of it's all-around quality. not because one song is pretty good.
and rick, this has nothing to do with what i prefer. i actually prefer live albums to any other format, but most of what i own isn't live albums. this has to do with the fact that out of how many people posted lists, the vast majority of them didn't include any singles. and in most cases, it doesn't make sense to include a single because the album includes the single.

there were some exceptions mentioned involving different versions of beatles singles, and maybe some live recordings used for b-sides. but those are exceptions.
if you stop trying to look for reasons to start an argument and quote me out of context, what i'm saying should make sense to you. this isn't about personal taste, but logical use of spots on a very limited list.

and if anyone complains i'm making a big deal out of this. this came out of 1 line i put in a post... it's not my fault everyone is looking for an argument. even the people that didn't put any singles on their top ten list.

though, it can't hurt to discuss anything.

rick

05-13-2007, 07:45 PM

though, it can't hurt to discuss anything.

Don't take me, or any of us for that matter wrong.

We might come across like we are angry or looking for a real argument, but really we're just a bunch of know it alls.

I think that most of us are really enjoying having you on the threads.

elheffe

05-14-2007, 12:56 PM

i forgot to tell you guys that this thread was actually "post mediocre or terrible records from teh past 5 years" and, thus, elheffe gets a 10.0

[2.1], though i'm assuming you are just posting a 'current favs' type thing.

I knew I was either going to do really well with my picks or really bad. Who knew that I would do both.

Winona Ryder 2099

05-14-2007, 04:12 PM

I don't have any favorite albums but here's 10 off the top of my head.

Moss Icon - Lyburnum
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down The Road
Portishead - Portishead
The Velvet Teen - Out Of The Fierce Parade
Sigur Ros - ( )
Boris - Pink
Navio Forge - As We Quietly Burn A Hole Into...

Pepsigirl

05-17-2007, 09:56 PM

1. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
2. Daft Punk - Homework
3. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
4. Superpitcher - Here Comes Love
5. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
6. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
7. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
8. Fly Pan Am - Fly Pan Am
9. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
10. Pulp - Different Class

Shellhead

05-18-2007, 10:42 AM

1 The K&D Sessions, by Kruder & Dorfmeister
2 Puzzle, by dada
3 I Wanna See You Bellydance, by the Red Elvises
4 Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd
5 Portishead, by Portishead
6 Abraxas, by Santana
7 Violator, by Depeche Mode
8 Seven's Travels, by Atmosphere
9 Tales of Mystery & Imagination, by Alan Parsons Project
10 Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire, by Firewater

HM Doolittle, by the Pixies

mattx110

05-18-2007, 01:14 PM

Don't take me, or any of us for that matter wrong.

We might come across like we are angry or looking for a real argument, but really we're just a bunch of know it alls.

I think that most of us are really enjoying having you on the threads.

thanks for that.

i'm more concerned about onlookers who might think i just go out looking for trouble.

mattx110

05-19-2007, 02:12 PM

i know i woulda gotten a 3 or something, but a part of me is still upset i never got rated.:D

i promise, no more controversial one-liners that turn into massive discussions:o

Voncaster

05-19-2007, 08:59 PM

mattx110

05-19-2007, 09:53 PM

Bad Religion - How Could Hell be Anyworse?
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions
Marilyn Manson - Holywood
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Pearl Jam - Bootleg St.Paul 27 June 06
Ramones - Ramones
Rush - 2112
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina

did you go to that show, or did you purchase all 360 bootlegs they released and figure out which one you liked the most?

pearl jam is the completists worst enemy.

twilight

05-20-2007, 03:02 AM

Not in any particular order:

David Bowie-Hunky Dory
The Who-Who’s Next
The Beatles-Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited
Tom Waits-Blue Valentine
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
The Smiths-The Queen Is Dead
Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
Sex Pistols-Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
Pixies-Doolittle

Voncaster

05-20-2007, 07:23 PM

did you go to that show, or did you purchase all 360 bootlegs they released and figure out which one you liked the most?

pearl jam is the completists worst enemy.

It was the latest Pearl Jam Show I attended. It was shorter than normal, cause they shared the bill with Tom Petty...but it was fantastic. They played the best version of Black I have had the privelege of hearing. Pearl Jam closed with Alive and Mike McCready threw in a War Pigs tag while playing the guitar behind his back...amazing.

I have all of Pearl Jam's studio albums and I buy the boots of the shows I attend. But there are those totally nuts fans that buy every boot and discuss which version of dirty frank was the best. Pearl Jam is my favorite band, but everything gets boring if all I listen to.

mattx110

05-20-2007, 07:35 PM

It was the latest Pearl Jam Show I attended. It was shorter than normal, cause they shared the bill with Tom Petty...but it was fantastic. They played the best version of Black I have had the privelege of hearing. Pearl Jam closed with Alive and Mike McCready threw in a War Pigs tag while playing the guitar behind his back...amazing.

I have all of Pearl Jam's studio albums and I buy the boots of the shows I attend. But there are those totally nuts fans that buy every boot and discuss which version of dirty frank was the best. Pearl Jam is my favorite band, but everything gets boring if all I listen to.

and tom petty is a great live act too. most professional sound engineering i've ever heard.
it's nice when they let the guitars stretch out more. and eddie vedder has been so lucid lately. it really is like a new band.
ok, i'm done with the pearl jamming for a bit.
twilight, i like your list.
not everything on it was what i'd call best ever material, but well, if it weren't for personal taste, personals would be boring.

twilight

05-21-2007, 04:29 AM

twilight, i like your list.
not everything on it was what i'd call best ever material, but well, if it weren't for personal taste, personals would be boring.

Muchos gracias.

A lot of the stuff is simply what I've heard.
There's probably a better Beatles record but Sgt.Peppers is the only one I've got.

Aubergine~!

05-21-2007, 08:57 AM

In no particular order, and with no duplicate artists:

The Who - Who's Next
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Replacements - Tim
The Pixies - Doolittle
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
XTC - Skylarking
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Television - Marquee Moon
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - M Aim is True

All rock because a.) it's my favorite genre, and b.) I need to buy more albums. Boring list, I know.

twilight

05-21-2007, 09:04 AM

In no particular order, and with no duplicate artists:

The Who - Who's Next
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Replacements - Tim
The Pixies - Doolittle
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
XTC - Skylarking
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Television - Marquee Moon
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
The VU - The VU and Nico

Boring list, I know.

Well I really like three of them and I enjoy another four so I say it's a good list.

samil87

05-23-2007, 06:41 PM

No paticular order:

Lost In Space- Aimee Mann
Songbird- Eva Cassidy
The Open Door- Evanescence
Version 2.0 - Garbage
Wishmaster- Nightwish
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy- Sarah Mclachlan
Spirit/Pieces of You (can't decide)- Jewel
Final Straw- Snow Patrol
I am a Bird Now- Anthony and the Johnsons
From The Choirgirl Hotel- Tori Amos

Notable mentions:

American Doll Posse- Tori Amos
Beautiful Collision- Bic Runga
Tragic kingdom- No Doubt
Begin to Hope- Regina Spektor
Missudaztood- Pink
Harmonium- Vanessa Carlton
Jagged Little Pill Acoustic- Alanis Morissette

Looking at everyone else's, I think I should get at least 7 points for bravery ;)

Reptisaurus!

05-23-2007, 07:24 PM

Ah what the hell:

Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Mingus - Changes 1 & 2
Mingus - Blues and Roots
Chuck Berry - the Great 28
Sonny Rollins - Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert
Fela Kuti - Opposite People
Lightnin' Hopkins - Cadillac Man
P. J. Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Koko Taylor - (Eponymous)
Cloud Cult - Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus

G. Wayne

05-25-2007, 05:42 PM

In no particular order...

Rammstein- Mutter
The Misfits- Famous Monsters
Tool- Undertow
Fear Factory- Demanufacture
HorrorPops- Hell Yeah!
The Mad Capsule Markets- Osc-Disc
The Exploited- Beat the Bastards
Gogol Bordello- Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
Nine Inch Nails- Broken
KMFDM- Nihil

Jonathan Bogart

05-25-2007, 09:15 PM

Ah what the hell:
Sure, now that The Judger has forgotten about the thread, you're all cocky. So I'll do it for him:

8.5, point off for repeating artists so much and half-point off for the wrong pjh album.

mattx110

05-25-2007, 09:27 PM

Sure, now that The Judger has forgotten about the thread, you're all cocky. So I'll do it for him:

8.5, point off for repeating artists so much and half-point off for the wrong pjh album.

i give your critique a 2.3:D

it totally ruins the fun when someone with half-way decent taste does the judging.

Jonathan Bogart

05-25-2007, 09:37 PM

i give your critique a 2.3:D

it totally ruins the fun when someone with half-way decent taste does the judging.
Don't forget, I still have the highest score; so maybe my taste isn't as great as you think.

mattx110

05-25-2007, 09:41 PM

Don't forget, I still have the highest score; so maybe my taste isn't as great as you think.

the only proper response to this is:

hahahahhhahahahahahahahhaahhahaa.

oh, and my list is better than yours. i have more british people!

DDM

05-26-2007, 09:20 AM

mattx110

05-26-2007, 01:13 PM

The Beatles, Revolver
Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow
The Rolling Stones, Aftermath
The Zombies, The Odessey & The Oracle
David Bowie, Heroes
Lou Reed, Berlin
Siouxsie & the Banshees, Juju
INXS, Kick
Robert Plant, Now & Zen
Shakespeare's Sister, Hormonally Yours

this is where johnny bogart would go "wrong album by everyone listed"

i'm just gonna go "how many zeppelin albums and you pick "now and zen"?"

and jefferson airplane is so borinnnnng. i love jorma kakounen and jack casady could play like a bastard but...

Buried Alien

05-26-2007, 01:18 PM

and jefferson airplane is so borinnnnng. i love jorma kakounen and jack casady could play like a bastard but...

Their first few singles were good. After that, meh...

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

rick

05-26-2007, 03:11 PM

Their first few singles were good. After that, meh...

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

I actually really like them all the way through the early Jefferson Starship era, say up to around Red Octopus.

Where these guys lose me is when most of the members leave and the 1980's turns a classic band into a pop schlock fest.

Hot Tuna by the way, is totally cool.

DDM

05-26-2007, 03:19 PM

i'm just gonna go "how many zeppelin albums and you pick "now and zen"?"

Rober Plant, without Jimmy Page & John Bonham, is simply Robert Plant. Plant's solo work is very different from Led Zeppelin. Now & Zen is a wonderful masterwork showing Plant going musically into a completely different direction. "Heaven Knows" & "Tall Cool One" are wonderful songs too.

and jefferson airplane is so borinnnnng. i love jorma kakounen and jack casady could play like a bastard but...

Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" & "White Rabbit" is aural magick. The whole album captures the pure hippy vibe before it became corrupt & tainted in its own delusions.

Buried Alien

05-26-2007, 04:29 PM

Where these guys lose me is when most of the members leave and the 1980's turns a classic band into a pop schlock fest.

"We Built This City" is probably the most widely hated song on this forum.

I personally didn't hate that song that much, but still, it wasn't anything good.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

ocelotrevs

05-26-2007, 04:41 PM

DDM

05-26-2007, 05:54 PM

"We Built This City" is probably the most widely hated song on this forum.

I personally didn't hate that song that much, but still, it wasn't anything good.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

"We Built This City," "Sarah," & "Nothin' Going to Stop Us Now" got heavy airtime from MTV & the radio at the time too. These songs may be hated now, but then it was a different story...

Nosgoth Phantom

05-26-2007, 06:59 PM

to be honest i haven't listened to enough of the stuff on this list to accurately tell you how bad it is. you do know there's music besides hard rock? maybe there's some not hard rock here but i don't care to look up the oens i don't know. converge was fun live, though and actually most of this list looks acceptable. the fans at the converge concert smelled really bad.

I dunno, my guess would be that people usually listen to music THEY LIKE because they enjoy what they enjoy. Not to impress others. :rolleyes:

mattx110

05-26-2007, 09:38 PM

Rober Plant, without Jimmy Page & John Bonham, is simply Robert Plant.

Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" & "White Rabbit" is aural magick. The whole album captures the pure hippy vibe before it became corrupt & tainted in its own delusions.

1. yea, that's sorta the problem i have with it. my eardrums are weak compared to yours...
i love robert plant, but i like to tease.
but nothing beats "the firm" anyway.
2. i don't know how they got deluded... they were really good.
but that white rabbit thing is all vibe and no "ROCK!".
a band that kickass shouldn't be so boring.

Buried Alien

05-26-2007, 09:42 PM

I dunno, my guess would be that people usually listen to music THEY LIKE because they enjoy what they enjoy. Not to impress others. :rolleyes:

That's the way it *should* be in an ideal world, but you'd be surprised what some so-called "music fans" will do to uphold their idea of some kind of image.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

mattx110

05-26-2007, 09:42 PM

Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3
...Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner.
Rival Schools - United by Fate
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Hell is for Heroes - The Neon Handshake
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed America/ Jimmy Eat World
The Music - Welcome to the North
Sparta - Porcelain
Bloc Party - Weekend in the City
Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade

listen to something from before 1999:o
2 coheed albums? 2?!!!?!?

and buried alien/DDM.
listen to hot tuna and tell me what you think compared to airplane.
acoustic not being able to rock is a myth, the music has a great energy that i don't get from JA.

Buried Alien

05-26-2007, 09:58 PM

acoustic not being able to rock is a myth

Oh, I've always believed it. Elvis Presley's early recordings for Sun Records (before he signed to RCA) were largely driven by acoustic guitar (other than Scotty Moore's electric guitar licks and solos), and Elvis arguably never rocked harder than he did in his Sun Records days.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

rick

05-26-2007, 10:22 PM

"We Built This City," "Sarah," & "Nothin' Going to Stop Us Now" got heavy airtime from MTV & the radio at the time too. These songs may be hated now, but then it was a different story...

No, I actually hated them back then too, especially, Nothin' Going to Stop Us Now.

david r

05-27-2007, 08:04 AM

Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow

This is a surprise. I assumed you hated all things SAN FRANCISCO. My favorite song is "Coming Back To Me".

The Rolling Stones, Aftermath

Why AFTERMATH? I like Paint it Black, Stupid Girl, Lady Jane, and Under My Thumb. But the 2nd half sounds more like filler Stones tunes, especially the 11 minute finale.

Robert Plant, Now & Zen

Always liked this one. Don't forget "Ship of Fools", another great song.

DDM

05-27-2007, 10:51 AM

This is a surprise. I assumed you hated all things SAN FRANCISCO. My favorite song is "Coming Back To Me".

No, I don't hate all things San Francisco. It's a great city with loopy government officials & a strange constituency. The original hippy music is good stuff, but it does wear thin after some time.

Why AFTERMATH? I like Paint it Black, Stupid Girl, Lady Jane, and Under My Thumb. But the 2nd half sounds more like filler Stones tunes, especially the 11 minute finale.

The first half is a great record for simply "Painted Black" alone.

Always liked this one. Don't forget "Ship of Fools", another great song.

I ignored Robert Plant's solo work until Now & Zen. 1988 was a great year for music considering this was the height of all the hair metal bands turning themselves into self-parodies (stretching into 1989-1991).

Roland Taxt

05-27-2007, 03:19 PM

1. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
2. Fugazi - The Argument
3. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlantism
4. The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
5. Soundgarden - Superunknown
6. Thursday - Full Collapse
7. Saosin - Translating the Name, Death Do Us Apart
8. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
9. Mineral - The Power of Failing
10. Audioslave - Audioslave

ocelotrevs

05-27-2007, 03:39 PM

listen to something from before 1999:o
2 coheed albums? 2?!!!?!?

and buried alien/DDM.
listen to hot tuna and tell me what you think compared to airplane.
acoustic not being able to rock is a myth, the music has a great energy that i don't get from JA.

I do, but their not in my favourite albums list.

TheLazy

05-31-2007, 06:23 AM

No particular order, one album per artist

Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Dr Dre - 2001
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Daft Punk - Discovery
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Outkast - Aquemini
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Tool - Aenima

I wanted to include some pop, but I find it rare that an album can capture the magic of particular singles. The list is mostly Rock/Metal because thats my bread and butter, but stuff like Daft Punk and Zappa are too good not to take onto the desert island. I know most people will propably pick ...Puppets or Ride.. as the best 'Tallica albums, but I prefer Justice. And I was slightly tempted to Choose 10,000 days instead of Aenima, but even the catcheness of The Pot cant compare with a classic like Stinkfist or the sing-along-ability of the title track.

I was tempted to put something by Bob Dylan up there too, but Ive only ever heard his singles, Iv never bought anyalbums, so its not real the album experinces hearing bits an bats.

Hanourable mention goes to The Offspring - Smash. Its good, but just misses out.

:)

jesse_custer

07-26-2007, 12:39 PM

A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
Rubbersoul - The Beatles
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Outlandos d'Amour - The Police
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Aja - Steely Dan
Howlin' Wolf/Moanin' in the Moonlight - Howlin' Wolf
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Lateralus - Tool

Dennis K

07-26-2007, 01:41 PM

Not in order mind you, but my top 10 as of 7-26-2007:

Appetite For Destruction ~ Guns N' Roses
Defender ~ Rory Gallagher
Surfing With The Alien ~ Joe Satriani
Put The 'O' Back In Country ~ Shooter Jennings & The .357's
The Wind ~ Warren Zevon
I'll Play The Blues For You ~ Albert King
Don't Believe The Truth ~ Oasis
Heaven Tonight ~ Cheap Trick
Wish You Were Here ~ Pink Floyd
Blizzard of Ozz ~ Ozzy Osbourne

Merey

07-26-2007, 03:18 PM

I can't come up with ten. I was never much of a album buying person. Before mp3s the only cds I was buying were cast recordings of my favorite musicals. It wasn't until mp3s that I started to widen my music tastes and it wasn't until very recently until I started listening to whole albums themselves instead of smatterings of songs. Anyway, here are my favorites:

Paul Simon - Graceland
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
Cranberries - No Need to Argue
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Gomez - How We Operate

jessecuster3

07-26-2007, 04:10 PM

HectorP

07-26-2007, 06:45 PM

Just hard rock/metal and in no particular order:

Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Whitesnake - 1987
Strapping Young Lad - City
Nightwish - Once
Rush - Moving Pictures
Led Zeppelin - IV
Carcass - Heartwork
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality

There are records that could move in/out of that list, since top ten is such an agonizing question. But at least 6 of those are stuck there.

Phrozen

07-26-2007, 07:35 PM

In no particular order:

Iron Maiden Powerslave
Rush Fly By Night
Flogging Molly Behind the Green Door
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengence
Soundgarden Superunknown
Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music from a Vatican Gift Shop
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
Jimi Hendrix Axis:Bold as Love
ZZ Top Eliminator
Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side

kmeyers

07-26-2007, 07:44 PM

No particular order...

Phish-A Live One
Widespread Panic-Light Fuse, Get Away.
Grateful Dead-American Beauty
GNR-Appetite For Destruction
Alice In Chains-Facelift
Pantera-Vulgar Display of Power
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds-Live at Luther College
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Muse-Black Holes and Revelations
Queen-Live Killers

a. non

07-27-2007, 07:32 AM

jesse_custer

07-27-2007, 08:10 AM

Whitesnake - 1987

One of my biggest guilty pleasures. I consider it the best hair metal album of the 1980s.

Outsider

07-27-2007, 09:11 PM

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Soundgarden - Superunknown
AC/DC - Back in Black
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pearl Jam - Yield
Johnny Cash - San Quentin

redlantern2051

07-28-2007, 12:48 AM

I don't know if i can name ten. I don't listen to many albums anymore

Garbage: Garbage and Version 2.0
Presidents of the United States of America: PUSA
Green Day: Dookie
Joe Boyd Vigil: Deep Space Bass
Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club

Wow, I love Garbage too! That album "Version 2.0" is just very, very strong. I saw them live on that tour. I like all their albums, but that is the best imo. I'm also very fond of "Bleed like Me", too. They are a good band.

And that original debut Sheryl Crow CD was great, too!

Pi_Puppids

03-31-2008, 12:50 AM

I've decided to limit my list to one album per artist. The first five are set in stone, the latter five are subject to change.

1. Pet Sounds--The Beach Boys
2. Odessey and Oracle--The Zombies
3. Revolver--The Beatles
4. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn--Pink Floyd
5. Forever Changes--Love
6. Something Else by The Kinks--The Kinks
7. Astral Weeks--Van Morrison
8. If You're Feeling Sinister--Belle & Sebastian
9. Oh, Inverted World--The Shins
10. SMiLE--Brian Wilson

Honorable Mentions:

-Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina--The Left Banke
-Illinoise--Sufjan Stevens

Typical, I know, but I'm not one for listing albums from obscure bands that that I think are decent but not phenomenal to impress music nerds...

Dennis K

04-01-2008, 06:57 AM

As of this moment:

10) The Tractors ~ The Tractors
9) Heaven Tonight ~ Cheap Trick
8) The Wolf ~ Shooter Jennings & The .357's
7) Stand In The Fire ~ Warren Zevon
6) Tooth and Nail ~ Dokken
5) Reggata de Blanc ~ The Police
4) Live After Death ~ Iron Maiden
3) Low Budget ~ The Kinks
2) Put The O Back In Country ~ Shooter Jennings & The .357's
1) At Budokan, The Complete Concert ~ Cheap Trick

dademan

04-01-2008, 01:16 PM

Greatest Hits: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Baboon-Sycamore Smith
Sycamore Smith and the Pendulum
Mm...Some racy hits! - Sycamore Smith
They all can't be zingers - Primus
Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Hell Awaits - Slayer
REM Live - REM
Greatest Hits - REO Speedwagon
In the Sign of Evil+Obssessed with Cruelty - Sodom

DrewTheXenocide

04-04-2008, 10:32 PM

Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
End Hits - Fugazi
In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Goodbye Cool World - Bomb the Music Industry
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Our Live Album is Better than your Live Album - Reel Big Fish
The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me - Brand New
The Score - Fugees
How Strange, Innocence - Explosions in the Sky
Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest

This doesn't include two from the same band. Or else it'd just be Fugazi and Bomb the Music Industry!

stealthwise

04-04-2008, 11:18 PM

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (subject to change, could be Vol. 4 or Sabotage)
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Led Zeppelin - II (always subject to change, any of the first 4)
Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica
Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby!
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Slayer - Diabolus in Musica
Soundgarden - Superunknown

Honourable mentions to:
The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
Sevendust - Animosity
Volbeat - The Strength, the Sound, the Music

Brad Barton

04-05-2008, 01:39 AM

Okay, I actually have a "top 50" spread out over about 10 bands, so I'll have to limit myself to one band, one album. That's hard. (And yes, I am going to cheat by using my favorite compilation albums)

Okay...from least to greatest.

Robin Trower - "Bridge of Sighs"
Government Mule - "Dose"
Robert Plant - "Now and Zen"
Black Sabbath - "We Sold Our Souls For Rock n' Roll"
Alice In Chains - "Unplugged"
Led Zeppelin - "Houses of the Holy"
Pantera - "Vulgar Display of Power"
The Beatles - "Magical Mystery Tour"
Megadeth - "Rust In peace"
Metallica - "Ride the Lightning"

Catch me on another day and this list would probably be completely different, but there's today's list.