Keyrock Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Apologies if this type of thread has been done, I searched and found nothing. Anyway, it's simple, list your top 10 greatest musical albums ever, any group, any genre, any style. You can list reasons to your heart's desire. Here are mine: 1)Pink Floyd ~ Dark Side of the Moon (I know it's a mainstream choice, but holy **** it's an amazing album! 2)Opeth ~ Damnation 3)Queensruyche ~ Operation Mindcrime (even though it's highly regarded, this album is STILL one of the most underappreciated albums out there. It's straight up amazing 4) Metallica ~ ...And Justice For All 5) Pantera ~ A Vulgar Display of Power (possibly the most adrenalin charging album of all time). RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leferd Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 The Clash - London Calling The Postal Service - Give Up Weezer - Pinkerton Radiohead - OK Computer Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory Green Day - Dookie Michael Jackson - HIStory Vol. 1 Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol 1 and 2 My own mix tape: The Jams! - combining Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Meatloaf, Heart, Wilson Phillips, and other soft rock balladeering legends! Sublime - 40oz to Freedom "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humanoid Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 You're not playing by your own rules! Anyway, I don't really have a definitive list, just nominated the ten below while looking at my library and picking stuff out of it in the moment (hence the excess, but hey, if you undershoot by five, I'll make up for it). All very much stuff you'd find in mainstream best-albums lists. Abbey Road - The Beatles - Because I need to have a Beatles album here. Truthfully, it's sort of an arbitrary pick between it, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and the White Album. After the Gold Rush - Neil Young - I don't always listen to folk music, but when I do, it's this. Horses - Patti Smith - The greatest debut album of all time. Side A in particular may be the best sound ever committed to vinyl. Let England Shake - PJ Harvey Low - David Bowie - The first and best of the Berlin trilogy, a delicately beautiful collection of song fragments to charm someone who had no prior appreciation of instrumental music in the mainstream. More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads - The best of Talking Heads as a four-piece, nothing can brighten a dark mood like this can. Parallel Lines - Blondie Remain in Light - Talking Heads - And the best of Talking Head in expanded form (I know it technically was just after this). Nothing makes me want to move more than this. Scary Monsters - David Bowie So - Peter Gabriel Bonus 5 from the 80s, my favourite decade: Actually - Pet Shop Boys Faith - George Michael Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson Rio - Duran Duran Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartimaeus Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 "Top 10" *author lists five* I would make my own list, but I have difficulties equating my favorites from different artists. Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krookie Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 I don't know about top 10 but Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" is definitely on my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarghagh Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 I don't know about "greatest musical albums", but these are the albums that have resonated most with me personally throughout my life. 01. Electro-Shock Blues by Eels. 02. The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse. 03. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. 04. Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens. 05. Skittish by Mike Doughty. 06. Funeral by The Arcade Fire. 07. You Forgot It In People by Broken Social Scene. 08. Ghost by Radical Face. 09. Sea Sew by Lisa Hannigan. 10. This Desert Life by The Counting Crows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oerwinde Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 No particular order Master of Puppets - Metallica Destiny - Stratovarius Back in Black - AC/DC Endgame - Rise Against Dethalbum - Dethklok Four Seasons - Antonio Vivaldi (ok, not an album, but generally collected as one) Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood - Volbeat Somewhere Back in Time (Best of 1980-1989) - Iron Maiden Steamboy Official Soundtrack - Steve Jablonsky The Arockalypse - Lordi I generally throw entire discographies on my phone and hit shuffle so I don't usually listen to albums, so that was actually pretty hard. The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomthom Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Tough to call a top ten 'cause I know I'll forget some & a week later others will take their place but here goes; No particular order... Radiohead - OK Computer Counting Crows - August & Everything After Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin IV Guns & Roses - Appetite for Destruction Jason Mraz - Mr A-Z Jeff Buckley - Grace Nirvana - Unplugged in New York Paul Simon - Graceland Five for Fighting - America Town Muse - Origin of Symmetry Crit happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Haven't really thought about this for years... usually it's game soundtracks that keeps popping up Just a few that stick out. Accept - 'Staying Alive' Led Zeppelin - 'II' Led Zeppelin - 'IV' Fleetwood Mac - 'Live' Pink Floyd - 'The Delicate Sound of Thunder' Lord of The Dance Soundtrack - Self Titled? (Mostly for nostalgic reasons because I went and see the show back when they were touring Europe) Queen - 'Live Killers' Queen - 'A kind of Magic' Well, those were the 'albums' I could remember playing a lot over the years. Having a few hundred CD albums, there are probably some runners up and momentarily forgotten ones. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Hm, maybe something like this: Oingo Boingo - Boingo:Alive Peter Gabriel - his 3rd album, nicknamed Melt for the cover art. Beatles - Abbey Road Fleetwood Mac - Rumors New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu Talking Heads - Little Creatures (plus Sand in the Vaseline double best-of CD I have...) Moody Blues - A Question of Balance Barenaked Ladies - All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001 ( ) ...uh...a 10th one would have to be the composite list of every other album I've listened to on repeat forever at some point in my life. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 My thanks to Randomthon, because I'd have otherwise forgotten Counting Crows. I blank it most of the time because it remidns me of looking after my dying mum, and a rather lovely ex girlfriend who I can't help hating. Great album tho. I've only included albums I can listen to the whole way through, since I come from the black stuff (vinyl). And I've tried to only include albums I actually do listen to regularly rather than trying to sound clever (with teh exception noted of Counting Crows) 1. Raising Hell - Run DMC 2. Temples of Boom - Cypress Hill 3. Nabucco - Giuseppe Verdi (Sinopoli) 4. Fat of the Land - Prodigy 5. August and Everything After - Counting Crows 6. Shockheaded Peter - The Tiger Lillies 7. Clandestino - Manu Chao 8. Astrakan Cafe - Anouar Brahem 9. Black Hawk Down (soundtrack) - Hans Zimmer et al. 10. Old Crow Medicine Show - Old Crow Medicine Show "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 I love soundtracks, I could easily list fifteen soundtracks that I've listened to often and recently - Jerry Goldsmith , Bernard Herrmann, John Barry, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone ... all great talents who've done wonderful soundtracks.That said, I will not use soundtracks as they're not really created to be a musical album and will instead concentrate on music released on albums that did not double as soundtracks (which sadly rules out Pink Floyd's Obscured by Clouds and Queen's Flash Gordon and A Kind of Magic as well...). I'm also excluding collections which are typically going to be great by their nature of including great singles from other albums. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (probably my favorite PF album - but I like most of their work) The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett (Syd's best solo album, IMO) Paranoid by Black Sabbath (I could have put their first 4-5 albums on the list) "the Four Symbols logo album" by Led Zeppelin (toss-up with Houses of the Holy) Revolver by The Beatles (toss up with Sgt. Pepper, White Album) Dummy by Portishead (I like the other albums too - they wore the influence of the wonderful John Cameron soundtrack for PSYCHOMANIA on their sleeve on this album and I love them for it) Nice by Puffy Ami Yumi (they have an expansive catalog of good stuff - lots of reissues too) Version 2.0 by Garbage (I like the first album pretty well as well) Destroyer by Kiss (coin flip between this and Queen II by Queen) Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise by Art of Noise (wonderful group; bit hard to keep track of the variations of their songs through albums and EPs and singles...) I imagine, like others, it'd be easy to create a top 50 or top 100 list. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 For the record - no pun intended - I've never liked Pink Floyd one tiny bit. Despite my friends liking them. Good shout on Portishead, Amentep. Perfect for some occasions but not my top ten all the time. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Any particular reason you don't like Floyd? Not trying to change your mind, just curious. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maedhros Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 In no particular order: The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Radiohead - Ok Computer Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot The Eels - Electro-shock blues Beach Boys - Pet Sounds The Cure - Disintegration Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Led Zeppelin - IV Pink Floyd - Animals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Roughly 10: Radiohead - OK Computer Led Zeppelin - IV Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Pixies - Surfer Rosa Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid Cake - Fashion Nugget Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Katzenjammer - Le Pop Joni Mitchell - Blue Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun Movits! - Ut Ur Min Skalle Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends ISIS - Wavering Radiant Lhasa de Sela - La Llorona Melvins - Stone Witch Metallica - Master of Puppets Pantera - Cowboys from Hell Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind Moonspell - Irreligious Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left Nico - Chelsea Girl St. Vincent - Actor Ornatos Violeta - Cão Nirvana - Nevermind Patti Smith - Horses Patxi Andíon - Una Dos y Tres Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves Sara Tavares - Xinti Sérgio Godinho - Campolide Suzanne Vega - 99.9 Fº And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar Banyan - Anytime At All Björk - Homogenic Black Sabbath - Paranoid Can - Future Days Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming Exitmusic - Passage Fantômas - Director's Cut Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords Florence + The Machine - Lungs Genesis - Selling England by the Pound Janis Joplin - Pearl Jeffrey Lewis - City and Eastern Songs John Lee Hooker - Live At The Café Au Go-Go Wir Sind Helden - Von Hier an Blind Tom Waits - Small Change Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre The Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime Gathering - Mandylion The Clash - London Calling The Black Keys - Brothers The Antlers - Hospice Stevie Wonder - Songs In the Key Of Life Skip James - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club Queen - A Night At the Opera Portishead - Dummy Giant Drag - Hearts and Unicorns Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal Deolinda - Dois Selos e Um Carimbo Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un m'a dit Kept things to one album per artist. 1 "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkathi Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Any particular reason you don't like Floyd? Not trying to change your mind, just curious. I don't like them either. For no particular reason other than not liking them Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Architect Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 1. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon 2. The Beatles - Abbey Road 3. The Beatles - Revolver 4. The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV 6. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 7. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 8. The Beatles - The White Album 9. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 10. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Any particular reason you don't like Floyd? Not trying to change your mind, just curious. I don't like them either. For no particular reason other than not liking them That's cool - there's no accounting for taste, my own included! I'm just curious sometimes why people don't like certain things. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Any particular reason you don't like Floyd? Not trying to change your mind, just curious. I don't like them either. For no particular reason other than not liking them That's cool - there's no accounting for taste, my own included! I'm just curious sometimes why people don't like certain things. It's definitely to do with the chords they use, IMO. That and they always seem so bloody miserable. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkathi Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 This thread is seriously lacking in the Simon and Garfunkel department. Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 The only thing which is ever lacking Simon and Garfunkel is the feotid slavering maw of an angry ANGRY velociraptor. 1 "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Any particular reason you don't like Floyd? Not trying to change your mind, just curious. I don't like them either. For no particular reason other than not liking them That's cool - there's no accounting for taste, my own included! I'm just curious sometimes why people don't like certain things. It's definitely to do with the chords they use, IMO. That and they always seem so bloody miserable. Well Roger Waters was pretty miserable for their stuff leading into THE WALL (including contemptuously spitting on a fan at a concert at one point, IIRC). Syd Barrett's stuff in early PF is usually pretty upbeat psychedelia (well and slightly crazed or fantastical). I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 In no particular order: Bob Marley - Legend Led Zeppelin - 1990 Box set (Yes I know but I'm counting this as one) Johnny Cash - The Legend of Johnny Cash The Doors - LA Woman & Strange Days (consider them tied) The Beatles - Abbey Road Tesla - Five Man Acoustic Jam Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon The Who - Who's Next U2 - The Joshua Tree The Eagles - Hotel California Van Halen - 5150 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Man, I don't know.. I'm gonna change my mind 15 times before I'm done and a few times after that as well.. of course I should pick Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd (DARK SIDE!!), Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Beatles, The Doors, The Who, Queen, Beastie Boys and so on.. But I'll go with what I've heard the most, since that's gotta be a better indicator of what I consider great.. right? 1. Bon Iver - Emma, Forever Ago 2-3.Kashmir - Cruzential or Zitilites.. Tough choice, **** it I'll take both 4. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street 5. Counting Crows - Live Across The Wire 6. Django Reinhardt - eh.. 'Jazz in Paris' if I had to make a choice, but basically all of them. 7. Jeff Buckley - Grace 8. Coldplay - Parachutes 9. Cliff Martinez - Solaris Soundtrack 10.. I'll get back to you on that. Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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